Chapter 268: Five Hundred Years

"World Power?"

Opening Heaven Immortal King, Supreme Immortal King, and other Supreme Immortal Kings looked at each other; they had never heard of this kind of Creation Power.

However, since the Martial Ancestor said so, such power definitely existed.

"Let's go."

"Let's go take a look at the Eighth Heaven."

After finishing, Lin Yuan headed towards the entrance of the Eighth Heaven.

At this moment, the entrance to the Eighth Heaven was no longer guarded by any Supreme Immortal King from the Prehistoric Era. It was empty, with wisps of illusory power drifting about.

That was the tribulation from the Seventh Heaven leading to the Eighth Heaven, belonging to a natural phenomenon within the Nine Heavens. Even if destroyed, it would recover.

Just like the barrier between the heavens torn apart by Lin Yuan, it was also rapidly recovering now.

"Let's go up directly from the entrance."

Lin Yuan glanced at it.

Previously, the Taiji Primordial Spirit was ambushed by Lingxu Immortal King, and Lin Yuan's true body was in a hurry, which was why he rampaged with a tyrannical posture. There was no need for that now.

The entrance was right in front of them, so they could just go right through.

The tribulation from the Seventh Heaven to the Eighth Heaven was similar to a Soul illusion, resembling the Heart Demon Tribulation and Mind Tribulation, though much stronger than them.

However, having experienced long years, the many Supreme Immortal Kings present had mental will strengths that weren't weak at all, even without deliberately Cultivating, and could easily cross it.

Although the years Lin Yuan experienced were relatively short, his mental will index had been tempered by the body of a Supreme Powerhouse, plus the nourishment of his vast Internal World.

It was only stronger than, not weaker than, the Supreme Immortal Kings present.

Whoosh.

Lin Yuan easily arrived at the Eighth Heaven.

The environment here was about the same as the Seventh Heaven.

The only difference was that a mysterious aura faintly permeated, coming from the Ninth Heaven above their heads.

There are always people above people, and heavens beyond heavens; above the Nine Heavens were celestial beings.

This had been the rumor in the Spirit Realm regarding the Ninth Heaven since ancient times.

According to the speculations of many Supreme Immortal Kings, the so-called celestial beings might be an invincible Expert sitting in the Ninth Heaven, overlooking the vast Spirit Realm.

The reason why the Supreme Immortal Kings of the Prehistoric Era and the Three Thousand Daozhou Era were so eager to enter the Ninth Heaven was in hopes of receiving guidance from that invincible Expert.

"Is this the Eighth Heaven?"

"It is indeed extraordinary, different from the Seventh Heaven."

Opening Heaven Immortal King, Supreme Immortal King, and other Supreme Immortal Kings also followed up.

This was their first time ascending to the Eighth Heaven; in all previous battles of ascending to heaven, they had been beaten back by Lingxu Immortal King.

Now, following behind Lin Yuan, they finally fulfilled their long-cherished wish of many years.

"The Ninth Heaven?"

Lin Yuan raised his head and looked towards the upper sky.

Compared with the barriers of the previous eight heavens, the barrier of the Ninth Heaven faintly emitted a light golden color. Even Lin Yuan was not confident of breaking through it.

Or rather, he was confident of tearing it apart, but it would consume a lot of time because once the barrier between the Nine Heavens suffered damage, it would rapidly recover.

Lin Yuan's tearing speed had to be much faster than the barrier's recovery speed.

"Let's go to the entrance of the Ninth Heaven."

Lin Yuan made his decision in his heart. After performing Soul-searching on Lingxu Immortal King, Lin Yuan had a deep understanding of the Eighth Heaven and flew directly towards the entrance leading to the Ninth Heaven.

The entrance of the Ninth Heaven.

Dozens of figures stood there.

These dozens of figures were the most powerful batch of Supreme Immortal Kings from the Prehistoric Era, and every single one of them had at least Cultivated a certain kind of higher Creation Power to the Third Realm.

Most of them had mastered two or more higher Creation Powers at the Third Realm. Lingxu Immortal King had suppressed the Supreme Immortal Kings of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, such as Opening Heaven Immortal King, until they could barely breathe.

But among this group of Supreme Immortal Kings, he basically belonged to the bottom tier.

The Prehistoric Era had experienced a complete era of time, coupled with the long years experienced by the Three Thousand Dao Provinces now. The number of Supreme Immortal Kings was far more and much stronger than the youthful Three Thousand Daozhou Era.

Swish, swish, swish.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared not far away.

Opening Heaven Immortal King, Supreme Immortal King, and other Supreme Immortal Kings similarly followed behind Lin Yuan.

"So many Experts?"

Opening Heaven Immortal King felt his scalp tingle slightly. At this moment, they realized how ridiculous the battle of ascending to heaven they had waged was.

Any few Supreme Immortal Kings walking out from the entrance of the Ninth Heaven could suppress all twenty-plus of their Supreme Immortal Kings.

Supreme Immortal King's expression was also nervous at this moment; if Lin Yuan hadn't been standing in front of them, he probably would have had the thought of fleeing.

The group of Prehistoric Era Supreme Immortal Kings was led by a tall Supreme Immortal King whose aura was faintly chaotic and disordered. He stood at the very front of all the Immortal Kings, clearly being the leader among the Supreme Immortal King Experts of the Prehistoric Era.

"Niluan Immortal King."

Lin Yuan's gaze was calm.

Having performed Soul-searching on Lingxu Immortal King, Lin Yuan naturally knew that Niluan Immortal King was the strongest Immortal King of the Prehistoric Era.

"Martial Ancestor."

Niluan Immortal King turned around and looked at Lin Yuan with a solemn expression, "Lingxu has already told me about it."

"Martial Ancestor, your strength far surpasses mine."

"Whatever the Martial Ancestor wants, just say it, and I will agree to all of it."

Niluan Immortal King said calmly, as if voluntarily submitting was not a shameful matter.

In fact, that was indeed the case. Lingxu Immortal King had long since displayed the scene that happened in the Seventh Heaven for Niluan Immortal King and other Supreme Immortal Kings to watch.

Including Niluan Immortal King, all the Supreme Immortal Kings of the Prehistoric Era acknowledged that they could not achieve what the Martial Ancestor did in that scene.

Even in Niluan Immortal King's many deductions, even if all their Supreme Immortal Kings joined forces, facing the Martial Ancestor, they would only be able to linger on for a short while before finally collapsing in defeat anyway.

Since he had known the ending long ago, Niluan Immortal King naturally wouldn't put up any resistance and took the initiative to submit and admit defeat.

"Oh?"

Lin Yuan gave Niluan Immortal King an extra look.

This was also fine, saving him some extra effort.

"Split your Soul body and let me perform Soul-searching," Lin Yuan said directly.

He didn't choose to perform Soul-searching directly, which could also be considered a response to Niluan Immortal King's active cooperation.

Splitting the Soul body to be Soul-searched by Lin Yuan had no significant difference from being suppressed by Lin Yuan directly and then Soul-searched, but it saved much more face.

"No problem."

Niluan Immortal King cut off a part of his Soul body without any hesitation.

This part of the Soul body contained all his memories. Lin Yuan only needed to Soul-search this Soul body to know everything he wanted to know.

Hum.

Lin Yuan took Niluan Immortal King's partial Soul body.

The Soul-searching was completed within a few breaths.

"I see."

Lin Yuan felt a bit enlightened in his heart.

In Niluan Immortal King's memories lay the reason for the conclusion of the Prehistoric Era.

At the end of the Prehistoric Era, a treasure fell down from the Nine Heavens.

This treasure caused a great battle among the many Supreme Immortal King-level Experts of the Prehistoric Era.

That great battle caused the Spirit Realm to seem to fall into doomsday, and Tribulation Transcending Stage Immortal Kings perished in large areas.

In the end, Niluan Immortal King, as the victor, obtained that treasure and brought numerous subordinates into the Eighth Heaven.

After the Prehistoric Era.

The Spirit Realm experienced long years of recovery and gradually entered the next era.

The Three Thousand Daozhou Era.

Until today, the Three Thousand Daozhou Era was only in the Early Stage, not even comparable to one-ten-thousandth of the years experienced by the Prehistoric Era.

"Give me the treasure."

Lin Yuan looked towards Niluan Immortal King.

In the Prehistoric Era, Niluan Immortal King was only one of the Supreme Powerhouses.

There were also several Supreme Immortal Kings comparable to him, capable of making Niluan Immortal King risk fighting Experts of the same level to start a Supreme Immortal King-level great battle.

That treasure was clearly crucial.

"This is that treasure."

Niluan Immortal King hesitated for a moment before readily handing over the treasure.

Lin Yuan had finished Soul-searching his partial Soul body, and his understanding of that treasure was no lower than his; there was no need to conceal anything.

The treasure handed over to Lin Yuan by Niluan Immortal King was an irregular stone. Faintly, wisps of mysterious power radiated from it, and a primordial aura permeated.

"This stone contains the aura of a certain Creation Power. This Creation Power surpasses higher Creation Power. As long as one can comprehend it, even if they cannot take that step out, they can advance a huge chunk further in the Supreme Immortal King Domain,"

Niluan Immortal King looked at the irregular stone in Lin Yuan's hand and explained in a low voice.

"Unfortunately, for so many years, I have never been able to comprehend it, even when extremely close to the Ninth Heaven."

Niluan Immortal King's tone revealed an inexplicable meaning.

The mysterious aura emitted by the Ninth Heaven was similar to the stone. Niluan Immortal King believed that approaching the Ninth Heaven for a long time would help in comprehending this stone.

But after so many years, Niluan Immortal King's comprehension of the stone had stagnated, and he had gained nothing at all regarding that mysterious Creation Power surpassing higher Creation Power.

This was also the reason why he handed over the stone so decisively.

Because Niluan Immortal King felt that even if he were given another era or ten eras, he would still hardly be able to comprehend the Creation Power within that stone.

"Creation Power that surpasses higher Creation Power?" Lin Yuan carefully observed the irregular stone.

Compared to the cognitive limitations of Niluan Immortal King, Lin Yuan came from the Main World, knew the essence of Cosmic Power, and furthermore knew that surpassing higher Cosmic Power was a power that only Tier 9 Evolvers could master.

Lin Yuan carefully contemplated the irregular stone.

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Contemplating the mysterious Origin, your mastery of its power is deepening.]

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Contemplating the mysterious Origin, your mastery of its power is deepening.]

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Contemplating the mysterious Origin, your mastery of its power is deepening.]

"Mysterious Origin." Lin Yuan pondered in his heart.

One thing was for sure: the aura contained within this irregular stone indeed surpassed higher Creation Power.

After Lin Yuan watched it for just a little while, if it were other higher Creation Powers, he would have gained at least something, but facing this irregularly shaped stone, there was still no harvest.

Of course, the 'no harvest' here meant the harvest was too small to be perceived.

"The Ninth Heaven."

Lin Yuan put away the irregular stone and looked up towards the distant entrance of the Ninth Heaven.

Compared to the entrances of the previous eight heavens, the entrance of the Ninth Heaven was incomparably wide, as if welcoming all Supreme Immortal Kings to ascend.

But in reality, after Soul-searching Niluan Immortal King's memories, Lin Yuan knew that the tribulation leading to the Ninth Heaven was terrifyingly strong.

Within the entrance of the Ninth Heaven lay the life imprints of the ten strongest Supreme Immortal Kings in the history of the Spirit Realm.

In other words, to enter the Ninth Heaven, one must defeat the ten strongest Supreme Immortal Kings since the birth of the Spirit Realm.

Actually, calling them the ten strongest Supreme Immortal Kings was somewhat inaccurate in description.

They should be the ten strongest lives.

Because perhaps certain Supreme Immortal Kings had already stepped out half a step.

The Prehistoric Era, the Three Thousand Daozhou Era.

These were merely the two most recent eras.

Before these two eras, there were even more ancient eras in existence.

No one knew when the Spirit Realm was born. Although Supreme Immortal Kings coexisted with the Spirit Realm, it did not mean they could not die.

Not to mention anything else, a large batch of Supreme Immortal Kings died at the end of the Prehistoric Era.

"With the Martial Ancestor's strength, you can completely try to break through the entrance of the Ninth Heaven," Niluan Immortal King said in a low voice.

He had tried to break through, but couldn't even defeat the life imprint of the first Supreme Immortal King, being nearly crushed and finally barely retreating.

"You want to watch me break through?"

Lin Yuan glanced at Niluan Immortal King, "No rush."

Even Lin Yuan would not look down upon the ten most powerful lives in the history of the Spirit Realm.

That was not a single era or a single epoch, but since the birth of the Spirit Realm.

Lin Yuan would indeed go and try breaking through the entrance of the Ninth Heaven, but not now; he would wait until his strength reached the Peak before trying.

Today's Lin Yuan, although surpassing a single-era's strongest Immortal King like Niluan Immortal King, was far from reaching his own limit.

The green liquid in the Mysterious Gourd could still continue to be absorbed.

The Tier 8 chapter of the Martial Dao Evolution system had not yet been completely pioneered.

The complete core space models had not yet been comprehended.

The Cultivate of Taiji Power had not yet reached the Third Realm.

The remaining few higher Creation Powers and numerous ordinary Creation Powers were merely at the First Realm.

There was also the irregular stone obtained from Niluan Immortal King's hands, which contained mysterious Creation Power surpassing higher Creation Power.

Just because Niluan Immortal King couldn't comprehend it didn't mean Lin Yuan couldn't; it was merely a matter of how much time it would consume.

There was still a very long distance to Lin Yuan's upper limit.

Moreover, during this spacetime shuttle, Lin Yuan's maximum stay time limit was a full nine hundred-plus years, and now only over four hundred years had passed.

Before knowing what accidents might happen upon rushing into the entrance of the Ninth Heaven, Lin Yuan naturally wouldn't easily go in.

Niluan Immortal King had previously broken through, but quickly retreated because he was facing the first life imprint.

That was why he had room to turn back.

Lin Yuan was not sure if he failed after rushing into the deeper life imprints, whether he would still be able to retreat.

Under such circumstances, Lin Yuan naturally prioritized stability/prudence.

Other Supreme Immortal Kings craved to ascend to the Ninth Heaven because they wanted to step out that step.

Lin Yuan did not have this craving; with the many evolution paths in the Main World being complete, Lin Yuan had numerous directions to step into Tier 9.

What he needed to do now was to peacefully spend the remaining stay time and convert it into harvests to bring back to the Main World.

"Right."

"All of you Immortal Kings, split out a wisp of your Creation Power and hand it over to me."

Lin Yuan glanced at Niluan Immortal King and the other Prehistoric Era Supreme Immortal Kings and commanded.

"Yes."

Niluan Immortal King was stunned. Although he didn't know what Lin Yuan wanted so much Creation Power for, he didn't dare to ask too much and honestly split out a wisp of the Creation Power he mastered.

"Not bad, not bad."

Lin Yuan looked at the dozens of extra wisps of Creation Power, among which there were several types of higher Creation Power he had never seen before, and felt quite satisfied in his heart.

Just like that.

Lin Yuan's true body permanently stationed himself in front of the entrance leading to the Ninth Heaven and once again began closed-door seclusion to comprehend the Dao.

Time passed.

Five hundred years of time passed like flowing water.