Chapter 353

"Sword, he is a person of extreme emotion and nature…"

"Xi."

Sword frowned slightly. Although no one saw a sword in his hand, no one felt that he was without a sword.

Or rather, he had trained himself into the only sword; the sword was him, and he was the sword.

"…Failed."

After looking at Lin Yi for a long time, the Emperor beside him withdrew his gaze.

He sighed, his figure appearing much more hunched, as if weighed down by a heavy burden on his shoulders.

Xi's figure was flickering. Under Lin Yi's gaze, he seemed to appear much dimmer. He turned his head back, his expression sincere, "Sword, Emperor, give me some time, will you?"

Sword fell silent, and the Emperor said nothing more.

Seeing this, Xi smiled and looked at Lin Yi.

"Apologies. Let us continue. In order to achieve the Dao, Sword personally slaughtered the living beings of nine realms, extracted their Origin, and used it to aid his cultivation. Thus, he fell into demonic ways and became obsessed."

"Thus, he wandered for over forty-three thousand years, after which he severed his demonic thoughts and his self, obtained a Dao Position, and finally attained the Great Dao."

"But at this time, he was no longer that Sword. His self had been severed, so he discarded his original name and only referred to himself as Sword."

"What drives him now is the wish of the living beings from those nine realms he slaughtered."

"And the Emperor…"

Xi's figure became even more illusory.

Lin Yi frowned at this. This Master of the Time Holy Court must be doing something at this very moment, which is why he was here with him, "Rebellion dies from talking too much."

Based on Xi's Dao Position, he is the Dao Lord of the Dao of Time… Was he activating his Dao Position to probe his background?

He had not forgotten the question Xi asked earlier, "Are you attaining the Dao?", and he had also heard clearly the words just spoken by the Emperor, "Failed."

Why did they say they failed if he attained the Dao? Why did they choose to make a move against him only when they were determined to do so?

According to their current formation, this Xi had been waiting for this moment since hundreds of millions of years ago.

He had laid out plans for hundreds of millions of years, stirring up the myriad realms, helping countless Sword Lords and Emperors attain the Dao, just to suppress him at this very moment? Why not take him down twenty years ago?

He did not believe that Xi lacked such ability; after all, he could so accurately determine his "this moment."

It happened exactly at this moment, though it seemed a little later than they had anticipated…

"…The Emperor was a king of the Mortal World. After he merged with the Dao, naturally, his kingdom became a divine kingdom along with him, and his subjects became children of the gods."

"As his cultivation deepened, he understood everything…"

"He slaughtered all his subjects and refined them into his own body."

"He successfully attained the Dao. One person was a kingdom, and a kingdom was one person. He was the Emperor, and also the subjects; he was the nobility, and also the commoners…"

How demonic… This was Lin Yi's only evaluation.

He secretly guarded himself, specifically converting the Path of Taiyin and Taiyang into the Essence of Reason of the Dao of Time, paying attention to the river of time, and at the same time, he contacted Immortal Emperor Qiming.

"How is it?"

Lin Yi asked.

After Zhao Qingqing sat on the throne of the Immortal Emperor, her task was completed. Lin Yi could obtain another Dao Position, which was [Sword Position 1: Lord of the Human World].

Adding another Dao Position, his chances of winning could go from fifty percent to seventy, or even eighty percent.

Of course, the fifty percent here meant evenly matched.

He could hold off the enemy Dao Lords, but the other powerhouses, General Xianhe and his subordinates, could not stop them. Not to mention anything else, the Three Realms would definitely be finished.

A realm is equivalent to a Dao Lord, but a realm does not have its own will, while a Dao Lord does. A realm cannot resist, but a Dao Lord can.

The so-called equivalence is more like—without the power of a Dao Lord, there is no way to destroy a realm, but why destroy a realm? One only needs to destroy the living beings within it.

A realm is a dead object; why butt heads with a dead object?

"Wait a moment, it will still take a little time."

The voice of Immortal Emperor Qiming came.

…

The massive Cloud Top Immortal Palace suppressed everything, streaking across a clear trail, breaking through the Creation Realm, and descending into the Immortal Realm.

As the Red Dust Qi was withdrawn by Lin Yi, the entire Immortal Realm was once again revealed to everyone's eyes.

The originally magnificent jade towers and pavilions were now in ruins, with only a few areas remaining intact.

Lin Yi gave his enemies equal destruction; this could be considered his kindness.

At least he didn't send them into the Immortal Falling Array Diagram to play with things like Wang Laowu and Li Laoer.

Immortal Emperor Qiming sat on the imperial throne in the main hall of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, driving the entire Cloud Top Immortal Palace across the sky, and in just a few moments, it appeared in the center of the Immortal Realm.

That was the Imperial Palace, where she resided as the Emperor ten thousand years ago.

Whether called an Immortal Palace or an imperial seat, after Immortal Emperor Qiming left, this place was still used by the Six Immortal Kings as the hub of the Immortal Realm.

But at this very moment, this place had also been completely washed away into ruins by the Red Dust Qi that swept through the Immortal Realm.

Immortal Emperor Qiming did not care. If Lin Yi had not moved, she would have destroyed it herself and rebuilt her imperial throne.

Who knows what strange things were installed inside? To avoid the existence of any weird things, it was better to destroy it all.

She parked the Cloud Top Immortal Palace over this hub, let her Divine Sense descend, and uncovered the ruins.

Before long, she found the thing she wanted to find—a strange object hidden beneath the main hall.

Lin Yi had previously thought about how to let Zhao Qingqing ascend to the position of Immortal Emperor. Was a declaration enough? Or was some procedure needed, or perhaps some recognition?

To become an Immortal Emperor, to become the master of the Three Realms, what factors were needed? Was it the recognition of all living beings, or was it just necessary to kill the Six Immortal Kings and Six Demon Venerables and take back one's ruling authority?

But the actual answer was that none of these were needed, or rather, all of them were needed—one only needed to obtain the realm sovereignty, fuse with the realm sovereignty, and indicate one's arrival.

The reason it was said to be unnecessary was because those previous things had nothing to do with realm sovereignty.

The reason it was said to be necessary was, naturally, because to obtain realm sovereignty, one had to first pass these "tests."

Just like Immortal Emperor Qiming now, having killed the Immortal Kings and Demon Venerables, cleansed the Immortal Realm, stepped onto this old ground again, and obtained this realm sovereignty.

Of course, Lin Yi had previously thought that the realm sovereignty was in Tai Yi's hands. Only after obliterating Tai Yi did he realize that Tai Yi did not have the Yueming Domain realm sovereignty either.

It was Immortal Emperor Qiming who suddenly remembered that she had hidden the realm sovereignty in the main hall of the Imperial Palace, and only then did she drive the Cloud Top Immortal Palace to come here and search.

She and Lin Yi did not expect that for these ten thousand years, the Six Immortal Kings had not even found where the realm sovereignty was… In other words, for these ten thousand years, the Yueming Domain had been ownerless!

Immortal Emperor Qiming looked at the strange light in mid-air, did not hesitate, waved her hand, and merged this light into her forehead.

At this very moment, Zhao Qingqing was her, and she was Zhao Qingqing. She didn't need to separate them; it was the same anyway.

It was very easy, very simple, and did not even need to be refined. The realm sovereignty was absorbed by Immortal Emperor Qiming as if it were a child returning to its mother's arms.

Immortal Emperor Qiming was an offspring nurtured by the Yueming Domain. She had once dispersed her cultivation into heaven and earth, and ten thousand years ago, this realm sovereignty was originally her possession…

With so many multiple factors superimposed together, it was normal that she regained it so easily.

Immortal Emperor Qiming opened her eyes; divine light shone brilliantly in them, and a Dao pattern emerged on her forehead.

Before she could notify Lin Yi that she was finished on her end, she had already fallen into a wonderful perception.

It was just like… the world she saw when she originally attained the Dao…

The incomplete part of the Dao pattern on Immortal Emperor Qiming's forehead was gradually becoming complete. Originally, there was only more than half of the Dao pattern, but now, with the passage of time, it was being perfected bit by bit…

Finally, at the moment when the divine light in her eyes became internalized, it completely turned into a complete Dao pattern.

Immortal Position 2: Taixu Attraction!

…

[Fairy Mingguang Completed, rewards have been issued, please claim them yourself.]

[Immortal Emperor Qiming Completed, rewards have been issued, please claim them yourself.]

A System panel abruptly popped up before Lin Yi's eyes. Without needing Immortal Emperor Qiming to take the initiative to inform him, he understood that the matter on Immortal Emperor Qiming's side had ended.

[Fairy Mingguang] required Zhao Qingqing to become an Immortal Emperor again.

But… the appearance of the second prompt surprised him somewhat. The task [Immortal Emperor Qiming] required helping Fairy Mingguang obtain the complete Dao Position, Taixu Attraction.

And now it was actually completed… Was it completed just when [Fairy Mingguang] was completed?

Was Taixu Attraction complete? In Lin Yi's perception, Taixu Attraction had indeed become a complete Dao Position, and the strength of the Creation Realm had significantly increased.

So that means… Immortal Emperor Qiming successfully attained the Dao? Became a true Dao Lord?

Attaining the Dao was not an easy thing. Looking at the opposite side, among so many great Cultivators, there were only five Half-step Dao Lords and only three Dao Lords.

And before this, how many Cultivators could become a great Cultivator? Perhaps only one in several hundred realms?

And how many living beings were there in one realm?

Hundreds of millions and more!

Three thousand six hundred Essences of Reason were the hard conditions, and the favor of fate was the soft condition. To succeed, one had to experience many "tasks" along the way, just like the requirements for a Breakthrough.

For example, if the Goddess of Life wanted to attain the Dao, she had to establish a main god pantheon—this was something Lin Yi knew.

And there might be others he didn't know, such as needing to launch a divine war and be resurrected.

And in the case of Immortal Emperor Qiming… could it be that she needed to regain the imperial throne after losing it?

That was why, under the guidance of fate, she abandoned her cultivation—of course, her own will must have been involved, as she truly cherished this world and her subjects.

And until now, she had finally succeeded in ascending to the throne, so the Dao Position was naturally complete.

Although it was a surprise, it was a good surprise. Lin Yi accepted it gladly, and he claimed the rewards.

[Fairy Mingguang] reward was [Sword Position 1: Lord of the Human World], and the reward for [Immortal Emperor Qiming] was [Immortal Position 1: Dragon and Tiger Transformation].

With a thought from Lin Yi, the [Lord of the Human World] wrapped in light landed in front of Pei Yuhan. On the other side, the [Dragon and Tiger Transformation] landed in front of Jiang Miaoxuan.

As mentioned before, he had no intention of favoring anyone, so he had to follow the order of arrival.

Pei Yuhan and Jiang Miaoxuan did not decline. Now was not the time to decline; in front of them were three Dao Lords and five Half-step Dao Lords, and a great battle might start in the next second.

Pei Yuhan and Jiang Miaoxuan closed their eyes slightly, and the Dao Positions merged into their foreheads.

In an instant, they had an indescribable temperament about them, and a Dao pattern appeared on their foreheads, each different, but making people bow their heads.

Seeing this, Lin Yi continued to focus his gaze on Xi in front of him.

His figure was becoming dimmer and dimmer, like a wisp of smoke about to dissipate, or like looking at a tree or a bridge in the rain through a curtain of rain.

"The Dao of Time, it really is strange…"

Lin Yi sighed.

"…"

Xi fell silent for a moment, then smiled, raised his gaze, and looked behind Lin Yi.

There, an Immortal Court pushed across the Void Realm, broke through space, and slowly descended. A Dao Lord aura dispersed like smoke and dust, sweeping across the Void Realm, and stood in opposition to Xi and the other two.

Immortal Emperor Qiming sat on the imperial throne, looking at Xi from across the air.

"…Ah, it was still not prevented?"

Xi seemed as if he had never shown an expression of disappointment. Even when regretting, he was still smiling.

"So, this is what you said, the future of her attaining the Dao…"

The Emperor also sighed. He remembered the scene when he asked him before the tree of time.

He said: She has half a Dao Position in her hand.

He replied: In the future, she will obtain the other half of the Dao Position.

He asked: What are your thoughts?

He replied: The future is always the future; one just needs to not let it arrive.

"Once the future arrives, it is no longer the future."

Xi said softly.

"…I have indeed not attained the Dao."