Chapter 739 Fall into the Deep Sea

Bang.

Without the slightest accident.

The elderly man in imperial robes sitting on the Dragon chair had his head explode like a watermelon.

The extremely high Realm of the Enlightened Grandmaster level was the materialization of the mind.

Yet, even for the strongest Enlightened Grandmaster born in the past, the substance transformed by the mind was limited to only a few meters.

The so-called power of the mind was inherently an illusory power, and it could only affect reality with the help of the power of heaven and earth. As for the power of the mind itself, it could not directly interfere with reality.

The materialization of the mind was the process of making the mind substantive.

Only after the power of the mind had been materialized could it directly affect real matter.

Lin Yuan was separated by several hundred meters, and using the power of the mind's materialization to observe the head of the elderly man in imperial robes already surpassed the means of all past Enlightened Grandmasters.

"Your Majesty."

"Has Your Majesty died?"

"Your Majesty is dead"

The head of the elderly man in imperial robes exploding was naturally seen by the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs in the first instance.

They couldn't help screaming.

Soon, a large number of imperial guards walked in.

Following closely behind, the imperial physicians of the palace also rushed over.

All the imperial physicians were nervous, intending to treat Your Majesty with all their might.

But when they saw the headless Your Majesty, they instantly fell into silence.

If it was just fainting, even if his breathing was completely gone and his pulse had vanished,

with the methods of the palace imperial physicians, they could still attempt to treat him.

Yet now, even his head was gone, dead as dead could be, how could he still be saved?

The nine highest-ranking imperial guard commanders looked at the corpse of the elderly man in imperial robes, their silence somewhat terrifying.

Now the rebel forces were about to attack the city, and the Great Feng Dynasty was tottering on the brink; at this time, Emperor Your Majesty died?

Once this news spread, there would be no need to defend the city; they might as well directly open the capital's city gates and surrender.

If the defending soldiers knew about this matter, their morale would definitely fall into complete chaos. The emperor was dead; who were they fighting for?

If it were in ordinary times, if the emperor suddenly died a sudden death, as long as they were cautious and immediately arranged for an imperial prince to ascend the throne,

there was a high probability they could still stabilize the situation.

But now?

Let alone whether they could stabilize the situation,

just ask which imperial prince would dare to ascend the throne?

Ascending the throne now, there was a high probability he would be a ruler of a fallen state.

And a ruler of a fallen state who hadn't done anything at all.

And once the rebel forces breached the capital,

the other members of the imperial family might be able to live.

But as the emperor, he definitely wouldn't survive.

In other words,

ascending the throne at this time

meant certain death, and they would also have to bear the infamy of being the ruler of a fallen state.

Inside the grand hall, it was controlled by the imperial guards.

Yet outside the grand hall, it was a complete mess.

Even the imperial guards themselves were in extreme chaos.

The emperor's sudden death was also a blow to them.

Coupled with the massive power of the external rebel forces, people's hearts instantly began to fluctuate.

No one noticed.

A young man walked out of the grand hall with a frown.

"Why hasn't the time loop ended yet?"

Lin Yuan looked at the chaotic surroundings, falling into contemplation in his heart.

Within the imperial palace, anyone who dared to wear imperial robes could only be the Great Feng Emperor.

And looking at the reactions of everyone in the palace, that elderly man in imperial robes was inevitably the Great Feng Emperor.

Apart from the emperor's death, who else could have such a huge impact on the palace?

Yet the more it was like this,

the more strange Lin Yuan felt in his heart.

Since that elderly man in imperial robes was the emperor,

and was now dead as dead could be,

after piercing the other party's skull with the power of the mind,

Lin Yuan had immediately confirmed that the other party had died.

Even though having the skull pierced was inherently a fatal injury,

Lin Yuan still carefully inspected the other party once.

Confirming that he was already dead and had lost all characteristics of being alive.

The Great Feng Emperor had completely died.

And he died at the hands of Lin Yuan.

Yet why hasn't the time loop world collapsed yet,

and why hasn't he broken through the time loop yet?

"The Great Feng Emperor."

Information about the Great Feng Emperor flashed through Lin Yuan's mind.

Strictly speaking, the Great Feng Emperor was two years younger than him.

His age should be eighty-six years old.

He ascended the throne at sixteen.

In other words, he ascended the throne two years before Lin Yuan descended into this time loop world.

Ever since then, he had always sat on the imperial throne.

For seventy years, the Great Feng Emperor had never been replaced.

There was no such situation as killing the wrong emperor.

Moreover, as early as fifty years ago, Lin Yuan had obtained a portrait of the Great Feng Emperor.

From then on, the 'portrait' would be updated once every half year to master the latest appearance of the Great Feng Emperor.

It could be said that Lin Yuan watched the Great Feng Emperor grow old bit by bit.

The appearance of that elderly man in imperial robes was identical to the portrait Lin Yuan saw two months ago.

"As expected, this trial is not that simple."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts, and his heart quickly calmed down.

As early as the beginning of descending into this time loop world, Lin Yuan had felt that the trial was somewhat too easy.

Merely killing an emperor of a dynasty?

Although the rules of this world were extremely strict,

let alone Lin Yuan, any Chaos Realm Perfection could Cultivate to the Enlightened Grandmaster level by spending seventy or eighty years.

After all, the Realm was right there. No matter how ordinary a Chaos Realm Perfection was, as long as they underwent bitter cultivation for one hundred and thirty-four years, they would have the opportunity to reach the strongest Enlightened Grandmaster level in the history of this world.

And with the strength of the strongest Enlightened Grandmaster, sneaking into the imperial palace to assassinate the Great Feng Emperor—

even if not one hundred percent, there would be at least three or four times out of a hundred that could succeed.

In other words, the probability of an ordinary Chaos Realm Perfection achieving a Breakthrough in the time loop would reach three to four percent.

This obviously did not match the probability of countless Chaos Realm Perfections in the Chaos Void in the past charging towards the Thirteenth Order.

This was still built on the premise of an ordinary Chaos Realm Perfection. The time loop for charging towards the Thirteenth Order was formed by the supreme rule great dao, and it would specifically target each life form based on their Foundation.

Lin Yuan's strength far exceeded ordinary Chaos Realm Perfections. Logically speaking, the time loop he faced should be even more difficult.

Originally, Lin Yuan speculated that perhaps the Great Feng Emperor had powerful strength, which caused this trial to look simple while actually being extremely difficult in reality.

Yet the process of killing the Great Feng Emperor just now was incomparably relaxed.

That elderly man in imperial robes had the strength of the Peak Dao Entrance Dharma Master.

Under Lin Yuan's strike brimming with killing intent, he had no power to resist whatsoever.

In other words,

Lin Yuan's speculation was incorrect.

"Could it be that the Great Feng Emperor in the trial does not refer to the Great Feng Emperor? But rather someone's name?"

Lin Yuan speculated in his heart, but quickly rejected this idea.

The trial of the time loop originated from the Supreme Rule.

It was absolutely impartial.

It wouldn't play any word games.

If it said the Great Feng Emperor, then it was the Great Feng Emperor.

And it was still that Great Feng Emperor whom Lin Yuan knew back then.

"In other words, the Great Feng Emperor is not dead right now."

"Instead, he is still alive?"

"Interesting."

Lin Yuan's expression was thoughtful.

If it were any other Twelfth Order Perfection,

upon seeing that they had already killed the target and completed the trial, yet the time loop still hadn't ended,

they would at least feel a bit flustered, or even develop self-doubt.

Yet Lin Yuan did not.

Under the circumstance of having the Boundary-Breaking Source Power as a bottom line, Lin Yuan possessed the absolute initiative to break through the time loop at any time.

The reason he didn't immediately use the Boundary-Breaking Source Power was simply because he was unwilling to pay too much of a price.

However, being unwilling to pay a price did not mean Lin Yuan could not pay a price.

Time came to fifty years ago.

Above the endless East Sea, an ordinary-looking ship was drifting.

The endless East Sea, also known as the endless deep sea, was boundless here, and many colossal sea beasts that had existed since before the distant past resided here.

On the deck of the ship stood a young man who looked extremely noble.

If there were high-ranking ministers of the Great Feng Dynasty here, they would recognize that this young man was precisely the Great Feng Emperor currently sitting in the imperial court.

"I spent twenty years cultivating a substitute identical to me. Thus, even if I leave the imperial palace, it won't arouse any suspicion. That substitute will do everything in my place."

The young man thought silently in his heart.

The trial of the final calamity for him was to live through one hundred and fifty years.

This meant that under normal circumstances, if he stayed in the imperial palace, he would not survive past one hundred and fifty years.

Therefore, the young man unhesitatingly abandoned the behavior of continuing to stay in the imperial palace and came to the top of this endless East Sea.

This place was devoid of human presence. Even during the Peak period of the Great Feng Dynasty, exploration of the East Sea was extremely limited.

Of course, merely coming to the East Sea

was only the first step of the young man's layout.

He turned around and walked into the cabin.

A coffin several meters in size was placed here.

The coffin was cast from pitch-black metal, emitting a profound glow.

"I expended all the Foundation of the Great Feng Dynasty to cast this coffin with original divine metal."

The young man looked toward the coffin, his pupils flashing with a strange look.

original divine metal was the hardest metal since the birth of this world.

Even the strongest Enlightened Grandmaster could not shake a fist-sized piece of original divine metal by even a fraction.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Feng Dynasty, the Grand Ancestor gathered all the original divine metal in the world, intending to cast the Nine Cauldrons to suppress the ninety-nine prefectures of the world and allow the Great Feng Dynasty Legacy to endure for tens of millions of years.

However, until the Grand Ancestor died of old age, the collected original divine metal was still not enough.

The subsequent five generations of emperors also collected original divine metal in accordance with the Grand Ancestor's imperial edict.

Until the generation of the young man, the original divine metal was almost completely collected.

Originally, these original divine metal should have been used to cast the Nine Cauldrons, but they were forcibly used by the young man to cast an unprecedented coffin.

"I used many Dao-entering secret techniques of the imperial family to create a fake death technique. Once operated, falling into a deep sleep, my bodily functions will have almost no consumption, and I can completely live to the end of my Lifespan, which is one hundred and thirty years later."

The young man gave a gentle leap and lay inside the coffin.

The pitch-black coffin immediately closed.

The next moment,

the ship carrying this coffin collapsed.

This pitch-black coffin also rapidly plunged to the bottom of the deep sea.

The bottom of the deep sea was a forbidden zone for land life, especially the bottom of this deep sea chosen by the young man, which was deep to the extreme.

With the help of the extremely hard original divine metal, the young man was able to block the ocean pressure at the bottom of the deep sea. As for other life forms, even as strong as an Enlightened Grandmaster, it was impossible for them to survive at the bottom of the deep sea; they would be crushed into powder by the endless ocean pressure.

This was the method chosen by the young man to survive the final calamity.

He came to this deep sea without leaving any informational clues; even his closest relatives did not know his whereabouts.

The only ones who knew were the crew members on the ship just now, but they also died along with the disintegration of the ship.

In other words,

at this moment, no one in this world knew his location.

In fact, even if they knew, it was useless.

He sank to the bottom of the deep sea; who could enter the bottom of the deep sea?

Even those terrifying sea beasts that had existed since ancient times dared not truly reach the bottom of the deep sea; they only wandered on the surface of the deep sea.

Even taking ten thousand steps back,

if someone could enter the bottom of the deep sea and fish up this original divine metal coffin,

who could harm him even a tiny bit across the hardest original divine metal of this heaven and earth?

original divine metal isolated everything, including the power of the mind.

Even the materialized power of the mind could not shake the original divine metal by even a fraction.

The trial of the final calamity was to let the young man live through one hundred and fifty years.

The young man speculated that during these one hundred and fifty years, there would definitely be enemies making a move against him.

However, the trial required him to live through one hundred and fifty years, so the young man had no intention of facing that enemy at all.

Instead, he chose to hide at this bottom of the deep sea where enemies could never find him.

Not giving any opportunities.

PS: Thanks to 'Immortal Qitian' for the Alliance Leader tip.

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