Chapter 752: The Great Emperor’s Later Years

Third Source World.

Inside an imperial palace with astonishing visions.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged and slowly opened his eyes.

"This Origin World…"

A thoughtful expression crossed Lin Yuan's face as a mass of information flashed through his mind.

This world was boundless, named the Great Wilderness Source World, and countless terrifying tribes existed within it.

The vessel that Lin Yuan descended into belonged to the Human Race.

Furthermore, he was the sole Ultimate Practitioner of the Human Race in the current age—

The Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

Great Emperor was a title, not a specific Realm.

Anyone capable of standing among the Peak of the Great Wilderness Source World could be called a Great Emperor.

Or Heavenly Sovereign, Supreme.

Since Lin Yuan could become the universally recognized Great Emperor of the current age, his strength was undoubtedly beyond question.

Even if his strength was not the absolute strongest.

He was definitely among the strongest tier.

But what a pity.

Lin Yuan at this moment was not a Great Emperor in his absolute Peak period.

But an aging Great Emperor in his later years.

An aging Great Emperor whose Qi and blood were decaying and whose Lifespan was running low.

In fact, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had already exhausted his Lifespan and passed away.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been possessed by Lin Yuan to become the vessel for his descent.

The shuttle descent of the Gate of Myriad Realms could only select lives that were about to die or had already died.

Lin Yuan being able to descend meant that the original Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was already dead.

"The rules of this Origin World are truly special, actually possessing such shackles as a Lifespan limit."

Lin Yuan let out a light breath, carefully adjusting the Qi and blood within his body.

If the strength of a Great Emperor was converted to the Realm of the Chaos Void, it would be Twelfth Order Perfection.

In terms of combat power, a Great Emperor far surpassed the Invincible Great Saint, almost reaching the level of that Abyssal Dragon in the First Source World.

However, such Experts did not have endless Lifespans, and could live at most a little over a million years.

If one could swallow a stalk of undying divine medicine, they could survive a second life, lasting two to three million years.

Going a step further and breaking their own shackles would allow them to survive a fourth or fifth life.

Of course.

Lin Yuan's original body, which was the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, was quite mediocre among the Great Emperors of past generations.

Relying on an undying divine medicine obtained in the past, he survived his second life.

But in the end, he failed to break his own shackles and live into a third life.

"The vitality of my Physical Body, Qi, and blood has finally stabilized."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts; when he had first descended, he could barely feel any fluctuation of vitality in his Physical Body.

In order to live longer, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had almost exhausted his foundational vitality; once he passed away, it would be a complete annihilation without leaving a trace.

It was only because of Lin Yuan that his breath was forcefully sustained, and he successfully re-condensed his fundamental vitality.

Thus surviving.

"Once the first step is endured, things will be much easier."

A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

Before descending to the Third Source World, Lin Yuan had dozens of vessels to choose from.

Ultimately, he chose the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor precisely because this gave the highest starting point, allowing him to recover his Peak strength at the fastest speed.

Moreover, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor's Physique was special, and Lin Yuan had discovered some clues through viewing future timelines.

Even the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor himself did not know what his true Physique actually was.

The only drawback was the problem of exhausted Lifespan.

However, for Lin Yuan, this was not a very big problem.

"This Origin World is too special."

Lin Yuan looked around at the world; within his field of vision, the Dao rules manifested as if they were tangible.

Placed in the Chaos Void or the previous two Origin Worlds, this was definitely an unbelievable thing.

"No wonder one can step into the Great Emperor Domain in just one hundred thousand years."

Lin Yuan nodded slightly.

The current Great Emperor—let alone their combat power—possessed a Realm equivalent to Twelfth Order Perfection.

And in the Chaos Void, wanting to Cultivate to Twelfth Order Perfection would consume time measured at least in cosmic eras.

But in this world?

The time it took for a normal Great Emperor to become an Ultimate Practitioner was at most one hundred thousand years.

Some extremely Prodigy-like Great Emperors stepped into the Great Emperor Domain in just tens of thousands of years.

Tens of thousands of years for Twelfth Order Perfection? This was almost catching up to Lin Yuan.

Only an environment where the Dao rules of heaven and earth manifested in such a manner could give birth to one Great Emperor after another.

And the operation of the Origin Dao.

Feeling the slight fluctuations of the world and heaven, Lin Yuan's eyes shone brightly.

The operation of the Origin Dao in this Origin World was completely different from the previous two Origin Worlds, and it was like a natural chasm compared to that dimensional gap region in the Chaos Void.

The impact on Lin Yuan was naturally unprecedented.

"The aura of Perfection, the aura of Perfection of this Origin World also surpasses the Second Source World by a lot."

The Lord of Heavenly Light paid a huge price to integrate into the Second Source World precisely because the latter had the so-called 'aura of Perfection'.

And the aura of Perfection contained in the present Third Source World was much higher than that of the Second Source World.

The aura of Perfection was related to the Fourteenth Order, so naturally, the more, the better.

Choosing the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor as the vessel for descent.

The advantage was a high starting point, directly being the current Great Emperor, and the resources and rare treasures he could obtain far exceeded those of other vessel choices.

As for the disadvantages?

First was the problem of the Lifespan limit.

In fact, this was also inevitable; if not for the Lifespan limit, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor would not have died, and Lin Yuan even less would have had the opportunity to descend and take possession.

Moreover, Lin Yuan had already passed this disadvantage.

With Lin Yuan's methods, as long as he endured the initial stage of descent.

He would basically shake off the shackles of the Lifespan limit.

The so-called Lifespan limit targeted lives below the Thirteenth Order.

Under the restriction of this world's rules, the Souls of lives below the Thirteenth Order would decay.

But Lin Yuan was essentially a Thirteen Step Time Life, and his mental will possessed the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor; even if he had not yet recovered to Thirteenth Order strength, the so-called Lifespan limit did not exist for him.

Because Lin Yuan's mental will would not decay at all.

Secondly, it was the series of hidden dangers brought by Lin Yuan's identity as the current Great Emperor.

Being able to become a Human Race Great Emperor, no matter how mediocre, was forged by killing one's way out of countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

In the past, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had killed countless alien Geniuses, and even direct descendants of those Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes.

During the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor's Peak period, these alien races naturally had to endure it, even if there were many foundations within their clans, or even Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes who had slashed themselves in the past.

They were unwilling to fight to the death with a Great Emperor in his Peak period.

In addition, apart from the alien races, there were also many Forbidden Zone Lords who were eyeing the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor covetously.

The Origin of a current Great Emperor was enough to nourish the gradually distorted mental will of these Forbidden Zone Lords.

"In this world, the Human Race's power is weak and extremely inconspicuous among the myriad races. Before the rise of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, the Human Race had never given birth to an Expert at the Great Emperor level."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Therefore, after the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor became an Ultimate Practitioner, the Human Race ushered in rapid expansion.

Facing the Human Race with the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor presiding over them, other alien races could only back down.

But what a pity, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had not nurtured the next Great Emperor for the Human Race.

It could be foreseen that once the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor fell, what the Human Race would face was the liquidation and backlash from other alien races.

Lin Yuan possessed the full memories of this current Great Emperor after taking possession of him.

He knew clearly that the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had also made many preparations for after his own fall.

For instance, as early as one hundred thousand years ago, he began to let the Human Race shrink its sphere of influence.

The territory occupied by the Human Race now was less than one-thousandth of its Peak period a million years ago.

Furthermore, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had also tried in the past to see if he could slash himself and linger on his last breath like those Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes.

But wanting to slash oneself required going to the 'Yellow Springs' Forbidden Zone and soaking in the Yellow Springs for ten thousand years.

Only by doing so could one prolong their Lifespan, at the cost of transforming into a Yellow Springs Body, forever unable to advance any further thereafter.

However, when the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was young, he had wiped out several descendants of the Lord of the 'Yellow Springs' Forbidden Zone, so the two could be considered to have forged a deadly feud.

Going to the Yellow Springs Forbidden Zone alone was still something the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was unwilling to do, and in the end, he gave up this approach.

In fact, not many Great Emperors and Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes from past generations were willing to slash themselves.

The cost of soaking in the Yellow Springs was far from being as simple as never being able to advance any further.

The Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had made many preparations for the Human Race, wanting to let the Human Race continue as much as possible after his death.

However, Lin Yuan had viewed future timelines and knew clearly that after the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor died, the Human Race would face annihilation by those powerful alien races.

The powerful alien races were unwilling to see the Human Race give birth to another Great Emperor in the future, so to ensure nothing went wrong, they directly joined forces to annihilate the Human Race.

And what about the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor himself?

His imperial body was carved up by those Forbidden Zone Lords.

This was the Ultimate ending of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

Of course, this was the ending before Lin Yuan descended.

After Lin Yuan descended, all endings were naturally rewritten.

"The current top priority is to recover all strength as soon as possible."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

In this Origin World, Great Emperors were the top-tier Experts.

As for above the Great Emperor, it was the Red Dust Immortal.

And only the Red Dust Immortal could break the Lifespan restrictions and be carefree and unfettered.

And the Red Dust Immortal corresponded to the Thirteen Step Time Life.

The Red Dust Immortal was high above; although named after the Mortal World, they were not in the Mortal World.

Instead, they were situated in a higher layer of the Great Wilderness Source World.

The Red Dust Immortal was also the Ultimate pursuit of all past Great Emperors, Heavenly Sovereigns, and Supremes.

However, wanting to become a Red Dust Immortal required not only breaking through the time loop, but also condensing a sufficient amount of undying matter.

Nurturing the Physical Body, Physique, Soul, and mental will with undying matter, slowly transforming to the Red Dust Immortal level.

Great Emperors of past generations had all tried to condense undying matter.

However, even with the strength of a Great Emperor, wanting to condense a sufficient amount of undying matter required tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years.

That was to say, a Great Emperor who had survived at least seven or eight lives could gather enough undying matter, thereby welcoming the test of the time loop.

Lin Yuan's mental will was long at the Thirteen Step Time Life level, requiring no further time loop, so he only needed to condense a sufficient amount of undying matter to return to Peak strength.

"undying matter?"

Lin Yuan carefully sensed and immediately discovered some faint auras permeating between heaven and earth.

Containing the aura of undying and eternity.

Which was the so-called undying matter.

"An ordinary Great Emperor wanting to condense a sufficient amount of undying matter would take tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years, but I don't need that long."

Lin Yuan thought to himself; he was not a Great Emperor, and his true Realm was a Thirteen Step Time Life comparable to the Red Dust Immortal level. The speed at which he condensed undying matter was countless times faster than those Great Emperors.

You Race.

There were a total of nine most powerful tribes in the Great Wilderness Source World.

The You Race was one of them, and a terrifying tribe ranked at least in the top three.

In the history of the You Race, ten Heavenly Sovereigns had been born, and every once in a while, they would look down upon the Great Wilderness Source World.

At this moment, deep within the You Race's ancestral land, a pair of eyes that seemed to have slept for countless years opened, their gaze icy as they looked afar at the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace.

Following that, pair after pair of eyes opened, likewise looking towards the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace.

The Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace was the residence of the current Great Emperor, the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, and also the core location of the Human Race, one of the newly promoted nine major tribes.

"Tianyuan, it should be about time for you to die of old age."

"With Heavenly Yuan's foundational accumulation, it is definitely impossible to break his own shackles and live out a third life."

Several Heavenly Sovereigns of the You Race who had slashed themselves conversed with each other, speculating on the current state of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

"After some time, we will initiate a recovery, slaughter our way into the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace, and carve up the Great Emperor's Physical Body."

One of the You Race Heavenly Sovereigns said in a low voice; they were also Great Emperors and Heavenly Sovereigns who used to look down upon the Great Wilderness Source World, but they had slept for too long, coupled with the impact of the Yellow Springs Body on themselves, making them extremely eager to devour the Great Emperor's Physical Body and Physique.

"Right, Heavenly Yuan is right there, and he can't run anywhere."

The remaining You Race Heavenly Sovereigns nodded. After slashing themselves, their strength could not compare to a true Great Emperor, so they were unwilling to face the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor who still had a breath left.

The Forbidden Zone 'Yellow Springs'.

Likewise, pairs of eyes opened, carefully observing the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace.

"Tianyuan hasn't come until now; he must not trust us, nor does he trust Yellow Springs."

"Fine, although this is a bit troublesome, after all, it is the Origin of a current Great Emperor, which can greatly nourish our nearly withered minds. It is enough for us to make a personal move."

The various entities of the 'Yellow Springs' Forbidden Zone communicated quickly. If the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor had done as they said, obediently coming to the Forbidden Zone, and then being suppressed to have his Origin extracted and devoured.

That would be the best result.

But the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor clearly harbored doubts.

Preferring to die of old age rather than coming over.

This made the various entities of the 'Yellow Springs' Forbidden Zone feel troubled.

But it was only troublesome.

At worst, it would be a further recovery. Nourished by the Origin of a current Great Emperor, it was enough to compensate for the cost of their recovery.

Those paying attention to the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor were far more than just the You Race and the 'Yellow Springs' Forbidden Zone.

Numerous special entities and taboo entities were all observing the state of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

So that they could be the first to carve up the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, this current Great Emperor.

You must know that even when a current Great Emperor reached the Lifespan limit, his Physical Body and Physique were still in their Peak period; what withered was only his mental will.

Compared to those Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes who slashed themselves and survived long years, a current Great Emperor was an incomparable 'delicacy' in the eyes of those taboo entities.

Inside the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace.

Lin Yuan was trying to condense undying matter.

Wisps of auras were stripped from heaven and earth, gathering in front of Lin Yuan in an almost tangible form.

If other Heavenly Sovereigns and Supremes were present, they would definitely be shocked into dumbfoundedness. Even for them, wanting to condense undying matter could only rely on bit-by-bit accumulation over long years.

Like this kind of gathering where undying matter condensed into a tangible substance right now?

The undying matter gathered in every single breath was probably equivalent to the achievements of an ordinary Great Emperor over hundreds or thousands of years.

"It's done."

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

Looking at the undying matter that had completely formed in front of him, a hint of a peculiar expression appeared on his face.