Chapter 756: Breaking Into the Immortal Path

Space warped, and several figures materialized.

Standing at the very front was a young man. He had black hair and black eyes, with a tall, straight stature and a terrifying aura.

The other figures were either middle-aged men or hunched old men, clearly playing the role of Dao protectors.

"Young Lord, ahead is the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace, which is also the residence of our Human Race's Great Emperor."

The hunched old man with wrinkled skin stopped, looked at the towering palace in the distance, and said in a low voice.

"Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace?"

The black-haired young man's eyes grew sharp, brimming with Battle Intent.

Ever since the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor swept through numerous foreign forbidden zones twenty thousand years ago, the Human Race had ushered in an unprecedented golden age of cultivation.

Over these twenty thousand years, countless cultivation Geniuses and special Physiques of the Human Race had emerged one after another, showing off their brilliance as much as possible.

As a peerless cultivation Genius, his goal was naturally the strongest of the Human Race. The black-haired young man's purpose in coming this time was to challenge the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, paving the way for his own Emperor Path.

In terms of strength, the black-haired young man was already in the Quasi-Emperor Realm. In this world, the Lifespan limit for cultivators below the Great Emperor was around one hundred thousand years.

Many cultivation Geniuses stepped into the Quasi-Emperor Realm at just thousands or tens of thousands of years of age, and the black-haired young man was no exception.

"Young Lord, do you really want to challenge the Great Emperor?"

Another middle-aged man asked hesitantly, clearly not having much confidence in the black-haired young man.

"Uncle Lu, I have been a Quasi-Emperor for over ten thousand years. I have ventured deep into the forbidden zones and fought against those ancient Supremes without a single defeat. Even if I am no match for the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, I surely won't lose too miserably."

The black-haired young man said. His challenge to the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was not to defeat him, but rather to feel the strength of this legendary Great Emperor up close.

Hearing this, the Dao protectors glanced at each other and said nothing more.

The black-haired young man had indeed safely retreated from the forbidden zones multiple times. Although he was only a Quasi-Emperor, his combat power was not much weaker than that of the Supreme Sovereigns.

Relying on his special Bloodline and Legacy methods, even a Quasi-Emperor could hope to fight and defeat a Great Emperor.

But the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor?

The Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was no ordinary Great Emperor.

The combat power he displayed twenty thousand years ago was at least at the level of a Matchless Emperor to start with.

"Don't worry, even if I lose to the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, my state of mind won't waver in the slightest."

The black-haired young man said. He also held immense awe and respect for the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor. Without this legendary Great Emperor, how could the Human Race possibly enjoy such a golden age of cultivation today?

Without the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor sweeping through the foreign forbidden zones, any cultivation Genius born to the Human Race would have been strangled or assassinated by foreign races the moment they showed even a hint of brilliance.

The black-haired young man knew his own limits. Without the deterrence of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, how could he have retreated completely unscathed after entering the forbidden zones?

If those ancient Lords of the Forbidden Zones had revived even a fraction of their strength, they could have made him pay an irreversible price.

It was true that a Quasi-Emperor could hope to defeat a Great Emperor, but they were not a true Great Emperor after all. Facing those ancient Lords of the Forbidden Zones, even a Great Emperor had to be extremely cautious, let alone a Quasi-Emperor.

"It is good that the Young Lord thinks this way."

The Dao protectors breathed a sigh of relief.

They had all lived through the era when the foreign races were dominant, so they knew all the more how terrifying the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was.

To sweep through everything under the watchful eyes of numerous ancient Supreme Sovereigns—among all the Emperors and Supremes born throughout history, very few could achieve such a feat.

Unfortunately, ever since the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor took action twenty thousand years ago, he had never fought a second time. This was also why so many Human Race cultivation Geniuses today yearned to challenge him.

Most of the Human Race's cultivation Geniuses were born within the last twenty thousand years and had not experienced the era of being looked down upon by foreign races, so their awe of the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor was not bone-deep.

Thus, they could still harbor the thought of challenging him.

Soon.

The black-haired young man and his companions arrived outside the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace.

"So many people."

The black-haired young man looked around, secretly startled.

Scattered outside the imperial palace, dozens or even hundreds of figures sat cross-legged.

The auras of these dozens to hundreds of figures were terrifyingly powerful, and most of them were surprisingly not inferior to him in the slightest.

"Is that… Yu Taiyin, who possesses the Bright Moon God King Physique?"

"And King Heifo, who possesses the God-Devouring Bloodline?"

"The extremely rare Chaos Physique of all ages."

The black-haired young man's brow twitched.

Yu Taiyin was a peerless Quasi-Emperor from fifteen thousand years ago, and the Bright Moon God King Physique was a top-tier special Physique. In that era fifteen thousand years ago, Yu Taiyin fought without rival across the Human Race, even venturing deep into various forbidden zones to clash with those ancient Supremes.

Unfortunately, Yu Taiyin suddenly vanished in the end, and the world believed this peerless Quasi-Emperor was attempting to step into the Emperor Realm.

He just didn't expect that he would encounter Yu Taiyin, who had been missing for fifteen thousand years, right here.

There was also King Heifo, who flowed with the God-Devouring Bloodline. He was also a peerless Quasi-Emperor whose path was to devour everything, and he too had suddenly vanished at some point.

The same went for the Chaos Physique. When this Physique emerged in the world, its possessor was hailed as the next Great Emperor of the Human Race, yet it had also ended up disappearing without a trace.

The black-haired young man observed carefully; among the dozens to hundreds of figures, there were those he had heard of and those he hadn't.

But the latter were actually able to sit side-by-side with the former, which meant their strength was clearly not inferior in the slightest.

"Are you also here to challenge the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor?"

Just as the black-haired young man was dazed, Yu Taiyin, who was sitting closest, opened his eyes and said casually, "Starting from there, there are exactly thirty-three steps to the imperial palace. As long as you can cross these thirty-three steps and reach the front of the imperial palace, you can see the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, and then you can challenge him."

"That simple?" the black-haired young man said subconsciously.

To challenge the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor, one only needed to walk to the front of the imperial palace?

"Simple?" Yu Taiyin closed his eyes.

Having received Yu Taiyin's guidance.

The black-haired young man came to the position of the first step.

Starting from here, there was a distance of thirty-three steps to the front of the imperial palace.

"Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor."

The black-haired young man's heart surged with excitement as he took a step forward with a solemn expression.

The next moment.

The black-haired young man's mind plunged into a boundless world.

Here, the sky was high and the earth was vast, and he felt like a speck of dust as an invisible pressure swept over him.

The black-haired young man felt his mind collapse and the boundless world shatter, returning to the outside world once more.

However, at this moment, the black-haired young man was drenched in cold sweat, and the step he had taken forward was drawn back.

"This?"

The black-haired young man was in disbelief.

He had long known that these thirty-three steps would not be simple.

After all, this was the threshold to meet the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

If anyone could meet the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor so easily, then he wouldn't need to Cultivate anymore and could spend all his days just meeting people.

But the black-haired young man had not expected that he wouldn't even be able to take the first step.

A distance of thirty-three steps would surely get harder with each step.

The first step was naturally the easiest.

"Is it still simple now?"

Not far away, Yu Taiyin opened his eyes, looked at the black-haired young man, and asked.

"Not simple, not simple at all."

The black-haired young man shook his head, then looked at the dozens to hundreds of other figures around him. "They…"

"We are all like you, having come here prepared to challenge the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor," Yu Taiyin said, his tone carrying a complex meaning.

The black-haired young man fell silent.

All of them came to challenge the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor? Yet they were all stopped outside the imperial palace? Clearly, not a single person had walked the thirty-three steps to reach the front of the imperial palace.

"Is the gap between us and the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor really this vast?"

The black-haired young man couldn't help but ask.

Before coming, he had indeed made preparations, but they were all for losing to the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor.

As for now, failing to take even a single step of the thirty-three steps required just to meet the Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor—such a disparity made the black-haired young man lose his composure.

"A gap?"

"Between us?"

Yu Taiyin smiled.

He looked at the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace thirty-three steps away and said in a low voice, "Standing here and looking at the imperial palace, you'll find it seems ordinary. But every time you take a step closer to it, you'll find it becomes vastly more towering and magnificent."

"The strongest among us has already taken seven steps. Standing there to look at the imperial palace, it already blots out the sky and covers the sun, encompassing heaven, earth, and all creation."

Yu Taiyin looked at the black-haired young man and continued, "But when you look at the imperial palace from thirty-three steps away, or from even further, you'll find the imperial palace is just so-so, and the distance between you and it is not impossible to cross."

The black-haired young man hearing this, his expression became thoughtful.

In a desolate, hilly region.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged. As early as eighteen thousand years ago, he had already left the Heavenly Yuan Imperial Palace to travel all over the Great Wilderness Source World.

"It's done."

Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. As the undying matter integrated into his Physical Body, the final portion of his Physique was thoroughly transformed into the essence of undying matter. At this moment, both his Physical Body and Soul were powerful to an unbelievable degree.

Even without relying on other methods, purely by virtue of his Physical Body, he could suppress an ordinary Thirteenth Order Second Stage Time Lifeform.

And the Thirteenth Order Second Stage was equivalent to an Immortal King of this Origin World.

Red Dust Immortals corresponded to the Thirteenth Order First Realm, Immortal Kings above Red Dust Immortals corresponded to the Thirteenth Order Second Stage, and what about Thirteenth Order Third Realm Time Lords? They corresponded to Immortal Emperors.

As for those above the Immortal Emperor? They were still within the Thirteenth Order Third Realm, except they had walked further and deeper in the Third Realm than an Immortal Emperor.

In the endless dimensions, Thirteenth Order Third Realm Time Lords also differed in strength. Powerful Time Lords even possessed some characteristics of a Fourteenth Order Perfect Time Life, enabling them to easily return to the distant past, thereby significantly altering the past and influencing the future.

"In twenty thousand years, my Physical Body has finally completed its transformation."

A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face. It had taken him ten years to transform one-tenth of his Physical Body.

The remaining nine-tenths, however, took a full twenty thousand years. The transformation of the Physical Body became harder the further it went, especially the final sliver, which took Lin Yuan nearly a thousand years.

But the harvest was also immense.

Twenty thousand years ago, in order to suppress the Grey Ancestor, a Second Stage Time Lifeform, Lin Yuan did not hesitate to deploy his true body and Primordial Spirit in full, yet the opponent still managed to escape in the end.

But now?

Just the field naturally emitted by his Physical Body could suppress the Grey Ancestor. Once he exerted his full strength, he could easily capture the opponent's main combat Physical Body.

At this moment, Lin Yuan's strength might already be close to that of a Third Realm Time Lord?

"The seventh layer of 'Infinite Void' has been mastered."

Lin Yuan looked inside his internal Universe. Having descended to the Third Source World, besides the immense help provided by the undying matter, sensing the operation of this Origin World's Origin Dao also had an irreplaceable promoting effect on the creation of the seventh layer of "Infinite Void".

In twenty thousand years, Lin Yuan had completely perfected the seventh layer of "Infinite Void." Currently, the vastness of his internal Universe was not inferior to the Chaos Void in the slightest.

It was foreseeable that once Lin Yuan stepped into the Second Stage, the natural transformation of his internal Universe alone would place him above the Chaos Void.

"I can feel that your strength has broken through once again. Monster, you are a monster." Not far away, a Seven Aperture Stone Man seemed to have sensed something, looking at Lin Yuan with a somewhat numb gaze.

He was a natural holy spirit nurtured for hundreds of millions of years, starting with combat power at the Great Emperor level. When Lin Yuan found him, this Seven Aperture Stone Man's strength was already close to that of a Matchless Emperor.

natural holy spirits like the Seven Aperture Stone Man were blessed by heaven, and their terrifying talent surpassed the limits of normally nurtured living beings.

This was also the Seven Aperture Stone Man's original way of thinking. He had no intention of competing with those Great Emperors and Supremes. Even in the ancient era, when Great Emperors emerged one after another, the Seven Aperture Stone Man had never paid them much attention.

"I still can't compare to an Immortal Emperor," Lin Yuan said with a smile.

The reason he chose to stay and reside here was because this was the breeding ground of the holy spirit, containing dense undying matter, which was of no small benefit to his own transformation.

"Can't compare to an Immortal Emperor?" The Seven Aperture Stone Man's lips twitched.

What kind of existence was an Immortal Emperor? There had only been two or three since ancient times.

"I am leaving," Lin Yuan stood up and glanced at the Seven Aperture Stone Man.

"Leaving?" The Seven Aperture Stone Man also looked at Lin Yuan.

Having spent over ten thousand years together, he also had many complex emotions toward this Heavenly Yuan Great Emperor who had shattered his understanding time and again.

Compared to Lin Yuan, the Seven Aperture Stone Man did not know who was actually the holy spirit nurtured by heaven and earth.

"Yes."

"This place is no longer of much help to me."

Lin Yuan said.

Now that he had absorbed the undying matter to his limit, absorbing more of it would not make much sense.

As for the essence of the Great Wilderness Source World's Origin Dao operation, as long as he was within the range of the Great Wilderness Source World, he could comprehend the operation of the Origin Dao anywhere. There was no need to stay here.

Above the Nine Heavens, in front of a Bronze Immortal Palace.

Lin Yuan's figure appeared out of thin air.

The essence of the Bronze Immortal Palace was actually a Seal.

It sealed the connection between the Great Wilderness Source World and the Immortal Path.

In the past, numerous Red Dust Immortals and Immortal Kings had charged into the Immortal Path from here.

Along with Lin Yuan's appearance, several figures walked out from within the Bronze Immortal Palace.

"Lord Tianyuan."

"Greetings, Lord Tianyuan."

Numerous figures bowed respectfully toward Lin Yuan. Eight thousand years ago, Lin Yuan had come to the outside of the Immortal Palace alone and nearly blasted through the entire palace.

Since then, many existences within the Immortal Palace had been extremely respectful to Lin Yuan, because eight thousand years ago, Lin Yuan already possessed combat power that surpassed ordinary Immortal Kings.

One must know that even in the ancient era, Red Dust Immortals were already considered top combat power, and an Immortal King was even rarer to see.

"Lord Tianyuan, what do you need us to do?"

The leading figure said immediately.

Since Lin Yuan blasted through the Immortal Palace eight thousand years ago, he had not returned.

Coming in person this time was certainly not just for a simple look.

"Open the Seal."

Lin Yuan looked at the Bronze Immortal Palace and said flatly, "I want to enter the Immortal Path."