After leaving the Forty-Nine Immortal Passes Secret Realm, Ye Chen did not immediately head to the Donghuang Domain, nor did he choose to return to the Pangu Universe. Instead, he remained and began to travel through the Primordial Immortal Realm.
With his Half-Step Overlord capabilities, even though the Primordial Immortal Realm was vast and boundless, it ultimately had its limits. Traversing the entire Immortal World would only take him a mere few dozen minutes.
However, his Chaos Immortal Method had not yet been successfully created. He needed to travel the Immortal World, comprehend the Immortal Methods of various places, and deduce a Chaos Immortal Method that belonged solely to him, thoroughly integrating the strongest chapters of all major realms into one.
As the Immortal Ancestor had said, he must use the Chaos Furnace to nurture a hundred scriptures, experience all aspects of life, comprehend the myriad forms of Immortal Methods, thoroughly understand them, and ultimately connect all major realms, fusing their strongest chapters into one entity, perfectly unifying their power. Only then could he take that final step and become a true Half-Step Overlord of the Immortal Dao.
Yet, saying it was easy, but in reality, it was difficult.
Regarding his understanding of the Immortal Dao, he was originally a Chaos Controller, and his comprehension of the Chaos Great Dao had reached the perfection stage. From this lofty vantage point, his insights into the various realms of the Immortal Dao were profound. He was even confident that throughout the entire Primordial Immortal Realm, only the Immortal Ancestor could truly stand above him.
But the Immortal Ancestor told him that to experience all aspects of life meant starting cultivation from the lowest level.
"To thoroughly comprehend the endless mysteries of the Immortal Method, one must start cultivating anew from the very basics. Although I am at the Half-Step Overlord level, precisely because my realm is too high, my cultivation of Immortal Methods has been too fast from the start. Moreover, I began by cultivating the strongest chapters, lacking the corresponding insights into the foundational Immortal Methods. Without understanding the common mysteries of the Immortal Method, how can I integrate the greater realms and create my own Chaos Immortal Method?"
Ye Chen gained this realization.
On this day, he descended upon an ordinary place within the Primordial Immortal Realm.
He decided to start cultivating step by step from the most ordinary mortal.
He sealed away his invincible cultivation, sealed away all memories related to Immortal Methods, and even sealed away all memories of the Great Dao. In his mind, he left only a single Immortal Method—the "Immortal Method Compendium."
The "Immortal Method Compendium" was the most common and most basic cultivation method in the Immortal World, circulating throughout the world for endless eons. Everyone in the Primordial Immortal Realm could obtain it.
Legend had it that it was created by the Immortal Ancestor, the very first cultivation method since the creation of heaven and earth.
Throughout the ages, all cultivation methods of Immortal Methods, even those who attained the Dao and became immortals, and even Immortal Kings and Immortal Venerables who created immortal scriptures, were all founded upon the basis of the "Immortal Method Compendium."
It could be said that the "Immortal Method Compendium" was the foundational compendium of all Immortal Methods.
Of course, the "Immortal Method Compendium" could also lead one to become an immortal. However, because it was only the most basic cultivation method and lacked corresponding divine abilities and spells to assist, cultivating with the "Immortal Method Compendium" was extremely ordinary in speed. Therefore, aside from ordinary people who would cultivate it, true geniuses or cultivation holy lands would never practice the "Immortal Method Compendium."
Yet Ye Chen cultivated the "Immortal Method Compendium."
Only the "Immortal Method Compendium" suited his current state.
It must be said that the "Immortal Method Compendium" was truly basic, a very common version. With his relevant memories sealed, Ye Chen's cultivation progress was also very slow.
It took a full thirty years for him to surpass the Postnatal and Innate mortal martial realms and become a Demigod at the Dao Valley realm.
However, Ye Chen felt that his foundation was incomparably solid, without the slightest flaw.
And this was precisely the greatest advantage of the "Immortal Method Compendium"—it was completely flawless.
A hundred years later, Ye Chen, bit by bit, finally cultivated to the peak of the Demigod realm, reaching the Tenth Heaven and becoming a Great Perfection Supreme Genius.
If this news spread, it would surely shake all sides.
Because throughout the ages, no one had been able to cultivate to become a Tenth Heaven Great Perfection Supreme Genius relying solely on the "Immortal Method Compendium," including the descendants of the Immortal Ancestor.
But Ye Chen had done it. At this moment, his comprehension of the Immortal Method had reached a deeper level. Every move he made resonated with heaven and earth, as if he could borrow the power of nature, mobilizing the infinite might of the Primordial Immortal Realm.
The myriad Daos of heaven and earth resonated with him; he was like a Dao Body of Heaven and Earth.
This scene was witnessed by a great power of the Immortal World who happened to be passing by. Deeply astonished, he approached Ye Chen and could clearly sense the special harmony Ye Chen now shared with the myriad Daos of the Primordial Immortal Realm—an extraordinary phenomenon not even seen in the descendants of Immortal Dao lineages.
Upon learning that Ye Chen had cultivated to become a Demigod Great Perfection Supreme Genius using the "Immortal Method Compendium," this Immortal World great power was utterly shocked.
Because throughout the ages, no one had been able to rely on the "Immortal Method Compendium" to cultivate into a Great Perfection Supreme Genius. Legend had it that only the Immortal Ancestor could achieve this.
But when the Immortal Ancestor created the "Immortal Method Compendium," he was already a peerless progenitor. How could that prove anything? Thus, it was merely a legend.
Now, he had actually witnessed Ye Chen truly succeed in his cultivation. That aura could not be mistaken.
Immediately, this Immortal World great power brought Ye Chen into his immortal sect—the Changbai Immortal Sect!
This immortal sect had once given birth to a true Supreme Immortal, known as the Changbai True Immortal.
However, the Changbai True Immortal had allegedly fallen many years ago. Lacking the presence of a Supreme Immortal, the Changbai Immortal Sect was far from its former peak prosperity. On the surface, only a Quasi-Monarch sect master presided over it. Upon meeting Ye Chen and learning that he had cultivated the "Immortal Method Compendium" to become a Great Perfection Supreme Genius, the sect master wished to take him as a personal disciple, but Ye Chen refused. This became a major event that shook the entire Changbai Immortal Sect.
Throughout the entire sect, countless geniuses longed to become the sect master's personal disciple.
But the Changbai Immortal Sect master was not angered; he was appreciative. Even when offered other top-tier cultivation methods for Ye Chen to specialize in, the latter refused, wholeheartedly dedicated solely to the "Immortal Method Compendium."
This reminded him of another person within the sect and an ancient legend.
When the "Immortal Method Compendium" was cultivated to its extreme, one could reach the level of the Immortal Ancestor and control all Immortal Dao.
Of course, that was merely a legend, its truth impossible to verify.
Although they did not become master and disciple, the sect master still diligently provided various cultivation resources for Ye Chen's training.
Despite many within the sect not holding high hopes for Ye Chen, believing he could at most cultivate to the Saint Treasury realm—because the "Immortal Method Compendium" was too basic, too ordinary—countless geniuses throughout the ages who cultivated it ultimately could only stop at the Saint Treasury realm, unable to break through further, reincarnate, and achieve the Heavenly King realm.
Consequently, many elders within the sect, even senior-generation God Kings, personally came forward, hoping to send Ye Chen to an immortal kingdom possessing a Supreme Immortal to become a personal disciple of a Supreme Immortal and cultivate a true immortal scripture.
But Ye Chen did not agree to any of these offers. On the contrary, he grew fond of the Changbai Immortal Sect, stayed to cultivate, and even joined a very ordinary peak within the sect for his practice.
This peak was named Decay Peak.
Decay Peak, from top to bottom, had only one sect elder and no disciples.
The elder of Decay Peak also cultivated the "Immortal Method Compendium"!