The Immortal Method Compendium truly lived up to being the strongest Immortal Scripture created by the Immortal World's foremost figure, the Immortal Ancestor.
It was both the most ordinary and the most powerful, for it could govern all immortal cultivation methods.
All immortal cultivation methods in the world were originally founded upon the basis of the Immortal Method Compendium.
Using the Immortal Method Compendium as the foundation, Ye Chen integrated the various major realms, perfectly piercing them together.
Ye Chen silently contemplated. He felt that even his former self from the time when he was at the Divine King Realm level would likely be somewhat inferior to his current self.
Ultimately, back then, he had relied solely on his own comprehension of chaos. The Chaos Scripture he created was still being perfected, and in the end, it still contained some flaws.
"Although cultivating with the Immortal Method Compendium is very slow right now, I can appreciate the various profound mysteries of the Immortal Method. Nothing is too big or too small; every subtlety of the Immortal Method for each realm can be clearly perceived. It is precisely because of this that my current Immortal Dao conduct is flawless, perfect, and without leaks, unlike before when I directly cultivated the strongest chapters of each major realm, unable to effectively connect them, creating a terrifying hidden flaw that prevented my Immortal Method from breaking through shackles."
"Now, the Immortal Method is flawless. Once I cultivate to the Eternal Immortal Monarch level, it will completely pierce through everything. I can achieve Half-Step Overlord in the Immortal Dao."
Ye Chen looked forward to that day. If both the Divine Dao and the Immortal Dao were cultivated to the Half-Step Overlord level, and both were based on chaos, he wondered if one day the two Half-Step Overlord Dao Fruits could merge, helping him take that crucial step completely, break through the realm, and become the sixth peerless Overlord in the history of the Chaos Sea?
Although Ye Chen had spent a full ten thousand years to become a Divine King, he was still the most outstanding disciple of the Changbai Immortal Sect in this epoch, even one of the strongest Supreme Heavenly Prides in this immortal domain. He had achieved Great Perfection in all major realms, not inferior to the descendants of Immortal Dao lineages at the same realm.
After all, although his cultivation speed was slow compared to other Supreme Heavenly Prides, that was relative to Supreme Heavenly Prides. However, looking across the entire Primordial Immortal World, achieving the position of Divine King in ten thousand years was still very fast; his cultivation speed was similarly rapid.
After all, for the vast majority of cultivators, spending their entire lives to become a Saint was already remarkable. Heavenly King, Great Power, and other major realms successively blocked countless Heaven's Prides.
Throughout history, those who could become Divine Kings were all truly peerless talents, and many only became Divine Kings when they were tens of thousands of years old.
Becoming a Divine King in ten thousand years, given that Divine Kings also had a lifespan of a million years, could be considered incredibly young, still qualifying as a top-tier Heaven's Pride.
However, perhaps the most regrettable thing was that Ye Chen, regarded by the entire Changbai Immortal Sect as the number one Heaven's Pride of all time, though a Great Perfection Supreme Heavenly Pride, had rarely made a move, seldom ventured out for training, and had been in closed-door cultivation all along. Consequently, many people felt that Ye Chen's combat power would be quite ordinary.
Regarding this, Ye Chen paid little heed and continued to immerse himself in cultivation, gaining even more perfect mastery over the strongest chapters of the Immortal King Scriptures for each major realm. Various immortal lights shimmered, stirring the myriad Daos of heaven and earth, extraordinarily extraordinary and peerless in the world.
Occasionally, Ye Chen would also glance at the foot of Decay Peak, where the peak's elder, Zhang Xiu, resided—a man as ordinary as his name, and Decay Peak was named after him.
However, ten thousand years had passed. Zhang Xiu should have reached his lifespan limit and died of old age, but he had miraculously endured and become a Divine King.
It must be said, even Ye Chen felt that Zhang Xiu was truly full of miracles. Clearly ordinary in every aspect, even cultivating the most basic Immortal Method like the Immortal Method Compendium, yet he had stubbornly cultivated to the Divine King Realm. Moreover, each time he was on the verge of dying of old age, he would make a breakthrough at the critical moment, ultimately standing firm after breaking through the realm.
On this day, Ye Chen arrived at the foot of Decay Peak, at a rather dilapidated Daoist temple where Zhang Xiu, now a Divine King, cultivated.
If one didn't know he was a Divine King, it would be hard to believe that aEsteemed / Honorable Divine King would deign to cultivate within a dilapidated Daoist temple.
"Elder Zhang Xiu."
Ye Chen paid a visit. Zhang Xiu also sensed Ye Chen's arrival, set up a tea table, and sat on the ground. At this moment, both were very ordinary, like mortals.
Zhang Xiu looked at Ye Chen. Although he was already a Divine King, he was truly old in years—a full hundred thousand years old. Even after stepping into the Divine King Realm, he still appeared elderly, with white hair reaching his eyebrows. He said peacefully, "Fellow Daoist Ye seems to have some doubts?"
He did not address Ye Chen as a junior but treated him as an equal.
Ye Chen smiled slightly and said, "Elder Zhang Xiu, you are the most perseverant cultivator I have ever met. I am somewhat curious. Although your aptitude is ordinary, if you cultivated the Changbai Immortal Scripture of the Changbai Immortal Sect, your cultivation speed would greatly accelerate. Why not cultivate it? With your qualifications, you are fully eligible to switch to the Changbai Immortal Scripture."
Being able to become a Heavenly King already represented a certain level of strength; the immortal sect would certainly value him and bestow corresponding Immortal Scripture methods like the Changbai Immortal Scripture.
Zhang Xiu smiled. "Why must I cultivate the Changbai Immortal Scripture? Isn't the Immortal Method Compendium quite good? Plain and simple, this kind of cultivation suits me better."
Ye Chen understood and also smiled.
Zhang Xiu was originally an ordinary person, ordinary since childhood. By chance, he cultivated the Immortal Method Compendium. Along the way, he was utterly unremarkable, relying only on bitter cultivation to break through the shackles of major realms time and again, eventually becoming a Divine King.
He possessed no heaven-defying talent. If he hadn't cultivated the Immortal Method Compendium, he would have been even more ordinary. Which major immortal sect would have noticed him?
Only by cultivating the Immortal Method Compendium did he become a Divine King and gain a certain voice.
Otherwise, in the past, he might have spent his entire life as nothing more than a slave of the immortal sect.
Zhang Xiu rose because of the Immortal Method Compendium and was willing to use the Immortal Method Compendium to pierce through his entire being.
Ye Chen turned to leave. Before departing, he said, "Elder Zhang Xiu, you possess great perseverance. I see boundless radiance upon you. If this heaven and earth do not perish, if the Immortal World is not destroyed, you will become that supreme and peerless Immortal Venerable."
As his words fell, he had already vanished.
If those familiar with Ye Chen heard this evaluation, they would surely be shocked.
Because Ye Chen rarely evaluated anyone, especially giving such high praise. Even towards his own descendants, he had never given such high praise.
Clearly, Zhang Xiu warranted such evaluation.
Zhang Xiu merely smiled, said nothing, and continued his cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, thirty thousand years had passed since Ye Chen arrived at the Changbai Immortal Sect.
Over these thirty thousand years, he had rarely gone out, focusing on cultivating the Immortal Method Compendium.
And his cultivation speed was constantly accelerating. After cultivating the Immortal Dao for thirty thousand years, he was already a Nine Tribulations Divine King. In the eyes of the outside world, this was the peak of the Divine King Realm. After all, a Great Perfection Supreme Heavenly Pride did not need to supplement the Heavenly Dao in the Divine King Realm; Nine Tribulations was the limit.
But no one knew that Ye Chen, as in the past, had become a Ten Tribulations Divine King in the Immortal Dao.
"The Immortal Dao Divine King has finally been cultivated to the Ten Tribulations Great Perfection level. Indeed, whether it's the Divine Dao or the Immortal Dao, as long as one cultivates to the Ten Tribulations Great Perfection level, there are ultimate secrets." Ye Chen's gaze pierced through the ten layers of immortal light rings manifesting behind him, comprehending infinite secrets.