Within a cave abode on Decay Peak, Ye Chen sat cross-legged, the cave filled with boundless immortal light.
Behind him, ten layers of immortal halos manifested, separating like the ten divine halos of yore, transforming into ring-like shapes that encircled one another.
Each immortal halo was resplendent and dazzling, flowing with mysterious immortal radiance, as if each pierced through an entire Immortal World. Within each halo, a majestic, peerless figure sat in meditation, resembling an Immortal Venerable One who had endured through the ages like a long night, sitting with closed eyes in the lands of the ten directions of the Immortal World, with immeasurable immortal tribulations manifesting behind them.
Ye Chen's gaze pierced through the ten immortal halos. He saw that each immortal halo was connected to an illusory Immortal World land.
The ten immortal halos represented ten illusory Immortal World lands.
Faintly, these ten illusory Immortal World lands combined, transforming into a single, complete, and real Immortal World—the entire Primordial Immortal Realm.
Ye Chen's divine sense probed within. Instantly, from a lofty, overlooking perspective, he surveyed the entire Primordial Immortal Realm.
The vast Primordial Immortal Realm, the greatest ancient universe within the Chaos Sea—every aspect, every matter great and small—appeared before his eyes. He could observe almost everything.
He saw the various scenes within the Changbai Immortal Sect: the contemporary sect master sitting cross-legged on the main peak, absorbing immortal energy from all directions to cultivate.
He saw an aged and decaying Ancient Monarch, slumbering in the deepest part of the immortal sect, using immortal weapons to suppress himself, using the power of immortal weapons to imprison the void, delaying the passage of time to endure in the mortal world.
He also saw an extremely ancient Immortal Lord, slumbering in the deepest part of the Changbai Immortal Sect's immortal vein, self-sealed within the vein.
These were the foundations of the Changbai Immortal Sect.
Similarly, he saw Elder Zhang Xiu on Decay Peak, silently cultivating, operating the "Immortal Law Compendium," resonating with heaven and earth, faintly resonating with the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal World, entering a state of enlightenment, deepening the accumulation of his Immortal Dao foundation, making it more stable than the Immortal Dao foundations of many Ancient Monarchs.
Shifting his gaze, Ye Chen saw the founding ancestor of the Qiyang Immortal Kingdom—True Immortal Qiyang, that supreme immortal who had once hoped to take him as a personal disciple. He was also cultivating within his immortal manor at this moment, but could not sense Ye Chen's prying gaze.
Looking further, he saw the Immortal King Domain that encompassed the Qiyang Immortal Kingdom and seven other immortal domains—the Snow Absolute Immortal King Domain.
Snow Absolute Immortal King was quietly cultivating within his Immortal King cave abode. Powerful as he was, a top-tier Immortal King like him sensed something unusual—the feeling that someone was spying on him. His expression immediately darkened, and he let out a cold snort that shook the Thirty-Three Heavens.
This caused countless powerhouses in the Immortal King Domain to show shock, especially the various True Immortals and Quasi-Immortal Kings, because they knew this was Snow Absolute Immortal King's cold snort.
Why did His Majesty the Immortal King suddenly snort coldly? What had happened?
Ye Chen no longer looked toward Snow Absolute Immortal King. After all, he had long sealed his own peerless cultivation. With merely the cultivation of a peak Divine King spying on an Immortal King, even through the ten immortal halos, he would be sensed.
Snow Absolute Immortal King originally wanted to see just who dared to spy on him, an Immortal King. Even an Immortal Venerable One should not spy like this—it was an insult. But that feeling of being spied on quickly vanished.
Naturally unwilling, he attempted Deduction to find the spy. But to his surprise, even an Immortal King like him, standing at the absolute peak of the Immortal Dao, actually could not succeed in the deduction. There was a terrifying mist shrouding the deduction; if he forced it further, he felt a terrible taboo would emerge.
"Could it truly be a peerless Immortal Venerable One spying on me?"
Snow Absolute Immortal King frowned, but he was helpless, for he truly could not deduce it.
Ye Chen's gaze swept across the entire Primordial Immortal Realm, seeing all the supreme immortals, Quasi-Immortal Kings, and Immortal Kings.
However, not all places were visible. Places like where End Immortal Venerable resided, where the Lord of the Ten Thousand Ancient Metropolis was, and where other Immortal Venerable Ones were—all were voids, utterly impossible to spy upon.
Immortal Venerable Ones were the most ancient Immortal Kings, standing at the absolute peak of the Immortal Dao, unfathomably deep. They had even gained the recognition of the Primordial Immortal Realm's universe origin and could not be spied upon.
The Forty-Nine Immortal Passes Secret Realm was the same—an origin secret realm. Its deepest parts housed the Immortal Ancestor and other Immortal Dao Half-Step Overlords, impossible to spy upon.
Even so, it was still astonishing. The ten immortal halos derived from an Immortal Dao Ten Tribulation God King could actually survey the entire Primordial Immortal Realm from another perspective—something previously unimaginable.
At this moment, the various Immortal Kings or Immortal Venerable Ones of the Primordial Immortal Realm all felt a vague sense of being spied upon.
Who was spying?
Especially the Immortal Venerable Ones, who frowned immediately, sensing that it was an alternative form of spying—a survey of the Immortal World leveraging the authority of the Immortal World's origin.
But generally, no Immortal Venerable One would survey like this, as it easily infringed upon other Immortal Venerable Ones. Unless it was wartime, they would not do so.
Who was it?
At this time, Ye Chen's divine sense had already withdrawn from the ten immortal halos, cutting off everything. No one could sense it.
"It seems it's not just capable of surveying the Primordial Immortal Realm. There's another use."
Rumble—
With just a single thought from Ye Chen, an immense, boundless majestic power appeared above the Changbai Immortal Sect, radiating for billions of miles, shaking the entire Qiyang Immortal Kingdom.
True Immortal Qiyang, the founding ancestor of the Qiyang Immortal Kingdom, was startled within his cave abode. Gazing toward the Changbai Immortal Sect from afar, he was greatly shocked.
Because just now, he had sensed an Immortal Dao majestic power manifesting that surpassed even his own. That kind of power did not resemble ordinary Immortal Dao power; it was more like the Primordial Immortal Realm's origin power descending.
The Primordial Immortal Realm's origin power was the universe power of the Primordial Immortal Realm. Even a supreme immortal like him was not qualified to mobilize the universe power of the Primordial Immortal Realm. Only at the Immortal King level could one gain the recognition of the Primordial Immortal Realm and be permitted to mobilize a certain amount of universe power.
What had happened at the Changbai Immortal Sect?
Had an Immortal King descended?
Or had True Immortal Changbai, missing for an epoch, not perished but instead secluded himself for endless years, becoming a new Immortal King?
True Immortal Qiyang did not dare approach, only watching from afar.
However, that vast Cosmic Power vanished in an instant, as if it had never appeared.
Within the Decay Peak cave abode, Ye Chen's gaze was exceptionally brilliant and astonishing: "If a Great Perfection Supreme Genius becomes a Ten Tribulation God King, they can directly communicate with the Heavenly Dao of the great universe, even gaining authority over a portion of the universe's origin power."
Previously, when Ye Chen became a Ten Tribulation God King via the Divine Dao, he was too young, and the place he was in was the Ten Heavens Ancient Domain, not a true Chaos Ancient Universe, so he could not effectively sense it and was not very clear.
Even later, when he had the ability to sense it, his strength was already very high, so he fundamentally had no need to rely on Cosmic Power.
After all, it was not all Cosmic Power, just a portion.
A Great Perfection Supreme Genius becoming a Ten Tribulation God King had two authorities.
First, they could gain the recognition of the universe's origin, allowing them to borrow the universe's origin to survey the entire Chaos Ancient Universe.
Second, they could gain authority over a portion of Cosmic Power. The strength of this portion of Cosmic Power was greater than that of an ordinary True Immortal.
At this moment, Ye Chen undid his seal, releasing the power of his Divine Dao Ten Tribulation God King, and also attempted to resonate with the Primordial Immortal Realm.