After leaving the Alien Ancient Universe, a mysterious ancient stele appeared in Ye Chen's hand.
This stele shone with blazing, extraordinary colors, inscribed with ancient and profound Dao runes no less significant than Supreme Ancient Characters, recording a scripture that shook the ancient and illuminated the present.
He had mastered this ancient scripture many years ago.
Some had used it to attain the Dao and become immortals, others to prove their Dao and become emperors.
Even peerless giants had used it for intensive study, creating techniques unprecedented throughout history.
Ye Chen gazed at the mysterious ancient stele and said, "Actually, the Defective Origin World also contains a true Eternal Ancient Scripture. In the past, I always thought it was merely an immortal technique, but later discovered this technique was increasingly extraordinary. Even the Samsara Emperor of that era used it to research the Supreme Samsara Great Method."
"Only after I reached the Supreme Realm did I truly discover the heaven-defying nature of this immortal technique. It is no ordinary immortal technique, but an Eternal Ancient Scripture, a technique created by the Ten Tribulations Heavenly Venerate, one of the Thirty-Three Eternal Heavenly Venerates. Back then, that Ten Tribulations Heavenly Venerate used this to become one of the thirty-three Eternal Heavenly Venerates of the Origin Land."
"'Ten' is the number of great perfection between heaven and earth."
"In the past, I spent two hundred million years cultivating it, also constantly accumulating divine power. But now, even someone like me cannot succeed. There will eventually be a limit to one's strength; a breakthrough is impossible. Otherwise, Primordial Beginning, the Heavenly Emperor, the Immortal Ancestor, Zhenyuan Taishang, and the Universe Emperor, having cultivated for countless epochs, should have long since become Eternal Heavenly Venerates."
"Now, this Eternal technique is my final method to break through the ultimate boundary, to charge through the final barrier at the critical moment."
In the Chaos Sea, the myriad Daos continued to flourish.
The Era of Prosperity descended, with Heaven's Prides from all sides constantly rising.
Soon, one day arrived in a special era where the myriad Daos of the Chaos Sea reached unprecedented prosperity—a great eruption of the Great Dao!
The opportunities to cultivate and prove one's Dao actually increased dramatically, astonishing all sides.
Never had any epoch, any era, been like this one, with the myriad Daos so flourishing.
Even ordinary innate martial artists could faintly sense the existence of the Great Dao, thereby cultivating to become semi-divine experts.
They suspected this was because the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was promoting the myriad Daos from behind the scenes.
But others suspected it was likely due to the departure of the former five Supreme Realm Overlords and numerous Half-Step Overlords and peerless giants, which freed up vast resources in the Chaos Sea. Over time, these gradually merged into the myriad Daos, causing them to flourish continuously.
The Primordial Immortal Realm was vast and boundless.
In the contention of the Immortal Dao, endless Heaven's Prides from the various immortal domains vied to rise, competing for resources, battling and killing, desiring to attain the Dao and become immortals.
There were even scions of the Immortal Dao who set their sights on the peak of Immortal King from the very start.
Because they all knew this era was different. Moreover, Immortal Venerables like Pan Dao, Bai Tian, Wang Xiong, and Wu Hen intentionally nurtured the future generation of the Immortal World, jointly creating many trial grounds with the various Immortal Kings and Supreme Immortals of the Immortal World, and placing down countless treasures.
Their intent was to cultivate true peerless Heaven's Prides, hoping someone could rise rapidly and ascend to the position of Immortal King.
They even declared that anyone who could attain the Dao and become an immortal would receive cultivation from the Chaos Heaven Mansion.
If one could become an Immortal King during this period, they could directly enter the core of the Chaos Heaven Mansion, obtaining many scriptures, techniques, insights, and divine abilities left behind by the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, and even receive personal guidance from the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
Furthermore, Immortal Venerable Bai Tian and others stated bluntly that they hoped someone could quickly become powerful and become an Immortal King, because one day, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor would surely go to the Origin Land and needed a group of true supreme experts to follow him.
Without a doubt, these words caused a great upheaval in the Primordial Immortal Realm.
Everyone knew the Chaos Heavenly Emperor had disappeared for two hundred million years, surely engaged in some unknown plan, but no one imagined the Chaos Heavenly Emperor harbored such grand ambition—to one day enter the Origin Land.
However, knowing this, perhaps others had no hope, but the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was invincible throughout the world. Moreover, from the beginning of his cultivation to the present, his entire life had been spent creating endless miracles. It was only natural that he would one day enter the Origin Land.
This also excited and stirred the blood of countless Heaven's Prides in the Immortal World.
Long ago, they had grown up listening to the legends of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor; many had even entered the cultivation world because of him. They had always regarded the Chaos Heavenly Emperor as their goal to pursue.
Now, learning of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's grand plan, they were even more excited, hoping to one day follow the Chaos Heavenly Emperor into the legendary Origin Land.
Precisely because of this, countless Heaven's Prides felt their blood boiling ceaselessly, cultivating with all their might, hoping to catch up to the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's footsteps as soon as possible.
Even the various True Immortals of the Immortal World, and even Supreme Immortal Kings, were startled, deeply shaken by the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's goal.
That was the final destination where the five Supreme Realm Overlords—the Immortal Ancestor, Primordial Beginning, the Heavenly Emperor, and others—had led the majority of the Chaos Sea's mightiest experts.
They too yearned for it in their hearts.
From this day on, the outstanding talents of the Immortal World's myriad heavens diligently increased their cultivation, all stirred to boiling blood by the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's goal.
No one was willing to fall behind even a little, also hoping to quickly attain the Dao and become an immortal, to reign as king among immortals!
In an ordinary starry sky of the Immortal World, there was an ordinary star.
This life star was not very large or powerful. Although it had cultivators, the strongest was only a Heavenly King, just reaching the stage of being able to leave the star and roam the cosmos.
On this day, a youth abruptly appeared on this life star. He was handsome and fair-skinned, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, innately containing a special immortal light.
Especially within his glabella, in his Mud-Pill Palace, it was as if a peerless Immortal Venerable resided, with a peculiar and extraordinary immortal scripture being recited, surrounded by ethereal immortal sounds—truly extraordinary.
The moment he appeared, he devoured nearly half the essence energy of the nine heavens and ten earths of the Primordial Immortal Realm, condensing it within himself—incredibly astonishing.
It was as if the Immortal Ancestor had been reincarnated, truly world-shaking!
The strongest on this life star was merely a third-level Heavenly King. Sensing the endless Great Dao essence energy in the starry sky madly surging forth, he was greatly horrified. Powerful as he was, he could only tremble uncontrollably, not knowing what was happening.
Let alone other living beings, who dared not move at all, shivering with fear.
Naturally, this alarmed many supreme experts, even Immortal Kings who were awakened from their seclusion, extending vast Immortal King senses to investigate.
Unfortunately, that youth was extraordinary, detecting the investigations of the Immortal World's many supreme experts in advance. His body possessed special array patterns that tore open the star's space, causing him to vanish, evading everyone's detection beforehand.
Even when Immortal King senses swept over, there was no trace.
He even interfered with heavenly secrets, making divination impossible.
Clearly, this Immortal Dao Heaven's Pride had a very unusual origin.
"Cannot divine. This youth possesses methods of a supreme forbidden existence shielding all heavenly secrets!"
"Behind this youth, there is likely the shadow of a supreme existence."
"Devouring nearly half the essence energy of the nine heavens and ten earths is heaven-defying. It's said only the Immortal Ancestor of the past was like this."
"Could it be that the Immortal Ancestor's departure caused the Primordial Immortal Realm to lack a Supreme Realm Overlord overseeing it, so this era will give birth to another Immortal Ancestor-level existence?"
"That possibility is not entirely nonexistent!"
Various immortal senses conversed, all discussing the appearance of that Immortal Dao Heaven's Pride.
Only after a long time did the beings of that life star finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The handsome youth, as elegant as jade, was the Immortal Path Prodigy. He descended in an immortal domain and began his trials in the Primordial Immortal Realm, rapidly growing powerful.
Moreover, he displayed unprecedented talent.
At seven years old, he proved the tenth level of semi-divinity, becoming a Great Perfection Supreme Heaven's Pride.
At ten, he became a deity; at thirty, a Saint; at a hundred, he underwent reincarnation; at two hundred, a Heavenly King; at five hundred, a Great Expert; at a thousand, a Divine King...
The Immortal Path Prodigy's cultivation speed was astonishingly fast, easily breaking one cultivation record after another, incredibly rapid.
In just a thousand years, he was already a generation's Immortal Dao Divine King, dominating all sides of the Immortal World.
Moreover, the world noticed that this mysterious Immortal Path Prodigy was clearly intentionally suppressing his own cultivation speed. Otherwise, achieving Divine King within a thousand years would obviously not be a problem.
Naturally, during this period, the Immortal Path Prodigy also contended with Heaven's Prides from all sides of the Primordial Immortal Realm, fighting his way up from the deity level all the way to the Divine King realm.
His cultivation speed was incredibly fast, and similarly, he was unbelievably powerful, consistently suppressing the proud heroes of all sides in the Immortal World.
Whether they were scions of the Immortal Dao, disciples of ancient immortals, Great Perfection Supreme Heaven's Prides with heaven-endowed immortal constitutions, or even reincarnated bodies of ancient immortals, the Immortal Path Prodigy remained peerless.
Over a thousand years, he crushed all sides, truly invincible, never suffering a defeat.
Even those several minor realms above him, he could defy the heavens to slay immortals, defeating them with overwhelming force.
His elegance was peerless, drawing the world's attention.
Some worried he would exert terrible pressure on other peerless Heaven's Prides aspiring to become Immortal Kings. There were even Ancient Monarchs who did not hesitate to descend with their true bodies to hunt the Immortal Path Prodigy.
Unfortunately, he still left with ease, impossible to stop.
Even more astonishingly, a thousand years later, this Immortal Path Prodigy, with the posture of a Great Perfection Supreme Heaven's Pride, reached the height of a Ten Tribulations Divine King within the Divine King realm, shocking the great era.
Because throughout history, only Primordial Beginning, the Heavenly Emperor, and later the Chaos Heavenly Emperor had achieved Ten Tribulations Divine King with the posture of a Great Perfection Supreme Heaven's Pride.
Without a doubt, all three ultimately became Supreme Realm Overlords. That level of talent explained everything, rare throughout the ages.
Now, an Immortal Path Prodigy had also become a Ten Tribulations Divine King. One could imagine how stunningly brilliant he was.
Many suspected this Immortal Path Prodigy might very well achieve Supreme Realm Overlord in the future.
For a time, this triggered the descent of many Supreme Immortals, Quasi-Immortal Kings, and even Immortal Kings with their true bodies throughout the Primordial Immortal Realm, wanting to recruit him as a closed-door disciple, hoping to cultivate a future Supreme Realm Overlord. Then they would have glory on their faces!
Everyone knew the currently invincible person in the world was the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, the only Supreme Realm Overlord.
If they could cultivate another Supreme Realm Overlord, perhaps they could contend with the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
Then, as a master, they might also have a chance to dominate the Chaos Sea.
Of course, it wasn't just that. Being the master of a Supreme Realm Overlord would surely leave one's name in history!
However, that Immortal Path Prodigy, regarded as comparable to Primordial Beginning, the Heavenly Emperor, and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor in their youth, vanished. Even Immortal Kings personally searching and divining could not succeed.
They could only regret this.
Hundreds of years later, as expected, the Immortal Path Prodigy stepped into the Quasi-Monarch domain and became an Eternal Quasi-Monarch, just like the Heavenly Emperor, Primordial Beginning, and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor of the past.
The world marveled, all knowing this Immortal Path Prodigy would surely, like those three Supreme Realm Overlords, fight his way up to the Eternal Immortal Monarch level.
From then on, the Immortal Path Prodigy was invincible within the same realm, suppressing his entire generation, with no one as his match.
His enemies were only those former top Heaven's Prides whose realms were higher than his.
Thirty thousand years later, after experiencing battle after battle of Heaven's Pride contention in the Primordial Immortal Realm, this Immortal Path Prodigy became an Immortal Monarch.
Naturally, this was an Eternal Immortal Monarch, having stepped into the Eternal domain from the Quasi-Monarch stage.
After becoming an Eternal Immortal Monarch, he was even more unbelievably powerful, suppressing all Immortal Monarchs of the Immortal World, already capable of battling Supreme Immortals, those Supreme Ones.
Without a doubt, this Immortal Path Prodigy was brilliantly talented, possessing a peerless Immortal Dao that left people in awe.
However, this era's Primordial Immortal Realm was also exceptionally rare throughout the ages, simultaneously producing several Eternal Immortal Monarchs, all possessing the ability to challenge Supreme Immortals.
Only, these several Eternal Immortal Monarchs ultimately had a significant gap compared to that Immortal Path Prodigy. They could only challenge, not engage in a peak battle with a Supreme Immortal.
The Immortal Path Prodigy could accomplish this.
Seventy thousand years later, just as the other several Eternal Immortal Monarchs were taken as closed-door disciples by several Immortal Kings of the Immortal World, intending to cultivate them as future Immortal Kings to join the Chaos Heaven Mansion and follow the Chaos Heavenly Emperor to battle in the Origin Land, this Immortal Path Prodigy remained alone, without a corresponding master.
But his cultivation was far greater than before, his immortal majesty unfathomably deep.
Throughout the vast world, he had long been invincible under the Immortal Dao and was not inferior to the Immortal Dao, incredibly powerful.
This year, the Immortal Path Prodigy was already able to defeat Supreme Immortals and even challenge Quasi-Immortal Kings.
Because not long before, he had clashed with a Quasi-Immortal King.
Although ultimately at a disadvantage, that Quasi-Immortal King gained little advantage. The Immortal Path Prodigy withdrew completely unscathed.
A hundred thousand years later, the Immortal Path Prodigy made the ultimate leap, growing strong to the most extreme point of this life—an unimaginable, great terror.
He still had not proved his Dao to become a true Immortal Dao Supreme One, but he was outrageously powerful.
He actively challenged a Quasi-Immortal King famous for several epochs, drawing the unprecedented attention of the entire Primordial Immortal Realm and even the Chaos Sea.
In that battle, the ancient Quasi-Immortal King was utterly defeated.
In a true battle, he was far from a match.
The world was terrified!
Cultivating for two hundred thousand years, that former Immortal Path Prodigy regarded as comparable to the Heavenly Emperor, Primordial Beginning, and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor in their youth had indeed risen like lightning, growing to this step where he could forcefully defeat a Quasi-Immortal King.
It was hard to imagine that after only two hundred thousand short years of cultivation, he already possessed such terrifying cultivation that suppressed the Immortal World.
Throughout the vast world, with Immortal Kings not appearing, who could contend with this person?
Clearly, he would surely prove the position of Immortal King. One day, he would embark on the journey, following the Chaos Heavenly Emperor to battle in the Origin Land.