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Chapter 521: Emperor Hall
🕑 Added 2024-10-16 13:00:14 +0000 UTCTianyi opened his eyes and stood up. He was inside the main hall of Nine Heavens Palace atop Nine Heavens Peak. To most of the wider world, he had been staying inside his abode, cultivating in seclusion. To the Numinous Sword Sect and others embroiled in the war, he had returned from the front lines to recuperate.
As for himself, he stayed in his palace because he was focused on what was happening in the alternate timeline. Now that he had shed his alter ego, Ding Mian, it was time for some answers. Oh, and reports, too.
“A rare visitor,” Grand Elder Xia said as he saw Tianyi walking toward him. “Did your infiltration succeed?”
“You can say that,” Tianyi said. He reported what he had seen and investigated in the alternate timeline and brought out all the jade slips containing all the techniques he could nab. “I thought about taking their treasury, but I don’t know if they booby trapped it or anything. Maybe they’d discover it once I brought it out in the prime timeline.”
Grand Elder Xia nodded. “A good precaution. Although I cannot guarantee the accuracy since we didn’t inspect the materials. All these techniques will enrich our own repository and allow us a greater insight into the Numinous Sword Sect.”
“Grand Elder, I have a question,” Tianyi started. Before even waiting for a response, he asked, “What happened to the Huang Realm? Why was it destroyed again?”
“Again?”
Upon seeing Grand Elder Xia’s confusion, Tianyi explained. “When I first traveled through the timeline and couldn’t find my way back, the Immortal Court Spirit destroyed the Huang Realm as part of the process of sending me back. I just feel that it’s weird that every time I visit a timeline, the Huang Realm gets destroyed.”
“That must be a coincidence. You only visited two timelines.”
“Hopefully, I’m currently going to my third.”
Grand Elder Xia’s lips twitched. If Tianyi entered another timeline, and the Huang Realm explodes again, would it really be a coincidence? In that case, should he stop Tianyi from going to other timelines? Just because the alternate timelines disappear doesn’t mean they aren’t useful.
“The reason the Huang Realm disappeared is similar to what you did in the Numinous Realm.”
“Hm?” Tianyi perked up his ears.
“The war turned unfavorable for us. Although I don’t want those rebels to win, it’s not that I can’t accept defeat, but we discovered traces of the Buddhists.” At this, a serious expression appeared on his face. “Their sudden involvement left us at an inevitable disadvantage. Rather than letting them succeed and possibly glean any information from that timeline, I made sure to snuff out that chance. We can peer into other timelines to gain an advantage, and so can the other forces.”
Tianyi opened his month, but no words came out. He wanted to ask, is that why you sentenced quadrillions of innocent people to death? However, he didn’t think he had the right to talk. After all, he was the reason why the Huang Realm, in the first timeline he visited, was destroyed, and he had also destroyed the Eight Pillar Sect. His actions must have caused many innocent people to die.
After the report, Tianyi left. Right now, he was just waiting for the war to reach a crucial moment so that he could join and deal a critical blow. While he was waiting, he heard some unexpected news. The Immortal Court wanted to connect lower realms to itself and bring them under its influence. It planned to establish a force for the lower realm.
His interest peaked, Tianyi joined in. “How about calling it Emperor Hall?”
The other elders and immortal ministers couldn’t help but twitch their lips at Tianyi’s words. Finally, Minister Everpast answered, “That name is suitable.”
He and the other controllers of the Immortal Court continued to discuss how to set up the force, how many members should be stationed in the lower realm, in what capacity to accept members, what techniques were or weren’t allowed to be spread, etc.
Finally, when it came to naming the personnel involved, Tianyi spoke up again. “How about calling venerables from our force sky venerable, and the recruited natives, earth venerables? As for guest venerables that aren’t really linked, mortal venerables. Members at the grandmaster level should be called imperial protectors.”
The immortals present once again shared a look. “Granted.”
From then onwards, Tianyi would infrequently interject, mostly at inconsequential matters such as naming and such. The other immortals were willing to let him do as he liked. After all, as long as he didn’t give names that were taboo, they didn’t care. Not to mention Tianyi’s opinion wouldn’t affect the overall operation. What Tianyi changed was just the outward appearance.
“Grand Elder Nine Heavens, do you want to lead one of the Emperor Hall Divinsion?” Minister Everpast suddenly asked.
“Can I?” Tianyi asked with obvious interest.
Minister Everpast’s eyelid, despite his advanced age and experience, couldn’t help but twitch at Tianyi’s expression. He had never seen a grand elder as lively as Tianyi. Well, it wasn’t strange considering that Tianyi was actually young and did not have many setbacks on his cultivation path.
If anyone asked Minister Everpast if he was envious, he would say no. But that’s more because time had dulled his emotions. If it was his past self, he would have resolutely said yes. How can he not envy?
Born noble, Xi Tianyi lacked nothing in his life except for his unknown father. His mother loved him dearly and would ignore all rules for him. If that was all, he would not have been so important. He was also born with an unrivaled talent since recorded history. Not only did he become a true immortal at less than a hundred years of age, he also directly stepped into the Seamless Immortal Realm. Not even a thousand years later, he became an immortal emperor.
He was simply the child of the Heavenly Dao.
Of course, that didn’t mean Minister Everpast thought lowly of Xi Tianyi. Pure talent alone could not give birth to an immortal monarch, much less an immortal emperor. Even better, Xi Tianyi did not become like those wastrels born from other elders, like a certain sadist with a love spot on his face.
A week later, Tianyi stood in front of the Immortal Embassy, a specially crafted immortal ship used to traverse different realms. He sighed and stared at it. He could remember when he rode it to enter the Demon Cage Realm. Back then, he was still only a mortal cultivator. Although that time of his life was incredibly short compared to the total time he lived, he still remembered it vividly. Perhaps it was because he had experienced it in his earlier years.
Behind him stood nine venerables, nineteen grandmasters, and over a hundred masters. All of them were cultivators that had reached the limit of their cultivation path, those nearing the end of their lifespan, and servant-disciples that volunteered.
“Let’s go,” Tianyi said. Last time, he was only a participant, but now, he’s the leader.
Soon, the group entered the Immortal Embassy. They stayed on the lower floors while Tianyi entered the control room. There, he refined the core of the immortal ship. Upon its activation, the Immortal Embassy “slipped” through the ground and vanished.
Unseen by mortal eyes, it successfully entered the Vast Void and fell toward a certain higher-rank realm. He was assigned a special realm, the Impermanence Realm.
For some reason, the route to immortal ascension in the Impermanence Realm was sealed off. Because it was sealed off, no one could undergo the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation. Since immortal ascension was cut off, immortals became a myth, and no one could live past the three thousand and six hundred years lifespan limit.
As a result, the cultivation system gradually changed. Instead of cultivation to be immortal, they cultivate to become warriors. They focused on making their bodies as strong as possible instead of preparing to transform it into an immortal body.
No one, not even an immortal monarch, could force their way into it unless they wanted to damage the foundation of the realm. At least, until Tianyi appeared.
Under his control, the Immortal Embassy slipped into the Impermanence Realm. Despite its towering figure, no one noticed it, as if it didn’t exist.
Despite the Immortal Court’s former inability to enter, they weren’t unaware of what happened in the Impermanence Realm. They knew that most of it was a large continent surrounded by a ring of water. The eastern, southern, western, and northern regions of the continent were scarce in resources, at least compared to the central region. Most of the powerful forces were concentrated there.
More importantly, the Immortal Court sensed the invisible hands of Buddhism. It was not that they didn’t want to interfere, but that they didn’t have the manpower or time, especially when they had not united the entire Huang Realm. Now, they wanted to see what the Buddhists wanted to hide.
Naturally, Tianyi controlled the Immortal Embassy to root itself in the Central Continent. It was a location known as the Dreadroot Forest, a dangerous area filled with monsters. However, just like when it appeared in the sky, the monsters did not notice the kilometer-long tower. They even subconsciously avoided the immediate area.
“Alright, time to get to work,” Tianyi muttered. “Oh, right, before that.”
He took out his Xiyi Talisman and entered the Samsara Travelers Chat Group.
Ultimate Young Master: @Flame-On. Emperor Hall, nine sky venerables, imperial protectors
Flame-On: What’s that supposed to mean?
Ultimate Young Master: Doesn’t it sound familiar?
***
In the central region existed one palace, two mountains, three academies, four valleys, five clans, six sects, and seven unions. They were the top forces of the Impermanence Realm, and each one had a venerable holding down the fort.
Despite being a higher-rank realm, the spiritual qi was extremely sparse, so it made cultivation much more difficult. Instead of steadily absorbing the spiritual qi in heaven and earth, most cultivators needed to rely on pills and natural resources.
Because of this, a branch of the martial path was born, the warrior path. It relied on external resources to temper the body and elevate the realm, granting brute strength beyond the spiritual and martial equivalent.
The qi gathering pupil’s equivalent was a quasi warrior.
The foundation establishment disciple’s equivalent was a warrior.
The core formation master’s equivalent was a master warrior.
The nascent soul grandmaster’s equivalent was a grandmaster warrior.
And the unity venerable’s equivalent was a venerable warrior.
As for the saint-level, it was still a venerable, just peak venerable. The transitional stage of saint was not a true cultivation realm, but something to describe those that were infinitely close to becoming immortals. Since immortal ascension did not exist in the Impermanence Realm, the realm of saints did not exist either.
In the contemporary era, venerables rarely appeared, so the most powerful forces on the surface were the grandmaster warriors. And now, something that would cause countless grandmasters to fight to the death appeared in the central region, the Venerable Pill.
According to the legends and as the name suggested, the Venerable Pill was something that could increase the chances of a grandmaster becoming a venerable. It wasn’t like the Flame Venerable Pill, Water Venerable Pill, Earth Venerable Pill, Wood Venerable Pill, Metal Venerable Pills, and all the other variants developed after. They had the same effect but only worked for those of the same element.
As such, a storm appeared with over a hundred grandmasters congregating at the location. If all these grandmasters banded together, they could destroy any one force in the central region if they put their mind to it.
So, which one grabbed the coveted Venerable Pill?
Was it the Pill Palace, the holy land of alchemists? Maybe it was the White Bone Valley, the most insidious of the forces? Or maybe it was the Mohist Academy? Or perhaps one of the clans or sects?
The answer, none of them.
It was a new force, the Emperor Hall. From the siege of all the grandmasters, a single one grabbed the Venerable Pill. From that point onward, the force known as the Emperor Hall appeared in the Impermanence Realm.
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