If it were ten thousand years ago, when the future of the immortal realm seemed promising, Demon Saint Cang Wu would not have deigned to appear in the Register of Immortals.
But as ten thousand years have passed and Demon Saint Cang Wu’s lifespan approaches its end, seduced by the name of an Exalted One, he chose to accept.
He even ordered Rongyue Demon Emperor to send assassins after Bai Xue, who had close ties with Shen Yuan, with the aim to flush out Shen Yuan and draw him into the killing plot of the Qilian Demon Realm.
From beginning to end, the Golden Immortal Bai Yun never offered anything substantial, only an empty promise.
Yet even so, it was enough to make a Demon Saint wager the entire Demon Realm and his own life in a struggle.
"This name of an Exalted One, backed by the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens, seems to be quite useful indeed,"
Shen Yuan clenched his right hand tightly, crushing the tattered True Spirit of Demon Saint Cang Wu.
Thus, a formidable Demon Saint who ruled a realm met his ultimate downfall!
As he waved his hand, letting the fragments of the True Spirit scatter across the world, Shen Yuan was not particularly worried in his heart.
Thousands of years ago, Golden Immortal Bai Yun had once said that when the world revived enough to accommodate a Taoist Doyen’s presence, he would employ an avatar to execute Shen Yuan.
At the time, Golden Immortal Bai Yun was brimming with confidence, but after Shen Yuan disappeared for several years, Bai Yun had resorted to underhanded tactics to force Shen Yuan into revealing himself.
That alone was proof that Golden Immortal Bai Yun was not as composed as he appeared on the surface.
"The fact that Golden Immortal Bai Yun himself is strong is certainly a factor, but the world of Primal Chaos Realm does not allow excessively powerful beings to appear, so at this stage, Golden Immortal Bai Yun is not worth fearing too much.
What really needs attention is the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens that Bai Yun controls."
"Passed down for tens of thousands of years, and especially during the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge a ten thousand years ago, it gathered many current life True Immortals. Its foundation and influence rank first in the Primal Chaos Realm.
Even now, I am not prepared to directly confront the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens, which boasts more than a dozen current life True Immortals and numerous Taoist Doyen powerhouses.
With such a strong force under his command, the threat posed by Golden Immortal Bai Yun is exponentially greater."
"Given this, is there a chance of severing Golden Immortal Bai Yun from the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens?"
Shen Yuan furrowed his brow, deeply contemplating.
"In the current circumstances, even exposing Golden Immortal Bai Yun’s true identity might not have much effect.
For the heirs of the Clarity Void lineage of the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens, both Clarity Void Exalted One and Golden Immortal Bai Yun are their forebears—honor or disgrace to one would affect the other.
Furthermore, due to the impact of Golden Immortal Bai Yun’s power, even after revealing the truth, there’s still a significant chance that the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens would support Bai Yun."
"Unless the existence of Golden Immortal Bai Yun has grown to pose such a considerable threat to the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens that they cannot help but give up on him.
But even then, someone with enough weight would need to step forward..."
The deeper Shen Yuan thought, the more he realized the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens was an immense, intractable problem and temporarily gave up on pondering over it.
Looking around the Qilian Demon Realm, though it was barely repaired under the Heaven Patching Sun Drenching Great Divine Power, all life within had perished.
From Demon Saint Cang Wu at the top to the Qi training demons below, not one survived; the entire Qilian Demon Realm had turned into a realm of death.
This was the first time Shen Yuan had exerted his full strength since he had slain the Giant Mountain Divine Venerable.
The immense leap in his cultivation and the perfection of his Divine Skills had greatly enhanced Shen Yuan’s strength, incomparable to his past self.
Especially by executing two Tao Harmony powerful exponents, Shen Yuan had gained a rough understanding of his own strength.
Neither Demon Saint Cang Wu nor the Tao Harmony Taoist Doyen of the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens was considered weak within the Tao Harmony Stage.
Especially Demon Saint Cang Wu, whose cultivation was nearing the Peak Stage—if not for the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge that befell the Primal Chaos Realm and the Great Schism, Demon Saint Cang Wu would have been worthy of ascending to the Immortal Realm.
But even these two Tao Harmony powerful exponents, who were not weak in the Void Refining Stage, had no room to resist when faced with the post-transformation Great Tao Manifestation.
Actually, speaking purely of strength, although the two Tao Harmony Stage powerful experts were somewhat inferior to the Great Tao Manifestation, they were not completely overpowered.
The true reason lies in the fact that the Great Tao Manifestation encompasses all, fusing all the various Great Tao into itself, leaving ordinary cultivators nearly completely restrained when facing it.
Facing the curse-killing technique bestowed by Golden Immortal Bai Yun, the Great Tao Manifestation possessed the Heavenly General Great Divine Power, the Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman, which stood at the pinnacle of the Curse Killing Way, capable of restraining all curse-killing techniques in the world.
Facing the final calamity of the Demon Saint Cang Wu’s life-sacrificing struggle, the Great Tao Manifestation held the path of Heaven Patching from the Heavenly General Great Divine Power’s Heaven Patching Sun Drenching, capable of repairing the heavens and earth to prevent the end.
When facing powerful enemies from the monster tribe, the Great Tao Manifestation also retained the Earthly Destroyer Divine Power’s demon-slaying methods for restraint.
Even when directly facing local deities, ghost objects, or Qi Refinement cultivators, the Great Tao Manifestation could fully display the suppression of its higher Status Grid, with the Great Tao Origin capable of subduing the vast majority of enemies on the same path.
In the way of space, there was the Pot’s Heaven Divine Power; in the way of deduction, the Star Astrology Divine Power; in the Sword Dao, the Earthly Destroyer Sword Technique Divine Power... No matter the myriad paths, the Great Tao Manifestation had a countermeasure.
Even if the enemy had no Great Tao level restraint, the Great Tao Manifestation, having fused with the Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer Divine Power, could cross realms to slay enemies even with killing Divine Powers.
Moreover, Shen Yuan was very clear that this was only the beginning of fusing the Great Tao Manifestation. If one could return all the Heavenly General and Earthly Destroyer to their places, the Great Tao Manifestation would reach an unparalleled state.
Even at the current stage, no one beneath the Immortal Realm was a match for Shen Yuan.
Above the Immortal Realm, however, lay an entirely different realm.
After Refining Void to Tao Harmony, based on the path the cultivator follows, they are classified into five categories: Heavenly, Earth, Human, Ghost, and Divine Immortals.
Heavenly Immortals are those who comprehend the Heavenly Path and have the chance to verify their grand status, seeking the opportunity to step into the realm of Eternal Golden Immortal. Unless one is a direct disciple of the Three Pure Ones, it is difficult to leap into the Heavenly Immortal Realm in one step.
The path of Earth Immortals merges with the blessed land of grotto heavens and can evolve a realm that continually expands. If one can evolve one’s fused grotto heavens sacred ground into a major world, their cultivation level is by no means inferior to that of an Eternal Golden Immortal.
The path of Human Immortals is the conventional meaning of True Immortal strong individuals, and all who walk the path of Refining Void to Tao Harmony and ultimately step into the Immortal Realm are Human Immortals. If they undergo the Five Decades of Heavenly Human Tribulations, they can transform into Heavenly Immortals with hopes of one day ascending to the Great Tao.
Ghost Immortals, on the other hand, are Refining Void to Tao Harmony powerful exponents who discard their physical bodies to discarnate and be reborn. After undergoing nine levels of Heavenly Tribulation and ascending to the Immortal Realm, they can be called Ghost Immortals. The path of dark Hell has its deficiencies, and the majority of ghostly supernatural beings in the Netherworld are Ghost Immortals, needing the complement of the Incense Offering Divinity Path to have the hope of ascending to higher realms.
As for Divine Immortals, who are ranked last among the Heavenly, Earth, Human, Ghost, and Divine Immortals, they are conferred by the Heavenly Court.
In Ancient Times, as long as a cultivator entered the Refining Spirit to Return-to-Void Stage, they had the hope of being listed in the Register of Immortals and receiving a Divine Enthronement from the Heavenly Court.
Once enthroned as a Divine Immortal, they would be endowed with Divine Skills by the Heavenly Court, instantly advancing their cultivation and stepping into the Immortal Realm.
But part of a Divine Immortal’s True Spirit remains inscribed in the Register of Immortals. With an incomplete True Spirit, not only is advancement in cultivation halted, but their lives and deaths are subject to the will of the master of the Register of Immortals.
In Ancient Times, the cultivation limit of many medium chiliocosms was Refining Spirit to Return-to-Void. Once stepping into the Return-to-Void Realm, one could enter the Heavenly Court and achieve the position of Divine Immortal. However, as the number of Divine Immortals in the Heavenly Court grew, the chances of being enthroned as a Divine Immortal became increasingly rare.
"With my current strength, should I face a Divine Immortal or a Ghost Immortal, I do not lack the opportunity to subdue them, after all, the Gods Purging and Unimpeded Netherworld Divine Skills are too much of a restraint for Divine and Ghost Immortals."
As for those Human Immortals within the blessed land of grotto heavens, with the world of Primal Chaos Realm’s pressure on those above Void Refining and the threat of heavenly punishments, even if a Human Immortal descended to my world, I would still stand a chance against them."
"As long as I guard against any final move from Golden Immortal Bai Yun, I already have the power to roam unbridled within the Primal Chaos Realm!"
With this thought, Shen Yuan’s mind was greatly settled.
The current world posed no great threat to Shen Yuan, who was now instead contemplating the perilous situation tens of thousands of years past.
Ever since encountering the invasion from the Dusk Realm into the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty tens of thousands of years ago, Shen Yuan had been thinking about how to break the deadlock.
Advancing to the Void Refining Stage was just one element of breaking the deadlock for Shen Yuan; it was not enough to counter the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty at its peak tens of thousands of years ago.
"To contend with a Human Emperor Dynasty, one must leverage the power of another human Imperial Dynasty."
With this thought, Shen Yuan took a step out of Qilian Demon Realm, transforming into a streak of Flight of Light and sped toward the Great Xia Imperial Capital.

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