Immortality Starts With Investment

Boom… boom… boom…

Inside the Holy Son’s residence.

Deep within Ye Chen’s body, his cave heaven trembled violently. It was like a long-dormant volcano suddenly erupting. Countless beams of golden light burst forth from the core of the cave heaven. They tore through the original barriers at its edges and surged wildly in every direction. As the barriers expanded, the once-empty void transformed into towering mountains, vast rivers, rolling hills, and deep valleys.

At the same time, the laws of space, time, and countless other laws began to materialize.

Mysterious runes flickered in the air, weaving into a vast and intricate network of rules. This network constantly reshaped the world around it. In the Origin Sea above the firmament, suns, moons, and stars were being nurtured and rising.

Alongside them, a peculiar aura surged forth—an endless stream of newborn qi. It nourished the countless spiritual herbs and plants, causing them to grow, multiply, and spread at astonishing speed.

Ye Chen’s twelve immortal roots had previously weakened after he extracted their essence. Yet now, during the cave heaven’s advancement into a full world, they received boundless benefits. Not only did they recover in the blink of an eye, but their condition was also even better than before.

Moreover, the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade that had long rested in the star pool began to glow with brilliant light… Endless newborn qi poured in through the cracks in the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade. As the qi surged inside, the cracks gradually began to heal.

The Holy Spirit still inside it widened its eyes in disbelief.

What was happening? What kind of power was this?

The Holy Spirit possessed knowledge and records of how members of its lineage advanced to the Great Saint realm, yet the scene before it was completely different. Especially this strange aura—it was actually repairing its cracks and resolving the only flaw that might have prevented it from reaching perfection. Such a thing had never been heard of. Just what was Ye Chen’s world?

The Holy Spirit could clearly feel that the benefits this world brought it were at least dozens or even hundreds of times greater than before. Most importantly, the aura that had just flowed in through the cracks seemed to have raised its upper limit. If it could bathe in this aura a little longer, its potential might advance even further. It might not stop at the peak of the Quasi-Immortal realm. It could go straight to becoming an immortal…

Although it did not understand what was happening, the Seven-colored Nirvana Jade now refused to leave no matter what. Even if Ye Chen bullied it and made it suffer, it was determined to stay here…

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Luo Bingling watched Ye Chen’s ever-changing cave heaven and was equally stunned. She stood on the central main peak, protected by Ye Chen, yet her eyes were filled with shock. As the princess of the War God Clan, she had once entered the worlds of several Great Saints.

But none of those Great Saints’ worlds had been as vast as Ye Chen’s cave heaven—even before this transformation. Let alone now.

Luo Bingling felt that Ye Chen’s cave heaven was evolving toward becoming a universe of its own… What was even more unbelievable was the suns and moons currently forming and being born inside it.

Some Great Saints did possess suns and moons in their cave heavens, but those were artificially refined using solar essence, lunar essence, and various divine materials to enhance their foundations.

They were all man-made. A naturally generated sun and moon—this was truly unprecedented. And that peculiar aura grew denser by the moment, bringing ever-greater benefits to cultivation. Even the immortal roots had not only recovered their original vitality but seemed to have had their limits raised as well. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Luo Bingling had only read about such a phenomenon in an ancient text: when a great world was first born, the newborn qi it produced could nourish all things and elevate everything… But Ye Chen’s world was merely one deduced by a cultivator. How could it possibly compare to a real world?

This was simply outrageous.

Luo Bingling could not understand it, yet that did not stop the proud smile from spreading across her face. Her husband was truly incredible… Cultivating inside here, her future breakthroughs would surely come even faster.

This was simply wonderful.

The evolution lasted a full three months. When the world finally took shape, an invisible pressure exploded from Ye Chen’s body and swept outward in all directions.

The entire Heavenly Evolution Holy Land shook violently. Protective grand arrays on every peak and at the mountain gate rose up at once, shielding the sect and its disciples.

Everyone instinctively turned toward the Holy Son Peak. Their eyes were filled with utter shock.

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Was this the commotion of someone breaking through to the Great Saint realm? Was this the aura a Great Saint should possess?

It was simply outrageous. Just how vast was the world that the Heavenly Emperor’s heir had advanced into? And what kind of foundation did it hold?

The crowd stared at the Holy Son Peak in disbelief. They could clearly feel Ye Chen’s aura climbing higher and higher. It rose from the early stage of the Great Saint realm, straight through the middle stage and late stage…

Then, in an extremely short time, it reached the peak. This caused an even greater uproar among everyone present. Just how deep had Ye Chen’s cave heaven foundation been before he achieved the Great Saint realm? And what grade was the Heavenly Heart Imprint he had condensed? Otherwise, how could he have directly reached the peak the moment he broke through?

This was utterly unprecedented and unheard of. Even Feng Baiyu’s eyes were filled with shock. Despite all his experience and knowledge, he was truly stunned this time. Only those who had already become Immortal Kings in the Immortal Realm had ever managed to cross the entire Great Saint realm in one go, from early stage to peak. Ye Chen’s aptitude was becoming more and more heaven-defying.

While everyone was still reeling from the shock, endless thunderclouds gathered in the once-clear sky, vast and mighty, as if they intended to cover the entire world.

Everyone’s expressions changed again. Their Holy Son’s Great Saint tribulation had arrived… And since he had broken straight through to the peak of the Great Saint realm, just how terrifying would the lightning tribulation be?

Amid the overwhelming aura of destruction, a tall figure in a black robe rose into the air. His long black hair danced wildly in the turbulent currents. The heavens and earth had fallen into darkness. Only the occasional flashes of lightning from the tribulation illuminated the world, casting the man in a divine, god-like light.

It filled everyone with involuntary awe and reverence. Even the Heavenly Emperor’s own Great Saint tribulation back then probably had not possessed such overwhelming might.

Countless powerhouses of Heavenly Evolution Holy Land sighed in amazement. When Ye Chen had first arrived at Heavenly Evolution Holy Land as the fourth Holy Son, most of the elders had not paid him much attention. Even though his talent was decent, they believed the future of the Holy Land would rest on Hua Yunfei. Who could have imagined that, ever since entering the sect, the fourth Holy Son would advance at a meteoric pace?

In the entire cultivation world, he was not only unrivaled among his generation. Even most of the old antiques trembled inwardly when they looked at him. The appearance of such a monstrous genius in Heavenly Evolution Holy Land was truly a blessing for the sect.

Under countless watchful eyes, Ye Chen ignored the lightning tribulation still gathering above him, as if it intended to deliver a fatal blow. At his current strength, a Great Saint tribulation could no longer trouble him in the slightest. His attention remained mostly on the changes after his breakthrough.

His cave heaven had officially advanced into a complete world on this day—a legendary Primordial Ancestral World. It possessed countless treasures and astonishing features that ordinary worlds could never have.

Suns, moons, and stars filled his world, all of them real. Although they could not compare to the true sun and moon of the outside world, they were not the least bit inferior. The various laws within it had been strengthened countless times over.

Take the law of time, for example. The flow of time in his world could be accelerated directly by ten thousand times. Although such extreme acceleration would consume a great deal of energy, the benefits were beyond imagination.

In addition, gravity, the speed at which he could draw origin energy from the outside world, and many other aspects far exceeded anything anyone could imagine. But if one had to name the greatest difference between his world and those of other Great Saints, it would be at the core of his world.

There lay a world core—the transformed Heavenly Heart Imprint. It could continuously generate endless origin power to sustain the entire world. If news of this ever spread, it would cause a sensation not only in the cultivation world but even in the Immortal Realm.

After all, the worlds of cultivators were essentially rootless sources that relied on a greater world for their existence.

If the greater world withered, their internal worlds would gradually decay and die out as well, causing all life within them to perish. No matter how perfectly a cultivator simulated a world, it was never a true world.

Ye Chen’s was completely different. Even if the greater world were destroyed, his world could still continue to exist.

As Ye Chen observed everything inwardly, he understood that this was the Ancestral World born from the advancement of his Primordial Cave Heaven. In the future, it truly had the potential to grow into a vast universe on the scale of the Immortal Realm itself—one capable of supporting countless cultivators, allowing them to thrive and multiply within it.

However, Ye Chen had no intention of letting anyone other than his women and descendants enter his world. Otherwise, if others cultivated inside and frantically absorbed his origin energy to nourish their own worlds, he would not be pleased at all.

Sometimes Ye Chen found himself wondering. Cultivators already devoured origin energy themselves, yet their cave heavens and worlds also devoured it. Even after becoming immortals and advancing their worlds into universes, they would continue to devour. Could the Immortal Realm truly withstand so many immortals doing the same?

He sometimes suspected that the reason the Other Domain invaded the Immortal Realm was that they had been drained dry and were coming to plunder resources. Of course, all of this was still far too distant for Ye Chen, who had only just reached the peak of the Great Saint realm. So he simply let the thoughts drift through his mind.

At that moment, the first bolt of the Great Saint tribulation finally descended. The lightning was terrifying, carrying the power to destroy everything.

Yet Ye Chen merely glanced upward, and the tribulation instantly disintegrated and vanished.

Countless people cried out in shock. The heavenly tribulation seemed enraged.

In an instant, boundless thunder light crashed down as if determined to obliterate him…

However, Ye Chen simply stood there calmly. He bathed in the thunder, allowing it to wash over and purify his body.

This invincible bearing left everyone dumbfounded. They had never seen anyone overcome a tribulation so effortlessly. Just how far beyond the Great Saint realm did the true combat strength of the Heavenly Emperor’s heir reach?

The subsequent bolts of tribulation grew more terrifying with each one. Yet none of them could affect Ye Chen in the slightest.

In this manner, the tribulation lasted a full half month before it finally began to slowly dissipate…

The tribulation battlefield emerged. A figure slowly descended…

Ye Chen stood within it, and when he saw that familiar figure, his eyes lit up at once! He had finally encountered the Heavenly Emperor again. The long-awaited achievement he had been looking forward to was finally about to be claimed!