Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

255: Chapter 255 Does a mere peak Immortal King deserve such a prestigious name?Lingyangzi had been in the Immortal Realm for several hundred years, and he did not deliberately hide his tracks.

The ceiling of cultivation in the Immortal Realm was merely the Immortal Emperor. For an existence of the Great Luo Unity Realm walking between this heaven and earth, if he forcibly concealed his aura, it would instead seem suspicious and invite doubt.

Thus, Lingyangzi traveled everywhere in the Immortal Realm openly under the guise of traveling to seek the Dao.

When asked, he simply said that after a long period of quiet cultivation in the Saint Realm, he had come out to see the local customs and practices of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

These words were half-true and half-false, and no one dared to probe deeper.

Therefore, wherever Lingyangzi went, whether it was the Immortal Court or the Buddhist Sect, the leaders of the major forces were all extremely respectful to him and did not dare to be negligent.

After all, the gap in Realm was right there; no one wanted to offend an existence that surpassed an Immortal Emperor for no reason.

Lingyangzi did not put on airs either, chatting casually with the heads of various forces about cultivation insights and observations from the heavens; the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

He only made indirect inquiries during conversations, subtly steering the topic toward those missing Middle Thousand Worlds.

Over several hundred years, Lingyangzi successively visited several of the top forces in the Immortal Realm, such as the Immortal Court and the Lingshan Buddhist Sect.

From these conversations, he gradually pieced together some fragmented information.

This information all pointed to a title—Venerable Datong.

According to Emperor Cang, those Middle Thousand Worlds that had disappeared had more or less shown some unusual movements before their complete demise.

Some Middle Thousand Worlds suddenly underwent a complete change; the original rule of the Immortal Dynasty was overthrown and replaced by an order called great harmony under heaven.

In some Middle Thousand Worlds, the boundary between Cultivators and Mortals was broken, and everyone shared cultivation resources, claiming that everyone is like a Dragon.

In short, every disappearing Middle Thousand World and Minor Thousand World had stirred up a revolution similar to great harmony under heaven before vanishing.

The version given by the Lingshan Buddhist Sect was also roughly the same.

Lingyangzi integrated this information into one place and had a preliminary judgment in his heart.

Disappearing Middle Thousand Worlds, Venerable Datong, and the revolution of great harmony under heaven.

The connection between these three was already quite clear.

The only problem was that Lingyangzi had no idea who this Venerable Datong was or what his purpose was in doing these things.

So Lingyangzi decided to use a deduction Divine Ability.

On this day, he found a secluded place, set up a Restriction, sat cross-legged, and began to perform hand seals for deduction.

The deduction technique he was performing now was called the Hunyuan Heavenly Fate Divination, which was taught to him by his Revered Master, the Hunyuan Daluo Saint whose Daoist title was Heaven-Opening Hunyuan Limitless Supreme Saint · Yutianzun.

This method was no small matter; it was said to be able to trace the trajectory of the flow of heavenly fate above and explore the root of the entanglement of Karma below.

As long as something had happened within the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, even if its traces were deliberately erased, as long as the Heavenly Dao still had a record, this Divine Ability could follow that thread of Karma in the unseen and restore the truth.

Lingyangzi’s immortal essence circulated, and a Taiji Diagram emerged above his head, slowly unfolding.

Using the commonality of great harmony under heaven as a guide and the title of Venerable Datong as a thread, he immersed his mind into the Long River of Fate, attempting to trace back to the source of that title.

However, after deducing for a moment, Lingyangzi’s brow furrowed.

There was nothing.

Within the Long River of Fate, information about Venerable Datong was completely blank.

It was as if this person simply did not exist and had never left any trace in the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

This was not right.

Any existence, as long as they have walked in the world, will definitely leave traces.

A flower blooms and withers, a leaf falls and grows again, even the rise and fall of a grain of dust will leave subtle ripples in the Long River of Fate.

Yet this Venerable Datong actually didn’t have even the slightest trace?

Unless this Venerable Datong was not in the Long River of Fate at all.

Lingyangzi withdrew his Divine Ability and remained silent for a long time.

This result reminded him of some unpleasant things.

An existence not in the Long River of Fate was either a Hunyuan Daluo Saint who had transcended the Heavenly Dao.

Or they themselves represented something outside of the Heavenly Dao.

Either way, it was not a good omen.

However, although he could not deduce any information about Venerable Datong, he was not entirely without clues.

At least Lingyangzi now knew that the disappearance of those more than a thousand Middle Thousand Worlds was inseparable from this Venerable Datong.

A new guess arose in Lingyangzi’s heart.

The Heaven and Earth Boundless Great Tribulation is essentially a tribulation periodically brought down by the Heavenly Dao during its operation to balance the Karma of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

Under the pervasive tribulation qi, the evil thoughts, obsessions, and delusions in the hearts of all living beings will be amplified, leading to conflict and slaughter, consuming the accumulated Karma in this cruel way.

This is a means for the Heavenly Dao to maintain its own operation; although bloody, it conforms to the principles of the Great Dao’s operation.

But the actions of that Venerable Datong seemed like setting up a separate kitchen outside of the tribulation.

Through the way of great harmony under heaven, he caused those Middle Thousand Worlds to actively dissolve and return to some larger order.

These more than a thousand Middle Thousand Worlds disappeared, and the World Origin they carried naturally dissipated as well.

Or rather, it was taken away by some force.

The World Origin is the Foundation of a world, and each Middle Thousand World has its own independent Origin.

The Origins of over a thousand Middle Thousand Worlds added up to an extremely massive force.

If this force fell into someone’s hands and was used for something...

The more Lingyangzi thought about it, the more he felt this matter was not simple.

Putting this matter aside for the moment, Lingyangzi continued to walk in the Immortal Realm, wanting to explore more information.

On this day, he reached a certain place in the Western Region of the Immortal Realm and suddenly sensed an extremely subtle fluctuation of Devilish Qi.

That Devilish Qi was hidden very deeply; if Lingyangzi were not in the Great Luo Unity Realm with perception far exceeding that of an ordinary Immortal Emperor, he probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all.

He followed the Devilish Qi and, in the depths of a desolate Star Domain, discovered an extremely secretly arranged Formation.

That Formation was massive, using dozens of abandoned stars as its base, and was continuously extracting the essence and blood of countless living beings from nearby Minor Thousand Worlds.

And in the eye of the Formation sat a demonic Cultivator.

With a sweep of his Divine Sense, Lingyangzi saw through the other party’s background.

Peak Immortal King cultivation, just one step away from being an Immortal Emperor.

And he also recognized the function of that Formation.

This was the path of blood-sacrificing all living beings.

Using the blood and souls of billions of living beings as sacrifices to forcibly break through the Immortal Emperor Bottleneck.

This kind of method was not something new in the Saint Realm.

Back then, a Demon Ancestor in the Saint Realm had done something similar, attempting to prove his Dao and reach the Hunyuan Realm through blood sacrifice, but was ultimately suppressed by the Saints.

When Lingyangzi looked at the banner the demonic Cultivator was flying, he almost laughed out of anger.

Grand Demon Venerable of Primordial Beginning, Limitless, World-Ending, Heavenly Punishment.

Lingyangzi had lived for so long and seen many demonic Cultivators who liked to give themselves imposing titles, but he had truly never seen one as imposing as this.

Primordial Beginning, Limitless, World-Ending, Heavenly Punishment, Great Demon Venerable.

Any one of these terms carried an immense weight, yet they were all taken by this fellow in one breath.

Those who knew would see a Peak Immortal King, but those who didn’t might think some Hunyuan Daluo Saint had switched to the Demonic Path.

A mere Peak Immortal King, yet he dares to have such a pretentious name?

Lingyangzi cursed in his heart and raised his hand for a palm strike.

This palm strike did not use any Magic Treasure or Divine Ability; it was purely crushing with his Great Luo Unity Realm cultivation.

The demonic Cultivator was immersed in the blood sacrifice Formation when he suddenly felt an irresistible, terrifying pressure descend from the sky; without even a chance to react, he and his meticulously arranged Formation were both struck into ashes.

Completely annihilated, with nothing left.

Lingyangzi withdrew his hand, his expression calm.

Just a small matter.

He had seen many of this kind in the Saint Realm.

The more inadequate the cultivation, the more they liked to give themselves intimidating titles, as if a long and imposing name could make their Realm rise out of thin air.