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Chapter 535 - Chapter 535:

"No, from now on, he should be addressed as Immortal Lord Zhenxiao."

Han Yi was deeply moved.

The birth of an Immortal Monarch was always a significant event for the Immortal Court.

Especially now, after the Sui Zhu Immortal Court lost dozens of Immortal Monarchs during the Expedition to the Wisdom Realm, their ranks were depleted and urgently needed replenishment. The emergence of a new Immortal Monarch naturally garnered even greater attention from the court.

"At least the lineage of Cloud Departure Immortal Monarch has a successor now," Han Yi sighed softly.

True Night Daoist's status was no ordinary matter; his grandfather was none other than Cloud Departure Immortal Monarch. However, Cloud Departure Immortal Monarch had perished during the Expedition to the Wisdom Realm, leading to the disbandment of the Yunli Dao Field.

Now that Zhenxiao had ascended to Immortal Monarch, he could gather the old immortals of Yunli and rebuild the Dao Field.

As for the matter of True Night Daoist seizing Han Yi's Profound Immortal resources during his Immortal Ascension, Han Yi no longer held any grudge. Their shared karmic debt had long since been settled.

Observing the phenomenon accompanying Zhenxiao's ascension, Han Yi felt a stirring within him. After a moment, he returned to the Immortal Pavilion to resume his cultivation.

Half a year later.

Inside the Immortal Pavilion, Han Yi reviewed the information on the token, his expression slightly grave.

The mission he had posted in the Golden Immortal Pavilion had been accepted and completed directly, with the results already submitted.

The three masked Golden Immortals who ambushed him outside Pure Yang Mountain were indeed from the Black Realm, specifically Heavenly Fiend Killers.

As an assassin organization, the Black Realm naturally had a hierarchy. At the pinnacle stood the enigmatic Realm Lord, rumored to be at least an Immortal Sovereign, possibly even a Dao Ancestor.

Beneath the Realm Lord were the twenty-eight Star Lords, the weakest of whom were Immortal Monarchs. Some who had appeared publicly even displayed the might of Immortal Sovereigns.

It was precisely because some Star Lords were Immortal Sovereigns that the immortals of the Immortal Realm dared to speculate that the Realm Lord, who surpassed even the Star Lords, was likely a Dao Ancestor.

Below the Star Lords were the thirty-six Heavenly Fiend Killers, the peak Golden Immortals.

Below the Heavenly Fiend Killers, there were no Earthly Fiend Killers. Instead, there were Golden Immortal-grade Gold-Rank Killers, Profound Immortal-grade Silver-Rank Killers, and True Immortal-grade Iron-Rank Killers.

As for those below the True Immortal level, they were the countless ordinary Codename Killers scattered throughout the Immortal Realm.

"Three Heavenly Fiend Killers... they truly think highly of me."

Han Yi held the token, reading the information transmitted within. The data included details about the three Heavenly Fiend Killers, but their true identities remained concealed.

It made sense. If their true identities were known, countless enemies would have already stormed their doors to slay them.

The Black Realm, alongside the Soul Tower and Evil Mountain, was one of the most powerful organizations. Its immense strength came at a price: it had amassed countless blood debts. Even several Dao Ancestors of the Immortal Realm had hunted down Realm Lords who dared to show their True Bodies.

To say the Black Realm had enemies "sprinkled across the land" would be an understatement. If a True Body were to appear, it would be hunted down by all, making survival impossible.

"Black Realm," Han Yi murmured, carefully stowing the token. With his current strength, confronting the Black Realm would be like throwing an egg at a rock. But in the future, when he grew stronger, he would reclaim this debt—with interest.

He set aside his thoughts, temporarily dismissing the dark organization from his mind.

Three years later.

The Immortal Ease Pavilion officially opened, its location mirroring the Zhengyang Pavilion in the Seventh District of the Immortal Market Palace.

The Immortal Market Palace was divided into ten districts. The Eighth District housed Dao Fields, while the Ninth District accommodated other Immortal Courts and Dao Ancestor factions.

However, despite being in the Seventh District, the opening day of the Immortal Ease Pavilion drew a surprising number of powerful Immortals. Among them were the Golden Immortals Han Yi had invited, whose collective presence stunned the surrounding Immortal Pavilions.

It could be said that, apart from the Immortal Monarch's personal presence, this grand opening didn't resemble that of a Profound Immortal-Class Immortal Pavilion as much as it did one established by a Golden Immortal at the peak of his power.

For the opening, Han Yi stocked the pavilion with all the Immortal Artifacts he had collected over the years and didn't need himself. Among them were some Fourth-Tier Immortal Artifacts that would undoubtedly be highly sought after in the Profound Immortal market. However, compared to artifacts from a Golden Immortal, they paled in comparison.

Despite this, Han Yi remained undeterred. Establishing the pavilion was just the first step. As his cultivation and strength grew, the level and scope of the pavilion's operations would inevitably rise with the tide.

After establishing the pavilion, Han Yi personally visited it three times in the first three years to oversee its operations. However, he soon realized his concerns were unwarranted. The Immortal Pavilion bearing his name grew rapidly, its business booming, leaving Li Zhengyang overwhelmed.

After that, Han Yi stopped visiting regularly, only participating in two missions for the Immortal Ease Pavilion.

Most of his time was spent either in secluded cultivation within the Immortal Court, at the Profound Pill Sect in the Azure Shu Mountain Range, or cultivating in the Divine Power World within the Jade Lake Immortal Domain.

Han Yi's cultivation life, following a straight path, had captivated him, leaving him unable to break free.

Cultivation knows no years; time slips by in the blink of an eye!

In the Jade Lake Immortal Domain, at the bottom of the vast Jade Lake, lay the Divine Power World.

At a certain moment, Han Yi, now over 89,000 feet tall, suddenly opened his eyes and mouth, devouring the surrounding divine power like a whale.

His absorption grew increasingly rapid until his nearly 90,000-foot body plunged into the ocean of divine power, madly absorbing the divine essence.

At a critical moment, the shackles on his body seemed to shatter, and his height skyrocketed, breaking through to 90,000 feet.

Yet he didn't stop absorbing divine power. He continued for another year before finally stopping, his height now stabilized at 91,333 feet.

This height was reserved only for the True Body of an Ancient God at the peak of the Supreme Truth Realm.

When Han Yi eventually broke through to 100,000 feet, he transcended the Supreme Truth and entered the Ancient God Void Extremity Realm.

Instead of shrinking his form, Han Yi slowly rose from the ocean of divine power, settling into a cross-legged position within the Divine Power World. The Proficiency Panel before him, established long ago with the Immortal Ease Pavilion, had undergone tremendous changes.

Name: Han Yi

Lifespan: 1204/129,600

Immortal Technique: Great Unrestrained Cosmic Light Profound Scripture (Profound Immortal Chapter 99/100)

Life Seed: 0 units

Cultivation Realm: Profound Immortal

Skills:

Sword Flight (Sixth-Tier Immortal Art 47/100)

Thought Realm (Fourth-Tier Immortal Art 99/100)

Fetal Transformation Disguise (Fourth-Tier Immortal Art 78/100)

Four Origins Dao Technique (Black Tortoise)

Ten Thousand Realms Fate Unification Divine Canon (Supreme Truth Realm 91/100)

Great Freedom Cosmic Light Sword Canon (Overturning Sea, Dawn-Breaking, Heavenburning, Twilight, Eternal Night, Light-Slaying, Thunder Sword Realm, Total Annihilation)

Sword Realm (Fifth-Rank Immortal Art 18/100)

The most significant change was in Han Yi's lifespan. Over six sexagenary cycles—more than three hundred sixty years—had passed since he first participated in the Pure Yang Mountain Sword Debate Immortal Assembly.

Back then, he was only around eight hundred years old. Now, he had surpassed twelve hundred years.

During these more than three hundred sixty years of cultivation, he had achieved tremendous progress. This period alone represented more than half the time he had spent cultivating in his first eight hundred years.

In terms of his Immortal Path cultivation realm, he had already reached the peak of the Profound Immortal stage. His Immortal Power was now just a hair's breadth away from reaching the third layer's perfection, and his breakthrough was imminent.

Regarding the Ancient God System, although his progress had been slow, he had broken through to the peak of the Supreme Truth Realm a year prior. His mastery of Sixth-Tier Sword Flight had deepened, propelling his Sword Realm to the Fifth-Rank Immortal Art level.

As for the Mind Realm Immortal Technique and Fetal Transformation Disguise, he hadn't devoted much time to them in recent years, leaving them still at the Fourth-Rank Immortal Art level.

This was the full extent of his gains over these six sexagenary cycles.

The Immortal Path is long, and secluded cultivation knows no end. Han Yi now understood this saying even more deeply.

Within the Divine Power World...

He slowly approached the Divine Power Subspace, his figure gradually shrinking until he returned to his ordinary form. Once inside the subspace, he used an Escape Technique to emerge from the lake bottom and return to the Jade Lake Branch Sect.

Over the years, Han Yi hadn't made any significant changes to the entrance of the Divine Power Subspace beneath Jade Lake. He only added extremely subtle markings, understandable only to him, to avoid drawing attention from other immortals.

Upon returning to the Branch Sect, Han Yi received a message.

This message had been delivered ten years prior, but it had been seventy-six years since he last left the Divine Power World. Back then, he was just a step away from reaching the Peak Great True Realm and urgently needed seclusion. After making his arrangements, he entered Jade Lake.

Even he hadn't anticipated that this seclusion would last so long.

Before Han Yi stood the Sect Leader of the Branch Sect, Profound Immortal Geng Changqiu.

After Donghuang raised his army, Han Yi had transformed Geng Changqiu into his Immortal Slave to ensure the Sect had a path of retreat.

Of course.

Though nominally an Immortal Slave, Han Yi rarely asked Geng Changqiu to do anything, leaving him largely unchecked. This became even more pronounced after Donghuang's withdrawal, Sui Zhu Dao Ancestor's return, and the restoration of stability in the Immortal Realm.

Moreover.

As the Immortal Ease Pavilion expanded, both the Azure Shu Mountain Range and the Jade Lake Branch Sect, serving as external strongholds, benefited immensely.

Even Geng Changqiu benefited greatly from this, advancing to the rank of Senior Profound Immortal a century ago.

Such is the nature of fortune and calamity, ever intertwined.

"The Ancient Vault Dao Ladder?"

Han Yi held a jade slip marked with Golden Resonance Daoist's aura, his eyes gleaming with intrigue.

Two hundred and twenty years ago, Golden Resonance Daoist emerged from seclusion. Though he had gained something, he failed to break through to the Immortal Monarch realm.

Han Yi felt a pang of regret. Had Golden Resonance Daoist ascended to Immortal Monarch, Han Yi would have gained a formidable patron.

The jade slip Golden Resonance Daoist had sent primarily concerned a legendary artifact known as the "Ancient Vault Dao Ladder."

Throughout the Immortal Realm's history—spanning the Primordial, Primordial Era, Ancient, and Near Ancient eras—countless Immortals have emerged over tens of thousands of years. While Heavenly Venerables remained rare, Dao Ancestors were numerous, their fallen number beyond count.

In the previous epoch, the Seventh Epoch, there lived a Dao Ancestor named Ancient Vault. This venerable being was obsessed with exploring Chaos, possessing unparalleled skill in divination. Each return from Chaos yielded a trove of precious treasures.

However, Chaos is not a safe domain; it is fraught with extreme peril. Those who traverse such treacherous paths inevitably meet disaster.

In the mid-Seventh Epoch, the Ancient Vault Dao Ancestor fled severely injured and soon met his demise. His fall shook heaven and earth, accompanied by extraordinary phenomena.

This Dao Ancestor had never established an Immortal Court, only a Dao Lineage at the Ancient Vault Daoist Temple. After the Ancient Vault Dao Ancestor's fall, the temple gradually declined and, in less than ten thousand years, completely disintegrated.

The temple's destruction during the Immortal Combat was particularly devastating.

Yet, after the Ancient Vault Daoist Temple was destroyed, a heaven-shaking phenomenon erupted from Ancient Vault Mountain.

A phantom Heavenly Ladder emerged, stretching from the mountain's peak to the infinite heights of the heavens, vanishing into the Void without end.

Immortals who climbed this ladder and reached its summit could enter a mysterious Boundary Heaven. Within this realm were numerous trials, and those who passed the corresponding trials could obtain corresponding treasures.

These treasures had been collected throughout the Ancient Vault Dao Ancestor's lifetime, and it was even rumored that some Chaos Supreme Treasures existed among them.

Reaching the very end of the ladder granted access to the Ancient Vault Dao Ancestor's Inheritance.

However, regardless of the method used, one could not enter the mysterious space without climbing each step of the Heavenly Ladder.

Some immortals, refusing to believe the legends, chose not to ascend the Heavenly Ladder and instead flew into the void to search for its end. However, they discovered that the Heavenly Ladder pierced through Void Space, plunging into a mysterious realm before vanishing entirely.

The appearance of this enigmatic Heavenly Ladder sparked countless immortals to climb it. Due to its origins, it came to be known as the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder.

After ten years, the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder vanished without a trace. Even the Dao Ancestor, when he visited Ancient Vault Mountain, was unable to find any trace of it.

Thus, the immortals of the Immortal Realm speculated that the Boundary Heaven the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder led to was not fixed, but a moving Boundary Heaven. This realm came to be called the Ancient Vault Realm Heaven.

Such Boundary Heavens were not uncommon in the Primordial Great World. For example, the Primordial Dao Great World that Han Yi had once entered was a Boundary Heaven that moved through the Nine Realms.

In the years that followed, many immortals continued to search for the Ancient Vault Realm Heaven and the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder, hoping to obtain treasures, supreme treasures, or even the inheritance of the Dao Ancestor. Yet they gained nothing.

The Jade Slip delivered by Golden Immortal Golden Cry informed Han Yi that the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder had reappeared, not in the Great Luo Immortal Realm, but in the far northern void.

This mysterious Boundary Heaven, which had vanished for a hundred and fifty thousand years, had reappeared.

Additionally, Golden Resonance Daoist mentioned in the Jade Slip that this was an order from Immortal Monarch Yuanshu, commanding all Immortals at the Primal Art Dao Field to attempt the challenge.

During the Seventh Epoch, when Immortal Monarch Yuanshu had just ascended to True Immortal, he climbed the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder as soon as it appeared, entering the Ancient Vault Realm Heaven. There, he obtained a Sixth-Tier Immortal Artifact, which was crucial to his rapid rise and establishing the foundation for his status as an Immortal Monarch.

Han Yi distributed the Jade Slip, feeling a hint of regret.

He had been in secluded cultivation for years, and it had been exactly ten years since Golden Resonance Daoist delivered the Jade Slip. According to records from the previous Epoch, the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder had disappeared after appearing for only ten years.

Unless something unexpected occurred, he would likely miss it if he went to the northern Void now.

Suddenly remembering something, he asked Geng Changqiu, "Do you know of any legends in the Immortal Realm regarding the Ancient Vault Realm Heaven and the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder?"

Geng Changqiu pondered for a moment before shaking his head. "I've never heard of such a thing."

"A month ago, I contacted the Main Sect, and they confirmed there's no information whatsoever about anything related to 'Ancient Vault'."

Han Yi nodded.

It seemed the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder that had appeared in the extreme northern Void was exclusively occupied by the Sui Zhu Immortal Court.

Perhaps only immortals of the Immortal Court could ascend this ladder and make the attempt.

With this thought, Han Yi tidied himself up and traveled from the Jade Lake Branch Sect via the Sect Teleportation Formation back to the Azure Shu Mountain Range. From there, he hurried to the Primal Art Dao Field, the former site of the Primordial Arts Immortal Domain.

Upon his arrival, he met Golden Resonance Daoist, who informed him that the Ancient Vault Dao Ladder had not disappeared. This was because it hadn't appeared naturally, but had been anchored in place by a Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Court.

Moreover, this Dao Ancestor wasn't Sui Zhu, but one named Myriad Tribulations.

"Myriad Tribulations Dao Ancestor!" Han Yi's heart jolted.

He suddenly recalled the Dao Shadow he had seen on Myriad Tribulation Peak, and the familiar aura in the Chaos beyond the World Barrier that had teleported him back to the barrier's edge.

"Indeed, it's the Myriad Tribulations Dao Ancestor."

"The Myriad Tribulations Dao Ancestor roamed the Void and discovered the Ancient Vault Realm Heaven. Even with his power as a Dao Ancestor, he couldn't directly breach the Boundary Heaven. He could only summon this Dao Ladder, and its duration is limited to thirty-six years."

"Since I wanted to go anyway, let's travel together."

After a moment's consideration, Han Yi accepted Golden Resonance Daoist's invitation and agreed to accompany him.

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