Eternal Emperor's Path to Ascension

Chapter 389: Is Master the Reincarnation of a King?

Inside the cave abode atop the Eternal Peak, Tian Yongheng slowly opened his eyes.

The information Wei Yusheng brought had undoubtedly been valuable.

For the first time, his understanding of the Second Great Immortal World possessed a somewhat complete framework.

The Upper Realm was far larger than he originally imagined; the Mysterious Cloud Immortal Continent, the Eastern Extreme Divine Domain, the Moon Water Divine Dynasty, the Ancestral Heavenly Family, and even the sect Wei Yusheng had joined, compared to those towering existences, his current cultivation was still insignificant.

Fortunately, Tian Yongheng had never been the type to become impatient.

Every step forward was still progress, and true strength accumulated little by little.

One day, even mountains could be crossed by walking steadily.

After contemplating briefly, he gradually withdrew his thoughts and re-entered a meditative state.

He wanted to breakthrough to the Grand Perfection of the Vagrant Immortal Realm and then race towards the Earth Immortal Realm as soon as possible.

The cave abode once more returned to silence.

...

Meanwhile, within a secluded Daoist temple located near the main peak, a beautiful woman slowly opened her eyes.

At this moment, Liu Ruoxue stood before a window, her gaze directed toward the distant mountains.

The expression on her face was somewhat dazed, as if awakening from an impossibly long dream.

For a long time, she remained motionless, countless memories continuously surfacing in her mind.

In those memories, there were ancient battlefields, boundless heavens, endless divine lightning, and magnificent Immortal palaces suspended above rivers of ancient stars.

They spanned millions, tens of millions of years.

These were the memories belonging to her previous life, and now, they had finally recovered completely, down to the last detail.

At this moment, Liu Ruoxue finally remembered who she truly was.

The Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan, one of the supreme bloodlines belonging to the True Phoenix Race in the boundless 33 Heavens Divine Realm.

And she... was once the clan’s most outstanding descendant.

The future hope of the Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan, a supreme prodigy whose talent shocked entire generations and awed the Nine Heavens of the 33 Heavens.

Born at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, ascended to immortality at adulthood, Origin Immortal after a million years of cultivation, Golden Immortal after ten million years, and peak of the Golden Immortal Realm within a hundred million years, on the verge of stepping into the legendary realm of Immortal Sovereigns!

She once fought against a Sovereign in a Secret Realm Blessed Land of the Sixth Heaven and managed to return alive, what a great achievement that was, reverberating across the Sixth Heaven for hundreds of thousands of years.

Even in the vast 33 Heavens Divine Realm, she stood at the absolute peak of the Nine Heavens’ younger generation, comparable to the prodigies from Eighteen Heavens.

Numerous Sovereigns of various forces in the Nine Heavens had personally praised her, some even publicly declaring that her future achievements would surpass theirs.

The bearing of a future Lord.

That was the evaluation she received.

Lords.

Those existences capable of standing above Sovereigns.

At her peak, countless experts believed she possessed such potential.

Unfortunately...

Liu Ruoxue slowly closed her eyes, the memories within her mind becoming darker.

Just before breaking through to the Immortal Sovereign Realm, she had been ambushed, and not by a single enemy, but multiple hostile factions acting together.

Those were the ancient enemies who feared the future rise of the Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan.

That battle had shaken countless worlds, Immortal Divine Blood dyed the heavens, and multiple Sovereigns took action, and there were even the shadows of a Lord watching behind the scenes.

In the end, her breakthrough failed, her Indestructible Immortal Body was destroyed, her Inextinguishable Divine Energy was extinguished, and even her Imperishable Essence Soul nearly perished.

Had it not been for a final life saving treasure left behind by her clan, she would have completely disappeared from existence.

A fragment of her remnant soul escaped and reincarnated into the Lower Realm, becoming Liu Ruoxue, a young lady from the Thousand Petals Hall, then eventually becoming a personal disciple of the Eternal Peak, the third disciple of the Eternal Lord.

Thinking this far, Liu Ruoxue’s expression became complicated.

Her two lives seemed impossibly distant yet strangely intertwined.

At this moment, her Divine Sense quietly spread outward as the Eternal Peak entered her perception.

Immortal Qi filled heaven and earth and countless formations operated silently as individuals cultivated throughout the Eternal Peak.

To ordinary Immortals, such a scene would likely appear shocking, but to her, not quiet.

After all, she had once lived in the 33 Heavens Divine Realm.

The Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan possessed countless methods capable of transforming barren lands into supreme cultivation paradises, much less the True Phoenix Race.

Creating blessed lands, generating Spirit Qi, transforming Spirit Qi into Immortal Qi etcetera, such things were not impossible, and neither were they rare in the 33 Heavens.

Although accomplishing them within the Lower Realm remained unusual, it was not entirely beyond imagination.

However...

The more Liu Ruoxue observed the Dao Field, the more solemn her expression became.

Although her Divine Sense could only extend for up to tens of thousands of miles at present, not even a tenth of the area covered by the Dao Field, with her memories recovered, she gradually discovered something strange.

Her gaze swept across the boundaries of the Dao Field, again and again, her pupils contracting slightly.

"This..."

A trace of disbelief appeared in her eyes.

The Eternal Peak, or perhaps the entire Dao Field surrounding it, was actually hidden, and not physically, concealed by Array Formations, or isolated through space.

It just simply could not be found.

Liu Ruoxue frowned slightly.

The sensation was extremely difficult to describe; if a Heaven Immortal stood outside the Dao Field and searched for it with all their might, without a doubt, they would fail.

Not because the Dao Field was stronger than a Heaven Immortal, but because it seemed fundamentally disconnected from ordinary perception, like a veil draped over reality itself.

Even heaven and earth appeared to unconsciously ignore its existence.

No wonder I’ve never seen any cultivator undergo a Lightning Tribulation within the Dao Field...

The more she analyzed it, the more impossible it felt.

This definitely isn’t an Array Formation or any restriction of sort.

Liu Ruoxue pondered silently.

As a former genius of the 33 Heavens Divine Realm and direct heiress of a Lord faction, her knowledge far surpassed ordinary cultivators, yet even she couldn’t identify what this phenomenon actually was.

As for higher realms beyond Heaven Immortals, she wasn’t sure.

After all, her current cultivation was only at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, and many things exceeded her ability to perceive.

However, this discovery alone was enough to shake her.

Soon enough, her thoughts drifted elsewhere.

The Time Dao Compass that possessed heaven defying Time Dao abilities, that Bodhi Wisdom Tree towering over heaven and earth which enhanced comprehension and chances of enlightenment, the Divine Powers her master casually displayed, the endless cultivation resources that seemed to come out of nowhere...

And even the Thunder God Cultivation Technique, that cultivation technique her master had casually given her long ago.

Back then, she lacked the memories necessary to appreciate its value, but now, everything was different.

Liu Ruoxue took in a deep breath, her eyes becoming incomparably serious.

After recovering her memories, she had repeatedly analyzed the Thunder God Cultivation Technique, yet the conclusion remained unchanged every time.

This cultivation technique could be cultivated to the Immortal Sovereign Realm at bare minimum, possibly even beyond.

A technique of such value would cause countless beings under the Immortal Sovereign Realm to go mad in the 33 Heavens, and even many Sovereign factions would treat it as a priceless, clan guarding technique, a core inheritance only cultivated by the most important members.

But Tian Yongheng had simply handed it to her like some common vegetable, without appearing to care in the slightest.

At first, she even assumed there might be some tricks in it, but then she thought of how powerful her master was; there should be no need for any tricks or schemes for him to act against her.

The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

Her master definitely wasn’t simple, not even remotely.

An Immortal reincarnation?

Impossible.

She hadn’t even considered that possibility, and the reason was simple; no ordinary Immortal possessed such methods or resources. The mysteries surrounding her master were too numerous.

Is he perhaps the successor of some supreme force?

Liu Ruoxue considered the possibility carefully.

It seemed plausible at first thought.

A hidden descendant personally cultivated by some ancient behemoth, a force comparable to the main branch of the True Phoenix Race, yet even that explanation quickly developed flaws.

Why would such a successor descend to the Lower Realm?

For experience?

The idea made little sense.

Ancient forces possessed countless secret realms, pocket dimensions, grotto heavens with lifeforms, entire worlds dedicated to tempering descendants, there was no need to come here unless another purpose existed, but this possibility was still too low.

At the same time, another possibility surfaced within her mind.

Could it be a remnant soul? Reincarnation? A clone? Or possibly an ancient existence recovering from injury?

Liu Ruoxue frowned.

Except for reincarnation, none of them seemed to fit perfectly.

At that moment, a terrifying thought emerged in her mind, causing her breathing to unconsciously slow down.

"No..."

Surely not...

However, the idea refused to disappear, and instead, it became increasingly convincing.

Her master’s growth speed, his endless treasures, his complete disregard for resources capable of shaking entire heavens, his seemingly effortless creation of miracles, and most importantly, the feeling he occasionally gave her in her memories, as if he viewed everything from an incomparably high vantage point.

It had nothing to do with that so-called Seven Emotions and Six Desires Severing Law, and neither was it arrogance or contempt, but... it was something fundamentally different.

This feeling had only grown immeasurably stronger after he broke that law and achieved immortality.

It was like he didn’t just ascend to immortality, but something, his entire being perhaps, had undergone a complete reformation.

It was a feeling no one had ever given her in both her past and present lives, not even the few Lords she had witnessed.

Thinking this far, Liu Ruoxue’s heartbeat accelerated slightly.

A Lord Reincarnation?

No, even that might be insufficient, after all, she had personally met the sole Lord ancestor of the Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan, a supreme existence standing above Sovereigns, considered a powerhouse in the 33 Heavens.

Yet when comparing the two, for some reason, aside from that feeling, she still felt her master might be even more mysterious.

At this thought, a name emerged within her mind, a title existing only in the oldest records of her Lightning Yin Phoenix Clan, of beings who once held down the fort of the clan, highly regarded even in the True Phoenix Race.

That was a realm so high that even most Lords would never glimpse it, standing among the upper echelons of the 33 Heavens and residing within the Eighteen Heavens.

Liu Ruoxue’s breath hitched slightly, an absurd possibility emerging in her mind.

Could master... be the reincarnation of a King?