pappabearbooks Chapter 361: The Meaning of a True Immortal’s Existence
Chapter 361: The Meaning of a True Immortal’s Existence
At this moment, Tian Yongheng quietly stood amidst the shattered skies of Jiangnan Region.Endless fragments of tribulation lightning drifted around him like remnants of a destroyed heavenly punishment.
The heavens still had not fully recovered from that sword strike earlier.
Gigantic cracks stretched across the sky while violent void storms continuously surged within them.
Yet despite such terrifying phenomena, Tian Yongheng’s expression had already gradually calmed.
The cold arrogance from earlier slowly receded into the depths of his eyes once more.
After all, no matter how powerful he currently was, arrogance alone could never allow someone to walk far upon the Immortal Dao.
At this moment, Tian Yongheng suddenly noticed something.
The heavens were too silent, no Ascension Light descended, and no heavenly force attempted dragging him toward the Upper Realm.
The surrounding worldly laws and heavenly rules merely fluctuated faintly before slowly retreating from him instinctively, as though unwilling to approach his existence or just passing by.
Tian Yongheng’s eyes faintly narrowed.
He instantly understood the reason.
Ordinary Vagrant Immortals were still ultimately creatures beneath the Heavenly Dao. Even after stepping into immortality, they remained within the framework of heaven and earth.
Thus, once they broke through, the Heavenly Dao would immediately guide or rather force them toward the Upper Realm.
Only those ancient Vagrant Immortals hiding within the Lower Realm possessed special methods capable of shielding heavenly secrets and deceiving the Heavenly Dao temporarily, like the Sword Venerable.
However, those methods all required immense prices.
Some had to sleep for tens of thousands of years, some continuously consumed lifespan or cultivation, others relied on supreme treasures, ancient formations, or hidden dimensions.
Yet Tian Yongheng clearly did not experience any such suppression.
At this moment, realization gradually surfaced within his mind.
True Immortals...
Were fundamentally different.
They were existences capable of contending against heaven and earth for authority.
Beings free and unfettered, no longer completely restricted beneath the Heavenly Dao.
Thus, the Heavenly Dao could no longer forcibly expel him from the Lower Realm.
To be more accurate, it no longer possessed the authority to do so.
As long as Tian Yongheng wished, he could freely remain within the Lower Realm forever.
Even after becoming absurdly powerful in the future, he would still not necessarily be forced to ascend.
At this thought, even Tian Yongheng could not help feeling slightly shocked inwardly.
This racial transformation was far more terrifying than he originally imagined.
The current him truly possessed the qualifications to walk a completely different path from ordinary Immortals and Gods.
However, soon afterward, Tian Yongheng forcefully suppressed all those thoughts.
He slowly took in a deep breath.
The overwhelming power surging within his body gradually settled down once more.
At the same time, he continuously reminded himself inwardly.
Invincible in the Lower Realm does not mean absolute invincibility.
Above the Lower Realm still exists the Upper Realm, and above Vagrant Immortals exist Earth Immortals, Heaven Immortals, Origin Immortals, Profound Immortals, and Golden Immortals.
Beyond even them are those mysterious Immortal Sovereigns, and an unknown height above are the exalted Immortal Emperors.
I absolutely, absolutely cannot get too carried away!
Being cautious and steady is the kingly way!
Although the current him could already slaughter ordinary Vagrant Immortals casually, even confident enough to suppress all Vagrant Immortals in the Lower Realm even if they attacked him together without even using a Dharma Treasure, but before true supreme existences, he was still insignificant.
Forget Golden Immortals, even an ordinary Heaven Immortal from the Upper Realm could probably suppress the current him with ease.
His true enemies had never been the geniuses or forces of the Mortal World.
Rather, they were those ancient Immortals and Gods hidden within the Upper Realm, the terrifying existences capable of manipulating the flow of fate, those ones who had developed hatred towards him after that battle.
At this moment, Tian Yongheng slowly lowered his gaze toward his own hand.
The surrounding void instinctively distorted around his fingers.
He could clearly feel the immense power hidden within his body.
Compared to before breaking through, the difference was simply immeasurable.
His Divine Sense had transformed completely, his Spiritual Energy had already evolved into true Divine Energy used by Immortals, his Nascent Soul had become an Essence Soul, his physical body elevated to the Indestructible Immortal Body, and his blood had become Immortal Divine Blood.
Even his understanding toward heaven and earth had reached an entirely different level.
The current him could likely annihilate his previous self with a thought.
This was not just the transformation of Virtual True Immortal to True Immortal, but also the transformation of Half Immortal Realm to the Vagrant Immortal Realm.
Yet despite this terrifying increase in strength, Tian Yongheng’s Dao Heart instead became calmer than ever before.
Because the stronger he became, the clearer he could vaguely sense the terrifying depths of the true Immortal Dao.
The current him had merely taken the first genuine step upon it, nothing more.
At this moment, Tian Yongheng slowly looked toward the distant heavens above.
His eyes gradually deepened slightly.
Then, he silently established a new goal within his heart.
Within two hundred years, he must reach the Grand Perfection of the Vagrant Immortal Realm.
Before reaching one thousand years old, he would stand at the absolute peak of the Vagrant Immortal Realm.
At this thought, Tian Yongheng’s expression remained calm.
However, if ordinary Immortals and Gods knew what he was thinking right now, they would likely cough blood from anger on the spot.
Cultivation after ascending to immortality was incomparably difficult.
Every minor realm difference between Vagrant Immortals was enormous.
Even within the resource rich Upper Realm, ordinary Vagrant Immortals often required hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to breakthrough a single minor realm.
Many peerless geniuses who once shook entire worlds and ascended within tens of thousands of years would still take millions upon millions of years to reach the Grand Perfection of Vagrant Immortal Realm.
That was also why Immortal Gods were so exalted even in the Upper Realm.
Once someone stepped into immortality, talent alone was no longer enough.
Comprehension, providence, opportunities, Dao Heart, resources, karmic luck, and countless other factors all became equally important.
Even supreme geniuses often required thousands or tens of thousands of years to progress steadily.
On the other hand, Tian Yongheng was currently planning to reach the peak of the Vagrant Immortal Realm in merely two hundred years.
Such a speed was no longer monstrous, it was simply absurd.
However, Tian Yongheng himself understood clearly that although this goal sounded shocking, it was not impossible for him.
The current him possessed foundations terrifying enough to shake the ancient and modern eras.
His Connate Providences alone could make even Immortal Sovereigns jealous.
The Sword Heart, Primordial Bones, Primordial Meridians, Five-Elemental Divine Spiritual Physique, Jade Pure Bloodline, Divine Scripture of the Primordial Beginning, any one of them was enough to create a supreme genius.
Yet he possessed all of them simultaneously.
And most importantly...
He still had the system.
At this moment, Tian Yongheng slowly raised his head once more.
The shattered heavens above Jiangnan Region gradually began healing under the restoration of heaven and earth, the power of heavenly rules and worldly laws regenerating.
The violent Spirit Qi tides throughout millions of miles also slowly calmed.
The countless Half Immortals and Vagrant Immortals observing secretly had mostly already withdrawn their Divine Sense in fear and shock.
Only the ruins of the Tian Family estate still remained beneath him.
The rain had already stopped at some point.
Sunlight quietly descended across the revitalized spiritual mountain.
Tian Yongheng silently looked at the ancient estate below for a very long time.
Then, his figure slowly descended from the heavens once more.
The current him still had many things left to do.