Chapter 572

Chapter 572: Ascending Again

The Border Continent and the Four Sun Continent began their unification wars, influencing the other continents to start taking action.

Some supreme geniuses emerged, climbing towards higher realms and stirring up the winds and clouds.

One name after another began to shine brightly in their respective continents.

Among these supreme geniuses, those who made it to the end would have the chance to attain Honored Positions and become strong competitors in the struggle for the Royal Path.

To seek an Honored Position during this time with True Realm power is definitely a figure comparable to past Monarchs. The entire Red Heaven realm eagerly awaited to see who possessed such extraordinary abilities to arise!

The eleven continents were alive with a rising tide, while the Border Continent remained tranquil, with only the Tomorrow Nation making small moves, attempting to invade other nations to acquire resources and land.

Due to the Tomorrow Nation’s remote location, it had not raised much commotion, so Yun Ye focused more on his cultivation.

The supreme secret techniques developed by the Great Li Dynasty were a rather unique “ritual” that required the power of a True Immortal to be effective.

The True Immortal in question was precisely the Unifying God, who was also the master of the Countless Dao Classics that Yun Ye possessed, the Countless True Immortal.

After performing a sacrifice to the Countless True Immortal, a special ritual could summon the Royal Path Extreme Weapons from history, even the projection of the Monarch himself.

To be honest, Yun Ye’s Ten Heavenly Arts could achieve similar effects. He could replicate not just a weapon or a person’s projection, but even the projection of the entire world from the past, given enough time.

However, the problem was that Yun Ye’s view of history only reached the moment the future Path Lord became a True Immortal; any further progression would be perceived and blocked by the True Immortal.

So, if Yun Ye were to summon now, it would only be possible to call upon one…

The Spirit Monarch?

"This is the Unifying True Heaven Summoning Secret Technique, requiring the preparation of a sacrificial ritual to pay respects to the Unifying God. A ‘moment’ is recorded every January 1st. At each moment, it can summon the Royal Path Extreme Weapons for a minute and the Heavenly Dao Divine Artifacts for ten seconds. The more power is used during this time, the quicker the historical projection will vanish."

"The ancestral talisman is for a continuous sacrifice for three thousand two hundred years without interruption. Using a special method to gather ‘moments’ formed can allow unlimited use of the Royal Path Extreme Weapons and Heavenly Dao Divine Artifacts’ power until the time of summoning ends."

Three thousand two hundred years for one shot at genuine royal-level power, and success was not guaranteed.

When it came to the research of Immortal Path power, the Great Ruler Honored Being was undoubtedly a peerless genius.

As for invincible types like Yun Ye, who held the power to realize all possibilities, they would not rely on the unknown force of True Immortals.

As the greatest darkness in the Red Heaven realm, their power only required a few rituals and incantations to be activated. Would there really be such good fortune?

Yun Ye found this mysterious and began studying the "Unifying True Heaven Summoning Secret Technique" to uncover the reason.

In the past two years, he had made the Great Ruler Honored Being attempt it twice, but the results were simply mediocre and ordinary.

It was like the fortunes of Red Heaven; it seemed to be a normal occurrence in nature, devoid of any special power, with the effects manifesting naturally at the ritual’s completion.

Yun Ye was not discouraged.

This was the distinction between "absolute rules" and "powers"; it was not easy to unwrap.

The power of True Immortals represented the known world’s "absolute"; no force could displace it. For example, the Countless Dao Classics might describe infinity, but even if pushed to the extreme and capable of obliterating the Red Heaven realm, it still wasn’t true infinity; it could not interfere with the powers of a True Immortal.

Conversely, the "infinite infinity" of the Countless True Immortal was genuinely "infinite infinity." Below the True Immortal realm, even if one opened a cave heaven, it amounted to a dead end, not operating on the same level, embodying the "absolute" in its literal sense without interference from equals.

To become a True Immortal under the watch of a True Immortal, three conditions must be met: owning a Heavenly Crown Artifact, possessing royal-level cultivation, and a fleeting wish for Time to become a True Immortal.

This was what the Absolute Emperor informed Yun Ye; it was much simpler than modifying world rules, yet it remained unattainable for a typical cultivator.

In the eyes of the Absolute Emperor, the future Path Lord achieving True Immortal status seemed incredibly incredulous.

His historical projection did not believe in this sequence of events, even knowing the future Path Lord could foresee it.

If no possibility existed, then what significance would it hold even if one were to predict the future?

The difficulty in becoming a True Immortal isn’t in dominating the human realm but rather in evading the extermination of the True Immortal under their scrutiny.

Whether ascending the Royal Path or the Holy Path, there is a process to verify one’s attainment. Even a brief time for them can feel long enough for a True Immortal to launch an eradication.

Every True Immortal’s path to ascension is a closely guarded secret that does not circulate in the world. Even if something were to circulate, it would be unfeasible.

Take for instance the unknown Second Immortal and Third Immortal; they were ascenders allowed by the Red Heaven, while how could others replicate it?

Or consider Mystic Heaven, the first cave heaven cultivator, who left many True Immortals completely unaware, becoming a True Immortal only through various opportunities and arrangements.

Of course, even the ascension processes of these three True Immortals are not publicly known; this knowledge only came to Yun Ye through the Heavenly Path and Red Heaven.

It is precisely this that the future Path Lord’s ascension process appears ordinary in history: defeat the God Destruction Clan, then gather the resonances to become a True Immortal.

It seemed as if nothing had occurred.

The True Immortal did not intervene this time; did they let the future Path Lord go?

That was certainly impossible.

If they refrained from acting, the future Path Lord would not have become a True Immortal but instead altered the rules—there was some hidden truth therein.

Fortunately, all this was recorded by the Heavenly Path, and he still had many stages left to traverse. Now that his foundation had significantly improved, he could attempt to further ascend the Heavenly Path. The deeper he went, the higher the layers involved, increasing the likelihood of encountering great events.

Yun Ye had already tested this: due to the descent of World Gods in this era, the difficulty of ascension along the Heavenly Path had greatly diminished; the weight of the Way was not as high as in the past. Cultivators of Tomorrow Dao could tackle high-difficulty historical segments more easily through the requirements set forth.

If there were no bottlenecks, the higher the difficulty, the greater Yun Ye’s gains would be.

"Fourth tier of the Heavenly Path, begin."

After a long while, Yun Ye started ascending the Heavenly Path again. The fortieth tier corresponded to the peak of the Mystic Realm, and the forty-first tier corresponded to the True Position.

The entire Heavenly Path had a total of forty-nine tiers; any further ascent into the realms of Honored Positions would no longer benefit from the Heavenly Path’s aid, thus marking the endpoint of his ascent.

It is worth mentioning that the Heavenly Path had been undergoing slow changes and was not an unchanging entity, especially during the descent of the World Gods, which brought about significant alterations.

These were preventive measures set from the founding.

To prevent the annihilation of the human race, if faced with an uncontrollable extermination crisis, the Red Heaven could adjust the internal settings of the Heavenly Path, loosening or tightening the rules as deemed beneficial to saving humanity, with no special restrictions.

In the past, the True Immortal destroyers of worlds would leave behind embers, triggering this mechanism slightly—only limited changes could be made.

But the descent of World Gods was different; it granted the highest modification permissions, allowing the Red Heaven to greatly alter the operational rules of all forty-nine tiers.