Chapter 410

Chapter 410: The Twilight Realm of Life and Death

“You have chosen the most terrifying path. Even if you defeat True Immortals, the possibility of humanity rising is exceedingly slim,” Yun Ye lamented.

“Cut everything off; immortals cannot be opposed,” Red Heaven shook her head as the scene cracked and ultimately collapsed, her figure completely vanishing.

Yun Ye understood Red Heaven’s meaning all too well. Especially after experiencing the War of the Dual Emperors, his feelings ran even deeper.

What a messed-up world is this?

True Immortals repeatedly diminish humanity’s potential, sever possibilities for humans, and frequently cleanse humanity, burying all history.

In such circumstances, even if the Supreme Rulers discover the truth, they are likely left with nothing but despair, seeing no chance of victory whatsoever.

Immortals are too powerful, unbeatable; this is a rule determined by fate…

Given the situation, borrowing external strength becomes the only choice.

Although Red Heaven only expelled four World Gods, that number belongs to the Red Heaven realm. There are countless parallel entities wandering the universe, feeding on worlds, continuously searching for ways to enhance their strength.

If we say that the rules are incompatible among World Gods, then True Immortals, who achieve their path through fortune, can integrate with the rules of all World Gods and grow by devouring.

True Immortals did not remain in the Red Heaven realm partly for this reason; the Red Heaven realm is the center of the multiverse, and their presence would cause waves that spread throughout the multiverse, attracting innumerable World Gods.

If they were willing to allow future beings to become True Immortals, it would be fine; World Gods’ awareness takes time to develop, and their arrival also takes time, allowing humans to accumulate enough strength.

Yet, they are unwilling.

True Immortals obtaining the Heavenly Crown Artifact can continue to empower themselves with rules, growing ever stronger, even transcending and towering over the entire multiverse.

To selfishly share such an opportunity with others?

That’s not a funny joke.

Thus, they can only leave the Red Heaven realm, setting up contingencies to suppress any chance of attracting World Gods, while continuously condensing the Heavenly Crown Artifact to elevate themselves.

But unfortunately, reality diverges greatly from expectation. After years of Qing Tian’s plan in motion, issues arose once more.

The third heavenly Mystic Heaven appeared…

Although the history contained within the three great heavenly intentions only tells the story that preceded this, Yun Ye could not know the reason for Mystic Heaven’s birth.

But Mystic Heaven is right there, neither disappearing nor hiding; it cannot be ignored.

Just based on this, Yun Ye knows that Qing Tian’s plan has encountered a problem, as it hasn’t achieved his vision of harvesting heavenly authority to transcend continually.

"Completing the twenty-first tier of the Heavenly Path."

"Bloodline record—record complete, ascending bloodline optimization."

"Please record the ascent law for law realms; recording once amplifies all effects by 10%—record complete, ascent law: Standard Spirit Pattern No. 8."

Yun Ye recorded the most complete and intricate structure of the eighth Standard Spirit Pattern.

At this tier, he should have recorded a law realm method; however, Yun Ye had no notable methods to offer, so he recorded the Standard Spirit Pattern instead.

The twenty-first tier of the Heavenly Path has come to an end.

Yun Ye’s consciousness detached.

Immediately after, the Secret Realm began to rapidly expand once again.

The initial area was three hundred square meters, which expanded to thirty thousand square meters during the first tier, a hundredfold increase. The subsequent expansions were similar.

Now it was the third time, and it had reached three hundred square kilometers. It sounds quite large, but the largest country on Earth has an area of seventeen million square kilometers, roughly fifty-six thousand times the current Secret Realm. Huangzhou’s area surpasses the entire Earth, placing the Moon Ring Secret Realm far behind any decent Secret Realm.

"However, this area is finally enough to plant some advanced precious medicines."

Yun Ye watched the Secret Realm grow larger and couldn’t help but wonder about its principles.

Extracting the power of the void and converting it into matter and spirit energy…

In Red Heaven’s memory, the Red Heaven realm did not have its current scale at the beginning. After she was sealed, someone created the Five Elements, and people increasingly opened up Secret Realms using the power of the Five Elements, which were absorbed by the Red Heaven realm, allowing its scale to grow to this day.

According to Red Heaven’s recollection, when she condensed the Royal Path, the first true intent actually connected to the power of the void, transforming it into strength.

Only after becoming a True Immortal did she shift to creating something from nothing, directly exercising the power of world authority through the rules.

Neither the power of rules nor the power of the void arises from nothing.

If someone uses it, someone else must lose it.

World Gods wander through the multiverse after leaving the Red Heaven realm precisely because their food sources have diminished. The World Gods born in barren lands see the Red Heaven realm itself as a feast.

Especially as the Red Heaven realm devours Secret Realms and has grown to its current size.

"I have become a huge disaster; the key to starting the great ritual is sealed in my mind and is beyond my control. Not even suicide would work."

Yun Ye truly felt that all paths ahead were dead ends.

There was no ultimate despair.

Only greater despair.

But Yun Ye still trudged forward. His wisdom was indeed quite ordinary; he could only take one step at a time, and he couldn’t even voice these thoughts.

At his level, it was impossible to understand these secrets. The future Path Lord was certainly still watching the Red Heaven realm, seeing everything he desired as if it were the Heavenly Path.

If he wanted to grow strong, he must find a way to block the future Path Lord’s predictions; otherwise, he might accomplish nothing at all.

But that hope felt too slim; even the Spirit Law that True Immortals could foresee was evidently on par with the Dao Classics and likely couldn’t be uncovered through mere study—it required imparting rules.

"What if I elevate the Nine Lives Classics to the level of the Dao Classics? Could it contend with Future Spirit Law?"

Yun Ye fell into deep thought.

Then,

“Clap.”

Yun Ye clapped his hands and went to sleep.

He needed to restore his spirit and continue on the Heavenly Path.

What was there to think about?

He had no idea how to elevate the Classics!

The expansion of the Secret Realm made research on precious medicines much easier.

Moreover, super formations had gradually been established. The Tomorrow Nation could concentrate the spirit energy from the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh into the Secret Realm, accelerating its growth infinitely.

The spirit energy was even being input into the Secret Realm in liquid form. Under such conditions, even precious medicines could mature within a day. With the assistance of the Time Tower, the research speed surpassed normal limits by a wide margin; the achievements of a powerful force over hundreds of years might not compare to what the Tomorrow Nation could accomplish in a month.

Only a master of a Secret Realm, with the power to set rules at will, could potentially surpass the Tomorrow Nation in the speed of precious medicine research.

The development of precious medicines was rapid, with more and more cultivators breaking through to the law realms.

However, soon, the Tomorrow Nation began to regulate magical treasures.

There were countless demons in the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh.

In theory, they could create innumerable magical treasures and cultivate an unquantifiable number of law realms.

Yet, the Tomorrow Nation had slaughtered too many, and the demons of the entire Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh were rebelling, giving rise to an extraordinary chaotic era. Even Yun Ye needed to exert effort to slay these beasts. If this continued, it was likely that the bloodline rules inscribed in the world by the ancestral demon would automatically descend, bringing forth enough power to destroy the Tomorrow Nation.

“No wonder the Luo Dynasty wants to seal off the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh. Even if the resources are countless, it’s impossible to harvest too much in the short term. At most, we can maintain a scale ten times that of the two sects, but that is far from enough for us!”

The higher-ups of Tomorrow Society were in a bad mood.

But they had no choice but to accept reality and improve efficiency, using limited materials to produce more magical treasures.

Trials and hardships would only help them grow; they could never be stagnant!

Everyone was fighting hard.

Yun Ye was no exception.

He refined what he learned and pressed forward, ascending the Heavenly Path again and again, hoping to reach the thirty-first tier.

However, reality differed from ideals.

He had returned to ancient times and witnessed countless terrifying battlefields. Even with the Ethereal Law, he didn’t feel strong; he needed to spend a great deal of time exploring those paths to find a way through.

To the rest of Tomorrow Society, such difficulty was already a dead end, and the possibility of success was nearly zero.

Just like that, two years flew by.

Everything was developing. Over these two years, Liu Youmei barely completed the required research. The Tomorrow Nation, at great cost, implemented her plan to create the Yin-Yang Weapon, ‘Twilight Realm.’ This was a time barrier that could trace back life and death, which sounded incredibly powerful.

Unfortunately, both the Tomorrow Nation and Liu Youmei lacked the capability to complete the full set of research due to its difficulty.

Although the ‘Twilight Realm’ could trace back life and death, it only worked for lives that died within the barrier, and during the process of reverting, the spirit could become confused or lost.

Under various limitations, the ‘Twilight Realm’ only appeared powerful and was practically useful for research purposes.

But that was enough.

The Tomorrow Nation invested massive resources, taking a gamble to complete the plan; they only needed to achieve this level!

“Now, let the experiment begin…”

Hundreds of thousands of cultivation tanks stood within the Twilight Realm, with tens of thousands of researchers bustling about, recording every change.

Within each cultivation tank was a cloned individual.

Using Ming Waiyang, the strongest and most accomplished entity of the Tomorrow Nation, as the prototype, they aimed to create the strongest and mass-producible war weapon.