Chapter 276

Chapter 276: Ascending to Immortal King (Happy New Year!!)

"Little Brother Qi, I haven’t seen you for many days. How have you been?"

Ye Xu stared at Qi Wuhen and teased playfully.

Qi Wuhen felt deeply honored but flustered. His expression turned chaotic as he stammered, "Senior, please do not humble me. Junior… how dare I consider myself a brother to you?"

Emperor Venerable Four Extremes watched them with astonishment. Was there a story between Qi Wuhen and Ye Xu that he didn’t know about?

That embarrassing incident had been strictly forbidden by Qi Wuhen to be told to anyone.

Therefore, even Emperor Venerable Four Extremes was unaware of it.

Ye Xu was too lazy to continue jesting with him. His fingers drummed on the armrest as he spoke lightly, "Fellow Daoist Four Extremes, I already know the reason you and your disciple have come."

"It is not impossible for you to join Heaven’s Secret Pavilion."

Emperor Venerable Four Extremes’ body trembled slightly, and disbelief flickered in his eyes.

He had long heard the master of Heaven’s Secret Pavilion held boundless magical powers and vast divine abilities; the moment he stepped inside, his thoughts and motives had been divined. Such methods were overwhelmingly terrifying.

"Master, whatever you demand, speak it out," Emperor Venerable Four Extremes said solemnly.

But the instant he said it, he felt it was off. Wasn’t he here to apply? Why had he slipped into such a passive stance?

"You wish to attain immortality—I can assist you with that," Ye Xu stated lightly.

"Is this true?"

Emperor Venerable Four Extremes’ eyes blazed brightly; he had been stuck at the peak of the Emperor Venerable Realm for tens of thousands of years. Dao King’s breakthrough to immortality had filled him with envy, yet he’d found no chance to achieve it himself. He refused to wait any longer. Only, Emperor Venerable Four Extremes had scant resources, forcing him to adopt this desperate measure.

"Master, with Senior’s immense powers, how could helping you attain immortality pose any difficulty?" Qi Wuhen chuckled slyly. "If I can remain in Heaven’s Secret Pavilion, running errands for Senior will be my life’s blessing."

"Senior, there must be conditions, right?" Emperor Venerable Four Extremes probed tentatively. "Do you want me to recognize you as my master?"

Ye Xu shook his head. "I detest the master-servant tradition," he dismissed it contemptuously.

"And I won’t conceal this—Heaven’s Machine Bank is currently understaffed. With your skills, across the lower realm, few can match you." Ye Xu’s eyes gleamed with wisdom; someone who could rival Dao King, Su Miao Zhen, and the like clearly wasn’t mediocre.

"Senior, command me. I am ready to face any hardship," Emperor Venerable Four Extremes half-knelt on the ground.

Ye Xu laughed. "Since so, sign a hundred-year contract with me. Within this century, I’ll aid you in attaining true immortal status."

"And you must manage Heaven’s Machine Bank well in the ancient divine clans’ territory, ensuring the flow of Star Yuan. Fail at this, and negotiations end."

"Your subordinate will definitely accomplish this," Emperor Venerable Four Extremes declared with full confidence. He had come voluntarily because he judged Heaven’s Secret Pavilion to be short on talent at present, and not only was he a peak expert of the Emperor Venerable Realm, but he also hailed from Godfall Ridge.

As soon as Emperor Venerable Four Extremes was dispatched to the territory of the ancient divine clans to manage Heaven’s Machine Bank, many unnecessary troubles could be avoided.

After all, his disciple was the social butterfly of the younger generation at Godfall Ridge. Given that, Emperor Venerable Four Extremes, his master, was himself no less adept at socializing.

"This is the contract. Look it over carefully. If you find no issues, imprint your Great Dao of the primordial spirit upon it," Ye Xu said, handing over a contract.

Emperor Venerable Four Extremes swept through the contents of the contract, reading ten lines at a glance.

"No problem."

Confirming there were no traps, he activated his primordial spirit, separating a wisp of his soul to leave an imprint on the contract.

"The person currently in charge of Heaven’s Machine Bank is named Su Mu. I have already informed him of your details. Go meet him first and discuss the specific arrangements."

Ye Xu instructed.

"Your command."

Emperor Venerable Four Extremes lifted Qi Wuhen in one hand and flew out of Heaven’s Secret Pavilion.

"Quite a smart fellow."

Ye Xu’s eyes showed approval.

Given Emperor Venerable Four Extremes’ aptitude, if he diligently cultivated, it would still take him at least three to five hundred years in the Yuan Realm during this revival of spiritual energy before he could even hope to attain immortality.

But by choosing an unconventional path instead, it must be said that Emperor Venerable Four Extremes possessed considerable cleverness.

For Ye Xu, people like Emperor Venerable Four Extremes were naturally the more, the better. Only then could he rapidly cover the Yuan Realm with his Star Yuan currency.

Creak~!

With a flick of his sleeve, Ye Xu shut the massive doors of Heaven’s Secret Pavilion.

He took a single step and traversed into the profound depths of Time and Space.

Over ten billion heavenly secrets points were already sufficient for him to break through to the Immortal King realm.

"System, how many heavenly secrets points are needed to break through to the Immortal King realm?" Ye Xu sat serenely in lotus position, his aura fluctuating profoundly—sometimes profound as the abyss and at other times ethereal as clouds.

[One hundred and six billion!]

Ye Xu blinked.

When he broke through to the full true immortal realm, it had cost him fourteen billion heavenly secrets points. Now, one hundred and six billion didn’t actually seem that expensive.

"If breaking through to the Immortal King realm requires over one hundred billion, then advancing to the Immortal Venerable realm would likely cost seven or eight hundred billion, or even over a trillion heavenly secrets points."

Ye Xu instantly felt the pressure weighing heavily on him.

Beyond the Immortal Emperor realm lay the transcendent realm.

From the information about the Heavenly Emperor, he could already see a glimpse that revealed the bigger picture.

The method of transcendence alone required nine trillion heavenly secrets points – and that was tailored for the Heavenly Emperor! If Ye Xu himself wanted to break through to the transcendent realm, the cost would undoubtedly be far greater.

"Mine truly is a fate of constant toil."

"Break through immediately!"

Ye Xu threw his head back and let out a long shout.

Swish!

In the blink of an eye, one hundred and six billion heavenly secrets points on the account were instantly wiped out, leaving two hundred and sixty million remaining.

Ye Xu’s heart seemed to have a piece missing, bleeding incessantly.

Bang!

The next second, a vast power emerged from nothing and converged into Ye Xu’s body, Purple Palace, primordial spirit, and Great Dao.

The Great Dao of creation, which was immortal, rapidly evolved.

Bang bang bang bang bang!

Ye Xu’s body exploded, and his primordial spirit shattered. The Purple Palace vanished without a trace, but the Great Dao, like an orderly divine chain or a genetic code, could not be obliterated.

He felt a power of a higher level.

The Great Dao remains unbroken!

The Immortal King realm, also referred to as the realm where the Dao remains unbroken. Once cultivators attained this cultivation, as long as the Great Dao remained unbroken, their consciousness, primordial spirit, and body could all be reborn from the Great Dao.

Therefore, only by achieving this stage could one become a hegemon in their domain and truly master the Dao.

Those strings of divine patterns of the Great Dao reconstructed and wove like codes. Ye Xu’s consciousness drifted within them; he could not feel his own existence but appeared to merge into the universe, becoming omnipresent.

Not long after, a vast vitality was born from the unbroken Great Dao.

Ye Xu’s primordial spirit coalesced out from the Great Dao, his body began to remodel, and the Purple Palace was reconstructed at a visible speed, gradually becoming more flawless.

His entire being resembled the most perfect creation.

Not a single flaw remained.

“It seems I’ve become even more handsome,”

Ye Xu took out a mirror and carefully observed the face in it. His skin was crystal-clear like jade, his eyes shone like brilliant stars, his eyebrows were straight as swords, and his features were extraordinarily three-dimensional and devastatingly handsome.

“In the world, I doubt there could ever be anyone as supremely handsome as me!”

Ye Xu laughed playfully.

He activated the Creation Heart Sutra and sensed the transformations in the Great Dao of creation.

“The Great Dao of creation is endlessly variable; now that I’ve cultivated it to an unbreakable stage, what kind of power could it wield?” Ye Xu inwardly felt stirred.

He was very eager to test it out on Li Ruoshui.

After all, she was just a minor underling at the early stage of Immortal King cultivation.

Ding!

[Congratulations, host, you have reached the late stage of the Immortal King realm!]

“Late stage of the Immortal King realm?”

A hint of joy flashed in Ye Xu’s eyes. Spending ten billion six hundred million heavenly secrets points to break through to the late stage of the Immortal King realm was definitely not a bad trade.

“In that case, advancing to the pinnacle of the Immortal Venerable realm would require at most a hundred billion heavenly secrets points.”

Ye Xu had a clear understanding in his heart.