Chapter 48 The Celestial Ancestor as Fertilizer! The Darkest Hour of the Lantern-Carrying Immortal King
Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace, backyard.
Sunlight filtered through the lush branches and leaves of the Primordial World Tree, spilling onto the throne of ten thousand spirits gold essence that flowed with golden liquid.
Lin Yuan leaned back extremely comfortably on this imperial seat, which symbolized the highest power in the Immortal Realm. He picked up the teacup just handed to him by Demon Venerable Wanhua, gently blew on the wafting Immortal Qi of Creation, and took a leisurely sip.
"The tea brewed from the Golden Lotus of Creation indeed has an excellent taste; it is soft and smooth, and the aftertaste carries a trace of the life force from when the world was first opened." Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction.
"As long as Master likes it! This old servant will brew it for you every day!"
Demon Venerable Wanhua smiled fawningly, his illusory old face full of obsequiousness. However, his gaze kept involuntarily drifting toward the burly man standing nearby, who was over two meters tall and covered in green fur.
Although this burly man had no head, the ancient pressure emanating from him, which had settled over a million years, still made Demon Venerable Wanhua, a former Peak Mahayana Stage demonic cultivator, feel his Soul trembling, even though it was deliberately restrained.
"Mas... Master, is this headless warrior the... gardener you specifically brought back from the Upper Realm?" Demon Venerable Wanhua swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked cautiously.
"His name is Xingtian."
Lin Yuan set down the teacup and explained casually: "The Immortal Emperor in the Upper Realm was quite polite; not only did he send a chair, but he also dug up their first generation Ancestral Master of the Immortal Court to be a porter for me. I saw that his body was full of Death Qi, so it was just right to use him as fertilizer for the World Tree, so I kept him."
"Thump!"
Demon Venerable Wanhua's legs went weak, and he knelt directly on the ground, almost dropping the tea tray.
The first generation Ancestral Master of the Immortal Court?!
Bringing back the Old Ancestor who had ruled the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm for a million years to be a potted plant for fertilizing?!
Demon Venerable Wanhua felt his brain was no longer enough; he was now immensely grateful that he had knelt down early back then. The outcome for those who opposed this master was truly more explosive than the last!
Just then, a very slight spatial fluctuation came from the front yard of the Immortal Palace.
Dantai Jinyue, dressed in red, walked in with a light gait, carrying the Soul Transformation Stage ice Dragon, Xiao Bing, coiled around her neck. They had just been responsible for "covering the rear" in the back, picking up a few pieces of Top-Grade Immortal Jade scattered in the ruins of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to patch the broken tile on the roof of the Immortal Palace.
"Young Master, everything has been handled properly." Dantai Jinyue walked to Lin Yuan's side very naturally and took over the work of serving tea and pouring water. Xiao Bing was very sensible, turning into a blue light and coiling back onto Lin Yuan's neck, releasing strands of cooling cold Qi with extreme precision.
Lin Yuan nodded and swept his gaze casually around the courtyard.
With this sweep, he saw the Four Great Heaven-Suppressing Immortal Kings of the Immortal Court in the four corners of the backyard, who had originally been punished to stand as "lamp-holding shopkeepers."
At this moment, these four Immortal Kings, who had once been high and mighty and ruled over billions of Star Domains, were staring fixedly at "Xingtian," who was standing under the World Tree as a fertilizer machine, their bodies shaking like chaff.
Especially the Eastern Heaven Immortal King; the eternal lamp in his hand was shaking violently, and his eye sockets were even filled with tears of despair.
"That aura... that is definitely the first generation Ancestral Master from the Immortal Burial Mound!"
"Ancestral Master... he was actually decapitated and shrunk to be a fertilizer machine?!"
The Four Great Immortal Kings felt the world spinning; the Dao Heart they had guarded for a million years completely collapsed into dust at this moment. They had originally counted on the Immortal Emperor to unleash his Divine Might and send someone to the Lower Realm to save them. Now, even their ancestor had been carried down as a coolie; was there... any hope for the Immortal Court?!
"The one holding the lamp, don't shake your hands."
Lin Yuan frowned slightly, and his calm voice rang out in the courtyard: "If the lamp shakes out or falls and breaks the flowers and plants in the yard, I will stuff you into the ground tonight to keep Xingtian company."
"Yes! Yes! This lowly one deserves to die!"
The Eastern Heaven Immortal King was scared to the point of his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering. Where was there any dignity of an Immortal King left? He hurriedly held the eternal lamp tightly with both hands, even forcibly stopping his breathing, fearing to cause any more dissatisfaction from this living ancestor.
Not far away, the Nine Nether Demon Emperor, who was working hard at pushing the millstone in the mill, saw this scene, and a strong sense of superiority suddenly welled up in his heart.
"Hmph, those four lamp-holding trash don't have any technical content at all. And that headless big guy can only passively be fertilizer."
The Nine Nether Demon Emperor thought proudly in his heart while pushing the millstone, "It still has to be my job of pushing the mill, which demands even force and a steady rhythm. In this Immortal Palace, I am the indispensable Advanced technical talent!"
Lin Yuan ignored the psychological activities of the people in the courtyard.
He leaned comfortably on the throne of ten thousand spirits gold essence, his gaze deep, quietly watching the Primordial World Tree and the headless remains alias [Xingtian] in front of him.
At this time, Xingtian stood quietly under the tree. The extreme Death Qi that had settled in his body for a million years was seeping continuously into the soil along his feet.
And the roots of the Primordial World Tree, like greedy Dragons, absorbed all this Death Qi. After the unimaginably profound transformation of creation inside the World Tree, the Death Qi, which was originally full of destruction and decay, actually condensed into drops of nectar of creation that radiated endless vitality and life Origin above the canopy, slowly dripping into the soil of the courtyard.
The extreme of death is life.
The extreme of life also contains death.
Lin Yuan gazed quietly at this scene of life and death alternating, withering and flourishing in a cycle. He did not deliberately meditate, nor did he operate any Cultivation Technique.
At this very moment he was gazing.
Deep in his eyes, his Max-Level Comprehension, which was enough to see through the essence of all things in the world, rippled like a calm water surface and operated extremely naturally.
In Lin Yuan's vision, Xingtian's Death Qi and the World Tree's Life Qi shed their appearances and turned into two black and white Dao Laws connected end to end, flowing slowly before his eyes, forming a perfect closed loop.
Countless truths about life, death, Reincarnation, and immortality poured into Lin Yuan's mind like a trickling stream.
"You quietly observe the withering and flourishing of heaven and earth, and gain insight into the principle of the cycle of life and death."
"You have comprehended the Supreme Dao True Interpretation — 'True Scripture of Life, Death, Withering, and Flourishing'!"
There was no earth-shattering vision, nor was there any shocking Divine Might erupting.
The 100,000 Divine Elephant Particles in Lin Yuan's body underwent an extremely mysterious transformation at this moment.
Inside the particles, which were originally only filled with violent physical power, an internal cycle of life and death began to derive. Every vibration of the particles seemed to experience a withering and revival of life. This allowed his pure Physical Body power to completely get rid of the constraints of external forces, endless and ceaseless, reaching the true meaning of Physical Body immortality!
"The cycle of life and death, endless and ceaseless. This is the true ultimate form of the Physical Body."
Lin Yuan felt the pure power in his body that was as vast as the Universe and starry sky, introverted yet unfathomable, and a satisfied smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
And at this moment, just as Lin Yuan was comprehending the Dao of life and death.
Above the Nine Heavens, in the dilapidated Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
The Supreme Immortal Emperor slumped on the jade steps, looking at the hall that had lost half its dome, and the empty position of the imperial seat; he seemed to have aged 100,000 years.
"It's over... The foundation of the Immortal Court is completely over..."
He could clearly feel that the roots of the Primordial World Tree in the Lower Realm had already followed the previously torn spatial channel and had extremely arrogantly taken root on the ley lines of the Immortal Realm!
The rich Immortal Qi that the Immortal Realm had accumulated for a million years was being continuously drawn to the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace in the Lower Realm like a bursting dam!
"It can't go on like this! If it continues to be drawn, the Immortal Realm will dry up and fall into the mortal world!"
The Supreme Immortal Emperor stood up abruptly, a trace of extremely crazy and decisive look flashing in his double pupils.
"Since that variable is bullying people too much, I can only use the last move!"
He turned his head and looked at the extreme north of the Immortal Realm, the [Chaos God-Burying Abyss] that had been sealed for endless years and that even the first generation Ancestral Master was unwilling to set foot in.
"Go and wake up those 'old things' who survived from the Primordial Era... Even if I have to hand over this Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, I will never let that variable from the Eastern Wasteland have an easy time!"