Immortal of the Ages

At his call, Feng Yao, startled, rushed to his side. Her pretty face etched with urgency, she exclaimed, “Didn’t you just say everything was good? What's wrong?”

No sooner had her words fallen than a trio of concentric rings of tribulation power burst forth from Yun Xiao, sending her flying.

“It’s too late… pray for me like your own life depends on it…!” Yun Xiao’s solemn voice echoed in her ears.

His grave readiness was something Feng Yao had scarcely seen before.

“Pray for you? One Sealing Heaven grade Calamity Source, and you're this frightened, coward,” Feng Yao landed agilely, scoffing dismissively.

However, was it actually only Sealing Heaven grade?

Yun Xiao knew the thing wasn't Defying Heaven grade, but he figured it couldn't be higher than Sealing Heaven grade.

Furthermore, his body double Moon Fairy had just succeeded breaking through to the First Baptism Realm with a Lower Heaven Sealing grade Calamity Source. So, what did his true self have to fear?

However, Yun Xiao hadn't anticipated that this plain-looking Calamity Source was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. It seemed ordinary, yet it was Upper Burying Heaven grade!

This was one of the highest grade Calamity Sources in the whole of the Samsara Galaxy!

Yet, here he was trying to use it to condense his Corona for his first baptism of the Eight Extremes Celestial Baptisms?

Until recently, no one had even succeeded at this in the Heaven Sealing grade!

If a Lower Heaven Sealing grade was over a 100 in difficulty, then this Upper Burying Heaven grade was at least 1,000,000!

While others tackled a difficulty of 10, Yun Xiao had just swallowed a 1,000,000 difficulty Calamity Source into his body.

The moment it entered, he felt an emptiness unlike any other.

“What now?” he asked Blue Star and Red Moon.

Red Moon paused, then said to Blue Star, “Bluey, let’s split the remaining treasures between us.”

The little shits were divvying up his possessions!

Before Yun Xiao, everything turned dark. With things this far gone, he had no other choice but to tough it out and swallow what he had earned himself!

At that moment, his world stripped away the sprawling snow mountains and even Feng Yao, leaving only himself and the Upper Burying Heaven grade Calamity Source within his gut.

The Calamity Source was momentarily serene.

Inside Yun Xiao, it divided into three parts, each morphing into a silhouette of himself, but as he appeared in his mortal guise as an Emperor—utterly ordinary at first glance.

But then, they changed. The figure on the far left slowly transformed, its body wreathed in clouds and mist, ethereal and indistinct.

Yun Xiao knew this to be the likeness of the Creator Immortal.

The middle figure remained unchanged.

The figure on the right, however, shifted form, becoming formless, eventually manifesting as a shadow of pure nothingness.

"The Three Lives Samsara Calamity Source, sensing the past, present, and future lives of a cultivator, bringing three lives into a calamity to transcend this life's disasters..."

This was a three-fold tribulation!

In the Samsara Galaxy, where reincarnators were as common as dust, many knew their past lives and could glimpse their future lives through the lens of karma.

Though their appearances might vary, their essence remained the same.

At this moment, it seemed the Three Lives Samsara Calamity Source also reflected Yun Xiao's past, present, and future lives.

"Was I truly the Creator Immortal in a past life? And my future, is it still undetermined, or just a void of confusion?" Yun Xiao shuddered.

The mysteriousness of fate was vividly personified in these three figures.

He couldn't afford to ponder much longer, as these figures weren't just harbingers of destiny but also a devastating tribulation blocking his path to higher ascension.

"Disaster arises in this life, life and death are but a dream." Moon Fairy was perusing the information about the Three Lives Samsara Calamity back in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, his own spirit shaken in synchrony.

The calamity of his present life, the most immediate and swiftly approaching.

"I will hold on." Yun Xiao’s resolve surged, his courage not faltering.

Yet just then, as the Moon Fairy turned the page, he read, "The Three Lives Samsara Calamity is among the top ten deadliest known Calamity Sources, typically faced by those attempting to break through the barrier of a Boundless Immortal."

With a dejected sigh, Yun Xiao found himself wishing he hadn't turned the page at all.

His spirit faltered, silenced by the grim prospects revealed. He cursed himself for not waiting a bit longer before ingesting the Calamity Source!

Fate played its cruel hand yet again.

Yun Xiao had already spent quite a bit of time watching the snow with Feng Yao. Yet, Moon Fairy's discovery had still come a step too late. Such were the whims of destiny, shaping events beyond his control.

Now was not the time for reflection.

The figure of his mortal guise as an Emperor, representing his present life's calamity, stirred slightly. It appeared utterly ordinary, lacking any earth-shattering destructive power, yet Yun Xiao felt its lethal intent.

In an instant, it materialized inside his Nine Suns Dantian.

Within his Dantian, the core of his celestial power was his Worldly Dao Heart and spinning platinum Primordial Void Sacred Wheel, with the Buddha's Treasure Spirit seated above, mirroring the figure of his present calamity.

His spirit and the present calamity existed in different dimensions; neither could confine the other.

The figure drifted towards his Worldly Dao Heart!

With a low roar, Yun Xiao summoned his Primordial Void Celestial Power into a sword, thrusting it towards the Present Calamity.

Unexpectedly, although the sword struck its target, the Present Calamity merged into the sword, bringing with it an indescribable force that instantaneously spread through all his celestial power and then seeped into his Worldly Dao Heart.

"Gaaagh!" Yun Xiao's eyes widened, feeling as if an arrow had pierced his heart. His world seemed to dissolve like a bubble! "Life is but a dream, and the present is merely a bubble. What you care for, what you cling to, on the path of the dao, all is nothing..."

His pure white Worldly Dao Heart, like a bubble filled with emptiness, seemed to float forlornly in the air. The Present Calamity was but a gentle breeze that brushed against this bubble.

POP! The bubble burst, and his Worldly Dao Heart dissolved into mere droplets, evaporating under the scorching sun.

Yun Xiao intended to persevere! But the terrifying nature of the Present Calamity taught him a harsh truth—that his Worldly Dao Heart, transcending the Creator Immortal yet clinging to its own essence, was still far from stable enough.

One touch and it shattered. How could he possibly endure?

At the moment his Worldly Dao Heart shattered, the Primordial Void Celestial Power within his Dantian spiraled out of control, igniting like a thunderclap, exploding like a Celestial Sourcecore set ablaze.

BOOM! Within the Nine Suns Dantian, a blast potent enough to pulverize his body into dust was brewing!

It seemed inevitable that a smear of blood and dust would mark the snowy ground.

At that moment, Yun Xiao was painfully aware that his journey as an Immortal, all his gains, were vested in that Worldly Dao Heart.

Without it, everything was lost.

The world around him turned eerily silent and empty, as if he sat in a boundless room without walls, unable to hear, see, or smell anything, feeling utterly hollow inside.

Even the breath of rebirth seemed beyond his grasp.

"Is this the end?"

To imagine a lifetime's journey through the heavens disappearing over a service fee he'd collected for saving a life seemed absurd. However, wasn't reality often so outrageously cruel?

"In just a few months, I've loved, hated, and killed, relentlessly crushed everything, rebuilt everything, and cherished everything. It felt complete, almost fair..."

Yet why did his heart still ache so painfully? It was torturous, like stepping out the door, unsure whether it had been locked behind him. It was so, so intolerably distressing.

In that emptiness, too many things flooded his mind at once.

"Senior Sister Zhao, my child...!" Yun Xiao's body trembled, his face pale as if he had just surfaced from drowning, gasping for air!

Where had Zhao Xuanran gone? She was carrying his child!

He had still yet to figure out the mystery behind the eight other Primordial Coffins. The Dao Source of the Six Paths of Reincarnation was also still unclaimed!

Even his dealings with Divine Dawn were unclear.

If he died, what about Moon Fairy and Feng Yao? Their fates too would end… There was so much left undone! So much regret!

In just a few short months since his rebirth, Yun Xiao had already shouldered immense responsibilities.

"The Six Ancestral Gods, chaos in the realms, a heaven devoid of righteousness—wait for me to rebuild the Creator Immortal, to recreate the universe!"

He didn't know where he was.

In a flash of lightning, a hysterical roar tore through the emptiness, a furious declaration of his determination.

"I will seize all the treasures of the world and reach the summit of the Immortal path!

"I will exterminate those without virtue or righteousness, slaughter those who have wronged or insulted me!

"I will pursue my path, even if myriad calamities befall me, unwavering unto death, obsessing over a lifetime, all for one answer!

"I will, with my beloved, discuss the eternal dao, remain steadfast, roam the ends of the earth, and not waste this life…"

These thoughts and cries echoed and reverberated in the void.

From a faint voice to a final roar that shook the heavens and the firmament!

This was the thought of a mortal, a cry of rage that had never faded, the fury of being falsely accused and murdered by the hypocritical, a resolve for fairness and justice!

A mighty righteous energy soared to the highest heavens!

"With a lifetime of creation, a destiny spanning ages, how could your single calamity disturb the peace of my rebirth!"

A strand of thought in this void rang like an eternal bell!

That burst of rage swept across endless worlds, darkening the skies!

Spread out across the emptiness, Yun Xiao's heart had evaporated into droplets. Yet, through sheer willpower, he gathered the droplets back into the white Worldly Dao Heart!

At that moment, that Worldly Dao Heart burst forth with endless brilliance, replacing the light of the world, becoming a primordial sun in its own right!

Was this life merely a bubble, or a dazzling light in the eyes of beings of the dao?

Yun Xiao had his answer, in his heart and his dao!

BOOM! Inside his Dantian, the Worldly Dao Heart had never truly vanished; it had merely perished momentarily, losing its mortal soul.

However, as it regained its brilliance in the battle of willpower, it shone brighter, more resolute, and more substantial than ever before. It became the most steadfast fixation in Yun Xiao, more significant than his spirit, more than the Primordial Void, more than everything!

The Worldly Dao Heart was the true core of Yun Xiao's existence, the strongest part of him, the indestructible essence of his greed, wrath, and foolishness.

Of course, according to Blue Star and Red Moon, one more word had to be added to that—lust!

Just now, in that desperate moment, the four lines he roared with the fiercest thoughts of his heart perfectly matched these four traits.

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