Vol 7 Chapter 32: The Celestial King of Creation

Heaven's Mandate generally emerges in accordance with major trends. When the Heaven's Mandate is about to be conceived, it also signifies that various opportunities in the Immortal Realm will spring up like bamboo shoots after rain.

Over these years, besides acting as Lin Jing's Dharma Protector, the Immortal Knowledge Bird had also been helping him gather intelligence from all corners of the Immortal Realm.

Judging from the intelligence reports, it seemed like every other day there was either an ancient clan ruin emerging in the south, or a supreme-grade immortal herb being born in the north, causing frenzied competition. The frequency of such events had been unusually high recently.

As for Lin Jing himself, he also had a certain need - to break through to Immortal King.

His main body was trapped in the Lower Realm, stuck at Seeking the Dao.

His second incarnation was in the Ancient Immortal Realm, stuck at the Ninth Heaven Immortal Lord level. Without the help of his big brother from the Demonic Race, eighty whole years had passed, yet the Ancient Immortal Realm still couldn't support an Immortal King, as the spiritual energy recovery had slowed down.

Lin Jing estimated that without external interference, it would take at least another two hundred years of natural recovery before Earth could support an Immortal King.

Therefore, the burden of being the first to break through to Immortal King could only fall on his third incarnation.

"The True Immortal Realm is the stage where, after transforming from a mortal body into an Immortal Physique, one adapts and integrates their own Dao with Immortal Spiritual Energy, thereby better sensing the Way of Heaven."

"As for the Immortal Lord Realm, it requires one's own Dao to resonate with the Way of Heaven, condensing the Heavenly Dao Origin, then continuously strengthening the power of the Heavenly Dao Origin."

"Breaking through to Immortal King is much more difficult than the previous two realms. Currently, there are two known methods."

"First: After reaching the Ninth Heaven Immortal Lord level, enter seclusion to sense the Way of Heaven for one million years. During this period, one cannot be interrupted or disturbed. Moreover, in this state, one will encounter a Dao Tribulation every hundred thousand years, needing to successfully pass ten consecutive Dao Tribulations before being promoted to Immortal King."

"This method is definitely not feasible. Although it seems simple, without someone to protect the Dharma, it's basically impossible to peacefully spend this million years - disturbances are inevitable. Besides, a million years in the Immortal Realm is too long. Even with an immortal artifact like the Time Dao Immortal Banner... it would be useless... Not to mention that the Time Dao Immortal Banner can only be used up to the True Immortal Realm at most. Even if there were higher quality space-time immortal artifacts, being in different time flow rates would also be detrimental to sensing the Way of Heaven, leading to failure in progress."

"This bottleneck tests patience the most. Even with top-tier aptitude, it's useless. Talent and potential only determine whether one can easily pass the Dao Tribulations, but cannot reduce the time needed to sense the Way of Heaven. Rather than calling it sensing, it's more like letting the Way of Heaven test oneself."

"The second method is to devour the Heavenly Dao Origin of an Immortal King. This second method is even more dangerous. Generally speaking, only when an Immortal King is killed by an Immortal Lord who surpasses levels, and the Heavenly Dao Origin is stripped from their body, can it be properly devoured by that Immortal Lord themselves."

"During the process of an Immortal Lord killing an Immortal King across realms, the Immortal King's Dao Heart is inevitably damaged, which is equivalent to grinding away the resistance of their Heavenly Dao Origin."

"Without this step, when the Immortal Lord devours the Immortal King's Heavenly Dao Origin, they will inevitably suffer strong resistance, leading to complete death with cultivation destroyed."

"Even if one kills the Immortal King personally, there's still great danger."

"Of course, there's also a special situation."

"That is, when an Immortal King actively paves the way for a successor. They would have the successor cultivate the same cultivation method as themselves, possess the same physique as themselves, and cultivate the same Dao as themselves. At the appropriate moment, they voluntarily refine themselves into a Dao Fruit to fulfill the other party. This could be said to be the easiest method to achieve Immortal King status."

Lin Jing couldn't choose the first method. His incarnation over there simply didn't have a million years of peaceful time to spend in seclusion for breakthrough.

Since that was the case, he could only choose the second method.

Wait until Earth could support an Immortal Lord, then when a Demonic Race Immortal King invaded Earth, find a way to kill them.

Of course, this wasn't an easy task either. Besides this, Lin Jing sometimes wondered: since his incarnation had walked a different path and had already contracted with fragments of the Way of Heaven, was it possible to advance to Immortal King using other methods instead of the two mentioned above?

Since the current environment on Earth couldn't support breakthroughs, his second incarnation also couldn't verify or attempt this.

If the third incarnation also needed to choose the second method to break through to Immortal King, that would be one of the main reasons he needed to emerge.

However, with the third incarnation's current strength, wanting to hunt and kill an Immortal King across levels was nothing but daydreaming.

But, just as Lin Jing understood, if there was an Immortal King willing to actively sacrifice themselves, then achieving Immortal King status would be much easier.

In the Immortal Realm, there really were such places, even without having a prominent background.

Immortal King ruins.

Some ancient Immortal Kings, when facing death without having found successors, would create inheritance ruins.

As long as one passed various tests of the ruins and was willing to accept the other party's baptism and inheritance, they would obtain the other party's Dao Fruit and have hope of impacting the Immortal King realm.

The place Lin Jing was about to take Wu Lingxi to was exactly this type of Immortal King ruin.

Generally speaking, when such Immortal King ruins emerged into the world, they would quickly be swarmed by immortal prodigies from various Immortal King and Immortal Emperor traditions, who would fully devote themselves to conquering them. However, there were always some Immortal Kings with peculiar dispositions whose inheritance conditions were exceptionally high, making it impossible for anyone to obtain them. Of course, the inheritances of such Immortal Kings were often extremely powerful.

"Master, where are we going?"

Looking at the distracted Lin Jing, Wu Lingxi asked expectantly. She had long been bored to death staying at the Invincible Sect!

If she hadn't promised Lin Jing to cultivate diligently, she would have definitely run away from the sect already!

Eighty years!

"That is, when an Immortal King actively paves the way for a successor. They would have the successor cultivate the same cultivation method as themselves, possess the same physique as themselves, and cultivate the same Dao as themselves. At the appropriate moment, they voluntarily refine themselves into a Dao Fruit to assist the other party. This could be said to be the easiest method to achieve Immortal King status."

It had only taken her over twenty years to cultivate from beginning to the Seeking the Dao realm.

Yet now, one session of closed-door cultivation lasted eighty years - it had truly suffocated her.

Fortunately, she had two little birds for company, otherwise she would have definitely died of boredom.

"Creation Immortal King ruins." Lin Jing looked at Wu Lingxi.

"Creation Immortal King ruins..." Wu Lingxi was slightly stunned.

Then as if recalling something, she exclaimed in surprise: "That Creation Immortal Lord who, after failing in contending for Emperor status, left behind inheritance ruins, but whose inheritance still hasn't been obtained by anyone to this day?"

Lin Jing nodded.

Creation Immortal Lord was also a lone immortal.

Just as his title suggested, he possessed the Creation Immortal Physique.

Lin Jing wasn't unfamiliar with the Creation Immortal Physique. The Tianyuan Continent had also produced one with Creation Immortal Physique, but unfortunately, that cultivator named Luo Miao died in the Lower Realm before getting the chance to ascend.

The Creation Immortal Physique could animate natural objects like mountains, rivers, grass, and trees into spirits, making them recognize oneself as master.

This was the only inheritance among the known Immortal King ruins that Lin Jing had found that was somewhat related to the Beast Taming Path.

Therefore, he wanted to take Wu Lingxi and attempt to conquer these Creation Immortal King ruins, to see if they could gain the appreciation of this ancient Emperor contender.

"Prepare yourself, we depart in three days."

"Okay, Master. I'll go right away."

............

Three days later, Lin Jing brought Wu Lingxi to the location of the Creation Immortal King ruins, the Sacred Spirit Mountain Range.

He had only brought Wu Lingxi with him. As for the Immortal Knowledge Bird, Lin Jing had it guard the Invincible Sect.

With his current strength, he no longer needed the Immortal Knowledge Bird to protect his path.

"What a coincidence." After spending several months traveling to the Sacred Spirit Mountain Range, Lin Jing unexpectedly discovered that there seemed to be two "old acquaintances who ascended from the Lower Realm" in these mountains. It appeared he wasn't the only one from the Lower Realm who had taken a liking to the Creation Immortal King's inheritance - everyone knew what was good.