Mysterious mirror hanging high

It was late at night when Li Huaiyou returned home. He was exhausted and his mind was filled with various plans for the future.

He stood in the courtyard of the clan, looking up at the sky, staring at the countless stars, his gaze fixed on only one point of light.

Strictly speaking, this point of light is not a star, but an entire star field!

Changyang Star Region!

Immortal Continent Star is the main base for ascended cultivators in Immortal Continent.

The Immortal Realm is too vast. Even if one were to challenge the Second Heaven alone, without relying on various large teleportation arrays that connect to the Void, cultivators below the Mahayana Realm would have almost no good way to travel such a long distance in a short time.

Li Huaiyou possessed remarkable comprehension. Even though his innate deficiencies in his previous life resulted in him only forming a five-aperture nascent soul, leading to a weak foundation, he still managed to catch up after reaching the Nascent Soul stage and eventually cultivated all the way to the Mahayana stage.

In this life, he has completed his foundation, and his future path will only be broader, with achievements far surpassing those of his previous life. He might even be able to touch the edge of becoming an immortal.

In the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty, someone like Li Huaiyou could already be considered one of the top geniuses.

But Li Huaiyou knew in his heart that even in this life, he was nothing compared to the countless ascension cultivators in the Immortal Continent.

"In my past life... after the fall of the Immortal Dynasty, a prince from a concubine's family led a group of surviving members of the Divine Cauldron and fled in panic, and I was among them."

"After that, I struggled to survive for tens of thousands of years, and with great difficulty, I reached the Mahayana realm. My potential was exhausted, and my path to enlightenment was severed... But even so, my Mahayana combat strength was already among the strongest group of cultivators in the remnants of what is known in history as the [Later Cauldron]."

"In my previous life, I lived to be 53,427 years old... and was killed by a cultivator from a Daoist lineage of a Celestial Continent."

"In other words, my ability to 'foresee the future' will last for a little over 50,000 years."

Li Huaiyou thought to himself, "This is much better than those 'reborn individuals' who die and are reborn when they are at the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment stages."

after all……

The higher one's cultivation level before death, the longer one's cultivation time is likely to be, and the higher one's level will be... and the greater the chance of learning about various secrets of the immortal realm.

"I wonder how much of an advantage those True Immortals and Golden Immortals who are reborn back to their youth after death would have?" Li Huaiyou wondered to himself.

Mahayana cultivators are still far too weak in the contest between Celestial Immortals or even True Immortals.

Although Li Huaiyou had the vision of a Mahayana cultivator, he was almost always facing geniuses who would one day ascend to the realm of immortals.

"Damn it... how do we break this deadlock?"

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

It was as if a tightly stretched string in Li Huaiyou's mind suddenly snapped, and everything went black before his eyes, followed by an indescribable, soul-tearing pain!

"Ugh!"

Li Huaiyou groaned, his face turning deathly pale, and veins bulging on his forehead.

He could no longer stand, clutching his head tightly with both hands, and staggered to his knees with a thud on the stone floor of the courtyard.

It wasn't an injury, nor was it a case of demonic possession; rather, it was... an unimaginably vast and almost tangible memory that was being forcefully and irrationally embedded into his soul.

A torrent of memories, no, a cosmic ocean of stars, erupted with a deafening roar!

In this memory, Li Huaiyou seemed to have become a different person.

However, this substitution did not erode Li Huaiyou's id consciousness, but rather put him into a state similar to "dissociation," allowing him to observe the life of the person he was replacing from the perspective of an observer.

The beginning of memories...

An infant was born in a blessed land in the third heaven of the immortal realm, where spiritual energy turned into rain. He was born with the bones of a Daoist, surrounded by radiant light. He was carried away by a crane under the seat of a celestial being who was passing by, and brought into the sect of the Golden Immortal lineage, the Jade Cloud Sect.

That was the starting point of [Jade Emperor True Immortal]'s life.

The next scene...

A young boy with his hair in tufts listened to lectures on cultivation under the tutelage of the Jade Cloud Sect's leader. In his youth, he overwhelmed his peers with his superior techniques in the sect's grand competition.

After reaching adulthood, the young man went out to travel. With his distinguished background, solid foundation, outstanding talent and comprehension, and a bit of luck, he broke through his limits and made rapid progress.

Over millions of years, fellow disciples of the Jade Cloud Sect have either perished in heavenly tribulations, been trapped at bottlenecks, or lost their way in the mortal world.

Only he possessed a clear understanding of the Dao and climbed step by step.

After enduring countless tribulations, he finally ascended to the realm of True Immortal at the age of 526,371. Because of his Daoist name, Yu Chen, he is known to the world as Yu Chen True Immortal.

Then...

After achieving true immortality, during his long lifespan, True Immortal Yu Chen opened altars to preach the Dharma, enlightening all living beings. He once slew demonic cultivators who were causing havoc in the region, and also fought fiercely with enemy true immortals to protect his sect, causing the stars to tremble and the Great Dao to mourn.

He even witnessed a Daoist attaining the Dao Fruit and observed the desolation and return to nothingness of an ancient star field.

Unfortunately, even the lifespan of a true immortal has its end.

Despite trying various secret methods and even changing his path several times, the gate to the eternal and immortal [Golden Nature] remained firmly closed to him.

At the age of ten million, True Immortal Yu Chen sighed deeply. He had ultimately failed to condense the Immortal Golden Nature and attain the rank of Golden Immortal...

Leaving behind a final trace of resentment and regret, everything then returned to eternal silence and darkness...

This concludes the entire memory.

Li Huaiyou's headache was no longer splitting, but two tear tracks still clung to his face—tears of regret as his lifespan as [Yu Chen] had run out.

That memory just now... was the entire life experience, cultivation insights, secrets, and emotional fluctuations of Jade Emperor True Immortal from the moment he was born until his death, spanning tens of millions of years!

It contains not only secret techniques, clues to rare and precious materials, and details of various secret realms, but also a profound understanding of the laws of heaven and earth, a clear memory of the Golden Immortal's sermons, insight into the intricate relationships between countless forces in the immortal realm, and a grasp of the historical context of a long period of time!

Because he was observing this memory in a state of "dissociation," Li Huaiyou was not taken over by the consciousness of "Yu Chen Zhen Xian," and he still clearly remembered that he was "Li Huaiyou."

However, Li Huaiyou completely absorbed all of Jade Emperor's life experiences.

He now truly possessed a vision that only a true immortal could have.

Countless extraordinary skills and secret techniques from the Golden Immortal lineage were also imprinted in his mind.

But that's not the most important thing...

Li Huaiyou suddenly rushed to the Li family's library like a madman, and fiddled with jade slips on a bookshelf on the second floor that was dedicated to recording the customs and power distribution of the immortal realm!

"The Three Heavens of the Immortal Realm... The Golden Immortal Lineage... Jade Cloud Sect, Jade Cloud Sect..."

Li Huaiyou muttered to himself as he finally found a jade slip in an inconspicuous corner, which contained basic information about the Golden Immortal forces of the Third Heaven.

“Jade Cloud Sect! Golden Immortal lineage! This lineage is real…” Li Huaiyou stood there, stunned.

"True Immortal Yu Chen... True Immortal Yu Chen... Not here? Why?"

True Immortals are definitely high-ranking members of the Golden Immortal lineage, and it's impossible for the Jade Cloud Sect not to remember their names.

Moreover, even a rogue cultivator at the True Immortal realm would have enough fame to be remembered.

Suddenly, Li Huaiyou thought of something and began searching for the list of those with lower cultivation levels in the Jade Cloud Sect's jade slips.

"found it!"

"Yu Chen... Daoist Yu Chen? Yu Chen is only at the Celestial Immortal realm at this moment?"

Li Huaiyou stared blankly at the list he had painstakingly found, speechless.

The message engraved on the jade slip at this moment shows—

Yu Chen Daoist, Realm: Celestial Immortal...

Age: Around 100,000 years old.