My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

In the Heavenly Court, all the immortals gathered. The Jade Emperor sat high on his throne, his face solemn. Venus stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Sun Wukong was born of Heaven and Earth. Although his behavior is now eccentric, it seems to be preordained. I believe we must investigate this carefully."

The Jade Emperor's gaze slowly swept over the assembled immortals in the court, finally settling on Laozi, who stood at the front, and he asked, "Laozi, do you have any unique insights into this matter?"

Upon hearing the Jade Emperor's question, Laozi bowed and said, "Your Majesty, to my knowledge, the phenomenon of the stars shifting and yin and yang being reversed that occurred five hundred years ago is truly rare."

Such extraordinary and awe-inspiring power has been controlled by only two people throughout history. One is the Zhongshan Zhulong, and the other is the Ancestral Witch Zhujiuyin.

However, the ancestral witch Zhu Jiuyin had already perished during the Lich War.

As for the Zhongshan Zhulong, it is said that it later transformed into the totem of the human race during the reign of the Human Emperor, and then disappeared without a trace. In my humble opinion, I urge Your Majesty to activate the Haotian Mirror to observe the River of True Spirits; perhaps some clues or hints can be found within it.”

After listening to Laozi's words, the Jade Emperor thought for a moment and nodded slightly, saying, "What Laozi said is very true. You have always been thorough and cautious in your consideration of issues."

"In that case, issue my decree: bring the Haotian Mirror here immediately!"

It should be known that the Haotian Mirror was a top-grade innate spiritual treasure personally bestowed upon the Heavenly Court by the Dao Ancestor. Its power is immeasurable.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Haotian Mirror can be considered an incarnation of the Jade Emperor and has always been regarded as the most precious treasure of the Heavenly Court.

In the primordial world, the Heavenly Emperor who reigns supreme over all the heavens and myriad realms was actually Haotian, the former attendant of the Dao Ancestor.

In those days, a cataclysmic calamity erupted between the Wu and Yao races. After this catastrophe, the world was ravaged, and order was in dire need of being rebuilt. It was at this critical moment that the Dao Ancestor intervened and appointed Haotian as the new Heavenly Emperor.

The origin of Haotian is quite legendary.

He was originally a chaotic, stubborn rock, which was enlightened by the Dao Ancestor and thus gained sentience and took human form. However, although he evolved from a chaotic, stubborn rock.

Strictly speaking, Haotian cannot be considered to have truly originated from Chaos. After all, those born from Chaos are all exceptionally gifted and possess extraordinary strength.

It should be understood that the Primordial World, as a world of high status, contains endless opportunities and fortunes.

Take the position of the Heavenly Emperor as an example; many beings have a legitimate right to inherit it.

For example, the Eastern King Duke, who is formed from pure Yang energy, is born with an extraordinary temperament.

There is also the innate Ziwei, which is born from the Ziwei star and is naturally endowed with a noble and mysterious aura.

And the innate golden crow born from the sun star possesses an incomparably powerful and intense heat.

However, although these beings each have their own strengths and all seem to have the potential to ascend to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, the key factor that ultimately determines who will become the Heavenly Emperor is the elusive will of Heaven.

Here, the so-called "divine will" actually includes two different wills: one is the will left behind by the great god Pangu, and the other is the will of the Heavenly Dao that controls the laws governing the operation of all things.

Unfortunately, the will of Pangu and the will of Heaven could not reach an agreement on the question of who should hold the position of Heavenly Emperor.

For this reason, the Dao Ancestor extracted the Heavenly Emperor's destiny that should have belonged to the Ziwei Star and injected it into the body of that chaotic stubborn stone—Haotian Tongzi.

The situation subsequently became increasingly complicated.

First, Dongwanggong died tragically at the hands of Dijun and Taiyi, who were born from the sun. Then, in that extremely fierce war between the witches and demons, Dijun and Taiyi fought to the death with eleven ancestral witches, and perished together.

Thus, many powerful figures who had once been expected to inherit the throne of the Heavenly Emperor perished, with only Haotian surviving.

Therefore, it was only natural that Haotian became the only candidate to bear the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, and under the conferment of the Dao Ancestor, he officially ascended the throne of the Heavenly Emperor and began to rule this vast and boundless primordial world.

The Dao Ancestor bestowed upon Haotian the supreme innate spiritual treasures Haotian Mirror and Haotian Sword to suppress the Heavenly Court's fortune. After all, Haotian had followed the Dao Ancestor for several eons. Even though the Chaos Stone was stubborn and unyielding, Haotian's cultivation had reached the level of a Quasi-Saint with two corpses over the years, only he had not severed his corpse.

Therefore, after becoming the Heavenly Emperor, Haotian quickly severed the good and evil corpses.

However, all of this was within the Dao Ancestor's calculations. After Haotian used the Haotian Mirror and Haotian Sword to sever the corpse, the Heavenly Court lost its magical artifacts to suppress its fortune, causing its fortune to become unstable.

As the ruler of Heaven, Haotian was the first to suffer the backlash and had to reincarnate to face the tribulation.

This explains what Buddha meant when he said that the Jade Emperor cultivated himself from a young age and endured 1,750 kalpas. Each kalpa lasted 129,600 years.

The Jade Emperor is the reincarnation of Haotian after enduring 1,750 tribulations.

The benevolent corpse that the Haotian Mirror transformed into took over the Heavenly Court in place of Haotian before Haotian's reincarnation returned. When the Human Emperor attained enlightenment, it caused Chiyou's defeat by sending people from the Heavenly Court to participate in the Battle of Zhuolu.

Chi You was half-human and half-shaman, and was supported by the shaman clan in their struggle for the throne of the human emperor.

Haotian's involvement sparked discontent among the Wu tribe. Xingtian, wielding an axe, ascended to the Heavenly Court. The two corpses, representing good and evil, which were formed from the Haotian Mirror and Haotian Sword, also took advantage of Xingtian's intervention to annihilate themselves and transform back into their original forms, guiding the reincarnated body of the original to the Heavenly Court.

That is, the Jade Emperor Zhang Bairen.

Speaking of the River of True Spirits, it is a cage established by the Heavenly Dao, imprisoning the true spirits of countless powerful beings, and can be described as a prison set up by the Heavenly Dao.

Once a cultivator becomes a Great Luo Golden Immortal, they possess an immortal and indestructible body.

Even if they suffer misfortune and their physical bodies perish, they can still be reborn through their tenacious true spirits.

However, it is precisely because of these abilities that the power of the Great Immortals in the mortal world has become increasingly heavy, posing a huge threat to the world order.

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, all the Great Luo Golden Immortals who have perished have been suppressed in the River of True Spirits by the merciless power of the Heavenly Dao, making their path back extremely difficult.

Despite the tight constraints of the Heavenly Dao, occasionally a few cunning true spirits manage to escape the confinement of the River of True Spirits and return to the human world.

The living Great Luo Golden Immortals represent the existing order, while those who have passed away represent the original order. Now that the controllers of the order have changed positions.

Then one should acknowledge one's failure, but to achieve the status of a Great Immortal is no simple feat; one must possess the indomitable spirit to persevere.

Therefore, once these escaped spirits appear, they often cause earth-shattering disturbances and upheavals, bringing endless disasters to the entire world.

The Heavenly Court bears a heavy responsibility, one of its key missions being to firmly guard the River of True Spirits and never allow any True Spirit to escape easily.

At the same time, the Heavenly Court must quickly launch a manhunt for those true spirits who have escaped, and make sure to recapture them and send them back to the River of True Spirits in their true spirit form so that they can continue to be punished and imprisoned.

It is worth mentioning that among the many imprisoned spirits, a few are particularly important and special.

The first to be affected were the two supreme demon emperors who once ruled the demon race—Di Jun and Tai Yi. In addition, there were the true spirits of eight renowned ancestral witches, excluding Hou Tu, Xuan Ming, Di Jiang, and Zhu Jiuyin.

These figures were all powerful figures who dominated the world in ancient times. If their true spirits were to escape, they would surely cause a great upheaval. For this reason, they were regarded as first-class criminals of the Heavenly Court and were subject to the strictest monitoring and prevention.

However, several top-level criminals are still imprisoned in the River of True Spirits.

Among them, the four most noteworthy are Rahu, Dijiang, Zhujiuyin, and Zhulong.

It must be said that the Emperor received vastly different treatment from Zhu Jiuyin and his other brothers.

The reason is that these two are the Ancestral Gods of Space and Time!

It is important to know that space and time have always been regarded as the cornerstones of the world, and their importance is self-evident even in the vast and boundless primordial world.

Perhaps, for those who have already reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm or even higher, these two abilities are unlikely to demonstrate absolute dominance.

However, below the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal, cultivators who possess the power of space and time can easily exert absolute dominance regardless of their master's background or the number of opponents they face.

For this reason, all the Great Luo Golden Immortals who have mastered the power of time and space have become the focus of the Heavenly Court's attention.

Zhulong, however, keenly sensed that its situation was not good.

Thus, this cunning being devised a brilliant plan—to subtly transform his consciousness into a human totem. This cleverly concealed his power and successfully evaded the Heavenly Court's tight surveillance.

What's even more interesting is that, because its consciousness still remains in the primordial land, although it no longer poses a real threat, it can leisurely observe the changing world of the primordial world and eventually become a faithful witness to that magnificent primordial history.

Now, let's talk about Rahu. His origins are truly earth-shattering!

At the beginning of the Dragon-Han Calamity, when heaven and earth were first created, it was a time when powerful figures from all sides rose up and competed for the opportunity to attain the Great Dao.

Luo Hou, however, dared to challenge the Dao Ancestor and attempted to achieve the supreme status of the Great Luo Golden Immortal!

If Rahu had succeeded at that time, the supreme Dao Ancestor would probably be Hongjun now, and the one who would have taken his place would be this great Rahu.

At that time, the entire primordial world will undergo earth-shattering changes, no longer revering the Heavenly Dao, but instead becoming a world dominated by the Primordial Chaos Dao.

However, things didn't go as planned. Despite Rahu's unparalleled strength, he ultimately fell short and failed to achieve his goal.

Even so, Rahu at that time had already reached the terrifying realm of a half-step Grand Luo Golden Immortal. It should be noted that all Grand Luo Golden Immortals possess the ability to be immortal and indestructible, let alone Rahu with such extraordinary talent.

Even if the Dao Ancestor gathered the power of several top experts and used all his strength, he could only seriously injure Luo Hou. It was absolutely impossible for him to kill him completely.

However, Luo Hou was arrogant and disheartened by his defeat in the Dao competition. He felt that he had no hope of ever embarking on the path of cultivation to become a Grand Luo Golden Immortal. Thus, in a state of grief and indignation, he resolutely chose to depart from the Dao.

Moreover, driven by his endless resentment and unwillingness, he established the demonic path and left behind the curse, "When the Dao grows, the demons disappear; when the Dao disappears, the demons grow."

For this reason, the Dao Ancestor, who should have established the Daoist sect, was forced by circumstances to establish the Xuanmen sect in case the day came when the demonic path's fortunes were at their peak and the Dao was declining while the demonic path was growing stronger, allowing Rahu to seize the opportunity to make a comeback and once again stir up a bloody storm.

It could even be said that the current situation in the prehistoric world is due to Rahu.

If Rahu had not established the Demonic Path back then, allowing the Daoist and Demonic Paths to exist, the Daoist sect established by the Dao Ancestor could have included all the witches and demons within it.

There's no need to scheme against the entire prehistoric land for the sake of the orthodox position of the Xuanmen.

After the Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao, he relied on the special nature of the Heavenly Dao Saint to find and suppress Rahu's true spirit.

It can be said that the True Spirit River prison was originally used to suppress Rahu.

Of course, as the Dao Ancestor delved deeper into the Dao of Order, the number of True Spirits suppressed in the River of True Spirits also increased.

Time flies, and now the Dao Ancestor is nearing the final moment of achieving the Dao.

Once he succeeds, he will have absolute say and decision-making power over this vast and boundless prehistoric world.

At that time, even if Rahu were to be resurrected and the demonic forces were to grow stronger while the righteous forces were to decline, the Dao Ancestor alone would be enough to suppress everything.

At the same time, Taiqing Laozi saw that the time was ripe. With his unfathomable cultivation and wisdom, he used various methods to finally upgrade Xuanmen to Daomen.

These feats made him even more revered in the primordial world.

On the other side, the Jade Emperor, seated high above the Heavenly Court, solemnly poured his vast and powerful magical energy into the Haotian Mirror in his hand.

In an instant, ripples spread across the mirror's surface, revealing a breathtaking, star-studded night sky. Upon closer inspection, those dazzling, star-like points of light were the true spirits left behind by the fallen Great Luo Golden Immortals of the past!

Before the Journey to the West began, the prehistoric world was teeming with powerful beings, with Golden Immortals as numerous as dogs and Great Luo Immortals roaming everywhere.

Among the myriad races of the primordial world, which race has few capable Grand Luo Golden Immortals?

At that time, there were countless Golden Immortals, as numerous as the countless stars in the night sky.

However, after undergoing three earth-shattering tribulations, the number of Great Luo Golden Immortals has become extremely rare, practically as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

For this reason, the number of Great Luo Golden Immortals suppressed in the River of True Spirits is naturally not small.

As the scene in the Haotian Mirror continued to change, the faces of the celestial beings in the Heavenly Court gradually darkened and became increasingly grim.

To their horror, they discovered that several powerful True Spirits, which had been deeply suppressed at the bottom of the River of True Spirits, had inexplicably vanished without a trace! This sudden turn of events plunged everyone present into extreme shock and fear…

Not only the true spirits of Rahu, Zhujiuyin, and Dijiang, but also the true spirits of the Eight Great Ancestral Witches and Emperor Taiyi have disappeared.

This situation naturally terrified the gods.