My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Then there are the five grotto-heavens that are similar to the Thai King's World-Suppressing Pagoda. The grotto-heavens masters of these grotto-heavens were either those who had made mistakes or those who could not accept reality and imprisoned themselves in their grotto-heavens.

They were all tribal leaders or city-state lords with superior academic achievements.

The unacceptable reality is simply that when vying for the throne of the Human Emperor, one is defeated, and then someone one despises ascends to the throne.

Unable to accept his own failure and unwilling to serve the emperor at the time, he imprisoned himself in the grotto.

Zhao Xuan always communicated directly with the lord of the cave, and if he couldn't communicate with them, he would use his limited knowledge of martial arts to communicate with them.

It was so stubborn that it directly sealed the main body and the Heavenly Dao of the Cave.

During this period, it took a lot of time to persuade the artifact spirit and the Heavenly Dao of the Cave to cooperate, which is why it took five hundred years.

If it were a direct conquest and annihilation, it wouldn't take that much time.

However, this makes all these grottoes disposable, which is a huge waste.

By having the spirit of the artifact cooperate with the Dao of the grotto-heaven, the grotto-heaven's resources can be sustainably developed until the grotto-heaven's master's lifespan is exhausted.

It wasn't that Zhao Xuan didn't want to continue searching; for millions of years since ancient times, countless powerful beings have slumbered in the Dark Sea.

It's far more than just three hundred.

The will of the Dark Sea simply wouldn't allow Zhao Xuan to continue his search.

After all, these grotto-heavens will become nourishment for the Dark Sea after it collapses.

Zhao Xuan is digging into the foundation of the Dark Sea.

Zhao Xuan did manage to resist, but the Dark Sea was simply too powerful. After exchanging a few blows with the water creature it had transformed into, Zhao Xuan discovered that the water creature's offensive power was comparable to his own.

After eliminating the transformed water elemental, an even stronger water elemental appeared. This time, Zhao Xuan used his luck, combined with the Four Symbols True Form, and enhanced his immobilization ability and the Black and White Yin-Yang Mystic Light to barely eliminate the water elemental.

Once the Dark Sea transformed back into water beings, Zhao Xuan had no choice but to retreat.

Zhao Xuan felt he had been made a scapegoat for Qin Shi Huang. He thought, "That water spirit said, 'I spared you once a million years ago,' yet you still dare to come back."

Zhao Xuan knew that the person mentioned by the Shui people a million years ago must be the Qin Emperor.

Later, Zhao Xuan learned that a million years ago, the Qin Emperor not only cleansed the alien races in the Dark Sea, but also, like Zhao Xuan, moved many of the grotto-heavens away.

Whether it's alien races or fragments of those primordial continents, they have little impact on the Dark Sea. However, the removal of the grotto-heaven by the Qin Emperor is a loss that the Dark Sea cannot afford.

The minor losses were still within the Dark Sea's tolerance range, but Zhao Xuan's attitude was clearly that he wanted to wipe them all out in one fell swoop.

That's why the Dark Sea intervened to drive them away.

Unable to defeat the Dark Sea, Zhao Xuan had no choice but to leave its territory.

However, Zhao Xuan also reaped considerable rewards.

Having witnessed the experiences of a hundred ancient and prehistoric spiritual objects and artifacts, Zhao Xuan gained a deeper understanding of the ancient and prehistoric periods.

Ancient civilizations can be called tribal civilizations. Prehistoric civilizations can be called city-state civilizations. Modern civilizations are nation-state civilizations.

Tribes are usually composed of groups with blood ties. The advantage is that everyone in the tribe has blood ties, can trust each other, depend on each other, and cooperate and coexist.

However, with relatively low productivity, humans mainly relied on hunting and gathering to make a living, so tribes often moved constantly with the migration of prey, and had no fixed abode.

The downside is that it's difficult to grow strong because blood ties are the primary connection.

By the time of the city-state era, the human race had become quite powerful and could occupy areas with favorable natural conditions and abundant resources, such as riverbanks or fertile plains.

City-state civilizations had already achieved a certain degree of stability and had relatively complete social organization.

However, the downside is the lack of a unified ruling class, which could lead to conflicts and wars between city-states over resources or territory.

By the late ancient period, the human race had become powerful enough, and they needed a more complete social structure and political system, which led to the emergence of the concept of the nation.

Agriculture, commerce, industry, politics, culture, and art all experienced relative prosperity.

This is a system that is superior to tribal and city-state civilizations.

However, the drawback is that a national civilization can be seen as a union of city-states with a unified ruling class. The more city-states there are, the larger the territory, the more people there are, and the higher the demand for the ruling class.

If problems arise within the ruling class, the stability of the country will be significantly affected.

Therefore, the reign of a human emperor cannot last long; often, after a human emperor is born, he will abdicate after ruling for 100,000 years.

For ten thousand years, he ruled the world on Earth; for ninety thousand years, he ruled the world in the starry sky.

Over five million years have passed since ancient times. 129,600 years have passed since the beginning of the Human Emperor Era. There should have been more than four hundred Human Emperors, but the number of Human Emperor titles and Human Emperor realms is less than one hundred.

Because not every emperor's reign can produce a recognized emperor. Some emperors only have the title of emperor but not the substance of an emperor, and in the end, they will find it difficult to even attain the throne.

Without the suppression of top-tier combat power, even if a Heavenly Court and an Underworld are established, it will be difficult to suppress the alien races in the starry sky. In the end, the alien races will breach the ancestral court, making it difficult to continue.

Throughout five million years of history, Zhao Xuan has mutually verified the cultivation methods of the lords of the grotto-heavens, allowing him to master even more techniques.

The experiences of the Lord of the Grotto-Heaven also allowed Zhao Xuan to seize some opportunities and comprehend more profound mysteries.

In particular, the changing of dynasties, the rotation of the sun and moon, and the cycle of the seasons have given Zhao Xuan a deeper understanding of various forces.

These insights even allowed Zhao Xuan to touch upon a glimpse of the mysteries of time and space.

The most mysterious forces in the world are the forces of time and space, but the force of destiny is not among them.

The power of destiny is a kind of authority over heaven and earth, and the power of destiny comes from the power of authority.

Without authority, the power of destiny can only be regarded as a higher form of energy.

The same applies to the power of the Five Elements.

What has authority can be called power; what has no authority can only be called energy.

For example, merit.

The power of the Four Symbols is somewhat special; it is almost pure authority, so it can empower any force or energy.

The power of time and the power of space are even more difficult to define.

It can be viewed as a concept or a phenomenon.

Of course, in a fantasy world, any concept or phenomenon can be manifested through cognition.

However, throughout the ages, no one has been able to manifest the power of time or the power of space.

Firstly, these two powers are sealed by the Great Dao; secondly, not all energy can bear the power of time and the power of space.

Currently, the only spatial power in the human-immortal realm is the power of void, which is used to govern the world by traversing the endless void.

As for other spatial creations, spatial tearing, and so on, cultivators find them difficult to control.

Even if it is a manifestation of a grotto-heaven, it is a spiritual object with spatial attributes that has evolved through endless creation.

However, no cultivator has been able to master any kind of time power.

After comprehending the changes of the world over five million years, Zhao Xuan gradually began to understand the power of time and space.

The power of space is the power that carries everything; it should be called Hongmeng.

The power of time is the force that causes everything to change, and should be considered as the limitless.

Without the primordial chaos, there would be no world; without the boundless void, there would be no birth and death.

In other words, the ultimate goal of spatial power is primordial power, while the ultimate goal of temporal power is limitless power.

Zhao Xuan's divine talisman contained a boundless power, though he could not control it.

However, Zhao Xuan gradually became tainted by the aura of the power of Wuji. By observing the passage of five million years and the changes in the world, and with a portion of the principles and laws of the Candle Nine Yin Eye, Zhao Xuan actually condensed a principle and law of the power of time.

Whether it's called the rule of time or the authority of time, it all means the same thing.

This principle is highly compatible with the law and the power of winter's return to stillness, and it also shares many similarities with the power of Xuanwu.

Zhao Xuan transformed countless merits to receive this principle and law, and then transformed it into a power of time.

This is because the principles of the power of time were mostly comprehended by Zhao Xuan after lamenting that even hundreds of powerful beings could not withstand the power of time.

Therefore, this power of time can be called the power of aging.

This power of aging contains five million years of time; once concentrated within it, it is equivalent to experiencing five million years.

Those whose lifespan is less than five million years have no power to resist.

As for why it is called the power of aging, it is because this power of time is only effective on living beings with flesh and blood.

However, Zhao Xuan was already content; being able to comprehend the power of time was already a stroke of good fortune.

Moreover, with this power of time, it's equivalent to achieving a breakthrough from nothing to something, from zero to one, making it easier to comprehend in the future.

Furthermore, Zhao Xuan connected the power of time with the power of the Four Symbols and the power of the Five Elements.

To some extent, the power of the four elements is the manifestation of the power of time.

The power of time influences all things through the power of the four elements, and this is how success, failure, and emptiness come about.

The power of Wuji is the source of change, giving rise to the three forces.

That is, change, creation, and time.

Change is disorder, creation is ordered, and time is eternal.

The eternal changes of time are based on the power of the four elements; the orderly changes of creation are based on the power of the five elements; and the disorderly changes are based on the emotions of living beings.

Zhao Xuan gradually gained endless insights from five million years of experience.

The moment the flower bloomed, the supernatural talisman began to tremble amidst this endless enlightenment. This was not because the supernatural talisman itself had changed, but because the boundless power within it had been touched.

She began to resonate with Zhao Xuan.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Xuan's mind stirred, and a wisp of divine energy, carrying a portion of his mind, surged into the Flower Blooming Instant Divine Power Talisman.

The divine energy slowly merged into the divine talisman, heading towards its core, and actually integrated into the boundless power at the core of the divine talisman.

With a loud "boom," Zhao Xuan felt a loud noise and then lost consciousness and collapsed.

Time passed slowly, and Zhao Xuan gradually awoke, feeling an unprecedented weariness in his mind and body.

Zhao Xuan calmed his mind and slowly entered a meditative state.

With great difficulty, Zhao Xuan managed to gather his mental strength, and he sensed that more than 90% of his own spirituality had disappeared.

When the mind entered the Purple Mansion, the Purple Mansion was in complete disarray, with several endless cracks appearing in the sky above the Purple Mansion.

The magical power accumulated over tens of thousands of years in Zhao Xuan's Purple Mansion vanished entirely through these cracks.

The Azure Dragon was torn to pieces and scattered throughout the Purple Mansion, while the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Lotus was reduced to a withered leaf and fallen flower, with petals and lotus leaves scattered here and there throughout the Purple Mansion.

Zhao Xuan felt a chill run down his spine.

Zhao Xuan regained his composure and slowly realized what had happened.

Having received a response from the power of Wuji, he connected a wisp of divine energy and a portion of his mind with the power of Wuji.

As a result, endless information from the power of Wuji flooded into Zhao Xuan's mind.

The amount of information was simply too overwhelming; Zhao Xuan's mind was completely crushed by the endless barrage of information without any resistance.

Even the Purple Mansion, Azure Dragon, and the Legendary Green Lotus—all entities containing Zhao Xuan's spirit—were shattered by this massive surge of information, with less than a tenth remaining.

Zhao Xuan's mind entered the fragment of the Azure Dragon's head, and the enormous dragon head opened its eyes.

Endless power appeared out of thin air in the Purple Mansion, and the fragmented remains of the Azure Dragon began to fly to the head of the dragon and connect with it. The Azure Dragon gradually recovered to its original state.

Zhao Xuan controlled the Azure Dragon to continuously exhale the power of the Three Treasures, which slowly merged into the cracks above the Purple Mansion, causing those cracks to gradually open, close, and recover.

Although the Azure Dragon gained its dragon form due to the Primordial Stone, it was essentially a manifestation of Zhao Xuan's Three Treasures Daoist cultivation.

Although he suffered a temporary setback, Zhao Xuan, being a master of boundless divine abilities, was able to recover in time even from severe injuries.

However, because Zhao Xuan's mind was also scattered by the information flow, the human could not sense Zhao Xuan's aura and therefore could not replenish it in time.

However, Zhao Xuan was incredibly lucky; even after death, he was able to be resurrected.

Therefore, the power of the mind slowly began to recombine.

The reason why the recovery is slow and not instantaneous is because the power of Wuji is still above the Great Dao. Even though the power of Wuji has no intention of killing, the damage it causes is equivalent to the injury of the Great Dao.

Therefore, recovery was extremely difficult, and it took a full century to barely recover one-tenth of the original amount.

Once the bottom line of cohesive consciousness is reached, Zhao Xuan can transform passive recovery into active recovery.

Slowly repair the Azure Dragon and Purple Mansion.

This also allowed Zhao Xuan to regain the sense of awe that he had gradually lost.

Zhao Xuan painstakingly collected the scattered petals and leaves of the Creation Lotus that had fallen into the Purple Mansion, and used the power of the Azure Dragon to restore it for a thousand years before finally completing the restoration of the Creation Lotus.

However, this damage meant that Zhao Xuan's efforts over thousands of years had been in vain.

Since the Creation Lotus was a powerful artifact crafted by Zhao Xuan, it is closely connected to Zhao Xuan's path of cultivation and is also a powerful artifact for protecting his path.

After thousands of years of nurturing, the Creation Lotus can be said to be of a level no less than that of a spiritual treasure.

If it were to fight against the King Tseung Kwan O, the King Tseung Kwan O is arguably no match for it.

However, now the nourishing power of the Creation Lotus over thousands of years has been wasted, returning it to the state it was in when it was first created.

Compared to Zhao Xuan's level, the current Genesis Green Lotus is simply not capable of participating in his battles.

But Zhao Xuan could only accept his bad luck, since he had lost his sense of awe.

They were completely unaware that after death they could touch the Limitless Power, which was even higher than the Great Dao.

The fact that he didn't perish or disappear completely is because he has recently benefited greatly from studying the profound mysteries of the Dao.

Furthermore, the power of Wuji has no intention of causing harm.