1378 The Great Sensations in the Immortal World (1/2)
Time zipped by and years advanced forward in haste.
In a flash, more than half a year had passed since Tang Xiu cleaned up his house. Along with the birth of his younger brother, Tang Xing, the prestige of the Great Tang Heavenly Emperor had gradually grown and spread in the Immortal World. The hottest news was that Great Tang Heavenly Emperor occupied the Immortal Lyceum and ousted Venerable Bella Fern Regalia. Thus, the Great Tang Empire was founded in the Immortal Lyceum region with Great Tang Heavenly Emperor as its first emperor.
In that instant, countless pairs of eyes began to pay attention to the situation of the Great Tang Empire. To everyone's surprise, this new empire began to expand its territory very quickly and took only a few years to occupy the Immortal Lyceum completely. Even some desolate star fields around it had become this empire's territory.
Not only that, the Great Tang Empire's swift and powerful movements spread out towards all directions. It was estimated that the territory of this empire would expand to the edge of the other three neighboring Immortal Domains within a few years. Should the Great Tang Empire have this ambition and continue its conquest, it would be possible for it to annex the three other domains.
Another news then spread out when many forces in other Immortal Domains focused their attention on the Great Tang Empire. To the east of the Immortal Lyceum region where the Great Tang Empire was located, a powerful and ruthless Perfected Golden Immortal found a small state named Missing Star Empire in the Heavenly Phoenix Immortal Domain.
This newly found state was not a mortal empire but an empire of immortal cultivators, and a Perfected Golden Immortal who was known as Missing Star Venerable was the first empress of this said empire. However, such a case wouldn't have garnered the attention of many forces in the Immortal World if not for the fact that their movements were very unconventional, aside from other news that said this empire was very wealthy, from where the source was unknown. According to the calculation of some people with keen observation, the queen had purchased more than 30 Perfected Golden Immortals deathmatch gladiators from the Convict Arena in the span of just a few years.
Furthermore, under her leadership for several years, she had fought with various powerful entities and killed tens of famous Perfected Golden Immortals, thus causing a huge sensation.
However, during the time when all parties in the Immortal World were paying attention to the Great Tang Empire and the Missing Star Empire, another news spread faster than a lightning bolt to all forces in every Immortal Domain in the Immortal World, causing similar enormous shocks to the whole realm.
”Heavenly Emperor Tianji has severed his arm and vowed an Immortal Oath that he'll never reattach his seriously injured arm and will forever live with his damaged physique in the Immortal World. He swore to not remold his body until the day he ascends to Godhood.”
This news made the countless Perfected Golden Immortals in the Immortal World dumbfounded and shocked in disbelief. Even the Supremes were all similarly shocked. Nobody could understand why Heavenly Emperor Tianji would do such a thing.
The Myriad Dao Immortal Domain, Heavenly Secret City.
With a bitter expression on his exotic, bewitching face, Heavenly Emperor Tianji stood upright, looking at the round golden disc above the sky. A black line gradually faded away on that round golden disc and was replaced by a flashing red light.
”Sigh. It's really him.” Heavenly Emperor Tianji sighed with a bitter smile.
The shaggy and untidy Sky Exterminator old beggar grabbed a white porcelain bowl and downed the Jade fine wine in big gulps. After a long time, he burped and said, ”Nirvana is born again and the Heavenly Dao laws won't be able to stop him anymore. If he can live to that time, the structure of power in the Immortal World will be turned upside down and changed dramatically. Those two are doomed to be disasters.”
Heavenly Emperor Tianji slowly turned to him and smiled bitterly. ”How would this Emperor know she was related to him back then? Else, I would have chosen to suffer a bit of loss given his narrow-minded character. I can only admit and accept this as my own misfortune!”
”You know, you could have actually been able to divine that he would face such a tribulation before he became a Supreme, right?” Sky Exterminator old beggar grinned. ”I just don't get one thing here. Why are you so afraid of him?”
Heavenly Emperor Tianji contemplated for a while and forced a smile. ”Because I know that no one can kill him after he dies once. I paid the price of a millennium of hard work just to divine his fate. Yet, I was only able to divine the initial result, not the subsequent process nor the finale. But now, his fate has completely vanished from the Heavenly Dao—a change that only has two possibilities for it to happen.”
Sky Exterminator old beggar's expression shifted and he asked, ”What are these two possibilities, exactly?”
”Firstly, he really has died and completely disappeared from the Six Paths of Reincarnation,” explained Heavenly Emperor Tianji slowly. ”The second one is, the Immortal World is no longer his prison cage, meaning that he has actually reached Godhood and ascended to the God Realm.”
Sky Exterminator old beggar was startled and asked, ”You mean he's the second type given the current situation?”
”I have no idea about that as well!” Heavenly Emperor Tianji shook his head and helplessly said, ”All causes and effects, karma, and fate are variables. Thus, I must comply with his request since my chance is with him. Otherwise, let alone having that chance, I dare not say whether I can save my own life.”
”Bwahaha!” Sky Exterminator old beggar uproariously laughed. ”Tianji, it turns out that you and I are in the same situation. My chance also lies with him, so let him continue to do what he should do! We'll wait until that chance arrives, and we'll naturally be able to see him again.”
Heavenly Emperor Tianji nodded silently and then said, ”I have a feeling that such a time won't be too long.”
Both men's expressions suddenly shifted and they looked to the distant void as they suddenly saw a great figure pass across the endless Immortal Domains and appear directly in front of them.
”You have a business with me?”
Heavenly Emperor Tianji could tell the intention of the other party and asked with a cold face