Chapter 1173: The Last Hell (1/2)

The world of immortals also possessed creators at the moment, but all of them—apart from Pangu and God—were from the Dao Academy that Lu Yun had nurtured.

Today, Celestial Lord of the Exalted Major, Dongfang Hao, publicly broke through chaos realm and ascended to that legendary realm. This raised morale in the outer realms to new heights and further strengthened the confidence of the immortals.

The creator realm really did exist and was attainable by all! It wasn’t just an empty dream drawn on a canvas of far fetched promises!

“Congratulations, fellow daoist!” congratulated the lords of the other thirty-two facets.

“I am truly unworthy. I broke through to creator realm only due to the honors bequeathed by our forebearers and the strength of the ancient divine court,” Dongfang Hao responded with a round of humility. “I obtained much inspiration when I ascended just now. Fellow daoists, please share in them with me!”

He waved a hand and gifted a copy of his reflections to creator realm to the other lords.

Qing Taxian and the others immediately sat down cross-legged to peruse this enormous gift. Meanwhile, the lords of the nine hells looked at each other and didn’t fall into meditation. Realization dawning on Dongfang Hao, he looked at them with visible shock. It was only now that he noticed the lords of the nine hells had reached creator realm long ago. They’d just concealed it from the public eye all this time!

“The headmaster has undone fellow daoist’s tribulation to creator realm. He has transformed it to the pure light of virtue, so be sure not to let this fortuitous opportunity slip through your fingers, fellow daoist,” Mo Yi suddenly spoke up in reminder.

Dongfang Hao started and quickly assumed a seated position himself, just in time for a pillar of golden light to descend from the heavens and blast into his body. His new cultivation realm instantly stabilized.

Immortals needed to undergo a heavenly tribulation when they reached creator realm, but Lu Yun had enveloped the world of immortals with the Karmic Tree. He didn’t care about any other tribulation, but those having to do with the creator realm were absorbed by the tree and distilled into the pure light of virtue for the immortal in question.

With the Hadal Hell out of the netherworld, there was no longer anything constraining the Karmic Tree. Its rate of growth raced to an incredible level, whereupon it could fully deploy the strength belonging to such a fearsome treasure of goodwill and retribution.

Absorbing and refining heavenly tribulations… If the tree could fully mature and take root in the immortal dao, it would be able to command and direct heavenly tribulations!

As they lived in unique times, Lu Yun was compelled to use the Karmic Tree to cheat a little for new creators, preventing demise or injury in their tribulations.

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Another ten years passed by in the blink of an eye.

In the one hundredth and twenty-third year of the Xuanhuang calendar, surging tides of yin spirits once more exploded out of the fissure in space and bayed for the blood and qi of living beings.

However, the world of immortals was a far cry from what it’d once been after twenty years of breathing space. Apart from formula dao, the holistic strength of the world had also risen to an entirely new level.

The immortals were even able to set up a line of defense in the outer realms to break the momentum of the charging yin spirits. Regardless, no one dared let their guard down. The enemy could still break through the fortifications if they relaxed and cause devastating destruction to their home.

This enormous battlefield was named the Immortal Realm Battlefront.

Lu Yun took personal command for twenty-one years, repelling charge after charge until the situation stabilized in the one hundred and forty-fourth year of the Xuanhuang calendar. Once the immortal armies found their footing and could reliably rebuff the yin spirits, he departed for the far reaches of space.

He hadn’t seen Qing Yu in thirty years.

He’d wanted to pay a visit twenty-one years ago, when Sol Truefire went out among the stars. However, the Immortal Realm Battlefront had just taken shape then and he had to hold down the fort. Though he hadn’t planned for the battlefront to take shape, it was molded by the culmination of experiences from his past self and various modern methods as derived from the secret arts of the mythological realm.

Without Lu Yun’s presence, the Immortal Realm Battlefront wouldn’t have come together. Or even if it had, it would’ve been swiftly overrun.

The creation and preservation of these battle lines were a clear declaration that the world of immortals would not be snuffed out by the dark.