830: Chapter 830 The Truth, Ten Thousand Years

"Immortal Emperor Xuan Yi."

"I am him, and yet I am not him."

"To be precise, I am one half of him."

"And the other half is you."

The youth on the Immortal Emperor's throne spoke slowly with a smile on his face.

However, his body remained seated, his posture unchanged.

"What?"

Mo Xuan's heart jolted as he looked toward the youth on the Imperial Throne.

He seemed to want to see whether the person before him was telling the truth.

Yet, with his current cultivation and Realm, he actually couldn't fully discern the state of existence of the person before him.

His body seemed to exist between reality and illusion.

He couldn't sense the slightest trace of Qi.

It was empty, an endless emptiness.

An emptiness like the infinite heavens.

Clearly he was smiling, yet Mo Xuan couldn't feel any emotion from him at all.

Clearly he was sitting right before his eyes.

But it felt as if an endless Void Realm separated the two of them.

Mo Xuan was silent for a moment before asking, "Why?"

He was asking about him, about Xuan Yi, about everything, about the entirety of history.

"There is no rush."

The youth on the Immortal Emperor's throne continued to smile.

"You should have seen the history sealed within the time sand."

Yi spoke softly.

"That was sealed inside by me."

"However, what you saw wasn't enough, nor was it clear enough."

"If you were unable to achieve Immortal Ascension, then those things you didn't see would not be important."

"If you achieved Immortal Ascension, you would be able to find me, and I would tell you the reasons behind it."

Yi paused and then continued.

"Xuan Yi established the Immortal Court, made all Immortals bow their heads, and divided them into nine departments."

"The Departments of Thunder, Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Plague, Stars, Wealth, and Punishment."

"By dividing the Immortals into nine departments to maintain the operation of the Immortal Court, each department performed its duties, managed the Law of the Immortal Dao, held the official seals of the Immortal Court, and ensured the peace of the myriad worlds."

"Everything was exactly as he and Zhou Lingjun had initially envisioned."

"With each Immortal performing their duties, natural disasters ceased to exist."

"In this way, the Immortal Court operated for hundreds of thousands of epochs."

"Xuan Yi believed that as long as he existed to suppress the ages, the Immortal Court would continue to operate like this forever."

"However..."

"While Xuan Yi was in seclusion, traveling through the Immortal Realm in his Immortal Spirit Form..."

"He captured a wisp of white light, a wisp of white light from the depths of Chaos."

"The Immortal Realm was born from Chaos."

"And that wisp of white light was also born from Chaos."

"Xuan Yi called it the Chaos White Light, the World Seed."

"With this wisp of white light as a foundation, one could evolve a new world as vast and boundless as the Immortal Realm."

"Xuan Yi was ecstatic, believing he had finally found the path to go a step further."

"That was to comprehend this wisp of Chaos White Light and evolve heaven and earth."

"To thereby surpass the True Immortal and become an unknown existence of a higher level."

As Yi spoke, he glanced at the white halo floating behind Mo Xuan's head.

"Chaos White Light, World Seed."

Mo Xuan processed the information he had received from Yi's mouth.

If it were truly as Xuan Yi had guessed, and if he succeeded, he would likely be the Heavenly Dao, the true Dominator of the world.

Yi took a look and then continued.

"It's just that Xuan Yi thought too simply."

"He was unable to achieve Fusion with that wisp of Chaos White Light."

"Even though he held four Origin Laws."

"Something was still missing."

"At first, he believed he needed to master a fifth Origin Law."

"To use five World Origin Laws and rely on this wisp of Chaos White Light to open up a new world."

"As he deduced and comprehended, while he was grasping the fifth Origin Law..."

"He also comprehended this wisp of Chaos White Light."

"But he still failed."

"There was still an unbridgeable gap between him and that wisp of white light."

"However, his strength increased tremendously because of it."

"Moreover, as his understanding of the white light deepened, he saw a corner of the distant future, a scene that would completely change the Immortal Court."

At this point, Yi paused again for a moment.

"What was it?"

Mo Xuan asked.

"He saw that in the near future, the Immortal Realm and the myriad worlds would usher in a Dharma Ending Age. Subsequently, the Immortal Realm and myriad worlds would be extinguished, all souls would cease to exist, all things would perish, and everything that ever was would no longer exist."

Could it be that even the Immortal Realm has a day of extinction?

Listening to this, Mo Xuan thought of the scene of world extinction he had seen in the Void Realm.

"And all of this is the decision of the Heavens."

"The Heavenly Dao has an instinctive consciousness."

As Yi spoke, his body seemed to become even more hollow.

"For the Heavenly Dao to grow stronger, it must undergo Nirvana again and again."

"Cycle after cycle of extinction and Rebirth, in order to reach a level where it can even devour Chaos."

"There is nothing wrong with this as far as the Heavenly Dao is concerned."

"We are born relying on heaven and earth; what does it matter if the life bestowed by heaven and earth is taken back?"

"It's just that Xuan Yi didn't want that."

"With the Chaos White Light in hand, even if the final moment of Nirvana arrived, Xuan Yi could remain safe and sound."

"But he wanted more."

"He wanted to save the hundreds of millions of living beings in this world."

"He made a decision."

"He split his True Spirit into two."

"He used the karma divine stone to forcibly fuse one half of his True Spirit into the white light."

"Then, using the life and death reincarnation mirror..."

"He sent this half of his True Spirit into Reincarnation."

"Through lifetime after lifetime of Reincarnation, he allowed that half of his True Spirit to completely fuse with the Chaos White Light."

"And ultimately achieve Ascension once more, using the Chaos White Light as a foundation to evolve a new heaven and earth, replacing the old heaven with the new."

"That is you."

"As for the other half of the True Spirit, it inherited all of his cultivation, Laws, and will, staying close to the Heavenly Dao to confront it and delay the arrival of Nirvana."

"That is me."

Yi's movements finally changed as he pointed at Mo Xuan and then at himself.

"To think it was like this..."

Rarely did Mo Xuan's mind feel so dazed.

He finally knew his Origins, he knew everything.

So, was he still himself?

Of course he was himself.

In just an instant.

Mo Xuan's gaze became firm once again.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift from heaven.

What he had to do was grasp the current him.

The past cannot be changed, and the future is unknowable.

Only by mastering the present can one find the truth of all things.

"You have two choices."

"First, watch the changes quietly and wait for the world to undergo Nirvana and Rebirth; you will still be a peerless True Immortal. Second, act against the heavens and change the world."

"However, the second choice carries immense risk; you could very likely lose yourself and never wake up again."

Yi composed his expression and looked toward Mo Xuan.

"The second one."

Mo Xuan did not hesitate.

They called him Old Ancestor.

As an Old Ancestor, how could he abandon them?

Furthermore, he already understood that Zhou Lingjun was the previous life of Zhou Kaiding.

In the unseen, in this life, the two of them were still fated to meet.

It was still him who had passed away first.

It was just that in Xuan Yi's lifetime, he was still weak, whereas now he already had the ability to protect his descendants.

"This is the creation immortal gourd."

Yi seemed to have known Mo Xuan's answer long ago; after all, they were originally the same person.

This choice had already been made a long time ago.

With a gentle wave of his hand.

A white jade Immortal gourd appeared before Mo Xuan; this was the final innate supreme treasure.

"Creation True Immortal?"

Mo Xuan looked toward Yi.

"Correct, the Creation True Immortal was originally my Incarnation, an Incarnation specifically split off to find the creation immortal gourd."

Yi nodded.

Not only that, the Golden Crow Demon Emperor's heavenly dao flower was also sent down by him.

The purpose was to let the Golden Crow Demon Emperor replace the nine suns that had already died and light up the Immortal Realm once more.

The World Seed and the Origin Laws were now all gathered.

"And what about you?"

Mo Xuan fused the creation immortal gourd into the white light behind his head and looked toward Yi.

Yi's state was very peculiar.

He seemed to have already merged into one with the Heavenly Dao.

"I am a remnant Immortal of the old era, destined to perish along with it."

"And..."

Yi paused, not continuing, and changed the subject.

"I have one last request."

"If you succeed, please bring those old friends back."

The Heavenly Dao could influence True Immortals through the Laws.

The Venerables of the Fire, Water, and Punishment Departments, along with the Immortals under them, were once influenced and corrupted by the Heavenly Dao.

They had besieged him together and were killed by his own hand.

Because their Laws were tainted, he could not send them into Reincarnation.

So those True Immortals had completely perished.

To prevent the Heavenly Dao from continuing to influence the Immortals, and to stall the Heavenly Dao to buy more time...

He personally sent the rest of the Immortal Court's Immortals into Reincarnation.

But regardless of the reason.

He had personally buried the old subordinates and old friends who had followed him for hundreds of thousands of epochs.

He had no face to meet them.

"Alright."

Mo Xuan nodded silently.

"How much time is left?"

Mo Xuan turned to leave, then looked back at Yi.

"Ten thousand years."