495: Addressing the Root Cause (Final Chapter)

"What is this?"

Cangtian looked at the giant Primordial Azure Lotus that had suddenly appeared beneath his feet with a look of astonishment. To think this object possessed such a miraculous ability?

He glanced at Long Yuan, who was standing in the distance, and gave a slight nod to express his gratitude. He then quickly sat cross-legged on the Primordial Azure Lotus and, with the help of its purifying power, began to dispel the evil energy from his body!

With the assistance of the Primordial Azure Lotus, combined with his own powerful Divine Soul, the evil energy was dissipating bit by bit. Although the process was slow, it was at least showing results!

Long Yuan let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the other party had retained his clear consciousness; otherwise, there would have been big trouble!

Of course, he had his reasons for doing this.

Firstly, he did not yet have the ability to fight a full-power Eternal Realm expert. Secondly, he was puzzled as to how the other party had become infected with such terrifying evil energy, to the point that an Eternal Realm expert had to separate and Seal himself away.

Seeing that everything had begun to calm down,

Long Yuan entered the Time Tower. He intended to rely on the Time Tower's time-acceleration ability to rapidly absorb his cultivation.

Moreover, if he could completely finish the absorption, his cultivation might even break through to the Eternal Realm!

Because God Punishment Supreme had broken through to the Half-Step Eternal Realm, completing this System mission, the System's reward had already reached one hundred million years!

If one added the Family level multiplier bonus, this single instance alone provided tens of billions of years of cultivation rewards!

This should be enough to allow him to break through from the Half-Step Eternal Realm to the Eternal Realm!

As Long Yuan went into seclusion,

the Primordial Ancient Realm once again fell into silence.

A significant number of Supreme Giants had fallen in the great battle; at least two-thirds of the powerhouses had perished, and this was even with the leadership of the Chu Family.

If not for the later addition of Chu Yan and Yan Lingji, the powerhouses on the side of the Primordial Ancient Realm would definitely have been completely wiped out!

But at this moment, these factions were in no mood to rest and recuperate. They would occasionally look up at the lotus flower in the sky, fearing that the person within would be swallowed by the evil energy and go on a rampage!

The sense of danger that person gave everyone was simply too terrifying!

Tai Emperor looked at the Primordial Azure Lotus,

both he and the Heavenly Dao felt an incomparable sense of intimacy.

"So that's how it is. Is this the Supreme Divine Artifact that gave birth to the Primordial Ancient Realm?"

The Primordial Azure Lotus had nurtured this world, but the birth of the Heavenly Dao was due to the power of the Law that had emanated from the being inside the coffin!

Time slipped through their fingers, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.

Long Yuan emerged from seclusion,

at this moment, there was no aura or energy fluctuation on him. Standing there, he looked just like an ordinary person; apart from his handsomeness, everything about him seemed completely unremarkable!

Sigh!

A sigh escaped his lips, for the System that had accompanied him for so long and allowed him to rise had completely departed!

His figure flickered and appeared beside the Primordial Azure Lotus,

at this time, Cangtian was still purging the evil energy within his body, but even though a hundred years had passed, the evil energy on him had not diminished much!

Long Yuan pointed a finger,

and a black light fell into the center of Cangtian's eyebrows. The evil energy that had previously occupied more than half of his body suddenly vanished into thin air!

Cangtian suddenly opened his eyes,

golden light overflowed from his golden pupils as he looked at Long Yuan in shock.

"You..."

The evil energy that he hadn't been able to completely dispel after spending such a long time had actually vanished in the blink of an eye due to the other party's flick of a finger?

But when he looked closely at Long Yuan,

he felt as if he were looking into a bottomless abyss; he couldn't see the depth of the other party at all!

This immediately made Cangtian gasp,

what kind of existence was this person?

Why couldn't even he see through him?

One had to know that he had already fully recovered to his Peak strength!

Could it be that the other party's strength had already surpassed his own?

"Speak!"

"What could possibly cause an Eternal Realm expert like you to end up in this state?"

Long Yuan asked.

Cangtian recovered from his shock, looked at Long Yuan, sighed, and said: "Fellow Daoist, do you know of the Origin Land?"

"I have heard a little about it!" Long Yuan nodded,

he had previously learned of that place from the System's prompts.

"Actually, I am Cangtian, one of the Nine Heavens of the Origin Land!"

"I know that!"

Cangtian immediately looked surprised,

he had never met the other party before, so how did he know that he was one of the Nine Heavens of the Origin Land?

"Very well, then I will explain the whole story directly!"

Cangtian said: "In the Origin Land, there are nine Eternal Realm experts, which are myself and the other eight Heavens. But when the cultivation of us Nine Heavens could no longer advance, we felt in the dark that there seemed to be another Realm above the Eternal Realm!"

"It's just that the Realm was too ethereal; even though we had cultivated for endless years, we couldn't touch it at all!"

"In the end, the nine of us discussed and planned to merge into one, fusing into a whole to break through to that Realm. But just as we were merging, a problem arose. Because the Daos we cultivated were different, and the Eternal Daos we controlled were incompatible, we began to attack each other and fell into Chaos, which eventually led to a mutation!"

"And that was when the evil energy began to be born!"

"When I first discovered this anomaly, I decisively gave up on merging with the other eight Heavens. But even so, I was still infected by the evil energy produced by them, and in the end, I had no choice but to abandon my Physical Body and Seal my Divine Soul!"

Cangtian told the whole story in one breath.

In the end, it was all for the sake of breaking through to a higher Realm!

Their pursuit of a higher Realm had become an obsession, and for this, they could abandon everything!

Long Yuan nodded,

to still want to fuse each other's Daos after reaching the Eternal Realm was simply wishful thinking!

Wasn't that equivalent to Qi Deviation?

However, there was indeed another Realm above the Eternal Realm, called the "Origin Ancient Realm," which was the origin of Chaos, the origin of all things, and the origin of everything!

And now, Long Yuan was in this Realm.

The moment he reached the Eternal Realm, the System transformed into vast energy and merged into Long Yuan's body, helping him elevate his cultivation and other aspects to the Origin Ancient Realm.

"So that's how it is!"

"Then what about the other eight Heavens?" Long Yuan asked.

"I don't know. After I broke away from them at that time, I didn't dare to stay for even a moment and fled into the Chaos. If they succeeded, they might have advanced further, though I don't know if they reached that legendary Realm. If they failed, then there might only be a dead end!"

"No, they are still alive!"

Long Yuan suddenly turned his head to look at the Chaos outside the Primordial Ancient Realm, where an extremely powerful force was gradually approaching!

"What? They are still alive?"

Cangtian was shocked. He looked toward the Chaos but couldn't perceive anything unusual.

"Not only are they alive, but they have also successfully merged. They have indeed advanced one step further than the Eternal Realm!"

After saying this, Long Yuan disappeared from where he was,

and along with him, the Primordial Azure Lotus disappeared too!

Cangtian's pupils shrank suddenly. He hadn't even been able to catch a trace of the other party when he left?

"Could it be that he has already surpassed the Eternal Realm?"

On the other side,

Long Yuan, who had entered the Chaos, appeared in front of that strange creature with eight heads.

"Is this the merged Eight Heavens?"

"As expected, the evil energy is terrifyingly dense! No wonder it can corrode the Eternal Realm!"

Long Yuan looked at the other party with a faint smile.

This creature was indeed the merged Eight Heavens. Although it had succeeded, it had completely lost its consciousness and had been reduced to a mindless Vicious Beast.

"Eternal Realm, is it the Eternal Realm?"

"It doesn't look like the Eternal Realm, but it also looks like the Eternal Realm!"

"Devour, we must devour the other party! As long as we devour him, we can transcend the Eternal!"

Even though they had lost their consciousness,

they still hadn't lost their obsession with transcending the Eternal!

Colorful evil energy erupted from the Eight Heavens, transforming into peerless beasts that lunged toward Long Yuan, wanting to tear him apart and devour him!

Long Yuan shook his head,

the other party had indeed advanced one step further than the Eternal Realm, but it was still far from enough.

And because it had lost its consciousness,

it had no fear in its heart. Even when facing him, it only had the instinct to devour!

"Keeping you around is just a scourge; I'll send you to bliss!"

Long Yuan did not make a move,

the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda emerged from his forehead, but at this moment, the form of the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda had changed; the Primordial Azure Lotus had already merged with it, becoming the base of the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda!

The current Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda was engraved throughout with Supreme Dao marks that belonged solely to Long Yuan. It radiated infinite divine light and unleashed a peerless power capable of suppressing endless Chaos; this was the might belonging to an "Origin Divine Artifact."

The Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda spun,

and then suddenly suppressed the Eight Heavens.

Boom!

Several evil beasts of different colors struck in front of Long Yuan, but they were blocked by an invisible force.

At this moment, the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda had already appeared above the head of the Eight Heavens. A suppressing force descended from the sky, instantly rendering the Eight Heavens unable to move an inch, and then, without any surprise, it drew the Eight Heavens into the pagoda!

Long Yuan nodded,

the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda landed in his hand. At this moment, the nine-story pagoda body began to slowly rotate in different directions, refining the Eight Heavens inside!

Thump, thump, thump!!!

A series of violent attack sounds rang out from inside the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda. It was the Eight Heavens struggling to attack, but after only a moment, there was no sound at all!

Under the refining of the "Origin Divine Artifact,"

even the Eight Heavens had absolutely no power to resist!

Putting away the Ten Thousand Dragons Pagoda,

Long Yuan did not return to the Primordial Ancient Realm but instead returned to the Heavens. It was time to fulfill the promises he had once made!

And there was also the Origin Land, the endless Chaos; perhaps he could go and take a look at those too... (Finale)