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Chapter 25 The Majestic Kunlun Mountains
Jiang Ling had no idea whether the Emperor had any children left in the world.
The surviving gods of Heaven confirmed this, so it must not be baseless.
Moreover, the Emperor is not a paragon of virtue, so naturally he would not remain unmoved by a woman's advances.
At that time, the Heavenly Court was so prosperous that countless major sects and powerful clans wanted to form marriage alliances with the Emperor.
Even if the Emperor didn't have that idea, for the sake of his foundation, the Heavenly Court's generals and elders would still hope that the Emperor would leave behind his bloodline to consolidate the state.
The Heavenly Court elders insisted that the Emperor most likely still has descendants in the world.
However, he truly didn't care about that bloodline; he came for the Emperor.
He knew that the Emperor was not dead.
He wanted to find the Emperor and understand his true thoughts. Was the idea of sacrificing the universe and refining all living beings really just for the purpose of becoming an immortal and forging his own weapon?
Jiang Ling suspected that the Emperor had encountered a change of fortune in his later years of his first life and was no longer the original Ninth Heavenly Venerable.
In his first life, Emperor Zun was also a Heavenly Venerable, but his combat power was only second-rate, on par with the Longevity Heavenly Venerable and the Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
He even fought against the resurrected Heavenly Venerable of Tribulation, who was also the Underworld Venerable, and suffered a crushing defeat.
Despite abandoning all Taoist practices and being reborn, he reached the pinnacle once again, surpassing his achievements in his first life.
However, the two still have some differences in personality. Even the Underworld Lord, who was both his teacher and friend, couldn't help but wonder if the Emperor Lord was his disciple after returning and learning about the Emperor Lord's actions.
All signs led Jiang Ling to suspect that the Emperor had already passed away, his physical body had been taken over, and he had undergone changes similar to the Longevity Calamity of the Chaotic Ancient Era, which was why he had made such a crazy move.
Filled with doubt, Jiang Ling arrived at the ancient star of antiquity.
The Emperor's feigned death here will surely leave behind some clues.
According to prior calculations, the best-case scenario is that the Emperor is currently still in the process of feigning death and undergoing transformation.
Even if the combined power of all the deities in the mythological era made him very strong, the power of time is the most ruthless.
Ten thousand years have passed. Whether or not he truly passed away back then, he has certainly not yet recovered.
The success of a supreme being's Nirvana is difficult to conceal; even if one is in the remote wilderness of the universe, one can still perceive it.
However, before Jiang Ling attained enlightenment, such a situation had never occurred in the eight wastelands of the universe, leading Jiang Ling to speculate that the Emperor was still in a state of transformation and slumber.
The majestic Kunlun Mountains stretch endlessly across the vast wilderness, boundless and ethereal.
Kunlun Immortal Mountain is densely covered with an ancient array jointly set up by the Emperor and the Underworld Lord.
Based on Lingbao Tianzun's Word Combination Secret and Mingzun's Source Heaven Forbidden Array, Emperor and Mingzun exhausted their efforts here, and with the help of other supreme beings such as Changsheng Tianzun, they finally set up the supreme array on Earth.
Furthermore, the immortal array of Kunlun Immortal Mountain gave birth to an array spirit. After being arranged by the Emperor and others, the array spirit has long since become an existence equivalent to a true supreme being, possessing unparalleled power.
People like the Celestial Venerable of Immortality are no longer at their peak, and their condition after severing themselves is simply not capable of breaking through the immortal formation here.
Ordinary people would find it extremely difficult to enter, but this was no challenge for Jiang Yi.
With his strength, he could force his way in, but that would cause too much commotion and attract attention, which is not what Jiang Yi wants to see.
Wow!
A scroll unfolded in Jiang Yi's hands, revealing itself to be the key to entering Kunlun Mountain—the Immortal Treasure Map.
The origins of the Immortal Treasures Map are mysterious; it has passed through the hands of many supreme beings since the early days of mythology.
At the end of the mythological era, the Immortal Treasure Map fell into the hands of the Emperor. He imprinted the coordinates of the star field and the ancient array of Kunlun Immortal Mountain on it, along with a key and a token, which were used to open the supreme ancient array of Kunlun Immortal Mountain.
Jiang Ling obtained this celestial treasure by chance during her Nirvana after her first failed attempt at enlightenment.
As soon as Jiang Ling got the Immortal Treasure Map, the array spirit of Kunlun Immortal Mountain seemed to sense it, concealing many of the great arrays and opening a path in front of her.
Entering Kunlun, hidden within the Emperor's Dharma Array, one finds a wild and untamed place, vast and boundless, representing the true original state of the Earth, countless times larger than the land inhabited by mortals.
The massive mountain peaks connect to form a great dragon that spans the heavens and the earth, the ancestor of all veins and the source of all mountains, reaching the extreme of the terrain permitted by heaven and earth.
The ancient trees in the mountains are vigorous and towering into the clouds, blocking out the sun; many are even taller than the mountains themselves.
Half a day later, Jiang Ling had passed the outer perimeter of Kunlun and was beginning to enter the central area. This place was silent, with no birds or beasts appearing; it was a true forbidden zone for life.
Without a topographical map, even a quasi-saint would be annihilated by this world-shaking imperial formation.
Within the Kunlun Mountains, vegetation flourishes, rooted in the ancestral dragon vein, nourished by the rich essence of the earth's veins, resulting in exceptionally strong vitality and the emergence of many powerful spiritual herbs.
Jiang Yi followed the path on the map and picked many spiritual herbs that were over ten thousand years old, and even a few demigod herbs.
Upon sensing Jiang Ling's arrival, some of the demigods volunteered to go with him, hoping to gain his protection.
Such a request would naturally not be missed.
He traveled and stopped frequently, and successively harvested more than a dozen king herbs and six semi-divine herbs.
These king-level and demigod-level medicines were all created by the Underworld Lord and the Emperor. The spiritual herbs they casually planted here in the past have long since transformed into king-level and demigod-level medicines in Kunlun, a place with such abundant spiritual energy.
Jiang Ling guessed that this was most likely an experiment by the Underworld Lord. Kunlun Mountain was set up with the Origin Heaven Forbidden Array, and Kunlun was also a node on the path to immortality in the past, containing immortal spiritual energy.
In addition, there are ninety-nine dragon veins that nourish these spiritual herbs; one day of growth here is equivalent to several years outside.
When the Underworld Lord arranged this place, he may have wanted to try to cultivate spiritual herbs into divine herbs, which is why there are so many king herbs and demigod herbs.
Kunlun Immortal Mountain is a joint creation of the Emperor and the Underworld Lord, born to nurture immortals. The essence of heaven and earth from all directions converges into the central immortal pool, and apart from those spiritual herbs, no living beings can survive.
While passing through an ancient cave, he discovered a broken stone spirit, which had been dead for a long time and whose life essence had been taken away by the celestial pool.
In order to create immortal artifacts, the Emperor forcibly seized the life force and destiny of countless living beings, and destroyed many ancient planets, including Mars.
Finally, Jiang Yi reached the deepest part and saw the pure land at the center where the immortal artifact was being nurtured.
The mountains cluster together, forming a huge deep valley. Each peak is a natural dragon's head, spewing out the divine essence of the dragon vein, which gathers into the deep valley, making it mysterious and unpredictable.
"A place to become an immortal!"
Tens of thousands of ancestral dragon veins are dedicated to nurturing a single valley; it is a masterpiece of nature, defying the heavens to seize the greatest fortune in the world.
If it weren't for nourishing the Immortal Cauldron, those dragon peaks would have already taken human form and become holy spirits.
"I'm afraid that throughout history, only an emperor could possess such heaven-defying abilities!" Jiang Yi couldn't help but marvel at the profound and mysterious nature of this place.
The Ten Thousand Dragon Peaks exhaled divine light, transforming into ten thousand dragons swimming about, a terrifying sight. In the central Immortal Valley, a vast expanse of white expanse was filled with surging essence and countless strands of immortal light.
The land of immortals has transcended the mortal realm, seemingly not belonging to the human world. The ground is no longer soil and stone, but entirely covered with chalcedony.
The vast land of immortality is surrounded by ancient jade fields, planted entirely with spiritual herbs. Not a single useless plant grows there, and the herbs are of extremely high quality.
However, Jiang Yi did not pick these medicinal herbs, unless it was an elixir of immortality that could attract his attention.
With the Immortal Treasure Map in his hands, even those from the remnants of the Heavenly Court cannot enter this place. He can treat this place as his back garden and come here at any time.
Following the head of ten thousand dragons, Jiang Yi saw the immortal pool where the former emperor had nurtured the immortal cauldron.
The Immortal Pool is about ten feet long and more than half a foot wide. Its material is unknown. Inside, it is filled with brilliant light, and the essence of heaven and earth is so concentrated that it has become liquid and gathered in the pool.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Ling had an idea. He put the medicine king and demigod medicine he had obtained along the way into the Immortal Pool, wanting to see if the Immortal Pool could promote the evolution of the demigod medicine.
As soon as the demigod herbs entered the Immortal Pool, they immediately shone brightly with radiant light, and countless runes were imprinted on their roots, giving the demigod herbs an immortal Daoist aura.
"Ugh!"
After a long while, Jiang Ling sighed softly. The Immortal Pool could indeed help the demigod medicine evolve, but the speed was too slow.
With the laws of heaven and earth now incomplete, even with a heaven-defying treasure like the Immortal Pool, it would take a very long time for a demigod medicine to evolve into a true divine medicine.
Because the demigod medicine needs to evolve immortal matter and the essence symbolizing the divine medicine itself, as well as the laws that make up for the deficiencies in the world, such a process is undoubtedly lengthy.
According to Jiang Ling's calculations, it would take hundreds of thousands of years for them to truly evolve successfully.
However, he had no shortage of time. He marked several demigod herbs with his own mark and then continued to explore Kunlun.
Swish!
Two beams of divine light appeared in Jiang Yi's eyes, scanning every part of Kunlun.
"what?"
Under the scan of his divine sense, Jiang Yi discovered an unusual mountain range, and then moved his feet to arrive at a mountain range.
"This is……"
"Did the Emperor bury himself here?"
In the mountains, nine enormous dragon heads, linked by iron chains, held a massive bronze coffin suspended in mid-air.
On the bronze coffin, streams of black and yellow energy flowed, their aura soaring into the sky, but they were all concealed by the supreme ancient array.
A large amount of terrestrial spiritual fluid gushed out from underground and seeped into the bronze coffin, seemingly nourishing the interior of the coffin.
Nearby is also an ancient formation belonging to the Emperor, which draws spiritual essence from the void and pours it into the bronze coffin.
Furthermore, there are ancient steles nearby inscribed with divine script, telling the story of the owner of the bronze coffin.
The inscription records that when the Emperor led the Heavenly Court to ascend to immortality, he was attacked by the Supreme Being, causing the Heavenly Court's ascension plan to fail... In the end, he returned to the ancient star of the primordial world to bury himself. The inscription is signed by Shang Yuan of the Heavenly Court.
Shang Yuan?
Who is this? Jiang Yi had never heard of such a person in the Heavenly Court.
To enter the depths of Kunlun Mountain, which is densely covered with Emperor Venerable Arrays and Origin Heaven Forbidden Arrays, one must at least possess the peak of Quasi-Venerable, or even an alternative path to enlightenment.
Such a person could never be unknown in the Heavenly Court.
Most importantly, this person's status must be above that of the First Divine General and others, otherwise he would not have been able to be buried by the Emperor himself.
Susu!
Endless runes flowed across Jiang Yi's body, his supreme divine power dominating heaven and earth, ravaging the entire Kunlun.
If it weren't for the endless arrays covering Kunlun Mountain, concealing his aura, his supreme divine might would have already shaken the entire ancient primordial star.
Fragments of time danced around Jiang Yi as he used a secret technique to trace the past of this place.
"A woman, and a child!"
In the scene, a beautiful woman in work clothes with fair skin, delicate features, and elegant appearance appears, holding a child whose face bears an eight-tenths resemblance to the Emperor.