Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 727 - 521: Two Million Years: First Encounter with an Ancient Immortal!
This is a good thing.
Chen Jichuan welcomed it.
Thus, later on, even when he encountered a True Immortal who intruded into the Shenzhou Star Cluster, he would not attack but would use numerous formations to trap and kill them.
It was quite interesting.
As for the bodies of these True Immortals after their death, Chen Jichuan also preserved them, refining them into Corpse Refining Ancient Gods, continuously improving his skills in the 'Nine Star Ancient Gods'.
If one day.
He could place an Ancient God in every star in the billions within the Shenzhou Star Cluster. With the heavy formations in space and his exquisite Great Divine Powers, perhaps even the Ancient Immortals he would dare to challenge.
But that is too far off.
For now, it's best not to think about it.
Chen Jichuan focused on improving himself, but he wasn't completely shutting himself in.
Part of him was comprehending two Immortal Corpses in the 'Immortal Fall Battlefield', improving his Daoist practice, striving to break through to the Ancient Immortal realm.
Another part, in the 'Shenzhou Star Cluster', was protecting Shenzhou and the Daoists while setting up formations in space and using the True Immortals who intruded to enhance his formation skills.
There was also a part where he transformed into various identities, in the Jade Toad Great Heaven and Earth, in the Bone Wood Great World, in the Xuanyu Great Heaven and Earth, ...
In the twelve heavens, and even in various medium-sized worlds, small worlds, and extraterrestrial stars, he made contact with one True Immortal after another, understanding different True Immortals, different Daoist traditions, different Immortal Dao techniques, broadening his knowledge and inspiring his spiritual insight so that he could better deduce Divine Skills without omitting anything.
Time passed like this.
In the blink of an eye.
Two blinks of an eye.
Three blinks of an eye.
Soon, two million years passed again. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
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On this day.
As usual, Chen Jichuan, with his avatars like bees, was arranging star formations in the Shenzhou Star Cluster.
Over the two million years.
Plus the occasional occurrence over the prior four million years.
Presently, formations within the Shenzhou Star Cluster are densely packed and ubiquitous.
Some parts of the seemingly calm and undisturbed outer space are actually harboring terrifying killing formations capable of cutting down True Immortals.
Two million years.
Too many foreign True Immortals have perished in the Shenzhou Star Cluster, in these heavy formations.
At first, there were the most.
Later, there grew fewer.
Until now, the Shenzhou Star Cluster has been recognized among the various forces and True Immortals of the twelve heavens and the entire universe as being as dangerous as the first-class Cosmic Strange Land.
Any foreign True Immortal, anyone with malice, one who goes in dies, ten who go in die.
Even absolute peak True Immortals find it hard to escape.
The absolute peak True Immortals who have died in the Shenzhou Star Cluster, including those who entered with Dharma Domain Avatars and their main bodies left outside, have not been few.
In the Shenzhou Star Cluster, it's a place of death with no survival!
It gradually became a forbidden zone for True Immortals.
Over two million years, countless True Immortals' lives testified and informed other True Immortals across the universe that the Shenzhou Star Cluster couldn't be intruded upon.
Thus later, the number of daring True Immortals intruding into the Shenzhou Star Cluster gradually decreased. Until now, only sporadically can they be seen, most True Immortals not only do not return but rather deliberately avoid the Shenzhou Star Cluster while traveling through the universe.
But on this day.
Chen Jichuan, with a perfect avatar, was in the Hooking Star Domain, pondering a newly deduced great formation.
At this time.
He suddenly sensed something, a sense of dread in his heart.
He looked up.
Not long after.
A middle-aged man wearing a long yellow hemp robe, with three strands of yellow beard, and a pale face inexplicably appeared before him.
"This is——"
Chen Jichuan glanced at him, and his pupils shrank slightly, his heart greatly shaken.
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Name: Xuanhe Immortal
Age: 235,201,498
Cultivation: Earth Immortal Stage, Flying Immortal Realm
Cultivation Technique: "Blood Shadow Mao Immortal Great Method" (True Sect Level)
Divine Skills: Blood Shadow Divine Light (Sixth Realm), Fur Immortal Refining Technique (Sixth Realm), Three Corpse Primordial Spirit Skill (Sixth Realm), Immortal Pointing Finger Seal (Sixth Realm), ...., etc.
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"Xuanhe Immortal!"
"It's actually him!"
Chen Jichuan, skillful and courageous, directly used 'Insight' to discover his background.
At a glance, he found out.
This was an Ancient Immortal!
Earth Immortals are ancient and powerful, and in this universe, most Earth Immortals have survived from the Immortal Ancient Period, hence are referred to by True Immortals as 'Ancient Immortals'.
For example, 'Fuliu Immortal'.
For example, 'Cave Abyss Immortal'.
They all possess Earth Immortal Daoist practice, or at least Earth Immortal Daoist practice, thus are respected as 'Ancient Immortals'.
And this 'Xuanhe Immortal' before him, clearly was also the 'Ancient Immortal' spoken of by True Immortals, and was the first living Ancient Immortal that Chen Jichuan had encountered in his six million years of cultivation, having only heard of this name and never seen the person until now.
Arriving so suddenly.
So without warning.
Chen Jichuan saw the arrival of this 'Xuanhe Immortal' and was shocked at heart, quickly bowing to greet him, saying: "Little Immortal Zhou Yan, greets Ancient Immortal!"
Respectful in appearance and words.
But looking at this Ancient Immortal's age, from his cultivation technique, from his Divine Skills, he could see and guess this was indeed the newly risen Ancient Immortal who, two hundred million years ago, first obtained an Ancient Immortal's corpse from the 'Immortal Fall Battlefield' and roamed the universe with it before transcending True Immortality to become indestructible forever after.
He had only heard of him before.
Today he finally saw him in person.
"Achieving the Dao through the Immortal Corpse."
Chen Jichuan recalled the past and reputation of this 'Xuanhe Immortal', feeling a bad premonition.
This person's arrival likely bore ill intentions.
As expected.
The next moment.
He saw the 'Xuanhe Immortal's' indifferent gaze fall upon him: "Zhou Yan, where are the two Immortal Corpses?"
The Ancient Immortal stood high above, at the pinnacle of the universe.
What True Immortals.
Including Fourth Realm True Immortals, even those absolute peak True Immortals, were not worthy to be in the eyes of an Ancient Immortal.
Ancient Immortals lie across the galaxies, observing the rise and fall of the universe.
Even the 'Xuanhe Immortal' before him, though considered young among Ancient Immortals, just over two hundred million years old, in his life, had seen seven or eight batches of absolute peak True Immortals.
One by one, from rise to fall.
'Xuanhe Immortal' had seen too many.
Just as True Immortals view the Fourth Order, Ancient Immortals view True Immortals in the same bland, indifferent, lofty way.
Right now.
In the present.
At this moment.
'Xuanhe Immortal' didn't pay any heed to Chen Jichuan, a True Immortal like him.
Even though the name 'Zhou Yan' was terrifying among the universe, among the absolute peak True Immortals, vaguely regarded as the number one True Immortal below the Ancient Immortals.
Yet even so.
'Xuanhe Immortal' still looked down upon him.
Cold and indifferent.
Ignoring him.
He came only for the Immortal Corpses.
Chen Jichuan's heart sank, but his acting didn't diminish. He shook his head with a bitter smile, saying: "Reporting to the Immortal, the 'Immortal Fall Battlefield' was perilous. Back then, to protect the Immortal Corpses, I was forced by many True Immortals to remain there. Once the decay cycle passed, before long, I died, and the two Immortal Corpses were lost in the 'Immortal Fall Battlefield', swept away by the storm, whereabouts unknown."
Chen Jichuan made up lies.
'Xuanhe Immortal's' intentions were clear, he came precisely for the two Immortal Corpses.
Though why he waited two million years to come was unknown, but asking straight for the Immortal Corpses today made his intentions apparent.
However, Chen Jichuan's thoughts were also simple.
He had only acquired the two Immortal Corpses for two million years, these years his Daoist practice had advanced rapidly and continues to do so.
Constantly comprehending.
Whenever pondering.
He could still gain more insights and growth from the two Immortal Corpses.
Chen Jichuan felt he might indeed have hope of touching or even ascending to the Ancient Immortal realm with the help of these two Immortal Corpses.
The two Immortal Corpses.
These aren't just two irrelevant corpses but are his hope for achieving indestructibility.
He wouldn't give them up to anyone.
Including the Ancient Immortals.
Of course.
This only applied to 'Xuanhe Immortal' and other newly risen Ancient Immortals.
It's not that Chen Jichuan looked down on him; from Insight into 'Xuanhe Immortal's' background——
"Ancient Immortal!"
"But so-so!"
Chen Jichuan appeared respectful, but inside he was eager.
Six million years of tough cultivation.
He had continuously raised the limits of the True Immortals.
By now.
In the universe, among True Immortals, he was without a match.
Chen Jichuan had confidence in facing an Ancient Immortal, especially a newly risen 'Xuanhe Immortal'!
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