The Southern Borderlands.

Chen Yi was searching for Hua Wuyan.

This senior was genuinely hard to find, because she came with her own "radar jamming"—Divine Sense couldn't see her.

Fortunately, Chen Yi had the super Immortal Artifact, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. He scattered Demon Souls to every corner of the Southern Borderlands and finally found Hua Wuyan brewing medicine in a remote cave.

"Newly ascended Martial God, you've come. What business do you have seeking out this old woman?"

Before Chen Yi could even speak, Hua Wuyan acted as if she already knew he was coming.

Back in the simulation, Chen Yi had already suspected that Hua Wuyan possessed some precognitive ability.

Ever since he entered the Seven Luminaries ascension state, he understood.

On one hand, the Witchcraft Dao that Hua Wuyan cultivated had abilities similar to divination.

On the other hand, it was because she was a Guardian and could also achieve full perception of the human world.

However, the Guardian's authority was far inferior to the Seven Luminaries ascension. She knew things, but not everything.

"Senior Hua, do you know where the Path to Immortality in our human world is?"

"The Path to Immortality? That's a very ancient legend, from the Ancient Era even older than the war between the human race and the Demon Tribe. What, don't tell me you've found the Path to Immortality? Even I don't know where It is."

"I... I actually did find it."

Hua Wuyan lost all interest in brewing medicine.

"Legend has it that the most ancient ancestor of the human race was born in the primordial wilderness, when many unknown gods and demons were wreaking havoc in the human world.

The Human Ancestor led the tribe, pacified the chaos of gods and demons, and established a firm foothold in the human world. His strength was immense, beyond measure.

Later, he sensed that the path of cultivation was far from its end, so he found his own way to the Real Realm.

After entering the Real Realm, the Human Ancestor used supreme immortal techniques to fix the path to the Real Realm between the human world and the Real Realm.

That is the so-called Path to Immortality.

Although not everyone could use the Path to Immortality, if it existed, the difficulty for our human cultivators to enter the Real Realm would be greatly reduced.

Later, for some unknown reason, the Path to Immortality disappeared from the human world.

Even the last Human Emperor, who dazzled an era thirty thousand years ago, was unable to discover the existence of the Path to Immortality and ultimately died in his prime fighting against the Demon Tribe.

If you have truly found the Path to Immortality, that would be a great merit indeed..."

Now that he possessed the cultivation of a Martial God, Chen Yi was truly fearless.

No matter who he was talking to, he dared to say anything.

He didn't have to worry at all about anyone questioning how he knew this, how he could predict the future, or how he knew everything.

Before being a Martial God, I was cautious. After becoming a Martial God, if I'm still cautious, then my breakthrough to Martial God would have been for nothing!

After listening to Chen Yi's account, Hua Wuyan nodded.

"Ancient Wasteland Survivors? Never heard of them. But regardless of whether what you say is true or false, as a Guardian, it is my duty to fight for this, to make the Path to Immortality reappear in the world."

With the addition of Hua Wuyan, a Martial God, the difficulty of competing with the Ancient Wasteland Survivors for the Path to Immortality was greatly reduced.

With Hua Wuyan as a top-tier support, Chen Yi could go all-out on offense, throw reason out the window, and just deal damage.

"And your Master, the Great Demon. Surely, if he knows of the Path to Immortality's existence, he will give it his all."

Hua Wuyan revealed a smile.

"Yes, it will also resolve one of his inner demons. Getting the Great Demon to leave the human world would be another great merit."

Chen Yi finally revealed his true intention.

"Senior Hua, in light of all these merits I've brought, could you spare me a few little things?"

"What things?"

"The Stainless Flowers."

"How many do you want?"

"Give me however many you see fit, eight or ten."

"Cough! Cough! Cough..."

Chen Yi smoothly obtained three Stainless Flowers from Hua Wuyan.

Then, together with Hua Wuyan, he went to the Hundred Death Mountains in the Great Wastes to find the Great Demon, who had transformed into a forbidden land.

This old fiend was actually already dead long ago.

The Sun Moon Tower had suppressed a wisp of his remnant soul, and coupled with his heaven-defying skills as a Demonic Cultivator, he had managed to preserve the power he had before his death.

The only price was that every so often, he had to devour the living beings around him, or his soul would scatter.

It was mentioned before that there is no Demonic Path after reaching the Martial King Realm. The Demonic Path was just a shortcut for martial artists to reach the Martial King Realm. Once you're at the finish line, why take a shortcut?

But this statement wasn't accurate when applied to the Great Demon.

He had cultivated to the Martial God Realm, yet he still unswervingly walked the Demonic Path. Many of his methods, in the eyes of ordinary people, were cruel and unreasonable.

When the Great Demon wasn't initiating a Forbidden Land Riot, he remained silent and still, like hibernation, minimizing his energy consumption to the absolute limit.

Unless someone broke into the forbidden land, only then would he eat them as a little snack.

As long as you didn't barge in, you could make any noise outside, and he wouldn't bother with you.

"Master, wake up. I've brought you some good news, the news you want to hear most."

No response.

Black smoke billowed inside the forbidden land.

"The Path to Immortality..."

"HUA WUYAN!!!"

A sudden, wild roar erupted, startling Chen Yi. He wanted to snap back on the spot: Why are you yelling so loud?

The black smoke in the forbidden land coalesced into a hideous face in mid-air, with wildly dancing hair and a voice full of tragic, weathered sorrow.

"Curse the heavens! Severed the other shore! My achieve—"

Chen Yi interrupted him.

"Alright, Great Demon, no time to listen to you recite poetry. In one sentence, the Path to Immortality has been found, but it's occupied by others. We want to take it back. Are you in or not?"

The Great Demon glanced at him, let out a disdainful snort, and said.

"I'm in."

With that, he looked at Hua Wuyan.

"Hua Wuyan, are you going too?"

"Of course, I am the Guardian. It's my duty."

"To have occupied the Path to Immortality for so long and even kept it hidden from successive Guardians is no simple feat. The Dao you cultivate isn't good at killing. It's better if you don't go."

Hua Wuyan smiled, changing the subject.

"If this time we can make the Path to Immortality reappear, your disciple only wishes that you, Master, will leave as soon as possible and pursue power in the Real Realm. After all, this is your greatest obsession."

At that moment, Chen Yi suddenly understood.

In the fifth simulation, when Hua Wuyan convinced the Great Demon to make a move, she had said, "Master, I have already found what you need..." What exactly that "thing" was.

It was the Path to Immortality!

Because the Great Demon's obsession was having the ability to cleave the heavens, but being unable to open the heavens and ascend to the Real Realm.

The only way for him to go to the Real Realm was through the Path to Immortality.

So, in the simulation, Hua Wuyan had said she couldn't tell Chen Yi what "the thing she found" was.

She was worried that if Chen Yi knew of the Path to Immortality's existence, he would become distracted, just like her master, and fight for the Path to Immortality to enter the Real Realm in pursuit of greater power.

Without Chen Yi, the human world couldn't withstand the Dragon-Men's Sixth Expeditionary Army.

"So that's how it is..."

After figuring this out, Chen Yi was more certain than ever that Hua Wuyan would not leave the human world.

He couldn't rely on her to complete the simulation task of "sending four people to the Path to Immortality."

True to the principle of never leaving empty-handed, Chen Yi certainly wasn't going to come for nothing.

"Great Demon, I found the Path to Immortality for you. You have to give me something in return, right?"

The Great Demon looked down at Chen Yi.

"Not giving!"