Chapter 1845 : Millions of Years
Getting back to the main story, this advancement yielded 70-2 primordial ancient trees.
In addition to bringing immense enhancement to the cosmos, it also granted Eldrin a vast quantity of supreme-grade innate treasures.
Among the rare treasures were Enlightenment Tea, Ren Water Pan Peaches, Li Fire Apricots, Purple Tribulation Thunder Fruits, and a multitude of other innate marvels. While most of these innate treasures held little practical value for Eldrin, they proved immensely beneficial in rapidly advancing the cultivation of the Chen Clan members.
Eldrin placed most of these rare treasures into the clan vault, then summoned key figures including Chen Ethan and Chen Qiyuan to convene.
After meeting with the group, Eldrin spoke directly: "My Void-Realm Return to Abyss has reached a bottleneck. Next, I plan to send my micro-cosmos into that Chaos Sea."
"In the days to come, I shall rely on your continued support for the family."
Hearing this, everyone’s gaze faltered slightly.
The Elder of the Abyssal Qi looked slightly grave and couldn't help but ask, "I've heard the Chaos Sea is extremely perilous. Isn't it too soon to send the Heaven of Returning Ruins there?"
Eldrin shook his head, however, and declared decisively: "The Chaos Qi across the 3 1000 celestial realms is far too sparse—its density scarcely reaches 1-thousandth of that in the Chaos Sea."
"I've done the calculations. Without venturing into the Chaos Sea, even with 70-2 Primordial Ancient Trees, I could never accumulate enough origin energy for my Minor Universe to reach perfection before the Great Calamity."
Hearing this, the few of them immediately fell silent.
Seeing this, Eldrin waved his sleeve, leaving behind over a dozen supreme killing treasures such as the Tempest-Severing Divine Gourd and the Pure Yang Celestial Sword.
"These Primordial Ancient Treasures are all supreme instruments of slaughter, with power sufficient to severely injure—or even slay—Ancient Immortal mighty figures. Take them to serve as your clan's foundation, preparing for your eventual breakthrough to the Ancient Immortal realm."
No 1 declined the offer, for they understood that given Eldrin's current level of cultivation, these treasures held little practical value for him now.
After handling this matter, Eldrin did not wait for Lyra to emerge from seclusion before hastily returning to the Abyssal Heaven and beginning to propel the cosmos forward.
A magnificent universe spanning 50 billion light-years was unimaginably vast and majestic, its mass immeasurably immense.
Fortunately, as the Lord of the Universe and possessing an 11-limit supreme physique, Eldrin found it not overly difficult to propel the cosmos forward.
This time, Eldrin propelled himself through the cosmos, ceaselessly traversing the primordial chaos. After nearly 1 100 1000 years of journeying, he finally arrived at the fringes of the Chaos Sea.
Chaos Sea.
Before he knew it, Eldrin had arrived at the shore of the Chaotic Sea.
Gazing at the Chaos Sea before him, Eldrin fell into deep contemplation. A moment later, he decisively set the cosmos in motion.
Boom—
Amidst a violent clash of impacts, the vast Returning Abyss Cosmos sank into the Chaos Sea, sending towering waves of primordial chaos surging forth. Endless chaos waters submerged all of existence.
With the diameter and origin of the Nihility Universe, it would have been difficult to resist such a tide of chaos.
Fortunately, the 5 Ultimate True Spirits deployed the Protective Boundary Array, while 70-2 Primordial Ancient Trees took root in the chaos, forming a barrier that withstood the erosion of the Primordial Chaos Sea.
At this very moment, the Heavenly and Earthly Ancestors, the 5 Primordial True Spirits, and the 70-2 Imperial Lords were all exerting their utmost to activate the Grand World-Protecting Array. While fully resisting the Chaos Sea, they continuously drew upon the chaotic waters, transforming them into cosmic essence.
Eldrin saw it clearly—the growth rate of the universe's primordial essence and spiritual energy had accelerated not merely by hundreds, but thousands of times compared to the 3 1000 Immortal Realms.
"70-2 Primordial Ancient Trees—truly extraordinary."
Eldrin murmured softly, a faint smile gracing his lips.
He arrived within the Celestial Realm of the Returning Abyss, yet did not depart from its confines. Now that the Celestial Realm of the Returning Abyss had just entered the primordial chaos, its foundational essence remained insufficient and unrefined, barely able to sustain its own existence against the void.
Under such circumstances, the Returning Abyss Realm would still face considerable peril if confronted by a Chaos Beast King. Thus, Eldrin resolved to remain stationed there for a time to safeguard the realm.
Seizing this opportunity, Eldrin retrieved the ‘Flying Immortal Zither’ (Magic Treasure). This zither was a nascent Primordial Spiritual Treasure embryo, theoretically capable of ascending to the realm of a true Primordial Spiritual Treasure, provided 1 encountered sufficient serendipity.
Eldrin directly exhaled a strand of Primordial Hongmeng Purple Qi, merging it into the Feixian Qin. This Feixian Qin was already a supreme treasure engraved with 30-3 Primordial Dao Patterns, and within it lay a complete strand of Primordial Indestructible Spirit Light.
At this moment, a strand of Primordial Hongpurple Qi merged into it. The Soaring Immortal Zither instantly sprouted 2 additional innate Dao patterns, transforming into a 30-5-patterned Primordial Spiritual Treasure embryo—now merely 1 step away from becoming a true Primordial Spiritual Treasure.
According to Eldrin's (Person Name) estimation, this final step wouldn't be excessively prolonged—it could be successfully nurtured within 1 million years.
Thinking of this, Eldrin placed the Flying Immortal Zither within the Returning Abyss Heaven to nurture it, then finally began his secluded cultivation.
This time, Eldrin went into seclusion for intensive cultivation. He directly took out a portion of Innate Enlightenment Tea and began contemplating his own cultivation techniques.
To this day, Eldrin had already formed clear approaches to cultivating his physical body, laws, Dao Fruit, primordial spirit, and spiritual energy—he simply hadn't yet consolidated them into a complete system.
Seizing this rare moment of leisure, Eldrin began to organize his cultivation path, gradually refining his rudimentary practice method.
Among them, the cultivation method of the Primordial Chaos Indestructible Body progressed most rapidly. In merely 2,000 years, Eldrin (Person Name) had perfected the cultivation method of the Great Luo Primordial Chaos Indestructible Body.
The method of the Primordial Spirit progressed slightly slower. It took Eldrin 5,000 years to preliminarily establish the cultivation method of the 12-Limit True Spirit Primordial Spirit, further refining the Great Art of 5-Lights Spirit Refinement and the Great Art of 5-Thunders Spirit Tempering.
The 2 perfected techniques had grown increasingly profound and esoteric, requiring mastery of the 5-Colored Divine Light and Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder—powers befitting a sect leader—to even meet the prerequisites for cultivation.
Eldrin believed that the Chaotic Divine Thunder Body Refinement Art should surpass the Great Luo Secret Scroll, rivaling the supreme techniques personally handed down by the Dao Ancestor.
Another 100 1000 years passed, and Eldrin further advanced the Primordial Chaos Undivided Great Dao to the Great Perfection Realm, while also fully perfecting the cultivation method of the Dao Fruit.
Thus, the 5 foundational pillars of cultivation—the physical body, the Great Dao, the Dao Fruit, the primordial spirit, and spiritual power—were all elevated by Eldrin to the realm of a sect master. Moreover, for each of these foundations, he had devised at least 1 Profound Mystic Art of the Great Perfection.
At this stage, the 5 foundational cultivation methods had reached Eldrin's (Person Name) absolute limit. To advance them further, his current accumulation of knowledge was no longer sufficient.
Eldrin thus ceased his pursuit of perfection and instead began contemplating the myriad divine abilities within himself.
His first deduction was the Great 5 Elements Pure Yang Divine Thunder. With his accumulated insights, the deduction of this divine ability proceeded with exceptional smoothness.
Within a mere few tens of thousands of years, Eldrin had already developed the Great 5 Elements Chaos Divine Thunder based on the foundation of the Great 5 Elements Pure Yang Divine Thunder.
From that day onward, time flowed swiftly by. Eldrin successively advanced the Primordial Chaos Qi, the 5 Elements Divine Light, the Ethereal Cosmos Sword Qi of the Great Unity, the Chaos Weapon Manifestation Art, and the Great Evolution Yin-Yang Star Dao to the Patriarch-level.
Until this day, Eldrin was jolted awake from his secluded cultivation, only to discover that a million years had passed.
"A million years have passed in the blink of an eye."
Eldrin sighed with profound emotion. This had been the longest seclusion of his life, yet the gains were exceedingly gratifying.
Although his strength had not seen any monumental breakthroughs, over these 1 million years, he had thoroughly systematized and deduced the cultivation methods of the Ancient Immortal Realm, laying the foundation for his future ascension to the Great Luo Dao Fruit.
"The divine ability has been fully deduced. Now, all that remains is to gather the medicinal catalysts, and I should be able to attempt its cultivation."
At this thought, Eldrin emerged from his secluded cultivation chamber.
After exiting the seclusion chamber, Eldrin immediately detected anomalies within the room.
Compared to 1 million years ago, the origin of the Abyssal Universe has expanded by over a hundredfold, while the concentration of immortal spirit energy has increased no less than a 100 times.
"The density of spiritual energy here is far greater and more concentrated than even in the Vastheavens Immortal Realm."
Sensing the density of the spiritual energy, Eldrin murmured softly, a faint smile emerging in his eyes.
According to Eldrin's (Person Name) estimation, the density of the Heaven Immortal Spirit Qi in this Abyssal Ruins should be over 30 times greater than that of the Qing Cang Immortal Domain.
And this was only the beginning. Eldrin estimated that as time progressed, the cultivation environment of the Abyssal Realm would greatly improve, ultimately reaching a level where the immortal spiritual energy would be over a 100 times more abundant than that of the Azure Sky Immortal Domain.
This does not imply that the Abyssal Heaven possessed deeper foundations than the Azure Sky Immortal Realm, but rather stemmed from its more diminutive nature, coupled with the 70-2 Primordial Trees converting primordial qi and its unique position within the Chaos Sea.
Although the Vast Azure Celestial Realm was indeed a celestial domain, its sheer immensity was staggering. With insufficient supreme-grade Primordial World Trees to convert the primordial chaos energy, and given the diluted nature of this energy across the 3 1000 Celestial Domains, it was inevitable that the concentration of immortal spiritual qi here remained sparse.
"The environment of the Chaos Sea is far superior to that of the 3 1000 Immortal Domains."
"It seems that if I ascend to the Immortal Realm from within the Primordial Chaos Sea in the future, the number of Immortals I could sustain would be hundreds of times greater than what the Vast Azure Immortal Realm can support—at the very least."
Eldrin murmured softly, then extended his senses once more to probe the Abyssal Return Heaven's condition. A faint sense of relief settled within his heart.
Now that the Abyssal Heaven's origin had surged a hundredfold, the defense of the cosmic membrane had also increased by over tenfold, providing ample origin energy to sustain the cultivation of immortals within the Abyssal Heaven.
In the current 70-2 Heavens of the Abyssal Cosmos, the number of Immortals and Deities has surpassed 1 100 million, with each heaven averaging over 1,000,000 celestial beings.
Moreover, the earliest cohort of 3,000 deities, now empowered by this realm of the cosmos, had attained combat prowess comparable to experts at the Taiyi realm.
And the 70-2 Imperial Lords nearly all possessed combat prowess at the Great Perfection of the Celestial Immortal realm.
The Heaven and Earth Ancestors, along with the 5 Guardian Spirits of the Realm, all possessed combat prowess equivalent to that of Ancient Immortals who had survived 4 or 5 heavenly tribulations.
Of course, this combat prowess was bestowed by the Void Universe's augmentation, inherently derived from a fraction of Eldrin's own power. Thus, it remained effective only within the confines of the Void Universe.
Once they ventured beyond a certain range of the Eldrin Universe, the cosmic empowerment would vanish, causing their combat prowess to plummet by at least 1 major realm.
However, a combat strength capable of withstanding 4 heavenly tribulations within the Void of Returning Abyss was already astonishing. Relying on the grand formation within the Void Universe, they could even hold their ground against ancient immortals who had survived 6 tribulations.
At this thought, Eldrin contemplated for a moment before summoning the Heaven and Earth Ancestors—Chen Changxuan and Chen Changqing—and calling forth the 5 Guardian Spirits of the Realms: Li Fire, Profound Azure Robe, White Tiger, Kylin, and Black Tortoise.
He retrieved the 7 Primordial Treasures Gourd, handing the Primordial Pure Yang Gourd to Chen Changxuan and the Primordial Pure Yin Gourd to Chen Changqing, then distributed the 5 Elements Gourds among the remaining 7 individuals.
After distributing the treasures, Eldrin spoke: "These 7 Primordial Gourd Treasures were born from the Primordial Sevenfold Vine—a supreme set of divine artifacts. If all 7 of you refine them jointly, you should be able to withstand a seventh-tribulation Ancient Immortal."
"From this day forth, each of you 7 shall claim 1 of these, to serve as 1 of the ultimate treasures guarding our Return to the Void Heaven."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the 7 individuals grew subtly solemn.
The old clan leader pondered briefly before speaking, "This treasure can contend against a Seventh Tribulation Ancient Immortal. Perhaps you should keep it for yourself."
Eldrin shook his head and spoke calmly, "At my current level of cultivation, this treasure merely adds flowers to brocade—it cannot bring about any substantial improvement."
In contrast, the Void Abyss drifts within the Chaos Sea, perpetually vulnerable to the scrutiny of Chaos Beast Kings and other ancient immortals, necessitating a degree of self-preservation capability.
Upon hearing this, Chen Changxuan immediately ceased further discussion and stored away the Innate Pure Yang Gourd.
After the crowd had dispersed, leaving only the old clan leader and Chen Changqing behind, Chen Changxuan finally spoke. "Are you planning to depart?"
"Hmm."
Eldrin nodded and said, "Only 2,000,000 years remain until the Quantifiable Cataclysm, and the Li Fire Sword of the Returning Abyss now possesses the power to protect itself. I do not intend to delay any further."
"I plan to first venture into the depths of the Chaos, then make a trip to the Primordial Immortal Realm. If all goes smoothly, I'll have a million years to prepare, and incidentally celebrate my 10-million-year birthday."
Chen Changxuan could not help but sigh with emotion upon hearing this.
Before he knew it, Eldrin (Person Name) had already lived for 9 million years.
The celestial beings' decamillennial birthdays are known as "Dao Birthdays." Generally speaking, Celestial Immortals would celebrate them with great fanfare, after all, the vast majority of Celestial Immortals could only experience a few or a dozen or so such occasions in their entire lifetimes, making each 1 particularly significant.
In truth, the first 10 1000 years, 100 1000 years, million years, 10 million years, and even the lifespan spanning kalpic tribulations were all milestones revered by countless immortals, for they represented profound commemorative significance.
Not to mention, this birthday celebration wasn't just for Eldrin. Lyra, Qing Ji, Chen Ethan, and others were all close to him in age, meaning over a dozen people would simultaneously be celebrating their 10-million-year birthdays. How could such an occasion possibly be simple?
After all, with this lifespan extension, less than a million years remain until the kalpic tribulation. No 1 dares claim they will surely survive what comes after the cosmic cataclysm.
To get back to the main story, Chen Changxuan couldn't help but smile wryly at this thought. "Truly, time flows like a fleeting melody, gone in the blink of an eye."
"Back in the day when we were in the Violet Realm, it had only existed for just over 8 million years."
"Who would have thought that today, your lifespan has surpassed that of the former Eldrin."
Upon hearing this, Eldrin (Person Name) could not help but feel deeply moved.
9 million years—a span of time that meant little to many ancient immortals, yet for the Violet Realm, it was an entire epoch etched into the annals of history.
Over such a long passage of time, enough to obscure epics and tragic hymns, perhaps the cultivators and mortals within the Violet Realm have long forgotten the world-ending demonic tribulation that spanned tens of thousands of years in ages past.
How many still remember those who fell in battle for the Violet Realm, their heroic and poignant struggles drenched in blood? (End of Chapter)
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