After Amethyst's breakthrough, everyone else—Carson the first elder, Willette the second elder, Heath the third elder, Mona the fourth elder, and Cuthbert the fifth elder—had all become half-immortals too. Their gratitude toward Severin was immeasurable, and they pledged to safeguard the well-being of his wives in the days to come.The news of all six elders' ascension to half-immortality sent shockwaves throughout the sect. The Menzies and the Burkes, both newcomers to the sect, were brimming with excitement as well. At that moment, Hepman and Kugen knew that aligning themselves with Severin was perhaps the best decision they had ever made.As time trickled by, the six newly anointed half-immortal elders emerged from their seclusion one by one. They wanted to express their gratitude to Severin personally, but they soon discovered that he was still in retreat. Left with no other option, they could only convey their thanks through messages directed to Severin's divine senses before de
On one of the mountain peaks inside the cave world, Carson—who had recently attained the rank of half-immortal and emerged from seclusion—sensed the sudden onset of a formidable aura coming from the Green Emperor's Pagoda. It stretched for hundreds and hundreds of miles.The aura was so strong that it seemed to warp space and suspend time, and even a practitioner as mighty as a half-immortal would find themselves feeling dread when faced with such prowess. Sensing the resounding roar of the radiant solar spirit within his upper energy core, Carson rose to his feet and glanced in awe at the direction of the Green Emperor's Pagoda. "What's happening?"Carson knew that he and the other five elders would never be able to gain such powers even if they attained half-immortality in quick succession. The ability to seal space and freeze time could no longer be described as being a mere divine technique.After a moment's contemplation, Carson swiftly deduced that the sole inhabitant remainin
Severin was a little taken aback when he laid eyes on the river. No longer able to contain his surprise, he grinned and exclaimed, "The river of time!"Though the river was more ethereal rather than tangible, it was undoubtedly the genesis from his inner world's origins. Should he be able to elevate that inner world into a Small Thousand World, the river of time would undergo complete evolution too.At that realization, Severin took a deep breath to quell his astonishment. He then proceeded to redirect his gaze and return his consciousness to his physical body."Phew... I'm much stronger now that I've made a breakthrough to being half-immortal. Fusing time and space has boosted my strength tremendously, and I will be able to single-handedly subdue Xavier if I encountered him again!"At that moment, Severin felt that he could hold his own against a true immortal!Nearly all three thousand laws had been condensed within his inner world and comprehended at least to beginner level.W
Severin's voice reverberated through the hall, stunning Amethyst and the others. They soon snapped back to their senses and sprang from their seats."Severin!""Have you completed your seclusion?"Severin nodded and entered the hall at a leisurely pace. He glanced calmly at Carson and the others and began, "I just so happened to have made a breakthrough and gained some insights into the great path. I can take on this mission to the Eastplain."Spending over half a year in seclusion within the Green Emperor's Pagoda had left Severin feeling a little restless and uneasy. Meditation was not the be all and end all of attainment—comprehending one's path required a balance between effort and relaxation.As a half-immortal, his solar spirit and physical body had reached completion, leaving only mana as the final step.Unfortunately, that was no easy feat.Severin followed the path of his own creation, the Hidden World Creation Art, which allowed him to form an inner world within his bo
Severin accepted Amethyst's proposal.He had offered to go not merely because of the threats posed by the puppets on that trip—a greater part of him wanted to explore more of Bleurealm, as that could be the factor leading to his chance of immortality. To do so, he needed to turn his inner world into a Small Thousand World, and the Bleurealm was a genuine Small Thousand World that was retained from a fragment of the celestial domain!Those ideas fueled his eagerness as he beckoned to Carson. "Shall we?"He then opened up a spatial channel and vanished from the hall in an instant.Amethyst had a convoluted expression after watching Severin leave. Eventually, he exhaled and said to Carson and Willette, "He is the very fiber of the Grandiuno Sacred Land's future, and the key to whether Bleurealm will be able to survive this catastrophe. Nothing must be allowed to go wrong!"Willette had been loyal to Severin since he received the pill and ascended to immortality. In fact, it was no ex
Carson and Willette were just about to come to Severin's aid when the scene that unfolded before them left them speechless and dumbfounded."Just how strong is he? He put in nearly zero effort to subdue that half-immortal puppet," Carson exclaimed in shock as he was overcome with turmoil.They had both suffered at the hands of Wendigo's puppet and barely escaped with their lives, but Severin had reduced it to ashes in just a single move. Such strength was frightening, to say the least.Willette, who was still reeling from the shock, gulped and asked, "Have you become an immortal?"He understood the Wendigo puppet before them to be immensely powerful, as his combined effort with Carson was not enough to breach the puppet's defenses, let alone defeat it. One could imagine how shocked Willette was when Severin had annihilated it so effortlessly."Not yet," Severin replied, smiling faintly at their astonished expressions. He had just attained half-immortality, completed the second of
"Curses! What is taking the Grandiuno Sacred Land so long?!" The Alaric seethed with anger and frustration, while his emotions tinged with an inexplicable fear.Cuthbert had been sent over from the Grandiuno Sacred Land a day ago but had to retreat after being bested by the corpse puppet. In order to stay alive, Abner and Alaric defended against the puppet, but their battle stretched across a day and a night without any signs of progress.Instead, their spiritual energy reserves were dwindling dangerously low, hence their mounting apprehension. The corpse puppet had spent over half a month relentlessly slaughtering practitioners and civilians in Eastplain, which led to an increase in its intelligence and power.The puppet grinned menacingly. "You are both very resilient. Your deaths are the perfect offerings for the flag!"No sooner had it spoken than the corpse puppet materialized before Abner. Clouded in a dense, dark green, poisonous mist, the puppet had virtually teleported acr
Abner gulped and his eyes widened. He rubbed his eyes and wondered if he had been hallucinating. The corpse puppet, whose power was comparable to that of several half-immortals, had been destroyed with relative ease by Severin!Alaric, who wielded a pair of swords as his divine protective weapon, stood stunned at Severin's feat. As he glanced at the corpse that had sliced in half and noticed that its primal spirit was all but destroyed, he muttered blankly, "It's…dead?"Abner and Alaric looked at Severin in horror, as they had the honor of experienced Severin's master over time and space. With space sealed and time frozen, it was as if all physical matter had ceased to exist in the world, leaving only the presence of their consciousness. It was an almost omnipotent power that would send chills down everyone's spine.After confirming that the puppet had been genuinely destroyed, Severin withdrew the domain that had had frozen using his space-time path. The Golden Balance Bridge benea
At that instant, Infernatur and Damnatur felt a sudden chill, as if an impending doom loomed on the horizon.Severin then said softly to them, "I'm gonna need you as a helping hand!"Infernatur and Damnatur recoiled as a horrifying realization dawned upon them."Have you taken that leap?" Infernatur's voice trembled with uncertainty.Severin remained silent and simply waved his hand gently. The 129,600 cosmic laws surged with boundless power, reducing the huge figures of Infernatur and Damnatur to dust.Within moments, two essences of pure primordial power flowed into Severin's inner world, while the desolate chaos sea crumbled and was consumed by his voracious appetite.Severin's form eventually began to fade until it became a flicker of light that vanished completely. His consciousness had been devoured entirely.Everything before him was empty and devoid of substance.An indefinite amount of time passed before Severin's voice echoed through the emptiness, "Chaos springs from
With a deft stroke of the bronze halberd, the path hovering above Severin shattered."This is a peculiar weapon," Severin recoiled in alarm, raising the Oculus Blade to defend himself "It has the ability to dismantle the great path!"Simultaneously, he utilized his space-time path to shield against potential assaults, especially any sneak attacks.Explosions reverberated, unleashing torrents of elemental energy and spatial turbulence throughout the chaotic sea. Time passed indeterminately amidst the chaos.For centuries, the trio engaged in combat, their auras undiminished by time's passage.Meanwhile, the four Dominus Nosters in the Celestial Realm waged war against the extraterrestrial intruders, reclaiming territories with unparalleled ferocity.Under the leadership of figures like Callide, the extraterrestrials were simply no match for them.The Southern, Western, and Devil Regions were reclaimed quickly, yet everyone from the Celestial Realm remained vigilant, for war conti
Outside the Heaven Palace, the few who had been appointed Dominus Noster along with a cohort of quasi-royal celestials were faced with the grim reality at hand.Clad in resplendent hues, Callide—who was their leader and carried the title Dominus Noster Arcanum—donned celestial attire woven from stars and the galaxy. With a regal bearing, she commanded from atop a cloud, "Follow me, my brethren! We shall vanquish the extraterrestrials in the Devil Realm!""At your command, Dominus Noster Arcanum!""Yes, Dominus Noster Arcanum!"With their resounding battle cries, streams of light surged across the Nine Heavens Ten Lands, converging upon the territories occupied by the extraterrestrials—they were the Devil Region, Southern Region, and the Western Region.Amidst the vibrant rainbow, a towering figure emerged, blotting out the sky and earth. Everyone recognized that figure as Severin, and knew that the battle against the quasi-celestial regents would soon begin.Adrian, who was alrea
Armin then spoke with a calm authority, "You cannot remain in this time and space, for you are from the future. It is time you return."As he uttered these words, Severin sensed an invisible force pushing against him and urging him to depart.Standing upon the river of time, he overlooked the tumult of the quasi-celestial regent conflict looming below. He mumbled Armin's counsel, "By receiving nourishment, shattering constraints, tearing open chaos, and reaching the other side…" As Severin pondered over those revelations for an indefinite amount of time, clarity dawned upon him like the sudden rising sun. "So that's the way!"By the time he snapped to his senses, he discovered that his primal spirit had traversed countless epochs in the river of time. "Did I spend that long in the river of time?" he asked himself. Fortunately, the duration he spent in the river of time was but a fleeting moment in the real world.Severin's resolve solidified. Though his brief discourse with Armin,
Severin could sense the mental connection between himself and the weapon, almost as if it was an extension of himself. Severin then raised his gaze to the celestial expanse beyond."I'm almost on Armin's level now that I've made a breakthrough to the rank of quasi-celestial sovereign. However, facing the extraterrestrials' quasi-celestial regents isn't going to be easy meat for me," he mused aloud.Armin was once the sovereign architect of the Imperial Court and the ruler of the Celestial Realm, yet even he found himself at the mercy of the attack of Heaven's Will. Even a mighty quasi-celestial sovereign was reduced to naught but dust.Severin felt the weight of the responsibility settle upon him. Confronting the two quasi-celestial regents would require him to transcend to the realm of celestial sovereign—a realm of which he had scant knowledge of.He understood the concept of the celestial sovereign only in the context of attaining liberation through enlightenment via the 3,000 p
In the vast expanse of the chaotic sea, occasional gusts of strong wind whipped up the formidable chaotic energy. A single whirlpool could claim the life of even a true immortal.Amidst that tumult, two colossal figures lay prone within the abyss. They emanated an aura of unparalleled power, commanding even the paths to heed their authority. The turbid breath exhaled in their slumber had the capacity to tear the fabric of the chaotic void, unveiling dreamlike cosmic chiliocosms.They were the progenitors of the extraterrestrial race, the alpha and omega of the enigmatic beings. Their names were Infernatur and Damnatur. To the uninitiated, and sometimes even to their own kind, it was widely believed that Infernatur and Damnatur were distinct entities. However, they were but facets of the same being.Infernatur could be deemed the primordial offspring of chaos itself, having borne witness to the most primitive and barbaric epochs of the Bleu Celestial Realm. Being born of chaos, he po
Heaven Palace could now boast four royal celestials, along with nearly 20 quasi-royal celestials and 5,000 true immortals. Those esteemed individuals once served the Longevity Alliance, Clear Wind Sect, Tri Celestial Island, and Ingeni Paradise. While their numbers paled in comparison to the 120,000 true immortals during the ancient Imperial Court's heyday, Severin was confident that he could revive that with time. After all, the new Imperial Court had only just been re-established, and there was still more work to do.Severin then addressed the assembly, "As you continue raising your attainment, you shall have to anticipate the looming threat of conflict with the extraterrestrials. Now that you have are bestowed with titles as the custodians of heaven and earth, it is our solemn duty to reciprocate the blessings bestowed upon us.""Yes, we shall!" echoed the resolute affirmation from the gathered immortals.Having concluded his address, Severin went to speak briefly with Diane and
In the Heaven Palace, Callide sensed that the aura emanating from Severin was simultaneously as vast the sky and ocean but as indiscernible as that of a mortal. Tremors of terror gripped her, as she knew that he had far surpassed the realm of a cultivator who had attained the perfect-stage royal celestial. It was no exaggeration to say that Severin could obliterate a royal celestial with a mere thought.Balke, Libra, and Creatia shared Callide's apprehension. To them, Severin embodied the very essence of the path—intangible, silent, abstruse, incomprehensible, and undetectable.As the imperial robe adorned Severin, Balke and the others bowed in reverence. "Long live the Celestial Sovereign!" they chanted in unison.A subtle wave of fortune floated toward the heavenly heart imprint as Severin acknowledged their worship with a satisfied smile. He raised his hand and lifted them effortlessly with an unseen force.With a thunderous voice that resonated in their ears, Severin proclaimed
The true immortals, quasi-royal celestials, and even the eminent royal celestials held their breath. Everyone observed in silence as Severin wielded the heavenly heart imprint.With each strand of luck infused into the heavenly heart imprint, Severin sensed his dominion over the Bleu Celestial Realm becoming stronger. He had the feeling that he could reshape the world with only a single thought.Once the destinies of tens of thousands of races were bound with the heavenly heart imprint, the golden tourmaline quivered violently and radiated an aura that could be felt across the Nine Heavens Ten Lands. Acknowledging the momentous occasion, Severin tapped his forehead and directed a fragment of his soul to command the heavenly heart imprint. The 3,000 great paths within him erupted from his being and materialized."Today shall be the day that I, Severin, rebuild the Imperial Court in the Nine Heavens! As wielder of the great path, the world shall be inscribed in me, and I shall embody