"Your strength exceeds my expectations; you have earned my recognition!"
Unexpected, after all his means had failed.
The anger and regret on the face of the Immortal Heng Yu quickly vanished, replaced by a calm and composed smile.
While suppressing the Long River True Immortal, he gently attempted to recruit Zhang Daoyuan.
"Come to my side! I can take you as my foster son!"
"You will attain a noble status, and later, I will personally select a Cave Mansion for you, allowing you to reside above the Nine Heavens and hold a seat on the World Tree!"
"With your talent, you should not be rotting away in this ruined world!"
Zhang Daoyuan did not speak; he simply stepped down and crushed the head of Heng Long, who had been transformed into his original form.
This was a strange exotic beast, covered in scales, with a pair of wings on its back.
Its entire body resembled a dog, yet it also looked like a horse with a long head.
Zhang Daoyuan directly took out a large pot from his personal belongings and, in front of countless people, skinned and dismembered the strange exotic beast.
After cleaning away the blood, he threw it into the pot to cook.
He also added various Saint Medicine and Divine Medicine into the large pot.
Even though a world separated them, one could not smell the scent.
But watching Zhang Daoyuan skillfully gut, clean the blood, cut the meat, and light the fire.
And seeing him reasonably combine various medicinal materials and put them into the pot to cook.
Watching the milky white soup boil, a look of intoxication appeared on Zhang Daoyuan's face, and then he suddenly looked outside this world.
"As expected of a noble bloodline, it has the blood of an Immortal King; it even smells different."
Heng Yu's expression turned completely cold, like a block of billion-year-old ice.
Both sides were about to speak again, but layer upon layer of Heaven and Earth Rules descended.
The world where Zhang Daoyuan was located became increasingly ethereal.
Even though both could see each other.
They both knew that the rules of Immortal Kings and True Immortals were intertwined above.
Even for an Immortal King, it would be impossible to pull Zhang Daoyuan out in a short time.
Unless Zhang Daoyuan came out voluntarily, no one could touch him.
Or, as before, Zhang Daoyuan voluntarily opened up part of the permissions to let someone in.
But after that lesson, it was clearly impossible for Zhang Daoyuan to open up that special world he was in again.
The rules were in chaos, and Heaven and Earth were changing.
At one moment, the entire firmament even turned into boundless darkness.
All the stars seemed to be disappearing.
That was the most absolute darkness between Heaven and Earth; even with Zhang Daoyuan's cultivation and strength, he could not see his own hand.
Then, at a certain moment, boundless radiance shone upon all worlds; that dazzling light made tears stream from Zhang Daoyuan's eyes.
Even the True Immortal and the Immortal who were fighting stopped because of this unexpected event.
It became somewhat terrifying, and many figures were looking at the starry sky above their heads.
They were even looking at places that could not be seen or perceived.
That was the region where the River of Time was located.
There were battles between figures of the Immortal King level, and they were truly going to decide victory, defeat, and death.
The level of their battle was too high, disrupting everything.
Zhang Daoyuan was isolated by the Immortal King level spell of Eternal Exile, but he still felt the chaos of the Heaven and Earth Rules.
Everything was becoming chaotic.
The originally orderly Vital Energy of Heaven and Earth was rioting, and layer upon layer of Heaven and Earth Rules were intertwining and crossing.
At their most dazzling, they were bright, then turned dim.
Even the Long River True Immortal and the Immortal Heng Yu, who were fighting in front of Zhang Daoyuan, fell from the sky because of this unexpected event, unable to mobilize the heavy rules.
Under such influence, they all seemed to have become mortals, and the most intense change was not in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, but in the Frontier Wasteland.
There were originally seven supreme figures standing tall there, but at this moment, some were falling.
The ancient city wall, which had once been built using stars from the sky as bricks, was collapsing and shattering.
An Immortal from the Foreign Territory climbed onto the city wall, only to be instantly struck into a skeleton by the supreme laws of the Foreign Territory.
Only a skeleton frame remained, burning on the city wall.
This was the peak battle between two Great Universes, the most terrifying and explosive.
Zhang Daoyuan could no longer watch; he could not bear this sense of chaos at all.
If not for the fact that he was protected by Immortal King level rules in advance, this rule chaos would have made him vomit blood on the spot and be severely injured.
He closed his eyes with difficulty and waited for everything to end.
Of course, having broken the Mystery of the Womb, he was very clear that in this battle, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands were completely defeated, ruined beyond recognition.
Not only did the Immortal King level figures die completely, but even figures at the True Immortal level did not remain.
The few who barely survived were in a severely injured condition.
The two Immortal Kings who survived in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands were also in a severely injured condition, muddled and confused, suffering from ominousness in their later years.
They should have been the Second Under Heaven of the True Dragon Clan and the Immortal Gold Daoist who was a sentient Immortal Gold, but their Nascent Souls were already lost.
In later eras, they had no influence at all.
There were complete and intact Immortal Kings, but they had already reached a covenant with the Foreign Territory, drawing a circle to make a prison, and did not go out at all.
The deaths in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had nothing to do with them anymore.
Zhang Daoyuan could feel the rules around him becoming increasingly dense, to the point where he could no longer see the outside world.
The last thing he saw was the firmament and the earth collapsing and shattering, turning into nineteen large fragments and countless small fragments, flying in all directions.
The entire Great Universe was like a shattered mirror, divided into countless pieces.
Then it went completely dark, and countless rules shrouded him, leaving him unable to see anything.
He shook his head and began to collect the spoils of war from this battle.
That Heng Long still had many things on him.
He carried a space storage item, which was a palace built of bronze.
Inside were stored many medicinal materials, spiritual objects, and pills.
There were even cultivation scriptures related to the Foreign Territory, though they were incomplete, along with many cultivation insights.
Zhang Daoyuan browsed through them casually and then set them aside.
He thought everything was over, but at this moment, that glitchy system suddenly jumped up again.
"Venture into a Forbidden Zone, come into contact with the secret of becoming an Immortal, enter the Bronze Immortal Palace, and escape unscathed!"
"Reward: Root of Myriad Mother Qi!"
"Ah, this?"
Zhang Daoyuan held the space item in his hand—the Bronze Palace—feeling a bit confused.
"System, did you make a mistake?"
"Detecting... detecting... Bronze Palace present, secret of becoming an Immortal present, this reward is correct..."
Zhang Daoyuan looked at the wisps of Myriad Mother Qi descending from the void, as well as a thick Root of Myriad Mother Qi.
The Myriad Mother Qi is unique in Heaven and Earth; as long as it stays between Heaven and Earth for long enough, it will continuously produce new Myriad Mother Qi, which can be said to be the root cause of Profound Yellow Qi.
A single wisp of Myriad Mother Qi can crush mountains, being heavier than a mountain, and is the best treasure for refining weapons.
While Zhang Daoyuan was silent, his eyes were also incredibly bright.
Although this Heavenly Emperor Life System was glitchy, the things it rewarded were truly not fake.
This time, it probably assumed that he, like Ye Fan, had entered the Bronze Immortal Palace, come into contact with some items left behind by the Ruthless Great Emperor, and then walked out alive, hence the reward.
"When the Ruthless Great Emperor was in Nirvana within the Bronze Immortal Palace, it should have been her Fourth Life; although her entire body exploded in the end, with flesh and blood everywhere, and people thought she had failed, she had actually succeeded."
"The Ruthless Great Emperor at that stage should have been no less than a True Immortal, and perhaps even stronger than an average True Immortal."
"Entering the Bronze Immortal Palace can indeed be said to have come into contact with the secret of becoming an Immortal!"
Zhang Daoyuan looked up at the outside world, but he could no longer see anything.
However, his experience just now was truly not fake; he had seen a True Immortal battle and had even been slashed by a True Immortal.
Such an experience could indeed be said to have come into contact with the secret of becoming an Immortal.
Fine, let the glitchy system judge it however it wants; as long as the reward is in hand, that is enough.
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