Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 572

Chapter 572 Longevity Resources

Xi Shangyan looked at the shocked expression on these people's faces and mentally shook her head. Although it looked like the Celestial Race was powerful beyond reason, it was not.

In the Eternal Ascension World, the number of Great Emperor's battle force a faction had did not matter. What dictated the authority of any faction was the number of Paragons or Tier 12 Cultivators they had.

And in this regard, the Celestial Race's innate talent did not help because of the fundamental flaw of the Immortal Path: just because someone was an Insurgent in Tier 10, it did not mean they could become one in Tier 11 or above.

For example, the clan members who cultivated Heavenly Immortal Qi had less than a 5% chance of sublimating it to Golden Immortal Qi on par with regular Empyreans. If they wanted to continue becoming Insurgents, they had to be like everyone else and search for rare and unique Qis in the Source Qi Space—an inherently dangerous place for them despite being born there.

Throughout the history of the Celestial Race, many geniuses have tried to elevate the Immortal Path to a higher level. And it was not just the Celestial Race but also many other cultivators.

There was a brief period of history where a movement to weaken the Emperor Path took place. During that time, many Heaven Defying geniuses of the Immortal Path took place.

And a few noteworthy people are still remembered to this day: the Myriad Qi Immortal Sovereign, for example. He created a method for his body to hold more than one Immortal Mansion.

His goal was to create 3800 Immortal Mansions, a number that symbolized the number of Primary Daos in all existence. In each mansion, he refined a unique and powerful Insurgent Qi.

The Myriad Qi Immortal Sovereign was an unparallel genius regarding understanding and controlling energy. So, after using countless Yuan Epochs and an incalculable amount of resources, he built more than 2000 Immortal Mansions with unique Qi, becoming an Insurgent Immortal Sovereign capable of killing Everlasting Empyreans: not defeat, but kill.

Although he could not erase their existence, he could force them to enter Limbo and revive them. However, in one of his battle against an Empyrean, the latter caught him off guard and destroyed hundreds of the Immortal Mansions inside his body.

Although he defeated his enemy, Myriad Qi realized the weakness or frailty of the Immortal and Dao Path. The Immortal Mansion or Inner World was an apparent weakness for them. Meanwhile, the Imprint of the Emperor Path could only be removed by Dao Wills and some unique treasures.

So, Myriad Qi sacrificed all his Immortal Mansions and Qis to temper his body, eventually opening the Gate of Power and walking on the Body Path.

Another genius of that era was the Heaven Will Immortal King. After acquiring the Heaven Will, he did not become an Emperor but spent years analyzing it to fuse it with his Immortal Mansion and create a unique Qi.

The concept of Heaven Will Qi existed long ago, but few people dared to try it. And the ones that did fail. But, to everyone's surprise, Heaven Will Immortal King succeeded.

The Heaven Will Qi was one of the few Qis that allowed an individual to become an Insurgent from Tier 10 to Tier 12. The only downside was cultivation took almost as much time as the Emperor Path.

The Heaven Will Immortal King could fight and defeat Paragons at his peak. Regrettably, he became dissolute with the Immortal Path because it did not grant him [Eternal] attributes like the Emperor Path.

If an Immortal King or a Dao Ruler died, that's it for them. But an ordinary Great Emperor, Empyrean, and Paragons had so many ways they could revive themselves, not to mention these freaks Eternals, Everlasting, and Boundless.

After voicing his frustration with the Immortal Path and his regrets about not using the Heaven Will correctly, the Heaven Will Immortal King left the world to enter Primordial Chaos and was never seen again.

Many people believe he went to find a way for the Immortal Path to acquire [Eternal Attributes], but most people think he went to prove the Dao in another Source Chaos World.

Xi Shangyan has read the stories of many geniuses similar to these two during the booming era of the Immortal Path. However, the ending of most of them was not satisfactory.

The booming era ended with the conclusion that the Immortal Path had no future; there was no way for it to rise. However, some people did not give up and went to search for the Source Qi–an energy believed to exist at the core of the Source Qi Space.

Source Qi was theorized to be the only form of energy capable of creating an Insurgent on par with a Peak Boundless Paragon. Regrettably, to this day, only rumors of it appearing in some other Chaos Worlds are known.

As Xi Shangyan thought of that period, she could only sigh to herself. That booming period did a lot to raise the status of the Immortal Path, but it also ruined it.

The Emperor Path would not just stay by and watch as the Immortal Path flourished; they counter-attacked. Many Great Emperors from Third to First Class began exploring the Source Qi Space to discover Insurgent Qi and grant them battle prowess above their class.

Meanwhile, Eternal Emperors would also find Insurgent Qi similar to the Heaven Immortal Qi; they would understand it and absorb it into their Dao Body to become immune to it.

As such, an Insurgent Immortal Venerable might defeat an Eternal Emperor. But, in the subsequent encounter, he realized his Qi was useless to the latter, rendering him powerless.