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Chapter 123: Spreading the Path, Contesting Fate, A Hundred Years Hence (Subscribe Now)
Chapter 123: Spreading the Path, Contesting Fate, A Hundred Years Hence (Subscribe Now)
"Those three scions of fate..."
Lin Yuan's expression turned pensive.
What were these scions of fate? Blessed by the heavens and earth, they stumbled upon opportunities even when drinking water. In essence, they had incredibly good luck and often turned danger into safety, constantly growing stronger.
And today, Lin Yuan had finally witnessed these traits.
Under normal circumstances, Xiao Huo, Yang Bixin, and Shen Lang were supposed to go to Tianjian Mountain to challenge Tianjianzi and pave their path to the Tenth Realm.
If all went well, as they ascended Tianjian Mountain, Lin Yuan's Taiyin Yuan Shen would make its appearance and crush the mountain under its foot.
With the might of the Taiyin Yuan Shen, there was no doubt that the three scions of fate would perish, regardless of their methods.
However, for some unknown reason, these scions of fate had stopped midway and conversed with Situ Ming, even inviting him to join them.
This slight delay had spared them from a calamitous fate.
One could only attribute it to their extraordinary luck. After all, compared to them, Situ Ming, though also from the younger generation, was far inferior.
Usually, even if Xiao Huo and the others encountered Situ Ming, they wouldn't stop to chat, let alone spend as much time as they did today.
"Is it truly luck?"
"Or is it some sort of hint?"
Lin Yuan's expression grew thoughtful.
In truth, with Lin Yuan's current strength, if he truly harbored murderous intent towards those three scions of fate...
No matter how blessed they were by the heavens and earth, and no matter how good their luck was, it wouldn't make a difference.
Those three would still meet their end.
There was no room for chance.
In the face of absolute power, only equal power could stand against it.
Everything else was illusory.
However...
As Lin Yuan comprehended the heavens and earth, he faintly felt that even if he killed those three scions of fate, it wouldn't accomplish much.
As long as this world remained, after several years or decades, a fourth, fifth, and sixth scion of fate would still emerge.
That was why the Taiyin Yuan Shen had said 'interesting' when it looked at those three scions earlier.
"Pitiful."
Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
The scions of fate were blessed by the heavens and earth.
Their rise and fall were dictated by fate.
The next line after 'when fate arrives, the world lends its power' was 'when fate departs, heroes lose their freedom'.
What did it mean to lose freedom?
The scions of fate could be seen as the children of this world, or perhaps embodiments of its will.
Their upper limit was the world's upper limit.
And they could never break free from the world's shackles.
Of course, there was also the possibility that a scion of fate could eventually overcome the world's consciousness and turn defeat into victory.
But the likelihood of that was exceedingly low.
Everything you have, all your means—they are all granted by the heavens and earth, by the world.
How could you hope to overcome it?
"Speaking of which, in the past few decades, the great fortune of the heavens and earth has flourished, giving birth to three scions of fate one after another. This is also influenced by me."
As Lin Yuan's thoughts turned, a sudden realization struck him.
Over the years, Lin Yuan's strength had continued to grow, breaking through the shackles of the past one by one.
Others may not have known, but those under his command, like Situ Ming, Nuan Shu, and Moyang Demon Lord, at most, only realized that Lin Yuan was powerful.
But as to just how powerful he was, they had no concept.
Or perhaps it was beyond their imagination.
However...
This world, this realm of the heavens and earth, could sense the changes in Lin Yuan's strength.
An overwhelmingly powerful individual brought a sense of crisis to the world.
This, in turn, stirred the great fortune, giving rise to the scions of fate.
In a sense, these scions of fate were born to subdue a demon.
To subdue Lin Yuan, the demon that shook the heavens.
However...
The birth of the scions of fate also required time.
Even with the power of a realm poured into cultivating these three scions of fate, it was still inconceivable that in just over twenty years, they had reached the peak of the Ninth Realm.
And yet, Lin Yuan's growth was even faster, outpacing the scions of fate by far.
This led to an embarrassing situation.
When the scions of fate faced Lin Yuan, their hearts and minds crumbled. They didn't dare entertain the thought of subduing the demon, let alone act on it.
"Huh."
Just as Lin Yuan was deep in thought, the Taiyin Yuan Shen before him slightly opened its mouth.
It exhaled two strands of Yuan Shen power.
These two strands of power continued to condense after leaving its body, transforming into two thumb-sized figures—Tianjianzi and 'Bai Qing'er'.
As for the other powerful beings whose essence and blood Yuan Shen the Taiyin Yuan Shen had devoured, it had directly absorbed them to nourish itself without hesitation.
However, these two held a 'special' place in Xiahou Yuan's heart.
Of course, it wasn't a good place.
"Might as well swallow them too," Lin Yuan said as he looked down at the minuscule figures of Tianjianzi and Bai Qing'er.
For a moment, he felt a sense of ennui.
Without waiting for the two to wake up, and without waiting for them to display looks of shock and terror upon seeing him, Lin Yuan directly summoned the Taiyang Yuan Shen and swallowed these two Yuan Shen as well.
Devouring the essence and blood Yuan Shen of countless beings could pollute the purity of one's soul. However, doing so occasionally posed no problem.
From Lin Yuan's current standpoint, unless he devoured hundreds of millions or billions of creatures in a short period, there wouldn't be any issues or hidden dangers.
Having settled the grudges of his 'original body', Lin Yuan began to contemplate the next matter at hand—spreading his path.
As his status in the main world continued to rise, Lin Yuan noticed something: the superpowers of the main world would spread their own evolution paths or those related to them.
For example, the ancient 'Primordial Gods' in the depths of the universe's starry expanse. With their capabilities, if they didn't wish for it, there wouldn't be any evolution paths related to them.
In fact, the Primordial Gods yearned for their evolution paths to spread among humans.
It was only due to the suppression of the Human Alliance that they couldn't do so.
Not only the Primordial Gods, but even the high-level powers of the Human Alliance were intentionally or unintentionally spreading their own evolution paths.
The vast collection of evolution paths in the Human Alliance's archives couldn't have been obtained solely through forced uploads from evolvers.
The willingness of evolvers was also necessary.
Lin Yuan had once asked his senior martial brother, the top disciple of the Chi Qiu Planet Master.
According to him, spreading one's evolution path was related to the Ultimate Leap.
Of course, the Ultimate Leap was still far beyond the reach of his senior martial brother.
Even the Chi Qiu Planet Master was far from that level.
Only by creating a completely unique evolution path suited to oneself could one hope to take that step.
Currently, whether it was his senior martial brother, second senior martial brother, or third senior martial brother, they were all walking the paths of their predecessors.
Since most of the superpowers in the main world were spreading their evolution paths, it meant that this path was undoubtedly correct.
In the main world, within the Human Alliance, countless evolution paths competed with each other.
The martial evolution path founded by Lin Yuan had to go through fierce competition to attract some evolvers.
However, in the other world, spreading his evolution path was naturally not difficult for Lin Yuan.
With his unbeatable strength, who would dare refuse to cultivate it?
However...
Spreading an evolution path, or a cultivation system, was just the beginning.
It was a task that consumed an extraordinary amount of time.
Lin Yuan, endowed with heaven-defying comprehension, could reach the pinnacle in just a few short decades from a bird's-eye view.
But what about everyone else?
They might need generations, or even dozens of generations, to achieve any success.
To prevent the martial evolution path from disappearing for inexplicable reasons during its dissemination, Lin Yuan had to cultivate a 'Protector of the Dao'.
This person would ensure the continued thriving of the martial path after Lin Yuan left this realm.
The Protector of the Dao's lifespan had to be extraordinarily long, as passing it down from generation to generation could lead to problems.
Most importantly, they must be absolutely loyal to Lin Yuan, perfectly executing his orders for thousands or even tens of thousands of years after his departure.
The one Lin Yuan chose as the Protector of the Dao was Situ Ming.
Situ Ming's true body was the Five-Colored Lotus, granting him a long lifespan that could easily span thousands or tens of thousands of years.
Additionally, his unwavering loyalty, stemming from his connection to Lin Yuan, ensured that even if Lin Yuan's time limit arrived, Situ Ming could take his place and guarantee the longevity of the martial path.
When Lin Yuan saved Situ Ming in the past, he did not hesitate to expend a Five-Colored Lotus and a significant amount of time and energy, even offering a drop of his essence blood.
All of this was in preparation for this very day.
Months later...
Situ Ming returned to the underground palace.
"Your Excellency."
Situ Ming knelt before Lin Yuan with unparalleled fervor.
Nuan Shu, Moyang Demon Lord, and the others by his side also bowed respectfully.
News of a certain existence crushing Tianjian Mountain with a single step had already spread like a hurricane throughout the Five Regions.
After all, there were quite a few mortals living around Tianjian Mountain, and there were even cultivators at the Fourth and Fifth Realms.
With a single step of the Taiyin Yuan Shen, all the powerful beings on Tianjian Mountain had perished.
However, outside of Tianjian Mountain, many had witnessed this spectacle.
All sorts of rumors began to circulate.
Some said that the Tianjian Sect had offended the heavens, hence the punishment.
But...
While outsiders speculated, the Demon Path was also filled with conjecture.
However, all the guesswork came to an end when Situ Ming returned.
He told them that it was the doing of their Excellency.
"From this day forth, all cultivators of the Demon Path shall cultivate this method of training."
"Additionally, use all means necessary to spread this cultivation method throughout the Five Regions."
Lin Yuan spoke calmly, with a stack of books in front of him.
They contained records of the martial evolution path that he had organized over the past period.
To integrate the martial evolution path into this world as much as possible, Lin Yuan made extensive modifications while maintaining its core principles.
"Yes!"
Nuan Shu and Moyang Demon Lord immediately acknowledged the order.
"Northern Region."
After dismissing everyone, Lin Yuan remained seated cross-legged beside the Spring of Primal Qi.
With his current realm, he could faintly sense that far beyond the Northern Region, in the endless seas to the north, there existed a 'black hole'.
This black hole, like a glutton, constantly devoured the primal qi of heaven and earth.
As a result, the primal qi of the entire world was slowly diminishing.
Five million years ago, or even ten million years ago, there were cultivators in the Five Regions who had reached the Eleventh Realm.
But between one million and five million years ago, the Eleventh Realm became a legend, and even Tenth Realm cultivators became extremely rare.
As for the present, in the past ten thousand years, the only confirmed Tenth Realm cultivator was Tianjianzi.
While the great fortune of the heavens might give rise to a few children of fate who could potentially reach the Tenth Realm, it was merely a temporary solution.
This so-called great fortune was simply consuming the potential of the world for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
After the children of fate passed away, this world might not even produce cultivators of the Ninth Realm.
And the culprit behind all this was that massive 'black hole' that Lin Yuan sensed in the distant north, beyond the endless seas.
East Region.
In a bamboo forest of purple bamboo.
Xiao Huo, Yang Bixin, and Shen Lang, the three children of fate, had stopped here.
"But even if that Summer King is strong, we shouldn't be affected. His strength is his business, and we should continue to cultivate."
Yang Bixin, gentle and fragile, was the first among the three to recover.
"That's right."
"The heavens are strong, and the gentlemen must strive forward."
Shen Lang also quickly regained his composure.
"Shameful."
Xiao Huo's eyes were bloodshot, but he, too, was calming down.
The three of them exchanged smiles.
Just as they were about to continue their conversation, a rumbling sound came from the depths of the purple bamboo forest.
Xiao Huo and the others stood up and approached the source of the sound.
They felt that the rumbling was not ordinary.
Soon...
The three of them arrived at a massive cave entrance.
The entrance was pitch-black, but within, they could sense immense primal qi fluctuations, as if it connected to another world.
"What is this?"
Xiao Huo frowned.
"This is the underground world, the entrance to a world beneath the Five Regions that rarely appears," Shen Lang explained after a moment of thought, his eyes sparkling with excitement.
With Shen Lang's explanation, Xiao Huo and Yang Bixin gained some understanding of the underground world.
The underground world was a vast realm beneath the Five Regions, preserving the primal qi density of tens of millions of years ago.
Over the past ten million years, the entrance to the underground world had only appeared a few times.
Cultivators who entered it and emerged later experienced tremendous improvements in their cultivation, making it the ultimate opportunity in the world.
"Hahaha!"
"Even the heavens are helping us."
The three of them glanced at each other and without hesitation, stepped into the black hole entrance.
As soon as they entered, the ground shook, and chunks of rubble fell, completely hiding the entrance.
Time passed slowly.
After Tianjian Mountain was crushed by a certain existence, the truth gradually came to light. The Demon Lord, Xiahou Yuan, had perfected his demonic cultivation, projecting his Yuan Shen and transforming it into a hundred-thousand-zhang-tall deity that flattened Tianjian Mountain.
When this news first broke, most people didn't believe it because it was too bizarre. A hundred-thousand-zhang-tall Yuan Shen? How powerful was that?
But as time passed and the Demon Path remained intact, more and more people began to believe it.
After all, if the news were false, Xiahou Yuan should have quickly come forward to deny it; otherwise, wouldn't the Demon Path be the next to be crushed?
But Xiahou Yuan neither denied it nor had any Demon Lord come forward to explain, which was as good as admitting it.
In this situation, with Xiahou Yuan still alive and well, the news could only be true.
In no time, Xiahou Yuan was revered as the number one powerhouse in the Five Regions by countless powerful beings.
To be precise, he was the number one powerhouse of the past ten thousand years, or even a million years.
A hundred-thousand-zhang-tall Yuan Shen was simply terrifying.
And at this moment, a cultivation system called the 'Martial Path' began to spread rapidly throughout the Five Regions.
Mortals without cultivation talent began to try this cultivation system.
Even cultivators at the Third and Fourth Realms, upon realizing the potential of the Martial Path, decisively abandoned their previous cultivation and switched to the Martial Path.
And so...
A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.
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