"You don't know, fellow Daoist."
Seeing Xu Chong in a daze, Huo Bufan misunderstood and explained, "Human Immortal, True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Jade Immortal are the names given by Huan Tian. If we follow the name given by the evil demons , that is, the void, the True Immortal is the seed of the fourth level of truth, the Golden Immortal is the bud of the third level of truth, and the Jade Immortal is the flower of the second level of truth."
"I remember that the Emperor Zizai is in the Jade Immortal Realm. Is there only a second-class status in the dignified world?"
Xu Chong's eyes flashed, and he asked in surprise, "Could it be that the first-class level is no longer the Heavenly Emperor?"
"The first-class status is also a Heavenly Emperor, but such existence is extremely rare. Before the Ring Heaven was shattered, there were only two in the entire thirty-three Ring Heavens."
Tu Sanshan sighed, "And they are not considered human."
"this……"
Xu Chong's heart sank, "Could it be that my human race cannot be promoted to the first level?"
“You can say that, but it’s not absolute.”
Tu Sanshan saw what Xu Chong was thinking, smiled, and said, "Do you know that besides the different forms of existence, there are other characteristics that nothingness and reality have that they absolutely do not share?"
"It should be the life span."
Xu Chong said without hesitation, "Nothingness has no lifespan limit, but reality does."
"You're only half right. Characteristics refer to strengths, not weaknesses."
Tu Sanshan shook his head. "The characteristic of nothingness is indeed that there is no limit to life span, but the real characteristic is not life span, but wisdom."
"wisdom?"
Xu Chong's heart moved slightly, and he had a vague understanding.
"The wisdom of most of our real races is growing very fast."
Tu Sanshan continued to explain, "Especially for us humans. Not to mention those who practice cultivation, even a mortal with flesh and blood, as long as he can live normally to the age of thirty, his wisdom can surpass that of most Void individuals, and he can even be a Void Fruit of the first level."
"I don't know if there is some kind of restriction here. Although it is easier for humans to increase their wisdom than other real races, their lifespan is relatively short."
"Even if you have great talent and break through the shackles of immortals and mortals with unstoppable force, and successfully reach the Jade Immortal Realm, your life span will only be around a thousand years at most. How can you make another breakthrough in such a short time?"
"For the three of us, although we still have nearly a thousand years of life left, let alone becoming a first-class Saint Immortal, we may not even be able to break through to the Jade Immortal level."
Thousand years? Short?
Xu Chong was a little shocked.
It seems that although the Tianxuan Realm was created by many big guys, it is after all a piece of broken rings of heaven. There is still a huge gap between it and the Wuling Realm, which is a world that was slowly degenerated from one of the rings of heaven.
At least that's the case when it comes to life span.
"but……"
Tu Sanshan suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile: "Although our human race has not been able to produce a first-class person, other real races still have."
"oh?"
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows.
"For example, the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, whose true form is a five-colored divine bird, was born at the fourth level, and after 100,000 years of cultivation, he finally reached the first level. Now, as the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor has degenerated into the Five Spirits Realm, the five-colored divine bird has also split into five different races."
Huo Bufan spoke, and pointed at Shui Yunzi, "Don't be fooled by Shui Laogui's humanoid appearance. In fact, his true form is the Water Vein Mysterious Ice Peacock, and he just transformed into a human."
"Five-colored divine bird..."
Xu Chong's heart moved slightly.
When he first heard about the real races other than the human race, his attention was not on Shui Yunzi, but he thought of Emperor Zizai and Emperor Changsheng.
The former is a time traveler, who is highly praised and revered by the first-class Five Elements Emperor, while the latter has mastered the rules of immortality and theoretically has an endless lifespan.
Are these two also beings of the same level?
If so, why didn't Emperor Zizai Tian leave a single word?
Xu Chong was very confused, but didn't know how to ask.
Because when he was talking about the origin of Tianxuan Realm, he hid a lot of information that he thought was sensitive.
For example, time travelers, Changshengtian, one’s own experience and age, etc.
Fortunately, Shui Yunzi said with emotion without him even asking, "In fact, if there hadn't been that catastrophe, Zizai Tiandi would have had the hope of breaking through to the first-class status as a human, and even surpassing Wuxing Tiandi to become the strongest saint... Wuxing Tiandi praised him so much, in addition to his admirable character and wisdom, this was also part of the reason."
"Yes, the Five Elements Emperor called him the leader of the human race."
Tu Sanshan nodded slowly, "It's a pity that the Five Elements Heaven and the Free Heaven are too far apart. When the catastrophe comes, the Five Elements Heaven Emperor will no longer be able to contact the Free Heaven Emperor."
"I see."
Xu Chong seemed to be thinking about something, but then he asked calmly, "In other words, the real side only had one first-class person, the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, at the beginning?"
"There's actually another one."
Huo Bufan seemed to be in high spirits, "Changshengtian..."
"Shut up!"
Shui Yunzi shouted, interrupting Huo Bufan, "He doesn't deserve the title of Heavenly Emperor!"
"Well……"
Huo Bufan paused for a moment, and rarely did he fight back, and remained silent in dismay.
Although the conversation between the two was incoherent, the core of the conversation was undoubtedly the Eternal Heavenly Emperor.
There must be some big secret involved here.
Xu Chong hesitated for a moment, pretending to be surprised and asked, "Why is Fellow Daoist Shui angry?"
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Brother Daoist Jiang."
Tu Sanshan sighed and explained, "This is related to an ancient event. The decline of the Five Elements Heaven and the Five Elements Divine Bird Clan, and even the destruction of the entire Huantian, are all closely related to this event."
It would have been fine if he hadn't said it, but once he did, Xu Chong became even more interested.
This crucial ancient secret may even involve myself, so why not get to the bottom of it?
However, Tu Sanshan had already said so much, so it was obviously inappropriate to force him to answer.
After thinking about it, Xu Chong decided to retreat in order to advance. He immediately stood up and bowed with an apologetic look on his face: "This has nothing to do with Daoist Huo. I am sorry for being rude."
"No, no, no."
Shui Yunzi didn't dare to be arrogant, and quickly stood up to avoid him. Finally, he shook his head helplessly: "I am rude, there is nothing to be said about this matter...Fellow Daoist Jiang, please take a seat."
After the two sat down, Shui Yunzi began to tell the story.
"Eternal Life Emperor, let's call him the Eternal Life Emperor."
"In the thirty-three rings of heaven, apart from the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, he was the only one who broke through to the first-class status, which is what the Void calls the Fruit of Truth, and what we call the Saint Immortal Realm."
"Unlike other Huantian, the name of the Heavenly Emperor comes from Huantian, and the name of Changshengtian comes from Changsheng Tiandi."
"You guessed right. He was the one who brought the rules of longevity to Changshengtian."
"As for why..."
At this point, Shui Yunzi's expression was slightly strange. He paused for a moment before continuing, "Because in the ancient times, he was not a human, not even a member of a real race... but nothingness, a first-level nothingness."
"What?!"
Xu Chong was shocked and cried out in surprise.
The Eternal Heavenly Emperor, was once nothingness?
Can nothingness be transformed into reality?
“Even back then, only a very few people knew about this.”
Tu Sanshan was filled with emotion. “In the records left by the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor of Eternal Life was called Shanwu, which means kind nothingness.”
"As a first-class master of nothingness, Shanwu is not only not hostile to reality, but will also take action to stop the situation where nothingness erodes reality. He has even been promoting the idea of ​​mutual benefit within nothingness, saying that only when reality and nothingness reach a perfect balance can the Great Ruins escape from poverty."
"Unfortunately, this idea has no basis to support it. Both the nihilistic and real parties just think he is a madman and a fool."
"If the first-class status was not strong enough, he would have been killed by the Will of Nothingness long ago."
Win-win?
Such an advanced concept...
Xu Chong was dumbfounded and asked, "Then how did he become a real member?"
"The Five Elements Heavenly Emperor only recorded the general situation of this matter."
Shui Yunzi shook his head. "Shanwu was rejected by the void and suspected by the truth. Not only did he plead for peace in vain, but he also caused a war between the void and the truth with good intentions... Shanwu blamed himself so much and became disheartened that he gave up his position in public on the battlefield and chose to annihilate himself."
“…”
Xu Chong was confused.
Full of passion, peace-loving, no regrets even if I die...
Did you get the wrong script?
This is a supernatural world, how could such a villain appear?
"Later, Yin Yang Tiandi, as Shan Wu's best friend on the real side, couldn't bear to see his friend die, so he gathered the gray mist that Shan Wu had disintegrated into and brought it back to Yin Yang Tian, ​​and used the power of life that he controlled to try to save him."
Huo Bufan said with a twitch of his lips, "Everyone thinks he is crazy."
"Using the power of life to save a hostile existence, and a nothingness whose existence is completely different from reality, is almost doomed to failure."
"Even Yin Yang Emperor himself will be regarded as a true traitor by everyone because of this action."
“However, the result exceeded everyone’s expectations.”
"Shanwu is indeed dead, but in the place where he died, a rule that had never existed before was born out of nothing."
"A human baby was born along with the rules."
"This baby has neither any ethereal characteristics nor any complicated memories. It is completely a normal human baby inside and out."
At this point, Huo Bufan looked at Xu Chong who looked puzzled, "You should have guessed that the new rules are the rules of Changshengtian later, and that baby was Shanwu in the past, and later became the Emperor of Changshengtian."
"As long as nothingness annihilates itself, can it become reality?"
Xu Chong had a question, and then immediately denied it, "No, it shouldn't be that simple."
"Of course it's not that simple."
Tu Sanshan nodded. "After this incident, many Heavenly Emperors in Huantian thought they had found a way to completely eliminate the Void, and suppressed a large number of Voids of various ranks. For example, the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor even captured a newly promoted Void Lord with his own hands."
"These imaginary individuals were eventually forced to self-annihilate by various means. However, without exception, they were only annihilated and did not transform into reality like Shanwu."
"The Five Elements Heavenly Emperor speculated that there must be many other necessary factors for the annihilation of nothingness and rebirth in reality."
"Perhaps it is the power of life held by the Emperor of Yin Yang Heaven, perhaps it is the unique rules of Yin Yang Heaven, or perhaps it is the idea that Shanwu is in the void but his heart is for peace."
"In short, this incident cannot be repeated."
At this point, the origin of the Eternal Heavenly Emperor has been almost clearly explained.
Xu Chong's mind was in turmoil and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
He has understood why he can achieve both virtual and real personhood.
Because the rules of immortality are born out of the nature of nothingness.
No wonder the rules of longevity completely disappeared from the panel after being activated.
It's just like the 'Wisdom Growth' which is a real characteristic and is also not reflected on the panel.
To put it bluntly, the rules of longevity can no longer be regarded as rules from the moment they are activated.
It completely integrated into Xu Chong's body, transforming the 'reality' that was the basis of his existence into a 'symbiosis of reality and virtuality'.
Now there is only one question left.
"Why do you say that the destruction of Huantian is also related to him?"
Xu Chong asked, "Didn't he say that he has completely lost his past memories? It shouldn't cause any damage to the truth."
"That happened later..."
Shui Yunzi's face was slightly gloomy, but he still spoke with a hint of resentment.
It turned out that after becoming a human, Shanwu showed an extremely terrifying talent for cultivation.
Normally it would take one hundred thousand years to break through to the Jade Fairyland, but he achieved it in just ten thousand years.
During this ten thousand years, a large number of brilliant geniuses emerged on the real side.
For example, Zizai Tiandi is one of them.
It is no exaggeration to say that this period of ten thousand years is the only time when reality looms over nothingness.
All the subjects of Huantian firmly believe that as long as they continue to develop in this way, one day, there will be no more living space for nothingness in the entire Daxu.
Unfortunately, this idea did not last long.
In the second ten thousand years since Shanwu became a human, he successfully broke through to the Holy Immortal Realm.
If we don't count the fact that he was once a member of the Void, he can be said to be the first and only holy immortal in the history of the Daxu human race.
The first-class status, the fruit of truth, the saint.
There are only two beings of this level, including a veteran Five Elements Heavenly Emperor.
However, although Shanwu did not inherit his previous memories, he retained his previous personality and ideas.
Peace became Shanwu's greatest obsession after he was promoted to the first-class rank.
Just like when he was in the Void Camp, Shanwu spread his ideas everywhere and prevented conflicts everywhere.
He is clearly a saint, yet he is extremely unpopular.
The subjects under his command and the surrounding realms under his jurisdiction were all full of complaints.
Of course, if that were the case, at most it would just involve another large-scale war. According to reality, the overall strength of the Realm was not inferior to or even greater than that of Nothingness, so there would be no need to be afraid even if a war broke out.
However, in order to prove that reality and nothingness can coexist peacefully, Shanwu captured a seed of nothingness himself and began a teaching or influence that lasted for ten thousand years.
“…”
Xu Chong was no longer able to speak.
For such a thing, let alone the man who was in charge of the sky back then, even for him now, he only had one "absurd" thought.
"Haha, you must think that doing this is futile. After all, the wisdom of the Void Seed is pitifully low, and it does not have the ability to be 'taught' at all."
Tu Sanshan smiled and said, "But he really succeeded."