Myriad phenomena, chaos returns to unity! The Jade Emperor and Yama, the arts of heaven and earth, light and dark, are all integrated within a single force, blurring the lines between life and death!
The Three Kings now possess the aura of the living and the ghostly power of the dead. Thus, this vast underworld, which originally required the personal stabilization of Emperor Yuan, can finally be gradually integrated.
"The various realms of the netherworld are entrusted to your stewardship. Now, cause and effect have been reversed, origins have been transformed, tracing back to the Qin and Han dynasties. In this way, you have achieved the status of Chaos Immortals, and you can also exert some influence over the mortal realm."
The Three Kings were all sensing their own power. At this moment, Guangyao Shousheng Tianzun, who had not spoken before, humbly asked Emperor Yuan, "May I inquire what unique abilities these Chaos Immortals you speak of possess?"
"Merit Immortals are immune to poison, the Yang energy of the Immortals is most refined, Corpse-Release Immortals roam freely in the void, Enlightenment Immortals have affinity for awakening, and Corpse-Severing Immortals possess immortal bodies."
"Various types of Immortals achieve immortality through different means and possess different immortal powers. These Chaos Immortals are unprecedented in ancient times. For us, your three subjects, they are entirely unknown. Even though we have achieved them now, we do not know their specific advantages and cannot fully utilize them, hence we humbly seek your guidance."
The nine-colored radiance on Emperor Yuan's body flickered slightly, emitting a clear and profound sound:
"Their advantages are indeed great! The name 'Chaos' is different from the Immortals of past and present. It refers to Immortals who achieved their status before the separation of heaven and earth, before the duality of yin and yang. You are, in fact, the first batch of Chaos Immortals."
Guangyao Tianzun's face, painted with masks, contorted strangely.
"The first batch of Chaos Immortals?"
Emperor Yuan: "Because of the use of dark energy, it has always been considered a disaster throughout history. The appellation 'Chaos Immortal' is also merely what I have given you. Naturally, you are the first batch, those who bear the name of Chaos, those who are different from other Immortals."
"You are not constrained by the mutual restraint of yin and yang energies, nor will you be punished for acts of good or evil. No one will pay attention to you, and no Dao will take action against you. You are without good or evil, without light or darkness, without yin or yang, without righteousness or wickedness. All your actions stem from the name of Chaos."
"All of this is in accordance with reason. The name of Chaos predates the Heavenly Dao. It cannot do anything to you, and of course, you also cannot touch the Heavenly Dao anymore."
Upon hearing this, the faces of the Three Kings changed drastically.
All three of them had masks, giving them a strange and peculiar appearance. King Tianluo anxiously asked, "What does Your Majesty mean by this!"
"After ascension, the thirteen hundred merits were already useless. If the Immortals in the Inner Mountains and Rivers possessed a sense of good and evil, why would they stir up so much chaos in the mortal realm! Spreading their sects far and wide, manipulating dynasties for the sake of seizing the Heavenly Dao!"
"Are not the hardships of our old dynasty, its disintegration, precisely caused by the actions of these Immortals from the Inner Mountains and Rivers!"
"They acted with impunity."
"The Great Dao of the Dynasties has been completely divided among them!"
"Therefore, therefore there was Yuan...!"
King Tianluo suddenly became enraged, and after his roar, Emperor Yuan calmly retorted:
"Silence."
"Then I am also manipulating you now. You are subservient to me, and you still harbor resentment. It is simply that your current strength is inferior to mine, hence you endure it. I do not wish to raise three wolves."
"Being a puppet may not be a bad thing. Moreover, all four directions are in contention. If you cannot adhere to one side, cannot start from one and end with one, whether you are good, evil, wicked, or strange, changing your mind constantly, you will ultimately achieve nothing of value."
Emperor Yuan's self-address also became cold. No longer the intimate "I," but the high and mighty "This Sovereign," exerting pressure on the Three Kings.
In an instant, the majesty of the Heavenly Heart made them unable to breathe, as if their very existence were about to vanish, their forms and spirits irrecoverably lost!
King Tianluo was suddenly doused with cold water and immediately prostrated himself, kowtowing and saying, "Your subject dares not!"
"It was merely past events, led astray by treacherous individuals... At that time, the Daoist sect's Yuan Miao Great Sage, the Buddhist sect's Dragon Lord Jiu Wang, the Alchemist sect's Luo Feng Six Lords, the Confucian sect's Jin Han Scholar... We emperors were merely puppets of the four directions. The success or failure of matters depended entirely on the contention of the four directions, not on our own strength! Now that Your Majesty has bestowed divine power upon us, we are able to resist the seduction of the four paths and usher in an era of prosperity."
"At that time, Your Majesty will be the Heavenly Dao, and we will be the Heavenly Grandchildren. The Great Dao of the Dynasty will be a facet of the Heavenly Dao, and Your Majesty will be the Heavenly Dao itself. We will obey heaven and serve our lord, offering tribute generation after generation, with unwavering loyalty!"
After King Tianluo finished his sincere words, Emperor Yuan let out a laugh:
"There is no need to be so afraid."
King Tianluo: "Every word is true, not a single falsehood!"
Tianhe Tianzun also said, "May Your Majesty please enlighten us on the advantages of Chaos Immortals. We are dull-witted and truly do not know what use this ability of being unburdened by good and evil has. Could it be that the immortal body itself will bring down tribulations?"
"However, speaking of which, we have not encountered demonic tribulations since becoming Immortals. I wonder if it is due to the netherworld..."
Emperor Yuan: "You are Chaos Immortals. Demons arise after the Heavenly Venerates. Who will conduct demonic trials for you, who will help you overcome tribulations?"
He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh lightly.
Too foolish.
I have already helped you reverse cause and effect. You have been in the immortal realm since antiquity, merely returning to your origins recently. The Primordial Heavenly Venerate only appeared in the late Han and Wei-Jin periods, and the heavenly demons attached themselves to the Primordial Heavenly Venerate to be born. How could you possibly be tested by these later creations?
Even the ancient Corpse-Release Immortals had no mention of demonic trials.
As for not having demonic tribulations?
"Heh!"
Emperor Yuan let out a light laugh.
Perhaps it was precisely because all those who achieved immortality thought this way that the Heavenly Will, which had been slumbering all along, was finally awakened, and it dispatched its own "agent."
Thirteen hundred merits, like a mission. The world no longer held reverence for the Heavenly Dao, hence the demons descended.
"While your origins have been established in antiquity, and you do not need to undergo the trials of demons."
"But who told you that after ascension, there are no tribulations?"
"Immortals have no concept of good and evil because they are in the Inner Mountains and Rivers. The Inner Mountains and Rivers have no Heavenly Dao, so where would the tribulations and punishments come from? However, now, the Heavenly Will no longer asks difficult questions, and the true tribulations belonging to Immortals have already descended."
"You will gradually come to understand the benefits of Chaos Immortals, this existence that is truly unrestrained and not bound by the world or the Dao. You are the myriad phenomena, and the myriad phenomena are also you. Occupying the form of any existence, for now, let me tell you one method, similar to soul-snatching..."
"Furthermore, although you can no longer touch the Heavenly Dao, you will also soon realize that you no longer need to touch the Heavenly Dao. You do not need to comprehend Taiyi or Daluo. The Heavenly Heart Realm is a path extremely distant for you; it is not something you can contemplate at present."
Tianhe Tianzun asked doubtfully, "Is Your Majesty not a Chaos Immortal?"
Emperor Yuan: "One who embodies chaos is not necessarily a Chaos Immortal."
The identity of a Yuqing cultivator is far superior to that of a Chaos Immortal. However, sooner or later, the identity of a Yuqing cultivator will also perish, and that will be when I truly achieve completeness.