"Why?"
My strength was clearly enough.
My understanding of the Great Dao had also reached its peak.
Yet, around him, there seemed to be an invisible seal, preventing him from ascending to the Great Emperor realm.
Angry roars echoed through the chaos.
Everyone sensed the Immortal Emperor's fury.
Why.
Yes, why.
Both Seven Kill and Emperor Yu could step into the Great Emperor realm.
Why couldn't he, the Immortal Emperor?
"What's going on?"
Seven Kill and Emperor Yu frowned.
They dared not approach to investigate easily.
"I know."
At this moment, Chen Fan suddenly spoke, "Wait for me here."
Boom.
His figure, with unparalleled arrogance, plunged into the storm of the Immortal Emperor's ascension.
At this moment, the Immortal Emperor was in an extremely frenzied state.
His blood-red pupils held a hint of madness.
"Why?"
He asked Chen Fan.
Now, only Chen Fan could offer him a sliver of solace.
"The soul."
Chen Fan indeed gave him the answer.
His voice was somewhat low, "Rank seven requires a Dao Domain, and the foundation of a Dao Domain is the soul. You... have no soul."
The Immortal Emperor froze.
Immediately, the expression on his face became even more unwilling, "Is it just because of this? I..."
"It's alright."
Chen Fan smiled, "It's just a soul, I'll help you reshape it."
"You mean..."
"Go through life and death."
His voice slowly sounded, "Retrace the cycle of life and death. Like a newborn, if you succeed, you will regain your soul."
"Your physical body's memories will be reborn within your soul."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go..." The Immortal Emperor was incredibly anxious.
"Wait a moment."
Seeing the Immortal Emperor's impatience, Chen Fan had to voice his concerns, "Rebirth without a soul, I've never tried it. If something goes wrong..."
He didn't finish his sentence.
If something went wrong, the Immortal Emperor would die.
Dying in the River of Life and Death meant truly being dead.
"It's alright."
This was the only chance to achieve the Great Emperor fruit. How could the Immortal Emperor give it up? "If I die, I die. If one knows the Dao in the morning, one can die in the evening. If I die, I die."
He didn't care.
Rather than being stuck at this realm for a lifetime, he would rather die.
He didn't want a future without hope.
"Good."
Chen Fan agreed readily, "Since that's the case, then we... will go through life and death..."
"Open."
The shout was like thunder, shaking the entire chaos.
With a 'boom', the River of Life and Death appeared.
The twin Dao rivers flowed out.
"Go in."
"Alright."
At this moment, the Immortal Emperor was incredibly carefree.
What was the crisis of death?
He didn't care.
"Keep this safe for me."
He threw his Emperor weapon aside.
Boom.
The Emperor weapon once again transformed into Sword City, settling in the chaos.
This was the true form of the Emperor weapon, capable of drawing out a city to fight.
Thump.
The Immortal Emperor leaped into the River of Life and Death.
The black and white river water churned continuously.
His clothes instantly melted away, leaving only the Immortal Emperor's physical body.
"Go," Chen Fan said.
The Immortal Emperor stepped forward, walking along the River of Life and Death.
Each step was a reincarnation of life.
Under everyone's gaze, the Immortal Emperor was slowly becoming younger, his aura also beginning to weaken.
An instant could feel like an eternity, perhaps describing this moment.
The Immortal Emperor had returned to his youthful days.
Then... he became an infant.
Finally, the Immortal Emperor became a mere speck of light, dissipating into the river.
He vanished.
The Immortal Emperor's aura completely dissipated.
In this world, there was no longer anyone called the Immortal Emperor.
At this moment, Chen Fan suddenly raised his hand and reached into the river, "Rise..."
There were no extra words, only a single syllable.
Swish.
The river water flowed, and the Great Dao spread.
The River of Life and Death transformed into a Tai Chi diagram, all its power converging at the central point.
The central point took the shape of a mother's womb, a misty light of life's origin gestating and then expanding.
The mother's womb, the Immortal Emperor was being reborn.
Time slowly passed. The flow of time within the river was different from reality.
Everyone saw the Immortal Emperor's figure gradually taking shape, and then... being born.
"Not good."
The moment the Immortal Emperor was born, the accident finally occurred.
Chen Fan's expression changed.
The soul had appeared, but it was incompatible with this physical body.
Rumble.
Above, a heavenly tribulation appeared.
"Noisy."
Chen Fan frowned.
The entire Thunder Domain was now his. Yet, the heavenly tribulation still dared to intrude? "Disperse."
With a single word, the thunderous torrents in the sky immediately dispersed.
In the Thunder Domain, I, Chen Fan, am the rule.
This sight made Seven Kill and the others' hair stand on end.
They were convinced; they had no choice but to be.
"Alas."
Seven Kill sighed, "Truly a monstrous genius."
The chaotic heavenly tribulation that everyone feared dispersed at Chen Fan's command.
At this moment, Chen Fan had no time to attend to trivial matters.
His attention was entirely on the Immortal Emperor.
"Soul and body incompatible?"
A trace of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes, "Then I will force the fusion."
The infant's birth could not be delayed for too long.
If they delayed any further, the Immortal Emperor would suffocate in the womb.
He absolutely would not allow such a situation to occur.
The Immortal Emperor must live.
"Fuse."
At this moment, Chen Fan activated his supreme divine method.
Life and death were compressed by him.
"Yin Yang, appear."
As the river churned, Yin and Yang were reversed, "Come..."
Boom.
The four Great Daos merged, forcibly pressuring the Immortal Emperor's body and soul to begin their integration.
Within the soul were all of the Immortal Emperor's memories.
And also the Great Dao.
Rumble.
The river violently churned.
It was too difficult.
A person's body and soul were formed innately, perfectly compatible from the start.
The current situation was akin to soul possession, yet with significant differences.
In short, it was extremely difficult.
Under the pressure of the four Great Daos, the Immortal Emperor's soul and body finally converged.
However, they were still one step away from perfect compatibility.
Currently, it was merely forced compression.
"It's up to you now."
The next step required the Immortal Emperor to endure the final stage himself.
Chen Fan had done all he could.
The greatest crisis had arrived.
Chen Fan walked out of the river and looked at the waiting crowd behind him, saying, "It will still take some time. Please wait a bit longer, everyone."
"City Lord."
Mad Emperor and the others walked over, "Will it succeed?"
"I don't know."
No one could provide an answer.
This matter depended on the Immortal Emperor himself.
He added, "Let's wait."
"..."
It wouldn't take too long.
Chen Fan wasn't in a hurry. He walked to the sky above the Realm of Life and Death and sat down cross-legged, meditating.
Haste would be useless.
He placed the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi sword on his crossed legs.
Hum.
His divine sense entered the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
Thunder Realm.
Snap.
As soon as he entered the Thunder Realm, he was met by an immense bolt of lightning.
Before his eyes, there were countless thunder dragons.
This place, too, was devoid of any life.
Just like the Gravity World, it was now empty.
Completely empty.
Chen Fan walked, sensing the thunderous laws of this place.
At this moment, he was standing above the Dao network.
The dormant Dao universe had now been awakened.
All the Great Daos were presented before him without reservation.
Thunder was diverse and multifaceted.
Yang lightning, Yin lightning, elusive lightning, dark lightning, fire lightning...
All forms of thunderous Dao were present here.
Chen Fan strolled, and for every thunderous Dao law he found, he would stop and meditate for a while.
Slowly, he reached the deepest part.
A thunderous heart was beating slowly.
This... was the origin of the Dao in the Thunder Realm.
Just like in the Divine Firmament Realm.
However, this time he did not strip away the origin of the Thunder Realm. This place... was his territory.
He had to fight for the Divine Firmament Realm, but not here.
He sat beside the origin of the Dao, beginning to comprehend this most powerful Great Dao.
This was the Dao of the Thunder Lord.
...
The outside world.
Time passed very slowly.
The River of Life and Death still existed, and the infant within was struggling against fate.
No one knew what the Immortal Emperor was experiencing at this moment, only he himself knew. DaFeng Novel Network.
He had no memories now, only that trace of unwillingness buried deep within his heart to support him.
He didn't know why he had to persevere.
It was the deepest desire of his heart.
"Roar."
A roar of the unborn shook the River of Life and Death.
At a certain moment, it seemed as if a cry from the depths of the soul resounded through heaven and earth.
"Fuse... for me..."