The Immortals' Viewing Platform was lined with stone steps. Each step represented a lifetime of experience. In this lifetime, one had a vast amount of time to deduce and perfect one's technique!
Lifetime after lifetime, continuous practice and experimentation. If one lifetime was not enough, one would use two, three, four, or even hundreds of lifetimes, millions of years to deduce the technique of immortalhood!
In the immortal light, a lifetime was long, but in the outside world, less than an hour had passed. Therefore, everyone here had a vast amount of time to squander and explore the mysteries of immortalhood.
And this was what they needed the most!
One had to know that even God Emperor had a limited lifespan. Once his lifespan reached its end, even God Emperor could not avoid death. Here, however, they could be reborn continuously and start anew. They could deduce their techniques to their heart's content and test out the various paths to immortalhood.
However, this was also extremely dangerous. Jiang Nan saw some people step into the immortal light and never come out again.
This was because their daoist hearts were unstable. Their daoist hearts disintegrated and they were completely lost in the world of the immortal light. They treated that place as reality and reality as illusion.
The consequence of that was that if one were to die in that illusory world, one would truly die and become a corpse.
Those who did not walk out of the immortal light would never walk out again, because they had already died within.
Jiang Nan almost met this fate in the first ray of immortal light. If he had not come to his senses at the last moment and restored his daoist heart, he would have died as well!
The encounters in the immortal light were illusory yet not, real yet not. Real was because your experiences and feelings were all real, vivid in your mind and able to touch your soul.
You would face many people and many things. You would also experience many battles, many joys and sorrows, all of which would improve your state of mind. The accumulation of battle would also increase your experience to a terrifying level.
You could also break through a realm that you had not broken through before, making it easier for you to break through after entering the real world!
However, apart from yourself, everything else is just an illusion, an illusion created by the energy in the immortal light. It is a method left behind by the immortals to improve the mental state of their descendants and nurture them.
In the immortal light, even if you become the God Emperor, when you walk out of the illusory realm, you are still you. Your magic power won't increase at all. What's left is the stability of your state of mind, as well as the techniques that you deduced during that period of time.
This was an unimaginable opportunity and unparalleled wealth!
However, although it was very good to experience life after life, there was a huge drawback, and that was memory.
Even mortals would have tens of thousands of years worth of memories after several hundred lifetimes, let alone cultivators. If someone were to become God Emperor 100 times, then his lifespan could be calculated in billions of years!
Hundreds of rebirths, with repeated scenes and slightly different lives, would cause all of your memories to become blurry. You would forget what your real memories were, forget the people that were related to you, and hundreds of you would fight for control of your body. You would lose yourself, and in the end, you would also be lost, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Therefore, cutting off your memories in the immortal light, only keeping the techniques and battle experiences that you comprehended in the immortal light, as well as the stability of your state of mind, was the safest way. Otherwise, with hundreds of you in your body, problems would easily arise.
"So this is how Taihuang's lost memories came about …"
Jiang Nan stepped onto the third stone step. Having figured this out, he was a little disappointed. His original intention in entering the Immortals' Viewing Platform was to search for Taihuang's past experiences.
But someone as brilliant as Taihuang Laozu must have also cut off his experiences in this period, lest he lose himself.
He had originally thought that Taihuang's severed memories were his weakness, but now it seemed that not only did Taihuang Laozu's state of mind not have any weaknesses, his state of mind was terrifyingly strong. Hundreds of lives of experience and memories, even if they were severed, were enough to allow a person's state of mind to reach an incomparably terrifying height!
"Taihuang Laozu has no weaknesses. I can only use martial arts that are stronger than him, and beat him to death!"
This time, when Jiang Nan stepped into the immortal light, the scene before him was no longer the Jiang Manor of the Central Plains, but his next life. In his next life, he was reincarnated in a glorious cultivator family. His ancestors had given birth to gods and demons, and they controlled millions of miles of territory.
"To become an immortal in one life, cherish what's in front of you, and only pursue the present!"
Jiang Nan's state of mind had completely calmed down, and he ignored everything in front of him. Instead, he sat down quietly and allowed his state of mind to settle, allowing his Daoist heart to remain at the state of unity of knowledge and action.
In the immortal light, he could not sense his real body, nor could he sense his spiritual power.
But after his Daoist heart recovered to its peak state, as he breathed in and out, he could gradually feel that his real self was also breathing with him.
Thump —
Thump, thump —
The sound of a heartbeat rang out, and the two heartbeats gradually merged into one, becoming a single heartbeat.
His aura became wilder and more domineering, and in the illusion of the immortal light, his cultivation was actually recovering and rising, and his aura was even suppressing the illusion!
"I don't need a past life, I don't need an afterlife, I am me!
"I am Jiang Nan, the leader of the Xuan Tian Sage Sect!
"Seal of Fearlessness!"
The sound of the Dao rumbled around Jiang Nan's body. He looked up to the sky and roared. Divine light gushed out, and a seal shook the void. The illusion collapsed completely. Everything between heaven and earth disappeared, leaving only the primordial chaos. Then, a beautiful celestial light soared from the primordial chaos. A figure seemed to be ascending with the celestial light, becoming an immortal in one leap!
Boom —
The primordial chaos was destroyed, and the immortal light from the Immortals' Viewing Platform gushed forth again, merging with the immortal light from the Seal of Fearlessness.
The Immortal Dao roared, and the celestial music vibrated. Jiang Nan closed his eyes, and he felt a vast and awe-inspiring aura of the Great Dao come forth, merging with his body.
That was the immortal light from the Immortals' Viewing Platform, resonating with his Seal of Fearlessness. Strands of immortal light merged with his physical body, quietly causing minute changes to occur within him.
Outside the Immortals' Viewing Platform, Patriarch Xuanhuang's huge eye that floated above the Immortal Suppression Cauldron blinked from time to time, using the cauldron on everyone's bodies to observe the situation within the Immortals' Viewing Platform.
The life experiences of everyone on the Immortals' Viewing Platform in the immortal light could not be hidden from his eyes. He was also comprehending and using everyone's experiences to derive a supreme cultivation technique, seeking the path to becoming an immortal!
He was unable to enter the Immortals' Viewing Platform, but he could peek at the techniques that people had created over hundreds and hundreds of lifetimes. If someone was able to create an immortal technique, then he could deduce this technique from that person's experiences and the people and events that they came into contact with.
This was because his experiences were too rich. The Immortals' Viewing Platform, which only appeared once every thousand years, had allowed his knowledge to reach unparalleled heights, allowing him to absorb the experiences of all the geniuses who had entered the Immortals' Viewing Platform over the past fifty million years!
His knowledge was a thousand times more profound than that of the sages of Xuanhuang Academy!
"Master, in these fifty million years, has anyone been able to truly ascend the Immortals' Viewing Platform?" Polylore Saint bowed and asked.
"Immortals' Viewing Platform? Those stone steps are the Immortals' Viewing Platform. Standing on the platform, one gazes at Guxian. As for the end of the stone steps, that is where the immortals stand, the Immortal Platform. "
Patriarch Xuanhuang's consciousness rippled as he said leisurely, "Walking on the stone steps is ultimately looking at the immortals from afar, and stepping onto the Immortal Platform is the hope of immortalhood. But in these fifty million years, there have been a few who have ascended the Immortals' Viewing Platform. "
Polylore Saint was moved, exclaiming, "Those who ascended the Immortal Platform, did they become immortals later on?"
Patriarch Xuanhuang was silent for a moment before he said bitterly, "No. None of these people had proven their Dao and become immortals. The strongest among them was the Underworld Earth God Emperor. He walked to the end of the Immortals' Viewing Platform and ascended the Immortal Platform. However, he also died. The others are Zun Yan, Shen Wu, Jing Tian, True Jade, Jiu Xiao, Tong You, and Earthly Sovereign. They too have not attained immortalhood, and their strongest achievement is God Emperor. And here, I have a few incomplete immortal scriptures that they created. Though they are not authentic, they are wondrous and worthy of praise. "
Polylore Saint was shocked, asking hurriedly, "Is Kōmu God Emperor not one of them?"
Patriarch Xuanhuang shook his head. "Kōmu has never entered the Immortals' Viewing Platform. His talent is unique. When the Immortals' Viewing Platform opened, his cultivation was still weak, but the next time the Immortals' Viewing Platform opened, he was already the strongest Divine Master. So, if he had reincarnated, he would not have missed the opening of the Immortals' Viewing Platform this time. But so far, no one seems to be his reincarnation. But this time, the opening of the Immortals' Viewing Platform will bring forth many geniuses. I'm afraid only a few will be able to ascend to the Immortals' Viewing Platform … Eh? "
Patriarch Xuanhuang's eyes suddenly turned into Xuanhuang Qi, and his eyes were filled with shock. He cried out hoarsely, "Someone broke through the immortal light?"
He was so shocked that even the space around him trembled. "What's going on? Let me see, let me see, what technique did you use? "
However, as powerful as Patriarch Xuanhuang was, he had to go through Jiang Nan's experiences to deduce Jiang Nan's technique. And now, Jiang Nan had only used one Seal of Fearlessness, so he naturally had no way to deduce it.
"What is this?"
Inside the Immortals' Viewing Platform, Jiang Nan was also shocked. The illusion had disappeared, and he had lost the chance to deduce the method of immortalhood. But as the immortal light entered his body, he felt that his physique was undergoing some subtle changes. It allowed him to become more integrated with the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial Purple Qi.
His original Primordial Physique had reached its limit due to the overabundance of Primordial Purple Qi. If he continued to take in the Primordial Purple Qi, he would lose his spiritual power. If the Primordial Purple Qi had the upper hand in his body, it could even assimilate his corporeal body, turning him into a ball of Primordial Purple Qi!
Besides that, his corporeal body's flaw was the Heavenly Dao. As his understanding of the Heavenly Dao deepened, his body also became dao-assimilated, becoming part of the Heavenly Dao and completely losing his sense of self.
But now, he felt that the Primordial Violet Qi and the Heavenly Dao were being suppressed. There was something even more advanced fusing into his body, allowing the Primordial Violet Qi and the Heavenly Dao to coexist peacefully with his body. They were truly compatible.
"Immortal Physique?"
Jiang Nan was stunned, and he murmured, "Could this be the so-called Immortal Physique?"
Some people once suspected that he had an incomplete Immortal Physique, but now, Jiang Nan finally knew that the Immortal Physique was not what everyone had guessed. The so-called Immortal Physique was similar to his current physique. It was infused with strands of immortal light, allowing all the Daos, including the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial Dao, to be harmonious and unified.
"This is the advantage of the Immortal Physique. But if I want to become an immortal, I still need to work hard! Maybe … "
He looked up at the Immortals' Viewing Platform within the immortal light and thought, "That immortal left this place not only to let people understand the method of immortalhood, but also to create a few more Immortal Physiques, right?"
Now that he had broken the illusion, the immortal light infused was too little. It was not even an incomplete Immortal Physique or a pseudo Immortal Physique.
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