All laws withered.

Dongfang Yunxing watched as every living being lost their minds and slaughtered one another. They all wanted to survive, yet survival had become impossibly difficult. No one knew when the Great Annihilation Tribulation would finally end.

Civilizations rose and fell. Old friends vanished. For a powerful cultivator, this was a process that had to be endured.

Dongfang Yunxing gradually grew numb. He turned his focus to deducing the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture, all so he could live on and wait for that slim chance at immortality.

“You want to fight me?” Dongfang Yunxing looked at the young man who had intruded into his world. The intruder’s black hair fluttered wildly, his bearing arrogant and unrestrained. The entire world trembled before him.

He was the third seat of the Transmigrator Alliance—the Heaven-Defying Mad God.

The two had schemed against each other for millions of years amid the annihilation.

The Heaven-Defying Mad God spread his hands. “Dongfang Yunxing, you are truly arrogant. You act without restraint, even more wildly than I do, and you have plotted against so many transmigrators in our alliance. Most of the seeds in my hand have been taken by you. Now I no longer have the qualifications to survive this tribulation. Except by killing you.”

Every top seat in the Transmigrator Alliance held seeds—sources of their longevity power. Dongfang Yunxing had repeatedly targeted the alliance, using the Heaven’s Mandate Pearl to create enemies who opposed them. The two sides had traded victories, but in the end, Dongfang Yunxing held the upper hand.

The Great Dao beneath Dongfang Yunxing’s feet spun like a rotating wheel, unfolding layer after layer and enveloping the Heaven-Defying Mad God.

The battle did not last long.

Tens of thousands of years passed. In the end, Dongfang Yunxing prevailed. He suppressed and killed the Heaven-Defying Mad God, stripping away and refining his Dao.

He resumed his comprehension of the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture.

In the thirtieth millionth year of the Great Annihilation Tribulation, even powerful Emperor Lord-level beings began to fall one after another.

Dongfang Yunxing did not die.

Ever since the master of the Void Divine Palace had failed to achieve immortality, the Emperor Lords of the palace had either perished or been slain. Only two Emperor Lord-level experts remained. Among the long-lived beings, only these two were left.

“I don’t want to pursue this any longer,” one of them said. “It’s all too exhausting. Even if I survive one era after another, what’s the point? Achieving immortality feels too distant. No one knows how many annihilation tribulations there will be. Across so many lifetimes, not a single person has succeeded.”

He was an ancient elder, frail with age, wearing a black robe that still carried an immortal’s dignity. He was a powerhouse second only to the master of the Void Divine Palace—a thirty-five-tribulation Ruler. His expression was filled with exhaustion. After the death of the Void Divine Palace master, his resolve had begun to waver. His Dao had died.

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“Let me become your nourishment. You are still young and have limitless potential. Carry the will of my Void Divine Palace and walk toward a brand-new era.”

The elder spoke slowly. He had lost the will to pursue immortality.

But Dongfang Yunxing had not.

He understood the loneliness at the end of the long road of longevity. Along the way, there had always been people accompanying him. He would not retreat, nor would he lose heart. He would achieve immortality!

Dongfang Yunxing successfully deduced the eleventh layer of the Undying Nirvana Scripture and began his eleventh nirvana.

He succeeded. His aptitude was unprecedented.

Yet Dongfang Yunxing felt in his heart that something was still missing for him to achieve immortality.

“Am I lacking immortal qi?” he wondered. “Or is it…”

He did not know what exactly he was missing.

An unknown stretch of time passed. Dongfang Yunxing realized there were no longer any signs of life in the outside world. Everything had fallen into eternal annihilation.

He had survived the Great Annihilation Tribulation.

But in this world-ending catastrophe, he stood alone in the void. There were no companions, no living beings. He could not leave the place of immortality.

So he began to scatter the seeds of myriad daos. Living beings started to be born in one world after another.

Dongfang Yunxing began creating new cultivation methods. He conducted one experiment after another. He spread the laws he had cultivated across the Great Daos of countless universes.

A million years later.

Living beings gradually began to walk the path of transcendence.

The road ahead was hazy and uncertain.

Transcendents who followed the methods Dongfang Yunxing had cultivated gradually deduced the path forward.

As more and more realms were deduced, a hundred flowers bloomed and ten thousand Daos contended.

Dongfang Yunxing felt as if something extra had appeared within his body.

"Immortality, immortality… Everyone thinks that reaching the peak of the thirty-sixth tribulation Ruler realm allows one to transcend."

"They are wrong. Even at the thirty-sixth tribulation, the forty-sixth tribulation, or even the hundredth tribulation Ruler realm, it is impossible to become an immortal."

"These are not beings of the same dimension."

Dongfang Yunxing discovered that his strength had become powerful enough to easily destroy everything, even to annihilate the entire cultivation era of the Land of Immortality. Yet he still could not achieve immortality.

One day, Dongfang Yunxing encountered a person. He vaguely felt that this person walked the same path as him.

A middle-aged man wearing a faded cyan robe, his face calm as still water.

"Who are you?" Dongfang Yunxing asked.

"Great Yang Emperor Lord," the middle-aged man replied indifferently.

Both of them were far too powerful.

Great Yang Emperor Lord discovered that he had destroyed all living beings in the End Times Immortal Domain and seized the immortal spiritual vitality.

He had surpassed everything. But he still had not become an immortal.

He had survived the Nirvana Great Tribulation. He had seen the arrival of a new era, where a person spread the Dao among all living beings with astonishing talent, seeking the secret of immortality.

Great Yang Emperor Lord found it very interesting. He hid in the shadows.

He sensed the changes in Dongfang Yunxing's body. The secret of immortality was about to appear. He revealed himself.

"Hand over the secret of immortality. In exchange, I can share what I know with you. We are not walking the same immortal path, but perhaps we can comprehend the secret of immortality together."

Great Yang Emperor Lord smiled. He acknowledged Dongfang Yunxing. This was a fellow Daoist worthy of seeking the secret of immortality alongside him. He believed Dongfang Yunxing would not refuse. At their level, they had long abandoned everything else. Pursuing immortality together was their only goal.

"I refuse," Dongfang Yunxing replied expressionlessly, unmoved.

Great Yang Emperor Lord narrowed his eyes, a trace of regret in his gaze. "Why? I thought we were fellow Daoists who would walk that supreme path together."

Dongfang Yunxing said calmly, "We are not fellow Daoists."

Boundless lights of the great Dao illuminated the void. All the powerful beings in the Land of Immortality felt the greatest terror in the world about to arrive.

"How can such an existence exist in this world?"

Even the most powerful beings born in this era felt insignificant in this moment.

"What a pity… Then I can only kill you and study the secrets within your body."

Great Yang Emperor Lord felt it was a shame.

He no longer held back his aura.

Two figures that could shatter the void clashed.

Suddenly, Great Yang Emperor Lord suffered a heavy blow.

"It's you…"