The imprint that Dongfang Yunxing had left upon the world began to fade like a mirage dissolving into thin air.

The immortal characteristics sealed within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl gradually replaced him.

Su Chen closed his eyes. He had once been an ordinary mortal who, by a twist of fate, found himself in this vast and turbulent world of cultivation.

Fear and loneliness had consumed him. His family was slaughtered, his lover perished, and his dreams turned to ash. All that remained was his unyielding obsession with the martial path.

Unlike Dongfang Yunxing, he possessed no heaven-defying luck, no mysterious old mentor, no Heaven's Mandate Pearl, and no supreme cultivation techniques. The only thing he could rely on was his undying cycle of reincarnation.

Like an ephemeral mayfly, he had struggled desperately through the river of fate, raising only the faintest ripples with each life.

He had become a king, an emperor, a venerable, a saint, and even an Emperor. Yet none of these were his final destination.

Su Chen was determined to climb to the pinnacle of this mortal world, step by step, and achieve immortality.

And now, the chance to become an immortal stood right before him.

Su Chen opened his eyes.

He watched as the agony on Dongfang Yunxing's face slowly faded into calm.

Suddenly, countless beams of white light erupted from the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, surging from every direction to merge with Dongfang Yunxing.

Ten thousand paths transformed into dragons, each carrying a heavenly pearl in its mouth.

A stretch of time shattered directly. The long river of years split into two.

Though this disruption occurred only within the Land of Immortality, it still provoked a heaven-shaking tribulation.

Dense waves of karmic punishment crashed down upon Su Chen. If any Emperor-level beings still existed within the river of time, they would have witnessed a towering figure standing tall, his majestic form enveloped in radiant white light.

"Why are you stopping me?" the Heaven's Mandate Pearl transmitted. "Isn't this the outcome you desired?"

A cold voice emerged from behind the pale strands of hair covering Su Chen's face.

"I simply wanted to erase your final traces. In the end, the victor will still be me."

A chuckle rang out from within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. "Interesting… Your choice truly exceeds this Immortal Lord's expectations. You are the greatest variable—the very nothingness I foresaw in the future?"

Even more terrifying boundless immortal light surged from the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, carrying the accumulated fate energy of countless eons. The true immortal within it still held a hidden card.

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"If this Immortal Lord had not been schemed against, I might have spared an interesting fellow like you," the voice continued. "But now, I must claim the immortal position in the Void Cosmic Sea."

"You will not succeed," Su Chen replied calmly. "Your traces will be completely wiped away, leaving only a wisp of ‘immortal' aura trapped inside the Heaven's Mandate Pearl."

The self-proclaimed Immortal Lord inside the pearl dismissed the warning.

"An immortal remains an immortal. Even if only a single wisp of aura survives, I am still an immortal. You cannot kill me."

"If you had stayed hidden within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, I might have remained wary. Yet you chose the most foolish path and severed your connection to it."

Su Chen smiled.

"Why don't you take a look at this?"

Above his head floated a transparent orb. Endless immortal energy circulated within it, carrying an aura of eternal immortality.

"This is…"

The Immortal Lord's voice changed.

Inside the orb hovering above Su Chen's head was also a trace of ‘immortal' aura.

Every immortal spirit cast into the Land of Immortality within the End Times Immortal Domain carried a wisp of such aura. Great Yang Emperor Lord had refined all the immortal spirits of the Final Lands, transforming their ‘immortal' essence into a single characteristic of the End Times Immortal Domain.

Great Yang had sought to become an immortal. Unfortunately, he lacked the destiny for it.

Su Chen did not possess the destiny to become the End Times Immortal Domain either. But for him, the wisp of ‘immortal' aura within the orb was enough. Only an immortal could slay another immortal.

He merged himself into the immortal orb.

The two ‘immortal' auras intertwined and rotated, evolving in an endless cycle of life and creation—until they reached utter annihilation.

"You fool… You actually want to perish together with this Immortal Lord? Is it worth it? Your strength has touched the taboo. It will obliterate your true soul, dooming you to never transcend in all eternity!"

The Immortal Lord within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl finally lost his composure.

Su Chen was even more ruthless than he had imagined. He had merged himself with the immortal orb, intending to wield the aura of the true immortal from the End Times Immortal Domain to erase him completely.

But the immortal of the Final Lands was still an immortal. How could a wisp of immortal aura be controlled so easily?

"I will not die… Even if my true soul falls into oblivion, after countless tribulations, I will return once more to seize the opportunity for immortality. As for you, once this wisp of aura dissipates, you will never have another chance to shed your shell. The forces you have offended will never let you go."

Su Chen's soul began to fracture. Strands of white flame burned within the shattered remnants of his soul body, slowly incinerating him into nothingness.

No one knew how much time had passed.

The world fell completely silent.

Time itself stagnated, and the myriad realms turned into ruins.

Countless more eons drifted by.

New life gradually emerged in the world. These beings began to cultivate and walk their own paths.

Powerful existences rose one after another, stepping onto the road of immortality.

Within the Land of Immortality, another cycle began.

"That is…"

Countless eras later.

A supremely powerful being transcended the long river of time.

He caught a glimpse of a figure's body lying quietly within the river of years.

"Could that be… the corpse of an ‘immortal'?"

Just as the powerful being wondered, the "corpse" stirred.

It slowly sat up.

The entire Land of Immortality shook violently.

The transcendent discovered that he was gradually fading away.

Time flowed backward.

Dongfang Yunxing reversed everything, as if searching for something.

Yet no matter how hard he searched, he could not find that figure.

With a single thought, he could resurrect countless old friends who had vanished in the river of time.

He could transform the Land of Immortality into any point in his memories.

He was the supreme ruler of all.

But Dongfang Yunxing always felt that something was missing.

The Land of Immortality rapidly shrank.

In the palm of a towering figure, it condensed into a black sphere.

Within the boundless space, waves of congratulations and hymns of praise rang out.

"Master…"

A single clear tear fell upon the space.

It was as if it had dropped onto the surface of a calm lake, sending ripples spreading outward.

He had succeeded.

Dongfang Yunxing had become an immortal.