The Dao of Reincarnation (245-246) (Patreon)

Chapter 245: Transcendence (Part 1)

Su Chen opened his eyes. The familiar scene greeted him once more. He had returned to the Reverse Fate Space yet again.

This lifetime had lasted far too long. From an ordinary crow to the Undying Nether Emperor who ruled for over ten million years, he had personally buried one era after another, all in pursuit of escaping this prison and achieving transcendence. Yet in the end, he had still failed.

"The Void Cosmic Sea... the Main God Hall..."

Su Chen vaguely remembered breaking through the world barrier. On the other side, there seemed to be living beings conversing with one another.

The universe was not unique. Worlds beyond this one truly existed. And it seemed... the beings outside the world had come for him. But they had been stopped by the people of the Main God Hall. In the end, he had still been just one step short of breaking out beyond the world itself.

Su Chen opened the Reverse Fate Scripture.

[Fifteenth Life: You were an ordinary crow. After awakening your memories, you realized that in this life, you were no longer human. Many of the methods you once possessed could no longer be used. Fortunately, your comprehension was high enough, and you chose to forge an entirely different path.]

[Legends spoke of the phoenix, reborn through nirvana and immortal for eternity. As a mere crow, you believed that after countless nirvanas, you would one day surpass even the phoenix itself.]

[You began searching for food to survive. In order to obtain cultivation resources, you risked death and infiltrated a great sect to steal spirit rice. Your luck was not bad. You encountered a foolish young man and successfully took the most difficult first step on the path of cultivation. In a good mood, you decided to offer the fool a bit of guidance.]

[After obtaining sufficient resources, you underwent your first nirvana. The process went smoothly, but upon awakening, you discovered that people seemed intent on hunting you down. You chose to avoid the limelight for the time being. After all, fortune could reverse in thirty years. You quietly accumulated resources and entered your second nirvana.]

[Once it was complete, you encountered that foolish young man again as he was being pursued. You chose to help him, partly to repay the favor of his earlier assistance. From then on, you embarked on a path of slaughter and growth.]

[Soon, you entered your third nirvana...]

[You slew a Profound Connection demon king, carved your way out of the Great Wu Dynasty, established a demon kingdom, intimidated demon emperors from all directions, and seized opportunities through force before successfully beginning your fourth nirvana.]

[As time passed, you emerged from seclusion to discover that the demon kingdom you had founded had already been destroyed. Its destroyers were actually the descendants of that foolish young man from the past. The matter left you somewhat emotional.]

[After experiencing countless lifetimes and endless years, you had already seen too much. There was not much sorrow left in your heart.]

[You discovered a little fox that had not yet died and decided to bring her along with you. The path to immortality no longer felt quite so lonely.]

[You severed karma. The Green Mist Sect rose because of you and later declined because of you as well. Your actions offended too many factions and powerful experts, yet no one could truly do anything against you. Every expert who came to hunt you down ultimately died by your hand.]

[Your talent was not exceptional. But the accumulation of experience across lifetime after lifetime became your greatest advantage.]

[Within a saintly ruin, relying on your Dao Heart and comprehension, you inherited the foundation of a Saint King and gained the strength to contend against Saints. You broke through into the Nirvana Realm and destroyed a Sacred Land in a single battle, earning the title of an unparalleled calamity.]

[After wandering for several hundred years, you finally gathered enough resources for your fifth nirvana and began the process once more.]

[Your strength became even greater. You survived the Saint Tribulation, slew Saint Kings, and journeyed through the starry skies beyond the heavens. Great sects pursued you relentlessly, yet you escaped every time.]

[You killed the heirs of great sects, searched for the inheritance of the Myriad Laws Great Emperor, entered the Hall of Myriad Laws, and used resources you had prepared long ago to consecutively complete your sixth and seventh nirvanas.]

[At this point, your talent no longer lagged behind any taboo-level existence. However, the eighth nirvana was unimaginably difficult to achieve.]

[The current Great Emperor, Yao Tianxin, discovered your existence. Knowing his death was approaching and unable to stop fate itself, he chose to act out of selfish desire to protect his descendants by sealing you away.]

[The geniuses of that era were all sealed by Emperor Heavenly Heart as well.]

[You sensed that something was wrong.]

[By the time you finally broke free from the seal, you witnessed the Dark Turmoil. The people suffered endlessly. Even the new Great Emperor had been slain, his blood staining the starry heavens.]

[Those Supremes who had bathed in Emperor blood had already recovered part of their former power.]

[You did not choose to become Emperor.]

[Instead, you began preparing for your eighth nirvana.]

[You chose to conceal your whereabouts and erase all traces of your existence as you searched for a way to break the deadlock. At last, you thought of a terrifying figure from the past, someone who could revive in this era and perhaps help you break the situation apart.]

[You did not know what the final outcome would be, but this was the only viable path left to you.]

[You passed the Spirit Communion Art on to others, and the Spirit Divine King did not disappoint your expectations. His combat strength was unmatched. Even before attaining the Dao, he was already capable of battling Supremes. Though he ultimately fell, he allowed you to glimpse hope.]

[You repeatedly recreated the Spirit Divine King while secretly ambushing and severely wounding Supremes, refining them into nourishment to fuel your eighth nirvana.]

[After completing the eighth nirvana, you felt stronger than ever before.]

[The Spirit Divine King no longer wished to remain your pawn, but you did not care. You were about to attain the Dao itself.]

[Your breakthrough even attracted the ultimate Ninefold Great Emperor Tribulation. The slaughter was so overwhelming that countless Supremes dared not show themselves. You suppressed everything beneath the heavens.]

[This entire era became known because of your existence. The Emperor Dao Era officially began, and all living beings praised your achievements.]

[Soon, another Great Emperor was born.]

[The ancient rule that Emperors could not coexist within the same era was shattered in this lifetime. This became a flourishing golden age of cultivation rivaling even the Ancient Era itself.]

[You were the founder of this prosperous age.]

[Naturally, some newly ascended Great Emperors sought to challenge you and storm the Divine Court.]

[Unfortunately for them, the gap between Great Emperors was as vast as an insurmountable chasm.]

[You killed one of them with a single move.]

[This era was an age of prosperity, but it was also an age of despair.]

[You were simply too powerful.]

[Taking the title Undying Nether Emperor, you suppressed countless Great Emperors until they could no longer raise their heads. Many died in frustration and depression, while others fled into forbidden zones.]

[Then you discovered a problem.]

[You had refined too many powerful beings. Because of this, heaven and earth could no longer produce new Great Emperors.]

[Yet your ambition and bearing were unmatched. Rather than permanently sever the path of all living beings, you chose to cut yourself down, severing your own Emperor status.]

[Even so, you remained stronger than countless Great Emperors.]

[You entered the Ancient Tomb Forbidden Zone and spent millions of years comprehending the Bronze Immortal Hall. Eventually, you forced your way into the hall itself, only to discover that what awaited you was not an opportunity for transcendence, but a supreme Great Emperor from ancient times.]

[That Emperor had been sealed within the Bronze Immortal Hall by a powerful enemy.]

[He wanted to devour you.]

[You wished to refine him.]

[A great battle erupted, sweeping across the universe and alarming the God Emperor himself. In the end, you and the God Emperor joined forces to kill the Primordial Demon Lord before you entered another nirvana.]

[Several million years passed...]

[The God Emperor buried an entire flourishing era, exterminating countless powerful existences solely to wait for visitors from beyond the world and uncover the secrets of transcendence.]

[The aura awakened you once more. You began pursuing the secret of transcendence. The God Emperor was slain by your hand, and from the visitors beyond the world, you obtained an enormous secret.]

[You chose to continue accumulating your foundation. Ten million years later, you had reached the absolute limit and could progress no further. You began assaulting the barrier itself and stepped onto the path of transcendence without hesitation.]

[Yet in the end, you still failed. You forced your way half a step beyond the barrier, but ultimately could not cross the final distance. Your journey stopped there.]

[In this lifetime, you began as nothing more than an ordinary crow and rose to become the Undying Nether Emperor who suppressed an entire era of living beings.]

[Yours was an incomparable legend that could never be replicated.]

[Evaluation: Five Stars (Gold)]

[Reward: 500,000 Reverse Fate Points]

Chapter 246: Transcendence (Part 2)

In this lifetime, Su Chen had turned one hundred thousand Reverse Fate Points into five hundred thousand.

No one could possibly have imagined that the greatest emperor in all of history had begun as nothing more than an ordinary crow.

This era had been far too chaotic, allowing Su Chen to seize opportunity after opportunity as he climbed step by step to the very peak.

[Reverse Fate Points: 599,998]

[Talent: 0 (+)]

[Comprehension: 0 (+)]

[Background: 0 (+)]

[Dao Heart: 150,000]

After living for twenty million years, his Dao Heart had directly surged by one hundred thousand points. He still possessed nearly six hundred thousand Reverse Fate Points remaining.

Talent: 200,000

Comprehension:300,000

Background: 99,998

Points allocated successfully.

All in. The Sixteenth Life had begun. He wanted transcendence. He wanted to witness what truly existed beyond the universe itself.

...

Su Chen soon realized something strange. He did not seem to be human. Nor was he a demon. He had no gender, no cultivation, no clear concept of self. He had no idea how much time had passed before he finally sensed traces of life around him.

"His talent is excellent... The Void Cosmic Sea still has an empty True Immortal seat. He may have a chance."

"There is also a vacant universe..."

"That universe contains far too many secrets. There was even a genius who nearly transcended an entire world. Because of that, many immortal lands no longer dare send their successors there."

"That only makes it more worth gambling on. Becoming an immortal in the Void Cosmic Sea was never easy. If one lacks the conviction to conquer an entire world, how could they ever become immortal?"

"A hundred million years have already passed. If we miss this opportunity, waiting for another immortal seat will be far too difficult."

"..."

Su Chen desperately wanted to say something.

You cannot just look at talent. I also have absurd comprehension.

Unfortunately, he could not speak.

"A genius who nearly transcended the universe?"

Was that not him from his previous life?

Damn.

Su Chen suddenly felt some kind of liquid being poured over him. Then he was casually tossed down into the lower realm. At least give him some supreme immortal technique or an immortal artifact or something!

Su Chen had received absolutely nothing. He felt utterly speechless. Those two old fellows chatting earlier were far too irresponsible.

Just like that, Su Chen was thrown back into the taboo universe with an unknown designation. After an unknown amount of time passed, he finally regained awareness of his own existence.

When he opened his eyes, countless people surrounded him.

"The Immortal Spirit has been born! The Immortal Spirit of our Myriad Laws Emperor Sect has finally been born!"

Su Chen: "?"

The world was vast. Yet at the same time, strangely small.

A thin, sword-bearing man with refined features burst into laughter.

"After a million years, our Myriad Laws Emperor Sect has finally produced a peerless figure!"

"Little fellow, from today onward, you are the successor of the Myriad Laws Emperor Sect. All of us here are your masters. In the future, you are destined to become the greatest Emperor in all of history!"

Everyone looked at the gradually forming human figure with boundless anticipation.

Su Chen: "?"

Do you people have any sense of courtesy?

Those eyes of his seemed capable of seeing through all things.

With a single glance, he could easily perceive another person's Dao and techniques.

Although Su Chen did not recognize any of the people before him, their Dao and arts felt incomparably familiar.

After countless years, though they had evolved and likely been perfected by supreme Great Emperors over generations, their most fundamental aura still originated from... the Myriad Laws Emperor Scripture.

In other words, the faction he had created two lifetimes ago had not only survived through tens of millions of years, but seemed to be thriving quite well.

No. More than well. It was flourishing beyond imagination.

The sword-bearing expert alone already possessed the qualifications to attain the Dao in Su Chen's eyes.

After thinking it through carefully, Su Chen realized something. In his previous life, he had slaughtered far too many Great Emperors and destroyed countless inheritances, yet he had never once touched the Myriad Laws Sect.

After his failure to break beyond the world barrier, it was entirely possible that the Myriad Laws Sect had rapidly risen using its immense foundation. After tens of millions of years, it had likely become a colossal inheritance spanning several eras, perhaps even one of the oldest human factions in existence.

Su Chen's form gradually transformed, becoming a handsome young man with red lips, white teeth, and unmatched elegance. In this life, he was an innate lifeform born from beyond the world itself.

And so, Su Chen began familiarizing himself with the environment of this new life.

...

In a corner of the world unknown to Su Chen, a figure suddenly awoke from bed. He pushed aside the maidservant who had come to attend him and clutched his head.

"So... I really was reborn? The Wheel of Time truly exists."

The young man muttered softly to himself. Excitement flickered within his eyes, yet beneath it lay the ancient weariness of someone who had endured endless ages. Inside his mind floated a radiant wheel that seemed to carry the flow of time itself.

The treasure had a name. The Wheel of Time.

Perhaps few people in the world knew of it by that name, but it possessed another title far more famous.

One of the Nine Innate Supreme Treasures. A legendary artifact capable of controlling the power of time itself, touching the realm of taboo existence and containing an opportunity for transcendence.

The young man recalled that final battle. The war that had destroyed the entire Mythic Era. Even someone as powerful as he had fallen in that catastrophe. Fortunately, at the moment of death, he had successfully touched the Wheel of Time. The artifact carried a fragment of his soul across endless rivers of time before finally arriving in this era.

"Hm?"

The young man searched through the memories in his mind. Then he suddenly froze. It seemed... the Wheel of Time had carried him a little too far into the future.

The Mythic Era had long since vanished into obscurity. After it had come the Primordial Era, the Ancient Era, the Antiquity Era, the Dark Era, the Emperor Dao Era, and finally the current New Era.

This was not just a slight overshoot. He had practically flown across the ages.

Still, the young man quickly calmed himself. He too had once lived through endless years, reigning above all races and suppressing the heavens themselves. Entire eras had perished beneath his hand. Every Emperor throughout history had been defeated by him.

So what if countless years now separated him from the Mythic Era?

He had once been the Forbidden Heavenly Venerate of the Mythic Age, an existence that surpassed all ancient Emperors. Now that he had been reborn, he would inevitably ascend to the peak once more.

However, there was one prerequisite before that could happen.

Ning Changqing realized. His cultivation had apparently been crippled by the servant of a servant belonging to an outer disciple of the Myriad Laws Emperor Sect.

Fortunately, the destroyed cultivation was not a problem. Using the Wheel of Time as his foundation, he could forge the strongest cultivation base to ever exist.

"A mere servant beneath an outer disciple dares act this arrogantly? So this is what the later generations have become? Do not worry. I will avenge you. I will bear your karma for you. And the Myriad Laws Emperor Sect itself will eventually perish by my hand."

Ning Changqing flicked his sleeve. Beneath his calm, still eyes, killing intent quietly surfaced. Yet his heart remained utterly tranquil, as though he were speaking to the lingering remnant soul within this body. After hearing those words, the remnant soul seemed finally freed from its burdens.

Ning Changqing concealed his killing intent once more. As the great Heavenly Venerate, he truly was not someone who held grudges.

"I wonder whether the items I left behind still exist..."

Ning Changqing was fully confident that he could destroy the Myriad Laws Emperor Sect. Just not yet. He still needed time to prepare and grow stronger.

In that case, he would begin his revenge with the servant beneath the servant of that outer disciple. After all, Ning Changqing clearly remembered how that fellow had constantly bullied him within the Ning Clan.

A mere servant of a servant beneath an outer disciple of an Emperor Sect had actually dared humiliate the Heavenly Venerate like him.