Chapter 603: Five Ranks of Immortals

Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

“Those guys are truly ruthless!” Five days later, on an extremely secluded and bleak planet in the Infinite Star Sea, Zhou Bao was watching a bunch of thinly scattered and crestfallen-faced people nearby while wearing a wry smile. The number of elite disciples, experts, and Individual Immortals who entered the Infinite Star Sea for the first time had been reduced to less than a half. But to top it all off, even one of the Lords of Heavens and Venerables who entered the Infinite Star Sea for the second time was lost, and two were badly injured. This time, the Heaven Realm’s trip to the Infinite Star Sea could be said to be a total failure and disgrace.

“All right, all those who we rescued are here. Now we may turn on the Transmitting Formation!” Glancing at those people, Yu Taixuan did not look very pleased. But since this matter had gone so far, the five biggest sects would have no choice but to take responsibility for it. He marched in front of the huge Transmitting Formation accompanied by Hong Taihe and Hierarch Huan Ri, and all of them put their own Spiritual Stones into the magic formation. As jets of shining rays rose up, the Transmitting Formation was finally activated.

Everyone looked at each other in silence and quietly walked into the Transmitting Formation. Jets of light flashed, and eventually, they all disappeared from this obsolete planet.

Shortly after the last person was transmitted back to the Three Western Regions, the Transmitting Formation started to emit a faint and flickering halo, and then it imploded, disappearing into nowhere. At that point, the two Transmitting Formations connecting the Seven-deity Regions with the Infinite Star Sea had both vanished.

Just a few seconds after the Transmitting Formation imploded, a figure suddenly appeared on this planet.

“Humph, so thoughtful to simply destroy the Transmitting Formation on the other end! However, you guys still did not strike hard enough to destroy this planet with it. If you did so, maybe I really couldn’t have discovered the track of the Heaven Realm. But now, hehe, you have no way to cover up your whereabouts!” A clear and melodious voice sounded from the Transmitting Formation’s ruins, and the figure had turned from a fuzzy shadow into an incredibly beautiful girl around 18 years old. This girl looked stunningly gorgeous. She was wearing a light yellow colored, flimsy garment, and chains with golden bells spanned between her left hand’s wrist and her five fingers. The bells jingled in the gentle wind, sending forth fits of pleasant sounds.

“I didn’t want to go through all these troubles at first. But there is no other way. The thing I want only exists in the Heaven Realm. Thus, I have to tug you out from the depths of the hollow!” That girl murmured to herself. She gently waved her hand with the golden bells and melodious jingles turned into waves of luxurious rays, which softly swept across the Transmitting Formation. Soon enough, a three-dimensional Void Map appeared in front of that girl. It was an extremely complex Void Map which was constantly changing, galaxy after galaxy, star cloud after star cloud. And finally, after a long period of time, the map went to a halt, showing the outside of a blue macro world.

The land of this blue macro world was peerlessly vast. Surrounding it were the year-round space storms, the universe magnetic storms, and the hollow thunderbolts. Those violent spirits almost blocked up all the direct communicating channels between this macro world and the outside. Additionally, outside this blue macro world, you could have a vague view of the infinite space changes. In every moment, time and space were undergoing various changes and producing diverse twists. That girl seemed to have foreseen that once she stepped into the surrounding space of that blue macro world, she would get lost in the endless space-time maze. This space-time maze was much more formidable than that in the Pond of Illusive Ripples. If you were caught up in it, you might never get out, or worse, you could even be engulfed or killed by those monsters derived from the space-time in no time, and your body and spirit would both vanish.

“Heaven Realm, it surely is the Heaven Realm, the legendary Heaven Realm! Wow, what on earth is this place?! In which Star Area is it located?!” All of a sudden, the girl swayed her body before the Void Map and it actually started to vaporize like steaming water.

“Interesting. To dare to play such a trick in front of me!” A chilling light flitted through the eyes of the girl and the golden bells in her hand abruptly started ringing.

Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle…

Sweet jingles rang out. Fits of bell ringings transformed into physical waves and the Void Map in front of her became clear once more.

At the same time on the Taihua Mountain in the depths of the hollow, the Fate Creation Boy, who had been sitting with his legs crossed, opened his eyes, and a trace of terror flickered through his gaze.

Then, his originally glowing face, which was as healthy as a baby, suddenly went greyish and streams of blood trickled down from the corners of his eyes, ears, mouth, and nostrils.

All of a sudden, he fiercely bit on the tip of his tongue, which triggered his strong potential. With a quick wave of his hands, a faint, shapeless, thin veil enveloped the entire Heaven Realm. Meanwhile, on the nameless planet in the Infinite Star Sea, a thin veil film unexpectedly showed up in the Void Map before the girl. This time, before the girl could react, the Void Map turned fuzzy.

“Damn it!” Seeing the Void Map vanish in front of her eyes, the girl’s face instantly went sullen. A trace of a chilling spirit shrouded her body.

“In fact, you don’t have to be so angry. If it really were that easy to find the Heaven Realm, then it wouldn’t be called Heaven Realm!” A carefree sigh sounded out beside her.

“Why did you old bastard come out of the mountain?” That girl asked without even turning her head around. Her eyes were still transfixed on the ruins of the Transmitting Formation before her.

“The reason I, the old bastard as you said, came out of the mountain is, of course, for the sake of the Heaven Realm!” Space shivered slightly and a cattle was the first to come into view. The cattle slowly walked out of the hollow and on its back sat a hunchbacked, skinny, old man. He was gently stroking the few yellow beard hairs on his chin, and his eyes slightly closed as if no life was in him at all. If it were not for the voice coming out of him, at first glance, he looked just like a corpse.

“The Heaven Realm, hihi, how hard to come by!” The girl sneered. She seemed uncomfortable to be in the same place as him. Without further words, she simply disappeared into the hollow.

“Then take your time to find it. Let me know if you succeed!” The voice spread afar.

“Hehe, how could it be that easy? Even if you find the Transmitting Formation, you will still have a hard time in locating its specific location!” The skinny, old man heaved a sigh while his eyes were rigidly stuck to the ruins to thoroughly memorize the location of them. “However, I can’t use the direct way to ascertain the location of the Heaven Realm. But I can take the most stupid method to slowly deduce the location based on the rule of space!” The old man sighed. He raised a hand and disrupted the distribution of the ruins. Then, he spanked the butt of the cattle and disappeared from the planet.

Later, several batches of mysterious people appeared on this planet in succession but soon after disappeared. The thing interesting them the most was, naturally, the ruins. But after finding out that someone had messed with the ruins, every one of them reluctantly departed while calling names.

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“You’re badly injured! Are you really OK?!” Right now on the Taihua Mountain, Venerable Black Turtle was staring at the Fate Creation Boy with a worried look. Ever since he knew the Fate Creation Boy, he had never seen him being so severely injured.

“It’s fine. It’s just that my spirit got injured by that odd fairy weapon. Who knew there was such a strong fairy weapon in the world! Even in antiquity times, only the Jade Emperor could have one of that kind!”

“Who is the guy that hurt you? Did you figure it out?!”

“No. All I know is that his power is unfathomable. If he makes up his mind, he can easily bombard me to death even though we are separated by numerous space-times.”

“Is he that powerful?! Could he be a Human Immortal?!”

“A Human Immortal can’t do that as well. Even if he were a Human Immortal who has completed the Gathering of Essence – Qi and Spirit in Acupoint, he couldn’t have possessed such power!”

“It can’t be! We’re living in the new era! How could an Immortal still exist in this era?” Hearing the words of the Fate Creation Boy, the expression of Venerable Black Turtle suddenly became weird and his tone was filled with disbelief. “If he really is an Immortal, then we won’t bother to try and fight back because he could use just one finger and poke us to death!”

“That’s quite reasonable, but we can’t say that for sure!” The Fate Creation Boy said, shaking his head. “Although there was one universal tribulation, it’s certain that some Immortals are still living in the world and the hollow, including even more higher-leveled Earthly Immortals or Celestial Immortals. However, their form of existence and time of appearance must be subject to the restriction of the entire Law of Heaven and Earth. Think about it. There are Human Immortals living in the Infinite Star Sea and those two Star Areas, aren’t there? But Human Immortals can’t leave their macro world at will. Otherwise, they would be punished by the Void Thunder Penalty. Even Human Immortals are bound by such a restriction, let alone Immortals at higher ranks or even Earthly Immortals or Celestial Immortals. The five ranks of Immortals are namely the Celestial Immortal rank, the Earthly Immortal rank, the Divine Immortal rank, the Human Immortal rank, and the Ghost Immortal rank. Only when one reaches the Divine Immortal rank can one surpass everything. Nevertheless, the so-called surpassing is merely another form of being subject to different rules. Thus, how could we say they enjoy the true freedom? I’m afraid they’re less free and comfortable than us Ghost Immortals, for at least we can fly freely in the hollow. But the only issue is that our speed is too slow. Maybe only if one fully comprehends the real Supreme Great Way and deposits oneself into the hollow can one obtain true freedom. But unfortunately, I can never reach that state. You still have a slim chance, but, hihi…”

“But my chance is even slimmer than an ant becoming a human being by practice, right?” Venerable Black Turtle did not feel annoyed despise of the Fate Creation Boy. On the contrary, he gave a self-mocking smile and said, “I know how much I’m worth. There is little hope for me to break through into the Human Immortal phase. Being promoted to a Lord of Heaven is already my great luck!” The Mysterious Turtle Sage chuckled. “But actually, it is the kid named Zhou Bao that I can’t see through in these days. What about you?

“He does have some issues, but no big ones. Maybe he is a pawn devised by a certain might from primitive times, or maybe he is simply born to be a guy who stirs up trouble. People like us can’t even have a clear look at the chessboard set up by those mights from primitive times. So, how can we recklessly give comments or speculations?”