Chapter 154: Chapter 117: Transformation of the Immortal Bone, Immortal Law and Divine Skills
If it weren\'t for the fact that there would be attendees from the Martial Hall to witness the ceremony, Song Lingxue would have had to die, whether fifty years earlier or later.
Nowadays, Geng Yiyang wished more than anyone for Chu Zheng to survive until the end.
The speed of Chu Zheng\'s cultivation advancement was indeed abnormally fast, but the Immortal Path Cultivation listed on the Hidden Dragon List couldn\'t be faked.
Even if he were truly a Heretic Cultivator, his talent in the Immortal Path was still unparalleled and extraordinary.
Such a monstrous talent, if allowed to mature, would inevitably bring Taixuan to new heights.
In his view, what path of cultivation one followed was insignificant, a concern only for the Immortal Alliance.
His end was near, and aside from Chu Zheng, inside Taixuan, there was a lack of successors; the elders were also nearing the end of their lifespans.
The young generation that had just been recruited into the sect were still children, and even after the Great Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects, with the addition of two Superior Immortal Bones, it would still take at least a few hundred years before they could catch their breath.
If Chu Zheng were not there to support them during this period, Taixuan would have to close its Sect Gate again, waiting for these children to grow up once more.
But the current situation was growing increasingly dire; without Tongxuan presiding over the Holy Land, the other major holy lands would likely act immediately to eradicate Taixuan and eliminate future troubles.
The few Sect-Defending Immortal Fires within Taixuan were in fact close to withering, unknown to the outside world.
The burning of the Divine Fire also required the consumption of the source, and there was bound to be a day when it would be exhausted. Without the supply of immortal power and relying on the meager Spiritual Energy, it was simply not enough to support these Immortal Fires burning eternally.
Without the replenishment of new blood, the decline of Taixuan was inevitable and unavoidable.
To Chu Zheng now, it was like a bridge still under construction, with the hope that he could help Taixuan smoothly overcome this significant hurdle.
With all of Taixuan\'s resources poured into nurturing him, according to his current pace, Chu Zheng would surely undergo a Divine Transformation within a hundred years, and there was a high chance for Tongxuan within a little more than two hundred years.
By then, if Chu Zheng could control Taixuan for another three hundred years, there was hope for Taixuan Holy Land to extend its lifespan and fully recover its Yuan Qi.
However, the prerequisite for everything now was that Chu Zheng could find a way to deceive the Immortal Alliance\'s scrutiny and survive the Great Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects.
There was no turning back in the Great Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects. Once started, participants must go to the end, unable to withdraw midway.
During the fierce competition, conceding was allowed; however, the Heavenly Fate carried by one would still be snatched away by the Hidden Dragon List.
This was all about nurturing a single individual with collective Heavenly Fate to cultivate a True Immortal Seed, a matter that concerned the interests of the entire Immortal Alliance.
The first Great Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects cultivated a peerless Immortal King, whose potential, in the eyes of the Immortal Alliance, was undoubtedly precious.
Among the many Great Realms, the Cangyun Realm was far from the strongest, but the number of True Immortal Seeds that had appeared was consistently at the forefront.
Ordinary Great Realms would find it difficult to produce a True Immortal every several thousand years, while the Cangyun Realm almost consistently nurtured a True Immortal Seed every hundred years, and a Celestial Lord emerged every thousand years or so.
Not all Great Realms could, like the Cangyun Realm, pour a hundred years of a region\'s Heavenly Fate into raising an Immortal Seedling.
As a result, the Cangyun Realm progressively weakened. In Ancient Times, there were True Immortals in the realm, but now it was hard to find even a strong practitioner of the Immortal Tribulation Realm.
All the powerhouses who had entered the Tongxuan Secret Realm in the major Holy Lands were actually aware of the world\'s decline, noticing that nature\'s spiritual energy had thinned substantially over these ten thousand years.
An even more obvious change was that the suppressive force of Heavenly Dao on living beings had weakened. Cultivators of the Tongxuan Secret Realm in the past did not have the destructive power they do now.
When he killed Zhou Zili, the extent of the impact was so broad that even Geng Yiyang himself had not expected it; in Ancient Times, not even a True Immortal could have managed such a thing.
Because the Immortal Alliance dominated above and the Holy Lands suppressed below, confrontations between Divine Infant Cultivators had been extremely rare over the past ten thousand years, with few realizing that the world above their heads had become so fragile.
Divine Infant Cultivators who had advanced in recent years were no longer surprised by this situation, but Geng Yiyang was different; he had seen the world of ten thousand years ago.
In the current environmental conditions of the Cangyun Realm, should a True Immortal make a move, they would likely directly shatter the Boundary Wall, exposing the Cangyun Realm completely under the starry sky.
To the entire Immortal Alliance, the life and death of the Cangyun Realm were unimportant.
As the homeland of an Immortal King, it shouldn\'t have come to this, but Shang Cangyun clearly had no intention of opposing it.
Over the years, numerous True Immortal Seeds from the Cangyun Realm had entered the Immortal Alliance, but there were few responses; Zhao Tingxian was an exception.
The universe is simply too vast. Without a True Immortal to convey messages, even with a Spirit Formation for transmission, it would take centuries, if not a millennium, to travel between Star Domains.
In reality, since Ancient Times, the prodigies who left the Cangyun Realm rarely returned, leaving only a group of losers stripped of their Heavenly Fate to contend and scheme against each other here, which seems somewhat ridiculous.
Looking at Geng Yiyang not far in front of her, Song Lingxue raised her head and looked at the sun in the sky, only feeling that the temperature around her seemed to be rising continuously, making her breathing unconsciously become a bit disordered.
Geng Yiyang suddenly speaking out made it difficult for her to guess his intentions for a moment.
Suppressing anxiety, irritation, anger, a complex mix of emotions intertwined with the sense of powerlessness surging from the depths of her heart. For a moment, her mind was in turmoil, and in the end, her youthfulness was revealed, her ability to maintain composure was still not up to the mark.