Chapter 411: Master Will Definitely Have a Way

An incomparably heavy, almost suffocating silence descended upon the Eternal Peak, as if the sky had fallen.

Every pair of eyes remained fixed upon Tian Yongheng.

"The Upper Realm is preparing to begin another Cleansing."

Those words continuously echoed within everyone’s minds.

For a long while, no one spoke.

For several of them, even breathing seemed to have become unimaginably difficult.

After several breaths of complete stillness, Qing Yunzi slowly took in a deep breath, his aged face revealing an unprecedented solemnity.

"The Cleansing... is it the one from the legends...?"

His voice sounded somewhat hoarse as he asked despite knowing the answer himself.

Seeing Tian Yongheng remain silent, he had no choice but to accept reality.

Although he had never personally witnessed one, how could someone of his age and experience not know what those two words represented?

The so-called Cleansing wasn’t merely a catastrophe like the resurrection of the Archaic Forbidden Demon God, it was far, far beyond that level, much worse.

It was the destruction of an entire Heavenly Karmic Cycle, the complete annihilation of nearly everything within the Lower Realm.

Countless sects, ancient clans, great dynasties, holy lands, demonic inheritances, innumerable forces, and even entire civilizations, all would become nothing more than dust beneath the blades of the Immortals and Gods.

Only several scattered inheritances possessing extraordinary luck or tremendous backgrounds like Kunlun Divine Mountain might somehow survive.

The thought alone caused Qing Yunzi’s scalp to tingle.

Beside him, Lu Qingfeng subconsciously clenched both fists.

"So, everything we’ve built... could disappear forever...?"

He muttered, squeezing out every word from his throat.

Having once lost everyone as a mortal, he did not want to experience that desperation, that despair, once again.

Unfortunately, no one answered him; they all already knew the answer, including Lu Qingfeng himself.

Wei Qiushan quietly lowered his gaze.

Unlike everyone else, he understood the Cleansing far, far better.

His previous life had not been spent within the Lower Realm.

He was originally born in a mortal family of the Upper Realm and had cultivated all the way to the upper echelons of the Second Great Immortal World, becoming an Origin Immortal and even founding a great Immortal Sect.

He was a genuine great expert capable of dominating countless territories even in the Upper Realm.

Naturally, he knew exactly how every Heavenly Karmic Cycle ended.

Precisely because of this, his heart couldn’t help but sink.

So, it’s actually this...

No wonder... no wonder heaven and earth have changed so dramatically...

His expression became increasingly solemn.

Although he wished to reassure everyone, he simply couldn’t in any way possible.

Reality was simply too cruel.

The gap separating mortals from Immortals was greater than heaven and earth.

Not everyone was like his grandmaster, the Eternal Lord, Tian Yongheng, capable of slaughtering Immortal Gods while still being a mortal.

In his previous life, Wei Qiushan had perused several records related to the Cleansing casually, but he still remembered clearly, at the end of every Heavenly Karmic Cycle, the Upper Realm would dispatch an Earth Immortal.

Not merely a Vagrant Immortal, but a literal Earth Immortal, a genuine local overlord even within the Nine Great Immortal Worlds.

Below them, nearly one hundred Vagrant Immortals would accompany the expedition, all prodigies of powerful factions.

Each one possessed sufficient strength to suppress the Immortal Gods remaining within the Lower Realm.

Below even them would be thousands of Half Immortals, tens of thousands of Immortal Ascension powerhouses, and hundreds of thousands of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.

They were all geniuses of the Upper Realm, coming down here for so-called tempering, considering the Lower Realm as their own personal playground just because they cultivated in a much better environment.

Even in his past life, Wei Qiushan detested such behavior of the strong bullying the weak.

At this moment, endless bitterness emerged in Wei Qiushan’s heart.

How could they possibly fight something like that?

Not only did the other party have a numerical advantage at the same realm, they also had nearly a hundred Vagrant Immortals and a Earth Immortal.

Earth Immortals was fundamentally different from Vagrant Immortals.

That realm already stood at an entirely different level of existence.

Once someone became an Earth Immortal, they could condensed the natural elements on their own, not borrowing them from the outside heaven and earth, but gradually transforming their Inner World.

Eventually, it could genuinely evolve into a complete world, containing mountains and rivers, wind and lightning, fire and water, metal and wood, earth and ice, everything.

That’s why they could create complete worlds separate from the world they resided in, not secret realms and blessed lands attached to another world, but true worlds of their own.

Any cultivator who had yet to comprehend the natural elements could not even injure such an existence even if an innumerable amount of such beings piled up.

It wasn’t because the Earth Immortal possessed greater Divine Energy, a stronger Immortal Body, or a more resilient Essence Soul, but because their very existence had already become fundamentally different.

As for Golden Core cultivators and above who had comprehended natural elements, an Earth Immortal could suppress them with little more than a thought.

Even Half Immortals were no exception.

Such beings already possessed authority over heaven and earth.

Within remote regions of the Upper Realm, many Earth Immortals were already considered supreme rulers.

Countless Immortal Sects only possessed one or two Earth Immortals as their ancestral figures.

These existences were more than qualified to establish entire Immortal inheritances capable of being passed down for hundreds of millions of years in the Upper Realm.

How could the current Lower Realm possibly resist?

Wei Qiushan’s fingers unconsciously tightened.

However, he ultimately remained silent.

He couldn’t reveal these things, doing so would expose far too many secrets regarding his previous life.

Moreover, he didn’t wish to extinguish everyone’s hope completely. The current atmosphere was already heavy enough.

Nearby, Liu Ruoxue’s beautiful brows were also tightly furrowed.

Although she originated from the 33 Heavens Divine Realm, she similarly understood the meaning behind those words.

Cleansing...

She repeated inwardly.

In her previous life, she had only heard discussions regarding it.

Never once had she imagined that she herself would one day experience such an event.

Her expression gradually became somewhat pale.

Even if she regained every bit of her previous cultivation... would it matter?

Before the vast machinery behind the Cleansing, even an ordinary Immortal Sovereign was considered insignificant, not to mention a mere Golden Immortal like her who was just close to breaking through.

Only those supreme existences standing above Sovereigns possessed the qualifications to interfere in such matters.

The thought caused her heart to become increasingly heavy.

On the opposite side, Yan Jingfei was completely frozen with shock, her eyes widened in disbelief.

Impossible...

Although the future has changed, how could it change so much that its almost unrecognizable...?

Throughout her previous life, the Cleansing never descended, not even after a hundred thousand years.

There were still seventy million years left!

Everything had completely deviated from its original course.

At first, she believed only her master’s appearance had altered the timeline as someone who did not exist previously.

Later, the Righteous-Demonic War erupted, then the Archaic Forbidden Demon God resurrected, and now, even the Cleansing had advanced seventy million years ahead of time.

Her breathing gradually became somewhat chaotic.

What exactly... has changed fate so thoroughly?

Is it really only because of master?

The more Yan Jingfei thought about it, the less convinced she became.

Although master is indeed astonishing, advancing something involving the entire Heavenly Karmic Cycle seems impossible.

But if that really is the case...

Just how terrifying is master’s true background?

The thought caused a faint chill to run through her heart.

Nearby, Yang Wei remained unusually quiet.

His instincts were still screaming at him, and in fact, the moment Tian Yongheng uttered those words, the warning within his heart actually became even stronger.

However, strangely enough, when Yang Wei looked at Tian Yongheng, that overwhelming pressure eased ever so slightly.

Master... will definitely have a way.

That thought emerged almost instinctively.

It wasn’t because Yang Wei understood the situation, but rather, throughout his life, he had seen his master accomplish too many miracles.

Even now, he unconsciously believed the same.

Su Yanlan silently looked at Tian Yongheng.

Although her expression remained calm, her fingers beneath her sleeves had already tightened.

If only she could recover her memories completely, perhaps she could be of a little more help...

At that moment, Ao Longchen slowly tilted his head, muttering under his breath.

"So... we’re really about to fight Immortals?"

He was a True Dragon hatched from an egg Tian Yongheng had obtained from the system years ago, and having grown up in the Eternal Peak, had never truly participated in any battle.

Now, hearing that the Immortal Gods might invade the Lower Realm very soon, unlike others, he actually felt a trace of excitement.

However, no one bothered to answer him.

Zhu Dong’s gaze calmly swept across everyone present.

One after another, peerless destinies and Connate Providences gathered together.

His heart couldn’t help becoming increasingly amazed.

This Eternal Peak could practically be described as the gathering place of monsters.

Almost unconsciously, his gaze landed upon Tian Yongheng once again.

Another thought emerged in his mind almost immediately.

Perhaps... this was precisely why.

The unprecedented variable was undoubtedly Tian Yongheng himself.

However, he was not the only monster in this era.

Many of them naturally gathered around him.

Just as the Divine Sovereign once gathered countless monsters beneath his banner over a billion years ago, the current Eternal Lord seemed to be doing the same thing.

At that moment, Wei Qiushan slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed upon Tian Yongheng’s face.

Initially, his heart had already fallen into despair.

After all, an Earth Immortal, how could mortals oppose such an existence?

However, almost immediately, another figure surfaced within his mind.

That was his grandmaster, the Eternal Lord, someone who, as a Half Immortal, had slaughtered Vagrant Immortals, an achievement unprecedented throughout history.

Now, that same person had already become a genuine Vagrant Immortal.

His combat power had undoubtedly increased even further.

Thinking this far, a faint gleam appeared within Wei Qiushan’s eyes once again.

Perhaps... there truly was hope.

Very little, almost nonexistent, yet hope nonetheless.

After all, if there truly existed someone capable of creating another impossible miracle beneath heaven, then, that person could only be Tian Yongheng.