Chapter 1045: Secrets of the Feather Realm (Part 2)

As Shen Mo’s cultivation level rose, his interactions with many True Immortal figures became increasingly frequent, and he learned a lot about the secrets of the Immortal Realm!

The disconnection between the Immortal Realm and all the myriad realms is cyclical, much like the ebb and flow of tides, lasting as long as a million years, or as short as a few thousand years. However, most True Immortals are unaware of the exact cause of this change.

Guan Ling, however, had heard her master, the Empyrean Fairy of the Nine Heavens, mention in passing that this matter might be related to the leftover evil of the old times. When these madmen’s infiltration into the Universal Realm’s powers reaches its peak, such situations occur.

In other words…

The decay of the Feather Realm, the downfall of the Immortal Feather Upper Sect, and the severance between the mortal and immortal worlds, these three major events, almost occurred at the same time nine million years ago. The three are evidently not coincidental, but closely related!

Based on this critical juncture, Shen Mo determined the time of the Evil Spirit was the five thousand two hundred and seventy-third year after that.

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The Spirit Feather Master from over five thousand years ago was horrified when he found himself unable to ascend to the Immortal Realm!

At that time, he had already guessed that the entire Immortal Feather Upper Sect, including the five True Immortal Patriarchs, had met with their tribulation.

Because the isolation between the mortal and immortal realms was only a “desperate blockade” for creatures below the True Immortal Realm. Immortals with profound cultivation could still manifest their avatars across all realms, and if they did not care about mana depletion, they could traverse the void and move freely between all the myriad realms!

Just like Su Qingtao before, who could use the avatar method to pass the [Transforming Dragon Curse] to the Primordial Realm and could use the Dragon Rearing Pool to capture Xiang Shengtian, a Golden Core peak cultivator who had turned into a dragon beast.

Since that time, the Feather Realm, like all withering worlds, began to gradually decline.

Initially, it had a strong foundation, and cultivators within the realm could still cultivate to the early-stage of the Formless Realm. However, those who came later could only cultivate to the middle-stage of the Divine Bridge Realm, even if they achieved enlightenment; disasters of Evil Spirit were frequent; the areas infected by the Death Ghost Realm continually expanded…

Moreover, numerous creatures from the Outer Zone accompanied the landing of forbidden lands!

The severance from the Universal Realm wasn’t limited to only the Feather Realm; all realms without exception faced it.

Before the mortal and immortal worlds were isolated, extraordinary races capable of refining forbidden lands to venture into the Outer Zone naturally had their first target on the Universal Realm, dismissing other worlds that were about to wither.

But afterward, for those races without a True Immortal within, the path to the Immortal Realm was cut off, and they could only descend to other worlds.

Especially the creatures from the Outer Zone, whose original worlds had long fallen from the Universe Tree and were about to be swallowed by the Death Ghost Realm. When they had painstakingly nurtured a Class V strong being and refined a forbidden land, their hopes of reaching the “never-withering world” were abruptly shattered, making them exceedingly frenzied.

When they descended to the Feather Realm, they would become extremely violent and brutal to seize habitat and cultivation resources, wreaking havoc!

Fortunately, the Immortal Feather Lower Sect had an incredibly deep foundation. Besides having Spirit Feather Master, who was a Formless Master, and more than a dozen Divine Bridge Immortal Masters, it had accumulated foundation over countless years and magic treasures, talismans, and manuals handed down from the Upper Sect…

The creatures from the Outer Zone that descended were quickly eradicated, either slain, subjugated, or fled to the Outer Zone!

However, for the Immortal Feather Lower Sect, continuing like this was ultimately not a solution.

From a long-term perspective, the Feather Realm was heading towards Nirvana, making cultivation increasingly difficult within this world. The future generations of disciples had no hope of achieving Formless, no hope of ascending to the Immortal Realm, and the cultivation paths of all Feather disciples, including Spirit Feather Master, had ended!

Besides distant worries, there were immediate concerns…

No one knew whether the terrifying crisis capable of obliterating the Upper Sect and slaying True Immortal Patriarchs could suddenly arrive?

If the destroyer of the Upper Sect was another True Immortal, at least, like the Immortal Feather Patriarch, it was a Divine Immortal level figure, not affected by the separation of the mortal and immortal worlds, capable of destroying the entire Feather Realm with a raise of a hand.

Amid internal and external difficulties, Spirit Feather Master and other sect cultivators conceived a mad and bold idea… to gather the power of an entire realm and refine a “True Immortal”!

This astonishing idea initially originated from the Immortal Feather Patriarch.

As a being among the Divine Immortals needing to guard the Heavenly Gateway, he felt deeply inadequate in his cultivation level during battles with the leftover evil of the old times, thus came up with this notion, intending to mass “refine True Immortal” to serve as his army in thoroughly eradicating the old leftover evil, a cancer to the Immortal Realm!

Moreover, the Immortal Feather Patriarch once made considerable progress.

Before descending to the Lower Realm, Spirit Feather Master had also participated in the sect’s “refining True Immortal” plan and, to compete for a spirit gold vein crucial to the plan, engaged in a Magic Duel that resulted in injury.

When he descended to the Lower Realm, the “True Immortal” crafted by the Immortal Feather Upper Sect was more than halfway completed, and the refining method was brought to the Feather Realm!

If a True Immortal could be successfully refined, all the worries facing the Immortal Feather Lower Sect would be resolved.

Facing a crisis capable of annihilating the Upper Sect, with a certain self-preservation ability; the untainted regions of the Feather Realm could be refined into forbidden lands, allowing this True Immortal to traverse the void to the Immortal Realm; once in the Immortal Realm, everyone’s cultivation paths would be reconnected…

Especially for Spirit Feather Master, he could, at the instant before the True Immortal’s birth, use a Secret Technique to inject his soul into the Immortal body, completely merge with the soon-to-be-born True Spirit, thereby breaking through to the True Immortal Realm in one stroke.

However, the resources needed to refine a True Immortal were incredibly terrifying, and given the current state of the Feather Realm, gathering the corresponding spiritual materials was nearly impossible.

Thus, the Immortal Feather Lower Sect began seeking military exploits externally, relying on the True Immortal Power’s foundation to surround and eradicate forbidden lands and even waged warfare on other withering worlds through the refining of forbidden lands, plundering vast resources to amass the required spiritual materials for refining True Immortal.

Even the corpses of “Outer Demons” were not wasted in the slightest, being sent to the Corpse Transformation Hall for processing, refining primal power to make Elixirs.

Internally, they were also extremely strict, fully controlling all cultivation resources within the Feather Realm. Every Spirit Stone, every spiritual medicine, and even every cultivator were utilized to the utmost, with nearly the entire world revolving around the “refining True Immortal” plan!

And this plan has been ongoing for precisely five thousand years.

The more than ten Divine Bridge Immortal Masters from the Lower Sect had all passed away due to old age, and now, the attacks on the Chi Yan Cultivators like Ming Cang and Lu Ming were being carried out by Divine Bridge cultivators from the past three thousand years of cultivation.

Spirit Feather Master’s lifespan was also about to run out, with Shen Mo estimating that this Sect Master of the Celestial Feather Sect had about two hundred years left to live!

After recounting the cause and effect, Shen Mo paused slightly, his gaze sweeping over Ming Cang, Lu Ming, and the other five’s faces, he quietly said: “The will of heaven and earth in the Feather Realm has still become an Evil Spirit, indicating that the Immortal Feather Lower Sect’s plan to refine True Immortal has failed. To achieve this end, whether in forcibly searching all the world’s resources or refining forbidden lands, it undoubtedly accelerated the Feather Realm’s decay.”

“It is even possible that, over five thousand years ago, precisely because the Immortal Feather Patriarch and others attempted to refine True Immortal and violated some kind of taboo, it led to the downfall of the Immortal Feather Upper Sect!”