The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 1446 - 624: Step into Yang 4, Enter Yang 5

Chapter 1446: Chapter 624: Step into Yang 4, Enter Yang 5

The young man returned from the frontlines, bearing injuries.

Even though he had stepped into Yang Five, possessing unparalleled combat power, he was still wounded in the face of annihilation.

"How is San Sheng?" the young man asked.

Since San Sheng came back from Origin Mountain, he had been in closed-door meditation, contemplating the path to Yang Six.

"He is still in closed-door meditation," responded a Yang Three Realm Lord respectfully.

"Your Majesty, regarding the matter of annihilation, should we inform Emperor San Sheng?" the Realm Lord immediately asked.

Clearly, this was not his question, but someone else’s instruction.

The young man frowned: "There is no need to inform San Sheng about this. I will handle the matter of annihilation; he just needs to break through Yang Five."

This was his way of expressing his stance.

He knew that because San Sheng didn’t choose another path to Yang Six in Origin Mountain and stepped into Yang Six, there had been quite a bit of idle chatter within this lineage.

After all, in the eyes of others, if San Sheng had stepped into Yang Six, perhaps their lineage wouldn’t have faced such a tragic struggle against annihilation, losing many territories.

After the young man spoke, he did not elaborate further, only casting a glance toward the place where San Sheng was in meditation before intending to leave.

"Come here for a moment."

Just then, San Sheng’s voice sounded.

The young man’s eyebrows twitched as he entered the place of meditation.

San Sheng, looking at the young man, said in a calm tone: "I wish to go to the Rebirth Realm."

The young man’s expression shifted slightly upon hearing this.

However, he did not speak.

"The Rebirth Realm, as well as the Yin Realm, are related to my Dao," San Sheng answered.

The young man took a deep breath.

Had it been someone else, they would most likely have already started dissuading San Sheng by now.

After all, the Rebirth Realm and the Yin Realm are unlike the Yang Realm, farther removed from the Dao.

Breaking through to Yang Six is even more far-fetched.

"I am here, you may cultivate and break through at ease," the young man said.

"Alright," San Sheng nodded.

After making a brief arrangement, his figure disappeared in an instant.

From then on, San Sheng was no longer in the Yang Realm.

In the Rebirth Realm, a new San Sheng emerged.

...

"The Path of Reincarnation also needs to be walked anew in the Rebirth Realm."

The San Sheng who arrived in the Rebirth Realm was a brand-new being.

Starting from insignificance, he re-cultivated the Dao Methods, Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Yuan Pill, Divine Child... Eventually, he once again stepped into the realm of Yang Three.

"After Yang Three comes Yang Four, where the True Spirit Silent Annihilation solidifies into rules."

Atop Great Snow Mountain, San Sheng looked concerned.

"Yang Four... was it caused by that failure?"

San Sheng recalled, on Origin Mountain, a Yang Six had once invited him.

This Yang Six, named Wu Fa: Fifty of the Heavenly Dao, with one evading.

Annihilation is the inevitable trend, the opposite of life.

This Wu Fa used evasion to confront annihilation.

But, his art of evasion was not Perfect, just like a stillness that isn’t Perfect.

"Thus, influenced by Wu Fa, the Yang Four of the world... all lost their True Spirits, existing only in the past and future, and only by solidifying into Exotic Treasures do they exist in the present?"

This was Wu Fa’s method to confront annihilation, as well as his Dao.

"The ultimate goal of all Daos is eternity.

Yet, in the world, there is annihilation, making the struggle against annihilation the ultimate endpoint of the Dao."

Annihilation means returning to zero, destruction, disaster, chaos, oblivion.

All means of negating, erasing, and rooting out in the world can be deemed as annihilation.

"The so-called reincarnation means that even beings suppressed by annihilation can emerge through my cycle of reincarnation."

San Sheng thought thus.

His vision was noble.

But to realize it was tremendously difficult.

Destruction is always easier than rebuilding.

In this Yin Realm, Rebirth Realm, and Yang Realm, there are countless Universes, spaces, and Great Realms.

Even beyond the Three Realms in the Universe.

The birth of the strong, beyond measure.

Great Dao... also endless and boundless.

And the means of annihilation, incalculable.

Some methods, unfathomable and absolutely banishing, or not harming the True Spirit, or that of imprisonment.

Anything causing beings to not have their way, or seemingly allowing it but bearing malice, can all be termed as annihilation.

Annihilation is the eternal opposition.

Even the eternal nature of malice, to some extent, is a form of annihilation.

The annihilation that emerged in the Three Realms today often arrives in the guise of destruction.

"Therefore... to achieve the Dao through reincarnation... I need to know... all Dao Methods, all paths... and moreover, scale the highest peaks."

San Sheng murmured.

That is why Jing once said that San Sheng was indulging in wild fantasies.

Because the means of destruction are so numerous, annihilation encompasses everything.

The countless paths of the world.

Even to say, even a single cell possesses its own unique Dao.

A mere rock, a desolate planet, likewise has its own Dao.

He needed to understand them all, omniscient and omnipotent, to confront annihilation and truly enable beings to emerge from the cycle of reincarnation.

"Yang Four... I must also enter."

Without entering Yang Four, how could he comprehend Wu Fa’s path?

Though it is said that the Yang Six realm could fathom everything in the world and see through the nature of Yang Four.

But such insight, in San Sheng’s view, was only surface-level knowing.

"I shall step into Yang Four in the Yin Realm."

As San Sheng murmured, his figure split in two.

One entered the Yin Realm, one stayed in the Rebirth Realm.

Years later.

In the Yin Realm, San Sheng, adorned in a Black Robe, radiated an abstruse aura.

Behind him, a group of formidable beings followed.

These powerhouses, judging only by their aura, were all at the Yang Five level.

However, even as Yang Fives, they showed reverence in the presence of San Sheng of Yang Three.

Because San Sheng’s Talent was too high.

With just a few words, he could bring about enlightenment for a strong being.

Moreover, although he was of Yang Three, his combat power was exceptionally astonishing.

He also possessed numerous methods to resist annihilation.

Therefore, in the Yin Realm, he had many followers.

"Your Majesty San Sheng, the path of Yang Four... not a man of proper path, with Your Majesty’s talent and intelligence, you could step into Yang Five with a mere gesture." A Yang Five elder spoke.

He had been stuck in the realm of Yang Three for countless years.

Finally, it was under the guidance of San Sheng that he broke through to Yang Five.

"Yang Five is not what I seek," San Sheng said softly.

In the Yin Realm, he established a vast power that spanned endless space, gathering the laws of the world.

However, the Yin Realm was too vast.

Fearfully, without reaching Yang Six, one cannot traverse it all.

"This time, I will enter Yang Four, and if one day the True Spirit revives... there will be no place left in this world."

The Yang Five powerhouses behind him all looked at San Sheng with complex expressions.

After all, abandoning one’s own True Spirit to step into Yang Four, just to seek a glimmer of hope for the revival of the True Spirit, to face the Return to Nothingness.

If it were them, they would definitely be unable to do it.

After all, although Return to Nothingness is strong, but now... it cannot yet exterminate powerhouses like them of Yang Five.

Even if the world falls into ruin.

But the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds are so vast, by going to other places, one can still survive, eternally undying.

"If my True Spirit cannot revive..." San Sheng showed a smile, "there will be successors to take my place."

As San Sheng’s voice fell, his figure also turned into nothingness at this moment.

True Spirit Silent Annihilation.

At this moment, San Sheng felt himself to be incredibly powerful, even able to wound Yang Six with a single sword.

However, this ultimate sublimation only existed for an instant.

His True Spirit completely faded into silence.

In the universe, only a group of strong individuals remained, looking at the void ahead with complicated gazes.

Meanwhile, within the Rebirth Realm.

San Sheng’s thoughts were somewhat sluggish.

"Indeed, even with the method I created, splitting the True Spirit to step into the realm of Yang Four, I am still affected."

The current San Sheng has an obscure True Spirit.

It’s as if a light bulb has gathered some dust.

"Sleep."

To deal with these problems, San Sheng chose to sleep.

Not knowing how many years passed, San Sheng woke up once again.

Suddenly, he raised his hand, his eyes calm.

"Bitten by someone?"

On his arm, there was a clear row of teeth marks.

Clearly, someone tried to nibble it while he was asleep.

He didn’t mind.

Upon waking this time, his comprehension of the Wan Dao became much deeper.

But...

He opened the Jade Slip, and many messages came through from the Jade Slip.

"San Sheng, the Void Battle Realm has been devoured by Return to Nothingness."

"Yang Heaven Realm is gone."

"More and more creatures are moving to the Ancestral Domain, and the Ancestral Domain is plagued with daily strife."

During his time of deep sleep, Return to Nothingness became more rampant.

The Yin Realm, the Rebirth Realm, and the Yang Realm - Return to Nothingness is increasing everywhere.

All things turn into nothingness.

"A great dream lasting a thousand autumns, I never expected... the impact of Yang Four True Spirit Silent Annihilation to last so many years."

San Sheng felt sentimental.

In today’s Yang Realm, aside from the strong individuals related to his own lineage and some old monsters, there may be... no one who still remembers him.

The newly-born Yang Five also do not know of him.

"The more I know, the further I realize I am from the Path of Reincarnation."

San Sheng voiced his sentiment.

What he pursued, the Path of Reincarnation, was even more complex than the omnipotence of Yang Six.

It could be said to be one man... opposing the whole world.

"Reincarnation... Reincarnation."

This became San Sheng’s obsession.

In the following time, he wandered the Rebirth Realm by himself.

He also saw that being, the one who left bite marks on his arm.

He didn’t hold it against them.

He was gathering the laws of the world, comprehending Return to Nothingness.

Yet, every once in a while, some news from the Yang Realm would come.

"The Wind Realm has been engulfed by Return to Nothingness."

"This time, a universe of creatures didn’t have time to escape, all falling prey to Return to Nothingness."

"San Sheng, having received the support of myriad tribes, on the Origin Road, I, despite being gravely injured while protecting you, took eons for my wounds to heal. Now that Return to Nothingness is approaching, why not return to shelter the tribes?"

"Is the other path of Yang Six not true Yang Six?"

More and more idle chatter assaulted him.

San Sheng’s heart on the pursuit of the Dao remained unchanged.

"Without entering into Reincarnation, how can one oppose Return to Nothingness."

However, years later, when a girl came to San Sheng crying, her expression filled with sorrow.

"Your Majesty San Sheng, the Divine Lord... he fought against Return to Nothingness, his True Spirit... extinguished, leaving only a single thought."

The so-called Divine Lord, that young man, was also San Sheng’s junior brother.

Many years had passed, Return to Nothingness grew more terrifying, and even Yang Five might fall to Return to Nothingness.

"True Spirit extinguished, leaving only a thought?" San Sheng murmured, his expression complex, "A thought?"

"That thought, he does not wish to see your majesty," said the girl, crying.

True Spirit Silent Annihilation is complete obliteration.

That one thought is just the last breath of the strong.

Junior brother’s last breath... does not wish to see him.

San Sheng sat beneath a large tree for seven days, his expression bleak.

"I understand now."

"The closer I get to Reincarnation, the more I realize, the further I am from Reincarnation."

"Not within Reincarnation, then within the cycle."

At this moment, San Sheng no longer clung to the path of Reincarnation.

"First the cycle, then Reincarnation."

San Sheng’s voice was calm.

But he understood.

After stepping into the cycle, he might come extremely close to Reincarnation, but... he will have no chance to truly touch Reincarnation.

At this moment, San Sheng entered Yang Five.

From then on, as Yang Five became Dao Lord, the mortal world entered into the cycle.