Chapter 778: The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune
The Celestial Immortal Path, Earth Immortal Path, Human Immortal Path, Divine Immortal Path, and Ghost Immortal Path – each possesses its own unique strengths.
Celestial Immortals excel at Spirit Arts, their influence over the material world unparalleled, truly a human-shaped natural disaster.
Earth Immortals embody civilization itself, capable of calculating and deducing with the minds of hundreds of millions, their essence bound to their race—as long as the race endures, the Immortal cannot perish.
Human Immortals possess invincible will, capable of interchanging spirit and flesh to move like light. Their Martial Path will allows their fists to suppress mountains and rivers, "enlightening" all things (physically).
Divine Immortals are calm and steady; as long as their Divine Kingdom endures, they are immortal. Their cultivation path is upright and peaceful, encountering the fewest bottlenecks.
Ghost Immortals play the world like a chessboard, formless Heavenly Demons, undying and unperishable. They manipulate Qi Luck to avert disasters and avoid tribulations, truly the most bizarre and strange of paths.
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Among those capable of cultivating to Immortality, who among them isn't an exceptional talent among hundreds of millions?
The immense advantage of cultivating multiple paths, or even all Five Immortal Paths concurrently, was something they naturally understood.
Moreover, they had discovered that as long as one's cultivation in a single path reached a sufficiently high realm, it could drive the cultivation of the other paths. This was the core reason everyone speculated Bai Mo could cultivate all Five Immortal Paths concurrently.
He must have pushed the realm of his primary path, the Celestial Immortal Path, to an extremely high level, making it much easier to concurrently cultivate the others.
But the new question was, how did one push the realm of their primary path to such extreme heights?
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"Since you agree, then this 'Yisage's Glory' shall be yours." Bai Mo lightly grasped the crown with his thumb, index, and middle fingers, placing it precisely on Wei Ni Si's head.
As for the Luminous Holy Church's papal crown, which had originally been in the same spot, it was inexplicably transported to her hand.
"Yisage..." Upon hearing these three words, the new Empress's nose suddenly stung, as if she were recalling someone.
The previous Pope of the Luminous Holy Church, the good-natured Gang Duo, indeed shared the surname Yisage. However, very few people knew this fact.
Because before Gang Duo became Pope, all his family had already passed away, and he never mentioned his surname. Official documents and seals only bore the two characters of Gang Duo.
Over time, apart from a very small number of people who knew him intimately, no one else was aware of Gang Duo's full name.
"Thank you." She held the hem of her gown, inclining her head slightly in a gesture of respect.
In that moment, Wei Ni Si seemed to gain a new understanding of this most legendary being in the Federation.
"The Crown of Glory."
Most others, unfamiliar with Gang Duo, preferred to call the Imperial Crown by this name. As for who Yisage was? They had no interest in knowing, as everyone had already resolved never to wear it in this lifetime.
After completing this unusually simple coronation, Bai Mo said nothing further, quietly turning to prepare his departure.
"Where do you wish to go?" Before leaving, he landed beside Wu Ling and asked.
Bai Mo was still a tiny bit concerned for this Son of Qi Luck (former). If he didn't send him somewhere remote enough to live in seclusion, even if the True Immortals present promised not to lay a hand on him, there would be plenty of sycophants trying to decipher their superiors' intentions, eager to take the initiative and become a scapegoat.
If one of their overzealous subordinates were to somehow get rid of Wu Ling, and a new Son of Qi Luck emerged prematurely, it wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.
With Qi Luck having departed him, and the fervor in his mind gradually cooling, Wu Ling understood this point after some thought.
In this moment, Wu Ling was deeply curious as to why his former self had been so audacious, possessing the courage to single-handedly challenge all True Immortals, despite being a mere mortal.
Any one of the individuals before him could simply breathe and crush him to dust.
"Could... could you please take her with you too?" Wu Ling picked up the unconscious girl, who was still dressed in prisoner's clothes, and requested in a voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz.
When fortune smiles, heaven and earth lend their strength, and heroic ambitions dare to vie with the heavens; but when fortune recedes, heroes lose their freedom, growing weary and bleak in their twilight years.
Without the "chicken blood" injected by Qi Luck, his spirit, energy, and essence seemed to have been drained by ninety-nine percent. In an instant, his heart aged considerably, and he no longer harbored any grand ambitions of fighting against heaven and earth. He simply wished to live peacefully with the one he loved, never again defying the heavens.
"You may."
Bai Mo's two nonchalant words, however, landed in Wu Ling's heart with the weight of a thousand jun.
"I only ask that you take us somewhere they can never find us."
No sooner had the words left his lips than Wu Ling's vision filled with nothing but white. In his last memory, he seemed to have been dispersed by a white sleeve...
"Another one turned into light?" Yu Po once again witnessed the details of Bai Mo turning someone into light.
A streak of light flew towards the Land of White.
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"An Inter-Realm Gate?" When he awoke again, Wu Ling found himself and the girl in his arms in an unfamiliar place, clutching a strange ticket in his hand.
"Passengers holding Void Tickets from the Land of White bound for the Manghuang Realm, please board quickly..." Just as he was still in a daze, the ticket in his hand suddenly spoke.
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Within the Empire, many True Immortals who still harbored animosity towards Wu Ling suddenly felt a wave of relief in their hearts upon seeing his disappearance, likely because a new Son of Qi Luck would not be born for the time being.
Of course, an even greater reason for their relief was that Bai Mo, who had inexplicably entered this conflict, had finally departed...
After sending Wu Ling away with a flick of his sleeve, this avatar of Bai Mo slowly dissolved in the faint sunlight arriving from an extremely distant place, looking like a wax figure gradually melting under scorching rays.
If one were to simply observe this scene, no one would ever imagine that the one disappearing in the faint sunlight was actually a projection comparable to a True Immortal.
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"Is this the divine right of kings, or the royal right of gods?" On her way back, Wei Ni Si, who felt as though the past few hours had been nothing but a dream, kept pondering this profound question.
Meanwhile, the other Electors with real power had already begun calculating everything for the post-Federation era.
The Empire's Seven Great Electors included Ramdo's Bato Divine Kingdom, the Four Holy Beasts' Heavenly Sacred Domain, the Bloodline Alliance formed by several aristocratic families led by Ye De Xian, the Wizard Continent led by Ying Huo, the newly built Moon God Star by former Speaker Ji Er Ke Fu, the Jade Sky Heaven constructed by Yun Jie, and finally, the Mortal Star belonging to mortals.
The first six were super organizations willing to intervene in Imperial affairs, though this didn't mean their supreme leaders necessarily possessed the Empire's strongest cultivation.
For someone like Yu Po, a Human Immortal at the second stage, suppressing a Celestial Immortal at the first stage like Yun Jie was no difficult feat. However, the former held absolutely no interest in Imperial power, belonging to the type of lonely ascetic with little desire even to establish their own organization.
As for the final Hua Fan Xing, by agreement, it would essentially serve as a gladiatorial arena where the mortal branches of various transcendent powers would compete with each other. For now, however, only the Mundane Empire was a major force there, but soon enough, others would extend their hands into it as well.
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