Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 344

Chapter 344 Congratulations, Fellow Daoists, on Ascending to the Immortal Realm!

After the War Heavenly Venerable appeared, all the human champions finally breathed a sigh of relief.

During the past five hundred years, ever since Su Bai vanished, every strong figure among the Human Race had been on edge.

They feared another invasion by the Demon Race!

Although those man-eating demon Heavenly Venerables had been slain by Su Bai, that didn’t mean the Demon Realm had no Heavenly Venerables left!

There were also some divine beast clans that never ate humans, and Su Bai hadn’t slaughtered them indiscriminately.

They worried whether those clans might one day invade the Continent.

Fortunately, they made it through!

The Human Race produced a new Heavenly Venerable!

They believed that, in the years ahead, even more Heavenly Venerables would emerge among humans!

When that time came, even facing the Demon Race head-on, there would be nothing to fear!

Indeed, in the few years after he first became a Heavenly Venerable, the War Heavenly Venerable truly lived up to the name of a human Heavenly Venerable!

He continued Su Bai’s past work, delivering Heavenly Venerable teachings in hopes of bringing forth more Heavenly Venerables for humanity.

He gave selflessly, distributing resources to everyone so they could all advance together.

Because he had come from the bottom, he understood the hardships of the lowly and wanted them to rise.

The earlier Heavenly Venerable would lift the later ones!

Until, a few years later, the War Heavenly Venerable casually discovered that whenever humans paid respects to a Heavenly Venerable, they always worshipped Su Bai first, then him — the War Heavenly Venerable!

No matter where his statue stood, it was always placed after Su Bai’s, as if it were Su Bai’s attendant!

At first he didn’t pay much mind, but later he found that even those Grand Venerables who came to hear his teachings would bow to Su Bai first.

That thought gradually bred a demon in his heart.

He was still the only Heavenly Venerable of the Human Race!

Why should he come after Su Bai?

If more Heavenly Venerables appeared in the future, wouldn’t his status only decline further?

Right now he was the sole supreme of the Human Race; wherever he went everyone knelt to greet him.

That lofty, overwhelming power intoxicated him, and he sank deep into it, completely forgetting his original intention.

With no external enemy threatening the Human Race, one idea in his heart grew deeper and deeper.

He wanted to be…the eternal ruler of the Human Race!

The sole, eternal ruler!!!

He wanted everyone to kneel only to him!

He wanted to stand above billions upon billions of lives!

He wanted to be the only god in the world!

Afterward, he secretly altered the Heavenly Venerable sections of the Immortal Technique that Su Bai had brought, guiding everyone down the wrong path.

Sure enough, in the following centuries several human peak Grand Venerables, while secluded and striking for the Heavenly Venerable Realm, went mad from deviation.

At best their past efforts were lost and their Dao foundations damaged.

At worst they died on the spot!

Even when some peak Grand Venerables discovered the Immortal Technique was flawed and corrected it themselves—finding the right path and about to step into the Heavenly Venerable Realm—they fell victim to his black hand!

As a result, for the next thousand years no one among the Human Race set foot in the Heavenly Venerable Realm again!

The War Heavenly Venerable became the Human Race’s only Heavenly Venerable!

His life grew increasingly extravagant; he enjoyed the best resources and the finest women!

Later still, the unrivaled beauties from every region of the Human Race were seized to his side, becoming his playthings.

This was the intoxication brought by supreme power!

Over time, some Grand Venerables among the Human Race sensed something amiss and united to question him.

He stopped pretending.

On that day, with iron-blooded means, he massacred the human leadership, breaking the proud bones of all who resisted!

The rest either pretended not to know or submitted!

Afterward, the War Heavenly Venerable used iron-blooded measures to erase every trace of Su Bai’s existence, smashing all his statues.

In this world, there could be only one Heavenly Venerable—him!

When a person possesses invincible power over All Under Heaven, no one can predict what he will do!

All free immortal techniques were confiscated; all resources became the War Heavenly Venerable’s alone!

The Human Race slipped into a dark age once more!

A thousand years later, the Demon Race launched a massive invasion, and astonishingly ten Heavenly Venerables appeared!

It turned out that over these two thousand years the Demon Race had been accumulating strength, preparing revenge, and had secretly produced ten Heavenly Venerables!

As for the Human Race, they could also have had multiple Heavenly Venerables, but the War Heavenly Venerable had extinguished them all single-handedly!

Without doubt, in that war the Human Race collapsed completely!

The War Heavenly Venerable even defected to the Demon Race, but was slain by the demon Heavenly Venerables.

The Human Race became, once again, fodder—countless humans kept and fed by the Demon Race!

“This is human nature.”

Watching the Human Race’s final fate, Su Bai sighed softly.

This time, humanity had been defeated by itself!

The Human Race’s first Heavenly Venerable was at once the utmost honor and the greatest temptation.

Think about it: as the first Heavenly Venerable, with no external enemies, would you want someone else to share your rule?

Would you even want someone to surpass you?

Two consecutive failures left Su Bai unsure how to find a breakthrough.

If you don’t eliminate external enemies, humanity perishes when you are gone.

If you do eliminate external enemies, humanity collapses under its own human nature.

He needed to find someone of exceptionally high moral character who could remain true to their original heart!

But where could such a person be found?

“Heaven-Defying Sect… Peerless Heavenly Venerable…”

At that moment Su Bai recalled the Sect Master of the former Heaven-Defying Sect, that legendary figure of the Human Race.

He knew of the Peerless Heavenly Venerable’s existence, but he didn’t truly know him.

Back when the Peerless Palace stood, he had only seen a vague image, knowing only that he had risen from the very bottom.

Yet he was not the War Emperor.

The Human Race was so vast—how hard it would be to find someone who started from the bottom!

The next moment, the scene before Su Bai vanished.

After a short while, he returned to the Great Forest, to the place where the dream had begun.

“The third time…”

Seeing countless people in the Great Forest imprisoned and kept by demonic beasts, Su Bai was about to act as he had in the previous two times, but he suddenly stopped.

The place where the dream began…

Why did his Heart Demon Tribulation always restart in this Great Forest?

Or was this place special in some way?

For example… could there be a key person nearby who could break the deadlock?

Could the Peerless Heavenly Venerable be nearby?

………………..

In an insignificant corner of the Immortal Realm.

“Is this the Immortal Realm?”

“Is that immortal power? It really is different from the spiritual energy in our world!”

“Is this the legendary ascension dais? So many ascendants!”

“Daoist friends, what world are you from?”

‘Su Bai’ had appeared here, and from faint sounds he heard the surrounding commotion.

He opened his eyes and indeed saw a world completely unlike the Continent.

Beside him were many who looked like newly arrived ascendants, curiously scanning their surroundings.

“The Immortal Realm doesn’t seem so dangerous?”

Su Bai felt puzzled as he took in everything around him, and the several locals stationed not far away who, by their appearance, should be immortals of the Immortal Realm.

For some reason, from the looks those guarding immortals gave him, he had a bad feeling—very bad!

Because those looks were the same as the watchdogs of the former Heavenly Palace used to give!

Lofty and disdainful, looking down on so‑called “inferior people”!

At that moment, a “young man” dressed in ornate robes appeared, surveyed the crowd, and smiled as he spoke.

“I am Gao Pan. First, congratulations to all of you Daoist friends on your ascension to the Immortal Realm!”