After Immortal Mother left this time, Brother Cheng fell into a long, lonely silence.

For him, this process of endlessly cycling through getting Profound Patterns was really pretty boring.

He just didn’t know that the outside world was passing by countless times longer than in here.

While he was "opening hacks" over and over, the Primordial Immortal Realm had long since gone through seas turning into mulberry fields.

Gradually, more and more Supremes appeared in this world.

Gradually, it was as if an invisible hand was covering up the Heavenly Dao.

Gradually, the struggle for the Heavenly Dao became a thing of the past.

And the chaotic age of the Primordial Immortal Realm had already become history, with a new order slowly taking shape.

Jiang Cheng, who was within the Heavenly Dao, had no idea how much time had gone by.

At this moment, his process of obtaining brand-new Rule’s Profound Patterns was also coming to an end.

A full two thousand nine hundred plus Profound Patterns made his Profound Essence more and more complete.

"Ding! Host has been killed, detecting enemy power, arranging resurrection plan!"

"Ding! Host has obtained the Seventh-Layered Creation’s Profound Pattern!"

Hearing the name of this Profound Pattern, Brother Cheng was genuinely shocked.

This Rule seemed a bit too heaven-defying.

But he immediately remembered that among the Three Thousand Realms, there was a True Realm called the Realm of Creation.

The billions of Immortals in that True Realm all cultivated this Creation Rule, so it wasn’t that special.

Where there is Destruction, there’s naturally Creation. Totally normal.

"This seems to be the last one, right?" All these years he’d been bored out of his mind and could only kill time by counting.

"Ding! Host resurrected!"

At this step, he finally mastered the full set of Three Thousand Profound Patterns!

And at the same time, the Profound Essence within his body also completely reached Perfection.

The naturally formed Profound Essence trembled violently, its radiance filled with endless profundity.

Then it suddenly exploded, shattering into points of starlight that sprinkled over that sapling laden with Profound Patterns.

Swoosh!

Brother Cheng felt his whole being suddenly become brand new.

Before, when he mobilized Profound Pattern Power, he still had to route it through his Profound Essence.

But now, that step had been skipped entirely.

From now on, his Profound Patterns could directly carry all of his own Immortal Power without passing through the Profound Essence, because the Profound Essence had fused with the Profound Power Seed.

He slowly opened his eyes and discovered that his Realm had unknowingly reached Emperor Realm Eighth Layer.

And because he possessed the Three Thousand Profound Patterns, he now felt an unprecedented sense of completeness.

The depth of his foundation was, without question, the number one in history.

He beckoned and put away the Enlightenment Immortal Tree.

Although he still didn’t really understand this tree, after this experience he at least knew how high its level was.

Being able to withstand the invasion of the Heavenly Dao—one could imagine what kind of mighty power that was.

"It definitely isn’t inferior to any Celestial Dao Supreme Treasure!"

After taking back this tree, he himself was still perfectly fine.

Having passed the full set of three thousand Rule verifications, even though he still hadn’t reached Integration and wasn’t part of the Heavenly Dao’s "own people," he had essentially passed the Heavenly Dao’s trial directly.

With just a slight movement of thought, he could now freely shuttle back and forth through this ocean of Heavenly Dao, roaming unhindered!

He very easily left the range of the Heavenly Dao.

Then he jumped back in, then jumped back out again.

"Bro went in, and bro came out again!"

"Hey, how is it, how is it? Come on then, try trapping your granddaddy again?"

The Heavenly Dao was very speechless about this and could only pretend he didn’t exist.

After teasing the Heavenly Dao for a bit, he finally remembered business.

He was about to make a comeback; time to bump his power up a notch.

So he opened the system upgrade panel. Looking at 4.5 billion Immortal Yuan Points, this guy was full of lofty ambition.

He first spent five hundred million to raise Ice’s Profound Pattern to the Twelfth Layer.

The reason he picked this Profound Pattern first wasn’t because he was particularly fond of Ice Power.

It was because Ice Origin was the only Origin that had acknowledged him.

At this point, his comprehension of the Ice Rule had already surpassed the former Celestial Venerables and reached the level of Ultimate Level Strong Persons.

And as soon as he completed this step, he immediately sensed a warm response from the Ice Origin.

Jiang Cheng was struck by sudden Enlightenment and noticed that Origin loosen slightly.

"Could it be that I can get a strand of Origin in advance like a Celestial Venerable?"

If that were true, his combat power would skyrocket.

He tried communicating for a while, but in the end discovered that his Cultivation Realm was still a bit too low to bear the awesome power of even a strand of Origin.

After all, under normal circumstances you needed to be at Celestial Venerable Level, and he was only at Early-stage Emperor Realm Eighth Layer right now.

"Once I reach Late-stage Emperor Realm Eighth Layer it should be about time."

Seeing that Profound Pattern Thirteen Layer needed over ten billion Immortal Yuan Points, he could only choose to upgrade something else first.

He first spent a small amount of Immortal Yuan Points to raise all the Seventh Layer Profound Patterns among the Three Thousand Profound Patterns up to the Ninth Layer.

Then he started precisely upgrading a few specific Profound Patterns.

In the end, he chose four: Sword, Power, Speed, and Reincarnation.

The Sword Rule was for his Sword Heart, the Power Rule was because, well, it’s strong, and Speed and Reincarnation were to look after Cang Ling and Miao Yu.

After all, those two were bound to those two Profound Patterns.

When Brother Cheng’s Profound Patterns improved, they would also reap enormous benefits.

As for the remaining Yin, Yang, Water, Fire and the like, glancing at his remaining two billion Immortal Yuan Points, he felt he’d better hold off for now.

Then he opened the Divine Soul panel.

After Crystal Soul came Purple Soul, which needed three hundred million Immortal Yuan Points to upgrade, and Jiang Cheng clicked without hesitation.

Thus his Divine Soul Realm officially surpassed the Celestial Venerable Level and stood shoulder to shoulder with the Supremes.

After that, he spent another three hundred million to raise the Immortal Thousand Splendor Sword Scripture to Tier Sixteen, a level comparable to the Ultimate Level.

At this point, with fourteen billion left, his power had already completely transformed, jumping up several tiers.

Now, if he ran into an Emperor Realm Ninth Layer again, it wasn’t a question of whether he could beat them, but what pose he would use to crush them.

"Hahahaha! Bro has finally returned again!"

He easily broke through layer after layer of Gang Feng and returned to the Primordial Immortal Realm.

Having not seen another living person for so many years, his desire to show off was insanely strong right now.

Especially with this brand-new, overwhelming power, he really wanted to test-fire it!

Looking at the surrounding mountain ranges, his chest swelled with heroic spirit.

His Purple Soul spread outward, and this entire "world" was almost entirely within his view.

Then his expression turned strange.

"What’s going on?"

"How did the Immortal Realm become this small?"

His Purple Soul’s sensing range was enormous, yet this world only ran a million li before it hit the boundary.

This wasn’t even as big as a single kingdom in the Lower Realm back then.

And beyond this range was a vast, dense fog.

That fog carried a strong aura of the Heavenly Dao; since he hadn’t reached Integration, he couldn’t sense what lay deep within it.

Other than that, he found that the Immortal Qi density in this world wasn’t as high as he’d imagined. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

It was only about the same as the True Ice Realm before its fusion.

And as for the Immortals in this world, the highest Realm anyone had reached was only Emperor Realm Sixth Layer.

Most were just Emperor Realm First and Second Layer.

"This is a bit ridiculous!"

"Don’t tell me I directly transmigrated into the End of Dharma Era?"

"No way..."

"If it really is like that, then bro is inexplicably invincible."