The Daily Life of the Immortal King

421-425

Chapter 421: Come, Let's Listen to a Song First and Calm Down

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

"Why is it... a mosaic?" Old Tang asked confusedly.

"At first I also wondered whether something had gone wrong, but then I discovered that no matter what material I used, it would become mosaic tiles once it came into my hands. So now I suspect that this senior has cast some sort of spell," said General Yi.

"What kind of spell?"

"I don't know yet." General Yi shook his head. "At first, I thought it was just a smokescreen or a hallucination spell. At my current realm, as long as I open my Heavenly Eye, theoretically there should be no spell that can be hidden from me... unless, the spell used exceeds my level."

Old Tang gasped. "A spell beyond True Immortal level?"

"That's right." General Yi nodded. "Soul Formation cultivators can at most use fifth-grade spells, Perfected Beings sixth-grade, Itinerant Immortals seventh-grade and True Immortals can use eighth-grade spells... Of course, this old man has also heard that grade eight isn't the limit for True Immortals, and a small number of them can discharge ninth-grade spells beyond that. The spell this Senior Ling cast is very likely a ninth-grade spell."

Old Tang understood immediately. "If even General Yi is unable to determine the deception spell this senior is using, then it's very likely as you've said: he's probably a great expert who can use ninth-grade spells. But has General Yi ever thought that there might be another possibility?"

"I know what you want to say."

General Yi smiled and pinched his moustache. "You think this Senior Ling might be a Venerated Immortal, right?"

"Mm." Old Tang nodded. "To be honest, I did think so."

"But this old man feels that you're thinking too much. It's absolutely impossible." General Yi lowered his voice.

"Can General Yi tell me why?"

"It's true that there are indeed Venerated Immortals in this world since they did exist before... But our Huaxiu nation has been working together with dozens of major powers for so many years to search for them, and we have yet to find any clues.

"Even if our nation has historical records of Immortal Zhenyuan, who stepped into the Venerated Immortal realm, it's only a legend. Until now, there's no proof that anyone has ever seen with their own eyes a living senior with this realm in this world.

"We cultivate realms to live long lives. While the concept of the Dao path of immortality has been spoken of since a long time ago, the reality is that there's no substance to it; it's impossible. Even seniors at Venerated Immortal level would now just be bones in the ground... What's more, no one in our time will ever reach Venerated Immortal level at all."

"Why's that?" Old Tang was confused.

General Yi said meaningfully, "The rumor is that if you want to reach Venerated Immortal level, you have to go through the Samsara Spirit Tribulation. But it consumes a tremendous amount of spirit energy from heaven and earth to get through it. In this era, cultivation rates have sped up, but the spirit energy of heaven and earth is not as abundant as before; it will be exhausted sooner or later, maybe in several thousand years, or ten thousand years later..."

When he heard this, Old Tang understood this. This was the "Theory of the Degenerate Age 1 " that had been put forward in the present.

A singer had specially written a song on this "Degenerate Age," and the memory of it was still fresh in Old Tang's mind.