Chapter 1506: The Fate of the Immortal is Ultimately Determined
The initial fusion of two Daoist images, is the most difficult.
The Giant Rat Immortal originally cultivated the Emperor's Law Tao. The more followers he had and the more loyal they were, the stronger the feedback he received.
The accumulation of two hundred million years caused his Emperor's Law Tao to almost reach its theoretical limit. Under the heavens, none dared not submit.
It was precisely because of the Supreme Emperor's Law Tao that the Giant Rat was able to conquer absolutely, absorbing and assimilating the second Tao like a vassal.
Once can be repeated. Repeated once, can be thrice.
In the name of the Immortal Emperor, secretly summoning the group of immortals. Then silently devouring them one by one.
At first, the cautious Giant Rat Immortal chose to target those True Immortals with mediocre strength and little fame. But later, with the fusion of countless Taos, the Giant Rat Immortal began to act with impunity.
However, it must be said that the Giant Rat Immortal truly deserved his title of Eternal Immortal Emperor.
Even as his greed for Tao gradually devoured his mind, the Giant Rat Immortal never forgot his original intention. To become one person as the Three Saints, supporting the collapsing edifice.
In a world on the brink of the Path-obliterating Calamity, under his governance, it astonishingly endured another billion years. It seemed as if one could truly see the hope of eternal persistence.
Yet all stories must eventually come to an end.
After stalling for billions of years, the Path-obliterating Calamity appeared to have completely lost patience with prolonging the stalemate. Mobilizing forces, concentrating their attack.
One day, the Giant Rat Immortal was horrified to discover that the pressure on the Immortal World from the Path-obliterating Calamity inexplicably doubled.
A billion years of stability and peace had caused the group of immortals to lose their sharp ability to perceive crisis. By the time they reacted, intending to mend the heavens with Immortals, it was all too late.
The Giant Rat Immortal could only watch as the terrifying Tao Yan Tide, with an unstoppable force, engulfed more than half of the Immortal World in an instant.
Fallen True Immortals were countless. And those who survived were scared out of their wits, unable to muster the courage to resist the catastrophe.
As the de facto ruler of the Immortal World, witnessing his domain overturned in such a short time, the sense of defeat was undoubtedly intense. However, at that moment, such so-called "emotions" were no longer important.
Survival was the only thing that truly mattered.
Yet the Giant Rat Immortal, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, despairingly discovered that with the calamity looming over them, there was no escape.
The group of immortals gathered around him, pleading for a way to survive.
But the Giant Rat Immortal, looking at the Immortal World, already riddled with holes, himself was engulfed in despair.
However, being the existence that ruled the Immortal World for a full three hundred million years, the Giant Rat Immortal wouldn't give up so easily.
In a desperate situation, a mad idea surfaced in his mind.
Gathering the power of all the immortals to reach the transcendence of the Other Shore.
In the possibilities in which the Giant Rat Immortal existed, there were also legends about the Other Shore, about other possibilities. But they were rarely known, being secrets within secrets. Even the Giant Rat Immortal himself had only heard of them in his youth, from the Three Saints. Let alone nurturing a truly transcendent strongman.
No one to borrow experience from, the Giant Rat Immortal could only explore on his own.
But most crucial was, the time left for him, was indeed not much.
Searching through the remaining regions of the Immortal World, the Giant Rat Immortal finally found a method that barely allowed him to transcend possibilities.
Immortal Coffin Transcendence!
But unfortunately, among the surviving group of immortals, it seemed only he had enough power to survive in the world-transformed Immortal Coffin, floating in the Tao Yan Tide.
The others, even if they managed to enter the Immortal Coffin, might not be able to endure for long before completely perishing. Let alone reaching the Other Shore.
The Giant Rat Immortal, of course, could flee on his own. But as the dignified Eternal Immortal Emperor, could he just watch his subordinates die miserably?
Clearly, the Giant Rat Immortal was not such a selfish person.
Relying on his rich experience of secretly devouring the group of immortals and fusing with the Dao over the years, at the last moment, the Giant Rat Immortal devised an excellent mystique. To wield the Tao with the Emperor's Law, maintaining the balance of various Taos.
As long as they remained in a state of devouring or semi-devouring, the group of immortals was not truly absorbed by him. They still had their independent Dao paths, cultivation bases, memories, emotions, and so on.
Once they hid within the Immortal Coffin, successfully drifting to the Other Shore. Then releasing the group of immortals, they could smoothly evade this catastrophe.
After tentatively ingesting more than ten True Immortals, the Giant Rat Immortal found this method feasible. The only drawback was that he himself was both leading the devouring of the Dao and striving to maintain the clarity of the Dao.
This extremely contradictory approach would place him under ultimate torment.
And with the increasing number of Dao paths ingested, the time maintaining the balance of various Taos increased proportionally.
For a moment there was hesitation, but during this hesitancy, countless True Immortals died miserable deaths.
The Giant Rat Immortal then made a firm decision.
The Immortal World was already in a precarious state, and the final Tao Yan Tide could erupt at any time. There was simply no time to explain slowly to the surviving True Immortals.
Even if explained, they might not believe it. Holding onto this belief, the Giant Rat Immortal began to resolutely and decisively devour the group of immortals.
Confronted by the sudden devouring behavior of the Eternal Immortal Emperor, the group of immortals was horrified and terrified.
Yet were utterly unable to resist.
Only able to desperately curse and plead in despair, fear.
Although the Eternal Immortal Emperor acted without the slightest hesitation, the words and deeds of the group of immortals were deeply engraved in his heart.