novelThe Beginning of the Five Decrepit Phenomena and the Omen of the Dharma Ending
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A new Earthly Immortal would never have a lower status in small sects of the Eye of the Storm and often became the backbone of the sect; some even became the successors of the sect's power. After all, Earthly Immortals could no longer be measured by their Dharma powers. Besides, Red Tiger was obviously a practitioner with great potential. Even if he could not break through to the Celestial Immortal's Way and become a Sage in the future, he would at least become an outstanding Earthly Immortal like Emperor An, the Emperor of Moon Temple and the Tai Sui.
This was what his sect expected of him and he had full confidence in himself.
All this, however, seemed to be turning into a dream only, for the new Red Tiger Emperor had recently felt that his Dharma power seemed to have undergone a strange, indescribable change. Though he did not become weak, he discovered some portions of his power withering away. He did not like it as it felt a bit devastating.
Initially he took for granted that it was a natural response to his Dharma power ascent after he became an Earthly Immortal, so instead of caring about the change, he even felt a bit smug about it.
But when he finished the closed-door training, he suddenly felt a strong sense of weakness that caught him off guard. At first, he thought that it was someone plotting against him, but he soon dismissed the speculation, because he found that the sense of weakness was not caused by external forces, but came from the depths of his body. He turned pale with fear. After careful examination of his body, he still could not find the cause. This sense of weakness was similar to the exhaustion he felt after a fight. But before long, the sensation faded and he regained his strength as if nothing had happened.
It would be great if nothing had happened. But as a formidable Earthly Immortal with a keen spiritual mind, he knew that the sense of weakness was not just an illusion, but something that had really happened.
"Why did that happen? Am I under a curse?" He thought seriously about it. Only curses could explain the strange things that had been happening and the weird magic that could have caused it."The man who put the curse on me without my noticing it must be very insidious, thus I am unable to remove the curse. I have to go back to the sect and ask the First Elder to help me!"
"Has the Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena already begun?" a man in the Eye of the Storm of the Immortal Realm asked.
That was the Taoist rite of the Gale Sage, one of the three Celestial Immortals. Like the Nine-headed Fierce Beast Sage, the Gale Sage was not a man willing to take charge of affairs either. As he drew boundaries with other forces, he was completely indifferent to what was happening in his territory, unless he was treated with disrespect. However, no one in the universe dared to be disrespectful to a Celestial Immortal.
Although the Gale Sage had no interest in managing affairs, he was a man who followed the rules perfectly. Any practitioner could live in the Eye of the Storm so long as he did not violate the rules made millions of years ago.
Therefore, there were plenty of practitioners in this territory, and some of them were mighty Earthly Immortals with unfathomable cultivation. These Earthly Immortals, like the Earthly Immortals in other parts of the Immortal Realm, usually practiced in their own Immortal's Caves. Their closed-door training could last for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years in order to understand the Celestial Immortal's Way.
Of course, there were some new Earthly Immortals. They, compared to other Earthly Immortals, were somewhat ostentatious. After years of hard work, they finally became Earthly Immortals, who were able to create their own macro worlds. Besides, they even could live as long as heaven and earth and thus they wanted to celebrate. As a result, some new practitioners enjoyed a period of great elation.
Red Tiger was one these new practitioners. He came from a small sect in the Eye of the Storm. It only took him about a hundred years to break through to the Earthly Immortal Realm because of his great talent and the advantage of the Immortal Realm environment.
Even if practitioners in the Immortal Realm abided by the rules daily and use a huge amount of essence, to become an Earthly Immortal within a hundred years was still an extremely amazing feat and many ordinary people could not achieve this.
But Red Tiger did it. What was more shocking was that he did not use any prepared fairy weapons when undergoing his Earthly Immortal Tribulation. Instead, he had an insight during the tribulation and got over it safely. As a result, he became not only an Earthly Immortal, but also ten times more powerful than the common one. He was extremely proud of these achievements. Sometimes, he even thought that he was much better than those Tribulation Takers and that he should have become a real Tribulation Taker.
That was just in his imagination. It was too dangerous to be a Tribulation Taker. Thus, he preferred to practice in the Eye of the Storm.
The strange feeling came and went quickly, but it scared Red Tiger. He immediately went back to his sect as quickly as he could to ask for help.
What he did not know was that there were practitioners who had encountered the same sense of weakness as he had and they pervaded every part of the Immortal Realm and the Human Realm. There were practitioners who felt something was wrong with their bodies, but didn't know why, just like Red Tiger.
This was the omen of the Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena.
What Red Tiger didn't know too, was that the strange feeling that happened to him had alarmed the most powerful man, one of the three Celestial Immortals in the Immortal Realm, the Gale Sage.
The Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena have already appeared in some practitioners, but no one knows what they mean except those mighty Earthly Immortals. Some Earthly Immortals with shallower cultivation think they are able to live as long as heaven and earth, but they don't know that if Earthly Immortals could not survive the Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena, they would die as well. I wonder when the news will be announced. When the time comes, the Immortal Realm is sure to be a mess. I would like to see how Jade Emperor Sage responds!"
His great power and influence that he obtained in a short time in the Immortal Realm was closely related to the Way of the Emperor he practiced. Otherwise, a new Celestial Immortal could not have gathered so many Earthly Immortals and Immortals in less than one million years, established the Jade Emperor Palace and even able to stand up to the Nine-headed Fierce Beast Sage and the Gale Sage as an equal.
His great power came from the powerful leadership and demagogic power he acquired after he practiced the Way of the Emperor. As the Dharma Ending Tribulation drew near, the Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena occurred, leaving almost all practitioners to face nightmares. Only the Earthly Immortals who had the most superior power, or who had some special means like Zhou Bao, could survive. Moreover, people like the Gale Sage and the Nine-headed Fierce Beast Sage, who had built a nest for countless years, could help their righthand men avoid the Deva's Five Decrepit Phenomena. As for Jade Emperor Sage, since he had been a Celestial Immortal less than a million years, his nest could not help his men. This meant that his force was bound to be greatly weakened during the Dharma Ending Tribulation, with only a few of the so-called most powerful Earthly Immortals remaining at most. Actually, no matter how strong an Earthly Immortal was, the Earthly Immortal was still a nobody in the eyes of a Celestial Immortal.
A practitioner was either a Celestial Immortal or a nobody!!
"Well, Jade Emperor Sage, I don't care how you became a Celestial Immortal, or whose good fortune you stole. Now that the way you have been practicing is the Way of the Emperor, you are destined to be the enemy of all Celestial Immortals. The Dharma Ending Tribulation is just your first hurdle as a Celestial Immortal. If you can't get through it, you'll be unable to make waves again even if you live to the next era!" Gale Sage thought and a trace of a wry smile played across his lips."And who knows if Zhou Bao could tide over this Dharma Ending Tribulation! Nine-headed Fierce Beast is such an idiot that he thinks Zhou Bao will become an Omnipotent Sage. Haha, that's funny!"
In any era, Celestial Immortals were the best and no living creatures were above them. It could be said that the Celestial Immortal was the end point of the practitioner.
However, this end point was also a starting point!!
Only when one became a Celestial Immortal and owned the Celestial Immortal Karmic Rank, could one get through the World-ending Tribulation, even stay out of it and witness the glorious moment when the World Tree regrew. Only the Celestial Immortal had the chance to see practitioners under the Celestial Immortal struggle to survive in the tribulation, see the world tree regrow and the Thunder of Fate splitting. Witnessing the birth of all life in the Primordial Origin was not privy to all but the Celestial Immortals.
The World-ending Tribulation was a good proof that all living creatures under the Earthly Immortal were nobodies. Theoretically, Earthly Immortals could also survive the tribulation, but that required tremendous good fortune. Moreover, even if the Earthly Immortals could survive the tribulation, they would not be as safe and sound as the Celestial Immortals. At the very least, they would be hit hard, hide at the start of a new era and recover their strength after years of cultivation. Earthly Immortals with bad luck could only leave behind a few pieces of their souls and then experience reincarnation in time. If they failed to retrieve their lost memories in the new era and break through to the Earthly Immortal Realm, they would be totally annihilated in the next World-ending Tribulation.
In each era there would be a special Celestial Immortal, who was the last Celestial Immortal in the era. It was said that this Celestial Immortal had the final fortune of the era, and was the terminator of the era, known as "Omnipotent Sage!!"
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