mesbooks Chapter 498 The Immortal Path is Severed, Eternity Becomes Nothing
Chapter 498 The Immortal Path is Severed, Eternity Becomes Nothing
"Boom—!!!"
The moment Lin Hanzhou's feet completely touched the four hundredth step!
The dim, yellowish space around him seemed to be undergoing an extremely violent collapse of its laws!
The terrifying pressure that had been stacked four hundred times over unleashed an unprecedented ultimate fury at this moment!
"puff!"
Even the mighty Emperor of Time, Lin Hanzhou, could not withstand this extreme torment that surpassed the ultimate barrier at this moment. His throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of imperial blood with a faint golden hue suddenly spurted out of his mouth, splashing onto the golden steps beneath his feet!
"Click click click..."
His flawless imperial body was now cracked open with countless fine, hair-like bloodstains!
"Give me... the suppression!!!"
Lin Hanzhou's eyes widened, and he let out a deafening roar like a trapped dragon ascending to heaven.
The power of his blood and qi surged wildly, gushing out like a waterfall, and forcefully forming a set of blood and qi armor on his body, which barely managed to withstand the ultimate pressure that was about to crush him!
"Huff... huff... huff..."
Lin Hanzhou knelt on one knee on the four hundredth step, panting heavily.
This was the first time he had been injured and bled since he attained enlightenment, and also the first time he had felt so weak and exhausted.
But his eyes remained bright, because he had made it through!
He successfully climbed the 400th step!
This means that his physical body will undergo an unprecedented transformation after this extreme pressure!
"A pressure level of 400 is already the limit that my body can withstand."
"If I go any further and reach the 401st level, I will have to use my own power of laws to resist this pressure."
"But if I use my own laws, I will lose the opportunity to temper my physical body."
Lin Hanzhou quickly calculated his next strategy in his mind.
As he circulated his imperial essence to repair the cracks on his body, he struggled to lift his head, trying to see just how deep the fog concealed the 401st step ahead.
However, the moment Lin Hanzhou's gaze pierced through the dim yellow mist and he saw the scene ahead clearly...
He froze completely.
His expression froze instantly, replaced by disbelief.
No.
There was nothing there.
Lin Hanzhou originally thought that after level 400, there would be an even more terrifying level of pressure.
However, the harsh reality is far beyond human imagination.
Because there's no road ahead.
Directly in front of him, the golden staircase, hundreds of feet wide, abruptly... broke off at the edge of the four hundredth step!
Yes, it broke!
At the end of the four hundredth step, there is not a smooth end, but an extremely huge, jagged, and terrifying chasm!
Judging from the crack, this was by no means the end, but was severed by some unimaginable, immense external force in an extremely brutal manner!
At the edge of that fracture, extremely violent laws of destruction still remain, tearing apart the surrounding void even after countless years.
And in front of this cliff.
It is a profound and absolute void so deep that even a single glance at it can cause one's soul to be lost.
In that void abyss filled with a hazy, yellowish mist, Lin Hanzhou, relying on the Great Emperor's eyesight, vaguely saw...
In a void space that is extremely far away from him and impossible to cross.
One after another, enormous fragments of golden staircases floated aimlessly in the dim yellow mist, like lifeless meteorites drifting in space.
Those remains were actually fragments of the 401st, 500th, or even higher steps!
This path to immortality, which carries the ultimate dream of all cultivators throughout the ages, is not unscalable.
Instead, it was utterly shattered by someone countless eons ago!
Lin Hanzhou knelt on one knee at the edge of the four hundredth step, his gaze piercing through the thick, dim yellow mist, staring intently at the staircase ruins that floated in the endless void like a giant tomb.
This scene was utterly devastating.
This is not only a physical severance of the path forward, but also the ultimate massacre of the spiritual beliefs of all cultivators throughout the ages!
If any other emperor were to stand here, having endured countless hardships and bearing immense pressure to reach this point, only to witness this tragic scene of "the path to immortality severed and the other shore vanished," their Dao heart would likely shatter in an instant!
They will feel a deep-seated despair and helplessness.
They would look up at the endless void and howl in despair, questioning the heavens.
They might wonder if the "immortal" they've pursued their entire lives is a complete lie.
Are all the sacrifices made by those ancient sages who were obsessed with becoming immortals and even went so far as to instigate dark turmoil just an absurd joke?
"The path to immortality is severed... all ages have vanished..."
These eight characters seemed to carry a kind of magic that could destroy the will of those who had reached the pinnacle of cultivation, echoing above this desolate abyss.
However, the initial shock and astonishment on Lin Hanzhou's face, which was stained with a faint golden imperial blood, lasted for less than three breaths.
He slowly stood up, and even with the terrifying pressure of four hundred steps on his back, enough to crush a galaxy, his back remained straight, like an unbreakable immortal sword.
He never doubted whether "immortals" actually existed.
A broken heart? A collapsed faith?
Are you kidding me!
For those emperors who have never left this universe, this broken immortal path may be the end of their understanding, the precipice where their faith collapses.
But for Lin Hanzhou, his vision had long since transcended the constraints of this universe, reaching a higher dimension that ordinary people could not even begin to comprehend!
He still clearly remembered that when he was only at the eighth level of cultivation, he personally witnessed a demon god whose body exuded an indescribable terrifying aura and whose size was countless times larger than an entire star system.
That demon god's status and terrifying aura far surpassed those of ordinary "immortals"!
Having witnessed such a terrifying existence, he naturally had no doubt that "immortals" truly existed.
The fact that this road is broken does not prove that the legendary immortal realm does not exist.
This only proves one thing: in the extremely distant past, there was a being with terrifying power who, for some ulterior motive, forcibly severed this passage connecting the upper and lower realms!
"Roads are made by people walking on them, and they can also be broken by people."
An unprecedentedly domineering aura erupted from Lin Hanzhou's eyes.
"Since those who came before have blocked the way, then I, the Emperor, will use these fists to carve out a new path to immortality for myself!"