Immemorial Path

Wangu Road (万古路 wan'gulu), Immemorial Path, Myriad Ancient Road is a parallel universe to Long Chen's home Mortal World.
Myriad Ancient Road opens every millennia. Last time Shui Wuhen entered and was one of the sole survivors of her group.
Every 1000 years, the Wangu Road would open up for 1 year at a time.
Since the Great Dark War, the world was destroyed. It is now shaped like a cross.
During this time, battles would arise between the aboriginals and those from other worlds. One of the prized treasures is the yuan spirit stone.
Immemorial Path was originally its own world. But during the immortal era, top experts changed it into a trial region. It was connected to eight surrounding worlds, and Long Chen's Martial Heaven Continent was one of them.
== Treasure Hunting ==
The Immemorial Path is a place where the Eastern Wasteland's peak experts will gather.
The danger of the Immemorial Path far surpasses that Jiuli secret realm. The Jiuli secret realm is merely a speck of dust left behind by the destruction of a world from the ancient era.
But the Immemorial Path is a true minor world. There is a whole new set of laws there. It is rumored that the Immemorial Path possesses the foundation for a cultivator to become an immortal or god.
The Immemorial Path has long since crumbled. It is a severed path that no one can reconnect. So no more gods or immortals ever appeared in the Martial Heaven Continent. However, the Immemorial Path is its own world, so one must beware not just Righteous and Corrupt experts, but also experts from other races, including the Wangu Road Aboriginals.
== Indigenous People ==
There are people still living there. Wangu is a world that exists beside our world. It is said that those people are the earliest protectors of the Immemorial Path. But later, for some unknown reason, the Immemorial Path was destroyed and it became ownerless, becoming a separate entity from the Martial Heaven Continent.
The Immemorial Path is said to be the foundation to becoming an immortal or god, so countless cultivators wish to explore those mysteries inside. Every thousand years, experts will forcibly open the Immemorial Path and send their disciples in as a trial.
Due to its destruction, the Immemorial Path was turned into quite a few separate sections. The Eastern Wasteland has an opening to one of those sections. Be careful, because when Shui Wuhen entered the Immemorial Path, Shui was in a group of seven people, and we ended up running into an ambush from the aboriginals. As a result, Shui was the only one to escape with my life.
The aboriginals treat the disciples undergoing the trial as invaders, as enemies. At the same time, they are also viewed as prey, and so they will slaughter you the second they see you.
Shui Wuhen fell back into her memories of back then. That had truly been a desperate struggle. Those aboriginals were too vicious.
Other than those threats, the Immemorial Path itself is filled with dangers.
== Parallel World ==
Immemorial Path is different from other secret realms. Secret realms are simply the remains of destroyed worlds that exist within the cracks of space. But the Immemorial Path is its own world, one on the same level as the mortal world. 
"Rumor has it that the Immemorial Path is a trial left behind from the immortal era. The secrets of becoming an immortal or god are within it. However, that world was wrecked. The damage done to it was even greater than what was done to our world, and it almost completely collapsed.
"The laws within the Immemorial Path are incomplete. Once you enter, you may find that your power is sometimes restricted. But fortunately, the laws there are favorable to Celestials, and you'll still be able to summon your Cries of the Heavenly Daos."
Once one enters the Immemorial Path, no matter who they are, their chances of surviving is no more than 50%. This has nothing to do with cultivation base. In fact, stronger experts generally have higher mortality rates.
"Because the stronger you are, the more things you'll be able to see within the Immemorial Path, things that others don't even have the qualifications to see. The principle is very simple: those who drown are people who know how to swim.
"On the one hand, because they are strong, they get conceited and challenge more difficult things. On the other hand, stronger people are more likely to run into stronger existences. And stronger existences cannot be beaten with just luck. So the stronger you are, the more likely you'll fall," said Ouyang Qiuyu.
High risk was accompanied by high rewards. And if you misjudged your abilities, that risk might take your life.
"To sum up, no matter what opportunities you run into inside, don't think about how you're going to obtain it first, but think about whether you'll have a life to enjoy it. Even if you obtain something, you might not have the power to keep it.
== Entrance ==
=== Portal ===
Eastern Wastelands has two entrances available to them, and Qiuyu had chosen the closer one for XTD to enter.
Rumbling filled the air. Light erupted, and endless primal chaos raged in the air. A huge portal appeared.
This portal continuously opened and closed, like the mouth of a beast.
This is the entrance of the Immemorial Path. Because of the transformations in the world, the entrance is damaged and unstable. One has to enter quickly. This gate was damaged and that they would all be individually sent to random places.
In other words, it was very likely that if two people tried to enter while holding hands, space might directly tear them apart, and in the process, their individual bodies might also be torn apart. So they could only resign themselves to their fate.
The most terrifying thing was that this spatial gate was unstable. If something unexpected happened during the transportation, you might get lost within the chaotic flow of space.
Within that chaotic flow, there were countless spatial storms. Even Treasure items would be instantly destroyed inside, let alone a person. If someone entered it, there would be no chance of surviving for them.
He stepped in. As soon as he did, he felt terrifying spatial fluctuations.
Normal transportation formations were like sitting in a carriage traveling smoothly over a flat road. Although it was slow, it was very steady. As for good transportation formations, they felt like flying through the air, and were both fast and steady. But here, it was like a carriage was traveling as fast as possible over a path filled with potholes. It made Long Chen feel like heaven and earth were spinning around him, and he almost vomited.
Long Chen didn't know how long he had flown through the spatial channel, and after spinning so much, he couldn't even tell what direction was up or down. Eventually, he crashed into a small mountain. That mountain was directly blasted to smithereens.
=== True entrance ===
The map showed that this was the true entrance to the Immemorial Path. Only once he crossed this place would he have truly entered the Immemorial Path, a place filled with treasures and trials.
It was rumored that the Immemorial Path was something ancient experts had to go through if they wanted to become an immortal or god.
However, the Immemorial Path was too huge. Just the entrance was millions of miles wide. It was split into many pieces, and his current location was just one of such areas.
Here was a huge stone pillar hundreds of miles long that was collapsed on the ground. It was broken in several places. Standing in front of it, Long Chen felt himself to be as miniscule as an ant.
The pillar had countless carvings on it. There were azure dragons, divine phoenixes, as well as beasts that he had never seen before. Although the stone pillar was already fractured, it still emitted a powerful might.
Within Long Chen's mind, a possible scene appeared: a huge pillar propping up the sky with endless carvings of grand and imposing dragons and phoenixes. Just how amazing must the Immemorial path have been before it had been destroyed? He saw that the ground was inlaid with huge bricks dozens of miles long and with an unknown thickness. They were all covered in dust. There were broken eaves that were as big as mountains.
Those golden days were no longer present. Everything was bleak. It felt like the broken pillar on the ground was trying to say something, but no one could understand it.
"It looks like the legends really were true. Back in the immortal era, people really were able to cultivate to immortality and ascend through the heavens. Otherwise, there would have been no way to construct such a huge path. This is definitely the style of immortals and gods."
He looked at the huge stone pillar and felt its majestic aura. A single fallen pillar was comparable to a huge mountain range. He really didn't believe that mere humans were capable of constructing such a superstructure.
Flying on the pillar, he looked over his surroundings. He saw what should have been the top of a huge gate. There should have been two huge pillars holding that up and some huge board with Immemorial Path written on it.
But Long Chen didn't see any such board. As for this upper part of the gate, he was only seeing a portion of it. He had no idea if the rest of it had fallen into other areas or had disappeared into the abyss.
Long Chen walked up to the broken roof of the gate. There were three roof tiles, but they were already covered in cracks. Seeing roof tiles that were over a hundred meters long, Long Chen was filled with awe.
He didn't know what material these tiles were made of. Picking up a small broken piece, he found he was unable to crush it. Its hardness was even greater than Treasure items.
Furthermore, they seemed just like ordinary tiles and not even made of metal. Maybe some kind of energy was supporting them that made it so he couldn't break them.
Long Chen went all out, but he was still unable to break a palm-sized piece. That made him suck in a cold breath. Just what kind of power could have destroyed the entire Immemorial Path? Had it really been a battle of gods? If there were really gods, why would they fight here, a trial land for disciples? 
But this scene was truly shocking. He realized just how miniscule he was. In front of this power, he was as weak as an ant. It could truly cause a person to weep in despair.
"Could it be that this is the kind of power required to stand at the peak of the martial path?" 
The expert who had been fleeing with him as a baby had told Long Tianxiao that Long Chen shouldn't try to find his origins until he reached the peak of the martial path.
In the beginning, from the huge river that was formed from the expert's slash, Long Chen had thought that the expert had merely had a Xiantian cultivation base.
But now that he was at the Xiantian realm, he still hadn't reached the realm of even learning what the Dao Transformation was. In order to protect Long Chen, that person had isolated himself from fate, choosing to transform himself into the Dao.
Only later had Long Chen learned that when a Celestial reached the Sea Expansion realm, they would be able to refine themselves and return to the Heavenly Daos, erasing a portion of the karma relating to them.
Someone who had at least been a Sea Expansion Celestial had actually been just a servant, and had sacrificed their entire existence to save him. Long Chen felt almost suffocated when he thought of his origins.
Taking a deep breath, Long Chen pushed aside those thoughts. As his parents' son, he definitely couldn't retreat just because of some difficulties. That wasn't his style.
== Inside ==
This was also a barren land, but rugged boulders of stone were everywhere, looking like a maze.
Looking up, he saw a single sun in the sky. The environment was about the same as his world. But there was a strange and ancient feeling to this place.
"This is the Immemorial Path? Where's the path?"
Long Chen jumped onto a high boulder and saw that this kind of land stretched into the distance. There were large mountains that blocked his line of sight, and he rushed over to one of them.
He found one aspect of the Immemorial Path which was different from his world: his divine sense was greatly restricted here, to the point where it didn't even go as far as his sight. It could only stretch a few dozen miles.
Furthermore, he found that the primal chaos bead was automatically circulating to absorb some kind of unknown energy within the Immemorial Path.
"They said that the Immemorial Path contains the immortal era's secret to reaching immortality and godhood. Is that secret related to the aura here?"
After traveling for two hours, Long Chen arrived at the peak of a mountain. This mountain was completely barren without even a single blade of grass. It practically looked like a rock. But it was huge, and so standing on the peak, he had a wide view of his surroundings.
== Chaos Bead interaction ==
Long Chen was lost in thought as he examined the primal chaos bead. The primal chaos bead was something he had obtained in the Jiuli secret realm.
Back then, even before entering the Jiuli secret realm, he had felt a summoning just from hearing its name. After obtaining it, he had confirmed that it was what had been summoning him.
He still knew far too little about the primal chaos bead. It not only possessed its own world, but was also able to offer him an unending source of life energy. It had also helped him subdue the Earth Flame.
Furthermore, it could absorb the Heavenly Dao runes from the fallen Celestials to create Heavenly Dao Fruits. All of that was incredibly miraculous.
Now, it had begun to automatically absorb some unknown energy within the Immemorial Path. That made Long Chen even more curious about the primal chaos bead.
== Trial regions ==
The old tribe leader had told him that they had been in charge of guarding a certain trial before the Immemorial Path had crumbled.
But after that immense battle, countless people had died, and the ground had been broken. Some trials had directly fallen into the abyss and forever disappeared.
The majority of the trials were still present, but many of the original guards had disappeared during the battle. That battle's scope exceeded the limits of the human imagination.
According to the old tribe leader, their records said that their ancestors hadn't seen anyone fighting. All they had seen was the sky constantly tearing. Lightning had shaken the land, and stars had collapsed. Divine rays had pierced through the void. It had truly been an apocalyptic battle.
Afterward, the Immemorial Path was fragmented, and some trials had fallen into cracks. But the old tribe leader sternly warned Long Chen that he absolutely could not go into the abyss. That battle might have occurred countless years ago, but there was still remnant divine energy in the abyss. If you entered, your soul would be directly destroyed.
== See also ==
* Wangu road map
* Wangu Road Aboriginals
== References ==
Category:Secret Realm
Category:Wangu Road