# Chapter 1818: Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus
Tomorrow is the final chapter.
Little Pine was suspicious and confused. Although his master was invincible under heaven, handing over the unconscious him to Black Emperor now seemed like throwing a meat bun to a dog—gone forever, like a lamb walking into a tiger's den.
"You don't recognize good intentions when you see them. I dare say that if anyone in this world is suited to solve his problem, it's me." The big black dog put on airs, but still kept grinning, his mouth stretched to his ears like a wolf with a big tail.
Little Pine stared at him. No matter how he looked at it, this big black dog's smile seemed extremely treacherous.
"What, you still don't trust me? This Emperor handles business—you can rest assured!" The big black dog patted his chest.
Little Pine was speechless. Everyone in the Heavenly Court knew that this dog was the most unreliable when handling affairs. His infamous legends had been circulating for thirty thousand years.
They arrived at the Heavenly Palace and looked at Ye Fan lying on the Chaos Stone Bed. His eyes were tightly shut, his hair black as ink, his entire body crystalline like seven-colored divine glass, flowing with immortal light.
The Heavenly Emperor's aura was completely internalized, with not a trace of divine power leaking out. He was like a statue carved from jade, completely motionless.
"He really has become the Supreme Heavenly Emperor, comparable to Emperor Wu Shi." The big black dog stared at Ye Fan for a long time, then actually started drooling.
"You... what do you want to do?!" Little Pine watched him warily.
"Do you know who he is?" Black Emperor asked.
"My master."
"Who else is he?"
"The Heavenly Emperor."
"That's right. What flows through his veins is the blood of the Heavenly Emperor." Black Emperor wiped his drool, his eyes gleaming with thievish light.
Little Pine's head ached. This damned dog had revealed his true nature again.
"There's nothing to discuss. Since we've run into this opportunity, we have to do right by ourselves." The big black dog tempted Little Pine.
"You... what exactly do you want to do?" Little Pine glared at him.
"What else? Come, come, come, first let's have three big bowls of Heavenly Emperor blood and drink our fill. Then we'll slowly figure out how to revive him." The big black dog said shamelessly.
Little Pine was completely at a loss for words. "Uncle Black Emperor, can we not rip off our own people? Can you be reliable for once?"
"Fine, let's seriously think of a way to help him." The big black dog finally restrained himself.
Little Pine also began to think, once again organizing the several scriptures Ye Fan had left behind, hoping to find some clues and signs. Half a day later, when he returned, he found Black Emperor holding his cheek, grimacing in pain, looking strange.
"What happened?" he asked the attendant child beside him.
"Ancestor Black Emperor, he..." The child dared not speak.
Little Pine immediately understood. The big black dog was truly ridiculous—he had actually bitten Ye Fan a few times, trying to get some Heavenly Emperor blood, but had nearly shattered all his teeth.
"You should be grateful. If master's Dao hadn't been internalized, otherwise..." Little Pine shook his head.
"Nonsense. Do you really think this Emperor is stupid? Otherwise I wouldn't have bitten him." The big black dog said righteously, then truly began to ponder and study. After a long time, he said: "He should be attempting some legendary Dao. Relying solely on external force probably won't be enough to awaken him."
Little Pine nodded. He also believed that his master was treading the path of longevity, connected to this transformation and living out his seventh life. If he could understand the Dao of this life, he should be able to help.
"I'll go to master's seclusion site to gain some insight. Perhaps I can know what path he intends to walk in this life." Little Pine left.
"No need to investigate. I know what path he's walking—it should be the Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages." Black Emperor had once followed Emperor Wu Shi and was ultimately quite knowledgeable.
"What kind of technique is this?" Little Pine asked.
Black Emperor said seriously: "This is a supreme technique. In slumber, one dreams through ten thousand ages, experiencing hundreds of thousands of lives in dreams, refining the heart and Dao in the river of time, transcending the mortal world."
He explained this technique, but it was merely a theoretical path, extremely dangerous. Imagine—who would dare spend their entire life in dreams? Doing so was too terrifying. No emperor-level expert was willing to attempt it.
"An entire life in dreams?" Little Pine was shocked.
"That's right, an entire life like this!" Black Emperor nodded. He thought for a moment, then added: "Unless he truly defies heaven, able to return from illusion to reality, to go against the heavens and return."
"Is Ruthless Great Emperor also cultivating this technique?" Little Pine's heart stirred.
"She once walked a similar path, but it shouldn't be the same." Black Emperor shook his head. Some paths intersected, but there was no question of which was superior or inferior. They were different and didn't need comparison.
Thus, the Heavenly Court returned to tranquility. The Heavenly Emperor was in a coma. Little Pine sealed himself in divine source, guarding the central Heavenly Palace.
The big black dog then emerged, ruling over the Heavenly Court for decades, overlooking the universe, directing the world, finally leaving behind a "Black Emperor" era, reigning for a brief period.
During this time, he sought out the descendants of the Silver Blood Twin Emperors, now an important lineage in the Heavenly Court, asking if they had found that legendary person.
When he received a negative answer, he was downcast for a moment, finally saying: "Under normal circumstances, one should appear in the cultivation world every hundred thousand years or so. Now it's been three hundred thousand years. This doesn't make sense. Keep searching. There's still a hundred thousand years!"
In the end, the big black dog fell into slumber again, only to avoid dying of old age in the river of time.
Ye Fan had pacified the forbidden zones, suppressed chaos, and moved the Primordial Ancient Mine, Immortal Mountain, Heaven Above, Divine Ruins, and others here, turning them into courtyards of the Heavenly Court. Naturally, there was no shortage of Immortal Source Liquid, Primordial Life Stone, and the like.
Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, twenty thousand years had passed. Ye Fan revived, sitting up in the dead of night, startling the Heavenly Court.
Little Pine was awakened because he was guarding nearby. He broke out of the immortal source and said with a trembling voice: "Master!"
Twenty thousand years had passed. Ye Fan had dreamed through ten thousand ages. He had not aged, his blood energy abundant, but his gaze was confused. He directly tore through the void and disappeared from the Heavenly Court.
Little Pine was shocked and hurriedly chased after him, finding that he had descended on an ancient star, transformed into an ordinary person, his divine power seeming to have disappeared. A few years later, he became a fisherman by the sea.
"What's happening?" Little Pine didn't understand. In the end, he invited Black Emperor out again.
"This kid has truly defied heaven. Dreaming through ten thousand ages, not only returning from illusion to reality, but also from ancient times to the present. He has sublimated the essence. He is now experiencing life in reality, about to walk through ten thousand lives."
They followed carefully behind. Little Pine had sufficient lifespan, so it was fine, but Black Emperor couldn't handle it. He didn't break out of the source and was carried by Little Pine.
In this life, Ye Fan lived to sixty-three years old, his hair graying. In the end, while fishing at sea, he drowned, dying like an ordinary person.
But when this brief life ended, the body buried in the sea immediately became young, eventually restored, ending his identity as a fisherman. He tore through the universe and threw himself into another ancient star.
In this life, he became a soldier, spending his entire life fighting on the battlefield. He died in battle in his fifties, his chest pierced through.
"Perverted!" Black Emperor sighed.
Under normal circumstances, even immortal artifacts might not be able to harm the Heavenly Emperor's body. But for the sake of walking ten thousand lives, he had combined dreams and reality so closely, evolving it so realistically.
When the old soldier was buried on the battlefield, interred in yellow earth, Ye Fan once again recovered and began another life. This time, he became a teacher, living in poverty his entire life, dying in depression.
"Can you not be so realistic?" Black Emperor sighed, his head aching.
In the end, even Little Pine couldn't hold on. He sealed himself in immortal source, only leaving a mark on his master's body, able to find him at critical moments.
Thus, Ye Fan experienced life after life, passing through dozens of lives, then hundreds, spending over twenty thousand years in the mortal world.
His identity constantly changed. He experienced the vast mortal world, was a beggar, was a king, lived in poverty, enjoyed wealth and honor, and also fought with iron horses on the battlefield.
One day, the descendants of the Silver Blood Twin Emperors awakened Black Emperor, reporting: "Ancestor, we found that person."
"What?!" Black Emperor trembled, shattering the immortal source, directly rushing out.
Gouchen Ancient Star, Qingyun Prefecture.
Yunchuan was a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, not particularly famous in Qingyun Prefecture, because ordinary people lived here, with no cultivators appearing.
Chenxi, a young woman of eighteen or nineteen, lived up to her name, like a clear stream in the morning light, giving people a fresh, lively, and agile beautiful feeling.
She was beautiful and intelligent. Although not a cultivator, she was born with a spiritual and ethereal temperament, appearing extraordinary, gathering the spiritual wisdom of heaven and earth.
"Ancestor, should we take her away?" the descendant of the Silver Blood Twin Emperors asked.
Black Emperor was so excited his whole body trembled, but he resolutely and decisively shook his head, saying: "No, let nature take its course. Don't change her life's trajectory like this."
This was actually an Innate Dao Fetus, like a pearl hidden in dust, concealed in this small place, completely undiscovered.
"This is a divine bloodline. Ancestor really won't bring her back to the Heavenly Court?"
Black Emperor firmly shook his head, saying: "Although I am defying heaven's will, I don't want her to be hurt or wronged. It must be left to nature."
They left people to guard her, then the big black dog ran wildly back to the Heavenly Court. He couldn't bear to touch that girl like morning dew in the dawn light, but he had no scruples about Ye Fan.
"Heavenly Emperor, I'm coming for you!" Black Emperor bared his teeth. He found Little Pine and said: "Don't you think Ye Boy's ten-thousand-life journey has a flaw?"
Little Pine was startled. "What flaw?"
"He is deliberately avoiding something. In over four hundred lives, he has never married or had children. This is his subconscious at work, limiting his trajectory. Such deliberate avoidance is already inferior." The big black dog said seriously.
Little Pine was dumbfounded. He felt that this unreliable big dog was about to cause trouble again.
"I'm telling the truth. Being too deliberate doesn't match the refinement of heart and Dao in the mortal world. We should help him!" Black Emperor was almost fanatical.
"I dare not make decisions for my master!" Although Little Pine was usually shy and innocent, he knew about this matter. This dog was being unreliable again.
"I'm serious!" The big black dog was anxious. He pulled Little Pine to sit down and seriously explained the essence of "Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages" and the drawbacks to watch out for.
For three whole days and nights, Black Emperor's spit flew everywhere, his mouth dry, his throat nearly on fire, making Little Pine's head spin.
In the end, Little Pine spoke: "Since master's subconscious has already limited itself, whatever you want to make up for is useless. It fundamentally can't be changed."
"I can't change it, but someone can. I just need you not to stop me." Black Emperor only wanted this promise, then added solemnly and seriously: "Ye Fan has come this far with great difficulty. You don't want him to leave this life's Dao incomplete because of a flaw, do you?"
After Black Emperor talked until he was foaming at the mouth for ten days and ten nights, Little Pine's brain hurt from listening. Finally, he nodded. But as soon as he agreed, he felt he had been fooled by this dog. Most of what he said was probably unreliable.
But after studying the "Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages" technique, he also felt that one should experience everything in mortal trials. He silently apologized to his master and directly went into seclusion for the next hundred years.
The only thing in this world that could influence the Heavenly Emperor's subconscious was the Primordial Qi Cauldron. It was already an immortal artifact and had been with Ye Fan for such a long time, their fates intertwined. Taking advantage of his slumber, it could turn things around.
When they arrived at the central Heavenly Palace and saw that ancient, simple cauldron, Black Emperor seriously explained his purpose. As expected, he was directly rejected.
But he was very patient. He sat down and spoke seriously: "What we cultivators pursue now is no longer the problem of one person becoming an immortal. It is to explore the great principle of why the immortal path has been cut off for ten thousand ages. No one has been able to attain longevity. Human strength has its limits. Although the Heavenly Emperor defies heaven, he may not be able to reach the end of the immortal path. Why not exhaust all resources and means, leave hope, and let the most capable people participate together? Dare you say that the Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus doesn't have this qualification? If Ye Fan unfortunately falls in the future, who will inherit the path he explored, his Dao will? This child will be a spark to inherit his will, to carry on the aspirations of us cultivators. Because he will definitely not be weaker than the Heavenly Emperor! He can continue to explore the root cause of this severed path. What am I seeking? What are we cultivators seeking? It is not the immortality of one person, but the ultimate truth and root of ten thousand ages!"
Black Emperor was rarely this serious, rebuking the Primordial Qi Cauldron, his words resounding, righteous and stern.
The immortal cauldron was silent, but another immortal artifact spoke: "Well said—'What am I seeking, what are we cultivators seeking?' I agree!"
The Desolate Tower emitted divine sounds, rumbling. Normally, it wouldn't even respond to the Heavenly Emperor, always remaining silent. This was the first time it had spoken like this.
The Primordial Qi Cauldron made a sound, sighing: "Although I know you're bluffing and most unreliable, this time I also want to be unreliable once. If the Heavenly Emperor fails in his campaign on the immortal path, it would be good to leave a seed of hope."
After the two immortal artifacts decided, they immediately acted. Especially the Primordial Qi Cauldron, which went to influence Ye Fan's subconscious, trying to change the trajectory he had deliberately avoided.
Gouchen Star, Qingyun Prefecture.
Ye Fan arrived. Although the Heavenly Emperor's aura was completely concealed, as he experienced tribulations in the mortal world, becoming an ordinary person unaware of his past, his outstanding temperament was still difficult to hide.
Black Emperor, the Primordial Qi Cauldron, and the Desolate Tower did not influence the girl Chenxi. They only obscured that trace of Ye Fan's subconscious that had always resisted, preventing him from avoiding events that would occur.
Yunchuan was not a very large place. Two exceptionally outstanding men and women inevitably met. As nature took its course, a few years later, they finally came together.
Chenxi was ethereal and pure, like a divine flower just blooming. But although she was an Innate Dao Fetus, she had never cultivated. Decades later, she gradually aged.
Throughout this process, Ye Fan also slowly aged with her. Originally, this was a tribulation, a very real life.
In their old age, they had a son—a male infant who nearly drained the essence of the entire ancient star and nearby star regions dry. From the moment he was born, he shook the mortal world.
Fortunately, the Desolate Tower and the Primordial Qi Cauldron were prepared, and Black Emperor had also made arrangements, providing countless divine source essences, shielding Yunchuan, and sealing the male infant, so no news leaked out.
Over these decades, Chenxi was content and happy. She was intelligent and cheerful. Having a devoted man accompany her as they grew old together, their white hair facing each other, was enough for her.
Neither of them knew the truth. If nothing was said, Chenxi would have lived out her life peacefully until the end, like many happy people.
But in the end, Black Emperor developed a knot in his heart. He didn't know whether what he had done was right or wrong, whether it was fair to the girl.
At this time, it was the immortal cauldron that came to enlighten Black Emperor, saying: "She has been content and happy in this life. Ending peacefully like this is just like those happy people in the world."
"But this Emperor still feels sorry. If one day, the little boy asks me who his mother is, how should I answer?" Black Emperor was ashamed for the first time.
He had no guilt toward Ye Fan, directly ignoring him. In his view, whatever setbacks and blows came, the Heavenly Emperor could bear them.
In the end, when Black Emperor saw those two old people supporting each other, who had never quarreled in their entire lives, he finally mustered the courage, found an opportunity, and told Chenxi the truth.
"Heavenly Emperor?" At first, Chenxi, whose youth was long gone and who had aged, didn't believe it. But Black Emperor displayed various divine powers and explained part of the cause and effect, and she believed.
"I want to bring you into the Heavenly Court, guide you onto the path of cultivation, so you can exist forever in the world." Black Emperor said, making this decision.
However, Chenxi's reaction surprised him. She had once been an ethereal and pure girl. Although she had aged, she still shone with wisdom.
"Being able to spend a lifetime with the Heavenly Emperor, holding his hand as we grew old—I am already very content. I was originally happy. Isn't ending and concluding like this very good? Actually, you didn't need to come find me and tell me all this."
Black Emperor was stunned. This woman before him responded like this, leaving him dazed. The more he felt guilty, the more he insisted on inviting her into the Heavenly Court to extend her life.
Chenxi smiled, smoothing her white hair, and said: "What I love is the person who accompanied me through this life until old age, not the true Heavenly Emperor who rules over the world. If I return to the Heavenly Court, he has his vast sky, and as for me, I still only love the people and things here. The most important thing in life is not eternal possession. We were moved, we accompanied each other until old age. I am very satisfied. Having all this is enough."
She smiled but firmly refused.
"Mother!"
A young child ran over from afar, lively and active, pink and beautiful. Behind him followed a white-haired old man, looking at him kindly as they walked together.
The big black dog turned around. For some reason, he felt somewhat downcast. Had he done wrong this time? If not for him, none of this would have happened. Although Chenxi had been happy and fulfilled in this life, Black Emperor still felt guilty in his heart.
If he hadn't caused trouble, there would be none of this distress. But how could he be willing?
Under the setting sun, that family of three—though two had white hair, together holding a small figure as they walked into the distance—appeared peaceful, tranquil, and harmonious (meiman).
"Sigh, why does my heart still ache?" The big black dog forcefully slapped himself, staggered back, and nearly fell to the ground.
"If this happiness could continue, perhaps I wouldn't feel this way. But soon, they will inevitably part—one to die of old age in the river of time, the other to become the Heavenly Emperor above the nine heavens. What I hate is this outcome." Black Emperor sighed.
"Actually, you can change all this," the Primordial Qi Cauldron said.
A year later, a new grave appeared in Yunchuan, burying Chenxi.
White-haired Ye Fan shed tears, keeping vigil here, sitting alone in a daze. The little boy was taken away by a "high person" to seek immortals and cultivate the Dao.
The Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus was naturally brought back to the Heavenly Court and sealed in divine source. Black Emperor began preparations, gathering all kinds of divine objects to lay his foundation.
A few years later, white-haired Ye Fan died of old age and was buried. Not long after, he did not begin another life but truly awakened, directly returning to the Heavenly Court.
His hair was black as a waterfall, his gaze like cold lightning, staring at the Primordial Qi Cauldron. In this world, only this cauldron could exert some influence on him when he was unconscious, because they were one.
The Primordial Qi Cauldron trembled, nearly shattering.
In the end, Ye Fan left, came before Black Emperor, said nothing, and stared at him for a long time.
Black Emperor, for once, felt guilty in his heart, lowered his head, and did not argue.
Ye Fan left, returning to Yunchuan, sitting before that woman's grave, silent for a long time. The decades of life surfaced in his heart, making him tremble.
Finally, he split open the grave and took out a huge piece of divine source, within which Chenxi was sealed. Her lifespan had naturally not yet reached its end; she should have twenty years left to live.
"Black Emperor will always be a bastard!" Ye Fan murmured.
He knew that bastard felt guilty in his heart, didn't know what to do, and had dumped all the aftermath on him, sealing Chenxi, letting him make his own decision.
Although the mortal life he had experienced was brief, it was unforgettable. Otherwise, he wouldn't have awakened. The Heavenly Emperor was not heartless.
Ye Fan held the divine source, his eyes showing a gentle light as he looked at this woman. Then he sighed, returned to the Heavenly Court, placed her in the central Heavenly Palace, and fell into slumber.
"What happened to master?" Little Pine woke up and asked.
"The Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages is considered complete. He is treading the path of longevity in his heart, seeking and advancing in this Dao realm," Black Emperor said. But who knew how many tens of thousands of years it would take before it ended.
"And her..." Little Pine saw Chenxi in the divine source, paid his respects, and bowed.
"Send her to the sealing ground. Leave it for the Heavenly Emperor to solve himself in the future." Black Emperor, as slippery as ever, dumped all the troublesome matters onto Ye Fan.
In the universe, nine dragons flew across the sky, pulling a huge ancient bronze coffin, moving slowly from one domain to another.
Many people saw it. When the news came out, it shook the universe. Countless outstanding talents rushed toward it from all directions, but in the end, no one could catch up.
Whenever someone approached, it would disappear from the void and then appear in another domain.
The Heavenly Court dispatched a large number of people, because they knew that Ye Fan had once started his cultivation path because of the Nine Dragons Coffin. But the Heavenly Court also gained nothing.
"The Heavenly Emperor is in slumber. Otherwise, he would definitely be able to capture it!"
In the same year, someone saw five-colored immortal light shooting into the sky in a domain. There were actually five Creation Source Eyes there, supplying a stone egg with absorption, radiant with ten thousand rays of light.
The world was shaken. People wanted to rush over, but the place directly darkened. They flashed and disappeared without a trace.
The Heavenly Emperor had long surpassed the Origin Heavenly Master in the field of source arts. But when he had searched the mountains and rivers of the world back then, he had never obtained a single true Creation Source Eye. Five appearing together here made people marvel.
"Damn it. It seems all the Creation Source Eyes in the world were gathered by Immortal Emperor in the endless ages past. One was given to the Celestial Prince, and five were left for that stone egg." Black Emperor was indignant.
Finally, he sneered again, saying: "That's fine too. Let's see who is stronger and who is weaker. The Beginningless Scripture, sealed for ten thousand ages, should now emerge!" (To be continued)