8 Stones of Eternity
A Crown Stone.

Chapter 53. A Crown Stone.

Chief Yin Bao immediately continued the celebration for Ancestor Yin which had been delayed. The celebration was very festive and there were only women celebrating it.

After the death of the leaders of the Yin Sect of the Golden Pagoda, the Lotus Flower where the Crown Stone was residing slowly rotated. Then, after a few rounds, a man appeared who floated in the middle of the Lotus Flower, that man was Cao Tian Jun.

Cao Tian Jun was still unconscious, as was Little Nuwa who was affected by the light of the Crown Stone.

When Cao Tian Jun fainted, he felt like he was having a dream, a dream somewhere very familiar. He saw a very handsome man who looked like him. Not just like himself, but like himself. The man he saw was wearing a golden colored armor.

In front of the man, many God Goddesses were kneeling down, they looked extremely frightened especially to men. But for women, the man becomes her idol.

The man's body was surrounded by the Seven Stones of Eternity, each of which had a different function.

"I was once a Beast God. Because of my eternal life, then I declare myself as an Immortal God."

Cao Tian Jun heard the words of the man who claimed to be an Immortal God. He smiled faintly at the man's words, then muttered, "there is no such thing as immortality."

Suddenly the man stared intently at Cao Tian Jun, as if hearing his extremely soft voice. Obviously Cao Tian Jun was shocked, as well as frightened by the man who gave off an aura of power, an unknown power at what level.

"Yes, nothing is eternal, not even time is eternal. The eternal is emptiness, the origin before time. Time does not apply to emptiness, because emptiness is absolute" said the Eternal God whose gaze became soft.

What the Immortal God said was indeed true, that the concept of time did not apply to emptiness. Emptiness or voidness is the beginning of the creation of the universe.

Cao Tian Jun mused over the words of the Immortal God that were difficult to understand. During his time with his teacher, he had never heard of this knowledge.

"Then why do you declare yourself to be an Immortal God, if immortals do not exist?" asked Cao Tian Jun who wanted an explanation.

"You see these seven stones that circle my body, right? Yes, because of this stone I cannot die. My body can be destroyed, but not by means of my soul. My soul will live on forever." explained the Eternal God.

Knowing that the Stone of Eternity was capable of making one unable to die, Cao Tian Jun recalled the words of the teacher. At that time his teacher told him after he finished training.

Before he went back to asking the Immortal God, his two eyes suddenly became blurry for a while. After that, both of his eyes recovered. Cao Tian Jun was confused as having been somewhere else, a place that was very familiar.

He saw himself as a child with his teacher sleeping in his favorite place, on a bamboo bed.

"There is a God who is very strong and cannot die. But, precisely because of that, his death meant so much to save the universe from annihilation. Someday, you will find out who he is," Tian Long said without opening his eyes.

Tian Long said when Cao Tian Jun was a child, and obviously he did not know what his teacher meant. Because at that time he was still young and loved the legend, his curiosity was very high.

"Teacher, who is that God?" Cao Tian Jun asked as he sat on the ground.

Tian Long opened his eyes slowly, then looked at Cao Tian Jun's face affectionately.

"If that God were you, would you sacrifice yourself to save the universe?" ask Tian Long before answering.

"No, I'm still a kid and I don't know much about this world!" cao Tian Jun replied as he shook his head repeatedly.

Anyone would definitely not want to die, including Cao Tian Jun. He is still a child and obviously wants to enjoy his childhood. Tian Long smiled with his disciple's reply.

"Even for the sake of those you care about, you still don't want to save the universe?" Tian Long asked Cao Tian Jun to understand the meaning of the love of life.

"If my mother and father were still alive, especially for Master's sake, obviously I would sacrifice myself. I don't want to lose Master, losing both parents already hurts my heart so much...!" cao Tian Jun replied sincerely, his eyes were teary-eyed because since the baby did not see his parents.

The adult Cao Tian Jun who saw his childhood shed tears, not because he heard his words as a child, but missed his teacher. He saw his teacher hugging his little self.

"Teacher!" the beak voice of Cao Tian Jun who was holding back his yearning, he immediately knelt beside his teacher.

Unfortunately, Tian Long did not listen to the sound of his call, nor saw him kneeling. Suddenly he felt an overwhelming headache.

"Aghh!! Gurus... It hurts!!" cao Tian Jun shouted while rolling on the ground holding his head.

"Saving life and the universe is indeed a very noble act. However, noble deeds are also not as easy as imagined. You will experience much suffering when the time comes."

After listening to his teacher's words, the headache gradually subsided. However his body was very weak, he looked at the surroundings with a blurry look.

Right now, Cao Tian Jun had regained consciousness, and remained within the Lotus Flower which was also still circling around. The Golden Pagoda again let out a bright light, but it was only a moment and returned to how it was.

The weirdness on the Golden Pagoda, confused everyone who was outside. Chief Yin Jiali who was assigned to guard the Golden Pagoda immediately entered to check this oddity.

Upon arriving at the top of the Golden Pagoda, he did not see anything that triggered the oddity, the Lotus Flower remained in place.

"What's wrong with this Golden Pagoda?" muttered the puzzled Chairman Yin Jiali.

Since there was nothing suspicious, he returned out from the top of the Golden Pagoda. Before closing the door, he went back to inspect the Lotus Flower.

After Chairman Yin Jiali, the Lotus Flower slowly began to bloom. After all the leaves were wide open, Cao Tian Jun was seen curled up in the middle, his body shivering like a cold person.

From the leaves of the Lotus Flower came out soul force energy, that energy entered Cao Tian Jun's body. The cold immediately disappeared, and the headache instantly disappeared as well.

Spontaneous Cao Tian Jun sat down cross-legged as his dantian churned, a sign about to break through. He did not know because of what it was that could increase his strength, but he felt a great energy enter his body.

A breakthrough energy burst out from the top of the Golden Pagoda, and again shocked many people. Moreover, the Golden Pagoda was also violently shaken when Cao Tian Jun broke through, he not only rose stage by stage, but instantly rose one level. From the level of the Supreme Immortal level to level 5 rise to the peak level of Deity level.

Chief Yin Jiali hurriedly headed to the top of the Golden Pagoda with the soldiers. The Matriarch of the Yin Sect who was about to enter the place where the tomb of ancestor Yin had immediately undoed her intentions because of the Golden Pagoda.

He was with important people heading to the Golden Pagoda. They also sensed the aura of peak Deity level power, and the confusion of who had broken through.

As for Chief Yin Jiali, currently unable to open the door, whereas a moment ago it was still easy to open. He was all he could to open it, even hitting the door to shatter, but also unable.

"What's going on!?" Chairman Yin Jiali was extremely upset by the unheard of oddity on the Golden Pagoda.

"Chairman, today is a celebration for Ancestor Yin, likely because that man is interfering with the event today, then it makes the spirit of Ancestor Yin become angry," the argument of one of the female soldiers.

Before Chairman Yin Jiali spoke, Matriarch Yin An had arrived with many people, she immediately replied, "it can be. Because that man made Ancestor Yin's spirit become angry."

"Matriarch!" concurrently Chief Yin Jiali and the female warrior greeted.

Matriarch Yin An nodded in reply, then he gave the orders to the soldiers, "you guard every window of the Golden Pagoda!"

"Okay, Matriarch."

All the female soldiers rushed to obey the orders of the leader of the Yin Sect. Then, Matriarch Yin An and her subordinates teamed up to open the door.

While Cao Tian Jun who was inside the peak room of the Golden Pagoda was stabilizing the foundation after a breakthrough instantly. As it turned out, he not only gained strength alone, but also gained knowledge of the cultivation base of soul force, a cultivation base that was different from any cultivator.

If he remembered the past as an Immortal God, this knowledge was nothing new, because he was the creator of the soul power cultivation base.

Soul power is a substitute for spiritual energy, but that does not mean eliminating spiritual energy. Cao Tian Jun could still use spiritual power.

In other words, he had two energies, spiritual energy and soul force energy. The initial cultivation base also did not disappear, but to strengthen his physique, because his physique was likened to a weapon, while the soul and spiritual power energy was his ammunition.

Soul power is divided into 8 levels, each level is divided into 4 stages; low, middle, upper and peak stages.

The first level is the Lake, which comes from the Power Root Stone. The second is Fire, which comes from the Crown Stone. The third is Wind, which comes from Solar Plexus. Fourth was the Mountain, which came from the Sacral Stone. The fifth is Water, which comes from the Heart Stone. The sixth was Lightning, which came from the Throat Stone. Seventh is Earth, which comes from the Third Eye Stone. And the last one is Heaven, which comes from Law Stone.

Especially the latter, Law Stone was residing within Cao Tian Jun's soul. Unfortunately, he did not know yet because it was hidden within his soul.

After stabilizing his power foundation, Cao Tian Jun should have already undergone the Lightning Tribulation in order to break through to a higher level. Related had yet to undergo the Lightning Tribulation, the power used was only half of it, in other words he was still at the peak of the Supreme Immortal.

However, before undergoing the Lightning Tribulation, in the middle between his two eyebrows appeared the Lotus Flower, the emblem of Reincarnation and Birth. The appearance of the emblem is because the Crown Stone has been fused with Cao Tian Jun.