Chapter 667: The Pa.s.sageway Leading to the Immortal Realm and the Eccentric Divine Tribulation
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The World of Thousand Swords in antiquity times was a world similar to the Heaven Real Macro World in the medieval period. At that time, most of the pract.i.tioners were sword pract.i.tioners. They were extremely strong, and the method they used in pursuing the Great Ways was quite simple—the Supreme Swordplay, which was a form of sword technique that everyone talked about in streets. For this same reason, the act of killing was highly popular in that world. When men in that world underwent the Divine Tribulation, they always chose to wield their swords and hack the thunders in the tribulation into pieces.
Since antiquity times, the Heaven Realm Macro World had been isolated from the other macro worlds. Thus, no one in the Heaven Realm Macro World had any clue about what other macro worlds had evolved into after hundreds of thousands of years had pa.s.sed. Right now, after sensing a whiff of Sword Qi of an extinct Sword Master from the woman who appeared out of nowhere, Child-endowing Buddha was nonplussed as well. He tugged w.a.n.g She and they both jumped into a bank of meteorites to hide. But the woman who had appeared unexpectedly appeared to be so fascinated by the Thunder Tribulations Zhou Bao was going through that she paid no attention to the two men lurking in the vicinity of the magnificent Thunder Tribulations.
She stared at the direction where Zhou Bao was at, and with a flash, she turned into a shot of cyan Sword Qi, charging straight for the galaxy where Zhou Bao was experiencing his tribulations. Then, she reappeared on the verge of the galaxy, narrowly avoiding the influence range of that hollow magic formation.
“Power, what violent power! What’s that formation? It has the ability to evolve into a complete form of a macro world! It is using a virtual macro world to confront the Void Thunder Tribulation!” The woman approached the margin of the galaxy. Watching the majestic thunders in the sky, she gasped inwardly. Faced with this kind of natural powers, she dared not act recklessly for fear of courting danger. Therefore, she would merely be a silent bystander there.
At this moment, inside the Thunder Tribulation, Zhou Bao, who had ordered the Yin and Yang Dust Formation to evolve a macro world, was completely at ease. The purple thunderbolts coiling around his body had been completely subdued; the same as what had happened to the Eight Trigrams Golden Thunder. Those thunderbolts were now forging his flesh, quenching his spirit, while jets of complex willpower were spreading from the Divine Tribulation and flowing into his spirit.
“Icy Yin Thunder, Earthly Emperor Fist, Celestial Demon-subduing Sword…What is all this?”
After he received the willpower transmitted from the Immortal Realm, Zhou Bao started cursing soundly. He was not aware that those Divine Senses and secret techniques he received during his first Thunder Tribulation were all great Divine Senses and techniques that w.a.n.g She obtained only after enduring seven Thunder Tribulations. Just like the world engulfing skills w.a.n.g She had acquired, the quant.i.ty of this new knowledge was too enormous. Therefore, Zhou Bao did not pay much attention to the new skills and just flung them into the depths of the Sea of Consciousness. Under the purifying effect of the Thunder Tribulation, they turned into jets of bright starlight and fell into the sea. In the future, if Zhou Bao was interested in any of those Divine Senses, he could learn to use it at any time. The reason why he melted them into the Sea of Consciousness was that Zhou Bao was not in the mood to grasp those great Divine Senses now. When the second Thunder Tribulation started, he again received the willpower of the Immortal Realm. But this time, it was quite clear. “Mysterious Ice Way, Grand Ice Technique!” The technique that descended along with the second Thunder Tribulation was a complete way out of the 3,000 Great Ways—the Mysterious Ice Way, which was also called Grand Ice Technique. This technique corresponded with the Icy Divine Light inside his body, and thus, another complete way of the 3,000 Great Ways was imprinted onto his spirit.
It was the Dark Blue Way of the Void and the Grand Void Technique!
The Vacuum-shattering Way, and the Extreme Realm of Force!
Two kinds of Great Ways were imprinted onto his spirit at one time.
“The Vacuum-shattering Way with the Extreme Realm of Force is the top-ranked way among the 3,000 Great Ways!” Zhou Bao’s spirit started trembling with excitement.
The 3,000 Great Ways had actually been ranked all this while. However, no one knew about the rankings or the true power of the 3,000 Great Ways. Now, as the Vacuum-shattering Way was marked in his spirit, another strong willpower was also attached to it, which stated that the Vacuum-shattering Way was the number one way of the 3,000 Great Ways. That was utterly beyond Zhou Bao’s expectations.
The one that was ranked first was the Vacuum-shattering Way!
“This is only my second Thunder Tribulation. But the Vacuum-shattering Way has already been handed to me. Then, what will they give me for the third Thunder Tribulation?”
Thanks to the impressive power of the Yin and Yang Dust Formation, Zhou Bao pulled through the second thrilling Thunder Tribulation. The Yin and Yang Dust Formation still had some power remaining, while Zhou Bao was focused on digesting the profound meanings of the Mysterious Ice Way and the Vacuum-shattering Way he had received. Then, he gently flicked his hands and triggered the third Thunder Tribulation.
“Rumble!”
The huge magic formation in the hollow instantly collapsed the moment Zhou Bao initiated the third Thunder Tribulation and so did the gate of the Void Immortal Realm which had appeared along with that magic formation. In that instant, the entire hollow was reduced to dust, and a huge crack appeared over the galaxy. Inside that crack, a bizarre world could be seen indistinctly.
This world was incredibly immense. All sorts of ancient pneuma were surging in it, pouring down like floodwaters that had breached a dike. Behind all the pneuma, there were many high mountains that were partly hidden and partly visible. Each of them seemed like an ancient deity, sending forth a spirit that made one s.h.i.+ver. All the pneuma also seemed to be alive and rigorous, and it seemed to be staring at the hollow through the crack, swirling about as if it was curious about its surroundings.
Jets of overwhelmingly strong willpower swept down and spread throughout the hollow. Suddenly, the woman from the World of Thousand Swords appeared unexpectedly, as well as Child-endowing Buddha and w.a.n.g She who were hiding in the dark; they started feeling anxious, scared, weak and powerless when surrounded by those horrible jets of willpower. But fortunately, Child-endowing Buddha and w.a.n.g She had just undergone seven or eight Thunder Tribulations, and their combat capability had reached the phase of a Human Immortal or even a Divine Immortal. Otherwise, they would have been robbed of their senses by the sweeping willpower fluttering from that weird world and turned into two walking corpses.
“Void Immortal Realm, that is Void Immortal Realm! He, he even penetrated the pa.s.sageway leading to the Void Immortal Realm by force!” Eyes agog and staring at the huge crack suspended in the hollow, Child-endowing Buddha nearly jumped out of his hiding place to announce this amazing news out loud.
This was the third Thunder Tribulation of Zhou Bao. This time, he got through the pa.s.sageway connecting this universe with the Void Immortal Realm! Was that even achievable?
Now, even Zhou Bao was petrified. Suddenly, his expression turned unusually ugly, because he just realized what had happened.
“d.a.m.n, I knew it couldn’t be so simple! How could they release the most powerful way of the 3,000 Great Ways when I was merely going through my second Thunder Tribulation!”
He now understood what was going on.
The Void Thunder Tribulation was delivered from the Void Immortal Realm through that huge magic formation. Generally, no matter how intimidating a Thunder Tribulation was, the hollow magic formation would still be able to hold it. It could bear up to eight or even nine Thunder Tribulations at a time. After all, the power of a man was not inexhaustible, whereas, Zhou Bao, who was unaware of this rule, was doing his Void Thunder Tribulation together with his Supreme Fairy Weapon.
Even during antiquity times when heroes were coming forward in mult.i.tudes, there had never been any instances of a pract.i.tioner carrying a Supreme Fairy Weapon to undergo Thunder Tribulations. This kind of thing only happened during primitive times. Therefore, in terms of Zhou Bao’s attempt this time and the details of his Thunder Tribulations, even Fate Creation Boy had no concrete knowledge of it. Fate Creation Boy and Child-endowing Buddha only knew that going through Thunder Tribulations with a Supreme Fairy Weapon was highly dangerous. Child-endowing Buddha did not have a first-hand knowledge of this kind of thing; all he knew were gained from hearsay only; For his part, Fate Creation Boy was born after the Heaven Realm Macro World had endured its Void Thunder Tribulations so both of them had no idea about the in-depth details.
Normally, a Supreme Fairy Weapon could only undergo two Thunder Tribulations. The first one would quench the fairy weapon and its inside macro world, just like Zhou Bao enduring a Thunder Tribulation. The second one would show some creation power of thunderbolts, for after going through the purification of thunderbolts, the Supreme Fairy Weapon could produce its device spirit. For example, Fate Creation Boy was actually a device spirit created over the hundreds of thousands of years after the Heaven Realm Macro World had endured two Thunder Tribulations.
Accordingly, in the light of a Supreme Fairy Weapon or a macro world, they both came to an end after experiencing two Thunder Tribulations. At that time, they would not, or to be accurate, could not trigger any more Thunder Tribulation on their own accord. In primitive times, when someone brought his Supreme Fairy Weapon to go through Thunder Tribulations, the master of that Supreme Fairy Weapon would have already known that doing this together with his Supreme Fairy Weapon meant he actually needed to survive only two Thunder Tribulations. The two Thunder Tribulations would incorporate all the challenges contained in nine Thunder Tribulations and after the two Thunder Tribulations he would directly transform into a Human Immortal; this was more effective than going through eight Thunder Tribulations one by one. Thus, only those true Powerful Divines could trigger the third Thunder Tribulation.
But how could Zhou Bao know about this? Given that he had obtained loads of benefits so far, Zhou Bao was so confident that he immediately triggered the third Thunder Tribulation. To his great surprise, this hollow magic formation was far from being able to hold the third one, which was actually a method designed for Powerful Divines in antiquity times to communicate with the Void Immortal Realm; It enabled them to draw strength from the ancient Ancestral Thunder Power inside and wash their bodies so as to turn their bodies into Imperishable Golden Bodies.
The Ancestral Thunder Power was unparalleled in its strength. Even a wisp of it contained much greater power than the Nine Heavens Purple Thunder. Thus, it was not something that a normal hollow magic formation or s.p.a.ce could sustain. Once this power was triggered by Zhou Bao, it instantly destroyed the hollow magic formation and went through the pa.s.sageway connecting this universe with the Void Immortal Realm.
After that, Zhou Bao was in trouble!
This time Zhou Bao was really in serious trouble! It was not an exaggeration at all!
A black thunderbolt mixed with a kind of wonderful pneuma suddenly sprang out of the Immortal Realm. Zhou Bao sensed it was not going well, so he let out a bellow and started urging his Yin and Yang Dust Formation frantically to protect the vast planet under his feet.
“Boom!”
That black thunderbolt pierced right through the Yin and Yang Dust Formation, and the Fiery Eye in front of Zhou Bao dissolved into ashes in the blink of an eye.
The Fiery Eye, renowned as the Eternal Eye, failed completely when faced with the Ancestral Thunder Power.
The Yin and Yang Dust Formation burst open, and so did the vast planet under Zhou Bao’s feet.
At this point, Zhou Bao was forced to throw all caution to the wind. He let out a series of sharp roars and the Supreme Fairy Weapon the Black Pearl over his head started s.h.i.+ning brightly. Meanwhile, his body was also growing larger and larger at a great speed and turned into a Demonic Ape reaching a height of 100,000 feet. Simultaneously, his Eight Nine Mysterious Skill was also functioning at full swing and it swiveled around him with great momentum. Suddenly, a huge change came over his surroundings—a stream of majestic and energetic spirit shot out from his fist and flew right at the black thunderbolt.
“Wham!” His fist crashed into the black thunderbolt and the surrounding hollow was silently reduced to ashes, while the Law of s.p.a.ce was sliced into the smallest chunks of the original Law, without any hope of recovery.
Time stood still from this moment.
This strike was the integration of all the energy, spirit, and willpower of Zhou Bao. In that split second, Zhou Bao had a.s.sembled all the fist intent which simulated the power of the universe into this fist and cast such an appalling strike. It successively froze the surrounding s.p.a.ce-time and blocked the black thunderbolt, but that was not enough, far from it.
When the fist touched the Ancestral Thunder, everything within the diameter of thousands of kilometers was destroyed.
Time seemed to come to a standstill for just a second, but it also felt like billions of years. When the vast world broke apart, the giant body of the Demonic Ape abruptly hurtled towards the depths of the hollow and immediately disappeared like a shooting star. After that, the Ancestral Thunder disappeared as well.