If one’s technique realm was high enough, such as grasping a Seventh Tribulation law, their Essence Soul would be as strong as a Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s. It would naturally be much easier for them to transcend the sixth Heavenly Tribulation. It was as though a gale couldn’t shake a towering mountain, but it could sweep up rocks! A Seventh Tribulation Essence Soul was a mountain, and a Sixth Tribulation Essence Soul was a rock. The sixth Heavenly Tribulation was a gale.
The gale descended, sweeping up the rock. Tribulation Transcendence. Meng Chuan sensed the terrifying force pass through the Heaven and Earth Great Hall’s obstruction and drilled into his sea of consciousness.
In his sea of consciousness was an Essence Soul that resembled a star. As the Essence Soul Star that had been cultivated for the longest time, Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul naturally responded in this form. This form was also what he was most confident in.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Numerous illusory flames descended and smashed into Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul like meteors. The impact was rather terrifying.
Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul circulated his Essence Soul Star formulation. It also used his powerful willpower and the World Treasure guarding him. He could be said to be stable enough to withstand all the attacks. Chi! Chi! Chi! These illusory flames were colorless. Even with his Power of Essence Soul, Meng Chuan could only sense flames everywhere.
Its existence caused spacetime to distort into the shape of flames. Meng Chuan called them Void Flames.
During an Essence Soul Tribulation… any bizarre thing could happen. The only way to transcend the tribulation was to deal with whatever came! What is this Void Flame for? Meng Chuan was very cautious.
The illusory flame first smashed down like a meteor. After his Essence Soul resisted the flame, it attached to his Essence Soul and burned it. Wisps of flames seeped into his Essence Soul and affected his Essence Soul World.
As the Void Flames fused and adhered to his Essence Soul, more and more flames seeped into his Essence Soul World.
Boom!
Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World was a world of lightning. His World Treasure’s defense made his Essence Soul World much more stable and powerful. It repelled the external flames and wanted to destroy them. Under Meng Chuan’s control, the lightning mountain in the middle of his Essence Soul World flew up and smashed into the Void Flames.
Boom!
His Essence Soul World trembled. The Void Flames remained undamaged as they continued entangling his Essence Soul World.
His will was like a sword as he mobilized the Power of Essence Soul to attack with all his might. He wanted to expel the flames, but the flames kept seeping into his Essence Soul World. They couldn’t be readily destroyed.
Two hours, four hours… As time passed, more and more Void Flames became attached to his Essence Soul. More and more flames seeped into his Essence Soul World. Meng Chuan felt his control over his Essence Soul World weaken.
I can’t extinguish these flames. They will only strengthen as time passes. What should I do? Meng Chuan realized how terrifying the flames were. It didn’t have any other characteristicsit only attached, infiltrated, burned, and remained indestructible!
It constantly seeped into his Essence Soul from every spot.
Meng Chuan understood that if he allowed the flames to continue, his Essence Soul would probably be engulfed by the fiery Void Flames and be completely annihilated.
Chapter 634 - Nascent Formulation
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Balls of Void Flames descended from afar and struck Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul, causing the flames attached to his Essence Soul to increase gradually. The Void Flames in his Essence Soul World also increased.
Nothing I’ve done has stopped it, much less expelled it. Meng Chuan carefully thought of a solution. After cultivating for so many years, he had experienced situations that were far worse than this. He was naturally very calm.
My Essence Soul Dharmic formulation, willpower, and World Treasure only slow down its corrosion speed. Meng Chuan understood that the corrosion would’ve been much faster if his willpower had been weak or if he lacked a World Treasure.
I’ll change the Essence Soul’s structure. Meng Chuan immediately made a decision. In the past, he didn’t have a second powerful Essence Soul structure, but he now had one after obtaining the new legacy-Eternal Road.
Sea of Spacetime. With a thought, the countless Essence Soul thoughts that were in the form of stars immediately changed. They formed a brand new structure, creating a sea of spacetime.
The Sea of Spacetime slowly spun and condensed, producing an internal pressure. A portion of his Essence Soul thoughts had previously been tainted by the Void Flames. Though Void Flames were still burning the Sea of Spacetime’s surface after the Essence Soul’s structure had changed, the corrosion speed had indeed changed.
Some places are being corroded at a slower speed? Meng Chuan was astonished and carefully sensed the changes. His Essence Soul Star was round and indestructible. The speed at which it corroded was uniform.
The Sea of Spacetime constantly fluctuated and condensed. This constant variability resulted in different corrosion speed.
Overall, the corrosion is faster than the Essence Soul Star’s corrosion? Meng Chuan carefully sensed every spot. Some places in the Sea of Spacetime corrode very slowly, but why is it slow? Some places corrode quickly, but is that so?
As Meng Chuan pondered, he gradually gained insights. These insights fused with some of the insights he had gained from his many years of cultivation. They clashed and formed sparks of inspiration, giving Meng Chuan ideas.
Some changes might lead to better results. Meng Chuan thought of something. Of the two legacies, Meng Chuan had cultivated the Essence Soul Star the longest. This was a cultivation formulation he had started cultivating when he was a Regis Godfiend.
However, he realized that he was ultimately different from Senior Fei Yu as he cultivated, even though the Essence Soul Star formulation was quite suitable for him. In the early stages, he could follow the other party’s path. However, the further he progressed, the greater the differences between them.
Meng Chuan had long used the formulation as his foundation to change and create an Essence Soul cultivation formulation that was most suitable for him. However, creating a new Essence Soul formulation wasn’t easy. Meng Chuan didn’t spend much effort on this aspect, so he never succeeded.
This time, he had gained more insights after studying Eternal Road. Now that he had encountered the Void Flames during his tribulation transcendence, he gained further insights. When all these ideas collided, a nascent formulation took shape in his mind.
Change.
Meng Chuan changed his Essence Soul’s structure according to his will.
Boom.
His Essence Soul’s structure changed again. This time, it changed according to the nascent formulation Meng Chuan came up with.
Seventy percent of his Essence Soul thoughts condensed into an Essence Soul Star, while the other 30% of his Essence Soul thoughts formed a stream of water that covered the Essence Soul Star’s surface.
Senior Fei Yu’s Essence Soul Star pursues eternal indestructibility. His Essence Soul is also stable and indestructible. However, I think that the combination of Yin and Yang, a soft surface with a hard interior is more stable. It can withstand all sorts of impacts and pressure.
The Sea of Spacetime didn’t match his personality because it constantly tortured him. His Essence Soul Star wasn’t completely compatible with him because it was too hard.
Meng Chuan’s style of doing things was to act according to the situation-enduring and attacking as the situation called for it. Such an Essence Soul structure was most suitable for him.
Internally, it’s eternally indestructible. Externally, it is destroyed according to the circumstances.
The interior was still the Essence Soul star.
The exterior water surface was based on the
knowledge he had gleaned from the Sea of Spacetime. Thanks to the experience from the Eighth Tribulation legacy-Eternal RoadMeng Chuan could form a prototype in a short period of time. Otherwise, it would take him much longer to create something out of nothing.
This formulation was still very crude. It was a combination of two Eighth Tribulation Eminences’ legacies. It could only be considered a nascent formulation, but it suited Meng Chuan the best.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
When he formed the new Essence Soul structure, Meng Chuan deliberately moved his Essence Soul thoughts that were tainted by the Void Flames to the outermost water layer.
The inner star remained untainted.
Annihilate. With a thought, the Essence Soul thoughts in the surrounding water layer were completely destroyed. Thirty percent of his Essence Soul Origins was destroyed, causing the Void Flames to lose their medium.
Furthermore, with his Essence Soul’s recovery speed, he quickly recovered 30% of his Essence Soul’s Origins. The new 30% Essence Soul’s Origins—which didn’t have any Void Flamescovered the surface of the star.
Whoosh!
The Void Flames—which he had detached from him-entangled him again.
This method won’t work. Meng Chuan frowned slightly. The flames won’t extinguish. They will only continue to infiltrate my body. I’ll try another method.
He began to experiment with the water layer, coming up with various methods to deal with the situation.
Previously, the Sea of Spacetime had differences in corrosion speed when dealing with the Void Flames. Meng Chuan had comprehended some techniques for those that had slow corrosion speed. These techniques couldn’t be used with his Essence Soul Star, but he could employ them with the water layer.
Boom!
The water surged and changed as the Void Flames began to weaken. They occasionally became stronger, but the overall corrosion power gradually decreased.
In the variability of spacetime, spacetime empties, strengthens, and intersects when needed… Meng Chuan felt like he was fighting a war. His opponent was the increasing number of Void Flames while his army consisted of the countless Essence Soul thoughts, lightning law, the usage of two Eighth Tribulation Eminences’ legacies, and a powerful mind and will.
In this Tribulation Transcendence war, Meng Chuan’s goal was to make his Essence Soul have a greater resistance to corrosion. The internal Essence Soul Star was his foundation. Even if losses happened in the surface water layer, they could quickly be recouped. One time, he made a mistake while experimenting with the water layer. The Void Flames seeped into his Essence Soul Star. Even with his Essence Soul Star’s stability and strength, the Void Flames infiltrated slowly. However, Meng Chuan could immediately transfer his Essence Soul thoughts tainted by Void Flames to the water layer, allowing his Essence Soul Star to recover naturally.
The combination of the two Essence Soul structures had the inner core as the foundation. It was like an army barracks that kept producing soldiers. The periphery was the battlefield, allowing one to fight as much as they wanted.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Void Flames constantly descended. More and more flames became attached to Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul. More flames also seeped into his Essence Soul World. However, through Meng Chuan’s repeated experiments, the water layer’s resistance to corrosion became more and more efficient. The Void Flames’ corrosion speed was only ten to twenty percent of its original speed.
Meng Chuan immersed himself in the tribulation. Under the threat of death, he tried his best to resist the tribulation.
Suddenly, no new Void Flames descended. The mysterious and vast laws receded as well. The constantly burning Void Flames seemed to lose their source of power and dissipated.
Oh? Meng Chuan was somewhat astonished. Why are the flames gone?
The Void Flames had all disappeared.
He was still improving his new formulation constantly.
It’s over? The sixth Heavenly Tribulation has ended? Meng Chuan looked up. The Heavenly Tribulation had vanished. His Essence Soul had endured the Void Flames’ tempering, undergoing some changes.
So, I would’ve completed the Heavenly Tribulation as long as I could resist the Void Flames for a certain length of time?
With his original willpower and World Treasure, he could have lasted until now without creating a new Essence Soul formulation.
Unfortunately, the tribulation was too short. If this Heavenly Tribulation had lasted two to three times longer, my formulation would be more complete. Meng Chuan stood up and walked to the window, looking at the sky.
Meng Chuan was in a good mood after successfully transcending the tribulation and reaching the Sixth Tribulation realm.
Time to tell Qiyue. Meng Chuan immediately left Heaven and Earth Great Hall and headed for Jiang State Capital.
Chapter 635 - Half of the Master’s Treasures (Final Chapter of Volume)
Outside Jiang State Capital, on a nameless mountain.
Liu Qiyue sat cross-legged on the mountain peak with her eyes closed. She took in the evolution of the world and focused on her cultivation. Ever since her husband-Meng Chuan-entered seclusion, Liu Qiyue had been under a lot of pressure. This was because she knew that it was possible for him to fail the Tribulation Transcendence. Furthermore, Meng Chuan’s series of arrangements meant that he wasn’t completely confident.
Thus, she was worried about her husband. To prevent herself from overthinking things, all she could do was spend almost all of her time cultivating. This was because she had consumed another rare treasure-Fire Origins Liquid. It improved her bloodline until it was close to that of a pure-blooded phoenix. Her cultivation was very smooth now.
Insights into the fire lineage surged into her mind in a natural manner. Her cultivation efficiency was more than ten times faster than before. In fact, true pure-blooded phoenixes cultivated even more smoothly. Even if they didn’t cultivate diligently, they would grow naturally over time. In the end, they could easily reach the perfected Imperial Lord realm and have strength comparable to a Fifth Tribulation Eminence.
Liu Qiyue was slightly inferior, but she improved rapidly. Furthermore, she was much more diligent and serious than a pure-blooded phoenix.
Swoosh.
A figure traversed the void and appeared on the nameless mountain.
Liu Qiyue sensed something. She opened her eyes and saw Meng Chuan smiling at her.
“Ah Chuan, you’ve come out of seclusion?” Liu Qiyue stood up in pleasant surprise. “Didn’t you say that this seclusion is very important? You said you probably wouldn’t come out until the Tribulation Transcendence is over? You are now…”
Liu Qiyue was somewhat nervous.
“That’s right. I’ve already transcended the sixth Essence Soul Heavenly Tribulation,” said Meng Chuan with a smile.
“You succeeded?” Liu Qiyue was thrilled when she heard that. “That’s great! That’s great!”
“That’s right.” Meng Chuan nodded and smiled. “I should be spending a long time at the Sixth Tribulation realm. I can accompany you during this period of time and help Archean Eon Realm.”
Although he had the strength of a Sixth Tribulation Eminence previously, he was faced with an impending Heavenly Tribulation. There were many things that needed his attention.
Meng Chuan was even a little harsh on his descendants. This was because he felt that he had to save up more of his resources since he might’ve died during the Tribulation Transcendence.
“Now that you have transcended the tribulation, you will be of great help to Archean Eon Realm.” Liu Qiyue was rather expectant. “By the way, towards Yuan’er and the others…”
“I can slightly relax the rules now.” Meng Chuan nodded. “It’s not only them. There are also Regis Godfiends with potential. Even if they are 300 to 400 years old and their bodies are beginning to age, they can be given treasures to restore their bodies to peak vitality.”
The price of recoveri
ng one’s body to its peak was relatively low. A hundred cubes’ worth of treasures was enough. However, Archean Mountain had used these relatively cheap treasures early on. After all, Ancestral Master Archean Eon didn’t have too many of them in his reserves. Luckily, Meng Chuan could purchase them through Eternal Tower.
“What a pity for Senior Brother Wang.” Meng Chuan always felt that it was a pity that Senior Brother Wang-King True Martial—had died. Back then, Archean Eon Realm was sealed off due to the war, preventing them from heading to the outer realm. Otherwise, Archean Mountain would’ve been willing to buy a treasure that could restore King True Martial’s body to peak vitality. “Yes.” Liu Qiyue nodded. “Many Regis Godfiends have sacrificed a lot for the people. They deserve some help. If they can become Supremacies, their lifespans will be much longer. They might have a chance of becoming an Imperial Lord in this lifetime.”
“It’s difficult to become a Supremacy, and the chances of becoming an Imperial Lord are even lower.” Meng Chuan shook his head gently. “However, if I send them to Earth Cloud Mystic Realm, there’s a chance of them improving significantly.”
Earth Cloud Mystic Realm was an important place for Meng Chuan to nurture Archean Eon Realm’s Supremacies.
Meng Chuan accompanied his wife as he sent his other true body to Heaven and Earth Great Hall to meet the white-robed Guardian.
White fog seeped out from the walls of the hall, forming a white-robed elder.
The white-robed elder looked at Meng Chuan excitedly. “Meng Chuan, did you successfully transcend the tribulation?”
“Senior, you are wise,” said Meng Chuan with a smile.
“How am I wise? I was just making a wild guess.” The white-robed elder flipped his hand and took out a bronze mirror. There were ancient mystic patterns on the bronze mirror. When he shone it at Meng Chuan, the white-robed elder immediately understood. “Essence Soul Sixth Tribulation realm. Age 2,622. As I guessed, you’re still young. Master was much older than you when he reached the Sixth Tribulation realm back then.”
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