Archean Eon Art c1-766

by I Eat Tomatoes, Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi, 我吃西红柿

  But the higher one’s level of existence was, the higher the price to alter the time flow in the region they were in. As a Seventh Tribulation lifeform, Hall Lord White Avian placed a huge burden on the time flow in where he was—even if it was a Chaos Hole. The changed time flow could barely be maintained for a moment.

  If he expended too much Chaos Hole energy, it would collapse on its own.

  Only mystic realms created by Eighth Tribulation Eminences could maintain temporal acceleration for a long time.

  A mystic realm could absorb external powers and accelerate time for prolonged periods. However, maintaining a ten-fold speedup or slowdown for a Seventh Tribulation Eminence was almost the limit.

  …

  Hall Lord White Avian and Meng Chuan arrived at a chamber in the library. They sat opposite each other and chatted while drinking.

  “Eastcalm, your Essence Soul has also broken through during your breakthrough. You are already in the state of the Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation realm,” said Hall Lord White Avian. “Hence, your seventh Essence Soul Heavenly Tribulation will come soon.”

  “In about 100 years.” Meng Chuan understood this point.

  “You have to prepare for the upcoming Heavenly Tribulation,” said Hall Lord White Avian.

  One was either a half-step Seventh Tribulation Eminence or a Seventh Tribulation Eminence.

  Meng Chuan could only maintain his present state for a short period of time before he faced the Heavenly Tribulation!

  “Although your willpower isn’t bad, the Essence Soul Tribulation targets the mind,” reminded Hall Lord White Avian. “Don’t be careless.”

  Meng Chuan nodded.

  “In the Essence Soul cultivation system, one needs to create an Essence Soul formulation in the future,” said Hall Lord White Avian. “Now that you have grasped an Origins law, you can begin attempting to create one.”

  “See through the Essence Soul and create an Essence Soul formulation that is most suitable for me. It can strengthen my Essence Soul and willpower.” Meng Chuan smiled and nodded. He naturally understood this point. After grasping an Origins law, he pursued wisdom that could see through everything.

  Externally, it was to comprehend all matter—everything.

  Internally, he studied his body and Essence Soul.

  Meng Chuan had even figured out an Essence Soul formulation at the Sixth Tribulation realm.

  “White Avian Hall has quite a number of Essence Soul formulations,” said Hall Lord White Avian. “Most of them are Seventh Tribulation-level Essence Soul formulations, but they aren’t perfected. There are also five Eighth Tribulation-level Essence Soul formulations. Some are from our universe, while others are from beyond the universe. Two of them have karmic implications. It’s your choice.”

  Meng Chuan nodded slightly.

  Some Essence Soul formulations were directly sold without any karmic implications. Eternal Road was one such example.

  For example, Meng Chuan had received a karmic burden from Senior Fei Yu when he cultivated the Essence Soul Star. If he reached the Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation realm, he would have to repay the karma.

  Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation Eminences were too rare. Only a handful of them had been born in the River of Spacetime’s history. Therefore, they were much more precious than Physical Body Eighth Tribulation Eminences.

  Essence Soul Star and Eternal Road—which Meng Chuan had obtained—were actually legacies from outside the universe.

  Chapter 696 - Refining a Chaos Hole

  “Hall Lord, there’s no need to announce the news of my breakthrough,” said Meng Chuan. “After all, I’m only about 100 years away from the tribulation. I don’t want to be disturbed and wish to focus on preparing for the tribulation.”

  “Alright.” Hall Lord White Avian nodded. “By the way, according to my understanding, the 3,000 illusory arrays I gave you previously are useful for building an Essence Soul World. The stronger your Essence Soul World is, the greater your chances of transcending the tribulation.”

  Meng Chuan came to a realization. “Thank you, Hall Lord.”

  Hall Lord White Avian smiled and nodded. Meng Chuan’s transcending of the tribulation was of paramount importance right now. If he failed to transcend the tribulation, all his efforts would be for naught. If he succeeded in transcending the tribulation, White Avian Hall would have an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence.

  The threat of an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence was something that even a handful of Physical Body Seventh Tribulation Eminences couldn’t compare to. An Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence could send a few Essence Soul avatars to attack various places without care for death.

  The reason why Black Fiend Hall dared to act so fearlessly was that they had an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence. Origin Realm Chieftain and Realm Ancestor also enjoyed high statuses precisely because they were Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminences.

  Most importantly, Meng Chuan was Hall Lord White Avian’s hope for recovery.

  …

  Three Bay River System.

  Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar arrived near a Dark Chaos Hole.

  I haven’t been to a Chaos Hole’s core. Meng Chuan smiled as he stepped across the Chaos Hole accretion disc and continued walking deeper into the darkness.

  With another step, he arrived at a region where time flowed 100 times faster.

  But the arrival of Meng Chuan—a Seventh Tribulation Eminence—exerted too much pressure on spacetime. The time flow rapidly decelerated, and the time acceleration failed to be even twice as fast.

  This place was already dark; there was no light at all. However, Meng Chuan could easily move through the distorted spacetime and sense the entire Chaos Hole.

  Meng Chuan looked into the Chaos Hole’s deepest depths.

  In the past, he couldn’t see it clearly, but he could now see the Chaos Hole’s core clearly. It was a perfect, smooth sphere with a diameter of 921 feet and 2 inches. Even when magnified by one trillion-fold, no bumps could be seen. It was extremely smooth and round.

  Such a large sphere distorted spacetime to a terrifying extent.

  Meng Chuan could determine the time flow everywhere with his perception of spacetime.

  A day in the Chaos Hole’s core is roughly 300 years in the outside world. Meng Chuan deduced the time flow difference. With a step, he landed on the Chaos Hole’s core.

  The Chaos Hole core was like a small wooden boat.

  Meng Chuan took a step forward, causing the wooden boat to sway; it was extremely weak.

  The Chaos Hole’s influence on spacetime greatly decreased. After Meng Chuan stood in this region, a day in the Chaos Hole’s core was roughly equivalent to 100 days in the outside world.

  Chi! Chi! Chi!

  The surface of the 921-foot-2-inches-wide Chaos Hole sphere silently disintegrated as it rapidly shrank.

  910 feet, 900 feet, 890 feet…

  I’m afraid that this Chaos Hole will collapse in less than ten minutes. My existence puts so much pressure on it? Meng Chuan sighed.

  When he was at the Sixth Tribulation realm, the Chaos Hole—which used an Origins law as its core—wasn’t affected by him. When he used an Origins law as the core to raise his lifeforce, the burden on the Chaos Hole was thousands of times greater.

  How powerful is an Eighth Tribulation Eminence? Meng Chuan sighed inwardly. Eighth Tribulation Eminences would undergo another qualitative change; they could even transcend and leave the River of Spacetime.

  Meng Chuan took a step and left the Chaos Hole’s core.

  The energy within the Chaos Hole’s core stopped depleting, and it resumed its normal operations. It continued to devour the outside world’s powers slowly. As time passed, it gradually grew larger.

  Swoosh.

  Meng Chuan took a step and crossed several river systems, arriving in front of a large, Dark Chaos Hole.

  This Chaos Hole’s core has a diameter of 6,000
feet. It’s about the limit that my Essence Soul World can withstand. Meng Chuan nodded slightly. He had done a lot of research in White Avian Hall, so he knew how big a Chaos Hole a newly-advanced Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence could refine.

  A Chaos Hole with a diameter of 6,000 feet was considered a super-large Chaos Hole. It was close to his limit.

  Even if he could barely devour something slightly larger, it wouldn’t make much of a difference to his strength.

  Refine.

  With a thought, Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World reflected reality. A vast, dark painting enveloped his surroundings.

  Seventh Tribulation Eminences cultivated in somewhat special ways because of the laws they grasped.

  For example, a Physical Body Seventh Tribulation Eminence that had grasped the Matter law didn’t need any Outer Realm Essence Crystals or any rare treasures. They could condense countless particles with a thought to build a massive body. This saved them the huge investment needed to cultivate their bodies.

  An Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence that had grasped the Chaos Hole law also had one benefit. Their Essence Soul World needed to cultivate a World Treasure. The World Treasure that was most suitable for them was a true Chaos Hole from the outside world.

  If they refined a massive Chaos Hole into their Essence Soul World, their Essence Soul World’s stability and strength would increase tremendously. There was no need to buy rare treasures since no rare treasures could compare to a true, massive Chaos Hole.

  In fact, a portion of an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s Essence Soul World would also be ‘corporealized.’ They would also condense a Chaos Hole core.

  But the Chaos Hole core condensed with his strength alone was too small. The Chaos Hole core that Meng Chuan had formed was only one foot in diameter! Even if he consumed enough Outer Realm Essence Crystals, it would be impressive if he could enlarge it to 100 feet in diameter. It couldn’t compare to a true Chaos Hole that had been born for hundreds of millions of years.

  Boom!

  Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World was illusory. The massive dark painting completely covered the area.

  The true Chaos Hole’s core was dragged toward the center of Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World and fused with the darkness.

  Boom!

  In the past, the Chaos Hole devoured the outside world.

  Now, Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World devoured the entire Chaos Hole.

  The Chaos Hole core—which was 6,000 feet in diameter—slowly fused with Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World, becoming the Essence Soul World’s core.

  After half a month, the Chaos Hole was finally in place and became a part of the Essence Soul World.

  Very good. Meng Chuan could sense that his Essence Soul World seemed to have a world pillar now that it had a Chaos Hole core with a diameter of 6,000 feet! The world’s stability increased drastically, and the might of his Essence Soul World was much more terrifying.

  Even if he didn’t use any moves, just the pressure from him was no less than a super-large Dark Chaos Hole.

  …

  There were many Dark Chaos Holes in the River of Spacetime, but Meng Chuan was the only Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence in the Chaos Hole lineage in the present era.

  Meng Chuan’s numerous Essence Soul avatars headed out to refine Chaos Holes into his Essence Soul World.

  The sublimation of one’s order in life is indeed astonishing. Meng Chuan stood on the grass outside Jiang State Capital. Strictly speaking, the energy within him was much greater than the entire Archean Eon Realm. Most importantly, I’ve grasped an Origins law.

  His immense strength could be magnified through laws.

  Whoosh~

  Just by standing on the grass, his domain—affected by the laws—had long spread across Archean Eon Realm and past the Demon Realm. It spread to an extremely vast area.

  With Archean Eon Realm as the center, my Origins domain envelops an 80 trillion-kilometer area. Meng Chuan could clearly sense it.

  Even if one didn’t deliberately use it, a lifeform’s Origins domain would naturally cover such a range even in their sleep.

  Nothing could hide from Meng Chuan within this range.

  I can block all karmic attacks within this range. Meng Chuan also understood this now.

  The Karma law was only an Origins law as well—on the same level as the Chaos Hole law.

  In his Origins domain, all karma was exposed.

  When external powers seeped in through karma, his Origins domain could easily sense and block them. Even at Celestial Thearch Myriad Star and Hall Lord White Avian’s level, the might of any karmic attack would weaken to the level of an ordinary Seventh Tribulation Eminence. If it seeped into an inhabited world, its might would weaken even more…

  Meng Chuan’s Origins domain could easily block it.

  As long as one obtains a Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s protection, karmic attacks will be useless. Meng Chuan came to a realization. My protection range is 80 trillion kilometers around myself.

  “Ah Chuan, is your idea of having a stroll with me to just stand there in a daze?” Liu Qiyue—who was taking in the flowers’ fragrance—turned to smile at her husband.

  Chapter 697 - Child and Grandchild

  “I’m coming.” Meng Chuan smiled as he walked over.

  The grass was covered with a rug. On the rug were plates of food and wine—it was rather sumptuous.

  Meng Chuan sat cross-legged on the rug.

  Liu Qiyue picked some wild flowers and placed them beside the delicacies. Only then did she sit down happily. She smiled and said, “Ah Chuan, I’m celebrating my breakthrough to the Imperial Lord realm today. Why are you so distracted on our trip out?”

  “Yes, yes, yes. We are celebrating your breakthrough to the Imperial Lord realm. Come, let’s have a drink.” Meng Chuan immediately poured wine for his wife and himself.

  Liu Qiyue smiled and took the cup. The couple then clinked glasses and downed their cup of wine.

  “After cultivating in seclusion for half a year, I’ve finally broken through and become an Imperial Lord,” said Liu Qiyue wistfully, and her eyes were filled with excitement. “When dealing with the demons’ invasion, I didn’t even dare to imagine becoming an Imperial Lord in my life.”

  “Your realm was already sufficient; you could’ve forcefully become an Imperial Lord with your bloodline,” said Meng Chuan with a smile. “However, you waited until you had a seventh-level Essence Soul before breaking through.”

  Ever since Liu Qiyue consumed the Fire Origins Liquid and her bloodline transformed, her bloodline was close to that of a pure-blooded phoenix. Even if she didn’t cultivate, she could become stronger with time! Furthermore, Liu Qiyue had been diligently cultivating since she was young.

  Her diligence and perception were much higher than those lazy pure-blooded dragons and pure-blooded phoenixes. In terms of technique, although she had only cultivated for over 500 years, she had already reached the middle-stage Heaven Earth realm.

  Since Liu Qiyue didn’t go to Earth Cloud Mystic Realm and had slept for more than 200 years, she had only cultivated for over 500 years.

  Under the nurturing of her bloodline, her Essence Soul grew rather quickly. She had attained a seventh-level Essence Soul not long ago.

  “Although I could forcefully break through to the Imperial Lord realm by relying on my bloodline after I reached the Heaven Earth realm, I still hoped to use Archean Eon Realm’s Godfiend cultivation system to break through. My cultivation conditions are already too extravagant. It would be a joke if I lowered my standards.”

  Liu Qiyue was the only person in Archean Eon Realm that had used a Universe Wonder, Fire Origins Liquid—which was comparable to an Eighth Tribulation treasure—to change her bloodline and nearly reach the level of a pure-blooded phoenix.

  In human history, only Ancestral Master Archean Eon and Meng Chuan could afford such a thing.

  When Ancestral
Master Archean Eon had enough treasures, he no longer had anyone around him worth paying such a price for.

  “Furthermore, Ah Chuan, you often give me pointers.” Liu Qiyue smiled as she looked at her husband. Her husband lived in Jiang State Capital with her, and they usually talked about cultivation problems. Her husband’s pointers always hit the mark, allowing Liu Qiyue’s cultivation to be much smoother.

  “The earlier one reaches the Tribulation realm, the further they can go,” said Meng Chuan. “In the Imperial Lord realm, one has to have a solid foundation before they can reach the Tribulation realm.”

  Liu Qiyue nodded. Although many dragons and phoenixes had strength comparable to Fifth Tribulation Eminences when they were Imperial Lords, they had yet to comprehend their powers completely. Thus, they had no hope of reaching the Tribulation realm.

  “Ah Chuan, you haven’t told me why you keep getting distracted today,” said Liu Qiyue. “You are a Sixth Tribulation Eminence and have many avatars. It’s impossible for you to be distracted if there’s nothing important, right?”

  At Meng Chuan’s level, it was trivial for him to multitask. It was inconceivable for him to be distracted.

  “Qiyue, I have something to tell you,” said Meng Chuan. “I’ve also broken through.”

  “Broken through?” Liu Qiyue was slightly taken aback. “You mean…”

  “I’ve already comprehended a Seventh Tribulation law, and my Essence Soul World has evolved. As long as I transcend the tribulation, I’ll be at the Seventh Tribulation realm,” said Meng Chuan.

  “When did this happen?” Liu Qiyue asked in surprise.

  “Less than a month ago, when you were still in seclusion,” said Meng Chuan. “I just broke through, so I’ve recently been familiarizing myself with the new powers I gained. That’s why I often get distracted.”

  “You got distracted while familiarizing yourself with your powers?” Liu Qiyue looked at Meng Chuan. “You weren’t like this when you reached the Sixth Tribulation realm.”