“That’s right.” Meng Chuan sighed. “A Seventh Tribulation Eminence is much stronger than a Sixth Tribulation Eminence. I need to familiarize myself with my new powers slowly.”
The more Tribulation Eminences cultivated, the greater the strength boost each Tribulation realm gave them.
“If a Seventh Tribulation Eminence were to attack, they could instantly kill or capture a Sixth Tribulation Eminence even if they are separated by many river systems. Only peak Sixth Tribulation Eminences that have grasped the spatial law can destroy their avatars in front of a Seventh Tribulation Eminence,” said Meng Chuan.
The difference between them was too great. If a Seventh Tribulation Eminence was a towering mountain, then a Sixth Tribulation Eminence would be a speck of dust.
Thankfully, Sixth Tribulation Eminences could hide in places such as their homeworld or Eternal Tower’s headquarters. Therefore, Sixth Tribulation Eminences had some authority. However, they still had to rely on Seventh Tribulation Eminences.
A faction established by a Seventh Tribulation Eminence in the River of Spacetime was a top faction.
Black Fiend Hall was arrogant because they had two Seventh Tribulation Eminences. One of them was an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence.
Meng Chuan was now an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence! In terms of deterrence, he could almost match the entirety of Black Fiend Hall.
“Kill and capture an enemy alive across many river systems?” Liu Qiyue muttered.
“I have grasped the Chaos Hole law, so I can only attack across river systems. For example, those that have grasped the Karma law, the Immeasurable law, and so on can attack across many river zones,” said Meng Chuan with a smile. “Previously, I obtained the Spacetime Token from Dragon Ancestor in the Nine Trials Pagoda. With the Spacetime Token, my strength can be transmitted to anywhere in the River of Spacetime.”
Liu Qiyue only felt that such means were too terrifying. She couldn’t help but say, “With such strength, weak Tribulation Eminences can’t resist at all. It’s useless no matter how many there are.”
“That’s right; that’s why Black Fiend Hall can slaughter people wantonly. Therefore, Sixth Tribulation Eminences have to rely on Seventh Tribulation Eminences,” said Meng Chuan.
Liu Qiyue looked at her husband. My husband has already cultivated to such an unfathomable realm?
“By the way, you mentioned the tribulation transcendence?” asked Liu Qiyue immediately.
“Yes.” Meng Chuan nodded. “In about 100 years, the seventh Essence Soul Tribulation will descend. Therefore, I need to focus on preparing for the tribulation.”
Liu Qiyue was also very nervous and worried. Her husband’s strength increased rapidly, but the faster he improved, the more heavenly tribulations he would suffer.
“There’s one more thing,” said Meng Chuan. “After I broke through, Archean Eon Realm is now under the protection of my Origins domain at all times. Living beings in Archean Eon Realm don’t have to worry about any external karmic attacks. Therefore, we can let An’er and many other cultivators head out.”
Previously, Archean Eon Realm’s talents were only allowed to enter the mystic realm. They weren’t allowed to enter the outer realm. This was because Earth Cloud Mystic Realm alone had enough opportunities and experts.
“As long as they reach the Imperial Lord realm, they can be released,” said Meng Chuan. “For example, our grandson can leave Earth Cloud Mystic Realm.”
“Meng Yu?” Liu Qiyue knew that her husband thought highly of their grandson.
Meng Yu had never known his grandfather’s true origins. Meng Yu thought that he was threatened by a powerful enemy and had been arduously cultivating in Earth Cloud Mystic Realm.
“I didn’t give him too many resources. I kept letting him work on his own and only guided him in secret,” said Meng Chuan. “Meng Yu’s cultivation is almost approaching his father’s.”
Meng An had comprehended a Fourth Tribulation law, but his physical body formulation hadn’t been perfected.
According to this cultivation speed, Meng Chuan estimated that Meng An’s limit was probably the Fifth Tribulation realm.
Ever since he was young, Meng An’s cultivation speed was top-notch in Archean Eon Realm’s history. His foundation was one of the top three in human history, and he was also Ancestral Master Archean Eon’s legacy disciple… However, it was already not bad for him to reach the Fifth Tribulation realm in his life.
This was what cultivation was like; it was too difficult for a world to produce a Sixth Tribulation Eminence.
A peerless talent like Meng Chuan was rare in the entire River of Spacetime.
Meng Yu.
The path that Meng Chuan had arranged for his grandson was completely different from his son’s. It greatly increased the grinding process and allowed him to grow—Meng Yu could walk the cultivation path he liked.
For a long time, his son—Meng An—had to grow according to Ancestral Master Archean Eon’s arrangements.
Meng Chuan somewhat disagreed with this, but when he had the ability to object, his son did whatever it took to go to Earth Cloud Mystic Realm. At that time, he could no longer change the trajectory.
Chapter 698 - Food
On the Chaos Turbid River’s surface was a pavilion.
The black-robed, white-haired Meng Chuan was meditating in the building. He didn’t deliberately search for forbidden creatures. Instead, he focused on cultivating and preparing for his Tribulation Transcendence. Of course, his Origins domain was large enough in the Chaos Turbid River. If a forbidden creature happened to enter his domain, he could ‘conveniently’ hunt them.
He treated it as a form of relaxation.
Sixth Tribulation forbidden creatures’ Life Cores and corpses were still relatively valuable; they could be considered resources. Ancestral Master Archean Eon had relied on years of accumulation to amass all his treasures.
Meng Chuan’s current wealth was mainly given to him by Hall Lord White Avian. What he had accumulated himself was still little; he was still poor.
Huh? Meng Chuan suddenly opened his eyes.
The Chaos Hole law was a law that was good at domains, so his Origins domain was rather large. Although Meng Chuan was heavily suppressed in the Chaos Turbid River, he could still sense his surroundings for more than five billion kilometers.
This is the first forbidden creature that I’ve encountered since I grasped the Chaos Hole law. Meng Chuan looked into the distance. Through the Chaos Turbid River, he saw a massive creature slowly advancing in the river’s depths. It was an alien beast with eight long necks and heads. Each of the alien beast’s neck and head was like a long snake. The alien beast also had four hooves and three sharp, long, and thin tails. Its three tails danced around each other like scissors.
Its aura is quite strong; it’s considered powerful among Sixth Tribulation forbidden creatures. Meng Chuan stood up and took a step forward to approach the forbidden creature.
The eight-headed alien beast swam underwater. Its eight long heads carefully observed its surroundings as it searched for prey. Only by evolving to the Seventh Tribulation realm will I truly be safe in the Chaos Turbid River.
In the Chaos Turbid River, Sixth Tribulation forbidden creatures fought and devoured each other. Occasionally, cultivators would hunt them down; their living conditions were extremely harsh.
Only by reaching the Seventh Tribulation realm would one stand at the pinnacle of the Chaos Turbid River.
Devouring Chaos creatures is too slow. If I can devour a Sixth Tribulation cultivator, it will be much more helpful. This eight-headed forbidden creature yearned to become stronger. Beyond the universe, forbidden creatures had been fighting and devouring each other since they were born. The weak were devoured, and the strong became stronger. This forbidden creature had experienced countless battles to become a Sixth Tribulation forbidden creature. Although the Chaos Turbid River was even more dangerous, it was fearless
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“This is—” The eight-headed beast suddenly saw a pair of dark eyes.
The dark eyes stared at it like an endless abyss. The forbidden creature’s consciousness rapidly sank without any resistance, and its consciousness was annihilated!
The body lost its vitality; it remained motionless as the water swirled around it.
My true body was instantly killed? 32.5 million kilometers away from the corpse, a Life Core was hidden in the river. The consciousness in this Life Core was rather alarmed. Who attacked? Is it a Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature or a cultivator?
I can’t condense a true body. Once I do, the fluctuations in my Life Core will definitely be discovered. The Chaos creature carefully hid itself. At the same time, its Life Core hid in the water as it followed the water flow and fled into the distance.
Meng Chuan was currently staring at the eight-headed alien beast’s corpse. It’s so afraid that it doesn’t dare to condense its true body?
Meng Chuan also understood that he hadn’t disguised himself this time and had ruthlessly attacked instead. Thus, he had scared off the other party.
After grasping the Chaos Hole law, Meng Chuan cultivated the Pupil of Darkness to the 72nd level. He had also cast it using his Power of Essence Soul, which was at the Seventh Tribulation realm.
Meng Chuan’s strength was much greater than before.
“Can you escape?” Meng Chuan stood beside the corpse. His Chaos Hole domain affected a 150 million-kilometer area.
Boom!
With Meng Chuan at the center, an invisible force swept across the 150 million-kilometer area. Although Meng Chuan could affect an area of more than five billion kilometers, it was unnecessary to do so when dealing with a Sixth Tribulation forbidden creature.
About 35 million kilometers away from Meng Chuan, a bang sounded.
A painting then appeared.
The Life Core was clearly a painting.
Thirty-five million kilometers? Meng Chuan glanced over. His Essence Soul mystic technique attacked the Life Core and completely destroyed the consciousness within it.
Swoosh.
With a beckon of his hand, the painting appeared in Meng Chuan’s hand. He couldn’t tell what it was made of, but it was a warm white. The painting depicted the eight-headed alien beast; every long head looked rather sinister.
I only destroyed the consciousness without destroying the Life Core. The Life Core painting is still intact. Meng Chuan looked at the painting. As time passes, a new consciousness will be born in this Life Core, and a new forbidden creature will appear. When the time comes, it will still be an eight-headed alien beast, but it will have a new consciousness and new memories. It will be considered another forbidden creature.
It was relatively easy to destroy a Sixth Tribulation forbidden creature’s Life Core.
A Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature’s Life Core was much stranger. It couldn’t be truly destroyed. According to the method passed down by Fiend Mountain’s owner, one had to seal it first before destroying its consciousness. When lacking a consciousness and in a sealed state, a Life Core couldn’t nurture a new forbidden creature.
Seal. Meng Chuan casually sealed the painting and put it away with the corpse beside him.
In the past, Meng Chuan had disguised his strength because forbidden creatures’ Life Cores would produce fluctuations when their condensed new true bodies. This made it easier to find their Life Cores.
Typically, forbidden creatures’ true bodies were relatively far from their Life Cores. Even in the Chaos Turbid River, it was possible for the two to be tens of millions of kilometers—or even hundreds of millions of kilometers—apart. If one didn’t lock onto their Life Cores, their Life Cores would escape, making it even harder to find them.
Now that he was at the Seventh Tribulation realm, Meng Chuan could easily attack and cover over five billion kilometers. According to Meng Chuan’s understanding, a Sixth Tribulation forbidden creature’s true body was, at most, hundreds of millions of kilometers away from its Life Core in the Chaos Turbid River. Therefore, he could definitely find a Life Core if he swept through the area on a large scale.
Therefore, Meng Chuan naturally had no need to disguise himself.
This Life Core is actually a painting. Meng Chuan looked at the painting. Who painted it, and why did their painting become a Life Core?
Meng Chuan had always been puzzled about a Life Core’s origins.
A Life Core could be anything. It looked like an ordinary item, but it could nurture an extremely powerful forbidden creature.
The painting is really average; I painted better than this when I was ten. Meng Chuan flipped his hand and put away the painting.
He was in a rather good mood. After all, he had made another killing.
Following that, Meng Chuan returned to the building and continued cultivating.
…
In a remote area of the Chaos Turbid River, a blurry face condensed.
Another Sixth Tribulation forbidden creature died? This face kept staring at the Chaos Turbid River.
Any powerful cultivator or powerful Chaos creature could be its food.
On its blurry face, its huge eyes reflected the scenes from the timeline. It soon locked onto the black-robed, white-haired Meng Chuan—who held the Life Core painting.
Huh? Bark was shocked. This Essence Soul Tribulation Eminence was still an Essence Soul Sixth Tribulation Eminence when I saw him the last few times. He’s now an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence?
Bark had devoured more than ten Seventh Tribulation Chaos creatures. After coming to this universe, it had also devoured two Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s avatars. It had many strange means, so it could determine Meng Chuan’s current level of existence at a glance.
Seventh Tribulation lifeform… The last time I saw him, he was still at the Sixth Tribulation realm. He clearly broke through recently. Bark was somewhat excited. A newly-advanced Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence? That’s great. After devouring his Essence Soul, my strength will definitely increase.
Bark thought nothing of a Sixth Tribulation Eminence. However, Seventh Tribulation Eminences were extremely delicious food. Furthermore, Meng Chuan was a newly-advanced Seventh Tribulation Eminence, meaning that he had weaker resistance.
Devouring a Physical Body Seventh Tribulation Eminence was very beneficial to Bark’s body. Devouring an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence was very beneficial to its Essence Soul. As a result, it was extremely excited.
“He’s my food.” The blurry face silently dissipated.
Deep in the Turbid River, a dark behemoth speedily rushed toward Meng Chuan.
As for Meng Chuan, he was focused on cultivating in the pavilion, so he didn’t notice it at all.
Chapter 699 - Battling Bark
The Chaos Turbid River was like a maze. Even if one locked onto a target through karma, a distance of half a trillion kilometers could increase by tenfold when traveling in a straight line.
The spacetime here was chaotic; it was a terrifying labyrinth. Therefore, it was almost impossible to traverse the entirety of the Chaos Turbid River. One would be restrained by the Chaos Turbid River unless they could escape the River of Spacetime.
However, the Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature—Bark—had lived in the Chaos Turbid River for too long. It was very familiar with the easy-to-explore areas. Furthermore, Meng Chuan had yet to move while cultivating.
Thus, Bark had arrived in Meng Chuan’s vicinity in just a day.
I’m 40 billion kilometers away from this newly-advanced Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence. The behemoth stared at the building from afar. Most newly-advanced Seventh Tribulation Eminences can’t discover me from such a distance in the Chaos Turbid River.
The reason why Bark stayed 40 billion kilometers away was that it could only teleport up to 40 billion kilometers in the Chaos Turbid River! Any further, and it wouldn’t be able to teleport near Meng C
huan.
It’s been so many years; it’s rare to encounter such good food. Bark was filled with eagerness.
Bark would only gain great benefits when it devoured an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s avatar for the first time. The subsequent boost from consuming that Eminence’s Essence Soul avatars would be negligible.
This was unless one could devour all of the Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s avatars and completely rob them of their lives. But considering an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s life-preservation means, it was almost impossible to do so completely.
Whoosh.
Bark’s massive body suddenly lunged forward; it crossed spacetime and attacked Meng Chuan—who was 40 billion kilometers away.
…
Meng Chuan was cultivating in a building above the Turbid River. However, his Origins domain covered more than five billion kilometers around him. When the forbidden creature—Bark—charged into his Origins domain, Meng Chuan suddenly opened his eyes.
A Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature! Meng Chuan instantly sensed the other party.
This forbidden creature resembled an octopus, but it had over 100 tentacles. Every tentacle was over 50 million kilometers long, and its massive body caused spacetime to distort. This forbidden creature’s aura alarmed Meng Chuan as it instantly charged into Meng Chuan’s Chaos Hole domain.
Meng Chuan instinctively blocked and repelled the other party.
The Chaos Hole law was good at domains, and Meng Chuan had once studied the strongest domain-type Chaos Hole lineage manual in White Avian Hall—Chaos Hole Territory. After grasping the law, he could unleash 70% of the domain mystic technique’s might.
Boom!
The spacetime in Meng Chuan’s domain was in chaos as the powerful spacetime repulsive force pulled at the behemoth.
The domain’s resistance was too great. If Guild Master Darkstar were to charge over, his speed would be reduced to just 10 to 20 percent.
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