I gathered a total of eight Seventh Tribulation Life Cores. I originally devoured five,and left three behind. One is in the hands of Perfected Lord Crimson Peace. There are only two left. Celestial Thearch Myriad Star’s eyes were cold as he made a decision. Now, I just need to try my best and devour the last two Life Cores. It can increase my talent.
If it was just to control forbidden creatures to devour inhabited worlds, one or two would be enough. However, Celestial Thearch Myriad Star had collected eight Seventh Tribulation Life Cores. This was because he was curious as to why Fiend Mountain’s owner was collecting Life Cores.
He had gathered a Seventh Tribulation Life Core and carefully studied it. In the endless spacetime, all phenomena had their intrinsic profundities. After all, Celestial Thearch Myriad Star had grasped the two cornerstones—time and space. After careful consideration, he had truly figured out something profound. Later, he obtained insights from the first volume of Bloodline that he had obtained from his sacrifices, allowing him to perfect the devouring formulation completely.
His devouring formulation might not be as good as Fiend Mountain’s owner’s devouring means, but he could already absorb a portion of a Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature’s talent and fuse it with his body. Therefore, he had been eyeing the Seventh Tribulation forbidden creatures in the Chaos Turbid River all this time. However, he had captured all of the easy targets. The few left were much harder to capture.
He had long devoured five Life Cores, leaving behind only three to do his bidding.
This time… he devoured the remaining two. He wanted to go further on the path of cultivation!
As long as I become stronger, I don’t even need to transcend the tribulation. As long as I cultivate an Eighth Tribulation realm body, I should be able to destroy this sealing array formation completely. Celestial Thearch Myriad Star abandoned all his fantasies and focused on his cultivation.
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Time passed. In the distant Dry Origin Mountain, Meng Chuan cultivated.
It’s been 6,000 years since I came to Dry Origin Mountain. Meng Chuan sat in front of his desk and frowned slightly as he looked at the painting. He wasn’t too satisfied as the painting returned to a blank state.
I’m still stuck at the final bottleneck with regards to the temporal law. Meng Chuan frowned.
He had naturally grasped the three parts of the temporal law—the past, present, and future. After all, Meng Sha Realm’s treasures could be exchanged for a large number of supplementary cultivation items. He had obtained the opportunity to kill Chaos creatures on Dry Origin Mountain, greatly increasing his talent in the temporal lineage.
With the Painting Dao mystic technique that an Eternal had imparted to him, it was very easy for him to grasp the three basic parts.
However, combining these three parts to form a complete temporal law stumped Meng Chuan.
This bottleneck lasted for 1,000 years. Meng Chuan remained confused. The temporal law is indeed not that easy to comprehend.
It’s time to kill the next Chaos creature. Meng Chuan stood up and walked out of the wooden hut, heading toward the prison cell on Dry Origin Mountain.
Chapter 741 - Confusion
There were many Chaos creatures imprisoned on Dry Origin Mountain. Meng Chuan also wanted to kill a peak Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature, but he had made many attempts. His Essence Soul avatar was forced to dissipate every time. If it didn’t dissipate on its own accord, it would be devoured by the Chaos creature.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to defeat them—he just wasn’t strong enough!
According to the intelligence provided by Senior Brother Thousand-Hands, one had to reach the half-step Eighth Tribulation realm before they had a chance of killing a peak Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature.
Meng Chuan didn’t give up on his attempts. He understood the accuracy of the intelligence. Although he was only one step away from grasping a complete spacetime law, it was extremely difficult to take that final step. For example, Guild Master Fiend Eye, Lord of Li Rainbow, Realm Ancestor, and the others had long grasped the three basic parts of the temporal law, but they were unable to fuse them into a complete temporal law.
There were many Seventh Tribulation Eminences in every generation. There were also many who grasped the three basic parts of the temporal law. However, the number of half-step Eighth Tribulation Eminences was much lower.
The difficulty was this tiny sliver.
This sliver is the greatest obstacle to becoming a half-step Eighth Tribulation Eminence. Meng Chuan stood in the spatial cell as 3,000 Heaven Splitting Blades floated around him, their might affecting the surroundings.
He was surrounded by a distorted spacetime maze.
An ugly, massive Chaos creature was hiding in horror. Its eight short legs were thick and powerful. With a blink of its four eyes, it could easily construct an illusion. In terms of strength, it was on the same level as the Ouroboros from before. However, Meng Chuan was clearly much stronger than when he killed the serpent.
Meng Chuan cast the array formation as he pleased, cracking the Chaos creature’s numerous attacks.
An illusion cast by a Chaos creature?
As an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence, Meng Chuan was good at illusions. He had studied the 3,000 illusory arrays, making his attainments in this aspect stronger than this Chaos creature that relied on talent.
In a head-on battle? He could easily crush his opponent.
“Apart from the Samsara of Time, you don’t seem to have any other powerful moves.” Meng Chuan shook his head slightly when he saw the Chaos creature fleeing in fright.
Go.
With a thought—
The 3,000 Heaven Splitting Sabers formed a chain of saber beams that swept in all directions.
The Chaos Hole Heaven Splitting Array’s fourth transformation—As Desired Saber Chain.
With this sweep, the spacetime maze was sliced apart like tofu, revealing the hiding Chaos creature. It tried to dodge in panic, but it couldn’t dodge the Heaven Splitting Saber Chain.
Meng Chuan’s Chaos Hole Heaven Splitting Saber Array had a total of six changes. The fourth change was relatively more controllable, so Meng Chuan could use it easily.
Pfft.
Wherever the saber chain passed, the flow of time changed. Everything happened in an instant. The massive Chaos creature that looked like a lizard had been sliced apart and destroyed, its existence obliterated.
Meng Chuan took a step and arrived in front of the Life Core.
The Life Core was a gray cloth bag.
It’s easy to deal with a top Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature, but I was at an absolute disadvantage when facing a peak Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature, even when using my strongest transformation—the sixth one. I was easily trounced. Meng Chuan sighed.
It was indeed true that even a half-step Eighth Tribulation Eminence only had a chance of killing a peak Seventh Tribulation Chaos creature.
Meng Chuan ultimately hadn’t crossed that line. There was still a gap between him and a half-step Eighth Tribulation Eminence.
No matter how dazzling a top Seventh Tribulation Eminence was in history, they would at most be praised as someone who was close to the half-step Eighth Tribulation realm.
Whoosh.
The gray cloth bag had a hint of turbid aura. The moment Meng Chuan reached out and touched the gray cloth bag, the cloth bag completely disintegrated like sand and dissipated into the void.
The mysterious power contained in the Life Core—a cloth bag—completely fused with Meng Chuan’s body. Meng Chuan very familiarly left the spatial cell and silently waited for the fusion to end.
The devouring process to obtain mysterious powers ended in just an hour.
The benefits this time aren’t that obvious. Meng Chuan sat cross-legged on a withered, yellow grassland on Dry Origin Mountain and carefully took in the experience.
Due to his previous transformation, he had s
ome talent as a Chaos creature of the temporal lineage. This time, there were very few changes.
I didn’t even form any talent moves. Meng Chuan sighed.
His gains made it easier for him to control time at a more micro level.
Just like how birds could fly and how fish could swim, Meng Chuan could now control time more precisely. With the fusion of time and space, Meng Chuan didn’t need any talent moves. He could create an illusion with his own insights—Samsara of Time.
Compared to the illusory world—Samsara of Time—my improved control over time is somewhat beneficial to my cultivation. Meng Chuan naturally had all sorts of plans for controlling time and space.
As for the temporal law, I still have no idea how to combine the past, present, and future. Meng Chuan frowned.
He kept feeling like he had improved, but he couldn’t break through the bottleneck. He couldn’t even infer the process clearly.
In fact, he had already grasped the temporal law’s three foundational aspects during his first 5,000 years on Dry Origin Mountain. He had cultivated for another 1,000 years before killing the second Chaos creature, hoping to accumulate more insights.
Meng Chuan hoped that he would have an obvious breakthrough if he accumulated enough insights and gained a new talent.
How do I fuse them? The continuation of the past is the present. The present is also the future of the past. Meng Chuan shook his head slightly.
As part of the temporal law, the trifecta affected each other.
The past and the present.
The present and the future.
The past and the future.
The connections were too strong, and there were too many directions. However, Meng Chuan was left at a loss no matter which direction he attempted. None of them gave him any confidence.
There’s no clear idea or direction. I’ve just obtained some new talent, but I don’t have any new ideas either. Meng Chuan fell into deep thought.
Grasping the laws of time and space was equally difficult for Chaos creatures. The spacetime law wasn’t something that could be grasped with just a little talent.
At this moment, it’s not very helpful to immerse myself in cultivation. I need a flash of inspiration and some stimulus. Meng Chuan came to a decision. Forget it. I’ll travel around; I’ll take a closer look at my home universe. After cultivating for so many years, there are many places in my home universe that I haven’t been to. For example, I’ve always wanted to go to Nine Tribulations Planet, but I’ve never been there.
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Eighth Tribulation Eminences had gone far in terms of time and space.
Time and space were only two major tools they used to study the endless spacetime. The ruins they left behind contained the direction of their cultivation path. Meng Chuan decided not to cultivate arduously. Instead, he traveled and cultivated as he looked around.
The places he saw were naturally the ruins left behind by an Eighth Tribulation Eminence. Although Dry Origin Mountain was left behind by an Eternal existence—and perhaps because it was created by an Eternal existence, Meng Chuan couldn’t comprehend anything.
The mountains were mountains, the trees were trees, and the vegetation was vegetation—everything was ordinary.
If it was destroyed, everything could be restored. The profundities were opaque, making it difficult for Meng Chuan to comprehend them.
On the contrary, Meng Chuan could comprehend a lot of the marks left behind by Eighth Tribulation Eminences.
Nine Tribulations Planet.
The white-robed, white-haired Meng Chuan arrived above a massive planet. The entire planet emitted an endless baneful aura. The baneful aura was so thick that Fifth Tribulation Eminences could only watch from afar. Sixth Tribulation Eminences might be able to approach the planet, but they couldn’t descend to the planet’s surface.
Nine Tribulations Planet is impressive. Meng Chuan looked down and sighed in amazement.
From high up in the sky, mountain ranges undulated across the planet’s surface as rivers flowed everywhere.
They naturally formed paintings, and the nine paintings covered the entire planet’s surface.
Using the planet as a canvas and the mountains and rivers as brushstrokes, this is a freely drawn painting. Meng Chuan nodded. However, the beauty can’t hide the baneful aura.
Meng Chuan slowly descended.
Chapter 742 - Three Thousand Years of Traveling
Translator: CKtalon
Nine Tribulations Planet was very famous, but no one knew who its creator was. Was it an Eighth Tribulation Eminence from their universe? Or was it a foreign Eighth Tribulation Eminence who had traveled here and had been inspired to produce the painting?
Everything was possible.
With Meng Chuan’s realm, he could determine the nine paintings’ order just by looking at them. By using the Eternal mystic technique—the six-stroke runic seal—he could see the changes in the nine paintings from afar.
Whoosh.
Meng Chuan landed on the first painting. It was also the first painting drawn by the mysterious Eighth Tribulation Eminence on Nine Tribulations Planet.
This painting was composed of five large lakes, four swamps, a large plain, and rivers that connected between them. This painting was the most ordinary of the nine paintings. When Meng Chuan landed on the plain, baneful aura immediately surged toward him.
Whoosh!
Three thousand tiny Dark Chaos Holes floated around Meng Chuan; they only protected him for 500 kilometers. They only defended and didn’t attack, allowing the baneful aura to strike at them.
If one falls into the Nine Tribulations Painting, they will be attacked. However, this is ultimately a baneful aura that’s triggered by the painting. It’s not deliberately set up by the Eighth Tribulation Eminence; it’s not very powerful. Even a newly-advanced ordinary Seventh Tribulation Eminence can withstand the first five paintings. A top Seventh Tribulation Eminence can also walk through all nine paintings.
This is the crux of the first painting. Meng Chuan studied it for an hour. His Essence Soul avatar—which was far away on Dry Origin Mountain—had instead been studying it for more than a day.
After comprehending the first painting completely, he took a step and walked to the crux of the painting. This seemed like an ordinary region, but the baneful aura’s influence had weakened to a negligible level for up to a kilometer.
The second painting. Meng Chuan flew toward the second painting.
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Meng Chuan stayed in the first painting for an hour. He stayed in the second painting for six hours.
Meng Chuan stayed in the sixth painting for a month and a half.
Meng Chuan stayed in the seventh painting for three years.
Meng Chuan had stayed in the eighth painting for ten years. Considering the 33-fold faster time flow on Dry Origin Mountain, Meng Chuan had truly spent an astonishing amount of time.
Boom!
Dark waves surged in the vast ocean as the baneful aura shook the world.
The ocean and over 3,000 islands formed the terrifying eighth painting. Just the baneful aura contained in the eighth painting required a top Seventh Tribulation Eminence to resist it with all their might.
What a powerful spear art. In Meng Chuan’s eyes, the ocean and islands were in the form of a spear.
The spear danced as the universe trembled.
Time for the ninth painting. Meng Chuan had stayed here for ten years. After gaining some insights, he couldn’t help but walk toward the ninth painting.
The ninth painting was the highest mountain range on Nine Tribulations Planet.
The towering mountain controlled everything in the river and land. When Meng Chuan walked in, he felt the pressure the ninth painting exerted on him. However, the baneful aura was scattered and unsystematic. The threat it posed was greatly reduced; it was far inferior to the eighth painting’s might.
A pity. Meng Chuan was very disappointed. He shoo
k his head gently. That Eighth Tribulation Eminence wanted to create a spear art of a higher realm. He wanted to attempt creating a spear art at the ninth Heavenly Tribulation realm, but he clearly has flaws. It’s inferior to the eighth painting. The first eight paintings are a complete set of spear arts, while the ninth painting is flawed.
Although Meng Chuan could use Painting Dao mystic techniques to supplement his cultivation with regards to textual legacies, it would still be very difficult for him to cultivate them. But if the creator fused their insights into a painting, it would be easier for Meng Chuan to understand it.
He was more sensitive to paintings.
Meng Chuan had only roughly comprehended the spear art contained in Nine Tribulations Planet’s first eight paintings after staying there for more than ten years. He settled down in Nine Tribulations Planet for 30 years before he truly comprehended a complete ultimate technique.
What an amazing spear art. It’s the most domineering and strongest ultimate technique I’ve ever seen. Meng Chuan already had a complete set of spear arts in his mind. He had completely extracted the spear art from the painting, but he still couldn’t completely comprehend some of the moves. After all, he was only a top Seventh Tribulation Eminence.
It’s no wonder he dared to attempt to create a spear art at the Ninth Tribulation realm. This Eighth Tribulation Eminence… might not be far from Dragon Ancestor. Meng Chuan had seen Dragon Ancestor and other existences create universes. He had also comprehended the complete spear art from the nine paintings. Therefore, he could roughly determine the level of this mysterious Eighth Tribulation Eminence’s strength. At the same time, he guessed that the creator of Nine Tribulations Planet’s paintings wasn’t from his universe.
This was because the strongest person in his universe was Dragon Ancestor. Next were Fiend Mountain’s owner and the others. None of them were famous for their spear arts.
Although I’m an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence, I can fuse the spear arts into my Essence Soul World and the array formation. Meng Chuan was rather delighted. He never expected to learn the strongest mystic technique he knew to date from Nine Tribulations Planet. Although the Eternal mystic technique—six-stroke runic seal—was the most valuable, it was a supplementary formulation and not used for combat.
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