Meng Chuan understood.
Eighth Tribulation manuals were created by an Eighth Tribulation Eminence. They were formed by the foundational laws of time and space. Therefore, all universes could study them.
Seventh Tribulation manuals were at the Origins law level. The Origins laws in different universes were different. They could be cultivated in a particular universe but not in other universes, much less books below the Seventh Tribulation realm.
There seemed to be hundreds of millions of copies. Dragon Ancestor and company had probably taken all the manuals in other universes and thrown them into Book Mountain.
“Ninety-six Eternal legacies?” Meng Chuan paid attention to this point.
He wasn’t surprised that there were more than 1,000 Eighth Tribulation Eminences manuals. After all, Seventh Tribulation Eminences could collect them.
Eighth Tribulation Eminences had long lifespans, so he found it normal for Dragon Ancestor to collect 1,000 copies. It wasn’t difficult for an ordinary Eighth Tribulation Eminence to collect dozens of copies and send them in. However, there were 96 Eternal legacies?
“Eternal existences are the peak existences in the endless spacetime. The few of them are also happy to teach their juniors,” said Dragon Ancestor. “However, their legacies might not be profound. For example, the Void Catalog was left behind by an Eternal, but it only talks about the spatial law. There are also manuals that only talk about the temporal law. There are also manuals that talk about array formations. Many of them only talk about a small branch. As the endless spacetime is too vast, it’s difficult for an Eternal existence to explain everything.”
Meng Chuan understood.
“Eternal legacies are precious because they are simple yet profound and easy to understand,” said Dragon Ancestor. “The 96 Eternal legacies in Book Mountain can be cultivated to the top Eighth Tribulation realm.
“Knowledge is the path that leads to eternity,” said Dragon Ancestor with a smile. “In the hundred years before the tribulation, you should spend more time at Book Mountain. It might be useful for your tribulation.”
With that said, Dragon Ancestor turned and left.
“Thank you for your guidance, Dragon Ancestor.” Meng Chuan bowed immediately. He stood in the garden and pondered for a moment before immediately sending an Essence Soul avatar to Book Mountain.
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Dragon Ancestor stood in the dark void and watched Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar head to Book Mountain.
I’m about to start creating a new universe, thought Dragon Ancestor. A new universe requires an Eighth Tribulation Eminence to create it. This Creation God… is most suitable for Meng Chuan.
The creation of a universe was the birth of a universe. There were endless possibilities.
If Dragon Ancestor was willing to give Meng Chuan the Creation authority, Meng Chuan could control the laws of that universe. Under the highest circulation law, he could carry out creation! The entire universe could be created according to his will. If there were any mistakes, he could destroy it and start anew.
Creation… was very difficult. One had to grasp the laws of time and space completely before they were qualified to attempt it.
To an Eighth Tribulation Eminence, it was also a rare tempering.
Creating a universe wasn’t easy, and one had to pay a huge price. Over the years, Dragon Ancestor had only created two universes. He became the Creation God the first time. He gave it to Phoenix Ancestor the second time. He planned on letting Meng Chuan take responsibility for the third.
Don’t disappoint me. Dragon Ancestor was filled with anticipation. Meng Chuan’s foundation was too good, and his potential was limitless. He could become a powerful companion for Dragon Ancestor.
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Book Mountain was in a hidden spacetime.
It was thousands of feet tall, and no living beings had disturbed it for a long time. The black-robed, white-haired Meng Chuan only sensed its location after Dragon Ancestor’s guidance.
Without any obstruction, he successfully arrived.
Meng Chuan looked up.
There were no flowers or trees on the floating mountain, only a large number of manuals.
There were all kinds of manuals—crystals, metals, leaves, paper, fur… All sorts of mediums were used to contain the legacies, and they also used all sorts of languages. Just by looking at them with the naked eye, Meng Chuan could vaguely sense the infinite wisdom contained in the manuals.
Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul seemed to sense the appearances of the existences writing manuals.
The manuals are wisdom. The manuals of different universes contain the wisdom of different universes. Meng Chuan reached out and picked up a jade stone beside him. After sensing it for a moment, Meng Chuan could sense all the mental imprints contained in the words and understand their intentions.
Mortal realm, Strange realm, Fiend realm, Origin realm… Meng Chuan looked at the otherverse’s cultivation system.
It was a very strange cultivation system. First, one would transform themselves into monsters. After becoming monsters, it would be difficult for mortals to harm them at all. After that, one would reach the even more terrifying Fiend realm. One step further, one would fuse with the Origins of a planet. If one’s Origins wasn’t destroyed, they wouldn’t die. After that, one would completely refine the planet’s Origins and become a planetary lifeform. This cultivation system would allow one’s true body to become larger and larger—from stars to galaxies, and eventually, miniature universes.
It feels like a Chaos creature. Their bodies will become larger. Meng Chuan put down the manual in his hand. This manual allowed one’s body to be the size of a galaxy. It was only comparable to a Seventh Tribulation Eminence. It had yet to comprehend time and space completely.
I only have 100 years to prepare. I have to make the best use of my time.
Eternal-level legacies are strategically situated; they point to different domains. I have to read them all. I can read the Eighth Tribulation manuals roughly. Although most Seventh Tribulation manuals are from other universes, they are also Origins manuals. They represent a large number of cultivation paths.
This Heavenly Tribulation will avoid what I’m good at. Then, I’ll try my best to read about the different pathways and draw upon their wisdom. By reading more, I can draw references from each other… It’ll be easier to find a breakthrough point when I encounter unfamiliar matters. Meng Chuan knew this very well.
With a plan in mind, he began cultivating on Book Mountain.
There were different levels to the 96 Eternal legacies. Some were even incomplete.
Meng Chuan roughly read through them. He spent more time studying those that were easy to comprehend. He didn’t waste time on those that were too difficult.
He spent more than three years reading the 96 legacies. After that, he limited his Essence Soul avatar on Dry Origin Mountain to spend one day for each of the 1,506 Eighth Tribulation manuals. It took more than four years.
There was no other choice.
The time he had left to transcend the tribulation didn’t allow him to study an ultimate technique carefully. Furthermore, the deeper he studied an Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation, the more it would be avoided. Therefore, in order to prepare for the tribulation, Meng Chuan pursued to be as well-read as he could. At the Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation realm, even if he only studied it for a day, he could cultivate the otherverse system to the Fifth or Sixth Tribulation realm.
After that was a massive number of Seventh Tribulation-level manuals; almost all of them were from other universes. Meng Chuan experienced the wisdom of different paths in various universes.
His Essence Soul avatar read on Book Mountain, while his Essence Soul avatar on Dry Origin Mountain focused on distilling the information.
This was because the time flow on Dry Origin Mountain was three-fold faster than in his home universe despite reducing it to one-tenth of the original time acceleration.
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In the blink of an eye, he spent 60 years reading on Book Mountain.
It’s about time.
Although he still hadn’t read a portion of Seventh Tribulation manuals and a massive number of manuals below the Seventh Tribulation realm, Meng Chuan stopped.
To spend 60 out of the 100 years before transcending the tribulation on Book Mountain was sufficient.
Although I haven’t been to other universes, I’ve seen many different universes. Meng Chuan sighed. He had absorbed the wisdom of different universes from many books, and he felt fulfilled. At the very least, his horizons were much wider than before he came to Book Mountain.
Next up is to kill a Chaos overlord.
Meng Chuan had a plan. He wanted to kill a Chaos overlord before transcending the tribulation and snatch its talent.
Chapter 758 - Meng Chuan's Goal
Translator: CKtalon
Meng Chuan sat cross-legged in a wooden hut on Dry Origin Mountain.
The time flow in this wooden hut was one-tenth of the normal time flow on Dry Origin Mountain.
It’s time to take action. Meng Chuan opened his eyes, and the time flow in the wooden hut returned to normal.
I can only choose one out of the 31 Chaos overlords. Meng Chuan had already tried every one of them over the years. With the intelligence given by Thousand-Hands, Meng Chuan naturally had a deep understanding of the 31 Chaos overlords.
Although these 31 were all Chaos overlords, there were still differences in strength. For example, the strongest one was called Abyss. It was an indescribably distorted existence; it was a complete abyss. There was no way to destroy it. Once one entered its body, they would be trapped in the abyss. According to the intelligence, only someone with the strength of an Eighth Tribulation Eminence could escape from its body.
Meng Chuan had once entered the prison cell that imprisoned Abyss. Once he entered and Abyss awakened, Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar had already entered the abyss and was forced to self-destruct.
Abyss was one of the strongest Chaos overlords. Meng Chuan didn’t have any hope at defeating it at all—the strength difference was too great.
There were a total of nine Chaos overlords that completely surpassed him.
There were 20 who were on par with him; they had the strength of ordinary Chaos overlords. After all, he had just reached the Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation realm. His accumulation wasn’t deep enough.
There were only two who were weaker than him. These two Chaos overlords… Meng Chuan guessed that they had just broken through recently. A newly-advanced Eighth Tribulation Eminence was still superior to a newly-advanced Chaos overlord.
The test left behind by the Eternal is indeed not difficult. As long as I reach the Eighth Tribulation realm and cultivate for a few more years, I’ll be able to kill most of these imprisoned Chaos overlords. Meng Chuan understood this point. Even the newly-advanced can kill the two weakest ones.
Of these two, one was called Lord of Dreams. Its talent was to create a dream world. The dream world it created was as vast and real as a universe, causing enemies to sink into it. According to the intelligence, Lord of Dreams could also cultivate in a dream.
Another was Realm Devouring Overlord. Its talent move was to open its mouth and swallow! As long as it wanted to, it could devour anything—no matter how large it was. It could even swallow an entire universe by taking several mouthfuls during a slow meal. The premise was that no native Eighth Tribulation Eminence could stop it. According to Thousand-Hands’s intelligence, Realm Devouring Overlord had an infinite stomach in its body. An infinite stomach meant true infinite space.
It was vast and boundless.
The structure of space was very special. It was an infinitely folded spacetime. As long as one was willing, they could fold as many spacetime spaces as they wanted.
Only with an infinite stomach could one eat a universe.
These two weakest Chaos overlords have pretty good talent. One is a dream technique that allows one to cultivate in a dream. The other has an infinite stomach that can devour worlds. Although Meng Chuan felt that they weren’t bad, he could only kill one Chaos overlord on Dry Origin Mountain as stipulated by the opportunities the Eternal existence had bestowed. Thus, the stronger the talent was, the better.
There were many more talented Chaos overlords. For example, a Chaos overlord had the talent of having 3,000 avatars! Although some Chaos overlords could divide into many sub-bodies due to their body structure—such as a Chaos overlord that had hundreds or even tens of thousands of sub-bodies—their sub-bodies were generally much weaker. But all 3,000 of this Chaos overlord’s avatars had the strength of its original body! To a certain extent, they had broken through the laws of endless spacetime.
The endless spacetime had restrictions on the avatars of Physical Body Tribulation Eminences and Essence Soul Tribulation Eminences.
Although this Chaos overlord’s 3,000 avatars couldn’t be too distant from each other, each of them had the strength of a true body. It was somewhat terrifying. Even though one of its true bodies only had the strength of an ordinary Chaos overlord, its talent made it one of the top three most terrifying existences imprisoned on Dry Origin Mountain.
Meng Chuan believed that only a peak Eighth Tribulation Eminence could defeat it.
The 3,000-avatar talent, each comparable to the true body, will greatly increase the efficiency of cultivation if so used. Meng Chuan coveted this talent. Furthermore, this was a talent that had broken through the endless spacetime laws.
According to Senior Brother Thousand-Hands’s records, such a talent had extraordinary significance. If one could comprehend its profundities, they could cultivate this path to the limits of the Eighth Tribulation realm.
The talents of Chaos overlords were all extremely amazing.
Chaos overlords had experienced countless tribulations in the endless spacetime before reaching the pinnacle of Chaos creatures and becoming overlords. As Eighth Tribulation-level lifeforms, the talent they produced was naturally unimaginable. Ordinary means weren’t considered talent for lifeforms at their level.
I can only choose one that suits me the best. Meng Chuan came to Dry Origin Mountain’s imprisoned space and arrived in front of a prison cell. He looked at the Chaos overlord inside. This is it!
Meng Chuan levitated in front of one of the 31 spatial prisons.
Through the spatial prison’s membrane, time was still. A hundred-headed monster was entrenched in the prison. The hundred heads had very calm expressions. Each head had white eyebrows that fluttered. Its single eye was closed, and it had no ears or nose. Its body was somewhat similar to a tentacled octopus. Its massive body coiled there, and the hundred heads looked calm and peaceful.
“Wise.” Meng Chuan looked at it.
This monster was called Wise.
It was originally one of the countless living beings living inside Abyss. After years of nurturing, it became the most valued subordinate of Abyss. It lived at the bottom of Abyss and helped Abyss perfect its structure and devour the outside world. Abyss also gave it a portion of its devouring power, allowing it to advance to become a Chaos overlord.
Abyss relied on the wisdom of Wise to become stronger.
Abyss devoured countless living beings and countless worlds. Ordinary Eighth Tribulation Eminences could only protect themselves in front of it and escape its capture. Only Eternal personal disciples could match it.
As it was too fearless and unrestrained, it captured and devoured many spacetime continuums. Finally, an Eternal existence took action and captured Abyss. The Hundred-Headed Wise in Abyss was naturally brought over. As they were both Chaos overlords, they were imprisoned in two different areas.
The intelligence on it is very vague. It’s only said that it’s Wise. There are no detailed records of its powerful talent. Even so, Meng Chuan wanted to kill it very much.
It was very strange for Chaos overlords to be famous for their intelligence.
Meng Chuan stood outside the spatial prison and sent an Essence Soul avatar in.
The moment he entered, time in the massive spatial prison returned to normal. The hundred-headed monster, Wise—which had been motionless from the imprisonment—opened its eyes.
Its eyes were calm, without any hint of ruthlessness. The corners of its mouth were slightly curved as though it was smiling. Its white eyebrows fluttered as hundreds of heads stared at Meng Chuan. “You’re here again.”
“I’m here to kill you again.” Meng Chuan nodded.
“When the Eternal captured me, I knew that I had to repay karma,” said the hundred-headed monster. “However, you still can’t kill me with your strength.”
“Is that so?” Meng Chuan smiled.
At their level, it was very difficult to see their respective futures. However, the hundred-headed monster seemed to be able to see through everything. Its prophecies were extremely accurate.
Whoosh.
The hundred-headed monster entrenched itself, but an illusory abyss appeared around it.
This was a spherical abyss. From the outermost layer to the inner layer, the hundred-headed monster was at the core.
The innermost layer of the abyss was the smallest, slightly larger than a river system. The outermost layer of the abyss was even larger than a river zone. A total of 399 layers of the abyss formed a sphere that occupied more than half of the spatial prison. This was a spatial prison that imprisoned Chaos overlords. The space inside varied in size, so it was naturally easy to withstand it.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The 399 layers of the illusory abyss protected it. Yet, Meng Chuan’s invisible will still seeped into the hundred-headed monster’s consciousness.
An attack that targeted the mind.
As an Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation Eminence, Meng Chuan was the strongest in this aspect. He wanted to destroy the other party’s consciousness.
“I’ve already said that it’s useless.” Many invisible thoughts seeped through the layers of the abyss. Every layer Meng Chuan passed through made it harder for him to penetrate further. When they completely seeped into the hundred-headed monster’s body, only 30% of its strength remained. The hundred-headed monster resisted as it spoke.
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