Chapter 818: Chapter 40: Sword Slash Sky
The ancient Xingyi Dao, divine form derivation.
Though the Ten Thousand Transformations Longevity Tribulation is incredibly fierce, the previous three humanoid heavenly tribulations honed Zhou Yan’s skills, allowing him to briefly harm his soul body to counter them, analyze the weaknesses of the tribulation, and then launch a powerful strike, which was truly effective.
However, this kind of tribulation should still have two cycles remaining.
The Ten Thousand Transformations Longevity Tribulation, containing the meaning of the Three Worlds, should manifest in three major cycles, with each cycle bringing three heavenly tribulations.
The first time, it was the three major humanoid heavenly tribulations, targeting Zhou Yan for assassination through his three most significant characters, unrivaled in strength.
The second time, it’s the Heaven and Earth Dao, cosmic primordial derivation.
Therefore, the upcoming assault is bound to be intimately connected with the Heaven and Earth Dao.
Sure enough, in just a moment, the scene of heaven and earth transformation appeared again.
Moreover, a giant star cloud instantly reappeared.
This time, the giant star cloud not only appeared above Zhou Yan’s head but also suddenly emerged around him, from all directions, it seemed like a cosmic space encasing Zhou Yan.
This was truly astonishing.
The Ten Thousand Transformations Longevity Tribulation unexpectedly displayed an absolute cosmic space-like scene.
Within the universe, the cosmic primordial was enacting the chaos dust tribulation.
Zhou Yan was surrounded by the entire universe, completely passive.
At this moment, the entire universe completely isolated itself from the surrounding space, countless origin energies could no longer converge within Zhou Yan’s body, resulting in consumption without replenishment.
But Zhou Yan did not care about this, what concerned him was why such powerful cosmic transformations repeatedly derived within the tribulation!
What is the essential reason for the tribulation’s cosmic derivation?
Could it be transcending the universe, surpassing all cosmic transformations unmoved? Or escaping the shackles of the universe, forming a true soul fetus able to tread the ’domain’?
Perhaps, certainly, this must be the case.
Zhou Yan mused.
This purely is but a feeling Zhou Yan has, yet this feeling is so intense. What generates such intense feelings in Zhou Yan is definitely ninety-nine percent true.
At this moment, the gathered primordial universe did not attack Zhou Yan, merely binding him within space.
Aside from origin energy and Soul Path Vast Qi, Zhou Yan realized he could use no other strengths.
But facing all this, Zhou Yan remained calm, with a profound gaze devoid of panic.
Zhou Yan suddenly closed his eyes, choosing to merge his spirit into this space to understand it. This was also merely a feeling, and a very intense feeling, yet this feeling was not the main thing, what was predominant was that Zhou Yan suddenly sensed something special within this universe.
Heart stirring, Zhou Yan suddenly had a bright feeling in front of him, yes, the Law, in this kind of star cloud cosmic primordial world, Zhou Yan suddenly was blessed with insight, abruptly perceiving a bit of the Law, although just a tiny bit, it greatly impacted Zhou Yan!
At this instant, while gaining insight into this small amount of space law, Zhou Yan’s soul seemed to endure a kind of rapid transformation, an extremely profound transformation.
At this moment, time seemed to extend longer than eternity, Zhou Yan’s heart suddenly felt the vast star space, understanding the vast primordial space, experiencing an ancient, ancient even Tai Chu era a sense of desolate antiquity.
Vaguely, Zhou Yan had some inexplicable An Ran sentiments arise.
...
Or perhaps it’s a moment, or maybe an eternity.
Sudden enlightenment of space laws lasted but a breath, Zhou Yan suddenly opened his eyes.
The insight into the space laws, even just a tiny bit, was enough.
A sword suddenly appeared in his hand, a sword that previously had no divinity and could only be used as an ordinary sword, now, burst forth virtually immortal divinity, infused with a kind of invincible Supreme Emperor Qi.
Zhou Yan tightly gripped this sword.
He stood coldly, black hair fluttering, arrogantly standing mid-air, the sword in his hand, like the Sovereign of Ten Thousand Realms Sword Dao, the Emperor of the Sword Dao.
Zhou Yan’s eyes were bright but unfocused, a very strange phenomenon indeed, but Zhou Yan’s spirit was immersed in this space, and his thoughts were understanding everything about this space, the actions of his eyes were merely instinct.
"So, Ten Thousand Buddhas’ Extinction, All Immortals Suffering... the desolate cosmic primordial, the desolate everything... I seem to have realized something... "
A stream of desolation and poignant majesty impacted Zhou Yan’s body and mind, Zhou Yan suddenly had a heart-shaking sensation, eyes gradually reddening.
Suddenly, he raised his head, divine light flashing in his eyes, his entire being suddenly moved.
"Ha--!"
Zhou Yan shouted, suddenly raising the giant sword in his hand, eyes fixed on the void ahead...
At this moment, his soul power spread throughout the entire Heavenly Tribulation Core, also permeating the entire chaos primordial derived from this tribulation.
"Open!"
Feeling the twilight haziness between heaven and earth, a vast desolation and chaos, Zhou Yan suddenly exerted all his power, slashing towards the entire overwhelming chaos, unleashing a heaven-devouring earth-shattering strike!
Sword Slash Sky!
"Boom ka~~~~"
Suddenly, the universe spun, and the sun and moon lost their light, whether amidst chaos within or beyond the tribulation, the entire heavens seemed to have been pierced, suddenly thundering violently.
"Boom rumble~~~"
Countless mountains collapsed, countless grounds cracked...
But within the space of the heavenly tribulation, chaos suddenly began, displaying a new world...
This is an anomaly akin to the ’Creation of Heaven and Earth’, evolving naturally after Zhou Yan broke the tribulation, slashed the sky, yet unrelated to him.
The tribulation clouds and chaotic space suddenly shrank rapidly, gradually disappearing without a trace.
Between heaven and earth, silence descended once more, a deathlike stillness.
In Zhou Yan’s heart, he couldn’t tell if he was excited, desolate, or indifferent. At this moment, his mental state underwent such a change that his feelings were somewhat heavy, somewhat bleak, even he himself didn’t know why he felt this way.
However, he no longer had the will to ponder it. This cycle of the grand tribulation of myriad transformations had passed, and his heart finally felt a trace of fatigue.
Meanwhile, a slight enlightenment regarding the law of space made Zhou Yan’s Void Sword Body seem as if it had undergone the most brutal tempering, unable to gather a bit of soul power, near exhaustion.
With a thought, Zhou Yan employed supreme recovery methods, continuously restoring his Void Sword Body’s weak state, not allowing even the slightest relaxation.
Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for was that due to some understanding of the law, he gained a bit more assurance for the upcoming heavenly tribulations.
Moreover, the consumed Xuanyuan Sword seemed to recover its divinity in this place at an astonishingly rapid pace, strikingly so.
Perhaps, by persisting a little longer, the Xuanyuan Sword could again play a role, empowering the soul and greatly increasing combat power.
This would be a safeguard for the next heavenly tribulation.
Thinking of these, Zhou Yan smiled wryly with a hint of bitterness. This was an indescribable mood of great sorrow mingling with joy, also a feeling of vast emptiness and loneliness.
"Whoosh--"
The wind rose again between heaven and earth, gentle, brushing against Zhou Yan’s body, yet he felt nothing.
He knew the wind had risen, but Zhou Yan couldn’t perceive its existence.
"Sizzle--"
Along with the wind came arcs of lightning-like multicolored electric light, flickering brightly from time to time, giving a sense of extreme danger, yet still making people unable to feel its existence, whether illusion or reality, even Zhou Yan found it hard to discern at this moment.
Then, black clouds pressed down, still between illusion and reality.
Next came ice, torrents, Yin qi, flames, frosts, decay, blood... countless terrifying natural phenomena gradually appeared here.
Countless natural formations formed a vast cosmic universe, within which celestial bodies rotated, subtly aligning with the laws of the Five Phases and Six Paths...
Zhou Yan calmly observed all this, and as these things continued to form, Zhou Yan acted again.
"This round must end early. Once it completes gathering, I’m afraid I can’t withstand it," Zhou Yan murmured with a sigh.
Staring at the process of the convoluted and primordial formation of the entire space, Zhou Yan’s eyes suddenly shot out two rays of piercing light, and at once, Soul Path Vast Qi energy suddenly converged, and a golden Emperor’s Sword appeared once again in Zhou Yan’s hand!
Now, this golden Emperor’s Sword exuded a terrifying aura far stronger than before, and it hung heavily in Zhou Yan’s hand, indicating its enormous weight!
Zhou Yan tightly gripped this sword with his right hand, the power of his spiritual root seamlessly merged into the space of evolving chaos, and the giant sword in his hand slashed out like lightning!
"Xingyi Twelve Soul Sword as one! Annihilation Sword!"
Zhou Yan shouted coldly.
"Boom!"
An overwhelmingly massive explosive force extended infinitely.
Within that space, a chasm abruptly appeared!
A chasm that instilled extreme fear!
Between heaven and earth, it seemed completely split as if from top to bottom, a massive black chasm appeared, and the countless chaotic natural tribulation assaults were all swallowed into the chasm in an instant.
Inside fell into a realm of absolute visual impact darkness in a split-second!
Yes, the entire internal space evolved from the primordial tribulation became dark!
This darkness devoured the external heavenly tribulation energy bit by bit, seemingly extremely slow, yet in an instant, the energy of heaven tribulation was entirely gone.
These three consecutive heavenly tribulations were united, which was the fourth, fifth, and sixth round of heavenly tribulations.
With this round of tribulation over, like before, Zhou Yan earned a moment of respite.
The black clouds in the sky finally dispersed.
The sky finally cleared up, and the natural gentle wind began to blow gently again, everything became very pleasant.
The previously wondrous scenery of the Immortal Realm reappeared, with the world in harmony, as if it had never encountered any energy destruction, never encountered any manifestation of heavenly tribulation.
Zhou Yan knew all this well, thus had no doubt whatsoever.
This time, he had exhausted all his resources, traversing two-thirds of the heavenly tribulation path.
Three heavenly tribulations remained, also the final three tribulations. What would happen then? How should he face it?
Zhou Yan did not know all this yet, but he knew with the last three heavenly tribulations, he might not be able to withstand them.
This was just a premonition, uncertain of its reality.
But it was this kind of vague premonition that made the heart heavy.
At such a realm, a premonition was a hunch, a likely sensing of a future occurrence.