EBE Chapter 151: The Enraged Heavens
Chapter 151: The Enraged Heavens
Chapter 151: The Enraged Heavens
After nearly a year, Tianyi finally stepped into the Immortal Scripture Repository. Considering the vast size of the Huang Realm, he should be thankful that it only took a year, but Tianyi couldn’t because, within the year, his soul would strengthen to the limit again and again at an astonishing rate due to his ever-perfected martial cultivation. He had a total of four embryonic clone souls now.
The place was still the same as before, not much changed. Tianyi walked through the numerous jade slips, searching for his target. According to his understanding, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Constellation Art shouldn’t be on the seventh floor but the eighth at the very least, ut didn’t he also similarly find the Lotus Soul Ascension Art on the seventh?
Tianyi had to strain his face muscles to from twitching upon finding his target. The location was different than where he had discovered the Lotus Soul Ascension Art, in the middle of the techniques related to stars, not a hint out of place. Picking it up, Tianyi accepted the knowledge within the jade slip. Instantly, Tianyi felt himself lose sense of his surroundings, but, unlike when he accepted the Lotus Soul Ascension Art, the time taken to absorb the knowledge was much shorter. As Tianyi expected, the jade slip had shattered in his hand.
Time to pay another visit to Sect Master Xia
Sect Master Xia showed a flabbergasted expression upon hearing that he found the Thirty-Six Heavenly Constellation Art on the seventh floor of the Immortal Scripture Repository.
“Little Tianyi, are you sure that there was nothing wrong with the Thirty-Six Constellation Art?” Sect Master Xia couldn’t help but ask in worry.
“I wanted to ask Sect Master as well. Nothing seemed wrong to me, but that’s perhaps my realm is too low.” Tianyi said. “Should I speak it word for word on what I learn?”
Sect Master Xia nodded. Tianyi began to speak of the cultivation method recorded in the jade slip. With each word spoken, Sect Master Xia’s eyebrows rose higher until the end, where it nearly touched his hairline.
“Is there something wrong?” Tianyi asked, seeing Sect Master Xia speechless.
“You remembered it quite well,” Sect Master Xia finally said after a moment of silence.
“Memorizing it all wasn’t that hard.” Tianyi shrugged. He didn’t see why it was so shocking.
“Little Tianyi, do you know why Immortal Realm techniques are recorded in jade slips?” Sect Master Xia asked.
“Isn’t it because it would take too long to write it down and read it from a book?” Tianyi said.
Sect Master Xia shook his head. “That is part of the reason, but the more crucial reason is that they can’t be transported by mere words. I’m surprised you were able to transcribe the techniques into words that don’t resonate with the Dao.”
When one reached a certain realm or understanding of the Dao, when he speaks of it, his words would resonate with the Dao. The words disappeared, and thoughts and intents would be directly transmitted.
“But didn’t Immortal Ironword’s inheritance have books too? Wait...” Tianyi paused as he tried to recall the books in the upper level of Ironword’s pagoda. Compared to the books on the lower floor, the words were a bit strange. Tianyi continued to recall his experiences, and he realized that what was transmitted into his head weren’t words but pure thoughts. His shock must have shown because Sect Master Xia chuckled in amusement.
Tianyi coughed into his fist. “Sect Master, is there a problem with my method?”
“Absolutely not. To be able to explain the techniques purely using words is a testament of your comprehension ability.” Sect Master Xia said.
After hearing that, Tianyi felt much better. Perhaps he was actually a great genius to be able to shock Sect Master Xia like that.
“Sect Master, have you discovered the truth behind the reason why the Lotus Soul Ascension Art was on the seventh floor? It seems strange that both techniques would be on the seventh floor when they shouldn’t.” Tianyi asked, coming to the main point of his visit to the Sect Master.
“Unfortunately not. I cannot find any evidence of anyone deliberately placing it there. The most plausible explanation is that one of the custodians there placed it there by accident.” Sect Master Xia explained.
Tianyi inwardly rolled his eyes. “Is that so? Those old fogies should probably retire if they can make a mistake like this.”
Sect Master Xia felt his lips twitch as he heard Tianyi’s words. The custodians of the Immortal Scripture Repository were all immortals, so there was no way they would go senile and make such a rookie mistake.
The changes were the result of him entering the Soul Nourishing Realm in the martial path.
Tianyi didn’t expect the limit of his nascent souls would increase, but thinking about it, it was logical. He had merged spiritual, soul, and martial cultivation methods, so it wasn’t strange, there would be a significant increase in the quality of his foundation. The quality of his realm could compete with the Unity or World Merging Realm!
However, that wasn’t the main point. He had entered the Soul Nourishing Realm without transcending his Soul Nourishing Heavenly Tribulation. Only after transcending their heavenly tribulation could a cultivator enter the next realm. But Tianyi defied that rule.
It was as if he no longer needed the Heavenly Dao’s acknowledgment to promote his realm!
No wonder the heavenly tribulation was so abnormal.
But Tianyi couldn’t be happy right now. His promotion wasn’t actually complete. Vast amounts of true qi of chaos were constantly being absorbed faster than it could be produced. In fact, the consumption was so large, Tianyi didn’t know whether he could sustain it till the end.
How laughable. The situation that forced him to run low on qi wasn’t external factors such as danger or an enemy, but himself!
But...
Tianyi glanced at the neverending bolts of lightning. By now, his room and the surrounding had already been completely devasted. Only he was unharmed in the immediate vicinity. Tianyi’s lips morphed into a grin.
The tribulation lightning that struck him next wasn’t destroyed. Rather, Tianyi destroyed its form and absorbed it. Since he didn’t have enough energy to fuel his promotion, then he’ll just use the tribulation lightning. Once again, Tianyi was treating the tribulation lightning as an energy source. The abnormal heavenly tribulation seemed to have become enraged at this and altered its tactic. After building its power for a while, nine chains formed of tribulation lightning ensnared and rooted Tianyi’s body. But the chains soon lost their shape and were absorbed by Tianyi.
“Come! I’ll take whatever you throw at me!”
Tianyi’s word’s further enraged the heavenly tribulation and, by extension, the Heavenly Dao. Bolts of tribulation lightning began to rain down upon Tianyi, but the power was actually equal to the first bolt, confusing Tianyi. But the unending source of power still made him happy.
Time passed as Tianyi continued to endure, or rather, absorb the free energy the Heavenly Dao was gifting him. He started to pay less attention to the outside and focused most of his attention on the changes in his cosmos. It was becoming more united over time as if he only practiced one cultivation method. Tianyi had even thought that perhaps this was his version of the Unity Realm but quickly discarded it. Although his cultivation had upgraded, he didn’t gain any new abilities as if he would upon entering the Unity or World Merging Realm.
Suddenly, the bolts of tribulation lightning stopped. Tianyi furrowed his brows and looked up. The tribulation clouds still hovered in the sky, not seeming to dissipate anytime soon. The heavenly tribulation wouldn’t be creating another tribulation giant, would it? Tianyi thought. And then it happened.
Like a warrior descending from heaven, nine bolts of tribulation lightning struck the ground around Tianyi, and nine tribulation giants appeared. But compared to the previous tribulation giants Tianyi faced, they were far more dangerous. All nine seemed to merged with heaven and earth, becoming one with it akin to a Unity Venerable.
Tianyi chuckled. If it was united with the world, didn’t he just have to disconnect them?
Soon, the immediate vicinity was covered in a black sphere much like Tianyi had done in the Earthsea Land. The Chaos Refining Formation was a formation and could be considered an extension of his cosmos body. Immediately, all nine giants seemed to grown duller as if they lost something important. Since the Chaos Refining Formation could be considered an extension of him, didn’t that mean it was also rejected by heaven and earth?
So what would happen if the tribulation giants were inside of it?
Naturally, it meant they lost the greatest advantage of a unity venerable! Of course, the tribulation giants couldn’t be considered true unity venerables, and his Chaos Refining Formation wouldn’t be as effective. After that, it was not difficult for Tianyi to restrain them. He just treated them as nascent soul grandmasters with unity venerable levels of qi. After absorbing the eighth tribulation giant, Tianyi successfully entered the Soul Nourishing Realm.
The ninth tribulation giant was essentially useless now, so Tianyi just destroyed it, but he still absorbed its energy. Tianyi could feel that he was utterly rejected by the Heavenly Dao, so he couldn’t absorb the spiritual qi at all to replenish his true qi.
When Tianyi took down the Chaos Refining Formation, the tribulation clouds were already closed to being dispersed. Earlier, when the Chaos Refining Reformation was still erected, it was being bombarded by stray bolts of tribulation lightning, but that was just more free energy for Tianyi.
With an unwilling last roar of thunder, the abnormal heavenly tribulation finally dispersed.
Tianyi cracked his neck, feeling it a bit complicated. Heavenly tribulations were supposed to be something to be feared, but for the current him, it was nothing special. In fact, he felt that he could even take on an Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation.
Okay, that was going too far.
As for why it wasn’t Transcending Mortality Heavenly Tribulation? The Transcending Mortality Realm, strictly speaking, wasn’t a separate realm from the Unity Realm. Instead, it was a unique stage representing the pinnacle of harmonization of heaven and earth. The peak of the Unity Realm was ninety-nine percent, and Transcending Mortality Realm was one hundred percent. Even though it was only the difference of one percent, the gulf between the two was incredibly vast.
Tianyi looked around and couldn’t help but feel his face cramp up. His newly constructed mansion was practically in ruins after only being constructed in a year. Perhaps he should just give up and live permanently at Jade Peak Palace.