Chapter 398: Tribulations Approaching
Rumble!
At this moment, the entire sky region of the Seven Luminaries Heaven was sealed off. Below, an infinite sea of clouds condensed out of thin air, transforming into a solid barrier.
This was to prevent the aftershocks from affecting the populace.
Therefore, Yan Taizu, who was suppressed by Patriarch Nether Whisper’s daoist technique, did not fall to the ground but crashed onto the sea of clouds. It wasn’t until ten breaths later that a sound rang out.
Crack.
Cracks appeared continuously on the stone statue he had become. Then, endless Incense Divine Power gushed out, sweeping away all the mud and stone.
Patriarch Nether Whisper frowned slightly upon seeing this, but his brow quickly smoothed out: It seems there is still room for improvement. In the final analysis, the difference in the amount of Incense Divine Power is too great. The opponent forcefully broke my technique by consuming Incense… But that’s all. They are not my match.
This was also because his condition had not fully recovered.
After all, his cultivation had only just recovered to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, and even he couldn’t fight against Foundation Establishment Perfection with only Late Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.
Therefore, he could only rely on Incense Divine Power.
Otherwise, if both sides had the same stature and he had Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivation, he could kill these two so-called Incense Offering Deities before him within three moves.
The gap is too big.
Moreover, the Seven Luminaries Heaven has been at peace for too long. Their research on batle of dao arts is pitifully scarce. Basically, they just swing big hammers and engage in close-quarters brawling. They are inferior even to rogue cultivators…
Patriarch Nether Whisper pondered in his heart, his response becoming increasingly composed.
Although his Incense Divine Power was only one-sixth of the combined total of Yan Taizu and the Capital City God, fighting one against two, he could still easily stall them.
He even had spare energy to look at Lu Yang.
Meanwhile, within [Li Hen Tian], Lu Yang was still constantly inhaling and exhaling the aura of heaven and earth. Finally, the colorful light of a second divine ability emerged:
[Great Unity Embodying True Qi]!
As this Divine Ability emerged, it was as if the sound of a water droplet rang in Lu Yang’s ears, crisp and melodious, stirring ripples in his sea of consciousness.
Taiyi (great unity) contains True Qi, Essence, Spirit, Soul, and Will.
In stillness, one sees the heart of Heaven; naturally, the divine arrives.
As the name implied, this divine ability had the power to swallow all things and refine all forms. Operating at this moment, it was practically sucking out all the essence of the Seven Luminaries Heaven.
Whoosh!
Lu Yang’s figure suddenly disappeared, replaced by mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon rising from the ground, manifesting the true appearance of [Li Hen Tian].
And within [Li Hen Tian], a large banner was fluttering in the wind.
The Myriad Spirits Banner!
At this moment, all the world essence swallowed by Lu Yang using [Great Unity Embodying True Qi] was injected into the Myriad Spirits Banner, beginning to be refined by it.
However, as time passed, this process gradually became difficult. After all, the difference in volume between Lu Yang and the Seven Luminaries Heaven was simply too great. Although he had already exerted his full strength, the Seven Luminaries Heaven before him remained as steady as Mount Tai, its world essence inexhaustible like a vast ocean.
Pfft!
Suddenly, Lu Yang’s figure stagnated slightly. Then, the entire [Li Hen Tian] shook violently, and clear cracks appeared in many places.
Patriarch Nether Whisper, who was keeping a close watch on Lu Yang, was instantly startled: “Careful!”
Although he had long anticipated that refining a World Realm would be extremely difficult, he hadn’t gone far in the first step yet, and he was already approaching his limit.
“its okay.”
Meanwhile, after a brief moment of panic, Lu Yang quickly regained his calm. There was even a look in his eyes that suggested this was within his expectations.
Human strength has its limits.
He had understood this principle long ago.
The reason he was injured just now was that the world essence he obtained in that instant exceeded his limit of control, and the backlash caught him somewhat off guard.
However, the world essence that exceeded his control limit was actually nothing to the Seven Luminaries Heaven.
It did it on purpose.
Lu Yang’s heart sank slightly. Clearly, the Seven Luminaries Heaven was also gradually becoming skilled. It was no longer as ignorant as at the start but was gradually learning how to deal with Lu Yang.
Under normal circumstances, after suffering so many losses, one would have died long ago without any chance to learn and grow. Helplessly, the foundation of the Seven Luminaries Heaven was simply too profound compared to Lu Yang. Therefore, its margin for error was extremely high. It wouldn’t be beaten to death by Lu Yang with one stick, giving it ample time to grow.
It even stopped sending down tribulations…
Lu Yang operated the [Exquisite Heart] to look again, only to see that the second tribulation within the Seven Luminaries Heaven had already finished brewing, but it remained hidden and unreleased.
Clearly, it had also learned its lesson.
Having had the experience of hastily sending down the human tribulation only for it to be easily neutralized by Lu Yang, it obviously wouldn’t give Lu Yang another opportunity to exploit.
Even a newbie match can become tough, damn it…
Lu Yang sighed in his heart but didn’t panic. Instead, he turned toward the Myriad Spirits Banner, his divine sense communicating with its depths to operate a technique he hadn’t used for a long time:
[Great Void Ritual Wondrous Art]!
This was originally a technique used to communicate with the Wu You Heaven. However, ever since the Wu You Heaven was attained by Chong Guang, this technique had lost its effectiveness.
But that was for others.
For Lu Yang, this technique had another great use, which was to communicate with and incite the nameless Dao Fruit prototype within the Myriad Spirits Banner!
However, unlike the Seven Luminaries Heaven, the Dao Fruit prototype within the Myriad Spirits Banner was even more primitive.
Strictly speaking, it was just a seed, far from breaking through the soil to sprout, let alone blooming and bearing fruit.
So at this moment, the mighty power it could provide in response to Lu Yang was truly very limited.
I have no choice. Otherwise, the Perfected One Primordial would have attained the Wu You Heaven ages ago.
Ultimately, the Wu You Heaven could be attained back then because the Perfected One Primordial spent five thousand years irrigating it with Eternal Flowing Water…
Even so, it’s enough!
Lu Yang looked calm. After receiving the enhancement from the Dao Fruit prototype within the Myriad Spirits Banner, the [Great Unity Embodying True Qi] that had been wavering burst forth with dazzling brilliance once more.
A large amount of world essence poured in again.
This time, Lu Yang accepted it all. Simultaneously, a third colorful light gradually sprouted from his body. Surprisingly, another Innate Divine Ability was sprouting!
[Convergence Origin Art]!
Once this Divine Ability radiated, it immediately displayed extraordinary effects.
It must be known that Lu Yang was currently in a state enhanced by Incense. The Seven Luminaries Heaven naturally wouldn’t be kind enough to help him solve the problem of Incense impacting his consciousness.
Yet, in order to refine the Seven Luminaries Heaven, before he usurped enough stature to push his own realm to Foundation Establishment Perfection, he absolutely could not give up the Incense enhancement. He even had to increase the dosage to resist the resistance of the Seven Luminaries Heaven. This naturally intensified the impact of the Incense on him.
This kind of impact was worse than death by a thousand cuts.
And yet, he couldn’t faint; he had to endure all of this with a clear consciousness.
If Lu Yang weren’t maintaining the state of [Sword Heart Illuminating Clarity], he would likely have already fallen into madness due to the excruciating pain.
But just then.
As the colorful light of the [Convergence Origin Art] descended, Lu Yang felt his mind suddenly clear. His originally chaotic sea of consciousness actually tended toward stability again!
Even the mighty power borrowed from the Myriad Spirits Banner was integrated together without any friction.
Assimilating external forces, ten thousand dharmas return to one.
Realization dawned in Lu Yang’s heart. This was the wonder of the [Convergence Origin Art]: it could integrate all external forces of different systems and foundations together!
Just like right now.
The Incense Offering Divine Dao should have been an external force with immense side effects, but under the influence of the [Convergence Origin Art], it was annexed by him, truly transforming into his own power.
Of course, this wasn’t permanent.
The [Convergence Origin Art] also had limits. Unless Lu Yang could truly achieve Foundation Establishment Perfection, the divine ability would dissipate after maintaining for a short while at most.
But using it to provoke heaven and earth was enough.
Rumble!
In an instant, a heavy clap of thunder resounded in the hearts of Lu Yang, Patriarch Nether Whisper, Yan Taizu, the Capital City God, and the myriad living beings of the Seven Luminaries Heaven.
“This is…”
“Heavenly Punishment!”
The Capital City God looked up at the sky, a deep fear revealing itself in his eyes. Above the dome of the heaven, dark clouds covered the top, and thousands of thunder snakes roamed within the clouds.
The boundless thunderclouds resembled an eye looking down from above, with the galloping thunder snakes within representing the bloodshot veins of anger in that eye. As the thunderclouds churned, an aura of destruction swept across the sky, clearly locking onto Lu Yang, ready to reduce him to flying ashes!
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