Chapter 555 - 480: Wild Heaven Realm Sea, Impending Thunder

The All Heavens are vast, and Chaos is boundless.

Ever since the Heaven Opening.

Many unknown places have come into existence.

Holding countless secrets.

In a secret corner of spacetime within Hongyuan.

Several barbaric figures and Chaotic Human Shadows met once again to discuss the future state of affairs.

"After the World Fate Arena, the Common Lord of the Hongyuan Heavenly Realms will enter the fray. Their rear will be left vulnerable—the time is almost ripe."

An ancestral shadow of a Taowu said impatiently.

"That’s right. The Great Celestial Venerable and the Luotian Sword Master want to contend with Mountain and Sea over the sixth Dao Tribulation. They will surely not intervene to stop us."

The ancestral shadow of a Taotie chimed in.

"Still, we cannot be careless."

The ancestral shadow of a Qiongqi shook its head. "The Six Great Lords aren’t that foolish. They won’t commit all their resources to Shanhai Pass.

From our recent probing skirmishes, their Peak Primordial Sequence cultivators have yet to appear. Then there’s the Infinite Daoist Palace, Chaos City, the Profound Yellow Mother Tree, and the Sea of Suffering that Divine Ruins Heaven is suspected of controlling...

These various Dao Artifacts are not to be underestimated.

Oh, right.

And there are those two bastards, the Dragon Hunting Tower and Human World. They’re suspected of having forbidden powers backing them from behind the scenes.

However, they’ve now been forced into Shanhai Pass by the sudden appearance of the Primordial Sect. Given their selfish nature, they most likely won’t fight to the death until the very last moment."

"No rush,"

the Chaotic Human Shadow said in a low, ethereal voice.

"For now, you all will continue to apply pressure and force Hongyuan’s remaining strength into Shanhai Pass.

On our end, we still need some time to suppress the Heavenly Domain Ancestor Dragon Vein before we can open a passage between the two realms. Once that internal iron wall is breached...

with their rear left vulnerable, Hongyuan will be attacked from both front and rear.

The only Martial Ancestor is already pinned down. Heh heh, when the time comes, breaking through Shanhai Pass and conquering Hongyuan will be child’s play. As for the Great Celestial Venerable..."

"The Great Celestial Venerable?"

The ancestral shadow of the Chaos Race sneered. "The Great Celestial Venerable may be invincible throughout All Tribulations, but his ambition is too great. The sixth Dao Tribulation will be the moment his myth shatters!"

The Great Celestial Venerable.

No one knew its origins.

It achieved Attainment Dao during the Second Tribulation and established the Celestial Court, seeking to wield the authority of the Great Dao, govern all living things, and establish Celestial Rules and precepts throughout the heavens and earth.

The most mysterious and powerful thing about it

was that when the Great Celestial Venerable first appeared, it was already at the Attainment Dao cultivation level. Before that, there was no trace of any Dao Essence, as if it had simply appeared out of thin air.

This was utterly unbelievable.

This was because the Dao did not permit Daoists to exist within it. After Attainment Dao comes transcendence; it is fundamentally impossible to remain within the Dao System.

And yet, the Great Celestial Venerable had managed to do just that.

Not only that,

but in the All Tribulations that followed, it is said that it continued to remain within the Great Dao with a body that had achieved Attainment Dao. However, because it never made a move, no one aside from the All Tribulations Provers knew if this was true.

The two Desolate Ancestors of Mountain and Sea

clearly knew the secrets behind this.

And they possessed the confidence to face the Great Celestial Venerable.

During their discussion,

the ancestral shadow of the Qiongqi suddenly brought up Wu Dao, its voice laced with coldness and undisguised greed. "Primordial has entered the Eight Celestial Passes, has he not?"

The World Fate Arena.

There, Wu Dao had swept aside all opponents from Mountain and Sea, remaining undefeated.

His incredible Physique was so overwhelming that for the first time, the Four Great Primordial Clans of Mountain and Sea felt that their noble bloodlines were as insignificant as an ant before the vast heavens.

The more unobtainable it was, the more they coveted it.

If they could uncover the secrets of Primordial, the benefits for both the Four Great Primordial Races and the Mountain and Sea civilization would be unimaginable.

The tree that stands above the forest will be destroyed by the wind.

In fact, it wasn’t just Mountain and Sea. Within Hongyuan, numerous Overlords were interested in Wu Dao, but they were unable to find an opportunity to strike while he was at Shanhai Pass.

"It’s not a good time to make a move on him now,"

the Chaotic Human Shadow said.

"He was recently made a Great Emperor Domain Master, and with the merit he accumulated at the World Fate Arena, the Elder Council now places great importance on him.

Many eyes are on him, both in the open and in the shadows.

Finding an opportunity to strike will be incredibly difficult.

Besides, last time..."

At this mention,

the expressions of the Chaotic Human Shadow and the Primordial Ancestors of the several great Primordial Races all turned grim.

Dozens of Peak Ancestor Kings.

They had died under mysterious circumstances. Even now, their killers didn’t know how it happened, nor were they clear on what trump cards Primordial truly possessed.

Under these circumstances,

acting rashly again would just be serving themselves up on a platter.

"You must pay close attention,"

said the Primordial Ancestor of the Taotie Race.

"This lad is of great significance to Mountain and Sea. Paying a small price when necessary is acceptable. We absolutely cannot give him any more opportunities!"

Primordial was growing too quickly.

It had been a year at most since he entered Shanhai Pass.

In that time, he had fought his way up from the rank of King to become a Great Emperor Domain Master.

If they allowed him to keep growing, once the prey became a fierce tiger, it would do far more than just shatter a few of the hunter’s teeth.

...

The meeting between Mountain and Sea and the traitors within Hongyuan.

No one in the Hongyuan Heavenly Realms knew of it.

And no one knew

that a time bomb was buried deep within the Nine Heavens of Primordial Chaos, one that was secretly gaining control of a Heavenly Domain Ancestor Vein.

Once this bomb detonated,

the All Heavens would be plunged into absolute darkness!

...

Shanhai Pass, the Eight Celestial Passes.

SPLASH~

Tides ebbed and flowed; worlds were born and worlds were destroyed.

The dim yellow light of the Taichu era scattered from the end of spacetime, illuminating the Endless Boundary Sea.

"The Barbaric Boundary Sea..."

New Wu Beginning Domain City.

Having just finished a meeting with the many unfamiliar Military Lords of the domain, Wu Dao stepped onto the phantasmagorical waves of the Realm Sea and reached out to scoop up a handful of its water.

Within the seawater,

primordial Dao Veins, legacies of the Taichu era’s rules, coursed endlessly. In their cycle of creation and destruction, they spawned countless nested worlds and dimensional spacetimes.

A single drop of this seawater could crush a Saint Master!

This was the Wild Heaven Realm Sea of the Eight Celestial Passes.

The third line of defense beyond the breach in Chaos.

Chaos Dao, All Heavens and Universe, Endless World, Creatures of Ten Thousand Races...

This was the evolutionary sequence, before and after the Heaven Opening.

The overall environment of the Eight Celestial Passes resembled the third great evolution: Endless Worlds were newly born, later-born creatures could not exist, and the Extraordinary Particles were saturated with the primeval, savage Innate Rules of the Wilderness.

In such an extreme environment,

anyone beneath the level of a Venerable, who can unify and command the myriad networks of rules, would be torn to shreds by the savage Dragon Veins of primordial Dao principles in the Realm Sea!

Therefore,

the common soldiers of the Eight Celestial Passes are all Venerables!

As for the Nine Heavens Pass,

the environment is even more primordial.

Beyond the edge of the Realm Sea of the Eight Celestial Passes lies the Barbaric Sea Area of the All Heavens and Universe, where only a Quasi-Emperor who has forged a Proto-Cosmos can survive.

The Ten Celestial Passes.

The Chaos Abyss.

Here, currents descending from the Sea of Chaos clash with the Primordial Path. The friction between ultimate chaos and the order of the Great Dao gives birth to an unimaginable, Infinite Tribulation Power.

Anyone below the level of an All Heavens Emperor,

if contaminated by the Tribulation Qi from the Chaos Abyss, would have their Inner Universe succumb to entropy and collapse, leading to the complete annihilation of their body and Dao. The danger is absolute.

SPLASH~

The seawater trickled from his hand.

The spacetimes of endless worlds flowed through his fingertips, merging back into the domain of the Realm Sea to drift with the currents.

An abstract, grotesque scene.

A scene incomprehensible to mortals.

Yet for a life-form of Wu Dao’s sequence, it was as normal as a mortal scooping up a handful of seawater at the beach.

His gaze pierced the surging waves,

and Wu Dao observed the depths of the Realm Sea.

Within his Magnetic Field perception, the Innate Rules and the Barbaric Dao Field grew increasingly violent, like ferocious dragons.

Venerable, Great Venerable, Quasi-Emperor!

Great Emperor, Great Emperor First Layer, Second Layer...

When his perception reached the survival limit for a Great Emperor of the Twenty-Seventh Layer, Wu Dao faintly sensed, within an even more profound region of the sea, a colossal deep-sea behemoth, its breathing causing the very depths to rise and fall.

That was his Main Body.

It was currently striving with all its might to reach Two Tribulations Perfection.

Once he entered the Three Tribulations, his body would become like the All Heavens.

He would have achieved the rank of All Heavens Great Emperor.

SPLASH~

He withdrew his perception from the deep sea.

Wu Dao looked out across the surging waves of the Realm Sea, toward the forefront of the Wushi Domain. He could see numerous territories, like continents, scattered around the Wushi Domain, their Magnetic Fields interconnected, mutually dependent.

At the very end of it all

was a Realm Sea dam that bisected the region, encircling the many territories. This was the border pass of their military district.

Military districts like this one,

were ubiquitous throughout the Eight Celestial Passes, which now controlled only thirty percent of its original territory. They were scattered across the Ten Directions of the Realm Sea, blocking the passages to the Seven Days Pass and resisting the invasion of the Mountain and Sea Army.

Some belonged to the original Elder Council faction.

Others belonged to the factions of the Six Great Lords, who had entered the fray later.

The military district to which Wu Dao had been assigned,

Bachuan Pass,

belonged to the Buzhou Heaven faction of the Elder Council.

The Guan Lord of the military district was a Martial Dao Heavenly Emperor from Buzhou Heaven named Bachuan, who commanded all the territories within the dam.

’The Dao Celestial Stele of the Eight Celestial Passes... The exchange privileges in the dam’s main city are higher. With enough merit, I can trade for an Emperor’s Weapon and even All Heavens Emperor’s Soldiers.’

Wu Dao retracted his gaze,

thinking of his current shortcomings.

Namely, he lacked an All Heavens Emperor’s Soldier to call his own. Without one, he would be at a severe disadvantage when facing danger.

The Extreme Dao Bell was very useful,

but it had too many strings attached.

Unless he was absolutely certain he wouldn’t be exposed, Wu Dao wouldn’t use it under normal circumstances.

But in the Eight Celestial Passes,

in a situation where All Heavens Emperors roamed the battlefield,

if he wanted to quickly accumulate merit to exchange for Dao Source, he would have no choice but to frequently accept Abyss Tasks, venture deep into the Mountain and Sea Territory, and slay Mountain Sea Ancestor Kings.

Under such circumstances,

the probability of encountering an All Heavens Ancestor King would increase dramatically. He would absolutely need an All Heavens Emperor’s Soldier to protect himself.

However, that was extremely difficult.

To exchange battle merits for an All Heavens Emperor’s Soldier,

strictly speaking, one needed enough merit to equal the feat of slaying an All Heavens Ancestor King. For anyone below the level of an All Heavens Emperor, the chances of such an exchange were virtually nonexistent.

Because,

no matter how powerful a Great Emperor was,

they were merely an ant before an All Heavens Emperor.

In fact, calling them an ant might be an overstatement.

’I should keep a low profile for now. I can decide whether or not to take Abyss Tasks on a case-by-case basis. The territory I’m guarding isn’t an Abyss Realm, so there’s no rule saying my Battle Merit Order rank will drop if I refuse tasks.’

Wu Dao suppressed his restless thoughts.

He was not far from the Three Tribulations. If he just laid low and got through this period, he wouldn’t have to take such risks once he became an All Heavens Emperor.

BWOOOOM—

As his thoughts ebbed and flowed,

a horn blast echoed from the dam at the far end.

It reverberated through all the domains within the dam’s perimeter.

RUMBLE—

The Realm Sea, which had been gently undulating,

began to boil and surge. The Innate Dao Principles trembled and roared, as if some colossal creature had fallen just beyond the Great Wall Dam.

"The Mountain and Sea Army is attacking! All domains of Bachuan Pass, lead your troops out to meet the enemy at once!!"

The tyrannical, iron-blooded voice

was like the roaring torrent of the Great Dao of All Heavens.

It originated from the dam at the far end, transmitted not by a Battle Merit Order, but by pure force that shook the endless spacetime of the Realm Sea, thundering explosively above all the domains within the pass.

An All Heavens Great Emperor.

Power to shake the endless cosmos and all the heavens.

It was merely the radiated fluctuation of a Life Magnetic Field with no malicious intent, yet even Wu Dao’s Main Body felt a weight as heavy as the heavens themselves—utterly irresistible.

This was the second tier of Infinite Power.

One who had forged a multi-dimensional Inner Universe.

A Great Emperor could not even be mentioned in the same breath.

’Then I’ll see for myself just how brutal the battles of the Eight Celestial Passes truly are.’

Wu Dao’s expression was impassive.

He led the assembled armies from the various war zones of the Wushi Domain toward the Bachuan Pass dam.

The great battle lasted for three days.

It was exceptionally brutal.

The waves of the Realm Sea churned without cease.

Wu Dao personally witnessed many Great Emperor Domain Masters from the Bachuan Domain being treated like consumables,

falling one after another in the meat grinder of the battlefield.

Their countless shattered Inner Universes fell into the Realm Sea to be ground into oblivion—a complete and utter annihilation of body and Dao.

Wu Dao himself had several near-death experiences.

Because All Heavens Emperors were clashing on the battlefield, the aftershocks from the attacks of Mountain and Sea’s Desolate Gods shattered several of his Emperor’s Weapons.

If not for the reliability of the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate,

with its material being of the same essence as an All Heavens Emperor’s Soldier,

his Incarnation would have been annihilated into dust by a single aftershock from the main battlefield.

In all his time since entering Shanhai Pass,

this was the first time Wu Dao had ever felt like a "Little Kalami" whose life hung by a thread at any moment. He had gone from a dominant force on the battlefield to mere cannon fodder.

There was nothing to be done about it.

The higher one climbed the Extraordinary Sequence,

the more a single layer of cultivation became a gap as wide as the heavens.

No matter how heaven-defyingly incredible you were, it was fucking useless in the face of the terrifying chasm between the great tiers of infinity.

His Primordial Magnetism Path

had only entered the first tier of the infinite sequence.

Only by entering the greater, second tier of the infinite system could he hope to contend with the All Heavens Emperors.