Chapter 560: [Entering the Three Tribulations, All Heavens Emperors]

It wasn’t just Jiang Han and Wuchen.

At this juncture, with the Great Tribulation looming.

Whether in Hongyuan or Mountain and Sea, all those with ambition were making their own frantic preparations.

Within Mountain and Sea.

The simulated Classic of Mountains and Seas was completed.

Yaya silently became a Great Emperor.

A faint, indifferent, and majestic aura of the Dao began to surface around her. But what shocked even the Primordial Ancestor of the Taotie Clan was that…

Yaya’s sense of self, her very identity, still remained.

What sustained her sense of self…

…was an emotion that couldn’t quite be defined.

…

Profound Yellow World, Taiqing Immortal Realm.

The Daoist sanctuary of the Taiqing Empress.

Immortal light shimmered and auspicious clouds drifted.

“No!”

Deep within the Immortal Palace.

A cry of panic and terror shattered the sanctuary’s tranquility.

The Taiqing Empress—clad in a simple white palace gown, graceful and elegant—snapped back from her state of roaming the All Heavens, as if a mortal waking from a nightmare.

The authority and serenity in her beautiful eyes were gone.

Replaced by pure terror and lingering fear.

Perhaps…

…there was also a hint of hidden shame?

“The Sea of Suffering…”

The sound of surging waves gradually faded.

The Taiqing Empress suppressed the disgust in her heart and restored her calm and peaceful demeanor.

Back then, on the Taiyi Emperor Star.

One of her incarnations had been defiled by Wu Dao, an ultimate humiliation. Every time it flared up, that tormenting affliction, which had tortured her countless times, would appear.

Normally.

Given her nature of having attained the Dao through Pure Qi…

…and her cultivation level as one of the All Heavens Great Emperors…

…she shouldn’t be susceptible to the Celestial Demon Chaotic Heart.

But the essence of the Sea of Suffering Dao Essence was simply too profound.

It was like a maggot clinging to her bones.

The Taiqing Empress had spent years searching for a solution, even accidentally discovering a fellow sufferer: the Empress of the Thunder Emperor Palace.

That one…

…was on the verge of being tortured to the point of a complete reversal.

“Master!”

A worried voice called out.

There was another person in the Daoist Palace.

It was the Taiqing Empress’s good disciple, Mo Chen Number Two, who was looking with concern at his awakened master.

‘Sigh…’

The Taiqing Empress looked at this Mo Chen, who seemed both real and illusory, and sighed with a complicated feeling in her heart. Then she rose and said,

“There’s no need for cultivation today. Come with me somewhere.”

‘The time is about right.’

‘If I keep him here any longer…’

‘…it would be rather tactless of me.’

“Huh? Master, didn’t you say I couldn’t go out?”

Mo Chen was a little excited.

Ever since he could remember, his master had told him that the outside world was fraught with danger, and he was absolutely forbidden from venturing out until he became a Great Emperor.

This made him extremely curious about the world outside.

He never expected…

…that even before becoming an Emperor…

…his wish would come true.

His master was taking him out.

“Master, where are we going? Are we going to find Sister Yue Xi? I haven’t seen her in so long.”

Mo Chen was like a child who had been cooped up for too long.

He had countless questions about the outside world. At the same time, as if remembering something, he broke into a silly grin.

“Yue Xi… yes, you will meet her.”

A trace of pity appeared in the Taiqing Empress’s heart as she reluctantly stroked Mo Chen’s head.

In the end.

Mo Chen had done nothing wrong.

But his fate had never been his own, not for a single day. It had been sealed the moment he began to carry that… thing.

No one could change it.

Even she, an All Heavens Emperor in the eyes of others, could not resist in the slightest.

WHOOSH—

Suppressing the emotions in her heart,

the Taiqing Empress forced a gentle smile and said,

“Weren’t you always curious about what the Celestial Court in the Nine Heavens was like? I will take you to meet the Lord of Heaven.”

“The Lord of Heaven…”

Hearing this, Mo Chen…

…couldn’t help but shrink back.

He had grown up listening to the myths of the Lord of Heaven. Now, about to face the myth in person, he felt both happy and reverently timid.

‘Silly child.’

The Taiqing Empress looked at Mo Chen’s innocent and adoring face, and her heart twisted in pain again. But the unseen gaze watching from high above in the heavens prevented her from having any rebellious thoughts.

…

The Taiqing Empress took Mo Chen and ascended into the heavens.

Far away, in the Fuguang World.

Chaos City.

“The Taiqing Empress has ascended to the heavens.”

The Master of Chaos City received intelligence from the Profound Yellow World and said coldly,

“Open the core of Chaos City and devote all our power to advancing the Celestial Punishment Sword. If ‘He’ wants to replace Heaven, then we shall enact Heaven’s justice!”

“Yes, City Lord!”

RUMBLE—

Deep within Chaos City.

The core source of this Dao Artifact was activated.

A boundless and infinite civilization of the Chaos Dao revealed the tip of its iceberg.

“Brother Mo…”

A Nine Heavens Goddess wielded the Daoist Sword.

She entered a state of endlessness.

Her fleeting, graceful silhouette commanded the Celestial Punishment Power from the Great Dao. As fragments of her childhood flickered within her beautiful eyes, she resisted the erosion of the heartless Great Dao.

During this same period.

It wasn’t just these individuals.

Every single one of the Nine Heavens Lords of the Heavenly Court…

…sensed the aura of the impending Great Tribulation. In silence, they began to make their moves. None were willing to become a stepping stone, destined to be annihilated in the calamity.

And so it went.

「Two months later.」

Across the Hongyuan Heavenly Realms, the Primordial Sect, which had been stirring up chaos like a mad beast, began to pull back. They stopped their daily, reckless collection of Tao Realms and Divine Souls.

Or rather.

They had already collected enough.

BOOM!

On this day.

In the Border Wilderness of the Profound Yellow World.

Within an artificial dark forbidden zone.

Myriad rays of treasure light and auspicious colors lit up the sky.

King Bao Tong, leading Prince Nanyang and the others, charged out of the forbidden zone. The powerful aura of a Middle-Rank Quasi-Emperor rippled through the Grand Cosmos.

“I never imagined there would be such a heaven-defying Creation Treasure Vault inside this forbidden zone. It really is as they say: fortune and misfortune are two sides of the same coin.”

Feeling the immense power within him,

King Bao Tong felt a renewed sense of confidence in his future revenge.

However,

he had a strange feeling.

It was as if he had forgotten certain people and events.

But this feeling…

…came and went in a flash.

Carrying a Creation Treasure Vault with enough resources to help them reach the Great Emperor realm, King Bao Tong quickly returned to the Dragon Hunting Tower, preparing to apply for secluded cultivation.

「Another half a month passed.」

The Primordial Sect completely sheathed its claws.

They returned to their normal activities.

At the same time.

Somewhere in the endless, boundless Sea of Chaos.

“Congratulations, Father God! Felicitations, Father God!”

Inside the Extreme Dao Bell.

The Extreme Dao Furnace dissipated.

The Little Star Mother fondly threw herself into the arms of the Father God she hadn’t seen in months. She rubbed her little head against him insistently, like a kitten.

He let out a long breath, expelling the lingering turmoil.

Wu Dao opened his eyes. The increasingly profound, majestic, and indescribable Great Dao within his pupils dissipated, leaving only the image of a cold and domineering figure.

The dangers of the Three Tribulations…

…far surpassed the sum of all previous tribulations.

Every Daoist Master within the tribulation, every seed candidate meant to lead a civilization forward, possessed at least two yuan of Dao Veins!

More importantly,

those Daoist Masters were no longer attacking and devouring each other as before. Instead, they had formed factions—groups united by similar philosophies—becoming powerful forces within the Great Tribulation.

Under these circumstances,

Wu Dao, being alone, stood out conspicuously. He was targeted by various civilizational factions and subjected to conceptual erosion. He faced death several times, nearly losing his own philosophy and sense of self.

Fortunately,

he was the one who won in the end.

Just before the Dao Particles could fully assimilate the Great Dao, he devoured the Essence, Qi, and Spirit Dao Source of the Three Tribulations and unified the Daos of the numerous Daoist Masters.

The Dao of every civilization’s leader…

…was fused and converged into a single path, totaling one yuan, becoming the Three Tribulations material for Wu Dao’s Primordial Magnetism Path.

But he wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination…

…but at the very last moment,

as Wu Dao was leaving the Tao Tribulation Domain, he sensed a strange aura from within the long river of civilization, which was shrouded by Chaos Qi.

But this strange feeling…

…came and went in a flash.

After leaving the Great Tribulation space, Wu Dao instinctively felt that it wasn’t strange at all.

But his will was far too incredible.

A seed of doubt…

…was nonetheless planted before he left.

“Attribute panel…”

His large hand stroked the Little Star Mother’s head.

A glint flickered in Wu Dao’s eyes. After the Three Tribulations, he could now sense the karmic thread between himself and the attribute panel.

Perhaps.

After another one or two tribulations,

that thread would become completely bright, guiding him to the origin of the attribute panel.

As for now,

to overthink it would be to cause his own trouble.

BUZZ—

With a thought,

the attribute panel opened, and new data appeared in Wu Dao’s Sea of Consciousness—

[Physique: Primordial Magnetism Path]

[Extraordinary: Essence Devouring: All Things, Three Tribulations (388,800/518,400) +]

[Transverse Cultivation: Infinite Primordial Scripture · Chaos Body First Layer +]

[Divine Cultivation: Juntian Creation Scripture · Great Emperor First Layer +]

[Soul Cultivation: All Phenomena God Luo Scripture · Great Emperor First Layer +]

[Divine Origin: Lower-Rank God Emperor]

[Celestial Treasure: Bitter Dust Robe (Emperor’s Artifact 100%)]

…

[Teleportation Points: …]

The Primordial Magnetism Path had broken through to the Three Tribulations.

The number of All Things Dao Veins reached three yuan.

The three major Extraordinary Basic Force Dao Sources had also reached the essence of a Great Emperor!

This top-down influence…

…caused the field projected by the newly born Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles at the root of the Tree Diagram to expand, and their rotational Magnetic Field Power entered the level of a complete Grand Cosmos.

And the number of Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles!

It took a single step to reach the heavens—

∞^∞!

Infinity to the power of infinity!

A brand new,

larger, and more terrifying infinite domain!

The domain of the so-called All Heavens Emperors!

An Extraordinary Life at this step could be called a titan of the All Heavens in Hongyuan, the ultimate foundation of an All Heavens Emperor’s Lineage.

With a single thought,

his Dao Essence radiated throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.

Immeasurable universes of spatio-temporal dimensions, constructed from endless stacking, were born and destroyed. It seemed as if he could extinguish everything in sight with a single breath.

But Wu Dao knew,

this was just an illusion brought on by his increase in power.

The sheer scale of Hongyuan…

…was too vast and unfathomable.

The closer he got to Attainment Dao,

the more he felt as minuscule as an ant.

If a Great Emperor was one tier of infinity,

then the scale of Hongyuan, just from the appearance of the Five Tribulations, had already surpassed five tiers of infinity. Even a Daoist remaining within their Dao could not destroy it.

If it were the complete Primordial Path…

a full Five Tribulations of cultivation!

That would be ten tiers of infinity!

The current Wu Dao had just squeezed into the second tier of infinity. The thought of annihilating everything in sight was nothing but a joke.

“The gap only gets bigger the further you go.”

Wu Dao’s consciousness observed the active, second-tier-infinity number of Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles within his body and thought of the Thirty-Three Heavens realm of the All Heavens Emperors.

The progression for an All Heavens Emperor…

…the amplification at each layer was even more terrifying.

At the perfection of the full Thirty-Three Heavens,

the Inner Celestial Cosmos was a collective of (∞^∞)^33 infinite Grand Universes. At the same time, the quality of the All Heavens Ancestor Dragon Vein would ascend with each level, its strength incomparable to that of an ordinary universe.

But this level of growth…

…seemed utterly insignificant compared to a Primordial Emperor. Each layer of improvement for a Primordial Emperor was an exponential increase to the power of infinity over the previous foundation, all the way up to the Thirty-Three Heavens.

“It seems the Evil Lotus Extreme Path has stabilized. But not changing is, in itself, the most heaven-defying trait.”

Wu Dao comprehended the Evil Lotus Extreme Path at the rank of an All Heavens Emperor. Its status had not dropped. Its tenth-grade foundation could still raise him by one layer, while the Divine No Evil Lotus could cross three steps to reach the fourth layer.

As for the Divine Image Heaven,

Wu Dao could now use his Primordial Magnetic Armor to open it without injury, allowing him to reach the sixth layer.

From the second tier of infinity,

an amplification that spanned a full five steps!

Such a thing…

…would get you called a madman if you told anyone, yet Wu Dao had actually done it. The foundation that allowed him to do so was his even more heaven-defying Three Tribulation Dao Particles.

Their self-destruction threshold…

…was far higher than his own realm.

It was enough to support all of his Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles in undergoing a limit-breaking fission amplification at the second tier of infinity!

“Hm? Another death in battle.”

As his thoughts drifted,

Wu Dao synchronized with his Wushi Incarnation and discovered that the Garrison City on the dam where it was stationed was under a frenzied attack from Mountain and Sea. The newly assigned All Heavens Emperor had been killed in action.

A replacement All Heavens Emperor immediately filled the position.

But the great battle still raged on.

That Wushi Incarnation…

…had its Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate nearly torn to shreds!

His other incarnations…

…were dying in droves.

It showed just how brutal the battlefield at the Eight Celestial Passes had become.

“I wonder what an All Heavens Ancestor King tastes like?”

Wu Dao’s gaze turned dark and profound as he vanished into the Sea of Chaos. The war was growing more intense; it was time to update the public version of his incarnation.