Chapter 688: Eternal Celestial Light True Monarch

Below the Breaking Realm Platform, a vanguard of three thousand Cultivators, led by over twenty Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters, stood upon the decks of the Void Crossing Boats as the Gang Wind tore at their Protective Spiritual Light.

When a Purple Gold Thunder Dragon burst from Xu Yunfan’s fingertip, the Foundation Establishment Cultivators felt the Magical Power in their Dantians congeal as if turning to lead. The Divine Souls of the Qi Cultivation disciples trembled violently, and the few with the weakest Cultivation collapsed to their knees.

Lu Chuan forced his head up, his pupils reflecting the image of the Thunder Dragon tearing through the Boundary Sea.

He had once gone to war alongside True Monarch Qingyuan and knew full well that the Chaos Birth and Death Profound Light could annihilate Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Yet now, he watched that same Profound Light melt like ice and snow beneath the Thunder Dragon’s claws.

The improved Array Patterns on the surfaces of the thirty Void Crossing Boats flickered wildly, barely managing to resist the aftershocks spilling from the edges of the passage.

The Array Masters inside the boats stared at the cracked Compasses in their hands, swallowing hard in utter shock.

‘To tame the Boundary Sea with one’s own power… Is this the might of the Divine Sky Dao Fruit?’

“Void Crossing Boats, launch!”

At that moment, Lu Chuan, standing sternly at the prow, roared.

The thirty massive boats, etched with improved spatial Array Patterns, dissolved into streaks of ethereal light. They precisely deflected the Chaos Profound Light spilling from the passage’s edge, carrying the three thousand vanguard Cultivators as they plunged into the passage in an instant, heading straight for the crack in the Aitila Boundary Wall.

Xu Yunfan watched all this unfold in silence, making no further move.

Any disciple of the Primordial Sect, taken alone, could fight ten men. Those who couldn’t fight had died long ago on the path of Cultivation.

Therefore, he wasn’t the least bit worried about them dying after entering the Aitira Realm.

「While Xu Yunfan was doing all this…」

「On the Western Continent, in the Puchen Pure Land, atop the Eight-Treasure Lotus Platform…」

The Glazed Tower in the Great Awakening Bodhisattva’s palm stuttered for a moment, his enlightened eyes reflecting the pulsing Red Sun firelight within the passage.

He lowered his gaze and softly chanted a Buddha’s Name.

“To think the Divine Sky Dao Fruit can command the Boundary Sea to such an extent… This boy’s Grotto Heaven has only just formed, yet his Destruction True Intent is already close to tangible. The Primordial Sect… has gained another deadly weapon…”

He sighed and looked up at the sky. The defeat in the Eastern Wilderness and the fall of a Bodhisattva had dealt a crippling blow to the Puchen Pure Land.

“World Honored One Tathagata, I pray to you… when will our faith finally establish its Buddha Country?”

“…”

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「Wansheng Sword Sect, among the sea of clouds blanketing the Twelve Sword Peaks.」

The white Go stone at Lv Chunyang’s fingertip hovered over the board. His gaze pierced through the void, landing on the Thunder Dragon summoned by Xu Yunfan.

“Using the Fury Killing Sword Intent for the frame and the Divine Sky Thunderbolt for the edge… he’s actually managed to integrate the Wansheng Sword Technique into his own Daoist Techniques.”

His tone was level, betraying neither joy nor anger.

But anyone with a discerning eye could detect the satisfaction in Lv Chunyang’s voice.

Once all the Primordial Sect disciples had filed into the boundary-breaking passage, Xu Yunfan took a step off the Breaking Realm Platform and stood within the Boundary Sea itself.

“Form!”

In an instant, a colossal Thunder Dharma Aspect appeared.

The Dharma Aspect had three heads and six arms, its presence majestic and vast.

The face on the left had furious eyes and bared fangs. It held the Star Spirit Banner, on whose profound surface three hundred sixty-five Main Stars flickered in and out of sight.

The face on the right was as indifferent as ancient, black ice. As its eyes opened and closed, Profound Light coiled around its fingertips.

The central, original face opened and closed its eyes, revealing a world of life and death contained within their Purple Gold Thunder Light.

Ninety-nine thunder dragons coiled together to form a crown—the external manifestation of the Purple Gold Golden Core in his Dantian.

A Golden Core’s Dao Rhyme flowed around it, one that embodied the concepts: “The Divine Sky Thunderbolt shatters the Ten Thousand Laws, while the Profound Vault Undying upholds heaven and earth.”

The Dharma Aspect planted its feet on the Breaking Realm Platform, refining the entire Profound Jade Platform into a temporary Magical Treasure. Wielding an unstoppable Power of Breaking the Boundary, it slammed violently toward the crack in the Aitila Boundary Wall.

KR-BOOM!!!

A viscous, blood-red light erupted from the cracks in the boundary wall.

The remnant will of the Aitira Heavenly Dao sent out a silent shockwave. It gathered the world’s remaining Primordial Power and formed a giant palm that blotted out the sky, which it then slammed viciously at Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect.

This was the counterattack of a dying world, filled with a suicidal resolve.

Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect let out a cold laugh, and its left arm, the Anger Aspect, raised the Star Spirit Banner, which swelled to block the attack.

The banner began to madly drain the Vitality from the descending palm, and an instant later, a sickly yellow withering spread across the giant hand.

The Great Brightness Authority erupted with boundless Holy Light, burning away and purifying the surging dark mist with a sizzle.

The Red Sun Dao Fruit Origin throbbed violently within a net of lightning, releasing Pure Yang Fire Power that could incinerate all creation and burning the muddled resentment within the hand to green smoke.

It was a taste of its own medicine.

The giant palm was held at bay by the Star Spirit Banner. The boundary wall shook violently, its cracks crumbling at the edges.

Just as Xu Yunfan prepared to enter, however, the Heavenly Dao Will transmitted a thought of mutual destruction.

If a True Monarch’s true body were to force its way into the realm, the entire world would perish with them.

Purple Gold Thunder Light flashed in the eyes of Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect, and it had no choice but to stop in its tracks.

He decisively retracted the banner and retreated. The Dharma Aspect’s fingertip condensed a focused beam of Purple Gold Thunder Light, thrust it into the crack in the boundary wall, and transmitted a thought to Lu Chuan, who had already entered the Aitira Realm.

“Follow the map and set up the Guiding Array! I will await your report of victory! This realm’s Celestial Dao is dying and has gone mad. A True Monarch cannot easily enter. All of you, act quickly!”

In the instant that Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect withdrew its power and the Breaking Realm Platform hovered at the edge of the Aitira’s Boundary Sea…

SHHIIING!

A beam of Platinum Sword Light—so pure and condensed it seemed capable of freezing time and space—silently tore through the void at Xu Yunfan’s side.

Wherever the sword light passed, the raging Chaos Profound Light of the Boundary Sea instantly solidified, turning into translucent Profound Light Crystal Stones.

A Dharma Aspect, its entire body seemingly cast from glazed crystal and exuding an aura of ancient indestructibility, stepped out of the void and onto the path of solidified crystals.

It was none other than the Eternal Celestial Light True Monarch.

The Dao Fruit he had attained was the Celestial Light Dawn Dao Fruit.

This Dao Fruit was similar in nature to the Great Brightness Authority from Aitira’s Main God of Light, which Xu Yunfan kept suppressed within his Star Spirit Banner. However, this one was purer and vaster, closer to the very Origin of light, and possessed the quality of hanging eternally high above, illuminating the Ten Thousand Realms.

At the center of the Dharma Aspect’s brow, a relentlessly spinning Celestial Light Dao Seal served as its core. Wherever its light shone, time and space would stagnate, and the Ten Thousand Laws would slow to a crawl.

This was the Golden Core Dharma Aspect manifestation of Arctic Peak’s signature ultimate skill, the *Celestial Light Eternal Firm Sword Manual*.

Seeing this, Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow. His once-ethereal Dharma Aspect instantly became solid.

The two colossal Dharma Aspects faced off within the raging Boundary Sea, their confrontation causing the very air to boom.

The purple-gold field of destructive thunder and the platinum, crystal-like domain of solidification collided violently. A silent annihilation occurred where they met, pushing aside the chaotic Profound Light of the Boundary Sea and creating a spiderweb of spatial cracks.

Under the dual pressure, the Breaking Realm Platform let out an overwhelmed hum.

“Is that Red Sun Dao Fruit still burning your hands?”

The Celestial Light True Monarch’s voice came through his Dharma Aspect. It was as cold as the clash of jade, devoid of emotion, yet it carried a bone-chilling iciness.

His Dharma Aspect’s gaze was locked firmly on the throbbing Red Sun Dao Fruit inside Xu Yunfan, which was still continuously radiating its aura.

The indifferent, icy face on the right arm of Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect remained impassive, but the face of the Anger Aspect on the left arm suddenly opened its eyes, its voice like a clap of thunder.

“You want it? Then bring me Tongxuan’s Sword Spirit in trade.”

The words were utterly shameless.

The Celestial Light Dao Seal on the brow of the Celestial Light True Monarch’s Dharma Aspect suddenly blazed. Its immense power to solidify time and space surged, attempting to suppress the thunder light of Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect.

“When the great calamity arrives, I will carve out your Golden Core and offer it to my sword!”

This was the bone-deep hatred the Wansheng Sword Sect held for Xu Yunfan for slaying Red Sun, as well as their fear of his Divine Sky Dao Fruit.

Xu Yunfan’s rate of growth was simply too fast. In just a few hundred years, he had attained a Dao Fruit and become a Golden Core True Monarch, all within a single lifetime.

He was simply a monster.

The fact that he had slain Red Sun and heavily wounded Tongxuan, in particular, made the Celestial Light True Monarch hesitate to test him for the moment.

“Those were Red Sun’s last words, too.”

Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Aspect sneered. The Anger Aspect on its left arm lightly tapped the Star Spirit Banner. Inside the banner, the Red Sun Dao Fruit suddenly throbbed, letting out a low rumble like an erupting volcano.

“Here. Would you like to hear it more clearly?”