Cheat Cultivator's Ascension - Chapter 490 - 490: Su Xiaotian's Plan
Moments before Su Xiaotian’s heavenly tribulation abruptly end, the subject of heaven’s wrath faces the destructive tribulation lightning with a calm smile on his face, his body filled with immense power as not only did he circulate his soul, qi, and the temporal rule of the River of Time replica within his body, he utilizes his greatest reliance as of now as well.
[Grand Completion Transcendent Body (Dormant)]
[A physique with an extreme compatibility with the Grand Completion Transcendent Body, invoking the power of the Grand Dao upon activation, granting the possessor of both physiques the ability to negate and absorb the effect of every possible type and kind of thing that can inflict any kind of thing on the user. This same power can also manifest outside and use it as protection, reaching up to ten meters (Increases as the user’s cultivation increases).]
[The talent is still in its dormant state, only completely awakening once the possessor of the talent completely integrates it not only to themselves but also with the Grand Desolation Transcendent Body. Can be forced into awakening causing the possessor of the talents to acquire all the effects that simultaneous possession of both talents offers, this forced awakening state lasting for five minutes (Awakening rate and the duration of the forced awakening increases as the user’s cultivation increases)]
[Detected temporary awakening of the physique talent: Grant Completion Transcending Body, awakening successful…]
[Due to the compatibility between Grand Desolation Transcendent Body and Grand Completion Transcendent Body, the user is now completely impervious to any damage received for five minutes.]
Feeling massive amount of vitality circulating all across his mortal body, along with the unmistakable feeling of invincibility that made his mind completely unconcerned with the terrifying tribulation that is about to slam down on him, the immortal-like young man burst towards the tribulation with even more speed, hitting the punishment head on, intending to absorb it and make it his own instead of merely surviving from it.
Willing the combination of his two physiques to absorb the energy fueling the heavenly tribulation, Su Xiaotian then felt a bit troubled, even with all the arrangements he had in place, the power of the tribulation attempting its best to wreak havoc across his body, but failing to do any substantial damage as of now.
Now knowing the nature of this power, however, he couldn’t help but prepare himself a bit for what was about to come, in his mind surfacing a thought of the possibility of a danger he had never expected occurring should something go wrong.
‘It’s not just using ambient spirit qi outside to increase its power, it’s using everything it can absorb…’ reminding him of the nature of his Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi when observing the heavenly tribulation, the immortal-like young man remarked as he clicked his tongue watching the tribulation lightning gradually eroding even the temporal rule itself, albeit in an extremely small amount.
‘Good thing the energies in my body seems to be of higher level than the tribulation… for now…’ he added in his mind as the concern of this tribulation growing exponentially stronger the moment he enact the next step of his plan comes to mind, however, knowing that it is also impossible for him to die or to be crippled once he enacted according to his plan, the pain he is about to go through that was already near negligible of worry becomes even less of a concern to him.
And with a single thought from him, his figure, along with the blinding, powerful tribulation that is drowning his figure disappears altogether, brought with him as he appears once again, this time, in a place surging with immense amount of ambient spirit qi, making him feel like he’ stuck deep beneath quicksand from the weight of spirit qi pressing down from all directions.
“I knew this would happen…” the moment that he let out those words from his mouth, Su Xiaotian couldn’t help but let a wry smile on his face as he felt the heavenly lightning within him starting to grow in strength, not in a gradual nor in a linear rate, but rather, in an exponential rate, with each second passing making him feel like the pain piling up within his body is continuously increasing tens, if not hundreds of times.
Despite the pain that he is currently feeling, though, he chooses to endure it as he brings himself to sit in a relaxed position, his breathing gradually calming down as, instead of relying on how he normally cultivates, he intends to use a more forceful way to subdue and absorb the heavenly lightning completely.
‘This really goes so well with the nature of my qi…’ he thought to himself as a semi-transparent, floating golden screen appeared right in front of him, revealing the description of the cultivation art that he is currently utilizing.
[Heaven Devouring Ultimate Art]
[A heinous and vicious cultivation art focused on devouring, refining and taking away everything under the heavens with the eventual goal of overturning and devouring even the heavens itself. As a side effect, only those with soul talents branded with the transcendent title are capable of bearing the extremely brutal effects of the art, otherwise, anyone else who tries to cultivate with it will either turn into a power-crazed mindless monster or a blood mist upon first attempt.]
[Gives the practitioner the ability to freely absorb all kind of energy from the target, qi, blood, soul power and other things, that can either be refined into pure strands of Heaven Devouring Power able to nourish the body, qi and soul, or be turned into a fuel that can prolong the duration of time limited techniques used by the practitioner into near infinite amount of time on the premise that the practitioner continues to absorb energy from other living beings]
With bloody crimson air swirling around his being, traces of golden strands within this chaotic swirl of destructive intent floats around, the heavenly lightning seemingly feeling a massive threat to itself as it increases the absorption of ambient spirit qi even more, appearing to be a desperate attempt to fight back against the massive devouring intent that little by little, encroaches upon its territory like an inevitable doom announcing the true arrival of its existence.
‘Turning meek and defensive now, huh? Who would’ve thought…’ talking as if the tribulation lightning is alive, Su Xiaotian said with a hint of mocking in his words as he observed the destructive purple lightning clashing, or rather, defending against his crimson devouring intent, both of them absorbing the ambient spirit qi surging towards his figure, the tribulation lighting struggling to its utmost to absorb more yet despite that, the spirit qi going towards it is shrinking little by little and its opponent, the devouring intent growing larger and taking more for itself as time goes by.
Due to the overwhelming suppressive capability of the Heaven Devouring Ultimate Art, the tribulation lightning gradually lost its previous grandeur and power, as it could only keep to itself the spirit qi it had previously absorbed; the trapped piece of heavenly punishment now struggling to keep itself from being devoured by the surging crimson that seems intent on engulfing it whole.
