Chapter 558 - 278: All Things Return as One

Chapter 558: Chapter 278: All Things Return as One

The Returning Ruins vortex breaks open mysterious, invisible barriers within the body, ascending towards the Purple Mansion, amidst a swirl of phantasms.

Before Chu Xuan’s eyes appeared those he worried about, loved, and hated, accompanied by a flood of emotions such as joy, sadness, pain, regret, and unwillingness, as if trying to ensnare him, leaving him trapped.

Here it comes, the so-called "Easy is the mysterious portal, hard is the inner tribulation," the hardest part of breaking into the Life and Death Three Profound Realms is this Heart Demon tribulation.

Once trapped in endless heart demons and illusions, one would thoroughly lose perception of the external world, until the spirit and body weaken continuously, leading to death.

If one is deeply entangled in internal demonic barriers, it might even attract the Outer Celestial Demon’s covetousness, then with both internal and external demons attacking, it could be beyond even the gods’ salvation.

Back then, Pei Shurou was stuck at this step; if Chu Xuan hadn’t arrived in time, she might have already become a corpse.

Chu Xuan had experienced this tribulation before, so he calmly gathered his mind, using a resolute Divine Sense to extinguish these echoes of the past and fleeting lights one by one.

After an unknown time, he felt as though he merely closed his eyes, opened them again, and returned to Langhuan Grotto Heaven, back beside his master.

Ji Mingyu, ethereal like an immortal, akin to a Frost Snow Goddess, held a little snow mink in her arms, looking at him with a smile.

Chu Xuan couldn’t help showing a bitter smile, indeed, Ming Yu, see how great the psychological shadow you cast upon me, I knew I would see you.

However, he felt neither fear nor hesitation and anxiety.

Long ago, in the three years of retreat to switch the Cultivation Technique, Chu Xuan had already thought through many things and truly realized how he should view Ming Yu, the woman he both loved and hated.

Come on! Now that I have been reborn with the awareness to save the world, how could I be blocked by this little tribulation before me?

In the Heart Demon tribulation, Chu Xuan and Ji Mingyu went through rounds of confrontation, with love, hatred, revisiting the experiences of being stripped of cultivation and driven away, even reversing the roles in which Chu Xuan abolished Ming Yu’s cultivation and drove her away.

Being able to do this was because Chu Xuan always maintained clarity in his Divine Sense, not falling into the Heart Demon tribulation, therefore my world is ruled by me.

Thus, later on, the Heart Demon tribulation further escalated, even developing into a scenario where Chu Xuan’s harem groups came to chase him, each wanting to see him dead.

But he even had the mood to play a "divide and conquer" game, letting these women quarrel among themselves, then taking them down separately.

Of course, doing so made Chu Xuan feel guilty, like a jerk toying with women’s feelings...

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After unknown time, everything in front dissipated like a dream, Chu Xuan once again perceived the outside world, felt his body.

The Returning Ruins vortex had already broken through the invisible boundary, arriving at a vast and mysterious space.

This was the Upper Dantian, but it was not over, Chu Xuan’s primordial spirit manifested, sitting above the vortex, concentrating and chanting:

"Three apertures reunite as one, the Purple Mansion as the cauldron. One breath converges into the whole, all transforms to Returning Ruins."

He pinched the Taoist incantation, shouted: "Hah!"

With the fall of this true word, Chu Xuan’s body to spirit vibrated in unison, then the Lower Dantian Qi Sea, Middle Dantian Jade Palace, elevated, merging with the Upper Dantian Purple Mansion.

Normally, cultivators recklessly moving the Dantian would instantaneously perish, let alone fuse the three Dantian regions into one.

But as Chu Xuan operated the Celestial Water Returning Ruins Technique, the pitch-black vortex expanded rapidly, instantly engulfing the upper, middle, lower three Dantian together, or rather merged into one, truly becoming the Returning Ruins of the small universe within the human body.

Thus, Chu Xuan officially broke into the Life and Death Three Profound Realms!

At that moment, from inside out, a gloomy, peculiar radiance emitted from him, forming a terrifying vortex centered upon him, wildly devouring all surrounding Spiritual Qi.

The mountain peak where he secluded immediately turned into a barren wasteland, all vitality absorbed into his body, as if he were a black hole extinguishing everything.

When Chu Xuan opened a pair of dark, deep eyes, everything finally calmed down completely.

Normally, breaking into the seventh realm should bring myriad heavenly phenomena, such as celestial music, falling immortal flowers, springs gushing forth, golden lotuses blooming everywhere, varying with each cultivator’s technique.

With Chu Xuan’s official breakthrough, there was heavenly phenomena as well; in the blink of an eye, the skies for a thousand miles around darkened, suddenly clouded with ominous clouds, thunder vibrantly clashing, followed by pouring blood rain!

Scarlet blood showered upon the earth, causing Demon Sect cultivators to exclaim in panic, fear gnawing at their hearts, clueless about the unfolding events.

Soon, wandering souls and wild spirits emerged from unknown origins, resembling spectral troops borrowing the way, traversing the skies and earth, emitting harrowing wails.

In the heavens above, a silver comet plummeted, trailing a long fiery tail, crashing thunderously upon the earth! Shaking the four corners.

Moreover, all rivers and lakes within a thousand miles boiled like they were being cooked.

All around, landslides, mudflows, and other natural disasters occurred; fortunately, no mortals resided nearby, otherwise unknown numbers of casualties might have occurred.

Though experiencing this for the second time, Chu Xuan couldn’t help but complain: everyone else’s breakthrough phenomena are signs of auspicious omens, whereas mine resembles a demon progenitor’s emergence.