Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1279 - 693: Rebirth (2)
A mighty tearing force emanated from the collapsed area, catching everyone off guard with its speed.
Zhao Sheng gasped in shock, his figure flashed, and he disappeared into thin air, narrowly avoiding a collapsed area.
But just as he moved to a ruin, the space around him was torn apart by a space rift. He didn’t dare to pause and leapt forward, relocating once more.
As Zhao Sheng desperately fled, Wuzhiqi, Soaring Snake, and Huo Dou were swallowed by the space-time black hole, their whereabouts unknown, their fate uncertain in an instant.
Zhao Sheng managed to hold on for a few more breaths before he involuntarily plunged into an incomparably dark space-time, instantly feeling an overwhelmingly strong tearing pressure enveloping him from all directions, making his world spin around.
All the roars and the bright lights extinguished in an instant.
Zhao Sheng felt his primordial spirit on the verge of shattering, his consciousness quickly blurred, but in his mind, he "saw" a solitary "glimmer of light" in the deep dark space-time, vaguely hinting at an indistinct "human shape".
The divine seemed to suddenly merge with the figure in his mind, but in the next moment, the light was swallowed by darkness...
Under the endless darkness’s erosion, Zhao Sheng’s flesh vanished promptly, his primordial spirit instinctively retreating into the Kui Niu Treasure, gradually merging with it...
Countless bizarre sights and strange sounds drilled into his head, leaving him dazed and intoxicated, losing all five senses, and even his consciousness seemed to freeze, struggling to form a single thought through insurmountable stagnation.
Unsure how much time passed, Zhao Sheng suddenly felt his spirit relax, his consciousness returning to his divine soul, then... "boom," a muffled sound.
Zhao Sheng felt his "body" slam heavily onto a hard surface, yet there was no sensation of pain.
"Uh, who... am I?... What... happened?... Where am I?"
His awareness broke intermittently, taking quite a while to painfully sort out his thoughts.
After a long time, Zhao Sheng regained his consciousness and realized "he" was skewed over a sheet of ice.
His Will Shine swept around, "seeing" the surrounding ground scattered with countless ice chunks of various sizes, enveloped in thick dim cold fog from all directions.
An endless icy forest exuded a deathly stillness, completely devoid of any signs of life.
At this moment, his flesh was long gone, with only his primordial spirit residing on the silver-white Kui Niu Treasure, with waves of mysterious information continuously flooding into his spirit, gradually transforming his primordial spirit and consciousness.
The Kui Niu Treasure emitted a gentle clear light that illuminated its surroundings, pushing away the encompassing fog.
Above the treasure, it seemed as if a thick thunder cloud had accumulated, with countless thunder lights erupting from within, appearing magnificent and mysterious.
After a brief panic, Zhao Sheng quickly calmed down, striving to sense the surroundings, but alas, the icy forest fog was vast, with only him around, no sign of anyone else.
"A primordial spirit reliant on the treasure, could this be the Divine Beast Messenger’s... secret to immortality? This environment isn’t too different from the Ice Abyss, it seems I haven’t flown out too far. I also wonder where the others ended up," Zhao Sheng muttered to himself.
After speaking, he suddenly felt a bit taken aback, for as his Will Shine, along with the treasure’s clear light, scattered over the void, Zhao Sheng suddenly made a new discovery.
In the void, wisps of turbid air floated conspicuously, distinct from nature’s spiritual energy, Mystic Crystal Spirit Qi, and other such elements, full of frenzy and chaos. It seemed to be a bizarre force formed after innumerable filthy and dark auras mixed together, yet it contained countless law fluctuations,
A thought suddenly sprouted in Zhao Sheng’s mind, as he began to silently chant an ancient, enigmatic, profound melody: "Wu zhuo zhuo yao yu feng... Yan feng pao lei yun qi..."
With the incantation, the nearby Taoist power was immediately drawn, converging swiftly.
Moreover, the converging Taoist power grew in quantity, with the Taoist law fluctuations becoming ever clearer and more powerful...
Zhao Sheng’s consciousness birthed a tinge of delight, surprisingly linking through the Kui Niu Treasure to the Thunder Law fluctuations.
Only in the Burial Immortal Ruins of such a "masterless" Immortal Heaven would the Taoist laws be so easily stirred.
Though he had lost his flesh, he remained surprisingly excited, for even in death, one’s enlightenment of the Tao could be accumulated for the next life.
In the blink of an eye, countless days passed.
When Zhao Sheng’s Heart Power was exhausted, and the Will Shine was entirely spent, he had realized thirty percent of the Thunder Dao,
Not only that, the vortex of turbid air forming around the treasure attracted innumerable restless eerie auras, with pallid Ice Demons wandering within the turbidity, constantly absorbing something.
Occasionally, one or two Ice Demons would wander nearby, accidentally touching the Kui Niu Treasure but quickly leaving in confusion.
In this desolate ice wilderness, time seemed to lose all significance.
Utterly boredom-stricken, Zhao Sheng had no choice but to repeatedly connect to the Taoist laws, continuing his secluded cultivation here...
Time flies, years quick as a shuttle!
Suddenly, one day, a pig-headed humanoid creature quietly emerged from the fog, seemingly attracted by the Kui Niu Treasure, and unconsciously crept closer, extending its dark red tongue to lick the Kui Niu Treasure.
However, in the very next second, an abrupt mutation occurred!
The Kui Niu Treasure burst into divine light, drilling into the creature’s body in an instant, thereafter causing the pig-headed creature to roll on the ground in agony, its massive body visibly collapsing toward the abdomen, as though something within was voraciously extracting its essence.
Three days later, the pig-headed humanoid disappeared into thin air, leaving a whole naked, perfectly shaped young man behind.
The man wore the Kui Niu Treasure on his face, his chest rising and falling slightly, evidently alive.
All of a sudden, a pair of pitch-black eyes abruptly opened, and Zhao Sheng sprang up from the ground, opening his mouth to exhale a long column of air, which instantly condensed into an ice pillar and shattered into countless ice crystals once it hit the ground.
"Phew~ Who realizes the great dream first... Throughout life, I alone know! This dream... truly took too long!" Zhao Sheng murmured softly, with a hint of wistfulness in his eyes.
At this moment, only he knew that his flesh and primordial spirit had been metamorphosed by the treasure, and from now on, he could no longer escape the clutches of Lord Wanxing.
Perhaps... only through reincarnation and rebirth could he find liberation!
Nonetheless, the foundations of this life were indeed robust, and the path of Tao had been the smoothest thus far.
Hence, unless utterly necessary, he wouldn’t choose to self-destruct his divine soul.
Before his demise, he would opt to vigorously climb higher, perpetuating his foundation for the next life.
...
Days later, the vast cold fog dissipated, and the silhouettes within the mist gradually became clearer; countless gigantic ice mounds appeared, forming an unending mountain range extending all the way to the horizon.
And at the horizon’s end stood a massive grey-white ice cliff, its surface stark and steep, stretching on endlessly into infinity,
Upon this area of ice mounds, gray-green fungal moss surprisingly thrived, rendering the environment not so monotonous and desolated.
Zhao Sheng alighted atop one particular ice mound, his Will Field expanding to explore every movement around.
The Ice Abyss was fraught with unknown dangers, with Ice Demons potentially emerging from anywhere, leaving him no room for carelessness.
After meticulous probing, discovering no imminent danger ahead, he began to slowly hover forward.
Proceeding for half a day without encountering substantial danger, he merely circumvented several herds of Ice Demon groups.
However, the nearby ice mounds grew increasingly larger, towering over a thousand feet tall everywhere, with heaps of remains sighted within the ice mountain’s depths, together with various magic treasure fragments, and even numerous ruinous Immortal Palace Cloud Boats and other large floating warships...
Flying several hundred more miles later, Zhao Sheng suddenly let out a soft "huh", accelerating his flight as he surged forward.
Moments later, he arrived near an exceptionally towering peak.
This peak was entirely azure, soaring straight into the clouds like a blue heavenly pillar, with its top vanishing into the cloud mist, unreachable.
At the foot of the mountain, there were dazzling white palaces sprawled over an extensive area, extending to the horizon, yet sadly, most of the palaces had collapsed.
Strangely enough, within these palace ruins, there wasn’t the slightest trace of ash or frost, or even a single corpse, clean to a bone-chilling extent.