Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1544: 835: Mirror Realm Expansion, Sudden Emergence of Divinity Transformation

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Zhao Sheng entered an ancient stone mirror beneath a mysterious lake, secluding himself in a grand array laden with earthly treasures to cultivate intensively for a century, his power steadily advancing toward Nascent Soul perfection. Meanwhile, the Qinglu Qing Clan's fortunes declined after their Golden Core ancestor's death was exposed, intensifying undercurrents and patrols in Songshan Square. Three disciples of Ancestor Tao Kan—Cang Yanzi, the Double Extreme Scholar, and Xuan Guang—convened to plot the capture of Huangfu Yuli, whom Xuan Guang had spotted near Qinglu Mountain, and departed on a cloud boat to pursue him. As Zhao Sheng emerged from the mirror, vast tribulation clouds amassed overhead, thunder roaring across the heavens.

The sky was shrouded in tribulation clouds, with billions of lightning bolts gathering into a massive ocean of thunder that lit up the whole world.

Gazing at the brilliant lightning streaking across the heavens, Zhao Sheng clasped his hands behind his back, enveloped by a steady stream of five-hued glow.

Suddenly, the Central Thick Earth Mirror ascended from beneath, astonishingly hoisting its master's form and fearlessly surging toward the boundless tribulation clouds.

In a flash, a vivid yellow blaze erupted from the ground, bearing an indomitable spirit, and rapidly slammed into the heart of the thunderous expanse.

Boom~

At that instant, it felt as if the skies had been provoked, unleashing the full wrath of their lightning storm.

Abruptly, a Five-clawed Thunder Dragon stretching a thousand feet, its scales and talons sharply defined, burst forth from the core of the immense thunder sea. The Thunder Dragon let out a furious roar, crossing hundreds of feet of emptiness in a blink, and lunged savagely at Zhao Sheng.

Facing the thousand-foot Thunder Dragon that gleamed with electric radiance, Zhao Sheng showed no sign of evasion; instead, he grinned and declared, “Perfect opportunity!”

His words had barely landed when the Five-clawed Thunder Dragon gaped its maw and engulfed him completely.

Rumble…

The Five-clawed Thunder Dragon detonated abruptly, giving rise to a colossal thunder sphere a thousand feet wide amid the dark recesses of the tribulation cloud, shining with blinding intensity.

The radiance from the thunder sphere briefly sliced through the expansive tribulation clouds, resounding over thousands of miles of terrain.

In that very moment, innumerable cultivators across a thousand-mile span were jolted by the thunderclap, prompting many to react swiftly—some peering toward the gloomy horizon in the distance, others speeding this way on their artifacts.

One breath afterward, a stunning spectacle unfolded!

The enormous thunder sphere, brimming with devastating force, contracted and faded visibly at a rapid pace, vanishing entirely in no time.

Taking its position… emerged a “black hole” spanning over thirty feet across.

This black hole exuded an enigmatic depth, its obscurity like an endless chasm, as though it could devour every bit of light in existence.

Boom!

One by one, Five-clawed Thunder Dragons emerged from the thunder sea's depths, each wielding the might to shatter all things, and hurled themselves desperately at the black hole.

The following instant, every one of these Five-clawed Thunder Dragons got devoured by the black hole, followed by utter stillness.

By comparison, the black hole grew ever more profound and shadowy, while its borders exhibited a faint warping, suggesting even the fabric of space-time was being influenced.

Witnessing this, the world grew angrier still, and the thunder sea roiled with towering waves, drawing inconceivable amounts of tribulation energy to its focal point.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths!

The thunder sea compressed dramatically, its core flaring with exceptional brilliance, where a mountain-sized “thunder eye” gradually took shape—starting hazy before sharpening quickly.

The thunder eye cast a cold, impassive stare at the “black hole” some ten miles distant, radiating an aura of ultimate depth and supremacy.

The instant after, the thunder eye unleashed a blaze of unrivaled splendor, from which a purple thunder beam, as thick as an armful, lanced out abruptly.

The thunder beam tore through the void, striking the black hole's center without delay.

This strike finally triggered a fierce reaction in the black hole, its rim contorting wildly before ballooning outward in every direction, inflating over tenfold in size right away.

The electric glow banished the shadows, and the black hole seemed on the verge of shattering, faintly disclosing a colossal, imposing figure standing tall in the obscurity's midst. Innumerable thunderstorms battered the giant's frame, yet they inflicted no damage whatsoever—instead, they were wholly drawn into him.

At the same time, five treasure mirrors orbited the giant,

These five treasure mirrors mimicked tiny black holes, voraciously pulling in the ceaseless thunderstorms and bolts.

In truth, the earlier “black hole” had been no real thing; it was merely an optical deception born from swallowing all illumination.

Boom!

The thunder eye appeared incensed, erupting relentlessly, sending golden, purple, and white thunder beams in succession through the void, all aimed at the giant.

Regrettably, the giant's body proved far too resilient; none of the thunder beams caused him any injury, as they were instead fully consumed by his form.

As moments ticked by, the giant's epidermis turned more lustrous and sheer, resembling forged gold, and his stature swelled further to a towering twenty-nine feet.

Concurrently, profound shifts took place inside the Mirror Realm of the Five Directions Treasure Mirror.

Vast quantities of tribulation thunder flooded the Mirror Realm, and directed by the Formation's might, they morphed into rivulets of electric essence, cascading into the awaiting Great Array.

Eighteen crystalline array pillars ignited with countless glyph illuminations all at once, as enormous volumes of electric essence coursed through the pillars and snaked into the earth, promptly engulfing all principle crystals and heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Next, beneath the Thunder Tribulation's refining force, the principle crystals alongside the array of heavenly materials and earthly treasures melted away swiftly, ultimately fusing together under Divine Thought's command.

Before long, ripples of law energies swept across the Mirror Realm, impacting the space-time edges, which started expanding incrementally outward.

The space-time edges, previously absent, materialized from nowhere into heaps of earth and stone, which amassed steadily, linking up into an expansive plain that shaped a barren landscape.

This wondrous feat, like creating land from nothingness, likewise transpired in the domains of the other four mirrors; aided by the Thunder Tribulation Power, the Five Directions Treasure Mirror's realms grew broader, and the internal laws achieved far greater refinement.

Zhao Sheng had devoted a century not to pushing his cultivation toward Great Perfection, but to channeling most of his efforts into the Five Directions Treasure Mirror.

Evidently, that century of dedication yielded results, with the Mirror Realm's development and growth proceeding flawlessly as he had planned.

After half a day, the thunder eye depleted its tribulation energy and crumbled apart, scattering into myriad thunder gleams.

Zhao Sheng streaked across more than ten miles of emptiness, plunging into the thunder gleams, his body radiating splendid light that swiftly incorporated every last gleam into himself.