No Heavenly Tribulation

After establishing the framework for his Sea of Suffering Chapter, Lu Zhou did not immediately switch his cultivation technique to test whether the Wheel Sea Scripture he had created was viable.

Instead, he seized the remaining time granted by his Great Emperor-level comprehension to continue deducing the scripture for his Dao Palace Chapter.

He wanted to establish the framework for his Dao Palace Chapter as well and create a nascent scripture for it.

After all, he had Empress Xi's process of creating the Dao Palace Chapter, along with its Dao Rhyme.

Moreover, he already had experience creating the Wheel Sea Scripture himself, so Lu Zhou's subsequent creation of his Dao Palace Chapter went much more smoothly.

Before long, another grand Dao Chant resounded from within Lu Zhou's body.

"Primordial Chaos gives rise to heaven and earth; heaven and earth contain the five elements; the five elements nurture the five essences; the five essences nourish the five gods; the five gods create Dao Soil; Dao Soil builds Dao Palaces."

As the Dao Chant rang out, the enormous black hole within the Wheel Sea Phenomenon before Lu Zhou suddenly released a terrifying suction force.

At an astonishing speed, it absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, dyeing Lu Zhou's scarlet Sea of Bitterness with countless auspicious rays.

The boundless blood sea was hazy and chaotic.

The black hole at the center of the blood sea connected to the vast world outside. It seemed capable of rooting itself in the void and piercing through time. It drew in the essence of the great universe, refined it, nourished the Wheel of Life, and evolved the human body's inner cosmos.

After a humming Dao sound, another phenomenon evolved above the Wheel Sea Phenomenon. It belonged to the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

The primordial chaos essence spewing from the black hole nourished the five viscera and gave birth to the five Five Elements Dao Gods within the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

At this moment, the Dao Palace Secret Realm within the phenomenon remained a chaotic void, in the state before heaven and earth had opened.

Within the chaotic void, the Five Elements Dao Gods recited the Dao Palace Scripture created by Lu Zhou.

Every word of the scripture bloomed with radiant splendor. Mixed with the essence flowing into the Dao Palace Secret Realm, it passed through the Five Elements Dao Gods as though it contained some force of creation. Using the five viscera as their foundation, the Dao Gods evolved five tracts of Five Elements Dao Soil.

The five Dao Gods stood at the center of their Dao Soil, building Five Elements Dao Palaces. The Five Elements Dao Soil expanded—ten thousand miles in an instant, then a hundred thousand miles, then a million miles.

It expanded without end, transforming into five continents that surged with five-element essence and shone with Five Elements Divine Light. In the end, the five continents formed an entire landmass.

This was Primordial Chaos Limitless evolving the five elements. Everything within the universe and heaven and earth lay within the five elements!

By this point, the Great Emperor-level comprehension empowering Lu Zhou had run out.

Yet the several Bodhi Leaves clenched in Lu Zhou's hand still flowed with green radiance.

They continued enlightening his mind, while Lu Zhou remained immersed in the concentration of creating his technique.

The two layered phenomena, one above and one below, continued evolving without pause.

Only, their speed was far, far slower than before!

Three days later, the Bodhi Leaves in Lu Zhou's hand finally exhausted their last trace of spiritual energy and crumbled into dust.

Only then did Lu Zhou have no choice but to awaken from his focused state of creating a technique!

The two phenomena dispersed at that very moment.

Lu Zhou opened his eyes, which held far too many emotions: reluctance, delight, and lingering dissatisfaction.

He was delighted that he had successfully created nascent scriptures for the Wheel Sea and Dao Palace that seemed best suited to himself, establishing frameworks for both great secret realms.

His dissatisfaction and reluctance came from the fact that the feeling of immersing himself in technique creation and Great Emperor-level comprehension had been far too wondrous.

Lu Zhou did not want to leave that state.

The scriptures of his self-created Wheel Sea and Dao Palace techniques echoed in his mind.

Clearly, these nascent scriptures were still crude. They truly were only frameworks, requiring Lu Zhou to continually refine and deduce them, draw upon the strengths of countless methods, and use Furnace-Nurturing Myriad Sutras to provide them nourishment.

Even so, Lu Zhou was already quite satisfied.

After all, in the original story, even Ye Fan, who had already become a Saint and sat beneath the Bodhi tree, had failed to create a scripture in one stroke.

Lu Zhou felt that reaching this point already counted as an extraordinarily remarkable achievement.

As he thought this, his brows suddenly furrowed slightly!

He muttered to himself.

"When I created the technique, heaven and earth did not send down any miraculous phenomenon?"

He remembered that when Ye Fan first created scriptures and great techniques, phenomena of creation had appeared, with heaven and earth responding in harmony.

Yet nothing like that had happened during his own creation process!

"Could it be that the nascent scripture I created is too trash? So trash that it cannot attract the attention of heaven and earth?"

The instant this thought surfaced in Lu Zhou's heart, he rejected it.

He was an extremely conceited person. He would never deny himself!

Even if the path he chose was wrong, he would forcibly turn that wrong path into the right one.

"Whether it's trash or not, I'll know once I try cultivating it!"

Lu Zhou was not only arrogant; he was also a man of action. Once he made his decision, he immediately acted.

He began circulating the nascent scripture of the Wheel Sea Chapter he had created.

The scripture rumbled, and Lu Zhou's Wheel Sea shone brilliantly, making him appear increasingly sacred.

Under the scripture's rumbling, the first secret realm he had previously cultivated began dissolving inch by inch, being reforged anew.

His Divine Bridge snapped, the Other Shore blurred, and the Life Spring dissolved. Only the Wheel of Life remained clear and translucent, while the scarlet Sea of Bitterness remained dazzling and resplendent.

In an instant, a singular point appeared at the center of Lu Zhou's scarlet Sea of Bitterness. Like a singularity in the universe, it was initially no larger than the tip of a needle, yet it resembled a black hole rooted in the great universe, with the power of time flowing within it.

The black hole rotated, releasing a terrifying devouring force. It absorbed the essence of the great universe and slowly refined Lu Zhou's scarlet Sea of Bitterness, bit by bit.

To live long, one had to diligently polish away the marks left on the Wheel of Life by the corrosion of the Sea of Bitterness.

Many cultivators cultivated in order to refine away the Sea of Bitterness and reveal the Wheel of Life.

The needle-tip-sized black hole rapidly grew. Every time it expanded by one circle, an equivalent area of Lu Zhou's Sea of Bitterness was refined away.

This was an equal exchange, one rising as the other declined.

If he could truly refine his Sea of Bitterness completely, his lifespan would inevitably increase greatly.

Even so, the Wheel of Life would one day inevitably wither.

Therefore, besides refining the Sea of Bitterness and preventing it from eroding the Wheel of Life, one also needed to nourish the Wheel of Life so that it would not enter a state of exhaustion.

Lu Zhou also regarded his Wheel Sea as a whole, as the origin, as the place where all things were first born.

His technique no longer divided the Sea of Bitterness, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore into four minor realms.

His Wheel Sea did not transform into the taiji of life and death, yin and yang.

He believed that since the human body was an inner cosmos, and one revered oneself as heaven and earth, it should be primordial chaos as one, the beginning as one.

Since Primordial Chaos Limitless transformed into taiji, producing yin and yang and giving rise to the two energies, then Primordial Chaos Limitless should be the Dao that served as the origin of all beginnings.

The life and death of the Wheel Sea both existed within Primordial Chaos Limitless.

Primordial Chaos Limitless was the beginning of all things. It best accorded with the origin and most clearly explained the true meaning of the Wheel Sea!

This was the Wheel Sea Lu Zhou wanted to evolve, the Dao he had acknowledged.

The Dao gave birth to one. Everything began with the Wheel Sea of Primordial Chaos Limitless, evolving the human body's inner cosmos!

Only three months later, that black hole had become broader than the Life Spring Lu Zhou had previously cultivated.

During this process, the black hole was not merely an energy-devouring device, but also an energy-conversion device.

One end of the black hole was rooted in the great universe, while the other was in Lu Zhou's Wheel Sea.

It refined and transformed the essence of the great universe into energy that nourished Lu Zhou's Wheel of Life and entire body.

It spewed forth surging divine radiance and essence. The essence contained the five elements, which corresponded to the human body's five viscera and nourished the Five Elements Dao Gods.

Lu Zhou's Dao Palaces of the five viscera were collapsing, and his original five divine deities were dissolving.

New Five Elements Dao Gods were nourished by the essence spewed from the black hole into his five viscera.

The Five Elements Dao Gods released Dao Chants, created Five Elements Dao Soil, and built new Five Elements Dao Palaces. The Dao Gods sat in the central Dao Palaces upon the Five Elements Dao Soil, guarding their respective domains and regulating the five elements and five energies within this human body's inner cosmos!

Another eight months later, as Lu Zhou cultivated his self-created scripture, he once again felt that he could enter the Four Extremities Secret Realm at any moment.

At this point, Lu Zhou no longer suppressed himself. He continued absorbing the essence of Divine Origin, and the black hole within his Wheel Sea emitted an even more terrifying devouring force, helping Lu Zhou refine the Divine Origin and break into the Four Extremities.

In the end, Lu Zhou's process of entering the Four Extremities was far smoother than he had imagined.

Yet this smoothness caused Lu Zhou's expression to change drastically.

Because when he entered the Four Extremities, he did not trigger a Heavenly Tribulation!

"It can't be because I'm too trash!"

"My combat strength may still be inferior to Ye Fan's at the same realm, but it has definitely reached the level where I can fight above my realm and trigger a Heavenly Tribulation to test me!"

"It isn't because of the scripture I cultivate either. When I entered the Four Extremities, I circulated the Four Extremities Chapter from the Dao Sutra."

"What is going on? Heaven and earth did not respond when I created a technique, and I did not draw a Heavenly Tribulation when I entered the Four Extremities. Why was there no Heavenly Tribulation?"

Lu Zhou could not understand it. He believed this problem was extremely serious, and he had to figure it out!

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