Thirty-Six Tribulations of Stepping Heaven!
The Chaos Astral Wind tore at Six-Eared Macaque's mane as he stepped barefoot onto the first Bronze Ancient Steps.
The Blood-colored Dao Pattern floating on the surface of the steps suddenly came to life, turning into millions of steel needles that pierced his soles.
This is the Bloodline Trial of the Ancestral Land Heavenly Gate —anyone not of the direct lineage of the Chaos Demon Ape will turn to ashes upon stepping onto the steps.
"That's all there is to it."
Six-Eared Macaque allowed the steel needles to extract his essence and blood, but the blue steps beneath his feet lit up with Blood-colored Totem.
When the totem was fully lit, the Demon Ape True Body, which had been sleeping in his Purple Mansion, suddenly opened its eyes, and a phantom of Bronze Giant Axe wrapped with star chains appeared on its left palm.
However, the scene in the second stage caused his pupils to shrink sharply.
What appeared before them was the gilded gate of the Primordial Chaos Holy Hall, where nine figures dressed in imperial robes were discussing the Dao.
The woman in white playing the zither suddenly turned her head, and the sound waves emanating from the zither in her arms shattered the vast star field into fragments.
"Seven illusory figures!"
Six-Eared Macaque swung the Hun Tian Cudgel, shattering the sound waves, while the Chaos Battle Heaven Armor behind him emitted a piercing shriek.
This is a causal remnant of the ancestral land, and it was these nine people who surrounded and killed the Chaos Demon Ape back then.
The golden pattern behind his ear suddenly ignited, and the two Chaos Pearl at the top of the Hun Tian Cudgel automatically unsealed.
"Boom--!"
The Star-Burning True Fire and the Xuan Ming Heavy Water intertwined to form Taiji Diagram, clashing with the Ice Phoenix Zither Sound played by the woman in white.
Blood spurted from his Six-Eared Macaque and seven orifices, yet he used the force of the recoil to break through the illusory image.
As he stepped onto the second step, the illusory image of the Bronze Giant Axe solidified by three-tenths, and the cold light flowing from the axe blade was able to cleave through space.
The third stage is characterized by silent darkness.
Six-Eared Macaque suddenly lost his five senses, and even the Chaos True Fire solidified at his fingertips.
The sound of chains grinding echoed in the darkness, and the phantom images of nine Heaven Suppressing Pillar that could suppress the heavens pierced through the major acupoints on his body—this was the pain of the seal that the demonic ape had endured back then.
"Break--!"
A third eye split open between Six-Eared Macaque's forehead, Chaos Demon Ape's innate divine power, "Void Piercing Divine Eye," was suddenly activated.
Countless threads of law emerged from the darkness, and he grabbed the thickest purple chain, tearing it apart.
The moment the third stage lit up, the Bronze Giant Axe transformed into Liu Guang and merged into the Hun Tian Cudgel, revealing ferocious axe blade patterns on the staff's body.
From the fourth to the ninth step, each step involves experiencing different tribulations.
At the fifth level, Six-Eared Macaque was thrown into the Chaos Furnace that melts all things, and at the seventh level, he fought against his own inner demon avatar.
The ninth level is stripped of all cultivation, forcing them to fight the Heavenly Tribulation with only a mortal body.
Upon stepping onto the tenth step, spacetime suddenly distorted.
Six-Eared Macaque found himself standing in front of the shattered World Boundary Stele of the Primordial Origin World, where his senior brother and 100,000 cultivators were being slaughtered by the Hongmeng army.
This is an illusion created by the ancestral land to probe his inner fears.
"Broken--!"
Six-Eared Macaque swept away the illusion with a single blow, but suddenly groaned and knelt down.
The karmic fire he had been tainted by in the illusion was actually burning his soul.
This is the Heavenly Staircase, the most dangerous "True Illusion Tribulation".
He fiercely tore off a cluster of burning golden patterns. When the Chaos Ancestral Blood extinguished the karmic fire, the totem that lit up at the tenth level was actually a complete Chaos Star Chart.
On the fifteenth step, he encountered the Remnant Will of "Burning Heaven Halberd Lord," one of the Seven Venerables of Hongmeng.
Using the broken staff as a guide, Six-Eared Macaque channeled the Burning Heaven True Fire into his meridians, and then unleashed the Chaos Fire Thunderbolt with nine times the power.
The Burning Heaven Halberd Lord's World Burning Halberd Technique caused nine great suns to fall. Six-Eared Macaque, using his Reincarnation Demon Eye to foresee this, used the Chaos Battle Heaven Armor to absorb half of the halberd's flame essence and counterattack.
In the twenty-fourth stage, Six-Eared Macaque was trapped in the Eternal Night Illusion. With the help of his Reincarnation Demon Eye, he found the 129,600 hidden Array Core and destroyed them all in an instant.
The thirtieth level was replicated into nine self-avatars, and only by detonating three Chaos Pearl could it break through the encirclement, causing permanent cracks to appear in the Xuan Ming Heavy Water Pearl.
At the thirty-sixth level, Six-Eared Macaque's armor was completely shattered, and only half of the charred Hun Tian Cudgel Staff remained.
Nine crimson stars floated at the end of the steps, each emanating a wave that made his blood boil.
"Coming."
He reached out and touched the nearest blood star, and his entire arm instantly turned into white bone.
The Bronze Battle Halberd that emerged from the blood star suddenly pierced between his brows, and a massive amount of inherited memories surged in—this was the killing technique of the first generation of Chaos Demon Ape in his conquest of the Immortal Court.
When Six-Eared Macaque grasped the ninth blood star, the thirty-six steps collapsed with a roar.
Each time Heaven Suppressing Pillar broke, corresponding Chaos Dao Pattern would grow from Six-Eared Macaque's bones.
The golden blood gushing from the wounds of the Demon Ape True Body transformed into 36,000 Chaos Dao Soldiers, which continuously devoured the cultivation of the Primordial Chaos Heavenly Soldiers as they fought against them, evolving themselves.
The resonance between the two triggered a "Chaos Tide," causing 30% of the cultivators in the Primordial Chaos World to instantly fall from their cultivation levels.
He stood at the center of the void vortex, with nine phantom images of Chaos Vicious Weapon of various shapes appearing behind him.
The starry sea beneath his feet automatically condensed into a blood-red throne, and embedded in the armrest of the throne was the left eye that the demonic ape had been taken from him back then.
"Not enough."
Six-Eared Macaque pulled out the Chaos Demon Eye and pressed it into his right eye, his gaze piercing through the Thirty-Three Heavens barriers.
He could clearly see the Demon Ape True Body, bound by countless chains, deep within the Primordial Chaos Holy Hall.
Nine Heaven Suppressing Pillar that pierce the sky run through its spine, each pillar wrapped with primordial energy of different colors.
The Hun Tian Cudgel suddenly trembled violently, and the nine Chaos Pearl automatically flew to different locations.
Six-Eared Macaque: "Only by gathering all nine Chaos Source Core can the true form of the progenitor be awakened."
When the Hun Tian Cudgel tore open the celestial curtain of the Primordial Chaos World, the nine Chaos Pearl trailed scarlet tails of flame in the clouds.
Golden blood seeped from Six-Eared Macaque, Chaos Demon Eye. His gaze pierced through thirty-three layers of restrictions, and he clearly saw the Demon Ape True Body pierced by ten thousand chains.
The sound of each chain tightening stirred up a storm in his veins.
"Sevenfold Godslaying Formation!"
In the far north of the Primordial Chaos World, seven large purple stars suddenly lit up, and a million heavenly soldiers appeared where the starlight shone.
The white-bearded elder at the head of the group summoned the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, and the Profound Yellow Qi gushing from its mouth actually suppressed the Chaos True Fire by three inches.
Six-Eared Macaque shattered the void, and the nine Chaos Vicious Weapon phantoms behind him trembled simultaneously.
The first move of the Thirteen Styles of World Breaking, "Rending the Sky," was unleashed, and the two Chaos Pearl at the top of the Hun Tian Cudgel exploded with a bang.
The World Extinguishing Lightning Strike and the Star-Burning True Fire merged into a giant purple-gold dragon, extinguishing seven great stars in its path.
"How dare you, you brat!"
The white-bearded old man's hair stood on end, and the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron surged by a million feet.
Just as the Primordial Wilderness beast emerging from the cauldron was about to pounce, a blood-red vortex suddenly appeared in Six-Eared Macaque's left eye.
The Reincarnation Demon Eye activated, and the future three breaths from now was clearly visible: the Burning Heaven Halberd Lord, one of the Seven Venerables, was unleashing a deadly strike from within the cauldron.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Six-Eared Macaque neither dodged nor avoided, and the fangs on the shoulder Chaos Battle Heaven Armor suddenly detached from his body.
The moment the Heaven-Burning Halberd burst from the cauldron, its two fangs transformed into a cage, locking the halberd's blade.
He pressed his right hand together like a knife, plunging it into his own chest and tearing out his beating heart. "With the blood of my ancestors, I offer this sacrifice to the wicked soldiers!"
Amidst the blood mist from the exploding heart, the Bronze Battle Halberd of the first Chaos Demon Ape solidified from its illusory form.
When the battle spear pierced through the chest of the Burning Heaven Halberd Lord, blood rained down throughout the entire Northern Heaven Domain.
This one of the seven supreme beings who had reigned for 100,000 years was actually nailed to his own Mountains and Rivers Cauldron.
"Second move, Shattered Galaxy!"
Six-Eared Macaque, covered in blood, swept his Hun Tian Cudgel, creating a ring of air currents.
The remaining five Chaos Pearl were unsealed at the same time, the Xuan Ming Heavy Water froze three thousand miles of clouds, and the Nine Netherworld Yin Wind shattered the foundations of one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers.
As he stepped through the frozen rain of blood, Hundun golden lotus automatically formed beneath his feet—this was the true form of the progenitor, sensing the resonance of the same bloodline.
The sound of chains snapping came from the depths of the Hongmeng Forbidden Land, and Six-Eared Macaque's eardrums suddenly ruptured.
The nine Heaven Suppressing Pillar the heavens simultaneously unleashed their primordial energy, forming a nine-colored light prison that enveloped the forbidden area.
He tore open the flesh of his right arm, revealing Hundun bones gleaming with golden light. "Old friend, it's time to wake up!"
The bone patterns detached from the arm and formed Ancient Summoning Array in the void.
The suppressed Demon Ape True Body suddenly opened its left eye, and its remaining right claw grabbed the two fundamental chains.
With a pull powerful enough to tear apart the entire realm, the three Heaven Suppressing Pillar collapsed with a deafening roar.
Thirty-six sacred mountains in the Primordial Chaos World collapsed simultaneously, causing the earth's spiritual energy to leak out wildly.
"Third move, Godslayer!"
Six-Eared Macaque and the true form of the progenitor roared simultaneously, and the remaining six Chaos Pearl formed a killing array.
As the Hun Tian Cudgel pierced through the core of the final light prison, the Demon Ape True Body, with its free right claw, tore through space and grasped Six-Eared Macaque in its palm.
The moment their bloodlines merged, the complete Chaos Demon Ape Dharma Image appeared behind Six-Eared Macaque —this was the true pressure of an Emperor Realm expert.
When the complete Dharma form manifests, the Heavenly Dao Laws of the Primordial Chaos World enter a three-breath vacuum period.
With Six-Eared Macaque inhales and exhales stellar core energy, causing the space within his sight to automatically collapse into Black Hole.
The Hun Tian Hun Tian Cudgel absorbed the scattered primordial essence, evolving into a blade capable of slicing through the threads of fate.