The Way to Break the Deadlock

Chen Yuan's gaze flickered slightly.

He still had one choice, one that no one else knew about. His consciousness sank into his Sea of Consciousness and settled upon the Tidal Stele.

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the Tidal Stele stood silently. The faint sound of tides came from its base, rising and falling, unceasing since time immemorial, as though the interior of the stone stele connected to a boundless ocean.

Upon the stele's surface, a silvery-white line wound its way up from the base. It had already passed the stele's center and was advancing toward the top. Wherever it passed, a warm silver radiance spread, exceptionally striking against the blue-gray body of the stele.

That silvery-white line was not motionless. It slowly flowed and shifted like a living river, crawling upward across the stele with unhurried determination.

Seventy percent.

To be precise, it was already nearing seventy-five percent.

Chen Yuan calculated silently.

Back then, when True Solar's divided soul had borrowed his body to break the Four Yang Seal, the Tidal Stele had used his Sea of Consciousness as an anchor. Part of that Merit Achievement had naturally entered the stele, causing his Tide Fortune to surge to nearly fifty percent in one breath.

Later, he attained the Five Divine Powers, formed Golden Nature, suppressed an entire prefecture, and cleansed all of Jinghai of Turbid Breath. Every one of those deeds had raised his Tide Fortune.

Especially on the day he unleashed all Five Divine Powers and his Golden Nature ran through him, the Tidal Stele had risen by nearly ten percent in a single burst. The silvery-white line on its surface had shot upward by a tremendous stretch, and even the sound of the tides had become far more turbulent.

Later, Scarlet Tiger Lord burned the Li Family