Yuan Tian woke groggily, as though he had just slept for ages. His thoughts felt somewhat muddled. He was about to raise a hand out of habit and rub his eyes when he suddenly realized he could not feel his hand at all. No—not even his bodily senses, touch, or anything else could be felt. What was this?? Yuan Tian was so shocked that he wanted to roar, yet discovered he could not make a sound at all. It was as if his entire body had lost all sensation.
"No, I was cultivating when I got struck by a book that came out of a black hole. What happened? Don't tell me I'm dead? No way, heavens, don't mess with me. Who ever got killed by a book? Even if someone was killed by a book, it couldn't possibly be an expert like me."
"Maybe I really am dead. If I'm dead, then am I a soul now? Right, I can use divine sense."
As one of Earth's few experts, Yuan Tian knew how to use divine sense. Before he could spread his divine awareness outward, countless things seemed to abruptly appear in his mind. Thus, Yuan Tian gloriously fainted again.
When Yuan Tian woke up once more, he had already sorted through and absorbed everything in his mind.
It turned out that after Yuan Tian had been sucked into the black hole, he had somehow borrowed the power of heaven and earth to unlock the memories of his previous nine lives. That was why he had felt there were so many things in his mind.
It had to be said that all nine of Yuan Tian's previous lives had been top experts of their eras. These experts were not from the Mortal Realm, but from the Primordial Wilderness and the Cultivation World that emerged later.
In his first life, Yuan Tian had been one of the first members of the Human Clan. His innate talent had been extraordinarily high. Less than ten thousand years after his birth, he had already become a Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Even in the ancient Primordial Wilderness, he had counted as a formidable figure in his own right.
Yet Yuan Tian's first incarnation had been born fascinated by formations. Of all times, he chose the Witch-Demon War to run onto the Witch-Demon Battlefield and study the Primordial Wilderness's two great wondrous formations—the Twelve Heavenly Gods Baleful Formation and the All-Heavens Star Formation.
Yuan Tian's first life had truly been that of a prodigy. He had deciphered eighty or ninety percent of the Primordial Wilderness's two great wondrous formations in merely a thousand years. But just as he was preparing to leave the Witch-Demon Battlefield, the Demon Race discovered him and mistook him for a Witch Clan ally. They gathered thirty-six Demon Sages to surround him. After a bitter battle, they blasted Yuan Tian's first incarnation to death. Although Yuan Tian had also made the Demon Race's thirty-six Demon Sages accompany him to the grave, he had still been finished just like that. Oh, it should be called mutual destruction.
Yuan Tian's second reincarnation had unexpectedly been a witch-human. By a stroke of fortune, he awakened his Witch Clan bloodline and was thus able to cultivate the Witch Clan's inherited technique, the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique. During the era of the ancient Three Sovereigns, he attained the body of a Great Witch. A Great Witch's body was supposedly immortal, yet, of all things, Chiyou of the Witch Clan and the Yellow Emperor fought to contend for the world. Yuan Tian's second incarnation was unlucky enough to die an unnatural death in their struggle, truly "born without greatness, died in suffocating grievance."
Yuan Tian's third incarnation had been reborn into the Human Clan. At that time, the Mystic Sect among humanity was flourishing. By a fortunate coincidence, Yuan Tian's third incarnation obtained the Mystic Sect's guardian divine art, the Nine Revolutions Origin Technique, and thus embarked upon the road of immortality. Relying on peerless talent, he attained the Dao Fruit of a Daluo Golden Immortal in the early Shang Dynasty. Because of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, he formed Karma with the Mystic Sect. As a result, he was finished in the Dao Sect war—the Investiture of the Gods War. That life ended just like that as well.
Yuan Tian's fourth incarnation had been reborn into the Demon Race. With astonishing luck, he obtained the Demon Race's two supreme arts: the Heavenly Demon Immortality Art, which cultivated the physical body, and the Demon Emperor Immortality Art, which cultivated the Primordial Spirit. Thus, in the early Great Tang, his cultivation reached the realm of a Demon Sage and Daluo Golden Immortal. But then the Buddhist Sect happened to be spreading westward, and in the process, they intended to make an example of the Demon Race. Yuan Tian, who enjoyed immense renown among the Demon Race and possessed Demon Sage cultivation, naturally became a thorn in the Buddhist Sect's eye and a spike in their flesh. The Buddhist Sect first sent eighteen experts at the Bodhisattva and Buddha level to encircle and kill him, never expecting Yuan Tian alone to wipe out all eighteen Buddhist experts in one stroke.
This enraged the Buddhist Sect. When had they ever suffered such a huge loss? Nor could they afford such humiliation.
Thus, the Buddhist Sect dispatched all its experts: a total of one hundred and eight Bodhisattva- and Buddha-level experts, led by a Buddhist master at the Quasi-Sage level. After Yuan Tian slaughtered the Buddhist experts, he knew the Buddhist Sect would certainly send more, so he invited Demon Race cultivators from across the world to join him in resisting the enemy.
All the Demon Race experts invited by Yuan Tian came, and even many who had not been invited came as well. There was no helping it. If the Buddhist Sect destroyed Yuan Tian today, they might very well destroy them tomorrow. Even old demons who had lived for tens or hundreds of thousands of years understood the simple truth that lips and teeth depended upon one another.
Thus, when the Buddhist Sect's experts arrived, Yuan Tian's side had gathered sixty-four Demon Race experts. Although their numbers were fewer than the Buddhist Sect's, the two sides were evenly matched in strength.
That battle darkened heaven and earth. The two sides fought savagely for over a hundred days. In the end, with the eruption of the Buddhist Sect's Quasi-Sage expert, the Buddhist Sect achieved a miserable victory at the cost of ninety-seven experts dead. On the Demon Race's side, aside from six Demon Race Great Sages who escaped with grievous injuries, the other fifty-eight all died. Regrettably, Yuan Tian was among those fifty-eight fallen Demon Race experts. Then again, if Yuan Tian had not died, the Buddhist Sect could not have called it a miserable victory—it would have been called a defeat.
Though the Buddhist Sect won miserably, they had finally removed the greatest obstacle in Journey to the West, paving a broad road for it.
Yuan Tian's fifth through eighth lives had all been top experts in the Cultivation World. Some had been Dao Sect experts, some Alchemical Grandmasters, and some Artifact Refining Grandmasters, so they would not be described one by one here.
What was worth mentioning was Yuan Tian's ninth life. In that life, he cultivated Dao, demon, and Buddha arts together—simultaneously cultivating the techniques of the Dao Sect, Demon Sect, and Buddhist Sect: the Nine Revolutions Origin Technique, the Heavenly Demon Soul-Refining Art, and the Eight-Nine Profound Technique. All were peak techniques of the Dao, demon, and Buddhist schools.
As the number of cultivators increased, the Innate Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth had long since transformed into Postnatal Spiritual Qi. The deeper one cultivated, the more time it took. In order to break through to higher realms more quickly, when Yuan Tian was about to undergo an Immortal Tribulation, he separated most of his Primordial Spirit to cultivate as a Loose Immortal, while his main body continued cultivating.
Whenever his own cultivation reached the point of undergoing an Immortal Tribulation, Yuan Tian would split off his Primordial Spirit to cultivate separately.
By the time this unorthodox Loose Immortal cultivation method reached the ninth division, Yuan Tian could no longer continue, because his magical power had already reached the peak of Level Ten Loose Immortal and could no longer be suppressed.
Thus, Yuan Tian reunited his Loose Immortal Primordial Spirit avatars into one body and prepared to undergo the Level Ten Loose Immortal Tribulation.
Yuan Tian paid no attention at all to his Loose Immortal Tribulation, because his current strength was ten times that of an ordinary Level Ten Loose Immortal. If an ordinary Loose Immortal could attain the early Daluo Golden Immortal realm after transcending the tribulation, then Yuan Tian could at least reach the middle stage, perhaps even the late stage or peak.
But Yuan Tian had not expected that his unorthodox cultivation method would mutate the already near-certain-death Level Ten Loose Immortal Tribulation, turning it into one with a hundred times its normal power. Thus, without any preparation whatsoever, Yuan Tian was finished once again.
Fortunately, Yuan Tian possessed the Great Dao's wondrous treasure, the Great Dao Secret Record. The Great Dao Secret Record suppressed his Fortune and kept it from scattering, allowing Yuan Tian to preserve a wisp of undispersed soul beneath the Level Ten Loose Immortal Tribulation. Otherwise, he would have been completely finished this time.
The tenth life—this present life—was the reincarnation of a wisp of soul from his ninth life, so his innate restrictions were immense. Unless something unexpected happened, he would have no way of cultivating to the Immortal Level in this life. If Yuan Tian wished to regain the talent he had possessed in his previous lives, he would likely need to reincarnate at least ten more times.
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