In the vast universe, brilliant rivers of stars stretched across boundless space. Jiang Yun stood amid its emptiness and void.
The universe was silent one moment and ablaze with color the next, a place of contradictions held in unity.
Jiang Yun felt its immensity and remained still for a long time. He was adjusting his condition, bringing both body and mind to their peak.
He knew he could break through this time. Ever since stepping onto the Immortal Platform, he had pondered his future path of Dao Severing.
Today, the shackles of heaven and earth would be shattered. Jiang Yun would set foot on his own path and break free of his cocoon.
As a rule, cultivation only grew harder in its later stages, especially the step into Dao Severing. Being trapped for centuries was hardly unusual, let alone the cultivators trapped for millennia or even their entire lives.
Yet only a year or two had passed since Jiang Yun reached the peak of the Second Layer of the Immortal Platform, and now he was about to break through into Dao Severing. It was nothing short of a miracle!
Standing alone in the cold, dark universe, he felt a deathly stillness. Earth's immense pressure lay close before him, as though an ancient Heavenly Emperor slept there.
"The time has come. I'll undergo the tribulation here," Jiang Yun murmured.
He began circulating the fruits of his cultivation and stopped suppressing his power. He opened his body and mind, became one with the universe, and released his will to sever ten thousand Daos.
The supremely divine and sacred blood throughout his body began to boil. Thousands upon thousands of blazing divine rays burst forth as he threw all his strength into the breakthrough.
Dense ancient characters appeared across his body. Some came