Xie Feng and Sushang left Eternal Night. Along the way, Sushang's cultivation seemed poised for a breakthrough. Xie Feng also wanted to refine the Great Dao Luck he had previously received as a reward, so they stopped to rest in the mountain wilderness.
Sushang sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, her mind tranquil. Wisps of Spiritual Qi swirled around her, and her presence began to rise steadily.
After a little thought, Xie Feng laid down a defensive formation before sitting on the ground. His eyes half-closed, and with a stir of his mind, boundless spiritual potential surged forth.
Great Dao Luck!
This vast expanse of luck held the essence of creation and the foundational power for attaining sagehood. Anyone without a heaven-defying physique would surely explode and die during refinement, unable to withstand its terrifying power!
Xie Feng possessed the Chaos Sacred Body, giving him an innate advantage! Great Dao Luck surged around him, entering his body through his pores before gradually spreading throughout his limbs and bones.
The luck erupted like a vast ocean, unleashing all its mighty power and battering his state of mind. The sensation shifted endlessly-from eternal night to eternal day, from earthly realms to rivers of stars, from gentle breezes and soft rain to ten thousand arrows piercing his heart-bringing constant revelations.
Xie Feng's brows furrowed slightly. He firmly suppressed his restless state of mind, allowing that power to temper his bones, cleanse his marrow, and overturn heaven and earth!
In the span of a closed eye and a dream, who knew how many years passed? It felt as though he had undergone countless rebirths and countless dreams of returning souls. The power compressed madly, then suddenly swelled, rising and falling like the tides!
His cultivation soared!
Mahayana Realm, tenth stage!
Ascension Realm, first stage!
Ascension Realm, second stage!
Sixth stage!
Seventh stage!
Eighth stage!
Boundless power erupted, and this remote wilderness began to quake!
The Ascension Realm could shake the heavens!
Dark clouds churned overhead. A lightning tribulation!
To maintain the balance between humanity and the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao had created lightning tribulations. Anyone from the lower realm who survived one could shed their mortal limitations, enter a higher realm, and contend with heaven!
Rolling bolts of furious lightning descended. Strange light suddenly shone around Xie Feng, transforming into purple and azure talismans that shot skyward like flickering swords, shattering every falling bolt!
The defensive formation!
He had prepared it in advance!
More lightning crashed down madly, determined to blast Xie Feng, who sat calmly within the formation, into shattered flesh and bones!
This was an Ascension Realm lightning tribulation!
Amid thunderous rumbling, mountains collapsed, terrifying ravines split the earth, and the boundless mountain wilderness faced destruction!
Suddenly!
A beam of golden light shot from the earth, transforming into yellow clouds!
The yellow clouds enveloped the mountain wilderness, forming an indestructible defensive barrier!
The Radiant Sun Sword!
Sushang!
She had successfully broken through!
Tribulation Crossing, ninth stage!
Leaping across stages in strength was an innate advantage of the Primordial White Tiger Immortal Physique!
The little girl held the Radiant Sun Sword, the sun pattern on its blade flashing with breathtaking light.
The second round of the lightning tribulation was shattered once again!
Sushang gripped her sword, her eyes resolute. She was protecting her master!
The power compressed to its utmost, then erupted to its utmost-a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times!
His cultivation was still rising!
Ninth stage!
Tenth stage!
Boom!!!
Xie Feng abruptly opened his eyes!
Blankness!
Everything before him was blank!
Like a brand-new expanse of chaos!
Wisps of vast, ancient Qi erupted. He felt enormous changes within his body. His Dao heart was incomparably steadfast, his soul incomparably vast. With every breath and movement, he seemed capable of changing the workings of heaven and earth!
This realm...
Immortality!
Ascension to immortality!
No, after the Ascension Realm comes the Immortal Ascension Realm, but immortals of that kind are Red Dust Immortals-False Immortals!
Only above the Immortal Ascension Realm does one become a true immortal!
Xie Feng pondered.
He looked up at the vast Qi before him. Suddenly, something stirred in his heart. As though sensing something, he saw...
A road of rosy clouds!
The Immortal Road?
Xie Feng's thoughts stirred, and the Northern Nether Illusory Flame quietly rose. Emerald flames blazed through this space.
Emerald fire illuminated the Immortal Road!
That road led into infinity!
Yet farther on, however hard he strained his eyes, there was still only the weathering of ages!
Half an Immortal Ascension road!
Xie Feng's cultivation was now at the fifth stage of the Immortal Ascension Realm!
A wisp of Great Dao Luck forged the foundation for sagehood and illuminated the road of immortals!
Xie Feng gazed at the Immortal Road, his heart surging!
Over hundreds of millions of years, how many people had pressed forward, one after another, seeking to set foot on this road!
The transformations of seas into mulberry fields...
The figures passing down the flame...
The white bones piled into mountains...
This was a road of blood, a road of no return, a road of life and death!
Cross it, and glory awaited!
Fail, and there was only destruction!
Surging immortal potential radiated outward, enveloping Xie Feng. Within this divine mystery, he saw fate, yin and yang, reincarnation, and the Great Dao!
Bang!
Xie Feng attained enlightenment!
In that instant, his strength sublimated as well!
Emerald flames were like a dream,
Divine fire became immortal fire!
Divining fate toward the Great Dao,
Heaven's calculations measured nine feet!
Soul power was like a vast ocean,
Tenth-grade great perfection!
Standing alone on the Immortal Road, Xie Feng's eyes flickered.
An indescribable excitement filled his heart.
It was his unwavering resolve to attain immortality!
Just then!
The space began to dissolve. Xie Feng understood that it was time to return.
"Half-Step Immortal Realm, half a road to immortality-to think they could grant me such tremendous fortune!
"The next time I come, I will cross this Immortal Road and fully attain immortality!"
Xie Feng murmured!
The Eastern Continent lay in the east of the world, where the sun rose. This continent was divided into northern and southern regions.
The Azure Luan Clan held sway over the north.
An ancient and powerful race, they were one no one dared provoke.
The south was far more mixed, with hundreds of factions large and small. The largest was the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty, which dominated tens of millions of miles of land and had numerous vassal states.
But it was not the strongest!
Within the Eastern Continent lay a boundless region. Because countless Devil Beasts gathered there, it was called the "Devil Beast Forest."
These Devil Beasts were long-lived and powerful. Among themselves, they had even established ranks and order. Their civilization was every bit as powerful as humanity's!
Their beast sovereign, the Flame Emperor, possessed profound cultivation and had ruled for hundreds of thousands of years.
Ten thousand years ago, the Devil Beast Forest had formed. With resources scarce, they poured out in full force every ten years to plunder humanity's resources.
The Heavenly Dusk Dynasty suffered deeply from this, but could not defeat them. It could only endure, offering resources to the Flame Emperor every ten years, trading supplies for temporary peace.
Ten thousand years passed in this manner.
The Heavenly Dusk Dynasty went through several rulers, until Murong Jue ascended the throne!
For fifty years, he swallowed his anger and endured in silence!
For fifty years, he concealed his brilliance and bided his time!
He awakened the ancient divine artifact, the Taotie Bowl, from its slumber and restored it to its perfected state.
He had long intended to resist!
Moreover, the appearance of Grand Duke Linglong's Cloud Emperor Crown filled Murong Jue with delight. Two divine artifacts, coupled with his painstaking plans...
The time was ripe!
He now had the power to contend with the Devil Beasts!
At his command, Murong Jue led his troops into the Devil Beast Forest!
With the Cloud Emperor Crown in his left hand and the Taotie Bowl in his right, he turned a thousand miles into blood-soaked land, leaving beast corpses strewn across the mountains and wilderness!
The cores of the dead Devil Beasts were all dug out!
The Devil Beasts that resisted fell beneath the divine artifacts!
Thick smoke billowed, and blood flowed in rivers.
The Flame Emperor was alerted!
His killing intent soared to the heavens as he led powerful Devil Beasts into a fierce battle against Murong Jue!
The Sacred Continent.
When the news reached the Setting Sun Sect, how could Yan Fei sit idly by? He slammed the table and rose, intending to take disciples to provide support.
Yan Hantian stopped him. The war between the Heavenly Dusk Dynasty and the Devil Beast Forest involved two major powers, and it was an affair of the Eastern Continent. As a supreme-tier righteous sect of the Sacred Continent, the Setting Sun Sect's slightest movements were watched by the entire world, making it difficult to intervene.
Moreover, Murong Jue held the Cloud Emperor Crown, an artifact on the Heavenly Ranking. Who knew how many eyes were watching, openly and in secret!
Any move by the Setting Sun Sect would inevitably send the wrong signal, making people think they wanted to seize the divine artifacts. In the end, it would surely draw in more factions and might even throw the world into turmoil!
Yan Fei valued loyalty to his friends above all. If his father would not help, he would!
In the end, he kept it from Yan Hantian, called on Chu Shanjun, and hurried toward the Eastern Continent.