Entering the Immortal Forbidden Domain and Breaking an Eternal Taboo, He Could Be the First Across Countless Epochs!
Above the heavens, tribulation clouds gathered. Heavenly lightning rumbled, crushing the sky beneath its weight.
When Li Xunyuan had slain Ao Xing in the ancient city earlier, he had not revealed his cultivation.
Seeing the tribulation clouds fill the sky, black masses pressing down on the city as though they would crush it,
everyone began guessing at Li Xunyuan's cultivation. Most thought he was probably in the Creation Realm.
As for which level he had reached, no one knew.
In a pavilion atop the Star-Picking Tower.
"Wait, this is a Life Palace tribulation? Why is its might so terrifying? This is a little absurd!"
With his hands clasped behind his back, Li Nantian looked up at the darkened sky and frowned slightly. He realized things were not so simple.
As far as he knew, the divine son's physique was different: he possessed the Ancient Sacred Body.
Since the Prosperous Age, the Ancient Sacred Body had been subject to a curse from the Heavenly Dao, bound by ten layers of Heavenly Dao shackles.
To break through a realm was no different from defying the heavens.
Li Nantian had a rough guess: the humanoid heavenly tribulation and the palace heavenly tribulation were most likely related to the divine son's physique.
"The Ancient Sacred Body suffers the Heavenly Dao's curse. Every breakthrough brings down divine punishment from the Heavenly Dao. The heavens won't let him break through so easily!"
The cultivators in Heaven-Subduing Ancient City were deeply apprehensive.
Although the lightning tribulation was not aimed at them, the waves of destruction emanating from the tribulation clouds made their scalps tingle.
If one could not withstand a heavenly tribulation, there was no second chance. In an instant, one would be reduced to ashes, with a grave raised on the spot.
Inside the Star-Picking Tower.
The immortal bone within Li Xunyuan's body was engraved with the laws of the Chaos Dao. Brilliant divine radiance shone around him, and his flesh was as translucent and perfect as uncarved jade, without a single flaw or stain!
Every strand of his black hair gleamed, fluttering gently in the wind. His presence was as ethereal as an immortal's!
Behind him, six great phenomena appeared one after another, including Chaos Grows a Green Lotus, Immortal King Descends Upon the Nine Heavens, the Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram, and Splendid Mountains and Rivers!
Each occupied a Life Palace, exuding an ancient and majestic presence!
Li Xunyuan could clearly feel that, after refining Ao Xu's natal dragon crystal, his physical body had improved enormously.
Every movement carried the supreme presence of chaos, and his entire being radiated a faint sense of immortality.
Without resorting to divine abilities or secret arts, Li Xunyuan felt he could now beat Ao Xing to death in three punches.
His cultivation had broken through from the early stage to the late stage of the Life Palace Realm.
His physical body had also broken past the limits of the Life Palace Realm.
Yet he had consumed only a tenth of the natal dragon crystal.
Rumble!
At that moment, the Life Palace heavenly tribulation that had long been gathering in the heavens finally turned into a surging ocean of lightning and poured down with crushing force upon the Star-Picking Tower.
This was no lightning strike but a deluge, like the Milky Way plunging from the nine heavens into the starry sky!
Heaven and earth turned a blinding white. Blazing bolts of tribulation lightning filled the world, destroying heaven and earth as though the end had come!
The terrifying might of that divine punishment made everyone's hair stand on end!
"This is bad!"
Li Nantian's expression darkened, and his great hand reached down toward the Star-Picking Tower.
He immediately unleashed a Saint Dao divine ability-Heaven and Earth in the Palm!
In the space of a breath, he swept up all the staff and property inside the Star-Picking Tower with a single hand.
Then he took a step forward, raised his hand to tear open the void, and vanished.
He left so quickly that all that remained was an effortlessly dashing figure seen from behind!
It was not that Li Nantian was ungrateful and had abandoned someone to die.
If he personally blocked the heavenly tribulation for Li Xunyuan, what erupted today would no longer be a Life Palace tribulation...
It would be a Great Saint tribulation!
The moment he intervened, his own divine son would die an even more miserable death. He was better off watching and waiting.
Li Nantian believed his divine son could turn danger into safety. It was merely a Life Palace tribulation, nothing worth worrying about.
Hum!
At that moment, Li Xunyuan stepped out of the Star-Picking Tower and into the air.
He stood in the void, his red robes fluttering in the wind, a hazy immortal radiance of chaos winding around him. He was truly a graceful young master worthy of a prosperous age!
"He really did leave fast! And he didn't forget to take the Lineage's property with him. Li Nantian, you really are something!"
Li Xunyuan looked down toward the pavilion and watched the spatial rift gradually close, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
Complaints aside, the other man had been right to leave so decisively.
If Li Nantian stayed too close, and with him about to approach the Quasi-Supreme Realm, he could easily draw a Great Saint or even a Supreme tribulation!
When that happened, their cries to heaven would go unanswered and their pleas to earth unheeded. All they could do was take the lightning strikes!
Of course, that only applied to other people.
Li Xunyuan had no intention of indulging the Life Palace tribulation. He drew his hand toward himself, and a piece of wood flew into it.
Then, in full view of the crowd, beneath countless gazes, he wielded the stick to sever the heavens, cleaving the heavenly tribulation in two with a single sword strike.
With that, the tribulation clouds in the heavens dispersed completely, leaving the blue sky washed clean and cloudless for ten thousand miles!
The entire Heaven-Subduing Ancient City seemed to freeze at that moment.
Countless expressions froze, mouths hanging open as people stood rooted to the spot.
The Sacred Body's heavenly tribulation, which had just been drowning heaven and earth and striking down everything in its path, had now been shattered into nothing by a single move from Li Xunyuan.
The dreamlike contrast left many unable to react for a moment.
"This... what's going on? Can someone tell me what's going on?"
"Wasn't that Sacred Body heavenly tribulation a little too easy? He just shattered it with a little wooden stick?"
"I've lived all these years, and this is the first time I've seen something so heaven-defying. Feels like I wasted the first half of my life!"
"If I'd known undergoing tribulation was so easy, I'd have gone up there and joined the fun too!"
"Screw you! Have you got a hole in your head? Sooner or later, lightning's going to strike an idiot like you dead!"
After a brief silence, Heaven-Subduing Ancient City erupted, cries of astonishment rising in waves.
It was simply inconceivable, shattering everything ordinary people thought they knew.
Everyone felt as though they were adrift in clouds and mist, caught in an unreal, floating daze.
Yet the shock Li Xunyuan brought them went far beyond this.
"Having broken an eternal taboo and entered the Immortal Forbidden Domain, the sole one across eternity, you are granted a reward from the Great Dao!"
As everyone's hearts trembled in shock,
an ancient voice, desolate and majestic, seemed to cross the space and time of endless epochs, resounding throughout Heaven-Subduing Ancient City.
The moment those words rang out, all ten directions fell silent!
The Immortal Forbidden Domain!
Everyone present was hearing of this unfamiliar forbidden domain for the first time!
Breaking an eternal taboo, the sole one across eternity!
That meant no one had ever reached the Immortal Forbidden Domain in countless epochs. Li Xunyuan could be called the first person across eternity!
Even the Great Emperors of past epochs, who had attained the Great Dao and borne the Mandate of Heaven, were far inferior to Li Xunyuan in certain aspects of talent.
Ordinary heavenly geniuses could unleash the power of the first forbidden domain, the second forbidden domain... all the way up to the eighth forbidden domain!
Breaking through the ninth limit and rising from the eighth forbidden domain to the ninth was also known as entering the Emperor Forbidden Domain.
It could increase one's combat power tenfold, allowing one to fight opponents nine minor realms above oneself.
Once a special divine physique awakened, opening ten Life Palaces in the Life Palace Realm was equivalent to entering the Emperor Forbidden Domain!
Nine Life Palaces were equivalent to the eighth forbidden domain!
Eight Life Palaces were equivalent to the seventh forbidden domain!
And so on!
As for the Immortal Forbidden Domain, from ancient times to the present, it had never been heard of...