Watching the Heavenly Dao's lightning tribulations—each strike more terrifying than the last, as if intent on erasing Qin Wuya completely—Qin Hao couldn't help but feel his heart pound in fear.
His cheap dad wouldn't actually be struck to death, right?
However, Qin Wuya, whose physical body had already been shattered by the heavenly lightning, threw his head back and laughed aloud:
"Hahaha, bring it on! Today ends in only one of two ways: either I complete the Great Dao, or I die! Damn heavens, give me everything you've got!"
Qin Wuya used the Heavenly Dao's lightning tribulation to repeatedly reverse-verify, complete, and even forge a unique Great Dao entirely his own.
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When the ninetieth heavenly lightning struck, Qin Wuya had already been blasted by the mighty tribulation until only an orb of his divine soul remained. Furthermore, his divine soul had shrunk to the size of a soybean, its light so faint it was barely visible.
Yet, facing this ninetieth bolt of lightning—a strike powerful enough to obliterate a peak Immortal King and severely injure an Immortal Emperor—Qin Wuya did not dodge. Instead, he actively charged toward it.
From within the orb of light came a faint yet incredibly resolute voice:
"Illusion and reality give birth to each other, existence and nothingness return to one. My Dao shall not be dictated by the heavens!"
Boom!!!
An unprecedented explosion illuminated the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens. Countless mighty figures extended their divine senses to observe everything happening here.
Witnessing such a terrifying scene, Qin Hao and Liu Ruyan, hiding inside the Nine-Turn Exquisite Pagoda, had their hearts in their throats.
As the light faded, a speck of light—so faint it seemed it could dissipate at any moment—flickered stubbornly at the center of the explosion.
It did not grow larger or brighter, but it gave off a more solid, restrained feeling, as if it had been washed clean of all superficiality and stripped of all impurities.
"This is your father's limit. The next bolt of heavenly lightning will undoubtedly kill him."
Saying this, Liu Ruyan turned to Qin Hao. "Give him the Nine Tribulations Sword!"
Qin Hao did not hesitate. He immediately tossed the Nine Tribulations Sword to Qin Wuya, who was undergoing his tribulation.
Qin Wuya, whose divine soul power was now reduced to a mere speck, shook his head bitterly.
"It's no use. Even an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon is useless. The next heavenly lightning is enough to obliterate an Immortal Emperor, and it is entirely unavoidable. Even if I return to the future right now, this lightning tribulation will follow me back and become even stronger."
"What a pity. I was just a little bit short. If the Great Dao of the later generations wasn't fragmented down to a third, but rather a half, I would have been able to survive this lightning tribulation and complete the Great Dao."
Qin Wuya clicked his tongue, his eyes full of reluctance. "Am I, Qin Wuya, destined to fall here? I really am a bit unwilling to accept this. However, to catch a glimpse of the complete Great Dao before my end... I suppose that fulfills my lifelong wish."
Seeing Qin Wuya so pessimistic, Qin Hao curled his lips and shouted,
"What are you getting all sentimental for? Hurry up and pick up the sword! You want to die? Did I agree to that? I still need to lean against your big tree to enjoy the shade!"
Qin Hao's words left Qin Wuya filled with confusion, but he still used his remaining divine soul power to catch the Nine Tribulations Sword that Qin Hao threw.
"Hmm? Nothing special about it. It's a very strong Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, but what else? Why does that little brat think this sword can save me?"
Just as Qin Wuya was in a daze, the ninety-first bolt of heavenly lightning fiercely crashed down.
This bolt of lightning was no longer an ordinary heavenly tribulation, but the most primal obliterating power of the Heavenly Dao. It was pitch-black like ink, and wherever it passed, space and time shattered, and the Great Dao wailed.
Even though Qin Hao and Liu Ruyan were far away and hiding deep within the Nine-Turn Exquisite Pagoda, they were instantly shocked by this oppressive aura, causing them to bleed from their seven orifices and their divine souls to tremble.
Treating a dead horse as a living one, Qin Wuya tightly gripped the Nine Tribulations Sword Qin Hao had thrown, hoping for a miracle to occur.
BOOM!!!
In merely an instant, Qin Wuya's remaining divine soul power was blasted apart on the spot.
As his consciousness faded, Qin Wuya smiled bitterly. "Is this death? Heh, I actually believed that little rascal's nonsense. How could a mere Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon save me?"
Just as Qin Wuya's last shred of consciousness was about to completely dissipate, a crack suddenly snapped open on the ancient blade of the Nine Tribulations Sword.
Immediately after, a warm and majestic power enveloped Qin Wuya. It felt like the very first wisp of lifeforce from the dawn of creation.
Under the nourishment and infusion of this power, the speck of light of his Dao Seed, which had been about to vanish, actually became solid and grew stronger at a visible rate!
Qin Wuya had originally accepted the outcome of his body dying and his Dao vanishing, but after waiting a while, he realized—hey, he was still alive! Not only was he alive, but his divine soul had been reshaped, and his physical body had been reconstructed as well!
In no time at all, Qin Wuya was fully restored. Suspended in mid-air, he was dumbfounded, his entire body frozen in shock.
"What... what kind of power is this?"
"An Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon? What kind of Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon can instantly resurrect an Immortal Emperor whose body and Dao had perished?"
Qin Wuya clicked his tongue in amazement. He had lived through the ages and seen countless supreme treasures, but he had never seen something as monstrously defiant as the Nine Tribulations Sword.
Within a single sword was hidden the lifeforce of creation, capable of forcibly resisting the Heavenly Dao's obliteration and reversing life and death.
Qin Wuya looked up, gazing from afar through the sky full of lightning mist at Qin Hao inside the Nine-Turn Exquisite Pagoda, his eyes filled with shock.
This son of his had truly given him a monumental surprise. A single weapon of his had actually forcibly pulled him back from the Heavenly Dao's obliteration!
"I knew all along that the brat possessed incredible fortune, but looking at it now, his fortune is even more terrifying than I imagined!"
Seeing Qin Wuya use up one of the Nine Tribulations Sword's lives, Qin Hao's heart ached with pity. He turned to Liu Ruyan beside him and asked,
"Ruyan, you said there are still eight bolts of heavenly lightning left. Can my old man withstand them?"
Liu Ruyan shook her head. "He won't be able to. He hasn't completed the Great Dao yet, and the subsequent heavenly lightning bolts will only get stronger with each strike. Especially the final bolt—even at my peak, I would have had to pay a massive price to withstand it."
"This is the rule of how the world operates. Once a cultivator reaches the Immortal King realm, they can reverse time and space. If such rules weren't set to restrict them, wouldn't this world plunge into chaos?"
After saying that, Liu Ruyan patted Qin Hao's shoulder and comforted him:
"Even though the Nine Tribulations Sword's nine chances to block a death tribulation are gone, your father completing the Great Dao will be of immense help to your future. Moreover, once the Nine Tribulations Sword's nine tribulation-blocking chances are used up, it will evolve from an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon into a Supreme Dao Artifact."
"A Supreme Dao Artifact is a divine weapon possessing the power of creation, capable of threatening the Heavenly Dao. In the entirety of the Three Realms and Nine Heavens, only one has ever been naturally born."
While the two conversed, the remaining eight bolts of heavenly lightning fell. Relying on the Nine Tribulations Sword, Qin Wuya successfully withstood them and imprinted the complete Great Dao into his body. Completing his Great Dao was now only a matter of time.
After pulling Qin Wuya back from the Yellow Springs for the final time, the Nine Tribulations Sword completely shattered, turning into countless, microscopic specks of dust.
As if drawn by some invisible force, these shattered fragments began to defy logic, frantically converging toward a central point.
Buzz—
A humming sound—seemingly originating from the root of the Great Dao, yet also like the very first heartbeat at the dawn of the universe—resounded throughout the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens.
The billions of dust particles of the sword's blade erupted with a dazzling light of creation.
The radiance lasted for a full day. When the light finally and slowly receded, a brand-new sword appeared before Qin Wuya.
With just a single glance, Qin Wuya was deeply shaken by the weapon. The original nine fractures had all transformed into lifelike, chaotic Dao marks. These nine cracks represented the nine most fundamental Grand Daos of the universe:
(Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Time, Space, Yin, and Yang.)
At the sword guard, a gemstone resembling a black hole slowly rotated. It looked as though it could devour all light, yet simultaneously seemed capable of birthing myriad worlds.
The entire sword did not leak any sharp, oppressive edge. Instead, it exuded an aura of returning to one's original, natural state, an aura that encompassed all things in creation.
As it lay quietly in Qin Wuya's hand, it gave him the illusion that the sword itself was a complete Grand Dao, an independent world of its own.
"This aura! A Supreme Dao Artifact! This sword is a Supreme Dao Artifact!"
It was not just Qin Wuya; the mighty experts who had projected their divine senses over also perceived it. This sword was a legendary Supreme Dao Artifact, a peerless divine weapon capable of creating a world and even posing a threat to the Heavenly Dao.
"Junior! Leave this sword behind, and I shall spare your life!"
"Bastard! This Supreme Dao Artifact is mine!"
"Let us each rely on our own abilities, everyone!"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
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