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ArabicThe Protagonists' Chat Group: Beyond the Boundaries — Chapter 332
Chapter 332: Immortal Ascension in Nine Lives? Immortal Ascension Through Nine Transformations!
Boom!
The Heavenly Abyss, that vast scar separating the Nine Heavens from the Foreign Realm, once again experienced a massive, world-shaking tremor.
The fiery red Sea of Law that filled it surged like fresh, boiling blood.
An ancient and awe-inspiring weapon, a massive bronze halberd radiating immense power, seemed to want to cleave the Heavenly Abyss open from the other side.
Such a sight was too sudden.
And utterly terrifying.
The Heavenly Abyss trembled violently, and the Sea of Law boiled, splashing waves of pure Law energy that could annihilate Supreme beings.
This terrifying Aura caused waves of heart palpitations even from afar, and even powerful souls trembled instinctively because of it.
Without a doubt…
The Foreign Realm had launched another probing attack.
Another Immortal King had made a move.
Billions of crimson rays and blood-colored runes burned fiercely around the bronze halberd, engulfing it and attempting to suppress the chaotic Laws of the Heavenly Abyss.
A terrifying might swept forth, shaking countless worlds.
“Wushang!”
Shi Jian learned the information about the Immortal King who made this move from Immortal King Shi (Shi Wang).
[Inorin’s Note: “Wushang” is another extremely powerful and ancient Immortal King from the Foreign Realm in Perfect World, known for his invulnerability.]
This was an existence potentially even more terrifying than Anlan.
This person was a peerless King, surrounded by terrifying legends. His ancient stories made even other Kings tremble in fear.
He was too powerful.
And far too ancient.
His status was arguably half a generation higher than some other active Immortal Kings.
The Wushang Family was one of the most ancient Imperial Families in the Foreign Realm.
Wushang was the progenitor of this entire race. He had experienced more than one epoch, possessing boundless magic power and being a truly invincible figure!
During the chaotic Immortal Ancient Era…
Many Immortal Kings from the Nine Heavens had fallen at his hands.
He wielded a secret art, an innate talent, that granted Divine Ability immunity and invulnerability to almost all Laws.
Born Innate and invincible, few could truly contend with him!
Immortal King Shi could only contend with him now by borrowing the immense power of the Heavenly Abyss itself.
The great halberd burst forth with dazzling, reality-warping light, as if it wanted to forcefully open a stable path above the Heavenly Abyss.
A creature emanating monstrous power walked forth onto the halberd. This was not an Immortal King, but it was an existence that clearly transcended the power of the Mortal World.
A True Immortal.
The Foreign Realm wanted to send a True Immortal powerhouse over!
Wushang used his weapon to clear the way, employing unique, powerful secret techniques to counter the Heavenly Abyss’s suppression, intending to forcefully send a True Immortal being over.
Then, that Immortal would break open Imperial City!
This development was something that was not mentioned in Xu Que’s recently acquired information about the Foreign Realm’s plans.
Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, standing on the walls of Primeval Emperor City, felt their hearts surge with emotion, witnessing such a scene for the first time.
“Is this… the power of an Immortal King of legends?” Xiao Yan murmured, his eyes reflecting the terrifying light from the Heavenly Abyss.
The two had seen Liu Shen make a move before, but at that time, Liu Shen had not yet recovered her full strength, and she was only dealing with some relative small fries.
Therefore, it did not allow people to directly feel the overwhelming, cosmos-shattering power of a peak Immortal King.
Now…
Seeing the great halberd bursting with dazzling light, tearing at the fabric of reality above the Heavenly Abyss…
Only then did the two truly realize how terrifyingly powerful an Immortal King was.
Across an endless distance…
With the heavy suppression of the Sea of Law and the Heavenly Abyss itself…
But just that trace of Aura that permeated through…
Made them feel completely breathless.
Their entire bodies trembled instinctively.
The might of an Immortal King…
Terrifying to such an absolute extent!
Such an existence… perhaps a single thought could erase the entire Major Thousand Worlds they planned to ascend to.
The two, who had recently been feeling invincible and somewhat content in their respective worlds after reaching the peak, instantly reined in their emotions.
Although they were already invincible in their own lower worlds…
But on the endless path of cultivation… they had truly just begun.
The True Immortal’s legs left the bronze halberd, attempting to step across the edge of the Heavenly Abyss. But suddenly, he coughed up a mouthful of golden blood and staggered back violently.
Evidently…
He failed to cross.
The Heavenly Abyss stopped him.
This place was a Forbidden Land specifically set up by the ancient Kings of the Nine Heavens to block Immortals and Kings of higher ranks.
Coupled with Immortal King Shi’s active obstruction from this side…
Even if Wushang himself made a move, he could not easily send the True Immortal over.
A sigh, filled with ancient coldness, seemed to echo from the distant horizon of the Foreign Realm.
Subsequently…
The True Immortal who tried to cross retreated, disappearing from the halberd.
Another group of people boarded the massive bronze halberd.
Each of them had a chillingly grim expression, their eyes devoid of emotion, like demon gods breaking free from the shackles of Hell.
They crossed the Heavenly Abyss via the halberd and arrived within the boundary of Imperial Pass.
These people were not Immortal Dao beings. They were all existences at the Supreme Realm. Dozens of them.
“Supremes of the Nine Heavens! Dare you come out for a battle?”
A young face among them shouted loudly, his voice filled with arrogance and killing intent.
Shi Jian frowned slightly when he saw this group of people.
‘Dozens of Supremes?’ he thought. ‘This isn’t enough to satisfy my hunger.’
Silently, his Eye of the Dominator opened, peering through their forms.
A hint of realization flashed across Shi Jian’s face. Although there were only dozens of Supremes, a unique, dark power flowed within their bodies.
That was a power exclusive to darkness. The power of corruption.
“Come out and fight! I’ll cut off your head!”
Another young man shouted, raising a Heavenly Halberd radiating dark light in his hand and pointing it directly at Shi Jian from afar.
“A grand scheme indeed!”
Shi Jian secretly sighed in his heart upon seeing this.
This time, the Foreign Realm had truly put in a lot of effort just to deal with him.
So many Supreme powerhouses dispatched together, and almost everyone held a remnant Immortal Dao weapon.
So many Immortal Dao weapons…
The Foreign Realm had truly gone all out, emptying some treasuries.
If dozens of Supremes wielding Immortal Dao weapons still couldn’t deal with Shi Jian…
Then within the bodies of these dozens of Supremes…
There was also the power of darkness, ready to contaminate and corrupt him.
If he fought them, if he devoured them, he would inevitably be contaminated by the power of darkness no matter what.
It could be said to be a double guarantee. A poisoned meal.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t know that he cultivated the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.
Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength…
It was originally a cultivation technique that integrated both Immortal and demonic aspects, light and darkness.
Let alone the mere dark power of the Foreign Realm…
Even the ultimate dark power from the ominous plateau itself would be swallowed and refined without hesitation.
“Noisy!”
Shi Jian spoke, his voice cold. He then strode out from Primeval Emperor City to kill.
Bang!
Divine light shone, and terrifying Protective Aura boiled around him.
Shi Jian simply threw a punch. A Supreme holding an Immortal Dao weapon came to meet him, the Immortal Dao Divine Weapon bursting with dazzling, destructive light.
Shi Jian drew out the Great Luo Sword Embryo with one hand to contend with the weapon, while his other hand swept across, moving like lightning. He rushed past the weapon’s glow and directly took the Supreme’s head.
Annihilating the Primordial Spirit instantly.
The Supreme powerhouse was beheaded by him, but the Supreme powerhouse’s body did not dissipate. Instead, black, viscous blood flowed within it, eventually coalescing into a dark, humanoid figure!
A powerful, corrupting force emanated from this dark human figure, which roared and raged, rapidly growing in size, as if transforming into a towering Giant Elephant made of shadow!
The black blood pulsed, becoming increasingly vigorous.
Shi Jian could feel an extremely terrifying, ancient Aura from within it.
“Dark Blood?”
[Inorin’s Note: “Dark Blood” (Hēi Àn Zhī Xuè) or Dark Essence is the source of corruption used by the Foreign Realm. Contact can turn beings into mindless, dark creatures.]
Shi Jian immediately recognized this thing.
This was the Dark Blood used by the Foreign Realm to blacken living beings.
Ordinary living beings, upon contact with Dark Blood, would have their bodies and souls corroded by the dark matter within, and then turn irreversibly to darkness.
Once fallen into a dark being, although the Physical Body remained unchanged, the Primordial Spirit would be corroded, essentially becoming a different, malevolent person.
Falling into darkness, forgetting oneself…
In the original work, Huo Ling’er and even the great Meng Tianzheng were transformed into dark beings after touching dark matter.
Of course…
What they touched was not pure Dark Blood.
But other objects containing residual dark matter.
“You want to use this thing to burst me?”
Shi Jian was very surprised. This Dark Blood was actually a rare treasure, in a way.
For ordinary cultivators…
This thing was like a virulent, incurable virus.
But for dark beings, this was sacred blood.
It was an extremely precious treasure, of extraordinary significance.
Possessing this bloodline, one could even evolve infinitely, eventually becoming a giant among dark beings.
According to legend…
Immortal King Yu Tuo himself was infected by Dark Blood and became a dark being, then grew to become an Immortal King.
Dark Blood also had ranks.
Shi Jian estimated that the Dark Blood currently appearing before him was at least cultivated by a “seed-Ranked” being – a potential dark Immortal King.
This kind of Dark Blood was also called True Dark Blood.
Even higher rank…
There was also the Chosen Seed, directly anointed by the source of darkness!
The pollution caused by Dark Blood was terrifying. Once dark matter spread, it was like a zombie virus.
Countless living beings would have their consciousness washed away by dark matter, becoming mindless monsters.
In the Immortal Ancient Era…
The Foreign Realm had caused great havoc with Dark Blood.
That catastrophe was also known as the Black Calamity.
A hoarse, grating voice emerged from the dark figure, carrying coldness and cruelty, like an old ghost crying for ten thousand years.
The sound was harsh and unpleasant, scraping against the soul.
This was the sound emitted by the dark creature transformed from the True Dark Blood.
Black light emanated from his body, forming blades that spun like a meat grinder, charging towards Shi Jian.
This power was terrifying.
It had already surpassed the normal scope of the Supreme Realm.
However…
This was still not Shi Jian’s opponent.
With a gentle wave of his hand, the dark creature was blown apart.
It transformed back into strands of True Dark Blood, an inexplicable power of Law corroding the air. Black light continuously surged, trying to squeeze into Shi Jian’s body, to infect him.
“A buffet is one thing… but you’re actively trying to feed me?”
Shi Jian looked at the black light constantly squeezing into his body and smiled slightly.
‘Considerate.’
‘Truly fcking considerate!’*
“Then come in.”
Shi Jian deliberately withdrew the defense of his Five Emperors Canopy and the Gods’ Battle Robe, allowing the continuous black Qi to surge into his body.
The black Qi entered his body, just about to corrode his soul and flesh, when suddenly, a Giant Elephant roared from within his particles.
Vast and boundless divine light permeated his entire being.
As soon as the black Qi touched the divine light, it instantly disintegrated. In an instant, it was refined, purified, and suppressed by the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.
“Such pure… energy!”
Shi Jian only felt his cultivation soaring. He instantly touched the threshold of the Supreme Realm.
The next instant…
One after another, obsessions, fragments of self, flew out from his body.
They turned into blurry imprints, branded in the Void Realm around him.
His Aura grew strong to a certain point. Layers of mist enveloped him, and he transformed into a great cocoon of light, as if about to undergo Nirvana and Rebirth.
“He’s breaking through! Take this opportunity to kill him!”
The other Foreign Realm Supremes were overjoyed upon seeing this, shouting loudly. A group of them, holding Immortal Dao weapons, instantly charged towards Shi Jian’s cocoon.
“Hmph! Do you think we don’t exist?”
“Protect Supreme Shi Jian! He is the hope of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands!”
The people of Imperial Pass, Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong, instantly rushed out as well, intending to protect Shi Jian during his crucial breakthrough.
But the next instant…
They were stunned.
They saw countless silky, white threads spewing from Shi Jian, who had turned into a cocoon. These silk threads swept towards the Foreign Realm Supreme powerhouses, instantly wrapping them tightly like mummies.
Then the silk threads retracted, pulling one Supreme powerhouse after another into the great cocoon.
Supreme Realm…
This was a very unique realm.
The peak of the Mortal World path.
Shi Jian hadn’t expected this Dark Blood to be so potent, actually allowing him to directly break through to the Supreme Realm.
His current state was very peculiar.
Very clear, yet very hazy. Rising and falling, neither dead nor truly immortal!
The Aura within his body continuously converged, and his Primordial Spirit seemed to be dying, dissolving.
But in reality, it was undergoing some kind of fundamental transformation.
Outside his body, chains of order appeared like rainbows, and Laws manifested like divine chains, checking and enveloping him, causing him to form the cocoon and bind his body.
“Going from annihilation to new life?”
Shi Jian vaguely seemed to grasp something profound.
“Chat group, give me more points! All of them!”
In an instant…
Shi Jian applied all of his accumulated Heavenly Dao power to himself. His Comprehension Ability reached an unimaginable extreme in that instant.
He comprehended something crucial.
“Energy… I need more energy!”
Shi Jian controlled his cocoon, forcefully devouring all the other Foreign Realm Supremes he had captured, along with the Dark Blood within their bodies.
Countless grotto-heavens manifested between heaven and earth around the cocoon.
[Inorin’s Note: “Grotto-heaven” (Dòngtiān) is a concept from Daoism, representing a small world or blessed realm, often manifested by powerful cultivators.]
They madly absorbed the most Origin essence of heaven and earth.
Essence Qi like a sea was drawn by him from beyond the Realm.
Countless galaxies seemed to converge into rivers, forming waterfalls of starlight that cascaded down onto the cocoon.
One great star after another was visibly dimmed by Shi Jian’s absorption.
Stars twinkled, hundreds of millions of miles of starry sky appeared above, and the myriad stars were clearly visible. This was a magnificent, cosmic sight.
Everyone around, friend and foe alike, was stunned after seeing this scene.
The Supreme path… Supremes drawing essence from heaven and earth… this was normally a profound blessing that could nurture the surrounding living beings.
Once someone stepped onto the Supreme path…
They could bless their entire race, their entire world.
On his path to achieving the Dao Fruit…
Countless people would gain immense benefits just by being near him.
The effect was hundreds or thousands of times more terrifying than the feedback from a Dou Di Bloodline in Xiao Yan’s world.
However, when other Supremes broke through to the Supreme Realm…
The phenomena were never as terrifying as Shi Jian’s.
Galaxies overturned, starlight was vast, and the sun, moon, and stars resonated in harmony.
Such a sight…
Too Prodigy!!! Too monstrous!
…
In the Foreign Realm…
Although the people of the Foreign Realm could not cross the Heavenly Abyss, they could still observe the scene here through special means.
Many Immortals were excited.
“He absorbed the Dark Blood! He has broken through to Supreme! Haha! Infected by dark matter, he will sooner or later become one of us! With such a breakthrough phenomenon, he will probably evolve into an Immortal King in the future!”
The people of the Foreign Realm were also surprised by the sheer scale of the phenomena during Shi Jian’s breakthrough.
Unimaginable.
Such a sight was actually caused by a single person breaking through to the Supreme Realm.
Such a terrifying person…
Too troublesome.
He definitely had the potential for Immortal Ascension.
It was even possible for him to become an Immortal King.
But fortunately, this person was now contaminated with dark matter!
Once he transformed fully into a dark being…
He would be one of their own!!!
Plan complete √
…
Back at the cocoon…
A majestic purple Qi plunged down from the heavens, majestic in Aura, carrying a grand Dao Charm, reigning over the world, looking down upon all living beings.
This was the tribulation during the breakthrough.
The tribulation of the Supreme Realm was very different from lower realms.
It was not a Lightning Tribulation, but a grand will.
It was an inquisition from heaven and earth itself.
Coming with the will of heaven and earth.
Shi Jian’s breakthrough had reached a crucial point.
In his eyes, within the cocoon…
Brilliance shone continuously.
The purple light struck his body, but it did not cause any damage to his Physical Body.
Now, he was…
Powerful to an extremely terrifying degree.
The Foreign Realm was very generous.
They said they would burst him with dark power.
And they truly intended to burst him.
So many Supremes carrying True Dark Blood…
The power within…
Was extremely terrifying.
Shi Jian devoured all of it. He didn’t just simply break through to the Supreme Realm.
Just now…
He had burned all his Heavenly Dao power.
And comprehended a new Dao Law.
A new Cultivation Law.
He had once asked Shi Hao whether he wanted to follow the Mortal World Immortal path or the Battle Immortal path.
Shi Hao had arrogantly said he wanted both.
When Shi Jian first broke through to Supreme, he formed a cocoon and transformed.
This gave him a profound inspiration.
Breaking out of the cocoon and transforming… going from annihilation to new life…
This was the core concept of the Mortal World Immortal path.
Living out nine lives in reverse, transforming fundamentally in each life.
The key to the Mortal World Immortal was not the words “Mortal World” or “nine lives.”
But transformation!
Going from annihilation to new life.
Transforming the Physical Body again and again, reaching perfection.
“Mortal World” and “nine lives” were just ways of achieving transformation, not the ultimate goal itself.
If that was the case…
Why be fixated on living out nine lives? Why go through the slow process of reincarnation?
Immortal Ascension in nine lives was for nine transformations…
Then why don’t I just undergo nine transformations directly?
Therefore…
Shi Jian comprehended a new Law.
He named it himself…
“Immortal Ascension Through Nine Transformations”
(According to version requirements, the plan has been adjusted to strengthen the “Potato Man” system’s combat power… Dominator is roughly equivalent to True Immortal)
[Inorin’s Note: The final line seems to be an out-of-character author’s note regarding balancing cultivation systems from different novels for the fanfic, possibly comparing Sage Monarch’s Dominator realm to Perfect World’s True Immortal realm.]