Chapter 501: 500. Great Fortune, A First-Rank Opportunity! (Part 1)

Chapter 501: 500. Great Fortune, A First-Rank Opportunity! (Part 1)





Upon seeing the destiny draw, Lei Jun was surprised.

This time, the result of the draw was completely unexpected in every way.

He was not focused on the uppermost auspicious sign but rather the lowermost one.

At his current cultivation realm, it was rare to draw such an ominous sign describing a situation of nine deaths and one life, or even ten deaths and no life. This was even more precious than the great fortune of the uppermost auspicious sign.

Considering that Saha still had some home field advantage, in a sense, the "value" of the lowermost sign was even greater.

...Would the Great Annihilation Bodhisattva, or the Demon Dragon Emperor and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree, come from that world of demons and monsters?

Or would it be some other top-notch expert?

However, referring to the word "chain reaction" in the draw, and the absence of words like "certain death," left a glimmer of hope. Lei Jun guessed that it was more likely caused by multiple top-notch experts, and their cultivation strength, compared to the existence of the Great Annihilation Bodhisattva, might be slightly lower.

Even with a slight adjustment, they would undoubtedly be extremely formidable, at least at the third level of the Immortal Realm, and not comparable to ordinary experts at that level.

If he prioritized the current world, the most likely person, without a doubt, was Gao Tian Sui, the leader of the Celestial Palace remnants.

He had been recuperating in the Pure Sky in recent years, and his progress was likely significant, far surpassing that of Good Wisdom Venerable and others.

If Gao Tian Sui recovered to his peak state before the End of the Han Dynasty, he would undoubtedly be the number one expert in this world at this moment.

If the "chain reaction" was also considered, then it might also include the Dark Emperor, Zheng Baiyu.

All signs indicated that Zheng Baiyu had left the Celestial Palace remnants and started anew, with his own plans.

His relationship with Gao Tian Sui was ambiguous, and his stance might change at any time.

However, looking at the four signs together, it seemed that Saha was the wrong time abyss destination.

The correct place was Guizang.

Lei Jun looked at the uppermost and middle auspicious signs, and thoughts flashed through his mind:

This was the second time he had encountered a first-rank opportunity.

The last time was when he obtained the Pure Sky Flowing Pearl through the Vajra Section of the Vajra Realm, elevating his comprehension from serenity to nature.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a first-rank opportunity again today, and two of them at once.

However, the middle auspicious sign in Guizang seemed to have considerable risks and potential troubles, enough to turn a first-rank opportunity into an average one.

If Guizang was indeed the new destination of the time abyss, then this first-rank opportunity was most likely related to the time abyss itself or other great thousand worlds on the opposite side.

On the other hand, the uppermost auspicious sign seemed quite friendly.

Lei Jun paid attention to the time.

The sun was setting in the west, and it was almost sunset. The time mentioned in the draw was already very urgent.

He hurried towards Yuzhou at the Three Rivers Mouth in the Later Shu Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms while contacting Tang Xiaotang and Zhang Wantong on the Great Rectifier's side.

At this moment, the Great Rectifier had already cracked and was about to split into two halves.

Aware that this world was vastly different from the human realm, making it difficult for Immortal Realm cultivators to survive there, the Sea of Suffering Venerable had avoided affecting the Great Rectifier, his foothold, when he made his move earlier.

However, with the violent changes and turmoil in the time abyss, the separation from the Great Rectifier instantly tore its sky dome, causing the possibility of this world, one of the Ten Earths, to crumble.

Although the time abyss had disappeared, a flash of radiance appeared in the Sea of Suffering Venerable's eyes.

He felt that the half he had previously absorbed, which resembled a strange existence of cosmic starlight, contained profound power, with advantages and disadvantages difficult to describe.

But there was a vague connection between this special existence and the other half that had separated.

The inheritors of the Buddha-Demon lineage were not known for their perception, and the Sea of Suffering Venerable, unfamiliar with this world upon his arrival, had no way of searching for the time abyss after it disappeared.

At this moment, through that half of the special star chart, the Sea of Suffering Venerable suddenly had a clue.

Disregarding the possible dissipation and loss from entering the human realm, he immediately rushed out of the Great Rectifier and headed out.

Wang Dianchen and Quan Yuanqi also took advantage of the chaos to leave.

Quan Yuanqi sensed that his arrangements in the Spiritual Mountain had completely failed, and just as he was feeling anxious, Wang Dianchen secretly transmitted a message:

"No need to worry, we made it in time. The Celestial Lord has emerged from seclusion!"

The two immediately rushed out of the Great Rectifier together.

Zhang Wantong, Tang Xiaotang, and Fengming Phoenix slowed their steps.

The three experts joined forces to temporarily hold the Great Rectifier, which was about to shatter.

At this moment, Tang Xiaotang received a message from Lei Jun:

"The time abyss has shifted, and the next destination might be Guizang."

Tang Xiaotang informed Zhang Wantong and Fengming Phoenix about this.

Fengming Phoenix spread his wings, and golden light akin to the morning sun enveloped the entire Great Rectifier: "I'll stay to stabilize the Great Rectifier's upheaval. You two, be careful."

Zhang Wantong seemed deep in thought: "It feels... more like Saha?"

Tang Xiaotang: "Lei Jun said he came from Saha to the human realm. Since he didn't mention it, Saha is probably not the place."

Zhang Wantong nodded slightly: "If so, let's go to Guizang."

...

In the Netherworld, the Celestial Peng, who had been quietly waiting for the opportunity and news, suddenly had his eyes shine brightly:

"Guizang?"

Upon receiving the latest news, he immediately spread his wings and left the Netherworld, taking the form of the Celestial Peng.

At the same time, Lei Jun, who was in the human realm of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, arrived at Yuzhou at the Three Rivers Mouth.

Although the other party's means of hiding their tracks were quite clever, it was only in comparison to Lei Jun observing from the observation platform in the Penglai Pavilion, separated by layers of void.

Now that Lei Jun had personally arrived in the human realm of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and was already nearby, the other party had nowhere to escape.

With a sweep of his gaze, Lei Jun saw someone preparing for a Confucian ritual ceremony.

The ritual was extremely powerful, silently stirring up space-time without a sound.

Moreover, it not only affected the space-time of the human realm but also connected the human realm with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Such a powerful ritual not only required the practitioner to have a high level of strength and cultivation but also indicated that it had been prepared for a long time.

Looking at the current implementer of the Confucian ritual, who was a martial artist, Lei Jun naturally thought of Dark Abyss.

He observed the ritual arrangements set up along the mountains and rivers, then turned east and followed the direction of the flowing river.

The river roared, and the mountains undulated.

The human realm of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms lacked a unified human dynasty, making it easier and more covert to influence the spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers compared to other human realms.

In the middle and lower reaches of the river was the Southern Wu Kingdom.

The Saha Gate was located within the Southern Wu territory.

To be cautious, Lei Jun had previously instructed Saha to temporarily seal the void gate to prevent being affected by the war or taken advantage of by external enemies.

After all, White Mei was currently in seclusion in the Kunlun Great Red Heaven, and there were no experts in Saha at the moment.

Therefore, Saha was currently disconnected from the human realm of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Due to the turmoil in the Time Abyss, after the Great Rectifier, Saha is also affected.

The void portal connecting the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the human world has not completely dissipated, and at this moment, it is forcefully reactivated and reappears in the Southern Wu Kingdom.

A black-robed old monk, shrouded in dark mist with black dust seemingly falling from his body, enters Saha through the void portal.

It is none other than the Venerable of the Sea of Suffering.

As soon as he enters Saha, the dissipation of his demonic-Buddhist inheritance essence slows down and even stops.

The Venerable of the Sea of Suffering senses the tremors in the Saha realm and silently nods in agreement.

This is indeed the new destination of the Time Abyss.

The guidance of half of the mysterious star map is correct...

Just as this thought crosses his mind, he suddenly feels a tremor in his heart and mind.

Because he suddenly senses that the connection between the half of the star map in his hand and the other half has momentarily vanished.

The temporal and spatial tremors in Saha also come to a halt.

The Venerable of the Sea of Suffering calms his mind and carefully examines the half of the star map in his hand, and he can once again sense the other half, but it is not in the current Saha; instead, it is located in another realm.

He is momentarily filled with doubt and uncertainty, unsure of what is happening.

Outside of Saha, in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Great River surges like an angry dragon, causing turmoil in the Southern Wu mountains and rivers.

The flow of Heavenly and Earthly Essence between the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the human realm is unusually cohesive, resulting in overall turmoil.

This also causes the destination of the Time Abyss to shift.

In an instant, the Venerable of the Sea of Suffering realizes the situation.

Considering both the retreat route from the Time Abyss and the other half of the star map, he makes a swift decision to head towards the next destination of the Time Abyss.

Such shifts in location have far-reaching consequences and are not meant to occur consecutively; it is already fortunate for it to happen once.

However, as soon as the Venerable of the Sea of Suffering exits Saha, a person suddenly appears before him.

The newcomer, wearing a nine-colored ritual robe, stands in mid-air in the human world, with specks of light seemingly scattering around his body.

But the Venerable of the Sea of Suffering keenly observes that around this middle-aged Daoist, as the Daoist essence dissipates from his body, there also seems to be the birth of new specks of light that gather and merge into his body as compensation.

"Friend, are you interested in recreating the glory of the Celestial Palace of old?" the middle-aged Daoist asks calmly.

The Venerable of the Sea of Suffering's masked face remains expressionless, "I prefer the Celestial Palace in its state of ruins, turning to ashes and smoke."

The middle-aged Daoist slightly nods, "Although we are not of the same path, today's situation is special. I still need to head to another place. Master, if you leave behind the Universe Map, you can depart."

The Venerable of the Sea of Suffering remains silent, but his actions speak for him. The colorless and transparent Sea of Suffering around his body surges and expands fiercely in all directions, as if infinite.

Seeing this, the middle-aged Daoist also remains silent.

Beside him, two tall heavenly generals appear, clad in armor and wielding weapons, with a bull-headed human body and a tiger-headed human body. They are none other than the Thunder Ancestor Law Image and the Nine Depths Fire Ancestor Law Image.

The Nine Heavens Thunder and the Nine Depths True Flame combine to form a powerful purple-green Taiji Diagram.

However, the radiance of the purple-green Taiji Diagram does not fully erupt.

In front of the middle-aged Daoist, another giant golden-armored heavenly general appears, emanating a faint golden glow.

This Doumu Star God Law Image, from head to toe, automatically generates golden starlight that burns fiercely before merging into the purple-green Taiji Diagram.

For other Dragon Tiger Mountain cultivators, such an action would only disrupt the yin-yang balance of the purple-green Taiji Diagram.

At this moment, as Gao Tian Sui unleashes his power, the forces of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are perfectly unified, augmenting the Purple-Green Taiji Diagram to unleash an even more formidable might.

This is the Three Talents Dragon-Tiger Combined Attack.

As the Three Talents revolve, the Taiji Diagram erupts with intense radiance, piercing downward, instantly shattering the boundless Sea of Suffering of the Venerable!

The power of the Sea of Suffering is immense, continuously breaking through the attacking pillars of light.

But the pillars of light also possess extreme destructive force, and being more concentrated, they penetrate the Sea of Suffering.

The Venerable's body, within the colorless and formless Sea of Suffering, shifts, narrowly avoiding the pillar's strike.

But in the next moment, Gao Tian Sui's figure flickers, and he too enters the Sea of Suffering.

Generally, those who enter the Sea of Suffering not only suffer from its erosion and attrition but also become deeply trapped, limiting their movements.

However, Gao Tian Sui moves with ease.

In the Venerable's eyes, at this moment, he appears completely white, as if transformed into a thirty-six-zhang-tall divine deity.

Within the Sea of Suffering, he advances and retreats freely, his speed not inferior to that of the Venerable.

Even as the Formless Sea of Suffering's water slightly erodes and shatters his white body, his physique instantly recovers.

This is Gao Tian Sui's second immortal technique, the Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body.

Just like Tang Xiaotang and Zhao Chanyang.

Upon reaching the Immortal Realm, at each level, the Primordial Essence Dao Body can assist Gao Tian Sui in bearing an additional innate immortal technique beyond the original one.

With the support of the Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body, Gao Tian Sui presses down with a palm, instead forcing the Venerable into his own boundless Sea of Suffering.

The Venerable forms the Non-Leaking Seal with one palm and lifts the Wheel of Rebirth with the other, counterattacking with all his might.

However, above Gao Tian Sui's head, his first immortal technique, the Primordial Essence Twenty-Seven Depths, unfolds.

It's as if the Nine Depths of the Yellow Springs are fully manifested within the Primordial Essence Dao Body.

In addition to the Nine Depths of Earth, there are also the Nine Depths of Humans and the Nine Depths of Heaven.

All twenty-seven depths are white, but within them, the Nine Depths True Fire burns brightly with teal radiance.

Due to the characteristics of the Primordial Essence Dao Body, Gao Tian Sui, during his cultivation in the Ninth Heaven of the Daoist Sage, was most adept at fire-based incantations and talismans.

He is also the first master of refining treasures and artifacts in the lineage of the Dragon Tiger Mountain Celestial Master Mansion since ancient times.

After reaching the Immortal Realm, his accumulated knowledge and skills integrated and transformed into his innate first immortal technique, which is the Nine Depths combining the Three Talents of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, thus forming the current Primordial Essence Twenty-Seven Depths.

With the Primordial Essence Twenty-Seven Depths, he can store countless artifacts and treasures he refined in the past, and it also possesses the ability to enlighten and seize opponents' artifacts and treasures.

The Demon-Buddha lineage cultivators' ability to destroy all things with their spiritual power rarely involves refining and using Buddhist treasures, so Gao Tian Sui's Primordial Essence Twenty-Seven Depths cannot convert opponents' treasures for his use at this time.

However, at his current cultivation level, his immortal techniques have become increasingly profound, and he has begun to take a further step, directly manifesting various incantations and treasures through the Nine Depths True Fire without relying on heavenly materials and earthly treasures, almost creating something out of nothing.

It is precisely because of such means that the situation could be maintained when he was sealed in the Pure Sky.

And at this moment, the Non-Leaking Seal, which the Venerable employs to target the mind, also fails to affect Gao Tian Sui.

Among the numerous treasures floating within the Twenty-Seven Depths, a large teal-colored seal descends from the sky.

This seal, aside from its color, is identical in all aspects to the Celestial Master Seal passed down in the Dragon Tiger Mountain Celestial Master Mansion.

A Teal Celestial Master Seal.

Its function and effect are consistent with the Celestial Master Seal, and as the radiance flows, a three-layered ritual altar, as vast as a mountain, manifests, enveloping Gao Tian Sui's Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body, isolating the influence of the Non-Leaking Seal.

Gao Tian Sui's actions don't stop, and as he faces the Venerable's powerful Crushing Rebirth strike, he still counters directly.

In the quietness, there is great terror.

The white arm of the Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body.

The black qi formed by Crushing Rebirth.

The transparent, colorless Sea of Suffering water.

The old monk's arm, already covered by a black sleeve.

In this moment, they all disappear without a trace, as if completely erased from the world, never having existed.

The Venerable, having lost an arm, remains calm, but his eyes flash intensely.

The collision just now was not a stalemate, with both sides suffering equal damage.

Instead... all destruction originated from Gao Tian Sui alone! The Venerable's Crushing Rebirth, like an egg smashing against a rock, is completely shattered and annihilated by Gao Tian Sui.

The Venerable's own arm is completely erased.

If he hadn't retreated in time, his injuries would have been even more severe.

And Gao Tian Sui's Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body, the arm that disappeared, is also due to Gao Tian Sui himself! His strike just now destroyed everything at the point of collision, eradicating both friend and foe.

This is the fifth immortal technique he created upon reaching the third level of the Immortal Realm in the Daoist Talisman School:

Primordial Essence Dissolution Technique.

Like Tang Xiaotang's Reversed Chaos, it moves against the Primordial Breath, harnessing the power of contradiction and repetition to attain an extremely explosive force.

Gao Tian Sui's technique also moves against the Primordial Essence, transforming the gathering of all things into ultimate destruction and decomposition.

The destructive power at this moment even surpasses that of the Demon-Buddha lineage's Venerable at the same level! Even Gao Tian Sui's own Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body cannot withstand it, and his body would be partially destroyed.

However, after the seemingly mutual destruction of the Primordial Essence Dissolution Technique, Gao Tian Sui's Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body flickers.

Within the white Primordial Essence Dao Body world, a large amount of white light dust appears out of thin air and continuously gathers towards his severed arm, reforming it, indistinguishable from the original.

Beneath the Venerable's calm exterior lies extreme ferocity, but facing such an opponent, his heart sinks to the bottom of a valley.

A Daoist Talisman School cultivator who achieves the Three Heavens Mystic Barrier can be called a Dao Penetration to True Reality practitioner, also known as Three Heavens True Reality, which corresponds to the Daoist Alchemy School's Refining Spirit to Return to Void.

This is the Venerable's first encounter with a Daoist expert who has achieved Dao Penetration to True Reality.

But he is certain that throughout history, the Daoist immortal before him has surpassed most of his predecessors.

Although Zhao Chanyang and Tang Xiaotang are impressive, their current cultivation level still has room for improvement.

As for Gao Tian Sui, he is absolutely incomparable to other Triple Heaven experts.

The giant white armored deity regains his arm, but the Venerable doesn't possess such ability, only managing to dodge hastily.

Gao Tian Sui's manifested Primordial Indestructible Dharmic Body now extends a finger towards the Venerable.

(End of Chapter)

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