522: A chaotic body suppressed by heaven and earth!

[Year Eleven!]

[You begin your attempt to break through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm once again.]

[Year Twelve!]

[When the immortal essence in your body completes its 9,999th cycle, your Meridians fracture inch by inch.]

[Your first Breakthrough attempt ends in failure.]

[You consume three Nine-Revolution Meridian-Sustaining Pills and take half a month to heal your injuries.]

[Immediately after, you resume your attempt to break through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm.]

[Year Thirteen!]

[You fail the Breakthrough once again.]

[This is already your seventh failed attempt.]

[You change your strategy; instead of forcibly attacking the Bottleneck, you turn to polishing your Foundation.]

[You re-examine and organize your Immortal Lord Triple Heaven Realm.]

[You spend a year re-consolidating your Dao Foundation.]

[Year Fourteen!]

[You attempt to break through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm again.]

[This time, your immortal essence flows thirty percent more smoothly, but at the final moment, your Divine Soul trembles, and you nearly suffer Qi Deviation.]

[You urgently halt the Breakthrough and take a Mind-Settling Pill to stabilize your spirit.]

[You realize it's not a lack of immortal essence, but that your Divine Soul's strength cannot keep up.]

["Fuck, I almost crippled myself."]

[Year Fifteen!]

[You begin to Cultivate the Undying and Unextinguished Scripture, specializing in the path of the Divine Soul.]

[This Cultivation Technique has been neglected by you for many years; now you begin to Cultivate it once more.]

[You meditate for twelve watches every day, using your Divine Sense to visualize the sea of stars and temper your Soul Power.]

[Three months later, your Divine Soul strength has increased by twenty percent.]

[Six months later, it has increased by fifty percent.]

[A year later, your Divine Soul is as solid as iron, having reached the standard for the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm.]

[Year Sixteen!]

[You make your tenth attempt to break through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm.]

[This time, your immortal essence and Divine Soul coordinate perfectly, and the 365 acupoints in your body resonate simultaneously.]

[You feel that barrier, thin as a cicada's wing.]

[But at the very moment of Breakthrough, the Laws of Heaven and Earth descend with suppression, forcibly pushing your cultivation back.]

[You spit out a mouthful of blood, your face pale.]

[You understand—it's not that you aren't strong enough, but that this world does not allow you to break through too quickly.]

[You begin to complain inwardly about these damn rules; they are truly disgusting.]

[You begin to study the operational patterns of the Laws of Heaven and Earth, looking for the right timing for a Breakthrough.]

[You discover that on the fifteenth of every month, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is most active, and the suppression of the Laws is at its weakest.]

[The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Year Seventeen!]

[You choose this day to charge into the next Realm.]

[At the third mark of the Zi hour, you sit cross-legged, the immortal essence in your body surging like a great river.]

[At the Chou hour, all 365 acupoints open, and immortal essence pours into them.]

[At the Yin hour, your Divine Soul rushes out of the Niwan Palace, resonating with the Laws of Heaven and Earth.]

[At the Mao hour, that barrier finally loosens.]

[Without hesitation, you strike with all your might!]

[BOOM—]

[A world-shaking roar echoes within your body, as if something is about to be shattered.]

[However, just when you think you are about to break through, you find the Laws of Heaven and Earth descending with suppression once again.]

[Your Breakthrough ends in failure once more.]

[At this moment, you calm yourself down.]

[You begin to seriously contemplate why the Laws of Heaven and Earth are suppressing your Breakthrough.]

[If it happened once, you could consider it a coincidence, but happening twice is clearly abnormal.]

[However, what you can't figure out is why you never encountered this situation during your previous Breakthroughs.]

["Could it be that this only happens after breaking through to the Immortal Lord Realm?"]

["No, no..."]

["If that were the case, why didn't I face suppression during the previous two Breakthroughs?"]

[Thinking of this, you can't help but shake your head.]

[You take a deep breath and push open the stone door of the secret chamber.]

[Since you can't figure it out, you decide to go verify it.]

[You decide to find those Disciples within the Sacred Heaven Sect whose cultivation is above the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm and ask if they encountered similar situations during their Breakthroughs.]

[As one of the six major powers in the current Vast Immortal Domain, the Sacred Heaven Sect has many Disciples above the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm.]

[You first seek out those from the Grand Elder's lineage.]

[After all, you are most familiar with the Grand Elder.]

[The first person you find is Lin Xuanji.]

[At this time, Lin Xuanji is practicing on the martial arts field. Seeing your arrival, he nods to you.]

["Junior Brother, are you looking for me?"]

[Lin Xuanji asks with a smile.]

[You get straight to the point.]

["Senior Brother Lin, I want to ask you a question.]

[When you were breaking through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm, did you feel any suppression from the Laws of Heaven and Earth?"]

[Lin Xuanji is stunned for a moment, then shakes his head.]

["Suppression? No.]

["Although the Breakthrough process was difficult, that was because of the need to condense stronger immortal essence; it had nothing to do with the Laws of Heaven and Earth."]

[He pauses and looks at you curiously.]

["Why, did you encounter it?"]

[You don't answer, only saying thanks before turning to leave.]

[Next, you find Zhao Tianyang and others.]

[You ask them one by one, and the answers you receive are strikingly consistent.]

[No one has ever encountered suppression from the Laws of Heaven and Earth.]

[In fact, when you mention this issue, most people show confused expressions, as if you are talking about some fantasy tale.]

["Laws of Heaven and Earth suppressing a Breakthrough? I've only seen records of such things in ancient books; that is a Heavenly Punishment targeted at those who defy heaven to change their fate."]

[One of them says.]

[That kind of situation is extremely rare and usually only appears when breaking through to the Immortal Emperor Realm.]

[But you are currently only in the Immortal Lord Realm; it should be completely impossible.]

[Your heart grows increasingly heavy.]

[Out of thirteen Disciples at or above the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm, not one has encountered a similar situation.]

[Only you.]

[You stand at the summit of the Sacred Heaven Sect, overlooking the surging sea of clouds, the information you just gathered constantly replaying in your mind.]

["Why am I the only one being targeted?"]

["Is it because I have the simulator?"]

["Or is it... that there's some secret about me that even I don't know?"]

[You close your eyes and carefully recall every one of your Breakthroughs.]

[From Mortal to Foundation Establishment, from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, from Golden Core to Nascent Soul...]

[All along the way, your Breakthroughs have been exceptionally smooth.]

[Even after becoming an Immortal Lord and breaking through to the Immortal Lord Triple Heaven, there were still no abnormalities.]

[However, when you tried to break through to the Immortal Lord Fourth Realm, the Laws of Heaven and Earth appeared to suppress you for the first time.]

[And this time, in your second attempt, the suppression still exists.]

["Immortal Lord Fourth Realm..."]

[You mutter to yourself, and suddenly something occurs to you.]

["Could it be because of the Chaos Body?"]

[If there's anything most special about you, other than the simulator, it's the Chaos Body.]

[However, you know the simulator is absolutely impossible, so what's left is the Chaos Body.]

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