529: Merge into the body

“Hmm?” Hao Duo gazed at the boundary realm that was blooming with infinite light, a strange glint in his eyes. “This aura…”

He pondered, then his fingertips began to move, performing a divination.

After a long time, he stopped and murmured, “It really is him. I didn’t expect my Severed Corpse to take such an extraordinary Disciple… Perfect. Even after devouring Lu Tianyuan, the forbidden saint position still restricts me. Only by devouring a few more Great Thousand Worlds can I accumulate enough power. Moreover, this good Disciple seems to have something extremely important to me… What could it be?”

As he murmured, he was about to instantly move towards the newly appeared boundary realm.

However, at this moment—

The entire boundary sea subtly vibrated, and a rumbling sound echoed from the Void Realm.

Above the vast boundary realm, an boundless calamity cloud began to gather, its oppressive power terrifying, even causing space-time to freeze.

Hao Duo immediately stopped.

He sensed the will of the boundary sea’s gaze—fortunately, that gaze was not on him, but was locked onto the nascent boundary realm.

He concentrated and looked, only to see the vast boundary realm suddenly disappear, and a phantom figure shrouded in Chaos Qi slowly materialized from the void.

“This is… merging a boundary realm into the body?” A hint of excitement flashed in Hao Duo’s eyes.

He could receive the memories of his Severed Corpse, so he naturally knew about the immortal root method and the Dao of merging boundary realms created by Yuan Gu.

The figure gradually solidifying within the Chaos Qi was Xiao Zhuo.

Finally, all the Chaos Qi was absorbed into his body, and an immensely powerful pressure erupted.

Outside the Star Domain, which had been cleared by the appearance of the Zizai Realm, scattered planets shattered and splattered under this pressure.

Even Hao Duo had to raise a hand and wave, setting up a dark light membrane in front of him to block the flying stellar fragments.

Feeling the immense force transmitted through the light membrane, Hao Duo’s pupils constricted slightly. “To reach such a level with just pressure… This is no less than an ordinary Saint. But he just merged the boundary realm, and the tribulation of the boundary realm’s advancement has only just been triggered…”

Under his gaze, the vast calamity cloud condensed by the boundary sea became even more violent as Xiao Zhuo’s figure solidified.

Merging a boundary realm into the body means bearing the great tribulation of an entire world’s advancement with one person’s strength.

This was no longer like the advancement of the Blood Demon Realm, but rather shouldering the tribulations of billions of living beings within the boundary realm.

The Zizai Realm had devoured the entire Nirvana Realm, which was comparable to a Great Thousand World, taking in all its living beings. The magnitude of its tribulation was so immense that a hundred Blood Demon Realms could not compare.

At this moment, what Xiao Zhuo faced was a terrifying power a hundred times greater than the tribulation of the Blood Demon Realm’s advancement.

The calamity cloud continuously drew in free-floating energy from within a hundred light-years, and the intensity of the energy contained within it made even Hao Duo, a forbidden Saint, feel wary, not daring to approach in the slightest.

“Such a tribulation… It seems my Disciple, this main body will not be blessed to enjoy it,” a hint of regret flashed through Hao Duo’s heart.

In his eyes, Xiao Zhuo was already in a certain death situation.

If it were him, he would never choose to merge the boundary realm at this time—this was no different from seeking death, blocking the tribulation for the ants within the boundary realm.

If it were him, he would let the world advance on its own, borrowing the living beings to share the tribulation power, and after the boundary realm’s advancement was complete, then merge the boundary realm to prove the Dao by force.

At this moment, many powerful beings within several hundred to a thousand light-years around also sensed this commotion.

Figures, some with overwhelming Saint power and others with restrained auras like Mortals, appeared one after another from the boundary sea, converging towards the vicinity of the Immortal-Demon Realm.

Even in a dark space, more than a dozen stone statues opened their eyes one after another, and the stone shells on their bodies cracked and fell off inch by inch.

“Such powerful tribulation power! It can even penetrate the Dark Realm’s barrier… Perhaps we can use this tribulation power to break through the barrier of this Dark Realm interlayer and return to the Immortal-Demon Realm,” an old Daoist who had emerged from a stone statue slowly spoke.

“Good!”

His words drew agreement from many of the revived stone statues.

The stone statues all fully sensed the movements of the outside world.

And within the boundary sea, the Lightning Tribulation had officially descended.

From the very beginning, the calamity cloud had condensed a Heavenly Tribulation Saint Incarnation, launching an attack on Xiao Zhuo.

As the two exchanged blows, the Great Dao of Thunder and its branch Daos continuously manifested, and terrifying Divine Abilities appeared one after another.

A lightning tree appeared, and as its branches lashed out, the space of the boundary sea cracked into countless fissures.

The Heavenly Tribulation Saint, while dodging the lightning tree’s strikes, transformed into a chessboard array, pressing down on Xiao Zhuo.

The lightning tree’s branches struck the chessboard, only stirring up a sky full of light flames, but they could never shatter it.

The chessboard fell, and Xiao Zhuo was forcibly drawn into the array, becoming the “general” piece in the chessboard.

However, the next moment, before the chess game could even begin to operate, Xiao Zhuo had already grasped a dark long saber, and with one strike, Saber Qi poured out like a galaxy, instantly tearing apart the entire chessboard and completely annihilating the “commander” piece opposite him.

Even the calamity cloud that was forming was cut open by a crack. Although it quickly recovered, it was already showing signs of wavering.

Immediately after, the calamity cloud continuously condensed one Saint phantom after another.

These Saints either held books, or had bells, cauldrons, and pagodas suspended above their heads, their auras majestic, suppressing the universe.

However, although their clash with Xiao Zhuo caused earth-shattering commotion, with a mere trace of overflowing power capable of annihilating countless stars, they were ultimately unable to kill Xiao Zhuo.

In contrast, Xiao Zhuo’s movements became increasingly fluid in his exchanges with the various Saints, and a Dao rhythm of carefree freedom gradually condensed around him.

“Boundary sea! Mere Saint imprints condensed by you, even with complete Saint power, but without their souls, what great use are they? Is this the great tribulation you send down? It’s far too disappointing!”

After once again annihilating three Saint figures, Xiao Zhuo raised his saber and pointed it directly at the calamity eye, his voice resounding through heaven and earth.

Some Saint-level existences from various boundary realms who had just arrived were all incredibly bewildered by this sight.

A person who had not yet become a Saint was actually enduring the advancement tribulation for the world within his body, and not only did he endure it, but he even spoke with contempt towards this rare tribulation, which started with Saint phantoms?

“Who is this child? Do any Fellow Daoists recognize him?” a middle-aged man sitting on the back of a majestic lion asked.

“Never seen him.”

“Don’t know.”

“Who cares who he is! We’re just here to watch the show, as long as it’s interesting!”

More than ten Saint-level existences had already gathered around. Although most were Clones or projections, their insight and knowledge were still present, and they could naturally see the strangeness of the situation on the field.

But no one knew the origin of the one Undergoing Tribulation.

With Xiao Zhuo’s provocation, the will of the boundary sea seemed to be enraged. The calamity cloud surged wildly, and thousands of lightning bolts of various colors converged towards the calamity eye, which was the size of a Middle Thousand Worlds, rapidly crystallizing.

A heart suddenly appeared within it, and countless Meridians spread out with the heart as the center. Immediately after, translucent bones, Meridians, flesh, and skin formed successively.

In just a hundred breaths, a slender figure, wearing a pure gold hair crown and an dark red imperial robe, stepped out from the calamity eye.

As he stepped out of the calamity eye, endless tribulation power frantically converged towards him, and the crystallized calamity eye behind him completely shattered into dust.

Xiao Zhuo watched the young man in the dark red imperial robe, an expression of extreme solemnity appearing in his eyes.

“That’s the Myriad Laws Great Sage from nine million years ago! Didn’t he already go to the Eternal Divine Realm? How could he be condensed by the will of the boundary sea?”

“The Myriad Laws Great Sage must have perished, and his imprint was collected by the river of time. The will of the boundary sea was completely enraged, so it summoned the imprint of wan fa (myriad laws) and reshaped his Saint body and re-established his saint position!”

“Hahaha… I wonder if today we will witness the complete resurrection of an old Great Sage, or the ascension of a newly promoted Great Sage to the saint position?”

More and more Saint-level existences gathered around.

This great tribulation caused too much commotion. The tidal energy fluctuations of the boundary sea had already attracted the attention of countless powerful beings from various Great Thousand Worlds, who successively condensed Clones or released projections to observe the battle.