55: Achieve the Divine Sea, Slash the Heavenly Tribulation with a Sword (4000-word chapter)

Sea of Consciousness range: 9,994 li!

Xiao Zhuo's temples throbbed wildly, each pulsation pulling at a tearing, excruciating pain!

An unprecedented, suffocating sense of fullness permeated his entire Sea of Consciousness, as if billions of golden needles were frantically piercing the boundary wall from within! One more iota, and this vast golden Universe would completely shatter!

The limit was within reach!

"Open for me...!" Xiao Zhuo roared in his heart, unhesitatingly biting down on the ten seventh-grade qi and blood pellets he had already prepared in his mouth!

The violent medicinal power instantly exploded, transforming into a surging torrent! He frantically circulated his true essence, like the last mighty force pushing a star, fiercely pouring it into his Sea of Consciousness!

Boom—Rumble—!

The boundary wall of the Sea of Consciousness, under this almost self-destructive impetus, slowly but incredibly firmly shifted outwards!

9,995 li!

9,996 li!

...9,999 li!

10,000 li!

The moment of Breakthrough!

"Crack—!!!"

A terrifying thunderclap, as if the core of the Universe had exploded, directly boomed in the deepest part of Xiao Zhuo's Soul! A destructive shockwave, ten times more violent than when he broke through a thousand li, swept over him!

"Pfft—!" In reality, golden-red bloodlines shot out from Xiao Zhuo's seven orifices!

He bit down hard on his molars, his gums instantly tearing, and sweet-smelling blood mixed with fragments of teeth instantly stained the front of his robes!

Even more terrifying, all his pores seemed to be forcibly stretched open by an invisible force, and billions of blood droplets mixed with a faint golden energy mist erupted, condensing into a tragically beautiful and eerie crimson veil under the cool moonlight!

However, this was just the beginning!

"This is..." Xiao Zhuo "saw" with horror that within his Sea of Consciousness, that terrifying Divine Thought, as vast as a galaxy and as heavy as a stellar core, was like a breached, world-ending flood, frantically pouring back into his shattered Physical Body!

These transformed Divine Thoughts contained an indescribable profound power, forcefully expelling all the remaining blood from his body with unparalleled dominance!

The golden torrent of Divine Thought actually began to simulate the flow of blood, surging through his dried-up blood vessels, forcibly maintaining the operation of this collapsing Physical Body!

The Nine Revolutions Profound Essence Art's records had never mentioned such an anomaly! An intuition originating from the instinct of life exploded in Xiao Zhuo's heart: this was absolutely not a calamity, but an unprecedented, Heaven-Defying... great fortune!

At the same time, the interior of the Sea of Consciousness also began its earth-shattering ultimate transformation!

Xiao Zhuo didn't even need to control it!

On the golden boundary wall of the Sea of Consciousness, endless, densely woven golden threads, like living things, frantically writhed and fused!

In an instant, a pure golden barrier, emanating an aura of eternal immortality and indestructibility, completely formed!

In the center of the Sea of Consciousness, a terrifying energy vortex, unimaginably vast, suddenly formed!

Vast Divine Thought, condensed Divine Sense, and even the remaining true essence within Xiao Zhuo's body, were all greedily devoured by this vortex like a gluttonous beast!

The ultimate transformation of the Divine Sea Realm had finally begun!

Just then, that profound and unfathomable power, transcending all things, from the White Mist Space descended once more!

It ignored the violent suction of the vortex, precisely controlling the boundless Divine Thought in the Sea of Consciousness.

Streams of Divine Thought were easily stripped away and reshaped by it, transforming into countless dazzling golden Divine Runes containing the profound truths of the Dao!

These Divine Runes, like guided stars, continuously poured into the frantically spinning energy vortex!

At the same time, another portion of Divine Runes were branded onto the newly formed, immortal golden boundary wall!

Xiao Zhuo was like an outsider, watching with shock this magnificent "project" within his Sea of Consciousness, beyond his comprehension, guided by the mysterious white mist!

The vast, ocean-like Divine Thought accumulated from the previous expansion of ten thousand li was being frantically consumed and transformed at a terrifying, visible speed!

Time flowed in the silent transformation.

The vortex's suction finally began to slow down.

A low and grand hum, emanating from the core of the vortex, instantly spread throughout the ten-thousand-li Sea of Consciousness!

Buzz—!

In the center of the vortex, a point of ultimate brilliance, indescribable in words, suddenly lit up!

It rapidly condensed and collapsed, finally forming a perfectly round, flawless pearl!

This pearl, entirely flowing with a pure and unblemished platinum color, seemed to contain a condensed stellar Universe within it, with countless streaks of seven-colored auspicious light flowing and leaping across its surface like living things!

A supreme, transcendent and majestic pressure emanated from it!

"This... is my... yuan dan?!" Xiao Zhuo's mind was greatly shaken, and his Soul trembled for it!

As soon as that platinum and seven-colored yuan dan formed, it seemed to be summoned by some unseen force, transforming into a streak of light and shooting directly towards the very core of the Sea of Consciousness—the Divine Soul that had always been guarded by vast Divine Thought, sitting cross-legged in the center of the Sea of Consciousness, towards its glabella!

The moment the yuan dan merged into the Divine Soul's glabella!

Xiao Zhuo's main consciousness seemed to be torn apart by an irresistible force! A part of his consciousness was instantly drawn out, integrating into the seated Divine Soul as if crossing time and space!

Boom!

In the center of the Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Soul, which had kept its eyes tightly shut, suddenly opened them!

Xiao Zhuo felt his perspective instantly split!

One perspective remained in his shattered Physical Body, feeling the strange power of the golden Divine Thought surging through his blood vessels.

Another completely new perspective was perched high in the center of the Sea of Consciousness, looking down upon this ten-thousand-li golden Divine Kingdom!

What met his gaze was an boundless golden ocean, an immortal golden boundary wall, and the platinum yuan dan, suspended before the Divine Soul's glabella, slowly rotating and emitting seven-colored auspicious light!

The Divine Sea Realm, it was done!

It was truly done!

Xiao Zhuo clearly perceived that this ten-thousand-li Divine Sea could now autonomously draw some profound energy from the Void Realm, continuously generating and accumulating Divine Thought, no longer needing to squeeze the true essence from his Physical Body!

At the same time, the golden Divine Thought, which had replaced blood and surged through his blood vessels, was subtly yet irresistibly permeating and transforming every minute corner of his Physical Body!

A feeling was incredibly clear: as his Cultivation deepened, his entire life form would be completely reshaped and sublimated by this vast Divine Thought!

"Can I still be considered 'human'...?" Stepping out of the White Mist Space, Xiao Zhuo's consciousness returned to his real Physical Body. Feeling the strange yet powerful force surging within him, a sense of confusion and bewilderment about his life form quietly welled up in his heart.

However, this confusion was instantly crushed by a terrifying pressure from the Nine Heavens, a pressure that froze his Soul!

"Boom—!!!"

A terrifying thunderclap, as if to split the world, exploded above Jizhou City!

A destructive aura, locked onto by heaven and earth, like an invisible shackle, instantly tightened around every inch of Xiao Zhuo's mind!

"Heavenly Tribulation!"

Two words, heavy as mountains, slammed into Xiao Zhuo's mind!

His eyes instantly became as cold as ten thousand years of ice, without a trace of confusion!

Taking a step, the door of the side room silently turned to dust!

His figure stood like a spear in the courtyard, looking up directly at the sky!

At this moment, the entire Jizhou City was alarmed!

Countless powerhouses looked up at the sky in horror! They saw thick calamity clouds, like a boiling ink sea, frantically gathering and swirling above the Prince's Estate!

Countless purple-white lightning snakes, thick as giant pythons, frantically darted and hissed deep within the clouds, emanating an aura of destroying all things!

In the Prince's Estate study.

Ji Buji, the Prince of Ji, who was reviewing documents, suddenly looked up, his gaze like lightning, piercing through layers of eaves, firmly locking onto the surging calamity clouds!

"Heavenly Dao's Tribulation?! Only a peerless Prodigy who defies the heavens can trigger such a Heavenly Tribulation upon Breakthrough!" Feeling the power contained within the calamity clouds, enough to make even him feel a chill, this Peak Myriad Manifestations Realm powerhouse, who had presided over Jizhou for hundreds of years, had an extremely solemn expression!

His gaze suddenly shifted towards the west wing, piercing through space, and instantly "saw" the blood-stained yet unyielding figure in the courtyard!

"It's him?!" Ji Buji's pupils constricted, and a monstrous wave rose in his heart! "This kid... just two days ago, he was clearly just entering the Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm)! How could he... how could he trigger a Divine Sea Heavenly Tribulation now?! Could it be that he... was able to hide his Cultivation from this Prince's perception before?!"

At this moment, Xiao Zhuo had just completed his Breakthrough, his aura like a blazing sun. The Spirit Concealment Art had no time to be cast, and his terrifying Divine Sea Realm Cultivation was fully exposed in the eyes of a powerhouse like Ji Buji!

Even with Ji Buji's state of mind, he was completely unsettled at this moment!

Such a young Divine Sea Realm! And a Heaven-Defying Prodigy who could trigger the Heavenly Dao's Tribulation! This was beyond common sense!

Somewhere in Jizhou City, at the top of a seven-story pavilion.

An elderly man in white, with white hair and beard but a rosy, Infant/Baby-like face, suddenly paused his hand as he slowly wiped an ancient longsword.

His cloudy yet profound eyes, like the starry sky, looked up at the destructive calamity clouds above the Prince's Estate, then his gaze accurately fell on the west wing of the Prince's Estate.

First, a trace of extreme astonishment flashed in his eyes, then an indescribable smile, filled with relief and anticipation, slowly bloomed on his face.

"Haha... Hahahaha!" A clear and hearty laugh suddenly came from the top of the pavilion, piercing through the muffled thunder!

In the Prince's Estate courtyard, Xiao Zhuo sensed that the calamity clouds were about to form and lock onto him!

"This place is not suitable for Undergoing Tribulation!" A sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and he tapped his foot on the ground!

"Whoosh—!"

A dazzling green streak of light tore through the air, speeding towards the open area outside the city at a speed exceeding sound!

In a breath, he had already swept a hundred li away, landing on the Peak of a barren, withered mountain!

Above his head, the destructive calamity clouds followed like a shadow, arriving in an instant!

In the rolling clouds, the aura of destruction had brewed to its extreme!

Xiao Zhuo stood on the mountaintop, the strong wind whipping his blood-stained robes, making them flap loudly.

His powerful Divine Sense penetrated through layers of calamity clouds without hindrance, clearly "seeing" that in the core of the clouds, wisps of destructive Heavenly Tribulation power were frantically gathering, and a cold, emotionless "Lightning Tribulation Eye" filled with the will of judgment was slowly opening!

"Heavenly Tribulation? Heh..." Xiao Zhuo's lips curled into a cold and defiant arc, his eyes filled with the determination to cut down everything! "If this heaven wants to block my Dao... then I shall... cut down this heaven!"

Feeling the terrifying power, hundreds of times stronger than the Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm), surging and roaring within him like an ancient Vicious Beast in hibernation, an unprecedented heroic spirit filled his chest!

"Hahahaha! Come and fight!" Xiao Zhuo laughed wildly, his voice shaking the four fields! Not only did he not wait for the Heavenly Tribulation to descend, but amidst his wild laughter, his figure transformed into a bolt of lightning tearing through the sky, boldly charging upwards, actively crashing into the destructive calamity clouds!

The dragon blood saber was already in his hand! The saber body hummed, as if also yearning for this earth-shattering battle!

"Boom—!!!"

The seventh layer true essence of the Nine Revolutions Profound Essence Art was poured in without reservation!

Above the long saber, a terrifying energy erupted, enough to twist space itself!

Before the saber light even emerged, its sharpness caused the surrounding calamity clouds to churn violently!

"Purple Micro... Starfall!"

Xiao Zhuo angrily slashed deep within the calamity clouds! A terrifying saber light several li long appeared out of thin air!

The saber light was as deep as the Universe's night sky, yet it was entwined with destructive lightning, and dotted with brilliant stars embedded within it, as if a piece of the starry sky had been refined into the saber Qi!

This was precisely the Heavenly Dipper Transformation to Zenith Saber Technique's most powerful killing move!

This saber strike, carrying the supreme will to cut through all ages and shatter stars, fiercely slashed towards the core of the calamity clouds—the Lightning Tribulation Eye that had just condensed, emanating the aura of supreme judgment!

The calamity eye seemed to be completely enraged by this ant's Heaven-Defying act! The cold will of judgment materialized into tangible fury!

A deep purple destructive lightning spear, ten zhang thick and condensed to the extreme, like a spear of divine punishment, shot out from the calamity eye, meeting the starfall saber light that slashed against the sky!

"Break for me!!!"

In the center of Xiao Zhuo's Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Soul, which had fused with the yuan dan and sat atop the ten-thousand-li Divine Sea, suddenly opened its eyes!

A terrifying Divine Thought, as vast as a star sea and as condensed as substance, instantly crossed the Void Realm, empowering the starfall saber light!

At the same time, Xiao Zhuo's roar, like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, exploded in the calamity clouds!

"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!!"

Saber light and lightning spear, violently collided!

An indescribably dazzling purple light instantly erupted, completely dyeing the sky for hundreds of li around with a destructive purple hue! Countless buildings in Jizhou City lost all color under this light!

Above the clouds, the Heavenly Tribulation lightning spear, powerful enough to kill an ordinary Divine Sea Peak cultivator, was like fragile glass before the Purple Micro Starfall, which had fused with ten thousand li of Divine Thought!

The moment of contact, it shattered and disintegrated inch by inch! It simply could not stop the world-destroying starfall saber light in the slightest!

The saber light continued to press down with irresistible force!

The calamity eye trembled violently, the destructive energy gathered within it surged frantically, attempting to condense a stronger counterattack! However, Xiao Zhuo's saber strike was too fast! Too decisive!

The gigantic starfall saber light, like a divine axe that split heaven and earth, slashed across!

Hiss—!

The entire vast calamity cloud, along with that cold and emotionless Lightning Tribulation Eye, was... split open by this saber strike! Divided into two!

The light of the calamity eye instantly solidified, as if frozen.

One breath later.

Boom— — — —!!!

The frozen calamity eye, along with the split calamity clouds, exploded with a roar!

Transforming into a sky full of rampaging purple lightning, like magnificent fireworks, yet filled with an aura of annihilation, wildly raging and dissipating in the night sky!

Xiao Zhuo hovered in the center of the shattered calamity clouds, his body bathed in the destructive lightning that had not yet dispersed, like a thunder god descended to the world. He looked at the place where the calamity eye had dissipated, and a hearty and disdainful smile finally appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The power of this saber strike was more than a hundred times stronger than when he was in the Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm)?

But this... was still far from his current limit!

The calamity clouds dispersed, the lightning light annihilated.

In Jizhou City, countless powerhouses secretly observing this earth-shattering Undergoing Tribulation all gasped, their bodies turning cold!

Prodigies who triggered Heavenly Tribulation were not unheard of.

But to... actively charge into the calamity clouds before the Heavenly Tribulation even descended, and with one saber strike, annihilate the calamity eye representing the will of Heavenly Tribulation... unheard of! Unseen!

Was this... truly Undergoing Tribulation? This was clearly... Killing the Heavens (Slaying Heaven)!

Above the withered mountain, Xiao Zhuo was about to turn and leave.

Another anomaly occurred!

The scattered purple lightning that had not completely disappeared after the calamity eye's destruction seemed to be drawn by some supreme, invisible force, no longer dissipating. Instead, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, it transformed into streaks of light, frantically surging towards Xiao Zhuo, who was suspended in the air!

The speed was so fast, it surpassed instantaneous movement!

Xiao Zhuo's pupils constricted, and he subconsciously wanted to dodge. The thought had just arisen when the lightning, containing pure destructive and creative power, had already entered his body!

Boom!

The lightning entering his body did not bring destruction. Instead, like the most docile energy, it began to frantically temper and nourish his Physical Body, which had just been initially transformed by Divine Thought!

Every inch of his muscles, bones, and flesh greedily absorbed this "gift" from the Heavenly Tribulation, emitting a subtle and joyful hum!

At the same time, the attribute panel suspended in front of the Divine Soul in his Sea of Consciousness, its edges quietly showed a never-before-seen, extremely subtle... golden lightning pattern!

The entire panel also seemed to emit an extremely subtle... tremor!