563: Chapter 563 True Immortal Tribulation, Unprecedented Throughout Eternity

Three hours.

It wasn't long, but it wasn't short either, yet it was enough for the Chaos Dao Palace to leave its original location and travel tens of millions of miles away.

Shen Yuanmo had just finished condensing the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, and the Meridians throughout his body were still shattered.

The Chaos Dao Body was self-repairing, and the power he could exert was less than thirty percent of his Peak.

"Where is the nearest uninhabited Star Domain?"

The ship spirit responded quickly: "To the northwest, crossing two Void Undercurrent Belts, there is a Barren Star Domain about 1.04 billion miles away. There are no records of any Cultivator activity in my database."

"Is there enough time?"

"At the current cruising speed in stealth mode, it will take one day. The fastest of those seventeen True Immortal experts will reach the wreckage of the Desolate Star in three hours."

"But they are tracking the residual traces of Law fluctuations, not our flight path."

"As long as we leave the source before the traces dissipate, the probability of being locked onto is no more than seven percent."

"Let's go."

The gray flying boat started silently, skimming along the edge of the Void Undercurrent Belt.

All the Immortal Dao Restrictions of the Chaos Dao Palace were switched to deep stealth, and even the energy pulsations of the primordial immortal crystals were suppressed to three ten-thousandths.

Shen Yuanmo sat cross-legged in the center of the cabin, paying no attention to the True Immortal Rank Divine Senses approaching from behind.

He was recovering from his injuries.

The price of condensing the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity was greater than expected.

Repairing the Divine Soul 1,600 times was not for nothing; nearly seventy percent of the immortal divinity of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art had been consumed.

There were 432 fractures in the Meridian System of the Chaos Dao Body.

The Chaos power churning in the Dantian Sea of Qi barely maintained his bodily functions, with all the excess going toward repairing the damage.

But the chaos dao embryo itself was perfectly intact.

That True Immortal Rank chaos dao embryo rotated steadily within the Dantian.

The colorless and formless First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity mark on his chest released endless power, continuous and inexhaustible.

With every breath that passed, Shen Yuanmo's condition improved a bit.

One day later.

The gray flying boat moored in a barren area where even starlight could not reach.

There wasn't a single living star within a radius of billions of miles, only endless rubble and cold cosmic dust.

The concentration of Laws was much lower than at the Desolate Star, but it was still more than two hundred times that of the Tian Yuan Star Domain.

Shen Yuanmo's injuries had completely healed.

"Here."

The ship spirit was silent for a moment. "My Lord, you intend to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation here?"

"Is there a problem?"

"The celestial phenomena triggered by the Undergoing Tribulation cannot be concealed. According to the records of Immortal King Beichen, the scale of a normal True Immortal Tribulation affects a range of about a hundred million miles."

"Your situation is quite special. A First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity has never appeared before, so the scale of the Heavenly Tribulation may far exceed the conventional. I cannot make an estimate."

"That's why I chose such a remote and desolate place."

Shen Yuanmo stood up and moved his wrists.

His joints made a few light clicking sounds. The Chaos power ran smoothly through the repaired Meridians, and his state had returned to its Peak.

"ship spirit, have the Chaos Dao Palace retreat three hundred million miles away and stand by. After the tribulation cloud descends, do not approach."

"My Lord, in case—"

"There is no 'in case'."

Shen Yuanmo stepped out of the cabin door, his figure vanishing into the sea of stars.

He picked a desolate meteorite about thirty thousand miles in diameter.

No Spiritual Veins, no living beings; even the dust was a cold, grayish-white.

The moment his feet touched the surface of the meteorite, Shen Yuanmo paused for a few breaths.

Fifteen years.

From the time he left the Tian Yuan Star Domain until now, it had been exactly fifteen years.

Ten years of traveling, five years of transformation.

He had told his father when he left that it would take thirty to fifty years at the earliest; it seemed he could be quite ahead of schedule.

Provided he passed the hurdle of the True Immortal Tribulation.

The final natural chasm on the path of cultivating immortality.

Cross it, and one gains eternal youth and longevity equal to the heavens.

Fail to cross it, and both body and Soul are extinguished, falling into eternal perdition.

Shen Yuanmo looked up at the empty Universe above him.

"Come."

The chaos dao embryo hummed in the Dantian.

The First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity mark lit up.

That light was very faint, so faint that only a white dot could be seen on the surface of the meteorite.

But the signal transmitted by this white dot was enough to alarm the will of the entire Universe.

On the third breath after Shen Yuanmo activated the Immortal Dao Profound Truth.

The Universe changed.

It wasn't some earth-shattering commotion. Rather, it was an extremely subtle pressure permeating all things.

With Shen Yuanmo as the center, all Laws within a radius of ten million miles began to converge in the sky above.

Fire, water, wind, thunder, gold, wood, earth...

Visible or invisible, all Dao Laws were drawn from various parts of the Star Domain and surged toward the Void Realm overhead.

tribulation cloud.

No. Calling it a tribulation cloud was too polite.

It was a giant screen that swallowed half of the starry sky.

On a dark gold background, countless Law runes intertwined and churned, each rune carrying a destructive power sufficient to level a star.

The edges of the giant screen were still expanding, continuously devouring Laws from further away.

The ship spirit's voice from three hundred million miles away trembled violently: "My Lord, the range of the tribulation cloud has already broken through a hundred million miles and is still expanding. This is not the normal scale of a True Immortal Tribulation..."

Shen Yuanmo did not reply.

He was looking at the core of that giant screen.

All Laws converged at the very center, where a light was brewing.

The color of that light was very similar to the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity mark on his chest.

It did not belong to any Law, yet it contained all Laws.

The vast Universe was testing Shen Yuanmo in its own unique way.

First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, the Convergence of Ten Thousand Daos.

Fine, then this Heavenly Tribulation would let all ten thousand Daos descend together to see if he could withstand it.

Is it fair?

It isn't fair. Since ancient times, no one has ever condensed a First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, so no one has ever experienced a Heavenly Tribulation of this level.

There was no reference, no experience, and not even a single relevant record could be found in the ship spirit's database.

But on this path of cultivating immortality, when has it ever been fair?

The first Lightning Tribulation fell.

A pillar of golden light plummeted from the center of the tribulation cloud, its diameter exceeding a thousand miles.

Inside the light pillar was the Gold Law compressed to the extreme, every inch of space packed with Gold Rules sharp enough to cut through the Void Realm.

Shen Yuanmo raised his hand, and the chaos dao embryo manifested externally.

The ten-thousand-foot chaos dao fetus dharma idol stood upon the meteorite, the giant's face, swirling with Chaos colors, identical to Shen Yuanmo's.

The Yuan Character General Outline covered the dharma idol's entire body, and colorless light surged beneath every inch of its skin.

The dharma idol struck out with a palm.

The golden light pillar collided with the palm of the Chaos dharma idol.

That thousand-mile-diameter golden light was stripped away, decomposed, and devoured layer by layer by the Chaos power.

From contact to dissipation, it took less than two breaths.

Dozens of white marks appeared on the surface of Shen Yuanmo's palm.

The second Lightning Tribulation followed immediately.

This time it was the Water Law, turning into a vast ocean pouring from the sky, with a dissolving power hidden beneath the surface capable of corroding everything.

Shen Yuanmo didn't use his hands to catch it again; the Chaos Domain expanded, and the space within a ten-thousand-mile radius was transformed into his absolute territory.

The moment that ocean surged into the Domain, it was decomposed into the most primitive Law fragments, which in turn nourished the chaos dao embryo.

Third, fourth, fifth.

Fire, wood, and earth, the three Systems of Laws fell in succession.

From the sixth, they began to mix: wind and thunder joined, light and darkness ran parallel.

At the ninth, the Time Law entered the fray.

Shen Yuanmo's body aged ten thousand years in an instant; his bones became brittle, his Meridians shriveled, and the repair speed of his dao body could not keep up with the speed of aging.

He did not panic; the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art activated, and his Half-Step Immortal Soul released its immortal divinity.

He stripped the erosion of the Time Law from the Divine Soul level, and his dao body recovered accordingly.

The consumption of his Divine Soul increased by another twenty percent.

When the twelfth lightning fell, the meteorite shattered.

The thirty-thousand-mile-diameter desolate giant rock was pulverized into powder in the aftershocks of the Laws.

Shen Yuanmo's chaos dao fetus dharma idol floated in the Void Realm, with nothing but rubble and dust beneath its feet.

The Chaos Dao Body was covered with crisscrossing cracks, like a piece of porcelain about to fall apart.

But those cracks were healing.

Every time the First-Grade Profound Truth mark on the chaos dao embryo's chest throbbed,

a force containing ten thousand Daos surged through his body, mending the shattered parts.

The old Meridians broke, and the new Meridians that grew back were thicker and tougher than before.

Instead of shrinking, the tribulation cloud expanded another circle.

The edges of the dark gold giant screen were no longer visible, and the entire Star Domain was enveloped within it.

The ship spirit's communication was cut off; the three-hundred-million-mile distance had been covered by the tribulation cloud, and any Immortal Dao communication methods were shredded into pieces by the Law storm.

Shen Yuanmo was alone.

The thirteenth Lightning Tribulation, the Karma Law.

Every debt of Karma owed on his past path of cultivation was settled at this moment.

All the existences he had crushed, devoured, and annihilated turned into Karmic Fire and entwined around the Chaos Dao Body.

It couldn't burn him to death.

But the burning sensation from his bone marrow to his Soul caused Shen Yuanmo's face to distort for the first time.

He gritted his teeth hard, and the Chaos Domain operated at full power, dismantling the Karmic Fire strand by strand.

Seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh.

The Lightning Tribulations became denser and denser, the intervals shortening from ten breaths to five, and then from five breaths to one.

Toward the end, Shen Yuanmo could not distinguish where one ended and another began.

A torrent of Laws poured down from all directions.

The chaos dao fetus dharma idol was washed away, crushed, and reshaped in the center of the storm, then washed away, crushed, and reshaped again.

He didn't know how long had passed.

It could have been one day, or it could have been ten days.

When the final Lightning Tribulation—a colorless light pillar merging 99,999 types of Laws—

fell from the core of the tribulation cloud, Shen Yuanmo's chaos dao fetus dharma idol was already fragmented.

The chaos dao embryo in his Dantian suddenly opened its eyes.

The First-Grade Profound Truth mark on its chest burst forth with an unprecedented light.

The First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity expanded outward from within the chaos dao embryo, merging into the Chaos Domain.

The colorless light pillar plunged into the Chaos Domain bolstered by the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, where it was dismantled, dissolved, and absorbed.

Finally, the colorless light pillar dissipated within the Chaos Domain.

With this, Shen Yuanmo successfully passed the True Immortal Tribulation.

From the center of the tribulation cloud to its edges, the dark gold giant screen was blown away like a thin veil by the wind, revealing the clean starry sky behind it.

Shen Yuanmo's chaos dao fetus dharma idol dissipated.

He floated in the Void Realm in his original body; his robes had long since been shredded into rags, and a few final cracks that hadn't had time to heal remained on his Chaos Dao Body.

But those cracks were closing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

A golden light pierced from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.

Immortal Light Body Cleansing.

The chaos dao embryo rotated quietly in the Dantian, and then it did something it had never done since its birth.

The chaos dao embryo was no longer sitting cross-legged.

It stood in the center of the Sea of Qi, its eyes open, perfectly synchronized with Shen Yuanmo's consciousness.

The First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity mark spread from its chest to its entire body, turning into invisible patterns that merged into every inch of the embryo's texture.