191: Mastering military strategy to become the supreme ruler

[At age seventy-two, you searched almost the entire Boundless Realm, but you were never able to find any more Cultivators with that eerie Luck like Lin Fan and the other four.]

[It was impossible that the mastermind behind the scenes had only planted these five mere pawns, right?]

[You guessed that there was a high probability that as time passed and these people's cultivation levels increased, that eerie Luck became hidden more deeply.]

[As a result, even with your Great Saint cultivation and the help of the Grand Void Mirror, you could not detect it.]

[You knew that continuing to search would be a waste of time, so you once again devoted all your energy to finding Opportunities to improve your cultivation.]

[At age seventy-nine, on this day, you sat cross-legged atop the sea of clouds, surrounded by ten thousand rays of radiant light; your cultivation reached the Great Saint Peak!]

[Feeling the surging Saint Power within your body, you knew you had touched the limit of the Saint Dao Domain.]

[Looking out, hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and rivers lay beneath your feet; you were one step closer to the Emperor Dao Domain.]

[According to the Emperor Scriptures like the Taixu Scripture and the Taichu Emperor Scripture, the path to becoming a Supreme is not a simple accumulation of power, but requires a deeper understanding of the essence of heaven and earth.]

[The first step to advancing to Supreme is to comprehend the Laws governing the operation of heaven and earth.]

[Afterwards, based on your own insights from cultivation, you must create your own Supreme Art, then transform the Saint Dao Laws into Supreme Laws, and survive a Lightning Tribulation; only then are you considered a true Supreme powerhouse.]

[At age eighty-one, you studied the Emperor Scriptures and meditated on heaven and earth every day. Finally, after two and a half years of secluded meditation, you had an Epiphany on a night with a full moon.]

[At that moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly bloomed in your Sea of Consciousness, and countless rules of heaven and earth poured into your consciousness like a tide.]

[You saw the pulse of mountains and rivers, felt the rhythm of the changing seasons, and even captured the flowing trajectory of the long river of time and space.]

[This Epiphany allowed you to successfully comprehend the Laws governing the operation of heaven and earth. Your Domain began to undergo a qualitative change, becoming able to produce a deep resonance with heaven and earth.]

[At this time, you could already mobilize the Great Momentum of heaven and earth to bolster your Domain, achieving the ability to change the world with a single thought.]

[With a wave of your hand, the distant sea of clouds transformed into a circling Dragon; with a thought, the mountain Peak beneath your feet rose from the ground.]

[This feeling of controlling heaven and earth made you realize that you were already standing on the threshold of the Supreme Realm.]

[You wondered if it was because you were the first Supreme born after the recovery of heaven and earth.]

[Or perhaps it was because you had comprehended the operational Laws of the Boundless Realm, a world formed by the Fusion of the Three Thousand Great Worlds.]

[Even before truly advancing to the Supreme Realm, the Great Momentum of heaven and earth you could mobilize already surpassed some veteran Supremes who had awakened from their slumber and had been immersed in the Supreme Realm for many years.]

[At age eighty-five, after four years of painstaking research, you finally created your own Supreme Art based on your special ability to control Emperor Weapons—Weapon Control!]

[This Supreme Art allows you to better utilize your ability to wield Emperor Weapons, increasing the final power released by an Emperor Weapon by at least several dozen percent.]

[Not only that, using the Supreme Art "Weapon Control" allows you to briefly accommodate several Emperor Weapons within your body, significantly boosting your strength for a short period.]

[When you tried it for the first time, the moment you felt the Emperor Weapon enter your body, vast power poured into your limbs and bones like a bursting flood; the feeling was both painful and wonderful.]

[However, this practice of fusing Emperor Weapons into the body places great demands on the strength of the Physical Body.]

[After testing, with your current Physical Body strength, you can accommodate at most two Emperor Weapons.]

[But even with only two Emperor Weapons, the boost provided is still terrifyingly immense.]

[It can briefly raise your Realm from the Great Saint Peak to the Seventh Heaven of the Supreme Realm!]

[This leap-like enhancement is simply unheard of.]

[However, this state can only be maintained for a maximum of one minute, after which it is forced to deactivate because the body cannot withstand the strain.]

[In addition, the Art of Controlling Weapons also allows you to influence weapons that already have masters; you feel that you can forcefully influence any weapon below the level of an Emperor Weapon, preventing it from exerting its original power.]

[At age eighty-six, you traveled alone to a barren Star Domain in the starry sky of the Boundless Realm.]

[This part of the starry sky was silent and dead, with even the stars appearing dim; it was the perfect place for Undergoing Tribulation.]

[You took out the Grand Void Mirror and suspended it above your head, its ancient surface flowing with powerful spatial power. You also summoned the Boundary-Splitting Bell to circle around you; with a light chime, it worked with the Grand Void Mirror to create a barrier isolating the area from heaven and earth.]

[As you circulated your Cultivation Technique, thunderclouds suddenly gathered in the sky, and the Supreme Lightning Tribulation arrived as scheduled.]

[When the first divine lightning bolt struck, you realized the extraordinary nature of this Heavenly Tribulation; it truly lived up to its reputation for automatically adjusting based on the strength of the Cultivator.]

[Even with your Physical Body that had long since reached the Supreme level, every bolt of lightning left deep, bone-exposing wounds on your skin.]

[But instead of being alarmed, you were delighted, because these divine lightning bolts contained rich Heavenly Dao Laws, which were rare tempering Materials for your Taichu Divine Body.]

[The Lightning Tribulation lasted for a full three months. Your clothes had long since turned to ash, and your skin was covered in lightning patterns, each one flashing with Dao Runes.]

[At age eighty-seven, this ordeal of Undergoing Tribulation lasted for a full year and was finally nearing its end.]

[When the nine hundred and ninety-ninth lightning bolt dissipated, the Spiritual Qi of the entire Star Domain suddenly froze.]

[A crack opened in the sky, and ten figures exuding Emperor Might stepped out—they were actually projections of Great Emperors from past generations!]

[Some sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, others stood with hands behind their backs; each one represented the Peak of a certain era.]

[A sharp light burst from your eyes; this was the perfect time to test the "Weapon Control" Supreme Art.]

[Without hesitation, you summoned the battle god armor. As the dark gold armor covered your body, boundless Battle Intent erupted from you.]

[The moment the Primordial Divine Sword was unsheathed, the entire starry sky seemed to be torn apart by intense Sword Intent.]

[As if sensing the aura of Emperor Weapons, the ten Great Emperor projections also manifested their respective Emperor Weapons: the Xuantian Tower, the World Burning Furnace, the Star River Map... The power of the Heavenly Tribulation surged instantly.]

[However, the stronger the Heavenly Tribulation, the greater the benefits after passing it, and even the strongest Heavenly Tribulation has its limits.]

[As long as the intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation did not reach the Great Emperor level, you had nothing to fear.]

[In the subsequent battle, you utilized the two Emperor Weapons to their absolute limit.]

[At this moment, you seemed to be a combination of the War God Emperor and the Taichu Ancient Emperor.]

[With the support of your unique talent and the Art of Controlling Weapons, the battle god armor seemed to recreate the demeanor of the War God Emperor fighting in all directions in the past.]

[Every piece of the armor transformed into a Sharp Weapon for both offense and defense, not only capable of tanking the attacks from the Great Emperor projections' Emperor Weapons but even reflecting those attacks back.]

[The Primordial Divine Sword was even more in tune with your mind. Its Sword Qi sometimes poured down like the Milky Way and sometimes chased the moon like a shooting star, bringing the sword Dao essence of the Taichu Ancient Emperor into full play.]

[When the battle reached its climax, you had a sudden thought, and the battle god armor directly transformed into divine light and fused into your body, causing your aura to instantly surge to the Fourth Heaven of the Supreme Realm!]

[The Primordial Divine Sword also underwent a transformation, with dense Innate Dao patterns appearing on the blade.]

["Slash!" you roared, and the Primordial Divine Sword unleashed a sword light that seemed to split heaven and earth.]

[This single strike contained your entire life's cultivation and carried the will of the two Emperor Weapons. Wherever the sword light passed, the ten Great Emperor projections dissipated one after another, and even the Heavenly Tribulation was split in two!]

[When the tribulation clouds dispersed, golden light fell like rain from the sky. This was the gift of the Heavenly Dao to the one who survived the tribulation; every strand of golden light contained the purest Origin power.]

[Your injuries recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and your aura climbed steadily.]

[When the last strand of golden light merged into your body, you looked up to the sky and laughed. At this moment, you became the youngest Supreme in all of history!]