“No… something’s wrong. He’s tempering his method with the tribulation! Those phantom images of the Three Corpses… he’s using the tribulation power of the Great Dao to perfect his method!”
“Stop him! We absolutely cannot let him succeed! Otherwise the consequences will be endless!”
A dark overlord could no longer restrain himself. He stirred boundless dark matter, transforming it into a giant hand that blotted out the Realm Sea, and while Lu Xuan was resisting the karmic tribulation fire, he launched a brazen sneak attack!
“Hmph!”
Lu Xuan let out a cold snort, facing the combined strike of the Great Dao’s tribulation and the dark overlord.
He actually took the initiative to guide a portion of the tribulation power toward that giant dark hand!
“Boom!”
The karmic tribulation fire collided with the giant dark hand, erupting into an unimaginable storm of energy.
The dark overlord gave a muffled groan. The giant hand was instantly ignited by the tribulation fire, setting its own karma ablaze, and it withdrew in a wretched state, its aura withering considerably.
This scene made the other awakened overlords of the Realm Sea feel a chill in their hearts, and for the moment they suppressed the thought of making a move.
This creature was far too ferocious—he could actually draw the tribulation to attack his enemies!
Lu Xuan stood alone amid the raging waves of the Realm Sea and the world-ending great tribulation. The Chaos Bell guarded his body, while the phantom images of the Three Corpses flickered in and out within the calamity, instead becoming ever more solid.
He used himself as a furnace and the Great Dao Method-Creation Tribulation as a whetstone, tempering his method of severing the Three Corpses!
This tribulation was no longer merely a battle for survival, but a battle to prove his Dao before the heavens and myriad worlds!
In the depths of the Realm Sea, more and more ancient gazes fell upon this place, carrying shock, dread, killing intent, and a trace of expectation too difficult to put into words.
Everyone understood that if Lu Xuan successfully passed this tribulation, an entirely new era would descend, unstoppable.
And if he failed, all would come to an end; even that heaven-defying method of severing the Three Corpses would vanish like smoke and clouds.
The outcome rested upon him alone.
The Realm Sea had become a vortex of destruction.
The might of the Great Dao Method-Creation Tribulation far exceeded imagination. It was not an unchanging lightning punishment, but rather evolved along with Lu Xuan’s resistance and the perfection of his method.
It continued to transform and escalate, vowing to completely grind this anomaly out of existence.
The roiling tribulation clouds suddenly contracted, turning into an ultimate point of “nothingness,” then abruptly expanded.
There was no sound, no light, no fluctuation of energy—only the absolute Dao resonance of “annihilation” spreading outward.
The surging waves of the Realm Sea froze at this moment. The remnants of shattered ancient realms silently turned into nothingness, and even the very concept of space-time became blurred.
This was an attempt to forcibly erase every foundation of Lu Xuan’s existence.
To have his Dao, his method, and his very self completely deleted from the “records” of the universe!
Lu Xuan’s pupils contracted as he sensed an unprecedented crisis.
The Chaos Bell rang of its own accord, its toll forcibly sending rings of chaotic ripples spreading through the absolute silence, protecting the core region.
And above his head, the phantom images of the Three Corpses—especially the shadow representing the “true self”—shook violently, as though it might dissipate at any moment.
This method had only just been created and was not yet complete. Faced with this erasure aimed at the root of existence itself, it appeared especially fragile.
“My Dao exists, and my method is true!”
Lu Xuan let out a long roar, his voice shaking the Realm Sea, forcibly defining “existence” within “nothingness.”
Within his body, the Dao fruit formed from the fusion of the primordial inheritance and the Perfect World method burned to its extreme, transforming into an indestructible fundamental radiance that resisted the erosion of this All Daos Fall Silent Together.
This was a direct contest between will and the source of the Great Dao, perilous to the extreme. A strand of blood tinged with chaotic light spilled from the corner of his mouth.
Just as Lu Xuan was resisting “All Daos Fall Silent Together,” the tribulation clouds changed once more. Countless mirrors condensed from heart demons and fragments of fate appeared, reflecting Lu Xuan’s figure.
Yet within the mirrors, what appeared was not himself, but every possibility hidden within his heart—or twisted and magnified by the Great Dao:
There was the tragic scene of him failing to save the Golden Crow Clan and witnessing the annihilation of the entire race;
There was the terrifying future in which he sank into darkness, seized the Chaos Bell, and became a demonic lord who destroyed the world;
There was the distorted form of him straying from his path, being devoured by the Three Corpses, and turning into an irrational monster;
This was a tribulation more dangerous than any physical attack. Once his Dao heart fell, he would immediately be doomed beyond redemption.
Lu Xuan’s Dao heart had long since become as firm as bedrock through hundreds of millions of years of cultivation and repeated great battles, but at this moment, ripples still inevitably arose within it.
He saw the blood of his clansmen and felt the temptation of corruption… However, the chaotic light in his eyes blazed ever brighter.
“The past is gone, the future is undecided; only the me of this present moment is real!”
“Taiyi’s Dao is the root; my Dao is the trunk and leaves. How can there be any deviation?”
“The method of the Three Corpses is a ladder to transcendence. How could it be a wrong path?”
He brought two fingers together like a blade, but he did not slash toward the mirror images. Instead, he slashed toward his own heart!
With the embryonic form of the method of severing the Three Corpses, he severed the fear, hesitation, and delusions born from the mirror images!
With every trace of stray thought he cut away, his Dao heart became a little clearer, and his gaze grew even more resolute.
Before his increasingly pure and steadfast Dao heart, the myriad heart-demon mirror images actually shattered and disintegrated one after another!
Tremors and decisions stirred in the depths of the Realm Sea.
The scene of Lu Xuan undergoing tribulation was clearly reflected through endless space-time in the minds of those ancient existences that had been awakened.
The overlord with the dark-golden skeletal body had pale soul fire flickering.
“What a steadfast Dao heart! He can actually cleave apart the heart-demon images manifested by the Great Dao head-on… This child has already grasped the essence of the ‘true self.’”
Within distorted space-time, a pair of icy eyes flickered with a trace of fluctuation.
“His method is being perfected within the tribulation. Those phantom images of the Three Corpses have grown even more solid. This method… perhaps it may serve as reference even for us.”
Deep within the Ancient Hall of Guidance, the dark wills were both shocked and furious.
“We cannot wait any longer! If he succeeds in passing this tribulation, countless variables will be added to our grand plan!”
“Boom!”
Another giant dark palm came slamming down. This time, it was not just one, but three at once!
They came from three different dark overlords, who tacitly chose the instant after Lu Xuan had just passed the heart-demon tribulation, when his aura was slightly fluctuating, to join forces and strike!
Upon the giant palms, dark matter capable of corroding all things coiled and writhed, drawing forth the resentment and curses that had accumulated in the depths of the Realm Sea over countless epochs. Their might was several times more terrifying than the previous strike!
At the same time, perhaps drawn by the dark overlords’ attack, or perhaps because the Great Dao’s tribulation felt that the intervention of external forces had broken some kind of balance—
The sixth tribulation—the Tribulation of Dao Contest—descended!
Within the tribulation clouds, three indistinct figures actually evolved, their auras similar to Lu Xuan’s, yet their Dao resonance utterly different!
One wielded pure destructive thunder, one commanded endless primordial light, and one was surrounded by the deathly stillness that ended all things.
They seemed to be imprints seized by the Great Dao from ancient history—supreme beings who had once tried and failed to challenge order—now manifested here.
They were to engage Lu Xuan in a contest of the Great Dao, to prove that his “Dao” was inferior to the “ancient”!
Before him were the sneak attacks of three dark overlords, and behind him were three Great Dao imprints blocking his path. In an instant, Lu Xuan fell into an unprecedented crisis!
“Perfect timing!”
Not only was there no fear in Lu Xuan’s eyes, but instead a heaven-shaking battle intent erupted from them.
This was the very moment he had been waiting for—to push his method and Dao to the extreme within a desperate situation!
The Chaos Bell swelled with a boom, its tolls ringing out without end, transforming into tangible chaotic ripples that forcibly blocked the combined strike of the three giant dark palms.
Even the Realm Sea was shattered apart, forming a vast abyss of nothingness.