Chapter 387: Primordial Spirit Realm I
After using the Transmission Teleportation in the sect, Wang Wei found himself teleported to a small city built on a floating asteroid. Not far from his eyesight was a beautiful crystal wall floating in the void.
He met his grandfather who was stationed in this city and learned that everything has been readied for him in the Heavenly Abode World. So, after having a brief chat with everyone, he passed through the crystal wall.
As soon as he entered, the first thing Wang Wei felt was how fragile this world was. If he did not have great control of his fleshly body, the slightest overexertion of strength would probably break this world.
Feeling that everything could be easily destroyed was a very uncomfortable feeling but he got used to it. Then, he finally felt something else.
Wang Wei felt that Heaven and Earth were celebrating his arrival as if he was the most favored son of the world finally returning home. Purple auspicious clouds suddenly appeared in the sky before spreading to all the 36 Realms, showing his nobility and prestige.
"It seems that these guys did a good job," muttered Wang Wei with a smile as he guessed the reason for such a grand welcome. As the sole "God" of this world who controlled all the Incense, he has a special status in this world.
As he closed his eyes, Wang Wei could feel a golden energy gathering around; the quantity of this energy was simply too vast.
"Is this incense?" muttered Wang Wei with interest, but he did not immediately absorb it or test it out.
Not long after his arrival, Li Jun and the others arrived. From a distance, he could see that all three of them had already entered the Yin Soul Phase of the Primordial Spirit Realm, and he nodded in satisfaction.
After the four met, Wang Wei began to talk to them about his experience and their experience. It was then that he knew that since the last time his projection appeared, more than 380 years had passed in this world while only more than 220 years had passed in the Myriad Emperor World.
So, the flow of time between these two worlds was almost a 1 to 2 ratio, Following this, Li Jun showed all the things he did in this world. There were temples with his status everywhere in all the 36 realms.
Both humans and Gods only believed in Wang Wei as the one and only Almighty God of Fate, Death, and Destiny. Many of the Heavenly Abodes of the Gods of the previous era were full of mortals that believed only in him.
The population of the entire world was increased by more than a hundredfold since the group took over the world. In close to 400 years, there have been so many generations of mortals, and all of them believed in Wang Wei.
And even after their death, their souls will enter a Heavenly Abode that was created specifically in Wang Wei's name so that these people can continue to provide him with incense.
Even the animals in this world–as long as they gained sentience–can become followers of the Fate God and provide incense.
"You guys did an even better job than I could have done," said Wang Wei with a smile on his face. Then, in the next few days, he visited all the realms while manifesting in front of mortals to show his arrival in this world. This act brought a fever to his followers thus increasing their faith in him, even creating a few more Fanatic Believers.
Then, Wang Wei began to prepare for his breakthrough. First, he tested the Incense Refining Pill that Yan Lilling created for him. According to his calculation, a hundred of these pills is enough to increase the probability of successfully entering the next realm by 10%.
Currently, the Origin Pill Flame Scripture only gave him a 50% chance, now, with this additionally 10%, he had a 60 %chance of succeeding. Compared with the hopeless situation before, this was a very high number. But Wang Wei was not satisfied yet.
So, Wang Wei began to review the memories of the Destiny Goddess. Through it, he wanted to use Probability Manipulation Divine Ability to increase his success rate.
After finding this technique, Edward was a little disappointed as it required the help of Heavenly Dao to cast and required a lot of lifespans as a price. So, although he could use it in this world, it might not be possible elsewhere–at least for now.
Nevertheless, with it, he increased the chances of success by another 10%. He had to sigh at his soul. Even my modifying the world to a future that is more beneficial to his breakthrough only increased the chances of his success by one-tenth.
After shaking his head, he continued his preparation. He still had one way to make up the gap. During his time as Lou Cheng, he studied the latter's Innate Talent extendedly.
His only purpose was to create a technique with similar power. Now, he began to create that technique.
20 years later, Wang Wei opened his eyes, wisdom flashed across it.
"Is this one of the powers of incense?"
By absorbing it, he discovered that his comprehension was drastically elevated; the effect was even better than Enlightenment Tea or most resources that can help with comprehension. He finally understood why the Buddhist monks in that era were so fascinated by incense.
He then looked at the book in his hand that he wrote:
[Force Controlling Skill].
This could be considered a secret technique that focused on precision and control of forces, powers, laws, etc. With perfect control, a person can bring out more power using less.
For example, if one had the same punching strength of a 1000 jin and this was the maximum force that their body could use. Most people could not bring the full power of the body and probably could only punch out 800 jin of force.
However, this skill allowed them to bring the full potential out of their bodies and more. So, with it, not only could they punch out 1000 jins, if cultivated to a high level enough, they could use 1500 or 2000 jin of force.
And this skill did not only apply to force but to things like flame control, herbs mixing, runes engraving, law controlling, spiritual power control, origin essence control, and more.
Based on the preliminary design of this technique, it is divided into 5 levels: Full Control, Master Control, Grandmaster Control, Pinnacle Control, and Heavenly Dao Control.
The first level taught people controlled skills so that they can use all the potential in their bodies or abilities. Using the previous example, the person whose body has a thousand jin of force will be taught how to use the entire 1000 jin.
When it came to alchemy, they can use this level to be able to refine ordinary pills. Whether it comes to flame control, mixing herbs, or rune engraving, they will always be able to refine an Average Quality pill with this level.
The master level taught how to go beyond the limit of one's potential or ability. A person with only a 1000 jin of force can exert more force than that, and the deeper you comprehend in this level, the more force his body could exert.
Of course, the body also has a limit that skills cannot make up for; once passed that limit, if you exert more force, a person's body will just explode.
In the grandmaster control level, this technique changed as it was no longer a skill but an instinct, a passive ability. At this stage, a person no longer has to actively use the technique to use exert more Jin force but can do it on extinct.
The Pinnacle Control is the limit that all life forms can reach. According to Wang Wei's prediction, this level should be the limit of control or precision of forces.
As for the Heavenly Dao level, this is a baseless theory that Wang Wei has invented. The idea behind this is Heavenly Dao is born or created to control all the laws of a world. As such, they have an innate or natural talent that no other life form can reach.
After all, no matter the cultivation system or the race, all their method of controlling the law comes from studying Heaven and Earth and learning from it. Because everything came from Heaven and Earth, they cannot surpass it.
Wang Wei's theory is that although individuals can surpass Heaven and Earth in terms of pure strength and power, it is very difficult for them to surpass it in terms of control.
Heavenly Dao has an innate advantage over everyone because it was born for the sole purpose of controlling the law. However, by studying it, Wang Wei theorized that he should be able to create that level in his technique.
And this was not the end. Wang Wei theorized that there might be a higher level than Heavenly Dao but he did not know much about it–although he had some guesses.
Once this technique was created, he began to cultivate it to increase his odds of a breakthrough.
Chapter 388: Primordial Spirit Realm II
Based on his current skill, Wang Wei discovered that he only reached the Master Control in this skill. Nevertheless, he was still satisfied. After a check, he realized that at this level, he could control every muscle, bone, organ, and blood inside his body to exert the power of his fleshly body.
According to his estimation, the Grandmaster level will allow him to use every cell in his body to exert force, and the Pinnacle Level will allow him to use every atom and subatomic particle in his body to exert force.
As for the Heavenly Dao? He did not know. Maybe he will step into the Quantum Realm by then, or maybe there is another change at that level.
Despite reaching the master level when it came to using physical force, he was still in the Full Control Level when it came to controlling his soul; it was then that he realized that he was not using his soul to its full potential.
So, once he was done, Wang Wei felt some sort of liberation, as if he was complete. He knew that with this level of control, his chances of refining his Primordial Spirit had increased by 20%, making his total chance of success 90%.
Next, Wang Wei began his breakthrough. He first notified Li Jun and the others, who then organized a massive prayer session for him. All the mortals and gods of this world began to kneel at the churches and prayed to Wang Wei's status.
An immense amount of Incense in the shape of golden light flew from these people's bodies and entered the status, then the Incense is sent to Wang Wei through them.
Over the years, Li Jun's group have done many studies and experiment to better understand the power of Incense. Then, they gave Wang Wei the result of their research.
According to their findings, when people pray or worship a god, a small part of their spiritual energy that is mixed with their emotion is removed from their bodies, then such spiritual power is further mixed with spiritual energy and turned into incense.
The more intense the emotion, the more spiritual power is removed, the more intense the incense. Furthermore, the removal of this small amount of spiritual power is not harmful to the body.
The essence of all mortals slowly leaked out of their bodies, and this essence includes blood energy and spiritual energy. The leaking of blood energy lead to the deterioration of their bodies, while spiritual energy led to the deterioration of their souls.
So, when the mortals pray, the leaked spiritual power from their bodies is used to create incense. Another advantage from when they pray is that is they can briefly come into contact with spiritual qi.
Said Qi will nourish their bodies thus strengthen their blood qi, which will in turn slightly strengthen their spiritual energy. This cycle allowed most God believers to live until the end of their natural mortal lives without being drained of their spiritual energies.
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In his breakthrough, Wang Wei first turned his Chaos Flame into the Origin Pill Flame and began to treat his soul as a pill to refine. He could instantly feel like it was working better than the Good Fortunate Flame.
Immediately, Wang Wei controlled the Good Fortune Flame to further power up the Origin Pill Flame, which instantly accelerated the rate at which his Paragon Soul was refined.
But it was still not nearly enough. At this rate, it would probably take him a few million years before this thing was finally melted. So, he swallowed the Incense Refining Pills that Yan Liling gave to him.
The moment that the power in that pill reached his soul, he could feel a slight change; it became more malleable thus further decreasing the difficulty
Wang Wei's eyes lit up as he knew that he found the right direction. He immediately began to control the vast Incense coming from all over the world.
According to his previous research, Buddhist monks in the old era used a method to turn incensed into something called [Sentient Being Flame]. Wang Wei does not have the method of this flame, however, he created his own version of it.
Based on the knowledge on turning emotions into flames he blackmailed from Su Ya, adding on the book about Sin Flames he received from Wu Hong, plus his understanding of the Flame' Emperor used of Chaos Flame, he created his version of the Sentient Being Flame.
Essentially, he burned off all the emotions in the Incense leaving only the pure spiritual power to absorb by him. A golden flame appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.
This flame was the manifestation of the purest spiritual power. Furthermore, more incense was constantly added to it, then have the emotions removed from them and increase the power of the flame.
Immediately, Wang Wei fused the Golden Flame with his Origin Pill Flame to serve as an energy source. Then, the Origin Pill Flame looked as if gasoline was added to it to intensified the heat.
The process of refining the Paragon-Quality Soul drastically increased. So, with renewed vigor, Wang Wei took this opportunity to completely melt his soul. He did not know how long it took but he finally succeeded.
Using an entire world as an energy source, he finally melted his soul. Although the process was truly terrible, he had a high enough pain threshold to ignore it. Plus, his Pain Innate Talent was further developed in the process.
Nevertheless, this was only the first step in the breakthrough.
Normally, after this process, cultivators would gather the power of Good fortune in their flame to shape their soul into a human form that resembled them. They will gather all their memories, emotions, ideas, philosophies, and spirit and combines them with the soul and the power of Good fortune to sublimate it into something new, something better: the Primordial Spirit. And this is not a simple process–especially when it comes to emotion.
A cultivator has to be very in touch with their emotions, completely analyzed and understand them for the process to be successful. And this requires a very bright and pure spirit–which was tempered in the Divine Body Realm.
Plus, there are other ways to finish this process. Taoist cultivators detached themselves from their emotions. They recognized them, distinguished their purposes but still looked at them from a calm, indifferent, and logical point of view.
Their purpose is to reach a state of mind that is unaffected by worldly desires while not removing these desires; this state of mind is perfectly suited for understanding the laws of Heaven and Earth.
Because of this difference, they have their own way of entering the Primordial Spirit Realm.
Then there are the devil cultivators. Because their soul is plagued by sins and negative karma, their main emotions are usually violent ones like killing and destruction.
In the process of forging their Primordial Spirit, it is very difficult for them to control their emotions which often lead to their failures. So, their answer to this problem is to abandon a lot of their emotions turning them into ruthless beings that have no remorse for their actions.
After Wang Wei finally melted his soul, he did not immediately begin the process of instilling his emotions and so on. He never wanted an ordinary Primordial Spirit.
Instead, he used a secret technique he created to divide his soul into small interconnected particles, or spirit particles. This process required a great deal of control, luckily, he was now quite proficient in this area.
Once that was done, Wang Wei began to visualize the cells in his body. The Grandmaster Level in the [Force Controlling Skill] taught him how to control his cell. Although he has not reached this level, he can still visualize his cells.
Next, Wang Wei began to fuse his spirit particles with his cells.
This idea came to him after reading the cultivation system of the ancient clans. Because that system focused more on developing the fleshly body, it does not have a Primordial Spirit but something that has the same effect called True Spirit.
The True Spirit is also a sublimation of the soul, however, it is not housed in the Sea of Consciousness but fused with the fleshly body. Wang Wei wanted a soul that has both the effect of a Primordial Spirit and the True Spirit.
This process was harder than Wang Wei anticipated. If it was not the constant incense to nourish his mind and elevated his comprehension and control, he did not know how long it would take, or whether he would succeed.
Once the process was done, Wang Wei had 1.269 trillion spirit particles fused with a cell inside his body. Then, he began to instill his emotions, ideas, goals, and philosophies into the particles.
Using them, he began to assemble the particles together to form his Primordial Spirit. And he did not just create one that looked like a human as everybody was supposed to.
He built his base completely on his body. From cells to tissues, to organs, to organs systems. He replicated his entire body to form his Primordial Spirit.
Once that was done, the fusion of his Primordial Spirit and his body was completed. Then, something he did not expect occurred. All the materials that he absorbed when cultivating the Ancient Desolate Body Scripture exuded Dao Rhymes that began to nourish Wang Wei's Primordial Spirit.
The Innate Qi contained in his body did wonder to his Primordial Spirit, making it stronger, more malleable, more durable, and may even have some other benefits that he has to discover himself. He was especially satisfied with the defense granted to him by this baptism; he probably no longer needed a Soul Protecting Artifact--although he will still use one.
After all, it is better to be safe than sorry.
Once the baptism was finished, Wang Wei immediately knew the benefit of this. The advantage of his [True Primordial Spirit]--as he called it--is that as long as one of the spirit particles is intact, he can revive himself with the right amount of resources.
Or if it is destroyed, as long as his body is intact, since they are connected, he can recreate his Primordial Spirit. In order words, to kill Wang Wei, you have to destroy instantly destroy his fleshly body and Primordial Spirit.
For as long as part remained, with enough resources, he can be brought back to life. And when he entered the Drop Blood Rebirth Realm after finishing tempering his blood, he will become even more difficult to kill.
However, there is still a problem. Once his body is completely destroyed beyond repair and has to regrow one, all his accomplishments in body refining will be gone.
Now, he does not have to face this issue. Since his True Primordial Spirit has been baptized by the materials that forged his body, once his fleshly body is regrown from his soul, it would instantly reach its peak before destruction. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Of course, as a result, the resources required to revive him become even more precious. Luckily, he is considered a second-generation rich young master.
As he looked at his new Primordial Spirit, Wang Wei nodded in satisfaction. However, the process was not finished. The final step is to fuse the Power of Heaven and Earth learned in the Heaven Stage of the Divine Body Realm to the Primordial Spirit.
Since the Power of Heaven and Earth is a precursor to the Power of Law, this process is needed to use the Primordial Spirit to understand the law in the future.
His Power of Heaven and Earth granted him a 270-fold increase, so fusing it with his Primordial Spirit was quite rewarding. Once he was done, Wang Wei felt the world become brighter, clearer.
He could now see things that he never could before.
"Is this the Primordial Spirit Realm?" he muttered with a smile.
Chapter 389: Who Are You?
Wang Wei felt the strength flowing through his veins and a confident smile appeared on his face; now that he had succeeded in entering the Primordial Spirit Realm and created a unique one at that, his strength had drastically increased.
And with this strength, Wang Wei no longer had any worry regarding Di Tian. So what if he was an old monster that once lived in the Emperor Beginning Era? fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
This is a new time, a new era; being old only meant that he had more experience than him–not necessarily that he was stronger.
After coming to this conclusion, Wang Wei smiled as he exited his seclusion. He immediately organized a banquet for Li Jun and the others. Even more, he called for the entire world to celebrate his new increase in power.
So, a new festival of the Fate God was created on that day: The Might Festival which celebrated his unparalleled and unmatched strength.
After the banquet, Li Jun was walking towards his quarters with a frown on his face.
"Is something wrong?" asked Yan Liling.
"I feel like something is wrong about big brother; his whole demeanor seems off than usual."
"Indeed he was a little off, however, it is understandable He was under a lot of pressure because of the previous failure of breakthrough, but now that he succeeded, it is normal for him to relax a little."
"Maybe."
The next day after waking up, Wang Wei decided to travel throughout all the 36 Realms and truly enjoy all the wonders of this world. Previously, his head was too occupied with his breakthrough.
So, he did so. Everywhere he went, he would see peaceful towns, cities, and kingdoms made of his believers. Because all the people were of the same religion, they rarely had conflicts with one another.
And even if they did, the church will intervene before things escalated to violence. During his voyage, everywhere he went, when he appeared, all mortals would recognize his face and immediately bow to him while praising his name constantly.
At first, he was not used to it. But by the second time, he enjoyed it tremendously. Watching so many people kneel at his feet, he felt great joy when he saw their faces happy just to be in his presence.
The power that came with the fact that he had complete control over the life of these mortals, and they would be powerless to stop him if he decided to massacre all of them.
With this knowledge, he became more extravagant in his voyage. Everywhere he went, he traveled in a flying golden carriage that showed his identity.
He bathed in the glory of being a God.
In one of his visits to the main temple in the Illusion Realm, Wang Wei was received by a beautiful woman; in terms of beauty alone, she was on par with Xi Shi if not even more beautiful.
Unlike the latter who embodies perfection in every conceivable way, this woman was the embodiment of gentle and pureness. Dressed in a white robe, this woman seemed like a goddess that was accidentally left in the mortal realm.
What was even more fascinating about her was the fact that she was only a mortal, yet she was so beautiful beyond mere words could describe. After asking Li Jun who was grumpy throughout the entire tour, he knew that she was the Saintess of this temple.
As Li Jun looked at the department Wang Wei, his frown deepened; he knew that something was terribly wrong. That night, he was unable to sleep as he felt something was going to happen.
Unable to control this feeling, he secretly left his quarters to check things out. When passing by the Saintess Room, he saw the light was still on. Li Jun knew that the rules to become a Saintess of the church were very strict, and by this hour, she should be asleep.
He sneaked into the room and he was shocked by what he saw.
The Saintess was crying as she slowly put her sleeping robe on. Blood could be seen on the sheet she was laying on. She tried to get up but her legs–who had a few bruises–trembled and she did not succeed.
After a few tries, she managed to barely get up and change the sheet on the bed, turn off the light and get inside the bed. During the entire process, her low crying never stopped, nor did her tears.
Li Jun's face became ugly as he rushed towards Wang Wei's resting place. He barged in before screaming, "Why? Why did you do this?"
Luckily, he was still conscious enough to erect a soundproofing barrier with his origin essence. Otherwise, the entire church would have been alarmed by his voice.
"I do not know what you're talking about."
"Now that you've done it you refused to acknowledge it? I never knew that you were a coward."
Wang Wei–who was reading a book nonchalantly–finally raised his head and looked at him with cold and indifferent eyes.
"So, what if I did? As a Saintess, she is a servant to her God; it is her honor to offer her body to me."
Veins started popping in Li Jun's head as he clenches his fist. The space around his hand twisted slightly before returning to normal.
"What about Wu Hong?" he asked. "What about all the things you said about having only one partner that would support each other till the end of the Dao and beyond? Were those all empty words?"
"This has nothing to do with anything; it was purely physical," replied Wang Wei indifferently.
"Nonsense. As a cultivator, you should understand the consequences of breaking your own beliefs and how it will affect you."
"I did not break anything; I'm perfectly fine."
Li Jun looked at him for a moment before taking a deep breath to calm down.
"Fine, I won't talk to you about the ethical dilemma of your actions. But what about Wu Hong? Don't you feel bad about betraying her? How do you think she will react once she finds out?
As soon as he said these words, Li Jun felt a flash across his eyes before feeling a terrifying hand holding him by the throat, squeezing and suppressing his strength.
He looked down to see his big brother's eyes that were full of killing intent; Li Jun did not see any struggle or hesitation in these eyes.
"Only the two of us know about what happened tonight," said Wang Wei coldly, "And it better stays that way for your sake."
After saying that, he three Li Jun out of the room and wave his hand, a wing appeared to close the door and get back to his reading. Meanwhile, Li Jun landed outside with his breath slightly elevated.
"Something has definitely gone wrong," he muttered. "His personality change was too sudden and does not make sense? Is that the sequela of Incense? However, why did nothing happen to me and the others after our breakthrough?"
After that night's event, Li Jun did not tell anyone what occurred–even to his wife, Liling. He decided to observe for a while. And as he expected things, got worse with each passing day.
Whenever Wang Wei went, he would do the same to any Saintess he saw in the temples. And when there were none, he would target the beautiful woman amongst his normal followers.
What's worse was that he would kill these women's spouses if they had any after he was done with them, saying that no mortal should touch his woman. Knowing that the situation was rapidly deteriorating, Li Jun wanted to notify the sect but still did not do so as he wanted to talk his friend out of this predicament; he wanted to reach him and talk some sense into him.
Unfortunately, his words were proven to be useless. Then, something happened that made Li Jun lose hope.
After checking in one of the women, trying to give her some remuneration and appease her, he only found her body lying on the floor, blood splurging from her throat and a dagger in her left hand.
He knew that Wang Wei had to be stopped. He rushed to confront him again, this time, wearing armor and a spear in his hand.
"I do not know what's wrong with you, but you have to be stopped," said Li Jun. Then, a river of blood appeared behind him as a flash of determination could be seen in his eyes.
Wang Wei looked at him coldly and said: "It seems me calling you brother all these years has gotten into your head. It's about time I put in your place and remind you that you're nothing but my servant."
He clenched his fist and punched out: [Desolate Fist].
With this one punch, the vitality of the entire Sin Realm was instantly destroyed, killing all living things inside–whether mortals, gods, or animals. The Heavenly Abodes in the sky were instantly annihilated.
In the empty vacuum of space, only five people were still alive, with only four of them intact: it was Wang Wei and the remaining four people.
He looked at the tattered Li Jun in front of him, whose body was almost annihilated and he clenched his fist, readied to punch once more,
Yan Liling rushed in front of him and kowtowed: "Sacred Son, for the sake of all we have done for you, please spare him."
Meanwhile, Tie Gang and Wang Ju had a look of fear on their faces. With a cold look on his eyes, Wang Wei looked at Yan Liling and the dying Li Jun with indifferent eyes:
"This is a warning to all of you: do not forget who the real master is. Leave this world and tell the sect that this place is a benefit to my cultivation in the Primordial Spirit Realm. I will leave after I comprehend the law."
After saying that, he broke the space to teleport to another realm; he was still on his tour in the 36 realms, well, now 35. Without anyone on his back always watching him and questioning his decision, Wang Wei finally let loose.
He received the worship of mortals, killed whomever he felt was unpleasant, host countless parties, and took whichever woman he desired; this was real life.
All those years he was so focused on cultivating and one day becoming a Great Emperor that he did not really enjoy himself. As the young master of the most powerful sect in the world, this is the life that he should have lived.
With his strength, it was only a matter of time for him to become a Great Emperor. By then, he will truly be free and do whatever he pleased.
One day, Wang Wei stood on top of a mountain, feeling the fresh air after a night of partying. He looked in the sky, smiled, and muttered:
"Is this the Heart Demon Tribulation? Quite the interesting experience."
As soon as he said these words, cracks started to appear everywhere as if the world was about to be destroyed. Then, Wang Wei opened his eyes and found that he was still inside his Sea of Consciousness in the shape of his Primordial Spirit.
He looked up to see a person that looked exactly like him standing in front of him with a smile; this smile was exactly like him.
"Although I can already guess the answer, who are you?" asked Wang Wei.
Chapter 390: Let"s Cha
"Since you already know who and what I am, why asking?" said the other Wang Wei whose only difference from the original was his red hair and eyes.
"As I said, I guess who you are, which implied that I'm not sure if I'm correct," replied Wang Wei.
"Fair enough. I'm your Heart Devil."
"That's not really an answer, is it? What exactly is a heart devil?"
"What's with all the demands?"
"It's not that much. After you put me through that terrible illusion, you owe me at least some explanations."
The Heart Devil paused for a moment before saying: "Fine. I'm the physical manifestation of all your emotions, thoughts, ideas, and desires. So, I know all your secrets; you can say that in this world, no one knows you better than me."
"Know all my secrets?"
"Yes, all of them," replied the Heart Devil while giving him a deep look.
"Okay, So negative me, why are you here?" asked Wang Wei calmly; he knew that the latter was not lying since he had read about Heart Devils appearing in physical form before.
Although it is very rare, it does occur for some people when entering the Primordial Spirit Realm.
"I'm here to have a little chat," said the devil, who manifested a table with tea and cushions to set on inside the Sea of Consciousness. After the two took a sip of their tea, the heart devil asked: "How did you see through the illusion?"
When it comes to Heart Devil Tribulation, it can come into two forms. The first one is that cultivators will hear tempting and luring voices; these voices will magnify the negative emotions inside their minds, and they have to withstand the temptation of these words to pass the tribulation. If succeeded, then their state of mind will sublimate and complete the process of entering the Primordial Spirit Realm.
If fail, they will either be driven mad by these voices until they do drastic things like killing themselves or hurting themselves. Or worse, their Primordial Spirit will collapse and they could either die or their breakthrough fail.
Although these people can also try again if they survive the ordeal, however, after each failure, the intensity of the tribulation will at least double, thus reducing the chances that people have at entering that realm.
Another form of the Heart Devil Tribulation is the Illusion World; a perfect world designed to also intensify the emotions and desires of the cultivator. Because of perfect the world seems, it became even more difficult to pass the trial.
In that Illusion World, cultivators have to process their emotions and desires, recognize and control them. If succeeded, they can wake up. For a person like Su Ya, this trial is as easy as breathing, however, for others, not so much.
The Heart Devil Tribulation comes from the inside, from the mind. So, it does not matter how powerful your soul is, you still cannot resist.
Of course, there is another way to pass this trial: realized that this was an illusion world and break free from it: this is what Wang Wei did. Few people used this method because of how difficult it was.
This is the reason that the Heart Devil asked him how he saw through it.
Thinking about this question, Wang Wei could not help reminisce about what just occurred. Everything was so real. Many of his emotions were amplified beyond measure and turned him into someone he could not recognize.
Whether it was arrogance, lust, wrath, pride, or the desire for power; a slight imbalance in these emotions completely changed his personality. After this experience, Wang Wei finally understood why the Seven Emotions Six Desires Physique is rated third in the list.
"It was the battle with Li Jun that made me aware that I was in an illusion," replied Wang Wei.
"Oh? How so?"
"You may know me very well, but this is not the same for Li Jun, plus, you underestimated his intelligence."
"Please elaborate."
"If I did something wrong, Li Jun would never confront me on it; this is one his biggest flaw. Instead, he would either try to hide it or take the blame for me to ensure my reputation.
"By then, I already my suspicions. But when he raised his spear at me, I knew for real that something was wrong as he would never willingly attack me. By then, I knew for a fact that something was wrong.
"Although I could not control myself during the confrontation, afterward, I pondered deeply about the situation and realized the problem.
"If I was acting out of character, Li Jun would never use brute force to stop me, not only because he was smart enough to know that his strength is not enough to do so, but because there was a better solution: go contact my grandfather that is outside this world."
"Indeed, it seems that I underestimated him," said the Heart Devil with a smile. "However, I think the greatest reason for your success has to do with the Pagoda Trials."
"That may be true," nodded Wang Wei. In the trial, he was used to being placed in Illusion Worlds that was perfectly crafted, and without any flaws: so, he did have the advantage.
"Something tells me that this is not the only reason for you to come chat with me," said Wang Wei.
"As you can guess, your tribulation is not yet over as you have some things to answer for," said the Heart Devil with a cunning smile.
"Answer for what? For whom?"
"Your conscious, of course," he replied.
Wang Wei squinted his eyes. In the path of cultivation, the state of the mind is very important. So, if a person has guilt, anguish, or regret in their conscious, then their path forward will be cut off.
Without a pure spirit or mind, it is impossible to comprehend the laws of Heaven and Earth.
Of course, the so-called "guilt' is not based on some rules established by society but set by the cultivator itself; it is based on their ideologies, mindset, intentions, and whether they continuously followed them throughout their life.
"Let me ask you this, do you think that the "you" on earth would recognize your current self? Do you think he would agree with many of your actions?"
As he said this, the heart devil waved his hand and many pictures suddenly appeared in front of the two: it was pictures of Wang Wei's life; it began with Spirit Road Trial, showing all the people he killed.
"Look at you, a young man from the republic who underwent 9 years of compulsory education and learned the concept of right and wrong, killing people as if they were nothing but animals," sneered the Heart Devil.
Then, he showed an image of what happened to Han Li.
"For your benefit, you treated a fellow disciple of your sect-like nothing but an experimental mouse; destroyed his future for your own."
Wang Wei remained silent as he watched all of these, meanwhile, the heart devil continued. His words seemed to be able to echo deep into people's hearts and slowly affect them.
"And there is more. I know that you can find ways to justify many of your actions. However, what about this one?"
He showed an image of Wang Wei taking the Fate Lines of many people to refine his Proving Dao Weapon.
"To refine a unique weapon, you killed 13 million innocent mortals. What excuse do you have for your actions this time? And do not say that you repay these people by taking care of their families for hundreds of years.
"These mortal lives are full of hardship. Although your actions appeared to have given them a choice but did you really? Given their circumstances, why would they not sacrifice their lives to give their families a better tomorrow–especially when the alternative is death by either starvation, natural disaster, or even at the hands of cultivators."
The Heart Devil looked at Wang Wei, waiting for his explanation. However, the latter remained quiet. Shaking his head in disappointment, he continued:
"What I hate the most about you is your hypocritical nature. You often talked about the transmigrators that started to kill right and left right after arriving in another world; you labeled them psychopaths and unstable, yet you do the same thing as them.
"Now, do you think that slowly becoming a psychopath makes you better than those who immediately displayed their psychopathic tendencies right after transmigrating?
The heart devil once again looked at Wang Wei, then sneered after seeing the latter remained quiet.
"And this is not even the end of the list. You committed genocides of an entire race," the devil showed what happened during the Qi Luck Trial when Wang Wei ordered almost all the demon races to be executed.
Then, he showed the image of Wang Wei refining Ji Song's body.
"What you did to him can even be called cannibalism.
"I truly wonder. Do you not feel any remorse for your actions?"
Wang Wei looked at the image in front of him and sighed. He then looked at the heart devil and said: "I do feel remorse for a few of my actions."
"But you would still do the same given a choice."
"That's right."
"That's not remorse."
Wang Wei took a sip of his tea, not affected by the latter's words. People are complex by nature and there are no single ways to completely describe one person.
And if you add god-like powers to them like cultivators, their complexity reaches the level of an improvable mathematical formula.
"Since you know me so well, do you remember what my ultimate objective in cultivating is?" asked Wang Wei.
"To become free and unfettered."
"What exactly do you think that means?" asked Wang Wei.
"Not to be restraint by anyone," replied the devil.
"That's just an oversimplification. I want is the ultimate freedom of the mind and body. I want to be able to do anything I want, and nothing should be able to stop me–not even my mind.
"What I pursue is that if one day I decided I want to be the greatest devil that ever existed, then, I will be so. I will slaughter every living being in this universe and not even bat an eye.
"And if afterward, I want to, I can wave my hand to return everything to the way it was as if nothing ever happened. If I do not want to, then said universe will remain destroyed.
"If I want to be the greatest Buddha the universe has ever seen, then I will save all living beings from their suffering, create the perfect utopia where all living beings are happy and satisfied with their lives. And afterward, if I desire to, I will revert everything back to the way it used to be.
"What I want is the choice: the choice to be able to do as I please without being hindered by power or strength, and morality.
"I want the ultimate freedom."
The Heart Devil was silent for a moment as he realized that his tactics would not work; he was trying to place shackles of morality on a person who pursues to break off this shackle.
He looked at Wang Wei, "You do know that your pursuit is very dangerous and could lead to disastrous consequences, right?"
"I'm fully aware of this."
"Alright, you pass the tribulation," said the devel as he smile. "However, this is not the last time you will see me."
He then disappeared. As for Wang Wei, he finally woke up for real this time. He immediately checked his Primordial Spirit inside his Sea of Consciousness and nodded in satisfaction.
After a thorough check, he frowned a little. He discovered that of his 1.269 trillion spirit particles, a few hundred of millions of them were brightly lit while the rest seems dim.
He absorbed the little amount of incense left from his breakthrough and many of the particles lit up like the others and he was instantly relieved. So, he finished absorbing the rest.
Immediately, Wang Wei felt a sense of fullness and he knew that he had instantly reached the peak of the Yin Soul step in this realm. Next was for him to reverse Yin and Yang and enter the Yang Soul step.
Finally, he checked the ability of his particle. And as he expected, they could each think independently of one another as if they were different from him; this ability greatly increase his already heaven-defying comprehension.
While checking his cultivation, Wang Wei's intuition suddenly activated. His body seemed to move on instinct as he instantly appeared outside of his retreating room where Li Jun and the others were acting as his protector.
Without explaining anything to them, he opened a tear in the space and sent all three of them outside of this world.
All of this happened so fast that Wang Wei felt that his body was acting on its own. He then raised his head to penetrate in the distance where he saw someone floated in the air, looking at him.
A great sense of danger unlike anything else he has ever felt suddenly overcame; his intuition told him that he might really die on this occasion.
After seeing the person who arrived, he frowned as he said: "It's you."
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NEXT VOLUME—?NEXUS OF FATE: DEATH
Chapter 391: Outclassed I
Li Jun reached his hand as he flew from the space tunnel but he seemed to be catching thin air. With a confused look on his face, he found himself in the void, looking at the crystal wall in front of him.
He seemed to have thought of something and rushed back inside but he was bounced back from the crystal wall, unable to enter.
Suddenly, Wang Wei's grandfather, Wang Chang, appeared next to him.
"What happened?"
"I don't know. Big brother suddenly sends us out and it seems that I cannot enter back."
Wang Chang frowned after hearing this. He immediately contacted a few people in the Primordial Spirit Realm and below to try to enter this world but they all failed.
In the end, he decided to contact his son and ask him to take a look at Wang Wei's Soul Lamp to see whether he was in danger or not.
Meanwhile, inside the Heavenly Abode World:
Wang Wei looked at the young man with white hair floating in front of him straight in the eyes; he had a very serious look on his face.
"I did not expect that my method could not completely nullify your intuition," said Di Tian with a calm look on his face.
"How did you know that I was here?" asked Wang Wei as he looked at the sky; he could see that the entire world was surrounded by a powerful formation. On top of that, he could not immediately identify the formation.
"Do you think your little action managed to completely get rid of my Sleepers? They have survived under the noses of Eternal Emperors, let alone you."
"If you say so," replied Wang Wei as he did not completely believe these words. Most likely, the opponent was trying to implant doubt in his own people.
This is a basic mind tactic of every Heaven Chosen when confronting one another–even if they have the advantage.
Di Tian glanced at him, then, before Wang Wei could process anything else, he heard a cracking sound. An overwhelming force hit him in the middle of his chest without having time to react.
Bang!
He was sent flying away. In less than a nano-second, his body broke the sound barrier as he flew away. And this was far from the end. A moment later, his perception changed.
He found that everything around him seemed to go extremely slow: his breathing, the flow of blood inside his body, his clothes fluttering, and even his thoughts.
Wang Wei knew that this was the result of him flying away faster than the speed of light. He tried everything to reduce the force on him but it was useless; he was completely overwhelmed.
So, after flying through more than 3 Realms, Wang Wei finally landed in a large city in the Earth Realm.
Boom!
A powerful shockwave came from his landing site, spreading in all directions. Then, everything in its path was instantly destroyed: houses crumbled, trees were uprooted, and all living things exploded into millions of pieces.
Whether it was children, women, animals, or the elderly, all of them were instantly killed. Even the Gods that were stationed in this city could not resist and were annihilated.
And the shockwave did not stop after destroying that city of a few hundred million people. Not, it was spreading. Luckily, Wang Wei used his spiritual power to prevent this from happening.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the crater, Wang Wei calmly looked at his two hands that looked like they were chewed by dogs. His broken bones were displayed along with torn muscles, skins, and blood.
Blood was flowing from all the orifices on his face, his ribs and organs were partially destroyed by the force of that punch. If he did not instinctively cross his arm to block some of the power of that punch, the situation would have been even direr.
A frown appeared on his face as he analyzed the severity of his injury; he could feel a strange yet familiar power hindering his healing ability. Knowing that situation was dangerous, he immediately activate his Life and Death Wheel Talent to increase his regenerative abilities.
In a moment, he healed himself and returned to his peak shape; his limbs regrew along with his ribs and organs. Nevertheless, he was not happy. His opponent just speed blitzed him and he could not even react in time.
Additionally, that punch relied solely on the power of the fleshly body; not origin technique or spells.
Immediately, he focused on the spirit particles of his soul and dedicate all the hundred million of them that were lit to his reflex. As soon as he finished doing these things, he saw Di Tian rushing toward him with unmatched speed.
'Damn it,' cursed Wang Wei inside as he realized that he still was no match for his opponent in terms of speed. Although he could not now see him move, he could barely react.
So, he activated his Innate Shield to protect him. Unfortunately, his proud shield which could probably resist the explosion of a Great Thousand World was as thin as paper in front of Di Tian.
The punch easily destroyed the protective field, heading straight for his head. Nevertheless, the shield still delayed the attack by a nanosecond. Taking this time, Wang Wei immediately moved his brain along with his Soul from his head inside his body.
Then, his head exploded like a balloon, with blood spreading everywhere. The spot where the blood landed immediately began to grow flowers and trees because of the massive vitality contained inside.
Meanwhile, Di Tian–who was aware that his opponent was alive–kicked Wang Wei's headless body, once again sending him flying away. The headless body flew in the direction of the adjacent cities.
Because of Li Jun's work, the population of the entire Heavenly Abode World has drastically increased to the point that most areas in all realms are not occupied by large cities that can easily hold millions upon millions of people.
So, when Wang Wei was sent flying in a straight line at ground level, the clash of his fleshly body with anything resulted in the other thing being destroyed.
He could feel myriad people instantly exploding into blood mist after he crashed into them. Mountains, rivers, glaciers, forests, and many more were evaporated in his path.
'Damn it,' once again cursed Wang Wei. He was used to abusing his opponent because of his superior fleshly body, but now it was his turn. This fact made him seriously angry.
However, in the process of growing his head back, he quickly calm down to enter a rational and calculative state; he knew that anger was detrimental to his current situation.
The current problem he was now facing was that his opponent was too fast for him to even react. Adding to that in terms of physical prowess he was outclassed, this further aggravated the situation.
While Wang Wei was trying to come up with a solution to his current predicament, Di Tian was essentially using his body as a demolition tool. He jumped on it to destroy the ground, tossed it everywhere to destroy buildings or houses.
He punched it until it looked like meat sauce, sliced it like it was a cucumber, and many more.
During the entire ordeal, not a sound came out of Wang Wei's mouth. And every time he regenerated himself, his face was always calm, shining with luster, shining with the desire to survive.
No despair or negative emotion could be seen.
Di Tian frowned slightly after seeing this.
'I guess my plan to use physical pain, humiliation, and despair to break his mind has failed. Well, I expected this since he is a Young Emperor. With his Dao Heart, how could his spirit be easily broken.'
Di Tian did not care whether he succeeded or not as he already expected this. Anyway, he did not suffer anything from trying, and it was quite satisfying to beat his opponent until his mother could not recognize him.
Suddenly, numerous invisible to the naked eye grey strings appeared from Wang Wei's body; they attached themselves to all the cells in his body before rushing into the sky where an illusory river suddenly appeared.
"The River of Fate," muttered Di Tian as he watched the river that seemed to be made of uncountable strings. "So, he's using his authority as the only Supreme God of this world to summon the River of Fate."
Without saying anything else, he rushed toward Wang Wei to attack. However, things went a little differently this time.
Wang Wei did not block but moved forward to clash head-on with Di Tian.
Bang!
His right arm exploded into millions of pieces, and he was sent sliding more than a hundred kilometers before managing to control himself and stopping.
'Interesting,' thought Di Tian as he paused to analyze how his opponent managed to make up the gap in his reaction speed in such a short amount of time.
Chapter 392: Outclassed II
By looking at the strings connected to the River of Destiny, Di Tian could guess that he was using the power of fate to guide his reaction speed. This river contained the lives of all people that have existed since the creation of the Heavenly Abode World.
From ancient to modern times, the number of people is simply uncalculable given how short mortals' lives are.
And having these people dictate Wang Wei's reaction is like having an infinite amount of people looking out and reacting for him, thus drastically increasing his reaction time.
The only limit to such power is how much his body can bear.
Di Tian's eyes showed a slight smirk. So what if his opponent could barely react in time with his attack? This did not change the vast difference in their strength or prowess.
He rushed towards his opponent and punched. The two fists clashed together, and Wang Wei felt a strange force entering his body; this was not physical force but something else.
And before he could react, he found that his Primordial Spirit was forcibly detached from his body. Thousand of chains appeared trying to push it back inside but it was no use.
Then, Di Tian made three more punches and one kick. The previous one had annihilated Wang Wei's right hand, but the other three destroys his remaining arm and two legs. And in that same instance, a black wheel appeared on top of his Primordial Spirit and began to grind it into dust.
Millions of his spirit particles were instantly annihilated. Any more time, Wang Wei knew that his soul would be grounded into dust and he would be killed. So, he dispersed them into their spirit particles shape to return and regrow from the cells in his body.
Meanwhile, a string appeared on Wang Wei's torso who was sent flying away. The string was attached to Di Tian, trying to pull something out of him; it was trying to pull his soul, lifespan, and even his past–it was pulling his destiny.
However, with a calm look on his face, he made his hand into a speak shape and easily cut off that string, resulting in Wang Wei throwing up a mouthful of blood because of the backlash.
While mobilizing his Life and Death Wheel Talent to rapidly heal his body, numerous strings appeared behind Wang Wei forming a spider web and catching his body and preventing it from rushing from one realm to another.
And in that split second after his body regenerated itself, he stood on the web made of strings, used it as a bouncing plate to launch himself forward as he turned into a grey rainbow.
In front of Di Tian, he punched: World Breaking Fist.
The vibration came from his skin, muscles, bones, organs, tissues, cells, and even the hundred million spirit particles of his Primordial Spirit. On top of that, he even controlled many of the strings that made the River of Fate to also vibrate, thus bringing this attack to an even higher level.
This current attack is the perfect combination of Wang Wei's fleshly body and his cultivation level. He was confident that only a few Quasi-Emperor in the Myriad Emperor World could survive this attack.
After he made that punch, in just an instant, five Realms of the Heavenly Abode Realm–larger than any mortal universes–were instantly destroyed. The vibration destroyed all matter at a quantum level. This attack did not even spare the concept that existed in these realms as they were also annihilated.
Boom!
The punch hit Di Tian's body, creating a dust cloud around him. Not even a few seconds later, a breeze passed by to remove the cloud, showing his body.
He was perfectly intact, not even his clothes were scratched. His cold and indifferent eyes looked at Wang Wei calmly before raising his hand. A cloud of black smoke appeared on his hand as he punched.
Immediately, a terrifying death threat overcame Wang Wei. His intuition was constantly warning that he was going to die, that no matter what he did, his only result was absolute death.
For the first time in a very long time, the emotion of fear suddenly flooded his mind trying to overwhelm him. He knew that he could not survive this attack.
Nevertheless, he still used his powerful Will to repress his fear as he knew that this was not the time for this. He activated his Proving Dao Artifact to turn into a large mirror.
Then, he imbued it with the Swallowing Power from the Gluttony Swallowing Scripture to absorb the power of that attack. Finally, he used a string to cut off one of his fingers, open a small hole in the space, and sent that finger to an Abode in another realm.
All of these actions took place in less than nanoseconds.
After Di Tian's punch hit Wang Wei's body, a black sphere enveloped it and the mirror for a moment before disappearing. Then, his body began to rot and decay like it was dead for dozens of years.
In just a few seconds, only his bones were left, and soon, they also dissipated. The same fate occurred to the mirror. It rusted before turning into millions of particles and dissipated between heaven and earth.
Di Tian frowned after seeing this as he knew that the latter was not killed. He searched for Wang Wei's whereabouts but a strange power seemed to block his search.
"The Heavenly Dao of this world?" He understood that as the only Almighty God of this world, Wang Wei had some control over Heavenly Dao. However, Di Tian did not care as the delay was only for a few seconds.
Meanwhile, in the Death Realm, Wang Wei's small finger suddenly appeared inside one of the Heavenly Abodes. The finger did not waste time as it began to absorb everything around it.
The few remaining Gods who were trembling because their worlds were falling apart, the believers that lived in the abode, all of them turned into a blood river that was absorbed by the finger.
Their souls, lifespan, and blood energy were instantly absorbed by the finger to regrow Wang Wei's body. Previously, many of the abodes were connected together to facilitate easier management.
So, in this catastrophe, all the Gods and believers of the Death Realm were killed. And after Wang Wei regrew his body, he did not stop as he also absorb the entire abode itself as it could be considered a small world.
Over the years, although Wang Wei never used his Life and Death Wheel Innate Talent because he did not have to, he still trained it. He ensure that it could absorb any kind of energy or power–not just spiritual power–to heal him.
And today, this ability became useful.
Thinking of that last attack, Wang Wei was truly scared as he really came close to dying. He has not entered the [One Drop Blood Regenerating Realm], but he was very close.
So, at the last minute, he thought of this plan to survive.
After thinking about the previous situation, a smile appeared on his face; he was excited. His path of cultivation has been too smooth so he never faced such a powerful foe; no, such an overwhelming one.
He was used to bullying his opponent. It's not like he never fought people who were more powerful than him. His father and Wu Hong often placed him in his place when he gets too arrogant,
However, these people never truly try to kill him unlike now. So, this is the first real-life and death battle he had ever since the Spirit Road Trial.
In the few seconds that Wang Wei used Heavenly Dao to buy him some time, he recovered his body and looked at Di Tian who suddenly appeared in front of him.
"I suspected it before but on the last attack, I confirmed my suspicions," said Wang Wei. "You cultivated the [Ancient Desolate Body Refining Scripture]."
He could feel that Di Tian's fleshly body was similar to his. Additionally, he could feel the Innate Qi inside as well. Most likely, Di Tian used even more Innate Materials to refine his body than him.
And based on what he knew about the latter's Sleepers, it is possible to infiltrate the sect and acquire the scripture--just as he did to the Origin Pill Dao Sect.
"You're correct," replied Di Tian. "Of all the body refinement techniques that I have seen, it is quite unique because of its versatility. It's a shame that its glory is built on lies."
"What do you mean?"
"The Ancient Desolate Emperor never used this technique to fight Seven Lotus Emperor in the Quasi-Emperor Realm."
Wang Wei frowned after hearing this; he always had a feeling that there were some secrets to this scripture. After all, he is closed to completely finishing cultivating it, and from what he knew, he did not feel that he would be able to fight a Great Emperor once he was done.
"So, what exactly happened?" he asked.
"Once Wang Chong created the [Ancient Desolate Body Refining Scipture], he was lucky enough to discover the beating heart of a Primordial God from the Null Era and absorbed it.
"Then, he challenged the Seven Lotus Emperor again, and he was still easily defeated–even though the latter was nothing but a third-class Great Emperor. The gap between these two realms–Quasi-Emperor and Great Emperor– is simply unsurpassable."
Wang Wei suddenly remembered one day when his grandfather was drunk, then sneered while saying the Quasi-Emperor Realm was the biggest joke in the universe.
At first, Wang Wei asked him once he was sober but he did not get an answer under the excuse that his cultivation was too weak. That was a long time ago but Wang Wei did not bring up this subject again.
However, recently, after getting access to the Secret Archive, he slightly understood the meaning behind this. And now, Di Tian was also basically saying the same thing.
"If what you said is true, why did the Seven Lotus Emperor cut off the Karma for my ancestor? And why did he lie about this?" asked Wang Wei.
One of the reasons that this scripture is so famous is because of the rumors that if one cultivates to a sufficient height, a Quasi-Emperor will have the power of a Great Emperor.
"The Seven Lotus Emperor was not reconciled with how weak he was as an Emperor, so he made a deal with Wang Chong. He would cut off his karma for him and even acknowledge the rumors of the scripture, in exchange, he wanted some of the blood from the Primordial God to further his strength.
"As for the reason the rumors were spread, the answer is simple. At that time, the Dao Opening Sect was nothing but a little sect with two Great emperors–even if they were Eternal Emperors.
"Wang Chong wanted to use this rumor to deter future Emperors, making them think that the sect had secretly cultivated many Quasi-Emperors with the power to fight Great Emperors. And this method did succeed."
Wang Wei understood the plan of the Ancient Desolate Emperor. However, he did not think that things were that simple. Most likely, this scripture might have something more to it that he does not yet know.
"You should have healed by now?" said Di Tian, still with his indifferent and cold eyes.
"Thank you for giving me the time," replied Wang Wei as he began to transform; he was prepared to enter his most powerful state.
Chapter 393: Typical Protagonis
The robe on Wang Wei's body disappeared replaced by only long black pants, displaying his 12 pack muscle line. Then, his skin turned copper in color while also growing claws.
Bronze-colored tattoo designed appeared on his torso, four silver bones grew from his back. The white part of his eyes turned golden while the rest remained grey.
Five small things floated from his right shoulder to the left one, forming an arc; they were a small flame, a ball of water, a solid rock, a golden sphere, and a leaf, each representing the five elements.
As soon as Wang Wei finished his transformation, a powerful and eerie aura suddenly enveloped the entire Heavenly Abode World; the aura was powerful, desolate, and brought fear to any lesser life forms. Creaking sounds could be heard from the entire world as the laws seemed to be rattled, showing that his mere presence was placing too much pressure on the entire world.
"This Desolate God Transformation is not really pleasant to the eyes," muttered Wang Wei as he looked at his body. This transformation was possible after he finished refining his organs, however, he never had any use for it, so he never showed it.
As he clenched his hand, he could feel the tremendous increase in his strength; in this form, he can bring out the full potential of his fleshly body. According to his estimate, he could not fight his grandfather and win, or even fight ten Quasi-Emperor and be the winner.
However, as he looked at Di Tian in front of him, he knew that this might not be enough. Nevertheless, he had to try.
He rushed toward Di Tian with a speed thousands of times faster than light and punched him. And with that punch, he also used the Power of Heaven and Earth, which gave him an additional 270-fold increase in strength.
This level of Power of Heaven and Earth far surpassed the increase in strength of most Laws.
As Wang Wei made that punch, he heard a screaming sound full of pain and agony but he ignored it. He saw Di Tian waving his hand to negate the power of his attack, and after that, a force even more powerful rushed towards him and blasted his upper torso.
Oddly though, there was no blood or gore after his upper body was destroyed. Instead, an upper torso made of dirt was instantly made up before turning into real flesh and blood.
And as soon as Wang Wei's body was reformed, his eyes turned red as a massive pillar of flame that looked like laser vision rushed towards Di Tian; he was using his Chaos Flame.
Meanwhile, Di Tian–who was very knowledgeable regarding the Ancient Desolate Scripture–knew that one of the abilities granted after cultivating the organs was mastery over the five elements, thus even allowing the body to turn into other elements to avoid physical damage.
He calmly opened his mouth to spew out a blue flame, which instantly overwhelmed Wang Wei's flame and rushed to burn his entire existence. Luckily, he quickly turned himself into fire elements and avoid the attack.
'Damn it,' cursed Wang Wei in annoyance; he was annoyed for two reasons. One was the constant crying sound in his ear, and the other was the information he just learned in this short confrontation.
One, his enemy also has a Chaos Flame and has even cultivated it to an even higher level than his. Second, it was the power of Heaven and Earth that Di Tian briefly used during the confrontation.
According to his calculation, that attack had at least a 900-fold of power, which was almost five times his increase. And that was only a basic estimation which is probably on the lower side.
Compare to his 270-fold increase, he was truly outclassed.
Immediately, Wang Wei removed the distracting thoughts or emotions from his mind as he quickly pondered.
'If I want to get out of this situation alive, I need to find a method to grow during combat,' he thought. Right now, he could tell that Di Tian was essentially toying with him, trying to get him to use all his power and hidden cards.
And this was an opportunity for him. So, his brain worked rapidly.
'Currently, there are only three ways I can improve my strength: one is to enter the Grandmaster Level of my [Force Controlling Skill], enter the One Drop Rebirth Realm, and increase my fighting experience.'
In this battle, for the first time in his life, Wang Wei understood the importance of battle experience. With each clash with Di Tian, he found that the latter can not only use the best method to deal with any situation, he can use the right amount of force or technique, and more importantly, he can target Wang Wei's weakness with each attack. freēwēbnovel.com
A powerful cultivator's weakness is not static but is constantly moving around; it depends on the cultivator's origin essence, spiritual power or soul, fleshly body, and many other factors.
And when it comes to a master of the flesh like Wang Wei, his weaknesses are very small and constantly changing to prevent others from targeting them. Yet, Di Tian can find that weakness with every attack, thus drastically increasing the effectiveness of his attacks.
It's like he was playing a game and could hit a critical hit attack 100% of the time.
While Wang Wei was thinking of a solution to his problem, he did not stop clashing with Di Tian, however, he never even made a scratch on the latter. As for him, the only reason he was barely holding by was because of his ability to turn into an element.
'Usually, only through time and constant battle can experience be increase, however, I have another way,' thought Wang Wei.
'The Pagoda Trials.'
In many of the trials, he lived a very long and many lives and experienced countless battles. And since the Illusion World in the Pagoda is extremely realistic, it is possible to bring back the experience inside to the real.
As a matter of fact, many disciples used the Pagoda for this purpose in addition to using it to refine their Will, mind, and Dao Heart. The reason that Wang Wei never did so was because of the memories of his past life.
Because of his experience, a part of his mind could not help compare the Pagoda Trial with Virtual Reality Games. This way of thinking allowed him to be more resistant to illusion but it also prevented him from fully using the trial to its fullest level.
After making a plan, Wang Wei immediately began to execute it.
He began to remember his time as a devil when he lost his mind to power; he fought countless battles all over the world and became the final winner. Then, there was his battle with the Wrath of Heaven.
In that trial, he always had to start from scratch and reach the peak of the cultivation world. In the process, he fought all over the world, cultivating and creating many techniques to prepare for his final battle.
He reviewed all his 10,000 attempts over and over again while rapidly absorbing the battle experience he learned. And while doing so, he also found another benefit. In many of his attempts against that finger, he also cultivated his fleshly body to an unimaginable level.
As such, he also learned to control his power to precision. Amongst the memory he has, he did have a counterpart that could control every atom in his body to utilize force. So, Wang Wei focused on that memory to see how he did so in the pagoda, then, modify it to account for the difference between the Illusion World and the True World.
Then, Wang Wei felt something click inside his mind. He punched forward while controlling all the atoms in his body to generate force.
Boom!
His original power which was a few quadrillions of Jin of force jumped to quintillion. And this was not the end. During the entire battle, Wang Wei had to fight a familiar force from Di Tian's attack that greatly hindered his healing capabilities.
He always felt that power was familiar and he finally identified it: the Duyi Realm or True Will power that he acquired after reaching the 13th level of the Body Refining Realm.
Before this, he did not know much about how to use this power besides using it to destroy the foundation of people with weaker strengths than himself. However, after observing Di Tian's attacks who also has the Duyi Realm, he knew that this thing was used not only to amplify attacks but also to destroy defenses and prevent the regenerative abilities of others.
After recognizing that power, Wang Wei finally understood why the first time he met Di Tian at the Academy, when he left his True Will at the front door he was not affected in the least and could ignore it.
After making that punch with his new breakthrough, Di Tian blocked the attack with his palm before slapping Wang Wei away. He then looked at the slightly white mark on his palm.
'Growing in the midst of battle? Typical action of people with Great Luck and Destiny. However, this is not even close to being enough,' he thought. 'So far, his strength and talent only make him on par with 5 reincarnations, so, how could he has a chance against me for the Heaven Will?'