Chapter 800: The Sun of Ten Thousand Realms (VII)
But the successive falls of True Immortals did not make anyone shrink back.
Because they were originally just withered bones in graves with only a breath left, sealing themselves with various secret methods, awaiting one last chance to shine brightly.
In just half a day, more than thirty columns of dissipating spirit energy were successively formed.
Considering only the number of True Immortals lost, this had already surpassed even multiple great immortal realm wars.
After all, for True Immortals in their prime, rebirth from a drop of blood was a standard operation. Even participating in brutal immortal realm wars, as long as they didn't court death by falling into numerous traps, or directly confronting higher-level beings, they generally wouldn't die on the spot.
Time, and lifespan, were their greatest enemies.
Those who truly perished on the battlefield were, in fact, few.
Their sacrifice was not in vain.
Under the combined efforts of hundreds of True Immortals, the expansion rate of the Demonic Sun slowed down by seventy percent.
They couldn't stop it.
If this continued, the Demonic Sun would pollute the entire Dao Chen Realm in at most twenty years.
"Zerg Mother, give me the coordinates to the other side." Rather than wait for death according to the calculated results, Yuan Shi Dao Ren decided to stake everything on a desperate gamble, taking the risk of swapping realms, and heading to the opposite spatial layer while the other party was breaking through in the Dao Chen Realm.
"No, it's already too late," said the little girl riding a cicada.
"I originally had the idea of going to the Solar System world too, but I found that not long after he arrived in the Dao Chen Realm, he used immense magical power to shake space, triggering several spatial turbulences.
Unless we wait twenty or thirty years for the spatial turbulences to gradually subside, otherwise, if we go out now, we will only get lost in the chaotic currents of the spatial layers."
"...It seems he had planned this long ago." Yuan Shi Dao Ren swept his divine sense towards the Outland, discovering that the spatial turbulences had likely formed precisely at the moment the World-Shaking Ring completely shattered.
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"Does Fellow Daoist truly intend to wipe us out?" After learning from Yuan Shi's divine sense communication that the outer layer had been sealed by spatial turbulences, Chen Dao Ren, who had been enveloping the Demonic Sun with his Dharmakaya, also found himself unable to stay still.
Originally, he had believed that even if the Dao Chen Realm fell, escaping completely with his powerful cultivation and the profound heritage of his Saint Chen Sect would not be difficult.
But now, Bai Mo's act of disturbing space and cutting off everyone's retreat paths made him feel a flicker of unease.
"Have I killed anyone?" From the deepest reaches of the endless light and heat, Bai Mo replied.
"You've utterly destroyed the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, and even attempted to alter the memories of all sentient beings. Is this not an attempt to wipe out all cultivators in this realm?"
"Your path relies too heavily on the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir as a crutch."
"The Purple-Green Spirit Elixir is the foundation upon which immortals stand against Dao Toxin, just as Spirit Stones are to mortal cultivators, or food is to mortals. How can you call it a crutch?" Chen Dao Ren keenly sensed that Bai Mo might possess some information about the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir that he was unaware of, and attempted to elicit details.
"Give up. You can't stop me." Bai Mo did not answer Chen Dao Ren's question, speaking instead to himself.
"Impossible." Chen Dao Ren refused him flatly.
Their conversation ended there.
...
Every day was a struggle against endless light and heat, and Tu Zi Lin, a True Immortal of the Heaven Water Sect, truly felt exhausted.
Like a puppet, he ceaselessly repeated the same actions, his Immortal Essence Power being drained again and again, then forcibly refilled by wasting Purple-Green Great Medicine.
In the thousands of years he had cultivated, he had rarely experienced such a situation.
Every time he unleashed the Cloud-Turning Rain-Calling Sword Qi, extinguishing the Solar True Flames within a few miles, even more True Flames surged from all directions the very next second.
He calculated that for every fifteen sword strikes he unleashed, he had to retreat half a li, or risk being engulfed by the sea of flames.
It was a pure, overwhelming suppression by sheer quantity—tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of times the amount.
Straightforward, yet utterly helpless.
A voice in his mind kept saying, "Give up. You're not some Child of Destiny. There's no path forward."
"What happens after I give up?" he subconsciously asked.
"Start over."
"Start over?"
Tu Zi Lin's first reaction upon hearing this was to think of his cultivation.
The Heaven Water Sect, where he hailed from, was originally just a third-rate sect in the Dao Chen Realm. Only after he became an immortal did it barely reach the level of a second-rate sect.
Even the Heaven Water Sect's core cultivation technique, the Cloud-Turning Rain-Calling Art, was only intended by its founder to reach the Transcending Tribulation stage, and the author himself hadn't even broken through the Integration stage. Tu Zi Lin, in being able to surpass his predecessors and barely break through all the way to the True Immortal realm, felt that he had truly exhausted all his potential.
The fact was, his feeling was correct.
In the thousand years since he became an immortal, his cultivation had stagnated at the early True Immortal stage, without the slightest progress. This helplessness of standing still for a millennium had almost driven him mad.
To break through the Integration stage, he had already undergone one Reincarnation Tribulation; this was his second life. He had no chance to start over.
"That seems to be right, huh." Unconsciously, he seemed to accept what the voice said, not caring in the slightest that it was the legendary Inner Demon.
"Relax, close your eyes, shut off your divine sense... When you awaken again, you can start anew."
"Just like a Reincarnation Tribulation?"
The voice said nothing more.
Tu Zi Lin waited for a long time, but received no reply.
Yet, this Grand Elder of the Heaven Water Sect, weary in both body and mind, still followed the instructions of the voice in his head, relaxing his Immortal Essence Power's defenses and releasing the gray mist protection Chen Dao Ren had placed on him. He allowed the light emanating from the distant Demonic Sun to silently seep into his body's surface.
Wisps of green smoke began to rise from Tu Zi Lin's body, and his cultivation rapidly receded, from early True Immortal stage, to late Transcending Tribulation stage, middle, early...
In just the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, he was like time rewound, returning to his mortal state from before he began cultivation in this life. He inexplicably lay hundreds of li away.
When he opened his eyes again, the world in his vision seemed to have become impossibly vast.
Hundreds of li, in a True Immortal's memory, was merely a distance that could be crossed with a thought. However, for his current mortal body, without supplies, walking hundreds of li in the desolate wilderness was practically courting death.
Not to mention the anomalies in the sky that utterly stifled him, and his fellow cultivators, any one of whom could easily blow him to death.
Equally shocked were the other True Immortals battling the Demonic Sun on the battlefield.
They all witnessed it: a perfectly fine fellow Daoist inexplicably had his cultivation utterly crippled, transforming into a mere mortal.
For True Immortals who had long been exalted, this might have been even more unbearable than death itself.
"The light of this Demonic Sun can bewitch hearts, stir up Inner Demons, and erode one's Dao foundation. Fellow Daoist Tu has fallen prey to it; I shall see him off." Having said this, Chen Dao Ren sighed lightly, and a wisp of gray mist transformed into a gray somersault cloud, carrying the other party back to the Heaven Water Sect's territory.
P.S. How does time pass so quickly... I always feel like I just updated recently, but then I check, and it's already been three days..
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