Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1081 - 64: The Tribulation of Immortal Ascension, The End of Immortal Ascension

The Merciful Father, the Saint Son, the Pure Wind King, has reigned over Shenzhou for eight thousand years as the foremost divine spirit. At its peak, the Immortal Dao waned, and the entire Shenzhou was its harvest field for incense fires. Over these eight thousand years, from a mere common divine being, the Merciful Father, the Saint Son, the Pure Wind King gradually became a powerful incense god that even Heavenly Immortals must regard with respect. However, the deceased Holy Infant Great Master, Ye Su, had employed unknown means, preventing such great power from condensing on a single entity or solidifying like the Beast Herd Species, nor could it directly generate Spirit Wisdom like the Soul Spirit Kind, allowing this divine being to linger in the world.

Now, two thousand years have passed, and the incense offerings of the Holy Infant Sect have long ceased, yet this divine spirit remains strong. Infinite Divine Light radiates outward, and three concentric circles act as gates connecting the sea of light, releasing torrents of divine power. The Son of Terror Torture roars and charges, but his form keeps disintegrating. Despite the numerous Heart Demon Curse Lights empowering him, there's no saving his decline. Yet the Son of Terror Torture continues to raise his axe and charge again and again.

Rising in defiance, the result is his complete destruction!

At the very end, the Son of Terror Torture roars and throws his blood-stained Sawtooth Battle Axe. This axe is also the embodiment of his authority, as well as the crystallization of Guan Wuji's martial arts and resentment. The battle axe spins and strikes the body of the Merciful Father, the Saint Son, the Pure Wind King.

Then, blood-red and white light explode simultaneously.

While the Divine Light blocks his eyes, the Hongyuan God suddenly elevates. His divine body rotates, spreading out a black robe that rapidly extends. Like switching scenery, the black power robe covers the entire Spirit Phoenix Island. Meanwhile, the Primordial Spirit avatar, now transformed into the "Key of the Gate," changes again. Countless star-like specks dot the "night sky" formed by the black robe; the image of the "Key of the Gate" suddenly expands, encompassing the entire Spirit Phoenix Island. At this moment, the space's topological structure is extremely mysterious, like a maze.

Immediately, the Hongyuan God fires countless iron chains. These chains pass through layers of "gates," simultaneously striking all divine spirits in incredible ways. At this time, the Holy Emperor Venerable is busy stabilizing his Innate Five Virtues within the setup of the Heavenly Book Tower and cannot spare the effort to deliver a fatal blow to Wang Qi, just giving a cold glare.

Under his control, the arrangement painstakingly managed by the Heavenly Book Tower over two thousand years transforms into an array, continuously shrinking, then merges into his body.

"Boy, I'm about to complete my breakthrough. Just you wait for death!"

"Oh, is that so?" Wang Qi dismisses the Holy Emperor Venerable's threat without concern. He brings his palms together, and the expanse covered by the Hongyuan God's black robe starts to contract sharply. Then, the Key of the Gate withdraws its Divine Skills to avoid being enveloped. The Holy Emperor Venerable, with no place to hide, is caught and wrapped in the Hongyuan's black robe.

At this moment, the Holy Emperor Venerable is madly draining nature's spiritual energy of the Grand Heaven and Earth; previously, the residents of Spirit Phoenix Island were still useful, so he deliberately spared the Underground City. Unless he wishes to become a third-rate Immortal, this process cannot stop. And the Hongyuan God seizes this opportunity, wrapping him, then astonishingly begins to disintegrate, allowing absorption and even facilitating fusion.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's calm expression finally collapses entirely, transforming into shock.

The Hongyuan God is a unique Evil God, possessing the power of the Innate Five Elements. If prepared, he could integrate the Hongyuan God, simultaneously witness the Innate Five Elements and Five Taos, becoming a powerful Immortal. But now, the power has suddenly and actively merged in; he is insufficiently prepared to wield powers of the Innate Five Elements, and the countering Innate Five Virtues' power has already lost balance due to initial heavy blows, unusable in haste. The magic energy of red and black flashes, and the Holy Emperor Venerable's Dharma Body of the Five Virtues trained for a thousand years collapses!

The Hongyuan God is also a product of the Banished Immortal, and the foundations and accumulations of Lord Hongtian's crafting before being beaten into amnesia by Wang Qi far exceeded those of the Holy Emperor Venerable!

However, the foundations of the Hongyuan God remain thin, unable to fully dissolve the Holy Emperor Venerable's Magic Body. And now, the light of the Innate Five Virtues within the Holy Emperor Venerable vanishes, the Innate Five Taos' qi is unbound, accelerating evolution. Soon, the black and white Yin Yang Spirit Light transforms into Taiji Double Fish, revolving endlessly around the Holy Emperor Venerable, the evolution of the Innate Five Taos already entering its final phase.

In an instant, the Holy Emperor Venerable is about to step last!

While witnessing the Innate Five Taos falls short of witnessing Five Virtues and Five Taos, it still qualifies as a formidable ordinary Immortal. By then, Wang Qi will die nonetheless.

At this moment, Wang Qi jumps out of the sea: "It's now!"

His left hand grips a sword, while his right is raised before him. He brushes his sword against his wrist, blade cutting the artery, blood streaming along the sword, spontaneously coagulating into talismans as if imbued with spirit. The Life Flame travels through the blood, triggering infinite essence.

In an instant, the sword's power is fully unleashed!

"Three inches under the armpit, right there!" Zhen Chan's voice roars in Wang Qi's mind.

"Aaaaaaaah!" Wang Qi roars mightily, pitching the longsword in a spear-throwing posture!

"Wha… Heavenly Sword!" The Holy Emperor Venerable quickly reaches to catch it. Wang Qi, merely a cultivator at the Core Formation Stage, however strong, wouldn't unleash the sword at excessive speed. Even a Heavenly Sword, driven by a Golden Core Cultivator's Mana, could hardly threaten an imminent Mahayana Cultivator on the verge of Immortal Ascension...

Then, the Holy Emperor Venerable's mind buzzes again, halting his conscious thoughts!

Previously subdued Spirit Phoenix Island cultivators' minds suddenly rebel, launching an attack five times more intense than before.

Using half of his intention to suppress Wang Qi's utilization of Spirit Phoenix Island cultivators for a DDOS attack, he paid no further heed, at most reserving some effort for suppression.

Unexpectedly, it explodes with quintuple strength!

Then, Wang Qi's full-powered Heavenly Sword strikes his flank.

Wang Qi's fully triggered Heavenly Sword is merely akin to "a slash." Such attacks are outrageous for the Holy Emperor Venerable but require little effort to fend off.

Yet he is at a critical breakthrough stage, his entire body opened, defensively weak, and fragile.

The Holy Emperor Venerable has been cautious enough, disregarding Wang Qi's distributed 'Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture', instead extracting insights from this corrupt compilation and creating a new cultivation technique. The one cultivated by Qiushui Daoist can be seen as a "prototype" here.

This process rendered Wang Qi's manipulations within the 'Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture' largely ineffective.

However, the Holy Emperor Venerable himself is unfamiliar with the cultivation domain of the Innate Five Taos, relying heavily on borrowed techniques, while Zhen Chan, a Grandmaster in this art, could easily discern the Holy Emperor Venerable's mortal weakness!

The Heavenly Sword Power isn't much, but the "quality" of the power is strong, able to manifest the might of the solar core in an extremely short time. This was somewhat formidable even for an Immortal. Wang Qi essentially used a needle to pierce the Holy Emperor Venerable—though small, it indeed caused harm.

But what if this "needle" happens to strike a "lethal point"?

Like a butterfly gently fluttering its wings.

The cultivation body painstakingly maintained by the Holy Emperor Venerable collapsed just like that.

The mighty mana surged backward outwards. However, this isn't the end. The Holy Emperor Venerable had just drawn upon the spiritual energy circulation of the entire planet, causing the planetary-level cycle of spiritual energy to collapse. Until the planet establishes a new dynamic balance, many terrifying weather phenomena will occur.

And the core of all this mutation is the Holy Emperor Venerable.

This is—Heavenly Tribulation!

The Holy Emperor Venerable clutched his chest. His heart, concentrated into divinity, had just experienced a shock, hurting immensely. Now the innate Taiji within him has collapsed, Taixu is impure, only the forces of Tai Chu, Taishi, and Taiyi barely exist. Moreover, significantly injured, facing the Immortal Ascension Tribulation at this moment is truly unfavorable.

The Holy Emperor Venerable gritted his teeth. His original plan was to use the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation to temper his own mana, but in this state, confronting the lightning tribulation is courting death. He beckoned, and the Sect Protection Array of Thunder Night Sect suddenly lit up.

—But, fortunately, I still have a backup...

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

Suddenly, a series of explosions flattened Thunder Night Sect. Not just Thunder Night Sect, at this moment, the same scene played out in many sects in the underground city of Spirit Phoenix Island.

At this juncture, the Holy Emperor Venerable seemed to hear Wang Qi's wanton laughter.

"Ah hahaha hahaha, Emperor Venerable, oh Emperor Venerable, how can this be? Characters like you, Banished Immortals, shouldn't they crush the Heavenly Tribulation to showcase their extraordinariness? This is the convention in storybooks! So, I helped you remove all the arrays, feel the fury of nature! No need to thank me, just call me a good person!"

"Damn it..."

The Holy Emperor Venerable, using the language of this planet, cursed for the first time.

Then, the heavens raged.

.................................

Fan Zhongxing, Wu Qi, and Lu Longcheng powerlessly shook the surrounding fellow sect members, faces full of confusion and helplessness.

After the vast spirit light dispersed, the three of them woke up immediately. The celestial tribulation has directionality, the surrounding destruction wasn't significant, so most cultivators on Spirit Phoenix Island were still alive. The three were stunned by the aftermath of the Holy Emperor Venerable's Immortal Ascension Tribulation but were only unconscious for a very short time.

However, when they tried to shake the bodies of others, they found other Ancient Method Practitioners, though alive, their inner thoughts seemed to have been deleted, the whole person like a clay statue, motionless, blank eyed, almost indistinguishable from dead.

"This is... why..."

Except for a few cultivators who were simultaneously reincarnators, everyone was like this.

This is the reason why the Holy Emperor Venerable's divine country operation stopped and then collapsed.

Wang Qi deleted all the memories of the Ancient Method Practitioners.

Attacking memory, he had tried on Mei Gemu, though it was used less on Spirit Phoenix Island, it was still somewhat involved. Now he only needs to call a small portion of these people's mana and continually attack their own memory areas.

Regardless of whether it's ancient or recent, short-term or long-term, they are all annihilated.

The Human Clan is ultimately different from the Beast Herd Species. Humans are "pseudo-social" animals. Human social traits are acquired. Therefore, when Wang Qi deleted everyone's memories, the "social connectivity" of many Ancient Method Practitioners disappeared, the connections between people naturally could no longer be sustained.

And when social connectivity disappeared, the Human Dao of the Holy Emperor Venerable lost its foundation. What's more, some gods lost in history, even gods fabricated by the Holy Emperor Venerable himself, were merely supported by the "consciousness" of everyone in the Human Dao System of Spirit Phoenix Island.

These people lost their memories, then those gods should disappear too.

And due to the complete disappearance of thoughts, the miscellaneous thoughts in people's hearts also reduced, Wang Qi conveniently turned them into parts of the biological calculator. This is also why the second DOS attack achieved more than five times the first.

The Holy Emperor Venerable has already been defeated.