Chapter 54: Crossing the Tribulation, Destroying the Returning Void Demon (Many thanks to the big shots for your support—unexpectedl

This Void Rejection is Void Backlash.

If it cannot be dispelled in time, it will gradually accumulate and stack, transforming into a Void Calamity from which there is no survival.

And each time Chen Daoxuan dispels a Void Rejection, besides those Eight Dharma Bodies merging bit by bit into the Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void in proportion,

the Flesh Dharma Body seated at the center of the Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void, and that Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul, merge with the void in mysterious resonance, sublimating and transforming.

The Flesh Dharma Body—limbs, bones, the five viscera and six bowels—each and every aperture, with every Void Rejection, becomes like the creation of heaven and earth, transforming into realms of void.

At the same time, the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul, which originally possessed only the Seven Orifices such as eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, plus the Heaven and Earth Orifices—nine orifices in total—as the Flesh Dharma Body's countless apertures opened into realms of void,

simultaneously opened realms of void as well, transforming into Void Apertures one by one.

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The Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Four Symbols, Cause and Effect, Thunder, Slaughter, and the two Daos of Time and Space—the Eight Great Daos he had comprehended and cultivated—taking the Great Dao True Talismans condensed from them as their foundation, permeated the Flesh Dharma Body and the Dao Soul, within those opened realms of void.

Wisps and strands of Great Dao Power emerged, naturally merging with the Primordial Spirit Dharma Power as one, transforming into Returning Void Dharma Power capable of commanding the Great Dao.

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And while the flesh body and Primordial Spirit were transforming, the Eight True Mountains and Eight Mysterious Seas cultivated with the Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture as their foundation, as well as the Sun and Moon condensed from the great completion of the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture with the Yin-Yang True Mountain as their core—all, following the transformation of the Flesh Dharma Body and Dao Soul, began to undergo void changes.

The true mountains grew taller, the mysterious seas grew vaster, and the Yin-Yang Sun and Moon grew ever more profound.

Moreover, a kind of void barrier emerged.

Each true mountain and each mysterious sea seemed as though it would become a realm unto itself.

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Chen Daoxuan operated the Returning Void Method, suppressing Void Rejection and controlling the changes around his body.

He also diverted a portion of his mind, focusing it on the Innate Gourd and the Primordial Destruction Heavy Pupils.

He activated the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder immortal art.

Immediately, the remaining Heaven-Earth-Man Three Talents killing opportunities within the Innate Gourd began to be consumed.

And the forty-nine Innate Divine Prohibitions within the Innate Gourd, following this, linked and merged into one.

They began to transform into a single Innate True Prohibition.

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Fifty days later.

The forty-nine Innate Divine Prohibitions of the Innate Gourd had completely vanished, replaced by a single Innate True Prohibition permeated with Great Dao Power, connecting to the Great Dao.

The Primordial Destruction Heavy Pupils in Chen Daoxuan's right eye, which had originally displayed forty-nine rings of grey thunder-light, were now like at their first formation—only a cluster of grey radiance remained, connecting the Eight Great Daos of Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and so forth.

In mysterious resonance, a strange oppressive feeling emerged from within his right eye, falling upon the transforming Flesh Dharma Body and Dao Soul.

At this, Chen Daoxuan's state of mind did not waver.

He merely wielded the Innate Gourd, merging and sublimating the wisps of Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder he had accumulated over these several hundred years.

Every fifty wisps merged into a single strand.

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After merging all the accumulated Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder,

Chen Daoxuan gathered the diverted mind and consciousness back together, refocusing on this realm breakthrough.

Time flowed like water; years flew like a shuttle.

After enduring three hundred and sixty Void Rejections, merging one-third of the Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void,

the oppressive feeling emanating from the Primordial Destruction Heavy Pupils in Chen Daoxuan's right eye completely vanished.

The Eight True Mountains and Eight Mysterious Seas each became like a realm unto themselves.

And within the Void Apertures opened in the transforming Flesh Dharma Body and Dao Soul,

the Great Dao True Talismans condensed from the two Daos of Yin-Yang and Four Symbols

began to undergo all manner of profound arrangements and combinations.

They evolved into seed after seed of Dao techniques capable of wielding Great Dao Power.

These were the Returning Void Dao techniques recorded in, and accompanying, the three Immortal Scriptures: the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture, the Wuliang Scripture, and the Four Symbols Immortal Scripture.

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At this moment, enlightenment dawned in Chen Daoxuan's heart.

Having reached this degree, he had already achieved the Returning to Void Stage, and could at any moment sever and abandon the remaining foundation, escaping the calamity.

However, regarding this enlightenment, Chen Daoxuan felt not the slightest stirring of heart.

He merely single-mindedly continued merging the Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void, resisting and dispelling the Void Rejections that grew fiercer and more violent each time.

As time passed, dispelling one thousand and eight Void Rejections, a full one thousand and eighty days—nearly three years—slipped by in a flash.

In that instant,

a feeling of freedom and ease, of being able to roam the endless void, welled up in Chen Daoxuan's heart.

Fortune touched his spirit.

Chen Daoxuan fully manifested the Primordial Spirit Radiance that had likewise completed a certain transformation and sublimation.

In a flash.

The hundred myriad-myriad-zhang of void illuminated by the Primordial Spirit Radiance, in that instant when his Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void True Realm was on the verge of completion but not yet complete, all merged in.

A vast Void True Realm, far exceeding theory, with a diameter reaching a hundred myriad-myriad zhang—that is, over sixty million li in diameter—manifested into being.

It not only encompassed the entire Yuanling Realm, but also enveloped the Shadow Demon Dharma Body lurking in the void outside the realm, watching and waiting for an opportunity, as well as the Thousand-Li Returning Void True Realm where the Returning Void Shadow Demon resided.

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"Haha, great opportunity, great fortune."

And just as Chen Daoxuan was excited and overjoyed,

"Crack!"

Having just taken shape, the eight Great Daos of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Four Symbols, and so on, had, through some unfathomable working, transformed into the foundation of a True Realm of Void spanning millions of zhang — yet now countless void rifts began to appear, showing signs of shattering and collapse.

In an instant, Chen Daoxuan understood with enlightened clarity that this was a Void Calamity he had to face after exceeding a certain boundary.

To survive this tribulation,

he would either have to sever the excess True Realm of Void, or find a way to suppress it so that the True Realm of Void would not collapse.

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In the span of a thought.

Chen Daoxuan's Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul and his Flesh Dharma Body simultaneously raised their right hands and pressed down.

Consuming Returning Void Dharma Power, he executed the Dao art 【Yin-Yang Axe】 contained within the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture.

The power of the Yin-Yang Great Dao surged forth, condensing countless Yin-Yang Dao-script characters into a colossal Yin-Yang Axe that split Yin and Yang, severing life and death.

Reaching everywhere, ignoring distance, it crossed tens of millions of li and cleaved straight down upon that Returning Void True Realm — a thousand li in diameter, saturated with the boundless Qi of Shadow Demons.

The power of the Yin-Yang Great Dao surged like a tide, and beyond the colossal Yin-Yang Axe, a Yin-Yang River manifested, severing the void to prevent the Returning Void demon within the thousand-li Returning Void True Realm — already half-collapsed at this point — from escaping.

One must pacify the inside before repelling the outside.

Whether he chose to sever or to suppress, Chen Daoxuan had to first slay this Returning Void great demon lurking within his True Realm of Void before crossing the tribulation.

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Meanwhile, the Returning Void Shadow Demon Nian Qi — whose true body still sat cross-legged within the thousand-li Returning Void True Realm, using his Dharma Body to spy and waiting for the opportune moment — had not yet reacted when he sensed a colossal Yin-Yang Axe brimming with endless slaughtering intent materialize out of thin air.

It directly cleaved open his Returning Void True Realm, and also manifested a river formed from the power of the Yin-Yang Great Dao, dividing the two realms and blocking his escape.

In that instant, a premonition of certain death arose in his heart, and he could not help but feel utter despair.

But in the next thought, endless ferocity rose from the depths of his despairing demonic heart.

"Kill!"

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