Chapter 109: and translation of chapter title

In the starry sky beyond the realm, the void that was originally empty was suddenly flooded by boundless thunder, becoming an endless ocean of thunder.

Feng Yi's figure was at the very center of the thunder sea, the River Chart and Luo Book positioned above his head, and together with him they were washed by the thunder like a flood, undergoing transformation together.

Terrifying tribulation light struck his body one after another, not only causing destruction of his flesh but also bringing an ordeal to his Dao-heart.

This is the tribulation of severing the Dao, the first genuine life-and-death barrier after the Immortal Platform secret realm.

Throughout the ages, countless heaven-defying talents with extraordinary aptitude have fallen at this barrier, their cultivation wasted to nothing, and they themselves turned to ashes under the Dao tribulation.

To truly pass this severing-the-Dao barrier, one can choose to cut off past people, events, memories, experiences, even some of one's own Dao insights, one's cultivation arts and divine abilities, and so on.

From this moment on, each person's choice differs, and each person's path will also become different.

For the system of taking the body as the seed, this barrier is not merely an increase in cultivation, but also the firming of one's Dao-heart, the beginning of truly walking the path toward oneself.

Only by truly completing this severing-the-Dao barrier and undergoing a transformation of the Dao-heart can one of the body-as-seed system be considered to have truly entered the hall, touching the essence of this system.

Boom—

Boundless thunder continually condensed, the surrounding void was torn apart, and terrifying spatial rifts appeared one after another.

While within the thunder sea, Feng Yi's five secret realms simultaneously emitted brilliant divine light, and scriptural sounds rang out from them, like the sacrificial chants of ancient ancestors.

In this process, his five secret realms were like separate worlds, constantly absorbing the surrounding thunder that contained boundless destructive power, and instead using the thunder's power to temper his physique and bodily secret realms.

At the same time, within his Immortal Platform secret realm sat a tiny figure almost indistinguishable from a true person, forming profound hand seals with both hands, with a mark like a flickering ember floating on his brow, like a ray of civilizational light.

Feng Yi did not, like other cultivators, sever his own Dao, but chose to retain everything from his past and directly face the ordeal of his Dao-heart.

He intended to take the second path of the severing-the-Dao barrier: to reverse-sever the Great Dao, cutting down the Dao of the myriad great emperors lingering between heaven and earth, breaking the shackles of heaven and earth upon himself, transcending all, and thoroughly walking his own path of severing the Dao.

This process of testing the Dao-heart was also Feng Yi's sorting out of all his past Dao insights, and a process of firming his Dao-heart.

Boom—rumble

It seemed that because the heavenly tribulation could do nothing to Feng Yi, the thunderclaps grew ever more tremendous, boundless heavenly might sweeping across heaven and earth, vaguely carrying an aura of world destruction.

On the land, high-level cultivators unconsciously looked outward beyond the realm, feeling an indescribable oppression in their hearts, as if they had arrived at the end of the world.

In the starry sky, beyond the boundless thunder sea, a lofty and sacred figure stood—none other than Nüwa.

Her figure at this moment was somewhat illusory, appearing as if formed from a divine thought.

Nevertheless, even if it was merely a divine thought present, it seemed to be the center of the entire heaven, earth, and universe.

She merely stood there, and everything around seemed to solidify directly, without affecting the figure undergoing tribulation within the thunder sea.

No one knew how long the boundless thunder lasted, shattering the entire void into terrifying spatial abysses, yet it could not truly do anything to the figure within the heavenly tribulation.

As time passed, under the tempering of thunder's power, Feng Yi not only felt no discomfort; his essence, energy, and spirit became ever more vigorous, his physique like tempered steel, growing ever stronger, and even faint thunder-formed Dao patterns appeared on him, bearing a trace of an immortal aura.

Boom

But just as Feng Yi used the thunder's power to temper his body and, with the tribulation light testing his Dao-heart, organized his insights, a strange thunderbolt suddenly appeared and struck him directly.

It was an ancient, simple dragon stele covered with countless flowing trigrams, yet entirely composed of lightning, forming a thunderbolt that looked exceedingly eerie.

Pfft

The power of this thunderbolt far surpassed that of the previous tribulation light, directly rending Feng Yi's near-immortal physique, leaving a dragon-stele-shaped Dao mark on his body and causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

【Fuxi Dragon Stele.】

Just as this thought arose in his mind, strange thunderbolts appeared, each taking the form of various weapons.

There was a divine furnace resembling an immortal phoenix, an ancient mirror coalesced with the void, a dragon sword bearing supreme kingly majesty, a giant axe that could cleave heaven and earth, and so on.

One after another, these terrifyingly powerful strange thunderbolts fell, continually rending Feng Yi's physique, pulverizing his flesh, seeking to turn him completely to ashes.

However, facing these strange thunderbolts, Feng Yi's expression hardly changed; he merely regarded them as a whetstone to temper his physique.

The scriptural sounds within his five secret realms grew ever louder; every inch of his skin flickered with immortal radiance, flowing with endless creative vitality, and even if torn by thunder, it was swiftly repaired thereafter.

Moreover, in this process of tearing and repair, his physique became increasingly resilient, and the immortal intent within grew ever more evident.

At the same time, Feng Yi did not always passively endure; he would also strike out to grind away these strange thunderbolts, severing the Dao contained within them.

This too is a path of reverse-severing the Great Dao, severing and exterminating the Dao contained in these strange thunderbolts, allowing one's own Dao to transcend.

As each strange thunderbolt was severed, Feng Yi's body also retained faint, mysterious Dao marks, like the traces left by great emperors.

After an unknown period, Feng Yi finally ground away all the strange thunderbolts that had appeared.

But the next moment, the faint Dao marks on his body seemed to come alive in an instant; countless Dao marks continually intertwined and transformed, ultimately forming chain-like shackles resembling iron bonds that tightly bound him.

【"Is this the barrier one must face after choosing the path of reverse-severing the Great Dao?"】

As this thought arose in his mind, Feng Yi directly fell into silence, his mind and spirit completely merging with his body, into his five secret realms, and even into the shackles upon him.

The Dao and principle contained in each shackle surfaced in his mind, continually testing his spirit.

Yet in this ordeal, Feng Yi's entire spirit became ever purer, and he grasped ever more firmly the foundation of his own path.

Hum

After an unknown span, his innate spiritual light trembled slightly; all his past Dao insights surfaced in his mind and spirit, and his entire mind-spirit instantly fell into the realm of emptiness and clarity.

The next moment, his five secret realms trembled simultaneously, each emitting a different Dao resonance.

And within the pure land of his brow, a tiny figure like a true person formed a profound hand seal with both hands.

The next moment, a huge yin-yang bagua diagram appeared in the pure-land world, with various innate trigrams continually shifting.

Heaven and earth, wind and thunder, water and fire, mountain and marsh.

Everything in heaven, earth, and the universe seemed to be encompassed by it, like the source of all things.

Hum

The next moment, this bagua diagram transformed into a river of fate composed of black and white points of light, instantly encompassing his five secret realms, carrying the sense of beginninglessness and endlessness, as if the essence of the Yi Dao had manifested.

Boom—

In an instant, a roar like the splitting of heaven and earth erupted from within Feng Yi's body, and his aura underwent a sudden change completely unlike anything before.

Crack—crack

Sounds of shattering rang out repeatedly; the shackles on Feng Yi's body quickly broke apart and naturally turned into specks of spiritual light, dissipating between heaven and earth.

The crackling sound rose from within his body as the Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform—the five great secret realms—resounded with profound scriptures utterly unlike before, making him feel as though he had shed his past shackles and gained a sense of rebirth.

Relying on the Great Dao's interrogation at the Pass of Beheading the Dao, Feng Yi completely sorted through his numerous scriptures, initially forming the embryonic form of his own Dao.

But just as the shackles shattered, before he could fully sense his own changes, an anomaly occurred once more within the Boundless Thunder Sea.

A solemn figure emerged from the depths of the thunder sea, wielding the Sun God Furnace etched with the Immortal Phoenix Dao markings—it was none other than the Eternal Universe Great Emperor.

Moreover, unlike the vague lightning-formed apparition he had faced during his previous tribulation, the Eternal Universe Great Emperor's manifestation now appeared as if a truly youthful Eternal Universe Great Emperor had descended, allowing Feng Yi to clearly see his attire and the patterns on his weapon.

"It seems that to reverse-behead the Great Dao and walk the special Path of Beheading the Dao, one must not only break free from the shackles formed by the Great Emperor's traces, but also truly battle those Great Emperor's traces imprinted by heaven and earth, utterly erasing those residual Dao."

Boom—

Before Feng Yi's thought had fully settled, torrents of flame poured down from the sky, and the Boundless Thunder Sea instantly turned into a Boundless Fire Sea.

The next moment, the Sun God Furnace swelled to immense size, like a vast world of fire, pressing down upon him.

At this moment, the Sun God Furnace was nothing like a tribulation‑condensed object; it resembled a true Ultimate Dao Imperial Weapon forged from phoenix‑blood scarlet gold, its power utterly surpassing that of the lightning‑formed apparition Feng Yi had previously faced.

"This is the true might of the Sun God Furnace!"

Thinking this, Feng Yi's eyes suddenly blazed with unprecedented brilliance, and an overwhelming fighting spirit rose from him, causing heaven and earth to seem to freeze for an instant.

He himself had once briefly dwelt in the Ancestral God Realm comparable to a Great Emperor, and now being able to battle a true youthful Great Emperor was exactly the scene he had long dreamed of.

Gazing upon the Sun God Furnace that resembled a vast world of fire, Feng Yi pointed a finger at his own brow, and a gentle flame appeared at his fingertip.

The flame was small, yet it seemed to contain an entire world of civilization, like the beginning and hope of the Human Dao.

Hum

The next moment, Feng Yi pointed a finger; with a soft hum, the flame in his hand transformed directly into an endless burning River of Civilization, sweeping toward the Sun God Furnace.

After using the Easy Dao to encompass the five great secret realms and forming the embryonic form of his own Dao, Feng Yi's comprehension of the myriad sovereigns' Great Dao insights contained in the Heavenly Stele Mystic Law grew ever clearer, allowing him to freely derive them into his own divine abilities.

Boom—

A tremendous roar rang out as the entire starry sky was utterly transformed into a sea of fire, even the void burned through, revealing a bizarre abyss of space.

Upon the Eastern Wasteland Land, some powerful cultivators faintly sensed an anomaly in the extraterrestrial starry sky, instantly arousing strong curiosity.

But before they could rise to investigate, their spiritual senses violently trembled, an ineffable sense of mortal danger welling up in their hearts, causing everyone to instinctively halt their steps.

Their minds held a single thought: 'Cannot go, will die!'

This is a warning!

At this moment, they vaguely felt that their understanding of heaven and earth might be too superficial.

In the extraterrestrial starry sky, within an ancient battlefield, a vague figure appeared, intending to head toward the place where the disturbance was felt.

But the next moment, his spiritual sense shuddered violently, as if sensing something terrifying; without the slightest hesitation, he instantly turned into a beam of light, fleeing away from the Northern Dipper Ancient Star and vanishing into the depths of the cosmos.

Outside the Boundless Thunder Sea, Nüwa's silhouette stood still, all her attention focused on the figure undergoing tribulation, to prevent outsiders from disturbing it.

(End of Chapter)