Chapter 480: The Mystery of the Heaven-Connecting Realm

One of the founders of the Forbidden Law?!

Ye Wuque's heart shook violently!

This is one of the founders of a complete cultivation system!

He has made an unimaginably great, indelible contribution and defying‑heaven achievement to the trillions of beings across the Zhutian Wanjie.

Earlier, Ye Wuque had, by chance, encountered one of the founders of the Glory Law... Yao!

And he had fought an earth‑shattering battle with him!

Now, this Jin is probably a great being on the same level as Yao, right?

During this time, he happened to be pondering the mystery of the Forbidden Law Heaven-Connecting Realm.

Unexpectedly, here he encountered the Soul Seal of one of the founders of this Defying Heaven Cultivation System?

Even if it is but a wisp of a lingering thought about to vanish completely, its value is incalculable!

"Senior Jin!" Ye Wuque quickly bowed respectfully.

The ancient Soul Seal that called itself Jin paid no heed to the etiquette, as if time held no meaning for it, and with its hoary voice it continued slowly, as if delivering a final transmission:

"Since you have entered this realm, you must have some enlightenment regarding the words 'Tongtian'. Yet, the world believes Tongtian is a single realm, since you have entered this realm, you must have some enlightenment regarding the words 'Tongtian'. Yet, the world believes Tongtian is a single realm, in fact... a great mistake!"

"The Path to Heaven-Connecting is so long, so arduous! It is not a single step that can reach the heavens?"

"The true Heaven-Connecting Realm is a vast, boundless cultivation stage, containing profound mysteries and encompassing all things, divided into... eighteen Layers of Passes! eighteen Layers of Heaven and Earth!"

"Eighteen Layers of Passes?" Ye Wuque held his breath and focused, knowing he might soon encounter a crucial truth of the cultivation path that history has buried in dust!

"Indeed," Senior Jin's voice carried reminiscence and solemnity, "These eighteen Layers of Passes, from low to high, are: Touch Heaven Realm, Feel Heaven Realm, Peep Heaven Realm, Explore Heaven Realm, Gaze Heaven Realm, Approach Heaven Realm, Merge Heaven Realm, Transform Heaven Realm, Refine Heaven Realm, Press Heaven Realm, Divine Heaven Realm... and then seven more profound realms, up to the final... Heaven-Connecting Realm!"

"The eighteen realms interlock, each progressing, corresponding to a cultivator's eighteen major leaps and sublimations in extracting personal potential, perceiving the laws of Heaven and Earth, and exploring the Path Origin! Collectively called... Tongtian Eighteen Realms!"

"The realm you have just broken through is merely the starting point of these Tongtian Eighteen Realms... just the early Touch Heaven Realm. You have only... touched the threshold of Heaven, feeling its vastness."

Boom!

These words rang in Ye Wuque's heart like divine thunder from the Nine Heavens!

They completely overturned his understanding of the Heaven-Connecting Realm!

It turned out that the Heaven-Connecting Realm he thought he had already entered was merely the... first station of the true Path to Heaven-Connecting?

There are still a full seventeen more profound and mysterious realms ahead?

The Tongtian Eighteen Realms system is far more complex, systematic, and grand than he had imagined!

"The essence of the Forbidden Law lies in perceiving the principles, humanity overcoming Heaven, for the purpose... to walk more steadily and farther within these Tongtian Eighteen Realms, to excavate every ounce of one's potential, and to lay an unshakable supreme Dao foundation for ten thousand generations!"

Senior Jin's voice continued, weak yet each word a pearl, containing the supreme truth of the Dao.

Then, Senior Jin's lingering thought, with its final strength, poured into Ye Wuque the most basic understandings of the Tongtian Eighteen Realms, the core signs of each major realm, and the key bottlenecks and cautions one may encounter in cultivation.

The information, though not extremely detailed, was for Ye Wuque no different than lighting an exceedingly bright guiding lamp on the boundless Dao path!

It let him see the direction and outline of the road ahead, avoiding countless future detours!

When the final piece of information was transmitted, the swirl of Chaos‑colored aura finally exhausted its last strength, emitting a faint sigh of release, then, like a dying candle in the wind, it completely vanished on the ancient Altar, leaving no trace.

Ye Wuque faced the Altar and performed three solemn bows. This strange encounter, the grace of enlightenment, weighs heavier than mountains.

After leaving the secret realm, Ye Wuque found a relatively safe, ruined star, began a seclusion to digest what he had gained, and to assault the true first Heaven-Connecting realm... the Touch Heaven Realm!

With a clear direction and doctrinal guidance, plus the massive foundation accumulated from ten years of Bian Huang blood wars, this breakthrough came naturally.

Boom!

In the seclusion, a brand‑new, more vast, more attuned Dao Rhythm erupted with a thunderous blast!

Ye Wuque's aura, beyond the original Stepping Heaven Realm Great Perfection limit, underwent another qualitative leap!

He felt an unprecedented, clearer, tighter connection between himself and the unseen Dao rules, as if he could truly reach out and touch the omnipresent pattern of law.

Within his body, the Sacred Battle Qi, the Power of the Six Great Extreme Realms, and the Temporal‑Spatial Dao Origin began, under this new realm framework, a natural sorting, sublimation and fusion, becoming more vibrant and potent.

Touch Heaven Realm... achieved!

Although only in the early stage, Ye Wuque could clearly feel that his overall strength, especially his manipulation of Heaven and Earth power and his perception and use of the Dao, had improved markedly compared to before the breakthrough!

This is still only the starting point of the Tongtian Eighteen Realms!

After emerging from the pass, the divine light in Ye Wuque's eyes grew more restrained and profound, while his aura became even more vast and unfathomable.

He looked up at the Bian Huang's eternally blood‑red and darkness‑woven sky, his chest swelling with heroic passion.

The road ahead is now clear, the Dao path even broader.

This perilous yet opportunity‑filled Bian Huang is the perfect Trial Ground for his campaign through the Tongtian Eighteen Realms toward the supreme pinnacle!

"Bian Huang... Other Shore... my Tongtian Path, Ye Wuque's, officially begins upon your blood and bones...!"

He let out a long howl, his voice shaking the stars, then transformed into a brilliant golden meteor, boldly charging into the boundless torrent of war.