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Chapter 709: Returning to the Fiend Mountain Path

Meng Chuan appeared out of thin air in the ancient Fiend Mountain world. He looked up at the towering mountain as three paths extended toward the mountaintop.

The more I cultivate, the more I find an Eighth Tribulation Eminence unfathomable. Meng Chuan sighed inwardly. The difference between a Seventh Tribulation Eminence and an Eighth Tribulation Eminence is clearly only one tribulation… However, one’s order in life and strength are intrinsically transformed in this one tribulation. It’s extremely difficult for Seventh Tribulation Eminences like us to reach the peak of Fiend Mountain, which was left behind by its owner.

The factions created by Eighth Tribulation Eminences—such as Eternal Tower, Nebula Palace, Black Fiend Hall, and so on—could last for endless years. Eternal Tower’s Eye of Eternity could maintain the strength of a Seventh Tribulation Eminence and live for billions of years. The Eye of Eternity… was only left behind by the owner of Eternal Tower.

Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor had transformed their bloodlines, allowing generations of pure-blooded dragons and pure-blooded phoenixes to have the strength to match a Fifth Tribulation Eminence at adulthood.

Meng Chuan had even ‘seen’ the scene of Dragon Ancestor opening up a universe. There was also the well-known Transcendence of Samsara, which allowed them to jump out of the timeline and head to other universes and high-level worlds… All sorts of means were unimaginable to Seventh Tribulation Eminences like Meng Chuan and company.

When I was weak, I knew that a Fifth Tribulation Eminence could be said to have an undying body in their homeworlds. As long as an Eighth Tribulation Eminence doesn’t appear, no Eminence in this era can kill a Fifth Tribulation Eminence across worlds. But after becoming a Seventh Tribulation Eminence and learning a lot of information, I realized that an Eighth Tribulation Eminence could kill a Seventh Tribulation Eminence, even if they hide in their homeworld.

This is because a homeworld’s protection stems from the laws of space and time.

As for Eighth Tribulation Eminences, they have transcended the River of Spacetime. They fully understand the laws of spacetime’s restrictions. After Meng Chuan broke through, Hall Lord White Avian gave him more detailed information. Only then did he learn about this. The information mostly involved Eighth Tribulation Eminences.

This was because the ones they revered the most at their level were Eighth Tribulation Eminences.

The operation involving the laws of spacetime seemed supreme. However, in the eyes of Eighth Tribulation Eminences, it was also a sieve. For example, the universe was originally meant to stop all Chaos creatures, but the owner of Fiend Mountain had opened up the Chaos Turbid River. It connected the universe to the outside, permanently guiding Chaos creatures (forbidden creatures) along the Chaos Turbid River to the universe.

For example, the strongest Eighth Tribulation Eminence, Dragon Ancestor, had opened up a universe. His understanding of the laws of spacetime operations would only be more ludicrous.

The path of cultivation is long. I need to be patient and resolute. From this point, Meng Chuan felt that Lord of Li Rainbow was worthy of admiration. To be able to cultivate the temporal law to such a profound level without being distracted by comprehending a second Origins law… He would’ve long reached the top of the Seventh Tribulation realm.

Although he felt that Lord of Li Rainbow was worthy of admiration for giving up on improving his strength and focusing on the laws of time, Meng Chuan clearly wouldn’t learn from him.

He had mastered the talent move, Heaven Splitting Blade. After transcending the tribulation, mastering the Heaven Splitting law naturally took top priority.

When he combined the Chaos Hole law and the Heaven Splitting law, his various means would truly become diverse. Only then would he be a true top-notch Seventh Tribulation Eminence. With the two opposing Origins laws as his foundation, he could then study time… This was the path Meng Chuan had set his mind on.

Whoosh.

Meng Chuan stepped onto the path of the mind and flew along it. He soon arrived at the spot where he had previously stopped—36,500 kilometers.

The altitude of 36,500 kilometers is now much easier for me. Meng Chuan listened to the mountaintop’s voice without feeling any pressure.

After mastering an Origins law and creating the Painting World formulation to condense a painting Essence Soul, his mind and will had clearly improved greatly. However, the mountaintop’s voice no longer had a tempering effect on his Essence Soul.

Meng Chuan walked step by step, covering a distance of about one kilometer with each step. He soon arrived at a distance of 40,000 kilometers.

Forty thousand kilometers; here, the three paths combine? Meng Chuan saw that the path he took and the path of possession had ultimately combined into one. The three paths of Fiend Mountain completely merged into one at a distance of 40,000 kilometers.

After reaching 40,000 kilometers, Meng Chuan pondered for a moment before taking a step and walking into the combined path.

Boom!

Meng Chuan sensed a Sixth Tribulation creature. It was an alien creature bathed in flames. The alien creature was using flames to refine a black sledgehammer; Meng Chuan felt as though he had become this alien creature.

On the path of possession, the Sixth Tribulation Eminences that people possess have all broken through via the path of epiphany. Meng Chuan knew this. In history, none of those who reached the Sixth Tribulation realm through the path of epiphany ended up well. Their paths were flawed, and this alien lifeform also had flaws in his cultivation. His Dao of Fire was too ferocious; it is fine if he used it for combat, but if he used it to cultivate his body, it would only make him even more ferocious and crazy. He would slowly succumb to madness.

After reaching the Seventh Tribulation realm, Meng Chuan understood why Fiend Mountain’s path of epiphany was so flawed.

Everything happened too easily and quickly! In an epiphany, a large number of insights constantly gathered and rapidly accumulated to form a Sixth Tribulation law. Without experiencing the elements or experiencing a large number of setbacks, one didn’t even have the time to verify their newfound insights repeatedly.

Yet, they figured something out? If that was the case, it would be a miracle if they could comprehend a flawless Sixth Tribulation law. And reality proved this point—all the Sixth Tribulation Eminences that had walked the path of epiphany in history had flaws.

Meng Chuan shook his head slightly and continued taking a step forward to possess another Sixth Tribulation Eminence.

Meng Chuan walked very slowly as he carefully experienced the Sixth Tribulation Eminences’ paths.

Although all these paths were flawed, they were all Sixth Tribulation laws. They were part of the circulation of time and space, other than not matching cultivation fundamentals. With Meng Chuan’s realm, he could still gain something by analyzing them from a higher vantage point.

Three years later.

When Meng Chuan reached 45,000 kilometers, the possession ended. Meng Chuan felt that he had gained something and broadened his horizons.

I had the slight effect of being tempered. Meng Chuan continued walking. The sound coming from the mountaintop became louder. He could hear a complete sentence, but he couldn’t understand the meaning.

The complete sentence dealt an even greater blow to his Essence Soul.

Most Physical Body Seventh Tribulation Eminences found it difficult to reach 45,000 kilometers. As an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence, Meng Chuan also felt the impact despite having created an Essence Soul formulation for himself.

Boom!

The painting Essence Soul felt the sound strike again and again, but the painting Essence Soul was accommodative. No matter how strong the impacts were, it still accommodated them.

46,000 kilometers, 46,500 kilometers, 47,000 kilometers, 47,500 kilometers… Meng Chuan walked slower and slower. As more and more complete sentences sounded, the impact became more terrifying. Each sentence constantly reverberated in Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul.

At 45,000 kilometers, I still found it relatively easy. But the closer I get to the mountaintop, the stronger the impact. At that moment, Meng Chuan could vaguely see the mountaintop.

Amidst the fog, the mountaintop was vaguely visible. However, the sound on the mountaintop was already as loud as rumbling thunder. It resounded in his Essence Soul, causing it to rumble. Meng Chuan felt his Essence Soul blur from the impact.

This is the limit of my lucidity. Meng Chuan stopped. 49,500 kilometers.

Although he could vaguely see the mountaintop, he was clearly still lacking by that tiny bit.

Reaching the peak meant that his willpower had reached the threshold of the Physical Body Eighth Tribulation realm.

As for the Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation realm, the willpower and mind requirement was much higher!

The main part of walking Fiend Mountain’s path this time was about possessing more than 10,000 Sixth Tribulation Eminences. My understanding of all things in space and time has been enriched. It’s helpful for my study of the 3,000 illusory arrays. My willpower hasn’t improved at all. Meng Chuan was already prepared.

At his level of mind and willpower, improving his willpower mainly depended on him perfecting his Essence Soul formulation.

…

After leaving Fiend Mountain, Meng Chuan continued to focus on studying the 3,000 illusory arrays. Every improvement in his array formation attainments was reflected in the structure of his Essence Soul world.

Finally, 103 years after mastering the Chaos Hole law, the Heavenly Tribulation descended again—just as Meng Chuan had expected.