Chapter 1084 - 378: Ninth Heavenly Layer, Great Vehicle High Immortal!

Chapter 1084: Chapter 378: Ninth Heavenly Layer, Great Vehicle High Immortal!

Next, the three-layered Altar shrank.

Until it returned to the form of Lei Jun himself.

It was unlike the glacial thundercloud Xu Yuanzhen had transformed into back then, and also unlike the way Tang Xiaotang had maintained her Altar form unchanged during her Tribulation Crossing.

At the instant Lei Jun restored his original bodily form, he迎来属于他的 Heavenly Moat Tribulation.

The Heavenly Moat Tribulation between the Eighth Heavenly Layer and the Ninth Heavenly Layer.

Within Lei Jun’s consciousness, he at this moment seemed to be situated within a long river.

The river’s waters were graceful and wondrous.

Its origin unknown, its end unknown.

Yet they surged on without cease, never pausing for even a moment for the sake of anyone.

A long river of time.

Lei Jun, at this moment, was dwelling within it.

Then, he faced directly the scourging of time.

Under time’s scourging, he could swiftly feel the erosion of his own Vitality and lifespan.

His allotted span was eight hundred years; his current age, sixty-eight.

By proportion, compared with a mortal, not to mention youth, one could even say it was still the childhood stage.

To pass away in peace of old age was, for Lei Jun, still far away.

The more time scourges, the more the soul decays and grows old, the more easily it rots.

Thus, the older the cultivator, the more easily inner obstacles and terror are born from this, the harder it is to cross this Heavenly Moat Tribulation; in the end they can only helplessly fall to the calamity, body perishing, Dao dissolving.

But for a young cultivator, this pass is not necessarily easy either.

Too young, with insufficient comprehension of time, even to the point of slighting it.

With foundations too shallow, it is likewise not easy to struggle free from the long river of time; with a single careless step, before they even realize it, time has already flowed away.

Lei Jun now sat steadily within the long river, unmoving, temporarily entering a subtle balance.

For the moment he could not yet leap out of the long river of time, but he had likewise halted the scourging of time; his Vitality no longer eroded.

As expected, though his accumulation was already sufficient, to have absolute certainty of passing through the calamity, it would be best to temper himself for another year or two; at that time he could rely on his own Mana alone to naturally cross... Lei Jun nodded slightly.

However, when the time comes, Heaven and Earth both lend their strength.

Since the chance has already arrived, then let this day be the one on which he successfully steps over this threshold.

Lei Jun sat calmly and upright, unmoving.

The Five Qi Three Cave Crystal appeared within the long river of time.

Under its flowing radiance, its brilliance fused with Lei Jun himself.

Then, in the next instant, the brilliance vanished once more.

The long river of time accordingly began to roll backward.

At this moment, Lei Jun seemed to begin growing young again.

The Vitality and lifespan formerly eroded by time’s scourging were completely restored.

Lei Jun reappeared in the state he’d had upon first entering the long river of time.

The qi of decline and death brought by time’s scourging condensed, transforming into the Taoist Mysterious Spirit Primary Qi.

Lei Jun’s figure rose neither hurriedly nor slowly, leaping out of that long river of time.

Accompanying this movement, the entire True One Altar Cave Heaven began to quake.

Purple, gold, and azure radiance flashed ceaselessly upon the True One Altar.

In the outer real world, the Void likewise rippled and surged.

The Celestial Master Seal, in the form of a White Jade Great Seal, appeared out of thin air within the world inside the black lotus and shone with dazzling light.

Under the revolving brilliance, the entire small world within the black lotus trembled, as though Spirit Light were about to pierce the heavens, Cave Heavens linking earth and sky.

Fortunately, at the outer layer, the black lotus and the golden bottle at its heart turned in concert, achieving a stable balance and barely pinning down the enormous black lotus, so that it did not burst open then and there.

Under Canglang Rock, in the great sea.

The vast, boundless black lotus quivered slightly, as though about to fully bloom.

But in the end it gradually returned to calm, without Spirit Light or Spiritual Energy soaring straight to the firmament.

Though there was a faint ripple of Spiritual Energy, it did not continue to expand and quickly faded away.

Amid the heaving waves, it was as if nothing had occurred.

Only within the small world inside the black lotus, the White Jade Great Seal flickering with purple, gold, and azure brilliance glowed with crystalline light.

Within the True One Altar Cave Heaven, Lei Jun at this moment had changed to sit upright above the True One Altar.

"Orthodox Law is not twofold; the Cave God participates in Mystery." Lei Jun intoned in a slow, drawn-out chant.

As Lei Jun exhaled and gave voice, the quaking True One Altar Cave Heaven and the Celestial Master Seal both turned to tranquility.

Within his mind’s awareness, the long river of time had already vanished.

In its place was an entire, complete heaven and earth, as though independently existing in the world.

In the Void at the extreme distance of that heaven and earth, there was a bridge, faintly discernible.

To Lei Jun, it seemed extremely close, yet for the moment it was as if he could not quite touch it.

The Bridge of Mysteries.

Or, it may also be called the Bridge of Ascension.

From Cave God to Cavern Mystery.

From the Immortal Realm of the Human Path.

A realm that for several thousand years now, none has ever touched.

When cultivators of the Taoist Alchemy Cauldron Sect at the Mahayana Realm reach Perfection in the Fifth Layer of the Ninth Heavenly Layer, they may attain Five Qi Towards Primordial.

When cultivators of the Daoist Artifact Refining Sect at the Mahayana Realm reach Perfection in the Fifth Layer of the Ninth Heavenly Layer, they may attain a Scattered Immortal Body, also called Minor Freedom.

And when cultivators of the Talisman Sect at the Mahayana Realm reach Ninth Heavenly Layer Five Qi Toward the Mysterious Perfection, they may accomplish the Bridge of Mysteries.

A bridge leading toward a higher tier of cultivation.

Lei Jun smiled.

Just as Senior Sister said.

The road of cultivation is long and far; we are all travelers upon the road, and ahead there are still countless paths, landscapes, mysteries, and even dangers awaiting us.

Precisely thus does cultivation intoxicate.

With Lei Jun as the center, a singular, wondrous independent cosmos unfolded.

Within this cosmos of heaven and earth, the Mysterious Spirit Primary Qi surged.

Next, it transformed into dust.

This is called Profound Darkness Dust, capable of refining and ferrying the Netherworld.

It is precisely the most renowned mystery of the First Layer of the Ninth Heavenly Layer great-perfection in the Talisman Sect’s Great Vehicle High Immortal cultivation.

Lei Jun sat quietly at the center of the cosmos, a smile upon his face.

The Ninth Heavenly Layer, Mahayana Realm.

Today, it is attained!

Aside from the Profound Darkness Dust, within the cosmos there was actually a newly born, separate existence.

And it was intimately linked with the Profound Darkness Dust, standing in remote opposition to it.

The former resided below.

Above it, it was as though Bluestone Drop radiance flickered.

The brilliance vanished in an instant, as though dissolving into the unseen.