Chapter 586 The Firelight Is Extinguished, Four Tribulations

Then let all paths turn to nothing, and the Ten Directions be annihilated!

It was so in the past, and it is so now.

And it will never change!

VMMMM!!

The Dao Burning Furnace began to fully pressurize.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The force of the Primordial Magnetic Field, once as indestructible as a Dao Divine Chain, became as fragile as paper under the pressure of the domain created by the Dao Fire.

The sound of shattering rose and fell in waves, like a vast ocean.

It all rang out at the same instant.

The immeasurable Tribulation Qi began to boil.

The domain structures of all the Three Tribulation Dao Particles began to collapse, annihilated in an instant until only the Three Tribulations Dao Strings remained!

But within the domain of the continuously pressurizing Dao Burning Reactor, even the core Three Tribulations Dao Strings, tenacious as they were, could not last for a moment. They were incinerated and torn asunder, beginning to assimilate into the Primordial Path.

It was at this exact moment.

The destructive domain of the Dao Burning Reactor,

Under the Star Mother’s control, transformed into a stabilizing domain that counteracted the assimilation of the Great Dao, slowing the disintegration of the Three Tribulations Primordial Magnetism Dao Strings.

This was a failsafe.

It was to ensure Wu Dao had enough time to complete his Tribulation.

Otherwise,

Even if he overcame the Tribulation,

If his fundamental Dao Strings in the outside world dissipated and assimilated into the Great Dao first, his Tribulation Crossing would still end in failure.

His entire conceptual existence,

Would be irreversibly assimilated by Hongyuan.

VMMMM!

The instant the Three Tribulations Dao Strings tore apart,

Wu Dao’s consciousness transformed into a torrent of information on the Great Dao, entering the ineffable, wondrous Creator Domain once more.

FWOOSH~

The Dao Fire surged, and Tribulation Qi filled the air.

With Wu Dao’s ’departure,’

Silence once again fell within the Dao Burning Furnace.

Only the Little Star Mother remained, her small face tense as she controlled the reactor, straining with all her might to slow the assimilation of her Father God’s Dao Strings.

The Buzhou Abyss was silent and dark.

「In the outside world, time began to fly.」

One month.

Two months.

...

For a long-lived species,

Two months was an insignificant amount of time.

But in this critical period, with the Great Tribulation imminent,

Every single day felt as agonizing as a thousand, even ten thousand, years to the Extraordinary beings of the world.

In those two months,

The tides of battle at Shanhai Pass shifted dramatically.

The Mountain and Sea Great Wall at Nine Heavens Pass receded further under the ferocious assault of the Mountain and Sea Realm, forcing all troops to fall back and defend the Mountain and Sea Main City!

The Dao Celestial Stele, which symbolized the destiny of the Hongyuan Path,

Had grown to a point of extreme illusion.

It was like a flower in a mirror, a reflection of the moon on water.

It looked as though it would shatter at the slightest touch.

RUMBLE—

At the farthest reaches, within the Ten Celestial Gates of Chaos Abyss,

The thunder of the Great Dao rolled and churned.

The flames of civilization blazed.

The struggle among the three ancient Dao Ancestors seemed to have reached its final, desperate stage.

The All Heavens Lord,

The Primordial Giants of ages past and present,

And the forbidden beings lurking in the shadows—

All turned their gazes, filled with a mix of emotions, toward that struggle for the Great Dao within the Ten Celestial Passes.

Everyone knew the outcome.

And all were making their own preparations.

Once that Celestial Pillar—who had stood with his back to Hongyuan, holding the Ten Celestial Passes for two Great Tribulations—finally shattered,

It would mean the end of the Fifth Tribulation.

And the official start of the Sixth.

As the All Heavens and Myriad Realms watched in silence,

An inexpressible, profound sorrow

Welled up from the Martial Arts Origin Stream.

It began to silently descend upon the heart of every Martial Dao Cultivator in the world. Indeed, all living beings in Hongyuan could not restrain their grief, and wept.

Throughout the space and time of the Hongyuan Heavenly Realms,

A sorrow that would not disperse permeated everything.

It was as if the Great Dao itself mourned, bidding farewell to the great existence who had once led the Ten Thousand Races out of an age of darkness and guided civilization toward prosperity.

’Ah, Martial Ancestor...’

Amid the pervasive sorrow,

The beings of the All Heavens, no matter their allegiance,

All seemed to once again see that savage age before civilization.

There was a certain figure,

Who, after enduring countless hardships, climbed Buzhou Mountain in search of the Dao.

Ultimately,

He succeeded.

He selflessly sowed the embers of the Great Dao across the savage world, its warm light shining down upon the Ten Thousand Races of the All Heavens, upon every living being.

Now, that light was about to be extinguished.

How could the Ten Thousand Races of the All Heavens, all those beings past and present who had been illuminated by its light, not feel sorrow and grief?

「Three months later.」

In the deepest reaches of the Buzhou Abyss,

At a time when all were steeped in grief and mourning,

Unnoticed by all, Wu Dao had still not returned.

’Father God...’

An irrepressible worry appeared on the Star Mother’s small, flawless face. Wu Dao’s Three Tribulations Dao Strings had reached their most perilous moment.

But thankfully...

’Her Father God would never fall!’

At the final moment of assimilation,

Wu Dao returned.

The Magnetic Fields of the All Heavens became strangely active,

Like countless tributaries about to merge into a flood.

At that moment,

The resonance of Wu Dao’s Primordial Magnetism Dao radiated through all magnetic particles, becoming the main current within the Great Dao!

That was the power of Primordial Chaos!

This also meant

That he had successfully overcome the Three Tribulations to advance to the Four Tribulations.

His essence was that of the All Heavens Emperors!

But his Power had reached the Primordial Tier!

’I’ve finally found you.’

Wu Dao’s consciousness was indifferent.

There was no joy in his success,

Nor was there any relief at having survived the ordeal.

He simply stared grimly at the attribute panel bound to his conceptual existence.

After this Tribulation,

He could clearly see the line of causality connecting him to the attribute panel!

The cause behind the attribute panel,

Or rather, its point of origin,

Was still obscured for the moment, like the river of civilization shrouded in the mists of Chaos within the Tao Tribulation Domain.

But after one more Tribulation,

He was fully confident he could, to some extent, sever the informational link between himself and the attribute panel!

This was something

He had wanted to do ever since the day he first acquired the attribute panel.

Regardless of the attribute panel’s origins,

He would only ever trust himself!

He would not tolerate some unknown entity constantly watching his every move!

Or even...

The even more dire possibilities!