Chapter 207: Breaking Limit and The Wrath of the Heavenly Dao

In the vast history of the Lower Realm’s cultivation world, there was a strict, unbreakable law regarding the Soul Palace.

The capacity of a cultivator’s Soul Palace to hold Dao runes was strictly limited by their Foundation and grade of the runes including their comprehension.

For an ordinary cultivator, the absolute limit was 50 runes. Once they reached 50, the Soul Palace would become completely saturated. If they tried to force a 51st rune, the palace would crack, their foundation would collapse and they can also die a tragic death.

However, throughout history, there are always exceptions.

A few thousand years ago, a peerless Sword Venerable, relying on his heaven defying sword intent and monstrous talent, forcefully broke the mortal limit.

He endured unimaginable agony and successfully imprinted 60 runes into his Soul Palace, earning his title and dominating the era, who is the current sect leader of the Top Tier 1 sect, he was none other than Sword Venerable Qingyun

As for 70 runes? That was the absolute, theoretical limit for the most monstrous geniuses even if they are born with supreme, ancient bloodlines or physique.

Beyond 70, the weight of the Dao Rune would exceed the physical limits of the law, It was considered impossible.

No one in the current era, or even the past eras, had ever surpassed 70 mark.

But Yu Liang was not bound by the heavens. He had the System.

Looking at the glowing Runes then at other empty place in Soul Palace, Yu Liang’s eyes flashed with a almost greedy light..

"System," Yu Liang said. "No need for experiment now, don’t stop at anything. Just keep imprinting until every single inch of this Soul Palace is completely filled!"

[ Ding! Commencing continuous imprinting of Heavenly Dao Level Runes ]

[ Deducting 20,000 System Points per Rune ]

The moment the System activated, the true terror of the Heavenly Dao’s suppression descended instantly.

As the 33rd rune was pulled from the System’s inventory, the Soul Palace violently trembled.

The spiritual energy inside Yu Liang’s Sea of Consciousness turned heavy, as if the entire weight of the Dao was pressing down on his mind.

This was the Dao Backlash.

In the normal cultivation, this was the exact moment cultivators would screamed in agony. The pressure of the Heavenly Dao would tear at their souls, causing them to spit blood, their Dao hearts to shatter, and their physical bodies to rupture.

This terrifying, soul rending pressure was the exact reason why 99.99% of cultivators stopped at 50, and even the Sword Saint had to halt at 60. The pain was simply beyond what a living being could endure.

But who was the System? It countinued to Imprint the Heavenly Dao Rune as if there was no pressure at all.

The crushing, soul tearing agony that would have made a normal cultivator beg for death, Yu Liang didn’t even feel a slight headache. He just sat there, looking completely relaxed, as if he were just enjoying a warm spring bath.

The System began to deduct points and imprint the runes one by one, the mechanical voice ringing out in a rapid, rhythmic succession.

[ Ding! Deducting 20,000 points. Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Star’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Deducting 20,000 points. Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Moon’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Deducting 20,000 points. Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Sun’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Deducting 20,000 points. Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Void’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Deducting 20,000 points. Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Chaos’... Successful! ]

The golden symbols slammed into the walls of the Soul Palace, one after another.

The palace began to glow with a blinding, multi colour light.

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Origin’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’End’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Cycle’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Wheel’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Heaven’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Earth’... Successful! ]

As the count passed 40, the weight inside the Soul Palace became so dense that the very space inside Yu Liang’s consciousness began to warp and distort.

If an outside expert could see this, they would instantly be sent to cycle of reincarnation... No they might not even get that chance either because their every inch of existence would be gone by sheer density of the Dao laws.

But the System just kept working efficiently.

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Black’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Yellow’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Azure’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Vermilion’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’White’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Tiger’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Dragon’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Turtle’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Phoenix’... Successful! ]

Fifty runes!

The limit had been shattered without Yu Liang knowing it.

The Soul Palace was now radiating a light that belonged to the legends.

But the System still didn’t stop.

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Qilin’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Peng’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Roc’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Fish’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Bird’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Beast’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Spirit’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Demon’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Being’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Devil’... Successful! ]

Sixty runes!

This was the limit of the legendary Sword Saint! That too not being the Heavenly Dao Runes but Mid to High Tier ones.

The Soul Palace was now groaning, the golden bricks vibrated violently under the increasing weight.

In a normal times, the palace would have already exploded into dust. But the colourful lights from the other Turns instantly reinforced the walls, holding the structure together with absolute, tyrannical force.

"Sixty is just the beginning," Yu Liang eyes burned with madness. "How much can I accomodate?"

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Saint’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Emperor’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’King’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Lord’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Master’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Illusion’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Reality’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Truth’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Falsehood’... Successful! ]

[ Ding! Imprinting Heavenly Dao Rune ’Samsara’... Successful! ]

Seventy runes!

The absolute, theoretical limit of the Realm!

The moment the 70th rune locked into place, a forced burst out of the entire Soul Palace which caused the entire Sea of Consciousness to froze.

The laws of the Realm were screaming in protest, trying to reject this impossible existence. The pressure was so terrifying that it could crush a dozen of Heavenly Tribulation Peak Stage cultivator experts into meat paste in a single second.

[ Ding! Current Runes: 70 ]

Yu Liang looked at his Soul Palace. It was a blinding, perfect sphere of Multicolour Dao light.

But with his ’enhnaced’ vision, he could see that there was still gaps in the very center of the palace.

Many tiny, empty spaces waiting for the final core. And as just it was doing Imprinting the rune, the System didn’t stopped, the so called barrier or limit was not in it’s consideration, only it’s host command.

[ Deducting 20,000 System Points ]

[ Imprinting the 71st Heavenly Dao Rune: ’Supreme’... ]

The moment the 71st rune began to descend into the Soul Palace, the world itself seemed to pause.

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Outside the seclusion room, outside the private courtyard, and far beyond the street.

The sky above Jade City, which had been clear and blue just a moment ago, suddenly violently condensed.

BOOOOM!!!!

A deafening thunderclap, louder than anything the mortals and cultivators had ever heard, the sound alone shattered the eardrums of millions of people.

In the blink of an eye, the sky turned pitch black. It wasn’t the darkness of night, it was the absolute, suffocating black of the primordial void.

The sun was completely obliterated from the sky.

Then, the clouds began to gather.

Massive, blood red and deep purple tribulation clouds, thick with crackling golden and black lightning, began to rotate at a terrifying speed.

The vortex expanded rapidly, swallowing the sky in every direction.

Ten miles... twenty miles... thirty miles...

It didn’t stop until the apocalyptic cloud cover spanned a massive, terrifying radius of exactly 50 miles, completely engulfing the entire Jade City, including the Inner City, and the Outer City.

In the streets of the Outer City, the managers who had just returned home suddenly dropped their teacups, their faces turned as pale as paper as they looked up at the sky.

In the Inner City, the remaining elders of the Zhao Family and the other Tier 4 families rushed out of their estates, their legs shook so violently they could barely stand.

The sheer aura leaking from those clouds was making their cultivation bases crack.

High up on the Cloudwater Sect’s peaks, the Vice Sect Master and the Vice Peak Masters, shot out of their caves, their eyes wide with absolute, unadulterated horror as they stared at the Fifty mile tribulation cloud.

"What... what kind of heavenly phenomenon is this?!" the Vice Sect Master almost screamed, his voice trembled with a fear he hadn’t felt in centuries. "This isn’t a normal tribulation! The Heavenly Dao... It seems the Heavenly Dao is angry! The Heavenly Dao is trying to erase something!"

No one knew where the epicenter was and No one knew what monster had been born or what treasure had appeared.

But deep inside his private courtyard, completely oblivious to the panic he had caused across the entire city, Yu Liang just calmly watched as the 71st rune slowly, flawlessly locked into the center of his Soul Palace.