Chapter 641: Chapter 616: Breaking the True One in the Void
These dozen or so figures were all quite young, around their twenties, a mix of men and women, all vibrant and spirited.
Despite the cold weather, they were dressed lightly, not feeling chilled in the slightest.
They chatted as they walked and soon reached the summit of Yu Jing Peak.
"Did you see that, this statue, naturally formed, legend has it that it’s the remains of an immortal who ascended in ancient times."
A youth pointed at the statue of Lu Yan and explained.
"Nonsense."
A youth with a buzz cut and a look of disdain shook his head and scoffed, "These legends are nothing more than stories concocted by tourist spots to enhance their own cultural depth and attract visitors."
"Indeed, do immortals even exist in this world? Let alone immortals, even those ancient martial arts passed down through history are fake. Right, Yang Suer, I heard you’ve still been persistently practicing your family’s Xing Yi Quan. Have you made any progress?"
Another youth laughed as he spoke, then his gaze shifted toward a beautiful woman.
The woman had delicate features, snow-white skin, and black hair tied into a ponytail hanging behind her.
She was dressed in a white blouse and tight blue jeans, which accentuated her impressive figure.
Yang Suer frowned slightly but didn’t speak.
"Suer, I’ve advised you many times, why bother practicing such things? All this talk of cultivation and ancient martial arts is fake, just tricks used by so-called masters to swindle and show off. You still hope to gain the Power of Dragon and Elephant through cultivation, or even to fly through the skies and travel effortlessly from the northern seas to the Cangwu? How is that possible? Is it a story from a novel?"
"With that energy, it would be better to take a few more gene potions, that’s the real deal. Look, I’ve taken another bottle of gene potion recently, and my strength has increased significantly."
Another woman with fiery red hair said with a laugh, then waved her fist with a gusting force that was quite formidable.
"Who says those are all fake? My family has ancient records stating they are all true. In the distant past, people could practice cultivation, the strong could move mountains and split the heavens, and flying through the air was nothing. Some could even traverse the stars with their physical body. It’s just that nobody knows what happened later that made everyone incapable of cultivation," Yang Suer said defiantly.
The other youths burst into loud laughter, teasing Yang Suer for reading too many novels and for her overactive imagination.
Yang Suer’s face flushed with anger, though she didn’t know how to retort.
Crack!
Just then, a clear sound, like porcelain breaking, rang crisply into everyone’s ears.
At first, nobody paid much attention.
But then, the crackling sounds became more frequent.
"The statue, it’s this statue, it’s covered in cracks, so many cracks."
Suddenly, a youth shouted, pointing at the statue of Lu Yan.
The rest turned their gazes in that direction.
"Could it be due to the passage of time, weathering from wind and rain has naturally caused the statue to crack?"
One youth guessed.
But for some reason, Yang Suer’s heart began to race as she stared unblinkingly at the statue.
More and more cracks appeared on the statue, then chunks of stone started to fall from it.
The dozen or so youths on-site widened their eyes and mouths in shock.
A person.
Incredibly, a person emerged from within the statue.
Very young, very handsome, with eyes tightly shut, yet possessing a special charm that made several young women’s hearts beat faster and their cheeks flush.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Lu Yan opened his eyes.
A terrifying presence emanated from him and spread rapidly across the entire Earth.
Facing this presence, the dozen young men and women felt as if they were confronting the entire world, the entire universe, involuntarily prostrating themselves on the ground, with waves of awe flooding their hearts.
"Such a powerful energy, alarm, alarm! An unknown source of energy has emerged on Mount Sanqing, immeasurable, beyond the limit."
"Alarm, alarm!"
"Deploy the Star Destroyer Warships."
At that moment, the whole Earth was alerted, as colossal warships rushed toward Mount Sanqing at astonishing speeds.
For a time, the area around Mount Sanqing swarmed with massive warships, their dark muzzles aimed at Yu Jing Peak.
The dozen youths turned pale with terror on their faces.
"Who are you, what weapon do you carry, lay it down immediately, surrender and come with us for investigation."
"Surrender now, don’t struggle in vain, you’re already surrounded."
"If you don’t surrender, we will attack."
Voices sounded from the colossal warships, as countless aurora radars locked onto Lu Yan.
Lu Yan frowned slightly, and with a casual wave of his hand, hundreds and thousands of warships uncontrollably retreated at high speed until they vanished without a trace.
"I did not expect that after sitting here for twenty thousand years, my body is still somewhat depleted and energy has been severely drained. This degenerate era of cultivation is terrifying. No wonder they say that even the True One would struggle over time."
Lu Yan murmured.
Having been in space for tens of thousands of years, his bodily energy had indeed depleted significantly.
But within the degenerate cultivation zone, he was unable to absorb energy for replenishment.
He had an idea!
Lu Yan looked at the myriad stars in the sky.
Weren’t those stars filled with abundant energy?
The sun could not be moved, or else the Earth would be doomed.
But in the expanse of space, there were plenty of stars that could be moved.
Lu Yan looked up and inhaled.
In the distant cosmos, dozens of stars were suddenly pulled by an unseen force, rushing towards the solar system, towards Earth, at an inconceivable speed.
"My God, what’s happening?"
"Dozens of stars are hurtling toward Earth. Is this doomsday, is this divine retribution?"
"It’s over, we’re done for."
Countless people on Earth witnessed this scene and collapsed in despair.
But then, something bizarre happened. As those stars approached the solar system, they rapidly shrank, eventually becoming the size of marbles and flying into Lu Yan’s mouth.
On Earth, many high-ranking individuals were stunned in their tracks as they monitored the scene through their instruments.
Atop Yu Jing Peak, those dozen or so youths were like idiots, dumbstruck.
Mouth swallowing stars, what kind of monster is this?
Were they dreaming?
Only Yang Suer trembled with excitement, muttering under her breath, "Immortals, I knew there were immortals, there really are immortals..."
After swallowing several dozen stars, Lu Yan felt the energy he had expended was replenished.
"After secluding myself for twenty thousand years, I have finally comprehended the Supreme Law..."
Lu Yan murmured, his heart feeling a bit thrilled.
He urgently needed to find a place to test it out.
Whoosh!
He shot up into the sky, transformed into a brilliant ray of light, and in the blink of an eye, he had entered outer space, then ripped through the fabric of space and disappeared without a trace.
"Mouth swallowing stars, physique traversing the starry sky..."
Watching the direction Lu Yan had departed in, Yang Suer murmured to herself. The image of Lu Yan was now permanently etched into her heart, never to be forgotten for as long as she lived.
Lu Yan crossed thousands of galaxies in one breath, arriving at a desolate expanse of the universe.
This expanse, an ancient battlefield, was filled with remnants of stars, unable to support life.
Lu Yan stood in the midst of outer space, closing his eyes.
Three days later, Lu Yan violently opened his eyes and pushed his hands forward, "Creation Epoch."
In the void of space, countless stars, whether planets or fixed stars, popped out of existence in an instant, turning into dust.
But then, the dust reformed into its previous stellar state, indistinguishable from before.
This was the Supreme Law that Lu Yan had realized.
Creation Epoch could destroy as well as create.
Creating a new epoch from destruction.
The aura emanating from Lu Yan surged, his body radiating a dazzling brilliance.
"All these years, the Primordial Ancestor hadn’t managed to break into the starry skies, it seems the Alliance Hierarch and the others have successfully held him back, no disaster has struck yet. But if I make my breakthrough to become a True One, it might alert the Primordial Ancestor. The starry sky isn’t the place for a breakthrough, I’ll have to go into the void."
Lu Yan tore through the vacuum, moving to the extreme, and it wasn’t long before he reached the end of the universe.
"Open!"
Lu Yan’s mighty force erupted as he tore apart space with his hands and plunged in headfirst. In the next moment, he entered into a state of nothingness.
In this void, there was no direction, no space and time, no energy, not even the smallest particle existed.
Void, the eternal void.
Lu Yan felt nothing as if he’d become deaf, mute, even his sense of touch had vanished.
Entering the void was extremely dangerous. Once inside, one could easily become lost, perhaps never finding their way back.
However, Lu Yan, or Tang Feng, dared to decisively venture into the void because they had something to rely on.
That reliance was the Yin Yang Qiankun Mother-Child Chart.
Between the Yin Yang Qiankun Mother-Child Chart, the mother and child charts had a strong connection, capable of sensing each other even if they were worlds apart or separated by different realms.
Ranked fourth on the Supreme True Treasure List, it was not just talk.
With such a connection, they would not become lost even in the void.
Lu Yan stimulated the child chart and indeed felt the connection, and by following it, he would be able to find his way back to the boundless starry sky.
Worried that this place was still too close to the boundless starry sky, Lu Yan flew in the opposite direction of the child chart’s sensing for an unknown amount of time, then he stopped, ready to break through with peace of mind.
Boom!
A day later, a tremendous energy fluctuation burst forth from Lu Yan. This energy was so powerful it even pushed back the void, creating matter and energy in the large area centered on Lu Yan.
Lu Yan’s breath continued to rise.
In the void, a special Tao Rhythm surged into Lu Yan from all around, causing his body and soul to undergo rapid transformations.
There was nothing in the void, yet there remained an inscrutable Tao Rhythm, transcending the Origin Continent and the infinite starry sky.
To create the Supreme Law and break through to become a True One, this was what was needed.
Because the Primordial Ancestor had not reached such powerful levels that he could bestow upon beings the ability to break through to a True One.
As Lu Yan transformed, sudden flashes of scenes emerged in his mind.
These scenes were like fragments of memory.
At first, these memory fragments were chaotic and formless.
But as Lu Yan’s transformation progressed, they began to coalesce and connect, forming complete memories.
"My name is Lu Jie... no..."
Lu Yan was somewhat lost, uncertain of his own identity.
Gradually, he figured it out.
These emerging memories belonged to his past lives, perhaps many lifetimes ago.
His original name was Lu Jie, the second son of Dragon Alliance Master Lu Ming.
Born in the Chaos Void.
But the Chaos Void was a place of exile, where every so often, the Chaos Catastrophe would erupt.
Under the Chaos Catastrophe, all life in the Chaos Void would perish.
To survive, one had to leave the Chaos Void for the infinite starry space.
But the Chaos Void was irreversible.
Within it, entering the infinite starry sky required one to have reached at least the third step of creation.
Otherwise, collaboration from both inside and outside was needed, with one person in the Chaos Void and the other in the infinite starry sky, striking the Heavenly Cave with a Supreme Treasure to gain entry.
He was the Tao Soul Fetus.
The Ancestor of All Magics had devised a plan for him to reincarnate into the infinite starry space, and after growing up, to work with Lu Ming in breaking through the Heavenly Cave.
Unexpectantly, an accident occurred during his reincarnation.
