Chapter 1764: Chapter 948: Shedding the Shell to Behold New Heavens, True Enlightenment at Last
The sun rises and the moon sets, stars shift in the sky, seventy-six years pass in a flash.
The night is deep, the firmament is like a black velvet curtain, adorned with countless stars.
At this moment, two figures suddenly appear over the Divine Continent, one high and one low, standing shoulder to shoulder, seemingly very familiar with each other.
Zhao Sheng looks up at the starry sky, watching as the stars gradually align, remaining silent for a long time.
Before long, Zhao Xuanjing suddenly speaks in a serious tone: “Chonghe, I have made up my mind!”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng’s expression changes slightly, and he immediately turns his head to look at the ancestor, seeing his gaze equally resolute.
“…It’s just twelve stars in a row. With our bined strength, we can easily handle it. The chaotic primordial position is too high, it’s nearly impossible to refine it into an external avatar. Why risk nine deaths and one life, ancestor!”
In face of Zhao Sheng’s persuasion, Zhao Xuanjing decisively waves his hand, saying: “I have made up my mind, you needn’t persist.”
Then, fearing Zhao Sheng’s worry, he continues to explain: “In fact, without this multi-star alignment celestial event, I have been planning for tens of thousands of years. But in the earlier years, Chaos retained a little of its instinctual ‘spirituality’. I tried several times, but all ended in failure due to Chaos’ instinctual resistance.
In the recent millennium, I accidentally discovered that the residual ‘spirituality’ of Chaos mysteriously vanished. So over the years, I kept thinking of trying again, but couldn’t make up my mind.
Now it seems that everything is destined!”
Zhao Sheng falls silent, not expecting that Zhao Xuanjing’s decision was not a spur of the moment, but a meticulous plan for tens of thousands of years.
Thinking this way, it makes sense!
Guarding a terrifying divine beast with strength parable to a True Immortal for years, who wouldn’t want to utilize it?
Moreover, the ancestor cultivates the “Spirit Control Immortal Scripture.”
He thought the ancestor would choose Dragon Ascension, but didn’t expect Zhao Xuanjing’s ambition to be even greater!
“Ancestor, Chaos is a bloodline of the Primordial Ancestor, if you refine it into an ‘external avatar’, have you thought about the consequences? What if a member of the Primordial Clan seeks us out…”
Zhao Sheng doesn’t continue, but the meaning in his words is more than clear.
“You’re wrong!”
Zhao Xuanjing smiles slightly, saying confidently: “I will not refine Chaos into an external avatar, but rather…”
Two breaths later, Zhao Sheng suddenly lifts his head to stare at Zhao Xuanjing, his gaze filled with astonishment and disbelief.
“No!” He instinctively tries to stop it, “This action either succeeds or leads to martyrdom! You can’t—”
Zhao Xuanjing immediately cuts him off: “No need to say more, I have made up my mind.”
“But you—” Zhao Sheng still wants to persuade.
“Chonghe, throughout history, everyone who has ascended has endured countless tribulations and hardships, ultimately achieving great enlightenment and ascension.
I have self-awareness; without a grand opportunity, I can’t eradicate my Heart Demon in this lifetime. So… Chaos is my only chance for immortality.
Even if ultimately… I fail, I will accept it willingly!”
Hearing him say this, Zhao Sheng sighs silently and stops his attempt to dissuade.
He actually wants to say: Jing’er, your uncle will tell you a secret. You… will definitely ascend to immortality in the future, as clearly stated in the Hundred Generations Book!
Soon, the twelve stars alignment celestial phenomenon is about to form.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing no longer observe the celestial phenomenon and immediately return to the Earth Core Space to prepare for subduing Chaos.
…
At ninety thousand miles underground in Shen Zhou, in the vast and spacious Earth Heart Cave Heaven, large patches of splendid light drift around, gradually forming broad aurora belts reaching hundreds of miles wide.
These aurora belts encircle Chaos, slowly fluctuating and undulating, emitting a dreamlike glow.
At this moment, Zhao Sheng, Dongzhenzi, Zhao Qiongtian, and the Old Stone Mason stand at four corners, all highly vigilant.
Soon after, the suspended ‘Chaos’ in mid-air suddenly trembles violently, countless black tentacles shooting out, frantically slashing at the surrounding space.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
In an instant, dense cracks appear out of nowhere, as the inner walls of the cave heaven inexplicably burst with deep, bottomless holes.
The entire cave heaven shakes violently, as if to be overturned by chaotic power.
At the moment of Chaos’ agitation, the Old Stone Mason instantly transmits to Zhao Sheng: “Chonghe, shake the banner!”
In a fraction of an instant, Zhao Sheng along with two avatars simultaneously shake the Spirit Banner in their hands, the banner blooming with thousands of auspicious lights, instantly merging into the body of Chaos.
Within a short instant, Chaos immediately quiets down considerably, the rapidly expanding True Body also slowing down significantly.
Right then, above Chaos, a robust and shirtless figure appears out of thin air. This person is Zhao Xuanjing’s true body.
“Everyone, please protect me!” Zhao Xuanjing solemnly shouts.
Before his voice dies away, his physical body abruptly rises with ten thousand feet of Divine Light, his entire being turning into a mass of humanoid flame.
As Zhao Sheng and others gaze on, this mass of humanoid flame plunges downward rapidly, like lightning, entering the body of Chaos.
Simultaneously, Zhao Sheng and the other three release their grips on the Treasure Banner.
Four Spirit Banners soar into the sky, rushing into the ten-thousand-foot Divine Light, vanishing instantly without a trace.
In the next moment, Chaos suddenly stops struggling, the frantically lashing tentacles retracting like lightning.
Subsequently, its massive ‘Black Hole’-like True Body abruptly halts in mid-air, remaining motionless as if dead.
Zhao Sheng is extremely nervous, staring unblinkingly at Chaos in the sky and simultaneously transmitting a Divine Thought to the Old Stone Mason.
The Old Stone Mason quickly calms him: “Wait, everything is still within the original plan.”
Hearing this, Zhao Sheng feels a bit relieved, yet remains somewhat worried.
One breath,
Two breaths,
Three breaths,
…
Over a hundred breaths later, Chaos’ True Body suddenly trembles, surrounding aurora belts dissipating as if subjected to an invisible impact.
Zhao Sheng’s spirit is shaken, and the Divine Thought net pervading the entire Earth Core is erased by a formless and intangible Power of Laws in an instant.
“Not good!”
With a rumbling sound, the immense Earth Core Space unexpectedly drops seven to eight yards without warning.
Fortunately, gravity only vanished for a heartbeat, then abruptly restored.
As gravity reappears, Divine Continent ceases its downward momentum.
Zhao Sheng looks up, his plexion suddenly turning extremely grim.
Alas!
After a sigh, Zhao Sheng still guarded here, seemingly unaware of the devastation outside.
As time slowly passed, the celestial spectacle of stars aligning gradually transformed from twelve stars to thirteen, fourteen…
As more stars lined up, more and more cultivators quickly realized something was amiss.
When even the Divinity Transformation True Monarchs sensed the anomaly, needless to say, the Half-Immortals of the Void, Unification Realm Experts, and Tribulation Crossing Venerables did too.
However, Qi Ruxian and the Zizai Heavenly Demon Lord had too many ways to obscure the heavenly secrets, making it impossible for anyone to trace back to them.
Moreover, these two Great Venerables acted so secretively that they managed to deceive all fellow Tribulation Crossers.
Decades later, when nineteen stars aligning appeared in the sky, it finally alarmed a certain Worldly True Immortal.
But for some reason, this Worldly True Immortal quickly let it go.
In the end, even the Zizai Heavenly Demon Lord began to suspect that Qi Ruxian’s “ally” might be backed by a Worldly True Immortal.
Perhaps… even Immortal Venerables didn’t want to see the rise of the Three Saints Zhao Family, so there might be an Immortal Venerable secretly fueling this.
The Zizai Heavenly Demon Lord speculated: Among Taiyue, Void Storage, Du Mu, and that one… which of the four Worldly True Immortals made a move?
It knew clearly that the Bane Nun Holy Venerable of its clan had always been watching this matter.
Could it be… the Holy Venerable?
The Zizai Heavenly Demon Lord thought deeply, even beginning to suspect its own clan’s Holy Venerable.
Yet no matter how it speculated, the days continued to pass slowly.
Three more years passed, and the Zhao Divine Continent experienced five cosmic descent catastrophes in succession, each time claiming the lives of billions of living beings.
Fortunately, the Zhao Family had received warnings from the Ancestors, and the entire clan began orderly evacuations from the continent after the first cosmic descent disaster.
Thus, in the subsequent descent calamities, the Zhao Clan members suffered few casualties, but other lives dwelling in the continent faced great tribulation.
…
Ten years later, on a certain day.
In the Earth Core Space, the aurora that had disappeared reappeared.
Vast, magnificent auroras gathered into strands, slowly revolving around chaos, the splendor growing more radiant and brilliant with time.
In mid-air, a pitch-black, deep “black hole” slowly expanded and contracted,
With each cycle, the aura it emanated intensified.
Gazing at the increasingly animated chaos, Zhao Sheng couldn’t help but think to himself, “Soon, soon!”
Moments later, he released Divine Thought, once again covering the entire Earth Core Space. The figures of Dongzhenzi and Zhao Qiongtian immediately appeared in his view.
But… the Old Stone Mason’s figure was no longer here.
Years ago, the Old Stone Mason had actively integrated into the chaotic body.
Since then, chaos had bee incredibly docile, and the cosmic descent phenomena no longer occurred.
Zhao Sheng could clearly sense that the previously chaotic gravitational fluctuations gradually became “orderly.”
All signs indicated that the ancestor was nearing success.
…
In the Endless Soul Sea, the water was clean and transparent, glimmering with radiant light,
Suddenly, in the sky above the Soul Sea, a cluster of five-colored Divine Light appeared out of nowhere.
With a flash of Divine Light, Zhao Sheng manifested.
He quietly looked at the sea below, then suddenly stretched out his hand.
The next moment, the Hundred Lifetimes Book emerged from the water, drifting slowly before him.
Under the Hundred Lifetimes Book lay a broken-tipped pen, the Life and Death Broken Pen.
Zhao Sheng’s eyes flickered, and he abruptly reached for the Life and Death Pen.
Simultaneously, the pages of the Hundred Lifetimes Book began to flip continuously, instantly flipping to the ninth page.
Immediately after, Zhao Sheng gripped the Life and Death Pen, and the pen tip fell upon the page, forming a large “Zhao” character in one stroke!
The blood-red Zhao character, newly formed, instantly radiated a dazzling blood-colored light.
The light covered the page, and blood-red names appeared vividly on the paper.
Ten,
Hundreds,
Thousands,
Tens of thousands,
……
The densely packed names flowed downward like waterfalls, their numbers as vast as Constant Sand.
The Hundred Lifetimes Book’s pages surged with crimson light, names densely packed and vast as the sea!
Zhao Sheng focused intently on the countless names, his gaze subtly dropped to the front row.
“Zhao Xuanjing… Taiyi Spirit Realm… Acquired Earth Dao Body… Three Tribulations Great Venerable Realm… Life Span twenty-nine thousand one hundred sixty-five years… Potential limit: Golden Immortal.”
Zhao Sheng’s pupils shrunk tightly, his eyes fixed on the words “Golden Immortal,” a sudden wave of joy surged in his heart.
“It’s done!”
The next second, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and his figure instantly vanished.
…
Seven days later, the Earth Core Space was filled with brilliant, dazzling auroras, and waves of world-destroying Law Fluctuations surged through the void.
In mid-air, Chaos was gently waving countless tentacles, each tentacle’s tip slowly clustering into “bubbles.”
Nearby, Zhao Sheng focused with bated breath, his gaze extraordinarily intense, seemingly in anticipation of something.
After waiting for a long time, chaos finally began to move anew.
Amidst the intense void vibrations, a righteous and vigorous voice abruptly resounded throughout the Earth Core Space: “Persist in the spirit for a hundred thousand autumns, slay demons and eradicate evil, nurturing life. Today, shedding the husk to observe new heavens, finally confirming my path as Middle!”
The poetry echoed, akin to the Creation of Heaven and Earth, moving Zhao Sheng to tears and stirring his heart immensely.
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