Chapter 1089: Chapter 1108: Heart Inquiry of the Great Dao
Time passed gradually, and Ye Xuan’s Great Saint Soul was breaking and reforming. The Five-Colored Mysterious Fire grew even more terrifying. This process involved no less than ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stages, the dangers of which were unknown to outsiders.
Buzz!
The Great Saint Soul glimmered with a crystalline light, with its three-inch ethereal figure becoming extremely solid, as if cast in Vajra Glaze, emanating a dazzling brilliance.
Smooth and flawless, circulating with rosy light, the three-inch Saint Soul transformed into the image of Ye Xuan. At this moment, it was sitting cross-legged with closed eyes, emanating a vague and obscure aura, causing even the surrounding starry sky to disintegrate.
“Devour!”
Ye Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, and the Saint Soul sitting cross-legged in his glabella also opened its eyes. With an overwhelming and greedy appetite, the Saint Soul’s three-inch figure opened its mouth, devouring the Five-Colored Mysterious Fire into its own soul.
Rumble!
The three-inch Saint Soul rose within Ye Xuan’s glabella, with the Five-Colored Mysterious Fire swirling around its soul, emitting an unimaginably terrifying aura.
“Body and soul as one, the Saint among Saints!”
Ye Xuan shouted loudly, forming the Unaging Technique with his hands. His Great Saint Body released Nine-Colored Thunder Light, while the Great Saint Soul within his glabella, entwined with the Five-Colored Mysterious Fire, combined to emit an invincible light that pierced through the Chaos Starry Sky.
Rumble!
The power shook Heaven and Earth, and shattered the universe. When Ye Xuan’s body and soul merged, the boundless power of the Great Saint erupted, annihilating the endless starry sky, displaying an unimaginably horrific might.
Crack!
Ye Xuan stretched out his hands blankly, as Nine-Colored Thunder flickered between his palms, mingled with the Five-Colored Mysterious Fire. His body erupted with unparalleled, world-shattering might, with streaks of Great Saint power bursting out to the eight directions of the starry sky.
“Is this…the realm of the Great Saint?” Ye Xuan murmured blankly.
Rumble!
Suddenly, before Ye Xuan could examine his own cultivation, an overwhelmingly terrifying aura rushed towards him, compelling him to look up in shock.
Sizzle!
The starry sky was suffocating, all things silent, as threads of Chaos Law poured down, like ancient celestial rain, saturating the Chaos Starry Sky.
Dong—dong—dong!
Like the beating of a Chaos War Drum, or the rumbling of the Great Dao, Ye Xuan felt his Saint Soul trembling, his eyes becoming dazed, as a massive dizziness overtook his consciousness.
At this moment!
The Primordial Spirit and others were speechless with fear. They only saw Ye Xuan frozen in the depths of the starry sky, yet the entire area was unnaturally stagnant, a pressure of unimaginable weight filling the Chaos Starry Sky.
“Heart Inquiry of the Great Dao, this is the Great Dao Heart Inquiry tribulation!”
Luo Hou had awakened from fainting, his face pale as he looked at the stupefied Ye Xuan in the starry sky, speaking in a heavy tone.
“Brother Ye, this is the final hurdle. You must overcome it, right?” Liu Baiyi whispered hoarsely, his eyes steadfastly watching Ye Xuan in the starry sky.
“Disciple, it’s been over three million years, you’ve gone through countless hardships. Even though this Great Dao Heart Inquiry tribulation is terrifying, you must get past it.” The Primordial Spirit trembled, roaring quietly.
Everyone saw Ye Xuan’s face, frozen in the starry sky, as if turned to an unmoving clay figure.
But in Ye Xuan’s eyes, the Chaos Starry Sky around him had undergone unimaginable changes.
Heaven and Earth transformed, the scenery totally altered.
Threads of Chaos Law swirled in the starry sky, forming ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps of a white jade staircase in his vision.
Like towering pillars, akin to peaks above the sea of clouds, vast and boundless, with no end in sight.
This ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine-layer white jade staircase seemed to penetrate all worlds, with a white jade platform poised at the end of this sky-reaching staircase.
“Heart Inquiry of the Great Dao, ascend through the heavens, one step one tribulation, one step one challenge.”
In all worlds, the voice of ageless gravity echoed in Ye Xuan’s ears, shaking his Saint Soul, difficult to pacify his emotions.
“One step one tribulation, one step one challenge?”
Ye Xuan gazed heavily at the sky-reaching staircase ahead, almost unable to regain his senses.
This white jade staircase had ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps; if it’s truly one challenge per step, it’s unimaginably terrifying.
“Even the Undying Heavenly Lord could surpass this tribulation, so I, Ye Xuan, must as well.”
Ye Xuan rasped, his eyes gradually solidifying, striding towards the sky-reaching staircase.
Bang!
With the first step, Ye Xuan stepped onto the sky-reaching staircase. The world in front of him changed again, transforming him into an infant, taking him back to the moment of his birth.
Ye’s mother looked at him with a kind face, while his indifferent father watched coldly with disdain.
“To bewilder my Invincible Heart with mortal familial bonds?”
Even transformed into a baby, Ye Xuan’s Invincible Heart had long been forged, unmoved by the scene before him.
Boom!
The illusion vanished, and Ye Xuan emerged once more, steadfastly taking a second step.
Illusion reappeared.
Storms obscured the sky, the north wind was bitter, Ye’s mother, with him and his younger siblings, were expelled from the Ye Family gates, a five-year-old him full of hatred.
“So-called hatred, like smoke disperses.”
Bang!
The illusion dissipated again, and Ye Xuan took the third step.
“Bastard child, you’re just a bastard child, a fatherless child.”
A group of children insulted his younger self; this was a humiliation illusion. Ye Xuan slashed out, directly obliterating these illusionary children.
Fourth step…fifth step…sixth step…!
Ye Xuan’s speed was swift, his steps steady and powerful. Each step recalled events he had experienced, yet he was not swayed by these illusions, solely focused on overcoming this Great Dao Heart Inquiry tribulation.
Invincible Heart, All Method Immunity, the Heart Inquiry of the Great Dao is indeed frightening, but Ye Xuan had long seen through everything after over three million years of life-and-death tempering.
Ye Xuan faced the challenges head-on; he witnessed the passing of loved ones, personally killed Xia Qingzhu again, even once obliterated Guanghan Fairy. He also saw Liu Baiyi’s death as he wept silently.
Sun Wukong transformed into Heaven and Earth, the Heavenly Sect Master fell, he re-experienced everything once more, yet Ye Xuan steadily moved forward, not pausing at all.
“Countless epochs passed, Heaven and Earth of the Saints, I, Ye Xuan, who have endured over three million years of life-and-death forging, emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. If mere illusions could disturb my Invincible Heart, then I should indeed perish under this tribulation.”
Ye Xuan’s voice was calm and hoarse, as he took steady steps ascending the heavens, having traversed over ninety-thousand steps. Even as he re-experienced all his past, his mind remained unchanged.
What happened had happened. Regardless of whether Ye Xuan regretted or resented it, it was already the past.
One cannot live entangled in the past, for the path is walked by oneself. Whatever happened cannot be changed by Ye Xuan now, so he only focuses on the present and future, refusing to become ensnared in the pain of the past.