Chapter 531 – Crossing Eight Tribulations in Succession, All-Out Assault on the Foreign Race Chief Gods!

Chapter 531 – Crossing Eight Tribulations in Succession, All-Out Assault on the Foreign Race Chief Gods!

The path to sainthood was, in essence, twofold.

Severing the Three Corpses to achieve sainthood, and proving the Dao through force!

Different methods of proving the Dao naturally yielded vastly different powers after achieving sainthood!

Yet severing the Three Corpses was not without its advantages compared to proving the Dao through force.

The greatest advantage was, without a doubt, that it was easier.

Furthermore, even if one failed at severing the Three Corpses to achieve sainthood, one could still attain half-saint cultivation!

For example, Qingyunzi!

Qingyunzi had attempted to sever the Three Corpses to achieve sainthood and had severed two of the three. Though he ultimately failed to prove his Dao and achieve sainthood, compared to ordinary Great Firmament Golden Immortals, he was undoubtedly far stronger.

But if one chose to prove the Dao through force, there were only two possible outcomes!

Great Firmament Golden Immortal, or Saint!

The path of proving the Dao through force had no such thing as half-saint…

Even if one crossed nine of the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood, one would still be merely a Great Firmament Golden Immortal.

Only by crossing all ten tribulations could one prove the Dao and become a Saint.

“It’s merely the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood… the first eight tribulations aren’t difficult for me…”

“And with the Primordial Purple Qi, the last two tribulations should also be passable…”

Su Xing’s confidence was considerable, so he began simulating.

Su Xing had at most fifteen simulation opportunities remaining. Crossing the first eight tribulations would be more than enough!

In his 497th simulation, Su Xing once again entered the Ninth Heaven.

Just as the first time, Su Xing obtained the Primordial Purple Qi.

After seizing the Saint’s opportunity, Su Xing did not achieve sainthood in the following thousand-plus years.

Not until the Dao broke open the Pangu Greater World, causing the entire Greater World to fragment into countless smaller worlds and flee into the void.

Then, the Great Tribulation of the Ten Saints Mending the Heavens arrived!

Without question, with Su Xing’s Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal cultivation, he successfully laid low until the Ten Saints Mending the Heavens concluded.

Only after the mending was complete did Su Xing feel a lightness within his body.

An invisible chain of restraint had been broken!

With that, the first of the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood was crossed!

Then, around simulation year two thousand five hundred, two Sovereigns descended upon the Ninth Heaven.

This illusory space-time ultimately shattered, and Su Xing perished!

“Whew… the first tribulation, the Tribulation of Primal Unity, has been successfully crossed!”

Su Xing breathed a small sigh of relief. The simulation had gone exactly as planned, and the tribulation crossing was very smooth.

With a thought, Su Xing brought out the reward for crossing the first tribulation.

But when he saw the world origin required to extract his cultivation gains, Su Xing’s expression shifted slightly.

A full ten thousand points of world origin!

Adding in Su Xing’s cultivation of Spirit Domain and the Great Shaman Body Forging Art…

This single simulation had cost nearly eleven thousand points of world origin!

“The origin I have on hand is only enough to cross the first eight tribulations at most!”

Su Xing sighed softly.

“There’s no other way… I’ll cross the first eight tribulations first, then kill foreign race chief gods and plunder a wave of world origin!”

Su Xing murmured.

Each foreign race chief god killed and each foreign race stronghold destroyed would provide Su Xing with at least twenty to thirty thousand world origin.

By that calculation, the origin energy Su Xing needed to cross the tribulations and achieve sainthood would be more than sufficient!

“However, by this estimate… ascending to Saint requires at least two hundred thousand world origin. The gap is still too large!”

Su Xing quickly made his decision.

Cross the first eight tribulations as quickly as possible, then travel to other great domains and find ways to plunder more origin from the foreign races.

With that thought, Su Xing swiftly began his second simulation.

Over the next dozen-plus simulations, everything went exactly as Su Xing had planned.

Within the Ninth Heaven, he experienced foreign race invasions, teetering between life and death multiple times.

Simultaneously, by leveraging the Death law divinity left behind by Red Moon and the insights gained from the Dao Hearing Assembly, Su Xing successfully comprehended the Great Dao of Life and the Great Dao of Death!

And after comprehending the Great Dao of life and death, Su Xing also discovered changes in the Yin-Yang Great Dao!

The complete Yin-Yang Great Dao — yin was death, yang was life.

From this point on, through the Yin-Yang Great Dao, Su Xing could command life and death with a single thought.

His comprehension of the Great Dao of life and death caused Su Xing’s Yin-Yang Great Dao progress to surge dramatically. In merely a few simulations, it reached the seventh realm Peak.

With the aid of Spirit Domain, Su Xing could briefly elevate his Yin-Yang Great Dao to the eighth realm.

Thus, Su Xing broke through the Tribulation of Two Principles among the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood.

During this period, Su Xing also spent one simulation merging with the Spirit Domain world.

By now, the Spirit Domain’s range had drawn extremely close to that of a Greater World.

Borrowing the world power of what was nearly a Greater World, Su Xing achieved the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity — the Three Powers becoming one.

He successfully crossed the Tribulation of Three Powers.

Afterward, Su Xing studied the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art, leveraging the Dao of Time to see through the transformations of the four seasons.

Using the qi of the four seasons, he successfully crossed the Tribulation of Four Symbols.

Everything went exactly as Su Xing had planned.

By the time of his 510th simulation, Su Xing had successively crossed the tribulations of Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, and Eight Trigrams.

With that, eight of the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood had been crossed.

Only the final Tribulation of Nine Palaces and the Tribulation of the Infinite remained!

At this point, Su Xing’s remaining world origin had fallen below one thousand.

Over more than ten simulations, Su Xing had spent nearly ninety thousand world origin.

And that was only because he had reluctantly exchanged some somewhat useful materials and spirit ores for origin, barely scraping together enough.

From Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal to crossing eight of the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood.

For an ordinary Great Firmament Golden Immortal, this might take tens of millions of years — perhaps even an entire lifetime might not suffice.

But for Su Xing, a dozen-plus simulations amounted to a mere half day’s time.

…

Half a day later, Su Xing slowly rose to his feet, his eyes calmer than ever before.

Without lingering, Su Xing took a single step and appeared hundreds of millions of miles away, speeding toward the Nine Heavens Domain.

With Su Xing’s current speed, traveling through the upper three Heavens from the Azure Origin Domain to the Southern Barbarian Domain would take only a few days.

But since this was Su Xing’s first time making the journey, he was inevitably unfamiliar with the route. It took him half a month before he arrived at one of the Five Great Domains — the Southern Barbarian Domain.

The Southern Barbarian Domain — the domain with the worst situation for the human race among the Five Great Domains, and the first to be breached by the foreign races.

According to the timeline from Su Xing’s recent simulations, in a few hundred years, the Southern Barbarian Domain would be completely conquered.

But now that Su Xing had come, everything would be different!

The Southern Barbarian Domain was primarily composed of body cultivators.

Its strongest cultivator, the Southern Barbarian Emperor, was a Body Tempering Great Firmament-level practitioner.

The reason body cultivation was the primary cultivation direction in the Southern Barbarian Domain was not that its body cultivation heritage was particularly profound.

Rather, it was because the Southern Barbarian Domain was truly an austere region, with spiritual energy so thin it was nearly indistinguishable from the mortal world.

In the entire Southern Barbarian Domain, one could scarcely find a handful of grotto-heaven blessed lands.

It was precisely because of this that the Southern Barbarian Domain’s cultivators primarily practiced body cultivation.

And their overall strength was, without question, the weakest among the Five Great Domains.

On this trip, Su Xing had come to the Southern Barbarian Domain with only one objective.

Kill the Six-Winged Chief God and annihilate every foreign race member above deity-level in the Seventh Legion!

Over the past tens of millions of years, the human race had been suffocated under the foreign races’ pressure.

The reason was simply that humans were comprehensively suppressed by the foreign races, from high-end combat power all the way down to bottom-tier cultivators.

The Seventh Grand Army of the foreign races, an existence that practically ranked last among the ten grand armies, could single-handedly destroy the Southern Barbarian Domain.

But it was no exaggeration to say that after Su Xing arrived in the Southern Barbarian Domain, he absolutely possessed the strength to annihilate the Seventh Legion single-handedly.

Perhaps wiping out the entire Seventh Legion to the last member would take considerable time.

But if his goal was only to hunt down the powerful members of the Seventh Legion, it wouldn’t require much effort at all.

“According to plan, I’ll kill the Six-Winged Chief God first… the rest aren’t urgent for now!”

Su Xing murmured.

After arriving in the Southern Barbarian Domain, Su Xing first used one simulation opportunity.

His purpose was to understand the overall situation in the Southern Barbarian Domain and determine the positions of the Six-Winged Chief God and the other powerful foreign race members.

Moments later, this exploratory simulation ended.

Su Xing officially set out to find the Six-Winged Chief God.

Finding the Six-Winged Chief God took Su Xing only three days.

Killing the Six-Winged Chief God, however, took Su Xing a full half month.

The Six-Winged Chief God — one of the Seven Deadly Sins, codename: Wrath!

In other words, the Lord of Wrath among the Seven Deadly Sins!

Su Xing was not surprised that the Six-Winged Chief God’s codename was the Lord of Wrath.

After all, the six-winged race possessed a special ability that Su Xing had witnessed long ago.

That ability was to snap off their own wings, transforming them into enormous, terrifying bone swords while entering a berserk state that massively boosted their offense, defense, and speed alike.

However, with Su Xing’s current strength, killing a mere chief god was not particularly difficult.

What pleasantly surprised Su Xing was that this Six-Winged Chief God’s bone swords were of exceptional quality.

Their material hardness was not even inferior to a supreme-grade innate treasure.

With the Six-Winged Chief God’s bone swords, combined with the several supreme-grade innate materials Su Xing had brought out from the Ninth Heaven, the next reforging of the Blackice sword now had a clear path forward.

If the Blackice sword could be elevated from a mid-grade innate treasure to a supreme-grade innate treasure, it would be yet another significant boost to Su Xing’s combat power.

After killing the Six-Winged Chief God, Su Xing obtained nearly twenty thousand world origin.

What additionally surprised Su Xing were the laws the Six-Winged Chief God had comprehended.

Its two primary laws were strength and speed!

Both laws had reached the seventh realm Peak.

By leveraging the laws within the divinity, Su Xing could undoubtedly save considerable time that would otherwise be spent comprehending the Great Dao of strength and the Great Dao of Speed.

After killing the Six-Winged Chief God, Su Xing spent nearly half a year traveling to over a hundred worlds.

In total, he killed over a hundred first-tier deities and no fewer than three thousand second-tier deities.

With that, the crisis of the Southern Barbarian Domain’s destruction was dismantled by Su Xing in a mere half year.

From start to finish, Su Xing never once contacted the Southern Barbarian Emperor.

After all, with Su Xing’s current strength, as long as the enemies weren’t at the Sovereign realm, no matter how many came, they were simply providing Su Xing with more origin…

Half a year’s time — a single trip through the Southern Barbarian Domain yielded Su Xing nearly fifty thousand origin energy.

With this, the foreign races’ major forces in four of the Five Great Domains had been largely driven out by Su Xing!

The Celestial Demon Domain, the Azure Origin Domain, the Southern Barbarian Domain — in all three of these great domains, the foreign race members above deity level had been nearly completely slain by Su Xing!

Though he had accomplished all this, Su Xing did not grow complacent.

After annihilating the Seventh Legion in the Southern Barbarian Domain, Su Xing pressed on without rest toward the Eastern Domain!

Or rather, what was once the Luotian Domain!

The Eastern Domain was the most prosperous of the Five Great Domains after the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

It was even more prosperous than the Azure Origin Domain, with richer and more abundant spiritual energy.

But ever since the Luotian Sect was destroyed tens of millions of years ago, the Eastern Domain had yet to produce a sufficiently powerful faction.

Even after tens of millions of years of recovery, the Eastern Domain’s overall combat strength ranked near the bottom of the Five Great Domains — even inferior to the Southern Barbarian Domain.

The entire Eastern Domain had only one Great Firmament Golden Immortal, a cultivator who had broken through to Great Firmament just five million years ago.

However, the number of Golden Immortals and Supreme Unity Golden Immortals within the Eastern Domain was by no means small.

Their numbers were not far behind the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

These Golden Immortals and Supreme Unity Golden Immortals largely shared a common identity — heirs of the Luo Tian legacy!

After the Luotian Sect’s destruction, numerous legacies and cultivation arts had been scattered across various locations.

Many cultivators blessed with considerable fortune had discovered Luotian legacies and used them to soar to prominence.

In just tens of millions of years, a considerable number had ascended to Golden Immortal or Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

However, while achieving Golden Immortal or Supreme Unity was feasible, advancing further was exceedingly difficult.

Thus, the entire Eastern Domain had only a single Great Firmament Golden Immortal.

Its overall strength ranked near the bottom of the Five Great Domains.

Although its overall strength was weak, the Eastern Domain’s destruction in future timelines actually came later than the Southern Barbarian Domain’s.

The reason for this was that the foreign races within the Eastern Domain were very weak!

The foreign forces that had invaded the Eastern Domain didn’t even constitute a complete foreign race army.

When the Luotian Sect was destroyed tens of millions of years ago, it had laid down prohibitive formations that prevented the foreign races from directly invading the Eastern Domain.

Only several hundred years later, after the Southern Barbarian Domain’s destruction, would the foreign races gradually encroach upon and invade the Eastern Domain.

For now, the Eastern Domain was arguably the most stable of the Five Great Domains.

Although it lacked a single sufficiently powerful unified sect, Su Xing still decided to make the trip to the Eastern Domain.

First, to exterminate all foreign race members above deity level within the Eastern Domain.

Second, naturally, for the remaining Luotian legacies in the Eastern Domain…

When the Luotian Sect was destroyed, the majority of its members fled to nearby worlds carrying their legacies.

Most of these legacies were within the Eastern Domain. Though many had been found over the past tens of millions of years, many more remained hidden.

If he could find them all, it would still represent an enormous fortune for Su Xing.

And so, Su Xing spent the better part of a year in the Eastern Domain, exterminating foreign races and searching for any remaining Luo Tian legacies.

Until January of New Era Year 2034…

…

In the Celestial Secrets Realm, within Celestial Secrets City.

Su Xing, who had been quietly meditating, suddenly opened his eyes and said calmly:

“They’ve finally arrived!”

“Then, the operation should officially begin…”

With that, Su Xing took a single step forward and vanished from where he stood.

Within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion headquarters, in a modest room.

At this moment, an assembly of cultivators that would shock the world was gathered.

The Azure Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor, the half-saint Qingyunzi!

The White Emperor Pavilion’s pavilion master, the world’s greatest Sword Immortal, the White Emperor!

The Celestial Demon Prison’s Chief, the body-tempering Great Firmament cultivator, the Celestial Demon General!

The three strongest cultivators in the Five Great Domains had all gathered here.

And judging by the Celestial Demon General’s aura, he appeared to have arrived at the Celestial Secrets Pavilion only moments ago.

After the three mightiest cultivators of the human race had assembled, Su Xing finally revealed himself.

“Fellow Daoist Su…”

The Celestial Demon General and Qingyunzi spoke in unison.

Upon hearing their words, the White Emperor discreetly sized up Su Xing.

The White Emperor had received transmissions from Qingyunzi and the Celestial Demon General over a year ago.

The transmission contained only a single matter…

The Celestial Demon General and Qingyunzi — rivals for countless ages — were simultaneously requesting a meeting.

When the White Emperor first received this news, he was shocked.

He had nearly suspected that the Celestial Demon General and Qingyunzi intended to fight to the death.

But out of caution, the White Emperor decided to attend the meeting as well, to prevent these two from actually fighting to the death at such a critical juncture.

From later messages, the White Emperor also learned of Su Xing’s existence.

And he learned that the human race had produced a truly powerful figure — one whose strength even surpassed the three of them.

This meeting was, naturally, initiated by Su Xing. Its purpose: the complete annihilation of the foreign races in the Five Great Domains!

Since beginning his extermination of the foreign races across the Five Great Domains several years ago, in just a few short years, Su Xing had wiped out the majority of foreign race forces in four of the five domains.

Only the foreign races in the Heavenly Secrets Domain remained.

And through his simulations, Su Xing had discovered the formidable strength of the foreign race army in the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

Besides the original three chief gods, the Void Chief God had also fled to the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

Thus, there were currently four chief gods in the Heavenly Secrets Domain!

Moreover, the Heavenly Secrets Domain was the station of the Third Army, and the number of foreign race deities there was enormous!

Su Xing alone would find it difficult to annihilate them all in a short period.

Therefore, Su Xing had decisively assembled the White Emperor, the Celestial Demon General, and Qingyunzi. The purpose was, naturally, to jointly annihilate the four chief gods in the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

“Ha ha ha, Brother Su…”

“This old man hasn’t left the Celestial Demon Domain in over ten million years… After receiving your transmission over half a year ago, I finished handling my affairs and traveled day and night. This journey was even more exhausting than fighting a Great Firmament Golden Immortal.”

“But at last, I’ve made it in time…”

Su Xing smiled faintly upon hearing this.

Among the three Peak Great Firmament cultivators, the Celestial Demon General had the best relationship with Su Xing and was the most straightforward.

And among the three Great Firmament cultivators, the Celestial Demon General was the least adept at speed. Combined with the Celestial Demon Domain’s great distance from the Heavenly Secrets Domain, he was naturally the last to arrive.

Qingyunzi glanced at the Celestial Demon General, his expression briefly uncomfortable, but he quickly turned to Su Xing and asked:

“Might I ask what matter Fellow Daoist Su has gathered us for?”

Su Xing wasted no time and laid out his plan directly:

“I have obtained intelligence that there are currently four foreign race chief gods in the Heavenly Secrets Domain.”

“And the purpose for which I have gathered you all is singular…”

“To slay every last foreign race chief god in the Heavenly Secrets Domain!”

Su Xing’s words rang with absolute finality, and he added:

“I will see to it that in these Five Great Domains, not a single foreign race member above deity level remains!”