Chapter 792: Life is But a Dream, Past Present and Future All Flowing in a Stream
Behind the Harmony Divine Palace In the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm, under the shadow of the Thousand Snow Moon Peak, the Carefree Palace stood proudly.
Amid a vast expanse of snow, the turmoil within the young man in white was akin to a stormy sea unleashed.
At his call, Feng Yao, startled, rushed to his side. Her pretty face etched with urgency, she exclaimed, “Didn’t you just say everything was good? What's wrong?”
No sooner had her words fallen than a trio of concentric rings of tribulation power burst forth from Yun Xiao, sending her flying.
“It’s too late... pray for me like your own life depends on it...!” Yun Xiao’s solemn voice echoed in her ears.
His grave readiness was something Feng Yao had scarcely seen before.
“Pray for you? One Sealing Heaven grade Calamity Source, and you're this frightened, coward,” Feng Yao landed agilely, scoffing dismissively.
However, was it actually only Sealing Heaven grade?
Yun Xiao knew the thing wasn't Defying Heaven grade, but he figured it couldn't be higher than Sealing Heaven grade.
Furthermore, his body double Moon Fairy had just succeeded breaking through to the First Baptism Realm with a Lower Heaven Sealing grade Calamity Source. So, what did his true self have to fear?
However, Yun Xiao hadn't anticipated that this plain-looking Calamity Source was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. It seemed ordinary, yet it was Upper Burying Heaven grade!
This was one of the highest grade Calamity Sources in the whole of the Samsara Galaxy!
Yet, here he was trying to use it to condense his Corona for his first baptism of the Eight Extremes Celestial Baptisms?
Until recently, no one had even succeeded at this in the Heaven Sealing grade!
If a Lower Heaven Sealing grade was over a 100 in difficulty, then this Upper Burying Heaven grade was at least 1,000,000!
While others tackled a difficulty of 10, Yun Xiao had just swallowed a 1,000,000 difficulty Calamity Source into his body.
The moment it entered, he felt an emptiness unlike any other.
“What now?” he asked Blue Star and Red Moon.
Red Moon paused, then said to Blue Star, “Bluey, let’s split the remaining treasures between us.”
The little shits were divvying up his possessions!
Before Yun Xiao, everything turned dark. With things this far gone, he had no other choice but to tough it out and swallow what he had earned himself!
At that moment, his world stripped away the sprawling snow mountains and even Feng Yao, leaving only himself and the Upper Burying Heaven grade Calamity Source within his gut.
The Calamity Source was momentarily serene.
Inside Yun Xiao, it divided into three parts, each morphing into a silhouette of himself, but as he appeared in his mortal guise as an Emperor—utterly ordinary at first glance.
But then, they changed. The figure on the far left slowly transformed, its body wreathed in clouds and mist, ethereal and indistinct.
Yun Xiao knew this to be the likeness of the Creator Immortal.
The middle figure remained unchanged.
The figure on the right, however, shifted form, becoming formless, eventually manifesting as a shadow of pure nothingness.
"The Three Lives Samsara Calamity Source, sensing the past, present, and future lives of a cultivator, bringing three lives into a calamity to transcend this life's disasters..."
This was a three-fold tribulation!
In the Samsara Galaxy, where reincarnators were as common as dust, many knew their past lives and could glimpse their future lives through the lens of karma.
Though their appearances might vary, their essence remained the same.
At this moment, it seemed the Three Lives Samsara Calamity Source also reflected Yun Xiao's past, present, and future lives.
"In just a few months, I've loved, hated, and killed, relentlessly crushed everything, rebuilt everything, and cherished everything. It felt complete, almost fair..."
Yet why did his heart still ache so painfully? It was torturous, like stepping out the door, unsure whether it had been locked behind him. It was so, so intolerably distressing.
In that emptiness, too many things flooded his mind at once.
"Senior Sister Zhao, my child...!" Yun Xiao's body trembled, his face pale as if he had just surfaced from drowning, gasping for air!
Where had Zhao Xuanran gone? She was carrying his child!
He had still yet to figure out the mystery behind the eight other Primordial Coffins. The Dao Source of the Six Paths of Reincarnation was also still unclaimed!
Even his dealings with Divine Dawn were unclear.
If he died, what about Moon Fairy and Feng Yao? Their fates too would end... There was so much left undone! So much regret!
In just a few short months since his rebirth, Yun Xiao had already shouldered immense responsibilities.
"The Six Ancestral Gods, chaos in the realms, a heaven devoid of righteousness—wait for me to rebuild the Creator Immortal, to recreate the universe!"
He didn't know where he was.
In a flash of lightning, a hysterical roar tore through the emptiness, a furious declaration of his determination.
"I will seize all the treasures of the world and reach the summit of the Immortal path!
"I will exterminate those without virtue or righteousness, slaughter those who have wronged or insulted me!
"I will pursue my path, even if myriad calamities befall me, unwavering unto death, obsessing over a lifetime, all for one answer!
"I will, with my beloved, discuss the eternal dao, remain steadfast, roam the ends of the earth, and not waste this life..."
These thoughts and cries echoed and reverberated in the void.
From a faint voice to a final roar that shook the heavens and the firmament!
This was the thought of a mortal, a cry of rage that had never faded, the fury of being falsely accused and murdered by the hypocritical, a resolve for fairness and justice!
A mighty righteous energy soared to the highest heavens!
"With a lifetime of creation, a destiny spanning ages, how could your single calamity disturb the peace of my rebirth!"
A strand of thought in this void rang like an eternal bell!
That burst of rage swept across endless worlds, darkening the skies!
Spread out across the emptiness, Yun Xiao's heart had evaporated into droplets. Yet, through sheer willpower, he gathered the droplets back into the white Worldly Dao Heart!
At that moment, that Worldly Dao Heart burst forth with endless brilliance, replacing the light of the world, becoming a primordial sun in its own right!
Was this life merely a bubble, or a dazzling light in the eyes of beings of the dao?
Yun Xiao had his answer, in his heart and his dao!
BOOM! Inside his Dantian, the Worldly Dao Heart had never truly vanished; it had merely perished momentarily, losing its mortal soul.
However, as it regained its brilliance in the battle of willpower, it shone brighter, more resolute, and more substantial than ever before. It became the most steadfast fixation in Yun Xiao, more significant than his spirit, more than the Primordial Void, more than everything!
The Worldly Dao Heart was the true core of Yun Xiao's existence, the strongest part of him, the indestructible essence of his greed, wrath, and foolishness.
Of course, according to Blue Star and Red Moon, one more word had to be added to that—lust!
Just now, in that desperate moment, the four lines he roared with the fiercest thoughts of his heart perfectly matched these four traits.
JustLivingJL's Thoughts