Chapter 346
Chapter 346
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: Tide Rise, Tide Fall
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At first, it was just one person.
"My Taixu Divine Ability?"
This True Lord was deeply enthusiastic about [Heaven of Non-Existence]. He had already passed the first tribulation, obtaining the lowest-grade divine ability [White Bone Contemplation].
Yet passing the first tribulation still spoke to his strength—at least he had something commendable. Countless True Lords like him existed across the world. At this moment, all shared the same doubt, gazing as their seas of consciousness blazed with light, the Taixu Divine Abilities they had once acquired blooming in radiant splendor.
This transformation spread visibly to every corner of the world.
How vast was the reach of [Heaven of Non-Existence]?
It freely bestowed a divine ability. Though lacking rank, its cultivation difficulty far surpassed no other innate divine ability. Who would refuse one more?
Thus, despite its brief existence.
The divine abilities granted by [Heaven of Non-Existence] had long spread east, west, south, and north—even many overseas True Lords cultivated them. It had swept the world.
Hence, this anomaly swept the world as well.
Meanwhile, in the northern reaches above the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, purple qi blanketed the skies. Several fruit position stars erupted in brilliant light, clashing fiercely against the purple haze.
Just like Heavy Light's former quest for gold.
But the next instant, the True Lords locked in fierce combat abruptly halted. Their fruit position stars trembled as they all sensed the upheaval in heaven and earth.
"What's happening?"
"Something's wrong. Why are the fruit positions stirring?"
"[Soaring Empyrean], what tricks have you pulled in secret this time?"
On the other side, amid the surging purple qi, [Soaring Empyrean] 's expression shifted too. He realized the anomaly had reached him as well.
*What's going on? Who's scheming in the shadows?*
Though reflexively blamed, [Soaring Empyrean] was profoundly cunning. He went with the flow, chuckling lightly.
"This has nothing to do with me."
To deny was to confess!
[Soaring Empyrean] might have escaped suspicion by staying silent, but his words branded him the culprit in the eyes of the world's True Lords. They prepared to strike anew.
True Lord Clarity Flying Snow—who had charged fiercest against [Soaring Empyrean]—narrowed her eyes instead, as if divining the truth. Far from pressing the attack, she withdrew deliberately, probing her fruit position's state. Astonishment flickered deep in her beautiful eyes.
*Heavy Light.*
Boom!
The next moment, myriad colors bloomed across the firmament. [Heaven of Non-Existence] yawned wide, revealing a cross-legged figure radiating sharp, soaring vigor.
"It's that fruit position manifested by Empty Proof."
"Mu Changsheng picked a perfect moment. [Soaring Empyrean] matters more than him for now. Spare that one; settling him later changes nothing."
"Wait—no!"
Initially, the True Lords remained composed. [Heaven of Non-Existence] achieving fruition meant merely one more initial Golden Core True Lord.
Did it sway the world's grand balance?
Yes, but barely.
No True Lord cared at first. Yet as the emerging fruit position's tremors intensified, unease spread.
What was truly happening?
Some True Lords even suspected their own Dao Lord—how else could fruit positions be swayed?
"Look below."
The next instant, Heavy Light's form materialized from the manifested [Heaven of Non-Existence]. His lips parted, a steady, resonant voice drifting forth:
"Dwelling high in the heavens, how long since you eminent lords last deigned to gaze upon the world?"
Within the Xuanling Realm's Heavenly Court fragment, inside [Southern Heavenly Gate].
Lu Yang's clone sat cross-legged, silently beholding the figure before him. Not only he—the Yun family ancestor and True Lord Xiuxin saw the identical apparition.
Across the firmament, every cultivator who had conquered [Heaven of Non-Existence]'s trials and bore a Taixu Divine Ability fell into a trance. Their spirits wandered the void, drawn to [Heaven of Non-Existence], standing beside Heavy Light. One, ten, a hundred... an ineffable tide surged forth!
Tide rise, tide fall.
Buoyed by this intangible tide, Heavy Light's silhouette sharpened. Steps materialized beneath him. He ascended with calm poise.
Each step lifted [Heaven of Non-Existence] higher.
And with every rise, the world's True Lords felt their fruit positions sink. Countless faces paled in a heartbeat.
"So that's it!"
Lu Yang—and even Ancestor Tingyou within the Ten Thousand Spirits Banner—witnessed the scene. Ancestor Tingyou's expression mingled profound shock and awe.
"I see. This is the second undeduced wonder of the [Supreme Void Sacrificial Rite Marvelous Method]: usurping the world's Dao base alignments. Dao bases propping other fruit positions were brutally seized. The higher [Heaven of Non-Existence] climbs, the lower the rest plunge!"
Ancestor Tingyou grasped it in a flash.
Mu Changsheng's scheme, Heavy Light's gambit—he divined the whole through his mastery of the [Supreme Void Sacrificial Rite Marvelous Method].
Other True Lords caught on too.
*You've actually done it.*
True Lord Clarity Flying Snow stood hands clasped behind her, three thousand tresses whipping in the wind. Her exquisite, radiant face bore no dismay—only a faint smile.
Unlike the enraged initial Golden Cores, her profound Dao and unshaken cavern heaven minimized fruit position reliance. The impact was minor. Guessing Heavy Light's design, excitement gleamed in her eyes.
But she was the exception.
"Cease!"
A sharp command rent the air. Heaven and earth quaked as Buddhist radiance ascended—True Lord [Treasure Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva] from the Pure Land.
Her serene features twisted wrathfully. The white jade vase in her grasp flipped, spilling forth.
Rumble!
Torrential river waters roared from the vessel, hurtling toward [Heaven of Non-Existence] to thwart Heavy Light's enthronement.
Heavy Light spared her not a glance.
He strode upward undeterred. Her blow pierced [Heaven of Non-Existence] harmlessly, as if through phantasm.
False made true, true made false; nothing births something, something returns to naught.
"A masterful fruit of illusion and reality. Weak in battle, perhaps, but peerless in shifts of real and unreal—for survival, unmatched. Few can touch it..."
"He's stripping our subordinate True Lords..."
"What is he after?"
Before myriad eyes, Heavy Light crested the stairs' pinnacle. By then, many True Lords' fruit positions teetered.
Incumbents held firm, barely.
But aspirants, mid-quest for gold, suffered cruelly.
"No——!!!"
In the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, Hongyun gaped at the [Covered Lamp Fire] overhead. It flickered—then vanished into seclusion.
Heavy Light had singled it out.
A Saint Sect True Lord, vengeance was his creed. With no incumbent True Lord, [Covered Lamp Fire] plunged first into the bitter sea.
*Why me again!?*
Hongyun seethed with curses. Success had been imminent! Yet at the threshold, the prize slipped away?
He was questing for gold!
His blessed land, half-ascended, lost its beacon. It shattered in collapse, dissolving to void!
Boom!