Chapter 397
Chapter 397
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Acquiring the Linglong Heart
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"We'll win!"
Lu Yang's anxiety lasted only an instant before it transformed into resolve. With a stir of his divine sense, he touched the core of Seven Luminaries Heaven.
Boom!
In that moment, dazzling radiance erupted from his entire body. This was the fruit position power belonging to Seven Luminaries Heaven, now being usurped by him.
In the real world, it manifested as the brilliant glow swirling around him. As these lights merged into Lihen Tian, the once dead and stagnant Lihen Tian gradually brimmed with vibrant life force. At this instant, this minor blessed land showed signs of evolving into a true blessed land!
And surging in alongside this trend was—
Power!
Lu Yang sat cross-legged, sensing the massive transformation overtaking him. It was a genuine qualitative shift, utterly unlike the incense fire god path.
The foundation of the incense fire god path was inherently unstable.
Moreover, no matter how the world's incense fire fluctuated, it merely cycled internally, causing no harm to heaven and earth. But Lu Yang's actions now were different.
He was stripping it away!
Every sliver of fruit position power he claimed solidified the rank he had piled up from incense fire power, making it ever more stable.
In an instant, the entire Lihen Tian trembled.
Yet Lu Yang's heart remained utterly calm. He simply watched quietly as the usurped fruit position power gathered before him.
Finally, it coalesced into a brilliant, prismatic glow.
As this prismatic light fused with Lu Yang, boundless knowledge flooded into his sea of consciousness in a direct enlightenment!
The mysterious and the yellow of heaven and earth, the primordial cosmos of the universe.
Yin and yang, the five elements, the three talents, the four images.
The knowledge of an entire realm heaven poured into Lu Yang's mind at this moment, stripping away its veil of mystery to reveal its true nature.
'[Linglong Heart]'
This was unmistakably an innate divine ability!
It was a divine ability that enhanced divine sense and computational power—one uniquely suited to withstand the information torrent and incense fire onslaught from Seven Luminaries Heaven.
The next second, Lu Yang looked up to the sky. His eyes were shrouded in the divine ability's radiant glow. Empowered by the Linglong Heart, his divine sense communed with heaven and earth. He clearly perceived deep within Seven Luminaries Heaven three terrifying tribulations brewing, their bone-chilling killing intent already locked onto him.
'Refining a realm heaven truly isn't easy.'
And this was just an immature realm heaven without a true fruit position. If it were a major realm heaven like Wanwu Realm, how ferocious would its backlash be?
Boom!
The next moment, through the Linglong Heart, Lu Yang saw the first tribulation brewing in Seven Luminaries Heaven crash down abruptly onto two figures below.
Yan Taizu.
Capital City God.
These two native incense fire great gods of Seven Luminaries Heaven saw their auras explode violently. Their gazes locked straight onto Lu Yang!
"The incense fire impact... is gone!"
The Capital City God murmured lowly, his heart surging with狂喜. The demonic whispers that had constantly plagued his ears were now completely silenced.
Incense fire impacted consciousness.
This was common knowledge, which was why the Capital City God had been forced to establish the city god system to disperse incense fire while secluding himself year-round to evade its assault on his mind.
But now, the nature of incense fire had changed. The premise that 'incense fire impacts consciousness' was temporarily nullified for him and Yan Taizu. At the same time, enlightenment dawned in their hearts as they stared at Lu Yang: Kill him! Kill him, and this state can be maintained forever!
Boom!
The next instant, the Capital City God and Yan Taizu flashed forward. In this moment, all the incense fire across the world gathered to them, positioned at the pinnacle.
Instantly, the other incense fire gods lost their incense fire and plummeted in rank.
Correspondingly, the Capital City God and Yan Taizu soared upward. Amid the soaring incense fire divine light piercing the heavens, myriad phenomena of the world manifested. Flora and fauna, birds, beasts, fish, and insects.
Mountains and ridges, rivers, lakes, and seas.
Normally, they dared not condense incense fire like this, for an onslaught of that scale would drive them mad in an instant.
But now, all shackles were shattered.
At the same time, the two incense fire great gods intuitively understood what Lu Yang had done, their faces twisting in fury.
"Outsider, how bold of you!"
Lu Yang offered no reply.
He simply urged the Linglong Heart ceaselessly, a look of realization dawning in his eyes.
"So that's it. This is the first tribulation—my human tribulation."
Refining a realm heaven inevitably provoked resistance from its denizens!
'But... a bit too hasty!'
It was still a young realm heaven after all, its fruit position embryonic and far inferior to Wanwu Realm—naive as an infant. Upon sensing Lu Yang stripping its power, it panicked immediately.
'In truth, the mighty power I've stripped is negligible. Just the rank of one divine ability—a drop in the ocean for an embryonic fruit position. A more cunning heaven and earth would have endured in silence, biding its strength to erupt all at once and crush me in the end.'
Seven Luminaries Heaven's hasty descent of tribulations proved its loss of composure.
If all three tribulations had struck together, Lu Yang would surely have perished without hope. But dropping them one by one gave him room to maneuver and counter.
"Patriarch."
The next moment, Lu Yang spoke calmly.
"Please protect me in my meditation."
Patriarch Tingyou nodded upon hearing this. He then stepped forward, emerging from the Myriad Spirits Banner and riding a beam of escaping light to directly block Yan Taizu and the Capital City God.
Yet Yan Taizu and the Capital City God showed no concern at the sight. After all, they now commanded all the incense fire power under their banners. Compared to that, Patriarch Tingyou held only a third of the White Lotus Sect's incense fire—a six-to-one disparity in incense fire that favored them overwhelmingly!
"Mantis trying to stop a chariot...!"
Yan Taizu was the most domineering. At the peak of his life, brimming with smug satisfaction, he utterly disdained Patriarch Tingyou. He simply raised a hand for a palm strike.
Boom!
The palm shot out amid roaring dragon cries. Boundless incense fire divine power surged with it, as if the entire sky were crashing down.
But Patriarch Tingyou merely shook his head at the sight.
"Flashy yet insubstantial, vast yet unfitting. Just blindly unleashing incense fire divine power... Do the cultivators of this realm heaven not study dao arts at all?"
As his words fell, Patriarch Tingyou pointed a finger.
He formed a mudra, chanted an incantation, pointed to the profound.
"Freeze!"
[Edict for Mountains and Moving Mountains Orthodox Art]!
Lu Yang had cast this dao art so many times, and Patriarch Tingyou had witnessed it just as often—how could he not comprehend it? He executed it effortlessly now, leaving Lu Yang stunned.
Not because Patriarch Tingyou had mastered the dao art.
After all, if Lu Yang could learn it, it was no surprise for Patriarch Tingyou.
What truly amazed him was that Patriarch Tingyou wasn't casting it with his own magic power but entirely with incense fire divine power!
It might seem like merely swapping magic power for incense fire divine power, but their natures were wholly different—how could they produce the same dao art? It was like installing a sports car engine in a train—not the same category at all. Yet Patriarch Tingyou had succeeded. He had refined the dao art!
Puff!
The next instant, Yan Taizu—solidly struck by the [Edict for Mountains and Moving Mountains Orthodox Art]—surged with mud across his body before turning into a stone statue and plummeting from the sky.
Seeing this, Lu Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that with Patriarch Tingyou guarding him, he could pass the human tribulation of Seven Luminaries Heaven!