Chapter 801 - 722: Ascending the Pinnacle (End)
In fact, the moment Tan Shuangshuang reached the Demon Clan’s passage, the fully brewed heavenly tribulation had already struck down. That heavenly tribulation was a massive Thunder Dragon, with eyes as big as Tan Shuangshuang’s head, descending with fierce momentum.
Although Tan Shuangshuang entertained the idea of the divine tribulation destroying the Demon Clan’s passage, she didn’t underestimate this divinity tribulation. Upon arrival, Tan Shuangshuang calmed her mind and concentrated entirely on passing her heavenly tribulation.
While this divine tribulation was even more powerful, it was similar to the earlier Transcendence Tribulation Stage tribulation, which also destroyed before repairing. The only difference was the power of this divine tribulation was incomparable to the previous, with both destruction and repair occurring at incredible speeds.
Tan Shuangshuang needed to guide the tribulation’s power along the correct path as swiftly as possible to avoid accidentally accumulating this force within and being blown to smithereens.
Focusing intently on her tribulation, the Demon Clan’s passage remained as stable as ever despite the heavenly tribulation’s influence. However, the nearby demons, including those emerging from the passage, suffered greatly, as the closeness caused them to be struck down in heaps, unable to escape the tribulation’s speed.
The divinity tribulation entailed the eighty-one Nine Heavens Divine Thunder strikes. Perhaps due to her diligent training of divine sense recently, Tan Shuangshuang found herself surprisingly adept at using thunder power to destroy and rebuild her body’s meridians, Spirit Mansion, and Sea of Consciousness as if she had done it before.
Remembering her once divine ascension from the perspective of a goddess, Tan Shuangshuang thought perhaps it was the memories left by the goddess during her ascension that made her divinity process feel so practiced.
Tan Shuangshuang survived the perilous divine tribulation safely. After the tribulation vanished, a massive golden light column immediately appeared, engulfing her entire body. This time, the power within the golden light column was no longer spiritual power, but divine power unique to gods!
Tremendous divine power forcefully infused Tan Shuangshuang’s body, completely reshaping her physical form. The pink foreign object, which even the divine tribulation couldn’t expel, was instantly stripped away, crushed, and disappeared without a trace under this power.
Spiritual power transformed into divine power, and her Spirit Mansion, Sea of Consciousness, and meridians were washed wider and tougher. Her body transformed into a divine body, filled with powerful force. The Thousand Silk Entanglement moved with her will, swiftly spreading and encompassing all demons within its attack range.
How strong is the power of a god? Cultivators had imagined countless times, but this time they finally witnessed it. The demons, who plunged the entire continent into despair and couldn’t be solved even by numerous demigod strongmen, were eradicated instantly under the swirling Thousand Silk Entanglement!
Endless Spirit Rain poured down, falling on everyone, washing away fatigue, tension, and stress. Everyone’s cultivation silently advanced significantly, with those of good aptitude directly ascending a Great Realm, and even the worst advancing three or four small stages. This was the blessing brought by the god.
Humans and magic beasts that devoured the Spirit Rain benefited, and all things in nature bathed in the rain sprouted and grew. The land, tainted by the abyssal aura, rapidly restored, and even the originally Black Stone Plain regained its past verdant expanse.
The demons emerging from the passage turned to ashes upon contact with the Spirit Rain, leaving behind only their cores on the ground. Even demigod-level demons experienced the same fate, turning to dust at the touch of the rain.
Watching this scene, everyone celebrated wildly. They were saved! High-level cultivators laughed and cried like children, cheering in exaltation.
But Tan Shuangshuang, who brought about all this, didn’t wear a joyful expression. She turned to look at the Demon Clan’s passage, her face mingled with joy and sorrow, ultimately settling into a look of determination. Becoming a god, Tan Shuangshuang finally understood how a god could seal or, rather, destroy the Demon Clan passage.
Self-destruction of the divine status was the only method since the passage was created by a Demon God using their divine status. An ancient god used this method to seal the Demon Clan’s passage.
The reason it was merely sealed and not destroyed was that the ancient god’s power wasn’t as strong as the Demon God’s power that opened the passage, so he could only seal it, not destroy it. However, Tan Shuangshuang was confident her power was enough to obliterate the passage.
Tan Shuangshuang was neither unwilling to part with the world nor unafraid of death. But in this world were those she dearly loved, everything she cared about, her home. Everyone else was risking their lives selflessly to protect their home, to protect what they cared about, and she was one of them.
Tan Shuangshuang glanced back at the revelers, her gaze sweeping past Tan Feiyu, Lu Tianyi, Fei Hu, Bai Sheng, her master Ling Wuchen, and some familiar sect members, lamenting that she couldn’t see her grandfather or second uncle, nor would she wait for her parents.
Although she couldn’t see them, Tan Shuangshuang hoped to protect this world completely, so her loved ones and everything she cared about would be safe and sound—that would be enough.
A slight smile played at her lips. Tan Shuangshuang didn’t have tearful goodbyes with her family and friends, nor did she hesitate. She resolutely turned and entered the Demon Clan passage. Next, under everyone’s shocked gaze, an immense and dazzling golden radiance soared into the sky!
The blinding golden light forced everyone to reflexively shut their eyes and extend their divine sense, but they couldn’t probe the situation within the golden light. When the radiance vanished, the despair-inducing Demon Clan passage was no longer there!
In the Divine Realm, within a Secret Realm space brimming with blood-red blossoms, enormous golden light emanated from Shuangshuang, diluting the dense black mist entwining her. That golden light represented merit, the merit of saving the world!
The black mist was soon depleted by the golden glow. Then, the girl, who had always been enshrouded by the black mist, opened her eyes, and memories returned, with each reincarnation flashing through her mind one by one.
She was the Unrivaled Goddess, the master of Thousand Silk Entanglement in Tan Shuangshuang’s memory, and Tan Shuangshuang, who sacrificed herself to save the world, the guardian of the border Qin Shuangshuang, and Situ Shuangshuang of the Heavenly Masters. Each reincarnation, every Shuangshuang, was her.
Raising her hand, there, in her palm, lay an already defunct Time Wheel, bearing traces of time’s use. Shuangshuang recalled her initial reincarnation, never ending well. If not for her parents awakening gravely injured to revive her using time power, she truly would have perished in those repeatedly failed reincarnations.
Swiping her hand through the air, a handsome man and an exceptionally beautiful woman appeared before her. Though they were merely imprints of divine thoughts, Shuangshuang couldn’t help but smile with glistening eyes, "Dad, Mom, your daughter is back!"
The man smiled gently at Tan Shuangshuang, "My precious daughter has indeed done the best, recovering so fast. Originally, Dad and Mom wanted to wait until you fully woke, but Mom’s injuries relapsed, so she must enter closed-door cultivation sooner than expected. It will take some time before my precious daughter can see us in person again. Shuangshuang must take good care of herself."
The woman also smiled with boundless affection, "Mom’s good daughter, don’t worry about me. My injuries aren’t too severe. This retreat won’t last long, and then we’ll be together as a family, never to part again. As for the villain that harmed you, I’ve left him for you to deal with."
After leaving the message, the imprints finished their mission and naturally disappeared. Shuangshuang instinctively reached out but grasped only emptiness. Her face fell silent for a moment before she smiled again, silently reassuring herself that there was no hurry, for they would reunite in due course.
In the void, a Divine Palace stood, within which sat a restless man, a Main God who had just received terrible news—the notorious goddess had recovered. As someone who once sought to scheme against her, his fate was easy to foresee.
The man’s expression was complex, torn between regret and vexation. The enmity he bore the goddess was one-sided; perhaps she didn’t even remember who he was.
The grudge began when his beloved sought to seize the goddess’s opportunity, only to have her entire soul annihilated by the goddess. Everyone claimed it wasn’t the Unrivaled Goddess’s fault, but he couldn’t accept it.
She was his Lian’er, so dependent on and enamored by him, gone just like that. How could he let Lian’er’s enemy go!? He couldn’t!
He trembled as he lifted his hand, clutching the Red Jade Pearl hanging from his neck, the only keepsake left by Lian’er.
Caressing the Red Jade Pearl, he couldn’t help but bitterly smile. Though he and the Unrivaled Goddess were both Main Gods, there was vast disparity in Martial Power even among Main Gods; he stood no chance against her.
Moreover, the Unrivaled Goddess had died fighting demons, yet she safeguarded countless worlds and lives, earning the Heavenly Dao’s favor, rendering him unable to lay a hand on her. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have resorted to such insidious means for revenge for Lian’er.
Now that she emerged unscathed, perhaps soon he’d join Lian’er. With this thought, the man felt his Divine Palace shake, then shatter, the last sight in his eyes was the Thousand Silk Entanglement sealing the entire sky!