Chapter 950 - 700: Rejected by the Heavenly Dao
Swear to completely obliterate the defiant ones below.
Darkness falls over the heavens and earth, all creatures are silenced.
The ninth Heavenly Wind arrives quietly.
No sound, no light or shadow.
But at that instant, all the True Masters feel a piercing pain in their Divine Souls, as if an icy blade is pressed against their necks, sending shivers down their spine, they avert their gaze, not daring to look directly.
"Hiss—!"
Someone takes a sharp breath.
The might of this ninth Heavenly Wind is beyond their comprehension.
Just witnessing the aftermath from afar makes their Dao Hearts tremble.
At that moment of imminent annihilation and death.
A magnificent Treasure Lotus, over ten meters high, flowing with Nine-Colored Spiritual Light, appears out of thin air, enveloping Shen Xuan layer upon layer, protecting the core.
The lotus has nine petals, each of a different color: red, orange, gold, green, cyan, blue, purple, white, and mysterious black, the light intertwining, Dao Rhyme naturally formed, emitting a pure, sacred, and immortal vast aura.
"What is that?"
"Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus?"
"Innate Spiritual Treasure?"
Among exclamations, the ninth invisible Heavenly Wind has already brushed past the Treasure Lotus.
"Buzz!"
The Nine-Colored Treasure Lotus trembles violently, the Nine-Colored Spiritual Light flickers incessantly, as the Lotus is subjected to the terrifying power of the Heavenly Dao, it starts to slowly contract and solidify.
However, when it shrinks to about a meter high, it stops firmly and no longer wavers, like an ancient reef, remaining unmoved by the raging Heavenly Wind.
Over the years, the Nine-Colored Treasure Lotus has refined and absorbed various High Tier Spiritual Objects’ essence, far exceeding Shen Xuan’s own.
It has retained seventy to eighty percent of the Essence Spirit Essence, constantly strengthening its origin, quietly advancing to the Spiritual Treasure grade.
With purifying, refining, healing, restoring, and defending effects, its power is enhanced.
Especially its defense, surpassing even Shen Xuan’s powerful flesh body!
At this moment, the Treasure Lotus’s Nine-Colored Spiritual Light autonomously circulates endlessly, with Dao Patterns emerging faintly at its heart, stimulating its origin, fiercely resisting the terrifying Heavenly Wind capable of obliterating Golden Core and dispersing Nascent Soul, gradually eroding it.
After over a hundred breaths, a silent sigh seems to echo.
Above Spirit Flame Peak, suddenly a refreshing breeze sweeps past, the dark calamity clouds that filled the sky quietly disperse like spring snow meeting sunlight.
Soon after, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within hundreds of miles responds to a supreme call, crazily converging from all directions to form a vast and radiant Spiritual Qi Cloud above the peak.
The cloud rolls, releasing seven-colored divine light, thousands of rays, and auspicious energy in myriad threads.
"True Monarch, Fellow Daoist Guo, did he overcome it?"
Ming Liu True Master’s voice trembles, incredulous.
"He overcame it!"
True Monarch Red Lotus’s eyes burst with brilliance, tone edged with irrepressible excitement.
"This is the success of the tribulation, a celestial gift!"
A Tier Four Divine Power Realm Body Refining Master, concurrently cultivating Ice and Fire Dual Golden Core!
Such a person, if joining the Bright Flame Sect, would undoubtedly be a pillar of strength!
The Spiritual Qi Cloud gradually transforms into strands of crystalline spiritual rain, drifting downwards. In the air, faintly mysterious celestial music plays, ethereal and sacred.
Shen Xuan’s figure is enveloped in a gentle, harmonious, life-filled pale golden divine light.
Within the light, his flesh body and Divine Soul are undergoing some kind of extraordinary metamorphosis.
Looking up, among the clouds, there appears the virtual images of various auspicious beasts like qilins, immortal cranes, and phoenixes, floating gracefully, nodding towards Shen Xuan’s location, seemingly offering congratulations and blessings.
The stronger the celestial tribulation, the richer the celestial gift after overcoming it.
Shen Xuan closes his eyes and composes himself, clearly sensing his Divine Soul constantly solidifying and growing, perception becoming more precise and vast.
Every inch of his flesh, bones, and blood, rejoices amidst the divine light and spiritual rain, becoming more resilient, powerful, filled with immortal vitality.
Even the newly formed Fire Technique Golden Core in his Dantian, under the nourishment of the celestial remains, becomes more restrained in brilliance, its Dao Patterns increasingly clear and inscrutable.
Everything is rapidly ascending towards greater strength, robustness, closer to the "Dao."
"So, have I received acknowledgment from Heaven?"
A thought enters Shen Xuan’s heart unbidden.
The celestial "denial," perhaps not a denial of "defying fate," but a denial of those who defy fate without results.
Like himself, able to withstand the celestial tribulation, endure the harsh refinement of the celestial will, thus able to roam freely, unimpeded.
"Ha, so this Heaven also respects the powerful."
Shen Xuan muses inwardly.
This celestial realm likewise reveres only the strong.
Upon realizing this, his mind becomes open and clear.
All worldly truths ultimately cannot divorce themselves from the word "strength."
With enough strength, all actions have validity.
Shen Xuan’s gaze slightly shifts, focusing on a distant viewing platform.
There stands a figure in a red robe, with an aura as deep as the sea.
If not mistaken, this person should be True Monarch Red Lotus, one of the three Nascent Souls of Bright Flame Sect.
In his perception, the red-robed True Monarch is remotely nodding slightly at him.
