Chapter 521: The Alchemical Crucible of the Heavens and Earth
The fabled artifact, All Souls Ancestral Root.
The spiritual fruit nurtured by the Ancestral Root, a treasure that even the supreme cultivators of Heaven beyond Heaven find awe-inspiring.
Once refined and ingested, Lu Heng shall undoubtedly regain his former cultivation level in its entirety.
However, such refinement requires a considerable duration of time.
Within the underground Spiritual Palace of Hanyu Mountain, Lu Heng embarked upon a prolonged journey of seclusion.
The complete and thorough refinement of the peach-shaped fruit resulted in numerous peculiar phenomena manifesting within his body.
Within the sea of consciousness, a vast celestial palace emerged amidst the clouds and mist.
The many grand halls and palaces within the celestial palace are no longer faint and elusive as they were in the past, but rather unbelievably tangible, giving one a fleeting sense of having mistakenly entered another realm.
And within this vast celestial palace, there stood innumerable golden divine apparitions.
They appeared faintly within the void, as Lu Heng refined the peaches and his cultivation continued to strengthen. These golden divine apparitions multiplied, gradually becoming more abundant. Vaguely, there were even golden divine apparitions emitting a solemn aura that not even Lu Heng could overlook.
With the continuous enhancement of his cultivation, the sense of reality within that celestial palace also grew increasingly profound.
As time went on, not only did the visions cease to manifest within Lu Heng's sea of consciousness, but even around his physical body, peculiar apparitions began to appear.
Inside the divine palace, Lu Heng sat cross-legged in the void, his eyes slightly closed. The space around him twisted and fluctuated incessantly, giving rise to peculiar temporal and spatial turbulence. In a trance, the resounding toll of enormous bells and the pounding of war drums even emanated from within Lu Heng's body.
It seems that within his body, there resides another mysterious and unfathomable world, gathering numerous formidable divine warriors.
However, all of this remains unknown to anyone.
The divine palace has long been ensconced by Lu Heng, creating a formidable barrier between its interior and the outside world. Consequently, the outside world is completely unaware that Heavenly Lord Lu Heng remains secluded within, diligently cultivating in seclusion.
While Lu Heng devotedly delved into his spiritual cultivate, he remained completely unaware of the transformations occurring within himself.
And time in the mountains continued to pass incessantly.
The seclusion and cultivation of a cultivator is both monotonous and obscure, shrouded in a hazy mist.
Within such seclusion and cultivation, Lu Heng incessantly refined the first peach fruit, a process that has continued for an indeterminate number of years.
He could only vaguely sense the rapid passage of time, as the aura within Hanyu Mountain underwent cycle after cycle. A decade had long passed.
However, the so-called Earthly Catastrophe has yet to arrive.
In the end, even Lu Heng had forgotten how long he had been in seclusion, his consciousness completely submerged in the void and haze beyond the mortal realm, completely oblivious to the impending occurrence of the Earthly Catastrophe.
His soul seemed to have entered a profoundly mysterious state, incessantly wandering within the river of time, glimpsing many fragments of diverse and colorful scenes.
The terminally ill teenage boy, on the brink of death…
Stumbled upon the Fu Xi Treasure Trove by chance…
Embarking on the unique path of cultivating Celestial Thunder…
Inside the desolate Starry Sky Tomb, gradually growing to become an invincible supreme powerhouse, as spiritual energy dwindles to extinction…
Formidable adversaries from beyond the confines of the universe…
The legendary, transcendent realm that reigns supreme above all heavens – the World of Eight Desolations…
The Buddha of the Earth Spirit Realm…
Alongside the Thunder Roar Realm's supreme god, plunging into the abyss of darkness, desperately striving for survival…
The celestial maiden from Heaven beyond Heaven…
In a single strike, shattering the adversary of the starry seas…
The cultivator who was sealed within the moon after being defeated, destined to guard humanity…
The love-hate relationship between the celestial maiden and him…
The unimaginable, terrifying Heaven beyond Heaven…
In a trance, Lu Heng seemed to have glimpsed many things, yet he had not remembered anything.
He wandered incessantly in the mysterious river of time, and before his eyes appeared fragmentary scenes, one after another.
However, an insurmountable boundary stood obstinately in his way, always hindering him from breaking through that level of limitation and witnessing what transpired within the realm of Heaven beyond Heaven.
Hearts that held nothing but an impression of extreme pain and despair.
Within Heaven beyond Heaven, lies the greatest terror of myriad realms!
The truth, evoking tremors!
Buzz!
The sudden buzzing sound reverberated, shaking Lu Heng out of that enigmatic state.
He could no longer venture into that mysterious river of time to peruse the events that had once taken place.
Upon regaining consciousness and returning to reality, Lu Heng, after a brief moment of astonishment, sensed a profoundly moving and almost unbearable aura of sadness and despair permeating the space around him.
That was a world weeping…
Lu Heng in the underground spiritual palace remained silent, his countenance slightly subdued.
He has secluded himself here for countless years, immersed in deep cultivation, while the calamity that awaited outside has finally arrived.
Lu Heng, donned in a flowing white robe, remained silent. He gracefully rose to his feet and emerged from the depths of the underground spiritual palace.
The sight that met his eyes rendered the Wolf God, who had once traversed the majority of the Celestial Desolation Realm, silent.
Once a lush and vibrant Hanyu Mountain, now everything has withered away, transforming into a desolate crimson desert that fills one with despair.
A pitch-black, blood-red gloom shrouded the entire sky. As far as the eye could see, the entire world was engulfed in a dismal shade of crimson.
The air was filled with a pungent and overpowering scent of fireworks, as if everything had been scorched to ashes.
The unimaginable aura of lifelessness surged through this realm, so vast and profound that Lu Heng momentarily believed he had wandered into the depths of the netherworld.
Is this… the Celestial Desolation Realm?!
Even though Lu Heng had mentally prepared himself for the catastrophic scenes that would unfold during the Earthly Catastrophe, the sight before him still managed to deeply shake him.
The destruction of an entire world was indeed so agonizing.
He stood amidst the void, almost able to hear the lamentation of the world.
The sorrow and agony of universal annihilation imposed itself upon this realm, causing even Lu Heng's hands to tremble uncontrollably.
His white figure suddenly transformed into a bolt of blazing white lightning, shooting towards the distant void.
He wanted to find those otherworldly enemies who were mercilessly bringing about the destruction of the world.
Such a terrifying sight was enough to send shivers down his spine, surpassing the devastation brought by every previous occurrence of the Earthly Catastrophe.
Compared to the apocalyptic catastrophe witnessed by Lu Heng through the magical art with Candle Dragon, it was utterly distinct!
This time's Earthly Catastrophe came with excessive brutality, ferocity, and a level of bloodiness and horror. Even in comparison to the Celestial Desolation Realm, which has witnessed numerous extinct beings, such calamity is beyond imagination, nearly excavating the very foundation of this world!
Lu Heng could vaguely sense the immense aura of sorrow and despair, behind which lurked a hidden darkness and terror.
What on earth have those cultivators from the Seven Realms done?!
Such a world-ending catastrophe is countless times more vicious and brutal than the act of reaping the essence of living beings and extinguishing the souls of all creatures with the World-ending Nine Cauldrons.
Because there is simply no one to harvest the essence of living beings!
In the blink of an eye, all the countless living beings in the entire world were annihilated.
The land is transformed into a wasteland, cities reduced to scorched earth, and countless vibrant lives are mercilessly slaughtered in an instant.
-But this is merely the beginning!
The relentless force of brutality imposed upon the entire world, like a raging inferno, is consuming the world to ashes!
The vast Celestial Desolation Realm, at this moment, has transformed into a crucible that melts away all living beings. The ceaseless force of annihilation relentlessly crushes everything within the Celestial Desolation Realm, be it the living, the deceased, or even lifeless entities such as soil, desolate mountains, and shattered stones, all of which are now being continuously obliterated.
The frantically intensified force of annihilation has already transformed this deathly crucible into a despairing abyss of wailing and torment. In such a world, no living beings can survive, not even lifeless entities, as they are repeatedly annihilated time and time again!
In comparison to the current brutal terror, the Earthly Catastrophe that exterminated the living beings of the Celestial Desolation Realm in the past seems gentle as water!
