Chapter 2059 - What Is the Hidden Summit?

The white-haired old man was a Mid-Rank Limit Realm God, as well as one of Jin Buyi’s Dao Protectors.

Yet tribulation light had eradicated him in an instant. Not even a trace of him remained!

As for the other gods? They were instantly shaken, so panicked that their souls practically left their bodies. All of them fled without hesitation.

Boom!

Time and space swept outward, and the sky withered and collapsed.

Su Yi stood at the eye of the storm as tribulation light surged out of the void, bringing with it a corner of the River of Destiny. It was just that strange and taboo.

But when this tribulation light entered Su Yi’s line of sight, he laughed. This was the moment he’d been waiting for!

This was his tribulation, the calamitous, taboo tribulation of the Hidden Summit Realm, a realm that no one had ever stepped into before.

It was so well hidden that even most gods had no idea that it existed between godhood and the Great Realm.

This was a level only a Transgressor could see, and only one who’d mastered reincarnation could reach!

Su Yi had just borrowed his powerful enemies’ hands to shatter his cultivation base. In doing so, he’d invited this tribulation.

When that tribulation light surged out of the void, it meant that the moment he’d been waiting for had arrived. This was his opportunity to break into the Hidden Sudden Realm!

He didn’t try to dodge. When the tribulation light fell, he felt a type of longing grow in his heart.

Just how mysterious is the Hidden Summit Realm?

Bang!

His soul exploded.

His body exploded.

His Grand Dao exploded.

He was blasted to bits, inside and out, reduced to powder.

He went from alive to dead and from solid to intangible in an instant.

But just as Su Yi was about to vanish from this world completely, a mysterious and taboo aura of reincarnation suddenly surged forth, like a vast, deep abyss. It swallowed up the surrounding sky, devouring all of the tribulation light, as well as the remnants of Su Yi’s obliterated body, soul, and cultivation base.

A swath of radiant light appeared amidst these visions of reincarnation, like an eternal beam of light passing through the River of Destiny.

The beam shone brighter and brighter as countless fragments of tribulation power fused into it.

That beam of light gradually swelled, and undulating, tumultuous chaos, and interwove into a mysterious and terrifying aura.

Boom!

A boom reminiscent of spring thunder went off. It was like the first parting of primordial chaos. Life instantly flourished.

That beam of light was like a new life born of the chaos, and in that moment, it condensed into an indistinct figure.

That figure was indistinct, but he slowly materialized. He stood there as if standing in the cycle of reincarnation!

The rift over his head revealed a corner of the River of Destiny.

Throughout the surrounding area, spacetime interwove, and taboo tribulation lightning ran rampant.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The figure stretched, then surged with overflowing, immeasurable vitality. It was so intense that it made heaven and earth shake, and all manner of strange phenomena appeared throughout the surroundings, until—

Boom!

The strange phenomena popped like soap bubbles, and the turbulent spacetime receded.

The collapsed skies returned to stillness and tranquility.

Only that tall, upright figure remained, standing proud beneath the dome of heaven, like an ancient, eternal, indestructible peak connecting heaven and earth!

This was none other than Su Yi!

Except that now, Su Yi was completely different.

He didn’t emanate even the barest hint of an aura. It’s not that he was hiding it, but that he simply didn’t have any energy fluctuations. He was plain and unassuming, like an ordinary mortal.

Except that even as he just stood there, the air quivered, like a minister prostrating before a king. He was like a ruler with an invisible majesty about him.

He faced the sun, with countless stars adoring him. Where he stood, the Grand Dao itself prostrated in submission!

But when Su Yi willed it, even that formless majesty vanished.

Without it, he was like the flowers, grasses, grains of sand, and pebbles by the road. He was just that unassuming, and were he to re-enter the world of red dust, the masses would undoubtedly see him as the most ordinary mortal among them.

Su Yi opened his eyes and sensed his changes. He couldn’t help but sigh.

The change was enormous.

The Grand Dao Divine Platform, Divine Flame, and Great Realm Laws he’d condensed in the Great Realm had been shattered. There was no longer any trace of them.

Only a chaos-like bundle of the light of the Grand Dao hovered within the endless void within him. It looked like an egg!

Ancient tomes stated that chaos was like an egg, and that life grew within it.

Unbelievable powers of the Grand Dao were growing within this chaos-like bundle of light and fusing with Su Yi’s cultivation base. It connected his essence, qi, and spirit, reaching every last inch of his body.

Su Yi murmured to himself,

A Dao like chaos, with life growing within it. So, this is the Hidden Summit?

This was a completely unfamiliar level of cultivation, one entirely mysterious and unknown. Even after fusing with Li Fuyou’s memories and experiences, it was entirely foreign to him!

Because no one had ever stepped into the Hidden Summit Realm before. It had always been obscured within the Laws, and it had effectively vanished from between the Great Realm and the Divine Dao!

Only those Transgressors who controlled the power of reincarnation could step into it!

That aside, Su Yi was shocked to discover that the Epoch Spark had appeared within that bundle of chaos light within him!

But before he could give the matter any further thought, a startled, enraged cry rang out, interrupting his train of thought. “How.... How are you still alive!?”

Heavenly God White Flame and the others watched in the distance, disbelief written all over their faces.

How terrifying and calamitous was that tribulation just now? It had instantly eradicated a Mid-Rank God, and Su Yi himself had been blasted into powder!

Even if you’d hit them over the heads, they would never, ever have guessed that Su Yi would somehow come back to life!

This completely overturned their perception of reality, and they found it incomparably horrifying. All of them were wondering the same thing:

How could a young Great Realm cultivator recover after being reduced to powder like that!?

“How...” Off in the distance, Bi Kongliu and the other divine children’s eyes widened in shock. They couldn’t grasp what was happening. Their minds went completely blank, and they couldn’t even speak.

But in the face of their flabbergasted gazes, Su Yi just laughed. He clasped his palm, faced Heavenly God White Flame and the others, and solemnly expressed his gratitude. “Many thanks!”

“....” The crowd didn’t know what to say.

“You... refrained from using any external treasures just now because you... wanted to borrow our hands to transform yourself through a brush with death?” an old man exclaimed.

He and the other divinities had long since sensed that something was off. The Su Yi of rumors had no shortage of hidden cards, yet he’d fought them without using any of them.

This was fundamentally suspicious.

Now, when they saw Su Yi somehow survive that unknown, mysterious tribulation, they instantly understood the source of the problem.

“That’s right,” Su Yi admitted with a nod. “I needed an opportunity to face death and overcome it, and just now, you gave it to me. It’s thanks to you that I finally seized this opportunity.”

“???” The crowd was gobsmacked. By now, how could they fail to realize that they’d been used?

It had seemed as if they’d pummeled Su Yi to the brink of death, but in truth, he’d been using them as whetstones this entire time!

Their expressions instantly darkened.

“But you don’t seem to have broken into godhood. You aren’t even a Demigod!” someone said with a frown.

Su Yi laughed. “This is a realm you don’t know about. In fact, I didn't know about it until recently either.”

“Nonsense! You’re just acting mysterious!” someone said with a cold laugh.

The Divine Dao lay above the Great Realm. There were some people in between, people with one step into divinity. These were Demigods.

Some people broke into divinity, but, because their Epoch Fragments were incomplete, they could only become False Gods.

But no one had ever heard of a whole level of cultivation between divinity and the Great Realm!

“Don’t tell me you’ve become a False God?” someone said with a strange look on his face.

“To be honest, I’m curious about this realm’s wondrous qualities too,” said Su Yi. “I’ll repay you by using you to test my newfound strength. Now that I’ve broken through, I’ll let you become the first group of gods lucky enough... to die by my hands.”

“Go ahead and try it, then!” a dark-robed man charged explosively at him. He wielded a red halberd.

This was a Limit Realm Mid-Rank God, and he’d wounded Su Yi many times over earlier, leaving his body in tatters. He was extraordinarily powerful.

When he attacked, his red halberd sliced open the air, bringing with it all-encompassing destructive power.

Su Yi didn’t dodge. He had a sudden, wondrous sensation that all of creation had slowed to a crawl. Every detail and every transformation within the dark-robed man’s attack was on full display in his mind, as well as information about his cultivation base.

Mid-stage Limit Realm cultivation.

A third-level Godhead.

Advanced mastery of his Laws of the Divine Dao.

A Limit Realm Epoch Treasure.

The secret art he’s using uses profound lightning and divine fire as a source of the Grand Dao. When he attacks, it manifests three hundred and sixty transformations, all of them full of starkly different perils.

...Su Yi instantly saw through the attack down to the finest details.

This wasn’t simply judgment based on Li Fuyou’s experiences, but a wondrous, instinctual awareness. It let Su Yi instantly grasp this attack’s secrets in full!

Su Yi had never had any such ability before.

Don’t tell me that this is one of the powers of the Hidden Summit Realm?

This thought had only just occurred to Su Yi when he instinctively raised his hand and tapped the air.

It was a plain, unassuming tap, yet it struck like a hammer slamming into glass. A deafening impact rang out, and the dark-robed man’s attack shattered into pieces.

The flames filling the sky scattered.

The red halberd shook violently in the dark-robed man’s grip, its wails shaking the heavens.

This was because Su Yi’s tap had landed perfectly on the halberd’s tip. Immediately afterward, an endlessly terrifying power of the Grand Dao erupted from his finger, shattering the halberd’s power.

Crunch!

The dark-robed man’s wrist broke with a spray of blood.

His expression shifted, and he hurriedly retreated, his expression full of rage and shock.

That tap had been plain and unassuming, yet it seemed to steal good fortune from the heavens. It struck right where his attack was at its weakest!!

The sight startled his allies. After all, no matter how heaven-defying Su Yi’s strength had seemed earlier, he never managed to actually injure any of the Limit Realm Mid-Rank Gods.

Yet now, a casual tap had injured a Mid-Rank God and forced him back!

Meanwhile, a sudden revelation arose in Su Yi’s heart.

My strength has roughly doubled, but that’s secondary. The true greatness of the Hidden Summit Realm lies in what it did to my potential!

Indeed, it wasn’t the increased strength that made the Hidden Summit Realm terrifying, but rather, the way it transformed someone’s talent and potential. In other words, this realm was full of profundity, wondrousness, and newfound abilities!