Chapter 2262 - Proving His Dao

That withered, enormous tree appeared amidst the dark clouds once more. A thick layer of rotting meat sloughed off its trunk.

A hundred-thousand-foot skeleton floated in the sky, covered with strange, unearthly, blood-red flowers. These, too, drifted down like rain.

Sanskrit chanting rang out, and from time to time, and from time to time, Daoist invocations echoed through the air.

But then, something unbelievable happened.

The countless hunks of rotting meat and the countless falling flowers fell onto the bones lining the shore of the crescent moon-shaped lake, and the bones instantly came to life.

The skeletons grew flesh and blood, then repeatedly combined, developing torsos, limbs, and heads....

The Sanskrit chanting and strange Daoist invocations were like a spell of resurrection. All of the bones littering the ground came back to life!

Some looked almost human, with wide-sleeved, elegant robes and sword cases on their backs. Some gripped fly whisks and had an otherworldly air, while others were dressed like warriors. Some had the countenance of Buddhist statues and held treasure towers in their outstretched palms...

There were also numerous terrifying vicious birds and divine beasts, like a ten-thousand-foot blue-winged bat that scattered blue lightning with every beat of its wings.

There was also a mountain-sized divine elephant that threw back its head and trumpeted.

There was a divine Bifang bird bathed in endless divine flames, whirling throughout the sky.

...Thousands upon thousands of them instantly came to life. All of them displayed monstrous divine majesty.

Feng Wuji gasped, visibly astonished.

What’s going on? Who knows how long those bones have been lying here? How did they all suddenly come to life?

And their auras are so strange and terrifying. Even the weakest is comparable to a Greater God! The stronger ones are no weaker than Two, no, Three-Tribulation Master Gods!

No, they’re even more terrifying than that!

Suddenly, the humming of a sword rang out, and the Sword of Proximity appeared in Su Yi’s grip.

His aura instantly rose, and he circulated the full extent of his peak Creation Realm cultivation base without holding back in the slightest.

Su Yi had already recovered his true appearance. His robes and long hair billowed around him, and he looked utterly proud and contemptuous.

His sword force was like the river of stars bursting through a dam, connecting heaven and earth and sweeping outward in all directions!

The reanimated army of thousands upon thousands of strange lifeforms was obviously agitated. All of them instantly converged on Su Yi.

But then——

“Die!!”

A halberd-wielding man in warrior’s robes led the charge, shifting through the air and swinging his halberd with all his might.

Su Yi didn’t even try to dodge. Instead, he clashed with the halberd head-on.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Clang!!

The halberd shook violently, and the man in warrior’s robes was forced backward. Even the sky shattered at the point of impact.

Practically simultaneously, Su Yi was forced several steps back, too.

The man in warrior’s robes was strong, comparable to a peak Two-Tribulation Master God!

But this was exactly the kind of opponent Su Yi longed for.

Meanwhile, the blue-winged bat let out a thunderous roar and beat its wings, filling the sky with explosive blue lightning before diving at Su Yi.

Practically simultaneously, the mountain-sized divine elephant raised its pillar-like leg and stomped.

The other strange entities attacked too, swarming in from all sides, like a boundlessly vast army. They tore the entire stretch of heaven and earth to shreds and threw the sky into chaos.

Terrifying divine radiance illuminated the nine heavens and the ten earths

Startling roads rang out, shattering the sky on all sides.

Floods of destructive power enveloped the area, like a terrifying vision of apocalyptic destruction.

In the face of all this, Su Yi just laughed, stepped into the sky, and charged, sword in hand.

He was like a single brave warrior protecting a pass from tens of thousands of invaders! Who cared if he was outnumbered? He’d use his sword to keep them all at bay!

Just like that, an extraordinary power broke out.

No matter how numerous his enemies were, there was no hiding the unparalleled sharpness of Su Yi’s sword.

Just like that, one man and one sword fought an enormous army. It might have seemed shocking and tumultuous, yet he was as relaxed as if he were out for a stroll through his own backyard.

Kaboom!

Heaven and earth were thrown into upheaval. Divine radiance swept outward, and the clanging of a sword resounded without end.

An unparalleled grand battle raged. How fierce was it? And how terrifying?

And who could have imagined that that solitary combatant had initiated this battle of his own accord

Feng Wuji had long since moved further away. He watched the battle in shock, disbelief written all over his face.

He’s just trying to break through. What need was there to go to such insane lengths?

What god needs to fight an army of thousands of terrifying, malevolent beings all on his own just to break through?

Insane! Simply insane!!

For a moment, Feng Wuji simply couldn’t find words to describe how he was feeling. Even though he’d witnessed Su Yi’s contemptuous bearing on the Path of the Ancient Gods, even though he knew you couldn’t judge Su Yi by his cultivation base, and even though he was certain Su Yi wouldn’t have started a battle he couldn't win...

Witnessing this still made Feng Wuji’s mind go blank. He almost couldn’t help but wonder whether Su Yi had gone insane, or whether

he’d

gone insane.

Because surely such an unbelievable battle couldn’t actually be happening!

Su Yi naturally hadn’t gone insane.

He’d been planning this since before he’d even come to the Extreme Lightning Demon Cave. Now, he was simply putting his plan into action.

He’d stirred up this grand, unparalleled battle to break through!

His path of divinity had been unique right from the start. It was different from other people’s.

He hadn’t used an Epoch Spark to condense a Godhead, nor had he ignited his Divine Flame to create a Divine Throne.

Instead, he’d used his Dao of the Sword and the Epoch Spark to forcefully cleave open a path all his own! He sought all Daos within himself rather than outside himself!

That was how he’d stepped onto an unprecedented path to divinity while in the Hidden Summit Realm.

Many of his past lives had sought this very path, never to attain it. Even his first incarnation had spent far, far too long planning and making arrangements, all for this purpose!

Now, in this lifetime, Su Yi had finally succeeded.

It was for this reason that the opportunities Su Yi needed to break through were different from other people’s.

He couldn’t just wait to seize a fleeting, ethereal chance to prove his Dao. Rather, he had to use his powers of the Dao to create the opportunity he needed to break through!

The former was passively waiting for external forces to grant him the right opportunity to break through, while the latter was taking the Grand Dao into his own hands and creating an opportunity through combat.

The two naturally weren’t even remotely comparable.

Su Yi was currently tempering himself in a life-or-death battle, using this fierce struggle to unleash the full extent of his cultivation base. In doing so, it underwent a supreme transformation, rising to new heights!

It was dangerous. A moment’s incaution could lead to his death.

Su Yi was thoroughly surrounded on all sides, and he’d already begun piling on wounds. His white robes were completely stained red!

But his essence, qi, and spirit were like a treasure sword undergoing repeated tempering in the furnace. The more he fought, the sharper, more forceful, and more dazzling he became.

His Sea of Chaos churned within him. The Epoch Spark was like a torch igniting the chaos. Its radiance enveloped the entire Sea of Chaos.

All manner of powers of the Grand Dao fused into his Dao of the Sword, resonating with his cultivation base as they became one.

The transformation affected his whole body, inside and out: his powers of the Grand Dao, his spirit, his soul, his heart, and his will. This bloody, life-or-death tempering fused them all into one!

Fifteen minutes.

Forty-five minutes.

...Time slipped by, and the grand battle only intensified.

The strange lifeforms weaker than Su Yi had all long since been eliminated. Their flesh and blood had dissipated, and they were now just scattered, fragmented bones once more.

But dozens of strange entities were still fighting, all of them utterly terrifying...

Su Yi, meanwhile, was already terribly injured, but he didn’t care in the slightest. On the contrary, his heart was full of eagerness.

He sought the Dao within himself!

Both when stepping into the Hidden Summit Realm and when achieving divinity, he had to shatter his cultivation base before he could achieve the ultimate breakthrough. In doing so, he rebuilt himself amidst destruction.

A similar scene was currently unfolding!

“Die!” The strange lifeforms knew no fear, nor did they have any concept of retreat. They attacked like mad.

It was obvious that all of them had been shockingly terrifying existences in life.

They were practically all at the Undying Realm Master God level!

They’d been dead for countless years. They’d been strangely “resurrected”, and they lacked intelligence or awareness, making them far weaker than they’d been in life.

Even so, when they joined forces, they were mighty enough to make one’s heart shake.

It was cruel to say it, but some of the lifeforms stronger than Three-Tribulation Master Gods were strong enough to one-sidedly crush Su Yi!

Su Yi had lasted this long, not because he was so strong, but because every time he faced a potentially lethal attack, he used the Sword of the Nine Hells’ power to circulate the power of the Grand Dao of Reincarnation!

This power was the bane of strange entities like these, and they dared not touch it. This let Su Yi avoid fatal danger time and time again.

By now, Su Yi had forgotten himself completely. He was totally immersed in combat. He didn’t know how much time passed, or how heavy his injuries were.

He also wasn’t sure when they’d appeared, but dense tribulation clouds now hung over the dome of heaven, shrouding the entire area in darkness.

An oppressive, terrifying, calamitous aura permeated the entire Extreme Lightning Demon Cave.

The sight horrified the strange lifeforms that inhabited the place. All of them quivered with fright.

“What’s that?"

“What a terrifying tribulation!”

“Don’t tell me that Li Fuyou’s reincarnation invited that tribulation?”

Whispered conversations arose throughout the mountain covered in bloody mist. All of its strange inhabitants were terrified.

That calamitous aura alone was enough to fill these ancient divine wraiths’ hearts with dread. All of them shrank back in terror.

Feng Wuji, meanwhile, was wide-eyed and tongue-tied. “Brother Su... actually wants to undergo tribulation in the middle of this unparalleled, fierce battle?”

The sky was full of thick layers of tribulation clouds. They covered the entire dome of heaven, and terrifying tribulation light was brewing inside them.

Deep within the clouds, across an endless expanse of time and space, he even saw a boundless, coursing river.

That... that looks like the River of Destiny, the place Nine-Tribulation Master Gods long for even in their dreams!!

It was then that a burst of unfettered laughter echoed throughout heaven and earth.

“Thank you, everyone. You’ve helped me break my fetters. Thanks to you, I can prove my break through and prove my Dao here and now!”