Chapter 2376 Pervading Deepness

After listening to this explanation, Lin Xun frowned.

He hadn't come here because he desperately wanted to research the mysteries of the origin core of all Heavenly Dao, but rather to find the members of the Lin Clan.

However, according to the Ghost Spirit Monkey, there were too many secret worlds in the Origin Nest to count. This meant he would need great luck to find them.

“Something’s not right,” Lin Xun suddenly said. “You've been hibernating here for all these countless years, so how do you know where the origin core of all Heavenly Dao is?”

The monkey didn’t miss a beat, “Because initially, I searched for that place, but I encountered a great peril in the process and had to draw back. It was so dangerous that I nearly died, and even though I emerged alive, all I had left was my primordial spirit.”

Lin Xun didn't ask more about this matter and just said, “Lead the way.”

The monkey immediately agreed.

Leaving this Origin World together, the two returned to the Origin Nest hosting it.

“Fellow Daoist, there’s something I have to remind you. The closer you get to the origin core of all Heavenly Dao, the more dangerous it becomes. From what I know, there were quite many very powerful existences who came here to explore a long time ago. Some of them died, while some were like me and have remained in hibernation in the Origin Worlds near the core origin.”

The monkey pointed at a tunnel hole in the Origin Nest and continued, “In that Origin World, there is a path that leads to a deeper secret realm.”

Lin Xun nodded and instantly teleported into that tunnel.

Just like that, following the guidance of the Ghost Spirit Monkey, he trekked nonstop through one Origin World after another.

More and more Origin Dao Crystals were collected along the way. Although the great dao origin essence they contained were more or less incomplete, the quantity was constantly increasing.

During this, the Ghost Spirit Monkey who proclaimed itself to be Thousand Void Great Emperor also got to witness Lin Xun’s terrifying strength. No matter what kind of opponents they ran into in any secret world, he easily dominated and killed them. Watching it sent chills through the monkey’s heart.

A day later.

Upon entering yet another Origin World, Lin Xun sensed right away that his cultivation, which had been restricted all this time, instantly recovered to the peak of the fourth realm.

He understood that he was getting closer to the origin core of all Heavenly Dao. The Ghost Spirit Monkey probably was leading him on the correct path.

Every Origin World had an Origin Center.

Some examples were the blood-red mountain that Lin Xun had seen in the secret realm of fire and lightning, the ice lake in the secret realm of snow and ice, and the large abyss where he had captured the Ghost Spirit Monkey in the previous secret realm.

The Origin Center of an Origin World was like the root of a tree.

Generally speaking, all the dangers he had encountered so far were beings who lay low near Origin Centers.

However, starting from the Origin World that Lin Xun was currently in, the strength of the opponents started to get higher!

Day after day...

Lin Xun and the monkey passed through many different Origin Worlds. They would occasionally take a break, but more often than not, they were on the road.

Along those worlds, the cultivation levels of the terrifying beings gradually increased from the fourth realm to the fifth, sixth, and seventh realms of the Emperor Stage...

The monkey looked nervous as it kept giving Lin Xun pointers.

However, to its astonishment, Lin Xun had killed those opponents, seemingly with ease, despite being only a fourth realm Emperor!

Ten days after the two started traveling together, they arrived in a world where every inch of space displayed a kind of eternal darkness.

Boom!

With a deafening roar, Lin Xun slayed an eighth realm being with a palm strike, sending out a flood of light that shook heaven and earth.

From afar, the monkey gawked in a daze.

A fourth realm Emperor, overcoming the gap of several realms, killed an eighth realm opponent?!

“I'm going to break through, so I'll have to trouble you for a while.” Lin Xun walked over to the monkey, his eyes profound.

His cultivation was like a full cup of water that was about to overflow as he had already reached the utter limit of the fourth realm, and it could no longer be suppressed.

“You’re breaking into the next realm?” The stunned monkey reminded him, “That’s an extremely dangerous thing to do here. You may suffer backlash from the law power of this world.”

“It’s alright,” said Lin Xun, and without any further ado, he locked up the monkey inside the Dao Endless Pagoda.

Although the monkey had behaved very well during their past ten days of traveling together, Lin Xun did not let his guard down. The other party was a Ghost Spirit Monkey who was capable of reading the human heart, and was one of the most treacherous and cunning creatures.

“Whew~” Inhaling and exhaling, Lin Xun discarded all distracting thoughts, sat down cross-legged, and entered meditation.

A full day later, he opened his eyes, leapt to his feet, and looked up.

At some point, ink-black, churning tribulation clouds had covered the sky. The world was quiet as a depressing and terrifying heavenly might spread.

Lin Xun stood with his hands on his back, his expression calm.

This was the threshold before the fifth realm of the Emperor Stage. As long as he conquered this calamity, he would enter the realm of Pervading Deepness!

Pervading Mystery, Pervading Deepness, Pervading Emptiness.

These were the fourth, fifth, and sixth realms of the Emperor Stage.

Among them, Pervading Emptiness was also known as the realm of No-Law, Against Heavens!

BOOM!

After a long time, a rumbling thunder echoed from the tumbling tribulation clouds. It resembled the war drums of the heavenly gods, stirring the nine heavens and ten earths.

Immediately following, a dazzling lightning dao light unfurled from the highest point of the sky like a waterfall.

“It's finally here....” Lin Xun's expression was unperturbed like an ancient well. His body like a furnace and his might like a great abyss, he took to the air.

Rumble~

The tribulation had begun, plunging this Origin World into an unprecedented turmoil with lightning storms, shooting electricity, and chaos.

In the void, Lin Xun was like a deity bathed in brilliant dao light. His valor overshadowed the world as he fought against the sky full of bolts with a domineering and boundless might.

However, this was not a normal Emperor tribulation, but instead one tailored for a supreme Great Emperor. As a result, Lin Xun endured tremendous suffering.

It didn't take long before he became disheveled and injured.

Fifteen minutes.

Thirty minutes.

Forty-five minutes.

As time passed, the power of the lightning tribulation only became more and more horrendous, perverse even. Any ordinary Emperor expert would have been wiped out under it!

Lin Xun, however, had already put up a whole incense stick of time of resistance.

At the end of it, his body was riddled with cracks and finally exploded, leaving only his Will Dharma Form to continue the fight. The situation looked incomparably dangerous.

It had to be said that this catastrophe far exceeded any Emperor tribulation that Lin Xun had undergone before. Not only did it last for a long time, but its killing power was also hellishly horrifying.

If it wasn’t for his ample preparations, he wouldn't have been able to endure until now!

KABOOM!

He stubbornly persisted through every bolt.

In the rain of lightning that filled the sky, all that was left of Lin Xun was a broken primordial spirit and a sliver of clarity in his consciousness.

“Doh!” He let out a loud cry.

The rain of lightning torrented through his primordial spirit. His blood, flesh, sinews, skin, internal organs, and meridians that had been blown to smithereens during the tribulation all gathered together.

Looking from afar, he was like a huge ball of lightning under the sky dome, constantly emitting the pulses of life.

Two hours later.

The bright ball of lightning had come to resemble a blazing sun, and it abruptly exploded into a rain of chaotic light, gradually revealing a handsome figure.

It was Lin Xun.

At this moment, he looked almost surreal. His sinews and bones looked as if they were made from cemented gold. His skin was like white jade, spraying a brilliant luster. His blood and qi were like a fast-moving ocean, containing boundless vitality. Every strand of hair on his head flowed with the arcane rhythms of great dao.

In his mind-sea, the Will Dharma Form reached ten thousand feet in height. It took the shape of a furnace and emanated an immortal might that dominated all heavens. All kinds of great dao wonders drifted around the furnace as they resonated heavenly tunes, infinitely sacred.

The biggest change had occurred in his True Self Emperor World. The heaven and earth, sun, moon, mountains, rivers, and everything within were now embedded with countless, continuous lines of runes.

They were present on the veins of leaves, the texture of rocks, the undulating curves of the land, the trajectory of the stars in the sky, and within all the changes in this world...

These subtle changes allowed the whole True Self Emperor World to shine with a brand new weather. It became close to a real world where every blade of grass produced and stored faint but deep marvels!

This was the distinguishing sign of Pervading Deepness.

This was also the dao ability that only Emperor experts from the fifth realm up could possess!

After perceiving his new self for a long time, Lin Xun's eyes gleamed with satisfaction. “The Emperor Stage’s Pervading Deepness... Truly a marvelous realm...”

He could already see the earth-shaking change in his battle prowess!

“They say the ninth realm is a heavenly rift, and those who carry the might of Ancestor dao are unshakable... I wonder if I'll be able to break this invisible rule that has been in place for eternity...”

While pondering, Lin Xun had sat down cross-legged and started to solidify his cultivation.

About three days later.

He stood up and released the Ghost Spirit Monkey to resume on the journey.

Looking at Lin Xun, who was perfectly fine and clearly a realm stronger than before, the monkey's eyes glazed over. It also acted more obediently on the trip.

Lin Xun didn’t comment as he noticed all this.

Another ten days quickly flew by.

Up until this point, Lin Xun had collected more than a hundred Origin Dao Crystals, and that was also roughly the number of Origin Worlds that he had searched.

However, he still hadn't found a trace of the Lin clansmen.

The only good news, if it could be considered one, was that he was getting closer and closer to the origin core of all Heavenly Dao.

Monkey suddenly said, “In the next Origin World, there’s a mysterious character with an extremely eccentric temperament. As long as we don't provoke him, we can borrow the road out of there. Crossing around three more Origin Worlds after that one and we’ll arrive at the origin core.

“Fellow Daoist, you must not provoke that guy, otherwise you and I will both get trapped in that world forever.”

Lin Xun raised a brow, “You’re saying he’s very strong?”

The monkey looked grave, “Unimaginably strong, his depths cannot be fathomed at all. A long time ago, I once traveled with a group of fellow daoists. There was no shortage of eighth and ninth realm Emperors among them, but when we were asking for directions, two of them were careless with their words and accidentally pissed off that person. Guess what happened next.”

Not waiting for Lin Xun to reply, the monkey had already said in a heavy voice, “Those two fellow daoists... He erased their memories with a snap of his finger, and turned them into a set of chess pieces on a chessboard world...”