Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 496: 302

“You’re just realizing that now?”

Xuan Zhen was speechless and sighed as he said, “I originally intended to swallow my pride, take out some treasured possession from the bottom of my chest as a passage fee, and ask Taoist Brother Shi to take us out. I didn’t expect Brother Dao to be so magnanimous, actually planning to take all of the people from Void Spirit Cave Heaven with him, avoiding this calamity. Truly, his heart is filled with compassion and his merit is boundless!”

“…”

Seeing how quickly Xuan Zhen’s form of address and attitude changed, Xiao Miao was also speechless and could only change the subject, “However, it seems like the outside has already been sealed off by the Tianshu Sect’s great array. If he directly takes this White Jade Immortal City and breaks through the realm, could there be a confrontation with the Tianshu Sect, or even the Big Dipper Immortal Sect?”

In his words, there was a hint of worry.

“So what if there is a confrontation?”

Xuan Zhen snorted coldly, speaking with disdain, “That shoddy thing set up by Zhou Tian Shu, you think it can stop the White Jade Immortal City?”

Xiao Miao was astonished, “It can’t be stopped?”

“Of course it can’t be stopped!”

Xuan Zhen said irritably, “You saw earlier, the convergence of the Three Calamities, the Calamity of Man, the Instrument Tribulation, and that unnamed cultivating skills tribulation, the combined force of the three tribulations turned into the Heavenly Punishment. The ninety-nine absolutes of the Return to Void Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder couldn’t destroy this White Jade Immortal City. Instead, it emerged from the tribulation transformed, reborn, blessed by the Heavenly Tribulation Creation, the mechanism of the Great Dao. Do you know what that means?”

Xiao Miao’s face was a picture of astonishment, “What does it mean?”

“It means that this White Jade Immortal City is an absolutely invincible existence within the Return to Void Realm!”

Xuan Zhen spoke gravely, “If even Heavenly Punishments are of no effect, how could human strength cause any disturbance?”

“Unless one possesses a treasure of the same rank, even the various sacred places and saint heirs from the Immortal Sect and Brahma Sect could not pose a threat to this White Jade Immortal City in their Return to Void state.”

“The only ones who could threaten this White Jade Immortal City are those with the Integration Great Power, and even they may not be able to securely capture it. Only a Mahayana True Immortal taking action would have a chance of success!”

“After all, this Immortal City has merged with the Five Elements and has also incorporated a mechanism of the Void. It has become an existence in its own right, entirely capable of utilizing the Great Five Elements Escape Skills and shifting through the Void over great distances. Unless someone can restrict the Five Elements and seal the Void, let alone Integration, even Mahayana might not be able to contain it!”

“As of now, the Mahayana True Immortals from the Big Dipper Immortal Sect probably haven’t arrived yet; otherwise, they would have already burst through this Void Spirit Cave Heaven and taken the treasures.”

“Without Mahayana True Immortals, unless that son of a bitch Zhou Tian Shu brings over the Cycle Big Dipper Star Master Array from the Big Dipper Immortal Sect, forget stopping the White Jade Immortal City—they might not even be able to perceive its movements.”

“So, that bastard, what authority does he have to stop it, and with what can he stop it—stop his grandmother’s leg hair!”

Through his words, Xuan Zhen vented greatly, leaving Xiao Miao dumbfounded. It took a while for him to come back to his senses, “Is it that powerful?”

“What did you think?”

Xuan Zhen shook his head and murmured, “The Heavenly Dao has its way, karma has its retribution, for every drink and peck, there is a predestined order. This White Jade Immortal City has faced the wrath of Heavenly Punishment Thunder because its capabilities are too contrary to the heavens, hence it faces such a test of Heavenly Punishment!”

After his sigh, he turned back to Xiao Miao, “Kid, you have the Five Elements Spiritual Root, and you will also embark on the Five Elements Path in the future. Remember this White Jade Immortal City and the scene of the lightning tribulation earlier. The harmony of the Five Elements with the Void and Time is the creative Heavenly Craft Method and the fabricating Great Dao. If you too can follow this path, not to mention crossing the Mahayana tribulation, even ascending to the Upper Realm and becoming an immortal ancestor, there’s great hope for you!”

“Understood.”

Xiao Miao had an epiphany and said gravely, “One day I too shall cross the Heavenly Punishment Thunder Tribulation…”

“Cross your grandpa!”

The words hadn’t finished when Xuan Zhen cut him off with a curse, “I’m telling you to learn from his path and his direction, not to replicate his crossing of the Heavenly Tribulation. His mother! Is that the tribulation a person should cross? It’s only because of him that it was possible. If it were someone else, they would have been blasted to powder, turned to ashes!”

Xiao Miao: “…”

Let’s leave the master-disciple teaching alone for a moment.

On the other side…

“The Great Dao is fifty, Heaven evolves forty-nine, the Escaping One is the most unpredictable!”

In the White Jade Capital, Kylin Palace, Xu Yang was seated high among the clouds, his eyes and brow filled with smiles, and he was very pleased.

This time, the shearing of Heavenly Dao’s wool was very successful. With the craft of Heavenly Tribulation Creation and the primordial force of the Great Dao, White Jade Capital at the center of the Five Elements Orb underwent a transformation, successfully stepping into the ranks of Medium-Grade Immortal Artifacts.

It fit perfectly with Xu Yang’s strategic expectation of “taking little risks to avoid great perils!”

Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder, just a minor risk?

For Xu Yang, it indeed was only a minor risk because he was highly confident that he could steadily make it through.

Great Dao 50, Heaven evolves forty-nine, everything has its predestined path.

The might of heaven is unpredictable, but Heavenly Tribulation can be anticipated!

If it can be anticipated, it can be transcended. As long as one has enough strength and meets the threshold for Crossing the Tribulation, then there would be no danger in the Tribulation.

By comparison, it is the tribulations caused by humans that are the most difficult to guard against.

After all, human nature is unpredictable, and worldly affairs change frequently; they are the Escaping One, the most variable of all.

Therefore, for Xu Yang, Heavenly Tribulation is but a minor risk, while human tribulation is the great peril.

At least, that is the case for now.

Now that the minor risk has been taken, the next step is to avoid the great peril.

White Jade Capital, now at the level of a Medium-Grade Immortal Artifact, combined with the Heavenly Craft Method and the skills of Spiritual Treasure, commands myriad Magic Artifacts to form an Immortal Spirit Mech Armor. In the Return to Void, it can be said to be invincible, even against Integration powers, as it can use the Dao of the Five Elements and the principles of the void to retreat unscathed.

It can be said that as long as Xu Yang does not run into a Mahayana True Immortal, Superior Immortal Implements, Seventh Rank Great Array, or methods that restrict the void, then there is nowhere in the vast world that White Jade Capital cannot traverse.

This is not yet the limit of White Jade Capital.

The rank of the Lower-Grade Fairy Spirit Mecha Armor has already reached the Myriad Device Level.

Then the rank of a Medium-Grade Fairy Spirit Mecha Armor…

For a typical Cultivator with standard control, it would be thirty million!

Xu Yang exceeds the norm, possessing Skill Characteristics, so he can achieve the “Fifty Million” level at the highest!

Five hundred million Mecha Level of Medium-Grade Immortal Spirit Mech Armor!

This is the complete form of White Jade Capital today.

Unfortunately, Fish and Dragon Island lacks potentiality, currently only gathering one hundred million Magic Artifacts.

Once they break free from this realm, and birds take to the blue sky, and fish enter the vast ocean, a place can be found to greatly develop and complete the number of Magic Artifacts, allowing White Jade Capital to enter its “complete” state!

At that time, when facing Integration Great Powers alone, it would be possible to maintain an invincible position.

As for victory…

Without data for comparison, it’s difficult to come to a definitive conclusion.

After all, to this day, Xu Yang has only one record of combating an Integration power, which is when, in the Dao Primordial Spirit World, he repelled an Integration Great Demon that had crossed boundaries through the door of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

At that time, the White Jade Capital he controlled, although it was at the level of three hundred million devices, was in essence a Lower-Grade Fairy Spirit Mech Armor, relying entirely on Skill Characteristics to boost its level, clumsy like a Great Array, barely on par with the Integration Great Demon that did not give its full effort in cross-realm combat.

When the combat power is not certain, one cannot speak of the likelihood of victory but only make a conservative estimation of being “undefeated.”

But that is a matter for the future. The current priority is to break out of this realm and escape this cage.

Once this step is taken, then the path forward is clear and open; the sky is free for birds to soar, and the ocean is vast for fish to leap, no longer bound or restricted!