20demayo Chapter 1916 Crisis and Breakthrough
Chapter 1916 Crisis and Breakthrough
Thirty breaths.
For ordinary people, it's just a matter of a few breaths.
For cultivators, it means being able to complete a spell, to traverse a distance of a hundred feet, and to make a choice on the edge of life and death.
But for Mingchuan and Chu Huai at this moment, thirty breaths is the boundary between life and death.
Two streaks of light, one silver and one blue, plunged headlong into the azure halo, like flying fish swimming upstream.
The moment he entered, Chu Huai felt a jolt.
It wasn't pain, but an indescribable resonance!
The scattered Xuan Shui power, which had been scattered for seventy thousand years, seemed to have sensed the aura of the same origin. Countless tiny points of light, like fireflies summoned, surged towards him and Mingchuan from all directions.
The blue light of the Cangming mark between Chu Huai's brows intensified, and the light spots, like weary birds returning to their nests, surged wildly into the mark.
With each ray of light that merged into the mark, the mark grew brighter, and Chu Huai's aura also rose accordingly.
The bottleneck at the peak of Core Formation is actually starting to loosen!
Chu Huai was utterly astonished, but Ming Chuan had no time to consider such matters.
From the moment he stepped into this area, his entire mind was on edge.
This is the edge of Guixu.
The writhing void was only a hundred feet away from them.
Mingchuan didn't know if Guixu had eyes, but he could clearly feel that something was watching him!
This feeling comes from within, as if one's soul is being gently squeezed by an invisible giant hand, ready to be crushed at any moment!
"Don't stop!"
Mingchuan gave a low shout, and the silver light in his hand surged, creating an extremely thin yet incredibly tough spatial barrier around him and Chu Huai.
The barrier had just taken shape when the writhing nothingness trembled violently.
An invisible shockwave suddenly struck!
There was no sound, no light, only a pure, soul-chilling cold.
The spatial barrier erected by Mingchuan trembled violently, and countless fine cracks instantly appeared on its surface!
puff--
Instantly, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and his face turned ashen.
But he did not back down.
He formed hand seals, and the "Return to One Technique of Myriad Transformations" within his body operated wildly, forcibly transforming, diverting, and releasing the surging power of the Void Corruption!
He pushed his Nascent Soul stage cultivation to its limit at this moment, with every bit of spiritual power burning!
"Hurry!!!" he roared hoarsely.
Chu Huai's eyes were tightly closed, and the Cangming mark between his brows was now dazzlingly bright. The surging Xuan Shui power was frantically washing over his meridians, dantian, and sea of consciousness.
not enough.
Not enough...
He could sense that the scattered Xuan Shui power far exceeded his expectations.
A three-headed, peak-stage Nascent Soul Void Beast, with 70,000 years of accumulated power, even if it's just a remnant, would be enough to burst a mortal apart.
But he's carrying it.
It wasn't because of his high cultivation level, but because he was Cangming's successor!
The Way of Xuanshui does not coexist with Guixu, but it can endure on the banks of Guixu.
What endures is not power, but the heart of the Tao!
As long as the Dao heart remains undying, even if the physical body shatters, the power of the Xuan Shui will not backfire on its master!
This is the last trump card Cangming left for him!
Ten breaths...
The spatial barrier erected by Mingchuan was already riddled with cracks and on the verge of collapse.
Blood began to seep from his seven orifices, and his skin turned an eerie grayish-white color, but he did not retreat.
He didn't even glance at Chu Huai's condition; he just stared intently at the writhing void, at the ultimate destruction that was trying to devour everything!
Then he smiled.
"I see……"
Mingchuan muttered to himself, a sudden realization flashing in his eyes.
The erosion of the Ruins cannot be resisted by force.
It uses fear to dismantle its opponents.
The more you fear it, the stronger it becomes!
The more you feel you are going to die, the more invincible it becomes.
But if you know it's watching you, know it could crush you at any moment, yet you still stand in front of it, unafraid, and without backing down an inch, then it can't do anything to you!
Mingchuan closed his eyes.
The next moment, he opened his eyes again.
There was no fear, tension, or anxiety in his eyes, only a sense of peace.
It was a calm that bordered on indifference.
"Come."
He spoke softly, addressing the writhing nothingness as if facing an equal opponent, "Let me see what else you can do to me!"
The void trembled violently.
He seemed... stunned.
Twenty breaths.
A surprised smile suddenly appeared on Chu Huai's face. His cultivation had finally broken through that bottleneck!
The barrier between the peak of Core Formation and the early stage of Nascent Soul was as fragile as paper at this moment, and was blasted open by the surging power of Xuan Water!
But this is not the end, but the beginning.
The Xuan Shui power did not stop flowing in because of his breakthrough; instead, it gathered even more frantically towards the mark between his eyebrows.
Early stage of Nascent Soul.
The initial stage of the Nascent Soul stage is stable.
Peak of the early stage of Nascent Soul.
Mid-stage Nascent Soul!
Chu Huai's aura soared like a rocket, and within just a few breaths, he directly jumped from the peak of the Core Formation stage to the mid-Nascent Soul stage!
Keep in mind, his father had only just broken through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm!
He is the only one among the four holy sons to reach the Nascent Soul stage!
Moreover, for any other cultivator, such a breakthrough speed would be enough to cause them to explode and die on the spot, but Chu Huai did not!
The power of the mysterious water seemed to possess sentience, helping him break through while also tempering his meridians and stabilizing his foundation in some mysterious way.
Each surge of power is accompanied by a baptism at the level of laws.
Chu Huai quickly adjusted his breathing and continued, his breath becoming stronger, heavier, and deeper.
It is like a newly born sea, rapidly expanding and deepening, evolving into a vast ocean.
Twenty-five breaths...
Mingchuan's protective spatial barrier finally shattered completely.
The corrosive power of the Ruins surged in like a tide, instantly enveloping his entire body.
That cold, insane, and destructive force frantically tried to penetrate his consciousness, to disintegrate his soul, and to make him submit, collapse, and vanish into nothingness.
But Mingchuan remained standing, his silvery glow dim, blood flowing from his seven orifices, his skin ashen, yet he never fell.
He didn't even try to resist the corrosive force anymore; instead, a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.
"You want to swallow me? Come on, let me see how much you can swallow."
The nothingness trembled once more.
This time, I wasn't stunned.
Yes...hesitation.
Twenty-six breaths.
Twenty-seven breaths.
Twenty-eight breaths.
Chu Huai suddenly opened his eyes!
The Cangming mark between his brows had now completely transformed into a deep, almost inky, sea blue.
Countless ripples flow within it, as if it holds an entire ocean.
"Mingchuan!!"
He immediately spotted Mingchuan, who was enveloped in a grayish-white corrosive power and teetering on the brink of collapse.
Chu Huai immediately raised his hand, and the mark between his eyebrows suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented light!
A highly condensed, almost tangible, sea-blue beam of light shot out from between his brows, instantly piercing through the erosive power of the Void that enveloped Mingchuan!
boom--!
The entire area trembled violently the moment the two forces collided!