Chapter 660: The Ancient Heavenly Court in the Thunder Sea
Thunderbolts cascaded down, burying the mountains and land in a sea of lightning, boundless and limitless. Everyone retreated; this was a vast heavenly tribulation that sent chills down their spines.
An ocean of lightning, terrifying and boundless. A single bolt of electricity could blast a great mountain into flying ash!
"This..." The crowd was horrified. With so much lightning, what kind of terrifying power would it unleash? If it all fell at once, even this sacred land would cease to exist.
However, this tribulation was very peculiar. Only a few bolts of electricity occasionally shot out, relatively concentrated, all crashing down to bury Ye Fan without striking elsewhere.
"This is the most fearsome tribulation of the Dragon Transformation Ascension Platform. Only some ancient records in the Holy Lands mention it; outsiders have no way of knowing!" The Great Power from the Ji Family stared wide-eyed.
"This is no ordinary heavenly punishment. It has occurred only a few times since ancient times. Strange and inexplicable events are bound to happen. Anyone who undergoes such tribulation is a heaven-defying prodigy resented by the heavens."
"Boom!"
Lightning crashed down violently. The deafening sound pierced eardrums, causing many to tumble backward with blood streaming from their ears, unable to remain standing.
At the center of the ten-thousand-zhang sea of lightning, Ye Fan was still resisting the death curse. His entire body shimmered with divine radiance. The great dragon of his spine reared up, spitting out a pearl to form the Immortal Platform, merging with his head.
This was the final secret realm — the Immortal Platform!
The great dragon of the human body was nurtured, leaping upward to ascend the platform, entering the last secret realm, mysterious and profound.
Though his body was battered and broken, he transformed into an eternal light, a dragon soaring up, illuminating all spirits, returning to the primordial, containing the mystery of creation.
The tribulation was peculiar. It pressed down but delayed, not yet triggered, not attacking. Yet the terrifying divine energy grew increasingly fearsome, gripping hearts.
"What has appeared in that thunder sea?"
"Endless palaces, stretching in continuous rows!"
Everyone was shocked, utterly horrified. This scene was too eerie. Majestic palaces, grand and imposing, floated and sank within the dreadful thunder sea.
"That is the Ancient Heavenly Court!"
"Unbelievable. Did the Ancient Heavenly Court truly exist in ancient legends? Ten thousand years ago, the Demon Emperor sought to rebuild it. Is this related?"
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The crowd trembled with fear. Within the endless lightning, ancient buildings emerged one after another, all condensed from electric light, slowly taking shape, pressing down with suffocating weight.
The tribulation had not yet struck Ye Fan. It was not without danger but simply not yet time, still gathering. People believed the ultimate descent would be earth-shattering!
At this moment, Ye Fan was still undergoing a purgatory-like refinement. His golden blood was nearly dry, bones exposed, his flesh broken and ruined.
Heaven and earth as a furnace, yin and yang as fire, interweaving, manifesting in reality, forming a yin-yang Eight Trigram Furnace!
"How can there truly be a divine furnace? This was born specifically to obliterate the Sacred Body."
According to ancient legend, the founder of the Yin Yang Sect was the most powerful sage of the ancient era, invincible under heaven. In his later years, he transformed into the Yin Yang Divine Furnace, unleashing a death curse that extinguished an outer-domain deity.
Ye Fan endured endless trials but remained unyielding, his will like iron. He comprehended the Dao within the death realm, resisting the curse, refining his heart inside the Yin Yang Furnace.
This furnace blazed with intense flames, engulfing his body, but it could never obliterate him. The two sides struggled for forty-nine days without resolution.
Having accumulated this far, Ye Fan triggered his own tribulation, preparing to break through from both within and without!
The divine furnace seemed eternal, burning fiercely with immortal divine light, standing between heaven and earth. It had been refining Ye Fan for forty-nine days, yin and yang energies swirling, terrifying beyond measure.
"Break for me!"
Ye Fan roared. Today, he felt he could wait no longer. The breakthrough was at hand. This was the result of his careful deliberation — using the heavenly tribulation to shatter the deathly situation.
The great dragon on his back blazed with ten-thousand-zhang radiance, suppressing even the divine light of the yin-yang furnace. The true dragon leaped up, his head merging with the dragon's head, evolving the Immortal Platform.
"Boom!"
The golden figure seated before his brow quickly returned, the two becoming one. He successfully ascended to the final secret realm of the human body!
At the same time, the heavenly punishment was truly triggered, erupting fully. The sea of lightning engulfed him.
All kinds of divine light, infinite purple lightning, Great Derivative Divine Thunder, Five Elements Primordial Lightning, Nine Calamities Thunder... endless, all crashing down!
This was a boiling sea of lightning, a world of tribulation. Countless types of thunder tribulation descended together, each terrifying beyond measure.
Having successfully broken into a great secret realm, the great heavenly tribulation triggered was many times more fearsome than before. Such a calamity would make even a Saint Lord perish in regret.
Yet Ye Fan struggled on. With his withered body, he gritted his teeth and endured, using the heavenly tribulation to baptize his flesh and sea of consciousness, only to dissolve the death curse.
Countless types of lightning were drawn into Ye Fan's body, fully baptizing his flesh. Eternal light flickered, infinite lightning danced — this was a shocking great tribulation.
"Pfft!"
Golden blood splattered. Ye Fan's broken body was riddled with holes. Even his powerful physique was like this, showing how terrifying this thunder was.
"Crack!"
His bones were shattered, white bone fragments protruding from his flesh, extremely bloody and horrifying. But he didn't even grunt, still drawing lightning into his body.
At the same time, the golden figure in his brow merged with his flesh. After advancing to the Immortal Platform secret realm, it reappeared, seated in the void. Opening its mouth, it inhaled, and lightning filling the sky cascaded down, all absorbed.
The golden figure was like a bottomless pit. Lightning from all directions struck, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, all sucked in.
Both flesh and divine consciousness were baptized together, bathed in the light of heaven, flickering with dazzling radiance.
This was a terrifying momentum. The Sacred Body's flesh and divine consciousness were nearly shattered, showing what would happen to others who endured this.
"Boom!"
A great sound rang out. The furnace of heaven and earth was shattered. Yin-yang divine light shot in all directions. The effect of triggering the tribulation finally manifested — the yin-yang death curse was struck.
In this world, what yang energy was strongest? Naturally, lightning. It could destroy all yin spirits and extinguish all dark forces. The death curse belonged to this category.
This was the method Ye Fan had considered feasible, using it to break the situation. Now it seemed highly effective, absolutely capable of severing the death curse.
Patches of lightning descended. Various tribulations appeared, completely flooding the void.
Finally, with a great roar, Ye Fan's area became completely bright. The yin-yang furnace was scattered, disappearing entirely. The power of the death curse was extinguished, destroyed under the heavenly tribulation.
But the cost was enormous. Ye Fan had not controlled the lightning entering his body, and he was nearly blasted apart. Over a hundred bones were broken, he was almost unrecognizable as human, and even the golden figure was nearly shattered, about to be destroyed.
He had no choice but to fully open himself up to completely sever the power of the death curse, or it would leave future troubles.
"Little Leaf..." Behind him, Ji Ziyue, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, and others cried out.
Ye Fan's eyes snapped open. Now he could finally resist. He swallowed all three fragments of the Immortal Pill obtained from the Eternal Dragon Cave in the Qinling Mountains in one gulp.
"Boom!"
Brilliant divine light shot into the sky, instantly engulfing him. His bones shifted and cracked continuously. His flesh quickly swelled, regaining vitality, as if reborn.
The Immortal Pill had been nurtured within the body of the third-generation Origin Heavenly Master for seventy thousand years, absorbing the origin of the great dragon of the Qinling Mountains, seizing the creation of heaven. A complete pill could allow one to attain the Dao.
These were only three percent fragments, but they were still considerable, enough to revive the dead and regrow flesh. Ye Fan's injured body quickly healed, even his divine consciousness wounds.
Moreover, he began to resist the tribulation, reducing the damage to a minimum.
"Excellent!" Pang Bo and others cheered.
Meanwhile, the hostile forces were all disappointed, their faces dark. This result was unacceptable.
A sound like a dragon and phoenix harmonizing rang out. Around Ye Fan, divine phoenixes danced, true dragons coiled, qilins gazed at the sky. Immortal spirits appeared, dazzling and brilliant.
The essence of the ten directions flowed like water, and the immortal light from the tribulation poured down from the sky, converging on his body, repairing his wounds.
Ye Fan's body quickly recovered, swelling up. His flesh shimmered with crystalline luster. Broken bones reconnected. His body was like seven-colored crystal.
Such was the wonder of the Immortal Pill. It revived the dead and regrew flesh on the spot, immediate and effective. He instantly became strong, with no trace of decay.
Finally, amid the thunder and lightning, a figure like a war god stood firm in the void. Black hair flying, his whole body shimmering with precious radiance, brilliant and dazzling.
Ye Fan reached his peak. His flesh and divine consciousness were healed. Every move and gesture contained infinite combat power. He felt the strength of the Immortal Platform.
And at this moment, true danger arrived. In the thunder sea, ancient buildings floated and sank. Within the grand palaces resembling the Ancient Heavenly Court, humanoid beings walked out.
"Humanoid lightning!"
"Legendary humanoid lightning!"
In the distance, the crowd exclaimed. Throughout history, those who could summon such lightning were few and far between. They all became heaven-defying existences, with even ancient records blurry.
"Boom!"
A humanoid being lunged forward. Above its head hung an eternal sacred furnace, flames flickering, like a deity descending to the world, mysterious and unfathomable.
"Heavens, humanoid lightning, and even weapons? Formed from electric light..."
People's faces changed. They could not understand.
The humanoid lightning was pure white like jade, extremely holy. But the divine furnace was crimson, like the exclusive sacred artifact of an ancient Great Emperor forged from Phoenix Blood Red Gold, dazzling and brilliant.
"White lightning for the body, red lightning for the furnace. Is this heaven-made? I don't believe it!" Pang Bo shouted.
This was beyond comprehension, beyond imagination.
"Did the Ancient Heavenly Court truly exist before the ancient era? Or was it controlled by deities? Does it exist in another form?" A living fossil was shaken.
Ye Fan summoned the Primordial Qi Cauldron to resist, also to let it undergo tribulation and interweave the laws of the Dao.
"Boom!"
It was no different from fighting a real person. The eternal sacred furnace, like one forged from Phoenix Blood Red Gold, was infinitely powerful, capable of unleashing the laws of the Dao. The humanoid lightning could also drive sacred power.
"This..." Even Ye Fan's heart shook violently. How could this be? He was extremely shocked.
This was a fearsome confrontation. On the surface, Ye Fan was resisting the heavenly punishment, but in reality, he was undergoing a life-and-death battle. The opponent's strength was very peculiar, always equal to his own, evenly matched, making it especially brutal.
"Fight on! Use this to consecrate my sacred cauldron!"
Ye Fan vaguely sensed something, but he still charged forward without hesitation, using the Primordial Qi Cauldron to resist, battling the humanoid lightning, clashing with that divine furnace.
No one knew how long passed. Another humanoid lightning flew down from the Ancient Heavenly Court. Above its head, an ancient mirror floated and sank, condensed from the void.
"It looks very similar to our family's Void Mirror! What's going on?!" Ji Ziyue's cute big eyes were wide.
During the battle, Ye Fan muttered to himself. How could the Ancient Heavenly Court in the thunder sea send down such strange humanoid lightning, with weapons so realistic, capable of unleashing the laws of the Dao?
In the end, he fought for half a day, covered in wounds, nearly killed. He struggled against two humanoid lightning figures in succession, extremely brutal.
"That sacred furnace resembling one forged from Phoenix Blood Red Gold looks very much like the Eternal Universe Furnace. That ancient mirror is very similar to the Void Mirror. Why is this?" Ye Fan's heart pounded.
"How terrifying is the Ancient Heavenly Court in the thunder sea? What secrets does it hold?" Covered in blood, he fought his way upward, gazing at the Ancient Heavenly Court, wanting to see what was inside.