eurekapd Chapter 1099 Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique (V: The True Scripture of Annihilation)
Chapter 1099 Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique (V: The True Scripture of Annihilation)
The deepest abyss at the bottom of the sea.
The pressure had already reached a terrifying level; any ordinary cultivator who stepped into this place would have their body instantly crushed into a bloody mist.
Even a Mahayana cultivator would be in for a rough time.
At this moment, this deep-sea forbidden zone, which had been dead for thousands of years, was being stirred up by an extremely violent, eerie blue light, causing the earth to shake violently, as if the end of the world had arrived.
The 'Eternal Silence Crystal' resembles a dazzling sapphire, suspended in the core of the abyss. Its dark blue crystal surface is covered with spiderweb-like blood-red patterns. Each flash of these patterns is like a streak of blood-red lightning, unleashing an overwhelming force of deathly silence.
Su Mingyi stood a hundred feet below the Xuanjing, his robes fluttering in the invisible force field like a candle flickering in the wind. A thin layer of white frost had formed on his skin, like a shimmering veil, and his bones creaked under the weight, as if they were about to shatter at any moment.
This completely calmed Su Mingyi's smugness about his breakthrough.
There are too many secrets about Qingyuan Star. Even if he breaks through to the peak of Earth Immortal, he can't just run rampant on Qingyuan Star.
Feeling the bone-chilling cold, like an ancient ice age, it was not just ordinary low temperature, but a destructive force originating from the essence of life, which was now seeping into his body through his pores, trying to freeze his meridians, internal energy, and even his soul.
"What domineering power of eternal silence." Su Mingyi gritted his teeth, but the internal energy in his dantian remained undisturbed, like a calm lake.
Only after experiencing it firsthand did he realize how difficult it had been for his younger sister and Yu Shuheng over the years; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they had faced nine deaths and one life.
Ugh!
Previously in the North Sea Secret Realm, I was almost ambushed by Cang Mingzi, but fortunately my younger sister was perceptive and discovered it in time, saving me with a substitute puppet.
That was bad enough, but now I've fallen into another trap—as soon as I stepped out of the spatial passage, I was locked in a battle with this inexplicable force that wouldn't stop until it froze me to death.
Ugh!
What kind of grudge could there be?
Why do I feel like some unseen force is targeting me?
All I wanted to do was help my younger sister and fulfill my duty as an older brother, so why was it so difficult?
For the first time, Su Mingyi's heart was filled with resentment. This also ignited his anger.
He closed his eyes slightly, his mind sank into his sea of consciousness, and began to frantically circulate the inherited cultivation technique he obtained from the Fusu Secret Realm—the "Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique".
As he circulated his cultivation technique, a hazy, milky-white cloud suddenly appeared around him. This cloud was not substantial, but it possessed an indescribable dynamism, like the thin mist on a spring morning, seemingly fragile, yet containing an endless vitality.
The moment the clouds came into contact with the Eternal Silence Force Field, there was no earth-shattering collision, only a faint hissing sound, as if ice and snow were melting under the warm sun.
The terrifying suction force within the Eternal Silence Force Field, powerful enough to drain the life force of an adult dragon whale, was instantly swallowed and assimilated when it touched this layer of cloud, just like a stream flowing into an endless ocean.
Su Mingyi could clearly feel that the life energy plundered by the Xuanjing, which was filled with a deathly aura, was transformed into streams of warm vitality under the transformation of the cloud qi. These streams flowed into his dantian along his meridians, not only replenishing the internal energy he had consumed while resisting the force field, but also subtly improving his cultivation.
"This technique is truly extraordinary." Su Mingyi was secretly amazed. His initial indignation gradually subsided like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
He suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing in them, like a shooting star streaking across the night sky, dazzling and brilliant.
With a light step, Su Mingyi's figure moved as lightly and gracefully as flowing clouds, as agile as a bird, unhindered by any force field, and sped straight towards the Eternal Silence Crystal like an arrow released from a bow.
Along the way, milky white clouds spread out like smoke, and the frozen seawater began to flow slowly, as if it had been given life.
In the cold abyss, for the first time, the warmth of life stirred, like a gentle and warm spring breeze.
"break!"
Upon reaching the base of the Mystic Crystal, Su Mingyi formed a sword shape with his fingers, gathering a wisp of cloud-like internal energy that had been refined to its extreme at his fingertips. Like a sharp sword, he gently touched the sealing core on the surface of the Mystic Crystal.
It was a node tightly bound by the Ninefold Mystic Water Chain. The Mystic Water Chain was made from the essence of ancient mystic ice. It was pitch black all over, as clear and translucent as black jade. It was covered with obscure and difficult-to-understand runes. Each rune exuded the power to suppress death and silence, as if it were the most ancient code in the world.
However, at this moment, the light of these runes has become dim and lifeless, and the Xuan Shui Chain is covered with cracks, like a broken mirror. It is clear that it is about to be unable to withstand the power of the Eternal Silence Xuan Crystal.
With a light touch of the fingertip, the milky white clouds, like the sharpest blade, easily sliced into the cracks in the Xuan Shui Chain.
With a crisp "crack," like the sound of porcelain breaking, the nine-layered Xuan Water Chain wrapped around the surface of the Xuan Crystal snapped, turning into countless black fragments that slowly sank into the seawater like fallen leaves.
Freed from the constraints of the Xuan Shui Chain, the Eternal Silence Xuan Crystal emitted an even more intense, deep blue light, like a burning star, dazzling and radiant.
The wisp of pale mist at the core suddenly accelerated its rotation, forming an even more terrifying suction force, like a ferocious beast opening its blood-red maw and sweeping towards Su Mingyi.
However, Su Mingyi was prepared. The Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique was rapidly circulating within his body, and the cloud energy around him surged like a raging wave, transforming into a cloud domain tens of feet in size.
Within the cloud realm, internal energy circulates like a rushing river, and vitality flows endlessly like a ceaseless spring breeze.
The life points absorbed by the Xuanjing, upon entering the Cloud Domain, were transformed into pure vitality as if they had found a home. Some of them nourished Su Mingyi like a clear spring, while others were sprinkled like sweet rain on this sea area eroded by death, repairing past wounds.
As the field of eternal silence was gradually disintegrated, the deathly stillness that had shrouded the abyss for millennia was finally torn open, revealing a vibrant opening.
Through the ever-expanding cloud domain, Su Mingyi saw a black stone tablet, ten zhang tall, standing on the rock wall behind the Eternal Silence Crystal.
The stone tablet was covered in moss and grime, clearly indicating its extremely long existence. However, when Su Mingyi's gaze fell upon it, the ancient runes on the tablet suddenly lit up, emitting a soft golden light that clearly illuminated the characters on it:
"Where the darkest depths swallow the sea, mystical crystals lock away all spirits. Clouds and illusions drift freely, and life returns to its flow."
The sixteen ancient seal characters, like lively elves dancing on the stone tablet, stirred up a storm in Su Mingyi's heart.
He finally realized why the "Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique" had such a strong restraining effect on the Eternal Silence Crystal; it turned out that all of this was predestined.
The inheritance of the Fusu Secret Realm was by no means accidental, but a glimmer of hope left by an ancient powerful being in order to restrain the Eternal Silence Crystal and rescue the imprisoned spirits. By chance, it was taken into the possession of the Su family patriarch.
At this moment, the Eternal Silence Crystal seemed to sense a threat. The pale mist at its core surged violently like a runaway horse, transforming into a pale, ghostly hand that blotted out the sky and clawed at Su Mingyi.
The ghostly hand was covered with hideous and twisted runes, like the fangs of a demon, exuding a chilling aura of annihilation. Wherever it passed, the seawater instantly froze, and even light was swallowed up without a trace.
"A mere trick." Su Mingyi's lips curled slightly, and he snorted coldly. He stepped out like the wind, his figure as graceful as flowing clouds, easily avoiding the ghost hand's grasp.
At the same time, he formed hand seals, and the internal energy in his dantian surged out wildly, transforming into countless cloud threads that flew all over the sky, like a huge net that enveloped the Eternal Silence Crystal.
He perfectly demonstrated the first level of "Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique," the realm of "Layered Clouds Without Fixed Formation." Those cloud wisps, like ghosts, lightly pierced through the defense of the Eternal Silence Force Field, coiling around the surface of the Mystic Crystal like serpents.
The crystal trembled violently, its eerie blue light flickering in and out, clearly struggling to resist the erosion of the cloud threads.
However, the Daoist principles of "change" and "connection" contained in the cloud silk are like a sharp sword, which precisely restrains the "solidification" and "plundering" nature of the Eternal Silent Crystal. No matter how the Crystal resists, it is difficult to break free from the shackles of the cloud silk.
Su Mingyi crept closer to the Mysterious Crystal, finally able to see its true form.
This mystic crystal was not a naturally formed mineral, but a dark blue, multifaceted crystal the size of a heart. Each facet was as smooth as a mirror, clearly reflecting Su Mingyi's figure, yet a faint aura of death permeated the area around him.
At the core of the crystal, the wisp of pale mist swirled gracefully and rhythmically like a lively sprite. Upon closer inspection, countless distorted and painful human faces could be vaguely seen emerging from the mist—the souls of the beings devoured by the Xuanjing.
"Ancestor of Annihilation..." An ancient and mysterious name flashed through Su Mingyi's mind like lightning.
According to the records in the Fusu Secret Realm, Ancestor Jimie was an unparalleled powerhouse who was famous throughout the world in ancient times. His cultivation had already reached the peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, and he was only a step away from the legendary Ascension Realm.
However, he was not satisfied with this level. In order to pursue true immortality and transcend the boundaries of life and death, he dared to defy the heavens and cultivate a forbidden technique called the "Scripture of Nirvana".
This technique, at the cost of devouring the life force and soul of living beings, can rapidly increase one's cultivation level like a rocket, and can even transform one's own life form into an immortal, annihilated body.
However, those who defy the heavens will ultimately suffer divine retribution. Just as the Ancestor of Annihilation was about to achieve his great goal, a terrifying heavenly tribulation descended from the nine heavens. Thunder roared like silver dragons, heavenly fire bloomed like red lotuses, and gale-force winds cut like sharp blades. The three intertwined, creating an immensely powerful force.
Although the Ancestor of Annihilation fought desperately, he ultimately failed to survive this terrifying heavenly tribulation. His physical body was destroyed, leaving only a wisp of unwilling remnant soul.
But no one expected that this wisp of soul would not dissipate, but instead fall into the endless darkness of the deep sea like a shooting star.
That place is where the Yin energy of heaven and earth converges, like the Nine Netherworlds. Coupled with the unwilling will and extreme greed for life contained in the remnant soul of the Ancestor of Annihilation, after being tempered and refined over ten thousand years, it finally condensed into this Eternal Silence Crystal that exudes a mysterious aura.
It can be said that the Eternal Silence Crystal is both the resting place of the remnant soul of the Ancestor of Annihilation and an evil treasure containing terrifying power.
"Your obsession should also come to an end." Su Mingyi's eyes were as firm as a rock as he activated the second level of the "Illusory Cloud Freedom Technique," the "Flowing Cloud Freedom" realm.
In an instant, his figure became ethereal and misty, as if he had merged with the surrounding seawater and the heavens and earth.
He could clearly perceive the faint life remaining in the entire deep sea abyss. The planktonic organisms, suppressed by the Xuanjing and hidden in the crevices of rocks like fireflies, the plant seeds buried deep beneath the seabed like sleeping elves, and even the faint energy emanating from the Xuanjing itself, all shone in his perception like stars.