The Fate of Eternal Life

Chapter 128 Yuan Gu: Then I'll break through.

All around was silent, not a sound could be heard. On the red earth, everyone was stunned and speechless, shocked by Ning Qingyi's invincibility.

In fact, from the very beginning of this battle, many people believed that Yuan Gu would lose, and even the ancient races lost their arrogance in the face of him.

In the battle at the Qinling Ascension Land in Zhongzhou, Ning Qingyi single-handedly held his own against several ancient princes, his strength leaving everyone speechless. In contrast, Yuan Gu, after a fierce battle, was still defeated by the Central Emperor and nearly lost his life.

It was self-evident which was stronger. Yet, even after they were actually killed, no one could believe it.

The powerful members of the Primordial Clan had dry throats and could not believe it.

"Yuan Gu... is he really dead?"

However, the one who answered him was Ning Qingyi, who stood at a distance.

"Are you playing dead? I can sense the life potential within you," Ning Qingyi said calmly.

"boom!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the shattered corpse of Yuan Gu on the red soil turned into bloody mud and seeped into the soil.

The earth cracked open, and the Yuanhuang Treasure Wheel, astonishing the world, radiated dazzling immortal light. A figure, both godlike and demonic, reappeared—none other than Yuan Gu.

Everyone was shocked! They couldn't believe that Yuan Gu had actually been resurrected! Only Yuan Gu knew how much he had paid to regain his life.

This was his precious blood, nurtured over many years, accumulated along the way to prove his Dao. He hadn't used it during the great battle against the Central Emperor, and it was all used up in this battle.

"I admit, you are a terrible enemy." Yuan Gu's face was pale, and he spoke in a low voice, his thick black hair dancing wildly, but killing intent was spreading.

"Why not revive the bloodline of the Primordial Emperor? You are the eighth-generation descendant of the Ancient Emperor. If you fully unleash the blood of the Ancient Emperor within you, you might just be able to recreate the glory of the Ancient Emperor." Ning Qingyi said with great interest, and by the end, she was even more determined: "...I'm really looking forward to it!"

“You’re wrong. I can defeat you even without reviving my ancestors!” Yuan Gu stared at him and said, word by word, “All I need to do is break through.”

boom!
A sudden clap of thunder shook the ground. Looking up, one saw heavy, towering clouds and towering mountains on the horizon, with billowing smoke and a sea of ​​clouds that seemed to boil, making one's heart pound with fear and a sense of unease.

Ning Qingyi was taken aback, then burst into laughter: "Interesting, very interesting! He actually has to undergo the Tribulation of Severing the Dao!"

The red earth was boiling. No one expected that Yuan Gu would be so resolute in choosing this moment to undergo the Tribulation of Severing the Dao.

The Immortal Three Severing the Path cuts off the cultivator's path, leaving no way to find the Way. It is a calamity for all cultivators.

If one can comprehend this, one can enter the path in a single day; if one does not understand it, it will be difficult to find the Dharma in one's entire life.

For someone like Yuan Gu, severing the Dao is not an unattainable goal. However, since the revival, facing the turbulent situation in later generations, he has always hesitated before this hurdle.

Severing old ties, cutting ties with the past, and even destroying the Great Dao—what will all cultivators sacrifice in this tribulation?
He understood; he was confused. But after a series of defeats, he finally understood.

"Ning Qingyi, let me, who has severed the Dao, fight you again. I will make you understand how terrifying the Yuan Emperor is!"

Yuan Gu walked step by step toward the sky, his expression becoming calm, with a hint of profound enlightenment.

"Sever the Dao, sever everything I have, farewell, Primordial Era..."

He sighed softly, then leaped into the air to undergo his own tribulation of severing the Dao.

boom!
The clouds of tribulation were boiling. Yuan Gu truly lived up to his reputation as the strongest among the younger generation of the ancient races. His tribulations were far too powerful: the Tribulation of Myriad Spirits, the Divine Lightning of Primordial Qi, the Great Tribulation of the Five Elements...

Numerous calamities befell them at the same time, and the terrifying atmosphere caused everyone to avoid them, not daring to touch them even slightly.

It should be noted that there are varying degrees of tribulations that sever one's path. Yuan Gu is definitely among the strongest. If you are implicated by him, you will probably be reduced to ashes.

Ning Qing remained motionless, standing with his hands behind his back. A bolt of tribulation lightning struck beside him, causing his profile to flicker in and out of focus. Undoubtedly, the Yuan Gu Du Dao Severing Tribulation had greatly surprised him, yet it filled him with anticipation.

Under the pressure of a powerful enemy, will Yuan Gu Jin Sheng become even stronger after severing his Dao?

boom!
Amidst the calamity clouds, Yuan Gu battled the heavenly tribulation with blood flowing freely. The Yuan Emperor Dao Sword, the Yuan Light Reincarnation Wheel, the Yuan Emperor Seal—all sorts of secret techniques reappeared in his hands. He supported the divine realm, resisting various calamities.

"puff!"

A bolt of lightning struck down, shattering Yuan Gu into pieces. However, with a turn of the Yuan Guang Rebirth Wheel, he was restored to his peak condition and fought with all his might.

Ning Qingyi sensed with his telepathic abilities that Yuan Gu's aura was gradually weakening, but his fighting spirit was becoming more and more vigorous. There was no doubt that the heavenly tribulation was tempering him.

Gradually, as Ning Qingyi observed, the aura of calamity lingered around him, growing stronger and stronger, casting a shadow over everyone's hearts.

"Yuan Gu's Dao-Severing Tribulation is terrifying! If he survives it, it's unimaginable how powerful he will become!" someone exclaimed.

"If he successfully transcends the tribulation, will the Little Celestial Venerable still be so composed?" A young powerhouse from the Primordial Clan had his hopes rekindled.

"Yuan Gu is really undergoing the Tribulation of Severing the Dao!"

A figure suddenly appeared at the edge of the heavenly tribulation, looking at the expressions of those struggling in the tribulation, his eyes couldn't help but reveal a look of satisfaction.

He was the ancestral king of the Primordial Lake. Upon receiving the news, he rushed over from his clan's territory to prevent Yuan Gu and the Heavenly Emperor's son from encountering any misfortune.

"The ancestral king of the primeval lake has arrived!" Someone recognized his identity and felt a sense of dread.

"Isn't Little Celestial Venerable leaving yet? If he doesn't leave soon, he'll be entangled by the Heavenly Tribulation!" More people were paying attention to Ning Qingyi's situation and were quite surprised.

"boom!"

A bolt of divine lightning struck down from the tribulation clouds, but Ning Qingyi remained motionless. His five-colored energy surged and formed auspicious clouds, blocking everything.

It was clear that the heavenly tribulation had already entangled Ning Qingyi.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The tribulation clouds began to rage, and more and more divine lightning struck down, but it couldn't shake Ning Qing in the slightest. But soon, the tribulation escalated, and chaotic divine lightning, like a sea, completely engulfed his figure.

He has also begun his tribulation!

During the Heavenly Tribulation, Yuan Gu noticed this scene, but he had no time to pay attention to it, because his Dao-Slaying Tribulation had entered a new stage, and ancient building phantoms appeared in the sea of ​​lightning.

A figure stood among them.

“Having given up everything I have, leaving only the blood of the Yuan Emperor, I have indeed found you, Ancestral Emperor.” Yuan Gu sighed.

boom!
The sea of ​​thunder boiled, calamity raged, and everyone held expectations in their hearts: if Yuan Gu had not died, what kind of battle would have broken out?

Chaos surged, and tribulation lightning obscured everything. Only the most powerful could see through everything and observe Yuan Gu's every move during the tribulation. They couldn't help but marvel, because Yuan Gu's tribulation was too powerful. Even the Ancestral King of the Primordial Lake had to admit that if his Dao-severing tribulation were like this, he would not have been able to overcome it at all.

"Such a powerful Dao-Severing Tribulation, Yuan Gu, what exactly did you sever..." The Ancestral King of the Primordial Lake sighed softly. Then he looked at Ning Qingyi, but couldn't help but shrink his pupils.

"What...what am I seeing?!"

Deep within the tribulation clouds, several weapons appeared around Ning Qingyi, each one earth-shattering and radiating a terrifying aura.

"The Qilin Staff... the Supreme Emperor Sword... the Immortal Tears Green Gold Pagoda..."

The ancient king recognized three items, but not all of them. Even so, he knew how terrifying the other phantoms that could be compared to these weapons must be!

"Has anyone survived such a calamity?" the ancestral king murmured to himself.

When he saw Ning Qing shatter the illusory image with her bare hands, he fell silent, unsure how to respond. At the same time, Yuan Gu began his greatest tribulation; within the heavenly tribulation, the illusory image finally moved.

"boom!"

At this moment, an unparalleled aura permeated the air, as if it had crossed time and space since ancient times and was once again reigning supreme over the earth!
"Our ancestral emperor!"

Yuan Gu sighed softly, then roared, shaking the mountains and the earth, and charged forward with an unstoppable momentum!

Finally, the phantom and the Primordial One fought a great battle amidst the heavenly tribulation.

The two used the same Dao and the same magic, fighting fiercely in the heavenly tribulation.

One day, two days, three days passed. Yuan Gu felt like he was about to run out of energy and doubted whether he could last until the big battle with Ning Qingyi, but in the end he still made it through.

He did not completely defeat the illusory image of the Yuan Emperor, but he still survived the tribulation of severing the Dao.

"Buzz!"

Within Yuan Gu's body, the blood belonging to the ancient emperor was boiling and sublimating, becoming increasingly pure. Especially after the battle with the Yuan emperor, he felt the Yuan emperor's Dao more and more deeply. This was both a constraint and an opportunity, allowing him to get closer to the Yuan emperor.

After the calamity passed, many strange phenomena appeared.

The sun and moon rise together, all the stars appear, the primordial energy sea is boiling, and all spirits manifest.

"The scene when the Ancestral Emperor severed the Dao!" the Ancestral King of the Primordial Lake murmured, his eyes filled with joy but also with worry.

"I did it! I made it through!" Yuan Gu roared, his aura overwhelming. He had actually survived!

He has successfully severed his path; from this day forward, he is the king!

Yuan Gu let out a joyful roar, his eyes shining brightly. With a powerful inhale, everything in the world trembled, and the sun, moon, and stars transformed into a celestial river, which he swallowed into his mouth.

"brush!"

Thousands upon thousands of strands of starlight flowed down from the depths of the sky, converging into a sea of ​​primordial energy that gathered towards his body, engulfing him within it.

Yuan Gu's entire body shimmered with precious light, and the pores on his skin opened, receiving the baptism of starlight to replenish the essence he had lost in the calamity. His flesh and bones now seemed to have transformed into endless ancient stars, flickering and connected by galaxies, with the five secret realms resembling five treasure troves.

Without a doubt, he has once again reached the pinnacle, stronger than ever before, and has the feeling of reaching the ultimate summit.

Yuan Gu turned to look at Ning Qingyi, and his movements showed eight or nine parts of the demeanor of the Yuan Emperor during the Heavenly Tribulation.

"Little Celestial Venerable, I will not show any mercy!" Yuan Gu said.

At the same time, Ning Qingyi also completed his tribulation. He then climbed a small step on the second level of the Sendai Heaven and entered the fifth level.

"Let me see how strong you are after you've severed your Dao!" Ning Qingyi's fighting spirit surged. To fight against a cultivator of a higher realm, especially one who was an unparalleled genius, was the best test for him!

Yuan Gu took the initiative and attacked without using any supernatural powers. Instead, he relied on his physical strength to fight Ning Qing again and again!
"boom!"

The two engaged in an even fiercer battle than before. As their fists clashed, sparks of electricity seemed to explode, their brilliance surpassing even the heavens and earth, accompanied by a deafening roar!

The aftershocks swept across the land, a visible wave rapidly rushing in all directions, with deafening roars. Patches of barren land on the horizon collapsed, turning into dust and scorched earth!

Yuan Gu was not lying. He exerted all his strength and did not relax. He charged forward like a demon god.

The two fought so fiercely that blood flowed endlessly, the sun and moon lost their light, the world lost its color, and mountains and rivers collapsed.

"boom!"

A figure flew out horizontally, startling everyone.

"It's Yuan Gu!" Some of the people who rushed over looked at all of this in disbelief.

They received news that Yuan Gu was undergoing his Dao-Severing Tribulation during his battle with Ning Qingyi, so they all rushed over from all directions. Unexpectedly, Yuan Gu successfully completed his tribulation, but was still no match for Ning Qingyi.

"Your Golden Body Technique is indeed extraordinary!" Yuan Gu said calmly. He had sacrificed a lot to overcome the Dao Tribulation, including his pointless pride.

Ning Qingyi also revealed a serious expression: "Having survived the Tribulation of Severing the Dao, the ancient emperor blood within your body has actually boiled to this extent..."

“Severing the Dao…” Yuan Gu sighed softly. He had really changed a lot; even his aura had become majestic and imposing.

"brush!"

A Yuanhuang Dao Sword appeared in his hand, making Ning Qingyi sense a bit of danger.

"Kill!" he shouted coldly as he charged forward.

Ning Qingyi also charged forward, his fist flashing with terrifying fist intent.

"All thoughts are empty!"

The Yuan Shen Dao Sword clashed with the Namo Buddha Fist, both forbidden secret techniques, invincible in the mortal world. However, the duel itself was not very intense; only the Buddha's light and the sword light clashed, then dissipated, silently obliterating a large area of ​​heaven and earth.

Everyone gasped, feeling a chill run down their spines; the power was truly terrifying.

"Qiang Qiang..."

Suddenly, one divine chain after another shot out from Yuan Gu's body, dazzling and brilliant. They were chains of order, they were divine laws!

"Crash..."

The divine chains jingled, connecting him to the primordial body. He stood like a phoenix, surrounded by crimson light, bathed in eternal divine radiance.

"My path changes, and a hundred years of youth pass in an instant!"

Yuan Gu finally unleashed his Dao, a Dao unique to him that he had comprehended after abandoning everything.

In the blink of an eye, the world changes.

Ning Qingyi could sense a terrifying force descending upon him, attempting to strip him of his lifespan.

"Trying to take away my lifespan? You're dreaming!"

He shouted, and four illusory pillars of chaos appeared, forming a great array to suppress him and gradually calm his boiling life energy.

"My path turns again, youth fades away, a thousand years have passed, heroes turn to dust." Yuan Gu shouted once more.

Ten crimson chains rushed in, forming a cage of laws that enveloped Ning Qingyi.

In an instant, the area within ten feet of Ning Qing's body seemed to have become a different world, with even the laws of nature changing.

"Yuan Xu Realm!"

Yuan Gu made a series of attacks, aiming for a decisive victory!

The world suddenly became even darker, the sun and moon disappeared, and they were isolated from the earth. They appeared in a primordial void, dim and endless.

It was like a world ruin, devastated and ravaged, with nothing but decay, desolation, and loneliness.

Clearly, this is the final secret technique of the Yuan Emperor, capable of imprisoning a person's primordial spirit in another world and utterly destroying it!
(End of this chapter)