The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

Chapter 192 Ancestral God Fuxi

In the vast canyon, all is desolate and cold.

Lei Zhan and Tathagata sat cross-legged in an ice cave. Deep inside the ice cave was an ordinary thatched hut, where Fuxi cultivated.

These ice crystals were incredibly hard, almost like magical artifacts. With Lei Zhan and Tathagata watching over them, their safety was extremely high.

"Lei Zhan, do you need the Ice Heart Marrow to temper your Golden Elixir now?" Tathagata asked.

"Me? I don't need it! My Golden Core is only at the second level. I don't have much need for this treasure." Lei Zhan looked at Tathagata. "Master didn't obtain much Ice Heart Marrow with great effort. And we've only just begun to obtain Ice Heart Marrow. We still have plenty of time to slowly search for it."

"Hmm." Buddha nodded and didn't bring up the matter again. A thoughtful look appeared in his eyes.

"According to the records of the Ice and Fire Refining Golden Core Technique, if Fuxi wanted to upgrade the Great Luo Golden Core to the second grade, it would take us about ten years..."

"Ten years is just a long time to wait," Lei Zhan said with a smile. "My true self is still in the Three Realms, and my master also has three incarnations in the Three Realms. Ten years is but a fleeting moment."

Having already made their promise to Fuxi, the two of them had long been prepared.

It is important to know that cultivating Qi into a Golden Core is extremely important for cultivators. The process of changing the Golden Core must be slow and gradual, and this process cannot be rushed.

"Yes. We'll have to wait ten years." Buddha nodded with a smile.

……

Time passes day by day.

More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

During the time when Fuxi was in seclusion for cultivation, neither Lei Zhan nor Buddha Tathagata could have gone to find the Ice Heart Essence on their own.

The first reason isn't so urgent. The second is that this endless icy sea is incredibly cold, and occasionally howling winds sweep across its entirety. It's extremely dangerous.

If one were to be swept away by that terrifying gale, even if one were lucky enough to withstand the gale that could easily cut through innate spiritual treasures, being swept to some desolate or deadly place would mean dying in vain!

Lei Zhan and his disciple Rulai witnessed such a raging storm several times during these ten years.

At the same time, it is also to know oneself and one's enemy, and to understand the power of the howling winds on the endless ice sea.

At that moment, Tathagata took out a high-grade innate spiritual treasure bead and threw it directly into the raging wind. In just a breath, the innate spiritual treasure was blown into a pile of powder by the surging wind.

……

The world's prison.

This is a beautiful valley, filled with flowers and plants, where a silver-haired man is tending to some of them.

"Huh? Again?"

The silver-haired man frowned, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.

"They've come here more than ten times in just a few decades! Especially in the last ten years, they've come most frequently... These guards are really annoying!"

Before the silver-haired man could even finish speaking...

call out!
A dazzling golden light appeared on the distant horizon, its brilliant golden rays streaking across the dim sky of the World Prison like a shooting star, instantly arriving above the valley.

"Shiyu, are you fiddling with these flowers and plants again?"

Standing high in the sky, looking down at the valley filled with the fragrance of flowers, Lei Zhan couldn't help but admire the Taoist heart and perseverance of the True God of Release.

It should be noted that true gods and immortals are already very few who can draw power from chaos. They are generally ancestral gods and immortals.

However, those powerful beings who were already extremely strong almost all chose to use the power they drew from the chaos to maintain their magical treasure caves and to sustain the numerous beings within them. The incarnations of ancestral gods and immortals also generally experienced various aspects of life within their magical treasure caves.

While this kind of life is pleasant and leisurely, it also completely abandons the desire to improve one's strength, with only the desire to enjoy life.

But the God of Release was different; he preferred to use these powers to cultivate flowers and plants as a reminder to himself, never giving up his desire to leave.

"If you come less often, my flowers and plants can live a few more years." The voice of the True God of Release was cold, and the helplessness in his words could not be concealed.

"Hahaha!" Lei Zhan laughed. "Then I'll give you time to put these flowers and plants away! I've recently gained a deep understanding of space and time, and I just happen to be looking for a good opponent!"

"A good opponent? Hmph!" The True God of Release's face darkened, becoming extremely gloomy.

This new guard is giving him a real headache.

Even though he was extremely powerful, once Lei Zhan sensed killing intent or faced an insurmountable danger to his life, he would directly rely on his supernatural power, "Golden Rainbow of the Sun," to escape.

If he used desperate measures and still couldn't get Lei Zhan to escape, he would release the Golden Flame of the Sun and the Profound Water of the Moon to restrain him, and then leave. It can be said that he completely used him as a punching bag and sparring partner.

“But if I don’t resist…” The True God of Release immediately extinguished this thought, muttering to himself, “If I don’t resist at all, I will truly be ‘dead’…”

"Come on!" Lei Zhan smiled slightly, flipped his hand, and a silver-white spear appeared in his hand.

This spear was Lei Zhan's natal divine weapon, forged using the "Sinful Divine Weapon" recorded on the Nine Directions Chaos Stone Tablet. Although it is only at the mid-grade innate level now, it is still usable.

"Hmph! Prepare to die!"

Suddenly, boundless killing intent surged in the eyes of the True God of Release from Hell. A pair of short sticks appeared in his hands, the sticks glowing with golden light, and the tips of the sticks were triangular and sharp.

Lei Zhan, on the other hand, wielded a silver-white spear, which resembled a dragon, and delivered a simple horizontal sweep.

Wow~~~
The gun swept in a circle.

A silver-white spear instantly shattered the surrounding space, and even time itself began to distort.

"This trick again?" The True God of Release frowned. Every time the Guardian fought him, the first thing he did was combine the power of space with the power of time, and occasionally even mix in the power of spacetime.

Although they were all third-level primal forces, the special nature of the spacetime force made him extremely uncomfortable.

Most importantly, the power contained in the primordial energy is secondary; the terrifying explosive force contained in that spear would cause him to suffer a minor loss if he wasn't careful.

"Hmm? You're still distracted while fighting me?" Lei Zhan stared at the True God of Release in front of him, a hazy white light appearing on his spear.

"Damn it!" The True God of Release changed his expression and immediately suppressed all thoughts in his mind. He swung the pair of short sticks in his hand fiercely.

A staff is, by its very nature, a weapon.

Compared to a spear, a staff is a long weapon with a sharp point! A staff is less penetrating than a spear.

However, the stick has one great advantage.

You can smash it to your heart's content! Only those with truly immense strength can bring out the advantages of the stick.

The True God of Release also possesses an extremely powerful explosive technique, even more powerful than the Star-Picking Hand.

"Boom~~~"

The spear and the short staff clashed instantly. The surroundings trembled violently, the force terrifying. In a simple head-on clash, the two were evenly matched!
"Die! Die! Die!" Intricate star-picking divine patterns appeared on Lei Zhan's hands, and his palms and spear emitted a hazy white light after being infused with mental power!
"Let me die? You?" The True God of Release raised an eyebrow, and the triangular tips of the two short sticks in his hands, gleaming with golden light, slammed down on Lei Zhan with a frenzied force. Both sticks faintly revealed a ball of pitch-black light.

"It's that trick again!" Lei Zhan felt a knot in his heart. This fifth level of Wuji power and Taiji power were perfectly combined, but every time he suffered a great loss!
"Hmph! I'll let you try what I've just learned!" Lei Zhan gritted his teeth and suddenly drew out a long spear. As soon as the spear was drawn, the flow of time around him changed instantly.

This time, what changed was not the surrounding space, but the flow of time within the small space of this silver-white spear!
The spear resembled a 'bullet,' and the constant thrust applied to the 'bullet' caused it to accelerate until it reached an incredibly terrifying speed.

"Wow~~~"

The already incredibly heavy spear seemed to be subjected to a terrifying thrust, and its speed became terrifyingly fast in an extremely short time. Wherever the spear was drawn out in anger, space shattered and the void trembled continuously.

"Die!" Boom!

The spear in Lei Zhan's hand descended, and as it was drawn... in an instant, it seemed as if the heavens and earth collapsed. The terrifying silver-white spear, carrying boundless power, smashed directly toward the True God of Release.

"Huh?" The True God of Release was taken aback. How could the guard's speed have suddenly become so fast? And the power of that spear...

Before he could think, the short staff in the hands of the True God of Release immediately came to meet him. A huge Tai Chi diagram appeared on the short staff.

"Bang!!!"

Lei Zhan's spear strike was as if it contained the power of an entire sun. The force of the blow was so terrifying that it forced the True God of Release to retreat a hundred feet. The power that rippled out like waves annihilated and pulverized the flowers and plants below.

"Damn it! What kind of trick is this?" The True God of Release flew back, no longer caring about the flowers and plants that he usually cherished.

You must know that the sudden, powerful strike just now, the terrifying force that burst forth in that instant, made him feel like he was about to have a hard time resisting it.

"Again!" A hazy feeling seemed to well up in Lei Zhan's heart. It was as if a thin sheet of paper was placed across the window, making it difficult to see clearly, like looking at flowers through fog.

“Buzz~~~”

Lei Zhan flicked his silver-white spear, creating a flurry of spear shadows, and then thrust it out fiercely!
With the acceleration of time, the thrusting spear moved as fast as a golden rainbow flashing by.

"Damn it! It's time! It's the change in time around this spear that's causing it to thrust out faster than before!" The True God of Release's expression grew even more grim.

"Hua Hua Hua~~"

With a thought, the True God of Released Prisons swayed and suddenly revealed himself to have three heads and six arms. The short stick in his hand swept across the light, and at first glance, the True God of Released Prisons vaguely resembled a giant Tai Chi diagram.

"Faster! It can go even faster!"

"Even faster... this is still far from the limit of time!" Lei Zhan kept repeating to himself.

Boom boom boom! ! !
The spear, like a snake, thrust out again and again. Each thrust, accelerated by the power of time, grew faster and faster, becoming terrifyingly powerful.

"Block! Block! Block! How could an ordinary True God whose Origin Power has only reached the third level force force me to this point?" The True God of Release held a short stick in each of his six arms, swinging them wildly to block the spear that was thrust out from behind.

I don't even know how much time has passed.

suddenly.

The storm of attacks abruptly stopped.

Whoosh!
Lei Zhan instantly transformed into a beam of light and vanished directly above the valley.

Lei Zhan arrived at this safe place outside the prison's small world and sat down cross-legged.

Instantly, a mysterious aura enveloped Lei Zhan.

"Hmm? This is..." The True God of Release stared intently at the golden-robed figure sitting cross-legged in the distance, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty.

He paused for a moment before gritting his teeth and saying:
"Breakthrough..."

……

"call."

"suck."

Lei Zhan sat cross-legged inside the huge cave, his even breathing clearly audible in the tranquil space.

The entire cave is made of icy blue ice, which has been frozen for countless years and is incredibly solid.

Even with Lei Zhan using his Star-Picking Hand at full power, he could only barely shatter these ice blocks.

“Buzz~~~~~”

A power emanated from the very essence of time, originating from the depths of endless chaos.

A mysterious aura surrounded Lei Zhan, a terrifying aura that sent chills down one's spine—the aura of 'time'.

Lei Zhan closed his eyes.

The numerous insights about time that I've come to understand are constantly converging, as if a large number of scattered fragments are being pieced together.

Just like building blocks, each part has been completely stacked and 'manufactured', with only the final assembly process remaining.

Now that the 'building blocks' are completely assembled, Lei Zhan's understanding of the fundamental power of time has quietly reached the fourth level.

"I've broken through to the fourth level of the power of time." Lei Zhan opened his eyes. "I didn't expect that the first breakthrough would not be in the power of space, but in the power of time."

In that instant, the profound aura descended from the source of time deep within the endless chaos also dissipated.

"Master." Lei Zhan turned to look at Tathagata, who was silently guarding him, and said with a smile, "Thank you for your care, Master!"

“Good.” Tathagata nodded and said, “Time and space are one. Now that your power of time has broken through to the fourth level, it should not be long before your power of space also breaks through to the fourth level.”

"The power of space..." Lei Zhan sensed the spatial origin deep within the endless chaos and smiled, "Then I'll take Master's auspicious words!"

Lei Zhan looked around and saw that everything seemed normal. Then he turned to look at the thatched hut deep inside the cave, his eyes filled with curiosity.

"Has Fuxi not yet emerged?"

"No. Thirteen years have passed, and Fuxi still hasn't emerged from seclusion..." A hint of worry appeared on Tathagata's face.

Cultivating the "Ice and Fire Tempering Golden Core Technique" usually involves condensing an "Ice and Fire Array Diagram" to temper the golden core. It generally takes about a month to upgrade a third-grade pure yang golden core to a second-grade golden core.

For a third-grade Ancestral Immortal Golden Core to improve, ten years is generally enough.

But now...

Three more years have passed since the ten-year period began...

"Perhaps, after Fuxi enhanced his Golden Core, he suddenly had an epiphany?" Lei Zhan speculated. "The methods and secret techniques are not the problem, and the two chaotic treasures, Nine Flames Elixir and Ice Heart Marrow, are sufficient..."

Lei Zhan had also considered this possibility. After all, it was quite common for cultivators to occasionally gain enlightenment and then go into seclusion to cultivate for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. It was just that their environment was somewhat special.

……

Time passes day by day.

Until the twenty-seventh year...

boom! ! !
A terrifying aura descended!
Suddenly, boundless chaotic power surged up from the depths of this ice cave, even frantically absorbing the power of the endless ice sea itself.

Everything revolved around that thatched hut, and a massive amount of power was frantically absorbed into it, forming a huge chaotic vortex!
“This is…” Lei Zhan’s gaze was drawn to it, and he had a vague guess in his mind.

"This...this..." Buddha was also excited when he looked at the huge chaotic vortex.

This feeling, though never experienced by Tathagata, was nonetheless familiar. He turned to look at Lei Zhan and said softly:

"Fuxi has broken through to the Ancestral God level!"

……

(End of this chapter)