The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

Chapter 219 A Hint of the Path to Supremacy

The endless void beyond the Three Realms.

A wooden boat was flying at high speed in the void, while Lei Zhan and Bodhi Patriarch and his disciple sat facing each other, with food and wine laid out in front of them.

"Lei Zhan, Fuxi and your second primordial spirit avatar went to the inner world of the earth. This time, we, master and disciple, will go together." Patriarch Bodhi smiled and sipped his wine, clearly in a very good mood.

It's important to know that ever since Lei Zhan revealed his strength, comparable to that of a leader, before numerous powerful figures in the Thousand Islands Great World, many of these powerful individuals have been constantly contacting Patriarch Bodhi to congratulate him on taking on such a fine disciple.

Many powerful figures even secretly promised benefits that would tempt Bodhi Patriarch, all in order to have their descendants become his disciples.

After all, although they were all powerful beings at the level of True Gods and Dao Ancestors, it was difficult enough for them to even teach one True God or Dao Ancestor themselves. Not to mention that among their disciples, there was a monstrous talent like Lei Zhan, who broke through to the leadership level in less than ten thousand years of cultivation.

"Just us? Master just told me about the secrets of our Nuwa faction... I wonder where we're going?" Lei Zhan drank his wine, curiously looking around.

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and said, "You'll know exactly where we're going once we get there. But since you also travel through time and space, have you noticed anything?"

As soon as Patriarch Bodhi finished speaking, he pointed into the distance, and a spatial vortex appeared in the void ahead.

Whoosh.

The wooden boat flew into the spatial vortex, traveling through the long void passage, surrounded by distorted colorful light.

"Huh?" Lei Zhan was taken aback. Was he being asked to guess? Was he, someone with such foresight, being asked to guess the answer?
As the thought flashed through his mind, Lei Zhan looked around, shook his head, and laughed, "My master took me through time and space. It seems that this secret place must be hidden in a place even deeper than the Great World of the Slanting Moon."

Even without knowing the answer, Lei Zhan was extremely familiar with traversing time and space between various great worlds and the Crescent Moon Great World, relying on the power of time and space. However, this time, being led by Patriarch Bodhi through time and space was exceptionally long.

"Yes. The place we're going to is indeed deep within the space-time of the Three Realms! And it is indeed deeper in space-time than the Great World of the Crescent Moon," Patriarch Bodhi nodded.

If the spacetime of the Three Realms is likened to a layered cake, then the ordinary great worlds are the outermost layer of the layered cake.

The Crescent Moon World and the deeper parts we'll be exploring are located in the middle layer of a layered cake, or even deeper!
"Master." Lei Zhan looked at Patriarch Bodhi with a smile on his face: "The world created in the depths of the Three Realms is far deeper than the Great World of the Crescent Moon. Could it be... that the place we are going to was created by the Goddess Nuwa?"

In the Three Realms, Bodhi is known as the foremost expert in time and space. However, the goddess Nuwa is also exceptionally talented and possesses a profound understanding of the principles of time and space. Even if Lei Zhan were unaware of the outcome, guessing these things wouldn't be too difficult.

"Hmm." Patriarch Bodhi picked up his wine cup, took a sip, and then slowly said, "The place we are about to visit is the Nuwa Wonderland, which was created by the Goddess Nuwa after she broke through to the level of Pangu, deep within the Three Realms!"

"To enter Nuwa's Wonderland, we must use this wooden boat we are on. Just like a key unlocks a lock, without this treasure, no one in the entire Three Realms can enter Nuwa's Wonderland."

"Of course, even I can only find this Nuwa Wonderland, but I cannot break through the world barrier to enter it."

"Even Master can't do anything?" Lei Zhan looked at the wooden boat traversing the three realms and countless times, lost in thought.

Lei Zhan was now contemplating not the benefits he would receive upon his upcoming journey to Nuwa's Wonderland.

Although those items are precious, they can actually be exchanged at the Demon-Subduing Palace in the Earth's Core World as long as one has enough merit.

"Next, once I enter the Nuwa Wonderland, I estimate that only the 'Inner Observation of the Ancestral God Scroll' and the star map outside the Three Realms will be truly valuable to me. However, the methods for breaking through to the Ancestral God level are even more profound in the catalog of the Demon Subduing Palace. On the contrary, the Nuwa Wonderland itself..." Lei Zhan muttered to himself, looking at the space-time he was traversing around him, somewhat lost in thought.

After thinking for a long time, Lei Zhan shook his head helplessly.

It was as if a flash of inspiration had crossed his mind, illuminating the cloudy sky like a shooting star, but Lei Zhan could never quite grasp that fleeting glimmer of inspiration.

I want to recall it, but it always feels like there's a thin veil between us.

……

at last.

"arrive."

Bodhi Patriarch looked at Lei Zhan, who had come to his senses, and then smiled and said, "The Nuwa Wonderland is just ahead."

Wow~~~
The wooden boat flew to the end of the time tunnel, passed through a thick world barrier, and then a beautiful world appeared before their eyes.

"Let's go!" Patriarch Bodhi waved his hand and put away the wooden boat. "The wooden house in that Peach Blossom Spring in the distance was left behind by the Goddess Nuwa."

With that, Patriarch Bodhi flew towards that beautiful paradise in the distance.

……

The world's prison.

call.

Lei Zhan stood up, a thoughtful look in his eyes:
"That avatar that went to Nuwa's Wonderland, that fleeting glimmer of light..."

It should be noted that the original body has already begun to memorize the "Inner Observation of the Ancestral God Scroll" under the guidance of its master, Patriarch Bodhi. Even the original body's clone has begun to secretly memorize the star map outside the Three Realms. However, this clone, who is in the prison of the world, is still pondering hard.

After thinking for a long time, I still couldn't figure it out.

Lei Zhan shook his head helplessly: "Never mind, things will work themselves out. But we need to get our hands on the Chaos Treasure in the hands of the True God of Release as soon as possible."

"If I had that treasure that accelerates the flow of time and space, combined with my understanding of the power of time and space, I could control the flow of time at least two hundred times faster."

Two hundred times the speed of time is a conservative estimate by Lei Zhan. After all, without actually getting his hands on the treasure and trying it out, Lei Zhan can only make a rough guess.

Whoosh.

With a thought, one of the main body's clones instantly disappeared into this chaotic and hazy space.

...Inside the world's prison, it remained as dark and gloomy as ever.

The only glimmer of light came from the array formations and restrictions high in the sky, emitting a hazy glow that made the entire prison world seem utterly desolate.

Whoosh.

A streak of light flashed across the sky, whistling through the dim world.

This streak of light moved at an extremely high speed, surrounded by the power of time and space. Combined with time and space, even if it couldn't reach the limits of the Heavenly Dao like the Golden Rainbow of the Sun, it could still travel 400,000 miles in an instant.

call out!
After flying for a long time, the streak of light stopped in front of a small valley. The light dissipated, revealing the figure of a young man in black robes, who was none other than Lei Zhan's true form avatar.

"Not bad! Not bad!" Lei Zhan's face showed satisfaction, while he secretly muttered to himself, "At this speed, I probably won't need to cultivate the Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique for long. Just the fully mastered 'Fleeting Shadow' combined with my understanding of time and space, relying on my divine body's own speed, can directly reach over 400,000 li..."

"Once I fully master the fifth level of spacetime power, I reckon no one will be able to catch me even with a single spacetime traversal!"

"Huh? Time travel..." Lei Zhan suddenly paused, then a smile appeared on his face.

"So, that's it..."

Lei Zhan stood there high in the air, lost in thought, a thousand thoughts flashing through his mind.

"The Dao has no strength or weakness, but each complete Dao can divide into many different paths. Just like one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. It is the same."

"And every path, when taken to its extreme, becomes the strongest path. If I could take all directions of a path to their extreme, or even perfectly merge them to reach another extreme, I think that would allow me to embark on that path."

"That road is still too far away." Lei Zhan sighed, his thoughts focused on the present.

"With my current understanding of spacetime, I am not able to completely forge my own strongest path. However, I have actually come into contact with a trace of the rudiments of the path of spacetime."

"Space-time... the strongest way of space-time..."

"The first Star Shattering Technique I comprehended was to shatter all of spacetime. It divides spacetime layer by layer, like a net, but in reality, it's a defensive move that uses offense as defense against overwhelming attacks..."

"And the Annihilation of Time and Space can also slowly dismantle and melt it down, transforming it into my own Annihilation Style. Annihilation of Time and Space is the most violent and powerful destructive technique..."

“And time travel…” Lei Zhan gently rubbed his temples, but hesitated.

Time travel is essentially just about escaping, or perhaps it can be developed to its extreme and become a powerful escape technique, but it would be a stretch to categorize it as the strongest path.

At least, in Lei Zhan's understanding, it is incomplete...

"It's difficult enough to walk your own path. It's even more difficult to categorize and summarize time and space, and clearly differentiate paths in different directions!" Lei Zhan suddenly felt a sense of emotion.

Compared to the endless years that followed, when Ji Ning comprehended countless sword techniques and categorized all sword skills in the world into five sword moves, Lei Zhan's path to his own time and space proved far more difficult.

At the very least, given the preciousness of time-space secrets, there aren't many time-space secrets with different focuses available for him to learn, summarize, and organize.

"It seems that our last hope lies with the Demon-Subduing Palace," Lei Zhan muttered to himself.

For Lei Zhan, the spacetime secrets that are most easily accessible are actually the various methods and secret techniques within the Demon Subduing Palace.

As for other ways to obtain it...

Even in the endless chaos, in territories like the Great Mo Domain, these are extremely precious methods! To obtain them, one must pay a great price!
Wow.

Lei Zhan gathered up his myriad thoughts, took a step forward, and caused spacetime to fluctuate, directly arriving in the high sky above this small valley world.

“The True God of Release.” Lei Zhan looked down.

A silver-haired man below ignored him, standing in front of the flower bushes, fiddling with the plants. However, his occasional flickering gaze betrayed his turbulent inner state.

"Hmm?" Lei Zhan frowned. "True God of Release! Do you want me to burn all these flowers and plants to the ground?"

A surge of anger welled up in the heart of the True God of Release. He gently plucked a flower, smelled it, and then put it down before flying upwards.

"Warden, what brings you here again?" The True God of Release said with a gloomy face, "It hasn't been long since we last clashed, and you're here again. Have you improved once more?"

"I'm too lazy to waste my breath on you!" Lei Zhan shook his head and said, "Is it a fight, and then you hand over the treasure... or are you smart enough to just hand it over directly?"

"Hmm?" The True God of Release was taken aback, then sneered, "You? In just over a hundred years, you've become so arrogant? You're courting death!"

"Looking for death?" Lei Zhan laughed. "Whether it's looking for death or not, we'll only know after we fight. At least, you don't have the ability to kill me."

"It was like this in the past, and it is like this now!"

“You…” The True God of Released Prisons paused, looking at Lei Zhan, while a short stick appeared in both of his hands.

As a top-tier true god who once dominated the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, he naturally possessed his own pride. Back in the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, he had escaped death from the hands of ancestral gods and immortals countless times!

But now, like a tiger fallen into the plains, imprisoned in this world's prison, he can only passively endure oppression and exploitation...

The True God of Release from Hell had a burning flame in his heart, and he said, "Then let's fight! If you are defeated, you shall not disturb me again for a million years!"

……

(End of this chapter)