The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

In the chaos beyond the Three Realms.

Above a dilapidated, desolate star, Lei Zhan's figure appeared out of thin air.

He looked around and nodded slightly: "This is it. It's time to break through to the World Realm level."

After comprehending the inheritances left by more than a dozen Dao Lords of Life and Death, Lei Zhan was able to clearly feel that his understanding of the Dao had reached the ultimate level of Ancestral God and Ancestral Immortal.

I felt that I could not go any further, and I felt that my whole body, even the smallest cells and particles, were conveying a longing.

Lei Zhan suppressed the longing emanating from his body, took a step forward, and instantly arrived on the dilapidated star below.

He sat cross-legged and began to calm his mind.

"Let's begin," Lei Zhan thought to himself.

"boom!!!"

The stars trembled, and the power of chaos surged.

The chaos surrounding the entire broken star began to churn, and huge chaotic vortexes appeared above the star, which were terrifying to behold even with the naked eye.

……

In a chaotic place very close to the Three Realms.

A medicinal herb field lay in the darkness, beside which stood a thatched hut. A man dressed in simple clothes, with disheveled hair and beard, was tending to the herbs in the field, looking just like an old farmer.

But his gaze was vast and distant, bringing a sense of peace to the heart.

He carefully tended to one of the fiery red flowers, which had already formed a bud.

"Ok?"

"Is this... someone breaking through?"

The old farmer suddenly raised his head, feeling the surging chaotic power, and looked puzzled.

"Given such a large area, all I can feel are some negligible aftershocks reaching me..."

It should be noted that he is already very close to the Three Realms, but he can sense that the source of this chaotic upheaval is still a very long distance away from his medicinal field.

Even so, the endless chaos surged to such an extent.

"It seems that one of our fellow Daoists has finally taken that step." A thoughtful look flashed in the old farmer's eyes. "Who is it? My elder brother? Tathagata? Huanmu? Or perhaps Leizhan?"

"However, this commotion is far greater than the commotion when Nuwa broke through to the next level!"

Wow~~~
As soon as he finished speaking, the figure tending the flowers and plants in the field, like an old farmer, disappeared directly into the medicinal herb field.

……

This is a world of fire, vast and endless.

At the summit of a majestic, fiery mountain in the center of the world.

A nearly naked man, wearing only an animal skin skirt, sat cross-legged, his black hair casually draped over his shoulders, yet each strand resembled a dragon's horn.

The men in the animal skins seemed to sense the chaos beyond the Three Realms, a turbulent force sweeping across the land like a hurricane.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

"The power of chaos seems to be surging and turbulent."

"Could it be... that someone has taken that step?"

"Even within the Great World of Fire, I could feel a storm-like tremor."

Suirenshi was the oldest human emperor. Over ten thousand years of life and cultivation made his strength increasingly unfathomable.

Even so, as he felt the waves sweeping across the chaos surrounding the Three Realms, he still felt a tremor emanating from his very soul.

"The commotion from this breakthrough is far more terrifying than when the Empress broke through. I wonder which powerful being from our Three Realms is behind it..."

"Such a grand event in the Three Realms is not to be missed!"

……

The Celestial Realm, in the East.

The Three Pure Ones left the Three Realms for the endless chaos, and the Carefree Celestial Venerable, who was already one of the two leaders of the Taoist sect, naturally became the number one person in the Taoist sect.

The carefree Celestial Venerable sat cross-legged in a grand hall, his entire being resembling a withered stone.

Suddenly, his eyes trembled, as if he too could feel the surging chaos within.

"A breakthrough? Which fellow Daoist has broken through to the Pangu level?"

The carefree Celestial Venerable shook his head, his eyes gazing into the void, as if he could see through the layers of void to the distant chaos.

"Is it fellow Daoist Guiyi? Or perhaps Suirenshi?"

……

The West, Buddhism.

The Buddha sits high on a lotus throne, his hand in a gesture of holding up a flower, with a smile on his face.

Suddenly, he raised his head and looked upwards. "Could someone have broken through? Was it Lei Zhan?"

Even in the chaos beyond the Three Realms, where only the aftershocks remain, the commotion is still immense!
The surging chaotic power was like ocean waves, and this chaotic world of the Three Realms was like a huge reef in the ocean.

The once tranquil reef is now constantly being battered by surging waves, which naturally alerts some of the most powerful beings in the Three Realms.

……

On that same tattered star, he sat cross-legged.

Endless, surging chaotic power was surrounding him, constantly flowing into his body.

"Rumble~~~"

The Golden Core Space was originally a peaceful place, with sky, earth, mountains, rivers, a primordial ocean, and islands—it was very beautiful.

But now, everything is destroyed, and everything has returned to chaos.

Within the Golden Core space, under the endless, surging power of chaos, it was completely transformed into a state of chaos.

"Seed of Time and Space!"

A seed appeared out of nowhere.

This is a seed of time and space formed by the perfect fusion of the seeds of time and space after the power of space and time has reached the fifth level. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to see with the naked eye, but now, at this moment, it has appeared in a part of the chaos in the Golden Core space.

This chaotic space, now centered around the Seed of Time and Space, has been transformed into a world that is almost a chaotic world.

"Time and Space—World! Long!"

A low shout echoed in this chaotic space.

Rumble~~~
As soon as the words were spoken, the seed, which was surrounded by a large amount of spacetime power, began to grow rapidly, just like a real seed.

Break out of the shell.

germination……

Gradually, the seed quickly grew into a sapling, and then grew rapidly.
Numerous roots spread wildly in all directions, accumulating all the insights gained over the long years regarding the Way of Time and Space, like nutrients, allowing this tree representing the Way of Time and Space to grow continuously.

This ever-growing tree is the Tree of the Way!

The Dao Tree represents the Dao that a cultivator has come to understand!

The Dao Tree is the foundation of the Chaos Immortal's Golden Core Chaos Space. Only with this Dao Tree can the Golden Core Chaos Space continuously expand.

"Rumble~~~~"

This Dao tree grew rapidly, reaching ten zhang, a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang in height...

Lei Zhan's understanding of the Dao of Time and Space is astonishing, which also makes the 'Dao Tree' receive an astonishing amount of nourishment. Under this almost infinite nourishment, it is growing rapidly.

The height of the Dao tree also represents the level of a cultivator's cultivation realm.

Normally, when a Dao Tree first reaches the World Realm, it is only a few hundred feet tall!
After consolidation, it can generally reach a height of one thousand zhang.

It is a thousand feet tall and its realm is comparable to that of an ordinary world realm.

At a height of ten thousand feet, one's realm is comparable to that of a top-tier world realm.

Thirty-six thousand feet, that is the perfect state of the world realm.

Within the World Realm, the Dao Tree within the Golden Core Chaos Space is limited to 36,000 zhang; this is the maximum height for any Dao Tree in the World Realm.

Unless there is another fundamental breakthrough, like Lei Zhan, who begins to find his own path and breaks through the limits, Daoshu will have no chance of going any further.

The Dao Tree will grow thicker and taller, and when you truly embark on your own path, you will reach the realm of the Dao Lord of Life and Death.

"Rumble~~~~"

Amidst the chaos, the Dao Tree grew ever stronger and more majestic, with abundant branches and leaves.

Each branch and leaf represents a different technique of time and space.

Because he had previously comprehended more than ten kinds of profound spacetime inheritances, coupled with the various spacetime techniques that Lei Zhan himself had comprehended and created...

The Daoist tree in the Golden Core space is lush and verdant, with each branch and leaf far thicker than those in ordinary world realms.

Five thousand feet...

Ten thousand feet...

Twenty thousand feet...

Thirty thousand feet...

The roadside trees are constantly growing.

The Dao Tree, which embodies all of Lei Zhan's insights into the Dao of Time and Space, clearly has not yet stopped.

Lei Zhan's accumulation of knowledge about the Dao of Time and Space is too profound. The inheritance of more than ten Dao Lords of Life and Death serves as guidance, and their 'Dao' serves as nourishment.

Only with the 'Dao' of Daoist Ruosang and Emperor Qianhuo as the supporting backbone could this tree within the Golden Core Space extend wildly.

time flies.

When this towering Dao tree grew to 36,000 zhang (approximately 18,500 meters), it finally stopped growing, and its branches and leaves grew wildly in all directions.

Among them, three branches are the thickest.

One branch represents the sacred text of time and space that builds up the 'Tao' of itself. This branch seems to be able to give birth to endless possibilities in the endless void, making it difficult for people to discern its reality.

One of them represents Lei Zhan's understanding of time and space with Daoist Ruosang, exuding a vast, serene, and incomparably transcendent Daoist intent.

One branch represents Lei Zhan's understanding of time and space with the Qianhuo Emperor, while this branch exudes a profound sense of eternity, like a towering mountain.

"Thirty-six thousand feet? It seems that my understanding of the Dao has reached a perfect level in the World Realm."

As Lei Zhan sensed the towering, all-encompassing Dao tree, he understood that he had reached his limit.

If you want the Dao Tree to continue growing, you must embark on your own 'path'!
Only after one reaches the Dao Lord level of Life and Death will the Dao Tree within the Golden Core space continue to grow.

"It's my own path... I'll have to be even more careful from now on," Lei Zhan remarked with a sigh.

After the World Realm, comes the Dao Lord of Life and Death.

The Dao Lord of Life and Death is a matter of life and death. If one does not walk the path steadily and firmly, it is highly likely that one will collapse at a certain step before even reaching the point of Dao Integration.

"Continue, let's stabilize my cultivation first. Also, the Blue and White Water Droplets need to be fully condensed at this time."

"Otherwise, it would take a lot of effort to accumulate the water droplets in the blue and white space to the limit."

"Boom boom boom~~~~~"

The chaos within the entire space began to expand wildly, constantly absorbing the chaotic power from the outside world.

It should be noted that the size of the chaotic space of a normal Chaos Immortal is fixed, and it will naturally expand as their comprehension improves and their Dao Tree grows.

However, since Lei Zhan is the merging of seventeen clones into one, his mental power, golden core space, and so on are essentially the merging of seventeen into one.

This chaotic realm is naturally seventeen times larger than that of a normal chaotic immortal, and its vastness is also significantly greater.

……

More refined 'chaotic immortal power' was constantly being generated, and Luo Zhan's own soul and true spirit also began to grow rapidly under the nourishment of this more powerful force.

"I've successfully broken through the Qi Refining stage, and now I need to undergo Divine Demon Body Refinement! The Eighteen Divine Demons of Tao Wu have also raised my strength to another level..."

Lei Zhan had an idea.

boom! ! !
The chaotic power, which had begun to subside slightly, suddenly became violent again, frantically absorbing large amounts of chaotic power.

...(End of chapter)