The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

Just as Lei Zhan's second primordial spirit and the God Emperor Qi Yang were traveling together on the 'Qu Yang' warship, drifting through endless darkness in search of the supreme ruins.

The original body remaining in the Flame Dragon Domain still sat cross-legged on the Supreme Stone Platform, toying with the secret-patterned sphere, the 'Heart of Eternity'.

"The Heart of Eternity?" Lei Zhan glanced at the white-haired old man standing in the distance, a hint of anticipation in his eyes, his expression enigmatic.

Although he had already decided to devote most of his mind to the Dao and hold the Eternal Heart in his hands, his heart was still rippled with emotion.

"Well then, since it is the last wish left by the Supreme One, let's give it a try. If it can help, it will put my mind at ease."

Lei Zhan's gaze fell on the sphere with its secret patterns in his hand. The surface of the sphere was covered with layers of secret patterns, and a thought suddenly occurred to him.

"break!"

“Hua La La~~~~”

In an instant, very easily, the 'Heart of Eternity' in his hand broke through the first layer.

"Break again!"

Lei Zhan's current realm is terrifying, and he has also cultivated the Ninefold Chaos Restriction, so breaking it will be easy for him.

Break, break, break...

"Hua Hua Hua~~"

Layer upon layer of secret patterns were unraveled, and the deeper one went, the more difficult it became.

With each layer he broke through, Lei Zhan fell into deep thought, and the time he needed to think increased.

As time slowly passed, layer after layer of secret patterns were broken, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of millions of years had passed.

"That's the limit for now."

Lei Zhan stopped abruptly, looking at the sphere in his hand that had undergone tremendous changes.

"This Eternal Heart has ninety-nine layers. If I can decipher them all, it will mean that my achievements in this area are comparable to those of the Supreme Qi."

"Unfortunately, it's still too far for me to reach the level of the Supreme Being."

Lei Zhan shook his head slightly. The Eternal Heart in his hand had been deciphered over hundreds of millions of years, and now he had only managed to decipher the forty-fifth level.

The Eternal Heart becomes increasingly difficult with each subsequent level, sometimes increasing exponentially.

The fact that Lei Zhan was able to break through the forty-fifth level in just hundreds of millions of years was the result of using the Enlightenment Pearl, along with the complementary effects of the Stone Fire Pearl and the Supreme Stone Platform.

"It's time to finish."

"For me, achieving Dao is fundamental. As for the 'Ninefold Chaos Restriction,' although it is important, it is something to consider after achieving Dao." Lei Zhan looked up at the endless void, his gaze leisurely.

"As for my true self, after years of dedicated cultivation, it is time for me to go out."

Over these long years, Lei Zhan felt something in his heart and could vaguely sense that his own Dao heart had reached a level very close to perfection after comprehending the 'Origin of Ten Thousand Daos of Time' left by the Heavenly Food Supreme.

Just a hair's breadth away from achieving final perfection, the perfection of the Dao heart.

"I want my Dao heart to be perfected..." Lei Zhan thought to himself, "and the karma I've accumulated in the past must also be settled."

The cause of the past is the effect of the present.

It should be noted that Lei Zhan's achievements in the path of cause and effect have long reached the level of mastery, so it is not difficult for him to sort out his own cause and effect.

Over the long years of cultivation, Lei Zhan gradually gained some understanding. A cultivator who wants to achieve perfect enlightenment must clearly understand the cause and effect within himself.

As for successfully achieving enlightenment, the 'knots' on one's body must also be untied.

“The cause and effect on me may seem complicated, but in the end there are actually only two knots,” Lei Zhan thought to himself.

Lei Zhan understood this in his heart.

If these two knots are not untied, even if one's Dao heart is perfected, and even if one's understanding of the Dao has reached its limit, one will still inevitably fail in the end if one ultimately unites with the Dao!

“Divine Banyan Emperor, Emperor Melopo…” Lei Zhan thought to himself, “In truth, I do owe the Myriad Gods Dao Lord a debt of karma!”

"As for that Divine Banyan Emperor..."

Lei Zhan's gaze turned cold. Of the two knots on his body, one naturally originated from the Myriad Gods Dao Lord.

When he was young, he received the legacy of the Myriad Gods Dao Lord and also inherited his karma. The Myriad Gods Dao Lord's greatest wish before his death was to kill Emperor Melopo of the Eternal Clan.

Of course, at that time, neither the array spirit 'Wanshan' of the Pantheon nor the three-eyed puppet dared to hope for success; they merely sowed a seed.

Although Lei Zhan's true form lacks the powerful Sith war weapons of a second primordial spirit, his understanding of the Dao places him at the level of a master of another universe, making it entirely easy for him to slay a top-tier emperor like Emperor Melopo.

The second knot is the grudge from when he almost lost his life.

Back then, when he was being pursued by the Divine Banyan Emperor, if his master, the Mangya Overlord, hadn't arrived in time, Lei Zhan's original form might have perished, his body and soul extinguished.

"However, tracking down Emperor Melopó and tracing his whereabouts will take some time. But that Divine Banyan Emperor has been staying in his lair and rarely leaves Yu Xinghai." Lei Zhan's thoughts raced, and he quickly put away the Heart of Eternity.

call.

Suddenly, the figure sitting cross-legged vanished into thin air.

……

The Flame Dragon Domain is exceptionally vast, ranking among the largest domains. It also contains numerous forbidden zones.

'Yu Xinghai' has always been considered the most dangerous place in the Yanlong Domain! The area that has already been explored exceeds the entire Endless Territory! The level of danger is extremely high!
However, Yu Xinghai is too vast, and the outermost part of Yu Xinghai is relatively safe.

There are also many foreign cultivators who migrated from other realms, such as the Star River Clan and the Divine Banyan Clan. Most of them are very weak and cannot compare with the forces native to the Endless Territory.

They were ostracized by the six major powers of the Endless Territory and had nowhere to live. In the end, they chose a relatively safe place in Yu Xinghai and led their people to survive there with great difficulty.

In a mysterious place on the outskirts of Yu Xinghai.

A towering tree, hundreds of millions of miles high, supports this world, where countless creatures thrive and multiply.

At the top of this colossal, towering tree stands a magnificent palace.

Inside the palace, a man wearing a tall crown and a blue robe was sitting cross-legged on a futon.

It was a man with a cold expression, dressed in a magnificent blue robe. The robe was as smooth as water, yet the man himself seemed to be surrounded by flames. Water and fire complemented each other, appearing perfectly harmonious, as if eternally unchanging.

The aloof, blue-robed man sitting cross-legged on the futon was none other than the ancestor of the Divine Banyan Clan, the Divine Banyan Emperor.

"Damn it!"

"Why...why is this happening? I suddenly feel a threat from the shadows."

Emperor Shenrong frowned in deep thought; this feeling was extremely rare in his long years of cultivation.

However, every time it happened, without exception, a terrible crisis arose, a terrifying crisis that could lead to death and annihilation if one was not careful.

"The last time I felt this way... was when I was following my master." Emperor Shenrong pondered, his expression somewhat grim. "If I hadn't dodged in time, I probably would have died. But this time..."

Although he was ultimately forced to lead his people away from their homeland and wander into endless darkness, settling down in the Flame Dragon Domain was a way of turning danger into safety.

"This ominous warning..."

Emperor Shenrong was also somewhat puzzled. Since arriving in this Flame Dragon Domain, he had rarely gone out. He also generally hadn't made enemies with any powerful figures.

The six major powers of the Flame Dragon Domain rarely choose to make things difficult for the Divine Banyan Emperor, out of respect for Lord Dafeng's past service.

"Could it be the Lord of Mangya? Or... that Dao Lord Guiyi?" Emperor Shenrong pondered. If there was one thing that caused a major causal relationship in the Yanlong Domain, it was the Dao Lord Nitian who chased after the Mangya Kingdom more than a Chaos Era ago.

"That Dao Lord Guiyi is the disciple of that old fellow, the Mangya Overlord, and he has even broken through to become a Fourth-Step Dao Lord. But, is it him?"

"Back then, he was able to withstand my attack with a cosmic treasure. Now that he has reached the edge of the Dao Integration stage, his strength is probably comparable to that of the lords of the eight holy cities."

A cold glint flashed in Emperor Shenrong's eyes. He understood the principle of eliminating the root of the problem very well. If it weren't for the timely arrival of Lord Mangya, Lord Guiyi would have been dead without a doubt.

"These Dao Lords of Life and Death are all lunatics, so troublesome. It's a pity, the past can't be undone. If only I had used some trump cards back then..."

suddenly.

"Hmm?" Emperor Shenrong's expression changed. "Who? Who is it?"

...(End of chapter)