The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"Will it succeed?"

On the majestic city wall of Guiyi City, Emperor Qiyang held a wine jug and looked into the distance at the huge palace in the city, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

The Lord of Qushan stood behind the Divine Emperor Qiyang, resembling a giant iron tower.

Looking at his master, he naturally understood what Emperor Qiyang was thinking at that moment.

"The Dao Lord Guiyi is so monstrous that he is not an ordinary ultimate Dao Lord who could succeed."

"Yes. Let's hope so!" Emperor Qiyang laughed. "After all, he received the inheritance left by his master and witnessed the Dao of two supreme beings in succession. Ordinary ultimate Dao Lords don't have such opportunities."

Over the long years, Emperor Qiyang had met several Ultimate Dao Lords, but in his heart, although those Ultimate Dao Lords were all monstrous talents, they were still far inferior to Lei Zhan.

"Rumble~~~"

A powerful wave suddenly came from afar.

"Hmm? Master!" The Lord of Qushan turned his head to look into the distance.

"The Lord of the Blazing Sun Domain has actually come." Emperor Qiyang frowned, stood up, and looked outside, gazing at the distant horizon.

"what happened?"

"This oppressive aura... something feels off."

“A force is approaching.”

Followers like the Changli Ruler, Emperor Dingyuan, and Emperor Beihe immediately sensed the increasingly powerful fluctuations and instantly moved closer to Emperor Qiyang.

Before Lei Zhan went into seclusion, he gave orders that his followers must obey the instructions of Emperor Qiyang during this period.

As for Emperor Qiyang himself, he made a life-bound oath when he agreed to help protect the Dharma.

After all, no matter how good the relationship between the two parties is, it is not as simple and direct as a life oath. And Emperor Qiyang readily and voluntarily made a life oath.

at this time.

A massive black warship appeared high in the distance, radiating a terrifying aura. It was a powerful weapon of war on par with the Quyang Warship in the hands of the Qiyang God Emperor.

Whoosh!

The surface of the enormous warship flowed, revealing a hatch, from which two figures flew out.

One of them was a girl in red, and the other was the most powerful and terrifying being in the entire Blazing Sun Domain—the Lord of the Blazing Sun Domain.

Upon seeing the burly man in black appear, Emperor Qiyang immediately smiled, "Lord of the Blazing Sun Domain, I didn't expect you to be willing to join in the fun?"

"Joining the fun? You could say that," the Lord of the Blazing Sun Domain said calmly. "Qi Yang, it's been so long since we last met, and I never expected that we'd meet here for this Dao Lord Guiyi. He's achieved Dao, and it's actually gotten you to come and protect him personally?"

"So you really came for Lord Guiyi." Emperor Qiyang frowned slightly.

"Nothing in this Blazing Sun Domain can escape my notice," the Blazing Sun Domain Lord said calmly. "I already knew when you were searching for the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower. And since the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower is of great use to a Fourth-Step Dao Lord who has achieved Dao Merger, it's not hard to guess what's going on."

"but……"

The Lord of Blazing Sun looked down and said, "I have no interest in an Ultimate Dao Lord who hasn't even achieved Dao Integration. But I've come here for you."

"For me?" Emperor Qiyang was taken aback, but then he understood instantly.

The domain lords of the Eight Primal Domains are all the most powerful Source Walkers in the universe, all at the level of Sith Lords, and have been known for their warlike nature since ancient times.

Qi Yang, the God Emperor, had also survived the ancient war and had interacted with the Lord of the Blazing Sun Domain before, so he immediately understood.

"You've come here to fight me?" asked the Divine Emperor Qiyang.

"These days are so boring, I'm getting tired of fighting with those same few people all the time." The Blazing Sun Domain Lord's fireball-like eyes suddenly became even more dazzling.

"Qi Yang, this time... let me have a good fight. Once I've had my fill, whatever you do in my Blazing Sun Domain, I won't bother with you."

"Wait a minute." Emperor Qiyang frowned slightly, inwardly cursing him as a madman.

"The Dao Lord has only been in the Dao realm for nine years, and now the Dao Lord of the Returning One is about to be in the Dao realm as well. I have no intention of fighting you. However..."

Qi Yang Divine Emperor glanced at the Blazing Sun Domain Lord, whose fighting spirit was surging, and said somewhat helplessly, "Nine years later, after Dao Lord Guiyi has completed his Dao integration, no matter what the final outcome is, I promise to have a good fight with you. How about it?"

"Nine years?" The Lord of Blazing Sun Domain stood in the endless void, pondered for a moment, and then slowly nodded. "Then I will wait for you for nine years!"

……

Inside the Qinghua Cave.

The spirit of the cave, the white-haired old man, watched silently, his expression a mixture of worry and anticipation.

"I hope this kid can succeed. If he can achieve the ultimate path to Dao, that would be unprecedented. Perhaps then, my master's last wish can also be fulfilled."

The difficulty of fulfilling the Supreme Being's last wish is actually too great.

After becoming a Supreme Being, what kind of vision and comprehension did Qi Zhizun possess? With the assistance of numerous treasures and having spent countless chaotic eras, how high were his achievements in the Ninefold Chaos Restriction?
That 'Eternal Heart' has a full ninety-nine layers!
Even a prodigy like Lei Zhan, with his exceptional talent and unparalleled advantages, has only reached around the fiftieth level. If it were any other cultivator, the difference would be immeasurable.

"Stone Fire Pearl".

Lei Zhan sat cross-legged on the supreme stone platform. With a thought, a perfectly round bead, about the size of an egg, emitting invisible fluctuations, suddenly floated in front of Lei Zhan.

It is the Stonefire Pearl, which is recognized by Qi Zhizun and several other supreme beings as the most helpful treasure for cultivation among the treasures discovered in the chaotic universe.

"The Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower is far away in the Blazing Sun Domain, right in front of the Second Primordial Spirit." Lei Zhan looked at the round bead in front of him and thought to himself, "However, on my side, I have the Supreme Stone Platform, the Stone Fire Bead, and the Enlightenment Bead, which can perfectly complement each other."

The main body and the second primordial spirit are separated at opposite ends of the universe. Compared to the main body, the second primordial spirit has very few treasures that can help with the Dao Integration, apart from a Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower.

Fortunately, the main body and the second primordial spirit are like one, their souls and true spirits are also like one, their memories are one, and what they perceive is the same. Once the treasure is used, the memories of both sides are interconnected.

"Then let us begin to unite with the Dao."

Inside the Qinghua Cave, Lei Zhan's true form and his second primordial spirit, far away in Guiyi City, spoke to themselves simultaneously, introspecting on their own bodies.

In that instant, countless insights resonated within Lei Zhan's heart...

The inner divine body is composed of 108,000 divine crystals, each containing divine power, soul, true spirit, and so on, as well as Lei Zhan's understanding of the 'Ultimate Time and Space Dao'.

Looking inward at the 'Dao Tree' in the chaotic space of the Golden Core, that majestic Dao Tree, every branch and even every leaf, is a materialized manifestation of accumulated insights.

What Lei Zhan needs to do is to gather all these insights and bring about a qualitative change!

May the tree of Tao grow a beautiful, eternal flower!
To allow one's divine body to undergo another transformation, forming a true eternal divine body.

"Harmony Dao Fire Cloud Flower, rise!" With a thought, Lei Zhan caused the Harmony Dao Fire Cloud Flower placed in front of his second primordial spirit to float up.

Guided by a wisp of Lei Zhan's divine thought, the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower was immediately surrounded by flames and mist. At the same time, these flames and mist began to form a semi-transparent human figure above the flower, exactly like Lei Zhan.

"This is the incarnation formed by the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower..." Lei Zhan looked at the transparent figure, secretly anticipating what was to come.

"start!"

Time is precious, so Lei Zhan immediately controlled the flow of time, allowing his avatar to begin the 'virtual union'.

Because Lei Zhan already knew that the He Dao Fire Cloud Flower had limited effect on the ultimate Dao, and could at most only simulate a part of the He Dao process.

“Hua La La~~~~”

At the same time, the fist-sized bead that seemed to contain a dazzling galaxy, which was suspended in the golden core space within the main body, also instantly emitted endless light.

The Enlightenment Pearl, which had accumulated energy over several chaotic eras, was now being unleashed at full power. An almost endless stream of profound energy surged from the pearl, rapidly flowing through his entire body.

……

At a speed ten thousand times faster than the flow of time, the illusory image formed by the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower merges with the Dao at an extremely fast speed.

As Lei Zhan's understanding of time and space continued to emerge, many branches began to grow on the tree, and they began to grow thicker.

Soon, an inconspicuous flower bud appeared in the center of the Dao tree, and as time passed, the flower bud gradually grew larger.

"Everything went smoothly up to now, but the most important and difficult time is yet to come!" Lei Zhan thought to himself.

If one could, with the help of the Enlightenment Pearl, bloom the Flower of Eternity in one go, and make it blossom... then when it's time for one to truly begin to merge with the Dao, things would be much easier.

After all, the blooming of the Eternal Flower is the process of stepping from Dao Lord to Eternal Emperor!
When it blooms to its most beautiful and eternal moment, the Eternal Flower stabilizes, signifying a successful transcendence and the attainment of the Eternal Emperor.

As this thought flashed through Lei Zhan's mind, at the same time, the flower buds on the Dao Tree within the illusory body formed by the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower began to bloom.

One year passed, two years passed, three years passed...

With the help of the Supreme Stone Platform, the Stone Fire Pearl, and the Enlightenment Pearl, he had already entered a profound state of enlightenment when he 'merged with the Dao'.

With Lei Zhan's perfect Dao heart, all sorts of scattered insights quickly and perfectly merged into his mind. Countless insights about time and space flashed through Lei Zhan's mind, and a vast Dao of time and space gradually took shape in his heart.

This path integrates everything in time and space: time and space annihilation, time and space strangulation, time and space reincarnation... it has everything in all directions of time and space!
Everything is perfect and impeccable.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~" The Eternal Flower began to emerge from its bud, petal by petal, and the flower began to bloom rapidly.

Everything happened naturally.

"Yes."

"No mistakes have been made yet."

Lei Zhan watched as the beautiful flower in the illusory image gradually bloomed, so lifelike, as if it were a real flower growing in the outside world.

suddenly--

laugh!
The phantom formed by the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower suddenly trembled, and the Eternal Flower within it, which was only one step away from fully blooming, abruptly dissipated.

"Hmm?" Lei Zhan was taken aback, diverting a sliver of his attention to the 'Harmony Fiery Cloud Flower'.

The flames and mist surrounding the Dao-Merging Fire Cloud Flower had almost completely disappeared. As the last wisp of mist was consumed, the avatar that had condensed in mid-air also vanished into thin air.

"The simulation is over?" Lei Zhan's eyes flickered for a moment, but then he calmed down.

At a speed of ten thousand times the speed of time, only a dozen breaths had passed since the Dao was established, so it can be said that there was still plenty of time left for Lei Zhan.

"Fortunately, my path is already very perfect. With the help of the Enlightenment Pearl, this simulation has saved me five or six years in one go. Even the blooming of the Eternal Flower is only one step away."

"In that case!"

"Then let us truly align ourselves with the Dao."

With a thought, Lei Zhan's merging of his main body and second primordial spirit accelerated dramatically.

Wow.

The transformation of each divine crystal in the divine body was proceeding rapidly, and it took a big step forward in just a breath.

Meanwhile, the Dao Tree within her body rapidly condensed into a branch, sprouted two leaves, and quickly grew flower buds, reaching its limit in the blink of an eye. It could bloom at any moment.

"The Flower of Eternity, bloom!"

"boom!!!"

Suddenly, the level of life that Lei Zhan was on began to transcend.

The light emanating from Lei Zhan's body suddenly intensified, and countless temporal and spatial pressures immediately surged, instantly surpassing the level of the Lord of the Other Universe, and almost instantly surpassing the Sith Lord he had met before.

...(End of chapter)