The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 486

Chapter 486: Chapter 482: Doomed Fate Chapter 486: Chapter 482: Doomed Fate “I've always been curious about the realm the Bodhi Ancestor resides in. Can you tell me?” Shen Luo had been withholding his question, but he finally couldn't resist asking.

“Beyond the realm of True Immortals is Taiyi. The Bodhi Ancestor has surpassed Taiyi and reached the Heavenly Venerate Realm. Beyond that is only the higher Great Heavenly Venerate Realm, which is the realm of those who established their own doctrines and teachings,” the Armored Heavenly General continued.

“The Bodhi Ancestor truly is the being he envisaged, the one soaring beyond the heavens.” Shen Luo couldn't help but admire upon hearing this.

“Shen Luo, your ascension and tribulation have consumed a great deal of Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi. There's not much time left. We have to speed up,” the Armored Heavenly General suddenly changed his expression and said.

“What do you mean there's not enough time?” Shen Luo was taken aback and quickly asked.

But before he could receive an answer, he was engulfed by golden light, and his figure had once again appeared in the battle space.

A hundred feet across from him stood a strange Heavenly General. He was thirty feet tall with a body covered in blue-green skin.

His leopard-like face and ring eyes, his crimson eyebrows, and red beard made an impressive figure. No cloth draped his upper body, his lower body was clad in golden armor, his waist was cinched with a barbaric lion buckle, and he held a double-sided axe in his hand. He even has a coloured ribbon fluttering behind him, making him appear exceptionally majestic.

“Could this be… the Juling God?” Shen Luo couldn't help but sigh as he admired the warrior's appearance.

His physique, facial characteristics, imposing presence, and weapon in hand were all too identical to the legendary Juling God.

Upon detecting the mana fluctuations emanating from the giant, Shen Luo couldn't help but frown. The fluctuations were on par with the late stage of True Immortal Realm.

“How are we supposed to fight this?” Shen Luo felt a bit helpless.

It was a near miracle that he managed to fight the Thunder Division Heavenly General, who was in the early stage of the True Immortal Realm, while he himself was at the peak of his Mahayana stage. Now he had to fight a late stage True Immortal while he himself was in the early stage. Where was there a glimmer of hope of winning?

However, having come this far, even if he desired to escape, there was no path of retreat.

Shen Luo calmed his mind, gripping the Six Chen Whip tightly in his hand and fixed his gaze on the Juling God. He silently began to channel the Huangting Technique inside him.

What confused him though, was that since the Juling God had appeared he hadn't made a single move. Even his eyes remained closed. If it weren't for the terrifying aura emanating from him, that could not possibly be a fabrication, Shen Luo would have mistaken him for a statue.

Shen Luo hesitated for a moment and decided to take a slight step back.

Just as he made his move, the Juling God's eyes suddenly snapped open, and two beams of divine light burst forth. A formidable aura enveloped him, and without warning, he swung his double-sided axe.

A flash of light from the axe blade and a huge green arc was let loose. It cleaved the air in half creating an obvious ravine, and it was heading straight for Shen Luo.

Knowing that he could not fend off the attack, Shen Luo stomped on the ground. Shooting into the air, he soared above the shadow of the axe. With a tiny tap in the air with his toes, shadows of moonlight scattered beneath him. His body did a quick spin in the air and disappeared from where he stood.

In the blink of an eye, a silhouette flashed into existence in the air behind the Juling God. It was Shen Luo. He tightened his grip on the Six Chen Whip as his hands glowed gold, and he lunged at the back of Juling God's neck.

“Thud…”

Just then, a heavy impact sound resounded. The Juling God had slammed the handle of his axe onto the ground. When the handle of the axe hit the ground, a golden light ring rippled out, enveloping the surroundings.

The moment Shen Luo came into contact with the light ring, his body abruptly stiffened. An invisible titanic force froze him in his place, and he couldn't move at all.

His heart tightened, and he immediately tried to channel the Dragon Elephant Power, hoping to overpower the formidable attack. But at that moment, a fierce wind struck at his head. In the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow of the axe falling straight toward his face.

“Whoosh” a sound echoed.

Shen Luo's vision was filled with the light of blood, and then everything fell into complete darkness.

Shen Luo slowly opened his eyes, and the familiar ceiling and bed curtains filled his sight.

“I'm back?” He sighed with relief.

After the last dream, he had already grown accustomed to dying multiple times in battle and quickly returning to reality. He propped himself up with his arm, attempting to sit up.

However, his arm felt as if it was filled with lead, incredibly heavy. His whole body was suffering from severe pins and needles sensation, and a strong wave of fatigue washed over him.

“Damn. I knew that dying too many times in a dream would lead to this.” Having braced himself for such an outcome, Shen Luo struggled to push the discomfort aside and sat up.

He didn't take a break. Instead, he forced himself to activate his mana, summoned a Restoration Milk Spirit Pill, and a light green pill from the Linlang Ring and gulped them down.

The green pill was a type of vitality restoration pill known as the Wind and Water Mixed Yuan Pill. He had found it in Chen Gang's Storage Ring. Its medicinal effect was even superior to Hu Yong's former restoration pill.

Based on his experience from the last awakening, a force inside him would soon start to consume his vitality and lifespan. He took these two pills in hopes they could counteract the impending consumption.

Shen Luo barely managed to channel his mana to refine the two pills. The pills slowly dissolved into two warm currents, roaming within his body.

But before he could continue refining the pills, his vision blurred and everything around him started to spin.

His body erupted with rumbling noises as he felt the emergence of a bottomless pit. A voracious suction force began to swallow his life force.

Shen Luo tried to mobilize the forces of the two elixirs in his body in desperation, attempting to fill the sudden bottomless void within him. Unfortunately, it was futile.

The bottomless pit inside him completely ignored the power of the elixir, continuing to devour his life force.

“Is it really impossible…” He murmured painfully.

A wave of pain, ten times greater than before, tore his consciousness apart and consumed him like a tide, threatening to tear him into pieces.

Shen Luo began to shiver uncontrollably all over his body, unable to utter a sound. All around him quickly blurred. His vision turned black, and he once again descended into endless darkness, slipping into unconsciousness.

Shen Luo wasn't sure how much time had passed before he fluttered his eyelids awake again.

Outside, the surroundings had become pitch black without a trace of starlight, an unnerving streak of darkness.

Sitting up, Shen Luo felt relatively fine except for a slight weakness. Perhaps it was due to the effects of the two elixirs he had taken.

He silently operated his Nameless Cultivation Technique, closing his eyes to carefully sense his internal condition. A long time after, he opened his eyes and sighed deeply.

Just like before, a large amount of his life force had been devoured, significantly reducing his lifespan to only about a dozen years.

A bitter smile appeared on Shen Luo's face.

He thought that once he had advanced to the Soul Condensation Stage, he would no longer have to worry about lifespan. Yet, now after a single experience in the Dreamland, he found himself on the brink of death once again.

Moreover, unlike the previous decrease in his lifespan, this time he could not think of any other ways to prolong it except by breaking through to the next cultivation realm.

However, he had just advanced to the Soul Condensation Stage, and given his average talent in reality, another breakthrough seemed far from easy.

“I intended to wait awhile before attempting to open up my meridians in reality. But now, with my lifespan being critically short, I have to take some risks,” Shen Luo pondered for a moment, and then his look quickly regained its firmness.

To improve one's strength quickly, one must first solve the problem of their own aptitude. Though others may not be capable of doing so, he who had obtained the “Xuan Yin Opening Vein Method” could possibly do so.

He first checked around his courtyard, ensuring that there was nothing unusual. Only then, did he return to his room and sat down cross-legged again.

To perform the Xuan Yin Opening Vein Method, one must first practice the Great Unsealing Technique.

As the norms for this technique clearly dictated that it required reaching the Nascent Soul Stage before practice could be initiated,

he, however, being an exception, had already practiced this secret technique to a minor achievement stage in his dream, and had a profound understanding of it.

The Great Unsealing Technique restricts Python Beginners because its execution necessitates a huge amount of Mana as its foundation. Only upon reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, would one be able to distribute enough Mana all over their body to protect the whole body.

However, Shen Luo didn't need the Great Unsealing Technique to cover all parts of his body, but just enough to protect a small part to ensure that implementing the Xuan Yin Opening Vein Method won't leave any lingering dangers.

Shen Luo closed his eyes and sat quietly, slowly operating the Pure Yang Sword Technique. His body's Mana quickly responded, beginning to circulate according to the instructions of the Pure Yang Sword Technique.

Within his Dantian, a small red sword was suspended — it was the Pure Yang Sword Embryo.

As he operated the Pure Yang Sword Technique, the sword embryo buzzed, emitting a cheerful sword chant.

Since the cultivation of the Pure Yang Sword Embryo, Shen Luo had been nurturing it with Mana in his Dantian, but he had not been cultivating the Pure Yang Sword Technique, so the effect was not particularly good.

But now that he had started practicing the Pure Yang Sword Technique, the nurturing of the Pure Yang Sword Embryo was finally on the right track.

With the experience from the Dreamland, his progress in practicing the Pure Yang Sword Technique was obviously rapid.

More than ten days later, he suddenly opened his eyes, and the hand hanging in front of his body abruptly lifted, forming a hand seal.

With a “putt” sound, a slightly reddish sword Qi radiated from his fingertips, causing the surrounding air to hum and vibrate, appearing to be extremely sharp.

With the assistance of the Pure Yang Sword Embryo in his Dantian, he didn't need to practice the Pure Yang Sword Technique too deeply to emit Pure Yang Sword Qi.

Shen Luo moved his finger, the Pure Yang Sword Qi at his fingertips fell towards his left leg, and he began the practice of the first stage of the Great Unsealing Technique – Flaying.

Time flew by, and half a year passed in a blink.

Shen Luo was sitting cross-legged in a wooden tub in the house, his brows were deeply furrowed, his body emitting wavy blue light, like ripples of water swirling and churning, and his aura was much stronger than before.

After a while, the blue light on his body retracted like a long whale sucking water, merging back into his body as he opened his eyes.

Over the past six months, not only was he practicing the Great Unsealing Technique, but he was also using the remaining Dual-element True Water for cultivation.

The process of cultivating the Great Unsealing Technique was extremely painful, a continuous torment on the nerves. However, cultivating the Nameless Cultivation Technique was quite comfortable and able to sooth his tensed spirit. Alternating the two methods resulted in higher efficiency.

However, aided by his experience in the Dreamland, his cultivation of the Great Unsealing Technique was quite smooth. He had completed the three stages – Flaying, Cutting, and Carving and was now practicing the arrangement of meridians.

Arranging the meridians was much more difficult than the previous three stages. Even with the experience of Dreamland, he couldn't achieve it for the time being.

However, he had a feeling that he was not far from success.