<h4>Chapter 677: Dragon Ancestor’s Gift</h4>
The mes in the towering furnace reflected a glow on Meng Chuan’s face. Meng Chuan stood in front of the furnace, admiring it happily.
Meng Chuan knew himself very well. He was already very satisfied with clearing the second trial.
The third trial?
About half of the Seventh Tribtion Eminences in history couldn’t clear it. There was still a huge gap between him and a true Seventh Tribtion Eminence.
“It’s very rare for a Sixth Tribtion Eminence to clear the second trial,” said the turtle-shelled elder with a nod. “Your foundation is deep enough. You are very close to the Seventh Tribtion realm.”
Only experts who were close to the Seventh Tribtion realm had a chance of transcending the first two trials. It was impossible for them to transcend the first two trials if theycked in cultivation realm, willpower, and other aspects.
“Do you want to try the third trial?” asked the turtle-shelled elder.
“Although I know I can’t clear it, I have to give it a try,” said Meng Chuan with a smile.
The turtle-shelled elder nodded. “The third trial requires you to fly into the furnace through the venttion hole and experience the burning of the mes for five minutes. As long as you can withstand the mes for five minutes without being destroyed... it will be considered a sess. If you die or can’t take it and choose to escape through the venttion hole, it will be considered a failure.
“If you can’t hold on any longer, quickly escape because I’ll give you a treasureter,” said the turtle-shelled elder with a smile.
“Treasure?” Meng Chuan’s eyes lit up.
A treasure bestowed by the Dragon Ancestor!
Although Ancestral Master Archean Eon was rich, apart from the Eternal treasure he had, he was far inferior to an Eighth Tribtion Eminence’s wealth in every other aspect.
In the River of Spacetime’s history, the Dragon Ancestor was publicly recognized as the wealthiest Eighth Tribtion Eminence! Just the cost of building the Nine Trials Pagoda was enough to belittle all Seventh Tribtion Eminences! The basic materials used to build the Nine Trials Pagoda were only a small portion of its value. The most expensive thing about it was the setting up of the Nine Trials. For example, clearing the so-called ninth trial... supposedly allowed one to attain Eternity. To have such a rumor, it had to be, at least, recognized by many Eighth Tribtion Eminences.
How could such a wealthy Eighth Tribtion Eminence give him a small gift?
“Those who are invited to the Nine Trials Pagoda are all guests of the Dragon Ancestor. The Dragon Ancestor will give them a treasure on their first visit,” said the turtle-shelled elder.
Meng Chuan nodded slightly.
Although they were all invited guests, the treasures given by the Dragon Ancestor were of different grades.
Guests who had a chance of reaching the Eighth Tribtion realm, guests who had no hope of reaching the Eighth Tribtion realm, the elderly or the young...
Meng Chuan knew there was a difference.
<i>Back when Ancestral Master Archean Eon entered the Nine Trials Pagoda for the first time, he cleared the third trial. The treasures bestowed by the Nine Trials Pagoda were worth a million cubes. ording to Ancestral Master Archean Eon, it’s neither high nor low.</i> Meng Chuan thought to himself that the Eminences who had been to the Nine Trials Pagoda would also exchange information. He heard that the worst treasures were worth hundreds of thousands of cubes and the ordinary ones were worth a million cubes.
<i>I wonder what treasure the Nine Trials Pagoda will give me.</i> Meng Chuan was also wondering.
The Dragon Ancestor didn’t appear in this era. The Dragon Ancestor had set the rules for the gifting in advance. The Nine Trials Pagoda’s array spirit only needed to follow the rules.
<i>I’ll first attempt the third trial.</i> Meng Chuan didn’t think too much about it as he instantly formed another Essence Soul avatar.
The new Essence Soul avatar flew into the furnace through the venttion hole.
...
<i>Boom!</i>
The furnace’s mes burned terrifyingly. When Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar flew in, he could sense the mes’ terrifying might.
Thankfully, he had already grasped the spatialw. With a thought, he formed an Absolute Space around him.
The Absolute Space suppressed the mes on a spatial level. Furthermore, countlessyers of space formed around Meng Chuan. Although it looked like it only spanned ten feet, there were indeed innumerable spatialyers. One moment, it might be trillions ofyers, but the next moment, it would split into tens of trillions ofyers. These spatialyers would vary with the mes.
Meng Chuan took advantage of the situation. The changes in the spatialyers were to suppress, block, and weaken the mes.
Just Absolute Space alone could easily kill a top Sixth Tribtion Eminence. If he wasn’t willing, those Sixth Tribtion Eminences would never be able to touch Meng Chuan.
This was the difference between the two parties.
A peak Sixth Tribtion Eminence had a status close to that of a half-step Seventh Tribtion Eminence. For example, they held a Deputy Patroller Token in White Avian Hall.
<i>I can barely hold on?</i> Inside the furnace, Meng Chuan could suppress the furnace mes. The mes could only reach three feet away from Meng Chuan.
<i>As expected of the spatialw. With this move, I can fight Seventh Tribtion Eminences.</i> Meng Chuan sighed inwardly.
When Meng Chuan entered the furnace, the furnace mes were suppressed by Absolute Space at the beginning. However, the mes slowly became stronger as time passed.
<i>Boom!</i>
The dark-red furnace mes intensified as they constantly encroached Meng Chuan.
Although the trillions of spatialyers around Meng Chuan changed ordingly, they were still burned throughyer byyer. Even though Meng Chuan used various methods to deal with the mes—ttening them to two dimensions, orpressing the space into a tiny me of annihtion... the mes’ might became stronger and stronger. Even space was burned to smithereens, bing the most primitive spatial lepton.
Space was alsoposed of leptons as well.
Normally, slicing through space was like slicing through a piece of tofu, but the essence of the tofu remained the same.
However, the mes burned space into its lepton cluster state.
<i>How do I block it? I need strongerws.</i> Meng Chuan condensed a ck protectiveyer around his body. He tried to use the spatialw, leptonw, and lightningw to form the Chaos Hole’s profundities.
<i>Comprehending an Originsw isn’t possible in a short period of time.</i> Meng Chuan sensed howcking he was.
These threews already covered about 90% of the Chaos Holew’s profundities. Meng Chuan still needed to umte more insights and grasp the remaining profundities. It was rtively easy to umte more insights with time.
After that, he would consolidate all his insights!
Combining everything together to form the Chaos Holew was difficult.
It took him quite some time to gain spatial insights until he reached a threshold andprehended the spatialw.
<i>Furthermore, I will still be affected by karma at thebination stage.</i> Meng Chuan still remembered that he had made a karmic promise that he would kill three Sixth Tribtion forbidden creatures when he was at the Sixth Tribtion realm. If he didn’t break through to the Seventh Tribtion realm, he naturally wouldn’t be affected.
But since he was close to the boundary, this karma would begin to obstruct him. It would prevent him fromprehending a Seventh Tribtionw. His future cultivation would be affected. Thus, Meng Chuan had to resolve the karma.
<i>Three Sixth Tribtion forbidden creatures.</i> Meng Chuan was very confident. After all, a Sixth Tribtion forbidden creature had strength simr to an ordinary Sixth Tribtion Eminence.
<i>Boom!</i>
As he thought of the forbidden creatures, the mes continued to encroach deeper. Meng Chuan was helpless as he watched the resistance put up by Absolute Space weaken.
<i>I can’t hold on any longer.</i> The mes finally touched the ck protectiveyer on Meng Chuan’s body. The ck protectiveyer was useless as it was still burned through.
The moment it burned through—
<i>Chi—</i>
Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar waspletely annihted. Even the lepton cluster dissipatedpletely.
Clearly, a Lepton Undying Body was nothingpared to the furnace’s fire.
<i>I have tost for five minutes?</i> Outside the furnace, Meng Chuan’s other Essence Soul avatar watched and sighed. <i>I onlysted for a minute.</i>
“To clear the third trial, grasping an Originsw is the most basic requirement. Otherwise, it’s impossible for you to withstand it,” said the turtle-shelled elder with a smile. “It’s already very rare for a Sixth Tribtion Eminence like you tost a minute inside.”
Meng Chuan had to admit this.
If one hadn’tprehended a spatialw, even a Sixth Tribtion Eminence—who had powerful life-preservation means—would be instantly annihted in the furnace.
“You failed the third trial.” The turtle-shelled elder looked at Meng Chuan. “Do you want to try again, or do you want to give up? If you give up, I can give you treasures ording to Dragon Ancestor’s rules.”
“Of course, I’ll give up,” said Meng Chuan.
The earlier he obtained the treasures, the better. After tens of thousands of years, when he was strong enough, the treasures would only be icing on the cake.
The turtle-shelled elder looked at the furnace. With a boom, the rotary valve automatically turned in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. At the same time, the mes in the furnace werepletely extinguished.
“Meng Chuan, you’ve cultivated for a total of 5,393 years.” The turtle-shelled elder looked at Meng Chuan. “It’s considered very rare for you to pass the Nine Trials Pagoda’s second trial. ording to the rules set by Dragon Ancestor, I can offer you three treasures—from which you shall choose one.”
With that said, the turtle-shelled elder waved his hand.
Three illusory figures appeared in front of him.
The first illusory figure was a crystalline, irregr fragment. Meng Chuan felt an inexplicable fondness for it just by looking at it. He liked it from the bottom of his heart. He felt that this fragment was more beautiful than anything he had ever seen.
“An Essence Soul Eighth Tribtion Eminence took the initiative to offend an Eternal existence’s home universe before his death. Perhaps he wanted to personally experience the means left behind by an Eternal existence,” said the turtle-shelled elder. “In the end... that Essence Soul Eighth Tribtion Eminence’s Essence Soul shattered into many fragments, and he died instantly. This fragment... is an Essence Soul fragment left behind by that Essence Soul Eighth Tribtion Eminence after he died.”
Meng Chuan found it unbelievable. <i>He died despite his Essence Soul fragments still being present?</i>
Even Meng Chuan could survive as long as a sliver of his Essence Soul remained.
“You still don’t know much about the life and death of Eighth Tribtion Eminences since they are beyond the River of Spacetime,” said the turtle-shelled elder. “Even if their bodies and Essence Souls are intact, Eternal existences can still kill them.”
Meng Chuan fell into deep thought. <i>Eternal?</i>
The Essence Soul Eighth Tribtion Eminence probably knew how terrifying an Eternal was. However, he was close to the end of his lifespan. If he didn’t give it a try, he wouldn’t have a chance. To personally experience the means left behind by an Eternal existence was a cmity, but it was also an opportunity to break through to be Eternal.
“The second treasure.” The turtle-shelled elder pointed at the second illusory figure.
The second illusory figure had three rings: ck, white, and gray.
“You should be following the Chaos Hole lineage. This is an Eighth Tribtion treasure array formation that uses the Chaos Holew as its core—the Tri-Ring Chaos Hole Array,” said the turtle-shelled elder. “Each Tri-Ring treasure is an Eighth Tribtion treasure worth a million cubes. It’s even rarer whenbined. Most of the weapons and treasures used by Seventh Tribtion Eminences aren’t as powerful as this.”
Meng Chuan’s eyes burned. This was the strongest treasure he had ever seen in the Chaos Hole lineage. Eternal Tower wouldn’t sell such an item to outsiders.
“The third and final treasure.” The turtle-shelled elder pointed at the final illusory figure. It was a token. “A rare treasure—Spacetime Token. It can only be used when one has grasped a spatialw,” said the turtle-shelled elder.
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