Chapter 447: Shackles Targeting Emperors

Tian Yun stood silently in the void, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

Compared to Zhu Dong and Su Yanlan, his condition was considerably better.

Although the shockwave generated by the lightning had also swept across his body, he had managed to avoid the brunt of the attack.

His Supreme Daoist Physique was extraordinary, and the traces of his former Dao still remained within his foundation.

Besides, his cultivation base was also much higher, having already attained immortality, which gave him more leverage to resist the Lightning Tribulation Divine Deity.

However, this did not mean that he could underestimate the Lightning Tribulation Divine Deity.

That single bolt of lightning had already demonstrated the terrifying difference between their current strengths.

Zhu Dong and Su Yanlan had both been severely injured despite their extraordinary foundations, and even Tian Yun had been forced to evade rather than confront the attack directly.

The Lightning Tribulation Divine Deity, on the other hand, had merely flicked his finger.

What would happen if he were to unleash his full strength?

Tian Yun’s gaze remained fixed upon the young man clad in golden armor.

This is going to be difficult.

It was not that he had never faced enemies stronger than himself.

In his previous life, he had fought against countless supreme beings, some of whom possessed cultivation and foundations that could make the heavens tremble.

He had experienced battles in which even a moment of carelessness could result in the destruction of his physical body and the annihilation of his Essence Soul.

But those battles had been fought when he possessed the strength of a supreme Immortal God overlooking the endless heavens, at least above the Immortal Sovereign Realm.

His current situation was entirely different.

He was only a Vagrant Immortal.

Even with his Supreme Daoist Physique, and the profound memories of his previous life, there was still an enormous gap between him and a genuine Heaven Immortal.

Furthermore, the Lightning Tribulation Divine Deity was no ordinary Heaven Immortal.

He was the head disciple of the Thunder God Palace, the foremost Dao lineage in the Upper Realm’s Second Great Immortal World.

His foundation, Divine Powers, and comprehension of the worldly laws were undoubtedly extraordinary.

Even among Heaven Immortals, he was likely an extremely powerful existence.

Tian Yun could not help but sigh inwardly.

If only I had more time...

If he could recover even a fraction of his former cultivation, the situation might have been entirely different.

Unfortunately, time was precisely what the Cleansing refused to grant them.

At the same time there was another problem far more troublesome than the difference in cultivation.

Tian Yun’s consciousness gradually sank into the depths of his Essence Soul, where countless fragments of memories remained sealed.

Among them were the Divine Powers and secret techniques he had created or mastered in his previous life.

There were techniques capable of manipulating space and time, methods that could interfere with the River of Destiny, and supreme Divine Powers that could unleash strength far beyond the limitations of his current cultivation.

Under normal circumstances, although he could not use all of them at their former peak, he should still have been able to mobilize certain fragments of their power.

Yet when he attempted to reach those memories, he sensed an invisible obstruction.

It was so faint that an ordinary cultivator would never have noticed it.

However, Tian Yun was different.

He had once been an Immortal Emperor and was intimately familiar with the principles governing karma, fate, and the relationship between one’s existence and the power one possessed.

The obstruction was not a restriction imposed by his current body, nor was it caused by an insufficient cultivation foundation.

It was something far more profound.

The power of karma, the same invisible force that had prevented Zhu Dong and Su Yanlan from activating their Essence Soul Blood was also interfering with the trump cards left behind by his former self.

Tian Yun’s expression became increasingly grave.

So, even my former Divine Powers are affected.

He had already suspected that the restriction was connected to the Cleansing.

Now, however, he had received further confirmation.

The power that prevented them from using their former strength was not limited to Essence Soul Blood.

It seemed to encompass anything that could allow them to temporarily transcend their current cultivation and unleash power belonging to their previous existences.

In other words, the restriction was targeting their former strength itself.

It became more terrifying the more one thought about it.

Even an Immortal Emperor’s legacy could be interfered with through karma?

No, that was not entirely accurate.

An Immortal Emperor’s true power could reverse cause and effect, manipulate fate, and sever countless karmic connections.

Under ordinary circumstances, such a restriction should not have been sufficient to prevent an Emperor from using their own power.

Unless, of course, the karma involved in the Cleansing had already reached an unimaginable level, or the being who established that connection possessed a status that allowed them to interfere with the power of those beneath them.

Tian Yun’s eyes became profound.

He had once stood at the pinnacle of the Great World and knew how difficult it was to interfere with an Immortal Emperor’s existence.

Even among Emperors, such actions could provoke terrifying consequences.

Yet someone had established a restriction that could interfere with the trump cards of a former Emperor.

What kind of existence could accomplish such a thing?

Just an Immortal Emperor?

Tian Yun was not convinced that the matter was so simple.

There were certain things that even Immortal Emperors could not casually accomplish, and there were certain beings whose existence transcended even the conventional understanding of cultivation.

The Unspeakable Existences.

Tian Yun’s thoughts briefly paused at that title.

He could not be certain whether the mastermind behind the Cleansing belonged to that level.

He did not even know whether such a being was personally involved.

However, he understood that if he forcibly attempted to break through the restriction using his former power, he might attract the attention of the existence responsible for it.

If that truly happened, the consequences would be disastrous.