Chapter 511 - 449: So What?!

Yet, facing this terrifying, apocalyptic sea of lightning that blotted out the sky, Qi Yun’s expression remained calm and resolute. He didn’t even look up at the thunderous expanse pressing down upon him. He merely took a short breath and, once again, raised his left foot.

THUD!

He took another step forward!

"Insolent!" Amidst the unseen depths, a cold and merciless voice of the Celestial Dao seemed to reverberate!

BOOM!

The sky-obscuring sea of lightning crashed down, as if an entire Immortal Realm of thunder had manifested in the sky! Billions of pale gray heavenly lightning bolts tore through the firmament. Carrying the absolute will to obliterate all anomalies, they wildly struck and rained down upon that tiny, yet striking, deep blue silhouette! The sheer density of the lightning had completely transformed a million-mile radius around Qi Yun into a thunderous Purgatory! Every inch of space was filled with tyrannical, destructive lightning energy!

BUZZ!

The moment the first wave of tens of thousands of heavenly lightning bolts illuminated Qi Yun’s indifferent face, the Primordial Daluo Dao Intent that had remained restrained around him erupted! Boundless, majestic, and heavy, a chaotic radiance—seemingly containing the essence of all colors since the dawn of creation—instantly intertwined and condensed above his head. It formed a Chaotic Auspicious Cloud no more than thirty feet in diameter!

The Auspicious Cloud slowly rotated, draping down billions of Chaos Color Daoist Intent halos resembling beaded tassels that tightly shielded Qi Yun. Upon the Auspicious Cloud, faint illusions of earth, water, fire, and wind evolved. The sun, moon, and stars rose and fell, and scenes of the birth and death of all things circulated. Furthermore, a supreme Realm that was immune to the Ten Thousand Laws, repelled all evil, and established the absolute supremacy of his Dao permeated the air!

CRACKLE!

The first wave of heavenly lightning ruthlessly struck the Chaotic Auspicious Cloud! The pale gray heavenly lightning, capable of severely injuring a True Monarch, hit the Chaotic Auspicious Cloud only to react like raindrops falling onto a red-hot iron plate. It was instantly melted and assimilated by the chaotic radiance circulating on the cloud’s surface! Qi Yun did not halt his steps. Bearing the Chaotic Auspicious Cloud and braving the endless, increasingly furious storm of heavenly lightning, he resolutely ascended upwards, step by step!

THUD! THUD! THUD!

His footsteps treaded upon the void, the sea of lightning, and the coercion of the Celestial Dao, producing dull yet earth-shattering Daoist sounds!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The sea of lightning boiled! The density and power of the heavenly lightning began to multiply madly! The pale gray lightning gradually became tinged with dark gold! Thunder dragons expanded in size, their roars shattering the clouds for tens of thousands of miles! Every bolt of heavenly lightning that fell caused the Chaotic Auspicious Cloud to tremble slightly, its surface radiance flickering unsteadily!

CRACK!

Finally, after Qi Yun took his umpteenth thousandth step, a bolt of heavenly lightning as thick as a celestial pillar and entirely wrapped in a dark gold hue viciously tore through the lightning sea and heavily smashed into the Chaotic Auspicious Cloud.

POP!

With a faint sound like a bursting bubble, the previously unshakeable Chaotic Auspicious Cloud was pierced, leaving a fist-sized hole! Although the hole was instantly mended by the surging chaotic radiance around it, a sliver of danger slipped through.

SIZZLE!

A strand of dark golden lightning, no thicker than a hair but refined to the absolute extreme and containing the will of Profound Yellow, viciously struck Qi Yun’s left shoulder!

BANG!

There was no spraying of blood or snapping of bones. The moment Qi Yun’s left shoulder was struck, it vanished silently and utterly, like a pencil drawing erased from a page! Tumultuous chaotic radiance surged and cycled through creation and destruction around the wound!

"Mmph..." Qi Yun’s figure swayed slightly, his brows knitting in an almost imperceptible frown. But that was all.

BUZZ!

The chaotic radiance surged around him. As the colorful light flowed over his missing left shoulder and arm, they rapidly grew, condensed, and reconstructed at a visible rate! In the blink of an eye, they had completely recovered. His skin’s texture shimmered with a faint Chaos Color luster, as if he had never been injured. However, this first instance of his defenses being breached and his Daoist Body being wounded seemed to flip a dangerous switch.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

More and more heavenly lightning continually pierced through the Auspicious Cloud’s defenses, bombarding Qi Yun’s Daoist Body!

His chest was torn open, revealing the rushing chaotic Star River within... His back was punctured, manifesting the endless evolution of all things... His legs were blown apart, turning into the four primal currents of earth, water, fire, and wind...

Under the increasingly dense and terrifying bombardment of the heavenly lightning, Qi Yun’s figure was continuously wounded and Broken! His ascending steps also began to grow slower and heavier! Every step he took required several times more mental fortitude than before to resist the heavenly lightning, repair his Daoist Body, and fight against the pervasive coercion of the Celestial Dao!

His Deep Blue Daoist Robe was in tatters, revealing his wound-riddled Daoist Body. His black hair danced wildly in the lightning, sometimes mostly scorched away by the thunder-fire, only to instantly regenerate amidst the chaotic radiance. Yet, his determined, bright eyes remained fixed ahead, without a trace of dimming!

At the same time, high above the Celestial Vault, beyond All Marvelous Heaven, in an esoteric plane that transcended Heaven and Earth and the bounds of time.

At some unknown moment, two blurry figures had quietly appeared there. They silently looked down upon the tragic yet magnificent ascension battle below, watching one man defy the will of an entire realm. The figure on the left wore a plain, dark Daoist Robe. He stood tall, his face shrouded in a faint mist. The figure on the right was even blurrier—its clothing indiscernible, its gender indistinguishable, and its specific aura unfathomable. It only exuded a peculiar, transcendent presence, as if it existed alongside all things yet stood above them.

At this moment, witnessing Qi Yun’s Daoist Body being continuously shattered by the heavenly lightning, his steps growing sluggish, yet his gaze remaining unwaveringly resolute, the face of the dark-robed figure hidden beneath the mist seemed to shift slightly.