Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1544: 835: Mirror Realm Expansion, Sudden Emergence of Divinity Transformation
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Tribulation clouds blanketed the sky above, while countless thunderstorms gathered into an immense ocean of lightning, lighting up the whole realm.
Zhao Sheng gazed upon the brilliant flashes streaking through the heavens, standing calmly with hands clasped behind him, enveloped in a steady stream of multicolored glow.
Suddenly, the Central Thick Earth Mirror rose from the ground below, astonishingly carrying its owner's form and fearlessly surging toward the boundless clouds of tribulation.
In a flash, a vivid yellow blaze erupted from the soil, bearing a matchless spirit of bravery, hurtling straight into the heart of the thunderous clouds.
Boom~
Right then, the skies appeared to grow wrathful, unleashing the full rage of their lightning storms.
All at once, a Five-clawed Thunder Dragon stretching a thousand feet, its scales and talons sharply defined, burst forth from the core of the enormous thunder sea. With a furious roar, the beast crossed hundreds of feet of emptiness in a blink, charging wildly at Zhao Sheng.
Facing the thousand-foot Thunder Dragon that gleamed with electric sparks, Zhao Sheng showed no sign of evasion; rather, he grinned and declared, “Good timing!”
No sooner had his words ended than the Five-clawed Thunder Dragon gaped its maw and engulfed him completely.
Rumble…
The Five-clawed Thunder Dragon burst apart abruptly, giving rise to a colossal sphere of thunder a thousand feet wide within the dark heart of the tribulation cloud, shining with overwhelming intensity.
For a brief instant, the thunder sphere's glow cut through the expansive tribulation clouds, resounding over thousands of miles of territory.
In that instant, myriad cultivators across a thousand-mile span jolted awake from the thunder's roar, prompting many to react swiftly—some peering toward the far-off stormy skies, others speeding this way on their artifacts.
One breath passed, and a shocking spectacle unfolded!
The enormous thunder sphere, brimming with fearsome force, could be seen contracting and fading visibly at great speed, vanishing entirely in a heartbeat.
Where it had been… now lingered a “black hole” spanning over thirty feet across.
Mysterious and profound, this black hole held an abyssal darkness, as if it could devour every bit of light from existence.
Boom!
Successive Five-clawed Thunder Dragons emerged from the vast thunder sea's depths, each one wielding destructive might, desperately slamming into the black hole.
The very next moment, every one of these Five-clawed Thunder Dragons got devoured by the black hole, leaving behind utter silence.
Yet the black hole grew ever more profound and shadowy, its borders showing faint warping, hinting that even the fabric of space-time felt its pull.
Witnessing this, the heavens raged harder, as the thunder sea whipped up towering waves, drawing inconceivable tribulation energy to its midst.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths!
The thunder sea shrank dramatically, its innermost core flaring with exceptional brilliance, where a colossal “thunder eye” the size of a mountain gradually took shape—starting hazy before sharpening swiftly.
With a cold, detached stare, the thunder eye fixed on the “black hole” some ten miles distant, emanating an aura of ultimate depth and supremacy.
The instant after, the thunder eye unleashed a never-before-seen burst of radiance, firing a purple thunder beam as wide as arms clasped together.
Shattering the void, the thunder beam struck the black hole's core without delay.
On this occasion, the black hole twisted ferociously, its rim contorting wildly before ballooning outward in every direction, growing over tenfold in size right away.
Lightning radiance banished the shadows, nearly tearing the black hole asunder, and faintly unveiling a huge, imposing giant silhouette that stood tall amid the gloom. Endless thunderstorms battered the giant's frame, yet they caused him no damage whatsoever, getting wholly sucked into his form.
All the while, five treasure mirrors orbited the giant,
These five treasure mirrors acted like tiny black holes themselves, voraciously drawing in the ceaseless storms and bolts of lightning.
In truth, that earlier “black hole” wasn't real; it stemmed from an optical trick born of total light consumption.
Boom!
As if incensed, the thunder eye flared repeatedly, sending golden, purple, and white lightning beams one after another through the void to hammer the giant.
Regrettably, the giant's body proved far too resilient; none of the beams that hit him inflicted any injury, getting fully consumed by his flesh instead.
With the moments ticking by, the giant's skin turned more lustrous and sheer, resembling forged gold, while his stature swelled to a towering twenty-nine feet.
Concurrently, profound shifts took place in the Mirror Realm tied to the Five Directions Treasure Mirror.
Huge volumes of tribulation thunder flooded the Mirror Realm, guided by the Formation's might into rivulets of electric essence that dropped into the ready Great Array.
The eighteen crystal array pillars ignited at once with countless glowing runes, as immense flows of electric essence coursed through the pillars and snaked underground, quickly enveloping every principle crystal along with the heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Next, through the Thunder Tribulation's forging force, the principle crystals and assorted heavenly materials and earthly treasures melted away rapidly, fusing together at last under Divine Thought's command.
Before long, ripples of law energies swept across the Mirror Realm, altering space-time edges that started stretching outward gradually.
The absent space-time borders materialized from nothing into heaps of earth and stone, which kept accumulating, linking up into an expansive plain that shaped a barren landscape.
This wondrous feat, much like crafting land from emptiness, echoed in the domains of the remaining four mirrors too; bolstered by the Thunder Tribulation's strength, the Five Directions Treasure Mirror's territories grew larger, and the inner laws achieved greater refinement.
For a century, Zhao Sheng hadn't focused on pushing his cultivation to peak perfection; rather, the bulk of his mental effort went toward nurturing the Five Directions Treasure Mirror.
Clearly, that century of dedication paid off, as the Mirror Realm's growth and broadening unfolded just as he had planned, without a hitch.
After half a day, the thunder eye depleted its last drops of tribulation energy and shattered, scattering into myriad lightning sparks.
Zhao Sheng darted across more than ten miles of emptiness, plunging into the lightning sparks, his body radiating splendid light that swiftly drew every spark within him.