Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2380: 195: The End Arrives (Part 2)
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Even though, the act of refining those three magic wands for him continued to feel like giving wings to an already fierce tiger.
Now that he had fully grasped these four magic wands, Wang Ba began to develop fresh insights into the principles governing earth, fire, water, and wind out of the six elements.
His gaze returned once more to the Immortal Pass Wall, now lit up by the glow of the four magic wands.
Within that wall, subtle golden motifs could be faintly seen shifting about.
This time around, there was no delay on his part. With just a mere intention, the four magic wands swiftly grew in size, resembling four immense jade columns stretching endlessly upward, plunging straight into it.
“Boom!”
The four magic wands slammed against the wall, immediately whipping up a storm of ripples!
Bits of those enigmatic golden patterns got tossed around.
Wang Ba fixed his eyes on a single divine pattern, observing how it scattered, dropped, and glided into the domain without so much as a blink, and the more he observed, the more details emerged, delving ever further.
The teachings of the Supreme True Buddha swirled repeatedly through his thoughts.
The insights from mastering the four magic wands streamed through his mind like flowing water.
The enigmatic golden pattern he concentrated on within the Immortal Pass gradually magnified in his vision…
The mysterious golden pattern before his eyes expanded and slowed until, in one particular instant, it appeared to shatter some kind of barrier.
Hua——
The tiny, dust-like golden pattern in his view instantly morphed into an entire world!
Within this world existed the sun and moon, towering mountains and flowing rivers, vast lakes and boundless seas, gusting winds, pouring rain, crackling thunder, flashing lightning, and all manner of living beings in motion…
But in a flash, the world crumbled, leaving only calm in its wake.
All dharmas emerge due to causes, all dharmas end due to causes…
Having borne witness to this instant, a whole world had come into being and vanished right before his eyes.
Through its creation and collapse, he at last caught a glimpse of the essence behind the rules of earth, fire, water, and wind.
Impossible to describe, impossible to depict, splendor far exceeding what anyone could envision.
“Do the four great rules really possess such a form?”
He remained dazed, automatically contrasting these rules with those understood by fellow cultivators, but for the moment, no parallels came to mind.
His grasp of the four great rules was only superficial awareness; he was nowhere near comfortable with them, let alone proficient or able to wield them, much like an infant facing rules he already knew well.
Yet this hardly signified anything crucial.
The key point was that the Immortal Pass standing before him no longer appeared as an utterly baffling entity in his perception.
It was as if the mist had cleared, unveiling a colossal mountain whose peak remained out of sight.
Even if the mountain stretched on forever, he had at least spotted the path forward.
“Now, everything depends on these four wands.”
Wang Ba turned his attention to the four magic wands embedded in the wall like anchoring spikes, compelling his Primordial Spirit to channel immortal power into each one individually.
The four magic wands swelled once more!
Ten thousand miles, a hundred thousand miles… even millions of miles…
Vibrant, multicolored radiance churned, sending surges across the Immortal Pass Wall that seemed poised to shatter the ancient barrier imprisoning the Sea of Chaos Realm for eons!
Fifteen minutes passed.
A subtle shift appeared on Wang Ba’s face.
From his perception, the four magic wands had pierced through the Immortal Pass, but they showed no sign of reaching its far side.
“Still can’t break through the Immortal Pass?”
“Exactly how vast is the thickness of this Immortal Pass Wall?”
A weight settled in Wang Ba’s thoughts.
After a moment of uncertainty, he retrieved the Silkworm Dragon Staff, which he hadn’t yet fully refined.
The instant the Silkworm Dragon Staff appeared, the other four magic wands burst into brilliant light!
The Silkworm Dragon Staff itself quivered faintly, positioning itself naturally in the midst among the four wands.
As if it were the chief among these four wands, directing their actions.
In that instant, the four wands appeared to subtly merge as one!
Enlightenment dawned in Wang Ba’s mind, and his Primordial Spirit prompted an immediate response.
The Silkworm Dragon Staff rose slightly, while the four wands fanned out toward the cardinal directions in harmony.
A torrent of multicolored light erupted, turning the calm surface of the Immortal Pass Wall into a raging ocean!
At the heart where the four wands converged, a subtle indentation formed!
Peering through that indentation, he dimly perceived the emptiness beyond…
“Could that be… the exterior of the Sea of Chaos Realm?!!”
A mix of shock and joy surged in Wang Ba’s heart!
However, the very next instant brought pallor to his features, as the draining pull from the five magic staffs’ demand on his Primordial Spirit spiked abruptly!
In nearly no time at all, his Primordial Spirit—comparable to that of a late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator—was almost entirely depleted!
It felt as though his Primordial Spirit was on the verge of total consumption.
“This is bad!”
Wang Ba’s heart jolted severely.
The sheer volume of Primordial Spirit required by the five magic staffs to challenge the Immortal Pass surpassed anything he had anticipated!
Yet he acted with firm resolve, instantly releasing his hold on the five magic staffs.
The glow from the five magic staffs faded in a heartbeat.
The nearby ‘sea surface’ swiftly returned to stillness.
The depressed void filled itself back up.
The five magic staffs then dropped quietly, orbiting him with gentle spins.
Sensing his Black Hole Primordial Spirit teetering on the edge of breakdown, Wang Ba hastily swallowed a multitude of Primordial Spirit-restoring Elixirs, his face regaining some color, though his mind weighed heavy as he pondered rapidly:
“Combining the four staffs with the Silkworm Dragon Staff ought to suffice for breaching the Immortal Pass, but depending solely on my own power, it’s utterly out of reach.”
“No… I suspect that even typical Mahayana Cultivators might not endure such a horrifying drain!”
Reflecting on the terrifying ordeal moments ago, a chill of dread ran through Wang Ba.
He had dealings with Mahayana Cultivators, and while he hadn’t faced it himself, he could roughly deduce that even Master Chao back then would have been forced to retreat against the pull of the five magic staffs.
“The whole Immortal Pass functions as a single unit; attempting to force an exit with the five magic staffs equates to clashing against the laws embedded throughout the entire Immortal Pass. This barrier was most probably established by Tibo, whose might defies comprehension. Even leveraging the magic staffs’ strength, the odds of triumph remain perilously slim.”
Thus, merely creating a minor breach felt equivalent to launching a direct assault on Tibo himself across boundless epochs.
Had he not detected the danger in time and severed the connection swiftly, he could have suffered a backlash from the five magic staffs, leading straight to his demise!
To consider that this was only ruffling a tiny section of the Immortal Pass’s disturbances, and it was already too much to bear.
“There’s evidently a viable approach… but it turns out to be so demanding…”
A uncommon feeling of injustice welled up within Wang Ba.
For, when weighed against shattering the Immortal Pass and confronting Tibo’s power, directly opposing the Supreme True Buddha’s influence appeared somewhat less daunting.
Yet on the Supreme True Buddha’s front, the Cloud Sky Realm’s collapse had already demonstrated that route was hopelessly blocked.
And shattering the Immortal Pass likely demanded more than one Mahayana could provide.
“Hold on, if the five magic staffs offer a chance to pierce the Immortal Pass, then obtaining the final magic staff might allow me to employ the Six Candle Stick of Tongyou to distribute the burden of the Immortal Pass?”
A spark of idea struck Wang Ba, leading him to explore further options:
“One Mahayana alone won’t cut it, but what if each handles a single magic staff?”
“Six Mahayana, bolstered by the Six Candle Stick of Tongyou, integrated with a Formation to spread the Primordial Spirit drain across countless cultivators…”
“Tibo’s power may be immense, but this is merely a barrier he devised, not his actual form present. And after endless years of erosion, the Immortal Pass has weakened considerably… this approach could succeed!”
“The sole challenge lies in locating six Mahayana willing to join me in breaching the Immortal Pass.”
His eyebrows knit together unbidden.
Even across the four Great Realms of Duanhai Cliff, only four Mahayana existed. With Master Chao and the Xiahou Demon’s demise, Mahayana Cultivators had grown even scarcer.
“Still… the position of the ultimate magic staff in the Six Candle Stick of Tongyou can be pinpointed.”
Wang Ba mulled over this in his mind.
Relative to the hard-to-find six Mahayana, the location of the remaining magic staff was far more straightforward.
As he contemplated.
A sudden flutter stirred in his heart; from his sleeve, he drew a Dao Treasure for relaying messages and activated it softly.
From the Dao Treasure emanated the somewhat grave tone of Chongyuan Patriarch:
“An irregularity has surfaced in the primary vein of the Realm Sea whirlpool, prompting the activation of the Heavenly Observation Mirror…”
Upon hearing this, Wang Ba’s heart dipped slightly.
Have the forces of the Supreme True Buddha at last made their entrance?
…
Precisely then.
In a desolate, vacant stretch of void inside the Sea of Chaos Realm.
The void twisted soundlessly, slowly shaping into a vortex.
A few breaths afterward.
A monk bearing a face of benevolence and a third eye upon his brow emerged gradually from within.
He surveyed his surroundings, recalling the long-absent sense of familiarity, and emotion tinged his voice:
“Sea of Chaos Realm… I’ve come back again.”