Chapter 454: Cavernous Heaven Realm (Part 2)

This brought him uncontrollable joy.

Cultivation was precisely like this. A problem that had perplexed him for years, no matter how much he pondered it, would suddenly become clear one day with a small trigger! Everything would suddenly fall into place!

Of course, it was also possible that years of unconscious ‘accumulation’ had finally reached a critical point of qualitative change. As Meng Chuan wielded the Bloodblade Disk, fully activating its rune array, he naturally exerted himself to study it deeply, striving to unleash greater power. This process yielded more insights into the lightning lineage, including the ‘Nine Heavens Aspect,’ ‘Roaming Dragon Aspect,’ and ‘Yin-Yang Aspect.’

These accumulated insights were finally enough to spark Meng Chuan’s breakthrough.

“This is it.”

“This is what I wanted.” Meng Chuan found it increasingly easy to activate the Bloodblade Disk, and its power grew, allowing him to more easily block the ‘white snake.’

The Grotto-Heaven realm ultimate art in his mind was becoming increasingly refined. He quickly resolved problems as soon as they arose.

He was getting closer…

“Hmm?” Meng Chuan slightly frowned and glanced into the distance. Monarch Peacock and Saint Lord Qian Si had stopped their attacks. Clearly, fighting for half an hour required them to recover their strength and spirit.

The Black River surged.

“We’ll rest for half an hour, then resume our attack,” Monarch Peacock said confidently, gazing into the distance. “We can continuously absorb the power of the outside world, while their strength diminishes with every use. Once their elixirs and the power within their small grotto-heavens are depleted, that will be our time to close the net.”

“Black River Guards, you are the Black River Array’s only weakness,” Saint Lord Qian Si transmitted remotely. “The human Godfiends will surely try to deal with you.”

“Rest assured, Saint Lord Qian Si, these Godfiends cannot get close to us.”

“As for direct attacks, the Black River Array offers heavy resistance, preventing them from reaching us at all.”

“Only soul mystic techniques pose a threat. Our life-preserving boxes cannot withstand King Qianmu’s ‘Demonic Cone,’ so we must not let him get within fifty li.” The Black River Guards stated from afar, acknowledging their vulnerabilities. They knew that if King Zhenwu were to strike them with a punch, he could naturally obliterate them. Similarly, King Ronghuo’s Refining Fire Star Furnace could smash them to death with a forceful blow. However, King Zhenwu and King Ronghuo could not get close to them. From extreme distances, only King Qianmu could threaten them, so they only needed to focus their defenses on him.

Within King Zhenwu’s domain.

After the demon forces ceased their attacks, King Zhenwu, somewhat fatigued, sat cross-legged to recover his depleted energy. “Everyone, if these demons continue attacking, it will take me three days to fully recover. Junior Brother Meng, only after three days can we attempt to charge and see if we can get close to those eighteen guards.”

“Understood,” Meng Chuan replied, also sitting cross-legged. The eighteen bloodblades flew back to him, orbiting like a spherical world.

Inside the covered, semi-transparent Refining Fire Star Furnace, King Qianmu asked, “King Zhenwu, you cannot absorb the power of the outside world now. If you have to fight for three days, can your expended true essence recover? I have a small grotto-heaven that I can lend you.”

“No need,” King Zhenwu replied. “When I came to the World Gap years ago to fight, I killed many fifth-level demon kings and gained a lot of spoils, including a small grotto-heaven.” King Zhenwu looked at the numerous black chains entwining his domain and frowned. “Everyone, if you have time, study this mysterious array carefully. We know too little about it. In three days, Junior Brother Meng and I will attempt a charge, and the more we understand this array, the greater our chances of success.”

“This array…”

All the Godfiends observed it closely.

King Beimu said, “Those eighteen demon kings have numerous runes on their bodies. It seems their lives have been modified, and their life-saving abilities might be very strong.”

Peng Mu also nodded. “From a distance, the eighteen demon kings’ aura seemed to originate from the same source, suggesting they might have some joint techniques. They are the ones who wield this array and are its only weakness. The array’s creator will undoubtedly do everything to protect them.”

“They haven’t reached the demon saint level,” King Anhai said coldly. “So, while their life-saving abilities are strong, they are limited.”

“Given that they dare not approach within fifty li of us, they must fear King Qianmu’s Demonic Cone,” King Ronghuo added. “Their primary purpose is to maintain the array; their direct combat strength shouldn’t be too high.”

The Godfiends discussed and speculated.

Suddenly, they noticed that only one Godfiend among them remained silent, not uttering a word.

Meng Chuan sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, the eighteen bloodblades constantly flying around him, forming a spherical world.

“Buzz.”

The eighteen bloodblades that had been flying in front of Meng Chuan suddenly darted away, disappearing into the depths of the void with whooshing sounds.

“What is this?” King Zhenwu’s expression changed, and he looked at Meng Chuan in astonishment.

Meng Chuan opened his eyes, sensing with a hint of excitement that the eighteen bloodblades had penetrated into the deeper layers of the void.

“It worked, I succeeded.” Meng Chuan showed a look of excitement. The perfected Grotto-Heaven realm ultimate art in his mind had been verified by using the bloodblades.

“Junior Brother Meng?” King Zhenwu looked at Meng Chuan, his eyes gleaming. “The void your weapon penetrated is an extremely deep layer of the void. Although I can perceive it, I cannot reach that layer. Have you had a breakthrough?”

“What?” King Tongming and the other Marquis Godfiends hiding inside the Refining Fire Star Furnace stared at Meng Chuan in astonishment.

What an accomplishment King Zhenwu had in the void lineage. Meng Chuan’s weapon had penetrated a layer of the void that even King Zhenwu couldn’t reach?

“After many years in the World Gap, I’ve finally had a breakthrough,” Meng Chuan said, his face full of joy, without concealing anything. “My self-created lightning lineage ultimate art, ‘Cloud-Mist Dragon-Snake Movement Art,’ has finally reached the Grotto-Heaven realm.”

“A self-created lightning lineage ultimate art, reaching the Grotto-Heaven realm?” The Godfiends present exchanged glances.

Lightning lineage ultimate arts had a distinct characteristic. That was ‘speed.’

For example, the ‘Heaven-Earth Roaming Dragon Blade’ was known as humanity’s foremost movement art, renowned for its unpredictable evasion and terrifying speed.

Now it seemed... King Dongning, ‘Meng Chuan,’ would be even more formidable in terms of movement and speed!

“Other aspects aside, my Cloud-Mist Dragon-Snake Movement Art is quite adept at void traversal,” Meng Chuan said with a smile.

The Cloud-Mist Dragon-Snake Movement Art was superior to the ‘Heaven-Earth Roaming Dragon Blade’ in terms of movement.

Strictly speaking…

On this very day, Meng Chuan had created humanity’s greatest movement art!

To create humanity’s strongest movement art at the age of seventy-five, even with the opportunities provided by the World Gap, this talent was still brilliant enough to shine through all of history.

“Void traversal?” King Zhenwu looked at Meng Chuan, his eyes sparkling. “Junior Brother Meng, do you have confidence in breaking the array?”

“Breaking the array?” The other Godfiends were stunned. Why was breaking the array suddenly mentioned?

“I need to consolidate it first. I will break the array after roughly a quarter of an hour,” Meng Chuan said.

“King Dongning, do you really have confidence in breaking the array?” King Ronghuo, King Tongming, King Qianmu, and others showed looks of disbelief. Could the Black River Array, which had given them so much trouble, actually be broken?

“I’m not familiar with arrays,” Meng Chuan said with a chuckle. “I’ll try it alone first; I’d estimate an eighty percent chance. If I fail... I’ll team up with King Zhenwu and King Qianmu, and then we’ll have a hundred percent chance.”

“A hundred percent chance?” Everyone present was invigorated.

“King Dongning, please consolidate first.”

“No one disturb King Dongning.” These Godfiends were all incredibly excited.

With a thought, Meng Chuan began to enhance his strength.

Within his Dantian space, the source of the Seamless realm—that tiny, minuscule sphere—had countless incandescent white patterns on its surface. Streaks of white light shot outwards from the sphere’s ‘poles,’ forming special ripples that spread in all directions before returning to the sphere. At this moment, the sphere’s operational rules began transforming into the Grotto-Heaven realm mysteries of the Cloud-Mist Dragon-Snake Movement Art.

These more profound rules made the sphere more stable and allowed it to absorb more power. A vast amount of ‘small grotto-heaven’ world power was converted and absorbed.

This made the sphere’s power grow even larger, causing it to continue collapsing, becoming smaller and denser. Naturally, his seamless true essence became even purer!

“The demon array.” Meng Chuan also observed the black chains. Although this array was formidable, it couldn’t affect humanity’s strongest Grotto-Heaven realm movement art in history, as Meng Chuan could now penetrate deeper into the void than even Venerable Roaming Dragon, ‘Senior Ye Hong.’