Chapter 555: The Emperor's Ultimate Perfect Martial Art

Meng Dajiang and Liu Yebai had experienced too much; they had long seen through death and could calmly face its arrival. But what if they could live for a few more centuries, or even a millennium? Of course, they both wanted to live.

"Chuan'er, can you really do it?" Bai Nianyun, standing by, was a mix of excitement and apprehension.

"Yes," Meng Chuan nodded. "I'm confident." He was indeed confident.

Although life-extending treasures were rare, the weaker a person's strength, the easier it was to extend their life, especially up to the two-thousand-year mark, which was relatively straightforward. Extending the life of a Venerable or an Emperor, however, was significantly more difficult. For Tribulation Realm mighty figures, it was even harder.

The life-extending treasures in Ancestor Cang Yuan's treasury were all extraordinary, capable of extending the lives of Venerables, and some could even extend the lives of Emperors and Tribulation Realm mighty figures. However, Meng Chuan could only choose one! But in reality, by selecting one valuable item, Meng Chuan would, in the future, as a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure, be qualified to exchange it for five or six less potent life-extending treasures from the outer realm.

Meng Chuan's plan was to extend the lives of his wife, father, mother, and father-in-law. Extending his wife's life would be the most costly. His wife was a Peerless Godfiend, and her awakened Phoenix bloodline could even manifest 'Phoenix Divine Fire,' making the cost of extending her life higher than that of an ordinary Venerable. Conversely, the combined cost for the three elders would be lower than that for his wife, Liu Qiyue.

"Extend their lives by a millennium?" Meng Dajiang and Liu Yebai exchanged glances.

"Is it very difficult?" Meng Dajiang was a bit worried about his son.

"No, it's not difficult." Meng Chuan smiled as he looked at his father and father-in-law. What was cultivation for? It was for his homeland and for his family. Meng Chuan felt his cultivation had value only if he could make his family's lives better. If he were forever alone, even if he became completely invincible, what would be the point?

"Not difficult?" Meng Dajiang, Liu Yebai, and Bai Nianyun all looked at Meng Chuan, somewhat disbelieving.

"It's not difficult for me," Meng Chuan said with a smile. "Father-in-law, Dad, Mom, to be frank, I will soon reach the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm. A Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure can extend the lives of weaker cultivators."

"Fifth-level Tribulation Realm?"

Meng Dajiang, Bai Nianyun, and Liu Yebai had some understanding of the outer realm's information and roughly knew the power divisions within the Tribulation Realm. They understood that in human history, before Meng Chuan, a total of four Tribulation Realm mighty figures had emerged. The strongest was Ancestor Cang Yuan, and the second strongest, Emperor An Yang, was a Third-level Soul Tribulation Realm. And now their son, Meng Chuan, claimed he would soon reach the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm?

"Alright, we'll listen to you," Meng Dajiang said with a smile, looking at his son, then turned to Liu Yebai beside him. "Yebai, when do you plan to go into slumber?"

"In about a month. It's too sudden; I need to make some arrangements," Liu Yebai replied.

"Then a month it is," Meng Dajiang nodded.

A month later.

Within a grotto-heaven, amidst magnificent palace complexes, one of the palaces had already been set up with the 'A Thousand Years in a Flash' secret array formation. Meng Dajiang and Liu Yebai both fell into slumber, completely frozen in deep blue ice.

After Meng Dajiang went into slumber, Bai Nianyun felt even more isolated. Just one year later, Bai Nianyun sought out Meng Chuan, hoping to also go into slumber. "Let me slumber too. That way, when I wake up, I'll see Dajiang. Otherwise, being alone for a hundred years would be too difficult," Meng Chuan could not refuse his mother Bai Nianyun's request.

He could actually understand his mother. Because ever since his wife, Qiyue, went into slumber, he, too, had been tormented by loneliness. He also wished he could sleep and wake up to find his wife awake; how wonderful that life would be. But he was the only one not qualified to slumber, as he bore too many responsibilities.

"Alright," Meng Chuan agreed to his mother's request. His mother also went into slumber within the palace.

With both his parents in slumber, coupled with his son Meng An having traveled far into the outer realm, and his daughter Meng You having her own family and children, Meng Chuan felt even more alone. However, he faced all of this calmly. With his mental cultivation, he could fully endure the loneliness. He devoted himself entirely to cultivation, and his outer realm true body practiced long-term in the depths of the primordial chaos.

In a blink of an eye, eight years had passed since his father Meng Dajiang and father-in-law Liu Yebai went into slumber. In the depths of the primordial chaos, Meng Chuan had actually cultivated for over five hundred more years.

In the Wugu River Region, Tianfeng Galaxy, deep within the primordial chaos. With a flash of lightning, a white-haired man appeared in the region of the primordial chaos golden plate – it was Meng Chuan. The vast distance from the depths of the primordial chaos to the golden plate, measured in hundreds of millions of li, was traversed by Meng Chuan in an instant.

"This feeling?" "The feeling of truly mastering the 'Absolute Speed Rule'?" A hint of obsession gleamed in Meng Chuan's eyes. Just today, he had finally cultivated the 'Boundless Blade' to the complete stage of the Heavenly Realm, fully creating an ultimate peerless art at the Emperor's complete level. Meng Chuan had also mastered the 'Absolute Speed Rule'.

"Whoosh." Meng Chuan once again unleashed his movement technique, immediately feeling a powerful resistance against his body. He was flying, fighting against this immense resistance. Everything around him had come to a standstill. Completely still. Even light had stopped, and infinitesimally small particles in the outer realm void were frozen in place.

"Time suspension," Meng Chuan murmured, looking around him in all directions. The light from the primordial chaos golden plate, the sun star, and the moon star — all these lights had stopped. Everything had stopped. Only he was moving!

As a powerful life form, when his own speed reached the speed of light, he leaped out of the shackles of the time stream. At a specific 'point in time,' Meng Chuan had completely broken free and could continuously act within this time point. Everything in the outside world was stationary. Therefore, Meng Chuan could easily traverse hundreds of millions of li or even greater distances in an instant.

"Phew." After flying for billions of li, making a huge loop, Meng Chuan stopped, feeling tired. Time suspension constantly encountered resistance—the resistance of space-time—which made it exhausting, and Meng Chuan couldn't maintain it for long.

"Is this the power of a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm?" Meng Chuan whispered. "No wonder they say that for Tribulation Realm mighty figures, the gap between each successive level grows increasingly larger. Now, if I wanted to kill my past self from the 'Fourth-level Tribulation Realm,' that self would be captured before even seeing any enemy."

In the past, although his techniques had reached the 'threshold of the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm' in terms of power, that was not true Fifth-level Tribulation Realm power. To truly reach the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm, one's skill level must first reach that tier. For a body-cultivating Tribulation Realm, one also needed to integrate their insights into their physical body, elevating it to the corresponding level. Only when both aspects reached a sufficient height would the fifth physical tribulation be triggered. After Meng Chuan's 'Boundless Blade' reached the complete Emperor's level, his skill realm was considered to be at the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm tier, and his physical body had also been elevated to this stage. Only then could he truly be comparable to a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure.

"With just 'Time Suspension,' a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm figure can easily slay a Fourth-level Tribulation Realm figure," Meng Chuan mused inwardly. "Fifth-level Tribulation Realm figures like Old Ancestor Heilong, though their paths might differ from mine, all possess terrifying means, either through the void or the time lineage."

Among Fifth-level Tribulation Realm figures, their skill levels were generally comparable. Legends said there were also Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figures whose skill in techniques had reached the Sixth-level Tribulation Realm tier, but they deliberately remained at the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm because they were not confident in cultivating their physical bodies. Such beings were practically invincible among their peers, and if Meng Chuan were to encounter one now, he would be utterly defeated. Naturally, such existences were widely renowned, and Meng Chuan would not intentionally provoke them.

"Reaching the Fifth-level Tribulation Realm truly qualifies me to traverse the outer realm freely," Meng Chuan thought.

A Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure, as long as one true body remains hidden in their home life world, if someone wanted to kill that home true body across life worlds, only an Eighth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure could accomplish it. In reality, it was highly unlikely to find an Eighth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure in the vast river of time and space. Even an existence like Ancestor Cang Yuan had only encountered one in his entire life.

Therefore, from the perspective of self-preservation, a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure with one true body in their home world could already be considered 'unkillable.' Thus, even the most powerful factions would treat a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure with respect. There was no need to become a mortal enemy with a Fifth-level Tribulation Realm mighty figure.