Chapter 556: Meng Chuan Hurries On

The Blackhole Gold Disk region.

The white-haired Meng Chuan sat cross-legged in the void. In front of him, Outer Realm Origin Crystals floated, slowly disintegrating and transforming into an incredibly turbulent wave of 'Outer Realm Origin Energy' that surged into Meng Chuan's body. After a long while, the nine Outer Realm Origin Crystals before him were completely absorbed.

"I've used 150 Outer Realm Origin Crystals, and it's almost enough," Meng Chuan said as he opened his eyes.

After elevating his Endless Saber technique to the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm, he had now also fully raised his Dantian True Essence and physical body to the Perfection of the Primal Sovereign stage.

Strictly speaking, his physical body was still a tiny bit short of perfection.

Meng Chuan looked at his left arm; one patch of skin hadn't reached its peak. "Just one Outer Realm Origin Crystal will be enough to patch up this last flaw. I have a feeling that once it's fixed, my physical body should be complete."

"Although my Outer Realm True Body absorbed fewer Primal Stones than my home world's True Body, it can still achieve perfection."

Achieving physical perfection is exceptionally difficult.

Many Sovereigns reach the Perfection stage in their techniques, but if their physical body can't achieve perfection, they cannot transcend into the Tribulation realm.

However, for cultivators who have created their own 'Sovereign-level ultimate techniques,' perfection is very easy. This is because their self-created techniques are the most perfect, and cultivating their physical body based on these techniques will undoubtedly lead to perfection and entry into the Tribulation realm.

"If you miss the Sovereign stage, you miss it forever."

"I should return to my home world during the Primal Sovereign stage to refine enough Primal Stones. Then I can enter the Physical Tribulation realm," Meng Chuan thought to himself.

For those who cultivate the physical body, intentionally holding back their realm is quite easy.

They simply need to avoid elevating their physical body.

"Before returning to my home world..." The white-haired Meng Chuan gazed distantly in one direction. As a life-form comparable to a Fifth Tribulation realm mighty expert, his perception of karma was incredibly sharp, sensing the threads of karma affecting him.

Many karmic connections led towards the Three Bay River System.

However, two karmic threads connected to a direction slightly to his front left.

"I can sense the location."

"Based on the Spacetime Territory Map, it's within the Wugu River Domain, specifically the Myriad Horn River System." Meng Chuan frowned slightly. "Is the Myriad Horn River System Senior Pang Ming's home world?"

When Meng Chuan received Senior Pang Ming's treasure back then, he formed a karmic bond.

After reaching the Tribulation realm, he was to take a Venerable from the 'Pang Ming World' as a disciple and guide them to become a Sovereign.

"This karmic bond is affecting me more and more." Meng Chuan had noticed this.

His true cultivation time had now reached 1,500 years.

His Endless Saber technique had now reached the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm.

Meng Chuan was no longer afraid of the mental influence of his Nirvana Saber technique, and was also cultivating it. He spent less time on it and didn't use it as the foundation for his physical body or Essence Soul cultivation. It had also long since reached the 'Late Heaven and Earth Realm,' not far from the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm.

Karma had little temporary effect on these two ultimate techniques because the path to reaching the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm was very clear.

However, Meng Chuan's Cloud Mist Dragon-Snake Movement had already reached the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm a long time ago. After that, there was no clear direction; he could only grope in the dark. Karmic interference made his already vague cultivation path even harder to discern. For nearly a thousand years since reaching the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm, the Cloud Mist Dragon-Snake Movement, despite attempts in various directions, had shown no qualitative improvement, its profundity remaining at the Third Tribulation realm level.

"Karma has too significant an impact on Tribulation realm mighty experts."

"Beyond the Perfection of Heaven and Earth realm, both Endless Saber and Nirvana Saber will also involve groping in the dark, and in the future, they will similarly be vulnerable to karma." Meng Chuan understood this, gazing towards the Myriad Horn River System. "I accepted that karmic bond back then. As long as a Venerable is born in the Pang Ming World, a karmic link will naturally form with me."

Both karmic threads were relatively faint.

However, due to Meng Chuan's high life-level, he could sense them clearly.

In the void beside the blackhole, a modest cave dwelling rested on a meteorite, where Venerable Qinggu was cultivating.

Ever since Meng Chuan said he was going to cultivate in the blackhole, Venerable Qinggu had patiently waited there. During his time of waiting, he observed the vast void, the lunar and solar bodies, and the blackhole, dedicating himself to cultivation, hoping to reach the 'Heaven and Earth realm.'

Whoosh.

Sitting cross-legged on the meteorite, Venerable Qinggu slowly exhaled. Patches of green scales on his body faintly shimmered with a hint of purple luster.

"Hmm?" Venerable Qinggu suddenly widened his eyes, looking at the white-haired man, 'Meng Chuan,' who had appeared before him.

Venerable Qinggu recognized that the person before him was indeed Venerable Dongning, whom he followed.

But...

Now, merely with 'Venerable Dongning' appearing before him, Venerable Qinggu involuntarily felt his heart tremble and his legs weaken, gripped by an inexplicable fear. It was like the feeling of distantly seeing a 'Tribulation realm mighty expert' on Black Dragon Star. Moreover, the invisible deterrent force was stronger than any 'Tribulation realm mighty expert' he had ever seen on Black Dragon Star.

After all, on Black Dragon Star, only the Black Dragon Patriarch could compare to Meng Chuan. Venerable Qinggu had never met the Black Dragon Patriarch.

"Se-Senior," Venerable Qinggu stammered, no longer daring to call him Brother Dongning.

Meng Chuan was slightly taken aback by Venerable Qinggu's reaction.

Ah, right.

Having cultivated in the blackhole for over a thousand years, he had grown accustomed to not concealing his aura. Now, seeing his subordinate, Venerable Qinggu, he subconsciously didn't feel the need to 'hide or disguise' himself. But he had frightened Venerable Qinggu.

A Primal Sovereign at the 'Perfection of Sovereign' stage is a life-form comparable to the Fifth Tribulation realm; the deterrent power of such a life-level is immense. Meng Chuan's lifespan of 'one hundred thousand years' alone was indicative of his life-level.

The gap between their levels was too vast.

Venerable Qinggu was instinctively terrified.

"Qinggu," Meng Chuan began, "I have entered the Tribulation realm and am preparing to leave the Sky Peak River System, and even the Wugu River Domain. Are you willing to continue following me?"

"Entered the Tribulation realm?"

Venerable Qinggu was stunned.

He had only been in the void outside the blackhole for a little over twenty years; had Venerable Dongning already entered the Tribulation realm?

He didn't know that during his twenty-plus years, over a thousand years had already passed for Meng Chuan. He had also endured the assassination attempts by Emperor Peng and the Fourth Tribulation realm mighty expert, 'Xuanfang.' When Emperor Peng and Xuanfang had previously come to the blackhole, they hadn't even noticed an ordinary Venerable, who was like an ant to them.

"Are you willing?" Meng Chuan asked a second time.

"Yes, of course! Qinggu is willing to follow Senior," Venerable Qinggu hurriedly said. This was a rare opportunity, and he naturally had to seize it.

"Good."

Meng Chuan nodded slightly and, with a wave of his hand, brought him into his grotto-heaven.

Since they shared a connection, he was still willing to bring Qinggu along.

Because upon returning to the Three Bay River System, he would need quite a few subordinates to handle miscellaneous tasks.

Whoosh.

As Meng Chuan took a step, his flying speed aligned with the spacetime fluctuations. Maintaining this for more than ten breaths, he fully entered that fluctuation.

"The River of Spacetime?"

Meng Chuan looked at the vast river before him.

This River of Spacetime had completely transformed before Meng Chuan. The 'stars' and 'life worlds' within the River of Spacetime had become incredibly minuscule. Each 'star' and 'life world' was like the 'nucleus' of a particle. The surrounding void was the 'particle space.' These 'particles,' with stars at their center and surrounded by void, were like drops of water within the River of Spacetime.

Countless particles, countless drops of water, formed the vast, rolling river.

A true and tangible river!

Meng Chuan could clearly see over a dozen wide river branches surging forth. There were also numerous obstructions between the rivers.

"To my left, I can see the end." Meng Chuan gazed distantly; he could see seven river branches to his left, beyond which was darkness. To his right, however, he vaguely saw eight branches, and even further beyond, there were still more branches... but he couldn't see them clearly.

"According to the Spacetime Territory Map left by Patriarch Cang Yuan,"

"my current location should encompass a total of twenty-six spacetime branches." Meng Chuan understood this. "Each branch is a river system."

These twenty-six river systems were relatively close.

The further one flew, the more other river systems would become visible.

Countless river systems were scattered everywhere.

Rumble.

Given Meng Chuan's current realm, he was already at a very deep level within the River of Spacetime. The density of countless 'water drops' in the River of Spacetime was extremely high, creating immense resistance, so he couldn't fly; he could only walk step by step, trudging through this river.

He continued to walk, step by step.

Because he wielded the 'Extreme Speed Rule,' his travel speed far surpassed other Fifth Tribulation realm experts. With each blurring step, he was already in the distance.

"What is that?"

In the River of Spacetime, many cultivators were traveling and flying. They all saw an incredibly majestic figure.

It was a white-haired man.

His eyes were thousands, even tens of thousands of times larger than the Sun Star or the Moon Star.

Countless stars around his feet were too tiny to discern. One step covered an immense distance, and his figure blurred, reappearing already at the edge of sight, then vanishing completely with another stride.

"Who is that?"

"Which Tribulation realm mighty expert is it?"

Meng Chuan only took a few steps, yet he passed by hundreds of cultivators.

In the River of Spacetime, the higher one's life-level, the more colossal their perceived form became. Meng Chuan was a life-form at the Fifth Tribulation realm level.

Trudging step by step through the River of Spacetime, his figure blurring with each stride, after approximately one hour, Meng Chuan had traversed eleven river systems and arrived at his destination: Senior Pang Ming's home river system, the Myriad Horn River System.