Chapter 640: Formation of the Dharma Door

Episode 1: Secret Technique "Three Autumn Leaves"Author: I Eat Tomatoes

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Wisps of void flames descended from a distant place, striking Meng Chuan's primordial spirit. The flames clinging to his spirit gradually increased, as did the void flames within his primordial spirit world.

"None of the methods can stop it, let alone dispel it," Meng Chuan thought carefully about countermeasures. Having cultivated for so many years, he had faced far worse situations than this, so he remained remarkably calm.

"My primordial spirit techniques, my willpower, and the world's secret treasures — they only slow down its erosion." Meng Chuan understood that if his willpower were weak or he lacked a world's secret treasure, the erosion would accelerate significantly.

"I'll change my primordial spirit structure." Meng Chuan immediately made this decision. In the past, he hadn't possessed a second powerful primordial spirit structure, but after receiving the new inheritance, *Path to Eternity*, he now had one.

"Sea of Time and Space." With a thought, Meng Chuan's myriad primordial spirit thoughts, originally forming a star, instantly transformed, creating a new structure: a vast Sea of Time and Space. The Sea of Time and Space slowly rotated and condensed, generating internal pressure.

Some of his primordial spirit thoughts had already been tainted by void flames. Now, with the structural change, void flames still burned on the surface of the Sea of Time and Space, but the erosion indeed behaved differently.

"Is the erosion slower in some areas? Slower in some areas?" Meng Chuan was surprised and felt it carefully. The primordial spirit star, round and indestructible, experienced the same erosion speed everywhere. The Sea of Time and Space, however, constantly undulated, rotated, and condensed, constantly changing. Erosion varied in speed at different locations, sometimes fast, sometimes slow.

"Overall, is the erosion even faster than with the primordial spirit star?" Meng Chuan carefully examined each area. In the Sea of Time and Space, some areas eroded very slowly—why? Others eroded quickly—why? Meng Chuan pondered, gradually gaining insight. These insights, combined with his cultivation experiences over many years, sparked inspiration and gave Meng Chuan an idea.

"Just a small change might make it better," Meng Chuan realized. Of the two inheritances, Meng Chuan had cultivated *Primordial Spirit Star* the longest. It was a technique he began practicing when he became a King-level Godfiend. However, as he cultivated, he realized that while *Primordial Spirit Star* suited him well, he was ultimately different from Senior Fei Yu. In the early stages, he could follow Senior Fei Yu's path, but the differences between them grew greater the further he progressed. Meng Chuan had long conceived of using it as a foundation to create a primordial spirit technique best suited for himself.

But creating a new primordial spirit technique was not simple, and Meng Chuan hadn't devoted much effort to it, so he had never succeeded. This time, however, learning *Path to Eternity* brought more insights, and encountering the void flames during this tribulation gave him new inspiration. All these elements converged, and a prototype of a technique began to form in his mind.

"Change." Meng Chuan changed according to his will. His primordial spirit structure transformed again, this time following the prototype of the technique in his mind. Seventy percent of his primordial spirit thoughts gathered to form a 'primordial spirit star,' while the remaining thirty percent formed 'streams of water' covering the surface of the primordial spirit star.

"Senior Fei Yu's Primordial Spirit Star pursues eternal indestructibility; the primordial spirit is stable and unbreakable," Meng Chuan mused. "But I believe that a combination of yin and yang, being soft on the outside and firm on the inside, would be more stable and better able to withstand various impacts and pressures."

The Sea of Time and Space didn't fully suit his nature; it had been constantly tormenting him. The Primordial Spirit Star also didn't fully suit him; it was too rigid. Meng Chuan's style of action was to endure when necessary and only draw his blade when truly required. This new primordial spirit structure best suited his intentions.

"Eternal indestructibility within, ever-changing and perishing without," Meng Chuan thought to himself. The internal star remained the Primordial Spirit Star. The external streams of water were derived from the experience of the Sea of Time and Space. With the experience from the *Path to Eternity* inheritance of an Eighth Tribulation Realm expert, Meng Chuan was able to form this prototype in a short time. Otherwise, it would have taken him far longer to create it from scratch. This technique was still very crude, a mere prototype formed by combining two Eighth Tribulation Realm inheritances, but it aligned perfectly with Meng Chuan's desires.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. When forming the new primordial spirit structure, Meng Chuan deliberately moved all primordial spirit thoughts tainted with void flames to the outermost 'water flow layer.' The inner star remained completely untainted.

"Annihilate," Meng Chuan thought. All the primordial spirit thoughts in the outer water flow layer disintegrated and annihilated, costing him thirty percent of his primordial spirit origin, thus leaving the void flames without anything to cling to. With his primordial spirit's recovery ability, he quickly recovered this thirty percent. A brand new 'thirty percent of primordial spirit origin,' free of any void flames, once again covered the star's surface.

"Whoosh!" The void flames, now without anything to cling to, tangled themselves around him again.

"This method won't work," Meng Chuan frowned slightly. "The flames are inextinguishable; they'll only keep entangling and penetrating. I'll try another approach." The outer 'water flow layer' began to test various countermeasures. Previously, when the Sea of Time and Space faced void flame erosion, it was sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Meng Chuan had gleaned some techniques from the 'slow' instances. These techniques couldn't be used with the Primordial Spirit Star, but they could be applied to the 'water flow layer.'

Rumble. The water flow layer surged and transformed. The void flames' erosion began to weaken, occasionally strengthening, but overall, the erosion gradually diminished.

"Space-time shifts; empty when it should be empty, strong when it should be strong, interwoven when it should be interwoven..." Meng Chuan felt like he was in a war. His opponents were the ever-increasing wisps of void flames, and his army consisted of countless primordial spirit thoughts, thunder laws, various application methods from the two Eighth Tribulation Realm inheritances, and the command of his strong willpower. In this tribulation war, Meng Chuan's pursuit became how to make his primordial spirit more resistant to erosion.

The inner primordial spirit star served as the foundation. Even if the outer 'water flow layer' incurred losses, it could quickly recover and replenish itself. When the water flow layer made a mistake in one experiment, and the void flames penetrated to the inner 'primordial spirit star,' the penetration was still very slow due to the star's stable and powerful nature. Meng Chuan could immediately move the primordial spirit thoughts tainted with void flames to the water flow layer, and the internal 'primordial spirit star' would naturally recover its losses.

The two structures combined. The inner structure served as the foundation, like a never-ending barracks, while the outer structure was the battlefield, allowing for unrestrained combat against the enemy.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

Void flames continuously descended, more and more attaching to Meng Chuan's primordial spirit and penetrating deeper into his 'primordial spirit world.' But with Meng Chuan's repeated experiments, the 'water flow layer' became increasingly efficient at resisting erosion, and the void flames' erosion speed was reduced to only one or two tenths of its original rate. Meng Chuan was completely absorbed, striving to achieve the ultimate resistance under the life-threatening tribulation.

Suddenly, no new void flames descended. The mysterious, vast rules also receded, and the continuously burning void flames seemed to lose their source of power, each dissipating.

"Huh?" Meng Chuan was slightly astonished. "Why are they gone?" All the void flames had vanished. He was still in the process of perfecting his new technique.

"It's over? The Sixth Heavenly Tribulation, it's over?" Meng Chuan looked up. The heavenly tribulation had disappeared, and his primordial spirit, having been tempered by the void flames, had undergone a slight transformation. "So, as long as I resisted the void flames for a certain duration, the tribulation is considered successful?"

With his original willpower and world's secret treasure, he could have endured until now even without creating a new primordial spirit technique. "It's a pity it was too short."

"If this heavenly tribulation had lasted two or three times longer, my technique could have been even more perfect," Meng Chuan stood up, walked to the window, and gazed at the sky. Having successfully passed the tribulation and reached the Sixth Tribulation Realm, Meng Chuan was in an excellent mood.

"I'll go tell Qiyue," Meng Chuan immediately left the Heaven and Earth Great Hall and headed for Jiangzhou City.