Chapter 706: Battle Bark Language

The Chaos Turbid River was like a maze. Even when causality pinpointed a target, what seemed like a distance of hundreds of billions of li could stretch into trillions if one tried to travel in a straight line. The space-time here was warped and chaotic, making it a terrifying maze-like prison.

Therefore, traversing the Chaos Turbid River was an almost impossible task, unless one could transcend the river of space-time itself, thereby escaping its confines.

However, the Seven Tribulation Realm forbidden creature, Howler, had lived in the Chaos Turbid River for so long that it was intimately familiar with the easily explorable areas. Since Meng Chuan remained stationary while cultivating, it only took Howler a single day to reach Meng Chuan's location.

"I am eighty billion li away from this newly advanced Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm," the behemoth mused from deep within the currents, its gaze fixed on the distant pavilion. "Most newly advanced Seven Tribulation Realm cultivators in the Chaos Turbid River wouldn't be able to detect me from this distance."

It had approached within eighty billion li because...

...its teleportation limit within the Chaos Turbid River was precisely eighty billion li. Any further, and it wouldn't be able to teleport close to Meng Chuan.

"After all these years, a rare and delicious meal," Howler thought, filled with intense yearning.

Devouring the avatar of a Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm only yielded significant gains the first time. Subsequent devouring of other Primordial Spirit avatars would offer negligible benefits. The true prize lay in devouring all avatars of a Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm, thereby completely plundering their entire life force. However, with the life-saving capabilities of a Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm, completely plundering their life was an almost impossible feat.

"Whoosh."

Howler's colossal body suddenly lunged forward, instantly traversing space-time and launching an attack toward Meng Chuan, eighty billion li away.

Above the surface of the Turbid River, inside the pavilion, Meng Chuan was absorbed in his cultivation.

However, his Origin Domain extended over a hundred billion li around him. The moment the forbidden creature Howler entered his Origin Domain, Meng Chuan's eyes snapped open.

"A Seven Tribulation Realm forbidden creature!" Meng Chuan instantly sensed the intruder. It was a creature resembling an octopus, but it boasted over a hundred tentacles, each stretching over a hundred million li. Its colossal body warped space-time itself, and its aura alone made Meng Chuan's heart tremble. It instantly plunged into Meng Chuan's Origin Domain, the 'Chaos Hole Domain', and Meng Chuan instinctively resisted and repelled the invading creature.

The Chaos Hole rules were adept at domain manifestation. Meng Chuan had once studied the Chaos Hole lineage's strongest classic, "Chaos Hole Territory," at the White Bird Pavilion. Having mastered the rules, he could already unleash seventy percent of the power of this domain secret art.

Rumble!

Within the domain, space-time became chaotic, and powerful space-time repulsion pulled at the colossal creature.

The domain's resistance was immense; if even the Dark Star Lord were to charge in, their speed would plummet to only ten or twenty percent.

However, the one who plunged in was the forbidden creature Howler. It had devoured over ten forbidden creatures of the same level, allowing it to evolve multiple times after reaching the Seven Tribulation Realm.

"Whoosh." Its body was almost ethereal; the Chaos Hole's space-time repulsion had only a minimal effect on it, and it let out a low growl.

Bzzzz!

An illusory domain descended, instantly overwhelming the Chaos Hole Domain. In terms of domain power, it was clearly superior.

"Eye of Darkness." The moment his domain was disrupted, Meng Chuan immediately unleashed his secret art, 'Eye of Darkness'. However, the psychic assault collided with an impenetrable barrier, utterly unable to penetrate.

Howler's single, massive golden eye cast a mocking glance at Meng Chuan. It was equally skilled in psychic techniques, having simply refrained from using them because its target was a Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm. But for mere self-preservation, Meng Chuan's 'Eye of Darkness,' even if several times more potent, posed no threat.

With the 'Chaos Hole Territory' crumbling and no longer obstructed, the forbidden creature Howler lunged forward, already in front of Meng Chuan, its tentacles, each stretching over a hundred million li, lashed out at Meng Chuan.

But Meng Chuan had already split into three. His three Primordial Spirit avatars scattered and fled, and as they did, a vast array descended.

The array was immense, with sixty dark chaos holes undulating within it.

The Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Grand Array.

This was the most time-consuming ultimate technique Meng Chuan had studied in the White Bird Pavilion's archives; he spent twenty years longer on it than on 'Chaos Hole Fist'. This array was created by the 'Myriad Tribulations Traveler,' a Primordial Spirit of the Eight Tribulation Realm from beyond the universe. This was the only information Meng Chuan could find regarding the 'Myriad Tribulations Traveler'. While the array's value was slightly lower than that of a complete Primordial Spirit inheritance, Meng Chuan held it in exceptionally high regard.

Because Primordial Spirit Tribulation Realm cultivators were inherently skilled in array formation, and this was the only Eight Tribulation Realm array utilizing the Chaos Hole lineage that Meng Chuan had ever encountered.

The Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Grand Array, an Eight Tribulation Realm array, was divided into three scrolls. The first scroll, 'Hundred Tribulation Realm,' focused on pure Chaos Hole rule arrays. Meng Chuan had comprehended the first scroll and had also superficially learned the subsequent two scrolls, though he couldn't fully grasp them yet.

The deeper one's comprehension of this array, the more 'chaos holes' could be condensed.

If tens of thousands of dark chaos holes were simultaneously condensed and perfectly formed into an array, it signified reaching the Myriad Tribulations Realm. Naturally, one would need to comprehend the complete rules of time and space before there was any hope of reaching the Myriad Tribulations Realm, and Meng Chuan was still far from this level.

Nonetheless, this was undeniably the strongest array of the Chaos Hole lineage Meng Chuan had ever witnessed. He had diligently researched it, and now he deployed it.

The sixty dark chaos holes undulated, acting as a cohesive unit to suppress this expanse of space-time.

"Break!"

The forbidden creature Howler stared at Meng Chuan, and a cold voice emanated from it. Meng Chuan had never heard this language before, yet he instinctively understood its intent and meaning.

With this roar, the illusory domain wantonly encroached on all sides.

Rumble!

Although the Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Grand Array was assailed by the illusory domain, its greatest advantage lay in its inherent stability.

Each chaos hole core was incredibly stable, like sixty unyielding reefs. They remained unshaken, no matter how fiercely the current crashed against them.

Howler was somewhat surprised.

Despite its domain technique dominating and suppressing, it simply couldn't destroy the sixty chaos holes. The array, formed with these chaos holes as its core, significantly impacted this expanse of space-time, preventing Howler from teleporting.

"Swish." Howler's colossal body suddenly disintegrated. Its massive true form split into twelve slightly smaller avatars.

Each avatar possessed ten tentacles, over a hundred million li long, and its aura was noticeably weaker.

The twelve forbidden creatures then encircled and pursued Meng Chuan's three fleeing Primordial Spirit avatars.

"Whoosh!"

Despite the obstruction of the Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Grand Array, each of Howler's avatars was terrifyingly fast. Space-time warped in their wake as they instantly darted hundreds of millions of li.

Under the assault of the enemy's domain, Meng Chuan couldn't teleport. He could only fly, but his speed was far inferior to theirs. Even with the aid of the array, they continually closed in.

"This Seven Tribulation Realm forbidden creature is far too strong," Meng Chuan thought, feeling utterly suppressed in every aspect.

"Whoosh—"

A tentacle, over a hundred million li long, instantly traversed space-time, lunging at Meng Chuan's Primordial Spirit avatar. Its tip bore a massive suction cup, which enveloped the avatar. As the suction cup reached Meng Chuan, it sought to swallow the Primordial Spirit avatar whole.

"Break!"

Meng Chuan's Primordial Spirit avatar, shrouded by its Primordial Spirit World, had a gigantic hand within that world clenching into a fist, which it unleashed towards the tentacle's suction cup.

The 'Chaos Hole Fist'—hailed as the strongest fist technique evolved from the Chaos Hole rules!

"Boom!"

From the Primordial Spirit World, a single punch exploded forth, and a flash of light erupted!

The 'Chaos Hole Fist' was incredibly difficult to master. While its 'smooth' variations were easy to learn, the true 'inverse' Chaos Hole Fist comprised seven steps. Having witnessed the creation of the universe, Meng Chuan had managed to cultivate it to the fifth step. However, the power gap compared to the seventh and final perfected step of 'Chaos Hole Fist' was still very significant.

With that single punch, the tentacle rippled slightly. Its soft, vibrating surface absorbed much of the force. Still, its outer skin cracked open, and purple blood oozed out.

"If my 'Chaos Hole Fist' were fully mastered, it wouldn't just crack its tentacle skin," Meng Chuan mused inwardly. "I'm afraid it could shatter this entire avatar."

Thump, thump, thump.

Meng Chuan continued to unleash punches, repelling the onslaught of multiple tentacles. This Primordial Spirit avatar sought to widen the distance.

"Hmm? Not good." Purple blood appeared on the surface of this Primordial Spirit avatar. Meng Chuan felt the blood frantically trying to seize control of him, and his command over his Primordial Spirit power was rapidly weakening.

"Its blood must not be touched." Meng Chuan immediately understood. The forbidden creature's blood possessed terrifying infective properties; having adhered to the fist that unleashed 'Chaos Hole Fist,' it had swiftly corroded this Primordial Spirit avatar.

"Boom!"

Meng Chuan didn't attempt to purge the blood. Instead, without hesitation, and like a collapsing chaos hole, this Primordial Spirit avatar violently detonated.

"Why didn't it try to resist, but directly self-destructed?" Seeing this, Howler secretly sighed. If this Primordial Spirit of the Seven Tribulation Realm had been confident enough to try resisting the 'blood' infection, just one or two more instants, and the infection level would have increased significantly, preventing the target from self-destructing.