Chapter 1280: Chapter 1280: The Overbearing Aura
It was practically impossible to change the heavens' restrictions.
In order to eliminate the restrictions, a small group of Supreme Lords were expected to first create the secret medicine for reincarnation at a great cost. Once it was created, the Supreme Lords were to drink it so that they might be reincarnated with their memories of their past lives.
Everything would have started right back again at the beginning. It was only to their dismay, however, that once they reached the Life and Death Realm and successfully activated the Lotus Flower during the small Heavenly Tribulation, they were still unable to escape the restriction.
All the various races attached great importance to the Illusion Battlefield and the ace talents.
It was because they believed that maybe someone in this group of ace talents could ascend as a True God, which would allow them to go beyond the heavens!
It was possible that one or two of the warriors in the Soul Sea Realm would become a new True God.
It wasn't that there weren't any talented people at the Spirit Supreme Realm and Spirit Transformation Realm. It was just that, after this era began, all kinds of talents suddenly proliferated. And at present, these talents, whose age ranged from 20 to 40, had managed to reach the Soul Sea Realm, and continued to grow.
The incredibly numerous amount of new talents made everyone know this generation as the “Golden Generation”.
The Snow Godly Way...
Hannah...
Zen's eyes flashed vividly.
This woman was most likely not of this grand era. Zen had never heard of her name before.
But it was at this moment that Zen seized the opportunity to talk to her. He approached her casually and asked, “Where does one go after he becomes a True God, and thus, transcends the heavens?”
Zen had already roughly understood that Yan was in a world above the universe. Although the mysterious girl swore to help him look for information about Yan, she hadn't really given him a sufficient answer.
It was assumed that the young man who took Yan away was a True God. If he was, where could he have gone after he crossed the heavens? Nonetheless, they couldn't possibly be in the chaos.
“The Endless Divine Land,” the young woman suddenly replied next to him, snapping him out of his thoughts.
“The divine land!”
Zen repeated, boring those words into his mind.
Suddenly, the flowing river of ice stopped moving.
The young woman placed her finger on the small bell in front of her, and poked it once again. The bell then started to shake again.
The snowstorm stopped in an instant, and the entire world instantaneously sank into silence, as if it had just been through a harsh snowstorm in the past few weeks.
Except for the young woman named Hannah, it was only Zen in this entire world. Everything he saw was just a vast expanse of whiteness.
Just as he was trying to assess the situation, an invisible chill attacked Zen!
This chill crept right through Zen's spine and it spread throughout his entire body. Zen could feel his soul freeze in an instant, and he felt absolutely powerless. Ṙ𝘼Ｎ𝐨₿ΕṨ
What he felt was unbearable coldness!
Not only did energy disappear at this freezing temperature, but absolutely every material thing seemed to disappear.
However, within this space adorned by this strange temperature, the frozen ice and snow were somehow extremely warm for Zen. This was unlike anything he had ever felt.
It took another five minutes before Zen could begin to feel the temperature rise again. The woman suddenly appeared behind him and sighed softly. “You don't fit in the Snow Godly Way...” she trailed off, and then, just as suddenly...
BOOM!
A ball of flames ignited in Zen's mind!
He calmed himself down by closing his eyes and taking deep breaths. Once he began to come back to his senses, he tried to open his eyes. However, everything suddenly disappeared. There was still a lamp hanging on a wall, but most of what he saw was in darkness. He squinted his eyes before suddenly seeing the illuminated Corridor of Emperor.
In the lamp, there was a small embossed mark. It was the mark of a True God!
This experience was crucial for a warrior!
Those who practiced the cultivation method with the ice attribute might be able to comprehend this situation fully. In such a freezing state, they might be able to learn something that was beneficial to their later cultivation.
It was a pity that Letitia was not given the chance to enter here. She rigorously practiced the cultivation method with the ice attribute. Even though her chances were low to begin with, it still might have been possible for her to be compatible with the Snow Godly Way.
The True God that Zen now knew as Hannah mentioned the Godly Tile just now, but he was oblivious to what it was like.
If he could only return to the fairy palace, Zen would have been able to consult the Immortal Book about it.
Of course, if he wanted to transcend the heavens to search for the divine land, this situation should be of great importance to him.
After taking a few moments to think, Zen stepped out of the lamp's light and continued forward.
Two steps in and something caught his attention fairly quickly. He saw some murals carved into the walls of the Corridor of Emperor.
The first mural depicted the birth of a little baby girl. It seemed to snow heavily that day. There was even a solar eclipse in the mural's sky.
Zen walked further and looked at the second mural. The baby girl grew a bit taller and was now starting to cultivate martial arts. It looked like she was trying to harness her ultimate strength.
When he walked even further to look at the third mural, Zen sighed.
'I think I get it now. The life of this True God has been inscribed in the walls of this corridor.'
After the warrior transcended the heavens and became a True God, the heavens carved out the stories of her life.
As he continued through the Corridor of Emperor, Zen looked at the murals one by one.
Some of the murals included how the woman became a warrior, and how she was adored by the public. It also included a story on how she activated the Lotus Flower, and so on.
'Apparently, when she reached the Life and Death Realm, she only activated one petal of the Hinayana Lotus Flower!'
Zen thought to himself, unable to keep a shocked expression.
In the Upper World, the number of lotus petals activated was related to the ability to surpass the heavens. The more petals that the warrior would have activated, the higher chances for the warrior to transcend the heavens. To some extent, people consider it as something akin to a talent!
The one who could only activate a single lotus petal was perceived as a very basic talent. Even an ordinary tenth-grade sacred place would not view such an ordinary warrior as a core disciple.
The core disciples of an ordinary tenth-grade sacred place were capable of activating at least five to seven lotus petals.
As he continued forward, Zen began to understand how this woman became a True God.
Every time she experienced a Heavenly Tribulation, she would always activate a lotus petal. This only meant that she was able to activate nine petals of the Hinayana Lotus Flower, after she had experienced nine small Heavenly Tribulations!
When she was at the Soul Sea Realm, the Spirit Supreme Realm, and the Spirit Transformation Realm, she still activated a lotus petal for each Heavenly Tribulation.
In the end, all of the lotus petals belonging to the Mahayana Lotus Flower and the Hinayana Lotus Flower had already fully bloomed. This was how the woman became the Godly Genius.
It took her most of her lifetime to become the Godly Genius, and once she successfully made it, she had already reached the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. She was so close to becoming a world lord.
Zen sighed tiredly as he looked at the murals.
Zen had already activated thirty-five lotus petals after his first small Heavenly Tribulation. It was a lot, since only the last petal of the Mahayana Lotus Flower hadn't bloomed yet.
After Zen had passed through the various Heavenly Tribulations, his cultivation base had increased immensely. But no matter how hard he had tried so far, he couldn't activate the last lotus petal.
It was only after activating the last lotus petal that he would be capable of becoming a Godly Genius.
Zen was at his wits end because he had absolutely no idea how long it would take him to make the last lotus petal appear.
While walking past the murals, Zen was able to catch up on the wonderful scenes of this beautiful woman's life, even including the scenes in which she occupied a position that could not be ignored in the entire universe and ascended to be a True God.
When Zen finished going through the murals, another torch suddenly appeared in front of him!
Zen's eyes fixated on the torch, and Zen could feel a strong, powerful aura radiating from it. It felt like the same aura emitted by Hannah, the True God, before. The stronger the aura grew, the more Zen focused his attention on it, and he could feel its intimidating and extremely domineering pressure.
'The flames... They're different... They could also contain the mark of another True God!'
Surmising this, Zen took another step forward.
BOOM!
The flames combusted, and once again, Zen stilled himself.
At that very moment, Zen found himself standing in the middle of an empty field. In the distance, he could see an isolated city. Behind him, he found tens of thousands of armed ogre soldiers and cavalries!
In front of the isolated city's gate, a tall, burly ogre warrior loomed over it, guarding the gate with a large saber.
The overbearing aura Zen had felt earlier seemed to emit from the tall ogre warrior!
“Attack the city! Attack!”
With this order, countless ogre warriors roared and ran to seize the city.
“I-Is this... the ogre civil war?”
Zen was astonished by the scene that unfolded in front of him.
“Hahaha!”
The ogre warrior's laughter boomed throughout the battlefield. He held his saber high as he let the soldiers come at him. A few moments later, he was able to incapacitate a large portion of the enemies!
'These soldiers are nothing compared to this magnificent ogre warrior. Their auras do not compare to his... Could it be that this ogre warrior is the True God of the second lamp?' Zen wondered aimlessly.
Just like what Hannah said, each lamp in the Corridor of Emperor recorded a True God's mark. These True Gods were all born of the same universe. It was through the Corridor of Emperor that the memories were never erased by the heavens.
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The soldiers screamed and roared. They were storming towards the True God and Zen!
The first ogre warrior immediately charged at Zen. As his burly figure flashed before his eyes, Zen flicked his wrist and stole the giant sword from the enemy's hand. He quickly swung the sword against the soldiers. In an instant, Zen was able to behead a dozen of ogres with one swoop!
Almost just as quickly, Zen could sense a strong, dangerous presence behind him. He then bent his body and lay prone on the ground, in order to avoid it.
Woosh!
A stream of formidable blade energy spurt out.
The blade energy spread around, maintaining a distance of three feet with the ground. After Zen lay down, the blade energy almost touched the tip of his nose.
At the same time, the entire battlefield was consumed with the wails and screams of the tens of thousands of ogre warriors. The field had gotten violent and bloody very fast.