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Chapter 2021: Dim Lights, Stepping on Heaven!
The Great Heavenly Venerates of the Immortal Astral Continent were almost all alarmed and rushed over, transforming into seven long rainbows from their respective locations, heading straight for the Vast Basin. From the Ancient Clan, three long rainbows whistled rapidly.
From the Immortal Clan, the four individuals sped away without a word. However, given their speed, even if they exerted their full power, it would take perhaps half a month to reach the battlefield.
After all, the Immortal Astral Continent was simply too vast, and they did not possess the cultivation of Wang Lin and Ancient Dao.
In the center of the Vast Basin, amid the swirling Sea Wall Storm, on the side closer to the Ancient Clan, a roar echoed throughout heaven and earth. Nearly ten thousand spheres of mist exploded around Wang Lin's body. Amidst the roar, after all the spheres of mist dissipated, Wang Lin had blood at the corner of his mouth, and his body suddenly retreated, continuously falling back hundreds of zhang. He spat out another mouthful of blood, and the spectral halo surrounding his body collapsed.
As for Ancient Dao, the Mist Beast surrounding his body completely split apart, dissipating amidst a mournful roar. Its disappearance caused the mist around Ancient Dao Great Heavenly Venerate to rapidly decrease, gradually vanishing entirely. Once the mist was completely gone, his mysterious appearance would be clearly revealed.
"To see my face, you didn't hesitate to get injured…" Ancient Dao spoke slowly in the space hundreds of zhang away from Wang Lin. The mist surrounding his body was already thin, with only a small amount remaining, barely obstructing the revelation of his face.
"Since you wish to see it, then look… You are the first person in countless years to see my face…" Ancient Dao's body was thin, dressed in a green robe, but his right arm was sleeveless, and his hair was gray. He looked at Wang Lin, and the mist on his face gradually dissipated completely.
Wang Lin, hundreds of zhang away, also looked at the opponent. The moment the mist on the opponent's face completely cleared, he finally saw the appearance of Ancient Dao Great Heavenly Venerate. After seeing it clearly, he didn't show the slightest surprise, but instead let out a long sigh.
"It truly is you!"
Ancient Dao remained silent.
"Should I call you Ancient Ancestor, or Ancient Dao!" Wang Lin looked at the familiar face before him and spoke slowly.
Ancient Dao's appearance was exactly the same as the statues of the Ancient Ancestor that Wang Lin had seen in the three cities of the Ancient Ancestor!!!
"Or perhaps, your appearance belongs to you, and the statue in the Imperial City was carved according to your likeness!" Wang Lin looked at Ancient Dao, whose appearance carried the weight of time.
"I am Ancient Dao… and also Ancient Ancestor." Ancient Dao showed a look of melancholy on his face and spoke slowly.
"I obtained a portion of the Ancient Ancestor's memory and will… to guard the Ancient Clan and protect the descendants of its direct Imperial Clan… My appearance also slowly changed after absorbing this memory and will…" Ancient Dao's voice was low.
"The maximum distance you can travel should be here! Rumors say that you once killed a Great Heavenly Venerate of the Immortal Clan on the Immortal Clan's land, but I'm afraid that account is wrong. It must be that when the Immortal Clan invaded, they crossed the centerline of this Vast Ocean, allowing you to kill him." Wang Lin's mind cleared, and many confusing matters slowly found their answers.
He had always found it hard to understand why, with Ancient Dao's cultivation, he could easily destroy the Immortal Clan and leave the entire Immortal Astral Continent without Immortals, yet the Immortal Clan had persisted for countless years.
"By obtaining the Ancient Ancestor's memory and will, you must have also gained some restrictions while receiving a great fortune." Wang Lin looked at the opponent and sighed softly.
"The day I completely changed, I felt the existence of a restriction… I cannot walk too far from the Ancient Clan's land. Once I leave, all my cultivation will be lost…" Ancient Dao's expression was calm, devoid of helplessness or bitterness.
"Why do you want to stop me from leaving?" Wang Lin asked this question again.
"After obtaining the Ancient Ancestor's memory, over countless years, I slowly perceived certain things… things… that I cannot understand or believe, yet are very real." Ancient Dao sighed softly. He looked around, at the land, and in the direction of the Ancient Clan.
"Perhaps it is true, or perhaps it is just my illusion…" Ancient Dao shook his head. Instead of answering Wang Lin's question, he muttered before a look of determination appeared in his eyes.
"Let's fight. If you defeat me, I will have no power to stop your steps, and you may leave! I can sense that you haven't used your full strength yet. Next, I won't hold back either!
I have two strongest techniques. One is Ancient Transformation of Heaven and Earth. In the Ancient Ancestor's memory, he was born from the Void. He always believed that his eyes could transform into the sun and moon, his blood could form rivers and oceans, his bones could turn into mountain ranges, his hands clasped together would be the sky, and his body falling down could become the earth.
Because of his belief and his thoughts, he used the strength of his entire life to create this technique, Ancient Transformation of Heaven and Earth!
"I have never performed this technique since receiving the Legacy… Today is the first time…" Ancient Dao looked at Wang Lin and spoke slowly.
Wang Lin was silent for a moment, meeting Ancient Dao's gaze.
"In the Ancestral Temple of the Original Ancient Imperial City, I once saw a figure. That figure took a step toward the sky. This step gave me great shock. On the Fifth Bridge of Stepping on Heaven, I was immersed in a world like Reincarnation for an unknown period. Besides the insights into the Eight Extremes Dao, what I comprehended most was precisely this step… I originally couldn't cross the Fifth Bridge, but relying on this step, I crossed it.
I call this step, Stepping on Heaven!" As Wang Lin spoke, his eyes also showed determination. Since this battle was unavoidable, Wang Lin would fight until the end.
"If you can withstand this technique, you will be qualified to witness the single style of Heavenly Dao that I have researched and explored for countless millennia!" After hearing Wang Lin say that he had crossed the Fifth Bridge, Ancient Dao was silent for a moment, then raised his right hand and waved it toward the sky.
As he waved his hand, countless bright lights immediately appeared behind Ancient Dao. These lights emerged from thin air and coalesced. In just an instant, a colossal light figure condensed behind Ancient Dao.
The entire light figure was enveloped in light, making its appearance unclear. But after it appeared, the light figure opened its mouth and violently inhaled. With this inhalation, heaven and earth roared, and the power of heaven and earth surged in from all directions. Its range rapidly expanded, instantly covering a hundred thousand, a million, or even greater area, encompassing even the entire Vast Basin.
The majestic and endless Power of Heaven and Earth roared and surged in. As the light figure absorbed it, the range continued to spread, surpassing the Vast Basin and roaring toward the locations of the Ancient Clan and the Immortal Clan.
In the area of the Immortal Clan near the Vast Ocean, the four long rainbows formed by Great Heavenly Venerates like Jiudi suddenly paused. They looked into the distance in shock, feeling a sense of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.
The same thing immediately occurred on the Ancient Clan's land, where Song Tian and the other two were. They felt a terrifying suction force emanating from the Vast Ocean, sensing that the surrounding heaven and earth seemed to be rolling up and heading toward that distant location.
In the center of this Vast Ocean, as the light figure devoured the Power of Heaven and Earth, its body frantically expanded at an extremely fast rate. In an instant, it became tens of thousands of zhang tall, and it continued to grow. Moments later, Wang Lin raised his head and could no longer see the upper half of the light figure; all he could see were its legs!
Wang Lin gasped. He didn't know how tall this light figure would ultimately become, but he could imagine that if viewed from outside the Immortal Astral Continent right now, one would certainly see a giant standing upon the Immortal Astral Continent!
Reaching the heavens and standing on the earth!
"Ancient Ancestor…" Wang Lin watched the figure continue to expand. He didn't know how large this light figure would ultimately become; perhaps with enough Power of Heaven and Earth, it could rival a Star Domain… Only when the entire Immortal Astral Continent's Power of Heaven and Earth surged in did the light figure's body slowly stop expanding. But even its current size was enough to give Wang Lin an indescribable coercion.
"Ancient Transformation of Heaven and Earth…" Wang Lin looked at the sky. In his silence, his Divine Sense suddenly spread out completely. As it spread, he perceived a strange scene.
The eyes of this colossal light figure detached. One became the bright Sun in the sky, and the other transformed into the Moon. The blood gradually flowing from its body formed the rivers of the earth and created the oceans.
Its hands lifted, and when clasped together, they transformed into a blue sky curtain. Its body crashed down, becoming the earth, and its bones turned into mountain ranges.
As Wang Lin witnessed and sensed these scenes, his eyes suddenly stung, and traces of blood faintly appeared, as if an immense force intended to forcefully extract his eyes, using one as the Sun and the other as the Moon!
His hands, trembling, also seemed to be pulled by this force, wanting to lift them up and transform them into the sky curtain when clasped. His body, under this strange power, seemed about to become the earth.
This was a Belief Technique!
A strange technique that, when strong enough to reach its limit, could change the world, change time and space, and cause anyone enveloped by its belief to become part of that belief!
Under this belief, Wang Lin took a deep breath, his eyes gradually calming down. Instead of considering how to break this technique, he closed his eyes. In his mind, the figure holding a corpse, standing on a mountain peak where colorful snowflakes fell, and roaring mournfully toward the sky, involuntarily appeared, along with the step that figure took toward the sky!
This step continuously appeared in his mind. After countless repetitions, Wang Lin's right foot slowly lifted, and he took a step toward the sky of this world created by the Ancient Ancestor's belief.
As this step was taken, Wang Lin had an illusion that he was that figure, the one holding the corpse and roaring mournfully toward the sky. An indescribable sorrow grew in his heart, a pain like his heart being gouged out… He seemed to forget that he was fighting Ancient Dao, forgot the direction back to the Immortal Cave Realm. The only things that existed in his mind were endless grief, despair, and fury!
This fury caused Wang Lin's step to suddenly fall!
Stepping on Heaven!
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