Chapter 2124

In his view, walking a single path to the very end was the correct route for cultivation.

Human strength has its limits; someone like Lin Moyu had already gone astray, and no matter how high his future achievements might be, there would still be a limit.

Within the mysterious void, clear qi continuously fell, and Lin Moyu's Luck Explosion Technique did not stop either.

With this dual approach, Lin Moyu constantly remained in a state of peak good fortune.

With effort after effort and continuous adjustments, the array gradually approached perfection.

Lin Moyu did not know how much time had passed; time seemed to have lost its meaning.

Finally, he perfectly set up the array.

"Activate!"

Lin Moyu shouted in his mind, feeling a sudden surge of excitement.

His soul power acted like a key, activating the array.

The Five-Star Tianlei Array began to operate amidst a rumbling sound. In the space that had been quiet for so long, the sudden sound of thunder caused Lin Moyu's entire body to shudder.

Within the array, five points of starlight suddenly appeared, followed by five stars rising and dancing around the outside of the array.

Lin Moyu had now become the master of the array. He controlled it, locking onto the sharp sword further away.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the array. Countless bolts of lightning surged into one of the stars, which then transformed into a sharp arrow and blasted toward the treasured sword.

The treasured sword, which had remained completely still until now, suddenly moved and dodged the strike.

"It can dodge!"

Lin Moyu's heart stirred. The array continued to operate, pouring out even more power as the other four stars lit up simultaneously.

In an instant, the five stars moved together, shooting out streak after streak of lightning.

The treasured sword flew through the air, dodging the lightning.

No matter how dense the Lei Guang was, it could do nothing to the sword.

Lin Moyu's heart stirred, and he gave a low shout, "Five Stars Merge into One, Tianlei!"

The five stars erupted with dazzling light. Within the array, countless bolts of lightning surged into the five stars at the same time.

Then, the five stars flew toward each other, merging together.

A bolt of lightning vanished into the void, only to reappear right above the treasured sword, just like Tianlei.

Giving the treasured sword no chance to dodge, the Tianlei struck it directly.

Amidst the Lei Guang, the treasured sword plunged into the sea of lightning surrounding the space.

The sea of lightning boiled at this moment, with countless bolts of lightning flying out like snakes, raging through the air.

Amidst the lightning, Lin Moyu suddenly felt his connection to the Five-Star Tianlei Array sever.

The Five-Star Tianlei Array collapsed on its own, turning back into crystals that floated in the void.

The platform, which had originally reached its end, extended further into the depths of the space.

It was like a bridge, spanning across the sea of lightning and leading straight to the other shore.

The Remnant Soul walked forward and said in a low voice, "Follow."

Lin Moyu immediately caught up and asked, "Senior, how much time has passed?"

Having been deeply immersed in his state of comprehension just now, Lin Moyu did not know how much time had passed in the outside world.

However, he knew that it shouldn't have exceeded a month; otherwise, the trial would have ended long ago.

The Remnant Soul said, "Ten days."

Since only ten days had passed, Lin Moyu breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good, that's good."

"Senior, what is the next trial?"

The Remnant Soul said, "There is none."

"Ah?"

"It's over just like that?"

Lin Moyu was stunned. He thought there would be at least one or two more trials, so ending it like this seemed a bit hasty.

The Remnant Soul uncharacteristically explained, "Things do not exceed three; three trials are enough."

The thunder beast trial that Lin Moyu faced right after entering was the first.

The second was the trial of the great stone tablet, which required learning and mastering the fourth-rank array, the Thunder Attracting Array, in the shortest time possible.

The third was the Five-Star Tianlei Array. The Five-Star Tianlei Array was a fifth-rank array, and because the lightning bolts interfered with each other, setting it up was not easy.

The three trials were linked one after another, covering everything from combat power to comprehension, and then to soul power and control.

Furthermore, time was extremely limited. If one was late in the first step, there wouldn't be enough time for the subsequent ones.

Lin Moyu had been very fast starting from the first trial, without wasting a single moment.

The saying "things do not exceed three" made Lin Moyu think of the old man who had given him the essence of ancestral water.

He had also said something similar: things do not exceed three, and reaching three meant there was a fated connection.

However, Lin Moyu felt that there wouldn't be any connection between the two.

The Remnant Soul led Lin Moyu to the end. Before them was a sea of lightning. The sea of lightning was boundless, with lightning everywhere as far as the eye could see.

The platform they stood on seemed so tiny and lonely amidst the sea of lightning.

The Remnant Soul raised his right hand slightly. "Sword, come!"

With a soft buzz, a bolt of lightning shot out and landed in the Remnant Soul's hand, turning into a sword.

This sword was the very one that had been blasted into the lightning by the Five-Star Tianlei Array earlier.

The Remnant Soul raised the longsword high and slashed downward.

"Part!"

As the sword light swept past, the sea of lightning was instantly split in two, revealing a massive path.

Chapter 2573: Daoist Tianlei's Dao

This was the Remnant Soul's first time taking action, and it was also the first time Lin Moyu felt the terrifying power of the Remnant Soul.

This power was indescribable. Lin Moyu's spiritual sense told him that he was incredibly tiny in the face of this power.

Lin Moyu was very clear about his own strength; below the Dao Venerable realm, he feared no one.

Even when facing a Dao Venerable, he had the ability to preserve his life.

This inexplicable strength sometimes brought about certain inexplicable illusions.

These illusions grew subtly over time, to the point where he hadn't even noticed them.

Until now, when all those past illusions vanished into thin air before this power.

Lin Moyu felt just as he did when he first met Antares—he was still very weak.

As the boundless sea of lightning parted, Lin Moyu's pupils shrank sharply. In the center of the sea of lightning, he saw a person.

That person sat high upon the lightning, looking like the Lord of Lightning, with countless bolts of lightning obeying his command.

Just by sitting there, a boundless aura surged from him, as if about to tear the heavens and earth apart.

Lin Moyu had a feeling that even if the other party was just a corpse, he could kill with his aura alone.

There was no need to lift a finger; his aura alone was enough.

The person in the lightning looked exactly the same as the Remnant Soul before him.

The Remnant Soul said, "You didn't guess wrong. This is my true body's physical form."

Lin Moyu cried out in his heart, "What do you mean I didn't guess wrong? I was completely wrong!"

The moment he saw the corpse, Lin Moyu realized he had been mistaken.

The Remnant Soul before him was not a Remnant Soul split off from the main body.

Rather, it was the Remnant Soul left behind after the main body suffered a severe injury but the soul was not fully extinguished.

Although both were Remnant Souls, there was a fundamental difference.

A Remnant Soul left after an injury possessed all memories. As long as the injuries could be healed, there was a chance for resurrection.

On the other hand, a split-off Remnant Soul would always remain just a Remnant Soul; even if it developed an independent intelligence, it could still never escape the fate of being a Remnant Soul.

The platform extended naturally, approaching the person in the sea of lightning along the parted path.

Lin Moyu said, "With Senior's capabilities, there should have been a chance to recover and be reborn."

The Remnant Soul said, "An injury of the Dao cannot be healed."

"Unless *that* kind of existence takes action, perhaps there would still be a chance."

Lin Moyu was somewhat confused. "This junior doesn't quite understand."

The Remnant Soul said, "You will understand soon."

As they spoke, the platform had already reached the center of the sea of lightning, allowing Lin Moyu to see this powerhouse up close.

The Remnant Soul took a step forward, arriving next to the physical body, and then merged with it.

As he returned to his physical body, the body that was originally dead suddenly erupted with astonishing vitality.

The eyes of the physical body snapped open, and lightning rose from within them.

With lightning in his eyes, he looked at Lin Moyu!

Crack!

Lin Moyu felt boundless lightning explode within his Rule World.

Lin Moyu's entire body went numb on the spot, and he stood frozen, unable to move.

Immediately after, the other party pointed a finger, which turned into lightning and shot straight into the space between Lin Moyu's brows.

In an instant, a terrifying power rushed into his Soul World.

The defenses of his Soul World were torn open like paper. This power gathered before Lin Moyu's soul, ultimately turning into two origin crystals.

These two origin crystals were of a very high rank, both being premium-grade eighth-rank origin crystals, and their value was immeasurable.

If a Dao Venerable were to find out, they would surely do everything in their power to tear open Lin Moyu's Soul World and snatch them away.

Lin Moyu finally recovered from the numbness. He let out a long sigh of relief, his heart still pounding with lingering fear.

"Fortunately, Senior did not intend to kill me; otherwise, I would have been dead just now."

"Then again, if he wanted to kill me, he could have done so at any time along the way. There would be no need to wait until the very end."

Lin Moyu realized he was being overly anxious, and his worries were somewhat redundant.

Facing such an existence, all of his caution and wariness were actually utterly meaningless.

Whether the other party wanted to kill him or seize his body, it would be an incredibly easy task.

Amidst Lin Moyu's worries, a stream of information flowed over, and Lin Moyu instantly understood the other party's identity and some of his past experiences.

The senior before him held the title of Daoist Tianlei, and what he had comprehended was the Thunder Dao.

His cultivation was extremely powerful, having reached the Dao Nine Realm, only a single step away from that mysterious and indescribable realm.

However, this single step was like a heavenly chasm, one that he had struggled to cross even after a million years of bitter cultivation.

It wasn't until hundreds of thousands of years ago that he decided to stake it all.

He came to Thunder Mountain. Within Thunder Mountain, there was a lightning-attributed eighth-rank origin spirit vein. Most valuable of all, there was also an incomparably massive natural array here.

Combined, the two could drastically enhance his power.

He wanted to use this origin spirit vein and the natural array to assist him in making his final breakthrough.

Daoist Tianlei spent a thousand years fully comprehending the natural array within Thunder Mountain, and he also set up his own array to connect with it.

In this way, the array within Thunder Mountain became even more dangerous, and at the same time, this lightning-attributed eighth-rank origin spirit vein could be fully utilized by him.

Aside from the Thunder Dao, what Daoist Tianlei had studied throughout his life was arrays.

However, unlike Dao Venerable Lu Fengqing, he walked the path of the Artifact Array, which had nothing to do with runes.