Archean Eon Art

Chapter 597 Ten Years

The sixth year after Meng Chuan and company stepped onto their respective paths.

How should I cultivate? What’s right? What’s wrong? Meng Hu stood on the second path and looked up. He could see the crystal path leading into the endless fog. He couldn’t see its end at all. At that moment, Meng Hu’s eyes were filled with confusion.

In the past five years, I’ve possessed nearly 10,000 Sixth Tribulation Eminences.

I reflect on myself every day. I leave behind all the paths that suit the Heavenly Dream Divine General and abandon the rest of my memories. In fact, the further I go, the more I have to wipe away my memories. In the past five years, I’ve wiped away my memories thousands of times. However, I remain lost.

I-I… don’t know how I should cultivate next. Meng Hu stood on the path, his mind filled with hesitation. He had many insights, but they clashed with each other.

Meng Hu had indeed gained a lot when he first began walking down this path. He had even successfully comprehended a third Fifth Tribulation law. However, when he wanted to form a Sixth Tribulation law with the three Fifth Tribulation laws, the numerous insights he obtained from his possessions began conflicting with each other. This was despite him wiping away the memories that he felt weren’t right repeatedly… Memory changes one’s understanding. Every time I gain insights through possession, what I know will change. Even if I wipe my memories, choosing to wipe my memories is a choice I made after my understanding changed. Time and time again, my understanding of things is changed before I wipe away my memories.

It gets more and more chaotic.

Meng Hu looked around. He could see Old Fiend Black Wind-who was much slower than him-and Meng Chuan, who was even further away. Meng Chuan walked even slower on the third path.

I knew the danger of losing myself. I believed that I could obtain benefits and ward off danger, but I still ended up lost. Meng Hu knew his situation very well. He could draw on a blank piece of paper very clearly. However, when countless strokes of different styles landed, his ‘understanding’ as an artist would already be in a mess, even if they were eliminated repeatedly. His ‘understanding’ was no longer clear. “Is this the furthest my cultivation realm can go?” Meng Hu muttered. He was a Heavenly Dream Divine General of Heavenly Dream Realm. He had the potential to reach the Sixth Tribulation realm. How could he swallow the fact that he was lost?

It’s time to return. Meng Hu looked up at the black mountain that extended deep into the clouds. Following that, his body and Essence Soul completely disintegrated without a sound.

His true body had died.

At the same time, in a mysterious and vast inhabited world-Heavenly Dream Realm.

It’s really like a dream. Meng Hu walked out of his cave abode. His cave abode was built on a five-kilometer-wide leaf. The clouds around him were clear. The leaf where his cave abode was located was a leaf of a towering tree.

I’ll go look for Master, thought Meng Hu. I can only seek Master’s help to resolve my present problems.

As a high-level world, Heavenly Dream Realm had an extremely rich heritage. It was much better than that of Archean Eon Realm. The difference between Archean Eon Realm and Heavenly Dream Realm was the difference between the Seventh Tribulation realm and the Eighth Tribulation realm.

Every Eighth Tribulation Eminence had unimaginable abilities. The laws in the River of Spacetime would severely limit the traces they left behind. Any item they refined was enough to make a Sixth Tribulation Eminence go crazy. They could easily obtain Primordial Stones from Primordial Stars, and the prices for them were extremely high. If an Eighth Tribulation Eminence was born in a particular era, the entire River of Spacetime would tremble. Even Seventh Tribulation Eminences wanted to follow them.

The heritage in an Eighth Tribulation Eminence’s homeworld was unimaginable.

Meng Hu could only hope that his homeworld

– Heavenly Dream Realm-could help him. Otherwise, he would be stuck with his present achievements forever.

Meng Hu destroyed his true body? Black Wind, who was also on the second path, couldn’t help but be taken aback when he saw Meng Hu completely turn to dust. It also chilled his heart.

He chose the same path as me. Why did he destroy his true body? Did he discover the hidden dangers of this path? Black Wind felt somewhat uneasy. The way he traveled the second path was different from Meng Hu.

From the very beginning, he realized that the Eminences he possessed would constantly overlap with each other. He was extremely cautious as he chose to study six of them. He chose to abandon everything else. Even if he possessed them, he wouldn’t choose to gain any insights.

He only studied six of the Sixth Tribulation Eminences! Furthermore, these six were mainly of the Wind attribute.

In the past five years, the number of times Old Fiend Black Wind possessed his six selected Eminences went from as little as 200 to more than 1,000 times. There were clearly only about 10,000 Sixth Tribulation Eminences available for possession on the second path. They would overlap repeatedly. Each possession was of a different period in the Eminences’ lifetimes. There were differences in their insights.

After five years, Black Wind felt that the second path was pretty good. Although I didn’t study many Sixth Tribulation Eminences, they suit me very well. I think I’m close to mastering a third law. Although it feels good, I still have to be careful. After all, Meng Hu has already destroyed his true body.

Black Wind was greedy for the opportunities here, but he also became even more cautious. He was afraid that Meng Hu had discovered some unknown danger. However, Black Wind was unwilling to leave before discovering the danger.

It would be difficult for him to obtain such an opportunity again if he missed it.

It’s been eight years. Fu Sui walked the fastest; he was also the one with the smoothest cultivation. He constantly maintained a state of epiphany.

In eight years, he had already traveled more than 15,000 kilometers.

Although I’ve traveled 15,000 kilometers, this path is really long. I still can’t see the end. Fu Sui was already in the clouds. He could barely see what was 50 kilometers above him with his naked eye. This path constantly extended upwards.

I can sense that I’m getting closer and closer to the Sixth Tribulation realm. In a few years, I will definitely master a Sixth Tribulation law. Fu Sui’s heart was filled with zeal as he advanced step by step.

Meng Chuan walked the slowest. As the mental pressure increased, it affected his other avatars’ cultivation elsewhere. Meng Chuan naturally slowed down. He still had to make sure he still had 30% of his mental strength for his other avatars.

“New… rising…”

This was the tenth year of Meng Chuan’s journey on the third path. He had only walked over 1,500 kilometers.

He could now hear a majestic voice coming from the top of the mountain. However, after traveling a long distance, the sound was affected by all sorts of invisible interference. What he heard remained intermittent. However, he could clearly hear single words. Every word was like a hammer striking Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul and mind. Meng Chuan was already used to it.

He could clearly sense the impact each word had on his Essence Soul and mind. Having resisted it for long periods, he gradually figured out the best way to resist it. In this confrontation, Meng Chuan could sense that his willpower had become stronger.

This strengthening process was very slow. Typically, one wouldn’t obtain anything in a year or so. Furthermore, the pressure would become stronger as they advanced on the path. It was like a nightmare. However, after repeated trial and error for about five years in this nightmare, one’s mind and willpower would undergo a qualitative change. They would then find it much easier to resist the pressure.

After nearly ten years on this path, my willpower has clearly improved three times. Meng Chuan was very happy. The first improvement was in the second year after he stepped onto the path. The second improvement was in the fifth year. The third improvement just happened the tenth year.

Cultivation was the process of perfecting oneself over and over again after setbacks, allowing one to attain perfection. It was the same for one’s mental cultivation. When one withstood mental attacks, they could discover their mental flaws. The more perfect their mental tempering, the stronger their mind would become.

Only with a strong mind could one withstand an even larger Essence Soul World in the future.