Sage Monarch - Chapter 464

Chapter 464: 464

‘Trying to make things hard for me, you crappy Heavenly Workings Tribulation? Don’t make me laugh . Just watch how I unlock the workings of heaven and smash you to bits . ’

Yang Qi remained unflustered as he faced the Go board formed by the magical laws of the tribulation . As he went about destroying it, he was also contemplating the profundities of the workings of heaven, and both efforts came with ease .

Moments later, the Go board exploded and he absorbed all of the resulting energy as he entered the Heavenly Workings Step . Now that he was in the sixth step, his power levels didn’t increase dramatically, but his energy arts grew more refined and his life force flourished . The Hellfire Crucible shattered, then formed anew, even stronger than before . It was the same with the Infernal Deity Spear, Hell Portal, and Angel Wings . Yet even as they reformed, they shattered again, before forming back together .

Flames flickered as the process went on over and over again, while Yang Qi used his true energy to make himself more complete and perfect, without the slightest weakness . That was the power of the heavenly workings, which so few people could even contemplate, much less understand .

The “heavenly workings” were truths that governed vital energy and its structure, as well as various complexities of magical law . Coming to understand such things would lead to a much more stable physical body, increased longevity, and the ability to defy heaven with impunity .

As Yang Qi became a Heavenly Workings Sage, his immortal clone on Planet Sage Monarch sensed the change, and more satellites popped into being around the planet, conforming to the design of powerful spell formations .

Exhaling deeply, the clone sent a stream of jade-colored true energy out to form a series of spell formation charts, each of them hundreds of thousands of kilometers across . Unexpectedly, he was making significant progress with the Jade-Emperor Profound-Welkin Exalted-Celestial God-Dao .

The godly-class energy art he cultivated had many levels, each one with new powers and abilities . The ability to make spell formation charts and transform them into lineaments of the dao of heaven indicated that he had made a major breakthrough . As of this moment, Yang Qi’s clone was strong enough to defeat third order Profound Demi-Immortals .

Of course, that would only be the case if the Demi-Immortal in question didn’t cultivate a godly-class energy art .

As of this moment, Planet Sage Monarch’s rotation conformed even more with the dao of heaven .

As the satellites orbited around it, they began forming nexuses connecting it to an immortal world, a plane called the Jade-Emperor Exalted-Celestial Heaven . Connecting to it provided power in the form of a jade liquid that was perfectly suited for use in cultivation .

Planet Sage Monarch continued to get stronger and stronger as time marched on . It was also expanding, and the jade-like vital energy that filled it caused new satellites to spring up left and right . As the process continued, a small planetary system began to form . And of course, the energy arts of the inhabitants also grew more powerful .

‘My true self is a sixth step Great Sage, so now I can adjust the orbits of the satellites to conform to the dao of heaven . Next up is the Planet God Step, which will be a major advancement . At that point, I’ll be able to use the godpower of the trillions of heavenly bodies in the universe to start forming a planetary system . After that comes the Without Limit and Epic Saga Steps . ’

The clone could hardly wait for all that to happen .

‘My son is really advancing by leaps and bounds,’ the Holy Mother thought . 'Considering what’s been happening with the Sage Monarch Continent, it seems he finally got to the Hell of Mahānata and is facing his tribulations . I wonder how far he’ll go . Wherever he ends up, he’ll definitely surpass me . ’

Back in the Hell of Mahānata, a host of planets appeared overhead . Some were dark gold, some were the color of blood, some were verdant and green, and some were as white as bones . All of them were part of the Hell of Mahānata .

The Hell of Mahānata had a sky, a void, a planetary system, a universe, and heavenly bodies of its own . It was like a unique chiliocosm of worlds with more planets than the mortal world could ever contain . Yang Qi could see one up above that was larger than ten thousand Quake-Dawn Continents put together, and was made entirely of bone . If someone who cultivated bone-type divine abilities could practice breathing exercises on a planet like that, their cultivation would quickly reach extraordinary levels .

There were other strange planets too, far too many of them to count .

There could be no better place to break into the Planet God Step than this location, especially considering that Yang Qi had ensconced his nascent divinity here .

‘Time for the Planet God Step!’

Another tribulation began .

This time it was the Planetary Armageddon Tribulation, in which countless planets would sense his breakthrough and unleash baleful energy in the form of planetary projections . Those projections would then attempt to crush his soul, nascent divinity, and fleshly body out of existence .

Another name for this type of tribulation was ‘Fury of the Planet God’ .

Only if a cultivator could resist the fury that the god-spirits of planets could unleash would they possibly be able to control an entire planet .

Of course, there were more planets in the Hell of Mahānata than could be found anywhere in the mortal world . And when they unleashed their fury, it was unimaginably intense . Any cultivator who faced it would find it to be brutal to the extreme .

One after another, projections of planets appeared in Yang Qi’s sea of consciousness, bashing him with immense force . However, his sea of consciousness was broad and deep, and he had enlightenment of the grand will of the Hell of Mahānata . In fact, his sea of consciousness was so deep that it could easily contain countless fallen planets, along with every other manifestation of nature .

Closing his eyes, he began meditating, completely unfazed by the assault of the planets . The more planets a cultivator faced when reaching the Planet God Step, the stronger the result would be after the breakthrough .

Normally speaking, cultivators in the mortal world who faced the tribulation of the Planet God Step would only face a maximum of one hundred twenty-nine thousand, six hundred planets . After all, that was a prescribed number affixed by heaven . [1]

But as Yang Qi sat there meditating, hundreds of thousands of planets unleashed baleful energy to attack him . Then the number climbed to a hundred million . Then two hundred million . Three hundred million… .

One billion . Ten billion .

There seemed no end to them, as if they were the eternal sands of the universe . Eventually, another mammoth tusk crumbled and became part of Yang Qi’s bones . Yet the planets were still angry .

Crick . Crack! 

After an indeterminable period of time, the tribulation ended and Yang Qi’s true energy capacity rose again .

As he made his initial foray into the Planet God Step, power poured through the wormhole and into Planet Sage Monarch . As it did, his immortal clone rose and inhaled, causing hundreds of satellites to come into existence . The nascent planetary system expanded and vital energy grew more abundant .

At the same time, many individuals experienced breakthroughs; for example, Ghost Emperor Yama reached the Demi-Immortal level .

Rapid advancement was occurring on both sides of the wormhole . Of course, Yang Qi wasn’t slowing down at all . He was heading toward the Without Limit Step, the eighth in the Great Sage level . Successfully passing the tribulation would mean that his divine ability and magical power would be without limit .

Yang Qi threw his head back and howled as tribulation clouds formed above him, within which lurked the projections of immortals . At the same time, devil kings, devil emperors, and devil suzerains appeared in the depths of the hell around him . Foul winds screamed and blood rained from the sky . Shockingly, each of those drops of blood was a minor world, and each of them contained a heaven-devil .

“Unrestrained Heaven-Devil Blood Immortal Tribulation!” the infernal mouthed . He was already numb to what was happening, having seen numerous tribulations that he considered legendary, and things that would normally never appear in the mortal world .

The blood rain turned into a world of blood and the heaven-devil blood immortals appeared, burrowing into Yang Qi’s acupoints and attacking the very cells that made up his body as it tried to turn him into a lifeless husk .

This was a devil tribulation that came, not as an external attack, but as a parasitic invasion . Each drop of blood was called a heaven-devil blood immortal, unfettered within the world, thirsting to devilize with devilblood and transform their victim into a new heaven-devil blood immortal .

However, Yang Qi had immense willpower . Drawing on his energy arts, he ignited his true energy and the particles within him erupted with glorious light . The heaven-devil blood immortals were set on fire and began to burn away . Instead of devilizing him, the devilblood was serving to increase his power .

The blood rain fell harder and the attack intensified . But it was to no avail . Yang Qi slowly rose to his feet, allowing himself to be baptized by the tribulation .

An aura that seemed to contain no limits appeared in his sea of energy, which already contained a fledgling projection of the Hell of Mahānata .

He was now in the Without Limit Step, meaning that he could generate true energy without limit .

Another mammoth tusk collapsed, pouring more power into his sea of energy . As a result, the particles within him surged . Six hundred million . Seven hundred million . Seven hundred forty million! When the process stopped, he was only one hundred million particles away from full awakening .

His clone sensed the change, yet didn’t take immediate action . Instead, he bided his time, waiting for the proper moment to explode into action .

‘The Without Limit Step was simple . Now for the Epic Saga Step!’ As he focused on the matter, a primeval image appeared in the sky above, which was none other than a deadly tribulation .

It was the final step in the Great Sage level, and was so named because one’s true energy would become like something from the distant past . One had to understand what it meant for a boulder to melt away from the passage of time, and the result would be a profoundly ancient true energy, something completely different from anything that had existed before .

1 . According to a Song Dynasty method of calculation regarding the origin of the universe, it was created 129,600 years in the past .