Against The Heavens - 143 Completed breakthrough.

Li Yang closed his eyes and spent a bit of time regulating his state, calmly breathing in and out, the Qi in the area flowing towards him in a steady stream. You had to be as calm as possible when you tried to perform a breakthrough, especially when you were planning on brute-forcing one like Li Yang was about to. Li Yang felt confident in his calmness after only two minutes, opening his eyes and glancing at Fang Ying. She had been waiting for him to finish regulating his state, her finger fiddling with her interspatial ring the moment he turned to glance at her.

“How much do you plan on increasing your cultivation?”

Brute-forcing a breakthrough required not only a strong body but also a vast reservoir of resources. She knew that Li Yang was just about scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to resources right now, so it was up to her to provide the resources. But contrary to what she expected, Li Yang shook his head, scratching his chin while gesturing towards a spot a few kilometers away.

“Oh, I don’t need any resources, I’ve got plenty. I was actually gonna tell you to back up a little, I plan on heading directly for the Immortal Rebirth realm, so it’s most likely gonna get pretty noisy and messy.”

Fang Ying raised one of her eyebrows while looking at Li Yang with a somewhat curious gaze. She knew that he still had two secondary hearts belonging to the Devil’s Grasp Vine, but just those two shouldn’t be enough for his breakthrough, especially if he was planning on breaking through directly to the Immortal Rebirth realm. Li Yang understood her curiosity, swiping his interspatial ring and bringing out several handfuls of other interspatial rings.

“Picked them up both after and during the battle with the hydra fellow, would have been a shame to let all these resources just go to waste.”

It wasn’t just Li Yang and Tian Zheng’s group that had been there when they first entered the den of the hydra, there had been hundreds of other cultivators there as well. But most, if not all, of those cultivators died when the beast revealed itself to actually be able to become a hydra. Each of the dead cultivators left behind their interspatial rings, some ending up destroyed while the rest ended up in Li Yang’s hands, allowing him to not worry about how many resources he spent right now. Fang Ying nodded her head in understanding, patting Langshen on the head and giving his fur a few rubs.

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“Let’s back up a little, you don’t want to get caught in the crossfire.”

Langshen raised his head and let out a low whine, clearly too tired or lazy to actually bother moving right now. Fang Ying clicked her tongue once and flicked Langshen on the forehead, standing up and wrapping her arms underneath his body, lifting him up and carrying him away.

They quickly reached their new position a few kilometers away and sat down, Fang Ying giving Li Yang a thumbs up to show that he could proceed.

Li Yang sent his mind into the various interspatial rings and brought out any resources that suited one of his laws, barring his law of destruction, of course, finding resources for that law was nigh impossible. Three veritable mountains of resources quickly formed around him, even Tian Zheng and the other future clan leaders would find it somewhat hard to produce this amount of resources for their cultivation without saving up for a bit.

But Li Yang didn’t stop after building the three mountains of resources, he also took out the two centerpieces that were vital to this cultivation, the secondary hearts of the Devil’s Grasp Vine. The gnarly vines that coiled around each other and formed the shape of two hearts were still pulsating faintly, highly concentrated lifeforce coursing through them without pause. With how much lifeforce was gathered in them, a normal person would explode if they were to attempt absorbing it.

Li Yang closed his eyes and sank his vision into his dantian, taking a deep breath in the process. At the center of the black void that was his dantian stood his Ascending Foundation, the platform built when his 36 runes formed a circle and connected to each other through a thick stream of Qi. Standing atop the Ascending Foundation was the barren and craggy mountain that was his Ascending Road. Once this mountain became unable to grow further, he would be only a single step away from the Immortal Rebirth realm.

Small tendrils of Qi extended from Li Yang’s body, each of his breaths causing the tendrils to grow a little larger as they connected with the mountains of resources. The various plants, herbs, fruits, ores, and vegetables started to disintegrate under the tendrils of Qi, turning into streams of pure elemental energy that was then absorbed by the tendrils and brought back to Li Yang’s body.

The elemental energy rushed through his veins in a rampant manner, doing its best to break free of Li Yang’s chains and tear a way out of his body. Li Yang’s brows furrowed slightly at the pain, but he didn’t allow it to halt his cultivation, directing all the energy into his dantian, pouring it into 27 of his 36 runes.

He focused the incoming energy on the runes that resembled nine golden suns, nine roaring white tigers, and nine golden-purple dragons, his nine black hole runes would automatically siphon any energy that they needed. His runes started to swell and surge under the influx of the energy, the craggy mountain slowly starting to grow as parts of the energy that entered the runes was transformed into part of Li Yang’s own energy.

But of the vast amount of energy, only a small portion of it was able to quickly be changed into Li Yang’s own energy, the rest continued trying to wrest free of Li Yang’s control. His runes started to bulge and twist as a result, forcing Li Yang to put more of his focus on the runes themselves, preventing them from collapsing and the energy from escaping.

As a result, the iron-hold he had over the rest of the energy that was currently flowing through his veins was loosened somewhat, allowing the energy to tear through his veins and start digging through his flesh in an attempt to escape. Blood started to seep out of Li Yang’s skin as pain wracked his body, but he had been prepared for this to happen from the start.

He sent out two more tendrils of Qi, each one connecting with one of the two secondary hearts and tapping into the seemingly boundless lifeforce within. The lifeforce flowed into his body, and thanks to some nudging from Li Yang’s mind and the Dark Start Essence that his body cultivation granted him, he pushed the lifeforce directly into his wounds, healing them as they appeared.

In this state of continuous breaking down and healing, the Ascending Road within Li Yang’s dantian slowly grew taller and taller, an imposing and regal mountain forming. The mountain continued to grow as Li Yang’s body was shattered and then quickly repaired, suddenly stopping after six days.

The mountain stopped growing because it seemed to collide with something, cracks appearing in the void directly above the mountain. Invisible energy started to seep into Li Yang from the cracks, the energy growing more potent as the cracks started to grow larger. The energy felt imperial and dreadful, Li Yang’s very being feeling an intense desire to kneel down in worship and reverence.

Li Yang had been in contact with this energy and this feeling plenty of times before, it was the energy of the heaven’s themselves, warning him that he should submit or face what was to come. Li Yang hadn’t bent to the heavens in the past, and he certainly wouldn’t start now. He continued to pour more energy into his runes, forcing the Ascending Road to grow a little larger and resulting in the cracks above it to spread out to cover the entirety of Li Yang’s dantian.

With the cracks spreading to cover his entire dantian, the dreadful energy grew even thicker and more potent, seeping out from the confines of his dantian and spreading throughout his entire body. Since he dared resist the will of heaven, he would have to face the first of the three Immortal Tribulations, the bodily rebirth. Either he would survive and acquire an even stronger body, or he would perish and become nothing more than another one of the skulls that formed the throne of heaven.

The imperial energy spread to pervade every inch of his body, eating away at him like countless worms. He had already bled so much that his entire body was covered in a thick layer of dried blood, the blood that was a result of this tribulation wasn’t even visible to those on the outside. But Fang Ying, who was sitting several kilometers away, safe from the volatile Qi that was intermittently erupting from Li Yang’s body, was still able to sense that the energy belonging to the heavens had started to spread through his body.

Li Yang did not change his actions even when faced with this tribulation, he continued to draw upon the energy of his resources, greedily absorbing the lifeforce from the two secondary hearts at the same time, staving off his wounds for as long as he could. Li Yang wasn’t worried about this first tribulation, his body was already abnormally strong thanks to the fact that he was a humanoid Divine beast, this tribulation did not present any challenge or danger to him.

Just like he guessed, the tribulation receded after a further two days, the remaining wounds quickly vanishing thanks to Li Yang’s Dark Star Essence and what little remained of the lifeforce within the two secondary hearts. The energy receded into the cracks in his dantian, but the cracks didn’t vanish, they remained and awaited Li Yang’s next challenge.

But Li Yang had no intention of taking on the second tribulation, the one that would test his Qi, just yet, he wasn’t completely confident that he could pass it in his current state. He took a deep breath, sucking in a vast amount of Qi and enjoying the sensation of being in the Immortal Rebirth realm again. His entire body was incredibly sore after the ordeal, but he could feel strength bubble forth from within him, his Qi feeling as thick as mud as it coursed through his veins.

Once he finished getting some rest and restoring the lost energy, his strength would have made a very decent leap. But while Li Yang was relishing in the sensation of his breakthrough, it seemed like someone else had different plans. He felt a rolled-up cloth hit his face, shattering the dried up blood that now formed a cocoon around his body. While he was slightly disoriented from the sudden cloth hitting him, the cheerful voice of Fang Ying reached his ears.

“Rise and shine, slowmo, we still have to catch up to Brother Feng and Tian Zheng, he really will slap the shit out of you if we keep him waiting for too long.”

Li Yang removed the cloth from his face and saw that it was a fresh and clean purple colored robe, a replacement for his that was currently caked in blood. He stood up, the cocoon of blood shattering and falling down his body, cracking his neck while muttering to himself.

“Can’t even let me relish in peace, just watch me spank you when we get some time alone…”