đź“– Chapter 1302 - Confirming Dao
For as long as it existed, the Heaven Trampling Bridge had always been mysterious and majestic. After all, in the Great Universe, there weren’t many things that could bring a cultivator to the realm of Heaven Trampling. The number of such objects was definitely countable with one hand. Thus, the Heaven Trampling Bridge was obviously incredible.
At the same time, the Heaven Trampling Bridge had something even more special about it. Aside from allowing cultivators to reach the Heaven Trampling Realm, it also amplified their power, making it so that Almighties who crossed the bridges all experienced vast increases in their battle prowess.
As for the principle behind this, no one quite knew. Moreover, even if they understood, it would be almost impossible to imitate it. The only one who was qualified to do such a thing was Wang Yiyi’s father.
This was because he was the one who repaired the collapsed bridges, and he also added two more bridges on top of the original nine.
The former was an extraordinary feat, and the latter was even more astonishing.
It wasn’t wrong to say that throughout the entire Great Universe, Father Wang’s understanding of the Heaven Trampling Bridge was completely without equal.
He knew that the purpose of the first Heaven Trampling Bridge was to allow a cultivator to gain insight into all the Daos of the universe, opening their mind and allowing them to perfect themselves. Anyone with a certain level of cultivation base was qualified to cross this first bridge.
But starting from the second bridge, things were different. Only those from the Immortal Astral Continent were permitted to walk across it, so the focus of the second bridge was on the assessment of bloodline. To a certain extent, it could be considered a threshold.
That was why Wang Baole had been rejected before. If it were someone else lacking an Immortal Astral Continent bloodline, they would have been forced to give up there. However, Wang Baole was no ordinary person.
With his cultivation base and willpower, the second bridge couldn’t stop him at all, and exerting itself to reject him only caused it to collapse. In the end, it was forced to acquiesce, allowing him to cross and start the true process of trampling the heavens.
Thus, he encountered the first trial of the true Heaven Trampling Bridge, the questioning of the heart.
To step off the second bridge and cross the third, his Dao Heart had to be complete. To step off the third bridge and cross the fourth, it had to be incomparably solid.
Only with a complete and solid foundation would his Dao Heart have the possibility of sublimation, and only then would he be able to step off the fourth bridge and cross the fifth.
Wang Baole had perfectly achieved all of this, and his cultivation base had risen continuously as he walked across several bridges in quick succession. His battle prowess was the same, and his aura right now was truly monstrous. It could be said that his current self was completely different from the Wang Baole who had yet to set foot on the Heaven Trampling Bridge. Right now, if he were to fight himself from before stepping onto the bridge, although he wouldn’t quite be able to kill him in the blink of an eye, it would be a decidedly one-sided affair.
Because the Wang Baole before the Heaven Trampling Bridge merely had the power of a single person, while his current self was blessed with the myriad Daos of the universe. He could resonate with the universe itself, and even borrow its power for his own use. Even if this type of borrowing was slightly forced… it was no longer the power of the fourth step. This was a means reserved for the fifth step!
So what if the sourcepoint was occupied? With the power of the myriad Daos of the Great Universe, the occupant could naturally be suppressed and overruled.
This wasn’t something that just anyone who crossed the fifth bridge could achieve. Normally, those who crossed the fifth bridge would only be able to cause a new sun to rise above the Immortal Astral Continent. According to the Immortal Astral Continent’s conventions, this was the realm of a Grand Empyrean.
It wasn’t even the fourth step, although it was limitlessly close.
However, Wang Baole’s foundation was incredibly deep, so crossing the fifth bridge naturally gave rise to a different result. Not only did an eleventh sun appear above the Immortal Astral Continent, but its brilliance had also reached an astonishing level.
This was the reason behind Father Wang’s praise of “not simple”.
Because Father Wang had repaired the Heaven Trampling Bridge with his own two hands, he knew best of all that whether it was the perfection of body and mind granted by the first bridge, the assessment of the second bridge, or the questioning of the heart of the third to fifth bridge, all of these… were just a sublimation of a cultivator’s own foundation.
The deeper the foundation, the greater the sublimation!
At this point, the amplification effect had already begun. This sublimation and amplification was all for the sake of the next few bridges!
The first five bridges were about gathering momentum!
After the sixth bridge, it was ascension to the heavens!
The greater the momentum, the more shocking this ascension would be!
“First is questioning the heart, next is confirming Dao. Wang Baole, let me see… which bridge you can reach!” Father Wang’s eyes were full of anticipation as he looked at Wang Baole at the end of the fifth bridge.
The phase of confirming Dao… began!
Wang Baole stepped forward, and the entire fifth bridge instantly rumbled. As he stood between the fifth and sixth bridges, even more terrifying light exploded from Wang Baole’s body. At this moment, he seemed to instinctively comprehend the method to cross this next bridge.
“Metal!” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed as he spoke in a low voice.
As his voice rang out, shockingly powerful laws of metal erupted from his body. These laws weren’t intangible, but rather took the form of innumerable threads that almost instantly spread into the surroundings. Viewed from a distance, these threads clearly formed the outline of an object.
That object was a silver ingot.
It was obviously an ingot of silver, but the light radiating from it was a splendid gold. This strange contradiction caused the onlookers to feel somewhat disoriented. At the same time, all the laws of metal of the Great Universe seemed to resonate with Wang Baole’s laws, making the silver ingot seem to grow even more majestic in an instant.
Under the golden glow of the silver ingot, Wang Baole took another step. In the blink of an eye, he appeared at the middle of the sixth bridge!
As soon as he arrived, the aura on his body climbed again, and the power of his laws of metal seemed to reach a tipping point. At this moment, that infinitely majestic silver ingot actually… melted! Everything happened too quickly. One moment, it was still radiating an intense golden light, and the next, it had completely melted, fusing into Wang Baole’s body!
Heaven and earth rumbled, the universe fluctuated, and a massive vortex suddenly appeared outside the Immortal Astral Continent. The distant Almighties of the Great Universe all sensed the fluctuations, and they immediately sent their divine wills over to observe Wang Baole confirming his Dao.
While innumerable gazes and divine wills converged on his location, Wang Baole actually frowned slightly. Looking down at his feet, he found that he couldn’t take another step.
“Because I’m not the true sourcepoint, my Metal Dao can’t bring me across the entire bridge… But it doesn’t matter.” Wang Baole’s eyes flashed. With a wave of his hand, a watery mist instantly filled all directions, covering the sky and casting its shadow over the entire Immortal Astral Continent. From a distance, the mist took the shape of a water droplet. To be precise, it was a teardrop.
The Great Universe’s laws of water instantly descended, and like the silver ingot before it, the teardrop instantly fused into Wang Baole. At this time, he raised his foot and took a step.
His figure disappeared on the spot. When he reappeared… he had crossed the sixth bridge and stood in front of the seventh!
“Next is the Earth Dao!”