Rebirth of the Supreme Immortal Emperor-Chapter 1021 - 1018: Advancement to Nascent Soul

"Boom!"

Countless bolts of lightning struck, like a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers surging forth.

Li Chen stood firm, arms spread, hair wild, his clothes fluttering fiercely as he faced the heavenly tribulation head-on.

"Crack!"

The first wave of shocking thunder landed, destroying most of Li Chen’s clothing, leaving scorch marks on his cheeks and chest. He felt as if he were being flayed alive, a pain beyond words. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

At this moment, the Meteorite Heart within him was operating at high speed. The Golden Core in his Dantian resembled an egg about to hatch, developing fine cracks on its surface.

It was absorbing external spiritual power to nurture the Nascent Soul!

If successful, he would be invincible across the heavens and earth of Jiuzhou!

But if it failed to hatch, his physical body would surely be destroyed, perhaps even leading to his complete annihilation!

"Boom!"

Another wave of heavenly tribulation descended, and Li Chen forcibly operated the Domineering Longevity Body, fiercely resisting tens of thousands of Thunder Snakes.

As the lightning struck his body, Li Chen felt as if he were being torn apart, the pain unbearable.

Li Chen gritted his teeth, enduring with all his might.

Endure! Endure! Endure!

His consciousness was fading, supported only by his final willpower.

I will defy the heavens!

"Boom!"

The third wave of heavenly tribulation crashed down, and Li Chen’s physical body finally reached its limit, partially consumed by lightning.

However, this caused obvious cracks to form on the "golden egg" in his Dantian, as if it could break open at any moment.

Once the Golden Core breaks open and nurtures the Nascent Soul, he will have successfully transcended the tribulation!

At this moment, everyone’s hearts were in their throats.

Heng Mountain Ancestor looked up at the thundercloud over Li Chen’s head. Though still filled with lightning and thunder, terrifying as ever, he knew that only the final wave of heavenly tribulation remained.

If Li Chen could endure a little longer, his Golden Core would break, nurturing the Nascent Soul.

No, he must not succeed in nurturing the Nascent Soul!

Heng Mountain Ancestor’s pupils contracted, his murderous intent faintly visible.

At this moment, he was like a venomous snake lying in wait, ready to strike Li Chen with a fatal blow.

Of course, now was not the time to act.

If Heng Mountain Ancestor rashly rushed into the tribulation zone now, a significant portion of the lightning would strike him instead.

As a result, not only would he fail to kill Li Chen, but he would also become a scapegoat for him.

Now, Heng Mountain Ancestor could only wait.

Wait for the final wave of heavenly tribulation to strike down.

"Boom!"

Countless bolts of lightning crackled down from the thunderclouds.

However, this time, the lightning did not strike Li Chen directly.

Instead, like waters converging into a sea, they gathered into a massively terrifying bolt of lightning in the sky.

The lightning entwined like thousands of Jiao Longs, with Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire, stormy winds and torrential rain, and all sorts of terrifying natural laws merging at this moment.

The pressure was so violent that even the sky couldn’t bear it, collapsing in an instant.

The ground beneath Li Chen’s feet also caved in at once, leaving a bottomless abyss.

However, he himself stood suspended in the air, like a defiant pine tree on a cliff, facing the storm.

At this moment, he transformed into the sea swallow from Gorky’s writings.

He shouted madly in his heart: Come on, come on, let the storm be even fiercer!

"Crack!"

With just a touch of the lightning, all the defenses of Li Chen’s Domineering Longevity Body shattered instantly.

His physical body finally couldn’t bear the strain, being scorched by lightning, burned by fire, ravaged by wind, and battered by rain...

"Ah!"

The suffering Li Chen could no longer endure, letting out a heartbreaking scream that tightened the hearts of all who heard it.

In the blink of an eye, Li Chen’s body had almost completely perished.

Upon witnessing this scene, Heng Mountain Ancestor finally felt a sense of relief.

Has this millennium’s genius finally fallen to the Heavenly Dao Thunder Tribulation?

Although he achieved what he wanted, for some reason, Heng Mountain Ancestor did not feel any joy but rather an inexplicable unease.

He always felt that things were not as simple as they appeared.

Because from beginning to end, he did not see Li Chen use the other Yu Emperor’s Treasure Cauldron: the Youzhou Tripod.

Was Li Chen so scared by the tribulation that he forgot the existence of the Youzhou Tripod?

Or was the Youzhou Tripod simply not with him?

Heng Mountain Ancestor racked his brains, feeling that neither possibility was reliable.

But aside from that, he couldn’t think of any other possibilities.

"Chen!"

Seeing Li Chen’s body utterly destroyed by the heavenly thunder, Lian Hongshang’s world also collapsed.

She cried out and was about to rush over but was held back by the Little Demon Immortal.

"Don’t go, the tribulation isn’t over yet!"

Lian Hongshang looked tearfully at the Little Demon Immortal and, seeing her calm expression, turned her gaze back to the tribulation area ahead.

The terrifying thunderstorm gradually subsided.

A sliver of Li Chen’s consciousness slowly returned.

However, everywhere he looked, there was only darkness, endless darkness.

He wanted to say something, but no sound emerged.

He tried to reach out, only to realize he had no hands.

Not only was his hands missing, but he had no feet, no limbs, no body, not even a single bone...

That’s when Li Chen suddenly remembered that his physical body seemed to have been destroyed by the tribulation.

Now he was in a mysterious state of being both alive and dead.

Despite the outcome, Li Chen felt no panic.

In fact, he had already gotten used to it.

Because he had once spent a full century in such an environment.

In his previous life, on the day of his wedding with Ye Chuxue, a beam of light enveloped him, forcibly taking him away from Earth.

When he regained consciousness, it was in this mysterious state of simultaneously living and dying.

This was an independent dimension, commonly known as: a black hole!

A black hole, the result of space being compressed and collapsed to its limits.

Here, not only can no living creatures survive, but even all matter ceases to exist.

This is a realm of silent desolation, from which even light cannot escape.

As Li Chen pondered the mystery of his situation, a crisp cracking sound suddenly echoed.

Instantly, threads of golden light blossomed like a blooming lotus.

At the heart of the lotus sat a thumb-sized, crystal-clear infant.

It was the Nascent Soul, the tribulation had been successfully overcome!

Li Chen was overjoyed. Normally, with his physical body destroyed, the tribulation would have been a complete failure. Even if he retained consciousness, he would be doomed to live as a wandering spirit, like those dead spirit ghosts of the River of Oblivion.

What is normal?

What is abnormal?

My existence is my norm, it is the Heavenly Dao.

If Heaven defies me, I shall defy the Heavens!

If the Earth bars my way, I shall crush it beneath my feet!

I am who I am, a different kind of spark!

Li Chen’s enlightenment deepened, and his body quickly merged with his newly awakened Nascent Soul.

New limbs, a new body, and head began to grow.

Moreover, after this transformation and rebirth, Li Chen’s physical body was radically redefined.

"Shua!"

A beam of light shot up like a rising sun, suddenly soaring to the sky, causing the endless expanse of darkness to collapse like a fog lifting under the bright sun.

The dazzling light of the Hexagram shone through the starry sky with unmatched brilliance!

Li Chen, having successfully endured the tribulation, and condensed his Nascent Soul, had been resurrected. Little Le was exhausted after spending five or six hours writing this Chapter.

As for Li Chen’s previous life, how he crawled out of the black hole, how after he was taken from the wedding where Ye Chuxue was killed by Young Master Xue, what fortunate encounters he had in the cosmic beam, and how he later met Beiming Xue, all of this will be explained in the subsequent Chapters!