Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor

Chapter 1443  Boundless Paragon VI: Final Transformation

Wang Wei raised his head to look at the five lightning creatures. Although their eyes constantly released small electrical pulses, he could sense a higher being observing him through them. So, the two stared at each other for a while before the creatures slowly disintegrated along with the clouds.

Then, a river composed of chains and runes manifested before him. Wang Wei did not hesitate to swallow its power like a whale that was starving. With its power, he started [Existence Reconstruction] on himself. The destroyed scroll rapidly repaired itself, along with its content. However, Wang Wei was siphoning an ungodly amount of power from the source.

Someone with his deep foundation was already destined to absorb significantly more energy for his transformation, but in his current situation, he was absorbing ten thousand times the normal amount, if not more. And it would have been more if Grand Dao did not warn Wang Wei when he tried to cheat and add more things that were not there to his [Existence].

Another good news is Wang Wei almost completed his [Existence Armor] due to the detailed manipulation of his existence during the reconstruction process. He has classified [Existence Armor] as a pseudo-transcendent Technique, just like the Blueprint. He theorized manipulation and confrontation of [Existence] are the essence of Transcendent Battles.

As soon as the construction ended, Wang Wei removed the Knowledge Seal from his mind, and his cultivation rose to the Second Heaven, or 92%. Now was the best time to use it since baptism might not be enough to increase his cultivation by 1% if his realm is higher.

”But I can do better,” Wang Wei muttered. He had just escaped a true death experience and broken from one of his shackles, all experiences that fit with his Dao or pursuit. So, Wang Wei closed his eyes and used that experience to enter a state of epiphany, increasing his cultivation by another 1%.

”Then, there are the final transformations,” Wang Wei muttered. He watched his Dao Imprint change, followed by the manifestation of his 12 Fate Palaces.

”Huh? They are different from the fake one I summoned,” Wang Wei immediately noticed. Most cultivatorsʼ [Dao Body] and [Awakening] will become useless by the Paragon Realm. However, a few individuals with deep enough foundations and achievements can evolve great techniques or abilities based on them, and Wang Wei was one of them.

He controlled the 12 palaces to resonate with each other, and to his surprises, they slowly turned into a river. ”A projection of the River of Fate? No, this is a prototype of the River of Fate, and Iʼm the source — not Grand Dao.” A flash of enlightenment appeared in Wang Weiʼs eyes as he had an inkling of the way forward. His Dao Body had evolved perfectly to suit his Dao and pursuit.

”Excellent,” Wang Wei commented with a smile. The next step was to condense a new Grandmist Wheel with a grander scale and boosted potential. Wang Wei did not focus too much on that as his body, soul, and spirit had completed the final transformation.

His fleshly body reached the Second Heaven of cultivation, and his soul and willpower reached 98%. ”I expected a larger improvement — especially for my body.ʼ The Lightning was ravaging all the aspects and characteristics of his [Existence], and the pills would heal the damage, thus achieving a form of tempering. However, it seems Grand Dao was cunning and ensured these aspects were not affected too much to prevent Wang Wei from benefiting too much in the likely case he survived.

”How stingy,” Wang Wei cursed before closing his eyes to prepare for the last transformation process. He disappeared from his location, appearing in this river, and was a small fish. He started swimming upward without hesitation, and his body began to grow in size. It did not take him long to become a colossal creature as he reached the riverʼs surface.

However, a small voice in the back of his mind kept telling him to return as he was a fish and the top was dangerous; the voice insisted he was a fish and had no business on the surface. Wang Wei ignored the voice and jumped out of the water. He felt another shackle removed from his body, and in response, his fish body turned into an enormous bird that roamed the sky.

Wang Wei flew for a few seconds before turning into his human shape. ”The River of Time looked different from a Paragonʼs perspective and the one I saw when I met my future self,” he commented as he looked around. This river was not made of strings representing different timelines. Each drop was a supersolid --- both properties of liquid and solid --- crystal that shone like glitters when glanced from a surface level. These crystals were the purest essence of time, and this river contained an endless amount of them.

 ”Have I broken free from the shackles of time? If the Empyrean Realm is freeing the self from death and samsara, the Paragon Realmʼs target is time,” Wang Wei muttered.

Wang Wei looked around as he experienced the difference in realm and life level. ”However, have we really completely freed ourselves?” His gaze peered in the distance. He now could distinguish between the lower end of the river and the upper end. The lower end led to all past and present, and the upper end led to the future. However, the upper stream was blurry and chaotic to him.

”What about the Infinite Trichiliocosm,” Wang Wei muttered, and his perspective changed. The river before him was surrounded by a golden hue, and countless other rivers or streams were flowing along with it. From another perspective, these rivers could be seen as endless small strings, but it was hard for someone of his level to truly see it that way.

”That golden hue should be the symbol and protection of the Primordial Timeline,” Wang Wei realized. ”Should I take a look at the other timelines? Itʼs a good place to hide my Dao Mark.”

Boundless Paragons have many ways to survive and revive. The most basic are the evolved [True Avatars] and the seven [Proxy Avatars]. The True Avatars were no longer confined to one world, and they no longer needed to use the power of Samsara to hide themselves. In other words, they did not need to remain mortals and could all cultivate. However, with the restrictions, they cannot be in the same realm as their creator.

With all these clones scattered in different Chaos Worlds, killing a Boundless Paragon is already a nightmare, but this is not the end of their cockroach survival ability. [Proxy Avatars] have the highest hiding abilities, are almost incorruptible, and their cultivation can be only 1% lower than their creators. Primal Paragons can even have all [Proxy Avatars] with a peak cultivation of 100%.

But thatʼs still not the end. Boundless Paragons can move their Dao Mark and hide them anywhere in the world; they could hide it in some random world in the Chaos Universe, the Source Qi Space, Samsara, or even another timeline. Moreover, the mark also acquired a parasitic ability that allowed it to attach itself to a weaker creatureʼs mark and blend with it as if it were one. Boundless Paragons were once the pinnacle of the hierarchy, and their survivability was one of the key reasons.

”Forget it,” Wang Wei ultimately decided. He would need to do so in the future but now was not the best time. Wang Wei did not immediately leave but glanced in the distance. Unlike before, he sensed countless terrifying auras, many of whom had similar auras as him, and a few who casually looked at him made his body instinctively tremble from sheer terror.

Wang Wei realized that when he traveled to the past to kill Five Feathers, he was nothing but a small fish swimming among sharks. Although he had some bite, in the grand scheme of things, he was truly small and weak.

ʼNo wonder only Paragons dare navigate the River of Time,ʼ he thought. Technically speaking, a Great Emperor could slowly navigate the River of Time and even travel through time; they donʼt do it because of how much restraint Heavenly Dao placed on them. However, Wang Wei understood now these restraints were a protective measure for these Emperors.

He shook his head to remove these thoughts, focusing on what drew him in the first place. ʼI can sense the location of the Prehistoric World,ʼ Wang Wei thought. He frowned briefly before closing his eyes to sense the karmic thread connected to Earth. His mind traveled through the thread to a distant place, but midway through the journey, Wang Wei stopped.

His intuition told him he could send a projection to the Prehistoric World and immediately return home in this manner. However, he was not ready yet to meet or confront Hongjun, so he stopped and canceled his action.

”Better safer than sorry,” Wang Wei uttered as he opened his eyes. He did not stay long in this place as he returned to the tower. He used his best technique to reduce his aura to the First Heaven. He wanted to hide even more but remembered Xu Shiʼs words. People would be suspicious if he survived such a terrifying tribulation and his cultivation was the bare basics like everyone else.

Furthermore, he had a perfect explanation for his terrifying tribulation—he forced it to end in just five years. Most people will think he is a madman who did something extreme to ensure he took first place in the trial and should not look too deeply into his actions or behaviors.