Chapter 615: Chapter 472: Immortal

As Tian Xuzi gradually regained his composure,

Zhao Wanxi’s consciousness was frantically operational, immense amounts of data whirling like a tempestuous storm, continuously emerging within the server array she held.

“The outermost area, nearly thirty kilometers in radius, is enveloped by the Stop Boundary. All people and objects covered by the Stop Boundary come to a halt, some even stop thinking, while others seem to maintain their ability to reason…”

At that moment, surveillance footage from around the world began to appear. There were elderly men in military uniforms, soldiers operating weaponry at an extraordinary level, and men giving orders over the phone… Their commonality: all were caught in a state of immobility.

“…Correction, a vast number of people beyond the thirty kilometers are caught in the Stop Boundary.”

“The farthest individual is roughly fifteen thousand kilometers away from Tian Xuzi’s physical location.”

“The Stop Boundary isn’t just the peripheral thirty kilometers—both the operating principle and the maximum range of the Stop Boundary require further exploration to confirm.”

“The center of the Stop Boundary, approximately a three-meter radius space, is surrounded by the Ultimate Boundary.”

“All attempts to probe the Ultimate Boundary have failed. We are currently unable to determine what conditions prevail within; we can only conjecture based on current clues, suspecting that anything entering it may be erased by time-space powers.”

Meanwhile, a multitude of images of Tian Xuzi before his current state emerged, particularly his most recent appearance focussing on his head, with footage taken from various angles, now being incessantly magnified and analyzed.

The crack on his forehead and his pupils were of particular interest.

“It bears a high resemblance to the third eye from Zheng Jingshu’s future memories, suspecting it possesses a similar yet more powerful ability to predict the future.”

“To summarize, Tian Xuzi has currently demonstrated at least three kinds of time-space powers.”

“The Stop Boundary, a vast immobility field with its farthest distance still unknown…”

“The Ultimate Boundary, undetectable and unknowable which attacks might be effective, an eradication field…”

“The eye on the forehead, also possessing at least the ability to predict the future…”

As various pieces of information were gathered and considered, Zhao Wanxi’s heart slowly sank.

It was then, to her astonishment, something even more shocking occurred.

The server carrying the data and her consciousness suddenly disconnected. When she tried to check using local surveillance and drones, she discovered that these servers too had fallen still, shrouded by the Stop Boundary.

What became even more alarming to her was that the immobility continued to spread, even as her consciousness data was disseminated around the world.

In the few brief seconds that followed, Zhao Wanxi’s consciousness jumped around the globe, repeatedly severing her connection with various servers. After thousands of attempts, she finally understood why she was under attack.

“Simply trying to calculate how to harm Tian Xuzi in the server precipitates an attack from the Stop Boundary.”

“To think is forbidden… Is this the might of the Immortal Court Immortals?”

In the short time Tian Xuzi was recovering, Zhao Wanxi step by step understood the frightfulness of her opponent and couldn’t help but doubt Lin Xing’s decision.

“Is it truly right to let Tian Xuzi recover to his peak?”

Yet, when Zhao Wanxi observed Lin Xing through the drone’s camera, all she could see was his face filled with excitement and… immense anticipation.

“You have been defeated, Lin Xing.”

With a sweep of Tian Xuzi’s will, shards of broken light continued to appear around Lin Xing.

The rocks beneath Lin Xing’s feet shattered and weathered furiously, as if passing through tens of thousands of years in an instant, vanishing into thin air.

However, under Tian Xuzi’s gaze, Lin Xing, who should have vanished along with them, stood unharmed, the smile on his face growing ever more evident.

“Finally warmed up, Tian Xuzi?”

Lin Xing took a step forward, and rivers of blood-tinged stars blossomed under his feet, spreading incessantly towards Tian Xuzi.

Phantoms from the past flickered in and out of existence within his long hair.

There was also the thunder-flashing Buddha Sound, the space distortion that shimmered around him, and the cold gleam leaping in his eyes…

The power of the five Immortal Artifacts seemed to awaken one by one, roaring and leaping for the upcoming battle.

Behind Lin Xing, towering mountains emerged abruptly, reaching into the clouds with ascending immortal aura.

“Then I don’t have to hold back anymore.”

The booming sounds thundered from the skyline, with torrents flowing down like they descended from the heavens, intermittently materializing around Lin Xing.

Tian Xuzi’s thoughts kept focusing on Lin Xing, but he could only see the rocks under the other’s feet and the sea water dissipating in large swathes.

Yet whether it was Lin Xing himself, the mountains behind him, or the raging torrents beside him, all stood unyielding, as if unaffected in the slightest.

“Not just the Kunlun Immortals’ Mountain Moving Scripture… but also Nine Tribulations Transforming Existence Throughout the Vault of Heaven…”

“Impossible… I arrived two months early, so how could Lin Xing still harness this power?”

At the same time, Lin Xing continued to stride towards Tian Xuzi, and with each step he took, the mountains behind him grew taller, and the surrounding torrents became more turbulent.

His thoughts spread like a blanket over heaven and earth, and wherever they passed, all things that had been frozen in time resumed their natural state.

The ocean began to flow, the fierce winds swept through again, the sunlight returned to normal, and many ordinary people started moving again.

“Tian Xuzi, are you wondering now… why today I am unaffected by the time torrents, how I could cultivate the Nine Tribulations Transforming Existence Throughout the Vault of Heaven?”

“Then feel it in my upcoming strike.”

With just a slight clenching of his fist, Lin Xing’s aura surged again, the Ten Layers of Immortal Mountains behind him seemed to become tangible, piercing through Yunxiao, shaking the sea, and clearing the skies for thousands of miles.

From the pervasive thoughts filling the heavens and earth, Tian Xuzi quickly sensed something.

It was solitude, wandering, perseverance, madness… various emotions echoed between heaven and earth, as if letting Tian Xuzi witness Lin Xing’s path of cultivation firsthand.

It wasn’t just Tian Xuzi; Bai Hai Liu, Tian Jizi, Xingxiao, also felt Lin Xing’s perseverance, his cultivation, his Martial Arts, his willpower, from those earth-shattering thoughts.

They felt his anger, his restlessness, his disappointment, his expectations…

And this sensation continued to expand with Lin Xing’s thoughts.

When Lin Xing’s thoughts reached the entirety of East Sea City, could those common people in the city feel it?

They could feel it!

At this moment, thousands upon thousands of ordinary people felt Lin Xing’s intentions.

They felt Lin Xing taking steps into the Heavenly River, traversing the long millennium alone, witnessing the endless pursuit of the ultimate realm day after day in relentless cultivation.

That was in the boundless expanse of the Heavenly River…

…

In the first year, Lin Xing’s body aged years in every fleeting moment, his flesh withered under the tempering of the Heavenly River, decaying like a skeleton. It was the second tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Transforming Existence Throughout the Vault of Heaven after the last Resurrection Tribulation—the Decline Tribulation.

In the training of the Decline Tribulation, Lin Xing gradually felt the marvels of his newly formed immortal body, a resistance to the shifts of time, an unchanging nature from his immortal aura.

On the tenth year, Lin Xing’s originally withered body began to show a slight plumpness, his immortal body starting to adapt to the Heavenly River’s tempering, to the erosion of time. He also slowly understood this immortal body’s resistance to the passage of time and the transformation of things, sensing a fundamental attribute called immortality within himself. (Immortality: 0→1)