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Chapter 699: Battling Bark

The Chaos Turbid River was like a maze. Even if one locked onto a target through karma, a distance of half a trillion kilometers could increase by tenfold when traveling in a straight line.

The spacetime here was chaotic; it was a terrifying labyrinth. Therefore, it was almost impossible to traverse the entirety of the Chaos Turbid River. One would be restrained by the Chaos Turbid River unless they could escape the River of Spacetime.

However, the Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature—Bark—had lived in the Chaos Turbid River for too long. It was very familiar with the easy-to-explore areas. Furthermore, Meng Chuan had yet to move while cultivating.

Thus, Bark had arrived in Meng Chuan’s vicinity in just a day.

I’m 40 billion kilometers away from this newly-advanced Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence. The behemoth stared at the building from afar. Most newly-advanced Seventh Tribulation Eminences can’t discover me from such a distance in the Chaos Turbid River.

The reason why Bark stayed 40 billion kilometers away was that it could only teleport up to 40 billion kilometers in the Chaos Turbid River! Any further, and it wouldn’t be able to teleport near Meng Chuan.

It’s been so many years; it’s rare to encounter such good food. Bark was filled with eagerness.

Bark would only gain great benefits when it devoured an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s avatar for the first time. The subsequent boost from consuming that Eminence’s Essence Soul avatars would be negligible.

This was unless one could devour all of the Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s avatars and completely rob them of their lives. But considering an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence’s life-preservation means, it was almost impossible to do so completely.

Whoosh.

Bark’s massive body suddenly lunged forward; it crossed spacetime and attacked Meng Chuan—who was 40 billion kilometers away.

…

Meng Chuan was cultivating in a building above the Turbid River. However, his Origins domain covered more than five billion kilometers around him. When the forbidden creature—Bark—charged into his Origins domain, Meng Chuan suddenly opened his eyes.

A Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature! Meng Chuan instantly sensed the other party.

This forbidden creature resembled an octopus, but it had over 100 tentacles. Every tentacle was over 50 million kilometers long, and its massive body caused spacetime to distort. This forbidden creature’s aura alarmed Meng Chuan as it instantly charged into Meng Chuan’s Chaos Hole domain.

Meng Chuan instinctively blocked and repelled the other party.

The Chaos Hole law was good at domains, and Meng Chuan had once studied the strongest domain-type Chaos Hole lineage manual in White Avian Hall—Chaos Hole Territory. After grasping the law, he could unleash 70% of the domain mystic technique’s might.

Boom!

The spacetime in Meng Chuan’s domain was in chaos as the powerful spacetime repulsive force pulled at the behemoth.

The domain’s resistance was too great. If Guild Master Darkstar were to charge over, his speed would be reduced to just 10 to 20 percent.

However, the forbidden creature that rushed in was Bark. It had devoured more than ten forbidden creatures of the same level, causing it to evolve many times after reaching the Seventh Tribulation realm.

Whoosh.

Bark’s body seemed illusory as the Chaos Hole domain’s spacetime repulsive force only affected it slightly. It then let out a deep roar.

Buzz—

An illusory domain descended, and it instantly destroyed the Chaos Hole domain! In terms of domain, Bark was clearly stronger.

Pupil of Darkness. The moment Meng Chuan used his domain to block the attack, he immediately used Pupil of Darkness—a mystic technique. However, Meng Chuan’s invading willpower felt like it had hit a wall.

Meng Chuan couldn’t penetrate Bark’s mental defenses at all.

Bark’s golden eye glanced at Meng Chuan mockingly because it also had high willpower. But because its target was an Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence, it didn’t use similar means.

However, Meng Chuan’s Pupil of Darkness couldn’t threaten it, even if it was several times stronger.

Boom!

The Chaos Hole Territory collapsed.

Without any obstructions, Bark arrived in front of Meng Chuan. Multiple tentacles—over 50 million kilometers long—then grabbed at Meng Chuan.

But Meng Chuan had already split into three. As the three Essence Soul avatars fled, a vast array formation descended.

This array formation was vast and had 60 undulating Dark Chaos Holes.

Array Formation—Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Array.

This was the ultimate technique that Meng Chuan had spent the most time reading in White Avian Hall’s library. Reading this ultimate technique took him 20 years longer than Chaos Hole Fist.

This array formation was created by an Essence Soul Eighth Tribulation Eminence—Myriad Tribulation Traveler. The only information Meng Chuan could obtain regarding Myriad Tribulation Traveler was this array formation. The value of the array formation was lower than an Essence Soul legacy, but Meng Chuan placed great importance on it.

This was because Essence Soul Tribulation Eminences were good at setting up array formations. This was the only Eighth Tribulation array formation Meng Chuan found that used the Chaos Hole lineage as a catalyst.

The Myriad Tribulation Chaos Hole Array was an Eighth Tribulation array formation, and it was divided into three volumes. The first volume was the Hundred Tribulation Realm—it was a pure Chaos Hole law array formation. Meng Chuan had studied the first volume and also learned the last two volumes. However, he temporarily couldn’t comprehend the last two volumes fully.

The more he studied this array formation, the more Chaos Holes he could condense.

If he could condense over 10,000 Dark Chaos Holes at the same time and perfectly form an array formation, it meant that he had reached the Myriad Tribulation Realm. Of course, he had to comprehend the complete laws of time and space before he had a chance of reaching the Myriad Tribulation Realm.

Meng Chuan was still very far from reaching that realm. But there was no doubt that this was the strongest Chaos Hole array formation that Meng Chuan had ever seen. He had studied it carefully, and he was using it now.

The 60 Dark Chaos Holes rose and fell as though they were one, suppressing the surrounding spacetime.

“Break!” Bark stared at Meng Chuan and coldly yelled.

Meng Chuan had never heard this language before, but he could naturally understand its meaning through its will.

With this angry roar, the illusory domain surged in all directions.

Boom!

Although the Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Array was struck by the illusory domain, one of its major advantages was stabilization.

Every Chaos Hole core was extremely stable, and they were like 60 reefs. The reefs remained motionless despite the tides’ inundations.

Bark was somewhat shocked as well. Although it had the upper hand in domains, and it dealt a suppressive assault, it couldn’t destroy the 60 Chaos Holes.

The array formation formed by these Chaos Holes affected this spacetime greatly, preventing Bark from teleporting.

Whoosh.

Bark’s massive body suddenly disintegrated. Its massive true body split into 12 smaller avatars.

Every avatar had ten tentacles, which were over 50 million kilometers long. Their auras were much weaker.

The 12 forbidden creatures surrounded Meng Chuan’s three escaping Essence Soul avatars.

Swoosh.

Although the Myriad Tribulations Chaos Hole Array blocked them, Bark’s avatars were terrifyingly fast. Spacetime distorted wherever they passed, and they instantly traversed hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Under the impact of the other party’s domain, Meng Chuan couldn’t teleport—he could only fly. His speed was far inferior to the other party. Even with the array formation’s help, the gap between them constantly narrowed.

This Seventh Tribulation forbidden creature is too powerful. Meng Chuan felt suppressed in all aspects.

Whoosh~

A tentacle—over 50 million kilometers long—traversed spacetime and instantly attacked Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar. Furthermore, a huge suction cup was at the tip of the tentacle. It enveloped Meng Chuan and was about to devour the Essence Soul avatar.

Break! Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar had an Essence Soul World covering its surroundings. The huge palm in his Essence Soul World clenched into a fist and punched the tentacle suction cup.

It was known as the strongest fist technique derived from the Chaos Hole law—Chaos Hole Fist!

Boom!

Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul World punched out as light appeared!

The Chaos Hole Fist was simply too difficult to cultivate; it was very easy to cultivate the normal fist technique, but the reverse Chaos Hole Fist was split into seven steps.

Meng Chuan had cultivated to the fifth step because he had seen scenes of a universe being created. But the difference in strength was still very obvious when compared to the perfected seventh-step Chaos Hole Fist.

This punch caused the tentacle to ripple slightly. The soft vibrations dissipated the force, and the tentacle’s surface cracked open as purple blood flowed out.

If I had mastered the Chaos Hole Fist completely, I wouldn’t just be tearing its tentacle skin. I’d probably be able to shatter its avatar.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Meng Chuan punched out consecutively to block the attacks from the tentacles. The Essence Soul avatar wanted to pull away.

Oh? Not good. Purple blood appeared on the surface of Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul avatar.

Meng Chuan felt that the blood was frantically seizing control of him, and his control over his Power of Essence Soul was rapidly weakening.

I can’t touch its blood. Meng Chuan immediately understood that the forbidden creature’s blood had a terrifying corrosive property. Once the blood touched the Chaos Hole fist, it would corrode the Essence Soul avatar.

Boom!

Meng Chuan didn’t attempt to expel the blood. Instead, he exploded his Essence Soul avatar—it was like a Chaos Hole explosion—without hesitation.

Why didn’t he attempt to resist? Why did he self-destruct instead? When Bark saw this, he sighed inwardly. If this Essence Soul Seventh Tribulation Eminence was very confident and tried to resist the blood contamination, the other party wouldn’t have been able to self-destruct in just one or two seconds once the contamination increased.