The Heavenly Annihilation Realm, which gathered many old-school cultivators, was also swallowed up by the Calamity. At first, it was able to resist and block it, but as time went on, it also fell into a weak position and was defeated.

Jade Toad left the center of the void, and the other floating realm, which looked like a super-large flying ship, had naturally already gone far away.

These five great realms could not withstand the calamity, and the cultivators of other small and medium-sized realms fled in panic when disaster struck.

Only the Purefire Cult's territory at the edge of the void, protected by the Calamity of Death, remains relatively safe.

Furthermore, its stability attracted numerous flying boat fleets of cultivators who had fled from outside the region.

This region is now considered to be the most densely populated place of living beings in the void, apart from the celestial realm.

Traveling by airship in this area, one can often see a settlement of cultivators formed by a fleet of airships after traveling a short distance.

The calamity has barely managed to cut off some of the outflow of life force, hoping not to attract the attention of the calamities in the central region.

However, the barrier was not complete, and many minor calamities were still attracted, crashing down like shooting stars.

As more and more living beings gathered, more and more of these tiny, calamistic meteors struck, but none of them posed a threat, and they were simply devoured by the deathly disaster as if they were being delivered to them by a conveyor belt.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the previous life, at this time, the calamity had already destroyed the Central Continent of the Heavenly Realm.

However, the Heavenly Realm has not been damaged. It is unknown whether the Half-Immortal intervened, but the two calamities in the Northern and Southern Continents have been suppressed to a certain extent. After reaching a certain limit, they stopped advancing and there is no immediate danger of breaking through the boundary.

The Void Calamity has also been firmly attracted by the huge and hard bone that is the Heavenly Realm. It will not begin to expand outwards until it is gnawed away first.

The situation has reached a certain equilibrium.

As long as the Heavenly Realm remains intact, this balance will not be broken.

For Xi Heng, the current situation is not bad.

As many beings from surrounding realms continued to migrate to the Pure Fire Sect's territory, the total amount of vows sent over daily continued to grow, and she once again devoted herself wholeheartedly to cultivation.

Its external avatar becomes a motionless sculpture, only receiving external messages every now and then. It glances at them casually when there's nothing to do, and pays more attention when something happens.

Another ten years have passed.

It's been 254 years since I loaded the save file.

In the previous world, this was already the end of the world, and the remaining living beings had no choice but to wait for death.

Even realms like the Jade Toad Realm, which miraculously escaped the first wave of calamity, will eventually face the annihilation calamity that can destroy even the order of the heavens.

In the world today, although various disasters are becoming increasingly severe, bad news of the destruction of another intermediate realm is frequently reported throughout the void, making ordinary cultivators increasingly hopeless.

But at least many living beings are still alive.

Currently, the cultivators before the apocalypse have been divided into three major factions.

First, there are the cultivators in the Heavenly Realm who are fighting against several major calamities at the forefront.

Secondly, Xi Heng's area accommodates cultivators from countless realms within the Pure Fire Sect's territory.

These three constitute the imaginary number realm.

The Imaginary Realm of this lifetime has not been refined. Its original location is secluded and remote, rarely affected by disasters, and has become a haven for many cultivators, gathering a large number of beings like the Pure Fire Sect.

Cultivators from all over the world, who were displaced by the calamity, have now gathered in these three places and become integrated into them.

Xi Heng's true form is currently in the absolutely secluded Spirit Fire Space cultivation room, where his cultivation level is increasing day by day.

To this day, propelled by the power of his vows, he has barely reached the threshold of the late stage of the Dao Integration Realm.

In the midst of cultivating the imagery, he had already climbed countless steps on the spiral staircase.

I've gotten used to the feeling of blockage that appears when you first enter the middle stage of the Dao, and I ignore it.

At the same time, as she gets closer to the central point of the Heavenly Dao, she also gains a deeper understanding of the Heavenly Dao of Time that she has merged with.

Various techniques were enhanced and improved, and the 'folding time', which was only vaguely glimpsed when one first entered the middle stage of the Dao Integration Realm, became increasingly clear.

In her understanding, the ocean currents of the Sea of ​​Time transformed into a flowing, pale golden ring.

The circular surface stripes are also rotating, like an infinitely long coiled dragon, constantly winding around the curved ring, covering the entire surface of the ring with infinite length, and connecting head to tail.

This unique image is how she sees time now.

Every point on the surface of the torus represents a point in time.

It does not distinguish between past and future; every moment exists equally. There is no beginning or end, and it even transcends the concept of 'now'.

Moreover, time does not only exist on the surface of the ring; there are countless densely packed threads of time inside the ring, intertwining and connecting every point on the surface, forming countless infinitely interwoven nets inside.

The existence of the internal network allows each node on the toroidal surface to be connected to other nodes.

The past, present, and future flow simultaneously and influence each other.

Past events can have repercussions in the future, and future possibilities also emerge from the past and present.

"The choices a person makes in the present can influence the past and the future." As Xi Heng approached the late stage of the Dao Integration Realm, he gained a thorough understanding of the concept of time that the Immortal Corpse had spoken of.

In the cultivation vision, the self looked up and saw another layer of spiritual membrane suddenly appearing on the steps formed by the accumulation of cultivation.

Passing through this path will lead you to the late stage of the Dao Integration Realm.

She continued climbing, reaching the membrane, and touched it.

In the outside world, countless fluorescent star-like points formed by the gathering of spiritual energy immediately appeared around the figure sitting cross-legged like a sculpture.

The power of will converges and merges with spiritual power to form a special energy core.

The True Power of Harmony was sent out again, and a transparent sphere of thin glass beads emerged around the core, causing various forces to react violently inside the sphere and brew the True Power of Unification.

Three days later, the excessive amount of unified true energy gathered was reabsorbed by Xi Heng and crashed into the limit of his realm.

In the imagery, the fully integrated true energy transformed into hundreds of sharp needles that pierced the membrane of the boundary, causing a slight tremor.

The girl in the cultivation room remained motionless, and the surrounding spiritual light remained normal, but a peculiar, faint humming sound suddenly emerged from somewhere.

The frequency of the sound rapidly increased, eventually turning into a sharp, piercing noise.

The sound reached its limit and suddenly disappeared, followed by a crisp sound like shattering glass.

Xi Heng felt his mind tremble. Then, the originally resilient barrier in his mind became quite rigid glass, shattered by hundreds of needles and tremors.

With a snap, the membrane suddenly shattered into pieces and vanished on the spot.

"Is it so troublesome to break through to the mid-stage, but so easy to break through to the late stage?" Xi Heng wondered.

Just as I was about to take half a step forward and walk over the steps where the membrane was originally placed.

The next instant, a sudden surge of intense pressure came over them.

It was almost like being hit by a cannonball, causing the flow of spiritual energy in her meridians to suddenly stop.

My thoughts were in disarray, and my mood fluctuated for a moment.

Fortunately, my mental state was strong enough to sustain me, and I instantly transformed back into a stable form, allowing the imagery to be reconstructed.

He did not regress as a result; he only bent down for a moment before continuing to advance on the cultivation path despite the immense pressure.

The steps were heavy and slow, the pressure never eased, and almost every step required pushing one's mind to the limit before one could muster the determination to move forward.

Her mortal nature urged her to stop, but the inertia of her long cultivation and her determination to become an immortal, along with the power of her vows, pushed her forward.

The word "rest" never crossed Xi Heng's mind. She refuted her own mortal nature and once again used her cultivation to create a stepping stone.

Thus, each step was like a frail mortal wearing thin clothes, walking in a blizzard on a winter day.

Chilblains on the skin, and mental stress.

Human nature cries out from within: simply stop, and you can immediately return to comfort and warmth.

But she resolutely ignored it, letting the biting wind and the blizzard that was like sharp blades beat down on her relentlessly.

He uttered only one phrase: "Let the storm rage on."

Then, despite the immense pressure, he managed to push his cultivation level forward again and again.

It lasts a long time.

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Volume 1: Chapter 431, Soaring High Above the Clouds

The moment Xi Heng broke through his cultivation level, immense pressure descended upon him.

It's like an ordinary person facing wind, snow, frost, and heavy oppression.

With only the word "advance" lingering in her mind, the white-haired girl cast aside all other thoughts and focused solely on repeatedly resolving to take the next step.

However, a cultivator's mental strength always has its limits, and after half a year, it will have reached a certain limit.

Just when Xi Heng thought he would eventually exhaust his energy and faint from the pressure, the heavy burden suddenly lessened a little for some reason.

The driving force of her will was amplified at that moment, helping her to offset some of the pressure.

Xi Heng suddenly heard the wishes of countless living beings resounding in his ears, converging into power and merging into his body, thus enhancing the power of the other dimension.

She had never felt so clearly the wish of all living beings that she carried on her shoulders.

His primary wish is to survive in this world of calamities and chaos.

This wish acted like pillars, supporting her as a savior.

The establishment of such a 'role' has many implications.

Xi Heng didn't know its exact uses, but she could personally experience that at certain extreme moments—such as when her mental strength was worn down to the extreme just now—an even stronger force would surge out from the depths of her mind, directly enabling her to break through her theoretical limits.

Xi Heng had been observing herself for hundreds of years and knew her overall strength perfectly; no detail could escape her perception.

If you wish, you can even create a data table about yourself, with each piece of data written very clearly and completely.

The connection between the will of the living and the role of 'savior' gave her power that transcended the levels of data and theory, making her abilities reach a level that was difficult for her to predict.

As she pondered this in hushed tones, she suddenly remembered a passage from an ancient book she had once read: "There exists a special power in the world that is distinct from the ways of immortals and the ways of heaven."

"This is... the power of humanity?"

The description in the book seems to be quite similar to her current state.

"To bear the wishes of all beings, is that also to embark on the path of humanity...?"

After pondering for a few seconds, Xi Heng regained his composure due to the immense pressure and continued to resist the special obstacles brought about by cultivation.

With the increase in the desire of living beings, the pressure that was coming at us began to decrease little by little.

After another six months, he was able to walk easily.

She was also able to spare some attention to observe the changes in the outside world. Seeing that everything was developing steadily, she then returned to her senses and began to observe the improvement of her own realm.

After a year of perseverance, my abilities in all aspects have improved significantly.

Regardless of the total amount of spiritual power, the level of harmony with the Heavenly Dao, or the true power of merging with the Dao, it has all advanced to a higher level.

Xi Heng sensed that the increase in strength was a gradual increase in the process of resisting pressure.

The answer was also found—perhaps the immense pressure just now was not an obstacle to promotion, but a special trial.

The longer a cultivator can sustain this period, the greater the increase in their advancement.

In fact, he had already completed his advancement the moment the barrier between his realms shattered; the pressure that followed was merely a test.

"Is it because I persevered until now, never giving up even for a moment, that I've achieved such a huge increase...?" she thought.

"I wonder how long the other cultivators can hold out, and how much stronger they will become."

Xi Heng believes that because he was blessed with the power of humanity, he was able to overcome the pressure without giving up during the period, and therefore the increase he received should be the greatest.

I am now quite strong, probably in the late stage of the Dao Integration Realm.

"Perhaps, they can be compared with other peak Dao Integration cultivators," the girl thought optimistically.

Skipping over the initial thoughts, I turned my attention to other internal changes.

Aside from the significant increases in various aspects of strength and mindset, Xi Heng's vision and insights in all aspects became clearer and more thorough after advancing to the late stage of Dao Integration.

For example, by easily understanding some of the essence of the calamity through various clues known beforehand, it was realized that it was formed from the remnants and bones of certain heavenly laws.

As a beast from the celestial realm, the Five-Headed Roar possesses a portion of power related to immortals and the Heavenly Dao.

Its five heads may have consumed some of the remnants of the Heavenly Dao, or its derivatives.

Furthermore, by adding their own unique characteristics, it becomes possible to determine in what way several corrosive calamities are triggered at the moment of their death.

To fight against it, one must unleash power that is equally close to that of immortals and the Heavenly Dao.

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