Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 1044 – The True Great Heavenly Tribulation

An Zheng was very quiet, so quiet that it was outrageous.

This was a constant and unmoving space. Everything around them seemed real, but there was nothing at all. The white light was not dazzling, but it was very gentle. However, after looking at it for too long, his eyes would become very uncomfortable. It was just like how a person’s eyes would temporarily lose their function after walking in the snow for too long.

An Zheng’s right eye was closed, the three dark purple star point s in his left eye were slowly revolving, very slowly. Gradually, the white light around him turned into flowing symbols in An Zheng’s eyes. These symbols were very strange, An Zheng could not recognize any of them.

However, the time in this place was constant, so An Zheng had plenty of time to look around.

To have this kind of observation, An Zheng felt that he should first thank himself for his heaven-defying physique, and secondly, thanked for his heaven defying pair of divine tools. Under normal circumstances, when time had stopped and space had stopped, this person might not even have thought about it, and would also have stopped, let alone have any actions. But the strangest thing was, although An Zheng’s body functions had basically stopped, he was not affected at all.

Those symbols were flowing in front of An Zheng.

“Moving?”

An Zheng frowned slightly.

If it was just time, those runes would be still moving slowly. In other words, An Zheng’s condition was completely different from before. The absolute stillness just now was due to An Zheng synchronizing with time. Now that the symbol was slowly moving, it meant that An Zheng was either left behind by the time, or it was left behind by the time.

An Zheng could not understand those runes, but he was not stupid. He discovered that the symbols were following a certain pattern. The bottom layer was filled with a dense cluster of symbols, exactly the same. There were fifty-nine layers in a row. Then there was a different layer of symbols, but this layer of symbols was exactly the same. Above them was the 59th level, and then there was a different level.

An Zheng continued to observe, and discovered that after reaching the sixty levels of this law, there was a new level, a new symbol.

This was the composition of time.

At this moment, An Zheng seemed to have understood something. Suddenly, countless rays of light shot out from the symbol and converged into An Zheng’s eyes. An Zheng could feel that the part of the eye technique he controlled that belonged to the Eye of Nine Incarnations starting to increase in speed.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

An Zheng couldn’t help but let out a cry as the intense pain in his left eye caused him to fall to the ground while holding his head. One could imagine how fierce and cruel the pain was that even he could not withstand it. However, no matter how much he twisted and twisted, the light continued to pour into his left eye. The three dark purple star point in An Zheng’s left eye rotated faster and faster, and then turned inturple pentagram, extremely resplendent. A few minutes later, An Zheng fainted from the pain.

His left eye was still open, and the pentagram had becomexagram, even more resplendent than before.

After an unknown period of time, An Zheng woke up from his coma. He felt that his left eye had become numb, as if it no longer belonged to him. He subconsciously raised his hand to touch his eyes, but when his fingers touched his eyelids, they felt nothing but the tips of his fingers.

An Zheng took out a mirror from his spatial artifact. When he saw his left eye, he was stupefied. The white eyeball was so clear, without any impurities. However, the pupil in the black eyeball had disappeared and was replaced witurple hexagram.

After around ten or so minutes, the feeling slowly returned. The pain in his left eye made An Zheng roll around once again. Something seemed to be forcefully connecting his eyes, taking root bit by bit.

When he woke up again, the pain in his left eye had already lessened greatly. An Zheng lifted the mirror to look, and saw the trace of blood on his face from the corner of his eye. However, it looked like there was nothing wrong with his eyes. However, the hexagram looked a bit strange. If someone saw it, they would probably be shocked.

An Zheng noticed that the runes around him were moving even faster, like runes moving quickly. Not knowing why, an idea suddenly popped up in An Zheng’s mind. He could break the order of these symbols, but the moment he stretched out his hand, he stopped, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

If these were the components of time, then what would happen if he messed up the sequence of time?

He did not dare to move again. His mind involuntarily flashed with the words that the white-bearded Taoist riding the Old Bull had said to him outside Huogu Kowloon … Because of you, time has become chaotic. At that time, An Zheng could not understand why his time would be so chaotic. At this moment, An Zheng suddenly woke up from his stupor. The white-bearded Old Taoist was not talking about the An Zheng of the past nor the An Zheng of the past, but the An Zheng of the future!

That broken and incomplete Huogu Kowloon, might not even be from the ancient times, but the future!

An Zheng’s face became a little pale. If he had not endured and messed up those symbols just now, the outside world might have already undergonremendous change. If he were to randomly change the position of a symbol here, perhaps that symbol would only represent a thousandth of a second or even more minute. However, the outside world might change greatly because of this. Those who have already appeared may not appear, and those who have died may suddenly be reborn …

I can’t mess things up, but …

The purple hexagram in An Zheng’s left eye instantly became bright, and a purple brilliance shot out from the corner of his eye. A moment later, the direction in which the rune was flowing started to change. A buzzing sound came from An Zheng’s brain. The spinning runes was not fast, but An Zheng’s brain suffered an incomparable impact. It was as if someone had smashed his head witeavy hammer, his entire body swaying unsteadily.

He felt as if someone had shattered his brain, and his four limbs were no longer able to obey. The buzzing in his head continued, and his eyes turned red and a trickle of blood came out of his nose. A moment later, images started to appear one by one in An Zheng’s mind, flashing by at an indescribable speed. Those scenes were hard for An Zheng to see, just like a screen of light quickly flashing by.

But An Zheng’s Reversal Rune was very slow, and An Zheng was sure that the time that the runes represented was very minute.

However, those images were fragments of his memories. The symbols that flowed back were very slow, but the speed at which time flowed back was beyond his imagination. An Zheng immediately focused on reducing the speed of the reverse flow of the symbols, the buzzing in An Zheng’s mind lessened a little. The scenes that flashed by also started to become clear.

He saw Du Shoushou when he was young, crying while sitting at the edge of the forest. Immediately after, images flashed, and groups of elite Ming Fa Si s flew out of the Jinling, heading towards the distance.

In the next second, An Zheng saw a huge warehouse, inside were piles and piles of evidence, and he himself sat inside it, groping and tidying up.

He passed!

An Zheng was shocked, he immediately channeled his eye technique and allowed the runes to flow towards him, the scene once again passed by. An Zheng saw the Xiao Liu’er, he saw Gu Qianye, he saw Zhuang Feifei of the Zaocang … He saw Da Da Ye, he saw the immortal palace, and he saw the captured Old Bull and the Dragon Lion. Those familiar images stung An Zheng’s mind and his heart.

Suddenly, time seemed to stop.

The image in his mind disappeared and was replaced with a grayish haze. It was like clouds, but also like thick fog. It was hard to see through. The atmosphere was so heavy that it was hard for An Zheng to even breathe, it was as thouguge boulder had suddenly dropped on top of his heart. This was not the first time An Zheng had experienced this kind of oppressive feeling, and every time, he would feel a sense of helplessness.

At this time, a golden light shot down from the dusky sky. It was as if tens of thousands of rays of multicolored lights had torn apart that gray light. Afterwards, a hole split open in the sky, and the free fresh air entered An Zheng’s nose, allowing his chest cavity to feel wave after wave of comfort. Every pore seemed to have been relieved, and the ease gave him a kind of obsession that prevented him from leaving.

But very quickly, An Zheng found out that something was amiss, because there was a crack in the sky.

It was an incredibly huge bronze door, and it was slowly opening on its own. That free and fresh air leaked out from the cracks of the door, causing An Zheng to be unable to resist the urge to fly up and open the huge bronze door. But the door was too big, too big to breathe. The door was too heavy. It was as thick as a city wall.

An Zheng used all his might to fly up and touch that door. Finally, his fingers touched the bronze door, which was pulsing with purple electric currents, as if he were telling them something. An Zheng was incomparably excited. He had already seen this huge bronze door countless of times, and had finally touched it. He felt that as long as he exerted his strength, he would be able to open the bronze door and see what was behind it.

He was so tiny that he felt like an ant standing in front of a human’s door. When he looked up, he could barely see the top edge of the bronze door. Can you open the door, Ant?

For some reason, An Zheng suddenly remembered that small ant inside the ship that it was not willing to stop. In the end, it crawled across the small road, and for that ant, this was its greatest success.

“Open!”

An Zheng clenched his teeth, and a roar that sounded like the roar of a prehistoric beast came out of his throat. His two hands pushed forward on the bronze door with all his might. Due to the exertion, all the muscles on his body tensed up, and his clothes were instantly torn. The muscles seemed to be coiling around his body like dragons.

With a squeak, the bronze door began to move at a very slow speed as he pushed it open. The door was too heavy, An Zheng felt that his muscles would explode from using too much strength in the next second. But at this time, An Zheng was not willing to give up. Even if he had to put his life on the line, he wanted to see what secrets were hidden behind that door.

His feet were exerting force, and beneath his feet was a split in the sky.

“Open!”

“Open!”

“Open!”

An Zheng roared hoarsely, his eyes completely red because of the blood stain. With a light slap, a small cut appeared on the skin of his arm, followed by a trickle of blood. Pah pah pah pah pah … A lot of wounds instantly appeared on his arm, and in just a moment, his arm had turned blood-red.

But at last the door was pushed open.

“Aooo!”

An indescribable sound of a dragon’s roar came from inside the door, followed by an enormous, suffocating dragon head peeking out from inside, looking down at An Zheng from above. This was not the first time An Zheng saw sucuge dragon, but this time, it was even more terrifying than the huge dragon that went straight to the underworld.

The exploding electric current charged into every single one of An Zheng’s pores, and the moment the huge bronze door opened, the purple dragon also charged over.

This was the genuine Great Heavenly Tribulation!

An Zheng suddenly understood what was behind that door … It was the Greater Heaven stage.

That door was his shackle, his restraint. He had to open that door and go against the current!