Vol 16 Chapter 3 (1/2)
Book 16, The Nihilum Zone, Chapter 3 – Iceheart
Although he did his best to visualize these seven beauties as skeletons, or as transfor knew that they weren’t toads They were part of the ‘red dust tribulation’ which the karht; they were created fro This caused Ning to unconsciously be drawn further and further into lust
“Hold, hold, hold…” Ning was repeatedly suppressing his own lusts
But as ti nonstop
“Wait”
Ning suddenly caend he had read about on Earth, a legend about Yu the Great ta the floods “Rather than dam it all up, he spread it out in channels How can lust possibly be forcibly suppressed? The red dust tribulation…the red dust tribulation…according to the records of Mount Innerheart, in order to overcome a red dust tribulation, one has to both enter the red dust as well as ee from the red dust” 1
“But if I allow myself to enter the red dust…if I succumb to it, what then?”
“What should I do?”
All sorts of thoughts began to ith each other in Ning’s heart
The more one knew, the harder it was to deal with the red dust tribulation In addition…‘knowing’ was one thing, being able to actually ‘do’ was another thing
“No matter what…”
“My heart cannot succumb”
“This is nothing h the red dust”
Ning didn’t dare to relax his vigilance in the slightest
Actually…Ning had actually made the correct decision This was because ordinary cultivators, when being tested by a red dust tribulation, would generally be able to first allow the period of time Afterwards, when the day cae frothened tre’s situation, however, was different! His ‘red dust tribulation’ came from the descent of karmic sinflames; he absolutely couldn’t allow himself to succumb to them at all
Time flowed on
lust Gluttony Rage Avarice Love Hate…
Within the red dust tribulation, all the desires one could feel when trapped within the mortal world, the world of red dust, would be amplified to an extreme
lust – The ly beautiful women would appear
Gluttony – Uniinably delicious delicacies, delicacies that would cause your soul to quiver
Rage – All sorts of arguments, jealousies, disputes…as well as the joy and jubilation that came after violent conquest
Love – Parental love, spousal love, romantic love, brotherly love, master-disciple love…the word ‘love’ truly did involveto die for
Hate – Towering, earth-shattering hatred and resentment that filled every inch of one’s heart Hatred that not even the waters of the four seas could wash away…boundless hatred and a desire to kill one’s foes…
At first, Ning did his best to suppress all of the desires of the red dust, trying to push the’s heart to feel increasingly tired But slowly…Ning began to understand
“Let these enticements come as they may My heart abides”
“This…this is nothing more but a mortal, fleshly coil”
Ning completely separated the innermost part of his heart from the outside world
He let his lust soar to the skies He let hirief, happiness…Ning no longer suppressed any of it, allowing the feelings to invade every part of his entire body Ning’s heart, however, transcended it all It was like a bystander, si
“One’s true heart…one’s fleshly body…?” Ning slowly began to understand…and he thought of [Houyi’s Archery]
The reason why [Houyi’s Archery] was able to rank ast the top ten divine abilities of the universe and was considered co Hand], but the actual application of it was even ards to skill, it required extreood bows and arrows…and it only allowed for very, very few shots However…its poas truly ridiculous as well
At the peak of its power, [Houyi’s Archery] was evenHand] at its peak! Even Houyi, a divine archer of the Primordial Era, would only be able to shoot out ten or so arrows atexhausted The power of those arrows, however, was truly terrifying
In addition, the application of divine poas just one part of [Houyi’s Archery] The true reason why it was doed as the number one archery technique was thanks to…heartforce!
Heartforce was a source of power that was invisible, formless, but incomparably mysterious and miraculous
This was a force that was completely outside the types of pohich Immortals and FiendGods could normally control Elemental ki, Immortal power, and divine poere all visible to the naked eye…but heartforce was invisible In fact, unless one was using it to support so like archery, heartforce alone was completely unable to injure anyone
However, it was precisely this energy, ‘heartforce’, which allowed divine archers to becoures Houyi was the most powerful of the divine archers, and the [Houyi’s Archery] technique which he developed was able to strengthen the application of heartforce to a truly frightening level This hy this technique was such an unearthly, powerful one
Heartforce, invisible and formless…
And yet, it allowed one to reach astonishi+ng levels of power In the Primordial World, not even True Gods or Daofathers would willingly beco endary divine archer even in an age of legends
[Houyi’s Archery] clearly differentiated heartforce into multiple levels
The first level of heartforce could be considered the ‘basic’ level, the level which Ning had currently reached If one could truly apply heartforce to one’s arrows and cause one’s arrows to be able to strike unerringly at a distance of ten thousand kilometers, one had reached the basic level
Ning had spent ly at Mount Innerheart before reaching the basic level Generally speaking, upon reaching the basic level, one could already be considered as having entered the ranks of the ‘divine archers’ and be viewed as one of the reached a level that was as far above the other archers of the Three Realms as the heavens were above the earth If one didn’t understand heartforce, one would never be able to beco heartforce could one’s archery beco
The second level of heartforce was known as ‘iceheart’!
Iceheart…
This meant that one’s inner heart had coer be shaken or bedazzled by foreign influences The waters of one’s inner heart would have frozen into a cube of ice; there would no longer be any ripples within it! Once one’s heart reached this level, one’s ‘heartforce’ would begin to qualitatively evolve and also increase in power tremendously