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Martial Peak – Chapter 2431, Time Flows on Infinitely, Like a Mighty Stream, Like an Unending Dream

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The might of the Emperor Authority Bead had just brushed him, but Yang Kai felt as if his back was torn open and his internal organs had been displaced. He didn’t need to use his Divine Sense to know that his back had been badly mutilated.

 

If he wasn’t proficient in the Dao of Space and hadn’t decisively ran, perhaps not even a piece of him would have been left.

 

Yang Kai was gasping for breaths, his face was as pale as paper. Nonetheless, he managed to fly through the Asteroid Sea and find a large asteroid to hide in. He then summoned the Sealed World Bead and entered the Small Sealed World.

 

This Asteroid Sea was in a moving state with some inexplicable power driving it in one direction, seemingly towards the depths of this endless Star Field. Who knows where it was going, but at this moment, Yang Kai could care less about that. Healing himself was his first priority.

 

Near the medicine garden, Yang Kai sat down cross-legged before grabbing a handful of healing pills from his Space Ring and stuffing them into his mouth. Immediately after, he began to refine the medicinal efficacies. At the same time, he gathered the immense vitality dispersing from the Immortal Tree to use on himself.

 

This time, he had been seriously injured by Feng Xi, but Yang Kai didn’t worry about it too much. His physique was extremely resilient, and with the Immortal Tree planted in the medicine garden, as long as he didn’t instantly die, he would eventually be able to completely heal himself.

 

In order to escape the might of the Emperor Authority Bead, Yang Kai had burned up some of his Blood Essence, which had left him in a weakened state; therefore, even with all his resources, it would still take him a long time to recover.

 

The Shattered Star Sea was surging with storms as tens of thousands of Dao Source Realm Masters from the Star Boundaries poured into it, seeking opportunities, pursuing a higher Martial Dao, hoping to advance to the Emperor Realm while here.

 

In the Asteroid Sea, Yang Kai was in a retreat inside the Sealed World Bead. He was completely focused on healing.

 

One month went by in a flash and Yang Kai finally opened his eyes before softly exhaling. A complex look flashing across his eyes.

 

He hadn’t expected to take such a long time to heal his injuries. 

 

Worthy of the Emperor Authority Bead refined by a Third-Order Emperor Realm Master! The might of the Seeking Passion Finger had not only injured him but also left behind some persistent energy in his body, making it more difficult to recuperate!

 

And it was exactly because of this that Yang Kai was forced to spend a month to eliminate the harmful residual energy. Otherwise, Yang Kai’s recovery would have been a matter of days owing to the effects of his physique and the Immortal Tree.

 

Yang Kai had healed without any issues, and his strength had returned to its peak state. Nonetheless, Yang Kai didn’t rush to leave the Sealed World Bead. He first scanned and checked the outside world with his Divine Sense, confirming that it was completely quiet all around and there was no one nearby.

 

After confirming it was safe and sound, he stretched out his hand. The next moment, four beads of different colours appeared in his palm.

 

These four beads were the Four Seasons Beads, relics of the Flowing Time Great Emperor.

 

A long time ago, Yang Kai had once speculated that he would have an unexpected harvest after gathering all of the Four Seasons Beads; however, he had never been able to find the Bead of Winter until he set foot into Ice Heart Valley’s Restricted Area.

 

Feng Xi’s Emperor Authority Bead made Yang Kai aware that he was not completely invincible here. With his current strength, he really didn’t need to be afraid of the cultivators in the same realm as him, but he did need to guard against the hidden trump cards of these elites.

 

Feng Xi had an Emperor Authority Bead, so who was to say that Yang Kai would not run into similar enemies? Even if they didn’t have an Emperor Authority Bead, they might have some other cards to play.

 

After all, the cultivators who could enter the Shattered Star Sea were all rising stars of the Star Boundary, many of them descendants of powerful Emperor Realm Masters or elite disciples of the top Sects.

 

Many of these people could not be underestimated as doing so would cost him his life.

 

Therefore, Yang Kai eagerly wanted to improve his strength. He was now in the Third-Order Dao Source Realm, so the next realm would be the Emperor Realm; however, it wasn’t that easy to break through to the Emperor Realm. Without any appropriate opportunity, Yang Kai had no idea when he could get a glimpse of the Emperor Realm.

 

Since he couldn’t break through to a higher realm, all he could do was pin his hopes on improving his techniques.

 

The Four Seasons Beads were undoubtedly his best choice. If he could comprehend whatever mystery they held, he might be able to gain the inheritance of the Flowing Time Great Emperor.

 

This Great Emperor was proficient in Flowing Time Force and was a top Master of his time. If Yang Kai could obtain such an inheritance, it would definitely provide a great boost to his strength.

 

So, Yang Kai didn’t mull over it for long and immediately started to study the Four Seasons Beads after taking them out, hoping to gain something.

 

Surprisingly, when he took out the Bead of Summer in Ice Heart Valley’s Restricted Area, it produced a kind of resonance with the Bead of Winter which was already there. However, when the four beads were gathered together, there wasn’t any such reaction.

 

Yang Kai didn’t know how to activate the Four Seasons Beads, so all he could do was put them together in his palm and pour his Source Qi and Spiritual Energy into them, calmly analyzing any reaction they produced.

 

Yang Kai didn’t become impatient. On the contrary, he remained perfectly calm.

 

Gradually, he entered an ethereal state with no other thoughts in his mind, completely relaxed, as if his being was drifting through a sea of clouds. He completely forgot where he was and what he was doing here, simply immersing himself in this inextricable feeling.

 

Half a month went by, then one month, two months…

 

The Four Seasons Beads were still unresponsive; however, Yang Kai was madly absorbing the World Energy of the Small Sealed World, making his Source Qi denser and purer. His Third-Order Dao Source Realm cultivation was steadily rising and soon approached the peak of his current realm.

 

One day, after three months of silence, Yang Kai’s mind suddenly shook as a shock from the depths of his heart arose him. Immediately after, a scorching hot sensation came from his palm and he opened his eyes to see four radiant glowing balls escaping from his hand and dancing around him like ribbons of light.

 

Each of the glowing balls had given birth to a very distinct and unique kind of Principal Strength. The four Principles complemented one another, mutually restraining and promoting each other’s characteristics.

 

Four Seasons Principles!

 

Yang Kai’s heartbeat became rapid as he realized that he had accidentally triggered the power of the Four Seasons Beads. When he scanned them again, the Four Seasons Beads that should have been in his hand had disappeared, leaving four radiant glowing balls that flitted about around him.

 

Yang Kai immediately understood that this was his opportunity and he didn’t dare to neglect it. Instantly closing his eyes once again, Yang Kai focused all his attention on comprehending the pulsing Principle Strength around him.

 

Unlike the ethereal meditation state of the past few months, this time, he was actively trying to comprehend with a clear goal in mind.

 

As soon as he spread his consciousness, Yang Kai sensed four extremely unique and powerful Principles lingering around him; a pleasant spring breeze, a scorching hot summer, a withering autumn, and a frigid winter. They seemed to form a peculiar cycle, constantly overlapping each other, seemingly endless and ever-changing.

 

Yang Kai fell into a deep state of comprehension.

 

He was like an outsider that had been exiled by time itself, his skin slowly growing old. In just the time it would take to burn an incense stick, Yang Kai had been reduced to an elderly man with white hair. But he came back to life at the critical point, returning back to the peak of his youth. The entire experience was extremely strange.

 

The Four Seasons Principles were surging and even the environment beside Yang Kai was constantly changing.

 

The spirit medicines planted in the medicine garden seemed to have experienced many years in just a moment of time, growing and maturing at a rapid rate. Except for the Immortal Tree and the Firmament Tree, which weren’t affected by these surging Principles, all the other spirit grasses and spirit medicines grew noticeably.

 

Yang Kai felt like he was dreaming. In this peculiar dream, he kept wandering between two stages of life, young and old, using his own body to remember the feeling of the passage of time, his mind to experience the concept of passing time.

 

Gradually, some vague ideas appeared in his mind.

 

Yang Kai wanted to see these ideas clearly, but he felt as if a film was blocking him from doing so, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t penetrate this barrier.

 

But every cycle made these ideas clearer and clearer.

 

At some point, these vague ideas turned into enlightenment.

 

Yang Kai suddenly woke from that unending dream and his face and eyes glowed brightly.

 

The four glowing balls were still flying around him, like four coloured ribbons.

 

Nonetheless, Yang Kai remained absolutely still, an extremely serious look appearing on his face as he quickly formed a set of mysterious seals with his hands and he muttered a chant, “Time Flows on Infinitely, Like a Mighty Stream, Like an Unending Dream!”

 

His voice was very slow, and his movements even slower.

 

But the moment he said this, a mysterious seal suddenly formed.

 

The next movement, the four glowing balls that had been flying around him seemed to have received some instruction and suddenly turned into specks of light that drilled into his pores.

 

*Hong…*

 

An invisible and powerful aura rapidly spread outward into the surrounding area with Yang Kai as the centre.

 

After everything stabilized, a strange light appeared in Yang Kai’s eyes as he cried out in surprise, “So, it was Time Principles! The Flowing Time Great Emperor was truly remarkable!”

 

In this world, the only Dao which was more esoteric than the Dao of Space was the Dao of Time. These two Daos were extremely different from the rest, sharing some similarities in the sense that they were both extremely difficult to comprehend, and even harder to cultivate.

 

The only reason Yang Kai was able to cultivate the Dao of Space was because of luck and opportunities.

 

Along his road of cultivation, he had encountered some cultivators who had gained some knowledge of the Dao of Space, but as for mastering them, apart from him, there was probably only one other; Li Wu Yi.

 

Li Wu Yi was proficient in the Dao of Space, and was famous throughout the entire Star Boundary as a result. And as a Third-Order Emperor, no one dared to find trouble with him.

 

There were always a few cultivators who had learned some basic concepts of the Dao of Space, but Yang Kai had never encountered anyone who cultivated the Dao of Time.

 

In light of this, the Dao of Time seemed even more difficult to master than the Dao of Space.

 

But the Flowing Time Great Emperor had cultivated this exact Dao to an extremely high level!

 

Yang Kai originally thought that Four Seasons Principles were a representation of the four seasons themselves, a kind of derivative of Time Principles, but after comprehending this seal, he finally understood that the Flowing Time Great Emperor had already mastered the Four Seasons Principles to the level of Time Principles. 

 

Thanks to the blessing of the Flowing Time Great Emperor, Yang Kai could be considered to have comprehended the initial concept of the Dao of Time after obtaining the power of the Four Seasons Beads.

 

Throughout the ages, Yang Kai might just be the only individual who had cultivated both the Dao of Space and the Dao of Time simultaneously.

 



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40 thoughts on “Martial Peak – Chapter 2431, Time Flows on Infinitely, Like a Mighty Stream, Like an Unending Dream”

  1. Yang Kai
    Age: 77 +/-4
    Cultivation level: Dao source realm 3rd order, emperor grade low rank alchemist
    Daos: space, grand alchemic tone

    Factions: azure sun temple disciple, sect master of high heaven sect, 9 heavens holy land Holy Master, Tong Xuan alchemist guild member, leader of the ancient demon clan

    Special characteristics: sealed ancient demonic qi, black demonic eye, 10000 medicine soup, shadowed star star master, stone puppet soul clone embodiment cultivating heaven devouring battle law, 5 element indestructible sword body, spiritual star chart, coloured glass demon eye of annihilation, demon god golden blood, conflagrated knowledge sea, 7 colour soul warming lotus, heavenly yang wind and thunder wings, golden dragon spirit tattoo, yin-yang joyous unification dual cultivation, golden skeleton

    Attack skills: Time Flows on Infinitely, Like a Mighty Stream, Like an Unending Dream seal, void crack, heaven severing slash, moon blade, poison dragon spirit, blossoming lotus, golden blood threads, demonic flame, Scarlet Heavenly Arrow, Punishing Heaven Spear, Heaven Covering Hand, profound heavenly sword, evil spirit soul skill, 10,000 swords technique, white tiger and divine ox seal, star mark, burning sun triple blast

    Movement skills: space tear, Flickering Heavenly Shadow, self taught movement

    Defensive skills: 7 points black tortoise formation, soul barrier, Exile, Grand Heavenly Shield, imprisoning heavenly chain, soul palace, unyielding will

    Other skills: dragon transformation, Gong Sun Mu’s inheritance skills, nihility, shocking void roar, domain, space array construction, multiple pill condensing technique, monster transformation secret art, true alchemy enlightenment scripture, yuan control mastery, Capturing Heaven Net, great heavenly attraction, divine sense, beast slave seal, origin of Yang

    Items: ancient demonic war hammer, Purple Sun Profound Light Shield, 5 point star seal , wooden flying boat, Myriads sword, firmament tree, space spirit jade, black jade alchemy furnace, dragon token, ice sword insect queen blood beast, soul sustaining bowl, immortal tree, immortal source liquid drop x2 , soul splitting saber, Insect enslavement bracelet, small sealed world bead, star refining art, origin king pill with clouds, life revitalising jade cream, sun’s true essence, soul devouring demon insects, demon mystic tome

  2. I wasn’t a believer when Yang Kai gathered the four beads but he actually managed to gain some insights into the Dao of Time. I was so hyped during the chapter and I am mega hyped about where this will go from here. Amazing chapter, many thanks!

  3. ok… its great that he finally has done this with the beads, but cmon, he could have stopped to do this kind of cultivating at any time, (outside of healing) yet he chose to sit for several months during a 1 once in a lifetime event. he says he cant grasp emperor realm stuffs right now, in the very space he should be out exploring to comprehend emperor realm stuffs. to add more dumbness to the mix, because he knows nothing about this place like how long its going to be open for, and judging from other events, it wouldnt last more than a month or 2. so doing so here he risked trapping himself here for [tens of?] thousands of years. luckily the plot dictates exactly what needs to be done for everything to work out perfectly… i guess…?

    also, how convenient that all of these once in a lifetime events keep opening up at the perfect time, in the perfect order, requiring the perfect level of cultivation, in the perfect place, for yang kai to participate in all of them one after the other. (spoiler for apotheosis) the plot better have some great, ultimate force guiding yang kai down the perfect path like apotheosis having his father hand craft and guide his path, or this is all waaaaay too coincidental, to the absolute highest, and sham-able degree

      1. i just reread that chapter to see what i missed. the closest thing is this line:

        “Why would I joke about such an important matter? It’s almost like the Heavenly Way is silently guiding you towards this destiny,” Yang Yan said with mixed emotions.

        ALMOST. this may be a hint to the truth of the matter, but at this time it is only speculation. there is no definite person or the heavens themselves directing yang kais destiny that we know of, only that he is extremely lucky, which we already know.

    1. I always thought he was a smart person, but right now i believe the attack he received damaged his knowleage sea, he gone mental LOL, I cannot think of a dumber moment to spend months doing something when he should clearly be exploring this place.
      Also, i think it didn’t matter when it was going to open, since he had the key and would be teleported, but it would be nice to show some events that he missed or something, at least talk about it, at least for show, so we would not think that the hole world is beeing linearly treaded for yang kai and his friends

      1. He’s wise to know to not act rashly in a place where randos with higher breedings and unknown hidden trump cards are out and about. Remember, inheritances from GREAT EMPERORS, man. Who wouldn’t stash emperor authority beads for this? Anywho, it’s his story and perspective. Indeed, it is too biased for him on the opportunities but yeah, plot armor.

    1. He’s responsible for her safety. Also, if he planned to meditate, a distraction would have offered a backlash. Keep in mind that he still has Hua’s Soul Brand. If she got in trouble, he would feel it and that would be dangerous when he’s meditating.

  4. The dao of word count is more esoteric than any other :/

    Due to time principles, will YK exit from the sealed world bead at the same time as he entered it? Or will he play catchup? If he has to catchup, I’m sure all the other geniuses will not be too far. Probably stuck trying to break through some barrier or the other because plot armor

    1. I believe he will exit at the same time he entered, i remember clearly that i lost count of how many years he spend in his original star field and his promise with gui zu about the 10 years, it was clearly more than 10, since he spent at least 4 years setting up teleports, 2 years with his girlfriends, and more 4 years doing everything in purple star and going to heng luo chamber of comerce, and i believe he spend 3 years cultivating to second order and upgrading his 5 elements? Also, i probably forgot something, so… More than 10 years

      1. I think purple star didn’t take 4 years, and Heng Luo chamber and sword sect didn’t take much time besides setting up the teleports (which did take 4 years). So it should have been about 10 years

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