I Am Loaded with Passive Skills-Chapter 4318 - 2012: Awakening (2)

"What?!"

By the Time Realm Channel, Saint Xin turned their head, suddenly revealing a look of astonishment. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

A beam of golden light pierced through the sky. When the golden spots were shattered by the beast’s roar, it rose beside the Tree of Memory, towering into the clouds, an Ultimate Giant, as if the Heavenly Ancestor had descended.

"Gi... Giant?"

In the five regions, each family’s Zhang Xing immediately shifted the view, seeing a familiar yet strange sight.

It was clearly the Ultimate Giant form that Lord Shou had transformed into when tearing the Holy Emperor Qilin by hand, but in size and color, it was more than several times greater, more vivid.

The all-golden Ultimate Giant, with blood-red eyes, seemed out of control, like Lord Shou, with nine black crescent moons emerging from its back, but these Moon Wheels were collapsing, and its power was utterly unstable.

"It looks like it’s gone berserk..."

"As soon as Lord Shou appeared, he went mad?"

The five regions hadn’t had time to cheer, celebrating that even Lord Shou wanted to join the battle.

That golden Ultimate Giant only showed up briefly, and in a sizzle, its massive body shattered and disappeared, the power redirected elsewhere unknowingly.

As if what they had just seen was merely an illusion.

Lord Shou had never appeared at all.

...

"What spiritual technique is this?"

Inside Zero Number, orders were issued at lightning speed.

Yet, after calculating for a long time, there was no conclusion; Xu Xiaoshou had never exhibited such rampant power.

He did have a Berserk Giant.

But it couldn’t compare to the Ultimate Giant, let alone this berserk giant.

"Did Xu Xiaoshou encounter a great difficulty?"

By the Time Realm Channel, Saint Xin glimpsed some clues in a glance.

They couldn’t help but be shocked, casting a glance at the Time Realm Channel, where faint filaments of calamity power were still emanating.

"Still transcending the tribulation..."

"The flow of time between the Time Realm and Shengshen Continent must be different, and he’s not done yet?"

"The berserk giant we saw earlier must be his trump card left in the Five Regions, needing such elaborate use, able to be guided across two planes?"

"Luckily, the great calamity nullified this card..."

With a thought, such terrifying power had to be forced out, so what calamity was it?

"Could it be he’s transcending the Calamity of Annihilating Self?"

"No, that’s not it... When the Calamity of Annihilating Self appears, the Thunder Tribulation Array Group must accompany it; Xu Xiaoshou would then... hissing, the Twin Rivers of the Great Dao, the Sea of Consciousness, could it be he’s truly transcending the Three Tribulations Array Group?"

Outside the Nanli Realm, Elder Wuyue was equally shocked in spirit.

From a completely different perspective than Zero Number and Saint Xin.

In that fleeting moment, he had clearly seen that when the berserk giant’s power was guided away, it blasted apart the power belonging to Xu Xiaoshou’s swordsmanship diagram as well.

"His Upanishad of the Sword, cultivated to such a level?"

Almost reaching the height of Bazhun’an by now, perfect and flawless, the Nine Major Sword Techniques advancing together, with no weakness.

Yet what had gone wasn’t just the Sword Will at the return-to-zero level, but also the aura of the Ancestral God Destruction Tribulation!

In that moment, too many, too many thoughts flashed through Elder Wuyue’s mind:

"While I felt the power of guidance, You Tu and Wen Ting suddenly made their moves..."

"Saint Xin, who should have been hiding until the end, suddenly erupted from the four-hill mountain, enduring Wen Ting’s third realm sword head-on, losing an arm without retreating a single step..."

"Medicine Ancestor’s sudden disappearance, Number Zero not being invincible, Bei Huai clearly having sealed the ancestors, yet collaborating with Medicine North to hold a battle-capable force that remained hidden and unacted..."

"Dao Qiongcang, or Dao Ancestor, distancing himself by elevating the realm of the Tree of Memory’s Dao, with an ambiguous attitude towards Saint Xin’s World Sealing Chains, neither cold nor warm, not helping yet not kicking someone when they’re down..."

"Yue Gongnu still having a Four Pillars of Destiny Token in hand, which I know, Demon Medicine must have precautions against, yet tacitly agrees no one touches this card..."

"Bazhun’an just left, leaving behind a mess that not even Godhood and Cao Yihan could save, and the once glorious Xu Xiaoshou has yet to appear..."

"This berserk giant’s power was also guided away after showing itself, its final destination unknown, but logically, only one possibility remains..."

Piece by piece, thread by thread, what was chaos tangled like thread in Elder Wuyue’s mind, was slowly unraveled.

Yes, this was the thought process of the Dao Clan!

Everyone believed that after Moonless Sword Deity took the position of ruler of the white-clothed people, he stuck to his ways, unable to advance.

Yet, no one knew the reason Elder Wuyue spent thirty years by Dao Qiongcang’s side, and followed him to the Southern Region when Dao Qiongcang fell.

A large part of it was due to what Bazhun’an said back then:

"The path of an ancient swordsman has already been tread bare."

If he wanted transcendence, Bazhun’an faced it with absolute talent and reached a point of return to zero.

Elder Wuyue believed he couldn’t do it, yet he saw a glimmer of hope in Dao Qiongcang, hope to transform into something usable for himself:

No need for absolute talent.

No need for absolute calculation.

Even as a mortal not counted as an absolute genius, one could find a path that classifies them as an ordinary genius of a certain Dao.

Any genius, as long as their daily effort was not overlooked, the process, no matter how tortuous, is irrelevant as long as the outcome matters.

At a critical moment, perhaps there’s only one opportunity!

But as long as one balances "calculation" and "combat," the one who accumulates thickly can also amaze the world under that opportunity!

Wu Wei never meant doing nothing.

Non-recklessness, naturally, never meant recklessness.

The path of Elder Wuyue is breaking the square and circle within rules, and when transforming from sparrow to golden roc, tearing open the self-imposed cage, unable to get lost in endless freedom beyond, like Cursed Yin.

Calmness, wisdom, and true insight.

These are qualities that can help ancient swordsmen in the Spiritual Cultivation Era, find a path in the shadows of countless ancestral gods.