248: Chapter 243 Refining!

He stared fixedly at Chen Zhiwen, trying to find a trace of hesitation on his face.

"You originally come from another world, so why risk your life and future for this group of caged livestock that have nothing to do with you?"

"Is it worth it?"

However, facing this final struggle from Daoist Xuanji, Chen Zhiwen merely raised the dao-slaying sword in his hand indifferently and slowly.

The snow-bright blade traced a cold arc in the Void Realm, pointing directly at Daoist Xuanji's brow.

"Enough talk."

Chen Zhiwen's voice was cold and resolute, devoid of any emotion.

"Let's begin!"

With those words, all negotiations were declared broken.

It also completely shattered Daoist Xuanji's last shred of fantasy.

He clearly realized that for the young man before him, there was no longer any room for maneuver!

"Fine... fine... fine!"

Daoist Xuanji laughed out of extreme rage, his facial muscles twisting with fury, and his gloomy eyes were instantly replaced by endless madness and violence!

"You brought this on yourself!!"

A hideous roar shook the entire Void Realm space and resounded!

Before his voice had even faded, Daoist Xuanji's figure instantly transformed into a streak of blood-colored lightning, tearing through space and charging boldly toward Chen Zhiwen with world-destroying momentum!

A Heaven-Defying battle that would decide the fate of the world suddenly erupted at this moment!

"Boom!"

Blood-light and sword-light collided violently in the Void Realm!

The terrifying energy aftershocks spread wildly like a tsunami but were strictly confined within by the invisible barriers of this space.

As soon as Daoist Xuanji made his move, it was an earth-shattering killing blow!

Although he was only an energy Incarnation, his every movement still carried the charm of the Law belonging to a Spirit Transformation Realm powerhouse. Blood-colored chains of Law manifested out of thin air, like the most vicious poisonous snakes, coiling toward Chen Zhiwen from all directions!

However, Chen Zhiwen was completely unafraid!

Holding the dao-slaying sword, he pushed his Sword Intent, which had touched the threshold of the "Taboo," to its absolute limit!

With one sword strike, all Laws were broken!

Those seemingly indestructible blood-colored chains of Law were effortlessly severed like rotten wood under the peerlessly sharp edge of the dao-slaying sword!

"How is this possible?!"

A flicker of horror flashed in Daoist Xuanji's eyes.

He discovered that his proud power of Law was actually weakened to an unbelievable degree before his opponent! It was as if the other's sword existed naturally to sever Laws!

The two fought with all their might, exchanging hundreds of blows in an instant.

This small Void Realm space was completely transformed into an ocean of energy. Blood-light and sword shadows intertwined, Law and Sword Intent collided; every clash was enough to shatter the mountains and rivers and sink the earth in the outside world!

However, as time passed, Daoist Xuanji became more alarmed and frustrated as the fight went on!

He found that he... simply had no way to deal with Chen Zhiwen at all!

From his perspective, Chen Zhiwen's true strength, if placed in the Tianyuan Continent, would at most be at the level of a Pseudo Golden Core Realm, having not even condensed a true Golden Core Dao.

Back in his prime, he could have wiped out billions of Cultivators at this Realm with a single breath!

But now, a tiger in the plains is bullied by dogs!

He was heavily injured, his Origin depleted, and his heaven-reaching cultivation was less than one-tenth of what it used to be. What he could use now was merely a trace of remnant power stored within this blood-red crystal.

Even so, he thought that dealing with a native of the Lower Realm should have been as easy as reaching for something in his pocket.

He never expected that the opponent's combat power would be so formidable!

That strange sword and that Sword Intent which touched the Taboo Domain both exerted a tremendous suppression on him!

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

Daoist Xuanji roared frantically in his heart, extremely annoyed but helpless.

On the other side, Chen Zhiwen's Battle Intent burned fiercely!

Through the exchange, he had completely confirmed the fact that the opponent was strong on the outside but weak on the inside!

The Daoist Xuanji before him had the frame and vision of the Spirit Transformation Realm, but the power he could mobilize was even a notch weaker than Wang Ming in his prime!

"Kill!"

Chen Zhiwen shouted explosively, sweeping away his previous defensive posture as his offensive suddenly became violent!

He used his full strength in every move, holding nothing back in every sword strike; the sword-light was like a Dragon and the Sword Qi like a tide, pouring frantically toward Daoist Xuanji!

Under Chen Zhiwen's relentless, storm-like attacks, the already weakened Daoist Xuanji gradually fell into a disadvantage.

The blood-colored figure he had condensed began to become illusory, and his aura was weakening rapidly.

"Bang!"

After another hard clash, Daoist Xuanji's figure was sent flying violently, crashing into that blood-red crystal; his condensed body almost dissipated directly.

He gasped for breath, and in his eyes as he looked at Chen Zhiwen, besides anger, there was finally... a trace of fear!

He was afraid!

He was truly afraid!

He never thought that he, a dignified Spirit Transformation Realm expert, would one day be pushed to such a desperate situation by a Pseudo Golden Core Cultivator from the Lower Realm!

If the fight continued, the last trace of his Origin power stored in this blood-red crystal would be completely obliterated! At that point, he would not only be unable to refine this world, but his Dao foundation would also completely collapse due to further damage to his Origin!

No! I can't fight anymore!

As long as the green mountains remain, one need not worry about firewood!

This thought grew frantically in his heart like weeds.

Finally, when he saw Chen Zhiwen charging again with his sword, the cold killing intent in his eyes unwavering, the last shred of wishful thinking in his heart was completely shattered.

"Ant! Just you wait!"

Seeing that he might truly lose his life here, Daoist Xuanji let out an extremely unwilling roar.

He turned his head sharply, glancing at the massive eye of the heavenly dao, his gaze filled with endless resentment and reluctance.

Then, without any further hesitation, he instantly transformed into a streak of blood-light and scrambled back into that blood-red crystal in a wretched state.

The blood-red crystal flashed with light, instantly tearing through space to flee from this place!

"I will not let you off!!!"

At the last moment of his departure, Daoist Xuanji's unwilling roar still echoed within this Void Realm space.

To this, Chen Zhiwen merely snorted coldly, not taking it to heart at all.

What was there to fear from a stray dog whose Incarnation had been driven away by him?

He floated quietly in place, his powerful Divine Sense locking onto the entire space. Only after confirming that Daoist Xuanji's aura had truly fled and left no hidden traps did he slowly breathe a sigh of relief.

His tense body relaxed, and a deep sense of fatigue washed over him.

The battle just now seemed like he had the upper hand, but in reality, every move and every form had him walking on the edge of life and death; the consumption of his spirit and magic power had reached its limit.

He slowly turned around and cast his gaze upon the eye of the heavenly dao that was still floating quietly in the Void Realm.

Now, the greatest obstacle here had been cleared.

It was time to harvest the fruits of victory.

Chen Zhiwen slowly, step by step, walked before this unimaginably massive Origin of the Law of Heavenly Dao.

The closer he got, the more he could feel that supreme and vast pressure that governed all things.

He took a deep breath, no longer hesitating, and slowly closed his eyes, sending his peerlessly powerful Divine Sense, like the gentlest stream, carefully into the interior of the eye of the heavenly dao.

The moment his Divine Sense entered, Chen Zhiwen felt as if he had entered a brilliant world composed of billions of Law runes.

However, just as he was preparing to explore deeper, a consciousness filled with violence and resistance suddenly awakened within this ocean of Laws and launched a frantic attack against him!

This was the primitive brand Daoist Xuanji had left within this Heavenly Dao Origin, and it was his final insurance for controlling this world.

Chen Zhiwen had anticipated this and was not in a hurry.

His Divine Sense instantly transformed into a boundless golden millstone and began to slowly but firmly crush toward that violent consciousness!

This was a pure battle of Divine Sense, a contest of wills between obliteration and counter-obliteration.

Chen Zhiwen was neither anxious nor impatient, using his powerful Divine Sense, which far surpassed the beings of this world, to slowly wear it down until it died!

He knew that when this consciousness was completely obliterated, he would become the new master of this world!

Within the independent Void Realm deep in Qinghua Mountain, time lost its meaning.

Chen Zhiwen sat cross-legged, floating before that massive seven-colored eyeball, eyes closed, looking solemn and dignified.

All his mind was immersed in the long process of refining the Heavenly Dao Origin.

This was a tedious and extremely dangerous process.

The primitive brand left by Daoist Xuanji was like a Vicious Beast entrenched at the core of the world, filled with an aura of violence and destruction.

It constantly struck at Chen Zhiwen's Divine Sense, attempting to completely devour and assimilate him, the outsider.

However, Chen Zhiwen's sea of Divine Sense had long been tempered to be as solid as a rock and unfathomable on the path of the "Taboo."

He transformed his Divine Sense into a millstone, neither anxious nor impatient, using the effort of dripping water through stone to wear down that stubborn will bit by bit.

During this period, Daoist Xuanji never appeared again.

He seemed to have been truly frightened by Chen Zhiwen, completely abandoning this world that had already spiraled out of control.

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed quietly.

Outside, in the Huangzhou World.

For the past half year, the entire world had been shrouded in an eerie calm.

The hideous Void Realm crack hanging above the sky like a scar on the world had stopped spreading.

It no longer grew larger, and no more destructive Void Realm storms spilled out from it.

But it did not dissipate either.

It just hung there quietly, like a Sword of Damocles, constantly reminding the people of the world that the crisis of the apocalypse had not truly been resolved.

Great Xuan Dynasty, the Capital.

On a Star-Gazing Platform that rose high into the clouds, Wang Ming and a group of Huangzhou's top Great Grandmasters would gather every day.

They did nothing but silently look up, gazing at that crack on the horizon.

“It's been half a year.”

A white-haired old man sighed softly, his tone carrying a trace of hard-to-conceal worry.

“Young Friend Chen still hasn't sent any word.”

Wang Ming stood with his hands behind his back, his figure as upright as a pine tree.

He gazed at the static crack, his eyes deep and resolute.

“No news is good news.”

He spoke in a low voice; his words were not loud, but they settled the hearts of everyone present.

“As long as this crack hasn't continued to grow for a single day, it means Brother Chen is... still safe.”

“He is still inside, fighting against that mastermind!”

Hearing this, everyone nodded silently.

They all knew that this eerie calm was precisely the result of Chen Zhiwen taking action.

It was that young man who, by his own strength, had pressed the pause button for the entire world.

They just didn't know how long this pause button could last.

All they could do was wait.

And pray.

On this day, within the Heavenly Dao space.

“Buzz—”

A profound hum, as if from the very beginning of the world's creation, suddenly rang out!

Chen Zhiwen's Divine Sense, which was like a golden millstone, finally crushed and obliterated the last bit of resistant consciousness left by Daoist Xuanji!

In an instant, the entire eye of the heavenly dao shone brilliantly!

Endless Law information, like a bursting flood, poured frantically into Chen Zhiwen's sea of Divine Sense!

Mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars...

Wind, rain, thunder, lightning, spring, summer, autumn, winter...

Birth, aging, sickness, death...

All the operational Laws and Law mysteries of the entire Huangzhou World from its birth to this moment were, at this instant, unreservedly opened to him, revealing their most core secrets.

He became the new master of this world.

The new... Heavenly Dao!

Chen Zhiwen slowly opened his eyes.

Within those eyes, there were no longer just his personal emotions.

In his left eye, there seemed to be the rotation of the sun and moon, the birth and death of galaxies.

In his right eye, the myriad of living beings and the flourishing and withering of all things were reflected.

A sense of control that words could not describe arose spontaneously.

He could clearly "see" every inch of the Huangzhou Continent, every cloud, and every wisp of breeze.

He could "hear" the heartbeats and breathing of billions of living beings.

The entire world seemed to have become an extension of his body.

Chen Zhiwen slowly raised his hand.

With a thought.

Outside, in the Huangzhou World.

On the Star-Gazing Platform of the Great Xuan Dynasty, Wang Ming and the others were gazing at the sky as usual.

Suddenly!

Everyone's pupils suddenly contracted in an instant!

The blood-colored Void Realm crack, which had spanned the sky for half a year and driven the entire world to despair, began to tremble violently without warning!

“It moved! The crack moved!”

Someone let out a terrified scream, thinking the final judgment had finally arrived.

However, Wang Ming stared fixedly at the sky, his eyes bursting with unprecedented brilliant light!

Because he saw that the crack was not expanding!

But... healing!

Yes, healing!

Under the shocked gaze of billions of living beings, that hideous crack was slowly pulled together from both ends toward the middle, as if by a pair of invisible giant hands.

Space was smoothed out, and Laws were repaired.

It took no more than a few short breaths!

The apocalyptic shadow that had shrouded the world for nearly a year vanished into thin air, leaving no trace!

The sky regained its long-lost azure blue.

The sunlight became warm and bright once again.

Silence.

After a brief silence, thunderous cheers erupted on the Star-Gazing Platform!

“It's gone! The crack is gone!”

“Success! Young Friend Chen succeeded!”

Wang Ming laughed toward the sky, his laughter carrying relief, wild joy, and even a trace of hard-to-detect tears.

He knew that the young man had truly... changed fate against the heavens and created a miracle!

Huangzhou is saved!