83: Chapter 83: Breakthrough to Nascent Soul

Immortal Demon Battlefield.

Xiao Ran sat cross-legged on a desolate mountain peak, surrounded by the bleak ruins of the battlefield.

He closed his eyes and looked inward. The Golden Core in his Dantian, which had reached Perfection, was slowly rotating, its surface covered in profound Guixu Body demonic patterns.

"It is time."

In three days, he had swept through twelve Legacies, devouring a massive amount of Dao rhyme and energy; his cultivation had long since reached the limit of the Golden Core Stage.

Had he not intentionally suppressed it, he would have broken through long ago.

At this moment.

He completely released all restraints.

"Myriad Dao Guixu, break for me!"

Xiao Ran gave a low shout, and the Guixu Body Demonic Technique within him operated at full power.

In an instant.

The dark red sky above the battlefield suddenly changed color. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for a hundred miles around gathered madly, forming a huge Spiritual Qi vortex.

The center was aimed directly at the mountain peak where Xiao Ran was located.

This was the celestial phenomenon of Nascent Soul formation!

For an ordinary Cultivator forming a Nascent Soul, being able to trigger ten miles of Spiritual Qi was already considered a Genius.

And Xiao Ran's trigger was a hundred miles!

"This kid... actually breaking through inside the battlefield?"

"But given the domineering nature of the Guixu Body, it is normal."

In the distance.

Four Demon Venerable phantoms raised their heads simultaneously, a trace of surprise flashing in their eyes.

Not just them, other surviving Legacy phantoms on the battlefield also sensed this fluctuation.

But no one moved to interfere.

The trial rules did not forbid Breakthroughs; moreover, they were only residual wills and had no right to interfere with the trial-taker's choices.

Above the mountain peak.

Earth-shattering changes were taking place within Xiao Ran.

The Golden Core covered in demonic patterns began to crack. What spilled out were not the Golden Core fragments of ordinary Cultivators, but strands of gray-black Guixu Origin.

These Origins reorganized in the Dantian, gradually outlining a three-inch-tall Nascent Soul prototype.

The appearance of the Nascent Soul was exactly the same as Xiao Ran.

He was also sitting cross-legged, surrounded by twelve runes of different colors.

These were the core Law powers of the twelve Legacies Xiao Ran had just devoured.

The Myriad Poison Rune, Burning Heaven Rune, Profound Ice Rune, Thunder Rune... and even that last Flowing Cloud Immortal Rune, all were slowly rotating around the Nascent Soul.

This was a tremendous Opportunity.

Where would ordinary Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators be qualified to touch the power of Laws?

But Xiao Ran had done it, and he possessed twelve of them.

"Condense!"

Xiao Ran did not hesitate, his hands formed seals, and a massive amount of Spiritual Qi flooded into his body.

The Nascent Soul condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye: three inches, five inches, seven inches...

When the Nascent Soul grew to nine inches, an anomaly suddenly occurred.

The twelve Legacy runes lit up simultaneously and actually began to collide and Fusion with each other!

"Not good!"

Xiao Ran's heart tightened.

These Legacies belonged to different Dao lineages, and some were even Immortals and Demons in opposition.

Forcibly fusing them would very likely trigger a backlash, leading to failure in forming the Nascent Soul!

But at this very moment, the characteristics of the Myriad Dao Guixu Body activated autonomously.

The Nascent Soul opened its small mouth and took a fierce breath!

The twelve runes were all swallowed into the Nascent Soul's body.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!!!"

The Nascent Soul trembled violently, countless fine cracks appearing on its surface, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Cold sweat beaded on Xiao Ran's forehead as he operated the Guixu Body Demonic Technique with all his might, attempting to stabilize the Nascent Soul.

But the conflict between the twelve types of Dao principles was too intense; even the Guixu Body had difficulty reconciling them for a moment.

"It won't work. Forcing a Fusion will only increase the resistance."

Xiao Ran's mind raced, and suddenly he thought of the stories told by other great experts when he received the Legacy about the previous generation of the Myriad Dao Guixu Body.

He immediately had an idea.

The Guixu Body devours all Laws, but it is not meant to obliterate the characteristics of those Laws.

It is meant to find a way for them to coexist.

"In that case, it is much easier."

"Guixu Body, merge for me!"

Xiao Ran changed his strategy, no longer forcibly suppressing the conflict.

Instead, he used the power of Guixu as a medium to guide the twelve types of Dao principles to build a subtle balance system within the Nascent Soul.

The Myriad Poison Rune integrated into the Nascent Soul's left arm, the Burning Heaven Rune into the right arm, the Profound Ice Rune into the left leg, the Thunder Rune into the right leg...

The Flowing Cloud Immortal Rune integrated into the Nascent Soul's glabella, forming a state of Yin and Yang opposition yet mutual interdependence with the other demonic runes.

"Crack!!!"

The cracks on the surface of the Nascent Soul began to heal.

The nine-inch Nascent Soul completely solidified and slowly opened its eyes.

In those tiny eyes, demonic light swirled in the left, Immortal Qi permeated the right, and there was a gray-black Guixu Vortex mark on the glabella.

Nascent Soul, formed!

Xiao Ran opened his eyes and let out a long breath of turbid air.

After leaving his body, that turbid air transformed into twelve streams of smoke in different colors, circling in the air several times before slowly dissipating.

"Nascent Soul Early Stage... done."

He felt the surging power within his body; it was more than ten times stronger than the Golden Core Stage!

More importantly, the Nascent Soul had fused with twelve types of Legacy Dao principles.

Although they were all just prototypes, they had already laid an incredibly solid Foundation for him.

"Now, I have truly stepped onto the path of devouring all Laws."

Xiao Ran stood up and stretched his bones, which emitted cracking sounds.

Only now did he understand the profoundness of the Nascent Soul stage.

No wonder the outside world called the Nascent Soul stage 'Old Ancestor'.

It was simply unfathomably strong.

After a long time.

The novelty of Xiao Ran's promotion to Nascent Soul had passed.

He looked into the distance; the light of the Immortal Demon Hall had solidified a bit more.

But it seemed it would still take time before it fully opened.

And the others...

Through the Soul link, Xiao Ran could perceive that Li Changsheng had finished receiving the Innate Dao Ancestor Legacy and was consolidating his cultivation.

The others seemed to still be in the process of receiving their Legacies.

"There is still time."

Xiao Ran thought for a moment and decided to explore the battlefield first.

He transformed into a gray-black escaping light and flew in a randomly chosen direction.

Since the Legacies could be devoured, perhaps there were other good things on this battlefield.

For example, treasure fragments left over from the great war, Dao rhyme contained in the skeletons of powerful experts, or even some hidden ruins.

Two hours later.

Xiao Ran arrived in front of a group of dilapidated palaces.

This place was once a part of the Xuan Yin Daoist Temple.

It was also the place of Legacy chosen by Su Qinghan.

Unlike other Legacy sites, the Xuan Yin Daoist Temple was not a single building, but a group of palaces covering dozens of miles.

The Immortal Venerable Xuan Yin was fond of pomp in those days, so even her final resting place was grand in scale.

At this moment.

The main hall in the center of the Daoist Temple was emitting a gentle Xuan Yin Qi; clearly, Su Qinghan was inside receiving the Legacy.

Xiao Ran originally intended to bypass it, but just as he was about to leave, he suddenly frowned.

He sensed weak spatial fluctuations in a side hall in the southeast corner of the Daoist Temple.

The fluctuation was very hidden.

If he hadn't just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and had his Divine Sense sharpened several times over, he wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.

"There is something strange."

Xiao Ran concealed his aura and quietly approached the side hall.

The side hall had mostly collapsed, leaving only broken walls.

But deep within the ruins was a nearly invisible spatial rift, slowly leaking faint pink mist.

"This is... Devilish Qi?"

"The Xuan Yin Daoist Temple is a place of Immortal Dao Legacy; how could there be such pure Devilish Qi?"

Xiao Ran narrowed his eyes.

Driven by curiosity.

Deep in the underground palace of the Xuan Yin Daoist Temple.

Su Qinghan was kneeling on a huge Profound Ice Jade Platform, trembling all over.

In front of her, the phantom of a woman in white as snow was looking at her anxiously.

That was the residual Divine Thought of Immortal Venerable Xuan Yin.

"Child, hold onto your heart and mind!"

"This is the Lust Calamity Curse planted in my Legacy by that bitch Wan Yu!"

Immortal Venerable Xuan Yin's voice was as cold as ice, but at this moment, it carried irrepressible anger.

Su Qinghan bit her lower lip hard, her nails digging into her palms.

She was trying to use pain to fight the increasingly surging heat within her body.

She had just completed all the trials of Immortal Venerable Xuan Yin and obtained the complete Legacy of the 《Xuan Yin True Scripture》.

Just as she was preparing to refine the power of the Legacy.

A pink mist suddenly surged out from the Jade Slip of the Legacy, instantly invading her Meridians.

"Lust Curse?"