335: Chapter 335 Fire overcomes metal, water drains metal, the Sacred Realm

The Xuanhuang Immortal Light converged, projecting streams of retrospective scenes.

The Purple Gold Heavenly Palace was dilapidated, and countless weapon Evil Qis surged, evolving scenes of swords attacking the heavenly palace.

"Turns out it's because of the Heavenly River here?"

Subsequently, the Xuanhuang Immortal Light continued to turn and trace upwards, and soon he saw Wang An beheading the pterosaur and gathering the illusory maze realm, which was preceded by a ball of white light mist clashing with a golden light sword artifact.

"It actually involves an existence of the same rank."

Tracing back to this point, the somewhat relaxed expression of True Lord of Earth Virtue instantly turned serious.

Looking at the two opposing phenomena, thousands of thoughts flowed through his mind.

"That white light has the Law of Moon Rhythm; it should be that fellow daoist protecting the Heavenly River. As for this golden artifact being so familiar, it seems to be the scheme of someone in our heavenly realm."

"And it even involves the Dao of Earth imagery; it seems to be aimed at me."

Without excessive deduction, True Lord of Earth Virtue knew that this was very likely the scheme of someone in the Gengjin Western Heaven.

As for why it wasn't the Golden Tiger, one of the Four Symbols also located in the Western Continent, it was because the Four Symbols served as the Four Pillars of Heaven, bearing the heavy burden of maintaining the balance of heaven and earth. As long as they remained in that position, a continuous stream of heavenly merit would pour in, and they had no need to make other schemes at all.

In the current Dao of Gold, Gengjin was primary, and Xinjin was secondary.

The broken Spirit Treasure sword was probably done by that Master of Gengjin Sword.

Thinking of this, True Lord of Earth Virtue summoned a mountain-shaped jade seal and slapped it into the Xuanhuang Immortal Light.

At this moment, the immortal light imagery skipped over the mist of the peer-level clash, returning to before Wang An was attacked. An illusory mist-formed pterosaur took out a Spirit Treasure sword tip, and that weapon Evil Qi instantly stirred and shattered the Xuanhuang, manifesting a bright scene.

"Sure enough, Master of Gengjin Sword, are you determined to make an enemy of me?"

True Lord of Earth Virtue looked at that wispy Spirit Treasure weapon Evil Qi shooting toward the Xuanhuang Immortal Light, and his gaze fell into deep thought.

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To Repair the Earth on the Roof Golden Nature, Wang An had a preliminary coping method.

The Heavenly Fire Golden Nature manifested the Taiyin fire imagery, scorching that golden artifact.

"This is, Fire Overcomes Metal."

Instead of taking the righteous and open path of high-temperature furnace refining, it triggered the yin fire inside the golden artifact to scorch it, destroying the structure from the inside out and disintegrating the Foundation.

Afterwards, the Heavenly River Water Golden Nature transformed into a continuous drizzle, constantly drenching the golden artifact.

"This is, Draining Metal with Water."

Starting from such multiple angles not only stopped Earth producing Metal and fueled the imagery of metal attacking the heavenly palace, but even gradually disintegrated the environment on which the golden artifact depended for survival.

Manifested outwardly, the sword artifacts hanging under the eaves and subjected to wind, rain, and the illumination of Taiyin would all become rusted, decayed, and useless.

Very soon, this imagery of handling and resisting the tribulation of golden artifacts resolved a part of the crisis of spiritual buildings near the blades and weapons.

However, this was only a superficial and passive resistance.

Just like if the blade tribulation was triggered by hiding golden artifacts oneself, it could be eliminated; but artificially sudden golden artifacts were very hard to resist.

Instead, one could foresee that this imagery would accompany oneself for a long time.

Only when such anomalies were completely expelled and the heavenly palace was condensed could one fully recover.

Of course, Wang An would not sit idly by and await death; the most direct elimination and treatment method was for him to condense the Sword Edge Gold Golden Nature.

But if he wanted to condense this Golden Nature, it was best to go to Gengjin Western Continent. However, judging from the Dao of Gold to which this Spirit Treasure sword tip belonged, the hostility over there—or rather, the hostility toward True Lord of Earth Virtue standing behind him—had reached its peak.

Wang An even guessed that that lord of the Dao of Gengjin most likely treated this matter as a preview to practice in advance.

The two sides indeed needed to collide and probe in order to accurately deduce each other's general level of Dao attainment.

Therefore, Gengjin Western Continent definitely could not be visited. Wang An was not reckless enough to blatantly go under that True Lord's rule, assuming someone would protect him from behind and nothing could be done to him.

"I can see if there are any suitable places for cultivation in the other few realms."

At this point, this matter finally came to an end.

Afterward, Wang An instructed Lu Tianxin and Ling Ming to inquire about and collect whether other open six realms had suitable weapon forging pools with the imagery of "Autumn Emperor's Strict Blade, Hundred-Refined Blue Steel", or an Autumn Blade battlefield.

After receiving Wang An's message, Lu Tianxin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She had seen that terrifying Spirit Treasure sword tip almost destroy the entire Purple Gold Heavenly Palace, along with Master's Incarnation being destroyed and Rebirth-ed once over.

Of course, she did not know that the Lord of Light-Riding Instrument appeared to handle it, but she also guessed that Master should have other countermeasures in hand, which was how the surrounding opponents were successfully beheaded.

Therefore, Lu Tianxin relaxed at this time and sent Wang An a copy of the information received from other realms over the years, as well as the thank-you gifts for taking action for the Four Types of Humans earlier.

Wang An carefully read through it and quickly had an idea.

Nowadays, the Thirteen Heavenly Realms of the Seeking Truth Ancient Sect, as the largest floating phenomenon in the entire Milky Way Galaxy, occupied a range of nearly a thousand light-years in the sparse Star Domain.

Among them, the Seven Great Realms—Mortal Fetus Astral Realm, Yama Ghost Nether Realm, Sacred True Realm, Ancient Immortal Heavenly Realm, Void Beast Empty Realm, Fungus Demon Fog Realm, and Machinery Material Realm—were all fully open.

In addition, there were six other realms that were still extremely illusory and not yet open, and currently no items exhaled from these six realms had been discovered.

And there were only two places most suitable for Wang An to condense the Sword Edge Gold Golden Nature now.

The Sacred True Realm, which followed the True God authority system for the whole world, and the Machinery Material Realm, which had the mechanical modification system as its mainstream.

In the end, the only suitable one was the Sacred True Realm.

The Sacred True Realm was different from the five super Zhoulu heavenly realms of the Ancient Innate Realm and other secret dimensions.

The Sacred True Realm was more like a realm sea composed of a large area of small and medium-sized worlds, revolving around the Unique True Realm.

And the Unique True Realm was precisely the gathering place for a large number of deities, where countless Laws and authorities intertwined, and all kinds of bizarre Laws manifested in the world. It could be said to be an excellent treasured land for cultivating Laws for most flesh-and-blood civilization races at present.

However, the authority gods of various pantheons in the Sacred True Realm were extremely numerous, with severe homogeneity.

That triggered a very common event in the Sacred True Realm—the Divine War.

The Divine War was not only a means to kill opponents, gather divine authority, divine duties, and divine godheads, but also a means to expand one's own omnipotent influence range.

Just like Profound Truths of Laws, divine abilities, and Golden Nature, only when more people recognized and participated could they continuously evolve new conceptual authorities and new unknown Laws, thereby promoting the Perfection of Laws and elevating the divine throne.

Wang An thought for a moment and transmitted some information to Lu Tianxin.

"Tianxin, look for anyone who has been to the Sacred True Realm. The plan to go to Gengjin Western Continent is cancelled afterward; the Sacred True Realm might also be a suitable place to condense Golden Nature."

After receiving Master's request to collect information on the six realms, Lu Tianxin had been contacting her Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters, federal councilors exploring in the direction of Dayuan, and other same-rank powerhouses of the Four Types of Humans stationed here.

She even began to offer bounties for more intelligence in the Ophiuchus star system and the Exploring Nova Port.