273: Enlightenment amidst tribulation, the Dao heart is eternal.

"Madman... the New Master is truly a madman!"

Inside the Five Elements Hall, the hall spirit's light-and-shadow Incarnation had shrunk into a corner, trembling.

It had lived for ten thousand years and had never seen anyone so arrogant, so audacious!

Treating the Dao Destruction Tribulation like a meal?

And even complaining that the Heavenly Dao was too slow to serve it?

Above the firmament, the void tribulation cloud, as if possessing a will, was completely ignited with rage by Shen Yuanmo's undisguised humiliation.

It no longer followed any rules, no longer sent down tribulation punishments one by one, granting the Undergoing Tribulation Cultivator a moment to breathe.

The entire tribulation cloud was boiling and burning madly!

A terrifying rhythm, transcending sound and light, spread throughout the entire Small World!

Rumble!

The next moment, eighty-one attacks, each of a different color, myriad forms, and representing different Great Dao Laws, poured down towards Shen Yuanmo like a breached Heavenly River or a shower of countless stars, covering everything without any blind spots!

There was a blood-colored saber Qi representing the Great Dao of Slaughter!

There was a black and white millstone representing the Great Dao of Reincarnation!

There were invisible threads representing the Great Dao of Karma!

There was a colorful mist representing the Great Dao of Illusion!

...Each attack was the ultimate manifestation of a Great Dao.

Its power was enough to completely obliterate a Cultivator at the Perfection of the Soul Transformation Realm!

Eighty-one attacks simultaneously!

This was truly a battle against all Laws! Against the Heavenly Dao!

The Heavenly Dao intended to crush Shen Yuanmo, this anomaly, with the Laws of the entire world!

However, facing this world-destroying scene that would cause any living being to despair.

Shen Yuanmo merely smiled.

"Hahahaha! Good! This is more like it!"

He laughed up to the sky, his black hair dancing wildly in the Law storm, his robes flapping and clanging like metal.

An unparalleled heroic spirit, looking down on all under heaven, as if saying 'who else but me,' soared from his body!

Not only did he not retreat, but he actively charged into the torrent of myriad Laws, going against the flow!

"Today, I shall comprehend the Dao amidst tribulation, using myriad Laws as fuel to ignite the fire of my Dao Heart and forge my peerless Divine Body!"

His figure began to weave and dance within that deadly torrent composed of Laws!

Each step he took landed on a node of the Laws, each step was executed with utmost precision, as if he wasn't Undergoing Tribulation, but strolling in his own backyard.

A saber Qi of slaughter, imbued with endless resentment, slashed down, aiming to cleave him in half.

His Chaos Myriad Daos Nascent Soul merely extended a crystal-clear finger, from which a faint yet incredibly tenacious wisp of creation's green vitality bloomed, lightly tapping the core of the saber Qi.

In an instant, creation clashed with destruction, and the bloody light melted silently like ice and snow under the scorching sun.

A Reincarnation millstone, covering the sky and obscuring the sun, pressed down, intending to grind his Divine Soul to dust.

The Nascent Soul waved its small hand, and the nascent power of space-time transformed into invisible shackles, firmly fixing the millstone in mid-air, its circulating Reincarnation Dao rhyme forcefully smoothed out, rendering it immobile.

Countless Karma threads emerged from the void and entangled him.

Chaos Qi circulated, forming an invisible and insubstantial Dao scissors, which with a gentle 'snip,' severed all entangled destiny and Karma, returning them to Chaos!

His movement technique grew faster and more elusive, eventually leaving only blurred afterimages.

His Dao, too, in this direct collision with the world's Origin, was tempered a hundred times over, shedding all impurities, becoming purer and more refined!

What made the hall spirit's Soul tremble even more was that Shen Yuanmo was actually multitasking!

While fending off the overwhelming Law attacks, he was also dedicating most of his mental energy, using his Heaven-Defying Comprehension, to frantically deduce the subsequent chapters of the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture, using the myriad Great Dao Origins before him as material!

After Nascent Soul, comes Soul Transformation!

He wanted to use the purest, most primitive Law Origins in this Dao Destruction Tribulation to deduce the framework of the Soul Transformation chapter of the Cultivation Technique in one go!

Comprehending the Dao amidst tribulation!

If this scene were to spread, it would be enough to drive the entire Cultivation world into a frenzy!

Time, in this place, completely lost its meaning.

Who knows how long passed.

When Shen Yuanmo successfully devoured and resolved the last Law attack representing "destiny".

Above the firmament, the mighty, seemingly endless torrent of eighty-one Laws had vanished without a trace.

And Shen Yuanmo still floated quietly in mid-air.

His aura was several times stronger than before!

The rings of Dao rhyme light around his Chaos Myriad Daos Nascent Soul had solidified into what looked like real Divine Gold Immortal Rings, with light and shadows flowing on them, as if the birth and destruction of countless worlds were evolving within, exuding a terrifying pressure that made one's Soul tremble.

Shen Yuanmo succeeded.

He truly transformed this certain-death Dao Destruction Tribulation into his supreme fortune for ascending to the heavens!

However, the Heavenly Tribulation was not over.

After the destructive storm came a suffocating silence.

The void tribulation cloud, after a moment of silence, began to collapse and converge towards its center in a strange manner.

Finally, at the core of that absolute void.

An impossibly huge eye slowly condensed into form and opened.

That eye was utterly indifferent, devoid of any emotions a living being should possess, containing only absolute reason and order.

The Eye of Heavenly Dao!

This was the final and most terrifying test – the Dao Heart Inquiry!

The Heavenly Dao's will would personally descend to question the Undergoing Tribulation Cultivator's true heart!

That eye quietly gazed at Shen Yuanmo below.

There was no pressure, no killing intent. Yet Shen Yuanmo felt a will, tens of millions of times more terrifying than all previous tribulations combined, directly pierce through his Physical Body and Divine Soul, spreading like mercury into his Sea of Consciousness!

Yet Shen Yuanmo felt a will, tens of millions of times more terrifying than all previous tribulations combined, directly pierce through his Physical Body and Divine Soul, spreading like mercury into his Sea of Consciousness!

A majestic, cold, and unquestionable voice boomed in his Soul Sea, each syllable transforming into a Heavenly Law and decree, attempting to rewrite his perception:

"All Great Daos are decreed by Heaven. You defy Heaven and create a deviant Dao. Do you know your sin?"

"Abandon your Dao, return to the Heavenly Heart, forsake your self, integrate into the Great Dao, and you... shall attain eternal life!"

This was the Heavenly Dao's offer of appeasement.

And also the Heavenly Dao's final ultimatum!

Either abandon one's Dao, become a part of the Heavenly Dao's operation, a Puppet of order, and attain an alternative "eternal life".

Or be completely annihilated by the Heavenly Dao!

Facing this ultimate choice, this coercion and enticement that could cause any Dao seeker's Dao Heart to collapse, or even go ecstatic.

Shen Yuanmo, however, laughed up to the sky!

"Hahahahahahaha!"

His laughter was wild, filled with endless mockery and disdain, shaking his Divine Soul space into a tumultuous storm!

"Heaven-decreed? My destiny is mine, not Heaven's!"

"Eternal life? If this eternal life requires the sacrifice of self and the obliteration of will, then what difference is there between such eternal life and true death!"

"If Heaven has a Dao, I shall follow Heaven's path and contribute to this world!"

"If Heaven is without Dao, viewing all beings as straw dogs, then I shall... act on behalf of Heaven!"

"My Dao is mine, not Heaven's!"

Accompanying this Dao Heart declaration, which shook his Divine Soul and transformed into an eternal imprint, Shen Yuanmo's Dao Heart, already tempered to be indestructible like a Chaos primordial stone through countless life-and-death situations, burst forth with an incomparably brilliant light at this moment!

Within the light, a divine sword slowly condensed!

That was not a sword made of any material, but an immortal divine sword containing the Chaos Myriad Daos, embodying all his will, belief, and pride!

"Slice!"

With a thought from Shen Yuanmo, the Sword of Will soared into the sky, tearing through his Divine Soul Sea of Consciousness, piercing the boundary between reality and illusion, carrying a resolute will to sever all ancient shackles and reopen the Chaos universe.

It fiercely slashed towards the indifferent giant eye above the sky, which represented the supreme will of the Heavenly Dao!

This sword strike was Shen Yuanmo's declaration of war against the Heavenly Dao!

It was also his firmest defense of his own Dao path!

Facing this earth-shattering sword strike, capable of shaking the world's Foundation, the eternally unchanging, indifferent and ruthless Eye of Heavenly Dao actually trembled slightly, violently.

Immediately after.

Under the hall spirit's gaze, which had completely frozen, dulled, and turned into a stone sculpture.

That eye actually slowly closed.

Subsequently, the void tribulation cloud that had enveloped the entire Small World, bringing endless destruction and despair, vanished silently and frantically, like a punctured illusion or a defeated remnant army, without a trace.

The Heavenly Dao... retreated!