386: Observe the battles of the Dao, comprehend your own Dao and reach the heavens.

Boom! Boom! Rumble!

Above the shattered world of the Myriad Thunder Return Ruins, there was no longer any distinction between heaven and earth.

This place had turned into a pure purgatory of destruction.

Jian Wuchen, the Grand Elder of the Taiyi Sword Sect who had been in closed-door cultivation for one hundred thousand years and had long since stepped into the Hedao Realm, was engaged in a heaven-shaking battle with the Outer Realm Heart Demon that occupied the remains of Dao Lord Zixiao.

Every move Jian Wuchen made was concise to the extreme, yet contained the supreme logic of the Dao.

With a wave of his fingers, he unleashed a taiyi sword Qi that spanned across the heavens and earth.

That Sword Qi was not purely sharp; wherever the sword light passed, whether it was the rampaging Devilish Qi or the violent thunder, it was split in two from the level of Law, the cut smooth as a mirror, unable to heal for a long time.

And that Outer Realm Heart Demon was fierce to the extreme.

It controlled the half-remains of Dao Lord Zixiao, and every time the golden bone claw swung, it carried black Devilish Qi that corrupted all things, clashing head-on with the sword light.

At the center of the collision between the bone claw and the Sword Qi, the Laws annihilated in an instant, turning into chaotic airflow.

Even light was twisted and swallowed, forming space cracks that constantly emerged and vanished.

"Hehehe... What pure Sword Dao Laws! If I devour you, this seat will definitely be able to recover even more!"

The Heart Demon's evil and piercing roar exploded directly in Jian Wuchen's Sea of Consciousness.

The omnipresent devilish thoughts turned into thousands of illusions, attempting to pollute his Dao Heart.

"Mere demon, you dare to speak wildly!"

Jian Wuchen's hair stood on end, his expression grave to the extreme.

The seventh-rank dao artifact [taiyi ancient mirror] suspended above his head rained down streams of clear light, rippling like water waves.

It purified all the devilish thoughts invading his Sea of Consciousness, protecting his Divine Soul from being lost.

Yet even so, he fought with trepidation.

This Devil Head was too difficult to deal with!

The remains of Dao Lord Zixiao were indestructible; although his taiyi sword Qi could cut through the Devilish Qi, it could not leave even the slightest mark on the golden skeleton.

The opponent's strength was even more violent; every head-on collision shook his blood and Qi.

What was more terrifying was that this Devil Head seemed to not know fatigue at all, but rather fought more bravely as the battle went on!

As a dignified Dao Integration Realm Great Expert, he was actually being dragged to death in this dead zone by a broken monster!

And a thousand miles away, at the edge of that heaven-destroying battlefield, a figure floated quietly, like an eternal reef.

It was Shen Yuanmo.

Facing the aftermath of the battle that was enough to destroy the Divine Soul of a Void Returning Great Expert, the [chaos myriad dao armor] on his body glowed, neutralizing all the impact, not even stirring the corner of his clothes.

In his eyes, chaotic airflow slowly rotated, and the [Insight into Origin] talent had already been activated to the limit.

In his vision, the whole world had changed.

What Jian Wuchen slashed out was no longer sword light, but golden lines of Law radiating endless sharpness.

What the Outer Realm Heart Demon swung was no longer a bone claw, but patches of viscous, pitch-black Demonic Path runes full of polluting and distorting characteristics.

Their purpose was to erode, assimilate, and destroy all existing Laws.

And between these two, there was a third force.

That was the thunder Great Dao belonging to the Hedao Realm remaining in the remains of Dao Lord Zixiao!

It was violent, majestic, and full of the aura of divine punishment.

Under the urging of the Heart Demon, it turned into purple thunder chains, colliding crazily with Jian Wuchen's Sword Dao Laws.

Three distinct forces belonging to the Hedao level of this world were displayed nakedly and unreservedly before Shen Yuanmo.

To him, where was this any life-or-death crisis?

This was clearly an unprecedented live teaching session of the Hedao Realm!

"So that's how it is. The Sword Dao of the Taiyi Sword Sect has its core in breaking and establishing—breaking the surface of ten thousand Laws, and establishing the truth of my Dao..."

"This Heart Demon's Dao is pure erosion, assimilation, and destruction, returning all order to disorder, and then turning disorder into its own use..."

"And there is Dao Lord Zixiao's thunder technique, overbearing and unparalleled, which is the destructive authority in charge of punishment..."

In Shen Yuanmo's Sea of Consciousness, [Perfect Deduction] was running crazily at an unprecedented speed.

On the illusory chessboard composed of countless stars, the three top-tier Law forces were constantly disassembled, analyzed, and reorganized.

Finally, they turned into the purest Great Dao insights, fully absorbed by the Chaos Dao Infant crouching in the center.

The fundamental Cultivation Technique he created himself, the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture, was being perfected and elevated at a terrifying speed during this observation!

At this moment, the path to breaking through the Void Return Realm became clearer than ever.

He was even reverse-deducing, simulating how he would use the Chaos Great Dao to break their ten thousand Laws if he were to face these two!

Just at this moment, the situation on the battlefield changed again!

"Devil Head! Die for this old man!"

After a long battle without success, Jian Wuchen was finally completely enraged.

He bit the tip of his tongue hard, spat out a mouthful of pure life essence blood, and integrated it into the [taiyi ancient mirror] above his head.

Hum—!

The light of the ancient mirror surged, actually detaching from his head and turning into a stream of light.

It smashed fiercely toward the main body of the Outer Realm Heart Demon, the black heart beating violently in the chest cavity of the golden skeleton!

He wanted to use this Dao Artifact that protected the Divine Soul to severely damage the root of the Heart Demon!

The Heart Demon let out a sharp screech, evidently also sensing a fatal threat.

It abandoned its attack on Jian Wuchen, and the huge half-skeleton suddenly shrank, its arms crossed, protecting the black heart in front of its chest tightly.

Boom!!!

The taiyi ancient mirror smashed solidly onto the arms of the skeleton.

Even as strong as the Dao Lord's remains, under the full blow of a seventh-rank dao artifact, it was knocked backward, its huge body vibrating violently.

And this was the Opportunity Jian Wuchen was waiting for!

Killing intent flashed in his eyes, his fingers pointing like a sword, and a sword light more condensed than any previous one, even carrying a trace of pale white, left his hand!

This sword gathered his lifelong cultivation as a Hedao Sword Cultivator, aiming directly at the golden skull of Dao Lord Zixiao that was exposed due to the backward tilt!

He wanted to shatter the skull of this skeleton and see how this Devil Head would control it then!

Puchi!

The sword light struck the center of the golden skeleton's eyebrows with extreme precision!

This time, the indestructible Dao Lord's skull finally let out an unbearable wail.

It trembled violently, and a trace of imperceptible crack even appeared on the surface.

However, at the moment the skull vibrated.

Shen Yuanmo, who had been using all his focus on watching the battle and comprehending the Dao, shook violently!

His eyes were locked tightly inside that golden skull!

Just at the moment the sword light struck, through the vision of [Insight into Origin].

He clearly saw that, deep inside the skull filled with endless Devilish Qi.

There was a purple light spot, weak to the extreme but pure and noble to the extreme, that flashed suddenly!

The aura of that light spot was completely different from the evil, chaotic black heart!

It was full of the majestic, vast, and bright aura of the thunder Great Dao Origin!

"That is... the last trace of Origin imprint preserved by Dao Lord Zixiao!"

Shen Yuanmo's heart shook violently!

He understood instantly what that was!

That was the last fire seed, condensed and sealed by Dao Lord Zixiao using his last bit of strength before being eroded by the Heart Demon and about to fall completely, containing his lifelong insights into the thunder Great Dao and a trace of Origin Divine Soul!

This was the most precious and core heritage of the entire Zixiao Divine Treasury, no, of Dao Lord Zixiao's entire life!

What divine treasury key, what Dao Lord remains—compared to this Great Dao Origin imprint, they were all trash!

As long as he obtained it and refined it, it would be equivalent to directly inheriting the mantle of a Dao Integration Realm Great Expert!

In an instant, the calmness and indifference in Shen Yuanmo's eyes disappeared.

Replacing it was an unprecedented heat and desire!

The original plan of borrowing a knife to kill the demon was overturned by him without hesitation at this moment.

Watching the show?

No!

He wanted to enter the arena personally!

He wanted to take advantage of this once-in-a-millennium Opportunity where these two Hedao experts were fighting fiercely and had no time to attend to anything else, to seize this greatest Opportunity of the trip!

Shen Yuanmo took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging thoughts in his heart.

The chaotic airflow in his eyes rotated again, but this time, it was no longer to deduce the Cultivation Technique.

Instead, it was crazily calculating the flow of every wisp of energy and the collapse of every inch of space on the battlefield.

He was looking for a point.

A fleeting flaw where the offense and defense of Jian Wuchen and the Outer Realm Heart Demon reached their peak, and both sides were unable to attend to anything else!

His figure moved silently.

It did not stir up a single bit of energy fluctuation, like a ghost merged into the darkness.

Borrowing the shadows created by the shattered space, he quietly approached the center of that heaven-destroying battlefield, bit by bit.