395: Analyzing the Dao Fruit, Profound Understanding of Thunder Techniques

A ball of light, entirely wreathed in purple lightning, hovered quietly above Shen Yuanmo's palm.

This was precisely the Great Dao Imprint of the Thunder Dao, condensed from the lifelong cultivation of Dao Lord Zixiao, which he had snatched from the jaws of Jian Wuchen and the Outer Realm Heart Demon!

Previously, in Shen Yuanmo's eyes, this object had been profound, obscure, and filled with supreme Law pressure.

Every time he probed it, his Divine Soul would sting, as if he were staring directly at the majestic might of Heaven.

But now, everything was different.

Under the probing of Shen Yuanmo's Dao Integration Great Expert level Divine Sense.

The complex Law patterns inside this Great Dao Imprint of the Thunder Dao, which were as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, no longer felt stiff or obscure to comprehend.

They became clear and lucid; every birth and death of the lightning, every transition of the Laws, was laid bare before him.

"Insight into Origin," activate!

Shen Yuanmo whispered to himself, pouring his Dao Integration level Divine Sense into it without reservation.

He was fully analyzing this Dao fruit, which condensed the lifelong insights of a peerless Great Expert who had touched the threshold of the Mahayana realm.

Boom!

In an instant, Shen Yuanmo's consciousness felt as if it had been dragged by an irresistible force into a vast, boundless world of thunder!

Endless scenes, like a breached dam, flooded into his Sea of Consciousness!

It was a magnificent life filled with thunder and fire, destruction and rebirth.

He saw a Mortal youth who, on a stormy night filled with lightning and thunder, accidentally obtained a tattered Lightning Technique Legacy and embarked on the path of immortality.

He saw the young Dao Lord Zixiao fighting a Demon King for three days and three nights for a lightning-attribute Spirit Medicine, covered in blood, eventually using the heavenly lightning for Body Tempering, narrowly escaping death.

He saw Dao Lord Zixiao in his middle years, while Undergoing Tribulation.

Facing the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, he did not dodge or evade, but instead laughed arrogantly, using his own body as a furnace to smelt ten thousand types of lightning, eventually achieving Dao Integration!

Each scene, each fragment, composed the legendary epic of Dao Lord Zixiao from a mere Mortal to a Dao Integration Great Expert who shook the region.

This was not simple observation.

With the support of the "Perfect Deduction" talent, Shen Yuanmo's consciousness seemed to truly replace Dao Lord Zixiao, "reliving" his entire life from beginning to end!

He could feel the ecstasy of the youth when he obtained the Legacy.

He could experience the narrow escape from death when fighting the Demon King.

He could even personally experience the extreme pain and great terror of his Physical Body and Divine Soul being torn apart and reshaped amidst the Lightning Tribulation, seeking a glimmer of survival within destruction!

Every Bottleneck, every enlightenment, every battle...

Shen Yuanmo re-experienced and re-comprehended everything from the first-person perspective.

He witnessed how Dao Lord Zixiao fused one exotic lightning after another, pushing his own lightning techniques to the extreme of rigidity and dominance.

Annihilation Divine Thunder, Nine Heavens Purple Thunder, Geng Metal Divine Thunder, Yi Wood Positive Thunder...

Ten thousand lightning techniques, all returning to one body.

Dao Lord Zixiao's lightning techniques were indeed powerful to the extreme; with a single thought, he could summon ten thousand thunders, and with a wave of his hand, he possessed the power to destroy the heavens and earth.

Ordinary Dao Integration Cultivators probably couldn't withstand even a single move from him.

But...

After experiencing Dao Lord Zixiao's entire life, Shen Yuanmo saw a flaw that could not be remedied in that magnificent epic.

In one deduced battle, Dao Lord Zixiao encountered a peer Great Expert who practiced the Water Dao.

The opponent's Laws were extremely soft and resilient, continuous and unending.

Although Dao Lord Zixiao's lightning techniques were incomparably domineering, they were repeatedly overcome by the opponent's softness.

Unable to kill the enemy in one blow, he eventually fell into a bitter battle, only winning with great difficulty at a huge cost.

And when he was impacting the Mahayana realm, facing the supreme Heart Demon tribulation.

Dao Lord Zixiao still used the most rigid lightning will to resist, attempting to crush everything with absolute power.

As a result, his own Dao Heart developed a crack under that extremely rigid backlash.

He was eventually taken advantage of by the Outer Realm Heart Demon, ending in death and the dissipation of his Dao.

"On the path of the Dao, being too rigid makes one easy to break."

Shen Yuanmo's consciousness withdrew from the vast world of thunder, a flash of realization crossing his eyes.

"Your path, in the end, was too narrow."

Thunder does not only contain destruction.

The first spring thunder rumbles, and all things revive; that is vitality.

Silent yin lightning annihilates the Divine Soul; that is treachery.

Heart thunder arises from within, questioning the original heart; that is a tribulation.

Dao Lord Zixiao only took the most domineering and destructive side of thunder.

And while he took it to the extreme, he also blocked off all other paths for himself.

"However, although your Dao is flawed, to me, it is the best nourishment."

The corners of Shen Yuanmo's mouth curled up.

For him, any single Great Dao was just a part of his Chaos Great Dao.

With a thought, the star chessboard in his Sea of Consciousness shone brightly.

All the Profound Truths of lightning techniques parsed out from that Great Dao Imprint by "Insight into Origin".

Turned into billions of runes, crazily circulating, colliding, and recombining on the chessboard!

With the Zixiao Lightning Technique as the Foundation, Shen Yuanmo drew inferences from one instance to others, beginning to crazily comprehend other branches of the Thunder Great Dao!

Qian Thunder, Kun Thunder, Zhen Thunder, Xun Thunder...

Five Elements Divine Thunder, Chaos Divine Thunder, Zixiao Divine Thunder...

Under the terrifying support of "Perfect Deduction", in a short time, dozens of brand-new lightning-type branch Laws, which even Dao Lord Zixiao himself had never touched, were thoroughly comprehended by Shen Yuanmo!

He did not hesitate in the slightest.

With a guiding thought from his Divine Sense, these newly comprehended Law insights, representing the myriad changes of thunder, flowed into his Dantian Sea of Qi like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea!

Rumble!

The originally steadily rotating chaotic airflow suddenly accelerated at this moment!

The "Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture" operated at an unprecedented efficiency!

Strands of new purple runes, representing various lightning dao rhymes, began to flicker in and out of existence within the gray chaotic airflow.

If the previous Chaos Great Dao was a piece of dead silence and nothingness.

Then at this moment, within this nothingness, the first ray of light, the first bolt of thunder was born!

Destruction and creation, annihilation and rebirth.

Two contradictory dao rhymes that seemed diametrically opposed were perfectly intertwined and fused within Shen Yuanmo's Chaos Great Dao.

His Chaos Great Dao became more magnificent, more profound, and more complete!

Time passed quietly during this deep seclusion.

One month later.

Shen Yuanmo was still sitting cross-legged in the Void Realm, but the aura around him had undergone a world-shaking change.

He just sat there quietly, and fine purple electric arcs appeared around him.

Constantly flashing and annihilating within the chaotic airflow, emitting a terrifying pressure that made one's heart tremble.

At this moment, when it came to the understanding and control of the Thunder Great Dao.

He had long since left the Dao Lord Zixiao of the past far behind.

Shen Yuanmo slowly raised his hand, extended a finger, and pointed lightly at the Void Realm in front of him.

There was no earth-shattering momentum.

Only a wisp of tiny, inconspicuous gray chaotic airflow shot out from his fingertip leisurely.

However, just after this airflow flew out a few feet, a sudden change occurred!

Chila—!

The gray airflow actually evolved into a deeply profound purple Divine Thunder in an instant during its flight!

On that Divine Thunder, there was no violent thunder sound, no dazzling light, only a chaotic dao rhyme sufficient to return all things to nothingness!

The Divine Thunder swept across.

The Void Realm in front was like a fragile piece of black cloth, easily slashed by a silent blade, creating a bottomless pitch-black crack.

Space Law twisted and annihilated crazily at the edge of the crack, unable to heal for a long time.

Looking at this scene, a smile finally appeared on Shen Yuanmo's face from the bottom of his heart.

"Ten thousand Laws return to Chaos, Chaos evolves ten thousand Laws..."

"This is my Dao."

His voice was calm, but carried an unquestionable, absolute confidence.

The second step, refining the Dao fruit, was now complete.