429: Refining Taiyi, breaking through the realm

The sorrowful roars and angry howls between heaven and earth gradually fell silent.

The bloody stench and aura of destruction enveloping the ruins of the Taiyi Mountain Range were so thick they could not be dispersed.

Yet, not a single gaze dared to challenge the solitary, lofty figure in the sky.

Shen Yuanmo's figure descended slowly amidst the distorted light, eventually sitting cross-legged in the air at the center of this scorched earth.

His expression was calm, as if the earth-shattering battle just now had been nothing more than a trivial interlude.

Before him, the Chaos Domain silently expanded, and the space took on a glass-like texture.

The taiyi sword, its blade having lost all its radiance and covered in cracks.

It floated quietly at the core of the Domain, all its vicious aura completely suppressed and unable to move.

The sword spirit had suffered heavy damage and was on the verge of dissipating.

The three vessel masters who had sacrificed themselves to the taiyi sword had been destroyed, body and soul, under the judgment of the divine thunder.

However, the sword embryo itself, which constituted this half-step eighth-grade Magic Treasure, remained one of the top-tier treasures in this world.

Its internally solidified Law structures, immortal characteristics, and True Man Taiyi's sword dao imprint were all contained within it.

Any one of these things was enough to make a Dao Integration Realm Great Expert go mad, not hesitating to stir up a bloody storm.

In the eyes of Shen Yuanmo, this was an even more excellent resource for cultivation and Artifact Refining Materials.

"Taking my body as the furnace, taking Chaos as the fire."

"Refining Taiyi, forging my dao foundation."

Shen Yuanmo closed his eyes slightly, his mind sinking into his Dantian Sea of Qi.

In the Void Realm behind him, the heaven-supporting and earth-standing chaos dao fetus dharma idol appeared once again.

This time, the dharma idol did not reveal the slightest earth-destroying pressure.

Instead, it became like a Chaos furnace that had existed since ancient times, swallowing the taiyi sword whole.

Whoosh—

Neither cold nor hot, the formless and intangible fire of Chaos Origin rose from within the chaos dao embryo.

It wrapped every inch of the taiyi sword inside, beginning to comprehensively refine it.

"Insight into Origin, activate!"

"Perfect Deduction, activate!"

In an instant, Shen Yuanmo's vision was drowned by endless Law runes.

Under the calcination of the Chaos fire, the indestructible internal structure of the taiyi sword.

Was peeled away layer by layer in his eyes, analyzed thoroughly.

How the hundreds of millions of Law runes, smaller than dust, intertwined and connected in an incomparably profound way to form the skeleton of the sword blade.

How that faint yet extremely resilient immortal characteristic transformed into a golden divine chain.

Piercing through the nodes of all the runes, bestowing an extraordinary essence upon this sword.

He even saw, at the very core of the sword embryo, an overbearing and peerless sword dao will imprint that looked down upon the ages.

That will was not a living thing, yet it emitted a terrifying sharpness that seemed to want to cut through the eternal blue sky and sever the long river of time.

"Is this the sword dao true meaning of the Mahayana stage..."

The moment Shen Yuanmo's mind touched that will, he even felt a stinging sensation of being sliced apart.

"Sure enough, it has already started to touch the threshold of immortality."

He did not choose to crudely use the Chaos Great Dao to grind it away, but instead frantically recorded, analyzed, and absorbed every bit of the taiyi sword's mysteries.

These Law insights from a higher level were quickly digested by Shen Yuanmo's Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability.

Then, they were continuously integrated into his own cultivation system of the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture.

A bolder and more perfect plan instantly formed in his mind.

To take that trace of immortal characteristic and that Mahayana sword dao essence from the taiyi sword.

Together with its half-step eighth-grade Materials, and strip and refine them out of the taiyi sword.

Then, melt them completely into one furnace with the great evolution immortal slaying sword that was connected to his own Bloodline and cultivated with his life.

Shen Yuanmo wanted to forge a supreme dao sword that transcended the sixth grade and could even reach the seventh or eighth grade in the future.

As the refining process accelerated, the residual sword dao Law energy belonging to True Man Taiyi within the taiyi sword began to surge out uncontrollably.

These energies were extremely pure and incomparably vast, their quality far beyond what any Spiritual Vein could compare to.

They were greedily devoured by the furnace transformed from the chaos dao embryo.

Then, after being transformed by the Chaos Origin, they turned into the most robust and pure power to push Shen Yuanmo's own cultivation.

His Bottleneck of the Late Void Returning Stage, which was originally rock-solid and had touched its limit.

Under the scouring of this overwhelming energy, began to emit violent tremors, unable to bear the load.

At the same time, the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art was also operating at high speed within his Sea of Consciousness on its own.

Within the taiyi sword, besides the sword dao Laws, there also remained the fragments of Divine Soul Origin that had not yet completely dissipated after Jian Juechen and the other two were blasted to death by the judgment divine thunder, as well as the residual spirituality that had heavily damaged the sword spirit.

For any Cultivator, these things were toxic residues sufficient to pollute the Divine Soul.

But for Shen Yuanmo, who cultivated the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art, they were supreme nutrients for nourishing the chaos divine man.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, the chaos divine man, who had the same face as Shen Yuanmo, saw the eight purple immortal divine rings circling its body surge with light.

The outline of the ninth, slightly illusory divine ring, after absorbing these Divine Soul residues and that trace of immortal characteristic.

Was turning from illusory to solid at a speed visible to the naked eye, condensing rapidly.

His Divine Sense strength also climbed steadily during this process.

It silently crossed the boundary of the Middle Stage of Dao Integration and steadily stepped into the threshold of the Late Dao Integration Stage.

Amidst the refining, he forgot both himself and the world.

When the last trace of essence from the taiyi sword was extracted by the chaos dao embryo.

That legendary sword, which had once shaken the Eastern Region for hundreds of thousands of years, completely lost all divinity.

With a "puff" sound, it turned into a pile of useless ordinary iron powder, completely annihilated within the Chaos Domain.

At this very moment, a heaven-turning and earth-shaking drastic change occurred within Shen Yuanmo's body.

Boom—!

A grand roar, which did not belong to the material world and seemed to come from the source of the Dao, exploded violently in the deepest part of his Dantian Sea of Qi.

The chaos dao embryo, which had devoured a massive amount of energy, suddenly collapsed inward.

Shrinking, shrinking, and shrinking again!

Finally, it turned into a point of Origin that could not be observed with the naked eye, as if it had swallowed all light and space-time.

Immediately after, it suddenly expanded outward!

Crack!

An incomparably crisp sound, like shattered glass or a collapsing Immortal Artifact, boomed within Shen Yuanmo's body.

That Bottleneck of the Late Void Returning Stage was smashed by him in such an overwhelming and overbearing manner.

A terrifying aura, ten times more vast than before, more perfect and flawless, and more unfathomable, soared from Shen Yuanmo's body.

Surging mana roared through his Meridians, every drop heavy and containing power enough to crush mountains.

The Chaos Dao Body was tempered once again in the energy baptism of this Breakthrough.

His skin shone, treasure light contained within, and its toughness was now no less than any sixth-grade High Grade Dao Artifact Magic Treasure.

Void Returning Stage Great Perfection!

It's done!

Shen Yuanmo slowly opened his eyes.

Two Chaos-colored divine lights shot out from the depths of his pupils, actually piercing directly through the Void Realm before him.

Leaving two distorted, jet-black marks that could not heal for a long time.

He raised his hand and gently clenched his five fingers.

That surging power, which seemed enough to crush stars and control Laws.

Condensed and dissipated in his palm, everything was under his control.

His Divine Sense spread out, enough to cover hundreds of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, observing every detail, and the Laws of all things no longer had any secrets in his eyes.

Late Dao Integration Stage Divine Sense!

Shen Yuanmo revealed a trace of a satisfied expression.

In his palm, a fist-sized lump of Chaos metal, completely devoid of light and seemingly able to swallow all light and perception.

Was floating there slowly, slightly distorting the surrounding space.

This was the condensation of all the essence of the taiyi sword.

It was the foundation stone for the promotion he had prepared for the great evolution immortal slaying sword, leading to a higher level.

"Late Void Returning Stage Great Perfection..."

Shen Yuanmo put away the sword embryo essence and slowly stood up from the Void Realm.

Overlooking the mountain gate of the Taiyi Sword Sect beneath his feet, which had already turned into a dead land.

"Very good."

His voice was calm, yet it carried a chill that made heaven and earth freeze.

"Taiyi Sword Sect, the true reckoning only begins now."