435: Dao patterns formed naturally, and the tribulation of artifacts descended.

Above the Nine Heavens, the tribulation cloud churned, the pitch-black layers of clouds appearing as if they would completely devour the entire firmament.

That was no ordinary dark cloud, but a cloud of slaughter woven from pure Law of thunder and the will of the Heavenly Dao.

Every streak of purple lightning surging within it contained terrifying power sufficient to instantly reduce an ordinary Void Returning Great Expert to ashes.

The majestic heavenly might was like billions of primordial divine mountains, suppressing the Enlightenment Cliff.

At the center of this pressure, which was enough to make all living things kneel and tremble, Shen Yuanmo did not even lift an eyelid.

He ignored the terrifying scene in the sky that was capable of destroying everything, his expression as calm as an abyss that had remained undisturbed for eternity.

To him, this so-called Artifact Tribulation was merely an accompaniment that would inevitably play before the birth of a new sword.

The next moment, Shen Yuanmo extended his right hand.

His index and middle fingers pressed together, forming an invisible brush.

A wisp of Chaos-colored power of Chaos Origin slowly lingered above his fingertips.

Shen Yuanmo used his finger as a brush and the power of Chaos Origin as ink.

He made the first stroke upon the newly formed Chaos sword embryo suspended before him.

"Hum—"

As this stroke fell, it was as if a star had been cast into a calm lake.

The entire sword embryo trembled violently, and an aura, primitive and sharp, erupted from the sword body.

Rumble!

Almost at the same time, the tribulation cloud above the Nine Heavens sensed the provocation of this Heaven-Defying object and flew into a rage instantly.

A purple divine lightning bolt, as thick as a water bucket, tore through the sky, carrying the majesty to judge all things, and struck straight towards the sword embryo.

In the distance, Myriad Laws Daoist, Qing Xuzi, and the others felt their hearts tighten violently, almost causing them to cry out in alarm.

However, a shocking scene occurred.

Facing that terrifying divine lightning capable of severely injuring a Dao Integration Great Expert, the Chaos sword embryo did not even need Shen Yuanmo to control it.

From the sword body, a peerlessly sharp Sword Qi spontaneously emerged, meeting the purple divine lightning.

There was no earth-shattering collision.

The seemingly indestructible divine lightning, the moment it touched the Sword Qi, was like ice and snow meeting a scorching sun.

It was silently shredded, annihilated, and dissipated into the air.

"Hiss..."

In the distance, Qing Xuzi gasped, feeling his scalp tingle.

A single strand of Sword Qi from the new sword, spontaneously protecting its master, could so easily extinguish the Heavenly Tribulation divine lightning.

What level of Dao Artifact was this exactly?

On the Enlightenment Cliff, Shen Yuanmo seemed not to hear it.

All his attention was immersed in the mysterious process of engraving dao runes for the new sword.

The movements of his fingertips were fluid, without the slightest pause.

One after another, profound and unfathomable dao runes, containing the ultimate principles of Chaos creation and destruction.

Were born under his brush, and then deeply branded onto the sword body.

These dao runes were not imitating the sword Dao of True Man Taiyi, but were based on Shen Yuanmo's own Chaos Great Dao.

After using Perfect Deduction to fuse that insight into Mahayana sword Dao.

They were supreme divine runes he created, belonging uniquely to him, Shen Yuanmo, and uniquely to this newborn Dao Artifact sword.

The second stroke fell.

The third stroke...

The fourth stroke...

As more and more dao runes were engraved, the aura of that Chaos sword embryo surged crazily in a geometric progression.

The pitch-black crack in the center of the sword body became increasingly real.

It seemed to truly connect to a Universe of return to ruins, with a terrifying power capable of devouring heaven and earth faintly gestating within it.

The sword's might soared to the heavens, contending with the sky.

The tribulation cloud above the Nine Heavens was also thoroughly enraged by this increasingly terrifying aura.

Rumble!

The range of the tribulation cloud, which initially covered the Taiyi Mountain Range, began to expand crazily outwards.

A thousand miles, ten thousand miles, a hundred thousand miles...

Finally, a terrifying thundercloud stretching for millions of miles obscured the sky above the Taiyi Mountain Range.

The black clouds weighed down upon the city, as if to crush it.

Countless living beings trembled under this heavenly might, believing that the apocalypse had arrived.

And the people of the Wanfa Immortal Sect, who were at the center of the storm, had long since changed from their initial shock to being completely numb.

"This old man has cultivated for tens of thousands of years, having seen the Heavenly Tribulation of Dao Integration Great Experts ascending, and the pill tribulation of seventh-rank Medicinal Pill being born... but I have never seen such an outrageous Artifact Tribulation!"

Daoist Xinghe's hair and beard stood on end, staring fixedly at the direction of the Enlightenment Cliff, his voice trembling.

"The might of this tribulation cloud is probably more than a hundred times more terrifying than the Heavenly Tribulation of an ordinary Cultivator ascending to the Hedao Realm, right?"

Myriad Laws Daoist muttered to himself, his previous understanding completely overturned at this moment.

Qing Xuzi could no longer speak; he just stared blankly at the sky submerged in a sea of purple lightning, with only one thought in his mind.

Is Elder Shen really still human?

Just as everyone's hearts were stirred.

On the Enlightenment Cliff, Shen Yuanmo made the final stroke.

The moment that last Chaos Dao Rune perfectly fused with the sword embryo.

Hum—!

A sword chime, extremely clear and resonant, as if it could pierce through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and resound throughout the myriad realms, emanated from the sword embryo!

This sword chime announced the birth of a peerless Dao Artifact.

On the sword body, all the engraved dao runes lit up at this moment.

Then they slowly faded, merging with the sword body, leaving no trace to be seen.

The entire sword became plain and unadorned, dark throughout.

Only the real crack in the center of the sword body emitted an unsettling aura of eternal silence.

It floated quietly before Shen Yuanmo, all its sharpness and pressure completely retracted within, as if it were a piece of ordinary iron.

Yet everyone knew what kind of earth-shattering power was hidden beneath this ordinary exterior.

Shen Yuanmo reached out and grasped this life-bound Dao Artifact sword that was connected to his own Bloodline.

An unprecedented sense of power traveled from the hilt to his limbs and bones, finally resonating with his chaos dao embryo.

He could feel that with a casual strike of his sword, he could sever the Law and shatter the Void Realm.

"Not bad."

Shen Yuanmo examined the new sword in his hand, a hint of satisfaction appearing in his eyes.

"It actually reached the seventh-rank High Grade."

If this understated remark were heard by Daoist Xinghe and the others, they would likely suffer an imbalance of their Dao Heart on the spot.

A seventh-rank High Grade Dao Artifact!

It was a Dao Artifact that only a Cultivator above the Great Perfection of Dao Conjoining, having expended a great deal of effort, could possibly refine.

In the entire Eastern Region, the number of seventh-rank dao artifacts on the surface did not exceed fifty, and most of them were seventh-rank Low Grade.

Yet Shen Yuanmo had actually refined a seventh-rank High Grade life-bound Dao Artifact sword.

As Shen Yuanmo's voice fell, the aura of the newborn great evolution immortal slaying sword completely stabilized.

That faint, yet deadly threat of sword might, enough to make a Great Perfection of Dao Conjoining Cultivator feel threatened, signaled its extraordinariness.

It was also at this moment.

The tribulation cloud in the sky, which had accumulated to the extreme, finally stopped descending lightning.

The entire thundercloud, covering millions of miles, began to crazily collapse and condense towards the center.

Endless Law of thunder, the will of the Heavenly Dao, the Origin of thunder...

Everything was, in an inconceivable way, reorganized into a brand new existence.

A moment later, a giant, ten thousand feet tall and constructed entirely of brilliant thunderlight and Law runes, appeared above the Nine Heavens.

This giant was clad in thunder armor, its face majestic and indistinct.

In its hand, it held a sword of heavenly punishment, also condensed from billions of lightning bolts.

heavenly sword dharma idol!

This was the embodiment of the will of the Heavenly Dao!

Its aura had long surpassed the scope of the Hedao Realm, even rising above the Great Perfection of Dao Conjoining, reaching that realm of Half-step Mahayana.

This heavenly sword dharma idol had no consciousness of its own; its existence had only one purpose.

Annihilation!

To annihilate the Heaven-Defying Dao Artifact below that should not exist in the world!

The moment Myriad Laws Daoist and the others saw this dharma idol, their minds went blank, unable to even muster feelings of fear.

That was an absolute crushing at the level of life.

It's over!

This was the only thought in their minds.

With such a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation, let alone a Magic Treasure, even if a Half-step Mahayana Cultivator were to arrive in person, they would likely perish on the spot!

However, facing this Half-step Mahayana dharma idol radiating an aura of endless destruction.

Shen Yuanmo not only lacked any fear, but on the contrary, Battle Intent surged in his eyes.

He weighed the great evolution immortal slaying sword in his hand, feeling the longing and excitement transmitted from the sword body.

He smiled.

"Well come."

"Just right to use you to test the sharpness of my new sword!"

Before his words had faded, Shen Yuanmo's figure had already turned into a stream of light, holding the great evolution immortal slaying sword.

He took the initiative to charge towards the ten-thousand-foot heavenly sword dharma idol above the Nine Heavens, brazenly meeting it head-on!