438: Seventh-Order Dao Armor, Chaos Domain

Above the Enlightenment Cliff, the Chaos vortex, formed by the convergence of billions of precious light essences, was still slowly rotating.

Every rotation seemed to grind away a great world, emitting a roar that made the Divine Soul tremble.

In the distance, Myriad Laws Daoist and Qing Xuzi were completely numb.

They were like two Mortals witnessing the miracle of a god creating the world for the first time.

Aside from gaping, staring wide-eyed, and having their minds go blank, they could no longer make any other reaction.

Only Daoist Xinghe, a Hedao Realm existence who had lived for tens of thousands of years, forcibly suppressed the stormy waves in his heart.

He stared fixedly at the vortex in the mouth of the Ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Idol, his cloudy old eyes not blinking once.

He attempted to glimpse a trace of the ultimate truths of the Dao from that Chaos where destruction and rebirth were intertwined.

Finally, with a faint hum that seemed to come from ancient times,

the Chaos vortex, which had swallowed hundreds of thousands of years of the Taiyi Sword Sect's foundation, slowly stopped rotating.

All the violent energy and all the brilliant precious light were completely restrained at this moment.

A suit of armor, dark all over with smooth and ancient lines, floated quietly in front of Shen Yuanmo.

It did not have the sharp edge and soaring Sword Qi that the great evolution immortal slaying sword had when it was born.

Nor did it have any magnificent decorations; it didn't even show a single trace of spiritual light.

It looked like an ordinary suit of armor forged from common iron, simple and unadorned.

But it was precisely this silence of returning to simplicity that made Daoist Xinghe's hair stand on end!

He could feel what a heavy and majestic terrifying power, seemingly enough to suppress the eternal heavens, was contained within that armor.

It was a kind of power that made even a Dao Integration Great Power like him feel suffocated.

"It's coming..."

Qing Xuzi subconsciously swallowed, his voice dry.

Myriad Laws Daoist also looked at the sky with a tense expression, already prepared to face a Heavenly Tribulation even more terrifying than the one during the previous sword forging.

After all, the value of a defensive Dao Artifact was often higher than that of an offensive Dao Artifact of the same rank.

What's more, the resources swallowed by this armor were far more than those of that sword.

However, one breath, ten breaths, fifteen minutes passed... the world-destroying thunderclouds he had imagined did not appear.

The sky remained clear, without a single cloud for ten thousand miles.

It was as if the Heavenly Dao turned a blind eye to the birth of this Heaven-Defying Dao Artifact.

"What's going on?" Myriad Laws Daoist was bewildered. "No Artifact Tribulation?"

Qing Xuzi was also dazed: "Could it be... the refinement failed?"

"No."

Daoist Xinghe stared fixedly at the armor and Shen Yuanmo atop the cliff, a shock bordering on fear appearing in his cloudy eyes.

His lips trembled as he spat out a few words, one by one.

"It's not that there is no Artifact Tribulation... it's that the Heavenly Dao did not send one down!"

"Or rather, in the perception of the Heavenly Dao's will, that armor... is not a Dao Artifact at all!"

"It has perfectly fused with Elder Shen's dao body, Dao, and even his Divine Soul aura!"

"It is a part of Elder Shen's body!"

Boom!

Daoist Xinghe's words exploded in the minds of Myriad Laws Daoist and Qing Xuzi like Nine Heavens thunder.

Refining a Grade Seven Dao Artifact into a part of one's own body.

Was this still something a human could do?

This had already exceeded the scope of their understanding and touched upon a Domain they didn't even dare to imagine.

On the Enlightenment Cliff.

Shen Yuanmo seemed oblivious to the shock of the three people in the distance.

He reached out and gently stroked the chaos myriad dao armor floating in front of him.

It felt cold to the touch, yet had a warm sensation of being connected by Bloodline.

With a thought.

"Buzz—"

The ancient armor instantly decomposed into countless tiny components, turning into streaks of dark light that covered his body.

Heart-protecting mirror, Shoulder guards, Bracers, Battle skirt, Greaves... every component perfectly fitted his form, seamless, like his second skin.

The moment the last piece of armor buckled into place,

an unprecedented sense of security and power surged wildly into his heart from every corner of his limbs and bones.

Shen Yuanmo could clearly feel that his Chaos Dao Body had produced a perfect resonance with this brand-new armor.

His power, his defense, and his Divine Sense were all skyrocketing at a terrifying rate at this moment.

"Grade Seven Medium Grade Dao Artifact."

Shen Yuanmo murmured to himself, fairly satisfied with this result.

The brand-new chaos myriad dao armor's grade had steadily stepped into the ranks of Grade Seven Medium Grade Dao Artifacts.

With its current defensive power, it was enough for him to stand still and endure the full-force strike of a Hedao Realm Great Perfection Cultivator without being harmed in the slightest.

This was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that under the enhancement of this armor,

the chaos dao embryo in his Dantian Sea of Qi operated with a bang, and majestic Chaos Qi flowed through his entire body.

His cultivation aura actually climbed all the way without any obstruction.

It directly broke through the barriers of the Hedao Realm and steadily stopped at that Half-step Mahayana realm.

Although it was only a temporary boost, the sense of power to control a world with every move,

the feeling of power where his words became Law, still made Shen Yuanmo feel a sense of intoxication.

"Buzz!"

Following his will, a thin halo of Chaos centered on him and spread outward, instantly enveloping a ten-thousand-zhang radius.

Chaos Domain!

This was the Divine Ability that came with the chaos myriad dao armor, and it could perfectly stack with the Chaos Domain formed by his own Dao embryo.

Under the stacking of the two Domains, its prowess was more than doubled.

Within the Domain, all Laws were suppressed and assimilated, turning into the most primitive Chaos.

In addition, the vortex at the chest of the armor, originally used to release the Divine Ability "Chaos · Reality-Piercing Divine Light," had become even deeper.

Shen Yuanmo could feel that the energy contained within, having undergone the recasting and purification of billions of treasure essences, had undergone a qualitative change.

Now, if this divine light were fully activated, its power would be enough to pose a fatal threat to a true Half-step Mahayana level existence.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword was already Grade Seven High Grade.

The chaos myriad dao armor was also Grade Seven Medium Grade.

Feeling the surging power within his body that was enough to shake the stars, a faint arc finally curled at the corner of Shen Yuanmo's mouth.

He had a strong sense of self-confidence.

At this moment, even if he faced a true Mahayana Early Stage Cultivator, he might still be no match.

But it would be absolutely impossible for the opponent to kill him in one hit like crushing an ant.

He, Shen Yuanmo, already possessed the qualification to engage in a direct game on the top chessboard of this Canglan Realm with those Mahayana existences who stood above billions of living beings.

"Whew—"

Shen Yuanmo slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

The Seclusion that had lasted for nearly two months had come to a perfect end.

He slowly rose, and the chaos myriad dao armor covering his body turned into light and merged back into his body.

And at the same moment he stood up,

his eyebrows twitched imperceptibly, and his gaze traversed layers of space, looking beyond the Taiyi Mountain Range.

There, he sensed over a dozen powerful and obscure auras.

Among them, there were even several whose emitted auras were already no weaker than Daoist Xinghe.

"They're finally here? Greedy uninvited guests!"

Shen Yuanmo's mouth twitched, revealing a playful smile.