457: Sword upgrade, devouring the Eye of Calamity

Ten thousand miles away, the gazes of all the Cultivators in South Heaven Immortal City were fixed on the great evolution immortal slaying sword that was devouring the remains of the thunder dragon.

Under their shocked gazes, the great evolution immortal slaying sword erupted with an increasingly eager sword hum, and the bottomless Chaos Fissure in the center of the blade...

...was now like the gaping maw of a Taotie, drawing in all of the Chaos Thunder Dragon Origin, which was vast enough to burst any seventh-rank dao artifact.

The blade trembled violently, and its humming sound gradually shifted from initial agony to the satisfaction and excitement of a full meal.

As the last trace of Chaos Thunder Light was completely devoured.

Keng!

An extremely clear sword hum resounded through the world, like a sigh of contentment.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword floated quietly in the air, the Chaos Dao Markings on its blade becoming more profound and ancient; as they flowed, they seemed to explain the ultimate truths of the world's creation.

Its overall aura decreased instead of increasing, as all its sharpness and pressure were completely withdrawn inside.

It looked like a piece of ordinary iron, simple and unadorned.

But in Shen Yuanmo's perception, this great evolution immortal slaying sword had already climbed to a brand new height.

Seventh-rank High Grade Peak!

Shen Yuanmo felt the joy and excitement transmitted between the great evolution immortal slaying sword and his Divine Soul, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Just as Nangong Bo and everyone else thought this unprecedented great tribulation was finally coming to an end.

A sudden change occurred!

The gray tribulation clouds spanning hundreds of millions of miles, which had already begun to slowly dissipate, suddenly froze.

Then, at an incredible speed, it began to collapse and condense frantically toward a single point in the center.

Light was devoured, and darkness was assimilated.

The entire sky seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand and crushed into a ball.

A deathly pressure, even more terrifying than the previous Chaos Thunder Dragon, suddenly enveloped the entire world.

In South Heaven Immortal City, countless Cultivators with low cultivation bases fainted on the spot under this pressure.

Finally, the million-mile tribulation cloud vanished without a trace.

Replacing it was a gray eye floating above the Nine Heavens, only the size of a fist, yet appearing to contain the birth and death of a Chaos Universe.

Chaos Tribulation Eye!

It had no pupil and no emotion; it only possessed the purest and most extreme judgment and destruction for all things.

Its quiet presence there represented the core Origin Law of this Chaos Tribulation.

"This is? The Heavenly Tribulation isn't over yet!"

"That... that's... the Origin Tribulation Eye!!"

Above the City Lord's Manor, Nangong Bo cried out in shock.

This Half-step Mahayana Great Expert, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, showed a look mixed with horror and terror for the first time.

"It's over..." the Old Woman of the Wang Family murmured to herself.

Patriarch Zhang and the others couldn't even summon the thought of retreating.

Under the gaze of that tribulation eye, they felt their own Great Dao Imprints...

...being stripped away bit by bit from the long river of Law, as if they would turn into nothingness at any moment.

However.

Beneath this Chaos Tribulation Eye that was enough to make even a Half-step Mahayana feel despair.

On Shen Yuanmo's face, instead of any fear, there appeared a trace of extremely burning desire.

He slowly raised his head, his pitch-black eyes clearly reflecting that cold tribulation eye.

He revealed a slight smile and actually whispered to himself, his voice carrying an indescribable hint of amusement.

"The final course has finally arrived."

Before his voice had even faded.

Boom!!!

A towering dharma idol, ten thousand feet tall and Chaos-colored throughout, with features identical to Shen Yuanmo's, suddenly manifested behind him.

chaos dao fetus dharma idol!

As soon as the dharma idol appeared, a terrifying pressure that seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth instantly stood its ground against the deathly aura of the tribulation eye.

This scene drove everyone crazy.

"What... what is he doing?!"

"Facing the Origin Tribulation Eye, he actually dares to manifest a dharma idol. Does he want to... confront the tribulation eye?"

The voice of the Old Woman of the Wang Family became extremely shrill due to her intense shock.

"Insane! This guy has gone completely insane!"

In South Heaven Immortal City, all the observers had only these two words left in their minds.

Only within the Li Family camp...

...Li Changfeng stared intently at the ten-thousand-foot dharma idol on the light screen, his heart, which had been frozen by fear, once again ignited by frantic greed.

"Yes! That's it!"

"He's at his wits' end! This is his final resort! He's going to risk his life!"

His eyes were bloodshot as his Divine Sense transmission nearly roared: "Everyone, get ready! When he and the tribulation eye are both wounded, it will be the moment for my Li Family to soar to the heavens in a single step!"

He firmly believed that this must be Shen Yuanmo's final act of madness.

And this was precisely the long-awaited, perfect opportunity to profit from the conflict between two others.

But in the next instant.

Under the terrified gazes of the millions of Cultivators in South Heaven Immortal City.

Shen Yuanmo's ten-thousand-foot chaos dao fetus dharma idol moved.

It did not perform any world-shaking Divine Ability, nor did it activate any world-destroying Magic Treasure.

Instead, it opened its massive mouth, which seemed capable of devouring the Universe and stars, and took a sudden, powerful breath toward the Chaos Tribulation Eye above the Nine Heavens.

"Gudong."

A slight swallowing sound, which seemed like a mere illusion...

...inexplicably resounded in the ears of every living being in South Heaven Immortal City.

Immediately after.

That Chaos Tribulation Eye floating above the Nine Heavens, which made even Half-step Mahayanas feel despair and represented the ultimate destructive will of the Heavenly Dao, simply vanished.

It was swallowed in one gulp by that ten-thousand-foot dharma idol... At this moment, the world fell into a complete, deathly silence.

Above the City Lord's Manor, the muscles on Nangong Bo's face were stiff.

His eyes were wide as brass bells, and his body trembled uncontrollably due to the extreme shock.

His lips quivered, wanting to say something, but he found he couldn't produce a single syllable from his throat.

All the understanding of the Heavenly Dao, cultivation, and power he had built through a lifetime of bitter cultivation and countless tribulations...

...was crushed to pieces at this moment by that single "Gudong."

The Old Woman of the Wang Family, Patriarch Zhang, and other Dao Integration Realm Great Experts hiding in the shadows...

...were all as if petrified by a spell, maintaining various inconceivable postures with their thoughts completely stalled, as if they had turned into living statues.

Within the Li Family camp.

The frantic greed and twisted expectation on Li Changfeng's face instantly froze.

Then, like a frozen sheet of ice, that expression shattered bit by bit with a "kacha" sound.

Replacing it was a boundless fear that cut to the marrow and froze his entire Divine Soul.

And at that moment.

After devouring the tribulation eye, Shen Yuanmo's Qi began to skyrocket frantically in an instant without any warning.

That Qi surpassed the Hedao, surpassed the Half-step Mahayana, and even surpassed every category Nangong Bo could understand.

In the face of that Qi, he felt as small as an ant looking up at the vast sea of stars.

However, it was only for a split second.

This world-shaking Qi, like an ebbing tide after a surge, came quickly and left even faster.

In the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace.

The Heavenly Tribulation dissipated, leaving a cloudless sky for ten thousand miles.

Shen Yuanmo stood quietly in the Void Realm, having put away his ten-thousand-foot dharma idol.

There was no longer the slightest fluctuation of magic power around him; even the most basic Qi perception of a Cultivator had disappeared.

He looked like a frail Mortal with no strength to even truss a chicken.

This eerie return to simplicity plunged Nangong Bo and the others into even deeper confusion and horror.

They couldn't understand; they completely failed to understand.

But in the eyes of Li Changfeng, whose heart was already gripped by fear, this scene became his final saving straw.