153: Heaven's Will Casts the Way

Inhale!

Within the mountain wall here, there seemed to be some inexplicable divine barrier. Although the Earth Dragon Liquid's treasure light could penetrate and be seen from the outside, the strange phenomenon of the Earth Dragon Liquid condensing did not leak out at all.

The moment Lu Chen stepped into this place, that strange phenomenon assailed his nose. Just taking a light sniff made Lu Chen feel his mana become restless, and it even seemed to grow slightly!

"As expected of a heavenly material and earthly treasure." Lu Chen was pleasantly surprised. Without hesitation, he strode to the stone trough and inhaled with his mouth, causing the Earth Dragon Liquid to fall into his mouth.

In an instant, the mana within his body boiled and began to surge.

Lu Chen could clearly feel that every time the Mixed Origin Undying Scripture circulated, it would refine vast mana from the Earth Dragon Liquid, which was much faster than using pills or spiritual stones.

This refining speed was fast, astonishingly fast.

If it weren't for the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin being able to hold infinite mana, at this moment, even with Lu Chen's Body Refinement strength at the Yin Spirit Realm, having cultivated the Qi and Blood Divine Spirit, he would not have been able to contain such vast mana and might even have been exploded.

But having the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin made it different.

While continuously refining this Earth Dragon Liquid and the mana continuously entering the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin, time quietly passed.

The mana accumulated in the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin had long since gathered, as if it had turned into a lake.

But the Earth Dragon Liquid still hadn't been exhausted!

"The mana accumulated in the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin should already be more than ten or even twenty times what my body filled with mana could hold! It's enough!" Lu Chen suddenly paused and stopped refining the Earth Dragon Liquid.

He then waved his hand, sweeping all the remaining Earth Dragon Liquid in the stone trough into the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin.

There was about one to two jin left.

Although not much was left, just these one to two jin were countless times better than the Dongming Sect's pills and were extremely precious treasures.

"Casting the Dao Foundation, forming the Dao Embryo, it's now."

Lu Chen took a deep breath, making his mind clear and pure. Then, the Mixed Origin Undying Scripture circulated again, heading towards the Dao Embryo.

His mana, which had filled all three hundred and sixty-five major apertures, Meridians, Qi Sea, and even his Physical Body, surged out wildly at this moment, forming a vortex that continuously gathered towards his chest.

In the path of cultivation, the human body has three Dantian.

One is the lower Dantian, located about three inches below the navel in the lower abdomen.

The True Qi cultivated during the Qi Condensation Realm is gathered and stored here, also known as the Qi Sea. This is also the primary location for the spiritual power and mana cultivated in the later Spirit Transformation, Penetrating Aperture, and Mysterious Method realms, with the three hundred and sixty-five major apertures as supplementary.

Upon reaching the Dao Embryo realm, when the Dao Foundation is to be cast, mana must enter the middle Dantian. This Dantian is also called the 'Jiangong Golden Citadel', the place of the Dao Foundation, and also the location of the Dao Embryo.

At this moment, Lu Chen's mana surged wildly from the three hundred and sixty-five major apertures and the Qi Sea into the Jiangong Golden Citadel, gradually forming the Dao Embryo.

As time passed, the initial mana gradually condensed, slowly forming a three-inch Dao Embryo. More mana continuously poured in, causing the Dao Embryo to grow, becoming three inches three, three inches nine...

Four inches...

Five inches...

Six inches...

When the Dao Embryo in the Jiangong Golden Citadel reached nine inches, the mana within Lu Chen's body was completely exhausted.

"If I didn't have a companion Spirit Treasure, even with my strong Physical Body having cultivated the Qi and Blood Divine Spirit as support, I could at most cultivate a nine-inch Dao Embryo?!" Lu Chen understood this in his heart.

However, he not only had powerful Body Refinement cultivation but also the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin.

"Continue!"

The next moment, even more surging and vast mana rushed out from the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin, pouring into his Jiangong Golden Citadel, causing his Dao Embryo, which had stopped growing, to instantly break past nine inches and begin advancing towards nine inches nine.

However, as mana was continuously poured in, Lu Chen quickly discovered...

"After the nine-inch Dao Embryo, the mana required for each additional increment in the Dao Foundation becomes increasingly vast!"

It even doubles!

Fortunately, the mana Lu Chen had poured into the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin was also very, very abundant, having even condensed into a lake. He didn't worry about the astonishing amount required for a Dao Embryo above nine inches at all.

The Dao Embryo was still growing!

Nine inches one, nine inches two...

Nine inches nine!

The extreme of the Dao Foundation!

"Huh?!"

At this moment, Lu Chen's heart suddenly trembled. In the unseen, there seemed to be a great terror brewing in an unknown place, about to pour down and afflict his Dao Foundation.

"Could it be that heaven and earth do not allow a Dao Foundation above nine inches nine to appear?!" Without reason, Lu Chen understood the cause of that subtle sense of great terror in the unseen.

This great terror did not come from anyone, nor from some unknown danger, but from 'Heaven's Will'!

Stop?

Or continue?!

With just a moment of hesitation, Lu Chen had already made his decision!

Since there exists a path beyond nine inches nine, then why can't he walk it?

Today, he would insist on walking this path beyond the nine inches nine limit Dao Embryo to see what this Heaven's Will could do to him!

"Fighting against the heavens..."

"Is infinitely joyful!"

Perhaps, I understand something now!

The ancients truly did not deceive me!

Lu Chen suddenly smiled and closed his eyes again.

His state of mind at this moment seemed to have received some kind of inexplicable baptism. No, to be precise, it should be that he gained some kind of higher understanding, something that couldn't be clearly explained or described.

Well then, let's just call it a moment of willfulness!

............

Outside the stone wall.

The Disciples and Elders of the Lin Yuan Sect still hadn't left and remained guarding outside the stone wall.

"Strange, that killing intent has been inside the stone wall for more than seven days, why hasn't he come out yet?" A Disciple mumbled, puzzled.

"Could it be that there's still danger inside, and that killing intent fell into a trap in there?!"

"Are you out of your mind? How cautious was that killing intent? He had already used his strange Puppet to explore inside the mountain wall before this. If there was danger, how could he put himself in peril?"

"That's wrong. I heard that when heavenly materials and earthly treasures appear, there must be fierce creatures accompanying and guarding them. Maybe that killing intent ran into one..."

Before he finished speaking, the sky above suddenly 'boomed' and vibrated. In a flash, the originally clear blue sky, with not a cloud in sight, had rolling black clouds gathering, with lightning flashing within them, and it intensified rapidly, at an astonishing speed.

"This is..." The plump Lin Yuan Sect Elder's eyes gradually became solemn, as if sinking into distant memories, until at a certain moment, he seemed to suddenly remember something.

The solemnity in his eyes turned into fear, and finally into horror!

"Hea-ven-ly Trib-u-la-tion of Cast-ing the Dao!" His eyes widened, his pupils seemed to enlarge as well, and then completely filled his entire pupils. His mouth trembled as he spoke, word by word.

Heavenly Intent Dao Tribulation!

No mistake, absolutely no mistake!

This is the legendary Heavenly Intent Dao Tribulation!

"Heaven's Will... The 'Heavenly Intent Dao Tribulation' recorded in legends actually... actually exists!" Another Elder, slow to react, also came to his senses. His entire body was trembling slightly.

This was too astonishing, too unbelievable!

In this era, someone could actually attract Heaven's Will!

"Is that person..." Another Elder trembled as he pointed to the mountain wall, "Is that person breaking through the nine inches nine limit Dao Foundation?"