180: My heart is the heart of Heaven, refining the Heavenly Heart Imprint of Cangwu
As Lin Yue proved the Dao, the Empress took the lead in joining the relocation team.
In her capacity as the Empress, she did her utmost to soothe the living beings within the Realm and dissipate most of the will to resist.
But that fear and rejection stemming from instinct still caused the cangwu heavenly dao to erupt in violent struggle at the final moment.
"Rumble—"
The Lightning Tribulation that had originally been suppressed surged once again; this time, it was no longer targeted at a specific person, but at that golden giant net covering the sky.
"Damn it, is this crappy Heavenly Dao a donkey? It won't move when led, but moves backward when hit! It's already netted, yet it's still not behaving!"
The Sixth Ancestor cursed, his hand Seals changing as his Dharma Idol manifested behind him. A giant black hand that blotted out the sun slammed heavily onto the boundary wall, attempting to suppress those rioting Laws.
"Old Six, don't use brute force. This is its final outburst, nothing more than the struggle of a cornered beast. Forcibly suppressing it will only lead to mutual destruction. Follow the old way; as long as we wear it down, the final loss will still be within controllable limits."
The ethereal voice of the Fifth Ancestor drifted over.
He wasn't as anxious as the Sixth Ancestor.
Because they had Lin Yue's support.
The loss from moving the Great World this time was already very low; even the Heavenly Dao's final resistance would only increase that loss slightly.
On the dragon head warship.
Jiang Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, looking through the porthole at the sea of lightning that seemed to be boiling.
"A cornered beast's struggle, huh..."
A faint smile played on his lips, not caring in the slightest about the Heavenly Dao's final resistance.
Jiang Yuan could even vaguely sense the Heavenly Dao's pleading.
It vaguely realized that once it was dragged away and merged into the Emperor Immortal Great World, its self-awareness would completely disappear.
The Heavenly Dao of every Cangwu also possessed wisdom.
It also wanted to live.
But what did that have to do with Jiang Yuan?
With a flip of his hand.
The bead of the Cangwu Great World's second great emperor fruit position—which Jiang Yuan had baited out and then was sealed and suppressed by the three Old Ancestors of the Jiang Family and Ye Lingxian—appeared in his palm.
He slowly closed his eyes, sinking his mind deep into the Sea of Consciousness.
[Talent: My Heart is the Heavenly Heart (Activated)]
[The host can ignore their own Realm to refine and absorb a heavenly heart imprint of any Rank.]
In an instant, a mysterious and profound feeling surged into his heart.
"My Heart is the Heavenly Heart."
Jiang Yuan muttered in his heart.
He didn't need any Cultivation Technique, nor did he need any guidance, as if following some innate instinct.
"Buzz—!"
That Dao Fruit trembled violently, erupting with a bone-chilling coldness and intense resistance.
Although it was masterless, it was also the ultimate condensation of a Great World's Laws, containing the brand of the Heavenly Dao's will, instinctively resisting the refining of all outsiders.
Ordinary Cultivators, even experts of the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, would need to be extremely cautious when facing such a supreme treasure.
Using one's own Dao to communicate, to comprehend, and to gain its recognition—the entire process could easily take hundreds or even thousands of years.
And there was a high possibility of failure.
If not for Lin Yue sacrificing her own Origin to help Han Yueyi Attain the Dao, causing their Divine Body and Saint Body Origins to intertwine and resonate with each other.
Coupled with Han Yueyi's profound cultivation and her voluntary offering of the Dao Fruit, trading her cultivation for refining speed, and Lin Yue herself trading her future path for a short-term ascent to Emperor... with several factors combined, she was able to Attain the Dao as an Empress in a very short time.
Just looking at Third Uncle Jiang Shouzhuo, who was still in seclusion in the Forbidden Ground, one could see how difficult it was to Attain the Dao as a Great Emperor.
But Jiang Yuan was completely different.
He wasn't requesting, nor was he communicating.
He was... declaring!
Above that Divine Soul giant hand, a creation aura that transcended all Daos of the heavens struck heavily against the Dao Fruit's Origin brand like a supreme scepter.
"Your heart is not your heart."
"Your heart is my heart."
Dominant, arbitrary, and unquestionable.
This was no longer refining.
It was forced plundering and overwriting.
The great emperor dao fruit let out an unprecedentedly shrill hum. On the surface of the bead, the ancient runes belonging to the cangwu heavenly dao flashed frantically, trying to resist this brute force.
But in the face of that strange power, all resistance appeared pale and weak.
It felt like a local vassal king meeting a founding emperor holding the Heirloom Seal of the Realm, acting by the mandate of heaven.
Bloodline suppression was an absolute gap that could not be bridged.
"It seems Great Grandfather was wrong. Even if one who isn't a Quasi-Emperor successfully refines the position, they cannot leap across many Realms to directly Attain the Dao."
Jiang Yuan sensed for a moment and shook his head slightly.
He was merely using this Dao Fruit as a tool for his own Breakthrough and to perfect his Dao.
He could use it roughly.
Without worrying about breaking it.
"Crack..."
An extremely subtle sound of cracking echoed in Jiang Yuan's Sea of Consciousness.
The Origin brand belonging to the cangwu heavenly dao shattered!
In its place was a brand new, more complex and profound imprint wreathed in purple Qi, deeply etched into the core of the Dao Fruit.
In the next moment, Jiang Yuan felt as if his Divine Soul transcended the entire Cangwu Great World.
His consciousness spanned the endless Void Realm in an instant.
Perfectly merging with the entire Cangwu Great World.
At this moment, he was the heavens.
The mountains and rivers were his bones, the rivers were his Bloodline, the wind was his breath, and the thunder was his fury.
With a single thought, everything in the Cangwu was within his sight.
As long as he wished, he could mobilize the power of this Cangwu's Heavenly Dao.
Of course, only a small part of it.
As his Realm increased, the power he could mobilize would also increase... And at the very moment Jiang Yuan completed the refining of the Dao Fruit.
Above the Void Realm.
"Eh? What's going on?"
The Sixth Ancestor was about to give the boundary wall another heavy blow, only to find that his full-strength palm strike felt like hitting cotton.
"The resistance has disappeared?" The Fifth Ancestor's voice was filled with astonishment.
That golden giant net pulling the Cangwu finally no longer encountered any resistance.
It began to drag this massive Cangwu toward the coordinates of the Emperor Immortal Great World with unprecedented stability and efficiency, speeding away!
"What... what the hell is going on? Why did this Heavenly Dao suddenly wimp out? Could it be that we beat it stupid?"
"It wasn't beaten stupid."
The Fifth Ancestor's voice carried a hint of disbelief, "Someone... has proved the Dao."
"Proved the Dao? How is that possible? I've checked, there isn't a second Peak Quasi-Emperor in all of Cangwu. How could anyone Attain the Dao?"
The Sixth Ancestor voiced his objection, but when he saw the subtle expressions on the faces of the Second Ancestor and the Fifth Ancestor, he immediately felt something was wrong.
"What's wrong with you guys? Why are you all looking at me like that? You don't think my Clone did it, do you? If I had that ability, I would have achieved Immortal Ascension long ago."
The Fifth Ancestor shook his head.
The Second Ancestor glanced at him: "Who's looking at you? I'm looking at the dragon head warship behind you."
The Fifth Ancestor also realized, following the Second Ancestor's gaze, his voice carrying a hint of understanding: "The one refining the Dao Fruit... is likely Yuaner."
Both the Second Ancestor and the Fifth Ancestor were 'those who had been through it'.
They remembered Jiang Yuan had mentioned to them (excluding the Sixth Ancestor) that he had gained the ability to refine a heavenly heart imprint of any Rank.
Looking at the current Cangwu Great World, who else but Yuaner could do it?
"Yuaner?"
The Sixth Ancestor was even more bewildered, "He hasn't even reached Quasi-Emperor, how could he refine a great emperor dao fruit?"
He suddenly remembered something.
"That's not right, Old Second, Old Five, when did you guys get a half-immortal artifact? And it's so much stronger than the [youying immortal net] I picked up? I don't remember such a treasure being in the clan treasury?"
Second Ancestor Jiang Wuya walked to the Sixth Ancestor's side, patted his shoulder, and said earnestly: "In the future, spend less time fooling around outside and follow Yuaner more to broaden your horizons."
"Isn't it just forcibly refining a great emperor dao fruit with the body of a Saint? Look at your inexperienced self."
The Fifth Ancestor's voice drifted in at the right time, adding another blow, "From now on, when you go out, don't say you're an Old Ancestor of our Jiang Family."
Sixth Ancestor Jiang Wuwei: "???"
What on earth are you all talking about! I don't understand a single word!