391: Chapter 391 Sword Drinks Geng Metal, Sixth-Order Transformation

After leaving the Miasma Demon Valley remnant.

Chen Daoping traveled rapidly for three hundred thousand li, changing his escape direction four times along the way.

Only after confirming that there were no tails behind him did he stop deep within a rarely visited underground cave.

The cave was very deep; the underground river had long since dried up, and the air was filled with the bitter smell of Ore oxidation.

It was a far cry from those carefully selected paradise lands.

But for current conditions, it was sufficient.

Chen Daoping was not in a hurry to start; he first set up five layers of isolation Formation Flags.

Then he used Azure Emperor True Essence to activate thirty-six Restrictions, superimposed layer upon layer.

After completing these, he released Treasure, letting this Three-legged Golden Toad squat at the entrance like a door god.

"If anything approaches, swallow it first and talk later."

"Croak."

Treasure shifted its buttocks, blocking the entrance tightly.

Weak starlight flowed over its dark-golden body.

Once everything was settled, Chen Daoping then took out that Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade Box from his storage ring.

The moment the jade box was opened, a piercing sharp aura burst forth toward his face.

Even through the multiple Seals, that sharp aura, which felt like it was cutting the skin, still penetrated the body.

Ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators would probably not even dare to open their storage rings in the face of this aura.

White-gold light lit up the entire cave.

The taiyi geng metal stone lay quietly in the box, about the size of a fist.

Its shape was rugged, and the metallic luster flowing on its surface was like a liquid blade.

A Grade 6 Low Grade spiritual material, a top-tier primary material specifically for refining metal-attribute Flying Swords.

If placed in any auction in the Central Continent, it would trigger a bloody struggle between Void Refining old monsters.

Chen Daoping gazed at the taiyi geng metal stone for three breaths.

Then he raised his left hand and summoned the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

The next moment, a three-inch-long verdant little sword flew out from his Dantian.

The little sword was lush green and dripping, with deep blue patterns faintly visible interweaving on the blade.

Dark gold spots were interspersed within, while Primordial Chaos Qi and Evil Warding power flowed along the sword's spine.

The traces of five Divine Abilities were all imprinted within this square inch.

The Azure Origin Sword Seed spun on Chen Daoping's fingertip, letting out a very low hum.

There was a bit of joy in the sword's cry, mixed with a hint of grievance.

Chen Daoping could feel it.

Since his Breakthrough to Void Refining.

Every time he activated the Azure Origin Sword Seed, he could sense the blade trembling slightly.

The rank of Grade 5 peak grade had already reached the limit of this Azure Origin Sword Seed.

Pouring the True Essence of the Void Refinement Stage into it was like pouring boiling molten iron into a delicate porcelain bowl.

If this continued, either the sword would be destroyed, or the Divine Abilities would lose their form.

"I've made you endure for a long time."

Chen Daoping said in a low voice, with a hint of apology that others wouldn't be able to hear.

His relationship with this Azure Origin Sword Seed was not simply that of a Cultivator and a Magic Treasure.

This sword had a spirit and was born together with its master.

From the Foundation Establishment Stage all the way to the Void Refinement Stage, it had never been absent from every fight and every life-and-death moment.

Today, it was time for it to take another step forward.

Chen Daoping no longer hesitated and held up the taiyi geng metal stone with his left hand.

He gripped the Azure Origin Sword Seed with two fingers of his right hand and closed his eyes to circulate his technique.

The Azure Emperor Longevity Art circulated, and the azure-green Azure Emperor True Essence surged out.

It wrapped around both the sword body and the Geng Metal Stone simultaneously.

To put it bluntly, this step was to let the Azure Origin Sword Seed devour the taiyi geng metal stone on its own.

But while it sounded simple, doing it was life-threatening.

The Geng Metal Qi contained in the Grade 6 spiritual material was extremely violent; if devoured forcibly, the Azure Origin Sword Seed would be blown apart.

Therefore, Chen Daoping needed to use his own True Essence as a medium to guide, transform, and feed it bit by bit.

When the first wisp of Taiyi Geng Metal essence was peeled away, the entire body of the Azure Origin Sword Seed vibrated violently.

It hurt.

The burning pain that fed back from the Flying Sword to the depths of his Divine Soul made Chen Daoping furrow his brows.

The Natal Flying Sword was connected to the master's Divine Soul, with no buffer and no discount.

But he didn't stop.

The second wisp, the third wisp...

The white-gold Taiyi Geng Metal essence followed the guidance of the True Essence, seeping into the verdant sword body strand by strand.

With every strand that seeped in, a white-gold pattern as thin as spider silk would appear on the surface of the sword body.

Those patterns spread along the original tracks of the dark gold sword light, like adding new strokes to a completed painting.

Time passed bit by bit.

One day.

Three days.

Seven days.

By the thirtieth day, the taiyi geng metal stone had shrunk by one-tenth.

On the body of the Azure Origin Sword Seed, the white-gold patterns had already covered nearly half.

The originally verdant sword body began to show a strange luster.

Emerald green as the base, interwoven with deep blue, dotted with dark gold, and pierced through by white gold.

Not only did the four colors not appear messy, but they instead presented a naturally formed harmony.

But the real difficulty also arrived at this moment.

The accumulation finally reached its limit, and variables suddenly arose.

When the white-gold patterns covered half of the sword body.

The Azure Origin Sword Seed suddenly let out a sorrowful cry that was sharp enough to be ear-piercing.

All the patterns on the sword body lit up simultaneously, and the power of the five Divine Abilities crashed frantically inside.

The gentle vitality of the Soul Nurturing Divine Light, the feminine concealment of the Profound Water Sword Silk, the fierce sharpness of the Geng Metal Sword Light, the law-breaking power of the Primordial Chaos Law Breaking, and the supreme Yang thunder of the Evil-Warding Sword Beam.

Five completely different and even contradictory powers.

Under the catalysis of the Taiyi Geng Metal essence, they fell into an out-of-control chaotic battle.

Chen Daoping's expression changed abruptly.

He expected there to be complications, but he didn't expect them to be so fierce.

The five Divine Abilities fought their own battles, none submitting to the others, all wanting to blast the others out.

"Behave."

Chen Daoping shouted in a low voice, his Divine Sense driving straight in and probing into the interior of the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

Wherever there was conflict, he would go to mediate. Wherever there was a blockage, he would go to clear it.

This work was ten times more delicate than breaking ancient Restrictions thirty thousand zhang underground in Kumu Valley.

Because Restrictions were dead, while his Azure Origin Sword Seed was alive.

Another month passed.

Chen Daoping poured all his energy into that microscopic war inside the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

Sweat from his forehead slid down his chin, soaking a small patch of the ground.

All six floors of the spirit refining pagoda in his Sea of Consciousness were open, and True Essence was poured in almost without restraint.

Not until the hour of the Rat on the hundredth day.

A turning point appeared.

Under his continuous mediation, the conflict of the five Divine Abilities finally found a subtle point of balance.

The position where that balance point appeared was exactly at the very center of the Azure Origin Sword Seed, the Yimu Origin nurtured by the Azure Emperor Longevity Art.

That was the root of the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

All changes return to the source; no matter how many Heaven And Earth Treasures it devoured or how many Divine Abilities it awakened.

Its Foundation would always be that wisp of Innate Yimu Essence.

The five powers began to slowly rotate, fuse, and reorganize with the Yimu as the axis.

The white-gold Taiyi Geng Metal essence was no longer violent, but was instead coerced and tamed by the other powers.

Ultimately, it transformed into the hardest layer in the sword's skeletal frame.

The taiyi geng metal stone shrank rapidly in his palm.

From the size of a fist, to the size of an egg, to the size of a walnut, to the size of a fingernail...

By the two-hundredth day.

The last wisp of Taiyi Geng Metal essence was completely devoured by the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

Chen Daoping's palm was empty; that priceless Grade 6 spiritual material had vanished completely.

The Azure Origin Sword Seed was no longer simply verdant; its entire body presented a deep azure-gold color.

Faintly, deep blue flowing light and dark gold starlight traveled along the sword's spine.

The blade was as thin as a cicada's wing, its sharpness restrained.

The most crucial change lay in the aura.

The faintly leaking sharpness from when it was a Grade 5 peak grade was now completely withdrawn.

The entire sword looked simple and restrained, ordinary and unremarkable.

But Chen Daoping could feel that the power contained within the Azure Origin Sword Seed had increased by more than five times compared to before.

He tentatively guided a wisp of True Essence to pour into the sword body.

It was smooth.

No obstruction, no trembling.

The azure-green True Essence circulated once along the brand-new meridian circuit and was perfectly accepted by the Azure Origin Sword Seed.

A Grade 6 Low Grade Spirit Treasure.

It was a success.

The Azure Origin Sword Seed spun silently three times on his fingertip, letting out a very low, satisfied hum.

There was no longer any grievance or reluctance in that sound, only the tacit understanding of being one in heart with its master.

Chen Daoping let out a long breath of turbid air.

Over two hundred days, his energy was overdrawn to the limit, and his entire body felt as if it had been run over by wheels.

"Let's try it."

He turned his palm, and the Azure Origin Sword Seed suddenly turned into a streak of azure-gold light and shot out.

The rock wall at the end of the cave was a hundred zhang thick, all made of hard Black Iron Ore.

It was silent.

The azure-gold light passed through the wall, leaving no visible hole on the rock surface.

But after three breaths, the entire rock wall split down the middle and collapsed with a crash.

The cut was as smooth as a mirror, without any sense of resistance.

Chen Daoping recalled the Flying Sword and took it into his body for nourishment.

At the entrance of the cave, Treasure suddenly let out a "croak".

Chen Daoping looked up.

His Divine Sense captured an aura rapidly approaching within a range of two million zhang.

A Void Refinement Stage Cultivator.

And more than one.