115: Chapter 115 The Threshold of True God

After returning to Wanxiang University from the Dark Domain mining vein, Shen Ye completely integrated the mother ore fragment into his Dantian, and the Miniature Primordial Resonance Platform was completely synchronized with the Heart of Twilight.

Under the blessing of this miniature resonance platform, the Law density of a Level 1 God had reached its Peak, leaving only the final layer of paper between him and a True God.

However, this layer of paper could not be pierced through mere accumulation—breaking through to a True God required a real battle of sufficient intensity to completely detonate the Cultivation Divine Kingdom's Law density from its Peak state.

He shared this thought with Qin Shu.

Qin Shu leaned against the training room doorframe, the data pad in his hand still displaying the inventory data for the portable twilight beacons.

He said that within the Independent Pioneer Sequence, most Pioneers breaking through from a Level 1 God to a True God chose to venture deep behind enemy lines alone, completing their final tempering in the most dangerous places.

The most dangerous place on the front line of the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist was the Law fault zone left behind after the fall of the Ash King, which was the final gathering place for the Crown Prince's remnants—the main force of the remnants had been suppressed by Cang Ming and Qin Youyou for a long time, but deep within the remnants, a True God-level Devouring Abyss behemoth was still sleeping; it was a war machine cultivated by the Crown Prince himself while he was alive, and after his death, it was forcibly activated by the remnants using the last batch of Devouring Abyss cores, though it had not yet fully awakened.

"You need a sufficiently hard whetstone to break through to a True God, and that is the best one."

Shen Ye forwarded the battle plan to Cang Ming and Qin Youyou.

Cang Ming's reply was as concise as ever: The outer defense line would advance across the board at the designated time to ensure the remnants could not interfere with the core battlefield.

Qin Youyou said a few more words—her ancient war spear had completed its most recent upgrade in the Twilight tempering pool, and the perception range of the spearhead could now cover the entire Law fault zone; the heartbeat frequency of that behemoth was the slow and heavy rhythm typical of a True God, and unlike the muffled sound of the Ancestor of the Abyss that had been suppressed for countless years, it was young, ferocious, and had not yet fully mastered its own power.

She suggested entering from the southeast side of the fault zone, as that was the only blind spot in the behemoth's perception range; the blind spot was formed because there were slanted, fractured remnants of an ancient Seal on the southeast side of the fault zone, and the Twilight Law remaining inside the debris was still continuously interfering with the detection of Abyssal Energy, providing the final piece of the puzzle for her spearhead's perception.

Shen Ye spent an entire day making preparations for the battle.

The first batch of portable twilight beacons forged by Tie Chui using the Resonance Base mining vein had come off the line, and the frequency of the mother ore resonance had significantly increased the activation efficiency of the beacons; he activated the beacons one by one and stored them in his backpack.

Yan Shan completed his final adaptive punch in the depths of the Body Refining Cave; after his right arm's Rock Pattern absorbed the primordial resonance energy of the mining vein, new patterns spread from his shoulder blade to his wrist, the surface glowing with a very faint dark golden light.

Hou Tu marked every path of the underground Spiritual Qi of the fault zone on an obsidian slab, locking onto all the energy nodes in the deepest part where the behemoth's core was located.

Jin Lin fully expanded his Wood-attribute Sword Domain in front of the sword stele, with the little Dragon moving back and forth within the Sword Domain; he recalibrated the Twilight Sword Qi on his Flying Sword according to the frequency of the primordial resonance.

Before leaving, he took out Gu Yan's broken sword and used Twilight Energy to re-nourish the crack on the blade that extended from the guard to the tip.

The True God-level Sword Intent sealed within the blade remained intact, and under the guidance of the Twilight Energy, a very faint dark golden light faintly emanated from deep within the sword.

He wrapped the broken sword in Spiritual Qi silk and placed it in the outermost layer of his backpack—this time, he would let this sword complete its final mission in his hands.

When the flying boat landed on the edge of the Ash residue zone, the sky of the Law fault zone was still a deeply oppressive dark red.

The Crown Prince's remnants had set up dense interference Laws on the periphery of the fault zone, attempting to cover up the fluctuations of the behemoth's awakening, but Qin Youyou's ancient war spear perception had long since locked onto the location of the behemoth's core.

Shen Ye took Yan Shan and Jin Lin to sneak in through the blind spot of the ancient Seal remnants on the southeast side of the fault zone, and the small groups of remnants they encountered along the way were silently shredded by Jin Lin's Sword Domain.

Deep within the Law fault zone, that Devouring Abyss behemoth was lurking in a Law pool formed entirely by condensed Abyssal Energy.

Its size far exceeded all the Void Race creations he had seen before, and the surface of its pitch-black bone armor was engraved with the Crown Prince's personal sigil Law patterns; deep in its chest cavity, a dark purple core was slowly beating at a True God-level frequency.

It sensed the approach of the Twilight Energy and suddenly opened its eyes—pure Devouring Abyss flames burned within its dark golden pupils.

Shen Ye condensed the twilight longsword in his hand, the Twilight light on the blade confronting the Devouring Abyss flames of the behemoth's chest core from a distance.

Yan Shan attacked first from the flank, his right arm's new Rock Pattern suddenly hardening under the blessing of the mother ore resonance, and he punched into the densest intersection of Law patterns at the joint of the behemoth's forelimb.

The hardness of the new Rock Pattern was several times greater than before, and the punch force penetrated the outer defense of the True God-level bone armor; the Devouring Abyss patterns at the behemoth's forelimb joint shattered inch by inch under the reverse conduction of the Spiral Spiritual Power.

The behemoth let out a deafening roar, and dark golden Devouring Abyss flames erupted violently from its chest core, spreading indiscriminately in all directions.

At the same instant the flames spread, Jin Lin expanded his Wood-attribute Sword Domain, and the little Dragon on his shoulder raised its head and let out a clear, resonant Dragon roar; all the Twilight Sword Qi within the Sword Domain vibrated simultaneously at the frequency of the primordial resonance, suppressing the spreading flames at the edge of the Sword Domain so they could not advance an inch.

After being calibrated by the primordial resonance, the purification efficiency of the Wood-attribute Sword Domain against Abyssal Energy was significantly increased, and those dark golden flames suppressed at the edge of the Sword Domain began to fade into gray-white layer by layer from the outside in.

Shen Ye charged in head-on under the cover of the Sword Domain, his twilight longsword colliding head-on with the behemoth's chest core.

The energy density of the True God-level Devouring Abyss core far exceeded any opponent he had faced before, and every collision caused the heart deep within his Dantian to tremble violently.

But the Law density at the Peak of Level 1 God did not yield in the slightest under the blessing of the Miniature Primordial Resonance Platform, and the Twilight light on the blade became brighter and purer with every collision.

Just as the behemoth's core energy was more than half consumed, Shen Ye drew Gu Yan's broken sword with his left hand and injected all the energy from the miniature resonance platform deep in his Dantian into the blade.

That True God-level Sword Intent, sealed for who knows how many years, was released with a roar from deep within the cracks and merged with the sword radiance of the twilight longsword.

Two streaks of sword light—one extremely bright and pure Twilight, the other extremely deep and steady dark gold—simultaneously pierced through the behemoth's chest core.

The core exploded, and the Abyssal Energy throughout the entire Law fault zone was swept away by the shockwave of the core's disintegration.

Shen Ye stood before the behemoth's carcass, holding his sword with both hands; the broken sword turned into extremely fine light particles in his palm, drifting away slowly and merging into the body of the twilight longsword.

Gu Yan's last wish was fulfilled.

From the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist to the Abyss of First Birth, from the Core Ruins to the depths of the Dark Domain, this sword had accompanied him on a long and arduous journey; now, it had completed its final mission, turning into light particles in that strike that defeated the True God-level Devouring Abyss behemoth, remaining forever in this purified land.

The heart deep within his Dantian swelled violently in the shockwave of the core explosion.

The Bottleneck of the Level 1 God Peak shattered completely at this moment, and the Miniature Primordial Resonance Platform suddenly boosted the Cultivation Divine Kingdom's Law density from the Level 1 God Peak—to True God Rank 1.

The area of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom expanded rapidly at the moment of the Breakthrough; within the Cultivation Divine Kingdom, the number of Nascent Soul Stage Sword Cultivators exceeded two thousand, driven by the Breakthrough, and the first batch of Early Stage Soul Transformation Sword Cultivators began to transform from Nascent Soul Perfection; in the Land of Gods and Demons, the total number of angels and succubi marched toward the tens of millions, and the daily production of Twilight Apostles jumped from several thousand to nearly ten thousand.

Shen Ye sensed the brand-new Law density within his body after the Breakthrough and stored the longsword in the Land of Gods and Demons.

Yan Shan pulled his right arm out of the behemoth's carcass, the surface of his Rock Pattern covered in crushed bone armor powder.

He looked down at his fist and said that the hardness of the new Rock Pattern did not collapse in front of the True God-level bone armor, and it could be even harder next time.

Jin Lin retracted his Sword Domain, and the little Dragon on his shoulder coiled back into the crook of his neck and yawned; the full-power expansion of the Sword Domain just now had been quite taxing for it.

Qin Youyou's voice came through the communicator; the outer remnants had lost their final Law support after the behemoth's core exploded, and Cang Ming's front-line camp was currently sweeping the battlefield.

After returning to Wanxiang University, Shen Ye stood alone by the lake.

The four tower light beams rotated slowly in the night sky, and the surface of the lake reflected the flowing dark golden light net.

The Law density of True God Rank 1 stabilized within his body, but the nine ranks of a True God were a long staircase, and each rank required the Cultivation Divine Kingdom's Law density to double.

The Observers' primordial resonance technology had been integrated into his Dantian, the mother ore fragments of the Resonance Base mining vein had built the Miniature Primordial Resonance Platform, and what he needed to do next was to climb up one rank at a time until he reached the summit.

He performed the final round of synchronization calibration between the mother ore resonance frequency and Wanxiang University's monitoring station.

The primordial resonance energy in the area where the mining vein was located would serve as a backup energy pool for future Breakthroughs, and The Observers' database index had been largely parsed by Lin Tianyin in collaboration with the four universities; the remaining part would take time.

The road to a True God was still long, but the first step had been taken.