192: Chapter 192 Abandoning the Way of Heaven: An Unprecedented Defeat!

"We are going there."

Su Yu offered no explanation, nor did he leave any room for negotiation.

With a wave of his large sleeves, his small cyan Dao robe snapped loudly in the wind. Keeping his hands behind his back, he took unhurried steps and walked straight toward the most desolate withered cave.

"Put down the Dragon-Blocking Stone. Without my decree, even if the sky falls, no one is allowed to come within ten zhang of the withered cave."

His indifferent voice drifted from afar, sounding like an imperial decree.

Ancestor Su Lie, Su Jingan, and Lin Wanqiu looked at each other in dismay, freezing in place.

Daring not to defy this Old Ancestor who had lived for an unknown number of years and could be considered the supreme deity of the Su Family, they could only forcibly suppress the extreme anxiety in their hearts and follow closely behind step by step, until they watched that tiny figure step into that pitch-black, perilous domain.

...

"Boom—"

The heavy Dragon-Blocking Stone crashed down, kicking up a choking cloud of dust.

The last trace of daylight was shut outside.

Inside the Spirit-Extinguishing Withered Cave, absolute darkness and dead silence took over.

The air here was dry and freezing, and not a single shred of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi could be felt.

Even the vast, sea-like Thirteenth Layer of Qi Refining True Qi within Su Yu's body faintly felt a subtle sense of stripping coming from the external spirit-extinguishing Formation the moment he entered this place.

However, when this stripping sensation touched the surface of Su Yu's skin, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, instantly and thoroughly repelled by the nearly tyrannical self-contained closed-loop Law of the Chaos Flawless Dao Body.

Su Yu stood in the darkness without lighting any illumination spirit fire.

Relying on a perception far surpassing ordinary people, he walked to a rough stone slab at the very center of the withered cave and sat down cross-legged with utmost calmness.

"Spirit Stones... Medicinal Pills... Spirit Gathering Array?"

The corners of Su Yu's mouth curled into an extremely cruel and mocking smile in the darkness.

"Borrowing the Qi of Heaven and Earth to cultivate one's own body is ultimately taking a lower path!"

In his mind, he extremely calmly reviewed the so-called ironclad rules of Foundation Establishment in the cultivation world.

Within the consensus of the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain, Foundation Establishment was divided into various ranks.

The lowest-tier, defective Foundation Establishment relied on inferior Medicinal Pills to forcibly break through, leaving the Dao foundation shattered.

Moving upward was Human Dao Foundation Establishment, relying on one's own perseverance and mortal Qi to push through, holding no hope for the Golden Core in this lifetime.

Further above that was Earth Dao Foundation Establishment, piled up with top-grade Medicinal Pills and superb ley line Qi, resulting in thick True Qi and a solid foundation.

At the very pinnacle of the pyramid was the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment that countless Prodigy went crazy pursuing!

What was known as Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?

It required Cultivators to open up their Qi Sea, bare their body and mind without reservation, and comprehend, bear, and "accommodate" the Laws of this heaven and earth.

Amidst the extremely brief opportunity of the convergence between heaven and man, it would induce resonance with the Heavenly Dao, causing fragments of Laws to descend and refine one's True Qi into a supreme Dao foundation imbued with a trace of heavenly might.

How infinitely glorious and flawless this sounded!

Su Yu had witnessed Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment more than once, and even in his fifth lifetime, that absurd life maxed out in Fortune.

When he took a walk and got struck by lightning, the heavens would actively chew up the Heavenly Dao Laws and feed them into his mouth, allowing him to complete Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment with extreme ease.

He knew far too well the benefits of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Invincible among peers, endless True Qi, and manipulation of Spiritual Qi as fluid as moving one's own fingers.

That was the absolute certification of being branded as the "favored son" by The Great World!

But...

So what?!

In the darkness, two fierce lights resembling devilish fire suddenly burst forth from Su Yu's abyss-like dark eyes.

In his mind, that scene before his death in the fifth lifetime uncontrollably surfaced.

That grayish layer of Heavenly Secret Obscuration cast down by the Tribulation Supreme!

That group of high-and-mighty Mahayana Stage Old Monsters who averaged out Karma with human lives!

When the Heavenly Dao of The Great World had its eyes blocked by that gray screen, and when the heavenly will was forcibly jammed by the Old Monsters using rule loopholes.

That proud protection of the Heavenly Dao and that ten thousand points of Heaven-Defying Fortune on him instantly became mere decorations!

"Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than bowing one's head to this heaven and earth, begging for its bestowal, and catering to its rules!"

Su Yu's hands slowly clenched into fists, his knuckles making cracking sounds under the unbearable load.

"Borrowed power will ultimately be subject to others."

"As long as the Dao you cultivate is the Law of this heaven and earth, and the Qi you borrow is the Qi of this heaven and earth—"

"Then, when those old immortals standing at the apex of the rules tear apart this heaven and earth and obscure the heavenly secrets—"

"Your so-called Heavenly Dao foundation is merely a stepping stone that others can pull away at any time!"

This was the most thorough and bloody truth Su Yu derived after experiencing five Reincarnations, having tasted the partiality of heaven and earth and the cruel beatings!

He would never fall into the same pit twice.

In this sixth lifetime.

He did not want the charity of the Heavenly Dao.

He did not want the nourishment of the ley lines.

Much less did he want to cater to any dirty and decayed foundational Law of this Hunyuan Heavenly Domain!

"Since the external Spiritual Qi is all subject to The Great World—"

"Then this daddy will forge a heaven of his own!"

In the darkness, Su Yu let out a cold whistle, arrogant to the extreme like an ancient Asura.

He closed his eyes, his mind and spirit completely sinking into the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness.

"Hum—"

A phantom of a purple fruit radiating endless profundities, seemingly encompassing the birth and destruction of the Universe and the Reincarnation of all things, suddenly lit up above his spirit platform.

[Primordial Dao Fruit]!

This was the supreme fruit transformed by expending four thousand seven hundred and fifty Fate-Defying Points, shattering the physical upper limit of the Major Thousand Worlds' enlightenment realm.

A single glance saw through all falsehoods, a single thought pointed straight to the Origin!

At this very moment, illuminated by this Dao fruit—

All the Cultivation Techniques, secret arts, and even fragmentary Dao comprehensions accumulated by Su Yu in his previous five lifetimes were all extremely crudely dragged out from his mind.

The pinnacle of mortal martial arts from the first lifetime, Heavenly Dragon True Qi...

Created in the wasteland of Devilish Qi during the fourth lifetime, where breathing was cultivation, Creation Melting Furnace Art...

Heaven-Swallowing Yuan-Transformation Technique, which used the Physical Body as a furnace to purify all things...

Even that earth-shattering ultimate kill that sacrificed oneself for mutual destruction, Vow of All Living Beings...

Hundreds and thousands of completely different Cultivation Technique circulation routes, Meridian nodes, and acupuncture point opening and closing patterns—

Under the divine-like, ultimate deduction of the [Primordial Dao Fruit], they were like countless broken building blocks.

They were crazily disassembled and stripped of all dependent attributes related to the "external heaven and earth".

Then, using Su Yu's [Chaos Flawless Dao Body] as the absolute blueprint—

He began a reorganization and pioneering effort unprecedented in the past and perhaps without any successors in the future!

"Not enough... still not pure enough."

In Su Yu's Sea of Consciousness, hundreds of millions of stars seemed to be born and perish.

Innumerable lines of Laws were unraveled by him like pulling silk from a cocoon, and then rewoven.

If ordinary Cultivators dared to haphazardly piece together Cultivation Techniques like this, even altering a single Meridian would cause their True Qi to flow in reverse instantly, dying from Qi Deviation.

But with the absolute backing of the [Primordial Dao Fruit], those fatal logical loopholes were perfectly corrected within one-millionth of a second of their appearance.

What Su Yu wanted was not a Cultivation Technique that absorbed Spiritual Qi faster.

What he wanted was a supreme scripture that could allow him to completely transcend this heaven and earth and form a Universe of his own!

Time seemed to have lost its meaning in this absolutely sealed, dead-silent withered cave.

A full seven days and seven nights.

Su Yu sat withered on the stone slab like a lifeless stone carving, his breathing growing weak to the extreme.

Until midnight on the eighth day.

"Boom!"

Su Yu's tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open. Deep within his eyes, a flash of purple-gold divine light, akin to the primordial opening of Chaos, instantly tore through the darkness!

A new Cultivation Technique pointing straight to the Origin and tyrannical to the extreme completely took shape in his Sea of Consciousness!

Su Yu licked his dry lips and spat out its name with extreme arrogance.

"Let it be called... Chaos Heaven-Deriving Art》!"

Borrowing not a single shred of Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth, cultivating not a single bit of the world's Laws.

Taking his own flawless body as the Universe, and his internal organs as the sun, moon, and stars, he would derive a "Heavenly Dao" belonging exclusively to Su Yu himself!

"Since the Cultivation Technique is already formed—"

"Then let us use this Heaven-Defying True Qi of the Thirteenth Layer of Qi Refining to ignite the first fire of this furnace!"

Su Yu did not hesitate at all.

His hands abruptly formed an extremely ancient and mountain-heavy hand seal in front of his chest.

The next instant.

Without any mercy, he ignited that [Thirteenth Layer of Qi Refining] True Qi deep within his Qi Sea—which had shattered the ironclad rules of the cultivation world and was mighty and boundless to the extreme—

Completely, setting it ablaze!!!

"Boom—!!!"

This roar exploded only within Su Yu's body.

The moment he ignited his True Qi—

Su Yu only felt an extreme, indescribable agony, like hundreds of millions of red-hot sharp blades instantly piercing through his limbs and bones!

This was by no means any gentle liquefaction process.

This was destruction!

He treated that massive True Qi, which even those in the Foundation Establishment Stage drooped over with envy, as the most potent and violent firewood, and forcibly lit a fire inside his own body!

He transformed the [Primordial Dao Fruit] in his mind into a supreme primeval melting furnace.

Using his Physical Body as a tripod and true fire to calcine it!

"Hiss—"

Su Yu's three-year-old toddler body suddenly tightened like a bow at this moment.

Inside his Meridians, the burning thirteenth-layer True Qi erupted like a supernova, releasing terrifying heat comparable to magma.

If it were an ordinary Physique, even with a top-tier Heavenly Spiritual Root, under such self-immolation-like violent burning, it would turn into a pile of flesh and ashes within one-tenth of a second.

But the [Chaos Flawless Dao Body] displayed its perverted defense that surpassed the physical limits of the Major Thousand Worlds at this moment!

"Seal!"

Su Yu clenched his teeth tightly, fresh blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, but he forcibly swallowed it back.

The Chaos Dao Body spontaneously operated, tightly sealing all pores and acupuncture points.

Vital blood did not leak, and true fire did not escape!

It was just like an indestructible pressure cooker, stifling that destructive force—which was enough to blow half a city flat—tightly within his body!

This inward-pressing pressure caused the pain to pile up crazily by multiples and dozens of times.

His Meridians were like being subjected to death by a thousand cuts from ten thousand blades, snapping inch by inch, only to instantly heal under the nourishment of the Flawless Dao Body.

His bone marrow was repeatedly calcined by the true fire, making teeth-grating sizzling sounds.

Su Yu's face twitched slightly due to the extreme pain, and cold sweat instantly soaked his small cyan Dao robe, only to quickly evaporate under the terrifying high temperature, turning into a ball of white steam shrouding his entire body.

But his state of mind, reaching 888 points and being flawless in Perfection—

In the face of this peerless torture capable of boiling the heavens and oceans, it was actually like a piece of ancient unmelting black ice, without a single trace of ripples rising.

Not shouting, not crying out, not retreating.

His dark eyes stared fixedly at the Void Realm, with only an extreme craving for power and absolute coldness remaining deep within his eyes.

"Give me... condense!"

Su Yu let out a beast-like roar deep within his heart.

The Chaos Heaven-Deriving Art》 operated frantically!

Within this furnace structured with the Inner World, the burned-out remnants of the Thirteenth Layer of Qi Refining True Qi began to undergo a transformation defying all common sense of the cultivation world under extreme compression and calcination.

It did not cater to the external Laws of heaven and earth.

It was devouring Su Yu's own vital blood and fusing with the primordial Dao charm emitted by the [Primordial Dao Fruit].

A single drop.

Merely a single drop of liquid True Qi, presenting a grayish, impurity-free appearance resembling the time when Chaos had not yet opened, extremely painstakingly condensed and formed in the deepest part of the Qi Sea.

The moment this drop of True Qi appeared—

There was no descent of auspicious omens from the heavens, no purple qi coming from the east.

Not even a shred of the so-called "Foundation Establishment might" leaked from around Su Yu's body.

Annihilation.

Absolute annihilation.

This drop of Chaos True Qi was as heavy as a star. Instead of releasing power outward, it acted like a bottomless black hole, greedily devouring and gathering all vitality, vital blood, and even breathing and heartbeat within Su Yu's body!

...

Outside the withered cave.

Day after day passed.

Ancestor Su Lie sat cross-legged on a bluestone thirty zhang away from the Dragon-Blocking Stone, motionless like a statue.

Su Jingan and Lin Wanqiu guarded nearby day and night, their eyes covered in bloodshots, their expressions anxious to the extreme.

"Old Ancestor... half a month has already passed."

Su Jingan looked at that tightly sealed Dragon-Blocking Stone, his voice dry and trembling.

"Yuer... what on earth is he doing inside? Why is there not the slightest movement?"

When ordinary Cultivators underwent Foundation Establishment, if they induced ley lines, a Spiritual Qi vortex would inevitably form; if it was Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, there would be even more anomalous phenomena of thunder clouds gathering and Laws descending.

But at this moment, this sheer cliff at the back mountain was so quiet that it made people's hearts creeped out.

There was no backflow of Spiritual Qi, no roaring thunder.

Even within the Divine Sense perception of Ancestor Su Lie, a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, the space behind that Dragon-Blocking Stone was like a completely dead void.

"My Divine Sense... cannot probe even a shred of the Old Ancestor's aura."

Ancestor Su Lie slowly opened his eyes, and a rare trace of undisguised shock and panic surfaced in his turbid old eyes.

In his perception, let alone the magic power fluctuations of Foundation Establishment inside the withered cave—

Even the most basic human breathing, heartbeat, and even that trace of faint vital blood heat—

Had completely and thoroughly vanished a few days ago.

Cleanly and utterly, as if there was no living person inside at all.

"All aura is gone... just like passing away..."

Ancestor Su Lie's hand abruptly clenched his hem, his whole body unable to help shivering.

"Could it be... that the Old Ancestor forcibly broke through in the spirit-extinguishing land, defied the heavenly principles after all, and suffered an irreversible accident?!"

As soon as this thought came out, Ancestor Su Lie's cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

If that were truly the case, would not the tiny glimmer of hope that the Qianlong Su Family had just ignited completely plunge into the abyss of eternal damnation today?!

"Old Ancestor! Should we open the cave and go in to take a look!" Lin Wanqiu was already so anxious that tears fell continuously, desperately wanting to rush toward the Dragon-Blocking Stone.

"Stop!"

Ancestor Su Lie shouted furiously, his Nascent Soul might pressing her firmly in place, but his own voice was also trembling.

"Before entering the cave, the Old Ancestor issued a death order: without his decree, no one is allowed to approach even if the sky falls!"

"But..."

"There are no buts!" Ancestor Su Lie stared fixedly at that pitch-black stone door, his eyes full of frantic struggle.

At this moment.

Deepest inside the withered cave, where everyone thought Su Yu might already be meeting a grim fate—

That tiny Physical Body still sat cross-legged like a cold corpse, with no heartbeat and no breathing.

But deep within that pitch-black Qi Sea—

That drop of grayish Chaos True Qi was extremely slowly, yet unstoppably—

Splitting out a second drop, a third drop...

An unprecedented primitive evolution, one sufficient to drive the rules of the entire Hunyuan Heavenly Domain The Great World completely mad—

Was quietly taking shape within this three-year-old toddler's body in a terrifying posture that completely shielded the perception of the Heavenly Dao!