187: Chapter 187 Breakthrough from Desperate Circumstances, Qi Refining Level 24

The things Xu Ruyu "saw" had changed.

Previously, he "saw" Spiritual Qi as "Excited-state Spiritons" and saw the more fundamental "Ground-state Spiritons" permeating the air.

But now, with the support of that "seed" which fused three hundred years of insights from a Saint Realm Peak Sword Cultivator, his perception pierced through the "spiriton" level, directly touching the underlying logic that sustained the existence of matter and energy in this Cultivation World—

Molecules, atoms, chemical bonds... and even more microscopic particle movements and energy transitions!

A brand new, grand, and exquisite picture of the world unfolded violently before his "eyes"!

"So... Spiritual Qi is just 'Excited-state Spiritons,' a high-grade energy 'processed' by some kind of Law of Heaven and Earth..." Within Xu Ruyu's remaining consciousness, a lightning-like realization flashed, "And my True Explanation of Taixu Source Energy can even convert and utilize the most primitive spiritons in their 'ground state'!

Even... what I can perceive now is more fundamental than Ground-state Spiritons!"

"It's like how others can only drink ready-made, purified, and bottled mineral water.

But I can directly condense water vapor from the air, and even extract moisture from the soil and plants—the mineral water is locked away, but the omnipresent air and matter itself remain!"

In the midst of a desperate situation, his thoughts were clearer than ever before.

"The Spirit-Locking Great Array seals off the 'Spiritual Qi cycle' in the traditional sense.

The Soul-Suppressing Power attacks the 'traditional Divine Soul' that relies on Spiritual Qi.

The Nine Nether Power erodes the 'Origin of Life' based on Spiritual Qi."

Xu Ruyu "watched" those surging, clearly structured yet "fixed-path" destructive energies.

"The root of their power and their operational logic are still deeply bound to the main road of the 'Spiritual Qi system'!"

"But my path... from the very beginning, has been another!

A... wild path that draws power directly from the Origin of matter and energy!"

The survival instinct and the new cognition brought by the Fusion of the jade pendant drove Xu Ruyu to make an extremely bold, even insane decision.

He no longer tried to mobilize his nearly exhausted and severely suppressed Taixu True Qi to resist, nor did he merely rely on the residual power of the jade pendant for defense.

He completely let go of partial control over his body, sinking his mind entirely into the operational core of the True Explanation of Taixu Source Energy, while simultaneously guiding the profound insights regarding fine energy manipulation contained within that newly integrated "Sword Intent Seed."

"Come on... let me see just how far this wild path can go!"

To the outside world, the figure on the Law Execution Platform about to be swallowed by darkness suddenly underwent a bizarre transformation.

Xu Ruyu, who was originally curled up in pain, gave a violent jolt and actually forced himself into a cross-legged sitting posture.

His hands moved with a slow and steady speed, shifting with difficulty in front of him to form one strange hand seal after another—seals that completely defied any known cultivation sect's techniques.

The movements didn't look like he was circulating energy, but rather like he was sketching in the void, outlining some kind of... underlying runes involving the most basic composition of energy?

An even more jaw-dropping sight followed.

As he sketched the hand seals, the air within a three-zhang radius around him began to undergo a visible transformation!

Specks of five-colored light, like stars in the night sky being forcibly lit, "precipitated" from the empty air!

Gold, green, blue, red, and yellow—pure and dazzling, they corresponded exactly to the colors of the Five Elements Origins of the world!

These light specks were not Spiritual Qi, because when they appeared, the blood-colored chains of the Spirit-Locking Great Array showed no reaction, continuing to frantically drain the "Spiritual Qi" in the area. Yet these five-colored light specks were completely unaffected, as if they existed in another dimension.

The light specks gathered more and more, as if attracted by an invisible magnetic field, converging toward Xu Ruyu.

They circled and danced, finally forming a brilliant five-colored halo three zhang in diameter that slowly rotated around him!

As the halo rotated, it emitted an ancient and magnificent energy rhythm that was vastly different from the fluctuations of Spiritual Qi!

"What is he doing?!"

Below the platform, a sharp-eyed Disciple covered his stinging eyes and cried out in shock.

"A... Breakthrough?! How is this possible! Under the double suppression of the Spirit-Locking and Nine Nether Powers, he can barely stay alive, so how can he trigger an energy Breakthrough?!"

A Golden Core Stage Deacon Elder's jaw nearly hit the ground in shock.

"Five Elements Radiance!

How can one person simultaneously trigger such pure Five Elements power? This defies the logic of the Heavenly Dao!"

Another Elder proficient in Five Elements techniques was even more horrified; he knew better than anyone else what harsh conditions and exquisite control were required to simultaneously and balancedly trigger the power of the Five Elements. One slight mistake would lead to a conflict of the Five Elements and death by body explosion!

High above, Xiao Nianyin's originally frozen expression finally showed a crack.

She stared at that five-colored halo, and for the first time, a ripple called "unbelievable" stirred deep within her ice-blue pupils.

"All Five Elements present... the energy Origin directly manifesting? Could this be the prototype of the legendary 'Innate Five Elements Dao Body'?

No, that's not right... a Dao Body triggers the Five Elements Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, while what he's doing... looks more like he's 'creating' or 'reorganizing' Five Elements energy base points!" A storm surged in Xiao Nianyin's heart, "What kind of wicked Cultivation Technique is this?!

Could it be related to his bizarre 'transmigrator' status?"

Before she could think further, an even more startling change occurred!

"Boom—!!!"

A powerful yet non-violent energy fluctuation, instead carrying a heavy and solid aura, erupted from within Xu Ruyu's body!

Twenty-fourth level of Qi Refining!

Barrier broken!

However, this was only the beginning!

The five-colored halo rotated faster and faster. Within the area of the Law Execution Platform, and even the entire region covered by the Spirit-Locking Great Array, more and finer light specks began to emerge in the air.

If someone with a sufficiently strong Divine Soul were to investigate closely, they would be shocked to find that those light specks faintly displayed various extremely minute structures—some were two light specks closely linked, some were two larger light specks side-by-side, and some had complex structures...

They surged frantically toward Xu Ruyu, and the moment they approached the five-colored halo, their minute structures collapsed and reorganized, releasing the most primitive and violent chemical bond energy!

This energy completely bypassed the intermediate link of "Spiritual Qi," directly transforming into the purest "source energy" through the True Explanation of Taixu Source Energy, pouring into Xu Ruyu's nearly dry Meridians and Dantian!

This was not a Breakthrough method of the Cultivation World; it was more like an alternative "scientific cultivation method" based on an understanding of the essence of matter and energy!