180: Chapter 180 Foundation Formation

The incomparably heavy, pitch-black water body, laden with the crushing pressure of the Heavenly Dao, struck like a gargantuan hammer reaching into the heavens, continuously bombarding the outer wall of the physical black box cast from a special titanium-carbon alloy.

Inside the Immortal Cave, the sky-blue light shield of the Xuanming Heavy Water Array swayed violently, and the thirty-six formation pattern nodes emitted groans of unbearable strain.

Sensing the absolute loss of control over the surrounding gravitational field and energy readings, the light on the mechanical spider probe dimmed instantly, leaving only a faint, barely perceptible glimmer.

The AI Crystal had already severed all unnecessary calculation circuits, injecting all redundant computing power into Gu Shen's brow to assist him in resisting at a microscopic physiological level.

At this moment, Gu Shen's Dantian Qi Sea had been transformed into a doomsday wasteland heading toward total destruction.

Deep in the left side of his Qi Sea, the gray-blue Death Qi transformed from the nirvana nuclear crystal stirred up monstrous waves; high-intensity radiation decay was forcefully stripping away the vitality from the inner walls of Gu Shen's Qi Sea with irresistible force. In the center of the right side of the Qi Sea, the extreme Yang Origin Matter, a blend of imperial yellow and sky-blue erupted from the kongqing spirit marrow, transformed into ten thousand zhang of blinding spring water, desperately assimilating the radiation decay ions that had invaded his Meridians.

Two ultimate powers belonging to different worlds and physical dimensions collided madly within the narrow Qi Sea, which had lost its external buffer. The dark cyan toxic evil magic power was like a lone boat in a storm, cruelly torn into tens of thousands of strands of free True Yuan.

"Crack... Boom!"

Gu Shen's Dark Gold Thunder Bone, tempered through thousands of trials and with a hardness comparable to a top-grade Magical Artifact, finally cracked at the edge of his Qi Sea, a penetrating fissure an inch long appearing. Bone-chilling heat and extreme cold bit back in turns, and the surface of his internal organs was rapidly covered with purple-crimson necrotic blood.

The Dantian Qi Sea had reached the final critical point of total physical collapse.

Gu Shen closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, letting the thick, pitch-black and purple-crimson blood scab on his skin crack inch by inch, while his Divine Sense and spiritual platform remained as calm as deep-sea ice.

"The status of the Origin powers from the two worlds is extremely high; it is impossible to complete the Fusion of such great power with a mere mortal Physical Body."

"The Great Yu Heavenly Dao intends to use the pressure of the black thunder to detonate the Law repulsion within my body from the outside, thereby achieving a low-cost erasure without needing to record it."

"If I allow my Dantian to shatter completely, not only will this cultivation be lost, and the sunk costs of the Vicious Beast bones and spiritual objects invested earlier be completely wasted, but it is also likely to cause my Divine Soul to be destroyed, leading to my immediate demise."

"To swallow the Origin powers of the two worlds, I must use the rule-based power of the highest dimension to forcibly break common sense."

Gu Shen's shriveled chest suddenly heaved, and his palms abruptly closed from his knees, forming an ancient and profound cauldron-summoning Dharma seal.

"Come, Furnace!"

In the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness, the [Heaven and Earth Furnace], which had been silently dormant since Gu Shen began his cultivation, emitted a vast roar that shook the Dao.

The barrier of his Sea of Consciousness cracked silently. A bronze giant cauldron phantom, several zhang high and covered with ancient Chaos Dao patterns, descended with a boom from the upper Dantian at his brow, penetrating the twelve regular Meridians and the chest cavity along the way. With absolute tyranny that ignored all spatial curvature, it sat squarely in the center of the middle Dantian Qi Sea, which was on the verge of shattering!

The Great Furnace descended, and all phenomena fell silent.

The instant the giant cauldron landed, the raging gray-blue decay storm and the imperial yellow extreme Yang torrent in his Dantian seemed to strike an absolute iron wall cast from the Origin of the world; the violent shockwaves were completely deflected by the ancient Dao patterns flowing on the surface of the giant cauldron.

"Refine!"

Gu Shen pushed his will to the limit. The lid of the Great Furnace was blown open, and a pale, rule-based fire, like an inverted celestial river, poured down from the mouth of the cauldron, instantly engulfing the entire shattered Dantian Qi Sea.

The rule-based fire washed over everything, carrying not a trace of worldly temperature, but pointing directly to the rule Origin of matter and energy.

The kongqing vitality and the nirvana Death Qi that were tearing at each other had their deep-seated absolute repulsion barriers forcibly burned through within half a breath of contacting the pale void fire.

At the microscopic level, the traces of Law imprints deep within the kongqing spirit marrow, representing the will of the Great Yu Cultivation World's Heavenly Dao, emitted shrill shrieks under the scouring of the rule-based fire, and were eventually completely erased, turning into wisps of green smoke; the manic, disordered radiation decay contamination inside the nirvana nuclear crystal, which easily caused malignant distortion of flesh and blood, was also ruthlessly filtered clean by the fire of the Great Furnace.

The two Origin powers, which were originally incompatible, finally ushered in a true Fusion within this rule-based melting furnace after losing their respective underlying repulsive Law logic.

At Gu Shen's brow, the mutated AI Crystal flashed with dim blue light, and multi-threaded computing power, coordinated with the scouring trajectory of the rule-based fire, unfolded extremely precise molecular-level micro-operations.

"Threads one through five, take over the Dantian Qi Sea and guide the life Origin Matter of the kongqing spirit marrow to reshape the damaged areas of the Qi Sea."

"Threads six through twelve, capture the free decay isotopes, embed them into the bone fractures of the Dark Gold Thunder Bone, and execute Fusion and assimilation."

"Main consciousness, integrate the Taiji array core and drive the Great Furnace's rule-based fire to perform high-pressure spinning and compression."

Data streams crisscrossed between his Meridians and bone marrow. Using his will as thread and computing power as a needle, Gu Shen led this shocking undertaking of forging a foundation.

Within the pale, rule-based fire, the extreme Yang vitality transformed into thousands of strands of imperial yellow droplets, and the extreme Yin destruction condensed into high-energy heavy water as black as ink. The two intertwined and locked together at the bottom of the giant cauldron; every rotation produced a grand pressure comparable to mountains colliding.

The temperature and density within Gu Shen's Qi Sea were skyrocketing in a manner that defied the common sense of the Cultivation World.

The original dark cyan toxic evil magic power within his body, under the feedback of this new, massive, and harmonious power, rapidly liquefied into droplets of dark cyan True Yuan heavy water, shimmering with a cold metallic light, and dripped onto the foundation bed outside the Great Furnace.

The smelting and casting lasted for five full hours.

The lake water outside the Immortal Cave had turned into boiling dead water under the erosion of the black thunder's aftershocks, and the formation light of the outer [Xuanming Heavy Water Array] was as thin as a cicada's wing, ready to shatter at any moment.

But inside Gu Shen's body, that grand Fusion of life and death was already nearing perfection.

At the bottom of the Great Furnace, the pale void fire gradually retracted and converged.

Under millions of high-pressure rotations, the two ultimate Origins completely broke the boundaries of life and death, Yin and Yang, and carbon-based and silicon-based, condensing into a solid core only the size of a walnut, which floated quietly in the very center of his Dantian.

[Nirvana Star Core].

This core presented a deep, grayish color to the extreme, with none of the gorgeous phenomena of auspicious light or overwhelming Spiritual Qi seen in top-grade Dao foundations of the Great Yu Cultivation World; it even completely lacked any leakage of Spiritual Qi. It was just like an ordinary, mundane dead stone that could be found anywhere, perfectly hidden in the blind spot of the Heavenly Dao's perception.

However, when Gu Shen's Divine Sense probed inside, what he saw was a macro-cosmic spectacle that made one tremble.

Inside the Star Core, it was in a state of endless life-and-death Fusion. Extreme high-frequency decay Death Qi ignited the fire of Fusion at the core, producing an endless stream of death and destructive power; the surrounding life Origin Matter acted as an absolute cooling and constraint field, locking the destructive aftershocks generated by the Fusion tightly within the Star Core.

Life nourishes death, death sustains life.

This was no longer a traditional Dao foundation platform attached to any Heavenly Dao Law, but a micro-Law engine that was completely private to Gu Shen and independent of the supervision of the Great Yu plane.

"Boom!"

The Nirvana Star Core completed its first full rotation, and a deep, powerful, and incomparably pure kinetic True Yuan surged out from the two poles of the Star Core, instantly circulating through the two hundred and six Dark Gold Thunder Bones in Gu Shen's body.

The originally cracked bone wounds instantly healed under the nourishment of this power, and a deep black cold light, like ten-thousand-year black ice, precipitated deep within the bone structure. The necrotic purple-crimson blood turned into dry powder and peeled off from Gu Shen's skin one after another.

Gu Shen opened his eyes suddenly; in the Void Realm of the dark room, it was as if two cold bolts of lightning had cut through the long night.

He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and his shriveled chest was once again filled with terrifying blood energy, like that of a Vicious Beast.

The iron buckle at his collar heated up slightly, and the Crab's tense electronic voice finally relaxed, carrying an extremely anthropomorphic exclamation as it was transmitted into his ears via bone conduction: "My Lord! The energy collapse reaction has subsided! System readings confirm that the newly built energy within your body has achieved a one hundred percent self-consistent internal cycle. The current physical concealment level is perfect, and the enemy-seeking radar of the external Heavenly Dao magnetic field will not be able to easily detect our characteristic band!"

Gu Shen raised his hand to brush away the scattered blood scab fragments from his knees, feeling the endless great power transmitted by the gray Star Core in his Dantian, his expression calm.

The Dao platform had condensed, and the Star Core was forged.

Next, it was time to go and meet that long-awaited Heavenly Dao absolute kill black thunder above the water.