Prototype of a Thirteenth-Tier Secret Divine Ability
The bamboo courtyard is serene and peaceful, with a gentle mountain breeze sweeping across the green branches and rustling bamboo leaves, a place untouched by worldly strife.
Chen Du sat quietly on the stone platform in the courtyard, his mind completely immersed in his consciousness.
The ninefold perfected Calamity Source Dao Domain slowly unfolded, transforming into a boundless dark golden swamp that enveloped the entire Divine Soul World.
Ten top-tier, mid-level core eighth-grade laws rose and fell in succession, flowing in an orderly manner.
The source of calamity is the root, Tribulation Traversal, Tribulation Armor, Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth, Divine Prison, Wrath of Heaven, Wrath Devouring, the Nine Abysses Soul-Drowning, Great Annihilation, and Yanfutu surround and protect it, each with its own unique Dao Resonance, attacking and defending against life and death, burning and imprisoning, sinking into the sea of hell, encompassing all the supernatural powers of the myriad tribulations.
In addition, sixty-five fragmented Lower First-Level Laws are scattered like stars in the sky, interwoven to form a dense and boundless network of laws.
Having gone through nine tribulations to perfection, his tribulation system is now completely closed, vast and flawless.
But Chen Du knew in his heart that perfecting the laws was only the foundation.
He had previously mastered the ninth sword of the Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords, as well as the Heavenly Tribulation Slaying he had comprehended himself.
Robbery and slaughter, in the end, all come down to a single sword.
The ordinary Twelfth Tier sword path could no longer bear the weight of his current Dao Domain. He needed a Thirteenth Tier peerless sword technique that transcended the old path, could contain all tribulations, and could open up a completely new path.
It is not about inheriting from predecessors, but about creating one's own sword based on one's own principles.
Once the decision is made, the deduction begins.
Eyes gently closed, all thoughts returned to stillness.
With the Ninefold Calamity Source Dao Domain as the absolute core, he drew upon ten core laws and began to dismantle, break down, merge, and reconstruct them.
Resilient and enduring through Tribulation Traversal, it has become the spine of a sword, bearing countless calamities without breaking;
The Tribulation Armor, solid armor transformed into a sword sheath, concealing its annihilating sharpness;
The sharp edge that Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth shatters all things, condensing into a sword's edge that pierces through the barriers of the heavens;
The Divine Prison, suppressing all ages, solidified into a sword blade, locking and imprisoning the enemy's very foundation;
The Wrath of Heaven is magnificent and Wrath Devouring, devouring all falsehoods. The two flames of rage merge and forge the true fire on the sword hilt, which, with a single movement, possesses the power to scorch the world with the wrath of Heaven.
The three life-and-death runes— Nine Abysses Soul-Drowning, Great Annihilation, Yanfutu— are imprinted on the sword, transforming into three ancient calamity marks that conceal the power of sinking, annihilation, and slaughter.
All sixty-five secondary laws were dismantled into the purest primordial Dao fragments, filling all the minute gaps, connecting nodes, and operational loops of the sword technique.
The myriad laws each have their own function, interwoven like warp and weft, spreading out from the sea of consciousness, connecting the soul, flesh and blood, meridians, and the foundation of cultivation, outlining an unprecedentedly vast sword vein within his body.
However, as the prototype was taking shape, Chen Du keenly noticed its shortcomings.
The swordsmanship has form, momentum, and power, but it lacks the true Dao Resonance.
Robbery doesn't stop at killing and destruction.
Calamities in the world naturally follow a cycle of birth and death, with a complete order of birth, spread, prosperity, and Return to the Ruins.
A life of utter annihilation is ultimately a lower level, unable to bear the weight of the Thirteenth Tier Great Dao Sword Dao.
He focused his mind on tracing back the original patterns of the Ninefold Tribulation Source, and in the deepest and most ancient Dao root, he found an extremely faint, almost annihilated, primordial Dao trace.
That is the ultimate law governing the cycle of calamities since the beginning of time.
Calamity has its beginning, growth, peak, and eventual destruction.
The four cycles of reincarnation encompass the entirety of a calamity, covering the birth and death of all things.
At that moment, the bottleneck of the Sword Creation Technique was suddenly broken!
He stripped away the true meaning of this primordial tribulation path and established it as the general outline of the entire sword technique. He transformed the four cycles of tribulation into four progressive sword moves, rising layer by layer, endlessly generating and extinguishing.
The first move, "Tribulation Birth," uses pure Calamity Qi to nurture sword intent. With a light touch of the sword's edge, it can induce calamity changes in the enemy's laws, loosening their foundation at its root and causing it to disintegrate and show initial cracks.
The second form of Calamity Growth, its power spreading and expanding like wildfire, growing wildly along the opponent's laws and veins, devouring them layer by layer, shattering their foundation of Dao Resonance inch by inch, unstoppable.
The three forms of Calamity Flourishing are in full swing, causing all things to boil and erupt with immense power. The wrath of heaven and earth sweeps across all directions, completely crushing all remaining barriers of law and turning them into nothingness.
The final Calamity Annihilation, all eons return to their origin, all phenomena Return to the Ruins, a single sword strike marks the end of all things, and heaven and earth are reduced to nothingness.
In March, the framework of the four sword moves was finalized, with rigorous rules, orderly progression, and a cycle of birth and death, forming its own unique world.
Six months have passed in the blink of an eye.
Chen Du incorporated sixty-five more subtle laws, precisely filling each strand of Dao into the operational mechanism of the four sword moves.
Each sword move carries the combined power of dozens of laws, which attract and support each other, generating and killing each other, with the sword force layer upon layer, becoming more and more terrifying as it accumulates.
Under the resonance of countless laws, the entire sea of consciousness trembled violently, and the Dao patterns roared incessantly, almost unable to bear the terrifying size of this newly created sword technique.
The Thirteenth Tier sword technique has long surpassed the limits that ordinary souls can bear.
His soul throbbed with pain, his Dao Domain felt like it was about to crack, and extreme pressure swept over his entire body.
Chen Du gritted his teeth and used his perfected Stellar Sixth Transformation cultivation as the foundation for suppressing the world. He locked the merging power of the laws in the sky, preventing it from collapsing in the slightest. He forcefully withstood the backlash of the Creation-level sword path, forcibly refining his sword path, regulating his sword intent, and closing the loop of Dao Resonance.
For a full year, we worked day and night to refine and reconstruct the process.
All laws are completely integrated, all shortcomings are fully remedied, and all sword techniques are perfect and flawless.
A supreme Thirteenth Tier sword technique, never before seen in the world and unique to him, has been fully revealed!
After a long while, Chen Du slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air that had accumulated over the years.
Deep within his eyes, a Calamity Light, flickered in and out of existence, restrained yet profound, exuding an imposing aura without anger.
He named this sword style "Primordial Tribulation-Extinguishing Sword".
In the beginning, there was chaos, the origin of all things, and the source of all Tao.
The Calamity Annihilation is the end of all things in the heavens and the final resting place of all laws.
The cycle of reincarnation begins and ends; birth and death are determined by the mind.
The four sword techniques are progressively stronger than the last, with each move surpassing the previous one in power.
The first three moves are still within reason, but when the fourth move Calamity Annihilation, is fully activated, its power has already reached a terrifying level.
With a flick of the sword, the entire Ninefold Calamity Source Dao Domain was poured into the sword body, condensing into an extremely refined wisp of dark golden sword light.
The sword light appeared small and restrained, neither ostentatious nor violent, but within it compressed the endless source of tribulation, containing terrifying power capable of destroying galaxies and annihilating star fields.
A single, masterful sword strike can instantly crush hundreds of stars and annihilate a vast galaxy.
Chen Du made a grasping motion with his fingertips, and the Twelfth-Tier Divine Sword appeared instantly, landing in his palm.
He silently reviewed the complete sequence of the final sword move within his mind.
The ancient tribulation patterns flowing across the sword seemed to awaken and revive, with light and shadow rising and falling, and life and death in an orderly fashion. The grade and power of the entire divine sword were completely elevated by this new sword.
After a long while, he Return to the Ruins, storing the Twelfth-Tier Divine Sword deep within his sea of consciousness.
The distant morning bell of Qingfeng Temple at the foot of the mountain rang out, its clear and melodious sound dispelling all worldly noise.
The mountains remain serene, the viewpoint remains tranquil.
Only he possessed a profound foundation, having already undergone a complete transformation, and wielded a self-created Thirteenth Tier peerless sword technique.
From this day forward, even if the top-level monsters of the Xuanwu Divine Hall or the ultimate trump card hidden deep in the Heaven Slayer reappear, he will have absolute confidence to fight them calmly and suppress them with overwhelming force.