The brutality of the battlefield left mighty figures throughout the Primordial Wilderness secretly alarmed.
Within Kunlun Mountain, the Three Pure Ones' dojo, Laozi opened his eyes. The supreme treasure Taiji Diagram in his hand glowed with a gentle radiance.
"The Witch-Demon Two Clans possess overwhelming combat power. If they continue fighting, they may shake the very foundations of the Primordial Wilderness..."
Yuanshi sat upon a cushion, his expression grave. "The Chaos Bell's might is indeed formidable. At this rate, the Witch Clan will sooner or later be forced into a desperate situation."
Tongtian said nothing, but his eyes brimmed with fighting spirit before he quickly suppressed it.
Though he dearly wished to test the power of the Immortal-Slaying Formation, he knew this was not the right occasion. He could only watch in silence.
While the Three Pure Ones quietly observed the battle, outside Penglai Hall on Penglai Immortal Island at the East Sea Shore—
Jade Pool, dressed in a Light Purple Daoist Robe, stood quietly before the cultivation chamber's entrance. Her gaze rested on the tightly shut stone door, her eyes full of worry.
Ever since the third lecture at the Purple Heaven Palace ended, Haotian had remained in seclusion. More than two thousand Yuanhui had now passed.
She could sense that the Time-Space Law fluctuations coming from within the cultivation chamber were growing increasingly intense.
At times, those fluctuations were condensed like steel; at others, they flowed like water. Clearly, he had reached a critical stage in his breakthrough.
She held her breath and did not dare move even a fraction, afraid that the slightest trace of her aura would disturb the person inside.
Inside the cultivation chamber, Haotian sat cross-legged on a cushion, pale gold Spatial Flowing Light and light silver Time Law radiance swirling around him.
The two streams of light intertwined and twisted together, forming a faint Taiji Pattern.
Several translucent fragments floated before his brow. They were precisely incomplete Fragments of the Jade Plate of Creation.
The gold and silver law runes upon the fragments flashed simultaneously, presenting the essence of the two time-space laws within Haotian's sea of consciousness in the form of images.
He could clearly see every fold of space and every flow of time. He could glimpse the overlapping trajectories of countless parallel spaces.
He could also capture the scattered imprints of passing years within the River of Time.
The time-space mysteries that had once been obscure and incomprehensible now became as clear as the lines on his palm beneath the reflection of the Jade Disk fragments.
To break through the time-space laws to the fifth level, what I lack is not separate comprehension, but the synchronized fusion of both with the Chaos Origin, Haotian thought.
He had previously comprehended both the Time Law and Space Law to forty percent, allowing him to easily achieve Star Domain Teleportation and Short-Time Reversal.
But if he wished for both to break through to fifty percent, he had to shatter the boundary between wielding laws separately and integrating them into his Origin.
He had to thoroughly fuse the time-space laws with his own Chaos Origin, making the two laws a part of his fleshly body and primordial spirit.
He circulated the Primordial Heart Sutra, and the Chaos Origin within his dantian instantly began to boil.
Countless strands of Chaos Spiritual Energy surged out from the Spirit Veins of Penglai Immortal Island, entering his body through every pore.
They flowed through his meridians, nourishing every inch of flesh and every wisp of his primordial spirit.
The profundity of the Primordial Heart Sutra revealed itself completely at this moment. Not only could it accelerate his comprehension of the two laws—
—it could also transform violent Chaos Spiritual Energy into the gentlest and purest Origin power, building a bridge for the fusion of the two laws and his Origin.
Within Haotian's sea of consciousness, countless golden Space Runes and light silver Time Law runes intertwined as they approached the Chaos Origin together.
But the instant they came into contact, they were repelled by the Origin's heavy power.
The Space Law was sharp as a blade, while the Time Law flowed like water.
Though their attributes complemented each other, they formed a double clash against the heaviness of the Chaos Origin, like water and fire struggling to blend with earth.
Once, twice, three times... More than a dozen consecutive attempts all ended in failure.
Several times, the collision between the two laws and the Origin even sent stabbing pain through his meridians.
But Haotian did not lose heart. He sank his consciousness into the Fragments of the Jade Plate of Creation and carefully observed the circulation patterns of the Time-Space Runes upon them.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up. Time and space had always complemented one another. If they first intertwined on their own to form a stable time-space taiji—
—and then used that taiji form to envelop the Chaos Origin, perhaps it could dissolve the force of the clash!
With that thought, Haotian first guided the Time Law and Space Law within his body to fuse on their own.
Pale gold Spatial Flowing Light and light silver Time Flow Light circled within his sea of consciousness, gradually forming a miniature time-space taiji.
As the taiji rotated, space's sharpness was softened by time's flow, while time's ethereality was anchored by space's stability.
Then, he controlled the time-space taiji and slowly wrapped it around the Chaos Origin.
Sure enough, the taiji form created by the two laws acted like a buffer.
It neutralized both the sharpness of the Space Law and the ethereality of the Time Law.
At the same time, it formed a balanced union of hardness and softness with the heaviness of the Chaos Origin.
Golden Space Runes and light silver Time Law runes embedded themselves into the Chaos Origin together.
The Origin also began to actively draw in and release the power of the two laws. The three were no longer opposing forces, but instead nurtured one another and coexisted in mutual prosperity.
Delighted, Haotian accelerated the circulation of the Primordial Heart Sutra once more.
More Chaos Spiritual Energy surged into his body, driving the fusion onward.
Within his sea of consciousness, the time-space taiji and the Chaos Origin wound ever tighter around each other.
Their once-clear boundaries gradually blurred, beginning to form a tri-colored sphere of light woven from the two time-space laws and the Chaos Origin—gold, silver, and gray.
The flowing lights of the time-space laws around Haotian grew increasingly condensed.
They even began to seep into his fleshly body in tandem, causing a faint gold-and-silver sheen to appear upon his skin.
With every breath, he stirred faint tremors in the surrounding time and space. Even the air rippled with tiny time-space waves.
Gradually, the fusion between the two laws and the Origin within the tri-colored sphere grew ever deeper. Only the final, minute barrier remained unbroken.
Haotian could clearly sense that once he shattered this barrier, the two time-space laws would completely merge into the Chaos Origin.
His realm would also naturally break through to the threshold of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
At this moment, the Time-Space Law fluctuations within the cultivation chamber reached their peak.
Gold and silver streams of light shot into the sky, nearly breaking through the cultivation chamber's Formation barrier.
Haotian's eyes remained shut as the Fragments of the Jade Plate of Creation at his brow shone brilliantly.
The tri-colored sphere within his sea of consciousness began to spin violently, and that final barrier slowly thinned, thinner and thinner...
Finally, at a certain moment, the barrier that had obstructed the depths of Haotian's sea of consciousness for so long shattered with a roar.
The stagnation he had felt while stuck at the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm completely vanished.
The Primordial Heart Sutra circulated at a speed far beyond anything before, and Chaos Spiritual Energy poured into his dantian like rivers flowing into the sea.
His cultivation soared as though borne upon thunder from the nine heavens, first steadily entering the first level of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
Then his Dao Foundation trembled, and his Law Comprehension deepened abruptly. In but an instant, he broke into the second level, only gradually stopping at the third.
At the moment of his breakthrough, the pale gold and light silver flowing lights surrounding Haotian suddenly surged, shooting into the sky like two long rainbows. The clouds above the East Sea were instantly dyed in two colors.
Pale gold Space Law patterns and light silver Time Law patterns intertwined, transforming into a Space-Time Heavenly Curtain that covered a thousand li.
Upon the heavenly curtain, law runes moved like living creatures. At times, they folded into transparent spatial creases, as if revealing scenes from neighboring star domains.
At other times, ripples spread across it, causing the scenery beneath the curtain to briefly reverse.
Falling petals returned to their branches, and seabirds that had just flown past retreated through the air.
Even the direction of the sea breeze briefly reversed, fully displaying the profundity of the Time Law.
Fine Space Rifts also flickered along the edges of the heavenly curtain.
The Chaos Airflow leaking from those rifts blended with the spiritual energy of the Primordial Wilderness, turning into pale purple mist that wrapped around Penglai Immortal Island like a light veil.
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