Pangu's Phantom Suppresses Luohu! The Three Pure Ones Attain Dao and Shake the Primordial World!

Azure streams of energy surged out from Lin Shen's body.

Pure! Vast! Filled with the most primordial power of creation and transformation!

This was Lin Shen's Origin Qi, yet it was completely different.

The Primordial World Safety Protection Plan quietly activated, and in a manner the Three Pure Ones could not comprehend, the system transformed the immense calamity baleful energy into an ultimate amplification of Lin Shen's own origin before feeding it back to them.

This power was no longer merely life energy.

It contained the supreme Dao rhythm of Chaos being opened and the Great Dao being born!

Three streams of azure energy coiled upward, and the bodies of the Three Pure Ones trembled violently at the same time.

"This is... Lin Shen's Origin Qi!"

Yuanshi Tianzun was too shocked to believe it.

"How could there be so much?! Is he burning his own origin?!"

"This is bad! Stop him!"

Tongtian Jiaozhu's eyes nearly split apart.

To protect them, his little disciple was actually willing to sacrifice himself and detonate all of his Life Origin!

How could they allow this?!

With a furious roar, the mana throughout his body circulated madly. Qingping Sword Intent burst from his body as he tried to forcibly sever the azure stream connecting him to Lin Shen.

"Third Brother, stop!"

Taishang Laojun urgently shouted to stop him.

"This power... bears no ill intent!"

As the eldest brother among the three, Taishang's cultivation was the deepest, and he was the first to sense that something was wrong.

Though this vast Origin Qi came from Lin Shen, it did not carry the slightest trace of weakness or decay.

Instead, it brimmed with boundless vitality!

More importantly, the instant this power flowed into their bodies, they felt an unprecedented sense of ease and clarity.

It was like travelers who had journeyed for countless ages finally returning to their long-lost homeland.

The mana in their bodies, their primordial spirits, and even the bloodline inherited from Pangu all resonated joyfully under the nourishment of the azure currents.

"This... this is..."

Yuanshi Tianzun also felt the wondrous changes in his body.

His Cultivation Bottleneck, which had remained unmoved for countless ages despite his cultivation already reaching the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm—the indestructible barrier fused with the Heavenly Dao—actually began to loosen slightly beneath the washing of the azure currents!

"My cultivation is growing!"

Tongtian Jiaozhu halted his movements and felt the changes within him in astonishment.

His sword Dao had always been fierce and advancing, charging forward without pause.

But precisely because of that, his Dao foundation inevitably contained traces of murderous hostility.

Now, under the cleansing of this pure creative energy, that trace of hostility was rapidly purified and dissolved.

His sword heart became clear and pure!

"This power is helping us break through!"

Taishang Laojun spoke the truth, his voice carrying excitement that even he could not suppress.

A breakthrough!

From Grand Unity Golden Immortal to that realm that existed only in legends!

Ever since Pangu's Creation of the World, the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm had been the pinnacle of the Primordial World.

Even Shenni, the mighty Beast Emperor of old, had only reached the peak of the Grand Unity realm.

The ancestors of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin tribes had likewise been trapped in this realm for countless epochs.

To go one step further, there were only two paths.

One was to follow the Heavenly Dao like Hongjun, Slay Three Corpses, and become a Sage.

The other was to defy the heavens like Luohu and Prove Dao by Killing.

But the Three Pure Ones had been formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit and were proud by nature.

They neither wished to entrust themselves to the Heavenly Dao and be bound by it.

Nor did they disdain to follow Luohu's crooked path of destroying all living beings.

The path they had always wanted to walk was a third one—Prove Dao by Force!

To retrace Great God Pangu's supreme Dao path!

But that path was far too difficult.

So difficult that even after the three of them had deduced it together for countless epochs, they could not see the slightest hope.

Yet now, hope had suddenly descended!

This Origin Qi from Lin Shen, containing the power of creation and transformation, was precisely the supreme opportunity for them to take that step!

It was like a key that unlocked the bloodline treasure within them inherited from Pangu!

"Guard your minds! Circulate your cultivation with all your strength!"

Taishang Laojun gave a thunderous shout and was the first to sit cross-legged.

The Tai Chi Diagram slowly unfolded behind him. Yin Yang energies circulated as he began frantically absorbing and refining the azure currents.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu immediately reacted and did not dare delay in the slightest, each sitting cross-legged.

Above Yuanshi Tianzun's head, the phantom of the Pangu Banner fluttered violently.

Chaos Sword Qi surged and receded as it continuously broke down, reconstructed, and merged the Origin Qi flowing into his body with his own Dao of Exposition.

Behind Tongtian Jiaozhu, the phantoms of four Killing Swords of different colors flickered in and out of view.

Endless sword intent clashed and merged with that creative energy, evolving the supreme sword principles of "life" and "death."

The three brothers, three future Dao Ancestors, began the most important period of secluded cultivation in their lives atop a barren mountain peak on the Western Continent!

Rumble!

As the Three Pure Ones fully absorbed and refined the Origin Qi, the skies over the entire Western Continent changed dramatically.

Endless spiritual energy was drawn from every corner of the Primordial World, forming three enormous spiritual-energy vortices that poured backward into the bodies of the Three Pure Ones.

In the heavens, auspicious clouds gathered, golden flowers rained down, and immortal music rang out in waves.

Beneath the earth, the ley lines surged and transformed into golden lotuses that bloomed across the land.

Countless laws of heaven and earth manifested at this moment, becoming brilliant chains of laws that encircled the Three Pure Ones and rang with clear chimes.

These were heavenly phenomena that appeared only when a living being was about to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm—no, to a realm even more profound than that!

"They... are breaking through!"

The distant Demon Ancestor Luohu's expression turned incomparably grim when he saw this.

He had never imagined that the baleful energy accumulated from the countless living beings who had died in the tribulation he painstakingly instigated would ultimately become a wedding garment for the Three Pure Ones' breakthrough!

Making a wedding garment for another!

Those words were like sharp blades stabbing viciously into Luohu's proud Dao Heart.

"No! I will not allow it!"

Luohu roared.

He could not simply watch the Three Pure Ones break through like this!

Once the three of them took that step, their strength would vastly surpass ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortals. Then, trying to deal with them would be as difficult as ascending the heavens!

He had to stop them!

Killing intent flashed in Luohu's eyes as he abruptly raised his head and looked toward Mount Sumeru.

"Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, rise!"

He pointed through the air.

On Mount Sumeru, the four peerless murderous swords being tempered in baleful energy released earth-shaking sword cries. They shot into the sky, transforming into four streaks of light that slashed toward the Three Pure Ones!

However, at that very moment.

Another sudden change occurred!

Behind the Three Pure Ones, Lin Shen, who was protected at their center and had already fallen asleep, suddenly emitted a faint glow from the tiny emerald ginseng leaf atop his head.

Immediately afterward, an enormous, ancient, and incomparably majestic phantom that towered between heaven and earth slowly emerged behind the Three Pure Ones.

The phantom held a giant axe, its muscles knotted.

As its eyes opened and closed, the sun, moon, and stars were born and perished.

A supreme pressure that transcended time, space, the Heavenly Dao, and the very origin of the entire Chaos universe instantly enveloped the whole Primordial World!

"P-Pangu?!"

The instant Demon Ancestor Luohu saw that phantom, it was as though he had been struck by lightning. Even his primordial spirit trembled.

That figure was a nightmare he could never forget for all eternity!

Back then, he had also been one of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods, full of vigor and convinced that he was inferior to no existence.

Until he encountered that man wielding a giant axe.

Just one strike of the axe!

It had annihilated him along with countless Chaos Demon Gods!

Had his life-preserving methods not been exceptional, allowing him to hide a wisp of his remnant soul, he would have long since completely vanished within Chaos.

And now, that terrifying phantom had appeared once more!

The four Immortal Slaying Swords that had already flown out from Mount Sumeru let out mournful cries beneath that pressure and actually fell from midair. Even the Aura of Slaughter on their blades dimmed considerably.

Luohu was crushed so badly by that pressure that he could barely breathe. He fell from the mountaintop and sat heavily on the ground, a trace of black demonic blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were filled with fear and unwillingness.

"Why... why has Pangu's will appeared again?!"

"Three Pure Ones... what path are they walking, exactly?!"

The Three Pure Ones, who were in the midst of breaking through, likewise "saw" Pangu's phantom.

But the phantom did not appear in the outside world. Instead, it manifested directly within the sea of consciousness of their primordial spirits.

They returned to the unopened Chaos and witnessed Great God Pangu wielding his giant axe, splitting Chaos apart with one stroke, evolving Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and opening a vast Qiankun.

The Great Dao principles contained within that axe strike enthralled them completely.

They saw that after Great God Pangu opened the world, he transformed into all things, while his primordial spirit divided into three and became them.

They were Pangu's most legitimate descendants!

The path they were meant to take had always been Great God Pangu's supreme path of Proving Dao by Force and transcending all things!

Not following any Heavenly Dao or becoming any Sage!

At that moment, all the confusion and doubt in the hearts of the Three Pure Ones vanished completely.

Their Dao Hearts had never been firmer!

Boom!

Within their bodies, that final bottleneck shattered with a resounding crash!