A thousand years passed.
Su Ming suddenly opened his eyes. Divine light shimmered within them, as though the sun, moon, and stars were being born and extinguished inside.
"Now!"
He had found a tiny weak point in the cycle of the restriction's operation. Though it appeared and vanished in an instant, it was already enough for him!
"Rise!"
Su Ming gave a low shout. With a flip of his right hand, a black divine spear appeared in his grasp.
The God Slaying Spear!
This was the Primordial Wilderness's number-one extraordinary weapon of slaughter!
Once unleashed, its power was boundless!
The magical power within Su Ming surged into the God Slaying Spear like a breached riverbank.
Mysterious light blazed from the God Slaying Spear!
A terrifying aura capable of suppressing the heavens and shattering the ages erupted with a boom!
"Break!"
Seizing the moment, he swung his arm. The Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler in his hand transformed into a purple divine rainbow and smashed viciously into the empty void ahead!
There was no earth-shaking boom, nor any world-destroying storm of energy.
Wherever the God Slaying Spear passed, space cracked like a mirror, producing a series of fine fissures with a "crack."
Immediately afterward, the fissures rapidly widened. A deep, dark spatial vortex began slowly spinning and appeared out of thin air before everyone!
The restriction was broken!
A vast, ancient aura surged from the vortex, as though it connected to another lost spacetime.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Ming flicked his finger. A drop of his blood essence, containing his origin aura, flew out and instantly merged into the core of the restriction that had just been shattered.
Buzz—!
The entire Five Elements Valley trembled lightly.
Su Ming instantly sensed that he had established a bloodline-connected bond with the restriction covering the entire valley.
From this moment onward, he was the new master of this Blessed Land Cave Heaven and the hidden space behind it!
Only after finishing all this did Su Ming turn around and look at his three disciples, whose faces were filled with shock.
"Come on. Follow your master inside and see what good things this ancient mighty figure left for us."
As his voice fell, he took the lead and stepped into the deep spatial vortex.
Kong Xuan, Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Six-Eared Macaque exchanged glances. They saw endless excitement and anticipation in one another's eyes and hurriedly followed after him.
Spacetime shifted, and the stars turned.
When their feet once again touched solid ground and they saw the scene before them clearly, even Su Ming's state of mind could not prevent his pupils from shrinking sharply.
This was an independent cave-heaven world outside the Primordial Wilderness.
The sky was a resplendent dome woven from five colors, while the earth was a plaza paved with Five Elements essence metal.
What flowed through the air was no longer Innate Spiritual Qi, but Five Elements origin essence as dense as honey!
Every breath was like swallowing the purest heavenly treasure. A wave of blissful groans came from all four limbs and bones.
Kong Xuan was practically drunk on this world. He felt that if he could cultivate here, he would be able to deduce his innate Five-Colored Divine Light ability to an entirely new realm within a thousand years.
"What dense Five Elements laws! This place is practically a sacred ground tailor-made for us brothers!" Golden-Winged Great Peng was also filled with shock.
Su Ming's gaze did not linger on the surrounding environment. Instead, he was drawn to a stone platform in the center of the plaza.
A plain, ancient long sword stood quietly embedded atop the stone platform.
Scarlet, azure, yellow, white, and black radiance flowed across the sword's body. The five colors generated and restrained one another in an endless cycle, forming a perfect balance.
An incomparably sharp sword intent that seemed capable of severing spacetime and destroying all laws soared into the sky, yet it was perfectly bound by this world, without leaking out in the slightest.
"Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure!"
A flash of brilliance crossed Su Ming's eyes.
The grade of this sword was actually no lower than Demon Master Kunpeng's Demon Master Palace. In terms of killing power, it even surpassed it!
He slowly stepped forward and reached out to grasp the hilt.
Buzz!
The long sword let out a clear sword cry. Five-Colored Divine Light blazed, and a vast torrent of information surged along Su Ming's arm into his sea of consciousness.
The Five Elements Spirit Sword!
The Companion Spiritual Treasure of the ancient mighty figure, Old Ancestor of Five Elements!
Just as expected!
Su Ming understood inwardly.
Looking across the entire history of the Primordial Wilderness, only Old Ancestor of Five Elements could have such means, laying down a restriction that had nearly fooled even him and possessing such a supreme Five Elements treasure. He had contended with Luohu, Hongjun, Ancestor Dragon, and the others during the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation.
"Master, this..."
Kong Xuan and Golden-Winged Great Peng also came over, gazing at the Five Elements Spirit Sword in Su Ming's hand with eyes full of envy and awe.
This was a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, a supreme treasure that could be counted on one's fingers across the entire Primordial World Great Earth!
"This place should be the legendary Daoist abode of Old Ancestor of Five Elements."
Su Ming pulled the Five Elements Spirit Sword from the stone platform and casually handed it to Kong Xuan beside him.
"You possess the Five Elements origin. This sword matches your attributes, so I'll give it to you for protection."
"Huh?"
Kong Xuan was petrified on the spot, his mind going completely blank.
He... gave it to me?
This was a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure!
Master just... casually gave it to me?
Holding the Five Elements Spirit Sword, he felt it weigh as much as countless millions of jun. His hands trembled slightly.
"Master, this treasure is far too precious. Your disciple... your disciple wouldn't dare accept it!" Kong Xuan's voice had even changed pitch.
"Take it since I'm giving it to you." Su Ming's tone brooked no argument. "It's just a spiritual treasure. It's not of much use to me."
He was telling the truth.
He possessed a supreme weapon of slaughter like the God Slaying Spear and was protected by the Creation Green Lotus. To him, a Five Elements Spirit Sword was indeed merely the icing on the cake.
But to Kong Xuan, this was a supreme treasure capable of raising his combat strength by several levels!
"Thank you, Master!"
Kong Xuan no longer refused. He fell heavily to his knees and performed a grand ceremony before Su Ming.
He knew that no words could express the gratitude and shock in his heart at that moment.
Only by going through fire and water for his master in the future could he repay this immense kindness.
Golden-Winged Great Peng, standing nearby, watched with envy.
Kong Xuan belonged to the Five Elements, so giving the sword to him made the best use of it.
After calming the excited Kong Xuan, Su Ming's gaze crossed the enormous plaza and turned toward its far end.
There, a towering palace stood quietly. Three Dao Runes had been carved across its plaque in sweeping strokes—
Five Elements Dao Palace!
And in the center of the plaza before the Dao Palace's entrance, a fruit tree covered in flowing Five-Colored Divine Light and reaching ten thousand zhang high instantly seized everyone's attention!
The fruit tree's branches were twisted and vigorous, resembling sleeping True Dragons.
Every leaf displayed an extreme color—scarlet as fire, azure as wood, golden and radiant, white and crystalline, or black and profound.
Among the luxuriant branches hung several dozen fruits, each the size of a fist.
These fruits were even more wondrous. Their entire bodies were crystalline and translucent, as though each contained a complete Five Elements world. The power of laws circulated within them, with Dao Rhythm Innate!
"Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root... the Five Elements Fruit Tree!"
Even with Su Ming's state of mind, his breathing quickened slightly the instant he saw this fruit tree.
His cultivation had long since reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, only a single step away from the realm of the Primordial Golden Immortal.
Yet that single step was like a heavenly moat, trapping countless astonishing talents.
To break through, one had to find one's own "Dao" and elevate it.
The Dao Su Ming had chosen for himself was none other than the supreme, all-encompassing Great Dao of Chaos!
He would Prove Dao by Force. What he cultivated would not be an ordinary Primordial Dao Fruit. Instead, he would transform himself into chaos and refine a Chaos True Body!
The Chaos Five Elements True Body was the first step!
He had originally thought that gathering enough Five Elements origin to break through would require long years of planning and collecting.
He had never imagined that he would encounter the complete Daoist abode of Old Ancestor of Five Elements here, along with this Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root that had condensed the essence of the Five Elements laws!
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