Silent Cultivation

Hong Yun exclaimed excitedly, "As expected, my physical body has surpassed even a Supreme Grade Spiritual Treasure!"

His fist pulled back, leaving behind only two white spots without a single wound.

Even a Supreme Grade Spiritual Treasure found it difficult to break through his flesh.

Such a physical body was truly terrifying!

Of course, Supreme Grade Spiritual Treasures varied in strength.

These two strikes from Minghe were not top-tier, but they were by no means weak.

Swish, swish!

Minghe withdrew his twin swords. When he saw the cracks, his heart ached terribly.

Repairing them would probably require thousands of years of nourishment.

He summoned another hundred blood rivers, enveloping Hong Yun.

Hong Yun mocked, "Minghe, these blood rivers can't trap me! I'm leaving. See you next time!"

He rode the clouds away, his face full of disdain.

If not for the sneak attack by the Netherworld Blood Sea and the Blood Mosquito, Minghe would have abandoned the pursuit by now.

Hong Yun's combat strength far surpassed his own, despite them both being at the peak of the Grand Unity realm.

But now...

Minghe thought darkly, "Once the Blood Mosquito's proboscis takes a suck, even if his physical body is somewhat stronger, he definitely won't be able to endure it!"

"Once I obtain the seven gourds, they'll be enough to make up for my losses!"

He waved his hand, and thousands of blood rivers crashed down.

Hong Yun smiled when he saw this.

The thousands of blood rivers surrounded him, their pressure horrifying.

Even the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, or Dijun might have trouble blocking them.

But he was Hong Yun.

He unleashed the power of the peak of the Grand Unity realm.

The auspicious clouds transformed into a streak of light, weaving freely through the blood rivers.

He laughed loudly, "Minghe, you think these blood rivers can stop me?"

Seeing him move through them as easily as a fish in water, Minghe's rage soared to the heavens.

But the thousands of blood rivers had already sealed off Hong Yun's retreat, and Minghe's hopes rose.

He roared, "You're dead this time!"

He brought out the entire Netherworld Blood Sea.

Rumble!

The blood sea stretching for hundreds of millions of miles descended like the heavens, its blood fiendish aura surging to the sky.

He said in a low voice, "Blood Mosquito, go!"

A reply came from within the blood sea: "Rest assured, Ancestor!"

Minghe stared at Hong Yun sinisterly, as if he were looking at a corpse.

He ground his teeth. "Enjoy your triumph! I'll collect your corpse shortly!"

Hong Yun thought, It's here. Can my Law of Devouring swallow the entire blood sea?

The blood sea contained Pangu's bloodline. If he refined it, it would surely be a great tonic.

A single blood river was comparable to a Ginseng Fruit.

The entire blood sea was equivalent to hundreds of thousands of them!

Minghe was truly delivering treasures right to his door.

Buzz!

The instant the blood sea covered the sky, he unleashed his devouring aura.

The Law of Devouring activated!

Centered on him, a black hole suddenly appeared.

It was as if the void of the Great Desolation had opened a gigantic mouth.

The black hole rapidly expanded to tens of thousands of miles.

Roar!

The void trembled as the black hole swallowed half the blood sea in one gulp.

Minghe's sinister gaze turned to astonishment. "Impossible! My blood sea!"

Swallowing half in one gulp was a sight he had never witnessed before. He stood there dumbfounded.

He hurriedly shouted, "Blood Mosquito, attack!"

He waved his hand, attempting to withdraw the remaining half.

Hong Yun sneered, "You still want to run?"

He urged the gigantic mouth to lunge at the blood sea again.

Whoosh!

Another forty percent was swallowed, leaving only ten percent for Minghe to retrieve.

At that same moment, a gigantic mosquito appeared in the void, its entire body blood-red.

Its proboscis was enormous, and its killing intent was chilling, as if it could slay gods.

The Blood Mosquito's proboscis stabbed toward Hong Yun.

Ding!

It intended to pierce him and suck his blood, but instead struck the black gourd with a crisp sound.

Crack!

The proboscis shattered on the spot, like porcelain hitting iron.

The Blood Mosquito screamed, "Ah!"

This proboscis had been forged from fragments of the God-Slaying Spear and was indestructible.

It was his supreme treasure, helping Minghe slaughter countless mighty figures through sinister assassinations.

Yet now, it had shattered.

It found this impossible to accept.

Minghe was horrified when he saw this.

He immediately wrapped himself in a layer of the blood sea and fled.

You've got to be kidding!

Hong Yun was absurdly powerful, and even his trump card, the Blood Mosquito, was crippled.

If he did not run now, he would probably die here.

The Blood Mosquito grabbed its shattered proboscis and tried to catch up with Minghe.

When it looked up, Minghe had already fled.

He had abandoned it and escaped on his own!

The Blood Mosquito cursed furiously, "Shameless Minghe! You and I are irreconcilable!"

It was still fighting desperately, yet Minghe had abandoned it.

Being stabbed in the back by an ally hurt even more than having its proboscis shattered.

Under this double blow, its combat strength plummeted.

It was only at the late Grand Unity stage, far inferior to Hong Yun at the peak.

Hong Yun could destroy it with a mere raise of his hand.

But he stopped.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully causing trouble. You have obtained ten Yellow Middle Plums!"

The system's voice rang out.

Hong Yun glanced at the enraged Blood Mosquito and developed a new idea.

If he killed it now, he would gain nothing more than another puddle of mosquito blood.

If he let it go, its hatred for Minghe would likely turn it into a mortal enemy of his.

Unless the Blood Mosquito avenged this grudge, it would not be able to clear its mind.

His palm paused.

Whoosh!

Desperate to survive, the Blood Mosquito fled at top speed.

It thought itself fortunate to have survived and did not notice that Hong Yun had deliberately let it go.

At this moment, all its hatred had shifted to Minghe.

"Once I repair my proboscis, you old dog Minghe, just wait!"

The Blood Mosquito gnashed its teeth.

It did not dare seek revenge against Hong Yun. That black gourd had filled it with dread.

It did not want its repaired proboscis to shatter again.

That pain was enough to endure once.

With ninety percent of Minghe's blood sea lost, his strength would certainly decline.

The Blood Mosquito thought, "If I kill Minghe, I'll rule Nine Netherworld!"

It had long harbored ambitions, but had always remained beneath Minghe.

It flew into a hidden valley in the Great Desolation to recover from its injuries.

Meanwhile, Hong Yun rode the clouds back to Fire Cloud Cave.

Three months later, he arrived.

He waved his hand and set up restrictions, sealing off the cave dwelling.

Next, he would tally his gains. He did not want outsiders disturbing him.

Swish!

He first brought out the Qiankun Cauldron.

The cauldron transformed into one dozens of meters tall, gleaming with golden light.

"The restrictions on the cauldron haven't been fully refined. It'll take several centuries to finish!"

Hong Yun settled his plans.

He then brought out the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.

This black gourd was his strongest magical treasure.

"The gourd's restrictions haven't been completely refined either. I must refine them thoroughly!"

In Purple Firmament Palace, he had refined forty-two restrictions, leaving six remaining.

The gourd had forty-eight restrictions, surpassing the Qiankun Cauldron's forty-two.

Previously, he had refined only thirty-six restrictions of the cauldron.

Refining the restrictions of both treasures would take an estimated thousand years.

On the Great Dao Cushion; otherwise, it would take a hundred thousand years.

He brought out the system's reward.

Ten Yellow Middle Plums floated before him.

They resembled pearl-like stamens, with the words "Yellow Middle" engraved on them, and radiated the aura of the Law of Reincarnation.

"Yellow Middle Plum is a top-tier Innate Spiritual Root, passed down from the Primal Chaos Reincarnation Fruit. It naturally contains the Law of Reincarnation!"

Hong Yun was overjoyed.

The system was truly generous.

The Yellow Middle Plum bore only nine fruits every three eras.

Obtaining ten of them was extraordinarily rare.

He estimated that with the Great Dao Cushion, he could comprehend the Law of Reincarnation.

With devouring and reincarnation, he would master two great laws.

Finally, he brought out the item he was anticipating most.

The Mythical Grand Unity Method he had obtained by tricking Jieyin and Zhunti.

With a thought from his divine sense, the cultivation method entered his mind.

He studied it carefully.

Three years later, he stopped.

The Mythical Grand Unity Method was vast and boundless.

Its cultivation threshold was exceedingly high.

Yet once it was mastered, all cultivation methods in the Great Desolation would be mere child's play.

This method was divided into two stages.

The first stage was Foundation Building, divided into ten layers.

Every layer was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

The first Foundation Building Layer already surpassed his current peak Grand Unity realm and was comparable to the early Quasi-Saint stage.

The second was on par with the mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm.

The fifth already possessed the might of a Saint.

And this was only Foundation Building, showing just how terrifying it was.

After the tenth Foundation Building Layer came the second stage—the Mythical Realm.

Only after cultivating to the Mythical Realm would one truly become a Mythical Grand Unity.

At that point, even Saints and the Heavenly Dao could be destroyed with a flip of the hand.

"Immeasurably powerful!"

Hong Yun resolved to cultivate this method.

Though it was difficult, with the system in hand, he feared nothing!

Even without reaching the Mythical Grand Unity realm, the Foundation Building Fifth Layer was already no weaker than a Saint.

When the time came to face Hongjun's schemes, he would have the confidence to contend with him.

Hong Yun did not immediately begin cultivating the Mythical Grand Unity Method.

He decided to first completely refine the two Innate Supreme Treasures, the Qiankun Cauldron and the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.

He always felt that he had a slight tendency toward obsessive-compulsive behavior.

If he did not fully refine the Innate restrictions on these two treasures, he could not calm his mind.

Last time, because he had been eager to hurry to Purple Firmament Palace to listen to the Dao and time had been tight, he had been unable to completely refine all the restrictions on the Qiankun Cauldron.

Now, he had plenty of time...

"Bzzzz!"

The Qiankun Cauldron spun rapidly before Hong Yun. Sitting cross-legged on the Great Dao Cushion, he extended his divine sense into the treasure cauldron and gradually refined its Innate restrictions.

Time flew by, and a thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Hong Yun let out a long breath.

"The two supreme treasures are finally completely refined!"

After spending a thousand years, and with the assistance of the Great Dao Cushion, he had finally fully refined all the restrictions on the Qiankun Cauldron and the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.

Now, he could truly wield the full power of these two supreme treasures.

Only after refining forty-two Innate restrictions on the Qiankun Cauldron did Hong Yun truly comprehend its might.

Previously, its ability to refine the Great Dao Treasure Gourd had been merely one of its functions.

Now, it had gained another ability—the refinement of merit supreme treasures.

That was right!

As long as Hong Yun possessed sufficient merit, whether it was the merit of the Great Dao, Heavenly Dao, Human Dao, or Earth Dao, it would all work.

He could raise the Great Dao Treasure Gourd by another level and refine it into a Great Dao Merit Treasure Gourd.

Its power would surge once more, making it absolutely no weaker than an Innate Supreme Treasure like the Chaos Bell.

Likewise, Hong Yun had now completely refined the Great Dao Treasure Gourd, allowing its three great abilities—defense, imprisonment, and killing enemies—to be displayed perfectly.

As for defense, it had once broken the mouthparts of the Blood Mosquito Daoist, which was enough to prove its strength.

In terms of imprisonment, with Hong Yun's current strength, even an early-stage Quasi-Saint could be trapped by him.

Once his cultivation advanced further, he would be able to seal everyone beneath the Saint realm.

As for killing enemies, although it was not the Great Dao Treasure Gourd's specialty, its offensive power still far surpassed that of any Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

It could be called the number one treasure of slaughter beneath the supreme treasures.

"Whoosh!"

Hong Yun waved his hand and summoned the Gourd Vine.

Then, he tossed the Gourd Vine into the Qiankun Cauldron and let it slowly refine.

"This Gourd Vine was originally used by Nuwa to create humanity. Later, it became the acquired merit supreme treasure, the Human-Creating Whip. I'll refine it with the Qiankun Cauldron first and decide what to do with it later!"

Hong Yun pondered inwardly.

In any case, the Qiankun Cauldron could refine things on its own. Leaving it idle would be pointless.

After doing this, he stored the Qiankun Cauldron and the Great Dao Treasure Gourd in his personal space.

He immediately began cultivating the Mythical Grand Unity Method.

This would become his greatest trump card in the future.

The Mythical Grand Unity Method placed extremely high demands on its cultivators; not everyone could practice it.

First, one's innate foundation had to be extraordinarily profound.

According to its instructions, even top-tier innate foundations in the Great Desolation, such as those of the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, might not be qualified.

To test one's innate foundation, one had to follow the opening scripture of the Mythical Grand Unity Method to examine one's bloodline.

Only when the bloodline emitted black light could one be considered qualified.

Second, after successfully building the foundation, it placed stringent requirements on the physical body, primordial spirit, and comprehension of laws.

"Let me first see whether my innate foundation meets the standard!"

Hong Yun muttered.

He cut his finger, forced out a drop of vital essence blood, and circulated it according to the opening scripture.

"Bzzzz!"

That drop of vital essence blood carried his innate foundation. At this moment, it trembled violently like boiling water.

As the scripture circulated, the color of the vital essence blood kept changing.

From its initial red, it gradually turned orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue...

In the end, it emitted a deep purple light!

However, this still did not meet the innate-foundation standard for cultivating the Mythical Grand Unity Method.

The deep-purple blood continued to change, slowly revealing black light.

But the transformation did not stop there. In the end, all the light completely converged.

The entire drop of blood turned dark black, concealing every trace of radiance!

"Success!"

Seeing this scene, joy appeared on Hong Yun's face.

The appearance of the black light meant that his innate foundation met the requirements for cultivating the Mythical Grand Unity Method.

And now that his blood had turned dark black, it had clearly surpassed the minimum standard.

With his innate foundation meeting the standard, he could cultivate the Mythical Grand Unity Method.

But to break through to the Foundation Building First Layer, he needed to condense the flower of the primordial spirit, the flower of the physical body, and the flower of laws.

Moreover, all three flowers had to bloom, with at least three flowers in total!

Only when the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown was achieved could the Great Unity Dao Fruit be condensed.

This Dao Fruit was the foundation of a Mythical Grand Unity.

Three flowers were merely the foundation.

If he could produce six flowers, nine flowers, or even more, his potential would become increasingly astonishing.

With three flowers, one could easily reach the Foundation Building Third Layer.