Heaven-Sent Merit, Great Luo Perfection

And so, the three Great Divine Powers clashed into a single melee.

"Ahhh! Damn it! Damn it!"

"Heaven has no eyes! Heaven has no eyes! If Heaven favors you two, then I will kill you both!"

Staring at the towering, majestic figures over a hundred thousand zhang tall, the dwarf-like Dragon-Kin Giant's eyes grew more and more bloodshot, burning with jealousy and venom. Suppressed by the Heavenly Dao's curse, he wished he could tear the two brothers apart and swallow them whole.

But the Dragon-Kin Giant was formidable only in his prime.

After the erosion of the Heavenly Dao's curse and countless eons of Return to Ruins, the power he had left barely reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection—not even matching the Candle Dragon from before. How could he possibly be a match for Xuanyuan and Tongtian, who were fighting at full strength?

Though Xuanyuan and Tongtian were only at Late Stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, they possessed both a Clear Qi Nascent Soul and a Turbid Qi Physical Body, making them a veritable Little Pangu. With so many treasures in hand, their strength was terrifyingly immense.

Even when the Dragon-Kin Giant occasionally landed a blow, he couldn't even break through the defense of their Ancestral Shaman True Form!

The Nine Revolutions Profound Technique had nine layers per revolution, totaling eighty-one layers. Cultivating to the fourth revolution granted the power of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Since the Twelve Ancestral Witches were born as Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, the technique's initial deduction only covered the first four revolutions. After discussing the Dao with Xuanyuan and Tongtian, the fifth revolution was also completed and perfected.

Once the fifth revolution was mastered, the physical body could step into the realm of Golden Immortal of the Origin!

The first three revolutions were useless to the Ancestral Witches, but they were immensely beneficial to the Great Witches, Lesser Witches, and the weak tribes they had subjugated, serving as a guide for cultivation.

First Revolution: Tempering the mortal body. The first three layers step into Human Immortal, the middle three correspond to Earth Immortal, and the seventh layer touches the realm of Heavenly Immortal.

Second Revolution: Stabilizing the immortal foundation. The first three layers correspond to True Immortal, the middle three to Mystic Immortal, and the sixteenth layer touches the realm of Golden Immortal.

Third Revolution: Clarifying the Dao Heart, advancing to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

Fourth Revolution: Ten thousand laws return to one, ascending to the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal position.

Fifth Revolution: The Origin begins to take form, becoming a Golden Immortal of the Origin.

Though Xuanyuan and Tongtian had only recently obtained their Law bloodlines and Ancestral Shaman bodies after refining the Pangu Jade Marrow, their talent for cultivating the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique surpassed even that of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

In just a few eons, their physical bodies had completed the fourth revolution at thirty-five layers, crossing the seven great realms of Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Primordial Unity Golden Immortal. They were only One Step Away from the thirty-sixth layer, the perfection of the fourth revolution.

"Damn it! Why are your bodies so indestructible! Heaven is unjust! Heaven is unjust!"

The Dragon-Kin Giant leaped up and punched Tongtian's ankle, but didn't leave even a single mark. His mentality grew more and more unbalanced, and he was filled with raging fury.

"Since my strength cannot break your bodies, I'll use the Heavenly Dao's curse to make you feel my pain!"

The three Great Divine Powers fought deep into the Return to Ruins. Chaos Qi churned and boiled like a cauldron. The pressure left behind by Pangu Opens Heaven on the Chaos Fragments, wrapped in the curse runes of the Heavenly Dao, interweaved in the void into blood-red, ominous vortexes.

The curse marks coiling around the Dragon-Kin Giant's entire body burst with blinding golden light. He raised his hand, and the Sha Qi of the Return to Ruins condensed into a Ten Million Zhang giant claw, lunging straight at Xuanyuan and Tongtian.

"Yin-Yang Twin Slash, Upper Clarity Divine Thunder!"

Tongtian roared, his six eyes wide open, his six arms swinging simultaneously.

The Qing Ping Sword split the void, the Innate Dao Rhyme flowing along its blade colliding with the giant claw with a thunderous crash.

The Coiling Dragon Flat Crutch swept out, wrapped in Heaven-Opening Merit, the Great Dao of Strength Law rampaging. Wherever it passed, Chaos Qi crumbled, and Samadhi True Fire fiercely scorched the Dragon-Kin Giant's nascent soul.

The Purple Lightning Hammer and the Fishing Drum sounded together, thunder and sound waves shaking the spacetime of the Return to Ruins.

Xuanyuan's treasures were even more powerful. The Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler swelled to ten thousand zhang, the Great Dao Patterns carved on its body Inhaling and Exhaling Chaos Qi, blooming with countless strands of Primordial Qi that formed a Shading the Sky and Sun giant net, enveloping the surroundings.

The Chaos Pearl Float and Sink within his nascent soul, its projected Chaos World devouring all spacetime—past, present, future, and all directions—melting them down.

The Qiankun Bow was nocked with the Zhentian Arrow, the arrowhead condensing the sharp edge of Heaven and Earth Opening. The essence of Pangu's Ribs resonated with Pangu's Residual Might here, aimed straight at the Dragon-Kin Giant's brow.

"Dragon-Kin True Form, appear!"

The Dragon-Kin Giant bellowed, the curse runes all over his body blazing to life. The Sha Qi of the Return to Ruins coalesced behind him into a towering Demonic Shadow that reached toward the heavens. At a glance, it approached Ten Million Zhang in size!

That was the projection of his prime!

"Annihilate!"

Xuanyuan and Tongtian, sharing a Mutual Understanding, Joined Forces and struck.

The attacks from Tongtian's six treasures Transform into streams of light that Merged Into Xuanyuan's Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler. The Chaos World projected by the Chaos Pearl suddenly contracted, trapping the Dragon-Kin Giant firmly in the center.

Xuanyuan drew the Qiankun Bow into a full moon. Twelve Zhentian Arrows, wrapped in the Power of Sky-Opening, fused with Tongtian's attack and the Chaos Pearl's pressure, finally transforming into a golden pillar of light that pierced through the spacetime of the Return to Ruins.

"No! I won't accept this! Damn you, Heaven!"

The Dragon-Kin Giant wildly swung his halberd to block, but under the pillar of light, he crumbled inch by inch.

"Boom!"

With a roar that shook heaven and earth, the giant's projection shattered, and his dwarf-like body exploded in the pillar of light.

The curse's power, Pangu's Residual Might, Chaos Qi, and the Sha Qi of the Return to Ruins interweaved into a devastating chaotic storm that swept through the entire Return to Ruins.

Xuanyuan hurriedly used the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler to open up spacetime, protecting the two of them as they struggled to withstand the chaotic storm.

It was a long time before the Return to Ruins gradually returned to calm.

"This Dragon-Kin Giant is truly troublesome," Tongtian sighed.

The Heavenly Dao's curse on the Dragon-Kin Giant had damaged several of his treasures, which would need a good period of nurturing to recover.

"The gap in strength between a Golden Immortal of the Origin and a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal is still too great," Xuanyuan said, shaking his head.

Though the Dragon-Kin Giant had been cursed by the Heavenly Dao, that final projection still possessed some of the might of a Golden Immortal of the Origin.

Had it not been for the two brothers' formidable physical bodies and the array of treasures protecting them, even a Dragon-Kin Giant suppressed to Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection could have posed a lethal threat.

"Hum!"

The instant the Dragon-Kin Giant's physical body and Nascent Soul were both shattered, the Chaos Qi above the Return to Ruins suddenly churned into a massive vortex three thousand six hundred million li in diameter.

Threads of Merit Golden Light cascaded like an inverted Milky Way, piercing through the endless temporal and spatial barriers between the Return to Ruins and the Primordial World, pouring down to coalesce into a radiant pillar of Merit above Xuanyuan and Tongtian's heads.

In that moment, Xuanyuan and Tongtian felt their entire bodies suddenly lighten as the Merit Power transformed into a warm, soothing current, seeping through their protective Treasure Light into their limbs, bones, and Nascent Souls.

"Heavenly Dao Merit." Xuanyuan's eyes lit up.

Indeed, the Dragon-Kin Giant had fished up Golden Ao, causing two Immortal Islands to drift into the Return to Ruins, leaving the Five Immortal Islands lacking two of the Five Elements and damaging the Primordial World's Five Elements Origin.

Now that the two brothers had joined forces to slay him, it was also a boon to the Primordial World Heaven and Earth, and they naturally received the Heavenly Dao's reward of Merit.

This Heavenly Dao Merit was a top-tier treasure, the all-purpose remedy Within the Primordial World. It could not only Increase Cultivation and refine treasures, but if one accumulated enough Merit, it could even pave the way to Proving Dao by Merit!

Nuwa created humanity, Laozi Established Teachings, while Zhun Ti and Jie Yin Established Teachings and made great vows to take out a loan from Heavenly Dao Hongjun...

The Severing Three Corpses path was a trap; in the end, all the Heavenly Dao Saints walked the path of Proving Dao by Merit!

"A gift from heaven! Hahahaha, Fourth Brother, this is destined to be our great fortune!"

Tongtian laughed heartily, his Three Heads Six Arms trembling simultaneously.

Then, the Merit Golden Light swiftly divided between the two based on their contributions to slaying the Dragon-Kin Giant.

Xuanyuan received sixty percent, Tongtian forty percent.

The brothers exchanged a glance and, without further words, sat down cross-legged to begin refining the Heavenly Dao Merit.

The Profound Clarity Qi rising from their bodies clashed with the Sha Qi of the Return to Ruins, bursting forth myriad auspicious signs in the void—countless rays of rosy light and billions of strands of rainbow splendor.

The process of refining Merit felt like a complete rebirth.

Within Xuanyuan's Sea of Consciousness, the Nascent Soul absorbed the Heavenly Dao Merit, steadily strengthening the Profound Clarity Qi; every inch of his physical body's texture was being reshaped by the Merit Power, faintly reflecting the chaotic phantom of Pangu Opens Heaven.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand years had passed.

Two-tenths of the Heavenly Dao Merit sorted the Turbid Qi Physical Body, breaking through the shackles of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique—the Fourth Revolution reached thirty-six layers of perfection, the physical body attaining Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection;

Two-tenths of the Heavenly Dao Merit nourished the Clear Qi Nascent Soul, accumulating Grand Unity Magic Power, rendering the Dao Heart clear and pure.

"Boom!"

As the last trace of Merit Merged Into the Nascent Soul, Tongtian opened his six eyes, and the pressure of Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection burst forth mightily. Deep within the Return to Ruins, the Innate Restrictions of the Two Immortal Islands trembled slightly.

"Fourth Brother, this surplus Merit can condense into a Merit Golden Wheel. In the future, as you walk Within the Primordial World, no one will dare harm you," Tongtian said with a smile.

To slay one with great Merit is inauspicious, inviting Karmic Force to cling to one and earning the disdain of Heaven and Earth.

The greater the sin the Dragon-Kin Giant Clan had committed, the greater the Heavenly Dao Merit the two brothers received for joining forces to slay him.

The remaining two-tenths might seem small, but they could still serve as a means of self-preservation.