Comprehending Samsara Heavenly Merit and Grass Character Sword Art! Breaking Through to the Venerable Realm!

Under the willow tree at the village entrance.

Ye Xuan sat cross-legged, his form utterly still, like a statue that had stood since time immemorial.

His eyes were not closed. Deep within his Double Pupils, Chaos Qi churned rapidly, frantically dismantling the runes of the inheritance.

First came the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art.

This was a supreme general outline for commanding all methods.

It offered no direct means of attack, yet allowed the user to wield multiple treasure arts simultaneously without conflict, their power stacking.

In Ye Xuan's vision, this heavenly art transformed into six massive black holes, slowly rotating.

Each black hole represented a way to harness power.

"Wielding a treasure art is like commanding an army."

Ye Xuan understood within his heart.

The lightning of his Suanni Treasure Art, the life force of the Willow Deity Method, and even the samsara power of the barely-begun Cycle Treasure Technique—these had originally been soldiers fighting on their own.

But under the coordination of the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art, they began to form ranks.

Three completely different forces merged perfectly within his body, birthing a far more terrifying hybrid divine power.

Next came the Grass Character Sword Art.

This Ten Fierce Treasure Art carried too much killing intent.

Ye Xuan only drew upon a sliver of its sword intent, and the bluestone beneath him silently split with a clean, neat cut.

"A single blade of grass, severing sun, moon, and stars."

Ye Xuan gazed at the swaying Nine-Leaf Sword Grass in his Consciousness Sea.

That was no grass—it was the ultimate edge of the sword path.

He didn't rush to train in sword techniques. Instead, he used his Double Pupils to analyze the artistic conception of "cutting through everything."

The comprehension of the Innate Human Race was displayed to its fullest in this moment.

A Ten Fierce Treasure Art that would take ordinary people decades to even begin was being rapidly unraveled before his eyes.

"Hah—"

Ye Xuan exhaled a mouthful of turbid qi.

Besides comprehending techniques, he had another important task over these three months—eating.

Above Stone Village, a rich aroma of meat drifted every day.

It was the flesh and blood of the Sky Swallowing Sparrow and the Qiongqi.

These two Venerable-level Primordial Remnant Species held essence within their flesh and blood like a moving treasure vault.

Every day, Ye Xuan consumed over a hundred jin of Venerable flesh and blood.

The violent essence entered his body and was instantly absorbed and refined by his ravenous Innate Dao Body.

His accumulation had long since reached the breaking point.

The Array Forming Realm was about inscribing formations within the body.

And Ye Xuan used himself as the formation. Now, that formation had absorbed enough energy and was about to undergo a qualitative change.

"Almost there."

On this day, at high noon.

Ye Xuan set down the Mountain Treasure in his hands.

He picked up a piece of Qiongqi leg meat, roasted golden and dripping with oil, and swallowed it in a few bites.

Rolling essence exploded in his belly.

"Break!"

Ye Xuan let out a low shout in his heart.

There was no earth-shaking heavenly tribulation, no flashy phenomena.

Everything came naturally.

Countless micro-formations within his body lit up at once, then merged into one.

A grand, noble, transcendent aura rose from within him.

Venerable Realm!

This was the limit of power that the Eight Lower Realms could contain, a true existence at the very peak of the pyramid.

Ye Xuan slowly rose to his feet.

The air around him warped with faint distortions, unable to bear the pressure of his might.

He clenched his fist, feeling the power to command heaven and earth.

If he met that Sky Swallowing Sparrow or Qiongqi again now, he wouldn't need the Willow Deity to act. One hand would be enough to press them into the ground and grind them down.

"This is a Venerable."

Ye Xuan's expression was calm, with no trace of joy.

For someone like him, who possessed the Double Piercing Gate and the Chaos Heavy Pupils, the Venerable realm was nothing more than an insignificant starting point.

At that moment, a commotion broke out not far away.

"Look! Little Dot is about to break through too!"

Ye Xuan turned to look.

Around the large black cauldron in the center of the village, a crowd had gathered.

Beneath the cauldron, flames blazed fiercely. What boiled inside wasn't water, but blood so red it verged on purple.

That was the Qiongqi True Blood Ye Xuan had deliberately left behind, with a few Century Spiritual Herbs plundered from Bei Village added in.

The potency was terrifying.

If an ordinary child jumped in, they'd be reduced to ash in an instant.

But right now, the little guy sitting in the cauldron wore an expression of pure enjoyment.

Little Shi Hao's eyes were shut tight, and every pore on his body was spewing radiant light.

Three months had passed, and he'd grown another notch taller. Though he still looked like a child, his frame had thickened like a young bull.

He was making his final sprint.

The Blood Moving Realm Extreme!

"Ha!"

Little Shi Hao's eyes snapped open as he let out a mighty shout.

The True Blood in the cauldron exploded instantly, transforming into a blood-colored dragon that burrowed into his body.

"Rumble!"

From within him came the roar of a great river in flood.

One arm swung—a hundred and eight thousand jin?

No.

More than that!

That surge of blood energy kept climbing, directly smashing through the so-called Extreme barrier.

A hundred and twenty thousand jin... a hundred and fifty thousand jin...

Finally, it settled on a number that would drive even ancient Fierce Beasts to despair.

But it wasn't over yet.

With blood energy perfected, the next step was to open a Cave Heaven.

"Open for me!"

Little Shi Hao leaped from the cauldron, hovering in midair.

From his tiny body erupted a shocking burst of energy.

"Hum!"

The void above his head trembled.

A Cave Heaven like a volcanic crater materialized out of thin air, greedily devouring the Heaven and Earth Essence.

Then—

A second!

A third!

A fourth!

A fifth!

No pause, no arduous accumulation.

It was like a chain of volcanic eruptions.

A full five Cave Heavens, in that single instant, opened all at once!

Five Cave Heavens lined up behind Little Shi Hao, strung together like five blazing suns, illuminating the entire Stone Village.

Opening five Cave Heavens in one go!

In the cultivation history of the lower realm, this was unheard of!

"Squeak!" (Oh my god!)

"Chirp!" (Is he even human?)

Not far away, Furball and Little Red, who had been gnawing on bones, were both frozen in shock.

The bone in Furball's hand clattered to the ground. His two little golden paws clutched his head, eyes bulging wide.

He was a Zhu Yan, a primeval mutant beast, gifted by nature itself.

But back when he opened his cave heavens, he had to grind them out one by one, bit by bit!

Even those first-generation prodigies and heavenly talents from the Upper Realm—no one had ever heard of anyone opening five at once!

This defied all logic!

Little Red buried her head even deeper into her wings, utterly crushed.

She was a dignified Vermilion Bird, a primeval divine fowl, who had cultivated for over a hundred years just to become a Venerable.

And these two?

One jumped from Array Formation to Venerable in three months.

The other, a three-year-old milk-baby, opened five cave heavens in one go.

What kind of monster nest was Stone Village?

Little Shi Hao landed, retracting the cave heavens behind him, his small face brimming with excitement.

"Big brother! I did it!"

He charged up to Ye Xuan, as if begging for praise.

Ye Xuan smiled and wiped the bloodstains off his face.

"Not bad. Barely passable."

If an outsider heard that, they'd probably die of rage.

Opening five cave heavens in one go was "barely passable"?

But in Ye Xuan's eyes, the Desolate Heaven Emperor deserved nothing less.

"Alright, go stabilize your cultivation realm now."

Ye Xuan sent Little Shi Hao off, then turned his gaze to the two "pets" still questioning their own existence.

Furball and Little Red snapped to attention the moment they saw Ye Xuan looking their way, putting on their most obedient and well-behaved act.

Over these three months, they had been thoroughly beaten into submission.

Not just because of the Willow Deity's deterrence, but because of the terrifying aura Ye Xuan occasionally let slip.