Cultivation Breakthrough, Wu Mo Loses Contact

Styx planted one foot on the Creation Road and the other on the Destruction Road.

Both paths immediately began to rumble and churn violently, as if struck by an earthquake.

Styx forced his body steady, refusing to let himself fall, then shouted ahead.

"Since I've obtained the laws of Creation and Destruction, what's wrong with using these two laws to prove the Great Dao?"

With that, his left foot braved the pressure and forced a step forward, his right foot following close behind.

The moment he made this move, the two paths reacted even more fiercely!

"Boom, rumble, rumble!"

What had been merely ground rolling and heaving now began to collapse outright.

Soon, both paths had sunk to the point where only enough ground remained for Styx to stand on one foot.

Styx understood clearly—these two laws were forcing him to choose between them.

But Styx did not comply as they wished. Instead, he let out a cold laugh.

Then the Yuan Tu Sword appeared in his hand, and he drove it straight down into the narrow strip of land left between the two collapsed paths.

Using the Yuan Tu Sword as a pivot, he pushed himself forward with a powerful leap.

Another step forward!

Styx raised his head, gazed ahead, and revealed a faint smile.

It was as if he were mocking the Law Paths for failing to stop him.

Styx repeated the same trick and advanced several more steps.

This time, a door appeared on each of the two Law Paths.

Styx felt a surge of joy. A silent inheritance told him that opening these two doors would allow him to comprehend the laws!

As the two doors appeared, two towering walls also rose on the Law Paths, blocking the way to the doors.

Clearly, the Law Paths still refused to let Styx cultivate both paths at once.

After all, there was no way Styx could climb over both walls simultaneously.

If Styx chose to scale one wall first, the other law would surely deem him to have given up.

Styx couldn't help but hesitate.

Should he really abandon one of the laws?

If dual cultivation wasn't possible, then why were Creation and Destruction placed together on the Law Tree?

"Forget it—I'll gamble it all!"

If Styx had to give up here, he would never accept it.

He steadied his body and looked up at the wall before him.

Trying to leap over both walls at once was obviously impractical.

So...

Styx decided to simply destroy the walls!

He clenched his fists in secret, gathering terrifying power, then punched out directly!

A loud "Boom!" rang out, and the wall collapsed with the sound.

A flicker of surprise crossed Styx's face.

He hadn't expected the wall to fall so easily. He'd even prepared to struggle against it for a while.

Once the wall crumbled, the world behind it underwent a massive transformation.

The ground that had collapsed was now restored, and the two great paths began to merge into one.

The two doors also became a single door.

Styx's surprise deepened.

But in an instant, he understood.

"So... everything just now was a test from the two laws."

No wonder the wall had fallen so easily.

This wall could only block those who were afraid, not those who were determined.

If Styx hadn't chosen to step onto both paths at once, he would have been forced to cultivate only one law.

Only by passing the trials of both laws could Styx cultivate both paths simultaneously.

Now, the road ahead had become wide and clear.

Styx strode forward quickly and pushed open the door.

Before he could see what lay beyond, a blinding light struck him, making it impossible to open his eyes.

When he opened them again, everything before him had turned back into the Blood Sea.

The two Law Leaves had vanished, but within Styx's Sea of Consciousness, two laws had taken root—Creation and Destruction.

The two laws intertwined, ceaselessly cycling through his Sea of Consciousness.

"It's time to break through..."

Styx murmured to himself.

He sat back down, resuming his meditative posture, and a vast tide of spiritual energy from the Blood Sea surged toward him.

Styx felt as though only a single sheet of paper separated him from the Quasi-Sage realm.

But that sheet of paper was as hard as steel.

Yet, when Styx mobilized the power of Creation and Destruction within his Sea of Consciousness, that paper was instantly torn apart under the force of the laws!

The Quasi-Sage realm—achieved!

Styx withdrew from his cultivation state, joyfully sensing the surging Quasi-Sage power within him.

He felt that his current self was terrifyingly strong!

"Cultivating two paths simultaneously, and with laws as fearsome as Creation and Destruction—this harvest is no small thing!"

Of course, with great harvest came great difficulty.

Among the Three Thousand Demon Gods, none seemed to have cultivated Creation and Destruction.

This wasn't because Creation and Destruction were too weak for those Chaos Demon Gods to bother with.

On the contrary, these two laws were undoubtedly superior to all others!

Creation and Destruction—nothing they cannot create, and likewise, nothing they cannot destroy!

Though Styx had yet to reach that level, he had already stepped through the door.

By proving the Dao through laws, comprehending them to fifty percent would allow one to become a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin.

And if one reached an even higher level of understanding, the Hunyuan Wuji Golden Immortal (Heavenly Dao Realm) was not beyond reach.

For now, however, Styx had only comprehended ten percent.

But because he cultivated two laws simultaneously, his combat power far surpassed that of other great beings at the same level.

After Styx's bout of cultivation, three thousand years had passed, leaving about seven thousand years until Hongjun's next sermon.

Thinking of this, Styx couldn't help but frown.

"What's going on? By my calculations, whether he succeeded or not, he should have returned by now."

The "he" Styx referred to was Wu Mo.

During the time Styx had gone to listen to the sermon at Purple Cloud Palace, he had sent Wu Mo to Buzhou Mountain with the Three Lights Divine Water.

His goal was to find a way, during the sermon period, to locate the Gourd Vine—one of the famed Ten Supreme-Grade Acquired Spiritual Roots of the Primordial Wilderness.

But Wu Mo had yet to return.

During Hongjun's sermon, there were few Great Golden Immortals left in the Primordial Wilderness.

And Wu Mo had already broken through to the Great Golden Immortal realm, so logically, he shouldn't have encountered any danger.

Moreover, through his connection with the Blood God Doppelganger, Styx confirmed that Wu Mo was still alive.

So why hadn't he returned?

Styx couldn't even pinpoint Wu Mo's location.

A vague sense of foreboding crept over him.

Without hesitation, he left the Blood Sea and headed straight for Buzhou Mountain.

Now that his cultivation was second only to Hongjun's in the Primordial Wilderness, he no longer needed to act so timidly.

Yet even with Styx's Quasi-Sage-level cultivation, it took him hundreds of years to travel from the Blood Sea to Buzhou Mountain.

Truly, the Primordial Wilderness was vast beyond measure.

Styx didn't hesitate; he went straight up Buzhou Mountain, following the faint traces of Wu Mo's aura to track him down.

Before long, Styx saw several figures ahead.

"Hong Yun, if you hand over the treasure now, I might spare your life!"

"I've told you countless times—there's nothing! When I arrived here, this was exactly how it was!"

Hong Yun Daoist's face was flushed red, but he still argued vehemently.