The three of them immediately picked up their pace.
As they reached the mountainside, Fuxi spoke. "My sister and I once tried to reach the summit."
His dragon tail swept over the hard rocky ground, rustling softly.
"But this is as far as we got. Any farther is difficult."
Nüwa's voice followed, her serpent tail gliding with a distinctive rhythm. "Beyond the halfway point, the pressure changes completely.
"It's not just a suppression of strength. It's also the lingering will of Great God Pangu, constantly battering your Dao heart and your laws."
She looked at Guiyuan, her gaze calm.
"If your own Great Dao isn't firm enough, your laws will be eroded, even twisted. The destruction of your Dao foundation is no idle threat."
At her words, Guiyuan was not alarmed; instead, his eyes lit up and his brows rose.
"A clash of laws?"
The runes of the Three Thousand Great Daos from the Eternal Life World within him trembled faintly, as if sensing a challenge.
"Just what I wanted."
What he wanted was to use the Three Thousand Laws of Pangu's Will as fuel, under the pressure of Pangu's Dao Rhyme in its most original and direct form, to temper and forge the foundation of a Guiyuan Great Dao that belonged to him alone.
The wash of Pangu's Will was the finest furnace.
He stepped forward, his gray robe snapping in the increasingly violent, unseen pressure.
The three of them crossed that invisible boundary in a single step, truly entering the upper half of Mount Buzhou.
In an instant, the scenery around them remained unchanged, but the omnipresent pressure abruptly transformed!
Before, it had been no more than a heavy burden on their strength.
Now it seemed to come alive, carrying an ancient, vast will. Like an immense tide, it swept straight over their Dao hearts and the foundations of the laws they wielded.
Around Fuxi, countless distorted, transparent ripples spread through the void.
The laws of Heavenly Secrets were manifesting. The mysteries of deduction, change, and foresight were like countless fine needles, piercing his soul and forcing him to understand, endure, and surpass them.
Around Nüwa, vitality and stillness alternated in an endless cycle, while the True Meaning of Creation tangled with the Dao Rhyme of Ending, unfolding the ultimate questions of creation and annihilation.
A solemn expression appeared on her exquisite face as she circulated her own Great Dao with all her strength, resisting and absorbing the pressure.
They both sensed clearly that, though this pressure from the laws was immense, it mainly targeted the core laws they cultivated. The impact from the other laws was merely secondary.
This will wasn't meant to crush them completely. It was more like a stern trial, a tempering that drove them to comprehend their own Great Daos more deeply with astonishing efficiency.
But Guiyuan, beside them, faced an entirely different situation.
The instant he set foot there—
"Buzz!"
The void shuddered!
It wasn't a single sound, but a thunderous chorus of thousands upon thousands of different Dao Rhymes!
Earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, lightning, slaughter, destruction, stars, space and time... Chains of laws in every color and shape surged wildly into view from the void.
Like furious primordial dragons, they carried an overwhelming force that could shatter everything and reestablish order, bearing down on Guiyuan all at once!
Guiyuan's body jolted violently. Deep in his pupils, countless Great Dao runes seemed to flicker in and out of existence, dying and bursting into life.
At that moment, his True Spirit was plunged completely into an endless tide of laws, struck and washed by all Three Thousand Laws of Pangu's Will at once.
The terrifying spectacle—and the force of the laws, hundreds or even thousands of times greater than what they had faced—shook Fuxi's and Nüwa's Dao hearts anew just as they had steadied themselves.
Fuxi stared at the figure submerged beneath the chains of the Three Thousand Laws. His dragon tail tensed involuntarily, and disbelief filled his eyes.
For the first time, Nüwa's usually cool, composed face showed unmistakable shock.
Staring at the vortex of laws, chaotic and radiant in equal measure, she blurted out:
"This... the impact of the Three Thousand Laws!"
She abruptly turned to Fuxi, her voice trembling in a way she didn't even notice.
"Is Daoist Guiyuan truly an Innate Sacred? Could he... could he be Great God Pangu reborn?"
If he wasn't Pangu, who could provoke such a reaction from Mount Buzhou and be subjected to a "trial" by the complete Three Thousand Laws?
Fuxi fell silent as well. He truly had never seen anything like this before. No wonder Guiyuan wielded all kinds of divine abilities with such ease.
He had never expected Guiyuan to have comprehended so many laws.
Under the violent assault of the Three Thousand Laws, Guiyuan's mind was suddenly wrenched away.
The dazzling colors of the Primordial World around him and the majestic sight of Mount Buzhou vanished in an instant. He seemed to plunge into an absolute "nothingness," with emptiness in every direction. There was no light, no sound—only his own existence.
In this void where Chaos had yet to be opened, at the very edge of his vision, a burst of the most brilliant color bloomed without warning.
It was an immense, boundless lotus, its petals layered one upon another—thirty-six grades in all—floating silently at the center of the void.
Its leaves were jade-green, flowing with the aura of Chaos, as if they had existed since the dawn of time itself, bearing the secrets of the origin of the Great Dao.
The Chaos Azure Lotus.
The name surfaced naturally in Guiyuan's mind, requiring no explanation.
His gaze pierced the hazy green radiance and fell upon the lotus platform, where a figure of indescribable grandeur sat in quiet meditation.
The figure was indistinct, yet carried an unparalleled aura of opening the primordial world and establishing the order of Qiankun.
"Whoosh—"
It seemed as though endless ages had passed, yet also as though it had been only an instant.
The Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Green Lotus bloomed with a thunderous burst, though no sound broke the silence!
At the very moment the green lotus opened—
Guiyuan's gaze collided with that of the figure at the center of the lotus platform!
"Boom!!!"
An unimaginable flood of information, beyond words and images, surged like a universe of stars breaking through its banks, crashing into Guiyuan's sea of consciousness and etching itself into the depths of his True Spirit.
Countless profound, ancient Dao Scripts, an unparalleled method for tempering the physical body, a domineering path to refine oneself with the Three Thousand Laws... They surged and combined, ultimately forming four innate Dao characters.
Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art!
Using the Three Thousand Laws as a hammer and Chaos as a furnace, one tempered oneself until achieving the true form of "Pangu"—invulnerable to all Daos, born as the Great Dao itself!
Guiyuan's consciousness shook violently amid the flood of information. His vision began to blur and twist.
In the final instant before he plunged into darkness—
He saw the towering figure rising from the green lotus, a giant axe in hand, charging toward beings in the void whose terrifying auras could annihilate the Great Dao...
"Ugh!"
Guiyuan, seated on the rocks of Mount Buzhou, abruptly opened his eyes. Deep in his pupils, the phantom of the Chaos Azure Lotus and the figure born within Chaos seemed to linger.
The terrifying pressure of the Three Thousand Laws still surrounded him, but it no longer seemed so unbearable.
Guiyuan quelled the storm raging in his heart and silently spoke within his sea of consciousness:
"Pangu Inheritance..."
Guiyuan rose to his feet.
The pressure of the Three Thousand Laws, once as violent as the sea, now seemed like a tamed stream.
It still flowed around him, but could no longer strike him as it had before.
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