The instant the Azure Bamboo Slip unfurled in Chen Xuan's palm, an inheritance far vaster than he had imagined flooded into his Sea of Consciousness.
The aged voice fell silent after that single sentence, but the contents of the bamboo slip spread before him like a slowly unfurling scroll, revealing the complete path of tenfold sequence unification from beginning to end.
Previously, he had proven his Dao through strength in the Immortal Sword Domain and formed the ten-sequence source seal, but that had merely amounted to laying ten powers on a table and piecing them together. What the bamboo slip recorded was a method to truly meld ten different laws into a single whole.
The key lay in smelting.
The nine nine-order origin seals had each operated for countless years, and stable connections had already formed between them. But those connections placed them side by side rather than fusing them together.
The inheritance within the bamboo slip required him to sink the nine origin seals into the boundless chaos Dao origin seal one by one, like casting nine different ores into the same furnace. Enveloped in chaos energy, they would melt, fuse, and crystallize anew, finally condensing into an entirely new true seal.
Chen Xuan sat cross-legged in the space deep within the Immortal Mansion and sank his divine sense into his dantian.
He chose the matter origin imprint first.
Guided by his divine sense, the dark-gold hexagonal crystal slowly moved toward the boundless chaos Dao origin seal. The instant they touched, the surface of the dark-gold crystal began to melt. Like metal roasted under intense heat, it gradually softened and warped, finally becoming a pool of flowing dark-gold liquid that was enveloped by the gray-white chaos energy.
All the law patterns of the ninefold material origin seal were crushed