Fivefold Victory

In an instant, Yuan Yan moved!

With two fingers of his right hand held together, he lightly pointed through the air. A vast Yinyang Divine Light burst forth, effortlessly tearing apart the Blood-Baleful Domain and dispersing the union of its baleful blood resentment and the residual power of the Great Dao.

Moreover, the technique possessed a Yuan Ling. The Yinyang Divine Light did not dissipate, seemingly eternal and indestructible, and continued suppressing the residual power of the Great Dao within the Blood-Baleful Domain.

Yet after refining it for only a short while, Yuan Yan's expression shifted, and he deliberately slowed the refinement.

He suddenly discovered that as the Yin-Yang Furnace refined the baleful blood resentment and residual power of the Great Dao within the Blood-Baleful Domain, the laws and Great Dao intertwined and clashed. This proved immensely beneficial to his comprehension of the three thousand laws and Great Daos, as well as his Dao enlightenment and the evolution and perfection of his own Great Dao.

Furthermore, while forcibly refining the Blood-Baleful Domain with the Yin-Yang Furnace was indeed swift, the violent upheaval of the baleful blood resentment and residual power of the Great Dao could easily inflict further damage upon the collapsed divine mountain and the shattered ley lines in this region.

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Yan took out the Yinyang Cauldron and tossed it out. The Yinyang Cauldron suppressed space and time, merging with the Yin-Yang Furnace and nearly freezing the Blood-Baleful Domain in place.

As the Yinyang Cauldron merged with the Yin-Yang Furnace, how could its might have merely doubled?

Yet at this moment, the Yin-Yang Furnace did not accelerate its refinement of the Blood-Baleful Domain. Instead, while protecting the greater part of the collapsed divine mountain and the remaining shattered ley lines in this region, it elevated the process into a more comprehensive and meticulous confrontation.

At the same time, Yuan Yan moved, transforming into a streak of light and entering the core of the Yin-Yang Furnace without obstruction. There, he silently comprehended the endless truths of the Great Dao manifested through the clashes and interweaving of countless laws and Great Daos.

Cultivation knew not the length of years; ten or twenty thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

As the Yin-Yang Furnace, spanning heaven and earth, completed its final circulation, endless immortal radiance and Dao light shone forth, sweeping across the entire Blood-Baleful Domain. The dense baleful blood resentment that had gathered here, along with the chaotic power of laws and Great Dao left behind by the war of the three clans, had almost entirely been refined away.

Looking around, if not for the greater part of the towering divine mountain still lying collapsed, its broken walls and ruins, shattered rocks scattered across the ground, and ravines crisscrossing the ruptured ley lines, there would have been little trace of the desolation and bleakness left after that great war.

This region no longer showed any sign that an incomparably brutal battle had once erupted here. It had regained its clarity and tranquility.

Seeing that the Blood-Baleful Domain had been fully cleansed, Yuan Yan's gaze remained calm. With a slight movement of thought, the Yin-Yang Furnace, which had suppressed heaven, earth, space, and time and refined all things, suddenly collapsed, transforming into a stream of pure yin-yang energy that merged with heaven and earth, adding a touch of Dao charm and spiritual vitality to the somewhat desolate world.

As the Yin-Yang Furnace dispersed, the Yinyang Cauldron, its entire body flowing with profound Dao charm, slowly revolved in the air. Mysterious beyond mystery, its wonders were inexhaustible. It swiftly shrank, becoming a streak of light that landed steadily in his palm.

His fingers brushed the warm body of the Yinyang Cauldron. Feeling the surging, ocean-like yin-yang origin energy within, Yuan Yan's lips curled faintly upward, and a trace of delight surfaced in his deep eyes.

This time, he had changed his plans at the last minute and rushed to the Three Clans Battlefield to cleanse the baleful blood resentment and residual power of the Great Dao within the Blood-Baleful Domain. His gains had far exceeded his expectations. He had truly struck it rich.

Over the ten or twenty thousand years that the Yin-Yang Furnace had refined the Blood-Baleful Domain, he had constantly comprehended the laws and Great Dao contained within it. This deepened his understanding of the three thousand laws and Great Daos, and he had nearly comprehended all three thousand laws to perfection.

Furthermore, amid the interweaving and confrontation between his own Yin-Yang Great Dao and the many laws and Great Daos, he gained new insights, and his own Dao realm improved somewhat.

Although he was still far from breaking through to the late stage of the Golden Immortal of the Great Luo, this cultivation session was roughly equivalent to ten or twenty thousand years of devoted Dao enlightenment and cultivation.

In addition, when the Yin-Yang Furnace refined the Blood-Baleful Domain, it not only refined the baleful blood resentment and residual power of the Great Dao, but also the corpses of those slain in battle, granting him an enormous amount of yin-yang origin energy.

This yin-yang origin energy had been refined through his own Yin-Yang Great Dao. It contained the mysteries and imprints of his Dao, allowing it to rapidly replenish his expenditure. It was likely equivalent to the total origin energy of one or two Golden Immortals of the Great Luo at perfection, enough to let him, even after exhausting all his strength, swiftly return to his peak dozens of times.

If others refined it, although they could not refine it as swiftly as he could to replenish their own expenditure, they could comprehend the mysteries of the Yin-Yang Great Dao within and advance their cultivation realm.

Then there was the fact that several Golden Immortals of the Great Luo from the three clans had led some affiliated clans in a desperate battle here, ultimately perishing together. Naturally, all their stored treasures remained here.

Although the vast majority had been destroyed in the great battle, those that survived were all fine treasures. In particular, there were three innate spirit treasures among them.

Although they were only mid-grade and low-grade innate spirit treasures, and had suffered severe damage, innate spirit treasures possessed an indestructible nature. One day, they would eventually recover.

Beyond that, once he righted the greater part of the collapsed divine mountain, reconnected and repaired the ruptured and shattered ley lines in this region, and restored the Dao charm and spiritual vitality of this land, bringing his work to completion, the Heavenly Dao would surely bestow upon him mysterious yellow merit.

This was truly a fivefold victory! He alone had won five times!

The joy and exhilaration in his heart lasted only a moment before Yuan Yan slowly withdrew the Dao charm swirling around him. The smile in his eyes faded, returning to his usual calm composure. He knew clearly that now was not the time to celebrate. What he had to do was not yet complete.

The most urgent task was to right this collapsed divine mountain, reconnect the ruptured and shattered ley lines of this territory, heal the wounds of heaven and earth, and bring this journey to a perfect conclusion.

With his mind made up, Yuan Yan moved. In an instant, he crossed the void and appeared before the collapsed divine mountain.

His robes fluttered as he stood in the air. His vast divine sense poured out like a tide, instantly covering the smaller half of the ruined divine mountain before gradually extending outward, carefully examining the shattered mountain and this entire region.

"Hiss!" Upon perceiving the condition of the shattered divine mountain and this region, Yuan Yan could not help but draw in a cold breath. His formerly tranquil brow furrowed slightly, and a trace of gravity flashed through his eyes.

The condition of the divine mountain and this region was simply too terrible. Originally, this region had centered on the divine mountain's ley lines, which connected to the ancestral ley lines of Mount Buzhou. Countless ley lines, large and small, extended from the divine mountain's ley lines throughout this region, forming their branches.

But after the great battle, part of the divine mountain's primary ley lines had been completely reduced to nothingness along with the destruction of the smaller half of the mountain. The remaining primary ley lines of the greater part of the divine mountain, along with the many branch ley lines throughout this region, had snapped into countless segments. They were riddled with cracks, their Dao charm and spiritual vitality constantly leaking away.

Moreover, because the divine mountain and this region had been within the Blood-Baleful Domain and eroded by baleful blood resentment, the Dao charm and spiritual vitality of many ley line fragments had already dissipated completely. Though they had not become mundane objects, they could not be reconnected with other ley line fragments at all. Otherwise, they would only erode those other fragments.

"How am I supposed to repair this?" The more thoroughly Yuan Yan understood the situation, the tighter his brow furrowed.

He stood in the void with his eyes closed in thought, countless thoughts racing through his mind.

Only after a long while did he sigh inwardly. If he wished to restore the divine mountain and ley lines to their condition at their peak, he would have to willingly transform into the Dao of heaven and earth and use his own origin to repair them—but that was impossible.