The efforts of countless ages had brought the four of them immense Heavenly Dao merit. Each had condensed a Merit Golden Wheel, and the wheels were of an exceptionally high grade, comparable to High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures. They had remarkable effects in defense, comprehending the Dao, and cultivation.
If they were willing to exhaust this vast amount of merit and use it directly to raise their cultivation realms, it should have been enough for all of them to ascend in a single step and break through to the Early Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
Moreover, their gains were far from limited to that!
Over more than thirty yuanhui, the four had traversed countless Three Clans Battlefields, personally comprehending the myriad laws and Great Daos lingering within them. Through their opposition and collisions, and by validating their own Daos while clearing baleful qi and restoring heaven and earth, they had all benefited immensely, their Dao attainments advancing by leaps and bounds.
By now, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had all broken through to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, while the main body had even reached the Late Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm—and he was far from newly entering it.
Furthermore, as they cleared countless Three Clans Battlefields, the four had refined an immense quantity of blood baleful qi, resentment, and the remnants of the Three Clans and countless other living beings. Not only had they refined innumerable pure Origin Forces suited to their own Daos, they had also unearthed countless heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and Postnatal Spiritual Treasures from the battlefield ruins. They had even obtained nearly a hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Although most of those Innate Spiritual Treasures had been damaged in the great war, with Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures making up the majority and few Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures among them, while not a single High-Grade or Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure had been found, their value was still incalculable.
Though they had used quite a bit of Origin Force to restore the earth veins, the remaining Origin Force still amounted to three-quarters of the total. Altogether, it might have exceeded the total Origin Power of three Late Primordial Golden Immortals.
However, what left Yuan Jie somewhat regretful was that after more than thirty yuanhui of effort, most of the Three Clans Battlefields that needed clearing had already been restored. Very few remained, and their great opportunity was soon coming to an end!
Though he felt some regret, Yuan Jie did not delay. He gathered his thoughts and raised a hand, about to tear open the void and cross heaven and earth to head for the next small Three Clans Battlefield that needed clearing.
But suddenly, Yuan Jie's ancestral aperture between his brows began pounding violently. A bone-chilling sense of life-and-death crisis that arose from the deepest depths of his soul instantly swept through his body. Every hair on his body stood on end, and alarm bells blared in his Primordial Spirit, frantically warning him.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yuan Jie instantly activated his Great Firmament Dao Fruit, releasing boundless Dao radiance as he summoned the World Cauldron and Cosmos Pearl.
The World Cauldron hung above his head, its body blooming with hundreds of millions of rays of World radiance. A complete illusory world enveloped him, suppressing the surrounding heaven, earth, space, and time while cutting off all incoming killing intent;
The Cosmos Pearl floated before him, emitting boundless dazzling divine light. The Space-Time Dao circulated, disrupting the flow of time at the location where he sensed danger and extending the layers of space.
As the World Cauldron and Cosmos Pearl displayed their might, a shrill sound of something tearing through the air rang out from the void. A pitch-black longsword wrapped in endless sinister nether-poison baleful qi was forced through layer after layer of spatial barriers. It was already not far from Yuan Jie.
One could imagine that if Yuan Jie had not possessed such keen senses, detected the danger, and promptly used the World Cauldron and Cosmos Pearl, that pitch-black longsword would likely have already pierced his brow.
Although his Fleshly Primordial Spirit had reached the level of a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, that longsword might not necessarily have been able to break through it.
Still, having nearly been ambushed filled Yuan Yan with fury. His Great Firmament Dao Fruit circulated, and his World Dao connected with heaven and earth, allowing him to sense an abnormal patch of void.
"You sneaking coward, get the hell out here!" Yuan Jie roared, his voice shaking the cosmos as the power of the Dao swept outward with his fury.
On one hand, he used the World Cauldron to expand the illusory world, firmly suppressing space and time and locking down the pitch-black longsword so that it could not flee back into the void. On the other, he raised a hand to control the Cosmos Pearl before him. The pearl transformed into a streak of light, carrying Dao power capable of crushing distorted space and time as it smashed directly toward that abnormal void, intending to suppress and kill the ambusher.
"Junior, merely a Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal, yet you dare act so presumptuously before this ancestor?"
A cold, hoarse voice filled with endless venom and arrogance drifted slowly from the depths of the void.
At the same moment, the void barrier shattered with a thunderous crash. An old man with white hair, dressed in a black Daoist robe, stepped slowly out of the turbulent spatial currents. His appearance was handsome, yet his brows and eyes carried an air of sinister viciousness.
Nether-poison baleful qi churned around the old man. He raised a hand and threw a punch, his fist wreathed in endless Nine Netherworld Nether-Poison and the power of the Destruction Dao as it slammed toward the incoming Cosmos Pearl.
The Space-Time Dao and Nether-Poison Dao collided with a boom. Under the clash of ultimate Origin Power, layer after layer of spatial barriers instantly shattered and vanished, while mournful cries of the Dao rang out between heaven and earth.
At the same time, the pitch-black longsword suppressed by the World Cauldron began trembling violently under the old man's Dao power.
Black sword qi surged across the blade, and endless nether-poison sword qi frantically battered the World Cauldron's illusory world.
Amid dense clangs of "Clang! Clang! Clang!", the longsword actually forced itself free from the World Cauldron's suppressive power.
Though it still could not break through the World Cauldron's illusory defensive world, the longsword instantly sliced through the void, turning into a streak of black light and flying straight back into the old man's hand.
Holding the pitch-black longsword, the old man slashed out. Empowered by the sword, the might of the Nether-Poison Dao surged, instantly repelling the Cosmos Pearl's attack.
In an instant, the aura between heaven and earth solidified.
Yuan Jie stood with the World Cauldron above his head and the Cosmos Pearl in hand. Two High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures protected him as the World Dao and Space-Time Dao interwove into a net. Opposite him, the old man held the pitch-black longsword, nether-poison qi soaring around him while the pressure of his Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal cultivation blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
The two stood on opposite sides of the void, their Dao auras blooming without restraint as they collided and clashed. Lethal killing intent that could erupt at any moment filled heaven and earth.
"Rumble—" The two utterly different Dao auras collided, instantly tearing apart the stable space around them. Heaven, earth, space, and time fell into complete chaos, with fragments of time and spatial currents scattering everywhere.
After only an instant of confrontation, Yuan Jie's expression changed slightly. The old man's Dao aura was far more vast than his own, constantly pressing down on him. Even as he resisted with all his strength, his own Dao aura was being compressed without end. He had already fallen into a disadvantage!
Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal— Yuan Jie's heart sank at once, and a trace of gravity flashed through his eyes.
Indeed, he was a Top-Tier Innate Divine. After cultivating the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions, his Fleshly Primordial Spirit was comparable to a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. He also possessed five High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for protection, making his combat power far beyond that of an ordinary Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal. Even against a Late Great Firmament Golden Immortal, he had the strength to fight, perhaps even to win.
But within the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, the gap between every minor stage was enormous. Though it was not quite the difference between heaven and earth, someone one minor stage higher could generally defeat or even kill someone of a lower realm with ease. He was most likely no match for a Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal!
And he had Innate Spiritual Treasures by his side—did the old man not have them as well? That pitch-black longsword he had revealed was clearly a Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
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