Total Perception Shattered, Shearing the Sheep

Emperor Daye remained standing on the cloud boat, silently watching Chen Lingxi.

He stared intently at Chen Lingxi, his eyes blazing with fire. "The great fortuitous opportunity I bestowed upon you is not this Dao-Seizing Tree."

The meaning behind the words couldn't be clearer.

Emperor Daye was unwilling to give him this Cauldron Vessel.

"This Emperor Daye already possesses the Cauldron Vessel that can strip, compile, and bestow memories. What is he going to do with this Cauldron Vessel that Dao-Seizing Tree?"

A cultivator of the heavens and earth can only refine one Cauldron Vessel.

After refining one Cauldron Vessel, all other Cauldron Vessel became irrelevant to him.

Chen Lingxi knew that Emperor Daye was still plotting against him, but at this moment he cared a great deal about the Dao-Seizing Tree and was unwilling to say a word or two that was a lie to him.

Chen Lingxi did not answer.

His gaze remained fixed on the Dao-Seizing Fruit, a certain elusive light flickering deep within his eyes.

The depths of the ocean should be completely dark.

The Twin Luminous Mirrors in the Total Perception Divine Chamber, their light even piercing through the dark, sunless depths of the sea and falling upon this place.

Right at this moment...

Chen Lingxi suddenly reached out and plucked the fruit.

Emperor Daye suddenly frowned.

He seemed completely unprepared for Chen Lingxi's audacity.

The fruit was held in Chen Lingxi's hand, who was standing close by, and a sense of blood connection surged into Chen Lingxi's mind.

It was as if this Dao-Seizing Fruit had already recognized its master.

Emperor Daye stood not far away, watching Chen Lingxi remove the Cauldron Vessel, and suddenly sighed deeply.

"It seems you are born rebellious; even my fortuitous opportunity has been seized by you."

"Your actions are too unconventional. Letting you grow unchecked might be worse than confining you to the inner palace."

As Emperor Daye spoke, an astonishing aura emanated from him.

He took a step forward!

In the next instant, a sudden change occurred.

But then Emperor Daye Daye's previously hunched body suddenly straightened up.

That originally skeletal, thin body seemed to become as heavy as air.

A thick, viscous Blood Qi emanated from his body.

The wrinkles were smoothed out almost instantly, and the white hair turned black from the roots, even becoming incredibly thick.

In just one night...

That extremely old man, who looked like he was about to breathe his last, transformed into a figure with a proud and imposing physique and an extremely dignified face.

At this moment, Emperor Daye looked to be only in his early thirties!

The golden flames in his eyes burned even more intensely, and the aura emanating from his body was incomparably brilliant, dazzling and impossible to look directly at.

This extraordinary individual, who cultivated to the Dao Foundation Realm from a mortal body within Cave Heaven realm, used ruthless methods to establish Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation, capturing those Truth-Seekers from all corners of the world and bringing them to the palace—a truly terrifying figure...

At this moment, its true form is revealed!

Chen Lingxi felt an unimaginable pressure sweeping over him, pressing down on him.

The pressure was so immense that it completely halted the Spiritual Qi in his Qi Sea, almost freezing his Blood Qi.

"So... powerful..."

To Chen Lingxi's astonishment, at this moment, he was completely unable to activate any spiritual energy, nor could he lift a single finger.

He wanted to take his own life, but he couldn't!

"This is the power of the Dao Foundation Realm!"

Chen Lingxi murmured to herself.

But then Emperor Daye raised his hand, and he was pulled forward, his throat gripped by the Emperor Daye's hand.

"Instead of painstakingly scheming, it would be better to use the power of elixirs to force you to the Twelfth Floor the Heavenward Realm Tower."

Emperor Daye gently shook his head, his majestic face extremely solemn, and his surging aura emanating from him in the deep sea.

He was completely different from the frail old man he had just been.

At this moment, he lifted Chen Lingxi into the air, his eyes, which were blazing with golden flames, fixed on Chen Lingxi.

Chen Lingxi could vaguely sense the ancient aura flowing in those eyes.

Chen Lingxi was amazed by the power of the Dao Foundation Realm, and then a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

"The Jade Law Document already contains a clause stating that the Great Cause would not attack me. Why then is the Emperor Daye still able to attack me?"

Moreover, the punishment stipulated in the Jade Law Document has not yet arrived.

At that moment, Emperor Daye whispered, "Let me... take a look at your memories."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two golden flames in Emperor Daye's eyes suddenly surged.

An extremely mysterious aura entered Chen Lingxi's eyes.

Chen Lingxi felt a sharp pain in his head, as if something had pierced through his Consciousness Sea and was frantically searching for something.

However, Emperor Daye's expression suddenly changed.

"The memories of the past three years are completely blank?"

"This..."

He seemed to have never encountered this situation before. It was as if a thick fog was obscuring everything in Chen Lingxi's Consciousness Sea, and no matter how the golden flames in Emperor Daye Daye's eyes flickered, they could not penetrate the fog at all!

"What kind of tactic is this?"

Emperor Daye muttered to himself, his tone tinged with disbelief.

"The same applies to the fragments of the Mirror-Listening Cauldron; they can only be used to calculate the scene three years ago. What kind of fortuitous opportunity Chen Lingxi obtained in the past three years, and how he embarked on the path of cultivation, cannot be clearly seen."

He was utterly astonished.

Just then, Chen Lingxi suddenly seized the opportunity.

As Emperor Daye was distracted by his surprise, and his aura loosened slightly, the suppressed spiritual energy within him burst forth with all his might.

A wisp of Spiritual Qi suddenly activated the Purple True Treasure Aura in his Qi Sea.

The Purple True Treasure Aura rose from his Qi Sea, suddenly transforming into a beam of light that seemed intent on piercing his heart.

So well hidden...

Emperor Daye still sensed that streams of Dao Origin were flowing and quietly entering Chen Lingxi's body, silently annihilating the Purple True Treasure Aura.

The Purple True Treasure Aura that had accompanied Chen Lingxi for so long vanished just like that.

He frowned. "Don't you want to live anymore?"

It was at this moment that Chen Lingxi suddenly bled from all seven orifices and became extremely weak.

Emperor Daye immediately realized what was happening.

"Divine Sense Manifestation, breaking through the Consciousness Sea?"

At that moment, Chen Lingxi in his hand lowered her head, her breath completely extinguished.

Everything before Chen Lingxi shattered at that moment.

The Emperor Daye distorted, blurred, and vanished in his vision.

The two high-hanging mirrors simultaneously burst forth with dazzling light, their golden and silver gleaming intertwined, illuminating the scene with blinding brilliance.

"Stealing the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, and drawing inspiration from the past and present."

A familiar verse echoed in his mind.

Chen Lingxi's consciousness remained suspended in the Void of the Divine Chamber, and then many things appeared before Chen Lingxi's eyes.

Qi Lian, Marquis Fengshan Hongdong Bag, the spirit medicine they casually picked from the seabed, and that Dao-Seizing Fruit.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Lingxi focused her consciousness on the Dao-Seizing Fruit.

The Divine Chamber Void, and the Twin Luminous Mirrors suddenly shattered.

The Void twisted, and the world turned upside down.

When Chen Lingxi opened her eyes again, she found herself back in Yuan River Prefecture.

The Twin Luminous Mirrors in the sky are no longer there; this is the present world.

He raised his head and looked into the distance; the Battle of Seizing the Cauldron had just ended.

In the far distance, the elegant young man had already transformed into a tornado and fled this place with Xi Yu.

Thousands of Silver Bones warriors are gathering in the distance.

Hongdong Bag, the Black Banner was still breathing in the Blood Qi of the battlefield, emanating a mysterious aura.

Chen Lingxi a deep breath.

He still felt lingering fear at the terrifying power of the Emperor Daye.

"The Dao Foundation Realm is incredibly powerful."

He murmured to himself, his eyes flickering uncertainly.

"Moreover... in order to gain my trust, Emperor Daye signed a clause in the Jade Law Document stipulating that neither of us could attack the other before leaving the Cave Heaven."

But he clearly attacked me in front of that Cauldron Vessel, yet the Jade Law Document did not punish him."

When Chen Lingxi recalled the mysterious and indescribable aura surrounding the signing of the Jade Law Document, he knew that the Jade Law Document could not possibly be fake.

"I can't figure it out..."

He pondered for a moment, and then a sudden inspiration flashed through his mind.

"When I first signed the Jade Law Document with Wu Mohe, Wu Mohe mentioned the four words '[Qi-Walking Jade Law Book]' to me."

Now that I think about it carefully, this Jade Law Document is probably even divided into grades. The Qi-Walking Jade Law Book is unable to bind those at the Dao Foundation Realm.

After Chen Lingxi understood this point and sensed the Dao-Seizing Fruit suspended in the Void of the Divine Chamber, his mind suddenly calmed down considerably.

He looked up and gazed into the distance.

The remaining Qi and Blood forces are merging and withdrawing.

Chen Lingxi withdrew his gaze and focused his Divine Sense into the Hongdong Bag.

The Black Banner still lay quietly in a corner of the bag, the dark red patterns on its surface still flowing.

The moment his Divine Sense touched the banner, he felt a familiar pulling force emanating from it, drawing his consciousness into that eerie space constructed of blood-red light.

The mysterious middle-aged man, with his otherworldly air, still sat there cross-legged, his Daoist robe spotless, his face refined and enigmatic.

Chen Lingxi looked at the mysterious middle-aged man, a slight smile appearing on her face.

This time, he did not go to kill those many Qi and Blood Warriors because of the [True Edict of Audience with the Dao] promised by the mysterious man.

This was because the many cultivation methods in the True Edict of Audience with the Dao were already deeply ingrained in his mind, and Chen Lingxi had also firmly memorized the Heaven-Inviting Great Sage Audience-with-the-Dao Diagram the Dao.

He gazed at the mysterious middle-aged man, then suddenly smiled and said, "Senior, I wonder if I could forgo the Divine Ability power and technique of the Nine Qi Floors Surpassing Eleven..."

"Would you like something else instead?"