Sun-Slaying, Slaying-Force Cauldron

Chen Lingxi and returned to the side of the blue stone.

The spiritual mist still lingered above the secret realm, and the sunlight filtering through it was rendered into a very pale grayish-blue, giving it a rather mysterious appearance.

Lin Suri remained seated before the stone, his eyes still filled with surprise as he watched Chen Lingxi return from afar.

"Brother Dao, I never imagined your foundation was so profound."

Chen Lingxi sat down opposite him.

He took out a jade bottle from his sleeve, first swallowed a healing pill, closed his eyes and regulated his breathing for a moment, before slowly exhaling a breath of stale air.

"Dao Foundation Late Stage, truly extraordinary."

He spoke, his tone devoid of any dejection. "Three great Divine Ability, plus the profound Bai Family Divine Ability, and those three Law Treasure —all extremely extraordinary. Even with all my strength, I could only hold out against him for a few dozen breaths."

Lin Suri shook his head. "Brother Dao is too modest. The gap between Second Profound and Third Profound cultivators is enormous. The difference in the richness of their Dao Origin alone is several times greater, not to mention the difference in their great Divine Ability. It is almost impossible for them to fight across realms. Yet you were able to escape unscathed from Third Profound cultivator, which is truly remarkable."

The two sat by the blue stone, the night wind blowing through the old forest, brushing against Chen Lingxi's robes still stained with thunderous energy, and also against the cloud pattern on Lin Suri's Daoist robe.

Twin Luminous Mirrors Total Perception Divine Chamber has not yet ended.

Chen Lingxi suddenly raised her head.

"Brother Lin Dao."

"You just told me you would give me the Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity?"

Lin Suri was slightly surprised, but still nodded and said, "That's right."

Chen Lingxi her head. "Since this fortuitous opportunity is yours, I am unwilling to accept it. Instead, I want to borrow it from you temporarily."

"Borrow?" Lin Suri was puzzled. Such fortuitous opportunity required persistent refinement and absorption; what did "borrowing" mean?

However, Lin Suri trusted Chen Lingxi completely, and although he didn't understand Chen Lingxi's intentions, he nodded in agreement.

"Borrow," Chen Lingxi said, "Just a few days. I'll return it to you after that."

Lin Suri looked at him and slowly nodded.

"Good."

He didn't ask what he wanted to borrow it for, but simply raised his hand and made a vague gesture from the Void.

At that moment, all the light in the secret realm went out.

Beside the bluestone, a dark mass emerged from above Lin Suri's head.

It was a black sun, not emitting any light, suspended in the Void, with the sunlight falling from above slowly sinking into that inky blackness.

The light sinks in and disappears without a trace.

At the edge of the black sun, a ring of crimson gold appeared.

It circulated around that dark, mysterious flow, its momentum profound and its meaning enduring, just like the sun that has hung in the sky since the most ancient times!

Lin Suri gently pushed Chen Lingxi towards the dark sun.

The dark sun came and hung about a foot in front of Chen Lingxi.

Chen Lingxi raised his hand, palm facing up, and the dark sun fell into his palm.

It felt neither heavy nor warm to the touch.

But the moment the black sun fell into his palm, Chen Lingxi clearly sensed that from that pitch blackness, an extremely terrifying spiritual energy slowly surged up, its momentum deep and endless, as if it contained a great river falling from the sky.

"Indeed mysterious."

Chen Lingxi closed his eyes and probed his Dao Origin into the pitch-black darkness.

A sudden inspiration struck.

Chen Lingxi was startled.

He clearly sensed that the inspiration was surging from the depths of the dark sun, flowing upwards against the current, into his meridians, into his flesh, into his fascia and bones.

Wherever inspiration strikes, everything around him changes.

It's as if someone placed his physical body in a special vessel and slowly roasted it with a tireless fire!

Chen Lingxi a deep breath.

"This is the opportunity to Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity."

It can transform one's flesh and Root Bone, making the meridians, bones, Qi and Blood and blood, and internal organs more in line with the Great Dao.

The cultivator's physical body is transformed into a shell called the [Sun-Slaying Spirit Body].

Chen Lingxi slowly opened her eyes.

He gazed at the dark sun in his palm, which seemed as deep as a bottomless pool.

"Truly terrifying."

He silently recited it in his heart.

If this fortuitous opportunity is fully utilized, the physical body can be completely rebuilt.

With his current cultivation level, he is already at the Dao Foundation Middle Stage. His Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform is as deep and solid as an abyss, with two Profound Root standing on Dao Platform. Within his Inner Divine Palace, the illusory image of a Azure-Gold True Dragon breathes continuously.

But if another layer of the Sun-Slaying Spirit Body is added...

Chen Lingxi smiled proudly, and several days passed in this manner.

Chen Lingxi opened her eyes that day.

He stood up.

The black sun still hung in his palm.

Then he straightened his robes and bowed deeply to Lin Suri.

"Brother Su Ri."

Lin Suri opened his eyes.

He looked at Chen Lingxi in front of him, his brows twitching slightly.

Chen Lingxi met his gaze, her smile unchanged, "We meet again in this world."

Lin Suri stared at him, somewhat bewildered, not understanding what Chen Lingxi was talking about.

In an instant!

Total Perception shattering!

Above the sky, Twin Luminous Mirrors suddenly burst forth with dazzling light.

One round, blazing gold like the sun, its flames swirling; the other, silvery white like the moon, its clear light shining brightly!

Two beams of light fell simultaneously from the highest point, shining on Chen Lingxi and the entire secret realm!

Then the whole world began to distort, crack, and disintegrate.

The mountains and rivers reversed, the pine forest turned to dust, and the bluestone turned to powder, all disappearing with the wind that swept away into nothingness.

"Stealing the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, and drawing upon the wisdom of the past and present."

That ancient line of poetry seemed to come from the very end of time, echoing in his Consciousness Sea.

Chen Lingxi's consciousness hovered in the Void of the Divine Chamber, her gaze fixed on the inky black sun suspended in the depths of nothingness.

"Bringing this Sun-Slaying back would be a great fortuitous opportunity!"

Chen Lingxi let out a long breath and opened her eyes.

The sky was bright and clear atop the deserted, solitary peak.

The sun, shining brightly on three sides of the sky, occupies one of each side, one gold, one silver, and one red.

Chen Lingxi sat cross-legged on the green rock, the long wind blowing and scattering the stray hairs on his forehead.

With a thought, his consciousness entered the Divine Chamber.

The Divine Chamber Void, the thick fog churning as usual, and golden tadpole-shaped characters suspended in the deepest part.

Amidst the clouds, a jet-black disc floated silently in the air, its edges shimmering with a deep reddish-gold hue.

Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity.

Chen Lingxi stared intently at the dark sun.

"This item can alter my physical body, transforming me into the Sun-Slaying Spirit Body."

He regained consciousness and opened his eyes.

In the present world, he never went to look for Lin Suri again.

Total Perception has already evolved once, Lin Suri still guards the blue stone, the Bai Family's coercion continues, and the Dao Foundation Late Stage on Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds remains unchanged.

"Only by honing our skills as quickly as possible can we safely escape the deadly calamity with Brother Lin when the secret realm opens."

He sat down on the green rock and closed his eyes.

Bai Huan's many secrets and backgrounds swirled in his mind.

First, those three great Divine Ability.

The first gate Spirit Thunder Ray Mountain.

This technique uses the cultivator's own spiritual lightning as its core, condensing it into a hundred-zhang-tall thunder mountain that crashes down from the sky, gathering ten thousand streams of spiritual lightning into one mountain, crushing everything in its path.

That thunder mountain shattered upon impact with his Thunder-Prison Heaven, demonstrating its extreme refinement.

Chen Lingxi thought to himself, "Within the Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool, the Immortal-Calamity Tribulation-Grinding Aura can overcome all kinds of thunder."

If that thunderous mountain were to press down upon Thunder-Prison Heaven, he would not meet it with sword light, but instead open the Thunder Pool wide, using the power of immortal strikes to dissipate the spiritual lightning from below, thus resisting it.

The second gate is named Great Radiant Eye.

This eye relies solely on the word "illuminate".

Anything with form, energy, or power has nowhere to hide. If one cultivates to a profound level, one can even directly penetrate the barriers of an opponent's Divine Ability abilities.

He was at the foot of Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds when the lightning above his Thunder-Prison Immortal Eye was seen through by this great Divine Ability, and then he used the Bai Family's Divine Ability, the Profound Spirit Light, to pierce through it.

After meditating for more than ten days, Chen Lingxi finally gained some insights.

His Concealed Edge Method, under its Mystic Realm, can completely conceal the energy within his body, rendering it invisible.

The Great Radiant Eye can see things that are tangible. If someone is invisible, it would be difficult for the Great Radiant Eye to see them. At the very least, it wouldn't be able to see through them at a glance.

When the Concealed Edge Method is practiced to the Mystic Realm, one can hide one's body in grass, trees, rocks, and mountains, becoming one with the surrounding energy.

If he could advance just one more step, he could hide himself in the Void, so that even if those eyes looked from all directions, they wouldn't be able to see the slightest flaw.

"If one can cultivate the Concealed Edge Method to the [Mysterious Profundity] realm beyond the Mystic Realm stage, and combine it with the buff from the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade when facing Bai Huan, one should be able to deal with this great Divine Ability."

The third great Divine Ability belongs to Heaven of Refining All.

This technique transformed into a thousand-foot-long magic array that slowly descended from the sky, refining all the Void, all spells, and all energy beneath it!

This great Divine Ability is not difficult to crack; the Heavenly-Law Edict he holds is the very essence of the great power of heaven and earth.

It can be controlled.

Next came several of the Bai Family's Divine Ability.

Jade Platform Seal, Upper Spirit Mystic Light, and the Origin-Expelling Formation.

He had already seen the Jade Platform Seal back in the Weiji Grotto-Heaven, so it was not difficult to deal with.

The Upper Spirit Mystic Light Origin-Expelling Formation can be broken by force.

Finally, there are those three spiritual treasures.

The Radiant Qi Needle with the weight of Dao Origin, wears away his Sword-Ray. If more than seventy Sword-Ray were to emerge simultaneously, it could break through.

When the Five-Light Great Banner pressed down from all directions, he relied on Thunder-Prison Heaven to defend against them.

"That mysterious treasure seal is far too powerful."

The suction force generated by that ancient beast seal was drawn directly from his Dao Platform, slowly pulling up that Dao Origin from the outside and returning it to its source. It was at least a third-grade spiritual treasure, extremely mysterious.

Chen Lingxi his brains, but still couldn't come up with a solution.

He shook his head, deciding not to think about it anymore, and took out the Dao-Seizing Fruit from the Hongdong Bag.

The fruit was about the size of a fist, with a dark gold color throughout. Its surface was covered with a layer of intricate and mysterious patterns, and an ancient aura was faintly surging within it.

Chen Lingxi a deep breath and infused it with Dao Origin.

Seventy-two streams of energy flowed out simultaneously from his Dao Platform, slowly rotating around his body.

He then placed the Dao-Seizing Fruit into the center of the formation formed by the seventy-two strands of energy.

In an instant, all the patterns on the Dao-Seizing Fruit lit up.

The Killing Power suppressed within the fruit burst forth, following the array patterns formed by the seventy-two strands of energy, and in an instant, it expanded the entire array from the inside!

With a loud bang.

The formation slowly shifted in the Void.

Chen Lingxi himself up, and the Killing Power emanating from his Dao-Seizing Fruit slowly solidified.

It was a "plate".

The plate was about ten feet in diameter, with a deep, dark silver color. The plate was extremely thin, and seventy-two interconnected and echoing patterns were engraved on it. The patterns spread out from the center of the plate and settled one by one on the edge of the plate, making a total of seventy-two points.

At the end of those seventy-two patterns, something slowly materialized from that Killing Power.

There were actually seventy-two precious swords.

The seventy-two swords were identical in shape, all azure-gold in color, with blades as narrow as leek leaves, and thunder patterns surging on their spines. The sword tips faced outwards, slowly rotating around the dark silver disc, like a sword wheel falling from the sky, each one suspended in the Void.

Chen Lingxi stood in the very center of that array of sword wheels, a thought forming in his mind.

The seventy-two swords simultaneously emitted a very soft sword cry, and the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Great Formation was reassembled on the seventy-two swords. The seventy-two streams of energy simultaneously transformed into Sword Qi, converging towards the center of the array along the patterns on the sword disc.

The Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword, standing at the heart of the formation, had an extremely bright cyan-gold color rise from its blade the instant the seventy-two Sword Qi converged.

Chen Lingxi casually slashed at a deserted, solitary peak in the distance.

The Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light burst forth from the edge of the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword, multiplying from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and from a hundred to a thousand!

But just as its thousand sword rainbows were about to emerge, they were all gathered together by the seventy-two precious swords and returned to one.

Only one remains!

The sword light was only about three feet long, with a bluish-gold color, and was as solid as a substance. When it passed through the Void, it left no air waves or thunderous sounds, but only a very deep sword mark in the center of that solitary peak!

Then the solitary peak split in two, slid down, and crashed into the sea of clouds below, stirring up a sky full of mist.

Chen Lingxi gazed at the cloud and mist, a light slowly shining in her eyes.

"The same sword light, yet two different Killing Power."

"The Slaying-Force Cauldron within this Dao-Seizing Fruit is named [Heaven-Expelling Disc], which can conjure the most suitable array Law Treasure for Killing Power formations, greatly increasing the power of the formation."

"My Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation, with the [Heaven-Expelling Disc] conjuring seventy-two precious swords, combined with the Jade Tiger Sword Light, greatly amplifies its power!"

He silently recited it in his heart.

He had studied the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation for three days in the secret realm, but there were still many shortcomings.

But now, the Heaven-Expelling Disc manifested from the Dao-Seizing Fruit, and seventy-two precious swords fell into the formation, making the seventy-two streams of energy even more transparent.

"With these seventy-two precious swords, this great formation is truly complete."

Chen Lingxi slowly closed the Heaven-Expelling Disc, gazing at the seventy-two swords that had been placed back into the plate, a hint of regret gradually appearing in his eyes.

"Unfortunately, this Cauldron Vessel Dao-Seizing Fruit can only be used at full power once."

He silently recited it in his heart.

After that, the Heaven-Expelling Disc, along with the seventy-two precious swords, will dissipate and vanish with the wind.

"If I had these seventy-two precious swords with me at all times, I might not be afraid of that Dao Foundation Late Stage."

At that moment, a thought suddenly struck him.

He remembered something.

Those few Green Bamboo that he planted in front of the Water-Curtain Cave on Deer-Sleeping Peak.

The Green Bamboo that was seized from Yellow Luminary Peak was originally a spiritual material. If it had grown into Fengluo Bamboo, it would have been sufficient to forge a third-grade spiritual sword.

When he first cut them down, he thought they could only be used as ordinary spiritual materials. Later, he obtained a piece of Spirit Soil from the Opportunity Seeking Hall Master, planted them in it, and nurtured them day by day with the Sword-Nurturing Cage he won from Xu Sanchi. Over the past few years, several sections have been pulled out, each section growing with fine, green sharpness.

A light slowly shone in Chen Lingxi's eyes.

"Once we leave the secret realm, we can use this Green Bamboo to forge seventy-two precious swords to enhance our combat power."