Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls

"Insolence!"

Great Luo pressure came crashing down, and boundless devouring force erupted from that enormous dragon maw.

The edges of the vast world began collapsing layer by layer. Sun, moon, and stars teetered on the verge of falling, while even the mountains, rivers, and Four Seas were continuously dragged toward the dragon's mouth by that force.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi exchanged a glance.

No words were needed. Their two Daos changed at the same time.

Qing Xuan no longer resisted that devouring force. Instead, he actively pushed the vast world behind him toward the dragon's mouth.

At the same moment, Qing Yi put away the Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner.

The Creation Great Dao merged entirely into Qing Xuan's world.

The colossal dragon body accepted it all without hesitation, swallowing an entire world along with both Great Daos into its belly.

"Hahaha!"

"Two ignorant juniors actually dared to enter my Dao of their own accord. You are truly courting death!"

Before the Dragon Race Great Luo's laughter could fade, his expression suddenly froze.

The world he had swallowed did not shatter.

Instead, driven by the Creation Great Dao, it began expanding madly.

Mountains and rivers, the Four Seas, sun and moon, stars.

Countless world phantoms were opened one after another within the massive dragon body, every world drawing upon the power he had gathered through the formation.

He had wanted to refine Qing Xuan's world.

Yet Qing Xuan had turned his dragon body into nourishment for the world's expansion.

Qing Yi did not remain at the center of the world.

Her slender figure passed through one newly opened world after another and appeared directly in the deepest part of the dragon body.

There was no flesh or blood there.

Only the final glimmer of True Spirit remained, along with a broken Dao Fruit projection pinned by the killing intent of the Godslayer Spear.

The Dragon Race Great Luo finally panicked.

He tried to disperse his Dao body again and use the Ruined Realm's formation to reassemble himself, only to discover that he had already drawn all the Dark-Gold Dragon Runes into his body.

To unleash his strongest strike, he had personally abandoned his sole chance to begin again and again.

Qing Yi still did not waste words with him.

Her slender palm descended.

The vast Creation Great Dao struck directly against the broken Dao Fruit projection, stripping away layer after layer of the countless Dragon Race auras attached to it.

The final trace of True Spirit was completely exposed.

"No!"

The Dragon Race Great Luo struggled frantically.

His enormous dragon body rampaged through the Ruined Realm, trying to forcibly shatter the ever-expanding world within him.

But Qing Xuan had already triggered the Godslayer Spear's killing intent that the Calamity-Transferring Formation had reversed back.

A pitch-black spear shadow condensed above the River of Time.

This was the very power that had severed his Dao body, scattered his primordial spirit, and nailed his Dao Fruit to the moment of his death.

And now, it was aimed once more at his final trace of True Spirit.

With death truly approaching, that Dragon Race Great Luo finally lost all his earlier arrogance.

"I am a Dragon Race Great Luo, one who once ruled the tribes of the North Sea!"

"If you dare erase my final trace of True Spirit, Ancestor Dragon will surely sense it! Then the entire Dragon Race will hunt you down. No matter how vast the Primordial World is, there will be no place for you to hide!"

Upon hearing this, Qing Xuan could not help but sneer.

"Stop shouting."

"You hid here for so many years. When you were alive, you did not dare let the Dragon Race know. Now that you are about to die, you suddenly remember you have a clan."

"When you plotted against us just now, didn't you enjoy calculating whether it was worth it?"

The pitch-black spear shadow slowly descended.

Watching that frantically struggling glimmer of True Spirit, Qing Xuan's tone finally carried undisguised mockery.

"You said trading our two Newly Advanced Great Luo Dao Fruits for the return of an old Dragon Race Great Luo like you was worth it."

"What a coincidence."

"I also think trading your lingering scrap of True Spirit for the return of my Chaos Pearl Fragment is worth it."

The pitch-black spear shadow crashed through the broken Dao Fruit.

Qing Yi's Creation Great Dao descended at the same time, completely stripping away every ounce of power that the strand of True Spirit relied upon to sustain itself.

Countless cracks split across the light of the True Spirit.

Everything belonging to this Dragon Race Great Luo—his past and future—appeared within the River of Time, yet had long since been annihilated by the Godslayer Spear.

This final trace of True Spirit was now his last remaining existence.

"This time, the account is finally settled."

As Qing Xuan's words fell,

the last trace of True Spirit exploded into fragments.

The colossal dragon body collapsed with it, turning into countless dark-gold motes that scattered throughout the Ruined Realm.

That Dragon Race Great Luo, who had clung to life since the Fierce Beast Tribulation, had finally perished completely.

Without the True Spirit's control, the Dark-Gold Dragon Runes scattered throughout the Ruined Realm fell silent once more.

The altered formation also returned to its original purpose of sealing the Ancient Battlefield and suppressing the lingering traces of the Godslayer Spear. It did not fall into Qing Xuan's hands because of this.

Qing Xuan withdrew the World Dao, and Qing Yi returned to his side as well.

The young woman first glanced at him, confirming that he was uninjured, before turning her gaze toward the Chaos Pearl Fragment that had reappeared.

After losing its final external imprint, the Chaos Pearl Fragment was finally free of restraint.

It slowly rose and came of its own accord before Qing Xuan.

The Chaos Restriction wrapped around its exterior still remained. It did not open on its own merely because that Dragon Race Great Luo had fallen.

Nor did Qing Xuan immediately sit down to refine it.

He merely extended a hand and stirred his own Chaos Origin.

The two auras, born from the same source, intertwined with each other.

The gray fragment transformed into a stream of Chaos light and flowed directly into Qing Xuan's body.

Boom!

The vast world behind Qing Xuan abruptly expanded.

The hazy void at the edge of the world finally manifested for the first time as an endless expanse of Chaos.

As Chaos churned, earth, water, fire, and wind endlessly emerged and perished. World phantoms opened one after another, then returned once more to the Chaos Origin.

The power accumulated by the fragment over countless years was also replenished entirely into Qing Xuan's Great Luo Dao Fruit at that moment.

The Thirty-Six Heavens of Great Luo—each heaven was a long stretch of the path.

Qing Xuan had previously only just gained a foothold at the lowest level, but now he crossed several intangible heavenly barriers in succession. His Dao Fruit and cultivation far surpassed what they had been when he had first attained Great Luo.

Qing Xuan opened his eyes, and the surrounding Chaos phenomena returned into his body.

Qing Yi stood quietly to one side. Sensing the aura of the Great Dao around him, now many times deeper than before, she said nothing and simply waited in silence.

Qing Xuan, too, quietly experienced the portion of Chaos Origin within him that had just been replenished.

A moment later, just as he was about to say something to Qing Yi, the Chaos Pearl Fragment that had only just returned to its place stirred with another sensation.

This time, the sensation came from the distant eastern seas.

Twenty-four auras of the same origin lit up at once, connecting with one another and forming a whole.

Within every aura seemed to lie a world not yet opened. Rising and falling, they radiated the ancient aura of the Chaos Pearl, born from the same root and source.

Qing Xuan's gaze shifted slightly.

Twenty-four.

Pearl-shaped spirit treasures.

Born from the same source as the Chaos Pearl.

Seeing the change in his expression, Qing Yi asked, "Did you sense something else?"

Qing Xuan raised his eyes and looked toward the East Sea.

"Yes. After recovering this fragment, it seems I have gained another layer of perception. And this time, it is not just one item."

A hint of surprised amusement entered Qing Xuan's voice.

After the Chaos Pearl shattered, some of its fragments had evolved into Innate Spirit Treasures.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Originally, this set of Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures would have fallen into Zhao Gongming's hands. But now, they could naturally belong only to him.