World's Ruin, the Cultivation Method of Devouring

Shen Fei followed behind Guangze and entered the enormous vortex. The moment he stepped inside, he sensed the difference between this Sea Eye and the waters of the Primordial Sea.

There was no spiritual qi...

"The Sea Eye actually has no spiritual qi."

"It is not that there is no spiritual qi, but that it has all gathered within the Water Veins. Within this small world of the Sea Eye, only the Water Veins and the Return Ruins contain spiritual qi. The rest of the place is not filled with it."

Guangze explained.

"Otherwise, why would the Four Seas Eyes be called forbidden lands? They would have long become Blessed Lands for cultivators of the Law of Water to flock to.

The Return Ruins is responsible for absorbing the harmful forces from dead water and foul water throughout Heaven and Earth.

It refines the spiritual qi and merges it into the seawater, then sends it through the Sea Eyes into the Primordial Heaven and Earth, forming the water cycle of the entire Primordial Heaven and Earth. Thus, it is impossible for spiritual qi to overflow from the Water Veins."

Listening to Guangze's explanation, Shen Fei nodded.

That made sense.

If the Sea Eyes were filled with spiritual qi, then given their special nature, they would have long become Blessed Lands, fought over by those great Water Dao experts.

"That is the Return Ruins. Be careful. If you fall into it, the various laws within may very well erase your physical body."

Guangze pointed into the distance. There was an incomparably enormous vortex, surrounded by an endless influx of seawater filled with negative forces such as resentment, malice, baleful qi, corpse qi, and more.

The vortex continuously swallowed the seawater.

As Guangze continued leading Shen Fei forward,

true dragons in their original forms soon appeared in Shen Fei's sight. They were using their mana to direct the Water Veins emerging from the Return Ruins out through the Sea Eye according to their flow direction, volume, and other factors.

"Can I stay here for a while?"

"You may."

Guangze nodded. He knew what Shen Fei wanted to do. For Innate Divine Beings like them, all things in Heaven and Earth could serve as the Dao.

Some divine beings comprehended the Four Seas, some comprehended mountains, and some even comprehended the stars.

Through this, they realized the Dao, elevated their laws, or created divine abilities.

Yet such things often required vast amounts of time, as well as a divine being inherently suited to those kinds of laws.

In his view, although Shen Fei was an Innate Divine Being of the Law of Water, it would likely be difficult for him to comprehend any powerful divine ability or law from the Sea Eye or the Return Ruins.

After all, the Dragon Clan had been here for so many years, yet no one had gained any powerful divine ability from it.

Shen Fei sat down cross-legged. His Primordial Spirit Power began to spread, extending toward the Sea Eye that transported water outside, carefully sensing the laws contained within.

Inhaling and exhaling the North Sea Water Veins...

At the same time, Shen Fei's Primordial Spirit Power also extended beside the Return Ruins. Yet the moment it touched the Return Ruins, it began to dissipate. He could not comprehend anything at all.

Shen Fei opened his eyes.

"I want to enter the Return Ruins."

"Huh?" Guangze looked at Shen Fei, who had only just closed his eyes before suddenly opening them again, and heard his words.

"You may. However, should you sense danger, I ask that Fellow Daoist Guiyuan not act rashly over temporary gains and losses."

"Of course. I will assume my true form. The Return Ruins should not be able to wear away my turtle shell!"

"Very well, but there may not be much time for you. Once your true form enters it, you may obstruct the operation of the Return Ruins. If its operation prevents the Water Veins from flowing freely,

the Heavenly Dao will surely send down Karmic Force..."

"How long?"

"Within five years. And even then, I cannot guarantee that you will comprehend anything."

Guangze was helpless. In his view, what could anyone comprehend in five years?

Naturally, he wanted to befriend Shen Fei, but if trying to befriend him resulted in the Return Ruins becoming blocked,

and Karmic Force descending from Heaven, would that not be putting the cart before the horse?

He befriended powerful figures of every race in order to lessen the effects of Karmic Force upon the Dragon Clan.

"Five years is enough. If I gain nothing, that is naturally my own problem."

Shen Fei nodded. The next moment,

the true form of the Primordial Giant Turtle appeared. The true dragons who had been dredging the Water Veins within the Sea Eye suddenly saw a Giant Turtle as immense as a mountain appear here.

Without another word, it entered the Return Ruins.

Some true dragons wanted to stop it, but Guangze sent them a voice transmission. "Only five years. During this time, you are responsible for storing the seawater first.

But make sure to look as though you are working very hard. Understood?"

"Understood."

The true dragons stared with shocked dragon eyes at Shen Fei, who suffered no effect after entering, their hearts filled with alarm.

A living being had actually entered the Return Ruins in the flesh without being ground to pieces!

Guangze watched Shen Fei plunge directly into the Return Ruins. After the power of the Return Ruins climbed over Shen Fei's body, all kinds of laws tried to erase him, only to be blocked by a layer of divine light.

This Senior truly deserves to be one who existed at the beginning of Heaven Opening... Had he taken form and realized the Dao back then, he would likely have become a great power in no way inferior to the Ancestral Dragon... What a pity.

At this moment, Shen Fei

entered the Return Ruins, and his mind began to turn. The Martial Arts and Cultivation Methods he had accumulated in the past were continuously drawn forth.

[The Return Ruins and the Sea Eye are the beginning and end of the water cycle. Thus, in endless repetition, water dies and water is born...]

[The Return Ruins is the union of the Dao of Devouring and the Dao of Water. It is where the Primordial World's Ruin lies...]

[You believe your world likewise requires a Return Ruins, using rotation to grind apart tangible things and suction to devour intangible matter...]

[Use Mysterious Turtle Particles to establish the World's Ruin within the Inner World...]

By directly using his physical body to comprehend the power of the Return Ruins, that boundlessly terrifying churning combined with the Law of Devouring, the Law of Water, and even the Law of Reincarnation within...

The Mysterious Turtle Particles within Shen Fei's body began to shine with Divine Radiance. Following an exceedingly profound trajectory, they moved through his body and entered the world opened within him by "Sun and Moon within the Belly."

The once-empty world within his belly had been nothing but Void.

Suddenly, Mysterious Turtle Particles entered one after another and began rotating in the unique manner of the Return Ruins. An enormous vortex appeared within the void of that world.

This vortex had two sides as one, as though infinite profundities circulated within it.

The next moment,

a drop of water flashing with brilliant divine light began to emerge from the outlet of the vortex below. This was the first drop of water in this world.

[Taiyi Gives Birth to Water. Water in turn assists Taiyi, thereby forming Heaven...]

A passage suddenly flashed through Shen Fei's mind.

All at once, that single drop of water spread outward at a frenzied speed. In an instant, a vast ocean appeared within the void.

The endlessly emerging water vanished into thin air, transforming into strands of Clear Qi that drifted upward and condensed above the void of the world.

At the same time, this once-tiny world began expanding at an astonishing speed.

As Shen Fei comprehended the Return Ruins and sensed the changes in the world within his body, countless Dao Rhymes continued flashing through his mind as the world expanded, as though the ultimate principles of Heaven and Earth were constantly appearing and being absorbed by him.

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