The slaughter and salvation in the Weeping Blood Wasteland had been like a tempering of the soul, refining Ming Xin's Dao heart and power until they became ever more harmonious and flawless.
The ultimate sharpness of the Myriad Killing Art, the compassionate tolerance of the Mortal World Palm, and the merit feedback of the Immortal Crossing Art had formed a mysterious balance within him.
Steadily pushing his cultivation toward deeper realms of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage.
He did not linger. His figure transformed into an elusive streak of light as he continued resolutely toward the backbone of the Primordial World—Buzhou Mountain.
The closer he came to Buzhou Mountain, the more horrifying the surrounding scene became. The sky seemed to have been torn apart countless times, filled with savage spatial rifts.
Chaotic currents poured downward like waterfalls, only to be shredded by turbulent currents of earth, fire, wind, and water.
The land lay fractured and broken, with enormous abysses visible everywhere, their depths churning with lava and poisonous killing intent.
The once-majestic mountain ranges had either been severed at their waists or pulverized into dust by immense force.
The air was thick with an inescapable stench of blood, killing intent, and the unwilling resentment and shattered Law remnants left behind by countless powerful beings after their deaths.
The core battlefield where the Wu and Yao clans' main forces clashed was like an enormous millstone that endlessly crushed life. Even Ming Xin felt his heart tremble at the destructive fluctuations it emitted.
He cautiously avoided the fiercest battlefields and moved along the edge of the war zone like a ghost, slipping through the cracks of destruction as he continued clearing away the "karmic obstacles" attached to the great battle.
At the same time, he continuously absorbed and digested the dense killing intent, deathly aura, and shattered Laws permeating this land, integrating them into the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.
No one knew how long passed before the Giant Pillar of Buzhou Mountain, which truly held up heaven and earth, finally appeared clearly at the edge of his vision—still towering majestically amid endless Calamity Qi and storms of destruction, radiating ancient desolation.
It supported the heavens and earth of the Primordial World!
The closer he drew, the clearer that terrifying pressure originating from Great God Pangu's spine became!
It was not hostility or an attack directed at anyone, but the remnant of a supreme will—pure beyond measure, boundlessly vast, and representing power and creation!
Before this pressure, all things appeared insignificant, like ants gazing up at the heavens!
Ming Xin felt even the circulation of his Magic Power become sluggish. Every step he took felt as though he were carrying countless divine mountains upon his back!
His bones groaned beneath the unbearable burden, while his primordial spirit seemed to have been cast into a furnace for tempering! Ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortals likely could not even approach the mountain's base!
Yet brilliant light burst from his eyes!
"Pangu's Pressure... the Will of Heaven-Opening... this is the supreme sacred ground for tempering oneself and verifying the Great Dao!"
Not only did he refuse to retreat, he deliberately slowed his pace and stopped using divine abilities to resist.
Instead, he used his pure physical body and will to endure, sense, and comprehend this vast pressure!
Crack... crack...
The skin across his body split apart, blood beads seeping out, only to rapidly heal beneath the merit Immortal Power of the Immortal Crossing Art and the White Bone True Body's self-recovery.
Dense explosive sounds rang from his bones, as though an invisible Giant Hammer were repeatedly forging them.
Under the cleansing of that pressure, his primordial spirit seemed to be stripped of layer after layer of impurities, becoming ever more condensed, pure, and resilient!
The Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture began operating autonomously at its limit! The Killing Law, Nirvana Law, Red Dust Law, Power of Salvation... beneath the terrifying pressure of Pangu's Pressure, they were forced to merge, compress, and transform ever more tightly!
The Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel at his brow spun madly. The phantom of the Killing Buddha Dharma Image at its center grew increasingly solid, while the Nirvana Killing Sword in its hand and the Merit Green Lotus showed faint signs of merging!
One step, one layer of pressure!
One step, one transformation!
Like an ascetic, Ming Xin struggled onward through the "purgatory" of Pangu's Pressure, climbing toward the foot of Buzhou Mountain.
His aura was sometimes as weak as a dying candle in the wind beneath the pressure, yet at other times it erupted with astonishing sharpness like refined iron beneath the hammer!
Just as he struggled upward, his mind wholly immersed in resisting the pressure and comprehending the Heaven-Opening Dao essence, the Karma Life-Death Eyes at his brow suddenly turned slightly on their own.
They conveyed an exceedingly faint perception of strange fluctuations, different from Pangu's Pressure.
The fluctuations were extremely obscure. Had his mind not been intensely focused at that moment, producing a subtle resonance with Buzhou Mountain's aura, and had the Karma Life-Death Eyes not been exceptionally sensitive to energy trajectories, he would never have noticed them.
"Hmm?" Ming Xin abruptly halted. Enduring the terrifying pressure, he focused all his attention and activated the Karma Life-Death Eyes, carefully sensing the source of those strange fluctuations.
Within his sight lay an apparently ordinary area at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, covered in enormous boulders and remnants of war.
Yet in the vision of the Karma Life-Death Eyes, the "threads of cause and effect" within that space showed extremely unnatural traces of having been artificially twisted and cleverly concealed!
An exceptionally ingenious natural restriction, perfectly hidden with the help of Buzhou Mountain's Pangu aura and the killing intent of its earth veins!
"Innate Restrictions?!" Ming Xin's heart stirred. An Innate Restriction that had naturally formed at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, in a place where Pangu's Pressure was so terrifying.
What it guarded could not possibly be ordinary!
He drew a deep breath and, bracing against the overwhelming pressure, moved step by step toward that area. The nearer he came, the clearer the restriction's fluctuations became beneath the Karma Life-Death Eyes.
It had not been laid down by anyone, but born of heaven and earth itself, linked to Buzhou Mountain's earth veins. Without a divine ability capable of peering into the origin of cause and effect, even a Quasi-Saint passing by would struggle to discover it.
Ming Xin stopped outside the restriction and pondered briefly. Rather than forcibly breaking it open, he sat cross-legged and formed seals with both hands.
He drew upon the power of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture while mobilizing a trace of the ancient Dao essence he had just comprehended from Buzhou Mountain, cautiously probing toward the restriction.
His power possessed extremely unusual attributes: Nirvana, Slaughter, Mortal World, salvation, and even a faint trace of Pangu's Dao essence.
When mixed together, they unexpectedly produced a strange resonance with the natural restriction formed through Buzhou Mountain's aura!
Hum...
Ripples spread over the restriction's surface like waves on water, yet no violent counterattack was triggered.
Ming Xin held his breath and concentrated. Using his divine sense as a brush and his own Dao essence as ink, he was like the most precise locksmith, gradually analyzing, integrating into, and assimilating the restriction's structure.
The process consumed an enormous amount of mental energy, far more exhausting than a great battle.
Time passed bit by bit. Fine beads of sweat formed on Ming Xin's forehead as the Dao essence around him gradually became aligned with the restriction's fluctuations.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the incomparably sturdy Innate Restriction silently collapsed inward like melting ice and snow.
It revealed an entrance only wide enough for one person, radiating dense Innate aura!
A vast aura of utmost purity, containing the supreme mysteries of the Five Elements Cycle, mutual generation, and mutual restraint,
Burst from the entrance in an instant like an ancient dragon that had slept for countless ages awakening!
Ming Xin's spirits soared as he stepped inside!
The interior was not as deep and gloomy as he had imagined. Instead, it was a strange small space shrouded in Five-Colored Divine Light.
At the center of the space, an extraordinary pine tree had rooted itself in Chaos-colored soil, bathing in dense Innate Five Elements Essence!
The pine was not tall, only around ten feet high, yet it was rugged as a dragon. Its bark was cracked like dragon scales, radiating an ancient and weathered aura.
Its branches and leaves were not emerald green, but glowed with a strange five-colored radiance!
Clusters of azure, crimson, yellow, white, and black needles grew together, corresponding respectively to the Innate Five Elements: Jia-Yi Wood, Bing-Ding Fire, Wu-Ji Earth, Geng-Xin Metal, and Ren-Gui Water!
Every pine needle was crystal-clear, as though condensed from the purest Five Elements origin. Whenever its branches swayed, they stirred the surrounding Five Elements spiritual energy into a boiling cycle, evolving earth, water, fire, and wind in endlessly profound ways!
"This is... one of the Innate Five Elements Spiritual Roots, the Five-Needle Pine?!"
Even with his steadfast will, Ming Xin could not help drawing a sharp breath. Incredulous delight burst from his eyes!
The Innate Five Elements Spiritual Roots were all rare treasures nurtured within Chaos. Every one of them contained a complete Innate Great Dao!
This Five-Needle Pine was precisely a supreme Spiritual Root that controlled the origin power of the Innate Five Elements!
However, what shocked him even more was that beneath the Five-Needle Pine's roots was not ordinary soil, but a mass of Innate origin qi that continuously shifted forms and radiated five-colored divine brilliance!
This mass of qi was pure and vast. The Five Elements Dao essence it contained was even more ancient and pure than the Five-Needle Pine itself!
It seemed sentient. Upon sensing Ming Xin's arrival, it rippled faintly, conveying a weak yet incomparably noble intent, along with lingering grief and unwillingness!
"Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin qi?!" Ming Xin instantly understood! During the conflict between Dao and devils, Devil Ancestor Rahula had set up the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Old Ancestor of Five Elements had sought to break it.
He had resolutely self-destructed his Innate Five Elements origin, severely damaging the sword formation. Yet he himself had perished, leaving only the most essential thread of origin qi to escape by chance.
It had fled beneath Buzhou Mountain, where it and this companion Five-Needle Pine had been sealed by a natural restriction and slumbered until now!
This was a heaven-shaking opportunity! He had not merely obtained the top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Five-Needle Pine, but also the most essential remnant origin left behind after the fall of Old Ancestor of Five Elements, one of the Primordial World's earliest Innate great beings!
Its value even surpassed that of an ordinary Innate Supreme Treasure!
Ming Xin forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart. He gave a slight bow toward the mass of Five Elements origin qi and the Five-Needle Pine. "This junior, Ming Xin, has encountered the senior's legacy today. Truly heaven's will.
"Rest assured, Senior. In my hands, these treasures will never allow the Five Elements Great Dao to be tarnished. I shall use them to slay karma, protect life, and cleanse the Primordial World!"
The mass of Five Elements origin qi seemed to understand Ming Xin's words. It trembled faintly, and its lingering grief and unwillingness gradually faded.
In their place emerged a trace of relief and entrustment. Then it transformed into a streak of light and voluntarily entered Ming Xin's brow!
At the same time, the Five-Needle Pine uprooted itself, transforming into a five-colored radiance that merged into Ming Xin's body!
Boom—!!!
An unimaginable torrent of energy and vast comprehension of the Innate Five Elements Great Dao erupted within Ming Xin as though the universe itself had just begun!
"System! Highest authority! Using Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin qi and the Five-Needle Pine as the core, merge them with the foundation of my Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture and deduce a great Five Elements killing divine ability!
"Direction: Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability! Core principle: wield the power of the Five Elements to carry out Nirvana slaughter and grasp the authority of life and death over heaven and earth!"
[Command confirmed! Highest-authority deduction initiated!] [Core energy sources connected: Innate Five Elements Origin (Old Ancestor of Five Elements' legacy), Innate Five Elements Spiritual Root (Five-Needle Pine)...] [Core Law template: Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture (Slaughter, Nirvana, Mortal World, salvation)...] [Deduction direction: Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability (evolve Five Emperors through the Five Elements, command Five Demons through the Five Emperors, govern the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation)...] [Fusion deduction begins...]
Ming Xin instantly sat cross-legged within this small space, as Five-Colored Divine Light surged from his body into the sky.
It intertwined and fused madly with ash-white Nirvana Buddha Light, dark-red Slaughter runes, phantoms of the myriad forms of the Mortal World, and pale golden merit Immortal Power!
Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin insights flooded into his primordial spirit like a tide. They were the most fundamental, most essential understanding of the Five Elements Great Dao!
The boundless Five Elements Essence of the Five-Needle Pine, meanwhile, was like a vast ocean, flooding madly into every part of his body and tempering his flesh, Magic Power, and primordial spirit!
Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art! Endless Life Force, yet it could also draw upon the essence of all trees and turn life into a domain of death!
Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Art! Burn heaven and boil seas, unleash violent Destruction, and refine all things!
Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Art! Bear all things with immense weight, possess peerless defense, and bury everything!
White Emperor Metal Sovereign Art! Unmatched in sharpness, sever all things, and command slaughter!
Black Emperor Water Sovereign Art! Utmost softness and utmost hardness, corrode all things, and devour everything!
The Five Elements cycled, generating and restraining one another!
Under the System's frenzied deductions and the fusion with Ming Xin's own Dao Foundation, five imperial phantoms gradually condensed behind him, becoming increasingly clear. They represented the extremes of the Five Elements, yet contained the will of Nirvana and Slaughter!
These Five Emperors were not benevolent rulers, but "Great Demons" who controlled the authority of life and death through heaven and earth's Five Elements! With a single thought, they could grant Life Force; with a single thought, they could unleash Destruction!
His aura soared madly at a terrifying speed amid that immense infusion of power and enlightenment!
Mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal peak... late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal... late-stage peak...
The integration of the Five Elements origin greatly compensated for the relatively weaker aspects of "Creation" and "foundation" in his previous Dao arts, ensuring that his Dao of Nirvana and Slaughter was no longer one of pure deathly stillness.
Instead, it contained the marvelous cycle of Five Elements life and death! His power of Mortal World salvation now possessed the support of a Five Elements material foundation, becoming more substantial and real!
No one knew how long passed before Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin qi was completely absorbed, and the Five-Needle Pine fully merged into his body, becoming the origin of his Five Elements Spiritual Root.
When the five imperial demonic phantoms behind him, radiating terrifying Five Elements life-and-death Dao essence, fully solidified like the Five Heavenly Emperors and guarded the central Killing Buddha Dharma Image of Nirvana...
Boom!!!
A terrifying aura, flawless and complete, boundlessly vast, and surpassing ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortals, erupted from Ming Xin's body like an awakened primordial star core.
It instantly broke through the limits of this small space, even causing Pangu's Pressure around Buzhou Mountain to tremble!
Grand Unity Golden Immortal—complete!
Ming Xin abruptly opened his eyes. In his left eye, the Five Elements cycled through life and death; within his right, Nirvana and Slaughter interwove in reincarnation!
He slowly rose to his feet, his aura as unfathomable as an abyss and as vast as the sea!
With every movement, he seemed capable of stirring the Five Elements power of the Primordial World and controlling the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation for all things!
The Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability had been achieved!
On this journey to Buzhou Mountain, he had obtained a heaven-shaking opportunity and finally reached the complete Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
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