Buzhou Mountain's Treasure

The slaughter and salvation in the Weeping Blood Wasteland were like a quenching of the soul, forging Ming Xin's Dao heart and power into something ever more rounded and translucent.

The extreme sharpness of the Myriad Killing Art, the compassionate embrace of the Mortal World Palm, and the merit feedback of the Immortal Crossing Art achieved a mysterious balance within him.

Propelling his cultivation steadily deeper into the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

He did not linger. His form transformed into a streak of light too swift to track, continuing resolutely toward the spine of the Primordial World—Buzhou Mountain.

The closer he drew to Buzhou Mountain, the more horrifying the surrounding scene became. The sky seemed torn apart countless times, covered in ferocious space cracks.

Chaotic qi currents cascaded down like waterfalls, only to be shredded by turbulent elemental forces of earth, fire, wind, and water.

The earth was shattered, with enormous abysses everywhere, churning with lava and poisonous miasma.

Once-majestic peaks were either snapped in half or blasted to powder by immense force.

The air was thick with an undiluted stench of blood, Sha Qi, and the lingering resentment and broken Dao rhymes of countless powerful beings who had fallen here.

The core battlefield where the main forces of the Wu and Yao clans clashed was like a massive millstone constantly grinding life, its destructive fluctuations making even Ming Xin's heart tremble.

He carefully avoided the most intense battle groups, skirting the battlefield's edge like a ghost, weaving through the gaps of destruction, continuing to cleanse the "karmic obstacles" clinging to the great war.

At the same time, he constantly absorbed and digested the thickest Sha Qi, death intent, and broken laws of this land, integrating them into his Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.

After an unknown span of time, the giant pillar of Buzhou Mountain—truly supporting heaven and earth, standing lofty even amidst endless Calamity Qi and storms of destruction, exuding an ancient, boundless aura—

Finally appeared clearly at the edge of his vision!

The closer he got, the more distinct the terrifying pressure emanating from the spine of Great God Pangu!

It was not hostility or attack aimed at anyone, but a pure, boundless remnant of the supreme will representing power and creation!

Before this pressure, all things seemed insignificant, like ants gazing at the sky!

Ming Xin felt his own magic power flow become sluggish. Every step he took felt like carrying billions of divine mountains on his back!

His bones groaned under the strain, and his Primordial Spirit felt as if it were being cast in a furnace! An ordinary Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal would likely struggle even to approach the mountain's base!

But his eyes blazed with brilliant light!

"Pangu's Pressure... the Will of Heaven-Opening... This is a supreme treasure ground for tempering oneself and verifying the Dao!"

Instead of retreating, he deliberately slowed his pace, ceasing to use divine abilities to resist.

Instead, he used his pure physical body and will to endure, to feel, to comprehend this vast pressure!

Crack... crack...

The skin on his body split open, beading with blood, then rapidly healed under the Merit Immortal Power of the Immortal Crossing Art and the self-repair of the White Bone True Body.

His bones emitted a dense series of explosions, as if being repeatedly hammered by an invisible giant hammer.

His Primordial Spirit, under the baptism of this pressure, shed layer after layer of impurities, becoming more condensed, pure, and resilient!

The Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture operated at its limit! The Killing Law, Nirvana Law, Red Dust Law, Power of Salvation... under the terrifying pressure of Pangu's Pressure, they were forced to merge, compress, and transform more tightly!

The Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel between his brows spun madly. The Killing Buddha Dharma Image phantom at its center grew increasingly solid, and the Nirvana Killing Sword and the Merit Green Lotus in its hands showed signs of fusing!

One step, one layer of pressure!

One step, one transformation!

Ming Xin, like a ascetic monk, trudged arduously through the "purgatory" of Pangu's Pressure, climbing toward the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

His aura flickered like a candle in the wind at times, then burst forth with astonishing sharpness like forged steel at others!

Just as he was struggling upward, his mind completely immersed in resisting the pressure and comprehending the Dao rhyme of Heaven-Opening, the Karma Life-Death Eyes between his brows suddenly rotated slightly on their own.

They transmitted an extremely faint, strange wave of energy, distinct from Pangu's Pressure.

This fluctuation was so subtle that, had his mind not been highly focused and resonating subtly with Buzhou Mountain's aura, and had the Karma Life-Death Eyes not been extremely sensitive to energy trajectories, he would never have detected it.

"Hm?" Ming Xin abruptly stopped, enduring the terrifying pressure, and concentrated all his mind to activate the Karma Life-Death Eyes, carefully sensing the source of that strange fluctuation.

His gaze fell on an seemingly ordinary area at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, covered in huge rubble and war debris.

But in the vision of the Karma Life-Death Eyes, the "karma threads" of that space showed an extremely unnatural trace of being deliberately twisted and then cleverly concealed!

An extremely sophisticated natural restriction, perfectly hidden by borrowing Buzhou Mountain's own Pangu aura and earthly Sha Qi!

"Innate Restrictions?!" Ming Xin's heart stirred. An innate restriction formed naturally at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, in such a terrifying place of Pangu's Pressure.

Whatever it guarded within could not be ordinary!

He took a deep breath, braving the overwhelming pressure, and moved step by step toward that area. The closer he got, the clearer the restriction's fluctuations became under the Karma Life-Death Eyes.

It was not man-made but born of heaven and earth, connected to Buzhou Mountain's earthly veins. Unless one possessed a divine ability to peer into the origin of karma, even a Quasi-Saint passing by would find it extremely difficult to detect.

Ming Xin stopped outside the restriction and pondered briefly. He chose not to break it by force but sat cross-legged, forming hand seals.

He channeled the power of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture while simultaneously drawing upon a trace of the ancient Dao rhyme from Buzhou Mountain he had just comprehended, carefully probing toward the restriction.

His power attribute was extremely unique—Nirvana, Killing, Red Dust, Salvation, and even a faint trace of Pangu's Dao rhyme.

Mixed together, they actually produced a strange resonance with the natural restriction formed by Buzhou Mountain's aura!

Hum...

Ripples like water waves spread across the restriction's surface, yet it did not trigger a violent counterattack.

Ming Xin held his breath and focused his mind, using his divine sense as a brush and his own Dao resonance as ink, like the most meticulous locksmith, bit by bit parsing, merging into, and assimilating the structure of the restrictions.

This process was extremely taxing on his spirit, far more exhausting than a great battle.

Time trickled away, and fine beads of sweat seeped out on Ming Xin's forehead. The Dao resonance around him gradually aligned with the fluctuations of the restrictions.

Finally, after who knows how long, the unyielding innate restrictions silently collapsed inward like melting ice and snow.

Revealing an opening, just wide enough for one person to pass through, that radiated a dense aura of primordial energy!

A torrent of pure, supreme aura surged out from the opening in an instant, carrying the boundless mysteries of the Five Elements' cyclical generation and mutual conquest, like a dragon awakening after eons of slumber!

Ming Xin's spirits soared, and he stepped inside in one stride!

The cave was not as deep and dark as he had imagined; instead, it was a strange, small space bathed in Five-Colored Divine Light.

At the center of the space, a divine and extraordinary pine tree was rooted in chaotic-colored soil, bathed in dense Innate Five Elements Essence!

The pine was not tall, only about a zhang, yet it was gnarled and vigorous like a dragon, its bark cracked like dragon scales, exuding an ancient, timeless aura.

Its branches and leaves were not emerald green but displayed a strange, five-colored radiance!

Azure, crimson, yellow, white, and black—five-colored needles clustered 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 single needle was crystalline and translucent, as if condensed from the purest Five Elements origin. As the branches swayed, they stirred the surrounding Five Elements spiritual energy into a boiling cycle, evolving Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind in an endless display of profundity!

"This is... one of the Innate Five Elements Spiritual Roots, the Five-Needle Pine?!"

Even with his steadfast will, Ming Xin couldn't help but gasp sharply, his eyes bursting with an incredulous gleam of joy!

The Innate Five Elements Spiritual Roots were all rare treasures nurtured in chaos, each containing a complete innate Great Dao!

This Five-Needle Pine was the supreme spiritual root governing the power of the Innate Five Elements origin!

Yet, what shocked him even more was that beneath the roots of the Five-Needle Pine, it was not ordinary soil, but a mass of primordial origin energy, constantly shifting in form and emitting a five-colored radiance!

This mass of energy was pure and vast, its Five Elements Dao resonance even more ancient and pure than that of the Five-Needle Pine itself!

It seemed sentient; sensing Ming Xin's entry, it rippled faintly, transmitting a will that was weak yet supremely noble, tinged with lingering sorrow and unwillingness!

"The origin energy of the Old Ancestor of Five Elements?!" Ming Xin realized in an instant! During the conflict between Dao and Demon, the Devil Ancestor Rahula set up the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. To break the formation, the ancient great god Old Ancestor of Five Elements resolutely self-detonated his Innate Five Elements origin, heavily damaging the sword formation, but he himself perished in body and spirit, leaving only this most core wisp of origin energy to escape by chance.

It fled to the foot of Buzhou Mountain, where it was sealed alongside the accompanying Five-Needle Pine by natural restrictions, slumbering until now!

This was a heaven-sent opportunity! Not only to obtain the top-grade innate spiritual root Five-Needle Pine, but also to acquire the most core remnant origin of the Old Ancestor of Five Elements, one of the first generation of ancient great gods of the Primordial World!

Its value even surpassed that of an ordinary Innate Supreme Treasure!

Ming Xin suppressed the excitement in his heart and gave a slight bow to the mass of Five Elements origin energy and the Five-Needle Pine: "This junior, Ming Xin, encounters the legacy of the senior today—truly the will of heaven. Senior, rest assured, in my hands, this treasure will not let the Five Elements Great Dao be tarnished. I shall use it to sever karma, protect life, and cleanse the Primordial World!"

The mass of Five Elements origin energy seemed to understand Ming Xin's words. It trembled slightly, the sorrow and unwillingness gradually fading away.

Instead, it conveyed a hint of relief and a sense of entrustment, then transformed into a stream of light and actively plunged into Ming Xin's brow!

At the same time, the Five-Needle Pine uprooted itself, turning into a five-colored radiance that merged into Ming Xin's body!

Boom—!!!

An unimaginably vast torrent of energy and an ocean of profound Innate Five Elements Dao insights erupted within Ming Xin's body, like the birth of a universe!

"System! Maximum authority! Using the Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin energy and the Five-Needle Pine as the core, integrate my Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture foundation, and deduce a great killing divine ability of the Five Elements! Direction: Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability! Core concept: Use the power of the Five Elements to enact nirvana and slaughter, wielding the authority of life and death over heaven and earth!"

[Command confirmed! Maximum authority deduction initiated!]

[Core energy source connected: Innate Five Elements Origin (Legacy of Old Ancestor of Five Elements), Innate Five Elements Spiritual Root (Five-Needle Pine)...]

[Core law template: Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture (Slaughter, Nirvana, Red Dust, Salvation)...]

[Deduction direction: Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability (Using Five Elements to derive Five Emperors, using Five Emperors to command Five Demons, wielding the cycle of life and death)...]

[Fusion deduction beginning...]

Ming Xin immediately sat cross-legged in this small space, five-colored divine light shooting up from his body.

It wildly intertwined and merged with the gray-white Nirvana Buddha Light, the dark red slaughter runes, the phantoms of myriad red dust phenomena, and the faint golden Merit Immortal Power!

The insights from the Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin surged into his Primordial Spirit like a tidal wave—the most fundamental and root-level understanding of the Five Elements Great Dao!

The boundless Five Elements essence of the Five-Needle Pine, like a vast ocean, crazily flooded into his limbs and bones, tempering his flesh, Magic Power, and Primordial Spirit!

Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art! Endless Life Force, yet also capable of drawing the essence of all wood, turning life into a dead domain!

Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Art! Incinerating the heavens and boiling the seas, violent and destructive, smelting all things!

Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Art! Heavy and bearing all, unmatched in defense, yet also able to bury everything!

White Emperor Metal Sovereign Art! Unmatched in sharpness, severing all things, governing slaughter!

Black Emperor Water Sovereign Art! Utmost softness and utmost hardness, corroding all things, devouring everything!

The Five Elements cycled, generating and conquering each other!

Under the system's frantic deduction and the fusion of Ming Xin's own Dao Foundation, five Emperor Phantoms representing the ultimate extremes of the Five Elements, yet imbued with the will of annihilation and slaughter, slowly condensed behind him, sharp and clear!

These Five Emperors were not benevolent rulers, but "Great Demons" wielding the authority of life and death over heaven and earth's Five Elements! With a single thought, they could bestow Life Force; with a single thought, they could bring down destruction!

His aura, under this overwhelming infusion and enlightenment, surged at a terrifying speed!

Mid-peak of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal... Late Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal... Late peak...

The integration of the Five Elements' origin greatly compensated for the relatively weak aspects of "creation" and "foundation" in his previous Dao techniques, ensuring his path of annihilation and slaughter was no longer pure deathly stillness.

Instead, it contained the wondrous cycle of the Five Elements' birth and destruction! His Power of Salvation over the mortal world now had the support of the Five Elements' material foundation, becoming heavier and more real!

After an unknown span of time, when the Old Ancestor of Five Elements' origin qi was fully absorbed, and the Five-Needle Pine completely merged into his body, transforming into the root origin of the Five Elements' spiritual foundation...

The five Emperor Demon Shadows radiating the terrifying Dao rhythm of the Five Elements' life and slaughter solidified behind him, like the Five Heavenly Emperors guarding the central Killing Buddha Dharma Image...

Boom!!!

A perfect, boundless, and terrifying aura, surpassing ordinary Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, erupted from Ming Xin's body like an awakened ancient star core!

In an instant, it broke through the limits of this small space, even causing Pangu's Pressure around Buzhou Mountain to tremble!

Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal—Perfection!

Ming Xin's eyes snapped open. In his left eye, the Five Elements cycled through birth and destruction; in his right eye, annihilation and slaughter intertwined with reincarnation!

He slowly rose, his aura like an abyssal ocean, unfathomably deep!

With every move, he seemed capable of stirring the Primordial World's Five Elements' power, wielding the cycle of life and death over all things!

The Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability, complete!

This journey to Buzhou Mountain, seizing this earth-shattering opportunity, had finally brought him to the peak of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection!