Middle Stage of the Origin

Buzhou Mountain's Ancient Battlefield was steeped in killing intent as crimson as blood, with countless souls wailing in grief. Ming Xin sat cross-legged at the heart of this land of destruction, like a pillar that steadied the sea, yet also like an abyss that devoured all things.

The Five Emperor Phantoms stood proudly around him. They were no longer mere manifestations of Dao charm, but were entwined with condensed dark-red killing intent that seemed almost tangible, like five fiendish emperor demons returning from the netherworld, commanding the life and death of the Five Elements and boundless territories!

The endless killing intent of the battlefield, mixed with the unwilling resentment and shattered laws left behind by fallen Wu Yao experts, formed a visible torrent of blood that surged madly into Ming Xin's body.

This terrifying energy was enough to make even Quasi-Saints frown and could easily contaminate a Great Luo primordial spirit, yet it had now become the finest nourishment for him to temper the Great Dao of Killing and hone his Five Elements divine abilities!

"Five Elements Cycle, kill intent refinement returns to origin!" Ming Xin's heart remained as still as an ancient well as the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture operated at an unprecedented extreme.

The five Emperor Origin Talismans were like five ancient millstones, forcefully crushing, stripping, and purifying the filthy killing intent that poured in!

The impurities were purified by Nirvana Buddha Light, and the resentments were shattered by his will to kill, leaving behind only the purest dark-red energy, containing the most primordial origins of destruction and killing.

Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it merged into the foundation of his Great Dao of Killing.

Amid this mad devouring and refinement, his aura steadily climbed toward a certain threshold at a terrifying pace!

His Magic Power, which had already reached the absolute limit of the Early Stage of the Primordial Golden Immortal and could advance no further, began undergoing a qualitative transformation. It became more condensed and filled with a majesty that stood above the laws!

The bottleneck at fifty percent comprehension of the Great Dao of Killing had long since been broken under the infusion and refinement of this immense killing intent. It continued to deepen and stabilize, advancing toward a higher level!

The Five Elements Great Dao merged with it perfectly, while Nirvana, the Mortal World, and the Power of Salvation served as balance and foundation.

No one knew how long passed. When he had absorbed and refined nearly seventy percent of the killing intent from this vast Ancient Battlefield, even the towering blood mist had thinned considerably—

BOOM!!!

It was as though an invisible shackle within Ming Xin had been utterly shattered!

An immense aura far surpassing that of the Early Stage of the Primordial Golden Immortal erupted like an ancient volcano that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years. It stood above the laws of heaven and earth and carried a trace of the immortal intent of the Origin!

Crack! Crack! Centered on him, the surrounding space groaned under unbearable strain, shattering inch by inch before forcibly knitting back together under the suppression of his aura!

An invisible pressure instantly blanketed the area. The remnant souls and fiendish spirits that had been howling and roaring moments ago seemed to have encountered a supreme monarch. They instinctively prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling, not even daring to wail!

Primordial Golden Immortal! Middle Stage!

It had happened as naturally as water flowing into a channel, without the slightest obstruction! His accumulation had simply been too profound!

The origin of the Old Ancestor of Five Elements, the Five-Needle Pine Spiritual Roots, the Chaos Five Elements Pagoda, his self-created method of Slaying Three Worlds, the insights from repeated battles, and the nearly inexhaustible Ancient Battlefield killing intent he had just devoured...

All that accumulation erupted completely at this moment, pushing him across the chasm between the Early and Middle Stages of the Primordial Golden Immortal!

Ming Xin abruptly opened his eyes. In his left eye, five colors cycled through life and death; within his right lay a pure vacuum of killing that could freeze the soul!

He slowly raised a hand and lightly curled his fingers, sensing the terrifying power endlessly surging through his body, as though a single thought could stir the Five Elements of the Primordial World and command the life and death of all things!

This was a qualitative leap! A level of life utterly different from that of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

His perception, use, and even... control over the laws of heaven and earth had risen to an entirely new realm!

His primordial spirit had become more condensed and immortal, his physical body had begun to merge with Dao laws, and his Magic Power now carried a trace of the indestructible nature of the Origin!

With a thought, he did not use any divine ability. He merely unleashed a trace of the pressure of the Middle Stage of the Origin. Buzz!

A hill made from enormous piled bones a hundred miles ahead silently turned into the finest dust, vanishing into nothing as though it had never existed.

"So this is the power of the Middle Stage of the Origin..." Ming Xin murmured. There was neither joy nor sorrow in his eyes, only the calmest understanding of his own strength.

He did not stop. Instead, he struck while the iron was hot, beginning to consolidate his new realm and attempting to merge his newly born Origin power with his many divine abilities.

First was the Chaos Five Elements Pagoda floating above his primordial spirit. His consciousness sank into it, and immense Origin Magic Power surged into the pagoda like floodwaters released from a dam.

The pagoda trembled violently as Chaos light flared from its surface. The Nether Water World on the fifth level and the Chaos void light at the pagoda's peak grew increasingly solid.

The Five Elements worlds contained within the pagoda seemed ready to turn from illusion into reality, truly evolving living beings and all things! Its power of suppression, defense, and attack had increased by more than tenfold!

At this moment, he was confident that with this pagoda alone, he could confront head-on and even suppress an ordinary Middle Stage Quasi-Saint expert!

Next came the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability. Infused with Origin power, the five emperor phantoms entwined in killing intent seemed to come alive.

Their majesty became even greater, and the power of the Five Elements Law they stirred with every gesture became as vast as an ocean. The divine ability's might surged tremendously.

The Myriad Killing Art, Mortal World Palm, Immortal Crossing Art, Karma Life-Death Eyes... all his divine abilities and techniques underwent earth-shaking changes when driven by the Magic Power and realm of the Middle Stage of the Origin. Their power could no longer be compared to before.

The Great Dao of Killing in particular became even more terrifying after formally breaking through fifty percent and combining with Origin power.

He even felt that if he fully activated the Killing Law and supported it with the Karma Life-Death Eyes, he might be able to pose a fatal threat even to Primordial Golden Immortals of the same realm!

Just as he was immersed in the thrill of his increased strength,

the faint connection at his brow, representing his Past Self, suddenly transmitted an intensely violent emotional fluctuation—it was not danger, but extreme shock, excitement, and... an incomparably intense desire!

At the same time, a blurry fragment of an image passed through that connection: deep within Endless Chaos, a colossal Green Lotus phantom radiating endless vitality and Creation aura slowly rotated.

Upon its petals, it seemed to bear... a vague phantom of a Jade Disk? The image flashed past in an instant, yet it carried a supreme Great Dao aura!

"Chaos Green Lotus?! Jade Disk of Creation?!" Ming Xin was violently shaken, instantly realizing what earth-shattering opportunity his Past Self had encountered!

At the same time, he sensed his Past Self's overwhelming anxiety and desire—the desperate urge to seize it, yet the helpless inability to do so!

"The opportunity lies there..." A brilliant light flashed in Ming Xin's eyes, and he did not hesitate in the slightest. His Past Self was himself; his Past Self's desire was his main body's desire! The trace of such a Primordial Supreme Treasure was worth giving his all for!

He rose abruptly, no longer concealing the aura of the Middle Stage of the Origin. It burst forth, instantly dispersing the residual killing intent of the Ancient Battlefield!

"Five Elements Escape Art, Chaos Return to Void!" he shouted, his body seeming to transform into a streak of five-colored Chaos light.

This was no longer simple flight. He directly merged into the Five Elements Law of heaven and earth, following the mysterious connection with his Past Self at a terrifying speed akin to spatial teleportation.

He tore through the void and shot toward the direction from which the sensation came!

His speed far surpassed what it had been in his Great Luo days! His Middle Stage Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation was displayed without reservation!

Wherever he passed, the Five Elements Law of heaven and earth made way for him, space folded of its own accord, and countless mountains and lands rushed backward beneath his feet.

Some ancient beings hidden in deep mountains and vast marshes were disturbed by this undisguised Origin aura and extended their divine senses.

Yet they were intimidated by the icy killing intent and the imperial majesty of the Five Elements within that aura. They hastily withdrew their senses, their hearts filled with shock!

"The West... that killing star... broke through?!" "Middle Stage of the Origin! It is actually the Middle Stage of the Origin! How long has it been?!"

"Such an aura... it is even more terrifying than some veteran Quasi-Saints!" "The Primordial World... is about to become troubled again!"

Ming Xin turned a deaf ear to all of it. He had only one goal—to reach his Past Self as quickly as possible and seize the supreme opportunity that was likely the Chaos Green Lotus and the Jade Disk of Creation!

His figure was like a Chaos meteor streaking across the skies of the Primordial World, carrying an unwavering, determined momentum as he plunged without hesitation into the unknown depths of Chaos!

A struggle over the supreme Creation of the Primordial World, one destined to shake the Myriad Worlds, had already begun!

And Ming Xin, having broken through to the Middle Stage of the Primordial Golden Immortal, had undoubtedly become one of the most significant participants in this contest!