At the peak of Mount Sumeru in the West, deep within the Sage sanctuary established by Jieyin and Zhunti, Ming Xin chose a secluded cliffside.
With a wave of his hand, he used the Killing Law and Nirvana Buddha Light to carve out an ancient, unadorned cave abode.
There were no lavish decorations within the cave abode, only a meditation cushion at its center. Cold and tranquil, it perfectly suited the state of mind required to cultivate the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.
Seated cross-legged on the cushion, Ming Xin took a deep breath and calmed the turbulent emotions he had brought back from the Purple Firmament Palace.
He solemnly took out the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure bestowed by Dao Ancestor Hongjun—the Life-Death White Bone Sword!
The pale, bone-white blade was covered in blood-red patterns resembling cracks. The gray-white eye tightly shut within its guard emitted an icy deathly stillness born from primordial Chaos and a savage Dao aura capable of annihilating all things.
When Ming Xin's divine sense touched the blade, a vast and ancient torrent of information filled with the true meanings of "Life and Destruction Cycle" and "White Bone Slaughter" crashed into his sea of consciousness like a breached world-destroying flood!
"Buzz—!"
The dark-gold Killing Buddha Wheel between his brows immediately lit up, and gray-white Nirvana Buddha Flame rose! The Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture began circulating on its own, becoming a sturdy dam that resisted the violent impact of that Chaos Demon God's Dao aura.
Even so, Ming Xin felt his soul shake violently, as though he were about to be assimilated by that endless intent of death and destruction!
What a vicious Demon God Dao aura! It truly is the companion treasure of a Chaos Demon God!
Ming Xin's heart chilled, but his gaze only grew firmer. Rather than retreating, he took the initiative to guide the power of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.
Like the finest carving blade, it began to analyze, strip apart, and absorb the true meanings of the "White Bone" and "Life and Death" Laws contained within that immense Dao aura!
"System! Activate highest authority! Deduce and analyze the White Bone Dao and Great Dao of Life and Death contained within the Life-Death White Bone Sword with all your strength!
Integrate their essence and profound truths into my Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture system!
Deduction directions: White Bone True Body defensive divine ability, White Bone Great Palm Seal offensive divine ability, White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom domain phenomenon! Objective: increase my comprehension of the Great Dao of Killing and break through to the Great Luo realm!"
[Command confirmed! Highest-authority deduction activated!] [Target locked: White Bone Dao Law (30%), Great Dao of Life and Death Law (30%)... analyzing...] [Core template loaded: Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture... fusion deduction initiated...] [Deduction direction one: defensive divine ability "White Bone True Body"—construct skeletal Dao-rule runes and integrate them with Nirvana Buddha Light and Killing Origin refinement.] [Deduction direction two: offensive divine ability "White Bone Great Palm Seal"—extract White Bone annihilation power, fuse it with True Meaning of Slaughter, and form an annihilating palm seal.] [Deduction direction three: domain phenomenon "White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom"—take Life and Destruction Cycle as the foundation, White Bones as the earth, Nirvana Buddha-Demons as the heavens, and the Killing Buddha Wheel to suppress the center.] [Energy reserve deployed: 100%. Sage sanctuary environmental enhancement, deduction efficiency maximized.]
The cold system notifications exploded through his sea of consciousness! Ming Xin's mind completely sank into this struggle and fusion with the legacy of the Chaos Demon God.
Time passed soundlessly within the Nirvana cave. Outside the cave abode, Jieyin and Zhunti's divine senses gently enveloped the area at all times.
They were both protecting him and gratifiedly sensing their disciple's steadily rising aura, growing ever deeper and more formidable.
Who knew how many years had passed? Perhaps a thousand years, perhaps ten thousand.
Within the cave abode, the aura around Ming Xin had already undergone an earth-shaking transformation!
Beneath his skin, a pale jade-like radiance faintly flowed. His bones seemed to have transformed into Innate divine jade capable of bearing the Great Dao.
They emitted an indestructible Dao aura, impervious to countless techniques—this was the White Bone True Body he had initially condensed! Though not yet complete, its defensive power already far surpassed those of the same realm!
His hands sometimes transformed into grim white-bone claws, entwined with destructive deathly energy and razor-sharp killing intent;
At other times, they returned to normal, yet every flex seemed capable of stirring life and destruction through the void—this was the embryonic divine ability of the White Bone Great Palm Seal!
Most astonishing of all, a hazy yet terrifying phenomenon intermittently appeared behind him:
The earth was paved with vast white bones, while the sky was a vortex woven from gray-white Nirvana Buddha Light and pitch-black Demonic Energy. Countless Buddha and demon phantoms formed from white bones and Nirvana Flame cycled through life and destruction within it.
They chanted soundless hymns of slaughter! At the center, a gigantic dark-gold Killing Buddha Wheel slowly turned, suppressing everything! This was the domain phenomenon—White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom!
At the core of it all was the Life-Death White Bone Sword floating before him!
The blade hummed as Ming Xin, through supreme perseverance, initially refined eight Innate Restrictions upon it!
Although he was still far from fully controlling it, he could already initially wield a portion of its power—particularly the Dao-rule power of "Life and Death" and "White Bone Slaughter"!
[Ding! Deduction and fusion complete! White Bone Dao comprehension: 30%! Great Dao of Life and Death comprehension: 30%! Great Dao of Killing comprehension: 40%! Magic Power accumulation: Grand Unity Golden Immortal perfection limit!] [Warning: Energy saturated! Realm barrier loosening! Grand Unity Heavenly Tribulation about to be triggered!]
The cold system notification sounded like a final war horn!
Ming Xin's tightly closed eyes flew open! Nirvana Buddha Flame blazed fiercely in his left eye, while the Demon Abyss vortex in his right eye spun wildly, and the dark-gold Killing Buddha Wheel between his brows solidified into substance!
"The Great Luo realm shall be mine today!"
He rose to his full height and stepped out of the cave abode! His figure instantly appeared above the vast, barren skies outside Mount Sumeru in the West!
Rumble—!!!
As though sensing the opportunity for his breakthrough, the entire western sky abruptly changed color! Heavy, leaden black clouds mingled with Demonic Energy and gathered madly, blanketing hundreds of millions of miles of sky in an instant!
Within the clouds, there was no ordinary violet lightning. Instead, it shone in a heart-palpitating dark gold hue!
Countless Dark Gold Thunder Dragons as thick as ancient mountain ranges rolled and roared within the tribulation clouds! Every bolt of lightning contained terrifying power capable of destroying stars, freezing spacetime, and erasing primordial spirits and true souls!
A horrifying heavenly might far beyond an ordinary Grand Unity Heavenly Tribulation—enough to make even an early-stage Quasi-Saint change expression—descended like hundreds of millions of divine mountains! It locked firmly onto Ming Xin!
The Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation! And the highest-grade Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, containing the Heavenly Dao's will to kill and punish! Its power nearly rivaled an early-stage Quasi-Saint!
Such a terrifying phenomenon instantly alarmed all of Mount Sumeru!
Two figures silently appeared far behind Ming Xin's tribulation zone. They were none other than Jieyin and Zhunti.
Daoist Jieyin's gaunt face was filled with gravity and concern. Looking at the terrifying tribulation clouds that seemed capable of tearing apart the earth, he said in a low voice, "Junior Brother, the power of this Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation is already nearing that of an early-stage Quasi-Saint. Ming Xin, he..."
Daoist Zhunti's lean face was equally grave, and the light of wisdom in his eyes deduced frantically.
He gripped his whisk tightly and said solemnly, "Senior Brother, do not worry! Though this tribulation is fierce, it is also because Ming Xin's foundation is too heaven-defying, drawing forth the Heavenly Dao's ultimate test!
We must believe in him! This is a tribulation he must undergo to attain the Great Luo Dao! If it truly comes to the worst..." A trace of determination flashed through his eyes. "...even if we must expend our origins and suffer backlash from the Heavenly Dao, we will protect him!"
Just as the two Sages were deeply concerned, the first bucket-thick bolt of Dark Gold Annihilation Divine Thunder emerged from the tribulation clouds.
Like the whip of the Heavenly Dao, it tore through the sky and came crashing down, bearing the will to judge all living beings!
"Good!"
There was no fear in Ming Xin's eyes. Instead, battle intent surged into the heavens! He did not use the Life-Death White Bone Sword. He merely raised his right hand and struck a backhanded palm at the descending lightning!
"Killing Great Hand Seal!"
Boom—!
An enormous, terrifying palm seal formed entirely from dark-red Killing Law runes surged against the heavens, gray-white Nirvana Karmic Fire burning along its edges!
Within the palm seal, it seemed as though the wails of countless living beings and the will of Terminus roared! Wherever it passed, space shattered inch by inch!
Bang!!!
A deafening explosion rang out! That dark-gold divine thunder, powerful enough to severely wound a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal, was actually smashed apart by the pure killing palm seal! It transformed into countless dark-gold lightning serpents that scattered and vanished!
Yet this was only the beginning! The Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation grew stronger with every tribulation!
The second bolt, the third... the tenth... the thirtieth...
Ming Xin stood proudly in the void, unleashing every method at his disposal!
"Buddha-Demon Dharma Form, appear!" A Buddha-Demon giant shadow tens of thousands of feet tall propped up heaven and earth, Buddha on the left and demon on the right, directly resisting the lightning!
"White Bone True Body!" Pale white radiance flowed beneath his skin as he endured the tribulation lightning's aftershocks head-on, producing the sound of clashing gold and iron!
"White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom!" The terrifying phenomenon domain unfolded. The white-bone earth rose and sank, while Nirvana Buddha-Demons cycled through life and destruction.
It forcibly dragged the tribulation lightning that entered the domain into the Life and Destruction Cycle, wearing it away!
"Nine Swords of Killing Life!" The Life-Death White Bone Sword finally left its sheath! Ming Xin gripped the bone sword, his body moving with the blade.
He unleashed in succession the nine sword-path divine abilities he had newly comprehended, fused with the Dao rules of Slaughter and White Bone life and death!
Sword light spread across hundreds of millions of miles. At times, it was like white bones shattering heaven; at times, like life and destruction cycling; at times, like Slaughter reaching Terminus. Bolt after bolt of tribulation lightning was cut apart and annihilated!
For a time, Ming Xin actually fought the terrifying Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation to a standstill! The combat power and profundity of the divine abilities he displayed moved even Jieyin and Zhunti, who guarded him from behind!
Yet how could the might of a heavenly tribulation be underestimated? The later it progressed, the more its power increased geometrically!
When the seventy-second tribulation bolt descended, it had transformed into a savage, roaring Dark Gold Thunder Dragon! Its dragon might was vast, containing the power of Heavenly Dao judgment!
Ming Xin used the Life-Death Samsara Sword with the Life-Death White Bone Sword, forcibly twisting the Thunder Dragon into a vortex of life and destruction.
Though he ultimately annihilated it, the blade cried mournfully, the flesh between his thumb and forefinger split open, and even cracks appeared in his White Bone True Body!
The seventy-eighth tribulation bolt transformed into a Dark Gold Thunder Sea that blanketed the heavens!
The Buddha-Demon Dharma Form roared as it wielded one hundred and eight phantasmal Dharma treasures to resist it. In the end, the Dharma Form dimmed and nearly collapsed!
The eightieth tribulation bolt condensed into a thread-thin Dark Gold Tribulation Light that seemed capable of piercing through Chaos itself!
Ming Xin pushed the Killing Great Hand Seal to its limit, but it still pierced through the palm seal and slammed fiercely into his chest!
"Pfft—!"
Ming Xin felt as though he had been struck by a massive hammer. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with gray-white Nirvana energy and dark-gold radiance! His aura instantly withered!
His White Bone True Body was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, the Buddha-Demon Dharma Form was nearly transparent, and his Magic Power had been vastly depleted!
The Life-Death White Bone Sword had also dimmed, floating beside him as it trembled faintly.
He had reached the end of his strength!
"Ming Xin!" Daoist Zhunti cried out and was about to intervene!
"Junior Brother, wait!" Daoist Jieyin firmly held Zhunti's hand.
Even his gaunt hand was trembling. He stared fixedly at the figure still standing at the center of the tribulation clouds and rasped, "He still has strength to fight! His Dao has not yet reached its end!"
As if confirming Jieyin's words, the weakened Ming Xin suddenly raised his head. A cold, resolute curve formed at the corner of his bloodstained lips!
He abruptly drew both hands back and formed an unprecedentedly intricate hand seal before his chest, one so profound it reached the extreme!
This hand seal was neither Buddha nor demon, yet it resembled both Buddha and demon! Grim white, deathly still bone runes flowed across his left hand, while dark-red karmic-fire runes of Slaughter burned across his right!
Two entirely different powers gathered, compressed, and fused madly before his chest!
"White bones as the foundation... Slaughter as the edge... life and destruction in cycle... karmic fire burns all..."
"White Bone Life-Killing Seal—condense!!!"
With a roar that seemed to come from the Nine Netherworlds, an enormous sigil, half gray and half red, formed explosively between his palms. Gray-white Karmic Fire burned along its edges, while its core bore the mark of a grim, vicious white skull!
The moment this sigil emerged, the entire western heaven and earth seemed to sink into deathly silence! Even the rolling tribulation clouds froze for an instant!
It contained all of Ming Xin's current comprehension of the White Bone Dao, the Great Dao of Killing, and the Great Dao of Life and Death!
It fused the True Meaning of Nirvana Killing Buddha from the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture! It even burned his final unyielding will and origin blood essence! This was his ultimate strike, wagering everything!
"Break for me!!!"
The muscles in Ming Xin's arms bulged as though he were bearing immeasurable weight. He hurled this terrifying great seal, fused with the will to grant life and death, reward and punishment.
It smashed fiercely toward the core of the tribulation clouds, where the eighty-first and final world-destroying tribulation thunder was about to descend!
At the same time, his palms did not stop!
"White Bone Great Palm Seal!"
"Killing Great Palm Seal!"
Striking with both hands, two enormous palm seals that blotted out heaven and earth followed behind the White Bone Life-Killing Seal. One was grim white and deathly still, annihilating all things; the other was dark red with Slaughter, ending Reincarnation!
Like the palms of two world-destroying Demon Gods, they slammed fiercely toward the tribulation clouds overhead!
Boom! Boom, boom, boom—!!!
An indescribably terrifying explosion erupted across the western sky!
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