Comprehending the Great Dao, Ascending to Grand Unity

At the summit of Mount Sumeru in the West, deep within the sage dojo opened 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 a simple, ancient cave dwelling.

The cave had no lavish decorations, only a single meditation cushion at its center, cold and still—perfectly suited to his cultivation of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.

Seated cross-legged on the cushion, Ming Xin took a deep breath, calming the turbulent emotions that had stirred since his return from Purple Cloud Palace.

He solemnly took out the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure bestowed by Dao Ancestor Hongjun—the White Bone Life-Death Sword!

The stark white blade was covered in blood-red patterns like cracks, and at the sword's guard, a tightly shut gray-white eye exuded a cold, deathly stillness born of the Chaos Primordial World, along with a ferocious Dao resonance of annihilation.

When Ming Xin's divine sense touched the blade, a vast, ancient torrent of information, brimming with the true meaning of "Life and Destruction Cycle" and "White Bone Slaughter," surged like a dam-breaking flood of destruction, violently crashing into his sea of consciousness!

"Weng—!"

The Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel on his brow lit up instantly, gray-white Nirvana Buddha Flame rising! The Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture activated on its own, forming a solid dike to withstand the violent impact of this Chaos Demon God's Dao resonance.

Even so, Ming Xin felt his primordial spirit tremble violently, as if on the verge of being assimilated by the endless death and annihilation!

"What a ferocious Demon God's Dao resonance! Truly worthy of being the companion spiritual treasure of a Chaos Demon God!"

Ming Xin's heart tightened, but his gaze grew even more resolute. Instead of retreating, he actively guided the power of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture.

Like the most precise carving knife, he began to analyze, strip, and absorb the true meaning of the "White Bone" and "Life and Death" laws contained within this vast Dao resonance!

"System! Activate highest authority! Fully deduce and analyze the 'White Bone Dao' and 'Great Dao of Life and Death' contained in the White Bone Life-Death Sword!

Integrate their essence and profound meaning 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! Goal: Enhance comprehension of the Great Dao of Killing, break through to the Grand Unity realm!"

[Command confirmed! Highest authority deduction initiated!]

[Target locked: White Bone Dao Law (30%), Great Dao of Life and Death (30%)... Analyzing...]

[Core template loaded: Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture... Fusion deduction beginning...]

[Deduction direction one: Defensive divine ability 'White Bone True Body'—construct bone Dao runes, fuse with Nirvana Buddha Light and Killing Origin for tempering.]

[Deduction direction two: Offensive divine ability 'White Bone Great Palm Seal'—extract White Bone annihilation power, merge with True Meaning of Slaughter to form an obliterating palm seal.]

[Deduction direction three: Domain phenomenon 'White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom'—based on the Life and Destruction Cycle, with white bones as the earth, Nirvana Buddha Flame and demonic energy as the sky, and the Killing Buddha Wheel suppressing the center.]

[Energy reserves deployed: 100%. Sage dojo environment boost active. Deduction efficiency maximized.]

The cold system prompt exploded in his sea of consciousness! Ming Xin's mind sank entirely into this struggle and fusion with the legacy of the Chaos Demon God.

Time flowed silently in the still cave. Outside the cave, the divine thoughts of Jieyin and Zhunti gently enveloped the place.

It was both protection and a comforting awareness of their disciple's steadily rising, ever-deeper and more formidable aura.

Who knew how many years passed—perhaps a thousand, perhaps ten thousand.

Inside the cave, Ming Xin's aura had undergone a earth-shattering transformation!

Beneath his skin, a faint, jade-white luster flowed subtly. His bones seemed to have transformed into some kind of innate divine jade bearing the Dao, exuding an indestructible, law-repelling Dao resonance—this was the initially condensed "White Bone True Body"! Though not yet perfected, its defensive power already far surpassed that of his peers!

His hands would sometimes turn into stark white bone claws, wreathed in annihilation death energy and killing sharpness;

at other times, they would return to normal, but every flex seemed to stir the life and death of the void itself—this was the embryonic form of the "White Bone Great Palm Seal" divine ability!

Most striking of all was the hazy, terrifying phenomenon that occasionally manifested behind him:

The earth was paved with bleached white bones, the sky a vortex of gray-white Nirvana Buddha Light and pitch-black demonic energy. Countless phantoms of Buddhas and demonic figures, formed from white bones and Nirvana Flame, cycled through life and death within it, emitting a silent killing chant! At the center, a massive Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel turned slowly, suppressing everything! This was the domain phenomenon—the "White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom"!

And at the heart of it all was the White Bone Life-Death Sword, floating before him!

The blade hummed, and the eight Innate Restrictions on it had been initially refined by Ming Xin with unparalleled perseverance!

Though still far from full control, he could already tap into part of its power, especially the Dao force of "Life and Death" and "White Bone Slaughter"!

[Ding! Deduction fusion complete! White Bone Dao comprehension: 30%! Great Dao of Life and Death comprehension: 30%! Great Dao of Killing comprehension: 40%! Magic power accumulation: Primordial Unity Golden Immortal perfection limit!]

[Warning: Energy saturation! Realm barrier loosening! Grand Unity Heavenly Tribulation about to be triggered!]

The cold system prompt, like a final war horn!

Ming Xin's tightly shut eyes snapped open! Nirvana Buddha Flame blazed fiercely in his left eye, a demonic abyss vortex spun wildly in his right, and the Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel on his brow solidified like a tangible object!

"The Grand Unity realm is today!"

He rose to his feet and stepped out of the cave in a single stride! His figure instantly appeared outside Mount Sumeru, high in the vast, barren Western sky!

Rumble—!!!

As if sensing his breakthrough opportunity, the entire Western sky changed color! Heavy, leaden clouds mixed with demonic energy converged wildly, covering billions of miles of the heavens in an instant!

Within the clouds, instead of ordinary purple lightning, a chilling Dark Gold hue appeared!

Countless Dark Gold Thunder Dragons, thick as primordial mountain ranges, tumbled and roared within the tribulation clouds! Each bolt of lightning carried the terrifying power to destroy stars, freeze time and space, and annihilate primordial spirits and true souls!

A heavenly might far surpassing ordinary Grand Unity Heavenly Tribulation, enough to make even early-stage Quasi-Saints pale, descended like billions of divine mountains! It locked firmly onto Ming Xin!

A Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation! And the highest grade, one imbued with the Heavenly Dao's will to kill! Its power pressed straight toward the early Quasi-Saint level!

Such a terrifying phenomenon instantly alarmed the entire Mount Sumeru!

Two figures silently appeared far behind Ming Xin's tribulation area—none other than Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti.

Daoist Jieyin's gaunt face was filled with gravity and worry as he gazed at the fearsome tribulation clouds that could tear the earth asunder. His voice was low: "Junior Brother, the might of this Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation is already approaching the early Quasi-Saint stage. Ming Xin, he..."

Daoist Zhunti's lean face was also extremely solemn, the light of wisdom in his eyes frantically deducing.

Gripping his whisk tightly, he said in a deep voice: "Senior Brother, do not worry! Though this tribulation is fierce, it is precisely because Ming Xin's foundation is too heaven-defying, drawing the Heavenly Dao's ultimate trial!

We must trust him! This is the necessary tribulation on his path to the Great Luo Golden Immortal! If it truly comes to the worst..." A flash of resolve crossed his eyes, "...even if it costs us our origin and invites the Heavenly Dao's backlash, we must protect him!"

Just as the two saints were fraught with anxiety, within the tribulation clouds, the first bolt of Dark Gold Annihilation Divine Thunder, thick as a water barrel, like a whip of the Heavenly Dao, tore through the sky, carrying the will to judge all life, and struck down fiercely!

"Come well!"

Ming Xin's eyes held no fear, instead erupting with soaring battle intent! He did not use the White Bone Life-Death Sword, but raised his right hand and, facing the descending thunder, slapped out with a reverse palm!

"Killing Great Hand Seal!"

Boom—!

A massive palm seal, formed entirely of dark red Killing Law runes, its edges burning with gray-white annihilating karmic fire, rose against the heavens!

Within the palm seal, it was as if the wails of billions of living beings and the will of their end were roaring! Wherever the palm seal passed, space shattered inch by inch!

Bang!!!

A deafening explosion! That Dark Gold Divine Thunder, enough to gravely wound a peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, was actually smashed apart by this pure Killing palm seal! It scattered into countless Dark Gold thunder serpents that annihilated in all directions!

Yet this was only the beginning! The Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation grew stronger with each strike!

The second, the third... the tenth... the thirtieth...

Ming Xin stood proudly in the void, unleashing all his means!

"Buddha-Demon Dharma Form, manifest!" A ten-thousand-zhang-tall Buddha-Demon giant shadow propped open heaven and earth, Buddha on the left, Demon on the right, clashing head-on with the thunder!

"White Bone True Body!" A pale white luster flowed beneath his skin, withstanding the residual waves of the tribulation thunder, producing the clang of metal!

"White Bone Life-Death Myriad Buddhas Kingdom!" The terrifying domain of the phenomenon unfolded, white bone earth rising and sinking, annihilating demonic Buddhas being born and dying, dragging the tribulation thunder that struck into the domain into the cycle of life and destruction to be worn away!

"Nine Swords of Killing Life!" The White Bone Life-Death Sword was finally drawn! Ming Xin held the bone sword, his body moving with the blade, unleashing in turn the nine sword techniques he had newly comprehended, fusing the Killing and White Bone Life-Death Dao principles!

Sword light swept across billions of miles, sometimes like white bone piercing the heavens, sometimes like the cycle of life and death, sometimes like the end of slaughter, shattering and annihilating bolts of tribulation thunder!

For a time, Ming Xin was actually evenly matched with this terrifying Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation! The combat power and profoundness of his techniques displayed moved even Jieyin and Zhunti, who were protecting him from behind!

Yet, could the might of the heavenly tribulation be underestimated? In the later stages, the power of the tribulation thunder increased geometrically!

When the seventy-second bolt of tribulation thunder fell, it had already transformed into a ferocious, roaring Dark Gold Thunder Dragon! Its draconic might was vast, containing the judgment power of the Heavenly Dao!

Ming Xin used the White Bone Life-Death Sword to execute the "Life-Death Samsara Sword," forcibly dragging the thunder dragon into a samsara vortex.

Though it was ultimately annihilated, the sword wailed in lament, his tiger's-mouth split open, and even the White Bone True Body showed cracks!

The seventy-eighth bolt of tribulation thunder turned into a Dark Gold Thunder Sea covering the sky!

The Buddha-Demon Dharma Form roared, wielding phantom projections of one hundred and eight Dharma artifacts to resist, but in the end, the form dimmed and nearly collapsed!

The eightieth bolt of tribulation thunder condensed into a Dark Gold Tribulation Light, as fine as a hair, yet seemingly able to pierce through chaos!

Ming Xin pushed the Killing Great Hand Seal to its limit, but it was still pierced through, and the light slammed heavily into his chest!

"Pfft—!"

Ming Xin was struck as if by a heavy hammer, spitting out a mouthful of reverse blood mixed with gray-white annihilating aura and Dark Gold hues! His aura instantly wilted!

The White Bone True Body was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, the Buddha-Demon Dharma Form was nearly transparent, and his Magic Power was greatly depleted!

The White Bone Life-Death Sword also dimmed in radiance, floating beside him, trembling slightly.

He was at the end of his strength!

"Ming Xin!" Daoist Zhunti cried out, about to make a move!

"Junior Brother, wait!" Daoist Jieyin firmly pressed down on Zhunti's hand.

His withered hand also trembled, his eyes locked onto the still-standing figure at the center of the tribulation clouds. He rasped: "He still has the strength to fight! His Dao has not yet reached its end!"

As if confirming Jieyin's words, Ming Xin, whose aura had wilted, suddenly raised his head, a cold and resolute curve tugging at his blood-stained lips!

He withdrew both hands sharply, forming a seal before his chest—one unprecedented, complex, and profound to the extreme!

This seal was neither Buddha nor Demon, yet seemed both! In his left hand, pale white deathly bone runes flowed; in his right, dark red killing karmic fire runes burned!

Two completely different forces frantically converged, compressed, and fused before his chest!

"Bone as the foundation... Killing as the edge... Life and destruction cycle... Karmic fire burns all..."

"White Bone Life-Killing Seal—condense!!!"

With a roar that seemed to come from the Nine Netherworlds, a massive seal, half gray and half red, its edges burning with gray-white karmic fire, yet its core a ferocious pale white skull imprint, took shape between his palms!

The moment this talisman seal appeared, the entire western heaven and earth seemed to fall into deathly stillness! Even the rolling tribulation clouds paused for an instant!

It condensed Ming Xin's complete comprehension of the White Bone Dao, the Great Dao of Killing, and the Great Dao of Life and Death at this moment!

It fused the True Meaning of Nirvana Killing Buddha from the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture! It also burned his final unyielding will and origin blood essence! This was his ultimate strike staking everything!

"Break for me!!!"

Ming Xin's arm muscles bulged, as if bearing the weight of ten thousand jun, and he hurled this terrifying seal, fused with the will of life-killing and granting, fiercely toward the core of the tribulation clouds that was about to unleash the eighty-first, and final, World-Destroying Tribulation Thunder!

At the same time, his palms did not stop!

"White Bone Great Palm Seal!"

"Killing Great Palm Seal!"

Striking left and right, two enormous palm prints that blotted out the sky—one pale white and deathly still, annihilating all things; the other dark red and slaughterous, ending reincarnation!

Following closely behind that White Bone Life-Killing Seal, like the palms of two world-destroying demon gods, they viciously slammed into the sky's tribulation clouds!

Boom! Boom boom boom—!!!

An indescribably terrifying explosion unfolded in the western heavens!