Chapter 414 : Primordial Origin Finger
Chapter 414: Primordial Origin Finger
Su Muyi’s divine sense moved.
At this moment, within her perception, Iron Egg was no longer merely a thousand-year Demon King, but had transformed into an existence even more ancient, more violent, and more pure.
“Woof!”
Iron Egg roared and no longer restrained the bloodline power within his body.
The space where he stood abruptly melted and distorted, forming a kind of ‘collapse’ fissure resembling the burning of Fire Laws.
Iron Egg wanted to try whether, with the augmentation of Primordial Origin True Qi, he could use the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect to cross realms and defeat a mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch.
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
In the next instant, ten crimson-golden threads of fire condensed to the extreme surged out like coiling dragons from Iron Egg’s head, spine, four limbs, and tail, continuously intertwining and outlining themselves above his body before merging into the ‘collapse’ fissure.
As the fissure’s size frantically extended and expanded, stirring the grand momentum of the spiritual forces of Heaven and Earth and tearing apart the firmament, it transformed into Great Heavenly Calamity Fire that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
Within the Great Heavenly Calamity Fire, a towering Dharma Aspect slowly took shape.
It stood approximately ten thousand zhang tall, its entire body dark-gold Vaidurya, extraordinarily majestic. The flowing-flame mane around its neck moved without wind, possessing both the agility of a hound and the might of a king.
However, what astonished the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion most was that the head of this Great Sun Pure Purgatory Aspect resembled a solar wheel.
At the center of the solar wheel were two masses of fiercely burning Ten Calamity Heavenly Fire, resembling the Dharma Aspect’s eyes looking down upon all living beings and regarding all flames as nothing, causing the bloodline within the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion to frantically issue warnings as traces of fear arose.
‘It’s actually a Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect!’
At this moment, aside from Yue Chenfeng, who had already expected it, the expressions of the three Nascent Soul True Monarchs Su Muyi, Mo Chen, and Jiang Chuan all changed.
“Crack!”
Jiang Chuan subconsciously exerted force with his fingertips, suddenly shattering the tea cup in his hand as his eyes stared fixedly at the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect.
Mo Chen abruptly stood up and activated his divine sense to the limit, carefully sensing the vast Dao Resonance circulating around the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect.
Strange, far too strange!
The Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect was a True Monarch Mystical Ability forged by Immortal Alliance True Monarchs through cultivating Truth by borrowing beasts, using the Nascent Soul Yang Spirit as a guide, combining their cultivation insights, and then smelting it with their three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit.
Its core concept lay in ‘cultivating Truth by borrowing beasts, uniting spirit with Heaven, and acting on behalf of Heaven to carry out the Dao’.
Thus, the Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect belonged exclusively to human True Monarchs, and was also an embodiment of the cultivation principle ‘Man follows Earth, Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows Dao, and Dao follows Nature’.
Meanwhile, the power of Mutual Participation Beasts originated more from their own bloodline inheritance, and the core of their Mystical Abilities lay in ‘commanding Heaven through blood, reigning supreme through the Domain’.
Precisely because of this, even if a Mutual Participation Demon King cultivated life and essence together with an Immortal Alliance True Monarch, the iconic Mystical Ability awakened after advancing to the Fourth Realm would always be a Demon King True Domain, and could never be a Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect.
‘Little Junior Brother’s black dog really isn’t ordinary.’
Among the three, only Yue Chenfeng remained calm and composed, revealing an interested gaze.
Nothing was absolute, and exceptions always existed.
He had once followed Master in traveling through various regions and had also seen Fourth Realm Demon Kings that comprehended Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspects.
Although the situation before him was exceedingly rare, it was not enough to greatly shock him.
He was merely curious about one thing: exactly how had Little Junior Brother managed to let his Mutual Participation Beast successfully comprehend Immortal Arts, walk its own path, and thereby forge a Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect?
At this thought, recalling Chen Beiwu’s reputation as a teacher who opened the Dao at Foundation Establishment, Yue Chenfeng immediately understood.
“Little Junior Brother, no wonder you had ninety percent confidence!”
Looking at the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect that blotted out the sky, Su Muyi’s eyes brightened slightly.
Unlike human True Monarchs of the Immortal Alliance, Fourth Realm Demon Kings did not have a weakened period. The only factor affecting a Demon King’s combat strength was its degree of mastery over its own bloodline and Dao Cultivation.
And for a Mutual Participation Demon King capable of creating a miracle and forging a Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect, its degree of mastery over its own bloodline and Dao Cultivation was easy to imagine. Fighting across realms was probably as easy as reaching into a bag to retrieve an object, requiring no effort at all.
But she was not an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch, but a peak Nascent Soul True Monarch suppressing her cultivation.
“Boom!”
Iron Egg’s eyes moved toward the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion. One claw descended, and the Great Sun Pure Purgatory Aspect behind him likewise erupted with Dharma Aspect might, merging with his forepaw.
This claw appeared simple, but in truth contained the vast might of the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect’s ‘Yin and Yang interweave, absorbing fire into calamity’.
“Roar!”
The Primordial Fire Cloud Lion’s heart jolted, its enormous body transforming into cloudfire as it frantically surged backward and landed behind Su Muyi.
Couldn’t win, absolutely couldn’t win!
The Heavenly Stellar Dharma Aspect forged by the opponent was even purer than Heaven and Earth Exotic Flames, resembling the sovereign of all flames.
Even if it unleashed its Demon King True Domain and clashed head-on, it could not possibly be a match for this divine hound.
As for taking a step back and using the prolonged battle it excelled at to drag things out, the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion did not even think about it and rejected the idea without hesitation.
Its intuition told it that against this kind of Fourth Realm Demon King whose attribute suppression was pushed to the extreme, fleeing might be shameful, but it was the best choice.
‘You, really!’
Sensing the thoughts of her Mutual Participation Beast, Su Muyi shook her head speechlessly.
Losing courage before even fighting, this Primordial Fire Cloud Lion she had contracted was truly too embarrassing.
However, that was also normal. When engaging in killing and combat, she generally brought out her initial Mutual Participation Beast. The Primordial Fire Cloud Lion was mostly used for pill refinement and lacked some killing intent and courage.
“Vacuum Freeze!”
Su Muyi pointed out with one finger, ice-blue flames erupting from her fingertip to form a barrier that blocked Iron Egg’s Dharma Aspect strike.
“Rumble!”
As explosive sounds rang out, rolling waves of qi intertwined with ice and fire instantly filled the entire combat platform.
Su Muyi borrowed the force to rapidly retreat, putting away the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion while her divine sense continuously probed the surroundings.
Myriad Phenomena, Formed with a Single Thought.
This realm indeed sounded extremely formidable, allowing dozens of Fourth-Rank Low-Grade Mystical Arts to be instantly cast, but it was truly a supreme technique for crushing weaker opponents, exceptionally effective against Nascent Soul True Monarchs whose realms were beneath one’s own.
However, when truly encountering a powerful enemy, although Fourth-Rank Low-Grade Mystical Arts whose power had been greatly reduced could still be useful for augmenting oneself and creating opportunities to defeat the enemy, they were very difficult to use to decide the battle, and were less useful than two or three Fourth-Rank High-Grade Mystical Arts activated at full power.
Precisely because of this, after understanding that the Primordial Fire Cloud Lion would only become a burden if it remained on the field and turn into one of the sources of power for Iron Egg’s Dharma Aspect, Su Muyi decisively put away her Mutual Participation Beast.
“Boom!”
Iron Egg opened his mouth and spat out Crimson Radiance Nirvana Fire, transforming it into monstrous waves of fire that swept across the combat platform.
Su Muyi pursed her lips and activated a teleportation Mystical Ability, continuously shifting and flickering to evade the Crimson Radiance Nirvana Fire.
Suddenly, Su Muyi’s divine sense issued a warning as pillars of fire erupted from the ground beneath her feet.
She teleported away, only to see the sea of fire surge and form a cage that completely sealed and engulfed her.
Looking at Senior Sister Su buried within the sea of fire, Chen Beiwu’s expression remained unchanged as he looked behind Iron Egg.
Iron Egg had also long been alert and activated the Nine Bans of Candle Illumination Mystical Ability.
With the augmentation of the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect, the might of the Nine Bans of Candle Illumination could increase threefold.
“Extreme Frost Rend!”
“Absolute Sealing Finger!”
Su Muyi pointed down with one finger and discovered that the Mystical Arts she cast simply could not do anything to Iron Egg.
Any Fourth-Rank Mystical Art, even a Fourth-Rank High-Grade Mystical Art capable of threatening a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch, would vanish completely under the might of the Dharma Aspect the moment it came within ten zhang of the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect.
“Junior Sister Su is in a rather difficult position now!”
Seeing this scene, Yue Chenfeng smiled.
While suppressing her cultivation realm, Junior Sister Su simply could not use her own Dharma Aspect.
There was no other reason. The moment her Dharma Aspect appeared, the cultivation she had suppressed would break through the seal and restore her peak Nascent Soul realm, which would be no different from admitting defeat.
Yet if she did not use her Dharma Aspect, and could not use pills or Mystical Treasures either, then relying only on Fourth-Rank Mystical Arts, Junior Sister Su simply could not shake the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect!
Yes, exactly.
In Yue Chenfeng’s view, unless Junior Sister Su used a secret art to erupt with late-stage Nascent Soul strength, it was impossible for her to break through the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect’s defenses and injure Iron Egg under the protection of the Dharma Aspect.
But using a secret art to erupt with combat strength contradicted the premise of suppressing her realm for the spar, leaving her trapped from both directions.
Otherwise, with Junior Sister Su’s talent and strength, she would not have continuously activated teleportation Mystical Abilities to shift and evade while rarely initiating attacks herself.
On the combat platform, after several attempts, Su Muyi looked toward Chen Beiwu with a solemn gaze.
So be it!
Su Muyi sighed softly within her heart and slowly formed seals with both hands.
“Little Junior Brother, I admit defeat.”
As soon as these words came out, Chen Beiwu was slightly stunned.
No, seeing Senior Sister Su forming seals, he had thought she was about to bring out some killing move and had been rather expectant, but in the end she was actually admitting defeat?
“Woof?”
Hearing this, Iron Egg was also stunned.
No, aside from augmenting Dao Cultivation, enhancing Mystical Abilities, absorbing fire for its own use, isolating and purifying myriad arts, and providing inexhaustible magical power, his Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect also possessed the Ten Calamity Soul Suppression killing move.
It was just that activating Ten Calamity Soul Suppression required building momentum. Throughout the battle until now, he had already drawn out nine Calamity Ashes and only lacked one more before he could fully unleash it, yet his opponent suddenly admitted defeat and stopped fighting?
“Many thanks for Senior Sister’s guidance.” Chen Beiwu cupped his hands in salute.
“No, Little Junior Brother, you misunderstood what I meant.”
Su Muyi smiled and changed the seals in her hands again: “I did indeed lose this battle. Next, I’ll use late-stage Nascent Soul strength.”
Chen Beiwu’s heart stirred, immediately understanding Senior Sister’s thoughts.
“Xiao Yu was able to rank on the Jade Purity Golden Register and become one of the Jade Purity Sect Master candidates. The combat strength he possesses at the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm should not be inferior to mine at the late-stage Nascent Soul realm.”
At this point, Su Muyi brought both hands together and invited him: “Junior Brother Chen, are you willing to continue the battle?”
“Senior Sister Su, please instruct me.”
Chen Beiwu’s expression became solemn, and he did not refuse.
He had not been a newly advanced Nascent Soul True Monarch for long, and many of his Mystical Abilities had yet to be used, so he himself did not know exactly what level his current combat strength had reached.
If he could use this battle to determine where his strength stood, he would have greater certainty in the conquest he planned to launch next in the Southern Wilderness Earth Evolution Realm.
‘Truly extraordinary!’
Mo Chen and Jiang Chuan exchanged glances, both seeing solemnity in each other’s eyes.
The battle had progressed this far, yet among the Mutual Participation Beasts contracted by Little Junior Brother, only Iron Egg had entered the field. Golden Egg, Snowle, and Zhiling had never intervened, and even the Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect had never been unleashed. Clearly, he still had some strength in reserve.
No wonder Senior Sister Su was unwilling to stop and proposed releasing part of her realm suppression to continue the battle!
‘Junior Sister Su is still too serious about this!’ Yue Chenfeng thought inwardly.
He was not surprised by this outcome.
This was, after all, only a spar. Junior Sister Su could not use difficult-to-control killing moves while limiting her cultivation merely for the sake of victory or defeat, lest she accidentally injure Little Junior Brother’s Mutual Participation Beast.
Thus, Junior Sister Su had directly chosen to admit defeat, then use late-stage Nascent Soul strength to force out Little Junior Brother’s Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect.
Yes, Yue Chenfeng had long since seen through it. The reason Junior Sister Su was willing to enter the spar was precisely because she wanted to witness the legendary Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect.
“Junior Brother, please be careful.”
The instant her words fell, Su Muyi’s seal was completed, and the vast aura belonging to a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch erupted with a boom.
“Woof!”
Sensing this pressure, Iron Egg’s eyes darkened and his expression became solemn.
No, the momentum was different!
The other party was clearly standing in the air without making the slightest movement, yet he sensed an indescribable threat.
“Are you ready?”
Su Muyi looked toward Iron Egg.
She had no intention of summoning her initial Mutual Participation Beast.
A difference of one realm was the difference between Heaven and Earth.
As a dignified peak Nascent Soul True Monarch, once she released her cultivation realm to the late-stage Nascent Soul level, even without the assistance of a Mutual Participation Beast, her combat strength alone could rival peak Nascent Soul True Monarchs from outside the Immortal Alliance.
Iron Egg slightly nodded, preparing to activate the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect to probe her strength.
“Whoosh!”
Su Muyi’s figure flashed and shifted directly in front of Iron Egg.
Unlike before, even though it was the same Fourth-Rank High-Grade Mystical Art Absolute Sealing Finger, when Su Muyi pointed out with one finger, the vast spiritual forces filling Heaven and Earth seemed to receive the decree of a supreme sovereign and were brought under her control in an instant.
Facing this move, the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect behind Iron Egg suddenly froze. Within the Dharma Aspect’s twin pupils, the ten brands symbolizing the power of Calamity Ashes trembled without stop, while the Soul Suppression power silently dissolved.
“Thank you for yielding.”
Su Muyi’s fingertip stopped against Iron Egg’s forehead and advanced no further.
Iron Egg stood frozen in place. Spiderweb-like pitch-black fissures suddenly began appearing across the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect behind him, before it collapsed with a boom, unleashing a thunderous sound.
“Roar!”
“Na!”
Golden Egg and Snowle’s eyelids twitched, their gazes toward Su Muyi filled with surprise.
Defeated instantly just like that?
After Iron Egg unleashed the Great Heavenly Pure Purgatory Aspect, even a mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch attacking with full strength could not pose the slightest threat.
Yet before a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch, it could be broken with a flick of the finger!
“Gulp.”
Iron Egg came back to his senses and swallowed.
Fortunately, this was only a spar and Senior Sister Su had no killing intent. Otherwise, even though he had completed the Three Indestructibles, his fleshly body would still have suffered severe injuries.
‘As expected, without using that move, Iron Egg simply can’t contend against a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch of the Immortal Alliance.’
Chen Beiwu’s gaze shifted toward the vertical eye on Iron Egg’s forehead.
So be it, that Creation Origin Art was far too powerful and excessively lethal. Iron Egg needed to pay an enormous price to activate it, making it completely unsuitable for sparring.
“Even a lion uses its full strength when hunting a rabbit.”
Su Muyi rapidly retreated, her gaze falling upon Chen Beiwu as she said naturally: “Junior Brother Chen, if you don’t unleash the Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect, how will you respond next?”
She understood very clearly that whether it was Mutual Participation Weapon Transformation or the augmentation of a Beast-Taming Scenery, neither could allow Little Junior Brother to cross realms and contend with a late-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch.
Only two things might possibly accomplish this: one was the Immortal Arts Mystical Ability Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation, and the other was the legendary Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect.
Compared with the former, she hoped even more to see the latter.
Chen Beiwu stood quietly in place, using his thoughts to pacify Golden Egg and Snowle, who were eager to try.
Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Snowle were all roughly equal in strength. Even if there were differences, they were only by a fine margin. He might as well personally try the exclusive Mystical Ability of a Nascent Soul True Monarch.
“Then Senior Sister, please be careful!”
As soon as his words fell, Chen Beiwu slowly closed his eyes, mobilizing the True Qi within Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Snowle, and Zhiling, activating his Dao Seed Nascent Soul and communicating with the Primordial Origin Dao Resonance.
“Buzz!” The spiritual forces of Heaven and Earth began to tremble.
Su Muyi’s expression changed slightly. A sense of crisis from the depths of her divine soul caused her to subconsciously raise her head toward the firmament.
The firmament tore open, and an immense existence beyond description slowly extended into this Heaven and Earth.
It was a finger!
A colossal finger of unknowable length, enormous enough to blot out the sky and cover the earth, piercing through past and present, and containing Primordial Origin Dao Resonance!
Beneath the shadow of this colossal finger, Su Muyi was as insignificant as a grain of dust.
Yet Su Muyi not only did not evade, but instead became delighted at encountering something worth challenging, activating her strongest Mystical Art and meeting it head-on.
She wanted to see just how overwhelmingly powerful the legendary Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect truly was!
“Boom!”
The Dharma Aspect finger vanished, and Chen Beiwu opened his eyes, his face somewhat pale.
Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Snowle, and Zhiling, the four little fellows, had weakened auras, and more than half of the True Qi within their bodies had vanished in an instant.
“Junior Brother Chen, what Mystical Ability was that?”
As the clouds dispersed and the rain cleared, Su Muyi slowly raised her hand and used the pad of her finger to wipe away the blood at the corner of her mouth.
Its great reputation was indeed well deserved, what a Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect.
Facing that finger, she had actually been injured!
“The Great Dao is formless, Primordial Origin is nameless.”
Chen Beiwu slightly furrowed his brows and said: “If it must be given a name, Senior Sister can call it Primordial Origin Finger.”
It was not that Chen Beiwu was deliberately being mysterious, but rather that the Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect he had forged was far too powerful.
So powerful that even with Chen Beiwu currently cooperating with Golden Egg and the others and exhausting most of the Heavenly Stellar True Qi within his dantian Qi Sea, he could at most unleash the might of a single finger.
Of course, if Chen Beiwu wished, he could also summon the complete Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect, but doing so had no practical combat significance.
With his current cultivation realm, he simply could not control the complete Primordial Origin Dharma Aspect. Being able to use the Primordial Origin Finger was already his limit!