Chapter 39: Condensing the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder

Composing his thoughts, Chen Daoxuan naturally retracted the manifested Mountain-Sea Thunder Diagram.

He also took back the Natal Divine Seal left behind by the former Xuanqi Zhou Prefect after his death and Dao dissipation.

Looking at the somewhat damaged Divine Seal, Chen Daoxuan shook his head slightly.

"Poor thing — a dignified Prefect of a Zhou, yet only one Natal Primordial Spirit treasure."

"Forget it, at least he's a bit richer than that Guqi Prefecture Prefect."

In the span of a thought, sensing the Heaven-Earth-Man Three Talents Killing Opportunities accumulated within the Innate Gourd, Chen Daoxuan used a small trick he had comprehended while studying the 【Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder】 to calculate with his fingers.

After several breaths of time, Chen Daoxuan's heart leaped with joy.

"Good, the accumulated Heaven-Earth-Man Three Talents Killing Opportunities are finally enough to cultivate the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder once."

……

At this moment, Chen Daoxuan suddenly turned his head, looking toward tens of thousands of li away.

He saw the Supreme Elder of the Treasure Talisman Sect, True Lord Treasure Talisman, standing still at that spot.

And seeing Chen Daoxuan's gaze turning toward him, tens of thousands of li away, True Lord Treasure Talisman, who stood quietly still, felt his heart full of trepidation.

Originally he had hurried over, thinking to lend a hand.

But he never expected that, just as he arrived, he witnessed Chen Daoxuan, in a few swift moves, easily slaughtering the former Xuanqi Zhou Prefect.

Such ferocious might truly frightened him.

But at this moment, facing Chen Daoxuan's gaze, he thought it over and over, then gritted his teeth, flew over to the front, and paid his respects to Chen Daoxuan.

"Greetings, Daoist Qingzhu!"

Looking at True Lord Treasure Talisman, who, like himself, followed Heaven and responded to humanity, standing on one side, Chen Daoxuan felt a slight disappointment in his heart, but on the surface, he showed a gentle smile.

"Greetings, Daoist Treasure Talisman!"

"Daoist Treasure Talisman, will you go with me to the capital to quell this tribulation?"

Hearing Chen Daoxuan's words, True Lord Treasure Talisman immediately gave a start, and waved his hands rapidly, saying:

"Daoist Qingzhu, I am old and frail, with only meager strength, suppressing the fortune of Xuanqi Zhou."

"As for quelling this tribulation, I am powerless."

Hearing this, Chen Daoxuan nodded slightly, understood his thoughts, and did not continue to persuade.

After a brief exchange of a few words, he took his leave of True Lord Treasure Talisman.

He continued heading toward the capital of True Strange Nation.

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True Strange Nation's Nineteen Prefectures.

Divided into four Eastern Prefectures, four Southern Prefectures, four Western Prefectures, and seven Northern Prefectures.

Guqi Prefecture, where the Green Thunder Sect is located, along with Xuanqi, Lingqi, and Yuanqi Prefectures, all belong to the four Southern Prefectures.

As for the capital, it lies within the four Eastern Prefectures, in True Strange Prefecture, which takes the nation's name as its own.

……

However, after arriving at the border of True Strange Prefecture.

Chen Daoxuan did not continue forward.

He stood still for a moment, sensing for a while.

"True Strange Prefecture is still utterly quiet; it seems everyone is waiting for the right moment."

"If nothing unexpected happens, they should all be waiting for three days from now, when the True Strange King's Longevity Secret Art reaches its most critical moment, for all parties to erupt at once."

"What I know of are the Seven Sects of the seven Northern Prefectures, which hold the authority of education over a Prefecture.

The True Strange Crown Prince who administers the court, and the three great Demon Gates.

Beyond these three, what other forces are there?"

After pondering for a moment, Chen Daoxuan retracted his form and Aura, vanishing without a trace.

Then in an instant, he connected with the Kunlun Mirror and returned to the Great Universe.

……

Immediately.

Above the high heavens, outside the Nation's Fortune Great Barrier, apart from the two Return to Void Wills of Sword Light and Thunder that had followed along and ostensibly positioned themselves within.

The dozen or so Return to Void Wills positioned in the sky above True Strange Prefecture, outside the Nation's Fortune Great Barrier, all stirred slightly.

"Hmm, suddenly I can't sense him anymore. That little Divine Transformation friend from the Tianlei Sect lineage — his concealment methods are this profound?"

"Not simple at all!"

"Heh, naturally not simple — didn't you see Daoist Tianlei also manifesting his Will here?"

"Clearly he's come to protect the Dao."

"That old fellow Divine Sword also came — for what reason?"

These Return to Void Wills, among themselves, began to converse just like ordinary mortals.

……

Within the Cuivei Immortal Mansion in the Great Universe.

Chen Daoxuan sat cross-legged.

He inhaled and exhaled the Dong Tian spiritual energy, connecting with the Innate Gourd.

He was preparing to take advantage of the remaining three days to use the accumulated Heaven-Earth-Man Three Talents Killing Opportunities to complete one cultivation of the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder.

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In Chen Daoxuan's view, the Heaven-Earth-Man Three Talents Killing Opportunities within the Innate Gourd were entirely a different matter from the Slaughter Dao.

The Slaughter Dao is like all living beings — birth, aging, illness, death — like the body's metabolism, merely a conceptual order of the Great Dao.

However, the killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man is a kind of "thought."

If not for the Innate Gourd, Chen Daoxuan could at most perceive the killing intent of Man, which represents the killing intent of all living beings.

But to gather the killing intent of Man, certain very special methods are still required.

As for the killing intent of Heaven and Earth, it can only be perceived indirectly through the changes of Heaven and Earth.

Gathering the killing intent of Heaven and Earth is even more completely without a starting point.

It is also thanks to the profound wonder of the Innate Gourd that Chen Daoxuan could gather the killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man with such effortless ease.

Only by using the killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man as a foundation can one cultivate the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder.

To condense that Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder, which, once the killing thought arises, can destroy everything.

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Thoughts flowed.

As Chen Daoxuan operated the method of the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder he had comprehended.

The killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man within the Innate Gourd began, in some mysterious way, to move accordingly.

Within the Innate Gourd, it circulated in an orderly pattern.

At the same time, that Innate Gourd, just like a living being at the Divine Separation (Return to Void) stage, along with the circulation of the Three Powers' killing intent, in some mysterious way, drew upon the Great Dao Power.

The Great Dao Power it drew upon all came from the Great Daos that Chen Daoxuan was familiar with and had comprehended—the Five Elements, the Four Symbols, Yin and Yang, Cause and Effect, Thunder, Slaughter, and so on.

At this, Chen Daoxuan had an instant realization in his heart.

"So that's how it is. Just like the Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture, the more Great Daos I comprehend and cultivate, the stronger it becomes!"

"It's just that the result is the opposite of the Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture."

"One evolves the great thousand, the other destroys all that exists."

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As the Great Dao Power of the Five Elements, the Four Symbols, Yin and Yang, Cause and Effect, Thunder, Slaughter, and so on was drawn upon by the Innate Gourd.

Chen Daoxuan also clearly perceived that the influence of the Chang Sheng Tian Gui obscuring the Great Dao had now vanished.

Causing several Great Daos to become incomparably clear in his perception.

Even ten times clearer than in the Yuanling Realm, than in the Tianling Great Realm.

"There could actually be such an opportunity?"

In the span of a thought, Chen Daoxuan gathered his mind and continued to operate the method of the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder, controlling the killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man, so that the Innate Gourd could draw upon the Great Dao Power.

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One day later.

The Innate Gourd stopped drawing upon the Great Dao Power.

In an instant, Chen Daoxuan knew with innate clarity that the accumulated killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man and the Great Dao Power accumulated over this day had, in some mysterious way, reached a mysterious balance.

At that very instant, Chen Daoxuan's mind concentrated, and his consciousness involuntarily merged into one with the Innate Gourd.

Then, taking the Innate Gourd as its body, it began to naturally operate the method of the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder, absorbing the killing intent of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man and the Great Dao Power that had reached a certain balance.

Another day passed.

The Three Powers' killing intent and the Great Dao Power completely vanished.

The Innate Gourd was empty.

At this moment, Chen Daoxuan perceived that something was brewing within the Innate Gourd.

"Zha!"

Suddenly, within the empty Innate Gourd, a sound like the creation of the world appeared out of thin air.

A wisp of grey, hazy Thunder manifested.

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