Chapter 8: Supreme Demonic Array, Heavenly Heart Mark

However, of this inheritance, Chen Daoxuan only exchanged for the upper volume, which could be cultivated up to Soul Egress.

Afterwards, Chen Daoxuan spent another five days extracting all the spirit stones that had accumulated over tens of thousands of years within this Huang Jie Fu Di and those several spirit veins.

Unranked spirit stones, used by cultivators below Nascent Soul—over three hundred million.

Yellow-grade spirit stones, over seven thousand.

"These three hundred million-plus unranked spirit stones, on the Primordial Spirit Realm side, would already count as upper-grade spirit stones, enough to perfectly revive that little female cultivator's Yin-Yang Dao Body."

"Once the Heaven-Stealing Stone I exchanged for using three thousand great merits is delivered, everything will be ready except the final push."

"Yin-Yang Great Dao, Heavenly Heart Mark, World Origin…"

Thinking of these things, Chen Daoxuan's expression was indifferent, his eyes deep and dim.

Three days later, he looked at a pearl radiating Three-Color that had materialized out of thin air within the Mountain and Sea Stele—【Heaven-Stealing Stone】.

Chen Daoxuan smiled slightly.

The Heaven-Stealing Stone, a consumable that could temporarily bear the laws of the Great Dao.

The Heaven-Stealing Stone he had exchanged for was only Three-Color in quality, but sufficient to bear a wisp of Law Imprint.

After carefully inspecting it several times and finding no issues, Chen Daoxuan finally took it out.

Mana, divine sense, and even essence blood all began to pour into it, commencing a deep refinement of this Heaven-Stealing Stone.

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In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

By this time, Chen Daoxuan had already been back in the Great Universe for ten years.

Except for going out once more to slay another Dao Thought Body in between.

For the rest of the time, Chen Daoxuan had been refining that Three-Color Heaven-Stealing Stone.

Not returning to the Primordial Spirit Realm even once.

After his refinement over several years, of the three colors flowing on the surface of the Heaven-Stealing Stone, two had faded and vanished, leaving a pearl with only one color remaining.

He only had to wait for this last color to fade and vanish, and the refinement by Chen Daoxuan would be completely finished.

But suddenly.

Chen Daoxuan stopped the refinement and stored it into Zi Fu.

He then entered the body of the Ten Zhang tall Giant Substitute Puppet, placing the Mountain and Sea Stele aside.

At the same time, the Black Tortoise Sword, Black Tortoise Armor, and Black Tortoise Pearl—the three Black Tortoise treasures—all manifested.

Furthermore, a Pure White Jade Talisman flowing with Five-Color Thunder Radiance and suffused with an aura of destroying the Five Elements was held in the tiny hands of the Nine Inches One Nascent Soul within Zi Fu.

Displaying a state of full readiness for combat.

Communicating with the Kunlun Mirror, he appeared directly in the cave dwelling at the center of the Tianji Blessed Land.

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Primordial Spirit Realm.

Within that ten-thousand-li Tianji Blessed Land.

At this moment, the great sun in the sky swayed, fine cracks appeared in the heavens, and demonic qi poured in through these cracks.

On the earth, as if one volcano after another were erupting, countless lava gushed forth, and baleful qi permeated everywhere.

The entire Blessed Land looked as though it had fallen into doomsday.

From the several thousand disciples of the Tianji Sect above down to the nearly ten million ordinary mortals below, all were panic-stricken.

And outside the Tianji Blessed Land.

At some unknown time, led by thirty-six Divine Transformation stage demonic spirit kings, supported by three hundred sixty Nascent Soul stage demonic spirits, and one hundred eight thousand Core Formation stage demonic monsters.

They had formed a supreme demonic array spanning one hundred thousand li.

Boundless demonic flames manifested, refining heaven and earth, refining everything within a radius of one hundred thousand li in the region where the Tianji Blessed Land was hidden.

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Deep within the Tianji Blessed Land.

Tianjizi, who was wielding the sect's supreme treasure, using Tianji secret arts to control the entire Blessed Land, and activating the power of the Blessed Land to resist the refinement of the supreme demonic array, sensed Chen Daoxuan's sudden appearance, and a trace of joy rose in his originally despairing heart.

"Greetings, Upper True!"

"Tianjizi, how much longer can you hold?"

"If the might of the demonic flames outside the Blessed Land remains unchanged, while keeping the Blessed Land hidden, I can hold on for at most another ten days."

Hearing this, Chen Daoxuan nodded.

The Black Tortoise Spiritual Sense divine ability operated at full power; an even more powerful divine sense enveloped the entire Tianji Blessed Land, connecting with the weakening Heavenly Heart Consciousness, transmitting his own thoughts.

According to the jade slip records obtained from Tianjizi, when the Primordial Spirit Realm was at its peak, there were only nine Dong Tian and thirty-six Blessed Lands.

As for now, the Blessed Lands not yet demonized probably numbered at most three to five.

Among them, the Tianji Blessed Land, which had degraded from a Dong Tian, might well be the most important one.

Once the Tianji Blessed Land was demonized and destroyed, this world might never have another chance of turning things around.

Chen Daoxuan believed that at this juncture, the Heavenly Heart Consciousness had no choice but to compromise.

Although this situation was beyond his expectations, it was exactly what he wanted.

As an outsider, an entity from another realm, only at such a juncture of world destruction could the Heavenly Heart Consciousness possibly be made to compromise, thereby obtaining what he sought.

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One day, two days…

Three days, four days…

As time passed day by day, the Tianji Blessed Land's damage grew more severe.

Tianjizi, who was controlling the Blessed Land, in these few days seemed to have aged several dozen years.

From his original appearance of being just over fifty years old, he had become a figure on the verge of death.

The living beings within Tianji Blessed Land, because of the Blessed Land's damage, had suffered nearly half casualties in just these few short days.

Only by this point did things reach such a state that Tianjizi did not dare urge or disturb Chen Daoxuan.

He knew that the final thread of survival for Tianji Blessed Land, and even the entire world, rested on Chen Daoxuan, this cultivator from beyond the realm.

Regarding Chen Daoxuan remaining unmoved and motionless for these past few days, yet with his divine sense blanketing the heavens, Tianjizi, recalling the records passed down through the generations of his sect, had a certain conjecture.

And so he dared not disturb him in the slightest.

Even his little disciple Lu Lingwei, who wished to come and implore Chen Daoxuan to act, was directly locked away.

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Eight days later.

The originally lush green mountains and waters, full of vitality, of Tianji Blessed Land had transformed into a hell on earth.

From its original diameter of ten thousand li, it had been damaged down to only five thousand li, and was continuing to crumble at a snowballing pace.

Countless flaming meteors streaked across the sky, and upon the earth, boundless lava and fierce flames burned furiously.

The remaining several million people survived only by entering the great formation of Tianji Sect's Mountain Gate in time.

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When the ninth day arrived.

When Tianji Blessed Land had shrunk to only three thousand li.

In an instant, from the unfathomable depths, the Heavenly Heart Consciousness trembled.

Within Tianji Blessed Land, Chen Daoxuan, who had been waiting in stillness for nine days, suddenly sensed a mark—profound beyond all profundity, as though a convergence of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

It condensed from the unfathomable depths and appeared one chi before him.

Seeing this, the indifference in Chen Daoxuan's eyes vanished, and a thought of joy rose in his heart. He knew that this mark was the legendary Heavenly Heart Mark.

So long as he refined this Heavenly Heart Mark, he would be able to transcend the world's limits.

He would be able to reach Returning to Void (Soul Separation) within this Mortal Realm that could only bear Divine Transformation (Soul Egress) perfection, without rejection and without tribulation.

It was a great opportunity, a great fortune, even stronger than merging with this world's Heavenly Heart Consciousness through Heavenly Dao Harmony.

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The Great Universe, the Three Thousand Orthodox Sects, the eight hundred unorthodox paths, the myriad alien races… countless clans and forces that had given birth to those who ascended.

But those truly worthy of being called co-existent with the Great Universe, eternal and indestructible, were only the six great holy lands that had given birth to those who wielded the Great Universe's Heavenly Heart Mark.

Although the Heavenly Heart Mark of this Primordial Spirit Realm could not compare at all to that of the Great Universe—three hundred billion light-years across, which had birthed countless ascenders.

But for Chen Daoxuan, who was only at Nascent Soul Stage, it was more than sufficient.

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