Chapter 1467

Yun Xiao nodded lightly and flew off in the direction opposite to Zhao Gongming.

He flew for a moment.

Zhao Gongming stopped, and twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls surfaced behind his head; with a single smash, the chaos before his eyes split open and transformed into a world.

His figure flashed like light as he plunged within, manipulating the Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the world.

The Famen of Heaven-Opening and Earth-Cleaving rose in his mind, and he carefully evolved the world in accordance with it.

Gradually, the world began to grow at a tremendous pace.

Small Thousand, Middle Thousand, Great Thousand!

Unfortunately, such a world was only suited for proving the Dao; its laws were the same as a cultivator's, and moreover, the laws were sparse, utterly unable to advance his own Dao cultivation.

But this too was enough.

Zhao Gongming's purpose was crystal clear: to raise his cultivation base to the Primordial Chaos Great Luo realm, nothing more.

Feeling his magic power gradually dwindle until it was nearly empty, he finally stopped.

Looking at the Sea-Calming Pearls, he saw that their spiritual light had dimmed considerably.

Even for a peak quasi-Saint-level expert, opening up a Great Thousand world that merely met the threshold was still an extremely strenuous endeavor.

If one were foolish enough to try opening a top-tier, perfect Great Thousand world like Pangu, one would undoubtedly perish.

Zhao Gongming's heart filled with wariness: "Good thing I wasn't greedy. Otherwise, today would not have been the day of attaining the Dao, but the moment of utter extinction!"

Steadying himself, he waited until the world had finished absorbing the chaotic qi and stabilized, and his own magic power had recovered, before he began to refine the Jade Disc of Creation.

After several years in a row, the world finally stabilized, and the Jade Disc of Creation in Zhao Gongming's hands was finally refined to completion.

"The next step is to prove the Dao of Primordial Chaos!"

Even after cultivating for hundreds of millions of years, Zhao Gongming's heart still throbbed with excitement.

This was the ultimate dream of many cultivators.

"Refine!"

Steadying himself, Zhao Gongming released his Three Corpses; a Dao flame ignited upon his body, and together with the Jade Disc of Creation, he began to merge and refine them.

After ensuring his own safety, even as he merged and refined himself to the point of being utterly mindless, his subconscious offered not the slightest resistance.

Until his body transformed into a ball of mysterious light, the Three Corpse avatars rose and merged into it.

At once, the mysterious light transformed into a pill, and the Three Corpse avatars became something like pill veins, coiling and intertwining upon the pill.

Gradually, Primordial Chaos qi arose upon the elixir, and his original form evolved from it once more.

From his body, a vast, unfathomable aura radiated outward, sweeping across heaven and earth, causing all living beings to prostrate themselves upon the ground.

At this moment, the world Zhao Gongming had opened contained no living beings, only things like mountains and stones.

Thus, one could only see mountains bending and toppling, giving people an oddly inexplicable feeling.

Yet at this moment, Zhao Gongming had no mind to pay attention to these external changes.

At this instant, he only felt his magic power growing boundlessly, reaching a level extremely difficult to comprehend.

If his previous magic power had been one hundred, then his current magic power was one hundred million.

Moreover, the very essence of his magic power had been elevated.

A hundred units of his former magic power were no match for a single unit of his current magic power.

"Beneath the Saints, all are ants!"

Zhao Gongming's heart was profoundly shaken; only now did he truly understand those words.

Behind his head, mysterious light blossomed, transforming into immeasurable Primordial Chaos qi, radiating the wonder of the Great Dao, finally coalescing into an auspicious cloud that hovered protectively above his crown.

"I wonder how Sister Yun Xiao is doing now?"

Once his realm had stabilized at the first heaven of Primordial Chaos Great Luo, Zhao Gongming finally had the mind to think of other matters; his thoughts stirred, heavenly secrets evolved, yet he found only a haze before his eyes.

"Eh, right, this is within the primordial chaos; heavenly secrets do not manifest—how can one divine anything?"

Zhao Gongming laughed at himself.

Having attained Primordial Chaos, his heart was too elated, to the point of forgetting even such basic things.

He looked toward the Great Thousand world before him.

A complex surge of emotion welled up in Zhao Gongming; he summoned the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, divided the world, and merged them into the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

In this way, the Sea-Calming Pearls were no longer mere spirit treasures, but his inner world.

Although he had not cultivated the path of immortal martial arts, he could draw upon it for reference, refining them into something akin to an inner world.

At a thought, the Sea-Calming Pearls merged into the auspicious cloud and were stored away.

Having done all this, Zhao Gongming followed his earlier direction and headed toward the place where Yun Xiao was proving her Dao.

He had not gone far when he saw a woman of matchless grace and bearing coming toward him—if not Yun Xiao, then who?

He saw Yun Xiao's crown enveloped by an auspicious cloud, upon which a Primordial Chaos Jin Dou was fixed.

Her entire being radiated condensed Primordial Chaos qi, as if ten thousand Daos had merged into one; as she approached, it was clear she had already proven the Dao of Primordial Chaos.

"Did big brother succeed?"

Zhao Gongming nodded: "Indeed. Did your journey go smoothly?"

Yun Xiao nodded lightly: "With the Dao Lord's Famen, proving the Dao went exceedingly smoothly. In that case, it's time we headed back!"

"Yes. It's time to go back." Zhao Gongming's gaze was complex. "Our Jiao Sect now has three Saints; the Investiture of the Gods War absolutely cannot lose!"