Chapter 694

Refining heaven and earth with earth, water, fire, and wind!

With a single command from the Kirin King, four clouds of Divine Ability instantly enveloped Ye Qin.

Ye Qin would not yield, letting out a great roar as he transformed into a Chaos Jade Kirin, identical in appearance to the Kirin King, yet his entire body was pure white like jade, as if carved from jade stone, standing between heaven and earth, emitting power that shook space.

Layer upon layer of jade aura rose from within him, fiercely opposing the four-colored clouds.

The Vital Energy Divine Abilities collided and intertwined in the air, producing a deafening roar.

The Kirin King angrily shouted: "You too are of the Kirin clan? Why have I never seen you before? Regardless, today you shall not leave alive!" For the Kirin King, the Cauldron of Qiankun was the key to his attaining the Dao; now seized by Ye Qin, it was undoubtedly a heavy blow to his path.

Yet Ye Qin appeared composed: "Kirin King, you have held the Cauldron of Qiankun for tens of millions of years, yet refined only thirty layers of its outer restrictions. Have you ever wondered why, possessing the power to refine these restrictions, you cannot advance further?"

These words startled the Kirin King. He had indeed harbored such doubts.

Though his primordial spirit cultivation was profound, worthy of being second only to the Patriarch, he still could not break through the restrictions of the Cauldron of Qiankun.

Even combining the power of the small world and the Four Clouds Stele, he could not leave his soul imprint within the restrictions.

"Why is this? What do you truly know?" the Kirin King urgently pressed.

Ye Qin's gaze was deep: "You lack the fate of the Ancestral Dragon, so naturally you cannot command what is not yours. The Ancestral Dragon could defy heaven and change fate because he began when the heavenly Dao was not yet complete. You, if you now attempt to defy heaven, will only bring about your own destruction. After the heavenly Dao reaches perfection, the fates of you great beings are already sealed—who shall attain the Dao, who shall perish and vanish from the Dao—all are fixed numbers! And the innate treasures also have their rightful owners..."

Upon hearing this, the Kirin King trembled all over, not from fear of Ye Qin, but because he sensed in Ye Qin's words a power of fate. He seemed to see a vision of the future: heaven and earth collapsing, rivers of blood, corpses strewn across the wilderness... Rahu, the Ancestral Dragon, Hundun, and other Patriarchs fell one after another.

"How dare you speak such outrageous words! Cursing numerous Patriarchs! Who exactly are you?" The Kirin King's spirit was deeply shaken by Ye Qin's words, and he unconsciously placed Ye Qin on equal footing with those Patriarchs.

Ye Qin smiled faintly: "You need not know who I am. You need only know that I can save your life. Even if future immeasurable calamities descend and all Patriarchs turn to dust, I can preserve your true spirit from extinction. As for the Cauldron of Qiankun, leaving it with you would only become your death warrant. Better to regard it as your payment to me!"

Ye Qin's words carried an ineffable power, as if they could penetrate the mind and shake the soul.

The Kirin King's mind was shaken; he increasingly felt that the being before him resembled the progenitor of the Kirin clan, come to save the Kirin race.

"Thank you, Senior, for your guidance!" the Kirin King said gratefully.

Ye Qin slightly nodded: "Merge this life-token into your soul. It is a treasure that can make your true spirit immortal. Do not think that possessing even a thread of immortal true spirit from the Chaos Kirin allows you to rest easy. Immortal true spirit is not truly immortal!"

"Thank you, Senior, for your grace!" the Kirin King exclaimed joyfully, hurriedly merging the life-token into his soul. Indeed, a mysterious and profound Dao power surged into the depths of his soul, making him feel unprecedented ease and tranquility.

"Set forth!"...

"Until we meet again!"

The Kirin King's figure instantly vanished; this time, he truly departed.

However, Ye Qin's originally inscrutable, godlike expression suddenly relaxed; he drew a deep breath, the corner of his mouth twitching into a cunning smile, muttering: "Deception—this is the true skill, the bearing of great beings; who needs to rely on violence to solve problems? Just like Ranxi, when Buddhism later spread eastward, he relied solely on a single mouth to make lotuses bloom and convert numerous great beings of the Mysterious Gate. Unexpectedly, I spontaneously conceived, merging soul power and spiritual mind-field, then speaking runes through my mouth, actually forming a divine ability of the True Word Great Dao!"

It turned out the Kirin King's reaction was due to Ye Qin displaying a divine ability similar to the True Word.

Speaking of the True Word, the Buddhist sect of Western Luoluo Mountain is undoubtedly authoritative. Millions of years ago, when Ye Qin was in the southwestern lands, he once used his palm-world prison to imprison Jieyin and Ranxi, from whom he comprehended the Three Ages Buddhist Dao—past, present, future.

Though only superficial, it also let Ye Qin grasp the essence of the True Word divine ability.

And this time, having absorbed countless great beings' souls, his soul Dao advanced greatly, the Dao-soul reaching great completion, soul power undergoing qualitative and quantitative change.

Furthermore, having absorbed the Chaos Heart-Demon, his spiritual power greatly increased. He spontaneously conceived, merging spirit, soul, and True Word, forming a powerful True Word divine ability.

This True Word divine ability could even affect a being as strong as the Kirin King—this is conquest from soul and spirit.

Ye Qin overwhelmed his spirit with the sentence: "Rahu shall die, the Ancestral Dragon shall die, the Hundun shall die, the Four Progenitors of the Grand Dao shall die," then, with powerful soul power, made him subconsciously regard Ye Qin as a being stronger than himself.

This is a dual contest of spirit and soul, extremely perilous; one misstep could mean the annihilation of both form and spirit.

Of course, the greatest factor here is wisdom—Ye Qin's foresight into the future of Honghuang.

He grasped the Kirin King's psychology, spoke his deepest desire, and infinitely amplified it, thus enabling Ye Qin, with only his mouth, to make the Kirin King withdraw automatically.

This is nothing short of the tragedy of being sold and still helping count the money for the buyer.

"Hehe, whether human or divine, the greatest is still wisdom!" Ye Qin sighed, "However, this True Word divine ability, though aligned with the Great Dao, my cultivation path is still long; although I now possess endless treasures, I have not yet unearthed one ten-millionth of them."

Ye Qin did not rush into the Five Elements Secret Land, but sat cross-legged, contemplating the True Word divine ability. He wished to fully analyze its runes, forming various combinations, like the various mantras of the Buddhist sect, each with unique pronunciation.

Ye Qin sought to systematize this True Word divine ability into a divine ability cultivation method.

After prolonged contemplation, Ye Qin finally grasped the method of manifesting the True Word, obtaining nine rune combinations, forming nine True Word intentions, containing the supreme principles of heaven and earth. He could integrate these runes into everyday speech, reaching the state of golden words and jade speech.

When the True Word is spoken, it shakes heaven and earth, makes ghosts and gods weep, conceals heaven, and obscures heavenly secrets.

He opened his eyes, which flashed with mysterious light. In his hand appeared a tripod cauldron, spinning round and round, soaring into the high sky, transforming into a cauldron of ten thousand zhang in height, forming a powerful suction force.

A Five Elements storm suddenly arose; the Five Elements qi in the Five Elements Turning Wheel Formation were all sucked into the cauldron.

The great cauldron lightly shook, as if forming Five Elements liquid that flew out, sinking into Ye Qin's Carefree Realm, entering the Carefree Realm's Five Elements Turning Wheel, circulating endlessly.

Metal qi entered the Three Azure Swords of the Metal Origin Realm, water qi flowed into the Heavenly River, entering the Water Origin Realm, earth qi merged into the great earth, wood qi merged into the forest.

The Five Elements qi is endless, nourishing Ye Qin's Carefree Realm, greatly enhancing the Five Elements origin of his Carefree Realm.

The Carefree Human Realm formed an initial Five Elements cycle, causing grasses, trees, fish, and insects to spontaneously generate in the earth, and minute living beings to generate in rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. Though these lives can only persist for a long time before death, they are also a great advancement of the Carefree Realm.

"No wonder it is the Honghuang's Number One Cauldron—its refining power is so great, truly a supreme treasure capable of refining stones to mend heaven!" Ye Qin sighed, admiring the Cauldron of Qiankun to the point of prostration.

Now only forty layers of restrictions have been refined, yet the innermost nine layers remain unrefined, and already it is this powerful. If fully refined, one can imagine how mighty this great cauldron would become.

Boom! Above the Five Elements Secret Land, the Five Elements lost balance, the Turning Wheel shattered, revealing a vast five-colored land. At the center of this five-colored land stood a colorless lake, within which grew a ten-thousand-zhang-high five-colored flower. Around the five-colored flower stood five mountains, each ten thousand zhang high, their emitted aura precisely the Five Elements power of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

"Damn, this is the supreme innate spiritual root, the Creation Five-Colored Flower? That lake is actually filled with Five Elements liquid, this land brims with the aura of the Five Elements Great Dao, runes contained within the five great mountains. Did the Five Elements Ancestor truly fall? Impossible—though the Five Elements Ancestor is not the strongest, his fate is great!" Qin felt he still needed to act cautiously.

Although he had already broken the outermost Five Elements Turning Wheel Formation, traps were everywhere on this five-colored land.

Though the Five Elements qi is the most ordinary origin, it is also the most changeable and most fundamental, capable of transforming into wind, rain, lightning... On this seemingly tranquil land lies the most primordial Dao of divine abilities.

Ye Qin cautiously stepped into this five-colored land.

Boom! A ten-thousand-zhang giant sword rose from the earth, its mighty power comparable to an innate spiritual treasure, and possessing the quality of indestructibility.

Ye Qin's form flashed, dodging the giant sword's attack. He leapt into the high sky, yet again a stone mountain descended from heaven.

Every step was filled with divine abilities, various strange and wondrous divine abilities appearing endlessly. Relying on his powerful soul power, Ye Qin each time succeeded in evading.

He gallantly displayed his mysterious footwork, like a divine son walking out of the Great Dao.

After a long time, he finally arrived at the base of the five great mountains. Here, he felt as if he had entered the sea of the Five Elements Great Dao, surrounded by Five Elements qi. These pure Five Elements qi were extremely condensed, carrying a Chaos aura, like the ancestor of all things.

The five great mountains were each ten thousand zhang high; every stone, every clump of earth was Five Elements essence, divided into five colors, with the Five Elements Great Dao runes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth carved upon them.

"Could this be the Chaos Five Elements Peak of the Five Elements Ancestor? The Five Elements Peak is a Chaos spiritual treasure, besides unparalleled defense, it also possesses the power to suppress and seal. The Five Elements cycle, endless generation. The five runes above are the core of the Five Elements Peak; refining these runes allows one to control the Five Elements Peak. However, the current Five Elements Peak no longer bears the might it had in Chaos; it seems in the Great Opening Calamity, the Chaos Five Elements Peak was damaged. Nevertheless, like the Great Wasteland Holy Pagoda, it still holds immense potential!"

When Ye Qin arrived at the Five Elements Peak, the moment his gaze fell upon the five Five Elements talismans, a memory of the Chaotic Five Elements Peak surged in his mind.

"The Chaotic Five Elements Peak: in the east, the Wood Dragon nurtures life; in the south, the Li Fire conceals fierce intensity; in the west, the Geng Metal reveals sharpness; in the north, the Xuan Water holds profundity; in the center, the Hou Tu bears all things. I shall begin my contemplation from the northern Xuan Water Peak, using the principle of water generating wood, wood generating fire, fire generating earth, earth generating metal, to master the Five Elements Peak and thus harvest the supreme spiritual root, the Five-Colored Flower of Creation."

Ye Qin deployed the Dharma-Breaking Divine Eye, focusing on the Northern Xuan Water Peak, delving into the source of water. Although he had already opened the Primal Water Realm and possessed the Three Radiance Divine Water, the ancestor of all waters, his comprehension of the Great Dao of Chaotic Water still had a considerable gap.

Water is the source of life, the cradle of all beginnings...

Ye Qin ascended to the summit of the Xuan Water Peak, layer by layer unveiling the runes of the water source's Great Dao, drawing them all into the Primal Water Realm.

Streams of insight into the Great Dao merged into his soul, as if bestowing a sweet rain upon his soul, causing the recently absorbed soul power to become more condensed.

The Xuan Water Peak stands ten thousand zhang high; even with Ye Qin's current soul power deploying the Dharma-Breaking Divine Eye, the progress appears rather slow.

However, Ye Qin's goal is not merely to obtain the Chaotic Five Elements Peak; he hopes to use this opportunity to deeply comprehend the Great Dao of the Five Elements' source.

To him, what is precious is not spiritual treasures, but the insights into the Great Dao, those Great Dao runes capable of enabling the evolution of the Carefree Realm.

The current development of the Carefree Realm shows slight imbalance, having successively formed the Pure Yang Immortal Realm, the Nine Nether Earth Realm, and higher worlds such as the Life Spirit Realm and the Soul Realm. This development resembles a castle in the air; Ye Qin senses that if continued, the Carefree Realm will ultimately collapse.

Only by gathering the twelve primal sources can the Carefree Realm possess a complete structure, and the future path of cultivation and enlightenment will also become smoother. For the twelve primal sources are the foundation; only with a solid foundation can a perfect world be built.

From the changes in the Carefree Realm after the formation of the Primal Metal Realm and Primal Water Realm, Ye Qin has further strengthened this conviction.

A towering building rises from level ground; the cultivation of the Great Dao is likewise.

Ye Qin conducted a meticulous analysis of each rune, deeply contemplating the meaning of each rune.

Time flows silently; this is the flood of history, which has brought forth countless beings, yet like a flood, it has also submerged countless civilizations.

The great battle among the scattered cultivators ultimately ended with the victory of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, yet this battle had no true victor.

If one must say someone benefited, it would be Ye Qin, and this, only the Kirin King knows clearly.

After leaving the Five Elements Secret Realm, the Kirin King did not return to his cave abode, but instead traveled about spreading the news of what happened in the Five Elements Secret Realm, attributing the downfall of the Dragon Court and countless scattered cultivators to the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Simultaneously, the news that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had obtained the inheritance of Pangu's battle techniques also stirred up a great commotion in the Honghuang.

Most beings in the Honghuang, aside from the most ancient forces, are unfamiliar with the Kirin King, thus they regard his words with skepticism, believing them to be merely the Kirin King's conspiracy, or that he has a private grudge against the Twelve Ancestral Witches and seeks to exploit them.

However, the news arriving from the Dragon Court shocked all beings and forces to the core, causing them to believe without doubt in what the Kirin King said.

It turns out that the Heavenly Dragon's Nine Sons, the Twelve Divine Kings, and the Thirty-Six Slaughter Generals, who had shaken the Honghuang for millions of years, have all already fallen.

This news came like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, shaking the entire Honghuang Dadi. (End of Chapter)