Chapter 795: The Sky Island Opens

With a boom, as Xiao Yan willed it, the entire black ruler ignited, burning with the new Infernal Flame he had just obtained; the Infernal Flame consumed the heavy ruler, and at that moment, the ruler in Xiao Yan's hand resembled the planet he had once seen.

It was as if the true form of the Star Heavy Ruler was only revealed when its Infernal Flame burned!

At this moment, the heavy ruler in Xiao Yan's hand unleashed an overwhelmingly heavy Spiritual Pressure, radiating an extreme temperature!

"Bad! This is an Absolute Weapon!!!" In an instant, everyone's faces turned pale, and they all retreated, putting enough distance between themselves and it.

Only when Xiao Yan infused it with the Infernal Flame did the heavy ruler truly awaken, truly unleashing its full power; just moments ago, Xiao Yan had merely tested the waters—he had never before combined the Infernal Flame with the heavy ruler.

"What kind of weapon is this? Why does it inspire such terror!!" Seeing the Infernal Flame burn, someone involuntarily felt a chill run down their spine; even though everyone had retreated far enough, the faint, flickering flames on the heavy ruler still made them shiver.

But after saying that, he realized it made no sense—just a moment ago, it had been nothing but a High-Rank Sacred Artifact; how could it suddenly become this terrifying?

Although High-Rank Sacred Artifacts were extremely precious, for some Earth Supreme factions present, they were not particularly rare and could not instill fear; even clans like the Fire Spirit Clan and Ice Spirit Clan possessed several near-Absolute Saint Treasures, and even some Absolute Saint Treasures.

Due to their extreme rarity and power, many Earth Supremes did not even possess an Absolute Saint Treasure!

Everyone was baffled—why, after merging with the Infernal Flame, had this strange heavy ruler become so terrifying? This was impossible! A weapon's Rank was fixed from the start and could not be elevated by an Infernal Flame!

"No wonder this is a sect created by an Earth Supreme—the Spirit Array formed by the Supreme Form is indeed remarkable." Xiao Yan praised, realizing the depth of Great Thousand World sects could not be underestimated—they could even enable their disciples to cultivate identical Supreme Forms, combining them into stronger Spirit Arrays.

The Dou Qi Continent had nothing like this.

Yet facing the combined Spirit Array of several Sacred Bird Forms, Xiao Yan merely offered that one compliment—he didn't even spare it a second glance; to him, all of this was utterly trivial.

The ancient Absolute Weapon in his hand was no ordinary ancient Absolute Weapon—it was forged by the Domain Beyond demons, refined over fifty thousand years into an Absolute Weapon!

If ranked by level, Xiao Yan's Star Heavy Ruler was equal to the Absolute Saint Treasures of the Great Thousand World, reaching the Earth Supreme tier; without the Infernal Flame, Xiao Yan could not now unleash its true power.

With a metallic clang, Xiao Yan willed it—the ghostly flame on the heavy ruler flared brightly, leaping as he swung it in a sweeping arc, slashing straight toward the Heavenly Saint Sect.

As the heavy ruler came crashing down—Infernal Flame, heavy ruler, swing, slash—Xiao Yan executed this combo with perfect familiarity; it erupted from him like muscle memory.

Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler—he had used it countless times in his youth, been driven to perfect it through a Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and now he unleashed it instinctively.

Even though cultivation systems differed, Xiao Yan's body memory automatically translated and activated Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler.

With a thunderous boom, the heavy ruler struck down, unleashing a ten-thousand-zhang flame beam streaked with gray and black.

"Immortal Bird!!" At that moment, Cao Guo, the Upper Earth Supreme of the Heavenly Saint Sect, let out a long roar.

Behind him, a pair of black wings sprouted, burning with black Beast Fire; the wings folded shut like colossal doors, sealing heaven and earth, as if trying to block Xiao Yan's Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler.

With a thunderous crash that shook the heavens, even the Immortal Bird's black wings—capable of obscuring an entire continent—could not withstand the full force of Xiao Yan's Absolute Weapon; the Sacred Bird Form was instantly cleaved in two.

The Immortal Bird was originally a Supreme Divine Beast, possessing the immensely powerful Beast Fire known as Immortal Fire—the original master of flame—but this was not the true Immortal Bird; it was merely a Supreme Body Technique created by the Heavenly Saint Sect's Earth Supreme, modeled after the Immortal Bird.

How could it possibly resist Xiao Yan's Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler? This was an attack infused with the Great Thousand World's Infernal Flame and unleashed by an Absolute Weapon—endless Infernal Flame and malevolent energy coalescing into a towering inferno that surged toward the black wings.

In an instant, the ruler's blade severed every Supreme Form, incinerated all Divine Weapons and Sacred Artifacts guarding them; the Infernal Flame exploded, burning through the black wings' defense—the black Immortal Fire on the wings could not resist, and the Immortal Fire itself was being burned!

The obsidian Immortal Bird wings were reduced to white bone; even the people of the Fire Realm heard the crackling sound—as if the Bone Wings of the Immortal Bird were being shattered by the Infernal Flame!

The crushing weight of the heavy ruler, combined with the Infernal Flame's might, instantly caused Fire God Mountain to tremble and collapse; only the Heavenly Saint Sect disciples directly bearing this blow truly understood what "world-shattering destruction" meant.

Even with the entire sect's disciples, plus two Lower Earth Supremes and one Upper Earth Supreme guarding them, cracks now spread beneath their feet—under such terrifying power, the earth itself began to fracture; if this continued, Fire God Mountain would be utterly shattered!

An Absolute Weapon fused with an Infernal Flame—Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler's power rivaled even that of the Henggu Chi, which had fused twenty-three Infernal Flames!

The original Heavenly Flame Square had never reached the level of an Absolute Weapon!!!

"Aaaah!!" A piercing scream rang out; although Cao Guo unleashed all his Sacred Artifacts to seal the space, his Sacred Artifacts were merely Low-Rank—they could not compare to the Star Heavy Ruler.

In an instant, several outer disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect were crushed by immense Gravity Pull, reduced to bloody sludge!

The power of the new Infernal Flame was dark matter's universal gravity—countless Heavenly Saint Sect disciples had their bodies flattened, ruptured; this spectacle was truly magnificent—under the Infernal Flame's unique power, even the Divine Souls within the Supreme Seas of the Supreme cultivators could not escape the pull of gravity.

This scene was utterly heart-stopping—in the blink of an eye, the mighty Heavenly Saint Sect seemed to vanish into smoke.

Any cultivator who witnessed this could not help but feel a chill, could not help but be terrified.

"Will the Heavenly Saint Sect be finished?"

"Alas, they angered someone they should never have—this Flame Lord of the Soul Sect is too ruthless."

"What kind of faction is this Soul Sect? How could they possess such an ancient Absolute Weapon? The malevolent energy and Infernal Flame power are terrifying—no ordinary Upper Earth Supreme could withstand it."

Watching Fire God Mountain shake more violently, its peaks crumbling, erupting again, countless people were filled with dread.

"Youngster, you will not leave the Five Elements Spirit Soil today!" Just as Xiao Yan's crushing Flame-Splitting Wave Ruler was about to flatten every Heavenly Saint Sect disciple and shatter their defenses, a voice rang down from the heavens.

Boom! Boom! Boom!! A continuous roar echoed as, at that moment, a terrifying figure appeared in the sky above the Five Elements Spirit Soil; boundless divine light bathed Fire God Mountain in brilliance.

An invincible aura instantly shook the entire Fire Realm; a colossal palm, like an unstoppable storm, swept across the entire Fire Realm.

Seeing the heavenly palm descend, Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed; he gripped the ruler's handle tightly, spun sideways, and raised the heavy ruler as a shield before him. The palm, laden with boundless Spirit Power, slammed into him—the terrifying Spirit Power exploded.

Taken by surprise, Xiao Yan was blasted backward, his body crashing into the Shan Mai.

"It's the Heavenly Saint Sect's Sect Master, Cao Shenzi!!" Someone spotted another figure rising in the Nine Heavens and screamed in alarm: "He is the great-grandson of Cao Tian Sheng Supreme, the Founder of the Heavenly Saint Sect—he carries the Earth Supreme Bloodline!"

Seeing the figure in the sky, everyone's faces changed—within a sect's lineage, the Founder's bloodline was like a god's; let alone an Earth Supreme, who was like a Dou Di—Earth Supreme bloodline granted descendants a special Divine Vein.

Cultivators of the Great Thousand World possessed Spiritual Veins; at the start of cultivation, those with higher-grade Spiritual Veins cultivated faster.

But as one's strength reached a certain level, the concept of Spiritual Veins faded; many believed they only mattered at the beginning, becoming useless later. The Spiritual Veins deep within the body were not inactive—they simply lacked the power to truly refine them, and only those who met a necessary condition could do so.

That condition: reaching Earth Supreme and cultivating the Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body. Only by transforming the flesh and spirit could one perceive the deep Spiritual Veins and refine them, fully perfecting one's Spirit Body.

Though Spiritual Veins manifested differently, they could always be ranked by quantity: levels one to nine; levels one and two were Human-grade, three and four were Earth-grade, five and six were Heaven-grade, and seven to nine were Divine Veins. Though possessing a Divine Vein did not guarantee reaching Earth Supreme, it greatly increased the probability.

Not every descendant of an Earth Supreme would inherit a Divine Vein, but the odds were far higher; Cao Shenzi was called "Shenzi" precisely because he inherited part of the Earth Supreme's bloodline and was born with a Divine Vein!

If he reached Earth Supreme and refined the hidden Divine Vein, fusing it completely with his Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body, only then would his Spirit Body reach true perfection. A perfected Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body possessed greater mysteries and almost always evolved a "Spirit Vein Divine Technique."

The stronger the Spiritual Vein, the stronger the Divine Technique; legends claimed even the weakest Divine Vein Divine Technique reached Absolute Divine Technique level!

It was similar in principle to Dou Di Bloodline.

"You sent the young ones, then the elders, then an elder elder—your Great Thousand World cultivators live so long! Far longer than my humble Lower Plane." With a whoosh, wind swept away the dust; Xiao Yan stretched his neck, looking up at the figure in the sky.

The Dou Qi Continent, sealed off, had no Dou Di; the longest-lived Xiao Yan had ever met was Zhu Kun—others rarely surpassed a thousand years; even Gu Yuan and Hun Tian Di were barely over a thousand.

But in the Great Thousand World, longevity was common; once reaching Earth Supreme, few died of old age unless something went wrong, and Earth Supremes lived as long as heaven itself; had it not been for the Domain Beyond war fifty thousand years ago, there would be countless Earth Supremes over fifty thousand years old.

Great Perfect Earth Supreme! Even from afar, Xiao Yan sensed this figure's power was Great Perfect Earth Supreme.

Xiao Yan glanced subtly at the heavy ruler—on its back, an eye had appeared; most of the Spirit Power had been absorbed by the hidden eye within the ruler; otherwise, Xiao Yan would have suffered at least some injury.

That eyeball was the same one that appeared from Fire God Mountain. The secret treasure hidden by the Domain Beyond was not the core of an Absolute Weapon—it was an eyeball concealed within the planet's core!

The eyeball was extremely hidden; only Xiao Yan could see it. Soon, the eyeball slowly sank into the Star Weight Ruler.

"You're merely struggling uselessly," said Cao Shenzi, coldly eyeing Xiao Yan. "If you surrender now, it's still not too late. Otherwise, even with your Strange Fire and that mysterious Ancient Absolute Weapon, it will make no difference!"

At this moment, seeing their Sect Master appear, Cao Zi's confidence surged. He roared: "The gap between an Upper Earth Supreme and a Perfect Earth Supreme is like heaven and earth. Even with your Strange Fire and Ancient Absolute Weapon, you are no match for our Sect Master!"

Because the Heavenly Saint Sect also possesses a supreme holy artifact left behind by a Heaven Supreme—and it's in Cao Shenzi's hands!

Hearing Mu Chen's words, Cao Shenzi's face darkened. Though his strength surpassed Mu Chen's, the Five Spirit Clans also had Perfect Earth Supremes outside. But due to the Five Elements Spirit Soil, if a Perfect Earth Supreme engaged in battle, it would disrupt the Barrier, ultimately causing the sealing Barrier of the Five Elements Spirit Soil to collapse prematurely, leading to its disintegration and renewed exile.

Therefore, the Five Spirit Clans had a rule: no Perfect Earth Supreme could enter. They feared that conflict among Perfect Earth Supremes would damage the Barrier and deprive everyone of the chance to gain benefits.

Cao Shenzi's gaze turned dark as he looked toward the elders of the other four Spirit Clans and spoke in a low voice: "Gentlemen, the rule of the Five Elements Spirit Soil is to prevent conflict among Perfect Earth Supremes. I am merely intervening to rescue—no conflict with other Perfect Earth Supremes has occurred, so it will not affect the Barrier."

Cao Shenzǐ's eyes turned dark as he looked at the ancestral elders of the other four Ling Clans and said in a low voice, "Gentlemen, the rule of the Five Elements Spirit Soil is to prevent conflicts among Earth Supremes in peak cultivation; I merely intervened to rescue, and did not clash with any other Earth Supreme, so it will not affect the Barrier of the Five Elements Spirit Soil."

Hearing this, the Five Spirit Clans exchanged glances. The logic was sound. After all, Xiao Yan was only an Upper Earth Supreme. Facing a Perfect Earth Supreme, he couldn't even resist, let alone provoke conflict.

Though Xiao Yan was strange and powerful, the gap between Upper Earth Supreme and Perfect Earth Supreme was still too vast.

"Is that so?" Xiao Yan smiled mysteriously. "Seems I've been underestimated. Very well—it's time you all see my trump card!"

Xiao Yan had not yet used his Supreme Form!

The complete Dou Form possesses Supreme Divine Techniques! This is the Supreme Form technique of the Original Form—no one could predict how terrifying its power would be.

Even though the Sky-Piercing Form was still only cultivated to the Dou Form stage, even just the Dou Form alone ranked among the top thirty of all Supreme Forms!

Yet, just as Xiao Yan prepared to summon his Dou Form and give this so-called Perfect Earth Supreme a shock, an anomaly occurred!

Boom! In an instant, a million li of land beneath Fire God Mountain erupted into a towering inferno! Instantly, every mountain and river of Fire God Mountain was swallowed and drowned in the raging flames.

With a sudden boom, in that instant, a vast sea of flames erupted across the hundred-thousand-li land of Fire God Mountain! Instantly, all mountains and rivers of Fire God Mountain were drowned and consumed by the towering flames.

Not just Fire God Mountain—in that instant, every person in the Fire Realm was terrified, as the entire Fire Realm burned!

But when everyone regained their senses, they realized that though the Fire Realm blazed with flames, those flames seemed to exist in a different world entirely.

Within the roaring flames, no heat could be felt—not even the presence of the overwhelming fire.

It seemed like an illusion—but it was not. The towering flames appeared with the posture of burning heaven and annihilating the world, utterly dominant. Yet within the endless firelight, a black demonic Qi flickered. As the black demonic Qi danced within the flames, it felt profoundly eerie.

Not just the Fire Realm—the Wood Realm, Ice Realm, Wind Realm, and Thunder Realm also underwent anomalies!!

In the Wood Realm, a divine tree suddenly erupted from the ground, radiating emerald light that illuminated the Nine Heavens. In the Ice Realm, a colossal ice-blue monolith rose—a monument that was itself an Altar, enveloping the Ice Realm in waves of overwhelming cold.

The Wind Realm and Thunder Realm were the same: violent winds, the Thunder Pool. From afar, the five realms of the Five Elements Spirit Soil each displayed elemental phenomena—but strangely, these phenomena resembled 3D projections, devoid of any power, as if fake.

"Are these memories of events that once occurred in the Five Elements Spirit Soil?" Mu Chen flew into the air, gazing at the sudden phenomenon in the Wood Realm, his eyes fixed on the massive green divine tree.

Though the Wood Realm had no Strange Fire or Strange Wood, it once housed a peerless divine tree—the guardian of the Wood Realm. Its fruit was a Strange Fruit; each thousand-year harvest produced a divine fruit with power rivaling Strange Fire, capable of altering one's constitution and even evolving a Spiritual Vein into a Divine Vein!

But that divine tree was destroyed by the Domain Beyond during the war fifty thousand years ago. Now, the sudden appearance of the divine tree phenomenon reminded him of this fact.

The other four realms also had similar Supreme Treasures as guardians—but all were destroyed by the Domain Beyond fifty thousand years ago and no longer existed.

"Could these phenomena be the memories possessed by the Five Elements Spirit Soil's continental will?" Zhu Ku, elder of the Fire Spirit Clan, frowned.

The Five Elements Spirit Soil had been shattered and exiled into Space fifty thousand years ago. Only after five decades of relentless effort had it recovered to its current state.

After a long time, a Plane matures and gives birth to a Plane Embryo. A Plane with a Plane Embryo grows into a Super Continent. The Plane Embryo possesses its own will; a Super Continent naturally has a Continental Will—like the Plane Embryo, it carries a touch of sentience.

Legends say the Great Thousand World also has its own Plane Spirit—but the Great Thousand World's Plane Spirit is immensely powerful, incomparable to the will of a Plane Embryo or Super Continent.

When the phenomena ceased, Xiao Yan suddenly looked up toward the center of the five realms—the Ling Realm. More precisely, he stared at the floating Sky Island.

At this moment, the Sky Island, previously shrouded in endless demonic Qi, had vanished—its true form was finally revealed!

Not just Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian—nearly all the powerful figures sensed something, raising their heads to gaze at the Sky Island in the heavens. Even disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect followed suit.

Before this, the Sky Island on the Ling Realm had appeared enormous. But now, after the demonic Qi had been completely purified and vanished, the Sky Island looked no larger than an ordinary small island.

The Sky Island on the Ling Realm was entirely reddish-brown, resembling a slab of raw flesh, faintly emitting a malevolent aura—similar to Xiao Yan's Star Weight Ruler.

Now that its true form was clear, the island no longer looked like an island at all—seen from afar, it resembled a heart!!!

Seeing its true form, Cao Shenzi, Sect Master of the Heavenly Saint Sect, suddenly realized something. His eyes widened in shock. "Could this be the manifestation of the Super Continent's planetary force—the Plane Embryo of the Five Elements Spirit Soil?!"

Hearing Cao Shenzi's words, everyone's eyes narrowed sharply, filled with greed as they stared at the Sky Island.

If this truly was a Plane Embryo—it would be madness!!

"Wait, the Five Elements Spirit Soil is a Super Continent, not a Lower Plane—how could it have a Plane Embryo?" asked a member of the Young Generation, confused.

"Indeed, a Super Continent has surpassed the Plane Embryo stage—the Plane Embryo has matured into a Continental Spirit. But fifty thousand years ago, the Five Elements Spirit Soil was destroyed, and even its Continental Spirit shattered. Yet due to its unique nature, it was able to reassemble. After fifty thousand years, perhaps a new Plane Embryo has been born." A senior elder of a major Faction offered his speculation.

"Indeed, the Super Continent has surpassed the Embryo of the World; the Embryo of the World has grown into the Spirit of the Continent. But fifty thousand years ago, the Five Elements Spirit Soil was destroyed, and even the Spirit of the Continent was shattered. Yet due to the unique nature of the Five Elements Spirit Soil, it was able to reassemble—after fifty thousand years, perhaps a new Embryo of the World has been born within it," said an ancestral elder of a major Faction.

"Holy shit—does this mean the Five Elements Spirit Soil has fully revived?!"

"So that's it! The earlier memories were the new Plane Embryo absorbing the past memories!"

Currently, the Five Elements Spirit Soil remains united only by external force. But if a new Plane Embryo has been born, it means the Five Elements Spirit Soil has fully recovered—it will no longer be exiled, and will be truly reborn!

Thump. At that moment, a thunderous heartbeat echoed—like the pulse of a heart too vast to comprehend. The heartbeat instantly spread across all corners of the Five Elements Spirit Soil.

As the heartbeat sounded, the entire Five Elements Spirit Soil trembled. Thump—the heartbeat sounded again. Something seemed ready to burst forth from the earth!

"Xiao Yan, what should we do now? Should we fight for the Plane Embryo?" Xiao Yixian arrived beside Xiao Yan. Clearly, events had surpassed all expectations.

"No matter what, we must first seize the Bodhi Flower. Everything else is secondary." Xiao Yan's gaze burned like fire. His grudge with the Heavenly Saint Sect meant nothing compared to the Plane Embryo—and nothing compared to the Bodhi Flower.

Moreover, seizing the Bodhi Flower would make it far easier for Xiao Yixian to condense the Original Form to confront the Heavenly Saint Sect.

At this moment, Xiao Yan slowly lowered his head, glancing at the Ruler in his hand. He had a premonition—the Domain Beyond had left behind more than just this Absolute Weapon.

At this moment, Xiao Yan slowly lowered his head and glanced at the heavy ruler in his hand; he had a premonition that the Domain Beyond's demonic clan had left behind more than just this Absolute Weapon.

(End of chapter)