Chapter 73

###**I. Candy Stele Reflects Moon · Ancient Path First Appears**

At the entrance of Sugar Heart Valley, ten miles of maple forest condensed frost into sugar. Lin Jin carried the unconscious Ao Li and walked through the frost, seeing messy sword marks carved on the mountain wall—looking closely, they were actually stele inscriptions condensed from syrup:

**"Nine Realms of Chaos: Foundation Establishment absorbs spirit, Golden Core asks the Dao, Nascent Soul transforms into spirit, Anti-Void merges with Dao. However, the Emotion Sword lineage does not cultivate the dantian but the heart aperture, not discussing realms but discussing cause and effect."**

Where the stele inscription was pecked by birds, ancient seal script supplements were revealed:

**"Questioning Heart Realm slashes Foundation Establishment, Binding Emotion Realm breaks Golden Core, Forgetting Emotion Realm can slay Nascent Soul. Those who complete the three realms..."**

The latter half of the stele inscription was covered by sugar frost, vaguely seeing the two characters "Heaven's Veil". Ao Li suddenly woke up, her fingertip Nirvana Fire melting the sugar frost, revealing shocking carvings:

**"Those who complete the three realms all become blood sacrifices for the Burial Coffin!"**

###**II. Words of the Stele Guardian · Ancient Path Secrets**

The sugar maples suddenly rolled back into a gate, and an old man selling sugar paintings walked out. The sugar painting he outlined with his spoon was actually Lin Jin at three years old: "Chaos Realm cultivators are divided into five grades—Foundation Establishment tempers the body, Golden Core condenses the soul, Nascent Soul gathers the law, Nascent Soul masters the domain, Anti-Void peeks at the source. But these realms..."

The old man suddenly pressed the sugar painting into Ao Li's brow, and a terrifying scene appeared in the Nirvana Fire: the domain of a Nascent Soul cultivator was actually a miniature Burial Coffin, and the "source" peeked at by an Anti-Void great power was actually a blood worm mother in a bronze coffin!

"So-called ascension is nothing but jumping from a small coffin into a big coffin." The old man's sugar spoon suddenly pressed against Lin Jin's heart, "Only the three realms of the Emotion Sword can cut the causal chain, but those who cultivate to the third realm..."

The sugar spoon shattered, revealing half a Burial Coffin order arrow: "all became snacks for the coffin master."

###**III. Sugar Tomb Horror · Realm Myth**

Deep in the valley, ten thousand sugar tombs suddenly appeared, with broken Emotion Swords inserted into each grave head. Ao Li's Nirvana Fire swept across the tombstones, revealing the last words of past Emotion Sword cultivators:

-**Questioning Heart Realm Li Mubai**: "What if I slash Nascent Soul with Foundation Establishment? In the end, it's just blood food in a coffin!"

-**Binding Emotion Realm Su Li**: "To break the Golden Core tribulation, I buried my Dao companion with my own hands..."

-**Forgetting Emotion Realm Nameless**: "Cultivating to the point of absolute emotion, only then do I know emotion is bait."

The largest sugar tomb suddenly cracked open, and three hundred sugar hearts flew out. Each sugar heart was wrapped in the cultivator's lifelong memories—Lin Jin swallowed the nearest one, and his consciousness sea surged with the dying insights of an Anti-Void cultivator:

**"The higher the realm, the deeper the shackles. The Burial Coffin Clan uses chaotic spiritual Qi as bait, and the realm system as a net..."**

###**IV. Sugar Heart Enlightenment · Returning to Simplicity**

Ao Li's Nirvana pattern suddenly crawled all over the sugar tombs, the sugar frost condensing into Primordial Dao patterns. Lin Jin's chaotic green lotus automatically decomposed, the lotus petals transforming into the most primitive spiritual Qi particles:

"So this is true Foundation Establishment..." The moment he crushed the Golden Core with his bare hands and scattered his cultivation to re-cultivate, all the sugar maples in the valley bloomed. The dew on the petals reflected a brand new cultivation system:

-**Red Dust Realm** (Questioning Heart): Use emotion as a guide to slash external demons

-**Causal Realm** (Binding Emotion): Sever karma, shatter illusions

-**Non-Delusion Realm** (Forgetting Emotion): Not absolute emotion, but understanding the original heart

The three realms do not set levels, and those who complete them can transform the sugar heart into a sword—the sugar figurine in Lin Jin's palm suddenly softened, condensing into a transparent sword embryo, the sword body flowing with Primordial Chaos Qi never before seen in the Chaos Realm!

###**V. Sugar Sword Shocks Coffin · Stele Guardian Falls**

The moment the sword was formed, nine bronze coffins descended outside the valley. The stele-guarding old man suddenly tore off his sugar skin, revealing the mechanical true body of a Burial Coffin envoy: "Daring to break the iron law of realms, you must be slain!"

Lin Jin's sugar sword flicked lightly, the Red Dust sword intent wrapped in the pure spiritual power of the Foundation Establishment stage, actually piercing through the Nascent Soul-level bronze coffin. The realm compass on the old man's chest suddenly burst, revealing the blood-colored note at the core:

**"Anti-Void Realm cultivator Chu Feng, left a message before defecting: The higher the realm, the tighter the puppet strings!"**

The resonance of the Azure Dragon Ring came from deep within the sugar tombs, and Ao Zhan's remnant voice echoed:

**"Jin'er, look at that sugar heart..."**

The largest sugar tomb exploded, and what floated inside was not remains, but half a Primordial Chaos sugar crystal engraved with Ling Yue's sword intent!

###**Final Act · Realm-Breaking Dao Seed**

Lin Jin pressed the sugar crystal into the sword embryo, and ten thousand swords in the valley hummed in unison. The sugar maples condensed into a Heaven-Piercing Staircase, and amidst the clouds and mist at the top appeared:

-The first step engraved with "Red Dust", with a Nascent Soul cultivator who had abandoned his cultivation kneeling on the step;

-The fifth step inscribed with "Causal", with three thousand broken Burial Coffin chains floating;

-The ninth step shrouded in clouds and mist, where four ancient seal characters could be vaguely seen—

**"Non-Delusion Ascension"**

Ao Li suddenly coughed up blood, the blood beads condensing into a warning on the sugar steps:

**"Those who ascend the steps will never enter reincarnation for eternity!"**