Chapter 1059

Wu Tie descended tens of thousands of li and finally arrived at the Heavenly Dao Grotto.

Just as he had thought.

Just as he had seen in the treasure mirror projection.

Here stand enormous divine formations, like exquisitely precise gears meshed in the void; countless formations slowly rotate, clashing to emit blinding fire and lightning, possessing terrifying purifying and filtering power.

Each divine formation inlays a huge treasure fragment.

One can no longer tell what the original treasures looked like; the fragments vary in color and material, emitting diverse divine spiritual light, continuously releasing waves of terrifying aura.

At the center of the Heavenly Dao Grotto, the ground inlays a cold jade cushion; upon this extremely hard ice cushion three feet in diameter lies a mark several inches deep. Clearly, countless people have sat cross-legged here over countless years, wearing the cushion down to this shape.

The cushion also bears divine formation reinforcement; given its extraordinary hardness, how many years and how many buttocks' friction would be needed to carve such a few‑inch deep imprint?

"Foundation!" Wu Tie stared deeply at the mark on the cushion.

Just how many human geniuses have cultivated here? Even if it's a once‑in‑a‑million‑year opportunity, how many years have passed since the Primeval Divine War? One eon, two eons, three eons—or even longer?

Xi Valley, how many Honored‑rank old monsters have they stockpiled?

Strand after strand of extremely pure Dao resonance, with only minuscule foreign Dao impurities, erupts from each divine formation.

Inside the Heavenly Dao Grotto, pressure, gravity, and temperature are extreme; the air nearly condenses into substance. The terrifying high heat, high pressure, high gravity, and wave after wave of Dao resonance pressure would vaporize an ordinary person instantly, leaving not a trace.

Only that cold jade cushion is the sole safe point.

The extremely rich, pure Dao resonance, after being transformed by the cold jade cushion, gently infuses the body, aiding comprehensive enhancement of flesh, spirit, blood, lifespan, cultivation… until condensing a Dao seal.

This place is safe, possibly the only safe point on the entire Mu Dalu.

Here, there is no erosion or confinement by foreign Dao; one can safely and freely break through the Honored‑rank bottleneck!

Wu Tie's face suddenly twitched violently.

That old fellow Xi Wu Yi from before had laid a trap in his words—the Heavenly Dao Grotto offers a chance once every million years for a carefully selected human genius to condense a Dao seal and achieve Honored rank.

However, aside from that once‑in‑a‑million‑year opportunity, the Heavenly Dao Grotto is so safe that human geniuses can completely freely break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm without restraint or restriction.

Yes… before the Dao laws of Mu Dalu underwent a great change, before all humans could safely attain the Divine Manifestation Realm without the slightest divine tribulation, Xi Valley here possessed an absolutely secure stronghold where one could break through bottlenecks without worry.

Breaking from the Womb Storage Realm to the Divine Manifestation Realm fundamentally requires no consumption of this place's Heavenly Dao resonance!

Wu Tie gritted his teeth; no wonder all the armored troops of Xi Valley he encountered along the way were profound Divine Manifestation experts.

In other human dynasties, such as the Sui Dynasty, they still need to rely on the Fire Transmission Grand Formation, consuming vast resources; even under its protection there is a high chance of being erased by divine tribulation, so Sui's elites break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm at great risk and cost.

Even in the Three Kingdoms region where Wu Tie hails from, breaking through to the Divine Manifestation Realm requires a blood sacrifice of tens of millions of elite warriors on the battlefield, ultimately yielding only a few Heavenly Decrees.

And Xi Valley.

Claiming to be the orthodox human lineage and wielding humanity's greatest martial power, Xi Valley possesses the Heavenly Dao Grotto, enabling them to let human elites break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm with zero risk!

Wu Tie sensed the environment within the Heavenly Dao Grotto.

Exactly, here a human cultivator at the Womb Storage Realm can break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm completely risk‑free and imperceptible to the outside world.

Look at the supreme treasure fragments inlaid in each divine formation here, and consider the enormous resources needed to set up these massive floating formations. The supreme treasure fragments are legacies of human ancestors, yet these vast array materials and the formations' huge consumption—Wu Tie does not believe they were mined by Xi Valley's old timers themselves.

Xi Valley must be enjoying the patronage of the entire human race.

Yet they have not shared the precious resources they control with the whole human race.

"Humanity, the orthodox, huh!" Wu Tie let out a heh‑heh‑heh laugh, his cold, harsh chuckle making the entire Heavenly Dao Grotto tremble slightly.

"Heavenly Mirror, come!" Wu Tie roared, and the treasure mirror in his hand flashed with a brilliant divine light.

Above his head, in a divine formation at the core position, a huge treasure‑mirror fragment several thousand zhang in size shuddered violently. The dazzling Dao chains within the formation trembled fiercely; the fragment slowly descended toward Wu Tie, the Dao chains were gradually stretched, then spewed blinding fire, and finally, with a tremendous roar, were completely torn apart.

The massive fragment fell toward Wu Tie's six‑foot‑diameter treasure mirror, shrinking bit by bit until it silently merged into the mirror.

Behind Wu Tie, rolling golden light from the Merit Golden Cake continually flowed into the treasure mirror in his hand.

The fragment and the mirror rapidly fused; the mirror's aura surged swiftly—ancient, primordial, majestic, supreme—as he swiftly regained his rightful peak power.

Wu Tie unceasingly supplied the mirror with vast merit power, while his gaze swept over the cores of countless divine formations.

The black sword constantly spinning and dancing beside Wu Tie suddenly vibrated and roared, emitting a sharp sword cry. Near and far, hundreds of murderous‑aura divine formations violently trembled, countless Dao chains being pulled and shattered with continual booms.

Within these formations, metal fragments ranging from the size of a human face down to thumb‑size shuddered violently, emitting a terrifying killing intent that made Wu Tie's flesh creep.

The fearsome killing intent condensed into substance enveloped Wu Tie's entire body—extermination, slaughter, confinement, annihilation.

Black, blood‑red, chaotic, and pallid white sword lights shot into the sky. Wu Tie's black sword, eager, swept forward fiercely; its black blade aura swept the void, cleaving hundreds of divine formations into ruin.

Hundreds of strands of four‑colored sword light swirled and flew through the air, rapidly converging toward the black sword at Wu Tie's side.

The fragments pieced themselves together, accompanied by a piercing 'clang‑clang' sword tone, forming four long swords that hovered before Wu Tie, continuously exuding a terrifying sword intent and killing intent that made him feel suffocated, trembling, as if every cell were being sliced by lingchi.

Given Wu Tie's current cultivation, the roughly formed sword shapes from these broken fragments directly caused deep sword marks to appear on his body.

Even Wu Tie's extraordinarily tough chaotic bones, a hundred times sturdier than flesh, were shaken into fine sword traces.

Wu Tie drew deep breaths; each inhalation felt as if the air entering his body were blades cutting his flesh, causing him great pain. He stared at the four floating swords before him and gripped the hilt of his black sword with his right hand.

"Your killing intent towers to the heavens; perhaps this is precisely why Xi Valley refuses to reforge you into swords." Wu Tie said in a deep voice: "I am not your master, but…"

Four immensely clear wills thundered into Wu Tie's mind; his innate spiritual light, hovering like a bright moon in his mental sea, shuddered violently, nearly shattered by the four sword intents.

Wu Tie spat out a mouthful of old blood far away, his body swayed, and he collapsed miserably to the ground.

He heard four resonant, powerful voices: "Infuse merit, help us brothers revive, acknowledge you as master, and slay enemies for you!"

Then came four near‑hysterical sword cries echoing in Wu Tie's mind.

Wu Tie's innate spiritual light trembled violently; for a moment he could only hear wave after wave of hysterical cries to "slay enemies!"

These slaughter‑holy weapons care not who their master is. Wu Tie's black sword is merely a tiny fragment forged from one of their holy weapons; through this fragment they know Wu Tie is the enemy of their enemies, which is enough!

As long as Wu Tie is willing to wield them to slay enemies, they do not care who their master is.

Where are the enemies?

Slaughter those enemies!

This is enough!

"Fine, you acknowledge me as master; I will lead you to slay enemies." Wu Tie's innate spiritual light trembled incessantly amid the clashing sword cries; originally a cluster of clear light, it now faintly shows signs of condensing into substance under the tempering of countless sword cries.

Wu Tie's black sword in his hand disintegrated on its own; a small fragment flew out and merged into the black sword-shaped form hovering before him.

Wu Tie took a deep breath and poured his vast merit power into the four murderous weapons.

The four murderous weapons simultaneously emitted a resounding, exhilarating sword cry; then their sword cry echoed throughout the entire Dao Cavern, and their will was transmitted to all treasure fragments sealed by the divine formations.

"Old friends……our four bodies are incomplete; we can sense that more than half of our four bodies have been utterly reduced to ashes, completely vanished, and can never be recovered."

"Old friends, know this: when we four join forces, our killing power is unrivaled in the three realms; none in the world can compare."

"Your slaughtering power is insufficient; many old friends' bodies are also badly damaged, beyond repair……Therefore, please, old friends, offer your remnant bodies, letting them merge into our four bodies."

"Thus, we four can surpass our former peak……We shall carry your will and slaughter the blood enemies of our former masters!"

"Old friends, will you agree?"

"If you don't agree, it's fine; we'll just take it by force!"

Killing intent filled the sky, crude and direct; the four peerless murderous weapons received Wu Tie's merit power infusion, and while rapidly healing, they eagerly issued the most ferocious ultimatum and threat to the countless fragments hovering above the Dao Cavern.

Countless divine formations violently trembled; several huge fragments, likely remnants of giant bells and cauldrons, broke free of the formations' seal, bearing tremendous roaring sounds and countless mystic flashes, and shot straight toward the four murderous weapons.

"Kill them all!" weak roars echoed in the void.

Behind Wu Tie, the consumption speed of the merit gold cakes suddenly increased greatly.

Then, streams of light fell like raindrops; countless fragments actively broke free of the formations and flew toward the four weapons.

Wu Tie sat cross-legged on the ground, gazing at the fragments that still retained a trace of will, and tears poured down like rain.

These fragments themselves are a hundred, even ten thousand times more lovable than the Elders of the Xihou line like Xi Wu Yi……Divine objects have spirits, but human hearts are treacherous!

"Remember our names……descendants of later generations……"

"Once, our names echoed through the three realms……remember our names……do not let the ages forget us……"

"For this world, our former masters have already vanished; we ought to have followed them long ago……today we are finally freed……"

"Remember, remember, remember……do not let the world truly forget us."

"We once protected you as you grew from weak to strong; we once cared for your propagation……we, our former masters, love you!"

"So, please remember us."

Wu Tie nodded heavily and let out a low, hoarse roar: "Yes!"

The Dao Cavern shook, the divine formations shattered, and heavenly light poured down like meteors. Streams of pure, primordial, clear Dao resonance continually flowed into Wu Tie's body, and streams of vast, pure heavenly-earth power continually surged into his body.

Though emaciated to skin and bone and not yet fully recovered, Wu Tie has now returned to his original state, completely reaching peak condition, and his condition continues to rise.

"Corrosion" Dao Seal, tenth heaven, great perfection.

"Power" Dao Seal, tenth heaven, great perfection.

"Change" Dao Seal, tenth heaven, great perfection.

"Wither" Dao Seal, tenth heaven, great perfection……

In Wu Tie's mind, innate spiritual light that continually collapses and condenses surrounds him; the Dao seals formed from the Three Thousand Great Dao and the Eighty-Four Thousand Side Doors, one after another, continually devour and flow into his body the Dao resonance and heavenly-earth power, constantly rapidly increasing.

Wu Tie's body began to undergo an extremely mysterious change.

Within his chaotic-hued bones, streams of chaotic flow light surged out, continually enhancing and strengthening his bodily flesh, making it ever more unfathomably divine.

The newly obtained primordial version of the "One Qi Transforms into Three Purities" Great Dao divine ability transformed into three lotuses of intertwining spiritual light, shuttling swiftly within Wu Tie's body, twining and coiling, repeatedly refining, cleansing, purifying, and elevating his Dao foundation.

A hitherto unknown sense of clarity and permeation continually arose in Wu Tie's flesh and innate spiritual light.

His whole body felt cool, his mind tranquil, and Wu Tie unconsciously showed a smile.

With that smile, the shattered divine formations across the sky turned into streams of light, which mysteriously became large and small golden flowers that swirled and danced around Wu Tie.

Afterwards, the divine formations laid down by the Xihou line—who knows how many years, precious materials, and painstaking effort they cost—streamed into Wu Tie's body.

The surging chaotic qi within Wu Tie gulped down the streams of light formed from those inflowing divine formations.

Just as when Wu Tie first obtained the bone fragments, which devoured ordinary metal weapons……now Wu Tie's body devours the highest-grade innate divine material nurtured by Mu Dalu.

A vast aura was conceived and grew within the collapsing Dao Cavern.

In the hall above, the battle raged fiercely.