Chapter 278

Heaven-lock Pagoda

His narrow, elongated eyes spewed five-colored divine light, staring at Wu Tie.

"I cannot help you gain any insight; all insight lies within your own heart…… I, I will help you break these shackles, and the rest is your own cultivation."

"The Triple Linked Realm is a place beyond the law; external demons do not invade, internal demons do not arise, and the three calamities and five tribulations cannot take root. Hurry and focus your cultivation; your own skill is the foundation, all external things are mere illusion."

Three-link City – line12.

His whole body…… qi and blood like a dragon, magical power like a tide, qi and blood and magical power howling and surging, his head of long hair standing straight up strand by strand, in the hurricane caused by the fluctuation of his own magical power, they rang like harp strings, ding ding.

Lao Tie Ren rose to his feet, holding his scepter, he released a vast expanse of black wind and sand that engulfed Wu Tie, looking at him with a face full of surprise and uncertainty.

Great Peacock Wisdom King – line17.

Reincarnation Guidance Grand Formation – line18.

Each cell was rapidly dividing, rapidly breaking down, and then rapidly reborn. The cells divided too quickly, causing the total number of cells throughout his body to constantly change, not merely due to swelling; in short, controlling his body became very difficult.

"Lao Tie, you didn't see it?" Wu Tie felt his tongue go stiff, and with difficulty managed to squeeze out a sentence.

Creation Jade Butterfly – line23.

Mother Continent – line23.

But now Lao Tie's expression was grim; beneath his pitch-black skin, dark clouds gathered and lightning flashed, clearly his mood was extremely foul: "This bastard actually said he has old grudges with Osiris and his gang, so……"

"Did you suffer a loss?" Wu Tie's whole body writhed violently, countless points of light welled up from the depths of his cells, transforming into twisting strands of Dao marks and exquisite runes that darted to and fro within his body.

"Steady your mind, don't think about these messy affairs." Lao Tie snorted at Wu Tie's words: "Suffer a loss? When have I ever suffered a loss?"

He curled his lip, Lao Tie waved his scepter, and the sky-filling wind and sand wrapped Wu Tie into a black cocoon: "Buddhist cultivators excel at feigning mysticism; this Great Peacock Wisdom King, I don't even know if he's of pure blood."

"He has set up a great reincarnation-guiding formation here, specifically used to instruct later generations…… Oh, right, I haven't asked you yet—what did you see in here?" Lao Tie looked curiously at Wu Tie: "I am not a natural product of heaven and earth, but a man-made artifact, so I saw nothing."

He resentfully muttered a curse, and Old Tie curiously asked: "I just argued with that dead ghost, and he kicked me out."

This Reincarnation Guidance Grand Formation, it's said that the older the past events you can see, the greater the benefit. What did you see? Did you see…… uh…… according to rumor, not certain, but someone supposedly saw the scene after the birth of humanity when Suiren obtained the first spark of human fire from heaven and earth.

Good grief, that guy after leaving the Reincarnation Guidance Grand Formation, his fire-system divine ability reached perfection, capable of burning heavens and boiling seas, his power is terrifying.

Old Tie naggingly asked Wu Tie: "What did you see? Any special sights?"

Wu Tie opened his mouth, wanting to tell Old Tie that he had seen the Jade Butterfly of Creation, seen Pangu splitting heaven, seen Chaos carrying Pangu in the boundless darkness being hunted; they were forced, so they broke open the Jade Butterfly of Creation, opened up Mu Dalu, and thus gave rise to countless living beings……

But before he could speak, all of Wu Tie's cells simultaneously contracted inward.

Just like when a star's life reaches its end, after the massive star violently erupts outward, all its mass, all its energy, all tangible and intangible existence, collapses entirely into its core.

At that moment, Wu Tie's every cell emitted light so blinding that Old Tie could not bear to look at it.

Then his body suddenly collapsed, shrinking into a tiny singularity so small that Old Tie, even with all his strength, could not perceive it.

The next instant, Wu Tie's body exploded outward.

In Sanlian City, within the bronze-colored pyramid, the bronze gateway through which Wu Tie and the others entered the Sanlian World violently trembled; wave after wave of light and heat fluctuations emanating from Wu Tie passed through the gateway, leaking out a tiny bit.

Merely a trace of insignificant breath, yet these breaths actually penetrated the heavy outer walls of the bronze-colored pyramid and drifted into Sanlian City.

In the boundless void.

Inside the massive celestial body formed from condensed seven-colored crystal.

The interior space of the star, with a diameter of 100,000 li, is even more vast; a palace forged from seven-colored crystal floats in a dim void, and urgent alarm sounds continuously emanate from the palace.

Troop after troop of towering figures composed entirely of various crystals strode into the palace, each staring in astonishment at the Heaven-Scanning Mirror placed in the main hall.

Within the heavy Heaven-Scanning Mirror, blazing light shone brightly, and purple light representing the highest warning continuously poured out.

"What's the situation?" bellowed a deep-voiced crystal giant, the most burly of them, its body covered in variegated seven-colored crystals, with what seemed like a blazing sun at its chest.

"Inside Mu, there is…… an extremely terrifying threat." said a petite woman whose body bore only red, yellow, and green crystals, respectfully and tremblingly: "Judging by this reaction, it seems the natives of Mu have broken through the heavenly shackles laid down by the Forefathers......"

"Low-level cultivators…… are not worth mentioning." the seven-colored giant said coldly: "Why would the Heaven-Scanning Mirror issue such a severe warning? In each standard great cycle, or even each snap of the fingers, the number of Mu's natives who break through the Forefathers' shackles is not less than eighty thousand, even up to a hundred thousand......"

"His magical quality is too high, the laws he grasps are too powerful, or rather…… he is too close to the 'Source of Creation'......" the petite woman stammered: "In terms you can understand, sir, he may in the future grow into a terrifying existence of Forefather level."

The giant fell silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Find him, locate him, kill him."

The petite woman knelt on the ground, speaking with a hint of a sob: "Earlier, the tactical strike deployment caused a shift in Mu's relative coordinates…… and moreover, this breakthrough entity seems to be located in a lawless region......"

"Lawless region?" the giant stared at the petite woman.

"Mu's native cultivators, using their own energy, have opened up small extradimensional spaces. In those lawless regions, the heavenly tribulation laws established by the Forefathers cannot detect their aura, nor can they inflict harm upon them."

The petite woman replied tremblingly: "Sir, this is the most basic common sense."

The giant lowered his gaze to look down at the petite woman, who only reached his knee height: "Hmm, you lowly three-colored slave…… are you mocking me…… stupid?"

Lifting his foot, the giant stomped the petite woman into fragments, then seized the dimly glowing heart-shaped crystal at her chest, satisfiedly stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

"Then, tell those fellows, a dangerous presence has appeared. Looking at this direction, it's roughly within the territory of the Ice Spirit Clan…… so, hand it over to those ice lumps to handle."

The giant smirked indifferently: "Anyway, we don't bear the frontline direct strike duty…… whoever is responsible, let them handle it."

His eyes shifted, the giant suddenly lowered his voice: "Forget it, no need to notify the Ice Spirit Clan. I'm curious just how much trouble this guy will cause the Ice Spirit Clan once he grows up."

Inside the hall, a group of multicolored crystal brawny men burst into laughter, each laughing with schadenfreude.

Soon, this warning from the Heaven-Scanning Mirror, like many previous warnings, was silently erased.

The giant heaved a heavy sigh: "Lawless region, I recall now, there is such a saying…… well, since this happened in a lawless region, how could we possibly know? Right!"

"The Heaven-Scanning Mirror isn't an all-powerful divine artifact, right?" the giant laughed brightly: "But this guy, despite being in a lawless region, still leaks out such a massive breakthrough aura…… tsk tsk, I'd love to see Youcang's head flattened, hehe, hehe, hehehehe."

A group of crystal giants burst into loud laughter, their laughter making the crystal hall reverberate with a 'humming' sound.

Sanlian World.

Outside the Great Peacock Wisdom King's Palace.

Mozhang Wang's body suddenly shuddered; he smiled, a point of fire shot up from his head, then transformed into a crimson light pillar that shot up tens of meters high.

Old Tie turned his head to glance at Mozhang Wang, grunted, and curled his lip.

Mozhang Wang laughed, moved his body, and stepped onto the second stone step.

After a while, Huaguang was the second to move.

Hua Guang moved, stepping onto the second stone step; his whole body surged with cold light, sword glints of chill rising layer upon layer, condensing behind him into a mountain of swords.

Right after Hua Guang, it turned out that Yan Hanlu also started moving.

Yan Hanlu also had an anomalous phenomenon on his body.

In a vast expanse of icy jade wall, a round black flame burned tranquilly.

The icy jade wall exuded biting cold qi, while the black flame's temperature was extremely high; ice and fire harmoniously coexisted, and black-and-white strange light shifted rapidly.

"I don't know what you little guys have gone through, seen, or obtained." Old Tie laughed softly: "But I'm afraid none of you got as good a deal as this kid Xiao Tie……"

On Old Tie's pitch‑black face, a flicker of shock finally crossed.

"That Great Peacock Ming King—has he perhaps already taken a half‑step into that realm? What exactly is it that he left behind in the Reincarnation Guidance Grand Formation—his divided spirit or something else strange? To have him personally act, helping Xiao Tie break the final nine‑fold heavenly‑earthly shackles… tsk!"

"Not to mention how much strength it costs for that guy's 'self' left in the Reincarnation Guidance Grand Formation, Xiao Tie's foundation is also laid perfectly flawless, saving him how much time."

Old Tie laughed until creases formed at the corners of his eyes: "Hehe, perfect 'Primordial Scripture'… sigh, sigh, I wonder what the condensed Life Pool looks like."

Boom!

A tremendous roar came from the singularity condensed by Wu Tie.

A hazy, hazy translucent figure that seemed to contain countless colors leapt out from the singularity.

The roaring sound continued, as Old Tie's black wind sand wrapped around Wu Tie trembled violently; each grain of black sand exploded, each grain turning, in the breeze, into hundreds, then tens of thousands, then hundreds of millions…

The black sand kept splitting in a chain reaction, becoming more and more numerous, and its power grew ever greater.

The Tower of Rebirth transformed into a semi‑illusionary pyramid nearly a hundred meters high, hovering over Wu Tie's head; a beam of quasi‑substantial black divine light swayed down, tightly enveloping Wu Tie.

The Tree of Abundant Harvest swayed wildly behind Wu Tie.

Countless branches plunged into the vast void, inhaling and exhaling heavenly and terrestrial primordial energy, turning into visible sparkling torrents of energy that poured into Wu Tie's body.

Wu Tie's body was a pure chaos, merely a mass of chaotic energy flow, with no bones, no organs, no flesh, no tendons, bones, marrow, etc.

After inhaling and exhaling an unknown amount of heavenly and terrestrial primordial energy, a wisp of extremely profound chaotic gloom flickered.

A dark‑sunk skeleton emerged amidst the chaotic currents.

This dark‑sunk skeleton was like a heaven‑supporting jade pillar, and also like a divine needle that stabilizes the sea.

As soon as the skeleton appeared, Wu Tie's body suddenly stabilized. Strands of chaotic energy swirled around the skeleton, and filaments of flesh, tendons, blood vessels, nerves, etc. rapidly grew.

These bodily tissues shone with a strange light.

Looking closely, within every bodily tissue there were tens of trillions of tiny light points flickering, boiling, and swirling in dance.

The whole body boiled as if it were burning.

With a roar, at the instant Wu Tie's body fully solidified, his forehead's wisdom eye opened; within the chaotic mass of his pupil, billions of hues of light flickered. Three cun below his wisdom eye, where his dantian originally resided, a strange void opened.

From every corner of Wu Tie's body, countless strange points of light shot up into the sky accompanied by a strange rumbling sound.

Countless tiny light points, countless runes, countless Dao marks, countless manifestations of earth, water, fire, and wind; countless illusory shadows of mountains and hills, rivers and lakes; countless divine beasts and birds; countless silhouettes of running and flying creatures; plus countless strange images flickering in and out within the light points.

The light points surged upward and entered the newly opened void within Wu Tie's dantian.

The Tree of Abundant Harvest danced wildly.

Each light point that entered this newly opened void caused Wu Tie's body to instantly swallow a huge amount of heavenly and terrestrial primordial energy.

Each grain of light point representing the mysteries of heaven and earth would envelop a huge amount of heavenly and terrestrial primordial energy, plunge into the void, then turn into countless golden‑ray‑long threads that interlinked and wove together, as if an invisible pair of giant hands were swiftly knitting them.

The Tree of Abundant Harvest began to swell; multicolored gem‑like fruits on its branches kept falling off on their own and continually merging into Wu Tie's body.

Each fruit was a condensed mass of immeasurable vast energy, and moreover possessed all kinds of miraculous uses.

Grain after grain of light points kept drifting down, while strand after strand of golden‑ray‑long light threads continually interwove and combined.

Time passed bit by bit, unknown how long, when the Demon Chapter King and his entourage had slowly arrived outside the main gate of the Great Peacock Ming King's palace, the newly opened void within Wu Tie's dantian had already become boundlessly vast.

A resplendent glow of flowing light and rosy clouds, stretching tens of thousands of li in every direction, condensed into a vast sea of rosy light.

A round jade disc, bright as the moon and seeming to embrace all things, hovered silently at the bottom of this sea of rosy light.

Above the jade disc, at a tiny point, a faint human silhouette appeared and disappeared.

This was precisely Wu Tie's soul.

Condensing the Life Pool, the soul manifests; using the Life Pool to refine the essence of heaven and earth, nourish the soul, illuminate the law—this is the beginning of a cultivator's greatness.

Before the Life Pool, all divine abilities and secret arts lay before one's eyes, ready to be used at a stretch of the hand.

After the Life Pool, all divine abilities and secret arts reside in the heart, controllable by a single thought.

Before the Life Pool, the blooming and fading of flowers are external things.

After the Life Pool, the blooming and fading of flowers are wholly within my heart.