Chapter 434

Upon seeing that lotus-shaped small hill, Wu Tie's body swayed.

He couldn't help but turn pale with shock.

In the void here, there fills an extremely restrained yet wildly frenzied five‑elemental primal force.

The five‑elemental primal force here is like the dark current of a monstrous serpent beneath a calm deep‑sea surface—appearing wind‑still and wave‑less on top, yet raging violently below, brimming with terrifying power.

The weaker a creature's cultivation, the less it can sense the terror of these five‑elemental primal forces.

Like tiny fish swimming near the surface, they lack the strength to dive into the deep sea, so they cannot feel the terrifying five‑elemental undercurrent here.

But someone like Wu Tie, who has mastered and comprehended the innate and acquired five‑elemental Dao to the utmost, and who has even formed the imprint of the five‑elemental Dao patterns on the projection of the Jade Disc in his Life Pool, is like a dragon‑whale diving straight from the surface to the ocean depths.

Thus Wu Tie immediately felt that howling, surging five‑elemental undercurrent.

One after another, terrifyingly powerful five‑elemental undercurrents wildly collided and tore at Wu Tie's body, making him sway left and right, unable to stand firm; at the same time, wave after wave of horrifyingly pure five‑elemental primal force continually seeped into his body through his pores, naturally merging with his soul.

Streams of five‑colored, pure magical power howled forth from his soul and poured heavily into the Life Pool.

This is innate five‑elemental magical power, and its quality is astonishingly high—far more refined and pure than the power Wu Tie himself had condensed in his Life Pool.

Wu Tie's soul burst forth with intense five‑colored divine light; clear five‑elemental Dao patterns continuously appeared in his soul, then condensed into five brilliant five‑elemental light dragons that coiled and danced around his soul.

Wu Tie suddenly let out a muffled groan.

Under the influence of the external five‑elemental primal force, his already mastered and comprehended innate and acquired five‑elemental Dao began to stir, actually driving his soul to leap to a higher level, poised to break through the Embryonic Treasury realm directly via the five‑elemental profundities.

Just as Wu Tie, on the Three Kingdoms battlefield, cultivated the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique with the aid of battlefield blood‑qi—when the method's level, his cultivation realm, and his accumulated magical power all reached the point, everything proceeded naturally, and he was about to ascend naturally into the Embryonic Treasury realm.

Wu Tie panicked in his heart… The foundation of his cultivation is the *Primal Beginning Scripture*, a fundamental technique that aggregates all heavenly and earthly Dao profundities; his goal is to use the *Primal Beginning Scripture* as a basis, and once his soul bears the imprints of all heavenly and earthly legal patterns, then naturally break through the Embryonic Treasury realm.

Thus his divine fetus could be called the strongest divine fetus in history, a perfect divine fetus, a divine fetus of limitless potential.

Whether it be the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique or the five‑elemental Dao, he would absolutely not break through the Embryonic Treasury realm by such a "one‑sided" Dao profundity.

"Suppress, suppress, stop for me!" Wu Tie roared inwardly; he concealed himself to the side, sat cross‑legged on the ground, and desperately circulated the *Primal Beginning Scripture*, trying to restrain this sudden breakthrough impulse.

But the five‑elemental Dao was stirring; within the external five‑elemental primal force there existed a strange Dao resonance that drove Wu Tie's internal innate and acquired five‑elemental profundities to wildly assault the bottleneck of the Embryonic Treasury realm.

Within Wu Tie's soul an extraordinary change occurred: his soul became more viscous and refined, gradually shifting from an illusory light‑shadow state to a substantive glazed state; meanwhile, five‑elemental Dao patterns continually appeared on his soul, piecing together like a splendid suit of armor being donned upon his soul.

At the peak and extreme of the Life Pool realm, then comes the half‑step into Embryonic Treasury; cultivation advances thread by thread, realm rises bit by bit, Wu Tie's soul changes little by little—it was plain to see that most of his body had already stepped into the Embryonic Treasury realm.

Wu Tie drew a deep breath.

The power of the Tower of Rebirth erupted.

It could not be suppressed.

The power of the Tree of Abundance erupted.

Still it could not be suppressed.

The two personal divine artifacts of Osiris, the two heavenly‑dao artifacts forged post‑natally, or in other words the two post‑natal spirit treasures, could not possibly suppress Wu Tie's current natural breakthrough.

Within the external five‑elemental primal force, that strange Dao resonance grew ever stronger, gradually causing various strange and wonderful methods concerning the innate and acquired five‑elemental Dao to flow naturally into Wu Tie's mind.

Five‑elemental divine light, innate and acquired five‑elemental extermination divine needles, innate and acquired five‑elemental geomagnetic evasion technique… finally, even innate and acquired five‑elemental minor thousand‑cave heaven‑opening secret arts, innate and acquired five‑elemental spirit‑spring condensation techniques, and sundry other unimaginable secret methods appeared.

These secret arts were like a spark dropping into a sea of fire‑oil; Wu Tie, cultivating the *Primal Beginning Scripture*, which encompasses all manner of five‑elemental secret techniques, saw them erupt explosively, countless marvelous ideas surging into his mind, the massive influx of information nearly knocking him unconscious.

Five‑colored divine light gradually seeped from Wu Tie's pores; if he wished, he could easily release some of those five‑elemental secret arts whose destructive power was terrifyingly extreme.

"Water‑Fire Gourd, suppress it! Water‑Fire Spear, hold it down!" Wu Tie uttered a low shout.

The situation had become dire to the extreme; only by employing two innate spirit treasures could he suppress that breakthrough force.

The five‑elemental Dao resonance from the outside influencing Wu Tie's breakthrough was immensely powerful and extraordinarily marvelous; if the two innate spirit treasures still could not restrain the breakthrough impulse, then Wu Tie would have no choice but to break through the Embryonic Treasury realm using the innate and acquired five‑elemental Dao.

However, that too would be a comparatively good choice.

The five‑elemental Dao is the foundation of heaven and earth; breaking through the Embryonic Treasury realm via the five‑elemental Dao will undoubtedly multiply Wu Tie's combat power by dozens of times, making him virtually unrivaled in that realm. Moreover, he can use the five‑elemental Dao as a basis to gradually remedy the defects of his divine fetus and perfect the *Primal Beginning Scripture* anew.

However, doing so would require an enormous expenditure of effort, and the consumed energy and time would be terrifying.

It is like painting patterns on a clay embryo and then firing it into porcelain—naturally an easy task.

But if you wanted to carve even more patterns—hundreds, thousands of times more new designs, with varied colors and myriad motifs—onto a porcelain piece already successfully fired, the labor required would be not just a thousandfold, but tens of thousands of times that of painting on the clay embryo.

Wu Tie harbored a secret resentment, hating that the sanctum of these five‑elemental spirits was so strange, and also hating himself for being overly careless.

His heart pounded violently.

If he truly could not suppress the breakthrough of his realm, then he prepared to expend his five‑elemental essence‑blood, and at the instant of breakthrough, push his fleshly body to the highest theoretical attainment achievable in the Embryonic Treasury realm.

By that time he believed he would absolutely be an invincible existence in the Embryonic Treasury realm, and even against a mighty half‑step divine being above that realm, he could contend with one or two.

The Water‑Fire Gourd and Water‑Fire Spear began to move.

Carrying Wu Tie's strong unwillingness to break through at this moment, the two innate spirit treasures transformed into a water‑fire torrent that surged through his entire body.

The tumultuous five‑elemental power and Dao resonance within his body were immediately violently suppressed.

After all, Wu Tie's own power pales in comparison—his strength is not even a ten‑thousandth of those two innate spirit treasures; when they violently repress, his whole body's tumultuous force is like a boulder crushing a chick, leaving the chick unable to move.

As soon as the water‑fire aura appeared, the incessant intrusion of the five‑elemental Dao resonance into Wu Tie's body abruptly ceased.

Subsequently, a vast, black‑and‑white Dao resonance, unmatched in its dominance, surged into Wu Tie's body, instantly circling him once. Then this black‑and‑white, accompanied by strands of chaotic spiritual light, rushed like a starving dog seeing roasted meat, howling into the two innate spirit treasures within Wu Tie's body.

Strands of mighty, profound, and long‑lasting Dao aura welled up from the depths of Wu Tie's soul.

Threads and strands of the innate yin‑yang Dao appeared in his mind; hints of Dao patterns subtly surfaced in Wu Tie's soul, then rapidly condensed into substantive Dao‑pattern imprints, deeply etched into his soul.

Wu Tie felt only a sudden brightness in his heart; his comprehension of the innate and acquired yin‑yang Dao instantly reached an extraordinarily terrifying depth.

Having cultivated the *Primal Beginning Scripture* and broken through to the Life Pool realm, the innate and acquired yin‑yang Dao is like a treasury flung open, stored deep within Wu Tie's soul; whenever he wishes to contemplate, he can draw forth all manner of marvelous methods and profundities without hindrance.

Yet although the treasury's doors are open, the Dao resonances stored within are like countless treasures piled like mountains and extraordinarily heavy. Wu Tie possesses these treasures, but to "master" them he must use his own soul to carry them out of the treasury, bit by bit discerning them clearly, then bit by bit imprinting them upon his soul.

The soul is like an empty room; Wu Tie must use magical power to construct countless "treasure shelves" within it, take these precious jewels from the treasury, arrange them by category on the shelves, and make them perfectly harmonize with his soul and this great chamber—only then does he truly master the treasures and can unleash their power to the utmost.

Previously Wu Tie had not had the leisure to carry treasures from this yin‑yang Dao treasury.

But this external yin‑yang Dao resonance is like a great hand that directly pulls out countless treasures from the treasury, then builds in Wu Tie's soul a series of perfectly fitting treasure shelves, inlaying each treasure one by one.

Wu Tie need not exert much effort; the various profundities naturally flowed into his mind, and he quickly grasped all their mysteries.

The innate and acquired yin‑yang Dao—yin and yang generating and overcoming each other—contains countless variations, even directly pointing to the profundities of space, time, life and death, reincarnation, and so on.

Wu Tie's body pores, besides the five-colored divine light, also had black and white spiritual light gushing out.

His soul and flesh felt as if they didn't exist, light and airy, about to ascend to immortality, so comfortable that Wu Tie almost let out a loud shout.

Yin Yang and the Five Elements achieved perfect balance within Wu Tie's body; Yin Yang and the Five Elements basically can form the foundation of a world; any world, as long as it has the Yin Yang Five Elements Dao, can form the basic cycle of energy and matter, able to sustain life, self-contained.

Within Wu Tie, there faintly existed a trend of self-contained system.

His body continuously absorbed external Five Elements elemental force, but deep within his body, naturally, there arose Five Elements elemental force not belonging to the outside but belonging to Wu Tie himself, imprinted with his unique mark, growing.

Within Wu Tie, he was already able to generate elemental force on his own.

Even though these self-generated elemental forces were infinitesimally tiny, this meant……even if Wu Tie were sealed in some terrifying dire straits, he could sustain his own consumption on his own; he no longer feared dying after being sealed and cut off from supply.

Self-generated elemental force—if this were to spread, it would surely scare countless mighty experts to death.

Because this is a realm that many terrifying experts at the Divine King level cannot achieve……self-generated elemental force, in a certain sense, means 'immortality'!

At the bottom of Wu Tie's destiny pool, the projection of that clear, lustrous Jade Disk of Creation trembled slightly.

The huge Jade Disk of Creation merely rotated by an amount about the width of a hair, yet Wu Tie's destiny pool and soul instantly underwent a strange change—his entire body's light retracted inward, yet endless creation's spiritual rhythm continuously sprang forth.

Wu Tie's breath was long and tranquil; his internal breakthrough impulse vanished, his realm solidified at the ultimate state of the half-step Embryonic Treasury Realm.

As soon as his thought stirred, he could step into the Embryonic Treasury Realm at any time.

But this realm was extremely solid; external force could no longer compel Wu Tie to break into the Embryonic Treasury Realm. He could fully immerse himself in merging all the Grand Dao mysteries from the 《Original Beginning Classic》 with his own soul, then steadily step into the new realm.

Suddenly, two sharp bird cries rang in Wu Tie's ears.

Soaring, clear and lofty, filled with an overbearing, domineering aura, as if transmitted from the dawn of the Primordial Era, lofty and exalted, divine and martial.

Before Wu Tie's eyes appeared two great birds that defied description.

Gigantic, radiant, splendidly beautiful, divine yet exuding an unrivaled aura, that mighty presence, that peerless splendor.

One huge peacock, its entire body five-colored.

One great Peng with golden-yellow wings that blotted out the sky.

The two divine great birds flew and danced rapidly in the air, stirring the Yin Yang Five Elements power of the heavens into violent turmoil, the very void shattering inch by inch beneath their wings.

In the knowledge Old Tie imparted to Wu Tie, some memories of these two great birds surfaced.

Wu Tie murmured lowly: "Five Elements God King, Great Peng Bright King..."

These were two divine spirits more powerful than Osiris, and in Old Tie's memory, they were more intimate.

Wu Tie rose to his feet, gazing at that lotus-shaped small hill; to its left and right were two peculiarly shaped mountains stretching thousands of miles; looking closely, Wu Tie suddenly realized they were clearly two gigantic birds lying prone on the ground.

The left bird's tail feathers were fluffy, dragging on the ground into a fan shape—clearly a peacock.

The right bird's wings were enormous, like two screens stretched across the earth—clearly a Peng.

On the peacock's mountain-form grew trees whose leaves were five-colored in hue.

On the Peng's mountain-form grew long grasses whose leaves were black and white in color.

The vital energy of the two mountains linked, faintly forming a great array that sealed off outside sight; unless someone like Wu Tie brought a guide up close, from afar one could not detect the existence of these two mountains at all.

The core of this great array's eye lay upon that lotus-shaped small hill.

The elders of the Five Element spirits, panting, rushed to before this small hill, kneeling on the ground, devoutly kowtowing and worshipping, murmuring recitations of praises for their holy clan's various sacrificial rites.