Chapter 511

A massive amount of primordial energy enters the body.

The enormous life pool and soul collapse into an unknowable singularity.

All principles and laws are squeezed into this tiny, virtually nonexistent singularity.

A tiny point holds immeasurable vast energy and countless wonders.

Furthermore, a relentless stream of primordial energy pours in, constantly being compressed, collapsed, and transformed.

Wu Tie's body also collapses inward, with his flesh, organs, meridians, and skin tightening into a thin membrane a hundred times harder than any alloy, clinging tightly to his bones.

His skeleton crackles, and fine twisted symbols turn into minute streams of light flowing from his bones, becoming strands of strange light that illuminate the whole quiet chamber.

Within the quiet chamber, all the strange treasures recently shipped from Jade Prefecture shatter completely, and Wu Tie's body absorbs all their essence.

The grand dao of heaven and earth converge at a single point.

Countless daos emerge from chaos and eventually return to it.

The skeleton-like Wu Tie softly chants the Primordial Scripture, reciting word by word the formulas for transforming the life pool and soul and nurturing the divine fetus. The singularity is slowly metamorphosing, changing bit by bit in strange ways.

A round bright light like a jade disc appears behind Wu Tie's head; this is the projection of the Jade Disc of Creation. The three thousand grand dao and eighty-four thousand side doors converge on the Jade Disc of Creation, and countless strange lights ultimately condense into a perfect ball of chaos—gray and seemingly colorless, yet upon closer inspection it appears to contain every color between heaven and earth.

"Take the Primordial Scripture as the foundation, the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill as the outer layer, Yin-Yang and the Five Elements as the skeletal structure, and transform!"

Wu Tie gave a low, stern shout, and then billions of points of light erupted from within his body.

The singularity formed from the collapsed soul and life pool explodes with a roar, just like the legendary Pangu splitting heaven and earth with one axe blow; from that immeasurable, uninspectable, unknowable singularity, countless strands of strange light burst forth.

Yin and Yang energies swirl upward, and the five-element divine radiance spreads through the air; Wu Tie's secluded quiet chamber lies beneath a great mountain east of the East Garden, where black-and-white and five-colored lights—seven colors of divine radiance in total—shoot skyward, swallowing whole the primordial energy vortex spanning nearly a thousand li in the sky.

One hundred and eight talismans, each a hundred zhang across and filled with purple-gold light, flash in the air, rapidly circling the great mountain; then one after another they fall like meteors from high altitude into the mountain, ringing 'ding-ding' as they merge into Wu Tie's body.

Yin and Yang energies and the five-element divine radiance—this is the fortune Wu Tie gained from the southwest.

Whether in the Military Bureau Hall or the Imperial Forbidden Magic Hall directly under the imperial house, there are verifiable records.

Wu Tie subdued the Five Elements Spirit Tribe and openly proclaimed that he had inherited the legacy left by the tribe's holy ancestor. Such fortuitous inheritances are commonly seen in the Divine Might Army of Great Jin, which handles external expansion, and are not rare.

Yin and Yang energies and the five-element divine radiance are precisely the upright means Wu Tie can openly employ to meet enemies.

The one hundred and eight talismans correspond to the thirty-six Heavenly Gang and seventy-two Earthly Fiends derived from the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill, together constituting one hundred and eight kinds of boundless great divine abilities. Such great divine abilities connect directly to the Heavenly and Earthly Grand Dao; with a mere thought they can shatter heaven and earth, turn seas into mulberry fields—this is the true power a 'great' divine ability should possess.

The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill is the heavenly god's reward that Huo Xiong obtained in the blood-flag contest on the Three Kingdoms battlefield.

Just as it is an upright and proper means, Wu Tie exerts himself to release his aura, causing the one hundred and eight great divine abilities to shine with brilliant light that illuminates all directions; this purple-gold divine light is enough for countless people in Anyang City to see clearly.

Wu Tie is doing this to display his means, revealing his overt techniques before people.

Anyone with insight inside and outside Anyang City will understand that the Duke of Jade Prefecture, Huo Xiong, who cultivates the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill, possesses great divine abilities at his side and is also accompanied by the primeval Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Dao; his methods are overbearing and his divine abilities unfathomable, so to deal with him one must be cautious.

A vast murky chaos aura envelops Wu Tie's entire body, while the various other dao-derived energies on his body are tightly compressed within him.

A beam of spiritual light shoots from Wu Tie's head, then directly pierces through the thick mountain above, rising tens of thousands of zhang high.

At that height of tens of thousands of zhang, the spiritual light slowly spreads, forming a figure identical in appearance to Wu Tie's true body, its entire form flashing with seven-colored divine light, like a divine fetus carved from crystal and glazed porcelain, slowly manifesting.

A divine fetus is formed when a cultivator gathers all soul power, collects all the dao principles they have comprehended and understood, and merges them with all the magical power cultivated in the life pool, forming a 'spiritual embryo'.

The magical arts and divine abilities displayed by the soul merely 'borrow' primordial energy from heaven and earth.

When the divine fetus integrates the comprehended dao principles, upon executing the corresponding divine ability secret arts, it no longer merely 'borrows' primordial energy from heaven and earth, but 'uses' it.

The soul and heavenly-earthly primordial energy are still separated by a membrane.

The divine fetus has already merged with the heavenly-earthly laws; primordial energy and laws are now its own. As the heart moves and thought arises, even a single thread of magical power that a womb-storage realm cultivator can unleash is at least a hundred times greater than that of a life-pool realm cultivator!

Black, white, yellow, green, red, black, and silver seven-colored divine light swirls around the divine fetus condensed by Wu Tie, its flames dazzling and blindingly bright.

Then a beam of blood-colored divine light shoots skyward; this is the ultimate bodily-forging dao principle represented by the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill.

Altogether, eight-colored divine light, like a peacock spreading its tail, encircles Wu Tie's divine fetus; thereafter, countless people near and far see eight-colored dao patterns swiftly appearing on his divine fetus.

The eight-colored dao patterns coil around Wu Tie's divine fetus, one-tenth… two-tenths… three-tenths…

The proportion of the divine fetus's surface covered by dao patterns represents the cultivator's realm in the womb-storage stage.

In the distance, outside the East Garden, within the forests, scouts of an unknown force exclaim: 'This fellow has tremendous accumulation… he has just condensed a divine fetus—could he be about to reach the peak of the womb-storage realm?'

Before the words even faded, a flash of red light appeared on Wu Tie's body, representing the red dao pattern of the innate and acquired flame grand dao, winding from the top of his divine fetus down to quickly cover his entire body. The red light flickering on Wu Tie's divine fetus shows that his divine fetus has already reached perfection in the flame grand dao.

An ordinary cultivator need only master a single grand dao to the extreme to achieve perfection in the womb-storage realm.

After the red light on Wu Tie's body flickered away, a flash of yellow light appeared, representing the yellow dao pattern of the innate and acquired earth grand dao; the yellow light swiftly overtook the red, and a yellow dao pattern resembling a mighty dragon, baring fangs and claws, extended from the top of his divine fetus down to quickly cover his entire body.

The earth grand dao—perfected!

Then silver light flickers, as the dao pattern of the metal grand dao suddenly brightens.

The metal grand dao—perfected!

Then black divine light flickers, representing the water grand dao.

The water grand dao—perfected!

The wood grand dao—perfected.

Black and white spiritual light shine together, as the innate and acquired yin-yang grand dao both reach perfection.

Hundreds of streams of qi surge from the forests outside the East Garden; hundreds of scouts, overly frightened and too lazy to conceal their forms, fly straight up to high altitude, staring blankly at the divine light flashing on Wu Tie's divine fetus.

"Monster!" a scout curses under his breath.

"Just a stroke of dog-shit luck..." one scout jealously growls low: 'What origin does the ancestor of the Five Elements Spirit Tribe have? The Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Dao has actually reached perfection—this kid is incredibly lucky!'

In Great Jin, some have painstakingly trained for countless years, but due to inferior cultivation methods, upon reaching the womb-storage realm they can at most increase the fusion degree of dao patterns and divine fetus to seventy or eighty percent, attaining a high level of the womb-storage realm, after which they can no longer advance.

In the womb-storage realm, each ten-percent increase in the union of divine fetus and dao patterns doubles the cultivator's strength.

In the womb-storage realm, for each additional dao pattern integrated into the divine fetus, the cultivator's strength increases by tenfold or more.

Seven grand daos, simultaneously pushed to their extremes, simultaneously achieve perfect union with the divine fetus.

Even with the same womb-storage realm perfection, practicing the same divine abilities and arts, Wu Tie's full-force strike possesses at least a hundred times the power of a womb-storage realm perfect cultivator who has mastered only a single grand dao.

This is the naked truth: the disparity in strength stems solely from the gap in cultivation methods!

Fortunately, no one knows that what is fused in Wu Tie's divine fetus is not only the Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Dao, but the complete Three Thousand Grand Daos and Eighty-Four Thousand Side Paths.

If they knew……

I'm afraid Sima Wuyou would directly order the mobilization of a great army, using the full strength of the state to exterminate such monsters.

Such an unreasonable existence is essentially a terrifying creature that destroys balance; it cannot even be considered human.

Wu Tie let out a low, hoarse roar.

On his divine fetus, the blood-colored divine light representing the fundamental Dao of the Nine Turn Mystic Art's 'strength' path transformed into bloody dao patterns like a mad dragon, slowly extending downward from the top of his divine fetus.

One-tenth, two-tenths, three-tenths……

Inside the mountain, Wu Tie's body emitted a dull, thunderous sound.

With each one-tenth expansion of the bloody dao patterns, a tremendous bell-like boom echoed within Wu Tie's body.

Thus, the bloody dao patterns spread sinuously across Wu Tie's divine fetus to about seventy percent, after which there was no remaining strength; the tremendous booms emanating from his body were only seven in total.

"Ha, haha, his Nine Turn Mystic Art still lacks refinement, still lacks refinement!" A hidden scout laughed schadenfreude.

The lackey beside that hidden scout slapped him across the face with a flick of the hand.

"Idiot!"

Truly an idiot, even with only seventy percent integration, Wu Tie's Nine Turn Mystic Art alone has already entered the high stage of the Embryo Storage Realm.

The Nine Turn Mystic Art, such a primeval forbidden technique, possesses terrifying power; relying solely on his cultivation in the Nine Turn Mystic Art, Wu Tie could easily crush nearly all peak Embryo Storage Realm cultivators of the Great Jin.

Unless someone else also cultivates the primeval forbidden technique and surpasses Wu Tie in cultivation, who could be his match?

But even if someone else likewise cultivates the primeval forbidden technique... Wu Tie, this bastard, also possesses the inheritance of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Dao from primeval times openly; he has mastered these seven grand daos to the realm of perfection.

Although we don't know how strong the primeval inheritance Wu Tie received is, whether it is of the same rank as the Nine Turn Mystic Art, or whether his grasp of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Dao is complete... but seeing the aura emitted from his divine fetus' tremendous transformation just now, we know that even if the inheritance he received is not as perfect as the Nine Turn Mystic Art, it is still an incredibly terrifying inheritance.

Such a monstrous person, and yet this hidden scout actually gloated, saying his Nine Turn Mystic Art lacks refinement.

Even if Wu Tie's Nine Turn Mystic Art lacks refinement, at this moment he is absolutely one of the few most terrifying top-tier figures of the Great Jin Divine Kingdom.

What's more……

Wu Tie let out a loud shout, and a pitch-black great cauldron turned into billowing black mist that rose into the sky, swiftly sucked into his divine fetus's mouth.

With a dull rumble, the Black Heaven Cauldron slowly appeared above the top of Wu Tie's divine fetus.

The three legs of the Black Heaven Cauldron spewed forth sinister black qi, merging with Wu Tie's divine fetus; from the cauldron's mouth a pillar of black qi shot up thousands of zhang high, with countless black-qi-forged swords, spears, halberds, and other divine weapons faintly visible, emitting a chilling, suffocating aura.

Great Martial Divine Kingdom, a national treasure, the Black Heaven Cauldron.

Before hundreds of hidden scouts outside the East Garden and countless experts gazing from Anyang City, Wu Tie was completely refined.

With just this Black Heaven Cauldron, Wu Tie alone can match an army.

Eighteen Four Spirit Warships spewed forth eerie spiritual light, circling and dancing around Wu Tie's divine fetus.

Wu Tie laughed loudly; a battle flag burst forth from his head, and countless iron-clad elite warriors condensed from killing intent let out low howls, forming a great formation amidst the pervasive killing intent.

The Gathering Spirit Battle Flag, an innate spirit treasure, Wu Tie seized it from the hands of the former Eastern Palace man, Tie Chi.

A mournful long howl rang out, and a round shield bristling with sharp teeth appeared on his left arm; this too is the innate spirit treasure Greedy Wolf Shield, also taken from Tie Chi's hands.

Another piercing, shrill whistle rose to the heavens, and a triangular spear-sword, the Greedy Wolf Sword—a companion set of innate spirit treasures with the Greedy Wolf Sword—was tightly gripped in Wu Tie's divine fetus's right hand.

One Black Heaven Cauldron, three innate spirit treasures—Wu Tie's body radiated divine light in all directions, nearly blinding those hidden scouts.

Many hidden scouts shook their heads repeatedly.

What else could be said?

One Black Heaven Cauldron is already excessive; plus there is the Gathering Spirit Battle Flag, which can be called a battlefield mass-killer spirit treasure, and furthermore the Greedy Wolf Shield and Greedy Wolf Sword, an offensive-defensive pair of innate spirit treasures.

Add to that the Nine Turn Mystic Art, such a forbidden technique.

The combat power of this Duke of Yuzhou, 'Huo Xiong', is truly terrifyingly inhuman!

The Black Heaven Cauldron roared, the Gathering Spirit Battle Flag rolled, the Greedy Wolf Shield and Greedy Wolf Sword incessantly emitted piercing whistles; having grown to about fifteen feet tall, his body gleaming white like jade and radiating a hazy treasure light, Wu Tie's form slowly rose from the mountain's interior.

Wu Tie's divine fetus sighed contentedly, then slowly descended and merged with his true body.

At the instant his divine fetus and true body merged, a mass of black thunderclouds silently appeared in the high sky, a thundercloud with a diameter of a hundred zhang quietly locked onto Wu Tie's body, whereupon nine wrist-thick bolts of feeble lightning fell down.

The lightning, 'light as a feather,' fell upon the Black Heaven Cauldron, which then lightly dispelled it into nothingness.

Afterward, the thunderclouds simply dissipated…… Indeed, they just dissipated like that!

The hundreds of hidden scouts no longer even had the mood to complain.

Is this the privilege of having earned great merit on the Three Kingdoms Battlefield and receiving heavenly divine blessing?

Ordinary cultivators breaking through from the Life Pool Realm to the Embryo Storage Realm—who isn't struck by heavenly thunder until scorched and dazed, burned by yin fire until their bones and flesh turn crisp, blown by evil wind until their divine fetus nearly shatters, and only after nine deaths and one life finally officially steps into the Embryo Storage Realm?

This Duke of Yuzhou, 'Huo Xiong', merely condensed a divine fetus, yet only faced a heavenly thunder tribulation?

What happened to the promised wind disaster?

What happened to the promised fire tribulation?

What happened to the promised nine deaths and one life?

Not only these secret agents, but even the great experts gazing from within Anyang City felt their throats clogged by something, so angry they could not speak.

Wu Tie also stared in astonishment as the thunderclouds dispersed in the sky.

He made a grand display of revealing the Black Heaven Cauldron, the Gathering Spirit Battle Flag, the Greedy Wolf Shield, and the Greedy Wolf Sword, all to withstand the terrifying tribulation of entering the Embryo Storage Realm.

Yet, incredibly, he just passed through it as lightly as a joke?

Wu Tie recalled the bloody and terrifying Blood Flag Contention Battle on the Three Kingdoms Battlefield, and he faintly felt like vomiting.

He always felt that he was able to peacefully condense his divine fetus only by treading upon the flesh and blood of countless fallen warriors……

Suddenly a voice came from beside his ear: 'Huo Xiong, my lord has a mission for you—come quickly.'