Chapter 764: Slashing the Dao to See My Sentimental Tears, Slashing Myself to See the Ruthless Blade of the Dao

When Ning Qingchen first sat down, her mind was slightly restless.

She knew that being able to stand here was mostly due to Qian Chen's planning. As a woman from a small cultivation family, she had initially left her family only because of her unwillingness to be unable to control her own destiny.

Because her nature was indifferent, she actually didn't seek much for longevity. Because she met Feng Shi, she was able to study high-level sword techniques, and because she was chosen by the Lord of Samsara, she recognized true like-minded friends in the Blood Demon World. Although she had a dust-free Dao heart, she had never actively pursued anything. Whether it was the Great Dao of longevity or her own future, she always had a feeling of drifting with the tide.

Yan Yan Shixiong Yan had the ambition to cleanse the heavens and earth, Ning Ning Shimei Si also had a pride that wouldn't let her be inferior, and Qian Yan Shixiong was even more desirous of being carefree and breaking free from the game.

Only she just wanted to walk on happily with everyone...

The opportunity to sit here now was mostly due to Qian Yan Shixiong's planning—teaching her the Lunar Ice Soul Dao method and guiding Feng Shi's cultivation of the Solar Dao method. Step by step, Qian Yan Shixiong brought her here, choosing for her the opportunity to reach the Sun and Moon Great Dao and condense a Dao Seed.

Ning Qingchen only felt that she couldn't waste Qian Yan Shixiong's good intentions, so she wanted to strive to obtain this Dao Fruit and compete with the Yang Spirit True Persons from the Guanghan Palace and Great Radiance Palace, whose Dao method attainments were above hers and whose cultivation realms were ones she didn't even dare to think about.

Gradually, Ning Qingchen's mind calmed down. She always found it easy to forget worries, and her heart was clear. At this moment, driven by the Guanghan Guanghan Guanghan Bingpo Dan, her state of mind became even more limpid. The reason the Guanghan Guanghan Guanghan Bingpo Dan could become the symbol of the Guanghan Feng Xianzi was not just because it was a first-rank pill achievement, but because it naturally carried a state of mind of purity, ice-coldness, few thoughts, cold emotions, and clarity. Like a piece of ice, it could make people calm down very quickly.

Various thoughts flowed slowly in her ice-sealed soul...

But because of this, if one couldn't achieve few thoughts and few desires, at the moment of forming this pill, it would almost inevitably trigger the heart demon to seize the Dao and break one's nature.

The Guanghan Palace had always cultivated disciples this way: clearing the heart and reducing thoughts, severing emotions and extinguishing nature. But the Guanghan Palace would never have imagined that the most critical step in passing the heart demon tribulation of the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill was when one sealed all one's emotions and achieved absolute calmness. Loneliness, extinction, coldness, ruthlessness, and other heart demons would come one after another, bringing that state of mind to the point of freezing everything and ignoring everything. Only by being icy but not cold, cold but not severed, few thoughts and pure emotions, could one achieve the death of the heart and the life of the spirit while sealing the heart, thus melting the ice soul and refining the eternal solid ice into flowing light.

The true nature of the Guanghan Guanghan Guanghan Bingpo Dan was not ruthlessness, but clarity, just as the true characteristic of the Ice Soul Cold Light was not the eternal coldness, but the flowing light.

Ning Qingchen's nature inadvertently matched the essence of the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill—insightful and clear, knowing the ways of the world but not being stained by them, few thoughts and few desires but not heartless.

The successors cultivated by the Guanghan Palace were ice blocks that severed emotions and extinguished nature, or resentful women who wanted to sever emotions and extinguish nature. But the requirements of the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill were for purely sentimental people. Therefore, none of the Guanghan Fairies cultivated by the past generations had achieved success unless their natures happened to match.

It was also because of this that Qian Chen arranged this path for Ning Qingchen. It wasn't because of his joking words about finding someone to replace the Guanghan Feng Xianzi, but because he chose the path that best suited Ning Qingchen.

Therefore, Ning Qingchen was able to follow the steps, refine the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill, and cultivate the divine ability of the Ice Soul Divine Light.

As for Qian Chen himself? That was purely because of cheating. In the past, when he refined this external pill, the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill, it was also a coincidence. It was the period when he suppressed the initial sprouting of his demonic nature, allowing him to have a normal nature, make two or three friends, and leave a trace of attachment.

Therefore, the greatest tribulation of the Guanghan Feng Xianzi was the love tribulation.

Accompanied by Ning Qingchen's soul becoming more limpid, like transparent solid ice, freezing all kinds of distracting thoughts, she not only didn't enter a state of absolute calmness and heartlessness, but instead had wisps of thoughts, like light through ice, flowing slowly.

That was the joy of being human, a beauty that grass, trees, and stones could absolutely not feel.

The cuteness of circling her mother's knees in childhood; the simple, ignorant, yet pure beauty of youth; the subtle and ignorant reveries after growing into a young girl; the sadness of learning that her family wanted to trade her; the bravery of breaking out of the house alone and facing everything with a sword; the focus of meeting Feng Shi and obtaining the true transmission of sword techniques; the plainness and happiness of being with Feng Shi, the big yellow chicken; the confusion of entering the place of Samsara and seeing that incredible great divine ability; and finally, the joy of walking into a broken temple and meeting a lifelong confidant...

A point of clear moonlight, unstained by a trace of impurity, bloomed from between her brows.

Cold and clear yet not deathly still, moonlight as transparent as ice and flowing like water bathed his entire body. Though it was but a faint glimmer—a mere firefly's glow compared to the old crone of the Cold Palace—it caused the old crone of the Cold Palace to be so shocked that she abruptly severed their spiritual soul-dual cultivation connection. Her soul, like a waning moon, erupted with immense chill, freezing the Yang Spirit cultivator from the Great Arctic Palace of Radiance nearby solid.

That Yang Spirit True Person spat out a Solar Taiyin Zhenhuo Crow, burning away the solid ice. Just as he wanted to open his mouth to rebuke, he saw the old crone staring fixedly at Ning Qingchen.

It was also moonlight, but the Guanghan Palace old crone's was like an eternal cold current, carrying a sense of extinction and death. But the moonlight reflecting on the altar at this moment was clear and bright, illuminating people's souls until they were transparent, as if all little thoughts were exposed in the moonlight, and then cleansed away cleanly.

The old monk beside couldn't help but exclaim in admiration: "Praise the Sun and Moon Clear Glazed Light!"

But there was no coldness in that light; rather, all the coldness was gathered within, freezing and shattering all filth.

The Guanghan Palace old crone's face was like ice, and she said coldly: "First-rank Ice Soul Guanghan Pill! So that's it, so that's it. The Daoist sect's calculations are indeed far-reaching. Others only think that the sun and moon swallowing the Heavenly Dog in this Return to Ruins is a strange encounter, but the Daoist sect... haha, the Daoist sect likely calculated it long ago!"

"Also, also! The journey to the Return to Ruins started with the Dew-Collecting Basin, so how could the karma within be missing?"

"I thought it was accidental, but I didn't expect it to be destined! Hahaha..." The Guanghan Palace old crone laughed up at the sky, but her tone was full of coldness: "Good, good, good! I didn't expect the Daoist sect to bypass our Guanghan Palace and cultivate this true transmission who refined the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill! It seems they are determined to get that Sun and Moon Fruit. But to become the Guanghan Feng Xianzi and merge with that sun and moon, one must cultivate the "Lunar Slashing Emotion Blade Scripture," which is a miracle of the ages!"

"Then I will test the blade technique of your family's successor!"

After saying this, the soul's cold moon phase turned into blade light and was about to fall toward Ning Qingchen, but a sword sound came from Yan Shu's body, shattering all the hundred-foot moonlight.

Hearing Yan Yan Shixiong Yan, who was leaning against the green ox and hugging his knees, say: "Although the True Person is of the Yang Spirit status, she may not necessarily be able to withstand one of my swords! If you dare to make a move against my Ning Ning Shimei again, then we can only discuss it with our swords..."

Since entering the Return to Ruins, Yan Shu had been tempered several times, and his soul was nearly pure Yang, while his sword intent was honed extremely well. Accompanied by this sword sound, the sword in his heart locked onto the cold moon old crone, giving her the feeling of a long sword hanging high, as if her heart had been pierced by a sword, and her soul had been slashed by the sword blade.

This sense of death from the Dao heart's warning made her unable to speak for a long time, until the cultivator from the Great Radiance Palace stood side by side with her, and the soul transformed by the Great Sun melted the coldness that the cold moon could not disperse.

She then barely managed to say: "Good, good! You Shaoqing are indeed overbearing. In the future, when the next generation of Guanghan Feng Xianzi is born, she will naturally visit your Shaoqing to reason."

Yan Shu frowned slightly: "Guanghan Feng Xianzi, which one are you talking about? Haven't they all been here?"

The Guanghan Palace old crone didn't know that Yan Shu had now abandoned sageliness and wisdom, speaking directly to his original heart, and only thought he was playing with her. But at this moment, another change occurred on Ning Qingchen's side. Feng Shi beside her spread its wings, flew out, stepped on Ning Qingchen's shoulder, and suddenly stretched its neck and let out a long cry.

A great sun carrying majestic power suddenly rose from the darkness.

Within the Golden Rooster's eyes, infinite True Sun Fire refined into light, golden and brilliant, crimson and glowing, transformed into a beam of divine light that shot forth. The man and the rooster, with the sun and moon revolving upon their bodies, carved out light in this dark, bottomless place.

Although there was no infinite momentum of shining through the four directions as before, the sun and moon rising at the same time brought everyone from the dark and unpredictable Ten Thousand God Cave in the Return to Ruins back to the Earth Immortal Realm. At this moment, it felt as if the sun was truly about to set, while the moon had already jumped out of the horizon.

Clearly, this sun and moon reflection came from the soul heart image of the person and the chicken on the altar, but everyone looked up in unison, searching for the rising light.

The sun and moon shone together at one point, with the same logic as the Two Instruments Extinction Divine Light. The weak radiance of the lunar and solar merging into the two instruments shone into the rift where ten thousand mountains gathered...

The Great Radiance Palace cultivator couldn't hold it anymore and shouted out: "Solar Taiyin Zhenhuo Pill? Solar God-Slaughtering Divine Light Line?"

The Blood Sea old demon had a strange expression, looking at this scene of the sun and moon shining together, and muttered to himself: "What happened today? Anyone who comes out uses the Solar Dao better than the Northern Pole Great Radiance Palace, and anyone who goes up refines the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill that no one in the Guanghan Palace has refined for thousands of years! Now, the Two Instruments Extinction Divine Light, which no one in the two great lineages has refined for thousands of years, has been displayed twice in the hands of different people!"

"Twice!"

"It's as if someone's "Blood Sea Demon Scripture," "Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Divine Blade," "Infinite Demon Dragon Transformation," and "Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Consciousness" are practiced better than those of me and the demon lords of the Nine Netherworlds Sect."

The Blood Sea old demon couldn't help but shiver when he thought of that scene.

"What are you thinking!"

"My Demonic Path has always had its doors wide open and never cherished its own broom. Aren't there many people who practice the Demon Scripture better than the Demonic Path's true transmission lineage? Especially those in the Xuan Sect. In the future, they will all be excellent resources for glorifying my sect." The Blood Sea old demon had all kinds of Demon Scriptures he had seen in various places appear in his mind. Although there were many traps and backdoors, there was no lack of true transmissions. At this moment, it seemed as if the smiles of the two Demon Ancestors had already appeared in his mind.

"Roll! Let it all roll!"

"Enter my Demonic Path, the future is vast, and there are many resources, but if you don't work hard... hehehe, that's someone else's resource!" The huge shadows of the two Demon Ancestors were cast down. For a time, the Blood Sea old demon couldn't even be happy about the great fun of a Daoist female cultivator practicing the Ice Soul Dao method better than the Guanghan Palace.

The rolling Nine-Earth Earth-Sovereign Divine Malevolence was pierced by the Yin-Yang Annihilation Divine Light. The murky, heavy, pitch-black clouds—formed from the mixture of countless earth-malevolent qi—rolled like poison fire and boiled like the earth's lungs, yet they were forcibly parted by the power of the Yin-Yang duality, allowing a sliver of light to pierce through.

At this time, the huge stone gate trembled more and more violently.

The ten thousand winding black mountains suddenly rotated. The mountain ranges were like swimming dragons coming back to life, and the earth rifts extended in the trembling. In an instant, the cracks split into the stone seams for an unknown depth. For a time, the two Yang Spirit existences of the Guanghan Palace and the Great Radiance Palace completely lost their composure, and even the old dragon of the Dragon Clan, Yu Lingxiao, and the Blood Sea old demon secretly tightened their bodies.

In the eyes of everyone's disbelief, behind the stone gate, it seemed as if a sun and moon had truly come back to life!

One black divine mountain after another collapsed, and one piece of indestructible earth after another subsided. At this moment, the collapse of heaven and earth had already occurred. The weakest light shattered this most indestructible earth. The rolling Nine Earths Earth Divine Malevolence broke through the crust, rushing out from that black mountain earth, mixed with countless Profound Yin Malevolence, True Dragon Malevolence, Lunar True Malevolence, and Five Elements Malevolent Qi—everything that could be found or not found in the Earth Immortal Realm rolled up, evolving into a rolling malevolent tide along with the Nine Earths Earth Divine Malevolence.

This extremely explosive, heavy, and filthy vital energy collided, and the terrifying myriad phenomena of supreme fire, yin thunder, turbid wind, poisonous sand, heavy water, and molten lava exploded suddenly, accompanying the fierce collision of malevolent qi, toward this space and toward the stone bridge palace complex.

Shattering everything into pieces.

It was also because the friends she made were all people of the most supreme temperament in the world; otherwise, the deeper the affection, the more ruthless the blade light coming through the threads of emotion could be, and the deeper the wound. Many a Feng Xianzi of the Cold Palace has been shattered in their Dao heart by the Blade of Severing Emotion, only to despairingly grasp the Blade of Severing Emotion in return, severing all spiritual feelings within their hearts to cultivate the Blade Intent of Ruthlessness.

Among the Tushita Palace disciples, a thick Dry Heaven One Qi Clear Gang suddenly rose. A fourth-turn external pill circled the thick gang malevolence, raising a piece of the firmament. A golden-armored divine general also appeared from Xu Daofu of the Orthodox One Sect, his sturdy four arms spreading out to support this blue sky.

Daoist disciples, and even the noble family disciples of Southern Jin, fled one after another under that firmament...

The Demonic Path side had the sea of blood rolling as skin, twelve White Bone Yuan Chen Great Strength Demons as bones, and an iron pillar engraved with the Eighteen Mud-Plough Hell supporting it, propping up the White Bone Blood Sea Hell Umbrella. Behind the Buddhist disciples, Buddha-light rose. The leading old monk's wheel light shone on the ten directions, jointly opening up a Pure Land world.

For a time, each Daoist lineage displayed its own strengths. Even if they were unable to support it alone, they merged their magic treasures and divine abilities into the three sides of Dao, Demon, and Buddha.

Only the Dragon Clan, Yu Lingxiao, and the Guanghan Palace and Great Radiance Palace sides had other plans.

Yu Lingxiao slashed open the rolling malevolent tide with one whip. The Great Expansion True Talisman turned into golden armor, carrying him into the rolling black gas that was like a volcanic ash eruption. The old dragon manifested its true body, the black dragon extended its claws, and a magic treasure arm armor suddenly covered its claws, tearing open the curtain of the malevolent tide and rushing toward the rift.

The Yang Spirit cultivators of the Guanghan Palace and the Great Radiance Palace suddenly had their souls merge, activating the gold and silver sun wheel and moon ball magic treasures. The two Dao methods combined, evolving into a carved jade palace and a golden hall burning with blazing Solar Taiyin Zhenhuo.

In the golden hall and jade palace, there was a figure in each.

One was a Great Sun Son of Heaven wearing an imperial robe and a crown; the other was a Moon Concubine wearing feathered clothes and tied with ribbons. The doors of the golden hall and jade palace opened wide, as if to invite the Sun and Moon Origin into the palace and turn it into a deity!

But the next moment, these people encountered the most terrifying scene of their lives.

From the rift in the black earth, rolling heat waves sprayed out, melting the darkness, causing the void to collapse, and causing time to curl up. Time curled up rapidly at this moment, compressing a day's time into a second instantly.

Then, a ray of light, incomparably terrifying, making Yu Lingxiao's face twist and forcing him to block it with the Mountain-Driving Whip in front of him, penetrated from the rift.

At this moment, no one doubted anymore that the Sun and Moon of the Old Heaven in ancient times were hidden in the stomach of the Heavenly Dog Great Sage!

At that moment, the old dragon of the Dragon Clan evaporated directly under the light, and that magic treasure arm armor also melted and evaporated in the rolling heat waves, rising like steam into golden mist, and then completely merged into that incomparable light.

At this moment, all language and all descriptions lost their color.

These people who were plotting to snatch the Sun and Moon Origin had never thought about what kind of existence the so-called Sun and Moon Origin was!

The old crone from the Guanghan Palace didn't move, but Yan Shu had already drawn his sword. The sword light flashed, and under the majestic sun and moon light, it was still not obscured. The light enveloped everything, shooting straight at the altar where Ning Qingchen was. Yan Shu didn't go to save Ning Qingchen, but instead, the sword in his heart left its sheath, the sword light like electricity, pointing straight at the two Yang Spirit existences of the Guanghan Palace and the Great Radiance Palace.

The light of the Sun and Moon Origin shone on Ning Qingchen, and Yan Shu's sword had already pierced the Yang Spirits of the man and woman from the Guanghan Palace and the Great Radiance Palace.

The sun and moon above their heads were slashed down in this sword, and their souls, which were tightly entangled and inseparable, were also cut apart by this sword.

The Great Radiance Palace cultivator roared: "Are you crazy? I didn't provoke you at all?"

Yan Shu's gaze was slightly confused, and his brain, which hadn't operated for a long time, moved a little: "Why did I slash them? The sword comes from the heart, the sword is before the intent. Forget it! If I slashed them, I slashed them; it's not an important matter."

The sword light in his hand continued, secretly locking onto the malice toward Ning Qingchen, heading toward the Guanghan Palace old crone...

And Ning Qingchen, at the moment of being enveloped by the Sun and Moon Origin, found all divine abilities, all magic power, and all changes useless.

Only the weak Ice Soul Divine Light freezing maintained her fragile form. Feng Shi's feathers burned instantly, and then its body and soul.

Its most fundamental bloodline was finally activated at this moment under the stimulation of the Old Heaven Great Sun Dao, burning everything into golden flames. An illusory jade egg fell into the flames, absorbing the infinite Great Sun Origin.

Ning Qingchen also turned into light, clear moonlight, which even the violent Great Sun's blazing heat could not obscure.

The strand contained in the Ice Soul Guanghan Pill, which she had absorbed from the Lunar Origin of the Earth Immortal Realm when she climbed the Building Wood, entangled with the pouring Origin Moonlight. The Lunar Dao of the Old Heaven and the New Heaven conflicted and twisted, creating a subtle point of Dao distortion on her soul, allowing all the destructive power in the sun and moon radiance to pass through completely.

At this moment, in the singularity of Dao distortion, only the clearest, most essential "I" still existed.

Facing the twisted manifestation of the Great Dao, one could only observe the Dao with the heart, and with the thing closest to the Dao in oneself, follow this distortion and refine it into a seed, thoroughly sublimating one's own "Dao-ization" from the state of vital energy, matter, soul, and consciousness.

But only by elevating vital energy, soul, matter, and consciousness to the extreme, possessing a vast quantity and a quality close to the critical point—a Nascent Soul True Immortal.

Could one sublimate oneself at this moment and condense a Dao Seed.

Ning Qingchen was still too far from this threshold, so she could only perceive her self, which was like a hallucination under the distortion of the Great Dao.

Grasping that sliver of charm close to the Dao Fruit.

That was—the "Lunar Slashing Emotion Blade Scripture" surged into her heart. Ning Qingchen condensed a point of blade light in her heart and slashed toward that sliver of charm along with it. The blade light followed her body, her soul, and her self, finally touching it.

Touching those things in her essence that were close to the Dao.

Those things were mostly formless and qualityless, without phase or method. Relying on the Lunar Slashing Emotion Blade Scripture, Ning Qingchen grasped a sliver of them. It was as if that sliver was tied to her heart, and as long as it was slashed, the formless and qualityless existence in her self, which was close to the Dao, would be completely manifested, enough for her to condense the prototype of a Dao Seed.

Although it was only a phantom of a Dao Seed, it could be said that the path to Nascent Soul had been completely opened.

This was the great method realized by the Guanghan Feng Xianzi, truly mysterious to the extreme, capable of slashing myself to see the Dao—the "Lunar Slashing Emotion Blade Scripture."

Just, that thing...

It was a formless and phaseless thread, a kind of attachment, a kind of heart-moving, a kind of essential difference between humans and all things, tying her to heaven and earth. That was—emotion! ===== CHAPTER 765 =====