Chapter 1211: Snake Swallows Elephant

In the depths of the gray‑mist space, the humming of the Swallow Desire Pot has persisted for an unknowable number of days and months. The pot's body is no longer dim, but displays a strange, creature‑like seven‑color flowing light, a sign that the massive essence of desire has been highly condensed and is almost overflowing.

Yan Buji's divine‑thought avatar now solidifies as if it were a real person. He no longer sits in lotus; instead he stands with his hands behind his back before the pot, the surrounding gray mist no longer a simple dead silence but has become countless minute, constantly birthing and vanishing vortices of desire. Each vortex seems a miniature mortal world, enacting love, hatred, affection and enmity, ultimately returning to void.

His aura has already surpassed the scope of Refining Void, touching the edge of the Great Vehicle Stage, yet unlike the usual vast grandeur of the Great Vehicle, it is more restrained, more uncanny, as if it is both the terminus of all desire and its origin.

"With desire, all beings sink, all are mere stray dogs."

"Without desire, withered wood and dead ash, the Dao too is silent."

"And my desire…"

Yan Buji murmurs to himself; in those black‑hole‑like eyes, the desires of countless living beings flash like a revolving lantern, breaking and vanishing, and finally all light and shadow collapse inward, coalescing into a single point of extreme, pure self‑will!

"My desire… is Heaven's will!"

Boom!

An indescribable, overwhelming will erupts around him! The entire gray‑mist space trembles, the Swallow Desire Pot emits a joyous, fierce hum, and the vast essence of desire stored within the pot rushes in like a breached flood, wildly surging into his divine‑thought avatar!

In this moment, he is no longer a passive vessel absorbing desire, but becomes the master of desire! His "I" replaces the tangled desires of myriad beings, becoming the sole, supreme source of desire! This is the third realm of his Desire Dao—the I‑Desire!

Stepping into this realm, his divine thought becomes crystal clear, his control over desire reaches an inconceivable level. A slight shift of mind can draw out the deepest cravings and fears of any living being, even conjure desire from nothing, manipulating emotions invisibly!

Yet, at the instant when this realm is stable and his mind and the Dao intertwine most sensitively, through his countless threads of desire linking to the outside world, he accidentally "sees" a natural scene occurring on the edge of the Black Wind Desert, far from the cultivated city:

A green‑scaled little snake, no thicker than an arm and entirely emerald, is tightly coiling around an ancient wild elephant many hundreds of times its size, a beast as massive as a small mountain! The elephant bellows, its massive feet stamp the ground, mountains shake, its long trunk lashes like a steel whip, yet it cannot free itself from the snake that bites its throat, its body supple beyond measure, tightening ever more.

There is no hint of fear in the snake's eyes, only a near‑mad, all‑consuming greed and obsession! It intends to swallow this giant elephant! Even if it bursts from the strain, even if hope is dim, that "I will swallow you" willpower is so strong it pierces space, resonating with Yan Buji who has just entered the I‑Desire realm!

"Greed unbounded… Snake Swallows Elephant?"

Yan Buji was slightly startled. This is originally a mortal proverb mocking those who overestimate themselves, depicting a seemingly absurd, impossible greed.

But at this moment, in his eyes, the scene contains a thrilling Dao‑rhyme!

The green snake's "greed" is no longer a low‑level desire, but a powerful self‑will that transcends its own limits, challenges the impossible, even disregards the rules of life and death! It is the most extreme, most barbaric embodiment of the I‑Desire!

And the elephant's "vastness" represents the limits of matter, the shackles of rules, the constraints of common sense!

The snake's desire to swallow the elephant is the small challenging the great, will against rule!

At this moment, Yan Buji's spirit shakes violently, the just‑solidified I‑Desire realm seems tossed like a giant stone into a lake, raising a towering surge!

In his mind, his Dao techniques, the Swallow Desire Pot's devouring nature, the "Return to Void" ambience felt when his Sacred Embryo was destroyed, and the crazy image of the "Snake Swallows Elephant" swirl like countless fragments, colliding, intertwining, and fusing under the crucible of the supreme I‑Desire will!

"Devour… is not simple plunder… but… encompass! It is to replace! It is, with my desire, to contain the elephant of all things!"

His heart enlightened, he suddenly raises his hand, not toward the Swallow Desire Pot but toward the void before him, mimicking the scene of the green snake devouring the giant elephant, slowly performing a "swallow‑suction" motion!

Without employing any spiritual power, merely the manifestation of will, it merges his entire understanding of the Desire Dao and the power of Silence Extinction!

Buzz!

The space before him abruptly twists! A miniature, gray‑hazy vortex that seems able to swallow all light appears out of nowhere! At the vortex's center, there is not darkness but an ultimate "emptiness", a notion that even the concept of Existence itself must be devoured!

The moment this vortex appears, the desire energy throughout the gray‑mist space becomes restless, as if it has encountered a sovereign! Even the Swallow Desire Pot trembles slightly, showing a hint of submission!

Yan Buji's eyes burst with unprecedented brilliance; he feels the terrifying power contained in this miniature vortex—a conceptual‑level devouring! It devours not only energy and matter, but also space, time, and even… the very laws themselves!

"With this divine skill, one can devour mountains and rivers, absorb stars, bury the Dao!"

"Hence I call you—Snake Swallows Elephant!"

His mind shifts, the miniature vortex slowly dissipates, yet the Dao‑rhyme it formed is deeply etched into the core of his divine thought.

Thus, a divine skill born from his I‑Desire Dao, derived from a natural scene, whose power can shake heaven and earth—Snake Swallows Elephant—is officially created!

Although newly formed and still needing refinement and battlefield tempering, its potential is already boundless. Yan Buji is confident that with this skill, even against a true Great Vehicle Stage beginner cultivator, he has the strength for a fight! Moreover, if refined to the extreme, perhaps the legend of "devouring heaven and gnawing earth" could truly be realized!

He again casts his gaze toward the external conflict; the green snake still coils tightly, the ancient wild elephant's struggle growing weaker.

Yan Buji's mouth curves into a cold arc.

"Little one, your 'desire' helps this seat attain the supreme divine skill. I grant you… a pleasure."

His thought flickers, a strand of invisible "I‑Desire" will crosses space, descending onto the ancient wild elephant.

The wildly struggling elephant suddenly flashes an extreme terror in its eyes, then its consciousness completely blurs, its massive body crashes to the ground with a boom, life instantly extinguished. It was not the snake that killed it, but its 'will to survive' was devoured in a single thought of Yan Buji…

The green snake pauses, seemingly not understanding why the elephant fell, but instinct drives it to begin laboriously attempting to swallow this massive creature.

Yan Buji no longer pays attention to this natural predator‑prey scene; his mind is wholly immersed in the analysis and refinement of the new divine skill "Snake Swallows Elephant".

Having such a killer move, he is even more determined to locate and devour the "variable" that destroyed his Sacred Embryo. He feels he is one great step closer to truly mastering the "Eye of Return to Void", and stepping onto the ultimate Silence path.