Chapter 965: Eye that Breaks Laws

Yan Buji sat cross‑legged deep within an abandoned ice cavern, desire thoughts swirling around him.

The black ice in his hand hovered before him, emitting a faint cold light.

Since witnessing the scene where the corpse‑holding devourer consumed two holy envoys, he realized that a gap still remained between him and those ten‑thousand‑year‑old monsters that could not be easily bridged.

"This level of cultivation is still insufficient......" he stared ahead, dangerous light flashing in his eyes: "After countless great battles, my use of the Great Dao's laws has advanced, and my cultivation must advance as well."

He slowly closed his eyes, sinking his spirit into his dantian.

There, Yan Buji's imperial banner fluttered on his person‑emperor scripture, and the Swallow Desire Pot was drawn into his body so he could readily draw upon it to absorb desire and strengthen his power; now Yan Buji had already reached the pinnacle of Void Refinement, and had entered the He Dao realm in his comprehension of the Great Dao's laws, making a breakthrough merely a matter of time.

And the Extreme Desire Path he primarily cultivated seeks the ultimate.

Ultimate profit, ultimate greed, ultimate...... self.

"My desire is human desire. Haven't we heard that Heaven's heart aligns with humanity's will?"

As this thought rose, the primordial essence seemed to come alive, as countless tiny essences began to writhe. Desire seeped from every pore, forming a cocoon around his body.

This was not ordinary cultivation, but a reconstruction and sublimation of his own Great Dao.

In his mind, countless memory fragments began to surge.

Each desire was amplified infinitely, turning into tangible flames that scorched his spirit.

Yan Buji's veins bulged with blue veins, blood oozed from his seven orifices, yet he maintained his cross‑legged posture. This is the inevitable path of the Extreme Desire Path: burning the heart with desire‑fire, the Great Dao truly!

The Great Dao truly?!

Suddenly, Yan Buji opened his eyes!

At the same time, the Dao Mark in his left eye, which had lain dormant for years, sprang to life at that moment, not mutating his whole body but instead ravenously absorbing external spiritual energy, continuously spawning more Mutant Force!

The more Mutant Force accumulated, the more the desire cocoon enveloping Yan Buji generated massive Mutant mist!

"Mutant.... unstable.... recombination evolution?!"

In an instant, at the moment Yan Buji's desire surged and burned his primordial spirit...

"Did I just inadvertently touch something? This information is...."

Yan Buji, wincing, covered his left eye; at this moment, the eye technique he had cultivated began to restructure under the influence of the Mutant Dao Mark!

Even without Yan Buji's direct participation, at the instant he broke through the He Dao stage, the Mutant Dao Mark and all Mutant Force vanished completely!

After an unknown amount of time, when the most painful phase passed, his primordial spirit had turned black. Not an evil darkness, but a void that, like the depths of the universe, encompassed all.

His physical body, aside from his skin, now had internal organs, meridians, and bones all turned black.

An unprecedented insight surged in his mind:

"Extreme desire is not indulgence, but control. Not being driven by desire, but steering desire."

"I see......"

Yan Buji inhaled deeply, a glimmer of flowing light flickered in his eyes, as if countless worlds were being born and dying within them. He gently raised his hand, a wisp of ash‑gray mist drifted out, shaping in the air into various forms: swords, beasts, beauties, treasures...... at will, myriad transformations.

This is the breakthrough of the Essence Method, no longer limited to a fixed desire form, but able to command all worldly desires. Killing desire, greedy desire, thirst for knowledge, lust...... all can be turned to his use.

Advanced He Dao!

The Swallow Desire Pot lost its luster; as Yan Buji gathered his desire during the breakthrough, it was completely consumed, and he must collect more desire again.

"Good!"

Yan Buji exhaled, realizing that breaking through the He Dao stage wasn't as hard as he thought; perhaps because he had endured countless great battles in the Northern River Ice Realm, his accumulation was already sufficient, and the breakthrough of realms was linked to his comprehension of the Great Dao's laws. Had it not been for the successive wars, he could not have entered the Path Walking realm so quickly.

"He Dao....."

But Yan Buji also knew that his Essence Method differed from other cultivators; otherwise, why would his breakthrough of the He Dao stage not trigger a heavenly tribulation?

"If my Essence Method has no heavenly tribulation, how can I further advance after entering the Great Vehicle Stage?" Yan Buji frowned.

In this world, the Great Vehicle Stage is defined as the point where all one's cultivation techniques from Qi‑refining to He Dao have fully merged; after traversing the Path Walking realm and condensing one's own 'Dao Seed'; then one must pass a heavenly tribulation to elevate cultivation.

A Great Vehicle Stage cultivator who does not undergo a heavenly tribulation will see no increase in cultivation at all.

It's like a bottle of water that is already full; aside from expanding the bottle's capacity, there is no way to increase one's cultivation.

Even cultivators who love a second primordial spirit, clones, or recreating another 'self' find that once the main body's realm has reached its limit, only a heavenly tribulation can raise it.

From what Yan Buji knows, a Great Vehicle Stage cultivator must endure nine heavenly tribulations; the first three can be roughly divided into early, middle, and late stages, but each subsequent tribulation brings a qualitative leap, hence the term Tribulation Crossing Stage.

But essentially, the Tribulation Crossing Stage is part of the Great Vehicle Stage; only the Saint Realm above the Great Vehicle Stage counts as a true breakthrough!

"Even without a heavenly tribulation, the Essence Method is so powerful that there must be another way to advance. Since it led me to forge the Essence Method and opened a path never before seen, why worry about having no way forward?"

There was never a way forward, was there?

Yan Buji naturally believed his Essence Method could not have a way forward, after all he was the founder of the Essence Method!

Besides cultivation, the mutated eye in his left eye no longer possessed Mutant Force, but had spawned a uniquely distinct eye technique!

"The active reconstruction of the Mutant Dao Mark, this eye technique..... seems a bit too strong," Yan Buji closed his right eye, activating the eye technique stored in his left eye!

Whoosh!

A beam of light shot out from his left eye, striking the large stone ahead.

But the stone was unharmed, and oddly, after using it once, Yan Buji collapsed to the ground as if all his strength had been drained, taking more than half a day to recover.

"Sure enough, it has no use on ordinary things, which means this eye technique....."

Yan Buji sat up, a ball of Wenwu Fire blossomed in his palm.

In an instant, he manipulated the fire law and hurled it toward the large stone ahead.

The stone burst into flames, for this Wenwu Fire, having condensed fire law, was, to some extent, beyond ordinary techniques.

Now, having recovered, Yan Buji again employed the eye technique from his left eye!

A beam of light from Yan Buji's eye shot straight at the flaming stone!

Whoosh!

The Wenwu Fire on the stone instantly extinguished!

"So powerful..... directly dispelling... no, directly annihilating the fire law and thus breaking the Wenwu Fire's scorch, truly worthy of the Eye that Breaks Laws!" Yan Buji exclaimed with delight.

This is the new pupil technique he obtained; it can only destroy divine ability techniques that contain laws and the Dao, but it has no effect whatsoever on ordinary objects as a pupil technique!

Through the Law-Breaking Eye, Yan Buji also realized that he once thought all things in the world were composed of laws, but in fact it seems not to be the case.

Only what can be perceived is called law; universally Existence objects, yet they contain no law.