Chapter 982: Myriad Dao Forge

A hundred years of time flowed like galactic sand, silently slipping through Yan Buji's fingers.

The silver rain curtain of the Dongxing Sea Region had long ceased, replaced by seven corpse bone lotus platforms floating above the nine heavens.

Each platform was built from the bones of ninety-nine Unity Dao cultivators, its lotus heart burning with unextinguished purple-gold flame.

This is Yan Buji's 'masterpiece' over a hundred years, a desire-path marker forged by extreme slaughter.

"The seven million eight thousand four hundred twenty-first." Yan Buji pulled a brain‑stained finger from the last cultivator's skull; gray mist coiled around his fingertip, revealing the other's lifelong memories.

He suddenly frowned; the silver threads on his right arm twisted uncontrollably, crushing the desire he had just extracted into powder.

Imbalanced again...

Over the past century, this body has increasingly resembled a puppet on the verge of disintegration.

After his right arm fully turned to silver, the Way of the Universe spreading to his right chest and the Extreme Desire Path of his left half formed a subtle standoff.

Whenever one principle gained the upper hand, the other would run amok and backlash. The 'buffering pills' used to mediate the rejection had long been exhausted; now only the Swallow Desire Pot forcibly suppresses them.

The purple‑gold spirit child manifested from the Swallow Desire Pot crouched on a corpse bone lotus platform, gnawing at a spatial rift with its sharp teeth to stave off hunger.

"You're about to break." It mumbled, 'Like a wineskin overfilled with liquor.'

After years of nurturing, combined with Yan Buji's special cultivation of the Extreme Desire Path, the Swallow Desire Pot finally gave birth to an artifact spirit from this immortal accumulation.

Yan Buji did not refute.

He gazed at his reflection in the blood pool; the face that should have been handsome was now half silver‑gold, his left eye taking the form of the Swallow Desire Pot's spout, his right eye becoming a constantly collapsing silver vortex.

Even the most deranged demon cultivator would have his liver and gall burst at the sight.

"To the Burial Bone Abyss." He suddenly tore space.

At the bottom of the Burial Bone Abyss, in the center of a great formation woven from a hundred thousand dry bones, hovered a huge crystal eyeball. This was formed after Yan Buji, thirty years past, used his Law‑Breaking Eye to glimpse the essence of the great Dao following a great battle, then condensed with the spirit of the Swallow Desire Pot and boundless desire.

This too is a further manifestation of Yan Buji's progress on the Extreme Desire Path; with his present insight and experience, having stepped into the Dao‑Realization realm of the Extreme Desire Path, he can now begin preparing to condense an Extreme Desire Dao Seed.

This crystal eyeball is Yan Buji's first experimental step.

Besides this function, Yan Buji also hopes to completely refine the Way of the Universe through a breakthrough in the Extreme Desire Path.

At this moment, the eyeball's surface displayed a strange picture: countless silver threads and purple‑gold mist intertwining in the void, ultimately forming an endless loop.

"As expected..." Yan Buji's right‑arm silver threads suddenly pierced the eyeball.

The prophetic image suddenly sharpened, revealing his own bodily structure—different‑colored forces of law flowing through each meridian, like a pot of boiling toxic porridge.

"A forge... I should have thought of that sooner."

The pot spirit shrieked, leaping onto his shoulder: "You're mad?! You want to use your flesh as a vessel to smelt myriad Dao?!"

Yan Buji merely chuckled. The seven corpse bone lotus platforms, accumulated from a century of slaughter, glowed in unison; their lotus‑heart flames converged into a torrent that poured into his celestial crown.

Through the Law‑Breaking Eye's sight, these flames were highly refined desire crystals, now frenziedly scouring every essence within his body.

"See clearly." He seized the pot spirit and pressed it against his chest.

Beneath the skin rose dense ancient patterns; the primordial wisdom‑law of the nine heavens and five realms surpassed the heavenly Dao, the Wisdom Dao never before held by anyone—Yan Buji seized a fraction of its authority, attaining the Dao through desire, and part of the primordial wisdom's markings appeared on his body.

These markings of primordial wisdom are not Dao Marks, merely manifestations after stepping into Dao Realization; yet now the markings run in reverse, transforming the inflowing desire into the most primordial law‑nutrient.

The silver threads on his right arm suddenly rioted, but grew docile the instant they touched the Heaven‑Sacrificing Mark.

Yan Buji seized the moment to activate the Heaven Gate Law—this time he did not jump to a spatial node, but used spatial‑fold divine ability to create a spatial node within himself!

A silver‑purple vortex appeared on his right palm; a light grasp compressed the entire corpse bone lotus platform into a grain‑sized point of light.

"First step, reforge the essence." He slapped the point of light between his brows.

Inside the skull, a sound like shattering ice crystals rang out; the sea of consciousness that once bore memories was forcibly remade into a proto‑forge. The seven emotions and six desires churned in the furnace, gradually condensing into liquid law‑nourishment.

The pot spirit screamed and dove back into the pot: "You're going to melt your own primordial spirit?!"

His answer was Yan Buji's heart‑rending, soul‑shattering long howl.

His left half began to vitrify, purple‑gold law‑fluid visible beneath the skin flowing like a river; his right half incessantly shifted between substance and void, each flicker extruding spatial folds.

Most terrifying was the vertical pupil that split open at his brow; within its iris flickered flames composed of wisdom‑law markings.

"Not enough... I need more law..." Yan Buji staggered toward the second corpse bone lotus platform.

Just as he reached out, the abyss's depths unleashed bloody thunder—no ordinary heavenly punishment, but a Slay Immortal Thunder steeped in thick heavenly Dao aura!

"Finally drawn it out." He felt no fear, only joy, and seized the lightning with his right arm.

The moment the silver threads collided with the bloody thunder, they forcibly drew a strand of gold‑red strange energy from the lightning!

Even though a lethal toxin to Unity Dao cultivators, it now became the forge's finest catalyst.

Each bolt of thunder grew fiercer; Yan Buji's body continually shattered and reformed under the bombardment.

With each rebirth, the forge grew more perfected; when the ninth blood‑thunderbolt split down, he suddenly spread his arms, letting it pierce his chest.

At the instant the lightning exploded the forge within him, all conflicting laws suddenly fell into an eerie balance.

"So that's how it is..." Yan Buji lowered his gaze to his newly formed body.

His skin flowed with galaxy‑like luster; every inch of flesh became an independent micro‑forge. The silver threads on his right arm no longer repelled purple‑gold desire, but merged with it into a brand‑new chaotic‑colored energy.

He lightly grasped the void, simultaneously smelting the Way of the Universe he cultivated, the Five Elements, and even Martial Dao!

"This is the true essence‑law..." Chaotic energy enveloped the ice‑law, instantly decomposing and absorbing it.

The pot spirit poked its head from the spout, jaws agape in shock: "You... you're burning the looted Dao as firewood?"

"No." Yan Buji's fingertip blossomed a three‑colored Dao lotus: "I am the firewood."

The lotus's purple‑gold petals stand for the Extreme Desire Path, its silver stamens for the primal source of the Way of the Universe, and its newly formed blue veins for the freshly coalesced Law of the Way of the Universe.

Three utterly different Dao coexist perfectly, with no further rejection.

And now that Yan Buji has mastered this means of smelting Dao, it signifies that henceforth the Dao he contains will no longer mutually affect or entangle one another.

From this point forward, the Great Vehicle can be anticipated!