Chapter 507: Fully Mastering the Sea-Splitting Profound Whale Hammer

Within the Soldier Register, three Profound Whale Battle Hammers gleamed brilliantly!

Li Yuan closed his eyes to sense it — within the Niwan Palace, that place of spiritual light, a small stretch of soldier-nurturing ground was blooming with a faint, ethereal glow!

His stretch of soldier-nurturing ground, lacking nourishment from a divine soul, was extremely difficult to grow, but at this moment, bolstered by the three Profound Whale Battle Hammers, it radiated a different kind of brilliance!

This was the fifth level of the Soldier-Nurturing Scripture.

Hum.

A great swath of profound-colored light rose in Li Yuan's eyes; within the soldier-controlling space, the Sea-Splitting Profound Whale Hammer trembled violently — as if in joy, as if in startled doubt!

"The Profound Whale Hammer has acknowledged a master."

【Control Condition I: None】

【Control Effect I: Bell-Talent, Flesh-Talent, Cultivation-Talent, Star-Moving Power.】

【Cultivation-Talent, Star-Moving Power.】

【Control Condition II: Supreme Talent, Thousand-Form Body, Profound Whale Dao Child, Soldier-Nurturing Scripture Fifth Level (satisfied)】

【Control Effect II: Twelve-Tier (Black): Xing Xing Tongyou Eleven-Tier (Profound Color): Form of the Profound Whale, Form of Sea-Splitting】

"Control — Sea-Splitting Profound Whale Hammer."

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed; from the gray stone platform, the Soldier Register — hanging like a star chart — suddenly erupted with blindingly dazzling light!

Then, a surging power beyond description descended all at once.

In an instant, Li Yuan lost all perception of himself and the outside world; a desolate, ancient aura flooded his mind-sea in a flash!

A grand, deep resonant hum echoed through his mind and heart — like a bronze bell being struck, or like, the trembling of stars!

In a daze, Li Yuan saw a vast ocean!

It was a sea so wide it seemed boundless.

Waves surged to the heavens; one waterspout after another seemed to connect sea and sky!

Within that ocean there was no land at all — only inverted mountains, narrow at the base and wide at the top, piercing straight into the clouds; upon them clustered palaces and halls, wreathed in cloud and mist, like the immortal palaces and sacred grounds of legend!

"Sea-Splitting Star."

Li Yuan felt his gaze sweep at tremendous speed, cutting across that boundless ocean, passing through those towering inverted mountains, reaching above the clouds!

"Roar."

A colossal shriek rang out!

Li Yuan looked up — amid the clouds and mist, there suddenly appeared a Profound Whale large enough to blot out the sky.

The Profound Whale roamed through the clouds and mist, letting out a long howl; the sound waves echoed across sea and sky, forming countless enormous waterspouts!

The waterspouts shot skyward, then rained down from the sea of clouds, like a downpour blanketing the entire sea!

【Form of Sea-Splitting: A life-star woven from laws, nurturing countless living beings, existing for ages uncounted; any life-star is a rare treasure of the universe. Those who contemplate this star deeply may use it as a spirit!】

【Form of Sea-Splitting: A near-divine colossal beast that descended from beyond the heavens onto the Sea-Splitting Star; countless peoples take it as their totem, and some with grand ambitions take it as their form to found a sect!】

Sea-Splitting Star, Near-Divine Profound Whale.

Li Yuan's mind and spirit trembled!

In that instant, he even had the illusion that he had descended upon the Sea-Splitting Star — that star, that sea of clouds, that colossal whale were so real he felt he could reach out and touch them!

But it lasted only a few instants; before Li Yuan could take a closer look, a great roar rang out and the light and shadows scattered!

Boom.

In the room, Li Yuan's body shuddered; he felt as if crushed by a colossal mountain, and violent pain burst forth along with blood spraying from his seven orifices!

"This fierce?"

Li Yuan was startled but not flustered; the medicinal power of the two Long Hu Longhu Dadan in his abdomen

spread out, nourishing his body!

The violent pain within his body continued; after a start, Li Yuan had already detected

the benefit — his physique and bone-structure were undergoing metamorphosis at an extremely violent pace!

"Form of Sea-Splitting, Form of the Profound Whale?"

Li Yuan forced himself to stand; the moment he drew himself into a stance, he felt a violent pain as if raging fire were scorching his meridians and viscera, and his sinews and bones were being crushed by a heavy hammer!

The two great form enhancements from fully mastering the Sea-Splitting Profound Whale Hammer were countless times more violent than the Scarlet Dragon Body and the Mirage Dragon Body he had previously transformed into.

If the latter were a stream, the former was a vast ocean — they simply could not be mentioned in the same breath!

Even though Li Yuan had long grown accustomed to the pain of bone-structure transformation, the agony still made his eyes see stars, and he nearly collapsed to the ground!

His true qi boiled, his qi and blood burned!

Li Yuan even felt as if he himself were being burned by raging fire and forged by a heavy hammer; within just a few instants, his spirit began to scatter!

"Can't hold on."

After holding on for a few more instants, Li Yuan decisively ended it!

This transformation!

Hoo.

The violent pain withdrew in an instant; what replaced it was a sense of lucid ease in body and mind!

Bliss.

From his dilated pores, turbid qi poured out in rolling streams, carrying specks of bloody grime; yet Li Yuan felt an extreme sense of ease.

Not only his body — his heart felt the same ease!

"Finally done."

Pushing open the door, under the night sky Li Yuan doused himself with cold water, washing away the blood and grime, unable to hide the joy in his heart!

At this moment, he was truly the master of the Profound Whale Hammer!

"Profound Whale Hammer."

After a casual wash, Li Yuan turned and went back inside. Though he hadn't slept for a day and two nights, his spirit was still extremely excited!

Hum.

He paced a few steps inside the room, and in a flash his entire body had vanished from within the room!

The next moment, he had already arrived before the archway of the Yu Xuanjing Gate, his true body entering the Yu Xuanjing Mi Jing.

"Come."

Li Yuan swapped out the Yu Xuanjing Hammer. With a beckoning gesture, the Yu Xuanjing Hammer Spirit let out a trembling cry and fell from the sky into his palm!

Hum.

With hammer in hand, Li Yuan immediately sensed the difference!

The characteristics of this hammer, and even the entire Yu Xuanjing Mi Jing,

The Yu Xuanjing Gate ruins — all were within his perception!

"Yu Xuanjing Hammer, a slaughtering Daoist Tianyun Daoist Tianyun Xuanbing, its characteristic is only Armor-Piercing? Armor-Piercing — to what degree can it pierce?!"

Just as Li Yuan was feeling the changes of the fully-mastered Yu Xuanjing Hammer, he suddenly sensed something strange — a faint, elusive aura

Sweeping across at extreme speed!

It seemed to have appeared at the same time as the Yu Xuanjing Bell Spirit!

Had he not been holding the Yu Xuanjing Hammer, he wouldn't even have been able to detect it!

"This is?"

Li Yuan's heart jolted, and then a summons rose within him, intense to the extreme: "Bafang Temple?"

Bafang Temple, summoning me?

Li Yuan's heart trembled; the impulse was so strong he couldn't suppress it!

"The summons of Bafang Temple came at the same instant I took out the Yu Xuanjing Hammer… so… is this because I've fully mastered the Yu Xuanjing Hammer?"

Li Yuan gripped the Yu Xuanjing Hammer tightly and strode toward the Yu Xuanjing Grand Hall. Upon arriving, the summons grew even stronger!

In his perception, there was even a sense of unbearable urgency?

This Bafang!

Li Yuan looked at the You Jing behind the stone statue, deliberated again and again, and still carefully walked toward the You Jing!

Hum.

Within the You Jing, just as before — pitch black, impossible to perceive!

But the instant Li Yuan stepped out of the You Jing, he clearly saw light — a faint yet extremely distinct glow!

When that light first arose, it was still at the end of the Yu Xuanjing Path. In a single daze of Li Yuan's, the light had already flared bright!

And like a hanging rainbow, it swept across the entire Yu Xuanjing Path and descended before him!

"This is…"

Li Yuan forcibly restrained the pounding of his heart — he nearly retreated on the spot,

And raised his eyes to look!

It was a path of light, about three meters wide, stretching who-knows how many tens or hundreds of li, spanning the entire Yu Xuanjing Path!

At its far end, an ancient temple rose and fell within the darkness, emanating a faint glow!

"Ah."

Li Yuan started in shock — he heard a scream!

The dragon-binding belt at his waist had gone taut as a board; the little mother dragon's voice was pitched to the extreme, shocked and terrified!

"B-Bafang Temple is actually guiding you in?"

"How could this be, how could this be."

The little mother dragon was stricken with horror, frozen in place by shock!

She had never witnessed such a scene with her own eyes, but she had seen it recorded in the ancient texts!

In the distant ages past, the former master of the Wuxian Gate, with his peerless talent, had once drawn Bafang Temple to actively guide him — but that was the Wuxian Gate Master, the supreme existence of Tian Shi Yuan, an unrivaled overlord who could shift stars and moons and cross the starry sky in the flesh.

This little potato…

The little mother dragon received an enormous fright!

"This is Bafang Temple's guidance?"

Li Yuan frowned as he examined it, feeling something was rather odd!

Those who completely master a Daoist Tianyun Daoist Tianyun Xuanbing are rare across the ages — but rare is not nonexistent. Not to mention others, the masters of the Wudadao Sect have all been masters of Daoist Tianyun Xuanbing!

But in the records, there is no mention of Bafang Temple guiding anyone!

"Go up quickly, hurry!"

Seeing him still dawdling, the little mother dragon wished she could leap up and give him a beating. This kind of heaven-defying fortune, she had only ever read about in the ancient texts!

"Look there!"

Li Yuan was very calm, forcibly pressing down the impulse in his heart, and pointed at the center of the light bridge!

That was the second stop on the Yu Xuanjing Path. An ancient tower stood beneath the light bridge, and at its head a Gui Dragon slowly raised its head — cold and ferocious!

The Gui Beasts all around also boiled into frenzy; the darkness was filled with rising and falling roars and howls!

Above and below the light bridge, a Gui Weapon darted about, seemingly drawn to the light bridge as well!

"Damned Gui Beasts."

The little mother dragon was furious, restless all over: "Kill through, you must kill through!"

A legendary fortune from Tian Shi Yuan had appeared before her eyes, yet she couldn't get there — the little mother dragon's eyes had gone red!

Li Yuan couldn't even be bothered to respond to her. That was a supreme-grade Gui Beast — if he could kill through, would he still need you to tell him?

But…

"Eight Directions Temple!! The inheritance of a supreme great power!"

The path lay beneath his feet, yet he could not walk it. Li Yuan was quite frustrated, but he naturally could not set out impulsively!

After some thought, he raised his hammer and walked toward Zhou Ying's ancient temple!

Whoo whoo!

As he moved, the bridge of light formed by that rainbow also shifted its position, yet it always landed before him!

"The Eight Directions Temple really is guiding him."

The little mother dragon's eyes went wide; she wished she could revive immediately and take his place. This was the supreme creation that even the gods themselves would pursue.

The Shan Xuan-Jing Road was very quiet. Where the light bridge was, it illuminated the nearby path to a certain extent. Li Yuan quickened his pace and soon arrived at Zhou Ying's small temple!

The small temple was even more dilapidated, with only very faint incense offerings. Clearly, in resisting the beast tide, Zhou Ying had also paid a tremendous price!

"This one is also a fierce man!"

Around the ancient temple there were quite a few remains—of strange beasts, of strange soldiers—but they had already been re-eroded by the darkness.

Li Yuan took out incense offerings and stuffed them into the incense burner, summoning Zhou Ying!

As the light and shadow flickered, Zhou Ying's figure appeared beneath the old tree. He was extremely weary, and with great effort opened his eyes: "Kid Li, if you come one more time, this old man's life will be gone."

With a whoosh, Zhou Ying stood up, looking at the light bridge spanning the Shan Xuan-Jing Road, his old face full of shock and disbelief: "You…"