Chapter 741: Five Poles Mountain, Spirit Court Sacrifice (Combined)

«Hum~»

In the instant the Enlightenment Tea entered his belly, Li Yuan felt his spirit clear and mind bright, his perception instantly soaring manyfold—without the need for the Command Scroll's enhancement, divine patterns and cosmic principles now glowed clearly in his eyes.

Countless scriptures, true-form diagrams, spell combinations, divine techniques…

Countless secret methods and scriptures clashed within his heart-sea; as his thoughts spun at high speed, every lingering doubt that had once confounded him dissolved effortlessly.

This was the fourth cup of Enlightenment Tea Li Yuan had consumed, yet he felt no weakening of its potency—in fact, with his realm's ascent, its effect had doubled.

«Rush-rush~»

Li Yuan could feel the surging flow of his magic power; the bamboo pavilion he stood in and the mountain peak around him were engulfed by a flood of celestial qi, like a colossal funnel devouring spiritual essence.

With each breath, a thread of Wu Di magic power had already formed within him!

Within his Shen Jing, thunder rumbled and vibrated; the two mysterious vine trees swayed their branches, emitting joyful tremors as they grew at visibly rapid speed.

The Azure Dragon's true form also let out a long roar, its body swelling larger.

The Green Emperor's shrine beneath the vines emitted a green radiance; within it, divine patterns and spells accelerated their flow, and soon, layer upon layer of magical prohibitions had taken shape.

«Hum~»

In less than a blink, Li Yuan's divine awareness returned to his heart-sea.

Blocks of ground tiles, seemingly woven from divine patterns, rose upward and assembled at breakneck speed, forming a vast, ancient, and heavy city wall.

«Origin Divine City! »

Li Yuan's mind stirred, and the shadow of the divine city he had witnessed during his hundred battles with the Five Dragon Immortal surged forth alongside it, as if filling his heart-sea to the point of splitting open.

«Hum~»

The shadows of countless divine cities trembled, swirled, and collided within his heart-sea.

These were fragments of the divine city Li Yuan had glimpsed from countless angles: stone steles, city gates, imperial palaces, even entire stretches of its outer wall.

Over the years, he had pondered the divine city's mysteries daily, but it was so vast that each glimpse revealed only a corner—and even that was exceedingly difficult to comprehend.

But now, aided by the Enlightenment Tea, his thoughts spun at a speed tens of times beyond ordinary, even sparking revelations of an unprecedented nature.

«Hum~»

It seemed no more than a breath—or even less than a single instant.

Li Yuan heard a long, trembling resonance; then, all the divine city shadows in his heart-sea vanished, replaced by a divine gate!

A divine gate standing atop the heavens themselves!

«That is…»

Li Yuan's heart jolted.

The divine gate stood impossibly high in the sky, woven with divine light and wreathed in immortal mist, radiant and sacred, radiating an overwhelming aura of dominance over all realms, crushing all domains, and reigning supreme in the present.

Beyond that gate, he faintly glimpsed a terrifying divine city whose mere silhouette seemed ready to shatter his heart-sea.

This was not the outline of the Five Dragon Immortal's Shen Jing—it was what he had glimpsed years ago, during his fleeting clash with the suspected Divine King's Dao shadow…

«Divine King's Dao Field? »

The thought flashed through Li Yuan's mind, then vanished—he forgot everything else, his entire spirit converging on the faint silhouette of that divine city.

In a daze, he seemed to see the city's complete outline, and within it, a terrifying divine figure of indescribable magnitude, seated in sovereign dominion.

He felt an inexplicable trembling.

As if, beyond the infinite, luminous heights of the heavens, a legendary Divine King gazed down with a single, lowering glance.

«Huh! »

Moments later, Li Yuan grunted and withdrew from the mystical state of enlightenment; a crushing sense of loss surged into his heart, making him frown involuntarily.

Instantly, his vision darkened; his dantian swelled, throbbing as if about to burst, and his Shen Jing trembled violently.

«Divine King's Dao Field…»

Li Yuan forced back his discomfort, focusing again into his heart-sea.

Amidst a vast, silent darkness, a faint, elusive light appeared—and under his gaze, it coalesced into a palm-sized, blurred, illusory shadow of a city.

«Did it work?! »

Li Yuan was stunned, unable to believe it had been so easy.

But after focusing closely, he felt a pang of disappointment—the city shadow was so blurred that only a tiny corner of its wall remained clear.

«Divine City silhouette…»

Li Yuan steadied his mind, realizing this was normal.

If one cup of Enlightenment Tea could let him reverse-engineer the true-form diagram of the Origin Divine City, he'd suspect some ancient monster was watching him.

«Even if it's only a silhouette, if I can keep adding to it, perhaps I'll one day fully visualize the entire divine city! »

Li Yuan focused his perception.

Heavy, primordial, ancient, sacred, majestic…

Though only a faint silhouette, in his perception, its rank was already on par with the Peng's true-form diagram.

«Divine patterns, divine prohibitions, spells, divine techniques…»

Li Yuan recalled his recent insights, organizing them—and faintly, he sensed this divine city might be the true foundation of the Origin Divine Clan's legacy.

With this city as its silhouette, all the spells and divine techniques he had learned needed no integration or combination—they naturally unified into one.

What an immense advantage?

Li Yuan understood this well—he knew how agonizingly difficult it was to combine spells and divine techniques.

«Divine Emperor's legacy! »

Li Yuan's heart burned; though he had glimpsed only a corner, what he gained was substantial, and he now had clearer ideas on how to condense the «Hunyuan Wu Ji Mountain».

«Hum~»

With a thought, Li Yuan's awareness returned to his dantian.

Within the divine realm, the changes were tremendous; the Profound Vine Mother Tree had shot up by over a thousand zhang, now approaching nine thousand zhang, and that one sub-tree had already reached five thousand zhang in size.

One large and one small island likewise expanded along with it.

The Azure Dragon soared through the sea of clouds, wielding thunder, riding lightning, and summoning rain; the mist enveloped the entire divine realm, yet it was not practicing spells—it was drawing in, swallowing, and digesting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The nine true forms and various spells had all grown to differing degrees.

"Those three cups of Enlightenment Tea I drank before—I'm afraid a great deal of their medicinal potency was wasted. No, wait—the efficacy of the Enlightenment Tea seems to be tied to the realm of the one who drinks it?"

Sensing the changes within the divine realm, Li Yuan could not help but feel gratitude toward his master.

The debt of a teacher's grace can never be repaid!

Li Yuan gazed down upon the entire divine realm, and every change reflected itself in his heart.

Compared to that original endless ocean, the divine realm now had quite a bit of shape to it.

Within the boundless ocean lay three islands; the largest was the Soldier-Nurturing Island, which had absorbed the divine patterns of countless demonic corpses, and it occupied a vast area—no less than thirty thousand li across.

It was larger than the two Profound Vine Islands combined.

"A solid foundation makes the divine realm vast, but a vast divine realm is hard to fill…"

Amid the lofty clouds, Li Yuan sat cross-legged, gazing down upon the entire divine realm, while the various scriptures concerning the divine realm and the dharma realm welled up in his heart.

The mark of the perfection of the Fourth Realm is the embryonic form of the dharma realm.

Like the Origin Divine City of the Five Dragon Immortals, while the embryonic form of the Primordial Five Extremes Dao is the 'Primordial Five Extremes Mountain.'

During the ten years of refining the Longhu Longhu Dadan, he had concurrently cultivated many spells—not seeking the depth of their dharma prohibitions, only seeking quantity, not quality—precisely to maximize the efficacy of the Enlightenment Tea.

"This cup of Enlightenment Tea has played a tremendous role; the dharma prohibitions of all the spells I've learned have increased greatly, saving me at least ten years of bitter cultivation!"

Joy welled up in Li Yuan's heart.

Over those ten years, he had concurrently cultivated more than forty mid- and low-grade spells, while the various spells with the lowest one layer of dharma prohibitions numbered in the thousands.

And now, these spells that originally had only one layer of dharma prohibitions had all reached at least twenty layers!

"It's about time to attempt condensing the Primordial Five Extremes Mountain!"

At a single thought from Li Yuan, the Five Emperors' ancient temples all trembled at once, the tremor then spreading to the entire divine realm.

"Boom!"

In the next instant, five beams of divine light that pierced through heaven and earth blazed to life, rising from the ground to the vault of the sky, piercing through layer upon layer of cloud sea.

Among the three dharma realms of cultivating the Primordial Five Extremes Dao, the Primordial Five Extremes Mountain is the hardest to condense, because the foundation of this dharma realm is the Five Extremes Divine Light.

As far as Li Yuan knew, among the twelve generations of true disciples of Mount Mount Dongxuan, only Daoist Fudragon had ever condensed this mountain, and once the mountain was formed, the might of the Five Extremes Divine Light would surge explosively.

"Hum~"

As the various subtleties of condensing the Primordial Five Extremes Mountain arose in his heart, Li Yuan pressed his hand down, and those five beams of divine light all soared into the sky, tearing apart the cloud sea of the boundless heavens.

"Azure Emperor, hold the east!"

Li Yuan flicked his finger, and that pure azure divine light shot straight to the eastern extremity, then descended.

A tremendous roar was heard; the ocean churned, and an azure giant mountain rose from the earth, like the spine of heaven itself, soaring into the clouds—in the blink of an eye, it had reached nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang!

Were Qi Yun here, he would know that Li Yuan had already cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Scripture to the peak of the Fourth Realm!

"Azure Emperor Temple."

Li Yuan's word became law; accompanied by the reluctant trembling cry of the Profound Vine Tree, that ancient temple rose from the ground, transformed into a streak of flowing light, and plunged directly into the summit of that eastern mountain.

"White Emperor, hold the west!"

"Scarlet Emperor, hold the south!"

"Black Emperor, hold the north!"

Li Yuan had long since comprehended every subtlety; the scarlet, black, and white beams of divine light, along with their corresponding ancient temples, had each taken their places at the four extremities of heaven and earth.

"Boom!"

In an instant, the divine realm trembled, and four-colored radiance filled the heavens.

The four extremity mountains, like the spine of heaven, bore the weight of the entire divine realm; one could see with the naked eye that the divine realm was expanding and growing stronger.

"Crash~"

The magic power of the Five Emperors flowed in torrents, pouring down upon the locations of the four great mountains; one could see with the naked eye that beneath the mountains, the ocean scattered, and four islands sprang into being from nothing.

"Yellow Emperor, hold the center!"

Li Yuan looked toward the Profound Vine Island, and that pure yellow divine light descended accordingly.

Where the Profound Vine Mother Tree stands is the center of the divine realm!

"Rumble!"

The instant the five beams of divine light descended together, the divine realm nearly overturned; the nine true forms cried out in unison, suppressing the divine realm.

"Hum~"

Streaks of flowing light rose into the air—these were the various spells Li Yuan had cultivated over the years; summoned by the resonance of the Five Extremes Mountains, they flew toward their corresponding locations.

The Five Extremes Mountains had only their outlines; to transform from illusion into substance required an immense quantity of spells to fill them.

"Primordial Five Extremes Mountain!"

Feeling the trembling of the divine realm and the roar of the five great mountains, Li Yuan was intoxicated; a sense of fullness and satisfaction welled up in his heart, bringing him deep pleasure.

Once the Five Extremes Mountains were formed, the Fourth Realm was already perfected.

"Only by proceeding step by step, filling the Five Extremes Mountains with various spells, can one naturally forge a first-grade dharma realm!"

Li Yuan gazed down upon the divine realm.

Compared to before, it seemed as though only five great mountains had been added, but in truth it was like the finishing touch to a dragon—a band of stragglers now had a leader, transforming toward elite troops.

"The wonder of cultivation."

Satisfied in his heart, Li Yuan stepped onto the Profound Vine Island, where he saw the Qianshan Qianshan Qilin striding up the mountain; atop the summit, the Yellow Emperor Temple radiated light, drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to strengthen itself.

Once the Five Extremes Mountains were formed, they could naturally draw in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

In the days to come, even if Li Yuan does not practice his arts and refine his methods, the Five Poles Mountain will naturally refine the corresponding Wu Di Fa magic power and nourish the corresponding spells.

"Once the Five Poles Mountain is formed, the speed of refining methods and the might of spells will see no small an increase…"

Li Yuan focused his spirit and perceived.

Once the Chaotic Five Poles Mountain is formed, even if it is not yet complete, it means he has already cultivated the Chaotic Five Poles Dao!

The difficulty of fusing the five poles barely exists for him.

This is not only because of the Chaotic Body, but also because the Five Poles Grand Scriptures serve as the controlling artifact.

Relying on the augmentation of the Soldier Controlling Register, in just twenty or thirty years he has already cultivated all five grand scriptures to the peak of Dao Le Si Zhong; for other fourth-realm cultivators, even a thousand years of bitter cultivation might not achieve this!

"The cultivation of the grand scriptures is far faster than the accumulation of magic power by a large margin; even after refining the Longhu Longhu Dadan, the speed of refining methods greatly increases…"

Gently stroking the Xuanteng Tree, Li Yuan felt a touch of regret.

Compared to the rapid progress of the Five Poles Grand Scriptures, he has now only barely refined three thousand three hundred strands of Wu Di Fa magic power.

Top-grade magic power is very slow to cultivate, especially since he is also constantly concurrently cultivating other mid- and low-grade magic power.

This is still under the augmentation of refining-method speed by the Chaotic Divine Physique and the Five Poles Grand Scriptures, combined with daily consumption of spirit pills and the nourishment of enlightenment tea.