Chapter 59: Borrowing Power to Refine the Nascent Soul? My Heavenly Tribulation Arrives!

The eye where the earth veins converge, the center of the Five-Colored Swamp.

The continuously rotating five-colored vortex still emitted chaotic and violent energy fluctuations, but at this moment, a figure in green robes sat cross-legged at the edge of the vortex, allowing the heterogeneous Five Elements spiritual energy to wash over him like a raging sea.

It was Lin Xuan.

He did not venture deep into the vortex; the energy there was too violent, and even with his current cultivation base, it was difficult to endure for long. He chose the edge, where the vortex's energy overflowed and the impact was most intense.

Here, the spiritual energy of the five attributes—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—was not clearly delineated; instead, they collided, annihilated, and derived from one another, presenting a primitive state bordering on chaos. This was exactly what Lin Xuan needed!

He operated the "Nine Turns Chaos Scripture" with all his might. The Chaos Golden Core within his dantian and the blurred phantom of the nascent infant trembled simultaneously, emitting a powerful suction force. It did not merely absorb a single type of spiritual energy; like a miniature chaotic vortex, it began to forcibly swallow and pull at the chaotic Five Elements energy in the surroundings!

Boom!

The violent energy entered his body like a wild horse breaking its bridle, rampaging through his meridians! The spiritual power of different attributes clashed, bringing tearing pain a hundred times worse than absorbing a single type of spiritual energy!

But Lin Xuan kept his mind steady, using his powerful will to command the "Nine Turns Chaos Scripture," forcibly incorporating this torrent of chaotic energy into the trajectory of his cultivation technique. The chaotic spiritual power acted like the most skilled mediator, containing, decomposing, and reconciling these hostile energies, crushing and fusing them until they were finally transformed into wisps of pure, origin power carrying the aura of chaos, nourishing the Golden Core and the nascent infant.

This was an extremely dangerous process, like walking a tightrope; a moment of carelessness could lead to energy loss of control and death by explosion. But the rewards were also immense!

Under this self-torturous tempering, he clearly felt his understanding of the Dao of Chaos deepening rapidly. Chaos was not simple disorder; it contained the highest order within the unordered, the return of all things to one, and the root from which one gives rise to all things!

The chaotic nascent infant in his dantian, nourished by this pure origin power, became solid at a speed visible to the naked eye! Its facial features became increasingly clear, and the chaotic airflow swirling around it grew denser, as if a real infant were being conceived and formed!

After an unknown amount of time, when Lin Xuan felt that his endurance and transformation of the surrounding chaotic energy were reaching their limit, he gritted his teeth and made an even bolder decision!

He controlled his body and took a step forward, slowly approaching the center of the five-colored vortex!

More violent and chaotic energy instantly swallowed him! It felt as if countless sharp blades were cutting his flesh, and countless distinct forces were tearing at his soul!

"Pfft!" He could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and fine cracks even appeared on the surface of his skin!

Yet the light in his eyes grew even more intense!

"The pressure is not enough! Is a Chaos Nascent Soul so easily condensed?! Give me one more step!"

He hardened his heart and actually took another step forward, with nearly half his body entering the core area of the vortex where the energy was most violent!

Rumble—!!!

A deafening sound, as if the heavens and earth were first opening, exploded within his body! A massive amount of chaotic energy surged in, nearly bursting him apart!

At this critical juncture of life and death, the chaotic nascent infant in his dantian, as if pushed to the brink, suddenly opened its eyes! In those eyes, there were no pupils, only a rotating chaos that encompassed all things!

An unprecedented devouring force erupted from within the nascent infant! It no longer passively accepted nourishment but actively and greedily swallowed the surging chaotic energy! Its small body was like a bottomless pit, accepting all that came and frantically refining it!

Lin Xuan's body became a battlefield; externally, there was the violent Five Elements turbulence, and internally, the nascent infant's frantic devouring and refining. His consciousness drifted between extreme pain and a profound, mysterious state of enlightenment.

He seemed to see the birth of the universe, the separation of the clear and the turbid, and he seemed to see all things returning to the void, returning to chaos...

An epiphany surged into his heart.

Chaos is the starting point, and also the end point.

After an unknown amount of time, the frantic devouring finally slowed to a stop.

The five-colored vortex still rotated, but the energy impacting Lin Xuan seemed much more docile. The cracks on his skin healed rapidly under the nourishment of the chaotic spiritual power, and his aura did not decline; instead, like a divine weapon tempered a thousand times, it emitted an introverted and terrifying sharpness!

He looked inward at his dantian.

He saw that the chaotic nascent infant had changed completely! It was no longer a phantom shadow, but had become completely solid, transforming into a three-inch-tall infant with skin like jade, features identical to his own, and surrounded by a dense chaotic airflow!

This infant sat cross-legged, looking solemn, with its hands forming a seal in front of its navel. With every breath, it synchronized with Lin Xuan's physical body, causing the spiritual energy of the world outside to tremble slightly!

The Chaos Nascent Soul, complete!!!

The moment the Chaos Nascent Soul was completely condensed and formed—

A vast, boundless pressure of a life level surpassing the Golden Core surged into the sky from within Lin Xuan without reservation! The strength of this pressure even temporarily dispersed the poisonous miasma above the Five-Colored Swamp, triggering a resonance of the laws of the entire secret realm!

In the sky, the originally gray clouds began to gather and rotate frantically, forming a massive vortex covering dozens of miles! Within the vortex, electric snakes darted, lightning flickered, and a destructive aura pressed down like a giant mountain, locking onto Lin Xuan at the center of the swamp!

The Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation!!!

Moreover, judging by the scale and power of these tribulation clouds, it was far beyond what an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator could trigger! Within that lightning, there was a faint trace of the color of chaos, as if the heavenly tribulation had sensed the heaven-defying nature of his Chaos Nascent Soul, and the test it descended was far beyond reason!

Lin Xuan looked up at the sky, watching the tribulation clouds brewing with terrifying power; not only was there no fear on his face, but he revealed a smile of excitement and anticipation.

He stood up, and the Chaos Nascent Soul in his dantian stood up in synchronization, perfectly merging with his physical aura.

"Come! Let me see if you, this heavenly tribulation, can temper my Dao of Chaos!"

He laughed aloud, his voice shaking the wilderness, and he actively dispersed part of his body's defenses to welcome the baptism of the heavenly tribulation!

At the same time, throughout the secret realm, all cultivators who felt this abnormal celestial phenomenon and terrifying pressure turned pale with shock, one after another looking toward the direction of the Five-Colored Swamp.

"Such a terrifying heavenly tribulation?! Who is undergoing tribulation?!"

"This pressure... is it a Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation? But how could it be so terrifying!"

"That direction... is the place where the Five Elements were previously in disorder! Could it be..."

Ye Chen was collecting spiritual herbs in a valley; feeling this aura, he suddenly looked up, a flash of shock and gravity in his eyes: "Such a strong tribulation cloud... could it be..."

Elder Youquan and the others, who had escaped to a safe place to heal using secret treasures, were also startled by this celestial phenomenon. Feeling the power contained in the tribulation clouds that made even them feel palpitations, their faces became incomparably ugly.

"It's him! It must be that brat! He actually broke through to the Nascent Soul stage in the secret realm?! And this heavenly tribulation..." A strong sense of unease surged in Elder Youquan's heart.

Everyone's gaze was now focused on the Five-Colored Swamp, focused on the unprecedented Chaos Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation that was about to descend!

(End of Chapter 59)