Chapter 340: The Most Critical Step

But the real tempering has only just begun.

Ye Wuque, bearing a pressure that could crush the Star River, painstakingly draws this time‑space source, as ferocious as a raging dragon, toward the very center of the internal desert, toward the ultimate divine spring that burns as fiercely as the sun.

"Sss—!"

At the instant they touch, there is no thunderous crash, only a strange Dao tone that seems like the world's first opening and the anchoring of space‑time!

Then comes a backlash a hundred times stronger than before!

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

Ye Wuque spews blood continuously, the blood mingled with silver shards and golden light, even flickering with fragments of time.

His outer body begins to show clearly visible Liewen of space‑time Dao injuries: some parts seem to age rapidly, some freeze in time, some warp space, making his whole appearance eerie and terrifying.

His spirit is also struck, hallucinations sprout before his eyes, fragmented memories of past and future flash chaotically.

Each breath feels as long as spending a year amid a mountain of knives, sea of fire, and Time‑Space Turbulence.

Ye Wuque's consciousness teeters on disintegration several times, held together only by an eternal, indestructible resolve.

He forgets Time, forgets pain, even forgets himself.

All existence turns into the faint yet fiercely persistent link between the raging time‑space source and the ultimate divine spring, and the harmonizing light poured out by the Time‑Space Saint Method Origin.

Even Senior Chu holds his breath slightly, watching this most critical moment.

It's unclear how long has passed… perhaps an instant, perhaps eternity.

That faint link, after countless near‑breaks and forced reconnections, finally steadies, expands, and merges!

【7】 "Hum... hum... hum..."

Buzz…… Buzz…… Buzz……

A deep resonance rises from the deepest part of Ye Wuque's body, initially subtle, then growing ever grander, finally becoming a magnificent Dao tone that permeates his entire life level!

"Boom—!!!"

A Space‑Time Holy Spring of indescribable grandeur and magnificence bursts forth across the sky!

It erupts from the desert's core; its scale and momentum surpass the combined might of the previous ninety‑nine Space‑Time Holy Springs.

Its whole body streams with divine radiance of dark silver and noble gold intertwined, and within it seem countless worlds being born and dying, a long river raging, stars revolving!

Its quiet existence suppresses all rebellious Space‑Time Power within his body, smooths every space‑time Dao injury, and emits a perfect, flawless, supreme space‑time aura!

The hundredth Space‑Time Holy Spring is successfully tempered!

Ye Wuque's figure, which seemed already Jiemie, like a withered statue, shudders sharply.

Immediately after, an indescribable warm torrent surges through every corner of his body, the primordial feedback and resonance generated after the hundred Space‑Time Holy Springs fully formed!

The horrific injuries on his outer body heal at a visible speed within the silver‑gold light, and those bizarre Liewen of space‑time Dao injuries are smoothed away.

An unprecedented sense of fullness, power, and tight space‑time control floods his body and mind.

He slowly, with great difficulty, opens his eyes. Deep within his pupils, a silver river's phantom flickers.

"Finally finished…" his voice is hoarse and dry, yet steady as a burden lifted, "Senior Chu… how long has it been?"

The golden lightning man looks at the reborn Ye Wuque, a faint smile curling his mouth, and says:

"From the moment you began tempering the Space‑Time Holy Spring until now, a full year has passed…"

Ye Wuque's pupils contract slightly, a bit surprised.

In his perception, though the process was long and painful, it didn't feel close to a year.

The time‑space tempering indeed altered his own perception of Time.

"Not bad. Faster than I expected…" Senior Chu's tone carries a hint of praise, "You kid, this is the Human King Extreme Realm; it's never achieved so quickly. The more dazzling and unprecedented the Extreme Realm, the more time, energy, resources, and danger it demands, usually at the highest levels…"

Ye Wuque looks inward at himself.

He sees that within the vast human desert, the original hundred scorching divine springs have vanished, replaced by a hundred vast, silver‑gold gleaming Space‑Time Holy Springs radiating endless Space‑Time Great Power!

They resemble countless Space‑Time Galaxies, scattered across the desert; especially the final eleven, like eleven Space‑Time Suns, illuminate the desert, supplying inexhaustible, unimaginably high‑quality energy sources!

The entire desert, thanks to the hundred Space‑Time Holy Springs, seems to have transformed from a Dead Silence energy reservoir into a wondrous land brimming with infinite space‑time mysteries and power!

It can be said that merely completing the tempering of these hundred Space‑Time Holy Springs has caused Ye Wuque's strength to undergo a revolutionary transformation, already a world‑shaking Human King Extreme Realm!

But Ye Wuque knows this is far from his endpoint.

His Human King Extreme Realm is destined to be the most special existence.

Senior Chu's voice sounds again, calm yet tinged with solemn expectation:

"Alright. The first step, tempering the Space‑Time Holy Spring, is complete… the foundation is set, the energy spring is in place."

His gaze falls on Ye Wuque and also on the core "Space‑Time Primordial Light Sphere" refined ahead.

"Next… we should commence the second stage… the most important, most critical, most defying step…"

Ye Wuque draws a deep breath, his chest rising and falling, as the hundred Space‑Time Holy Springs resonate, emitting a low, pleasant sound of space‑time tides.

A unprecedented brilliance erupts in his eyes; all Exhaustion is swept away, leaving only pure focus and boiling battle intent.

He knows that tempering the Holy Spring is merely groundwork, preparing the "materials" and "energy" for the true Open Heaven and Split Earth feat.

The most critical, most defying step… is about to come!

Opening… the Space‑Time Great Dao Domain!

Within his internal desert, using his own Dao seed as the core, Space‑Time Origin as material, and the hundred Space‑Time Holy Springs as energy support, he will truly forge a unique, universe‑containing Space‑Time Prototype!

This is the most fundamental, core, and dazzling part of the Extreme Path Space within this Human King Extreme Realm!

Success or failure hinges on this single move!

Within the Void, the human‑head‑sized Space‑Time Primordial Light Sphere, shifting past and future, birthing and extinguishing miniature Star Rivers, seems to sense something, trembling slightly and emitting an even more profound, unfathomable glow.