Chapter 137

Although Jiang Xuan had mentioned to Ye Fan and the others long ago that he would borrow the Innate Dao Diagram to break through, when they truly saw that sky-covering, sun-blocking Innate Dao Diagram emitting boundless great power, even Ye Fan was unwilling to let Jiang Xuan bear this despair-inducing force in his place.

"Jiang Xuan! Don't help me anymore! This power isn't something we can resist!" Ye Fan forcibly propped up his body, which was already pressed by the pressure to the point of nearly being unable to stand, and shouted hoarsely at Jiang Xuan with all his might.

Because of the Innate Dao Diagram's suppression, the space around the Hualong Pool had already completely condensed; Jiang Xuan couldn't instantly appear in the center, and could only walk forward step by step with determination.

Every few steps forward, the surrounding pressure and the malice from the Dao grew a degree thicker! This was the Great Dao's naked loathing!

In the gazes of everyone, whether shocked or incredulous, Jiang Xuan stood straight beside Ye Fan, looking at the Ye Fan at his side with a determined smile on his face: "I said you bear the lightning tribulation, next I'll help you!"

Even with Ye Fan's determined personality, his eyes reddened slightly at this moment; he had never imagined someone would be willing to risk their life to help him.

Even though Jiang Xuan said opposing the Innate Dao Diagram also had benefits for him, Ye Fan felt that solid, genuine sincerity.

"Thank you! Jiang Xuan!" Ye Fan's voice turned somewhat hoarse.

Jiang Xuan lightly patted the other's shoulder, raised his head to look at the sky-covering Dao Diagram; within the circulating green waves carried a heart-chilling suppression and killing Dao, enveloping the intent to grind all living beings to dust, making a deathly intent of silent extinction rise from the bottom of one's heart.

Without a second word, Jiang Xuan's bodily aura surged wildly; the Eight Trigrams Furnace, carrying the Lihuo Emperor Pattern, burst out of his body, expanding straight up against the wind in midair; the furnace fire within the Eight Trigrams Furnace soared into the sky, scorching high temperature carrying the intent to burn the heavens, rushing straight at that sky-covering Innate Dao Diagram.

Although Ye Fan was not touched by the crimson flames, that temperature alone gave him the feeling of entering the deep layers of the Fire Domain; the Emperor Patterns containing the intent to incinerate all under heaven made his heart and soul tremble even more!

He knew Jiang Xuan was much stronger than them, but this was too strong! Those old geezers chasing him had never felt such powerful strength either!

The younger generation originally surrounding the Hualong Pool to watch Ye Fan cross the tribulation — from the moment Jiang Xuan walked into the Hualong Pool, their widened eyeballs had never blinked; now feeling that aura breaking through the clouds, their eyeballs were about to fall out!

Xiao Peng Wang's heart alternated between complex feelings and joy; he incomparably hoped the one crossing the tribulation was Jiang Xuan, but now that Jiang Xuan truly rushed up, he felt the other shouldn't die like this — if he was to die, it should wait until he personally defeated him in the future!

Beside him, Ji Haoyue, seeing Jiang Xuan wield the furnace cauldron flame with one hand, couldn't help but feel fortunate that his sister had covered his mouth at the time; otherwise, he feared he would already be drifting in the wind across the Four Continents!

"Li!" As the crimson flames collided with the Dao Diagram, an immortal phoenix's long cry faintly sounded from within the Innate Dao Diagram; condensed red light shone over the Four Continents; the crimson flames were completely suppressed, yet the Dao Diagram's falling speed did not slow in the slightest.

Outside the Hualong Pool, Jiang Taixu stared dead at Jiang Xuan; at the first sign of anything wrong, he would act to pull Jiang Xuan out of the Hualong Pool.

Just then, the Void shattered and the Yaochi Holy Mother appeared out of thin air outside the Hualong Pool, with the fresh and elegant Fairy Zixia following behind her.

Just as she appeared, Fairy Zixia's gaze landed on Jiang Xuan in the Hualong Pool; her face actually revealed a faint anxiety.

If it were before, Zixia would absolutely never have such an expression.

"Saint Jiang!" The Yaochi Holy Mother swept a glance at the Innate Dao Diagram above her head, and greeted Jiang Taixu beside her unhurriedly.

Seeing Jiang Taixu looking at her with curiosity, the Yaochi Holy Mother smiled and said: "It's not that I wanted to come; it's that a newly accepted disciple of our Yaochi wants to come take a look!"

Jiang Taixu nodded slightly, once again seriously watching the situation above the Hualong Pool, with absolutely no intention of making small talk.

The Yaochi Holy Mother didn't feel slighted either, simply watching the sky above the Hualong Pool on her own with a heavy expression.

Jiang Xuan stared dead at the Dao Diagram above his head; because he intervened in Ye Fan's tribulation, the Innate Dao Diagram's malice also gathered on his body; a sense of powerlessness raged like a hurricane in the bottom of his heart, making one sink into depravity, unable to raise any thought of resistance!

But the next second Jiang Xuan's head lifted high again, his gaze looking down on the vault of heaven with contempt, his tone firm and arrogant: "My Dao! You can't control it!"

The Innate Dao Diagram sprinkled down hundreds of millions of golden light rays, shining until people were left with only shadows; a powerful pressure crashed down with a boom.

Ye Fan's originally cross-legged sitting body suddenly flung prone; his shoulders seemed to bear the weight of ten thousand jun, yet he did not cry out, likewise gritting his teeth and staring dead at the Innate Dao Diagram in the sky.

Jiang Xuan's body couldn't help but tremble, but he still stood firm like a ten-thousand-year-old pine, facing the vault of heaven with his own pride; Xuanhuang Qi circulated within his body, reflecting the shape of the Small Pagoda; a defiant smile on his face: "Just this?"

The Innate Dao Diagram seemed provoked into accelerating its descent, and crashed fiercely together with the condensed Eight Trigrams Furnace; the bursting crimson flames scattered in all directions, radiance illuminating the eight directions; the old geezers originally not preparing to intervene finally couldn't help but turn their gazes over.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace emitted a sound neither of metal nor wood; furnace-body Dao Patterns densely appeared; the Lihuo Divine Furnace's Emperor Patterns originally within it collided even more with that shrieking Fire Phoenix virtual shadow.

The Innate Dao Diagram's speed actually slowed a little! Although only a little, everyone outside the Hualong Pool had keen eyesight, and all perceived it!

"Hmph! What use is slowing a little! Once it presses down, both of them have to die!" Xiao Peng Wang snorted lightly.

"Jiang Xuan doesn't have only this bit of means!" A low mutter transmitted from the distance.

As if echoing that low mutter to himself, Jiang Xuan waved a hand; the Immortal Trapping Sword emitted a sky-soaring sword light rushing straight up; heaven and earth changed color; the sharp intent drew faint fluctuations in the surrounding space.

You must know the space is now dead-pressed by the Innate Dao Diagram, yet it can still give birth to subtle space fluctuations; one can see how great its sword power is!

But this wasn't over; dual pupils circulating black and red, black-red light rushed straight from his eyes to the sky's horizon; the power of Yin-Yang life and death condensed the shape of a Yin-Yang Mirror in midair, carrying the power of illusionary extinction and crashing into the Innate Dao Diagram.

The Vajra Bracelet at his wrist appeared, emitting a faint glow, also unwilling to be outdone as it rushed into the sky to collide with the Great Dao a bit.

Right now, only the Heaven and Earth Xuan Huang Linglong Treasure Pagoda condensed on Jiang Xuan's body had not rushed up to collide; merely the Xuanhuang Qi circulated in his body, blocking most of the pressure power.

Accompanied by threads of different-colored light rushing into the sky, each thread possessing a momentum that crushed peers, the younger generation's hearts all surged with a powerless feeling of "since Yu was born, why was Liang also born".

Even that Ancient Desolate Holy Body crossing the tribulation, they felt they could contend for superiority! But Jiang Xuan made them feel like facing an elder; that frustration of being impossible to catch up to no matter what!

Jiang Xuan only felt his body's Source Power rapidly exhausting; the Innate Dao Diagram's speed slowed a moment, but was far from stopping.

Zixia stared dead at the Hualong Pool, not knowing her eyes revealed a faint emotion of concern.

Jiang Xuan did not pay attention to his body's Source Power rapidly being digested; instead, he closed his eyes to sense the divine ability Dao Rules within each Magic Treasure he had sacrificed; facing the Innate Dao Diagram, these Magic Treasures' divine ability Dao Rules manifested more completely, more actively!

Under everyone's attention, the Dao Rules originally used to resist all returned to Jiang Xuan's side, respectively condensing into their main bodies.

"Looks like Jiang Xuan can't save this Ancient Desolate Holy Body either; preparing to give up!" A sigh transmitted from the distant Void, falling into everyone's ears.

Ye Fan finally sat up his upper body with difficulty; blue veins suddenly appeared on his face, looking slightly ferocious; seeing Jiang Xuan withdraw his Magic Weapons, he said with difficulty: "Jiang Xuan! If it really won't work then forget it! Don't risk your life because of me!"

"I said it's not just for you! Even if the Great Dao doesn't acknowledge us, we'll still bear it and walk out a different Dao!" Jiang Xuan's gaze blazed as he looked at Ye Fan, his face carrying confidence and flamboyance!

He discovered that because of his appearance, this protagonist Ye Fan instead became somewhat unconfident; that fearless, undaunted, invincible momentum had diminished; he needed to scold him awake!

Looking at the other's bright eyes, containing the ambition and confidence that looked down on the world, the blazing flame in his heart finally pierced through that layer of window paper and leaped out; a heroic sentiment that would not be suppressed surged in his chest.

Yes! Jiang Xuan walked out a road that didn't belong to the Great Dao but belonged to himself; he merely suffered some slight obstruction — what was there to shrink back from?

Looking at the flame in Ye Fan's eyes — that was ambition, was confidence, was the heroic aspiration to step onto the path of contending for invincibility — Jiang Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

"What is Jiang Xuan doing? The Innate Dao Diagram is about to fall right away; why isn't he running yet!"

"He seems to be lecturing Ye Fan? What time is this already! What meaning is there in lecturing a dead man!"

Under the watch of all eyes, the Innate Dao Diagram finally fell atop Jiang Xuan's head; Jiang Xuan raised both hands upward to support; the Xuan Huang Linglong Treasure Pagoda fully manifested, holding up the brilliant falling sun, standing tall like a stubborn stone by the river bearing the great sea; Xuanhuang Mother Qi circulated and cycled on the pagoda body, Dao Patterns contending with the myriad things within the Dao Diagram.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace, Yin-Yang Mirror, Vajra Bracelet, and Immortal Trapping Sword suspended at his side faced the Innate Dao Diagram head-on, and actually truly forcibly withstood the Innate Dao Diagram's descent.

But Jiang Xuan's body's Source Power was limited; just now, relying on each Magic Treasure's main body manifesting Dao Rules to re-comprehend his own Dao had already consumed some Source Power; after a brief physical collision, it was finally exhausted!

Ye Fan suddenly spread out a huge green lotus flower outward; this was a heavy phenomenon he had comprehended: the Chaotic Seed Green Lotus!

Immediately after, three more phenomena rushed out, helping Jiang Xuan resist the pressure from the Innate Dao Diagram; his eyes blazing: "I can't just watch and let someone else bear it for me!"

Jiang Xuan nodded slightly; the four phenomena slightly reduced a bit of pressure, but all his Magic Weapons could now only rely on their own main bodies to resist; Source Power could no longer activate them; their power weakened by at least half!

But as the pressure kept deepening, Jiang Xuan only felt the power on the Innate Dao Diagram also silently influencing the Daojie within the Magic Treasure, staining them with a Transcendent Daojie aura.

Crack!

It only persisted for a few seconds before the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda's body emitted a sound of collapsing under unbearable weight, its contained Daojie leaking out and colliding with the Innate Dao Diagram before being recovered.

"Jiang Xuan!" Ye Fan shouted loudly upon hearing the sound.

The response was an increasingly bright and determined gaze, without the slightest trace of fear!

Ye Fan opened his mouth but did not continue speaking, forcibly enduring the pressure and abruptly standing up, standing firmly beside Jiang Xuan!

Jiang Xuan cracked a smile, accompanied by another "Crack" sound ringing by his ear, immediately followed by the sound of all Magic Weapons shattering under unbearable weight.

The Daojie lost their vessels, carrying Magic Weapon fragments and the Innate Dao Diagram in a final struggle! Afterwards they autonomously returned into Jiang Xuan's body, their same source.

Jiang Xuan propped up the heavens with both hands, Magic Weapon fragments carrying Daojie returning into his body, transforming into thread after thread of feeble energy integrating throughout his body, the knowledge contained within suddenly pouring into his mind.

Accompanying the complete collapse of the Magic Weapons, the Innate Dao Diagram abruptly pressed down toward the two below, but they still stood tall in place, their chests utterly without fear!

Jiang Taixu had just prepared to act, when a purple figure moved even faster, already having run all the way to the edge of the Hualong Pool, and without a word rushed into the Innate Dao Diagram's coverage area.

The arrival was shockingly the Purple Cloud Fairy.

Her body emitted a Profound Mystery aura, resonating distantly with the Innate Dao Diagram.

The Xiantian Dao Tai Body can be called the Great Dao's favored child; the Innate Dao Diagram's descent speed abruptly slowed, as if considering whether to crush the Xiantian Dao Tai to death as well.

A crimson Divine Phoenix virtual shadow emerged within the Dao Diagram and rushed toward Purple Cloud, as if to drive her out of the coverage area.

Just at this moment Jiang Xuan abruptly opened his eyes, both hands grabbing forward, a powerful suction rushing toward the Divine Phoenix, absorbing it into his body in merely an instant.

There was no Eight Trigrams Furnace at his Dantian, but flames appeared out of thin air, unexpectedly completely refining the Divine Phoenix virtual shadow!

A thread of Xiantian Qi emerged from Jiang Xuan's body, Daojie faintly visible one after another, every single one revealing Xiantian Qi!

At this moment Jiang Xuan looked inward at his body; the Magic Weapon fragments had already been thoroughly crushed and integrated into every Cell of his body, and under the staining of Xiantian Qi, the power within Jiang Xuan's body was round and flawless, as if it had originally belonged in this body.

"Still not enough!" Black-red light flashed through Jiang Xuan's eyes, the suction in his hand abruptly increasing, the Target precisely that sky-covering Innate Dao Diagram!

Sensing that someone was actually absorbing its power, the Innate Dao Diagram no longer paid attention to Purple Cloud, condensing ten thousand virtual shadows determined to drown Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan's body breathed flames; now he did not need to condense the Eight Trigrams Furnace again, because his body was the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

Using the body as furnace, refining all things!

Thread after thread of Innate Qi integrated into his body, Jiang Xuan's body unexpectedly began interweaving Dao and Principle; his body was the sum total of all Magic Weapons he had integrated!

Black, crimson, gold, yellow interwove together, unexpectedly directly breaking through the Dao Diagram's restrictions, emitting a magnificent aura rushing straight to Heaven's extreme, accompanied by a Transcendent yet all-embracing Xiantian Qi, causing the surrounding investigating old fellows to exclaim in amazement!

"Dao and Principle!"

Jiang Xuan propped up the heavens with a single hand, his body's Yellow Emperor Qi faintly circulating, Dao follows nature! As the heart desires!

Because he was stained with Xiantian Qi, he now counted as a forged Xiantian Dao Tai; the Dao Diagram's suppression of him was instead much less, plus with one hand condensing all the Magic Weapon Daojie he had already integrated into his body, and Dao and Principle interweaving on his body, he finally managed to block this Innate Dao Diagram, and was even continuously absorbing the Xiantian Qi within the Dao Diagram!

From this moment on!

His Dao! Was complete!

Walk out of this Road, afterwards it is a broad highway, only need to follow this Road and keep walking down!

"Blocked it!!" In the distance Ji Haoyue's voice even cracked slightly, truly too Shocked!

That is the Innate Dao Diagram! Even if Jiang Saint went all out he might not be able to block it!

Yet it was so easily blocked by Jiang Xuan? Using only one hand?

The Big Black Dog shouted loudly in the distance: "Really blocked it! Even the Wushi Great Emperor back then probably couldn't have blocked it!"

(Chapter End)