Chapter 492 - 434: Heaven and Earth, Profound Yellow!

BUZZ!

The Magic Technique Panel trembled violently! The Dao Patterns of [Basic Sword Qi 50.0] suddenly erupted with a radiance more dazzling and blazing than ever before. It was like a star forcibly infused with supreme might, struggling to break free from some invisible constraint and leap toward a higher, more unfathomable level!

This was a stark contrast to the times before when he had plundered Sword Intent and madly iterated versions, which had felt as natural as water flowing into a canal and as unstoppable as splitting bamboo. This time, the ascension felt exceptionally stagnant.

CREAK...

It was as if an invisible Divine Iron floodgate, weighing billions of tons, was firmly wedged in the progression path of the version 50.0 Dao Patterns.

"Hmm?" Qi Yun’s expression suddenly hardened. The faint golden sword mark between his eyebrows flickered slightly, reflecting the sharp gleam that flashed in his eyes. He could clearly sense that it wasn’t because his Daoist Intent lacked purity, but rather a kind of... suppression and limitation!

"Have I reached the limit?" Qi Yun wondered, his mind racing as a trace of enlightenment flashed through him.

The automatic updates and iterations of the Magic Technique Panel seemed to have an inherent cap. [Basic Sword Qi] had too low of a starting point. Even though it had been frantically nourished by the Resources of two pinnacles of the Sword Dao, forcing it to spawn into the monstrous version 50.0, it had exhausted all of its potential.

Could this really be the end?

Just as Qi Yun’s Heart Thought grew heavy and he began to wonder if he should change his approach to deal with the current dilemma...

RUMBLE!!!

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the Magic Technique Panel itself, which had been bearing immense pressure with flickering light, shuddered violently!

CRACK!!!

A shattering sound—one that only Qi Yun’s Divine Soul could "hear," crisp to the extreme and magnificent to the utmost—suddenly rang out! In the dark, the Magic Technique Panel domineeringly chiseled a crack right into the absolutely insurmountable barrier!

The next instant—

BUZZ!!!!!

An unprecedented, blazing light, as brilliant as a manifestation of the Celestial Dao, gushed out from the chiseled crack and from the Broken old definitions! It instantly submerged the entire Magic Technique Panel, even turning Qi Yun’s Sea of Consciousness into a field of pure white!

Cold, vast text, bearing unquestionable and absolute authority, domineeringly and slowly manifested in the center of the sea of light:

[Magic automatic update complete. This update exceeds the Status limit...]

[Completing Status to adapt to the Magic!]

BOOM!!!!

In the outside world, caught between a rock and a hard place, the dozen or so Profound Yellow Great Masters—who had just been intimidated by a single word from Qi Yun—watched in horror as his body suddenly shuddered. Just a moment ago, his aura had been tyrannical as he controlled billions of Sword Auras to bombard the Celestial Court!

Boundless and indescribably pure, a majestic light explosively poured out from every pore and inch of Qi Yun’s skin, from the sword mark between his eyebrows, and even from the vast Daluo Heaven behind him!

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!!!

An unprecedented sword cry echoed between Heaven and Earth! This sword cry was no longer a sound of slaughter, but more like a magnificent Daoist chant of ten thousand swords returning to their sect, praising the birth of their source! Below, the ten-thousand-mile depression in the West Sea—pressed down by the Sword Qi—was silently sliced and decomposed into the finest dust under the reflection of this origin sword light!

"Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth?!" The anger and killing intent on the face of the nearest old man from the Tyrant Sect instantly froze, turning into boundless horror and disbelief. His lips trembled as he squeezed out these weighty words through his teeth, almost syllable by syllable.

Centered around Qi Yun, the immeasurable origin sword light that gushed out did not wantonly spread and destroy. Instead, it resonated with a descending, indescribable, and majestic Realm.

At the vault of the heavens, the sky, which had originally been illuminated by various Divine Techniques and the immortal light of the Celestial Court, suddenly lost all its colors. It transformed into a deep, archaic, and vast shade of black—as if bearing the beginning and end of all things! And above the earth, the exposed dry seabed, the Broken mountains and rivers, and even the faint phantom of the Profound Yellow Realm’s continent in the distance resonated simultaneously. They gave rise to endless, warm, and mellow yellow qi—incubating infinite vitality and the potential for Creation!

The Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth! The profound black heaven above, the yellow qi below.

The two Supreme colors and auras, representing the origin of the world and the stabilization of the universe, spanned across Heaven and Earth with unprecedented clarity, guarding Qi Yun in the center. The vast, endless Daoist Intent permeated every inch of space like a corporeal tide. Wherever it passed, the rampant Spiritual Qi was smoothed, and the chaotic Laws were rectified.

Even the fiercely trembling Celestial Court—bombarded by billions of Sword Auras—seemed to have its immortal light and coercion dimmed and dwarfed in the face of this "Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth" anomaly!

"The Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth, the stabilization of the universe... This, this is... a sign of a True Monarch descending to the world?!" Lady Jiu Li’s pretty face turned pale, completely losing the graceful bearing of a phoenix noblewoman. The phantom of the seven-colored Simurgh behind her let out a terrified wail, cowering so much that it almost dissipated.

"He... he’s about to become a True Monarch?!" A THUD rang out as the black Small Banner in the Black Mountain Great Master’s hand dropped into the void. This usually calm and composed Great Master revealed a look of horror for the very first time. He had never imagined that a junior he could have easily crushed with one hand was actually... about to become a True Monarch right in front of him!

"A True Monarch... Qi Yun is becoming a True Monarch..." The massive dragon body of the Crown Prince of the North Sea Dragon Palace trembled slightly. As his dragon eyes reflected the Profound Yellow anomaly, he muttered to himself, as if he had lost his soul.

After a brief, dead silence, an even deeper panic spread.

"All Marvelous Heaven... Hasn’t All Marvelous Heaven already been sealed off? Without a Dao Fruit appearing or Status manifesting, how can he evoke the Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth? How can he become a True Monarch?!" The Crown Prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace abruptly looked up at the blurry phantom of All Marvelous Heaven high in the sky, then turned to look at Qi Yun, whose aura was growing increasingly terrifying. His dragon face was filled with confusion and bewilderment.

This was an iron law, common sense! Yet this scene that defied common sense was playing out right before their eyes.

"This anomaly, this aura... they can’t be faked." The gray mist around Master Revolving Wheel churned violently. His voice was hoarse and dry, carrying a deep bitterness and powerlessness. "He really is... taking that step."

Silence, a suffocating silence, permeated among the panicked Great Masters. After a long while, the voice of the Crown Prince of the South Sea Dragon Palace—still trembling with the palpitations of surviving a disaster—slowly rang out with a barely noticeable quiver.

"How about... we run?"

Run? For this word to come from the mouth of a Crown Prince of the Dragon Palace—an almighty figure who ruled over an endless expanse of sea—seemed so absurd, yet so real. Facing a soon-to-be-born True Monarch who harbored killing intent toward them, what else could they do but run?

"Run?" Hearing this, the Crown Prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace let out a tragic smile, his dragon eyes filled with despair and self-mockery. "A True Monarch looks down upon Heaven and Earth and wields the authority of the universe. With a single Divine Thought, they can inspect everything within the Profound Yellow Realm.

"As long as we are still in the Profound Yellow Realm, even if we flee to the ends of the earth or the edge of the void... where else can we run?"

Despair, like the deepest and darkest cold wave, thoroughly submerged the hearts of every Great Master present. The greed and fury that had previously flared up over the opportunity of the Celestial Court now seemed so laughable and insignificant in the face of an absolute disparity in strength and an impending death sentence.

* * *

At the same time, in the endlessly high and transcendent All Marvelous Heaven.

This profound realm was now also caught in an unprecedented tremor. Among the numerous radiant and diverse Dao Fruits, a peculiarly shaped Dao Fruit—its entire body swirling with an archaic gray glow—was currently vibrating and humming violently at an unprecedented frequency and amplitude! The fierce Sword Intent it emitted surged uncontrollably into the heavens, crisscrossing and slicing through All Marvelous Heaven, causing the light of the other Dao Fruits to flicker and evade.

This Dao Fruit was cheering, leaping for joy, and resonating. It wanted to break free from the restraints of All Marvelous Heaven and tear through the void!

"This Fruit Position is spontaneously responding?!" The Vast Sea Dust True Monarch stood up abruptly, staring fixedly at that joyfully bouncing sword-shaped Dao Fruit, his expression filled with astonishment.

A Dao Fruit spontaneously responding meant that someone had gained the profound recognition of this Dao Fruit, which represented one of the Supreme authorities of the Sword Dao in the Profound Yellow Realm. This was extremely rare even in the history of the Profound Yellow Realm.

Qingyuan Dao Seeking True Monarch’s face was as heavy as deep water. Those eyes of his, which seemed capable of seeing through the essence of all Sword Dao, slightly constricted. He stared at that Sword Dao Fruit Position, his gaze incredibly complicated.

The other Sword Dao True Monarchs who hailed from the Sword Pavilion and the Cyan Sect also looked at each other in dismay, their expressions dazed. They could clearly feel that the joyful Sword Dao Fruit Position was not responding to any of them. Its target was clearly the lower realm, the West Sea, and that figure whose aura was madly metamorphosing as he evoked the Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth—Qi Yun!

"Hahaha! Good! Good! Good!"

Forming a stark contrast to the heavy demeanor of the Sword Dao True Monarchs was the unhidden, hearty laughter of the Desolate Halberd True Monarch. He forcefully slapped the jade throne beneath him, causing the surrounding void to buzz. Grinning broadly and showing off his white teeth, he looked at Qingyuan, Vast Sea, and the others with a gaze full of teasing and smugness.

"I never would’ve thought! The fine lad taught by our Holy Sect not only beat your worthless juniors until they scrambled away in terror, but now even a Sword Dao Fruit Position is throwing itself at him!

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, a Sword Dao True Monarch... hahaha!

"Our Holy Sect is actually going to produce a Sword Dao True Monarch!

"If this actually happens, tell me, where are those old fogeys of the Sword Pavilion and Cyan Sect going to put their faces? Shouldn’t they find a piece of chaos and crawl inside?"

The Desolate Halberd True Monarch’s words were like knives, stabbing into the hearts of the Sword Dao True Monarchs again and again.

"Desolate Halberd! Stop your clamoring!" the Vast Sea Dust True Monarch shouted sternly, his face grim. "This boy is merely relying on a lucky coincidence. He used his plundered Sword Intent to briefly trigger the resonance of a Fruit Position!

"The Seal on All Marvelous Heaven has not been undone, and the Dao Fruit has not appeared. What will he use to become a True Monarch?

"It’s nothing but a fleeting illusion!"

"A fleeting illusion?" The Desolate Halberd True Monarch sneered. His thick finger pointed at the ever-growing Profound Yellow anomaly in the light screen of the lower realm, and at Qi Yun, whose aura had already begun to undergo some essential metamorphosis. "Do you think I’m blind? Or do you think this sign of ’Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth, a True Monarch descending to the world’ is fake?

"Our Qi Yun is already at the peak of the Great Masters, and now he even has a Fruit Position spontaneously responding to him. What is this called?

"This is called the mandate of heaven, the inevitable trend!

"As long as this tortoise shell of All Marvelous Heaven opens, he will definitely become a True Monarch on the spot and wield the authority of the Sword Dao!"

He paused and deliberately dragged out his tone, his voice carrying unhidden pride and a different kind of implication. "But then again... with our Qi Yun’s temperament and foundation... Hehe, he might not necessarily care for this Sword Dao Fruit Position of yours."

The Desolate Halberd True Monarch’s final words exploded like thunder in the hearts of the Sword Dao True Monarchs. They no longer paid attention to Desolate Halberd’s mockery and shifted their gazes back to the Sword Dao Fruit Position that was still jumping and vibrating. Qingyuan Dao Seeking True Monarch and the Vast Sea Dust True Monarch exchanged a glance, both seeing the graveness in each other’s eyes.

Why... why did it have to be this particular Dao Fruit...

* * *

In the lower realm, on the shore of the West Sea, in the center of the Profound Yellow of Heaven and Earth.

Qi Yun turned a deaf ear to all the clamor, shock, fear, and discussions of the outside world. At this moment, his eyes had transformed into a field of pure, blazing white.

The trembling and remodeling of the Magic Technique Panel were complete. A brand new line of text—emitting a Supreme sharpness that made even Qi Yun’s Divine Soul feel a slight prickle—hung high at the top in an unquestionable and even faintly oppressive manner.

[Basic Sword Qi 51.0].

Below it, an even shorter line of small text, yet one that contained the essence of the Supreme Sword Dao, slowly flowed:

[New Mechanism Added — Immortal Slaying Dao Fruit].