Chapter 503 - 445: The Venerables Gather!

Deep within Daluo Heaven.

Primordial chaos remained undivided, and Dao Rhyme flowed naturally.

Qi Yun stood with his hands behind his back in the center of this "world" that belonged to him. In front of him, nine Venerable Dao Foundations—each varying in form yet radiating the same supreme Dao Rhyme—floated silently like miniature stars.

The colors of these Dao Foundations varied; some were chaos color, some were Profound Yellow, some were pure yang, and some were of the great void. But the "Venerable" mark deep within their essence resonated with one another, emitting a low, magnificent hum that dyed the surrounding chaotic air currents into magnificent rays of Dao Rhyme.

Rising from humble beginnings, he had fought enemies and faced Masters. Perils surrounded him during his Foundation Establishment, and after his Foundation Establishment, he had survived several life-and-death tribulations. He had experienced the bitter battles in the West Sea and slain the World Honored One’s avatar. He had forced his way through Spirit Mountain’s secret realms, confronting the terror of remnant Dao calamities. He had ventured deep into the Holy Sect’s forbidden grounds, catching a glimpse of a True Monarch’s Handwriting. Ultimately, he had even shared a soul-stirring, cross-space gaze with the unfathomable phantom of the Shen Yi Preaching True Monarch.

All these hardships, schemes, and fortuitous encounters finally converged here, transforming into the nine flawless Dao Foundations before him.

"Finally... I have them all," Qi Yun muttered softly, his eyes devoid of much excitement.

He knew that the path ahead was the true, crucial step to defy the heavens and change his fate—a step where failure was absolutely not an option. He slowly closed his eyes, sinking his Heart and Spirit into the deepest depths of his Purple Mansion.

HUM!

The pale gold sword mark between his brows suddenly burst with radiant light!

The brilliance grew increasingly intense, gradually detaching from Qi Yun’s brow and slowly coalescing in the void before him. Within the light, a lean, tall, and straight figure—seemingly carved from the purest Sword Intent—shifted from ethereal to corporeal, gradually becoming clear.

It was a middle-aged man with a gaunt face and eyes as aloof and piercingly cold as an eternal, frozen peak. He wore the simplest gray cloth robe, which fluttered without wind. He didn’t exude the slightest fluctuation of Magical Power, yet naturally emanated an extreme sharpness meant to sever karma, destroy Ten Thousand Laws, and reign supreme alone. His facial features were about fifty or sixty percent similar to Qi Yun’s, but his aura was entirely different. He lacked Qi Yun’s profound tolerance in Commanding All Skills, possessing instead a purity, arrogance, and annihilation exclusive to the "Sword."

Just standing there silently, he resembled an unparalleled, ferocious sword that had concealed all its brilliance but was ready to be unsheathed and cleave the heavens at any moment.

This was precisely the Sword Dao avatar Qi Yun had manifested by using the Primordial True Body Great Divine Techniques, combined with all of his Sword Dao comprehension!

As the Sword Dao avatar completely solidified, those aloof eyes slowly opened, sweeping the surroundings emotionlessly before finally landing on Qi Yun’s true body.

Qi Yun cupped his hands slightly toward this avatar he had expended great effort to manifest, speaking in a solemn tone, "Fellow Daoist, I am about to enter seclusion to comprehend Supreme Unity and the method of void verification.

"This method goes against the heavens and is unpredictably perilous. It cannot tolerate even a trace of external demonic intrusion or a fraction of karmic entanglement. I hope you will protect me, guard this Daluo Heaven, and repel all internal and external enemies."

Hearing this, the Sword Dao avatar showed no change in expression; he only gave an extremely slight nod. "Very well."

His voice was indifferent, yet carried an absolute confidence that a drawn sword held no regrets, and a myriad of tribulations could not touch his body. After speaking, he said no more. His figure blurred, and he was already sitting cross-legged. With his gray robe draped over the ground and his eyes half-closed, he seemed to transform into an eternally existing sword monument.

The icy, deathly still Slaying Immortals Sword Intent poured out like quicksilver, silently spreading and sealing the entire Daluo Heaven impregnably.

With this Sword Dao avatar—capable of briefly rivaling a True Monarch—personally protecting him, the last trace of misgiving in Qi Yun’s heart was completely cast aside. He took a deep, long breath, which seemed to suck dry all the chaotic air currents within a hundred zhang, causing his chest to rise and fall slightly.

"Hundreds of years of bitter cultivation, thousands of obstacles, stepping over mountains of corpses and Blood Seas, never retreating even when facing a True Monarch...

"Today, I have finally reached this day... the day I knock on the Dao and become a Monarch!"

The divine light in his eyes flickered more brightly than ever before, like two chaotic stars brewing a world-creating storm. Without another shred of hesitation, Qi Yun violently waved his large hand!

RUMBLE!

The entire vast and boundless Daluo Heaven, following his wave, issued the most violent tremor since the dawn of creation!

Along the edge barriers of Daluo Heaven, where it originally met the endless void in a hazy blur, endless, exquisitely complex chaos Dao Patterns suddenly lit up! These Dao Patterns spread, intertwined, and thickened madly. In an instant, they formed an absolute barrier tens of thousands of miles thick! It flowed with the essence of earth, water, fire, and wind, and was further embedded with faint traces of grayish-white Slaying Immortals Sword Intent!

At this moment, Daluo Heaven was completely isolated from the outside Profound Yellow!

Having made all preparations, he had isolated all variables.

Qi Yun stood in the center of the Secret Realm. His Heart Thought moved like lightning as light burst forth brilliantly within his Purple Mansion. He opened his mouth slightly, and three radiant divine glows—vastly different in color but equally containing a supreme, noble aura that commanded all directions—whistled out like three awakening ancient Celestial Dragons!

The first ray was a chaos color, all-encompassing and evolving Ten Thousand Laws. It was his own foundation—the Daluo Ten Thousand Laws Dao Foundation!

The second ray was bright yellow, supreme, and ruling the universe—the Grand Emperor Profound Vault Dao Foundation!

The third ray was nine-colored gold, manipulating Creation and turning stone into gold. It was the one he had found later—the Emperor’s Extreme Creation Dao Foundation!

The three Venerable Dao Foundations, which he had already preliminarily refined and integrated into his body, manifested their true forms!

At the same time, the floating phantoms of the nine newly obtained Venerable Dao Foundations before him seemed to hear a summon. They simultaneously chimed and trembled, spraying forth Dao Rhyme!

A black-and-white Dao Foundation flowing with Yin Yang Taiji, explaining the pivot of all things. "Limitless Profound Pivot Dao Foundation!"

A chaotic bubble-like Dao Foundation containing the scene of primordial creation and the derivation of myriad phenomena. "Myriad Phenomenon Primordial Chaos Dao Foundation!"

A red-gold Dao Foundation resembling a blazing sun, exuding an aura of supreme yang and absolute rigidity. "Pure Yang Supreme Firmament Dao Foundation!"

An earthen-yellow Dao Foundation as heavy as the earth, bearing the vitality of all things. "Profound Yellow Great Virtue Dao Foundation!"

A pale cyan cyclone-like Dao Foundation, ethereal and formless, yet appearing to be the source of all things’ Primordial Qi. "Profound Primordial Genesis Qi Dao Foundation!"

A deep blue Dao Foundation as profound as the starry sky, containing the ultimate truths of space. "Great Void Insightful Profound Dao Foundation!"

A dark and tranquil ink-jade Dao Foundation, symbolizing Supreme Yin, extreme cold, and the extreme of profound blackness. "Heaven’s One Profound Nether Dao Foundation!"

A square and majestic jade-seal-shaped Dao Foundation, flowing with the golden light of law and merit. "Orthodox Law Capital Merit Dao Foundation!"

A dazzling and gorgeous purple Star Map Dao Foundation, reflecting the Circulation of the stars in the sky. "Purple Extreme Star Wall Dao Foundation!"

Twelve! A total of twelve Venerable Dao Foundations containing the mysteries of the supreme Great Dao—obtaining just one would allow one to roam unhindered for a lifetime. At this moment, they all gathered in Daluo Heaven!

HUM HUM HUM HUM HUM!

The instant the twelve Dao Foundations gathered, without Qi Yun needing to drive them, their homologous "Venerable" essence produced an earth-shattering resonance! The light of each Dao Foundation surged, and their Daoist Intent erupted without reservation!

Like they were being pulled by an invisible force, the twelve Dao Foundations automatically circled the void behind Qi Yun’s head. They spiraled and danced, their speed growing faster and their trajectories increasingly profound!

The vast Dao Rhyme they emitted intertwined, fused, and sublimated with one another. Behind Qi Yun’s head, they faintly transformed into a resplendent halo no more than three feet in diameter! Yet, it felt boundlessly immense, magnificently holy, as if it carried the source of all ten thousand Daos in the heavens! The color of the halo was indescribably chaotic, yet within this chaos, it clearly manifested the twelve different Venerable Dao Rhyme characteristics. They cycled back and forth, endlessly generating each other!

The vast and majestic Venerable Dao Intent acted like an ocean that had found its home. With unprecedented ferocity, it surged and roiled, whipping up a torrential wave of Dao Rhyme ten thousand zhang high within this sealed Secret Realm at Daluo Heaven’s core! The chaotic air currents were completely scattered; earth, water, fire, and wind madly evolved and then collapsed.

Under the permeation and impact of this extremely massive, exceptionally pure, and intensely noble Venerable Dao Rhyme aura, abnormal signs appeared all over the interior of Daluo Heaven, looking just like the manifestation of the Dao Realm at the dawn of creation!

In the void on the left, the Daluo Ten Thousand Laws Dao Foundation manifested a primitive scene of the dawn of chaos and the birth of Ten Thousand Laws. The Grand Emperor Profound Vault Dao Foundation projected a magnificent Heavenly Emperor phantom that suppressed the heavens with infinite slaughter. The Emperor’s Extreme Creation Dao Foundation evolved a profound Creation furnace capable of turning stone into gold and manipulating Creation.

In the void on the right, the Limitless Profound Pivot Dao Foundation unfurled a Yin Yang fish diagram, explaining the wonder of the unity of opposites. The Myriad Phenomenon Primordial Chaos Dao Foundation exhaled primordial purple qi, deriving earth, wind, water, fire, mountains, and rivers. The Pure Yang Supreme Firmament Dao Foundation acted like a blazing sun in the sky, its scorching Pure Yang Qi cleansing all gloom. The Profound Yellow Great Virtue Dao Foundation turned into a boundless earth, bearing all things with vigorous vitality. The Profound Primordial Genesis Qi Dao Foundation resembled an ocean of Primordial Qi, nourishing countless living beings in an unbroken stream.

In the void above, the Great Void Insightful Profound Dao Foundation unfolded an endless starry sky, the Star River flowing deeply and unpredictably. The Heaven’s One Profound Nether Dao Foundation transformed into a dark nether sea, containing Supreme Yin and extreme cold, its still waters running deep. The Orthodox Law Capital Merit Dao Foundation summoned the Law Celestial Book and a golden wheel of merit, rewarding good and punishing evil in perfect order. The Purple Extreme Star Wall Dao Foundation projected the Grand Array of circulating stars, its vast Star Power running ceaselessly.

The twelvefold Venerable abnormal signs painted this Secret Realm to look like the source of the Great Dao and the ancestral court of Ten Thousand Laws! If any Great Master were placed here, their Dao Heart would instantly be lost to the impact of this endless Daoist Intent, causing them to collapse on the spot.

Meanwhile, Qi Yun—surrounded by these twelvefold Venerable abnormal signs and enduring the washout of the most core and terrifying Daoist Intent—slowly opened his eyes.

The final trace of tension in his eyes from facing the unknown path ahead, as well as the instinctive palpitation from gathering such monstrous Dao Power, completely subsided in this moment. All that remained was an unfathomably deep calmness and an absolute, point-of-no-return determination that he wouldn’t regret even if he died a hundred times over!

"All kinds of Dao Fruits begin from this..." he chanted softly, as if conversing with the unseen Great Dao.

Immediately after, he slowly raised his right hand. Facing the chaotic halo behind his head—evolved from the twelve Venerable Dao Foundations and symbolizing the possibilities of the supreme Dao path—he spread his five fingers and gave a gentle squeeze.

"Come!"

SWISH!

The chaotic halo containing endless mighty power shrank abruptly, like swallows returning to their nest or Ten Thousand Rivers Return to the Sea. It transformed into an extremely condensed Chaotic Flowing Light, falling steadily into Qi Yun’s open palm and solidifying into a golden plate of the Great Dao.

Though the golden plate was small, it was as heavy as the eternal blue sky.

At the same time, HUM!

In the deepest depths of Qi Yun’s Sea of Consciousness, the Magic Technique Panel—which had accompanied him through his transmigration, helped him rise, and carried the root of all his Magic—emerged on its own accord! The panel glowed with blazing light, the flowing of its patterns accelerating to the absolute extreme.

Qi Yun’s gaze calmly fell on the heavy golden plate of the Great Dao in his palm, and he also "looked" at the immensely radiant Magic Technique Panel in his Sea of Consciousness.

In the next moment.

His right hand gripping the golden plate of the Great Dao squeezed tightly!

"Refinement...

"Begin!"