fantasy novels Chapter 29 Refining Emptiness and Uniting with the Dao!
Chapter 29 Refining Emptiness and Uniting with the Dao!
"what?"
Lin Yuan strode forward and gripped the halberd shaft with one hand.
"Buzz!"
The halberd trembled, and a force of resistance surged forth, as if trying to break free.
"How dare you be so presumptuous with such a worthless, ownerless item?"
Lin Yuan snorted coldly and unleashed the Golden Crow True Fire from his palm.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
The seal and silt on the halberd were instantly burned away, revealing its true form.
This is a halberd!
Ancient dragon patterns were engraved on the halberd, and an aura of power belonging to an acquired spiritual treasure emanated from it.
"Such a weapon of slaughter, and the dragons just leave it to gather dust in a corner? What a waste!"
Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.
Although it is only an acquired spiritual treasure and cannot compare to the Qiankun Ring, the supreme acquired treasure in Nezha's hands, this Fangtian Halberd is simply a divine weapon compared to the broken copper bell that he picked up casually on the battlefield of Jizhou!
"This treasure weighs a thousand pounds, which can just make up for my lack of close combat power."
Lin Yuan stored the Fangtian Halberd into his body, where it was nourished day and night by the demon core.
This trip to the East China Sea has brought them a fortune.
The innermost treasury formation of the Crystal Palace is even more rigorous, but Lin Yuan didn't bother with it. He believed in leaving room for maneuver so that they could meet again in the future.
After all, the blame still has to be borne by the Chan Sect and the Great Shang Dynasty. If the East Sea is emptied out, that old mudfish might really be driven to desperation.
……
"Whoosh!"
Lin Yuan's figure flashed, and with the help of the True Fire Coordinates, he once again escaped from the East Sea unnoticed.
Tens of thousands of miles away from the East China Sea lies an unnamed fairy mountain brimming with spiritual energy.
Lin Yuan found a secluded cave, sat down cross-legged, and began to consolidate his cultivation level.
From the Nascent Soul stage to the Void Return stage, and now to the Half-Step Dao Integration stage, his breakthroughs have been nothing short of phenomenal and astonishing.
But precisely because of this, he needs to calm down and thoroughly refine the Golden Crow True Fire and True Dragon Qi within his body.
……
Hidden deep in the mountains is an ancient cave, where time stands still.
More than a month has quietly passed since that earth-shattering event in the East China Sea.
Tens of thousands of miles beyond the East Sea, deep within a desolate, nameless immortal mountain.
"Boom!"
The entire immortal mountain trembled slightly, and the clouds above the nine heavens slowly gathered, forming a terrifying vortex of spiritual energy covering a radius of a hundred miles at the top of the mountain.
Below the center of the vortex lies a hidden cave halfway up the mountain.
At this moment, the cave had been transformed into two completely different extreme hells.
The left half is a sea of crimson fire that burns the heavens and boils the seas.
That was the purest Golden Crow True Fire, which even distorted the void and turned the stone walls into magma.
The right half is a body of water frozen solid.
That was the source of Ao Bing's water-elemental dragon pearl, radiating the extreme cold dragon energy from the deepest part of the Dragon Palace, which condensed the air into ice crystals.
A single yang cannot grow, nor can a single yin produce life!
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, hovering in the center where ice and fire met, his long black robe fluttering and rustling even without wind.
His eyes were tightly closed, and his black hair danced wildly.
Deep within his brow, a demon core slowly rotated, transforming into the form of a golden crow, biting into the two forces of ice and fire, forcibly merging them together.
"Melt it for me!"
Lin Yuan roared inwardly.
"Snap!"
Within his body, the solid barrier that blocked the Void Return Realm and the Dao Integration Realm finally shattered.
The golden phantom of the Golden Crow and the silvery-white phantom of the East Sea Dragon rose into the sky simultaneously behind Lin Yuan.
A dragon and a bird, head to tail, formed a slowly rotating Tai Chi diagram of water and fire behind Lin Yuan.
Water and fire intertwine, yin and yang harmonize!
A stroke of genius!
"boom--"
That barrier of realm was shattered into pieces by the overwhelming force of this Tai Chi of water and fire.
The Realm of Harmony with the Dao!
become!
"Splash—"
The moment Lin Yuan broke through, a thunderous eye suddenly appeared in the sky above, which had been obscured by a vortex of spiritual energy.
The terrifying pressure of this tribulation lightning was so great that all the birds and beasts within a radius of tens of thousands of miles lay prostrate on the ground, defecating and urinating indiscriminately.
"Good heavens, just breaking through to the Dao Integration stage has already attracted the attention of powerful figures."
Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, his heart pounding with fear.
In his left eye, a blazing, crimson sun floated.
Within his right eye, a deep blue icy sea surged.
"System, conceal the secrets of heaven!"
"Whoosh—"
The system perfectly concealed the heaven-defying aura belonging to a great demon at the Dao Integration Realm.
The Thunder Eye in the sky lost its target, tumbled a few times, and finally slowly dissipated, returning to a clear blue sky.
"call……"
Lin Yuan slowly exhaled a long breath.
The exhaled breath transformed into a blue lotus, a tapestry of water and fire, in mid-air, lingering there for a long time.
"So this is the Dao Integration Realm...?"
"Now I have mastered the dual great arts of water and fire."
"Ordinary cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm who can even touch upon a trace of the laws of heaven and earth are already geniuses, one in ten thousand. But I have perfectly integrated the extremes of water and fire into this Dao body!"
In this primordial land where immortals and mortals are not yet completely separated, his current strength...
Not to mention that he can walk sideways among the mortal princes, even if he encounters those loose immortals or earth immortals who have just survived the tribulation without proper lineage, he dares to confront them head-on!
"Zheng—"
Just then, a metallic clang emanated from his dantian.
The Fangtian Halberd, a spiritual treasure that had been gathering dust in the East Sea Treasure Vault for countless years, underwent a transformation after absorbing the overwhelming power of water and fire that spilled out during Lin Yuan's breakthrough.
Lin Yuan grabbed with his backhand.
A twelve-foot-long halberd appeared in his hand.
The shaft of the halberd is entirely dark gold, as if forged from the bones of a golden crow.
The halberd blade gleamed with a cold light, exuding the murderous aura of a true dragon's soul.
With a casual wave of his hand!
"Sizzle!"
Without using any magic, the mere slash of the halberd sliced open a deep, bottomless crack in the stone wall of the immortal mountain, as easily as a hot knife through butter.
"My darling."
Lin Yuan stroked the cold halberd shaft with satisfaction, then put it back into his body to warm it up.
The realm has been reached, and the magic weapon has been obtained.
Lin Yuan walked out of the cave with his hands behind his back and stood on the mountain peak, letting the strong wind blow his black robe.
"Having achieved the Dao, I finally have a sliver of power to protect myself on this chessboard of the Investiture of the Gods."
"But what happens next?"
Lin Yuan secretly made plans in his heart.
"I've already witnessed most of the major events that I needed to witness in the early stages. Minor events are of no use to my current level. Yun Zhongzi presenting the sword, Nezha causing havoc in the sea... these are all just preludes to a great calamity."
"Next comes the all-out struggle between the Chan and Jie sects, the earth-shattering war of King Wu against King Zhou, and the immeasurable calamity in which even sages personally intervene!"
Should I choose a faction to join?
Why don't you join the Chan Sect?
But Yuanshi Tianzun, that old man, is a notorious hypocrite who values so-called "background" the most.
In the eyes of the Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, apart from humans and innate deities, all other demon races are "born from moisture and eggs, covered in fur and horns," and are cannon fodder that are naturally meant to be used to accumulate merit and ward off calamities.
With the bloodline of the Golden Crow, if I go to the Chan Sect, I might be taken by Taiyi Zhenren or Guangchengzi to be used for alchemy one day.
Join the Jie Sect?
The Master of Heaven was indeed magnanimous and taught without discrimination. The scene of ten thousand immortals coming to pay homage was truly magnificent.
But Lin Yuan had read the script, and he knew all too well the fate of the Jie Sect.
The Zhuxian Sword Formation was broken, the Wanxian Formation was utterly defeated, and all the disciples were either listed on the Investiture of the Gods to serve as slaves or were captured by the Western Sect to be used as mounts.
Even the Tongtian Sect Leader himself was fed the Fallen Saint Pill by the Hongjun Dao Ancestor and confined to the Zixiao Palace.
This is a Titanic that was destined to sink!
Buying a ticket to board the ship now is like having a death wish.
As for the Heavenly Court? It's still just an empty shell with a handful of people. The Western Religion? A bunch of hypocrites and human traffickers who keep shouting "Fellow Daoists, we are destined to meet in the West."
"Fine, since neither of them is reliable, I'll just not take sides for now."
"I am familiar with this Investiture of the Gods script and have an absolute information advantage. All I need to do is walk on the edge, disguise myself as a high-ranking immortal of the Jie Sect, seize the magic weapons of the Chan Sect, and fleece the Shang Dynasty."
"No matter which side wins, I, Lin Yuan, will be the biggest winner!"
Having made up his mind, Lin Yuan felt his thoughts were clear and his mind was lucid.
With nothing to do, he subtly activated the global explorer channel at the edge of his retina.
"I haven't checked for more than half a month, and I wonder how those compatriots are doing in this hellish place."
A light screen popped up.
The liveliness of the [All-Server Main Channel] at this moment far exceeded Lin Yuan's expectations; in fact, it could be said that... the atmosphere had completely changed!
Once upon a time, these explorers who traveled from Earth were a group of miserable high school students being chased and eaten by wild boars in the wilderness.
Every day, the group chat discusses how to start a fire, how to dig for wild vegetables, and how to avoid being whipped by low-level NPCs.
At that time, Chu Tianhe, who drew the title of a general of the Shang Dynasty at the beginning of the game and commanded three thousand soldiers, was the only true god in the group and the object of everyone's adoration.
But today...
[Chu Tianhe (Rank B/Yin Shang Lieutenant): "Brothers, listen up! I was ordered by Immortal Yuan to seal off the Nine Bends River to protect the Immortal!"]
[Chu Tianhe: "Immortal Master, your words are law, praising my unwavering Dao heart. I, Chu Tianhe, am now practically a disciple of the immortal. Once I survive this year and return to the main world, I will surely be the number one cultivator on Blue Star!"]
If this had happened in the past, Chu Tianhe's boastful remarks would have been met with rows of comments like "Young Master Chu is awesome" and "General Chu, please carry me!"
But at this moment, the direction of the comments was strangely unusual.
[Li Si (Level E/Woodcutter of Zhongnan Mountain): "Come on, General Chu, what kind of disciple of an immortal is he? To put it bluntly, he's just a security guard at the gate. Does he really think he's something special?"]
[Li Si: "I'm not afraid to tell you, a few days ago I was gathering firewood in Zhongnan Mountain when I met an old immortal playing chess under a pine tree. He took a liking to me and casually gave me a green fruit."]
After I finished eating, a surge of heat arose within my body, and yesterday I shattered a thousand-pound boulder with a single punch. I have now entered a realm called 'Refining Essence into Qi'!