Inside the Chaos Great Hall, within the Hun Dun Treasure Mansion, the atmosphere was so heavy it felt solidified.
Chaos Power surged around Li Mu like an angry tide, vast and boundless. His brow was slightly furrowed as he looked inward with his spiritual perception, his mind completely immersed in the tumultuous energy clash within his body.
Black Vulture Devil God’s Ultimate Devil Origin had been completely refined by him, transforming into a drop of pitch-black liquid, quietly suspended in his Dantian. This drop of liquid emitted a cold and violent aura, but its demonic nature had been completely eradicated, utterly losing its power to struggle.
However, compared to Black Vulture Devil God’s Ultimate Devil Origin, Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s Ultimate Water Power appeared far more unruly. Deep blue vortices churned wildly under the suppression of Chaos Power, like a caged mad Dragon, crashing through Li Mu’s Meridians, attempting to tear through all restraints and regain freedom.
Facing the ferocity of the Ultimate Water Power, Li Mu remained calm and collected, not panicking. Within the surging Ultimate Path Origin, he glimpsed a subtle opportunity, perceiving a certain ancient Dao rhyme.
Li Mu’s thoughts raced. The Star Cloud Contemplation Method was pushed to its extreme, no longer simply suppressing. Instead, he condensed a wisp of his Divine Sense into a fine thread, quietly probing into the violent core of the Ultimate Water vortex.
“Using violence to control violence is ultimately not the best strategy,” Li Mu mused to himself, his heart stirring. “Since the Ultimate Water Power aligns with the Heavenly Dao, why not borrow its momentum to peer into its Origin?”
As Li Mu thought, the three Chaos Dao Artifacts simultaneously vibrated, emitting hums. The Chaos Zhenyuan Disk suppressed his Qi Sea, stabilizing Li Mu’s Foundation; the Chaos Spirit Banner protected his Divine Soul, preventing residual Ultimate Water Power from damaging it; and the Chaos Treasure Mansion transformed into a Chaos melting pot, forcibly drawing the Ultimate Water vortex into his Shanzhong acupoint.
The deep blue liquid mass suddenly contracted under the pressure of the Chaos melting pot, its surface revealing countless intricate Dao Pattern. These patterns converged, like a river of stars flowing backward, splendid and mysterious.
Suddenly, Li Mu’s Divine Soul plummeted, as if falling into an boundless deep sea.
“A mere ant dares to pry into This Emperor’s Ultimate Water Dao Origin?” Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom appeared out of thin air in the deep sea. He let out a cold snort, then nine Water Dragons condensed from the deep sea, roaring as they lunged at Li Mu.
Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s Ultimate Water Dao fully manifested in Li Mu’s spiritual perception—nine water-based Dao Laws, like nine mischievous Dragons, tore through the Void Realm. Each Dao Law subtly contained the principles of creation and destruction within the universe:
Corrosive Heavy Water transformed into an indigo torrent, with stellar skeletons floating on its waves. Every bone was permeated by the acidic mist of three thousand shattered Realms. Upon contact, the Chaos Qi immediately erupted in dazzling blue smoke, and the Void Realm collapsed into billions of holes like a decaying honeycomb.
Mystic Nether True Water condensed into a silvery-white ice river, with three thousand six hundred ice patterns freezing the river of time. When the ice river shattered, the cold marrow transformed into billions of shimmering prisms, and the Star Domain it swept over instantly solidified into a frosty white ice shell.
Blood Sea Weak Water stirred up crimson giant waves. The blood-red hands reaching out from the waves were formed from the essence blood of myriad races. Dark red crystals piled up into skeletal mountains at the riverbed. A wisp of Chaos Qi, caught by the wave, instantly withered into strands of white ash.
Yellow Springs Water carried a deep purple undercurrent, with ninety-six thousand fragments of past life memories floating within it. Upon contact, the Chaos Dao Pattern were forcefully etched into the Reincarnation trajectory, and Li Mu’s spiritual perception showed scenes of his previous life’s demise.
Emerald Clear Water unfolded a jade mirror surface, where all phenomena of the heavens twisted and reassembled within the mirror. The suppressing force released by the Chaos Dao Artifact, the Zhenyuan Disk, was reflected by the mirror, actually backfiring and tearing open spiderweb-like dimensional cracks with its self-repelling annihilation power.
Boundless Weak Water transformed into transparent blade light, and the concept of the Chaotic Dao Domain’s existence was Cut away inch by inch. Li Mu felt his Divine Soul gradually etherealizing, as the boundless Weak Water washed over him like a torrent, eroding the edges of his consciousness bit by bit.
Mystic Origin Heavy Water condensed into a pitch-black river of stars, with all the stars of the Zhou Tian compressed into droplet-shaped vortices. The Chaotic Dao Domain twisted into an ellipse under the terrifying gravitational pull, and spiderweb-like cracks even appeared on the surface of his Divine Soul.
Grand Profound True Water evaporated into a gray misty Qi, filled with soul-devouring mist. In Li Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, the endless stars of the Star Cloud went out one after another.
Nine Abyssal Dead Water surged from the ink pool, with fragments of shattered boundary markers floating in the waves. A drop of dead water splashed onto the Chaos Spirit Banner. The annihilation Dao Pattern on the banner surface flickered wildly, and a fist-sized void hole was corroded into it.
The nine Dharma Idols converged into one amidst Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom’s roar—that massive azure Water Kirin, stepping on Reincarnation, its tail sweeping the Starry Sky. Nine Dao Laws condensed on its back into a light pillar that pierced through Chaos. Wherever it passed, Li Mu’s Chaos Sea of Consciousness and Chaotic Dao Seed trembled incessantly in this torrent, even developing cracks!
Li Mu’s Divine Soul was almost completely torn apart under the impact of the nine Ultimate Water Dao Laws. However, just at this critical moment, deep within his spiritual perception, a faint wisp of Chaos light suddenly lit up.
“Chaos without limits, all laws return to one!” Li Mu whispered, and his Chaotic Dao Seed vibrated violently, with dazzling Chaos divine light bursting from the cracks. That light was like the first ray of light that opened the heavens and earth, instantly illuminating the entire Sea of Consciousness.
However, this was not enough to withstand the impact of the Ultimate Water Dao.
“Die!”
Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom was overjoyed and immediately exerted all his strength to activate the Ultimate Water Origin, preparing to completely obliterate Li Mu’s Divine Soul in one fell swoop.
However, just as the Chaos Sea of Consciousness was on the verge of collapse under the impact of the Ultimate Water torrent, the crack-ridden Chaos Sea of Consciousness suddenly burst forth with crimson-gold light, and a vast flame Dao Law suddenly manifested.
The Chaos Sea of Consciousness found it difficult to resist the Ultimate Water Origin. Li Mu had a flash of inspiration and chose to counter with the Ultimate Fire Dao. Coincidentally, after his encounter with Celestial Phoenix Immortal Emperor, he had glimpsed the Ultimate Fire Dao, which was perfect for dealing with the current ‘enemy’.
The power of the Ultimate Water Origin, having lost Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s support, was greatly weakened. However, the power of the Ultimate Path Origin was truly present, and Li Mu decided to contend with it using the Ultimate Fire Power, seizing this opportunity to glimpse the Origin of the Ultimate Water Dao.
“Why! Why! Why is this happening!”
However, facing such a change, Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom was stunned. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Li Mu’s Chaos Sea of Consciousness was clearly on the verge of collapse, his Divine Soul about to perish, so why could he manifest the Ultimate Fire Dao Law at this critical juncture?
Soon, from within the flame Dao Domain, nine Fire Phoenixes of different colors flew out.
The Nether Mystic Phoenix spread its sky-covering wings, and blue-black nether flames condensed into billions of prismatic ice crystals in the Void Realm. The river of time frozen by Mystic Nether True Water collided violently with the nether flame ice crystals, and the clash of extreme cold against extreme cold caused spacetime to fall into an eerie stillness—the cold marrow prisms in the ice river were stained a deep blue by the nether flames, actually freezing Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom’s claws in reverse.
The Red Lotus Sin Phoenix’s body rattled with blood-colored chains, and a karmic red lotus bloomed above the Blood Sea Weak Water. The blood-red hands reaching out from the crimson waves were entangled by the sin flames erupting from the lotus heart before they could even touch Li Mu. The crystalline mountains formed from the essence blood of myriad races melted in the fire, revealing fragments of Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s memories of slaughtering a hundred races to refine the blood sea. The Karma backlash caused Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom to let out a painful roar.
The Departing Fire Sword Phoenix let out a long cry that shook the universe, and a pure white Sword Tomb unfolded above the emerald mirror surface of the Emerald Clear Water. One hundred and eight thousand South-Blazing Departing Fire feathers transformed into a rain of swords, and the annihilating power reflected by the mirror collided with the Departing Fire Sword Intent, actually tearing open thirty-six thousand blazing white fire holes in the Void Realm. The Emerald Mirror surface exploded with a crash, and the splashing emerald fragments were melted into glazed glass by the Departing Fire, which instead forged the dimensional cracks into Sword Tomb passages.
The Polaris Star Phoenix flapped its wings, activating the Zhou Tian Star Chart. Its tail feathers, trailing a pale purple flame, wrapped around the Mystic Origin Heavy Water. The compressed stars in the pitch-black river of stars were ignited by the Polaris Heavenly Fire, and the gravitational tides transformed into boiling star-flame vortices. Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom’s right hind leg was entangled by the Star Chart chains, and the stars of the Zhou Tian flowed in reverse along the chain patterns, actually converting the mass properties of the Mystic Origin Heavy Water into explosive star-fall power.
The Nirvana Fire Phoenix’s body glowed with a golden flame halo. Ancient fire patterns outlined a temporal magic array in the Yellow Springs undercurrent, and the forcefully inscribed Reincarnation trajectory was burned and reorganized by the fire patterns. Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom grunted, and scorched cracks appeared on his back, a backlash from the reversed Karma.
The World-Cleansing Azure Phoenix’s vertical pupil between its brows burst with azure light, and the World-Cleansing Azure Flame transformed into a light pillar that pierced through the Nine Abyssal Dead Water. The annihilation Dao Pattern churning in the ink pool shattered upon contact, and the void holes on the Chaos Spirit Banner were filled by the azure flame. The corroded banner surface grew emerald patterns, and a drop of refined dead water was even held by the Azure Phoenix, transforming into a translucent jade bead that merged into Li Mu’s Dao Seed.
The Great Sun Golden Phoenix transformed into a three-legged Golden Crow, tearing through the Void Realm. The True Sun Fire burned a glazed passage through the gray mist of the Grand Profound True Water. The Departing Fire Profound Liquid circulating in the mist was swallowed by the Golden Crow, while the Profound Yin True Dew evaporated into clouds in the extreme Yang flame. At the moment of water-fire imbalance, Li Mu flicked out a tiny Chaos fire seed from his fingertip, actually refining the Origin of the Grand Profound True Water into a black and white taiji diagram suspended above his head.
The Lunar Ice Phoenix’s crystal-like body streaked across the battlefield, its silvery-white flame tail sweeping across the Formless Weak Water. The moment the transparent blade light touched the Lunar True Fire, the conceptual “sharpness” property was frozen into solid ice blades. Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom’s invisible attack, swept by his tail, manifested as thousands of ice crystal spears, which Li Mu shattered into stardust with a flick of his sleeve.
The Heaven-Burning Extinction Phoenix let out a destructive cry from the highest point. Dark purple burning flames flowed along the spacetime cracks into Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom’s body. The connection nodes of the nine Ultimate Water Dao Laws consecutively ignited, and the ten-thousand-foot ice crystal body developed spiderweb-like purple flame patterns.
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Inside the Chaos Great Hall, within the Chaos Treasure Mansion.
Li Mu’s Chaos Dao Body was on the verge of collapse amidst the fierce clash of Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Water. His Meridians were in excruciating pain as if torn, and his Sea of Consciousness churned like boiling water. Countless fine cracks appeared on his skin. The left half of his body was eroded by the Ultimate Water Power, forming ice-blue frost patterns, while the right half was burned by the Ultimate Fire Dao Law, with crimson-gold flame patterns flowing like lava.
The three Chaos Dao Artifacts sensed their master’s crisis and simultaneously erupted with dazzling divine light.
The Chaos Zhenyuan Disk hovered above Li Mu’s head, its surface displaying billions of strands of Chaos Power, forming a thick barrier that suppressed his Qi Sea. The violent forces of Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire gradually converged under the Zhenyuan Disk’s suppression. In Li Mu’s Dantian, Black Vulture Devil God’s Ultimate Devil Origin was completely refined, forming a drop of pitch-black liquid, creating a three-way standoff with the Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire Power.
The Chaos Spirit Banner unfurled behind Li Mu, its surface flowing with endless Divine Soul Power, transforming into thousands of chains that wrapped around his Divine Soul. The power of the Spirit Banner protected Li Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, isolating the residual shockwaves of the Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire clash, preventing his Divine Soul from being completely torn apart.
The Chaos Treasure Mansion, on the other hand, transformed into a melting pot, enveloping Li Mu’s body. The Treasure Mansion’s power continuously extracted Chaos Qi and injected it into Li Mu’s body, repairing his Meridians that had been eroded by the Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire. At the same time, a deep roar came from deep within the Treasure Mansion, as the seven nine-rank divine objects sealed in the sacrificial pillars continuously provided Origin Power.
Li Mu’s body gradually stabilized under the protection of the Chaos Dao Artifacts, but his pain did not lessen. The clash of Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire intensified within him, every inch of his flesh enduring the torment of both ice and fire. His left arm was frozen by the Ultimate Water Power, with an ice-blue crystal shell forming on its surface, while his right arm was burned by the Ultimate Fire, with crimson-gold flame patterns flowing like lava.
“Water and fire clash, that is a calamity; water and fire fuse, that is the Dao…”
Li Mu murmured, his eyes becoming incredibly bright. In this water-fire contention, he had gained immense insight. A Chaos taiji diagram appeared in his spiritual perception, where the powers of Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire intertwined within the taiji diagram, forming black and white Yin and Yang fish, chasing and fusing with each other.
The ice-blue crystal shell on his left arm gradually melted, transforming into water-like patterns that wrapped around his arm. The crimson-gold flame patterns on his right arm condensed into a Phoenix totem, spreading its wings as if to fly. Li Mu’s aura underwent a world-shaking change at this moment. The Chaotic Dao Seed in his Dantian spun wildly, completely fusing the powers of Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire.
Soon, Li Mu’s body gradually transformed amidst extreme pain. The cracks on his skin were repaired by Chaos Qi, replaced by countless profound Dao Pattern. The Spirit-Devouring Devil Origin left by Black Vulture Devil God was also completely absorbed by the Chaotic Dao Seed.
“Boom—!” A loud bang.
Li Mu’s body erupted with dazzling divine light. His left eye turned ice-blue, with an endless deep sea reflected in its pupil. His right eye turned crimson-gold, with Nirvana Fire burning in its pupil. His aura broke through its limit at this moment, and the Ultimate Fire Dao and Ultimate Water Dao within his Chaotic Dao Seed achieved Perfection.
Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor’s phantom completely dissipated in the clash of Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Water, leaving only an unwilling roar: “Water and fire are incompatible, that is the iron law of the Heavenly Dao! How dare you…”
“You are wrong!” Li Mu opened his eyes, his Epiphany-filled voice echoing in the Chaos Treasure Mansion, and he exclaimed, “Water and fire clash is a calamity, water and fire fuse is the Dao—Today, I shall use the Chaotic Great Dao to redefine the universe!”
Li Mu stood up, his injuries completely recovered. At the same time, because of this refining of the two Ultimate Path Powers, he had an Epiphany of the Ultimate Water Dao and the Dao of water-fire compatibility within the Chaotic Great Dao. His cultivation had greatly improved, his Chaos Dao Body advanced further, and his aura was as deep and vast as an abyss or sea.
The moment Li Mu’s cultivation broke through, Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor, who was recuperating in the Imperial Palace of the Immortal Spirit Realm, suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face instantly turning ashen. His Ultimate Water Origin had been completely refined by Li Mu, causing damage to his cultivation Foundation. His injuries, which had mostly recovered, worsened again, and his cultivation directly dropped by a minor Realm.
“Damn it! He actually refined my Ultimate Water Origin!” Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with venomous resentment.
Jade Unicorn Immortal Emperor felt the disintegration of the Ultimate Water Dao Law within his body, and even the Ultimate Path Realm that sustained the nine water-based Dao Laws began to become unstable, as if it could collapse at any moment. This pain of cultivation regression was even more unbearable than the physical injuries. (End of Chapter)
