Honghuang Xuanyang Dao

Chapter 186 Chaotic Profound Yang True Fire and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation VS The Great Millstone of Annihilation
The once boundless Chaos True Fire dimmed considerably, seemingly merging entirely into the Innate Profound Yang True Fire, being completely devoured and fused, transforming into the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire before our eyes.

Seeing this, Li Xuanyang channeled his magic power into it, and immediately felt a strong aura of chaos rushing towards him, which made him feel a sense of joy.

"By using this Chaotic Profound Yang True Fire to temper the physical body, integrate it with the Chaotic Qi, and cultivate the Chaotic Undying Body Technique, its power will definitely be enhanced by a significant amount compared to the previous Innate Profound Yang True Fire and Innate Yin-Yang True Fire."

"Moreover..." At this point, divine light surged from Li Xuanyang's hand, gradually reducing the Chaotic Profound Yang True Fire. The chaotic aura was completely hidden deep within the flame, making it look almost exactly the same as the previous Innate Profound Yang True Fire.

Those unaware of the true nature of this Chaotic Profound Yang True Fire, if it suddenly unleashes its power during a battle, will surely suffer a great loss. At best, they will lose their composure; at worst, they will be directly engulfed by the true fire, burning their souls to ashes.

"Next time we encounter Jidu, we will definitely give him a big surprise."

"Even if we can't really kill him, we have to let him taste the burning of the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire." A murderous intent surged in Li Xuanyang's eyes. Whether it was the last time he seized the Zhentian Coffin, or the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler he seized this time, or the first innate twelfth-grade Destruction Black Lotus he obtained in Kunlun Mountain, all of them had formed a karmic connection with him.

It can be said that ever since they obtained the broken innate twelfth-grade Black Lotus of Destruction and killed the remnant soul of the Demon Ancestor Rahu, there has been no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.

"It seems this item also needs to be properly refined." As he spoke, a flash of light appeared in Li Xuanyang's hand, and he took out a palm-sized green banana leaf. It looked crystal clear like jade and faintly exuded a radiant glow and a gentle breeze.

It was the banana leaf that Li Xuanyang obtained with the Three Pure Ones in Buzhou Mountain years ago.

This banana leaf contains one of the fundamental elements of earth, wind, water, and fire. It can be combined with the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire to transform it into wind fueling fire and fire fueling wind, thus fully unleashing the power of the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire.

However, Li Xuanyang possessed numerous innate spiritual treasures, but he had never properly refined them, merely transforming them into a simple banana leaf fan for his use.

"If we could obtain a wisp of the origin of the Chaos True Wind, that would be the best." Li Xuanyang thought thoughtfully. Since the Yuanfeng, the Ancestral Dragon, and the Primordial Qilin could control the Chaos True Fire, Chaos True Water, and Chaos True Earth, they must also have the Chaos True Wind.

Only in this way can it fully complement the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire.

“However, there’s no rush.” Li Xuanyang put away the banana leaf in his hand and then wanted to put the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire into the Three Flowers of the Primordial Spirit to nourish it.

At this moment, Li Xuanyang saw the boundless Chaos True Fire outside and suddenly had an idea: "Perhaps we can collect some of this Chaos True Fire for future use!"

Thinking of this, Li Xuanyang waved his hand to collect the Chaos Profound Yang True Fire. Then, with a gentle flick of his sleeve, he released a golden light that fell into the air and transformed into a jade-green spirit gourd. The gourd was radiating a layer of golden light of merit, making it an extremely rare innate merit spirit treasure.

"Collect!" Li Xuanyang pointed at the emerald green spirit gourd, from which a divine light interwoven with gold and emerald green emerged, spreading out and drawing countless chaotic true flames into the spirit gourd, seemingly endless.

Don't underestimate this spirit gourd just because it's only a top-grade innate merit treasure. It not only contains the innate wood energy that can nourish all things in the universe, even the Chaos True Fire, but it also received the merit of Nuwa creating humans from clay, and contains golden light of merit, which is perfect for containing the Chaos True Fire.

Just as Li Xuanyang had taken the Chaotic Profound Yang True Fire into his hands, all the strange phenomena disappeared. Yuan Feng sensed this, got up, left the palace, and headed towards the Wutong Spirit Root.

Unexpectedly, from afar, they saw Li Xuanyang summon a primordial spiritual treasure, its body radiating golden and emerald green light, revealing the aura of merit and the aura of primordial wood, clearly a primordial merit spiritual treasure.

"A Primordial Treasure of Merit!" Yuan Feng's eyes lit up, and she blurted out, a look of surprise on her face.

Countless ages have passed since the beginning of time, from the creation of heaven and earth until now. Countless years have gone by, and we have never heard of anyone obtaining a primordial treasure of merit.

Yuan Feng was surprised to find that Li Xuanyang actually possessed one of these items.

"Fellow Daoist, you have insightful views!" Li Xuanyang felt he had collected enough, so he waved his hand to retrieve the emerald green spirit gourd, stood up, rode the cloud light, and came to Yuan Feng, where he smiled and said to him.

"How did you obtain this item, fellow Daoist?" Yuan Feng asked Li Xuanyang curiously.

The Innate Merit Treasure is different from the Innate Treasure and Merit Treasure. Although the latter two are very rare, they are only rare, not non-existent.

However, the innate merit and spiritual treasure is unprecedented.

Innate spiritual treasures and acquired merit spiritual treasures are two different things: one is born innately, and the other is formed after birth. However, this innate merit spiritual treasure integrates the two into one, as if it were a merit spiritual treasure formed innately, which is extremely strange.

"Speaking of which, this item, like your phoenix tree spiritual root, was formed by chance."

"Originally, it was a primordial spirit gourd on a primordial gourd vine. I planted it in Xuan Yang Mountain. When Nuwa attained sainthood, she used the primordial gourd vine to create humans from clay. Therefore, I obtained a wisp of merit from creating humans, which transformed it into a primordial merit treasure."

Li Xuanyang recounted to Yuan Feng how he obtained the innate gourd vine and how Nuwa created humans from clay.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Feng said with a gleam in her beautiful eyes, "This thing is actually one of the ten innate spiritual roots of the primordial world, a spiritual gourd formed from an innate gourd vine, and it once obtained a wisp of merit from creating humans. No wonder it can be transformed into an innate merit spiritual treasure."

"Furthermore, having now acquired a considerable amount of Chaos True Fire, it can truly be called the Innate Wood Merit Spirit Gourd!"

Looking at the Innate Wood Merit Gourd in Li Xuanyang's hand, Yuan Feng felt a sense of realization, but also a pang of regret. If that Innate Gourd Vine could have fallen here and become half a Chaos Spirit Root, it might have been able to produce several Chaos Spirit Gourds.

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, fellow Daoist." Hearing Yuan Feng mention the Chaos True Fire, Li Xuanyang couldn't help but show a hint of apology and said, "I just took the Chaos True Fire without your permission."

"Fellow Daoist, there's no need to be so formal. It's just some Chaos True Fire." Yuan Feng chuckled and shook her head, then suddenly asked Li Xuanyang, "I suppose you've already evolved Chaos True Fire? Are you planning to bid me farewell and return to the Primordial World?"

“Indeed, the Human Emperor is about to be born, and I must personally go there no matter what.” Li Xuanyang nodded slightly, and couldn’t help but think that with the birth of the Human Emperor, the prehistoric world would certainly not be at peace.

It not only involves the human race, but also a group of quasi-saints and great supernatural beings, innate gods and demons, saints, and even Jidu and the Beast Emperor Shenni.

Seeing that Li Xuanyang seemed lost in thought, Yuan Feng couldn't help but say, "Fellow Daoist, if you are worried that the return of the Human Emperor might be taken advantage of by Jidu and Shenni, you might as well send all those reincarnated Quasi-Saints, Great Divine Powers, Innate Gods and Demons, and Second Generation Disciples of the Xuanmen back into the cycle of reincarnation. This would prevent the whole prehistoric land from being affected."

Upon hearing Yuan Feng's words, a strange light flashed in Li Xuanyang's eyes. He thought to himself, "Such great killing intent! No wonder she was one of the overlords of the primordial world in the past."

Of course, this method is not a solution, but it not only involves committing numerous killings, but also creates many karmic consequences and may even arouse public anger.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist!" Li Xuanyang bid farewell to Yuan Feng, and with a flash of golden light beneath his feet, he shattered the space and left the interior of the Undying Volcano, heading all the way into the southern part of the prehistoric world.

Along the way, countless calamities arose, and murderous intents were hidden, all clearly indicating that calamities were already subtly emerging.

"Although the human race's fortune has obscured the secrets of heaven, making them hidden from view, there is still a sense of impending calamity. This shows that this calamity is no small matter."

"In that case, the method that Fellow Daoist Yuanfeng mentioned earlier can indeed stop killing with killing!" Li Xuanyang suddenly thought to himself.

On this day, Li Xuanyang passed through the Qingyuan Mountain area again and saw a beam of pure Yang divine light soaring into the sky. It was upright, peaceful, and extremely pure. It was actually the pure Yang divine light of the Pure Yang Daoist. A sense of surprise immediately arose in his heart.

"Pure Yang Divine Light!"

"The cultivation level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal!"

"Could he be a direct disciple of Fellow Daoist Chunyang from back then!" Li Xuanyang subconsciously changed the direction of the cloud light and headed towards Qingyuan Mountain.

Since the last time Li Xuanyang went to the Undying Volcano and passed by Qingyuan Mountain, a divine light of supreme yang and purity appeared, enveloping the area of ​​Qingyuan Mountain and displaying a majestic aura.

The many cultivators in the mountains were horrified and quickly moved away from Qingyuan Mountain, not daring to disturb him. The remaining disciples of the Chunyang lineage were overjoyed and rode the clouds to come, but they did not see Li Xuanyang's figure. They only saw the golden clouds streaking across the sky and all of them showed disappointment.

Among them was a Taoist named Yu Xuzi, who was one of the direct disciples of the Pure Yang Taoist. He not only received the Pure Yang Taoist methods and Pure Yang divine light, but also comprehended the ultimate Yang Tao and broke through to the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

On this day, Yu Xuzi was explaining Taoist magic and supernatural powers to his disciples when suddenly a glimmer of inspiration arose in his mind, and he looked up towards the outside of the mountain.

Seeing the purple aura rising from the east and the golden light spreading in the void, he couldn't help but recall the pure and yang golden divine light he had seen last time. He immediately showed joy, told his disciples to wait patiently, and then transformed into a beam of light and flew towards the outside of the mountain.

As soon as Yu Xuzi flew out of Qingyuan Mountain, Li Xuanyang sensed something and saw a Taoist standing on a cloud with a golden glow, flying towards him.

At this moment, Yu Xuzi also saw the golden cloud light. On it stood a Taoist priest, dressed in a golden Taoist robe, with a three-foot sword hanging at his waist. A layer of silver moonlight emanated from the sword, and he was playing with a ruler of two colors, black and yellow, in his hand.

All along the way, one could see auspicious clouds and dazzling golden light, truly a great master of supernatural powers.

"Xuan Yang Zhenren's Moon Devouring Soul Sword!" Yu Xuzi was greatly surprised and recognized it at a glance.

In the past, Li Xuanyang discussed the Dao with the Chunyang Daoist in the Chunyang Cave Heaven and went into seclusion to refine the Moon Devouring Soul Sword. Many disciples of the Chunyang lineage had seen this. Moreover, the Chunyang Daoist often discussed the various swords and sword techniques of the prehistoric world with his disciples.

Among them is Li Xuanyang's Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword. It is stated that although this sword is an acquired sword, it contains the Way of Slaughter and can be used as a killing weapon, which is extremely vicious.

Therefore, Yu Xuzi immediately recognized the Moon Devouring Soul-Devouring Sword. He immediately rode auspicious clouds to Li Xuanyang's side, bowed respectfully, and said, "Disciple Yu Xuzi of the Pure Yang lineage greets True Man Xuanyang!"

"Yu Xuzi!" Li Xuanyang looked Yu Xuzi up and down, seeing that his aura was pure and extremely Yang, clearly indicating that he cultivated the Pure Yang Daoist method. He waved his sleeve, sending out a divine light to lift him up, "Get up and speak!"

"Disciple thanks you, True Man!" Yu Xuzi sensed that the divine light Li Xuanyang casually unleashed was also extremely yang and pure, and couldn't help but ask Li Xuanyang, "Thousands of years ago, was it the True Man who displayed the divine light and Dao technique?"

"It is indeed I, Li Xuanyang," Li Xuanyang said with a smile and a nod.

"Yu Xuzi thanks the True Man!" Upon hearing Li Xuanyang's acknowledgment, Yu Xuzi was overjoyed and bowed respectfully to Li Xuanyang again to express his gratitude, even extending an invitation.

"Master, why don't you descend with me on this auspicious cloud and rest in the mountains for a while?"

"That's fine too!" Li Xuanyang nodded, now he could revisit the Pure Yang Grotto. He then descended on auspicious clouds with Yu Xuzi.

However, Yu Xuzi led Li Xuanyang to the outside of a Taoist temple and said, "Please come in, Master!"

This Taoist temple occupies a very small area, just a Taoist temple set up on a mountain peak, covering an area of ​​only a few miles in circumference.

"Why don't you cultivate inside Chunyang Cave Heaven, but instead occupy a mountain peak outside?" Li Xuanyang had noticed this along the way; the location of this Taoist temple was still some distance from the entrance of Chunyang Cave Heaven.

“You are unaware, Master!” Yu Xuzi said with a hint of sadness on his face, “When Master perished, he activated the formation of the Pure Yang Cave Heaven and closed the entrance to the cave heaven. Now, only the innate Pure Yang Divine Light can open it.”

"Although I have been fortunate enough to be taught the Pure Yang Daoist Method by my teacher, and have used it to refine a Pure Yang Divine Light to protect my body, it is not of the Innate level and is only an Acquired Divine Light. Therefore, I have been unable to enter the Pure Yang Cave Heaven."

Chunyang Cave Heaven is one of the thirty-six cave heavens of the primordial world. It is protected by innate formations. Once it is activated, not to mention that Yu Xuzi only has the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, even some cultivators who have attained the Dao, or even Quasi-Saints with great supernatural powers, would not dare to force their way in.

"Fortunately, the Qingyuan Mountain range is long and has thousands of beautiful peaks, all of which are places where spiritual energy gathers, so it can also be used as a place for cultivation." When he said this, Yu Xuzi did not show any disappointment, as if he had already gotten used to it.

"Let's go to the entrance of Chunyang Cave first and let me give it a try!" Li Xuanyang said with a sigh.

Upon hearing Li Xuanyang's words, Yu Xuzi was overjoyed and hurriedly led Li Xuanyang toward the entrance of Chunyang Cave.

However, before the two even reached the outside of Chunyang Cave, a deafening roar suddenly resounded in the void, causing Li Xuanyang and Yu Xuzi to look up at the void.

The void, spanning billions of miles, shattered with a deafening roar. Countless elements of earth, wind, water, fire, and chaos spread out, transforming into enormous spatial storms. Accompanied by fragments of space, these storms scattered in all directions, covering almost half of the southern and inland parts of the prehistoric world, displaying a majestic divine might.

Countless living beings and cultivators were terrified, their faces turning deathly pale, their bodies trembling, their primordial spirits dimmed, and they were unable to move.

“This is a battle between sages!” Li Xuanyang stared at the void with a strange look in his eyes. In the present world, apart from the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the two Western Sages, there are only Fuxi and Hongyun.

"Could it be that Fellow Daoist Hongyun is fighting with Daoist Zhunti again?" Li Xuanyang thought for a moment and then felt something was wrong. Fuxi, Hongyun, Zhenyuanzi and Daoist Xuanyin went to the Fire Cloud Cave in the Thirty-Three Outer Heavens together. How could they be fighting with Daoist Zhunti again for no reason?

Moreover, the scene in the void had clearly moved beyond the scope of the battle; it was obvious that they had engaged in a fierce fight, a life-or-death struggle.

The next moment, Li Xuanyang seemed to faintly hear a very familiar angry shout, "Shennie, hand over the Chaos Bell, or I will kill you here today, no matter what your background is!"

"Shangqing!"

"Don't think that just because you've entrusted your primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao, possess boundless magical power, and have the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, I can't do anything to you!"

God's rebellion!
Shangqing!

Li Xuanyang was slightly startled and muttered to himself, "It's actually the Beast Emperor Shen Ni and the Shangqing Daoist!"

In truth, this matter has something to do with Li Xuanyang.

Last time, he sent a telepathic message to Daoist Duobao about the Chaos Bell falling into Shenni's hands, asking him to go back and tell Daoist Shangqing.

This prompted the Taoist Shangqing to personally leave Biyou Palace to search for Shenni's whereabouts and seize the Chaos Bell.

Thousands of years have passed, and the Shangqing Daoist has indeed found Shenni's whereabouts. They started fighting each other after a disagreement, and the battle actually went from the Nine Netherworlds all the way to the void above the primordial land.

"Master, what is this?" Yu Xuzi asked Li Xuanyang with a look of horror.

"No need to ask any more questions." Li Xuanyang shook his head, and then his eyes blazed with golden light, revealing his supernatural powers. He looked into the void again, breaking through the spatial storm and the barriers of earth, wind, water, and fire.

In the depths of the void, countless killing sword energies and the laws of the Great Dao permeated the area, turning it into a hazy gray expanse within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles, shrouded in a sky full of killing intent.

Two Taoist priests emerged from the spatial passage, one after the other, in pursuit.

The Taoist priest behind him was none other than the Shangqing Taoist, whose body radiated immortal light and revealed the three flowers of his primordial spirit. Above a cloud of auspiciousness about an acre in size, the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the Zhuxian Formation Diagram hung high.

They boldly displayed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, Immortal Slaughtering Sword, Immortal Trapping Sword, and Immortal Annihilation Sword, four innate killing swords, hanging at the four corners and forming the Four Sword Gates.

As the four swords flashed, countless sword energies roamed around, sometimes merging into one, transforming into a chaotic sword energy that rushed into the void, trapping the unfamiliar Taoist in front of him within the sword formation.

Shen Ni's face was ashen, and he stared coldly at Shangqing Daoist inside the formation, saying, "I have already said before that there is no Chaos Bell."

"If you don't have the Chaos Bell, why not leave the World-Destroying Millstone behind?" Shangqing Daoist chuckled at Shen Ni, not believing Shen Ni's words at all.

Moreover, just as he said, even without the Chaos Bell, there must be the Chaos Treasure, the World-Destroying Millstone.

When Shen Ni saw that Shangqing Daoist had actually set his sights on the World-Destroying Millstone, he was so angry that he laughed, and a red glow appeared on his face. "Very good, very good, so you've come for my World-Destroying Millstone!"

Shen Ni's gaze grew even colder. "Does the Shangqing Daoist think I'm afraid of you?!"

"The Great Millstone of Annihilation, begin!"

As he spoke, Shen Ni pointed to the Three Flowers of the Primordial Spirit, and a black divine light shot into the sky, spreading out within the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation. It transformed into a pitch-black millstone, its entire body exuding the laws of the Great Dao of Destruction, extremely majestic.

"I'll show you the power of the World-Destroying Millstone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Ni pointed at the World-Destroying Millstone, which transformed into a black divine light. Countless laws of destruction manifested, carrying immense divine power, and crashed towards Shangqing Daoist.

"The Four Swords of Immortal Slaughter!" Daoist Shangqing's eyes narrowed as he sensed the power emanating from the Great Millstone of Annihilation. Not daring to be careless, he immediately activated the Immortal Slaughter Sword Formation. Four innate sword energies soared into the sky, intersecting and transforming into chaotic sword energies that struck the Great Millstone of Annihilation.

In an instant, the World-Destroying Millstone and the Chaos Sword Qi collided, unleashing a deafening roar. The space within the formation, spanning billions of miles, collapsed, and the Four Swords of Zhuxian trembled violently, faintly emitting a mournful cry.

It should be known that the Zhuxian Sword Formation is said to be unbreakable by anyone other than the Four Saints. It is the number one killing formation in the prehistoric world and is naturally extraordinary. Shangqing Daoist, being a saint, personally presided over the formation and activated the Four Zhuxian Swords.

But now, facing the world-destroying millstone of Shenni, the Four Swords of Zhuxian seem to have been damaged.

"The Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation is said to be unbreakable by only four sages? That's laughable. Without the World-Destroying Millstone and the innate twelfth-grade Black Lotus of Destruction suppressing the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, how could it be said that it's unbreakable by only four sages!" Shen Ni sneered and waved his hand to retrieve the World-Destroying Millstone.

"What?" Upon hearing Shen Ni's words, Shangqing Daoist was taken aback, his brows furrowing slightly as he asked Shen Ni, "What is the relationship between my Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and the World-Destroying Millstone and the Innate Twelve-Grade Destruction Black Lotus?"

"Hahaha..." Upon hearing this, Shen Ni laughed loudly, pointed at Shangqing Daoist and coldly said, "You don't even know about this matter!"

"It seems that Hongjun did not tell you the true origin of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation!"

"These Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram are treasures that the Demon Ancestor Rahu obtained at the foot of Mount Sumeru in the past. They were not originally Hongjun's possessions..."

Before Shen Ni could finish speaking, a bell rang out from outside the Zhuxian Sword Formation, and a vast divine power descended from the void onto the Zhuxian Sword Formation, causing the surrounding earth, wind, water, fire, and spatial storms to tremble and stop abruptly, as if they had been frozen in place.

"The Primordial Treasure, the Chaos Bell!" Shangqing Daoist was shocked and immediately activated the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation again, drawing upon the four Immortal Slaughtering Swords on the four gates, which transformed into streams of chaotic sword energy. Perhaps they were heading towards the Chaos Bell falling from outside the formation, or perhaps they were sweeping towards Shen Ni.

(End of this chapter)