Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

He currently possesses a second-tier top-grade magic weapon crafting blueprint for the "Crimson Flame Demon Blade." If this blade is completed, it can be fully activated to create hundreds of fiery demon blades. Even if the blade is destroyed, the fire will not be extinguished. Furthermore, it can transform a ten-mile radius area into a Crimson Flame Domain, already possessing some of the powerful characteristics of a "Core Formation Domain"!

What Lin Zhao wanted to do was not to forge this demonic weapon, but to draw on its concept of "domain transformation", combine it with the methods of resonating with heaven and earth and exploring the way forward in the "Taihe Yangyuan Gong", and rely on his own strengths - the Five Sacred Mountains Spirit Body and the Four Elements Array Diagram.

Step 1: Strengthen the foundation and build the core of the legal domain.

He took out five Spirit Sealing Pillars, all jet black and engraved with ancient sealing runes. The first three pillars were obtained from a secret realm, and later the Lin family and the Black Fiend Pavilion traded to complete a set of five Spirit Sealing Pillars, which were specifically used to seal spiritual power and suppress anomalies.

What Lin Zhao was about to do was incredibly bold – he would refine five second-tier high-grade magic artifacts, the Spirit Sealing Pillars, into his Five Mountains Spirit Body as if he were refining other artifacts!

The Five Sacred Mountains Spirit Body he achieved during his foundation building phase had already made his internal organs like miniature mountains, not only governing the Earth element but also drawing in the other four elements, forming a small cycle of its own.

At this moment, under the "Heavenly State", he began the dangerous "Internal Refinement".

Divine sense, like the finest carving knife, guided the sealing runes on the spirit-sealing pillar, merging them bit by bit with the illusory images of the "Five Sacred Mountains" corresponding to the five internal organs. This was not a simple embedding, but a fusion of Daoist principles, allowing the weight and stability of the "mountains" to combine with the binding power of the "seal."

The process is slow and painful, as if countless fine needles are engraving the patterns of the Great Dao within the body. The slightest mistake will damage the spirit and destroy the foundation.

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For three whole months, Lin Zhao spent most of her time immersed in it.

Relying on his precise control of the "Heavenly State" and his powerful deductive abilities, he avoided countless risks and finally succeeded in integrating the magical artifact into his body.

The Five Sacred Mountains' spiritual bodies are completely renewed! The five internal organs radiate inner brilliance, with five illusory, pitch-black stone pillars faintly guarding them, perfectly blending the essence of the mountains with the power of sealing.

With a slight thought, an invisible force field emanates from him, heavy as a mountain pressing down, imprisoning the flow of spiritual energy—this is the characteristic of the Core Formation Domain's "suppression"!

He was confident that if he were to face a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator like Wan Heling now, he could completely imprison him with his spiritual power alone.

Step 2: Construct a comprehensive legal network.

Suppression is the core, but the Dharma Domain also needs to be able to control and mobilize the vast spiritual power from the outside world, which is where the Four Elements Array Diagram comes in.

This war artifact is inherently adept at setting up formations within a certain range, commanding spiritual energy, and transforming it into a battlefield.

The array unfolds, with the four elemental orbs guarding the four directions. It can condense two array spirits, "Sword Dragon" and "Yinglong," combining offense and defense.

Lin Zhao's plan is to combine the upgraded Four Elements Formation with the enhanced Five Sacred Mountains Spiritual Bodies to form the [Four Elements Five Sacred Mountains Formation], which combines internal and external coordination, suppression, and control!

However, the prerequisite is that the Four Elements Array Diagram needs to be upgraded. It is currently only a second-tier low-grade array, which is insufficient to support such a powerful domain.

Fortunately, Lin Zhao's ten years of guarding the city and his adventures abroad had allowed him to quietly collect all the necessary materials through the market, and his crafting skills were steadily improving as he continued to refine fire-based magical artifacts.

Another two months of dedicated refinement under the "heavenly state".

The essence of the four second-tier spiritual materials of earth, fire, water, and wind was extracted one by one and integrated into the array diagram bead body; the array patterns were carefully repaired, strengthened, and added to, and the four core beads were repeatedly tempered and upgraded to second-tier superior grade.

This is a systematic project that tests not only weapon crafting skills but also a profound understanding of the balance of the four elements and the principles of formations.

Every timing of material fusion and every angle at which a pattern is drawn is pushed to its limit under the "State of Heaven".

Finally, a brand-new array diagram with restrained radiance and profound array patterns like a star map floated in front of Lin Zhao—a second-tier high-grade [Four Elements Array Diagram] was formed! The "Sword Dragon" and "Yinglong" array spirits contained within it, though not summoned, already faintly exuded spiritual pressure comparable to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Step 3: Integration, the rudimentary form of the legal domain.

The most difficult part is here. The suppression and inward containment of the Five Sacred Mountains' spiritual bodies, and the control and outward release of the Four Elements Array Diagram, have almost opposite effects in essence.

Forcing a union could very well lead to conflict and even damage its foundation.

This is where the concept of "Taihe Yangyuan Gong" comes in – harmonizing Yin and Yang within the body and guiding energy back to balance.

Lin Zhao once again entered the "heavenly state".

From that perspective, the two are no longer contradictory, but rather constitute a larger system of "yin" and "yang", "stillness" and "movement".

He deduced countless models of energy cycles, searching for the perfect balance point where the suppressing power of the mountains could become the stable foundation of the array, and the spiritual energy governed by the array could nourish the spirit.

This is an extremely mentally taxing process, almost as demanding as constructing the Divine Soul Sword Tower.

He needs to use his own spiritual power and divine sense as a bridge to deeply weave and integrate the newly formed sealing runes within the Five Sacred Mountains Spiritual Body with the core array patterns of the Four Elements Array Diagram.

Several months later.

Inside the cave, there was no wind, yet everything moved. Around Lin Zhao, the five-colored radiance of his spiritual body and the four-colored spiritual light of the array diagram alternated and flowed. At first, it was somewhat sluggish, but it gradually became harmonious and rounded, eventually forming a stable and profound halo that enveloped his body.

Within the halo, five miniature mountain phantoms could be vaguely seen floating and sinking, surrounded by four precious pearls, with a dragon-shaped phantom moving inside.

[The Dharma Domain of the Four Elements and Five Sacred Mountains] is complete!

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On this day, the long-sealed stone door of the cave was slowly pushed open from the inside.

Lin Zhao stepped out and once again stepped onto the vast platform outside the door that jutted out from the mountainside three hundred feet high.

An endless sea of ​​clouds surged to my feet, and distant mountains stood like dark eyebrows, the vastness of heaven and earth rushing towards me.

Without delay, he stood in the center of the platform, closed his eyes, and concentrated.

The next moment, a strange phenomenon occurred!

First, an invisible yet heavy force field suddenly spread out from him! The dust on the platform suddenly stopped, and the flowing clouds seemed to hit a transparent wall as they approached him, becoming slow and viscous.

This is the "suppression" power brought about by the fusion of the Five Sacred Mountains' spiritual bodies with the Sealing Pillar!

Immediately afterwards, a stream of light flew out from his sleeve, unfurled in the wind, and transformed into a huge, semi-transparent array phantom covering the entire platform—the [Four Elements Array]!

The array resonated faintly with the platform below and even the mountain below, and began to frantically seize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a ten-mile radius!

The sea of ​​clouds was stirred up, forming visible vortexes of spiritual energy that flowed into the array diagram.

At the four corners of the formation, four illusory pearls shone brightly, guarding the four directions.

"hold head high--!!!"

A clear and melodious dragon roar and a deep dragon howl resounded simultaneously! Within the array, a fifty-foot-long "sword dragon" with distinct scales and armor, its entire body flowing with silver-white sword light, took shape, raising its head and swaying its tail, its pure sword intent piercing through the clouds;

On the other side, a pair of wide, four-colored energy wings unfolded, and the equally enormous phantom of the "Yinglong" appeared, agile and majestic, with earth, water, fire and wind spiritual energy pulsating joyfully around it.