Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

On a deserted island in the Boundless Sea, Xia Jin's physical body floated one foot above the ground, radiating a seven-colored light.

Behind him, ten bright orbs of light of varying sizes were constantly flashing.

If you look closely, you will find that different scenes are faintly emerging inside each ball of light.

There are battlefields with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and snow-covered northern lands... Yes, these orbs of light represent the different lives Xia Jin is experiencing.

Moreover, with each flash of these orbs of light, the oppressive aura emanating from Xia Jin intensified.

On the isolated island beneath his feet, small stones were constantly being shaken off and rolled down the slope into the sea.

Meanwhile, the sea level within a radius of a hundred miles around the isolated island is also dropping at a visible rate.

The seawater seemed to be being forcefully pressed down by an invisible giant hand, but the boundless sea seemed too deep, and even with the constantly decreasing water level, the bottom could not be seen.

Indeed, the oppressive aura emanating from Xia Jin had already caused the nearby seawater to overflow.

On the tenth day after Xia Jin consumed the Nine-Life Primordial Vine, the ten orbs of light began to merge continuously.

The ten orbs of light gradually squeezed and merged, and the light grew brighter and brighter.

The sky for dozens of miles around was illuminated with a magnificent glow.

By the twentieth day, the ten orbs of light had completely merged, transforming into an enormous orb of light that shone with seven colors.

This is Xia Jin's current soul, no longer in her previous human form.

"Return!!"

"Return!!"

A voice as if from nowhere echoed between heaven and earth.

The ball of light re-integrated into Xia Jin's body and returned to her sea of ​​consciousness.

In that instant, the pressure emanating from Xia Jin became even more powerful, reaching an unparalleled level. Large swathes of white mist rose from the sea surface, compressed by the pressure into a ring-shaped wall of air that spread outwards.

He suddenly opened his eyes, and within his sight, the void within a hundred miles collapsed.

The isolated island beneath their feet was the first to suffer, turning entirely into dust in the same instant and being sucked into the ever-expanding collapsing void.

"Sacred Realm Perfection! We've finally reached this point. This Nine-Life Primordial Vine truly is a legendary divine object!!"

Xia Jin hovered in the shattered void, feeling the vast and boundless power within her body that was almost bursting her meridians. Although she was somewhat excited, she also felt a deep sense of lingering fear.

After all, although only twenty days had passed in the outside world, only he himself knew that what he had actually experienced was more than twenty years.

Nine lifetimes of reincarnation, nine completely different life trajectories unfolding at the same time, almost tearing his soul into nine independent consciousnesses.

Moreover, experiencing ten lifetimes simultaneously and sharing memories created immense mental pressure that nearly drove him to madness.

Fortunately, he managed to pull through in the end, relying on that sliver of instinctive obsession and an extraordinary resilience of his soul to forcefully integrate the memories of his nine lifetimes into one.

Xia Jin slowly suppressed his aura, and the seven-colored light gradually disappeared beneath his skin. The collapsed void around him also gradually returned to its original state as his aura calmed down.

He was suspended in mid-air, with no soil beneath his feet, only surging waves.

"Next, it's time to collect the reward!" A hint of excitement flashed in Xia Jin's eyes, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily turned up.

Just as he was about to open the system panel, that familiar system notification sound had already rang in his mind.

[Congratulations, host, on completing the relevant system task: locate the Nine-Life Primordial Vine, obtain it, and consume it.]

[Congratulations, host, you have successfully obtained the mission reward: Heaven Opening (Entry-level), five million years of cultivation!]

Without any hesitation, Xia Jin excitedly muttered to herself, "System, retrieve the mission reward."

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for claiming the mission reward: Heaven Opening (Entry-level), five million years of cultivation!]

The next moment, a terrifying torrent of information rushed directly into his mind.

That is to say, his soul had just undergone a tempering and transformation through nine lifetimes of reincarnation, which was why it could barely withstand this terrifying information shock.

[Ding! The creation of the heavens requires cultivation. The current calculation to the Great Perfection stage is estimated to consume one million years of cultivation. Host, do you wish to continue?]

"A million years of cultivation?"

Xia Jin was also startled, her eyes narrowing slightly.

Previously, even a killing technique of the level of the God-Slaying Spear Technique only required 100,000 years of cultivation to deduce. Just how terrifying is this Heaven-Opening Technique that it would take a million years to deduce it to perfection?

That's one-fifth of the mission reward; it's impossible not to feel the pinch if you just throw it all in like that.

Despite her doubts, Xia Jin still had absolute faith in the system.

Throughout his journey, the system had never wronged him.

"continue."

As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely grand scene unfolded in his mind.

It was a colossal figure that stood tall and imposing, its muscles bulging like coiled dragons and snakes, and it held a giant axe in its hand.

The figure stood in a chaotic void, surrounded by a hazy mist. There was no sky, no earth, no stars, no things, only an endless expanse of chaos.

Then, the figure moved.

He simply swung his axe forward in a plain and unremarkable manner, without any fancy moves.

Where the axe blade sliced ​​through, a crack as thin as a hair appeared silently.

Then, the sky cracked, the earth cracked, the stars cracked, and the universe cracked.

Everything in sight was shattered.

Chaos was split open, purity and turbidity were separated, and the origin of all things was divided in two.

From then on, there was heaven, there was earth, there were stars, sun and moon.

The imagery of that axe strike was so vast, as if the birth of the universe was merely a matter of a gentle swing.

Xia Jin snapped out of her daze, her back already soaked with sweat.

He suddenly realized something, and the most powerful and ancient being from a previous life myth exploded in his mind.

Pangu.

That invincible move is called "Opening Heaven"!

"This so-called creation of heaven and earth is actually that person's technique!?"

Just as he was filled with doubt and uncertainty, he suddenly felt a burning heat in his palm. Looking down, he saw that his right hand had somehow become tightly gripping a large axe.

This giant axe is exactly the same as the one in the figure's mind, only much smaller.

His body began to move uncontrollably.

With a slight slump in his waist, his right arm naturally rose, and he lifted the large axe inch by inch above his head.

With each increase in elevation, the surrounding void trembled.

He was perfectly conscious; this was something he had no control over.

Finally, the axe was raised to its highest point.

Xia Jin's eyes suddenly widened, and she involuntarily let out a loud shout like the hum of an ancient bell, her arms suddenly slashing down.

The movements were unremarkable.

But when that axe cleaved down, the Boundless Sea seemed to be split open by that axe.

Indeed, as far as the eye can see, the sea has split in two.

A straight crack stretched from his feet to the end of his vision, and the seawater on both sides was pushed to the left and right by an invisible force, revealing the dark, bottomless seabed.

The unfathomable, boundless sea was actually split in two at this moment.

On a reef thousands of miles away, a figure sat quietly cross-legged, his gaze piercing through the thick sea fog, looking towards the other side of the boundless sea.

That's right, he was looking in the direction of the demon race and the alien race.

"The Boundless Sea exerts too much pressure on us. To cross it and annex nearly 70% of our territory, we must break through that restriction. Otherwise, the pressure from the Boundless Sea alone would be enough to cause our army to lose more than 90% of its forces during the crossing..."

Suddenly, his expression changed.

Because out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the sea dozens of miles to his right, where the sea had suddenly split in two without warning, and the crack stretched along the surface of the sea, with no end in sight, as if someone had used an invisible giant blade to cleave the sea open.

This scene was so bizarre it sent chills down my spine.

He suddenly stood up from the reef, his pupils darting around.

"This...how is this possible?"

"Even ordinary Saint Realm beings could not achieve this level of power. The waters of the Boundless Sea contain natural law suppression, and anyone below the Saint Realm who steps in will almost certainly die. Even ordinary Saint Realm experts need to be careful here, let alone cause widespread destruction and deplete their Saint Realm power."

"Could it be... could it be that someone on the other side has already reached that stage?"

A terrible thought flashed through his mind.

"No, we must go back and report to the Ancestor immediately!"

He transformed into a mass of black liquid, disappearing rapidly along the sea surface like an eel.