I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

The moment the tremor struck, Li Hanshan abruptly withdrew his divine sense and returned it to his physical body.

"What's that noise?!" He suddenly opened his eyes.

The tremor didn't originate from within the ruins, but from the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm itself—the spiritual energy of the entire realm surged wildly in that instant, as if someone had punched a giant beast hard in the belly. The chaotic flow of spiritual energy even caused the jade bed beneath their feet to tremble.

"Master!" He subconsciously looked at the sect leader.

The sect leader's eyes were tightly closed, the law patterns between her brows shining blindingly, seemingly oblivious to everything around her—she couldn't afford to be distracted. Reaching this stage of merging with the laws was a point of no return. At this moment, her soul was intertwined with the laws of Heaven, every ounce of her mind stretched to its limit. Even if the sky were to collapse outside, she could only pretend not to hear it.

Li Hanshan took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

"The Immortal Alliance's Dao Integration Realm... has attacked."

-

Beyond the Myriad Spirits Realm.

Three figures stood in mid-air, their robes fluttering in the turbulent flow of spiritual energy.

Ten days ago, they were still in the army of the Immortal Alliance; it took them ten days and ten nights of flying at full speed to reach the outside of this Myriad Spirits Secret Realm. Along the way, Jiang Daoxuan pushed his speed to the limit, and the three of them carved three ravines, each more than 100,000 miles long, into the clouds. Wherever they passed, the sea of ​​clouds surged and boiled, and even the mortals on the ground looked up at the sky, thinking it was a celestial anomaly.

But when the three Dao Integration Realm cultivators actually stood before the barrier of the secret realm, they realized that they could not enter.

"What a magnificent Myriad Spirits Secret Realm." Su Qingyun stared at the invisible and intangible boundary wall that stretched across the heavens and earth, his face grim. "The combined efforts of three Dao Integration Realm experts, unleashing their full power, only managed to make it tremble slightly."

"The ancient land truly lives up to its name." Silver Bell's eyes were also filled with solemnity. "The sturdiness of this boundary barrier exceeds my expectations. That attack just now, if it were an ordinary secret realm, would have already shattered it."

"If you can't break it, keep hitting it!" Jiang Daoxuan's eyes were bloodshot. "The woman inside is fusing with the laws. The longer we delay, the greater her chances of success! I refuse to believe that this tortoise shell is truly unbreakable!"

The three of them stopped talking nonsense.

A pure white jade ruler flew out from Su Qingyun's sleeve. The jade ruler moved horizontally in the air, and each strike it made a dazzling white light spread across the boundary wall. Her ten fingers flicked the silver bells in succession, and silver flowers exploded on the boundary wall. Each bloom was a small spatial collapse.

Jiang Daoxuan used his body as a hammer, punching the same point on the boundary wall again and again. Each punch brought up a visible ripple of air.

Embodying the power of the Dao, exert all your strength.

This battle lasted for a full five days.

Five days later, with a soft "crack," the seemingly unbreakable boundary wall was finally torn open, revealing a three-foot-long crack. The clouds within a radius of ten thousand miles were completely shattered, and sunlight streamed down, illuminating the precarious yet unbreakable boundary wall. The earth cracked, mountains collapsed, and even the magma beneath the ground was shaken to the surface, burning fiercely in the cracks.

"Enter!"

The three filed in, transforming into three streaks of light that headed straight for the center of the secret realm.

As the Yaoguang Mountains came into view, the tremor became even more pronounced—and the three of them finally realized that the source of the tremor was not the secret realm itself at all.

It's that mountain range.

That ancient ruin, shrouded in a pale golden halo, with runes flickering and fading.

The three of them stopped outside the halo of light, their expressions more interesting than the last.

"The Yaoguang Ruins..." Su Qingyun's voice changed for the first time, "The source of the tremors is inside here?!"

"She's attempting to reach the Dao Integration Realm inside the ruins?!" Jiang Daoxuan roared. "Fine! Very well! I'd like to see if there's another one hidden inside this tortoise shell—"

Before he could finish speaking, a punch had already landed.

The Dao-Merging Strike landed on the pale golden halo.

The runes on the surface of the halo flowed and rippled gently—the power of that punch vanished like a mud ox entering the sea, without even a ripple.

"What?!"

Jiang Daoxuan, refusing to believe it, threw another punch. Su Qingyun and Yinling exchanged a glance and also attacked. The three of them combined their strength, unleashing an attack powerful enough to shatter mountains and rivers, which landed on the halo of light.

The rune simply turned slightly.

Not moving.

The three of them were dumbfounded.

"It's no use." Su Qingyun slowly shook her head, her face more grim than ever before. "The Yaoguang Sect... that Yaoguang Sect that produced a Mahayana cultivator. Their protective mountain barrier is the work of an ancient Mahayana cultivator. Let alone the three of us, even if three more Dao Integration cultivators came, there would be absolutely no way they could force their way through."

"How did they get in?!" Yinling stared at the halo of light, her eyes filled with confusion and curiosity. "The Yaoguang Ruins have been sealed for eight thousand years, and the restrictions have never failed. How could she, the head of the Hehuan Sect, know the Yaoguang Sect's opening technique?"

No one could answer that.

"We have to fight, even if we can't open it!" Jiang Daoxuan's eyes were bloodshot. "I don't believe it—even if we can't break through this tortoise shell, the three of us at the Dao Integration stage will bombard it day and night. How can the vibrations inside be any less? She's fusing with the laws, and she's most vulnerable to disturbance! Even if we can't kill her, we'll at least keep her on edge!"

Su Qingyun pondered for a moment, then slowly nodded.

"Disturbance, indeed it can be disturbed." She narrowed her eyes, gazing at the motionless pale golden halo, her tone revealing a hint of apprehension that even she herself was unwilling to admit. "To be able to enter the Yao Guang Ruins and activate the ancient restrictions here... there must be someone behind this woman whom we don't know."

Jiang Daoxuan narrowed his eyes. "Then—boom."