Chapter 1101: Chapter 463: Cloud Thunder Celestial Venerable’s Self-Detonation; Dao Aura Baptism_3

"This place is perfect!"

Xu Ping didn’t hesitate, forming a spell with his fingers and carefully extracting the restless Profound Celestial Embryo from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

The jade gourd-shaped embryo, upon contact with the rich Spiritual Qi here, immediately emitted a cheerful hum, as if a drought had met its life-saving rain.

He gently placed it on a core node of the Spirit Vein’s main trunk.

In the next moment—

Boom!

Like a massive whale swallowing water!

The Profound Celestial Embryo erupted with an unparalleled, powerful suction force.

An invisible, enormous Spiritual Qi vortex centered around it suddenly formed.

Within a radius of hundred miles.

Whether it’s the Spirit Vein Qi emerging from the ground, the free-roaming Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the air, or even the sparse spiritual energy remaining in Spirit Grass and Spirit Stones...

All were forcibly extracted and drawn by this tyrannical force, transforming into milky streams of Spiritual Qi visible to the naked eye, madly surging into the tiny jade gourd.

The embryo visibly became increasingly translucent, and the outline of the Spirit Sword within became clearer, with an increasingly rich, sharp Dao rhythm capable of severing all.

Meanwhile, a mysterious Dao rhythm, far more vast, pure, and aligning with the fundamental origin of the Great Dao than ever before, began to spread and diffuse like water waves from the embryo.

This rhythm contained an extremely concentrated wood vitality.

"It’s here!"

Xu Ping’s mind trembled violently, and unprecedented brilliance erupted in his eyes.

The moment he had long awaited had finally arrived.

This baptism of the Dao rhythm, in both quality and scale, far surpassed the past.

If he could completely absorb and digest it, his assurance of breaking through to Divinity Transformation would undoubtedly rise once more.

He dared not delay, immediately linking his mind with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

"Phantom Spirit, guard this place, absolutely no living being is allowed to approach, intruders shall be killed without mercy!"

The powerful primary soul of Divinity Transformation, the Phantom Spirit, appeared silently like the most loyal guardian, standing solemnly at the pit’s edge, its cold soul consciousness enveloping all directions.

Simultaneously, Xu Ping deployed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner itself, unfurled in the wind, transforming into a dark canopy that wholly enveloped the core area of Heaven-Suppressing Sect’s ruins.

Upon the banner’s surface, countless souls flickered, exuding a ghostly aura, forming a formidable protective barrier, preventing the anomalies here from leaking out and blocking possible outside intrusions.

With everything in place, Xu Ping hesitated no longer.

He sat cross-legged next to the ravenously absorbing Profound Celestial Embryo, slowly closed his eyes, and completely opened his mind to welcome the vast and mystical—Dao rhythm baptism rushing in like a tidal wave.

His Divine Soul, his Mana, his physical body, and even his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Laws...

All at this moment, immersed into that boundless sea of Dao rhythm, began a vital transformation and sublimation.

Above the ruins, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner blotted out the sky, and the Phantom Spirit guarded.

Amidst the scorched earth, Spirit Veins surged, the Profound Celestial Embryo inhaled and exhaled cosmos, and Dao rhythms rushed like tides.

...

The Dao rhythm baptism, infinite in its mystery.

Just as Xu Ping’s mind completely submerged into that vast sea of Dao rhythm, the outside world was engulfed by mighty waves set off by the Heaven-Suppressing Sect’s collapse and Cloud Thunder Celestial Venerable’s fall, sweeping through the entire Nanchuan Realm with astonishing speed.

Wherever the news reached, it was like pouring cold water into boiling oil, instantly igniting all the cultivation forces.

"Heaven-Suppressing Sect... is destroyed?"

"Cloud Thunder Celestial Venerable... has fallen?"

"How could this be!"

"He was the pinnacle of human Divinity Transformation cultivators, holding thunder in his hand, dominating Nanchuan for millennia!

Who could kill him?!"

"Who is it? Who on earth has such heaven-defying means?!"

Countless cultivators awoke from seclusion, raised their heads from market streets, and walked out from within their sects, their hearts deeply shocked, struggling to believe as they looked towards where Heaven-Suppressing Sect once stood.

There, the soaring ghostly aura, destructive energy fluctuations, and that final soul-shaking Divinity Transformation self-detonation had long been sensed through various channels by all sides, though none dared to confirm up close.

Now the news had come, confirming the worst prediction, how could it not leave them terror-stricken?

In the Nanchuan Realm, there was only one sky, and that was Heaven-Suppressing Sect, that was Cloud Thunder Celestial Venerable!

Now, the sky... has collapsed!

The entire realm’s power structure was bound to face an unprecedented reshuffle.

Panic, greed, ambition, schemes... all kinds of emotions sprouted and fermented in the hearts of countless cultivators.

Some sects immediately sealed their mountains and guarded their gates.

Some forces were eager to move, intending to carve up the legacy vacuum left by Heaven-Suppressing Sect.

Even more hidden old monsters were disturbed, casting their gaze towards the storm center of this chaos.

However, regardless of the external gale and turbulent undercurrents, not a single person or force dared to recklessly approach the now desolate, dead-silent original site of Heaven-Suppressing Sect.

...

Amidst the external turmoil caused by this earth-shaking incident, at the deepest part of Heaven-Suppressing Sect’s ruins, within the core of the fifth-grade Spirit Vein shrouded by the dark canopy of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, there was an unusual "silence".

Xu Ping sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly shut.

He was wholly enveloped by a thick, chaotic-colored mysterious Dao rhythm.

This baptism of Dao rhythm was far more violent and profound than any before. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the stars of Divine Sense were condensing at an unprecedented speed.

The "quality" and "quantity" of the Divine Sense were leaping towards a higher level of life—Early-Stage Divinity Transformation peak.

Within his Dantian Sea of Qi, his Mana, once like a rushing river, was, under this great Dao rhythm’s purification, being refined and compressed again and again.

The Mana became more concentrated, more agile, the color deepened, and it even began to spontaneously generate faint, golden Dao patterns, which contained an immortal significance.

Its purity level and energy grade were already so close to, even in some traits, surpassing that of a real Divinity Transformation cultivator.

His control over Primordial Qi also soared with it.

His Dao foundation was further consolidated, his underlying strength became deeper, as if building a more solid and vast platform for the future.