Chapter 1071: Chapter 577: The Wrath of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable! Return to the Deep Space Sea, One Step Away!
Previously, it was said that Jiang Shu’s current realm is like a large water tank filled with half water, but during this time, Jiang Shu has devoured countless Dao Rhymes. This tank is almost full, and with new Law Origins flickering, Jiang Shu naturally won’t give up this opportunity.
The Chaos Thunder Pool leapt from the Heavenly Spirit, and the Three Holy Embryos used their tiny hands to form seals, extracting threads of the remaining Heaven-Burning Flames.
Jiang Shu sat cross-legged on a massive space fragment, letting it float freely in the Void.
Inwardly observing his Dantian, the newly-formed dragon-shaped Dao Patterns and phoenix feather patterns on the surface of the Three Holy Embryos intertwined, achieving a delicate balance under the hazy Taichu Dao Rhyme.
"The Law of Fire is fierce and violent, while the Law of Nirvana is endless. Both are high-level Law Origins, enhancing my attack and recovery abilities greatly."
He condensed a cluster of two-colored flames at his fingertips, with the core being the purple lightning of the Chaos Thunder Pool, wrapped in Nirvana Golden Flames.
The air around the flame twisted and deformed, with faint shadows of a miniature phoenix flapping its wings in the fire.
Jiang Shu suddenly remembered the third vertical pupil of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable that could burn everything, stirring his heart slightly.
He formed his hands into a virtual ball, placing the wisp of flame in his palms, slowly rotating it.
The hazy Taichu Dao Rhyme wrapped around like threads, and three completely different forces began to blend.
"No, it’s not a simple superposition."
Jiang Shu frowned. The Three Holy Embryos suddenly wailed in unison, and their little hands changed their spells. In a moment of enlightenment, he suddenly pressed the flame against his chest.
Agonizing pain exploded instantly, as if thousands of red-hot steel needles pierced through his internal organs.
Yet amidst this extreme pain, he clearly saw the collision trajectory of the three Dao Origins.
"So that’s how it is!"
Jiang Shu let out a long roar, with fine gold-red sparks spraying out from all his pores.
The Chaos Thunder Pool trembled violently as the cracks on the surface of the Three Holy Embryos healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The new Dao Patterns climbed over the Daoist Embryo like vines, finally forming an integrated whole of more than a dozen different Dao lines.
Forget Form Realm Peak!
At this moment, he clearly sensed his Divine Sense soaring, easily capturing the vibration of a speck of dust a thousand miles away.
The Power Dao surged through his meridians like a volcano, ready to erupt any moment, intertwining with more than a dozen other paths to form a whole, capable of releasing an extremely terrifying power once it erupts.
"Just one step away from the Forget Realm."
Jiang Shu exhaled a breath, filled with emotion.
Since ascending to the Tenth Realm, his cultivation speed has progressed rapidly, even more so than before. It’s been such a short time, and he’s already reached the Peak of the Tenth Realm. His comprehension of the Space Dao is almost complete.
"Time Law, Time Law..."
Jiang Shu mumbled to himself, somewhat lost:
"A Venerable Realm can grasp the Space Law and become the master of space. But while space can be pondered, how should one comprehend the sanctity of time?"
"No matter how powerful the Mixed Cave Realm Daoist Venerable in the Cang Mang Domain is, or how strong the Demon Venerable in the Demon Domain is, or even a Venerable in this Star Ruins Realm, they all age and die as years pass."
Light flickered incessantly in Jiang Shu’s eyes, as countless pieces of information flickered through his mind.
"Great Void Heart Scripture", up to now, Jiang Shu’s insight into the "Great Void Heart Scripture" has reached an extreme.
Unfortunately, it feels like only one step away, but that step seems like an insurmountable chasm.
Forget Form... Forget Realm...
Vientiane... Mixed Cave...
They seem just a realm apart, but in reality...
In the blink of an eye, nearly a month had passed.
Besides gradually restoring his condition, Jiang Shu spent the rest of his time comprehending the Space Dao.
Space reigns supreme; understanding the Space Dao differs from other paths.
The threshold is higher.
"First, let’s find the Wind Cloud Pride and ask about their insights."
Not continuing his closed-door cultivation, Jiang Shu stood up, temporarily setting aside his practice, and headed in the direction many had been heading recently.
The Wind Cloud Pride have deep foundations, and they might have been guided early on with their own methods for understanding the Space Law.
Jiang Shu’s figure shuttled through the Deep Space Sea.
A few days later, in the distant place, Jiang Shu saw a vast space that could well be called a little world.
The environment here was entirely different from the rest of the Deep Space Sea.
There were no sun, moon, or stars in the sky, only perpetual gray whirlpools.
The ground changed from being as hard as iron to as soft as cotton, occasionally revealing massive metal structures half-buried underground, their surfaces covered with unfamiliar symbols.
"Things from the Mechanical Clan?"
Jiang Shu stopped before a slope with dozens of silver-blue metal fragments scattered on the ground, their jagged edges as if torn by immense force.
He picked up a piece; the cool touch felt no different from ordinary metal, but when he injected a wisp of Divine Sense, the fragment suddenly lit up with ghostly blue patterns.
The patterns on the fragment twisted and reassembled, projecting a partial holographic image onto his palm.
A massive structure composed of countless gears and pipelines, with a pulsating red core suspended at its center.
The image flickered a few times before vanishing, but Jiang Shu keenly caught the triangular mark engraved on the core surface.
"I’ve seen this triangular mark on the body of the Mechanical Mother."
"This should be some sort of recording method of the Mechanical Clan. Didn’t expect I got here ahead, falling into my hands."
"This should be a battlefield that even disturbed the Mechanical Mother."
He recalled that mechanical mother, looking indistinguishable from the Human Clan, which, after failing to recruit him, mercilessly tried to kill him. It was truly unreasonable, yet who knew who it fought against. Judging by the devastated state of this little world, the battle must have been grand.
With a cautious heart, Jiang Shu quickened his pace.
The terrain at the end of the slope suddenly opened up.
The ground, originally gray, turned into a black crystalline form here, with fine metallic dust floating in the air.
Jiang Shu instantly realized this was a battlefield, and one that had recently ended.
In the center of the battlefield, three bottomless ravines extended radially.
Jiang Shu squatted down, lightly touching the edge of a ravine with his fingertip. The familiar Dao Rhyme fluctuations made his eyes brighten.
"The Law of Power from the Wind Cloud Pride!"
The Dao Rhyme remaining in the ravines was violent and chaotic, entirely different from Zhan Yun’s effortless Sword Intent, likely left by his brother Zhan Feng.
"They’ve been hurt."
Jiang Shu opened his eyes, looking towards the other side of the battlefield.
More mechanical wreckage lay scattered there, but their design was entirely different from what he had seen before.
These wreckages were streamlined, their surfaces filled with fine holes, resembling a fusion of some creature and machine.
Most striking was a segment of mechanical tendril half-buried in the soil, with a diameter of over ten feet, exuding silvery-blue liquid from its severed end.
The liquid made a "sizzling" sound upon contact with the ground, corroding a large area.
Cautiously avoiding these liquids, Jiang Shu discovered an intact crystal at the root of the tendril.
A ray of red light was sealed within the crystal. When he touched it with his Divine Sense, the crystal abruptly projected a blurred combat image.
In a metal storm that obscured the skies, Zhan Feng was covered in blood, his fists wrapped in the blinding Law of Power, smashing the incoming Mechanical Beast Group to powder.
The axe light of the Wind Cloud Pride was divided into thousands but suddenly turned towards a certain part of the void at one moment.
The image abruptly stopped there.
Jiang Shu clenched the crystal, the Taichu Dao Rhyme spreading along his arm, analyzing the crystal’s internal structure layer by layer.
Suddenly, he frowned; hidden deep within the crystal was a barely visible black triangular mark, flashing at a fixed frequency.
"Tracking Beacon!"
Without hesitation, Jiang Shu crushed the crystal.
Almost at the same moment, a muffled roar echoed from the distance, the ground began to tremble rhythmically, as if some gigantic entity was approaching.
Unexpectedly, the Mechanical Clan had such a backup plan.
Jiang Shu sneered, the Law Origin representing the Soul Law behind him lit up faintly. In just a moment, the tracking mark engraved above his soul was cleansed, and the tremors in the distance ceased abruptly, seemingly confused.
