Chapter 497: Chapter 284: Cultivation World 74
Si Lingle held the shard of the "Heart of Space" that emitted a vast silver glow and stepped slowly into the depths of the cave.
The cold pressure followed him like a shadow, each step landing on the space law veins that were exceedingly thin.
Deep within the honeycomb-like holes on the cave walls, countless tiny Space-devouring Lice seemed to sense the shard’s aura, agitated in the darkness, but intimidated by the previous exquisite disguise and the residual might of the more advanced Space Dao Rhythm, they ultimately did not emerge.
The darkness ahead was not unchanging.
In the perception of divine sense, space appeared like worn-out glass, covered in cracks.
However, at the core of the cave, the silver-white halo that was originally weak pulsated as if it were a waking heart.
——It floated at the center of a pool, several feet in diameter, composed purely of solidified space crystals, no longer a point of light, but a slowly rotating Space Core flowing with star river fragments inside!
This core released an indescribable origin power, maintaining the last structure of the cave’s space, yet was the ultimate desire of numerous Space-devouring Lice and the covetous target of previous Fuyao disciples.
It is one of the "anchor points" of the Secret Realm.
However, the approach is also a test.
Around the core, the surface of the solidified space crystals was not smooth but densely covered with fine, color-changing Order Divine Chains.
These chains were not tangible but were space laws given shape as constraints and rules in this extreme environment.
Forcefully touching them would result in being bound, crushed by the chains, or exiled to unknown chaotic space-time.
Si Lingle’s gaze was deep, not rushing to act. She took out the newly acquired shard of "Cosmic Light Dust Silver," using its intertwined power of time and space as a guide;
She simultaneously invoked the understanding of space origin from within the "Heart of Void Relic," imprinted in her divine thought, the law remnants of the "Tide Leading Sky Technique."
The three converged, and her hands formed a peculiar Dharma Seal in front of her chest.
The streams flowing from her fingertips were not mana torrents but refined to the utmost degree, wisps of space Dao Patterns.
These Dao Patterns acted like keys with a mind of their own, gently probing into the crevices of the solidified Order Divine Chains.
Each slight tremor of the divine chains corresponded to a severe drain on Si Lingle’s divine thought.
She not only had to understand the operation rules of the divine chains but also use the slight time energy within "Cosmic Light Dust Silver" to create an instant "delay" at critical nodes, revealing fleeting flaws in the chains’ operation.
This was not simply a clash of power but an ultimate test of space mastery, law comprehension, and wisdom. Her face grew paler, beads of sweat at her brow rapidly evaporated by her powerful spiritual power, forming a silver-white mist around her.
The process was long and perilous, akin to walking a tightrope on a cliff.
Finally——
"Buzz——!"
When the last and most solid main divine chain was wrapped, guided, and temporarily "appeased" into a dormant state by her space Dao Patterns, the central crystal pool instantly softened like melting ice. The rotating Space Core lay bare before her!
Reaching out to gently touch.
A vast, pure, ancient space origin power surged like a rushing star river flood, instantly flowing into her limbs and bones, straight to her Elixir Field Purple Mansion!
This power was too immense, instantly shattering the barrier of her Heavenly Immortal Realm, causing fierce tremors in her Heavenly Immortal Dao Foundation within her Dantian, with divine thought stars in her sea of consciousness frantically expanding and reorganizing!
However, just as this power flood swept through, Si Lingle acutely captured a more compact yet intensely radiant, releasing a seven-colored psychedelic glow singularity at the core of the source core——Tao Origin Spirit Core!
This was the essence of space core after enduring endless ages and countless law impacts, coalescing a strand of pure "Dao Seed" akin to the universe’s space nature!
She did not hesitate, her divine thought together with the core power of the "Heart of Void Relic", enveloped this radiant seven-colored singularity precisely!
Upon obtaining the Space Core and Tao Origin Spirit Core, the entire belly of Black Stone Mountain emitted a low hum. The nests of Space-devouring Lice on the periphery began to agitate.
Having lost the sustaining core source core, the spatial structure of this special area was rapidly disintegrating!
Si Lingle acted decisively, using the Heart of Void Relic to harness the newly gained Space Source Power (not yet fully refined but enough to guide), directly opening a stable space passage in front of her!
The other end of the passage directly connected to a secret space marker she had left at the edge of the "Space-Time Corridor" debris—a relatively safe exit direction!
She stepped into it, behind her was the core of Black Stone Mountain, collapsing with a roar, engulfed by endless Space-devouring Lice.
Her figure flickered, and when she reappeared, she was at the edge of the boundless sea of sand in the Nine Nether Sea Realm, covered with indigo particles of light.
The broken piece of a Fuyao Sacred Land Jade Token in her hand slightly heated up upon contact with the Vast Sea Realm’s aura, but it was instantly suppressed and sealed by her powerful Space Power.
In the distance, the "Illusory Sea Mirage" she once traversed looked as illusory as ever, but now she could clearly perceive its spatial distortion patterns and illusory essence.
She did not linger. Though the Nine Nether Sea Realm was vast, it was a clear path for her now.
With Space Source Power in her possession, her perception and manipulation of space reached a new realm.
Locking onto a weak point in the space to exit, she borrowed the inherent temporal tidal forces of the Secret Realm, combined with the essence of the [Tide Leading Sky Technique], and like a fish swimming through a thin barrier, Si Lingle’s figure quietly vanished into the eternal light curtain of the Nine Nether Sea Realm.
A hundred years later, upon leaving the Secret Realm, Si Lingle did not return to the sect but went straight into the deep space of the universe, finding a core of an ancient star fragment belt that was relatively stable and energy dormant.
With a wave of her hand, she mobilized the star debris, supplemented by her powerful Space Power, to construct a massive Void Dojo. The dojo floated in the silent star sea, isolating all outside prying and interference.
There, she began a prolonged and deep secluded training. The priority was to completely refine and integrate the [Space Core] and the more important [Tao Origin Spirit Core]. This seven-colored Dao Seed was the key to her breakthrough to Golden Immortal!
*Vast Space Source Power was guided by the Heart of Void Relic as the core, like a giant hammer forging iron, repeatedly pounding and reshaping her Immortal Body, Elixir Field, and Divine Sense Sea!
Her bones transformed into silver-gray crystals containing spatial patterns, with blood flowing in silver radiance of Space Origin, and every cell was filled with Space Power.
The process was extremely painful, as if shattering and reassembling oneself repeatedly.
The profound tenets of the [Tide Leading Sky Technique], the insights from the [Space-Time Corridor], the real and imaginary discrimination of the [Illusory Sea Mirage], the time shadow of the [Cosmic Light Dust Silver], and the most core Space Origin Path contained within the [Tao Origin Spirit Core] were all placed in her Divine Sense Sea, repeatedly smelted, verified, and deduced with her vast cultivation and divine thought as the furnace flame!
Numerous Law Divine Chains related to space condensed and intertwined within her, forming a massive Law Net that enveloped her whole body, connecting the inner and outer void.
Golden Immortal is the true threshold for a Daoist strong individual.
In seclusion, myriad manifestations of space materialize into endless Heart Demon Illusion Realms—lost in the eternal fragment corridors, being devoured by billions of Space-devouring Lice, assimilated by the Illusory Sea Mirage’s consciousness, even reliving the horrific scene of Fuyao Disciples being obliterated by space...
Si Lingle could only rely on her well-tempered Dao Heart and unwavering understanding of the "Void Realm" to cleave through the delusions with supreme will.
When the space laws within her finally were completely woven and her Dao Foundation was utterly stabilized, it was not a time for Heavenly Tribulation to descend but rather a silent cataclysm!
Around her Void Dojo, space rippled like a stone cast into a lake, instantly transforming into a wrinkle devouring everything!
It was a pure calamity of space law annihilation!
Si Lingle’s body was like a leaf boat, rising and falling in the terrifying center of the space storm.
Her silver eyes glared, the Law Divine Chains within her body burst forth with a ten thousand feet silver light, and with her hands cradling as if holding the universe core, she forcibly drew the destructive spatial wrinkles into herself, opening a stable small [Inner Void Realm] at the core of her Dao Foundation!
The way to transcend the tribulation was the interpretation and absorption of space!
A hundred years flickered by, and another fifty passed, Water has come.
One day, the massive Void Dojo in the dead star fragment belt core silently vanished.
And at its original location, a lone cold figure stood quietly.
Si Lingle opened her eyes. Gone were the shifting star rivers, replaced by a deep void, as if the [Returning Ruins] could devour everything, yet deep within that housed the brilliance of an [Origin] that could create Ten Thousand Realms!
Around her, there was no more Mana fluctuation scattering, her entire being seemed to integrate with this vast void, her aura ethereal and elusive, yet contained an absolute authority that solidified the surrounding space!
With every move, space was like a gentle flow of Water, available for her to freely cut, fold, and traverse, even preliminarily glimpsing the threshold of "creating small space prototypes"!
After one hundred and fifty years of arduous cultivation, gathering the supreme opportunities of the Nine Nether Sea Realm within herself, refining the Tao Origin Spirit Core, transcending the space annihilation tribulation—Si Lingle, finally achieved the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and was ranked at the early stage!
