Above the Great Dao

Chapter 1175 543: The Battle of Xiao Five

Everyone was deeply saddened upon hearing these words.

Fairy Luo's eyes reddened, and she said, "Wu Jiu is a pitiable child. His master, Yu Changbai, died mysteriously—living, they're not seen; dead, there's no body. He too is now buried within the furnace... Now is truly a troubled time for Despair Slope."

As soon as these words were spoken, it immediately pierced the wounds of those at Despair Slope.

In recent days, Despair Slope has continuously faced great changes, starting with the mysterious deaths of Heavenly Dao Practitioners like Yu Changbai and Lin Taixu, followed by an inexplicable injury to the Heavenly Venerate, the death of Immortal Kou at the hands of the Demon Emperor, and Feng Ruotong and Daoist Wen's lives being lost to the Demon Emperor.

Now, to forge Heavenly Soldiers, the good child Zhuang Wujiu unexpectedly also passed away.

Since ancient times, Despair Slope has always been smooth sailing. Although there have been casualties before, it was usually one or two people. Even during the True King Era, when the True King himself came to Despair Slope, nobody was severely injured or killed because of it.

Now, without realizing it, half of the Heavenly Dao Immortals have been lost, along with dozens of Heavenly Dao Practitioners!

"When heaven is destined to perish, there will be monsters,"

Little Dun Fairy sighed and said, "My friends, this is not a time for self-pity, is it? The greater the disaster, the more we must lift our spirits and strive to refine this furnace of Heavenly Soldiers early to relieve difficulties for the Heavenly Venerate!"

Everyone became solemn and said unanimously: "Fairy Gong, you are right! Shamefully, we were overly saddened just now, affecting our Dao Heart."

They felt very remorseful and immediately activated the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace, becoming deeply involved.

Wen Wuyu blinked and thought, "Little Ten brother is even more like Fairy Gong than Fairy Gong herself."

Little Dun Fairy sat by the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace, her eyes flickering, thinking about how she could stealthily steal this treasure unnoticed when the battle between Wu Qi and the Heavenly Venerate began.

—Without this treasure, the Heavenly Venerate would have one less secret weapon.

"I wonder if my husband has grasped the mysteries of the Heavenly Venerate's Technique?"

Her thoughts moved slightly, and her consciousness quietly descended into the small temple, where she saw Chen Shi sitting on the divine shrine, eyes closed, concentrating motionlessly, yet his aura was growing increasingly strong.

During this time, he had already integrated five types of cultivation techniques, and the Heavenly Venerate's Technique was beginning to reveal its shape.

However, it was extremely difficult to integrate six kinds of techniques and reconstruct the Heavenly Venerate's Mysterious Skill, and at this moment, all of Chen Shi's mental efforts were consumed by this task, unaware of what was happening outside.

Little Dun Fairy thought to herself, "My husband doesn't yet know how much I've done during this time."

She blinked, thinking of Wen Wuyu, who was devoted to her, and felt somewhat guilty.

If Chen Shi woke up and found out about this, he would likely be furious, wouldn't he?

"I wonder how Fifth Uncle is doing in the furnace?" She was somewhat scatterbrained, quickly composed her heart and spirit, and purified the black fire imprint surrounding her heart.

Within the Furnace World.

Creation Little Five was truly thriving, rapidly increasing his cultivation and power.

Little Dun Fairy feared the black fire imprint of the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace, but he did not. Being a creation, he could walk and jump around thanks to the creation imprint bestowed by Chen Yindou. To him, the more imprints, the better!

And in the Furnace World, the quickest way to enhance the imprint was to eliminate other Little Fives and seize the black fire imprint surrounding their hearts.

As he devoured more and more black fire imprints, his strength grew ever stronger, sweeping through and conquering a radius of three thousand miles with unstoppable force.

Most of these Little Fives possessed the cultivation levels of Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Divinity Transformation. The more advanced ones were at the level of Unification, Three Corpse, and Refining God, naturally far inferior to him.

He had only encountered five Little Fives comparable to Mahayana.

Suddenly, Creation Little Five sensed a terrifying, trembling aura approaching, and he looked up in astonishment.

He saw in the sky a tribulation cloud rapidly forming!

This Furnace World actually possessed its own unique Heavenly Dao system and could undergo Tribulation Crossing and Ascension!

He was brimming with excitement, disregarding the extraordinary, and with a whoosh, he flew straight towards the place shrouded by the tribulation cloud.

"There must be a Heavenly Soldier forming under that tribulation cloud! Seizing his cultivation, I can also undergo Tribulation Crossing and Ascension!"

However, this Heavenly Tribulation came too swiftly and ended just as quickly. By the time he arrived, the heavenly tribulation had already erupted and was reaching its conclusion.

As the tribulation clouds dispersed, they were replaced by various Dao Patterns descending from the sky.

These Dao Patterns were combined with Phoenix Strange Fire and grand talismans flying from within the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace in large quantities to form the Dao Pattern.

Creation Little Five, eyes wide open, rushed straight for the Dao Pattern.

In the years that Chen Yindou had returned from the underworld, inspired by the Witch Sacrificial Dao Pattern, his focus had shifted from the Universal Sacrifice to attempting to compose talismans into texts and languages, trying to use these texts and languages to elucidate the mysteries of the Great Dao.

The Universal Sacrifice had 3,600 Divinities, corresponding to 3,600 runes, which equated to 3,600 characters, which could be used to compose a language system.

This is the Dao Pattern!

Within the immortal laws passed down from the True King Era, many Dao Patterns could be found, but they were obscure and hidden, making insight extremely troublesome. Thus, Chen Yindou planned to compose his own set, with his assistant naturally being Creation Little Five.

However, this project is extremely vast and complex, requiring the derivation of accurate Divine Language. The connections, mutual suppression, and synergistic effects between different divinities also need to be understood, consuming a great deal of effort from both father and son.

And now, Creation Little Five discovered these Dao patterns and was naturally overjoyed. Obtaining these Dao patterns means that he can avoid many detours.

Handing these Dao patterns over to Chen Yin for research could provide great enlightenment for his father!

However, this Dao pattern descended from the heavens belonged to the Little Five who was undergoing tribulation crossing. How could it allow him to take away his Dao patterns?

The two creations collided in the air, and Creation Little Five, driven by anger, unleashed the Universal Heaven Method derived from the Universal Sacrifice. Three thousand six hundred divine beings formed a heavenly court, transforming into a force of supreme power to meet the other Little Five!

The other Little Five's body radiated brightly, revealing all kinds of bizarre Great Dao textures, which stunned Creation Little Five.

"The Immortal Body of Creation!"

"Boom!"

The cultivation of both increased to the extreme, colliding forcefully. Even though the other Little Five had crossed the heavenly tribulation and possessed an immortal body, he couldn't withstand the divine skills of Creation Little Five, and an arm snapped with a crack.

He leaped up and continued his assault, oblivious to the pain.

Creation Little Five had no time to perform the Luotian Dajiao and hurriedly executed the Ghost God Three Surprises. The surrounding space crisscrossed, attempting to distance himself from that Little Five.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The other Little Five continuously smashed through layers of space with hardly any hindrance, rushing directly in front of him.

"The Immortal Body is so strong!"

Creation Little Five took the blow head-on, three fingers snapped, bending backward into a startling arc, and then he was struck on the chest by that Little Five, rib bones cracking audibly.

He was sent flying backward, at which point he saw the other Little Five charging toward him at great speed.

Creation Little Five stabilized himself, raised his hand to grasp the sky, and torrents of phoenix strange fire descended from above, crashing onto the other Little Five.

That Little Five's immortal body was set aflame by the strange fire, yet he remained unaware of the pain, continuing his assault.

The distance was too close, and Creation Little Five only had time to deploy the Luotian Method, but the next moment, it was broken.

The two Little Fives engaged in close combat, ferociously attacking each other. Creation Little Five suddenly activated the Yin Yang Dojo, reversing Yin and Yang, creating an underworld within this Furnace World. Half of the other Little Five's body sank into the underworld, and just as he was about to escape, Creation Little Five twisted his neck, killing him!

With the other Little Five dead, the Dao patterns around his body and the black fire imprint in his heart rose into the air. Creation Little Five, disregarding his injuries, quickly absorbed the Dao patterns and the black fire imprint.

But the most valuable was still the Dao pattern that descended from the sky, the key to enabling Creation to cultivate into an immortal physical body and primordial spirit.

As Creation Little Five absorbed and refined the Dao patterns, he thought, "Were the heavenly soldiers designed by Gong Wanqing? But it doesn't seem like it. She shouldn't have such wisdom to set up the Furnace Heavenly Dao and design strange things like tribulation crossing and ascension. Even if Father and I worked together, we wouldn't possess such wisdom. The Furnace World already has a unique Heavenly Dao system. What Gong Wanqing likely did was comprehend part of the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace's usage and incorporated it into her design."

His cultivation power soared higher and higher, and suddenly he remembered something.

"Such a magical treasure, unprecedented, why would it fall on the West Bull New Continent?"

He couldn't figure it out, when suddenly an unusual force descended from the sky, and a rosy cloud shone upon him.

Creation Little Five looked up, stunned, seeing within the layers of a sea of fire a great vortex, from which the rosy cloud shone, falling upon him.

"This is a guiding rosy cloud!"

Creation Little Five found it somewhat amusing. When cultivators cross the heavenly tribulation and ascend, a rosy cloud descends from the Immortal Realm to guide the cultivator to ascend and become a true immortal.

Even the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace has ascension!

"If I didn't know that ascending still keeps me in the furnace, to be refined and controlled by the creatures outside, I might not resist ascending," he thought to himself.

He suppressed the ascension power from the rosy cloud and continued to absorb the Dao patterns.

Once the Dao patterns were completely absorbed, his physical body and primordial spirit neared the immortal body.

"This furnace is too strange, but the Heavenly Dao governing the internal operations seems to have many flaws."

Creation Little Five blinked, "I can avoid the Heavenly Dao to not ascend, so can I control the Heavenly Dao?"

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, excitedly rushing into the distance.

Outside the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace, an immortal slightly frowned, saying, "Strange, why hasn't this heavenly soldier ascended? Fairy Gong, something peculiar happened inside the furnace. There's a creation about to become a heavenly soldier, but it refuses to ascend. Earlier we urged the Qiankun Rebuilding Furnace repeatedly, yet it still didn't ascend."

The ascension of the heavenly soldiers is a process of refinement.

Once refined, the heavenly soldier becomes equivalent to the cultivation power of a Heavenly Immortal Realm, incredibly powerful and controlled by the master.

But the strange thing was, that heavenly soldier seemed completely indifferent to the guiding rosy cloud!

Little Dun Fairy furrowed her eyebrows slightly, saying, "Is that so? I entered the furnace earlier, and it consumed much power. May I trouble one of the Daoist friends to investigate?"

The immortals hesitated somewhat. Without the black flames, they might have investigated, but now with the phoenix strange fire, recklessly entering the sea of fire might result in being burned to death.

At this time, Chen Shi's voice reached Little Dun Fairy's ear, "The Heavenly Venerate's Technique is complete!"