novelraw Chapter 1072 - 1071 - Touching Dao
Chapter 1072 - 1071 - Touching Dao
The Black Lotus had been a blessing in disguise.
He had actually used his elixir skill on a grade 8 ingredient and been able to comprehend it. If not for that, he had no hope at all of even tickling the horrific flesh anchor, but because he had done so, Lind used his skill as an elixir master once more.
He could not Forge or make a weaving that would even have a hope of impacting the thing, but he had touched on it with his skill as an elixir master.
His hand burned inside the blood of the creature as it wailed in his mind. Pain within and without made it hard to focus but he put it all into touching the essence of the array. It was not a normal formation.
It existed in the spiritual rather than physical. In other words, it was closer to an elixir ingredient than anything else in the world!
Unfortunately, it was a grade 8 item in every sense of the class!
An ant could not move a mountain but a colony could bore into it!
Lind had been given one chance and he could not lose it as his harmonic Qi exploded outward along his arm with all the strength his Crystal Tier dantian could give it! His very soul was on the line as he touched the heart of the existence in front of him.
His meridians burned as the blood in the flesh tried to infiltrate them! His eyes blazed with light as he focused on his goal. He had to find it!
He had to find the key to the array as fast as possible or nothing would change! The 2nd layer was doomed to be enthralled while the Corruption locked out any hope of help coming to them!
[Bad man! You are a bad man! Go away!] The chorus ravaged his mind but he sacrificed everything to a singular goal.
A dragon shape began to partially form as he lost control of his body but the single right arm remained human. Blood flowed from all of his body and black spread from his right arm up into his body.
It was trying to burn him from the inside out mentally and spiritually.
His dragon form was the only way to resist it but even then he felt his sense of self slipping away. It was not the same as before. It was trying to outright kill him!
[You are victims but I cannot show mercy. I am sorry!] His words flowed out unexpectedly in his mind but it actually gave pause. The wailing chorus of voices suddenly stopped attacking him.
He did not waste the moment and delved deep into the vile quagmire his senses felt. He had to find it! The key piece of the array eye!
Each formation has an eye or flag and a key to it to activate and let the Qi flow into it. He had to break that part of the eye!
[Victims? How are we victims?] The chorus was not hurting him but it still pressed too hard on his mind. Lind couldn't spare a thought but he decided to let it see. He let it see his memories of his entire life!
The more he showed, the less resistance he was finding! It was working!
[W–w–what is this?! What is this bright world?! Why does it look familiar?!] The pain slammed into his mind but it was not an attack. It was simply the shock of the chorus.
Lind ignored their questions. He had already done what he could and had to focus on his goal. All that mattered was breaking the array!
He saw the complex threads spreading outward but at its center was the beating heart! He could see the veins themselves were the spiritual inscriptions. It was a master work if not for being so vile!
[Mom! I had a Mom! I had a brother! I had a sister! I was in that world!] The words jolted Lind as it was no longer a chorus! It was singular voices! They were shouting over each other but they were no longer in sync!
The disruption actually reverberated in the complex inscriptions he was looking at. It all converged in a single place! He found it!
It was a beautiful key! It was in all 3 dimensions and flowed with powerful intent. How was something so clearly exquisite used for such a vile purpose?
He also lost all hope the moment he finally grasped the key. It was beyond him! He could not do a damn thing to it at all!
[NO! I refuse! I refuse to let all those people keep dying! I refuse to let these poor souls be trapped as a tool forever!] He roared in his mind and silenced the ever growing argument in the chorus.
He used all the tricks he could think of but he was not a formation master. His skill as an elixir master let him see it, but that was all. His weaving was powerful but limited. He could not affect the key!
[Boy, you want to set us free?] A singular voice suddenly spoke. There was no pain but Lind felt like he was nothing in front of it. Just a voice and it reduced him to less than a speck of sand!
[I want to free all of the 2nd layer from this damned array but I am too weak! It is grade 8 and I am just a Crystal Tier. All the power I have is useless!] He vented his frustration but then a soothing feeling filled his body.
He opened his eyes and saw the massive eyes of the flesh anchor looking at him but he felt tiny in front of it. The eyes were no longer wild or infantile but profound!
[You have the gift. You are weak but you have touched Dao before. Focus on that flame inside you. It is ready to step forward but you have been holding it back. Stop trying to pick it apart and just let it go. Dao cannot be controlled, only experienced. Laws are different despite being part of the Dao. You are almost there.] The old man's voice seemed to spark something in him.
The incomprehensible inscriptions fell away as all Lind could see was his harmony. It was always a flame. His crystal was a flame.
He had known his harmony was a Living Law but never grasped it. He tried to understand all of it but once the voice spoke, he understood his desire to grasp it all was holding his harmony back.
His mind strained to grasp what was happening as he stepped back from his harmony but it was simply beyond him! Emerald power flowed like a storm and stressed his meridians even more but they held as it slammed into the key at the heart of the inscriptions.
He watched as his harmony lit up certain parts of the key. Intersecting lines showed a weakness but as he looked on a sigil slowly took shape in his head. It was far beyond anything he had tried before and his circle lit up in his dantian for the first time in a long while.
His circle was trying to hold him back but it was not as restrictive as before.
The multifaceted 7th circle seemed to weaken for a moment as he put the sigil together. It floated in front of the key and interposed at the weak points. Rather than destroy the key he put it to use!
"Spirits of Heaven and Earth! I am your conduit! Unleash your wrath!" He shouted out loud and despite the Void of Heaven, he felt his harmony respond! An emerald cloud appeared above the blood pool as well!
Pressure built in his dantian until finally a transformative experience washed over his harmony and elements. The bottleneck he had been slowly approaching vanished in a flash of insight.
He saw a vast expansion of his grasp of cultivation and understood how weak Immortals were in the grand scheme of things.
All the power he possessed was nothing!
[Don't get lost in it. You are too young and far from ready. Let it flow. You have done enough.] The old man spoke once more but the pressure built up until a force spread through his body once more.
No karmic lightning came but his harmony changed in front of him. The flame advanced before fusing with his sigil! It was made from his soul power thus it was completely compatible! New ideas were born just from that but then he could only observe as the key was changed in front of his very eyes.
The dark crimson inscriptions began to shift with the key as the heart stopped briefly. No blood flowed but it did not disperse either. Emerald light began to spread slowly but picked up speed until the flesh anchor stopped hurting him.
He was part of it as it was part of him.
The massive heart transformed and became covered in emerald scales! It began to transform the blood as it pumped once more until the entire pool was pristinely red. It was no longer vile and perverted but purified!
Lind slowly resumed his human shape as all the pressure vanished. His life was no longer in danger but he was completely exhausted.
The flesh anchor began to shine as a group of people slowly took shape in faint ghostly auras.
There were dozens! He had severely underestimated the lives put into making it! He saw adults, children, and even a few beasts!
[Lord Lind Frey, thank you. Your wish shall be done. The array will be undone by us. We are free!] Emerald light flared and suddenly the dark crimson veins spreading outward all changed to the color of his harmony!
Lind looked on in awe and wondered what was about to happen. Still, he could not grasp it but for a brief moment he had understood. He had touched the Dao!
As he collapsed on the black bridge, an old man hobbled forward as a spirit. He had 1 eye and needed a cane to move but he was far more solid than the others.
[Interesting child. Make them pay for what they did to us and thank you.] All the spirits bowed before becoming one once more and the wave of emerald moved outward into the world. The war would end!