Daqin Zhentiansi

"This is more than just an opportunity! This is the reshaping of the foundation of our bloodline!"

"That kid Ao Qing has risen to the top in one fell swoop!"

Another elder muttered to himself, his tone filled with bitterness and extreme envy. His gaze toward Zhang Yuan had completely changed, no longer showing any contempt, but only deep awe and a glimmer of... expectation!

"Fire General Zhang Yuan..."

A young dragon warrior murmured the name, his voice trembling, "He... he not only saved Lei Chi, but also casually bestowed such a blessing upon Ao Qing... This... this is simply... a miracle!"

Wanlong's gaze was now focused on Zhang Yuan.

In that gaze, all the previous doubt and mockery vanished, replaced by awe as if looking up to a deity, heartfelt gratitude, and a profound shock at an unknown and powerful force.

They seemed to see a deity descending, a deity powerful enough to change the fate of the Azure Dragon Clan!

At this moment, Zhang Yuan's status in their hearts has been greatly elevated, even surpassing that of the clan elders!
With the alliance established, Ao Qing has undergone a transformation, and Lei Chi has been revitalized.

Zhang Yuan did not leave immediately.

He refused the quiet room arranged by the Azure Dragon Clan and sat cross-legged on the edge of the resurrected Thunder Eye, bathing in the gentle yet infinitely mysterious chaotic lightning.

Three ancient jade slips floated in front of him.

His eyes were slightly closed, and his chaotic divine and demonic body operated silently, with dark gold runes on his body and flowing chaotic lightning reflecting each other.

The profound Taoist philosophy of the "Da Qin Benyuan Dao Jing" spread out.

"Om-"

Within the Great Qin lineage, there is a strange resonance with the fundamental laws of the Azure Dragon Clan's supreme inheritance, "Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment," deep within the Thunder Eye.

Zhang Yuan's divine sense, like the most precise carving knife, penetrated deep into the core of the Thunder Eye, analyzing, capturing, and deducing the supreme mysteries contained within it: how chaotic thunder shaped the dragon's body, tempered its bloodline, and triggered heavenly punishment.

Deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Great Dao Golden Pearl spun wildly, gathering, merging, and deducing the insights from the Thunder Eye's origin, the understanding from his own Chaotic God-Demon Body, the laws of "destruction and rebirth" from the fragments of the Great Qin Heavenly Dao, and the essence of the first twelve levels of "Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment," like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea!
Time flies, and three days pass in the blink of an eye.

When the first rays of dawn on the third day pierced through the thunderclouds and shone upon the Thunder Pool.

Zhang Yuan's tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open!

His eyes seemed to hold the chaos of thunder and lightning, the creation of heaven and earth!
"Buzz!"

A blank jade slip in front of him flew up on its own and hovered directly above the Thunder Eye.

Zhang Yuan pointed his fingers like a sword, his fingertips gathering profound chaotic lightning and mysterious Dao patterns as he wrote swiftly in mid-air!
"The thirteenth level, the Chaotic Thunder Origin Realm!"

Each rune that fell triggered a resonance with the Thunder Eye's origin, emitting a deep and majestic thunderous roar!

It was no longer a sound of destruction, but a rhythm containing the Great Dao!
The runes flowed, explaining how to draw upon the purest chaotic lightning power, penetrating deep into the bone marrow, blood, and soul to carry out the deepest "lightning source reshaping"!
How to refine the dragon's body itself into a small thunder pool that can nurture and contain the source of chaotic thunder!

How can we communicate with the void, guide the scattered chaotic thunder energy, and transform it into our own power?
This is no longer a simple method of body tempering or attack, but rather touches the threshold of "creation" and "origin"!

It is an unparalleled secret technique to break the shackles of the Heavenly Venerable and reach the thirteenth level of realm!
When the last rune was completed, the entire thirteenth level of the "Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment" technique, which was shining with chaotic lightning, transformed into a stream of light and was imprinted on the jade slip!

"go with!"

Zhang Yuan flicked his finger, and the jade simplified into a purple stream of light, which shot precisely towards the center of the Thunder Pool Altar, towards the ancient stone tablet, a hundred feet tall, inscribed with the lineage of the Azure Dragon Clan—the Dragon Source Inheritance Tablet!

"boom--!!!"

The moment the jade slip touched the stone tablet, it was like a red-hot iron being branded into ice!
The monument to the legacy burst forth with unprecedentedly dazzling lightning!
All the ancient dragon language runes on the monument seemed to come alive, emitting a deafening, resonant dragon roar!

A thick purple beam of light shot into the sky, soaring straight into the heavens!
The entire Azure Dragon Mountain region was once again alarmed, with countless dragons raising their heads and their minds reverberating!
The newly imprinted "Chaotic Thunder Source Realm" rune flowed endlessly on the stone tablet, emanating a supreme Dao charm that made the blood of all dragons boil and their souls yearn for and revere it!
The elders, including Cang Qiong, trembled with excitement and rushed to the monument without regard for their manners, greedily trying to comprehend the unprecedented descriptions of the realm and the profound runes.

With just a spiritual connection, they felt that the bottleneck that had plagued them for thousands of years was beginning to loosen!

Just then, an ancient, vast voice, seemingly emanating from the deepest part of the earth, containing supreme majesty and a hint of indescribable weariness, resounded directly in the heavens and deep within the souls of all the Azure Dragons above the Saint Realm:

"The source of chaotic thunder forges a new dragon; the offspring of this child is the key to the rebirth of our race... Heavens, cherish him dearly... await my..."

The voice was intermittent, hoarse from a long slumber, yet every word carried immense weight!
Lord of the Azure Dragons, Azure Sea!
The true ruler of the Azure Dragon Clan, who had been in seclusion for thousands of years and was almost considered by his clansmen to have passed away, was awakened from his deepest death by the resurgence of life in this thirteen-layer cultivation technique and the Great Dao that touched the origin, and issued a decree!

Although it was just a telepathic message, and the details were vague, the recognition, importance, and expectations for the future contained within it brought tears to the eyes of all the Azure Dragon Elders, who were so excited that they could hardly contain themselves!

They all turned towards the ancestral land, towards the inheritance monument, and towards Zhang Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged beside the Thunder Eye, and bowed deeply!
This time, it was a deep-seated reverence and gratitude.

As Suzaku looked at everything before him, the flames in his golden-red eyes were calm, yet they held a profound insight that seemed to see through everything.

Just as the light on the monument began to fade, like a galaxy gathering its light, Zhang Yuan slightly closed his eyes—

"Buzz!"

A condensed, tangible phantom of the divine soul, flowing with chaotic dark gold runes, stepped out from between his brows!
The phantom and the chaotic lightning emanating from the Thunder Eye complemented each other, like a dark golden meteor streaking across the void, heading straight for the Dragon Source Inheritance Stele!

Inside the monument lies the dwelling place of the Azure Dragon Lord—the Will of Azure Sea—who has slumbered for tens of thousands of years and guarded the last origin of the Azure Dragon clan!

The space inside the monument is not an ordinary space.

What entered Zhang Yuan's soul was a vast and boundless sea of ​​thunderous stars, yet exuding deathly silence and decay.

The once boiling thunder magma is now like congealed blood, dark and viscous, with shattered star fragments and depleted thunder crystal mountains floating in the boundless void.

At the core of this sea of ​​stars, a colossal phantom with a dragon's head and a human body sits.

He is Cangming!
Its body was formed from pure purple-gold lightning, but it was no longer dazzling. Its dragon scales were dull and cracked, like a cracked earth. Its huge dragon horns had also lost their luster and were weathered.

Only his dragon eyes, which seemed to hold the birth and death of the universe and stars between opening and closing, were so deep that they seemed to devour time, carrying the vicissitudes of eternity and a trace of witheredness that could not be concealed.

His aura was as profound as the beginning of the universe, yet it carried a deep and incurable weakness, like a star about to burn out, guarding the faint, almost extinguished, yet stubbornly struggling source of the chaotic thunder eye in the center of the starry sea.

"Young friend, you have continued the lifeline of my clan and broken the shackles of the Heavenly Venerable with the Thirteen Heavens Technique... This kindness will be remembered by the Azure Dragon Clan for generations." Cangming's voice was like thunder throughout the ages, resounding through the desolate starry sea, filled with sincere gratitude, yet also containing an undeniable majesty.

"However, the struggle for the Great Dao is no child's play! You have led a different path and taken control of the Thunder Source. Your power and will have already shaken the foundation of the Primordial World! Let me see what makes you wield such great power and bear such consequences!"

Before the words were even finished, the deathly silent sea of ​​stars was suddenly ignited by a violent burst of energy!
"BOOM!!!"

Nine thunder dragons, formed from the purest laws of destruction, tore through the void!

They were no longer simple energy bodies; their dragon eyes were bloodshot and dripping with blood, and every scale was imprinted with the runes of the laws of "annihilation," "collapse," and "annihilation," carrying the destructive pressure of crushing star fields, devouring Zhang Yuan's soul from all directions!
This is the ultimate killing move of the twelfth level of "Nine Dragons Devouring the Dao" – "Nine Dragons Devouring the Dao" – driven by the will of the Azure Sea!
Its power far surpasses the thunderstorm in Lilong Gorge summoned by Ao Qing!
Faced with this earth-shattering attack, Zhang Yuan's spirit neither retreated nor avoided it.

As Cangming said, if Zhang Yuan did not have the power to contend with him, how could he deduce the Great Dao and continue his supernatural powers?
If Zhang Yuan's power is still inferior to that of the Azure Dragon Clan, then this inheritance is better left uncontinued!
"boom--"

Zhang Yuan reached out, his right hand loosely grasping.

A dark gold longsword wrapped in black and white Dao patterns of life and death materialized out of thin air.

Without sharp edges or embellishments, only the weight of the Qin Dynasty's mountains and rivers and the resolute will of the military are condensed in the blade!
"kill--"

With a long shout, Zhang Yuan charged forward fiercely towards the nine destructive lightning dragons!

The first strike, a cleave!

He surged forward ten zhang, his blade flashing backward, without any fancy moves, directly slashing at the thunder dragon that spewed scorching dragon fire!
"Sizzle—!"

The moment the all-consuming lightning and fire touched the blade, it was like a hot knife through butter, torn apart, decomposed, and devoured by the chaotic runes flowing on the blade! The dark gold divine soul's light surged, as if swallowing the lightning and flames!
Cangming Dragon's eyes narrowed slightly.

The second cut, slap!

Zhang Yuan took a step down, his figure leaping several feet forward like lightning. His blade spun horizontally like a door, carrying a majestic will like a mountain collapsing, and slammed fiercely at the frozen dragon breath that had frozen the soul!

"Bam—!"

The annihilating chill, enough to freeze time and space, shattered like glass the moment it touched the blade!

The immense blood and willpower acted like a furnace, instantly crushing and evaporating the dust-like chill!
Beneath the vast sky, the thunderous face formed by the Azure Sea showed clear fluctuations for the first time.

Breaking the law with force—what an overbearing will of blood and energy!

At this moment, Zhang Yuan unleashed his third strike.

削！
He pressed closer and advanced!

The blade swept diagonally, precisely slashing at the karmic dragon soul that was entangled with endless resentment and wailing!

The piercing wail touched the barely perceptible golden bead phantom at the hilt of the sword. Like dirty snow thrown into boiling water, it was instantly purified and cleansed by a supreme Daoist charm that was pure and clean, and transformed into dazzling starlight that nourished the soul!
"Great folly breaks through skill, all laws return to their source! Your lightning punishment will also become my firewood!" Before Zhang Yuan finished shouting, the long sword in his hand instantly vanished!

He actually used his divine soul to recreate the power of the chaotic gods and demons in close combat!

With lightning speed, it pounced straight at the last three thunder dragons!
The fist was like a divine hammer, ignoring spatial barriers, and smashed the dragon horn that the Thunder Dragon had condensed the laws of!

"Boom!"

The dragon's horns shattered, and the laws of nature mourned!
The elbow strike was like a divine spear that could pierce through boundaries, carrying the power to penetrate the void, and fiercely pierced through the solid abdomen of the thunder dragon!

"Pfft!"

The dragon's belly burst open, and lightning scattered like blood!

A sudden, unexpected "skyward kick," carrying the power to shatter stars, left a lingering imprint of its sole on the brow of the last thunder dragon!
"Crack—!"

The dragon's head shattered instantly!

The whole process was utterly swift and decisive!
The nine thunder dragons, representing the ultimate destruction, wailed and dissipated under Zhang Yuan's simple yet powerful close combat, returning to the fragments of the law!
Cangming's dragon eyes narrowed to needles, and his face, which was filled with lightning, trembled violently, revealing undisguised horror: "Using war to fuel war, turning calamity into fuel... returning to simplicity, returning to simplicity! This is the true meaning of the Chaos War Dao!"

His voice was filled with unprecedented solemnity and shock, "Your divine soul essence is already close to the Chaos Immortal! However..."

His enormous dragon claw suddenly rose, and the remaining chaotic lightning source in the star sea gathered frantically!

"That's not enough!"

"Annihilation, Thunder Cage!"

With a low roar from Cangming, countless thick, ink-like bolts of destructive lightning, imbued with the meaning of ending and returning to nothingness, intertwined to form a giant net that blotted out the sky, instantly enveloping Zhang Yuan's soul!
The lightning net rapidly contracted, each bolt of lightning carrying the ultimate intent to freeze the soul and obliterate the will!

This is already the most powerful killing move that the Azure Sea Will can use, close to its origin!
He wanted to push Zhang Yuan to his limit!
Faced with this ultimate lightning prison capable of imprisoning even the souls of Venerable Ones, Zhang Yuan's smile grew even colder.

"Since you wish to see it, then so be it!"

Instead of throwing punches and kicks, he slowly raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and made a loose fist towards the shrinking Annihilation Thunder Prison!
"Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment - Fourteenth Layer, Thunder Source Creation!"

As Zhang Yuanqing shouted, an indescribable and profound fluctuation erupted from his palm!
That was not destructive thunder, but rather contained the supreme Daoist principles of "creation," "shaping," and "domination"!

In the palm of his hand, a miniature chaotic thunder eye seemed to instantly take shape!

"Om-!"

An unbelievable scene has unfolded!

The Annihilation Thunder Prison, powerful enough to obliterate even the souls of Saints, was transformed into a docile clay by an invisible force the moment it touched Zhang Yuan's palm.
The ferocity and deathly stillness of the destructive thunder were instantly stripped away and transformed!
Under Cangming's horrified gaze, the viscous, inky lightning was actually molded into a fist-sized, chaotic purple-gold lightning pattern flowing throughout its body, and seemingly containing the birth and death of nebulae inside—the Thunder Source Dao Fruit—under the guidance of the miniature lightning eye in Zhang Yuan's palm!
The moment the Dao Fruit took shape, a pure, powerful, and infinitely vibrant chaotic thunderous aura erupted!

The lightning swept across the barren sea of ​​stars, and the floating fragments of stars began to tremble slightly, while the dried-up lightning crystal mountains faintly glowed!
Even Cangming's cracked, lightning-covered body felt a long-lost sense of nourishment and warmth!
"This...this is..." Cangming's enormous dragon head lowered in disbelief, staring intently at the Thunder Source Dao Fruit in Zhang Yuan's palm, which radiated the power of creation.

His voice trembled with unprecedented fear and terror.

"The fourteenth layer... Thunder Source Creation?! Transforming annihilation into creation, wielding the Thunder Source like a creator! This... how is this possible?! You've actually deduced this far?!"

He thought that the thirteenth level was already defying fate, but he never expected that Zhang Yuan would casually unleash the fourteenth level, which he had never heard of before, during the battle of souls!
Moreover, this fourteenth level reveals not just an increase in power, but absolute control and creative authority over the very essence of thunder! (End of Chapter)