Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 522 Golden Heaven
Chapter 530

The hand was enormous; its mere fingers resembled a towering mountain range. It was covered in twisted, malevolent runes, and thick, black liquid dripped from between its fingers, corroding the very space around it.

It carried an immense power that threatened to drag the entire world to its end, ignoring the distance in space, and fiercely grabbed at the slowly rotating "Great Millstone of Reincarnation" in the sky above!
This grab seemed to crush the sky itself!

The moment all living beings saw this giant hand, their souls almost froze. It was a fear born from the very instinct of life, a despair in the face of natural disaster and insurmountable force!

"It's over..."

The Purple Lightning Knight's soul flame had dimmed to its lowest point. He couldn't imagine what kind of power could possibly contend against this terrifying giant hand that seemed capable of ending everything.

However, at this moment of despair, the figure who had been sitting cross-legged in the center of the millstone, never wavering from beginning to end, finally made a new move.

Xu Ran slowly opened his eyes.

There was no soul fire in his eye sockets, only two deep nebulae that seemed to contain the birth and death of the universe, slowly swirling around.

His consciousness had long since merged with the entire grand formation. He felt the ecstasy and fear of the beings below, and the pure malice and destructive will emanating from the abyss.

His Dao heart was as firm as unyielding divine iron, without the slightest ripple.

"So you've finally come out..."

He spoke calmly in a low voice, yet it clearly penetrated the will of every living being, like a powerful stimulant that instantly dispelled some of the fear in their hearts.

Facing that overwhelming demonic hand, Xu Ran showed no intention of dodging.

He was under the dual pressure of the array's operation and the abyss's impact. His black jade bones, which were at the peak of the Bone Forging Realm, creaked under the strain, and fine cracks spread across the surface of his bones.

His very essence is being consumed at an alarming rate.

But at this moment, the fighting spirit within him was pushed to an unprecedented peak!
Without destruction, there can be no construction!
Today, he will not only refine this Abyss of Bone Demons, but also use the power of this abyss as a whetstone for his breakthrough!
"Use my body as a furnace, take heaven and earth as fuel, melt all paths back to nothingness, and open the realm of the gods!"

Xu Ran let out a long roar, his will piercing through heaven and earth!

He no longer passively guarded the formation, but took the initiative to attack!

"swallow!"

With a thought, the enormous Reincarnation Millstone suddenly accelerated! The lower Reincarnation Millstone unleashed boundless suction, like an ancient beast awakening, opening its gaping maw to devour everything!

The demonic hand reaching for the sky faltered, its speed halted, as it was forcibly pulled downwards by the immense suction force!

"Roar!"

From the depths of the abyss came an even more furious roar. Black light blazed brightly on the demonic hand, its power surging once more, and it began to wrestle with the entire grand formation!

Click!Click!
At the edge of the great formation, some of the formation bases began to crack, unable to withstand the impact of this terrifying power.

Xu Ran's body had even more cracks, as if it would completely collapse at any moment.

But the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter!
It's now!

"Come!"

He deliberately focused a portion of his mind into the most primal torrent of abyssal demonic energy that was resisting the great formation.

boom!
An endless, mad, tyrannical, depraved, and annihilating will, like a black ocean bursting its banks, instantly overwhelmed his consciousness.

Any expert at the Burning Flame Realm, or even a higher realm, would have been completely overwhelmed by this torrent of will and become part of the abyss in that instant.

However, Xu Ran's core consciousness was protected by the Dragon Elephant Battle Intent, and suppressed by the Dao patterns that had transformed into the "Return to the Void Demonic Diagram"!

"Furnace, forge it!"

The Great Dao Furnace was in full swing at the core of his will!

The endless demonic thoughts that rushed into his consciousness were not dispelled or resisted, but were forcibly pulled into the furnace. Using his shattered Dao bones as fuel and his indomitable will as fire, the most frenzied refining process began!
This is a suicidal act!

The slightest mistake could lead to death and eternal damnation!

But Xu Ran was gambling on this sliver of hope!
He wanted to refine this purest "will to destroy" into the "divine fire" that would help him break through!
"what--!"

Even Xu Ran couldn't help but let out a painful roar. His soul light was almost compressed into a single point at this moment, and it could be extinguished at any moment.

His black jade-like bones were broken inch by inch!
But even amidst this extreme destruction, a new "life" quietly blossoms!

When the first wisp of refined and purified "destructive divine thought" returned to his soul core, it was like a spark falling into endless tinder.

boom--!
Xu Ran's entire sea of ​​consciousness was instantly ignited!

His soul light was no longer lead-gray, nor any other color, but transformed into a ball of "divine fire" that seemed capable of burning away all the myriad paths of the heavens!
This divine fire, with his soul light as its core and his shattered black jade bones as its "furnace walls," constructed a completely new, invisible... divine furnace within his body!
After the Bone Forging Realm comes the Divine Furnace Realm!

Using his body as a divine furnace, he can refine all things and forge laws!
Click!Click!
The moment the divine furnace was forged, the black jade Dao bone that had been broken within Xu Ran's body began to regenerate!
They were no longer mere bones, but rather seemed to have transformed into a translucent, crystalline divine material, neither gold nor jade. Within each inch of the bones, it was as if a miniature divine furnace was burning, echoing the core divine furnace in his chest!
At this moment, his aura underwent a tremendous transformation!

If Xu Ran before was a sharp and sturdy peerless weapon.

So at this moment, he is the furnace of heaven and earth that forged this deadly weapon!
"break!"

Xu Ran opened his eyes again, and two beams of divine light, seemingly capable of piercing through eternity, shot out from his eye sockets, directly piercing through the void!

He stood up slowly.

As he stood up, a terrifying pressure, ten or even a hundred times greater than before, swept across the entire Dragon Elephant Domain centered on him!

The Great Millstone of Reincarnation, which was already overburdened, shone brightly under the support of this pressure. The cracks that had appeared before were instantly repaired, and its operating speed was several times faster than before!
“Crunch—crunch—!”

The enormous demonic hand groaned in agony before the millstone, its power surging. Its body, composed of billions of bones, began to be ground and disintegrated inch by inch!
"It's my turn."

Xu Ran's voice was cold and grand, like a pronouncement of the will of Heaven.

He raised his right hand, the dark arm branded with the "Demon Map of Return to the Void".

After breaking through to the Divine Furnace Realm, the demonic diagram seemed to come alive completely, with demonic runes like black dragons roaming and roaring on his arm.

He aimed his palm at the still-struggling demonic hand below, and pressed it down in mid-air. "Great Return to the Void Hand Seal!"

Om-!
A colossal, jet-black handprint, composed entirely of the purest "Return to Nothingness" runes, appeared out of thin air. It lacked the filth and madness of a demonic hand, possessing only a more primal "ending" Daoist aura that could return all things to chaos and utterly collapse order!
Boom!

Two giant hands, representing different concepts of "end," collided violently amidst countless shocked gazes!

There was no earth-shattering energy explosion.

The jet-black Guixu handprint, upon contact with the demonic hand, silently merged into it like a hot knife slicing through butter.

Then, a scene that sent chills down the spines of all living beings unfolded.

The enormous demonic hand, starting from the point of contact with the Guixu Handprint, rapidly "withered" and "weathered," transforming into the most primordial particles and dissipating into the void.

This is not destruction, but... erasure!
From a conceptual level, completely erase its very existence!

"Do not--!"

From the depths of the abyss came a piercing scream, a sound filled with terror and disbelief.

It can't understand!
How could this ant possess such terrifying power, almost equivalent to the "Tao"?!
But Xu Ran will not give it a chance to understand.

After erasing the demonic hand, he made a hand seal with his left hand and formed a palm with his right hand. He then suddenly split the massive abyss below to both sides and lifted it upwards!
"rise!"

Rumble, rumble—!
He used his immense power to forcibly "draw" a more powerful and viscous river of black magical energy from the depths of the Bone Demon Abyss!

This river of magical energy is more than ten times purer than before, and it even contains some broken fragments of laws that shimmer with ominous light!
"With the abyss as fuel and heaven and earth as the furnace! Today, I will see just how deep your so-called forbidden land truly is!"

Xu Ran's long hair (composed of energy) danced wildly, his divine power overwhelming. He poured the entire river of extracted demonic energy into the Great Millstone of Reincarnation!

The giant millstone spun wildly, emitting a roar that shook the entire Skeleton Domain!

This time, what fell from the top of the millstone was no longer a simple milky-white rain of light.

Amidst the rain of light, there were even wisps and strands of crystal-clear, diamond-like... law-based shards!
"My God! What is that? A law! A fragment of a law!"

The Purple Lightning Knight cried out in shock, his soul fire almost leaping out of his eyes.

For these powerful beings at the Blazing Fire Realm, accumulating energy is no longer the most crucial element. The most difficult thing is to comprehend and condense their own laws! Only by mastering the laws can they ignite their divine fire and reach even higher realms!
And now, this Dragon-Elephant Lord, whom they regard as a god, has actually... actually refined the laws and is showering them down like rain!
What an incredible feat!
crazy!

Everyone is going crazy!
They no longer had any concerns and exerted all their strength to circulate their own cultivation techniques to absorb and comprehend the falling crystal fragments of laws.

A skeleton at the peak of the Bone Forging Realm was fortunate enough to capture a tiny crystal shard, the size of a fingernail, containing the law of "sharpness." He integrated it into his body, and with a "hum," the bone knife in his hand spontaneously combusted without fire, unleashing a three-foot-long blade of light that flickered erratically!

He skipped the comprehension stage and forcibly condensed the rudimentary form of sword intent!

The Purple Lightning Knight, meanwhile, captured a fragment of law imbued with the aura of "thunder" and merged it into his own soul fire. His purple soul fire instantly became even more condensed, as if real thunder was being born and extinguished within it!
"Thank you, my lord, for granting me this power!"

He knelt down before Xu Ran with great emotion, for this was a life-saving grace!
A true, extraordinary creation that spans the entire Dragon Elephant Domain is about to unfold!

Xu Ran sat cross-legged on the millstone, his expression neither sad nor happy.

His divine furnace was also frantically absorbing the purified primordial energy and fragments of laws, stabilizing the realm he had just broken through to.

[The Primordial Dao Bone Scripture: Minor Success in the Divine Furnace Realm (1%)]

"Origin of the Divine Furnace: 1000 units".

"The Return to the Void Demon Map: Activated".

"Great Dao Furnace: Power enhanced, capable of melting and refining rudimentary forms of laws."

He could feel that his strength was more than a hundred times greater than when he was in the Bone Forging Realm! Now, if he were to face that Blood Demon again, he could probably cause its essence to collapse and dissolve on its own with just a glance.

This is the crushing power of different realms!

However, his gaze pierced through layers of space and landed on the deep, dark abyss below.

When he forcibly drew upon the river of magical energy, his divine sense also penetrated into it for a moment.

At the end of that endless darkness and filth, he "saw" it.

That place is not a chaotic sea of ​​energy.

Instead, it was an altar that was... unimaginably huge!
The altar was forged from some unknown black divine metal, and was covered with runes ten thousand times more complex than the Guixu Demon Diagram. In the center of the altar, a broken, rusty… black spear lay obliquely embedded.

Endless streams of filthy demonic energy flowed continuously from the gap in the broken spear.

It was as if this broken spear had pierced through a "barrier" in this world, connecting to a terrifying source filled with depravity and end.

Around the broken spear, he also saw nine enormous chains, also made of black divine metal, extending from the void and sealing off the area.

The Abyss of Bone Demons is not a natural disaster, but... a man-made calamity!
Or rather, it was a battlefield! A sealed land!
"Ancient ruins..." Xu Ran murmured to himself.

This discovery made him even more vigilant.

The being capable of leaving behind such a mark must possess power far exceeding his current imagination. Refining the abyss here is tantamount to pulling teeth from the mouth of a sleeping ancient dragon.

"We must improve our strength as soon as possible, and prepare to leave."

Xu Ran made up his mind.

This Geng-character-numbered skeleton domain is ultimately just a beginner's village, a remote corner. He can't stay here forever.

After he has completely refined the "surface" power of the Bone Demon Abyss and built the Dragon Elephant Domain into a solid base, he will go to a wider world to explore the true secrets of this world and find the path to a higher realm.

At this moment, another change occurred!
It didn't come from the Abyss of Bone Demons, but from... beyond the heavens!
Boom!

The gray sky above the Dragon Elephant Domain was torn open by an incomparably powerful force, creating a huge gash!

On the other side of the opening was not nothingness, but a golden heaven filled with majesty and order!
(End of this chapter)