Deep within the Chaos Sea, ninety-nine bronze chains, like coiling Dragons, rose into the air.
The Immortal-Demon scriptures etched on the surface of the chain links seemed to come alive, transforming into brilliant streams of light that poured into Lu Qingyang's glabella like a cascading Milky Way.
In this anomaly, the First Sword Master's remains underwent a Phoenix Nirvana, turning into a jade-green skeleton.
As its jawbone opened and closed, it unexpectedly spat out the missing thirteenth page of the Xuan Ming Sword Canon—the 'Dun Yi' Move, which the Drunken Old Man of the South Sea had re-written with a river diagram fragment before his death, shining like a brilliant pearl.
"This is the Heavenly Punishment Incantation!" accompanied by this cry of surprise, the woman in the crystal coffin suddenly tore through the Void Realm.
Her delicate hand, like lightning, precisely plucked a falling Rebirth Flower petal.
Surprisingly, the petal rapidly condensed into a jade pure bottle in her fingertips.
However, what poured out of the bottle was not the familiar sweet dew from a willow branch, but the three thousand Gu insect spirits that were refined during the destruction of the Insect Master Valley.
These Gu insect spirits flapped their wings, their buzzing sounding like thunder, causing the surrounding Chaos vortex to reverse.
At this very moment, a bronze guillotine, covered in ancient Witch tribe Ciphertext, materialized in the Void Realm.
The back of this bronze guillotine was inlaid with seven eclipse-sun beads, which at this moment suddenly erupted with annihilating divine light, as if to swallow the entire world.
Just then, Yin Jiuyou seized the opportunity to bite his tongue, and a stream of black foul earth spewed from his mouth, instantly condensing into a Taotie Dharma Idol.
However, this Taotie Dharma Idol did not last long; it suddenly shed its skin, transforming into a nine-headed Xiangliu.
The nine snake heads of this Xiangliu simultaneously spewed a stream of green poisonous mist, which, like rolling thick smoke, rapidly swept towards the bronze guillotine.
When the poisonous mist touched the bronze guillotine, something unexpected happened.
On the blade surface of the bronze guillotine, a scene of ancient shamanic sacrifice appeared.
In this scene, the blood of three thousand virgin boys and girls slowly flowed along the curse-text grooves, finally converging at the blade tip into a shocking 'sin' character blood omen.
The bronze ancient blade in Lu Qingyang's hand suddenly let out a Phoenix cry, and the Dragon-like blade edge transformed into a crimson-gold chain, entangling the Heavenly Punishment Guillotine.
As the tribulation lightning Sword Qi pierced the vertical pupil of the seventh snake head, an illusion of the Insect Master Valley rose from the Chaos seabed: the Gu insects in the heavy rain did not awaken naturally, but were awakened by the aftershocks of the Dao Tribulation when Lu Tianji slew the Saint.
The Rebirth Flower mark appearing on the Saintess's glabella was actually the Seal key to the missing Sword Move of the Xuan Ming Sword Canon.
Su Meiniang suddenly offered her innate Fox core, and seven-tailed Fox Fire condensed into a stream of light, injecting into the jade-green skeleton.
The moment the karma-fire red lotus ignited in the skeleton's eye sockets, the Laws of the thirty-six layers of Heaven materialized as glazed chains, coiling the entire Chaos Sea into a cocoon.
What appeared inside the cocoon was not a pupa, but a scene of the First Sword Master and the nine-headed Xiangliu fighting a bloody battle in the Ruins—whenever a sword edge severed a snake head, the Xiangliu's wound would gush out incomplete runes of the Xuan Ming Sword Canon.
"Break the cocoon!" The woman in the crystal coffin performed a ritualistic dance, and the blood butterfly on her fair wrist condensed into a Tribulation-Dispelling Golden Needle.
The moment the Golden Needle pierced the Law cocoon, the Chaos Qi condensed into three thousand demon-reflecting mirrors.
What was reflected in the mirrors was not the true form of demons, but the Dao Heart cracks of successive Immortal Emperors during their Undergoing Tribulation.
Yin Jiuyou's foul earth Dharma Idol suddenly swelled, and as his sharp claws tore through the mirror surface, the splashing glazed fragments transformed into bone-eroding poisonous sand, staining half of the Heavenly Punishment Platform in inky black.
The annual rings of the Jianmu behind Lu Qingyang's Xuanming Dharma Idol suddenly reversed, and its roots pierced through the thirty-three layers of the Heavenly curtain to absorb starlight.
When the tribulation lightning sword touched the gap in the bronze guillotine, the starlight condensed into the residual Soul of the Drunken Old Man of the South Sea, who, holding a river diagram fragment, wrote a prophecy in the Void Realm: "Heavenly Punishment's nine turns, Dun Yi appears."
The moment the characters formed, the heavy rain in the Insect Master Valley illusion suddenly flowed backward, and every raindrop reflected the process of the Saintess's Primordial Spirit being eroded by the aftershocks of the Dao Tribulation.
Ao Lie's residual Soul suddenly let out a deafening Dragon roar that echoed through the clouds, as if to tear the sky apart.
The Red Flood Dragon Dharma Idol, like a giant red Dragon, tightly coiled around the jade-green skeleton, intertwined and inseparable.
The skeleton's dry finger joints forcefully crushed the incomplete pages of the Xuan Ming Sword Canon, which in the Chaos vortex, like a Phoenix Nirvana, reassembled into an Ark of Salvation.
The wake of the ark was like a brilliant Heavenly River, flowing with weak water, and what floated in the water were not ordinary departed Souls, but the obsessions of Immortal Emperors, vanquished by successive Sword Masters after countless fierce battles, like countless dazzling stars.
When the ark touched the edge of the Heavenly Punishment Platform, the weak water suddenly surged like boiling water, and the steaming mist seemed to be condensed by a mysterious power into the 'Dao-Slaying' Sword Qi left behind by the First Sword Master when he slew the Saint, sharp and unparalleled, piercing straight into the sky.
"Nine Turns to True Form!" The Reincarnation mark on the crystal coffin woman's glabella exploded like a volcanic eruption, and streams of light rapidly condensed in the Void Realm, like a magnificent Rebirth Bridge.
The stone bricks on the bridge surface were not ordinary; they were the concretization of the Dun Yi opportunities Lu Qingyang missed in his nine Reincarnations: in his third life, to save all living beings, he resolutely gave up his Sword Bone, like a brilliant meteor streaking across the sky; in his sixth life, entangled by Inner Demon Tribulation, like a candle in the wind, he destroyed his Dao seed; and the Drunken Old Man of the South Sea in the last age was actually the Incarnation of his shattered Soul after his failed Undergoing Tribulation, like a withered petal, drifting alone in the wind.
Yin Jiuyou seized the opportunity to spray his vital essence blood, and the Xiangliu Dharma Idol condensed from foul earth swallowed the entire Heavenly Punishment Platform.
When the seventh snake head bit the Ark of Salvation, the body of the ark suddenly displayed the curse-text totem of the Insect Master Valley.
As the totem rotated, fragments of the Saintess's Primordial Spirit seeped from the poisonous fangs, unexpectedly fusing with Su Meiniang's seven-tailed Fox Fire to form Nirvana True Fire.
The moment the True Fire touched the Rebirth Bridge, the Laws of the thirty-eight layers of Heaven simultaneously trembled, and a tender sprout bursting from the Jianmu annual rings suddenly blossomed into a Dun Yi flower.
At this critical juncture, the Sword of Tribulation seemed to be controlled by a mysterious force, suddenly turning its blade with lightning speed, striking directly at the crown of Lu Qingyang's Xuanming Dharma Idol!
In an instant, with a thunderous roar, the crown of the Xuanming Dharma Idol shattered like broken porcelain!
The splashing sparks, like stars in the Universe, scattered throughout the Chaos Sea, then rapidly condensed, forming nine thousand nine hundred Sword Intent vortices!
These vortices, like black holes in the Universe, devoured everything around them, and at the center of each vortex, a fragment of a Sword Move was suspended—precisely the Moves from the Xuan Ming Sword Canon!
Just then, the bronze ancient blade, like a flash of lightning, cleaved open the largest vortex, and the missing thirteenth Move, 'Dun Yi,' perfectly aligned with the Drunken Old Man of the South Sea's river diagram fragment!
As everyone watched in astonishment, the First Sword Master's remains suddenly stood up, as if controlled by some mysterious power.
The body, long devoid of life, now exuded a chilling aura.
The First Sword Master's jade-green finger bones slowly extended, as if alive, and tightly grasped the Sword of Tribulation.
In an instant, the sword light surged, dazzling like a scorching sun.
At this moment, the Dun Yi flower was completely stunned by this sudden turn of events.
It didn't even have time to react before it was pierced through by the sharp sword edge.
As the sword edge penetrated, the entire Chaos Sea began to tremble violently.
The originally vast and boundless Chaos Sea, at this moment, seemed to be kneaded by an invisible giant hand, rapidly collapsing into a Xuan Huang Dao seed.
On the surface of this Xuan Huang Dao seed, mysterious Heavenly Dao prophecies appeared.
These prophecies, like golden blood, slowly flowed on the surface of the Dao seed, exuding an awe-inspiring aura.
When this golden blood seeped into Lu Qingyang's glabella, a flash of insight suddenly struck him.
He finally understood the truth of the Insect Master Valley's rainy night—the rain that triggered the Gu disaster was not an ordinary natural disaster, but a Dao-destroying tribulation sent by the Heavenly Dao to eradicate the Dun Yi Legacy!