Chapter 1269: Sword Domain Displays Power

After being upgraded, the Primordial Chaos Bell now contained the power of four Great Daos.

The One-Origin Dao Avatar within the Primordial Chaos Dao Fruit, left behind by True Monarch One-Origin before his ascension, only encompassed the Five Elements and Primordial Chaos. Therefore, if the Primordial Chaos Bell were activated by the One-Origin Dao Avatar, its full power could not be unleashed.

However, Chen Mobai's Myriad Swords Dharma Body was different. It was the result of centuries of his arduous cultivation, and because Sword Arts of the Immortal Sect were integrated into its foundation, it could essentially accommodate the power of any Great Dao. The four Great Daos of the One-Origin Dao Scripture were naturally no exception.

As his thoughts stirred, numerous sword intents rose around the Myriad Swords Dharma Body, shimmering like stars, encircling it to form a mysterious Sword Domain that enveloped the Profound Sea outside the Heavenly Veil Earth Net Grand Formation. From a distance, it resembled a deity wielding the sun, moon, and stars, descending upon the sea surface.

At that moment, the Kui Beast had also arrived, unleashing a terrifying power that made the entire East Continent tremble. It opened its mouth and spat a burst of azure lightning at the Myriad Swords Dharma Body blocking its path. The instant the lightning appeared, it split the Profound Sea apart, like a blazing pillar of light. Wherever it passed, seawater evaporated, life perished, and reefs turned to ash. Even space itself seemed unable to withstand it, beginning to constantly distort.

Undeniably, this was power at the Tier 6 level. If it landed on Eastern Yi, the land would likely be torn apart and submerged. Even more terrifying, as this pillar of lightning erupted, the thunder tribulation, already approaching the East Continent, instantaneously began to pour down from the sky like a torrential downpour, accompanied by roaring thunderclaps.

Facing such an unprecedentedly violent heavenly tribulation, all cultivators on Eastern Yi paled, their faces etched with despair. Even the Nascent Soul cultivators stationed here from the Three Great Sacred Lands of the Eastern Lands were utterly horrified. They were more experienced, some having even personally witnessed the tribulations of their own recent Divinity Transformation ancestors, but even a Divinity Transformation tribulation had never reached such a terrifying and vast scale. Facing this wide-reaching heavenly tribulation, even they could only unleash their artifacts, hoping to hold on a little longer, waiting for a Divinity Transformation expert from the East Continent to stand tall.

Just as the thunder tribulation poured down, a deep, resonant bell toll rang out from outside Mount Hesitation. This was the Myriad Swords Dharma Body wielding the Primordial Chaos Bell. Five-colored ripples spread across the Profound Sea like expanding waves. Though seemingly slow, they instantly covered the entirety of Eastern Yi. All the descending heavenly lightning seemed to be enveloped. Regardless of how vast and terrifying the power they contained, they were frozen mid-air by the five-colored ripples, unable to erupt.

This was the wondrous effect of Primordial Chaos True Qi. The lightning of heavenly tribulations, aimed at cultivators, contained various Five Elements transformations. Each time a cultivator broke through, a type of divine lightning designed to counteract them would descend. However, the Primordial Chaos True Qi cultivated from the One-Origin Dao Scripture countered all Five Elements transformations in the world, and this tribulation lightning was naturally included.

As a member of the Immortal Sect, Chen Mobai naturally wouldn't waste this tribulation lightning. With a casual wave, the Purple Lightning Sword, which had been tempered for a long time, flew out from his Dharma Realm. Upon sensing such an abundance of lightning essence outside, it shot up without Chen Mobai's command, plunging into the sea of tribulation lightning clouds that had been stabilized by the Primordial Chaos True Qi, and began to absorb and refine them to its heart's content.

At the same time, above the sea, the Primordial Chaos Bell wielded by the Myriad Swords Dharma Body collided with the pillar of lightning spewed forth by the Kui Beast. Two forces of Tier 6 power erupted in a fierce roar and brilliant light above the Profound Sea. In a daze, Chen Mobai almost thought he had returned to the time he destroyed Pluto with the Primordial Chaos Qi Cannon.

Endless, blazing light spread, causing the East Continent landmass to vibrate and the vast Profound Sea to evaporate. The East Continent fared relatively better, as the Primordial Chaos Bell shielded it, and the remaining shockwaves were unable to breach the Heavenly Veil Earth Net Grand Formation. It merely looked as if the sky was falling and the earth rending, resulting in an earthquake. However, the Profound Sea, unprotected by a grand formation, directly bore the full brunt of the collision between the two Tier 6 forces. The seabed crust, centered around where the Myriad Swords Dharma Body stood, began to crack like a spiderweb. Fiery red, scorching magma gushed out, and combined with the lightning, an unknown quantity of seawater was instantly evaporated, then ignited and exploded.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

After the clash, Chen Mobai naturally held nothing back. The jade-colored Primordial Chaos Bell continuously vibrated in the Myriad Swords Dharma Body's hand, emitting even more profound bell tolls. The aftershocks of the previous exchange had not fully erupted before being suppressed by overwhelming five-colored ripples, which surged towards the Kui Beast from all directions. As they reached the Kui Beast, these ripples seemed to come alive, like threads of multicolored light, interweaving to form a net of heaven and earth that lightly descended.

"Trifling skill!" Facing Chen Mobai's Grand Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Ray, the Kui Beast snorted coldly. Then, it exhaled thunder, and layers of clear light emanated from its body, transforming into transparent qi armor that covered its entire form. The five-colored light rays landed, cutting halfway into the clear qi armor, but could not penetrate further.

Through the sensation transmitted by the divine light rays, Chen Mobai understood that this was the Great Dao of Armor. When cultivated to its peak, even some innate Great Daos could not pierce through its defenses. Although his Grand Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Ray could kill Divinity Transformation cultivators, it was somewhat insufficient to break through this clear qi armor.

At this moment, the clear light of the Kui Beast's qi armor around its body flared brilliantly. The Grand Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Rays embedded within were crushed by an immense power, dispersing into Five Elements spiritual qi that filled the sky.

This was the Great Dao of Strength! A Great Dao inscribed within the bloodlines of all powerful True Spirits.

After obliterating the Grand Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Ray, the Kui Beast lifted its single foot. The thunderclouds beneath it glowed with dazzling crystalline light, instantly transforming into lightning that transcended the Five Elements. Being outside the Five Elements, it was naturally not countered by Primordial Chaos True Qi. Chen Mobai's Primordial Chaos Great Dao had not yet been cultivated to the realm of True Monarch One-Origin, making him unable to utilize the Dao principles of the Five Elements giving birth to all things at a more microscopic level to dissolve and suppress the Kui Beast's transcendent lightning. Therefore, he could only meet this attack head-on.

The jade-colored Primordial Chaos Bell flew from the Myriad Swords Dharma Body's palm, colliding with the Kui Beast's single, stomping foot. An even deeper, muffled sound erupted across the Profound Sea battlefield. At this moment, the two Tier 6 forces surged upwards to the Ninth Heaven and downwards to the Nine Springs. Many Divinity Transformation cultivators from the Heavenly River Realm, observing the battle from the Ninth Heaven, all moved aside to avoid having their Soul Dharma Forms affected. Even the top fifteen experts of the Heavenly River Realm did not dare to approach any closer. This was already a power level that required them to use their ultimate divine abilities or artifacts to withstand.

"True Monarch Tianling is truly fortunate. He hasn't even reached Void Refinement himself, yet his spirit beast has already taken this step first."

"But isn't the East Continent a forbidden zone for the Myriad Spirits Sect? How dare the Kui Beast appear here?"

"It's said that when the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness hadn't yet reached Divinity Transformation, he accidentally used too much force during a fight with the Myriad Spirits Sect's Dao Child and killed him. Old man Tianling must be here to avenge his disciple."

On the Ninth Heaven, numerous Soul Dharma Forms gathered, discussing animatedly the two clashing Tier 6 forces below on the Profound Sea. Among their discussions, the most common topic was naturally whether True Monarch Tianling sending the Kui Beast to the East Continent would cause turmoil in the Upper Realm. After all, regarding the incident with the Nine-Headed Great Sage in the past, though there was no direct evidence, the blame had largely been placed on Dao Monarch Myriad Spirits. And currently, the Heavenly Emperor was changing the rules of the Great Dao alongside the Ancestral Dao Monarchs of the major sacred lands, and Dao Monarch Myriad Spirits was among them. Although the Heavenly River Realm was a lower realm, the Purple Cloud Heavenly Palace certainly had a way to contact the Heavenly Emperor. If this matter were reported, there was no telling how the Heavenly Emperor would view it. However, by common sense, it should be Dao Monarch Myriad Spirits who was troubled.

At the same time, many Divinity Transformation cultivators were focusing on another point. "Where is True Monarch Tianling?"

"Surely he's not just burying his head in the sand, thinking that if the Kui Beast comes, it doesn't count as *him* coming to the East Continent?"

"The strength of this Azure Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness is truly formidable; he's worthy of being the East Continent's foremost expert."

"Although we heard of his feat of slaying the old flood dragon before, he's still too young. We didn't expect him to have already cultivated the One-Origin Dao Avatar to the perfected Divinity Transformation realm. Combined with the top-grade Tier 6 Primordial Chaos Bell, only a handful of individuals across the Five Continents and Four Seas could likely suppress him."

"It's a pity, though. Having provoked Old Man Tianling and encountered the Kui Beast, which has achieved Great Dao mastery and is on the verge of breaking through, he might fall today."

As numerous Divinity Transformation cultivators across the Five Continents and Four Seas watched, the battle between the Myriad Swords Dharma Body and the Kui Beast on the Profound Sea battlefield grew increasingly fierce. The latter began to display its true strength after being refined by the Beast Plate. Furthermore, with the descent of the first layer of thunder tribulation and the endless infusion of lightning essence, the Myriad Swords Dharma Body, which initially traded blows, gradually began to lose its footing.

The offshore seabed crust had completely shattered. Countless living beings perished and returned to the netherworld under the battle of the two Divinity Transformation experts. One could even faintly see dark, yin energy swirling and condensing at the bottom of the sea after the immense slaughter. However, the Heavenly River Realm did not care about these matters, and the Kui Beast was already fighting with bloodshot eyes.

Accompanied by a violent thunderous breath, the Kui Beast, clad in its clear qi armor, forcibly endured a blow from the Primordial Chaos Bell and powerfully thrust its cyan horn towards the Myriad Swords Dharma Body's chest. Under the terrifying Great Dao of Strength, the sword-slaughter array formed by Tier 5 sword intents shattered explosively. However, more sword intents and sword-slaughter rapidly condensed, like myriad stars, slowly resisting the horn that had slammed into the Sword Domain. Coupled with the blessings of the Heavenly Heart from the three frontier regions of the East Continent, the Sky-Severing Sword Domain stabilized.

"Huh, the Kui Beast's movements have slowed down?" On the Ninth Heaven, a Confucian scholar was the first to notice the change on the battlefield and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. "Not only its speed, but its Great Dao power was also reduced by about two-tenths compared to earlier."

Beside the Confucian scholar was an old man wearing a cloth cap. His eyesight seemed even sharper. He observed that the Kui Beast's slowdown was not due to energy depletion as the battle progressed, because after summoning the thunder tribulation, the Kui Beast's power would be inexhaustible as long as it could withstand it. Yet, this problem had now emerged. "It's a strange and powerful sword intent! As the battle continues, it's constantly intercepting the Kui Beast's power and using it to strengthen itself." A purple ring lit up around the old man's pupils. This was an extremely potent spiritual eye technique, which pierced through the Sky-Severing Sword Domain surrounding the Myriad Swords Dharma Body.

This Sword Domain, ever since Chen Mobai cultivated it, had never encountered an opponent that allowed him to fully unleash its potential. After all, in the East Continent, anyone would be defeated in a single move by the Primal Yang Sword and the Primordial Chaos Bell. And existences like True Monarch Suiyu, who were essentially Void Refinement cultivators, had not faced the perfected Tier 5 Myriad Swords Dharma Body either. The Kui Beast was the first opponent capable of battling the Myriad Swords Dharma Body to such an extent.

"It seems this move was recorded in our sect's ancient texts; it's the unique art of that Heavenly Venerable of the East Continent from ancient times!" The Confucian scholar pondered, recalling "Sky-Severing Sword," and transmitted his thoughts via Soul Projection.

"So it *is* the Heavenly Venerable's inheritance. It seems we have a second One-Origin on our hands; sooner or later, he'll cause trouble." Upon hearing this, the old man couldn't help but let out a cold snort. He was none other than the Grand Righteousness Qi Immortal of the Thousand Autumn Pen and Ink Grove, while the Confucian scholar was the Grand Void Immortal of the Grand Void Ethereal Palace. They, along with the Flame Immortal of the Profound Fire Sect in Southern Continent, were known as the "Three Immortals," the top experts of the Heavenly River Realm. One could even say they were the strongest, because they could wield Dao-attesting treasures. Even existences like the Lord of the Central Demonic Path, who could enter Void Refinement at any moment, could only hide and evade when facing the Grand Void Immortal. The Thousand Autumn Pen and Ink Grove and True Monarch One-Origin had some past grievances, and consequently, the Grand Righteousness Qi Immortal also found Chen Mobai, the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness who inherited the One-Origin Dao Palace, somewhat disagreeable.

"I, however, find this junior quite pleasing to the eye," the Grand Void Immortal interjected. "After all, he's a cultivator of our righteous path. If guided properly, perhaps he could succeed us in guarding the Heavenly River Realm after we ascend." The Grand Void Immortal's words caused the other Divinity Transformation cultivators, who had originally intended to keep their distance from the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness due to the Grand Righteousness Qi Immortal's remarks, to exchange bewildered glances.

"Can these two esteemed seniors perhaps come to a unified opinion? Otherwise, it's difficult for us to choose sides." In response, the Grand Righteousness Qi Immortal fell silent, saying nothing more.

At this point, on the Profound Sea battlefield, the Myriad Swords Dharma Body had finally reduced the Kui Beast's power to its limit. Any further and the Sky-Severing Sword Domain would be unable to bear it. With this give-and-take, the Myriad Swords Dharma Body's power also broke through its previous limits, bolstered by the Sword Domain. This was not the Myriad Swords Dharma Body itself advancing to Tier 6, but rather one of the sword intents within the Sword Domain, which, after absorbing the Kui Beast's Dao power, finally underwent its most crucial transformation.

Boom! An earth-shattering thunderclap suddenly erupted from a purple star behind the Myriad Swords Dharma Body's head. This was the Purple Splendor Sword Intent!