Chapter 72 Chopping Wood Through the Heavenly Dao?
Inside the small courtyard, a gentle breeze blew.
Xiao Yuer, with her hair in two ox-horn braids, stood under the osmanthus tree. She tightly gripped the rusty executioner immortal array map iron piece, gesturing toward a hard Ironwood stump.
Lin Yuan held a bowl of century egg and pork congee that Tantai Jinyue had just finished brewing. He took a sip and casually offered some guidance.
"Xiao Yuer, don't just use brute force to split wood. Look at the grain of the wood and follow its veins. Keep your heart calm and your hand steady, allowing your heartbeat and the sound of the wind to achieve Fusion."
"I understand, Revered Master!"
Xiao Yuer nodded obediently. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
After so many days of sparring with the four great Immortal Kings, combined with this kind of tedious 'wood-splitting' training every day, the potential within Xiao Yuer's body had already reached a critical point.
As Lin Yuan's casual guidance to 'follow the veins' fell, Xiao Yuer's mind suddenly cleared.
She snapped her eyes open, and the rusty iron piece in her hand swung forward weightlessly.
"Crack."
That Ironwood, which even a Flying Sword would struggle to leave a mark on, was sliced smoothly in half like soft tofu.
But this was only the beginning!
As this strike fell, the ten thousand dormant Dragon Elephant Particles within Xiao Yuer's body seemed to hear some world-shaking clarion call and instantly began to boil!
Twenty thousand! Thirty thousand! Fifty thousand!
In the blink of an eye, a full hundred thousand Ancient Dragon Elephant particles had completely achieved Awakening within her body!
"Boom—!"
An indescribable, terrifying vitality and murderous Sword Intent erupted directly from Xiao Yuer's petite body, turning into a blinding pillar of light that pierced through the clouds of Qingyun City!
The heavens changed.
The originally clear sky was instantly dyed a brilliant dark gold.
Above the Nine Heavens, the phantoms of ten million Ancient Divine Elephants and ancient Dragons faintly emerged. They roared at the sky, their voices shattering the stars across the firmament.
And in the center of these endless Dragon Elephant phantoms, a blood-colored ancient sword phantom that spanned heaven and earth slowly condensed. Within that Sword Intent was a supreme dominance that could destroy the heavens and strip away the vitality of all things!
At this moment, the Laws of the entire Eastern Wasteland were mourning violently, as if welcoming the birth of a supreme Sword Master.
...
On the construction site just a wall away.
Tens of thousands of outsourced laborers, who had just picked up their rice bowls to enjoy their morning 'Corn bun and Pickles' welfare, all froze in place.
"Clatter."
The piece of pickle in True Immortal Old Ancestor Cangqiongzi's hand dropped into the mud, but he was completely unaware. He stared fixedly upward at the terrifying Dragon Elephant phenomenon and the Executioner Immortal sword shadow in the sky, his jaw nearly dropping to his chest.
"This... what level of heaven and earth phenomenon is this?!"
Cangqiongzi trembled all over. He was a True Immortal! But before that Sword Intent phantom, he felt his True Immortal Dao Fruit was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper!
Right beside him, stuck in a mud pit and about to take a large bite of a Corn bun, Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo was so frightened that even his half-body curled into a ball.
"The blood-qi of the Ancient Dragon Elephant? And that... peerless killing intent that can even sever the Origin of my Abyss Demon Realm?!"
Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo's eyes bulged, his face crisscrossed with mud and water, his voice carrying unprecedented terror and shock.
He recognized that Sword Intent! It was the same source of power that had sliced him in two above the Nine Heavens yesterday!
Lei Mingzi swallowed hard and pointed tremblingly inside the courtyard wall.
"Old Ancestor... the source of that phenomenon seems to be... Little Senior Sister practicing splitting wood..."
As soon as these words were spoken, the sound of tens of thousands of people gasping for air almost knocked over the newly laid blue brick walls.
A little girl of seven or eight!
Splitting wood with a piece of scrap iron!
Not only did she achieve the Awakening of the legendary Ancient Dragon Elephant power, but she also drew out a supreme sword Dao phenomenon capable of slaying a True Immortal?!
"Crazy... this world has gone completely crazy!"
Blood Sword Sect Leader Xue Kuang knelt on the ground, head in his hands, his Dao Heart completely collapsed. What kind of god-like Sect had they provoked in the first place! Even a seven-year-old girl could poke a hole in the sky just by splitting wood!
Cangqiongzi's eyes shone, his breathing extremely rapid.
"What do you know! This is exactly the supreme educational merit of the Overseer!"
Cangqiongzi wept tears of joy, pointing at the phenomenon in the sky as he wildly over-interpreted: "The Lord letting Little Senior Sister split wood isn't doing Mortal chores at all! That is using the grain of the wood to deconstruct the Laws of the Heavenly Dao! That rusty iron piece is clearly the supreme array map carrying the Number One Ancient Killing Array!"
"Using the lowliest labor of the Mortal world to point directly at the Origin of the Great Dao! What Heaven-Defying spirit this is!"
Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo was stunned, then he suddenly slapped his thigh in realization:
"No wonder the Lord made me mix mud here! It turns out that within this mud pit, there also lies the supreme truth leading to the God Realm!"
This former ancient god was completely won over. He grabbed a handful of thin mud, not even eating his Corn bun anymore, and fanatically rushed to the front line of the construction site:
"Everyone move aside! Today, this ancestor will use Dragon Elephant power to lay this wall! Whoever dares to stop my enlightenment, this ancestor will slap them to death!"
Seeing Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo transform into the Ultimate grinding demon, tens of thousands of Zixiao Holy Land Cultivators were not to be outdone, picking up their shovels with a roar.
...
Meanwhile, inside the small courtyard.
Lin Yuan was drinking his congee when he suddenly felt the sky darken and a wild wind kick up around him.
He looked up at the fancy phantoms in the sky, his brow furrowing slightly.
"The weather in this Eastern Wasteland really changes on a whim. It was sunny just a moment ago, and now there's thunder and wind. Looks like a heavy rain is coming."
Lin Yuan set down his porcelain bowl and beckoned to Xiao Yuer, who was still immersed in the pleasure of her Breakthrough:
"Alright, Xiao Yuer, quickly put the firewood in the woodshed so it doesn't get soaked. Come over and drink this bowl of century egg and pork congee; it'll taste fishy once it's cold."
"Oh, okay, Revered Master!"
Xiao Yuer replied obediently, flicked her wrist, and tucked the rusty iron piece into her waist.
The moment she put away the iron piece.
The terrifying phenomenon in the sky that had shocked the entire Shenhuang Continent and made countless experts bow down in worship instantly dispersed without a trace!
The clouds parted and the mist vanished as sunlight once again brightly illuminated the courtyard.
The old monsters outside the wall saw this and once again knelt down in a large crowd.
A single sentence made the Heavenly Tribulation phenomenon, which was enough to destroy heaven and earth, instantly dissipate!
What was this? This was called 'words becoming Law'! This meant even the Heavenly Dao had to make way for the Overseer's breakfast!
"Jinyue." Lin Yuan wiped his mouth and looked toward the gate. "Go outside and tell that group of Masons that the weather is good today, so they should speed up the progress and finish the foundation for the north of the city early."
"Yes, Young Master." Tantai Jinyue withdrew, her eyes full of adoration.