453: Chapter 453 Breakthrough to the Spirit Immortal Realm! Slaying the Heavenly Venerable and Forcibly Seizing the Spirit Emperor's Origin

When Profound Sound flew in front of Lu Sheng, Lu Sheng was no longer kneeling.

He sat cross-legged in space. Beneath his feet, he stepped on a two-meter square dark-gold Law platform—the Law power of the Spirit Immortal Realm can create a local gravitational field; he was too lazy to float, so he made himself a "floor."

Sitting and panting.

There wasn't a single good spot on his body. The Dragon scales were mostly shattered, and the dark-gold Law luster flickered on the surface of his skin. The elemental dao body's automatic repair was putting his broken ribs back together bit by bit. Pain. A dull pain. But compared to when he took that Origin Detonation from Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate just now—this bit of pain was negligible.

Profound Sound landed three meters in front of him.

She didn't stand on a Law platform, just suspended there. She had many injuries—a large patch of frostbite on her right arm, purple and blue, left by Qing Ming's Ice-Sealing Ray. There were dried bloodstains at the corners of her mouth. Half of her hair was loose.

But her eyes were scanning everywhere.

Space was empty. In the distance, a few pieces of ancient warship wreckage remained, but nearby, everything was gone. No blue-and-white figure, no fluctuations of Ice-Sealing Law, no suffocating pressure of a Peak Spirit Saint Late Stage.

Only some blue-and-white Law particles drifted in space.

Those particles were being pulled toward Lu Sheng's body by gravity—the heaven swallowing furnace was operating automatically.

"Really dead?"

"Mm."

"How did he die?"

Lu Sheng lifted his eyelids to look at her. "Beaten to death by me."

"..."

"Don't ask about the specific process." Lu Sheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a metallic, rusty taste. "It's too long to say, and some parts even I find outrageous."

Profound Sound opened her mouth.

She wanted to ask. She had ten thousand questions to ask.

When Lu Sheng went in—Peak Spirit Saint.

Now—dark-gold Law fluctuations flowed over him. The quality, density, and depth of those fluctuations—were completely on a different level from a Peak Spirit Saint.

"Your Excellency... you have also broken through to the Spirit Immortal Realm?"

"Mm."

"Inside the spherical space?"

"Mm."

"You broke through while fighting Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate?"

"More or less."

Profound Sound's mouth closed.

She stared at Lu Sheng for several seconds, her expression complex. There was shock, bewilderment, and something indefinable—probably the helplessness of "I know you're strong, but can you not be so outrageous."

"I have many questions."

"Talk about it when we get back." Lu Sheng waved his hand. He was in no mood to replay the battle now; every cell in his body was clamoring for rest. "Where's Qing Ming?"

"Ran away."

Lu Sheng's movements paused for a moment. "Ran away?"

"The moment Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law fluctuations disappeared—he left immediately. He was very fast; I chased for two thousand meters while injured and then gave up. A full-speed escape by a Peak Mid Spirit Saint Stage—couldn't catch up."

Lu Sheng frowned, but only for a moment.

"If he ran, he ran."

A Peak Mid Spirit Saint Stage who had lost his master couldn't stir up much trouble in the Old God Domain. Lu Sheng didn't have the energy to worry about a fish that had slipped through the net right now.

He propped himself up on the Law platform to stand. His legs were a bit weak. Not because of the injuries—but because the aftereffects of the Origin Detonation were still there. Twenty percent of his spirit source capacity was permanently lost; although the heaven swallowing furnace was using Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law particles to repair it, the repair speed wasn't that fast.

The external injuries on his body were mostly healed. The elemental dao body of the Spirit Immortal Realm was indeed excessively strong in terms of self-repair—his ribs were completely reconnected, and the hole in his left waist pierced by the ice-sealed longsword had also closed, leaving only a faint dark-gold scar.

But his spirit source—was only a bit over twenty percent.

He was now like a tank with an almost empty fuel tank. The firepower was still there, the armor was still there, but he couldn't go many steps.

"Take a break." Lu Sheng sat back down.

heaven swallowing furnace fully open.

The space of the Old God Abyss was now full of energy everywhere. After the spherical space collapsed, the Origin energy of the remains of the spirit emperor lost its confinement and was spreading outward over a large area. Gold and Chaos-colored spirit source particles permeated the space for dozens of kilometers around, the concentration reaching an absurd level.

For a Spirit Immortal Realm Cultivator—this was like soaking in a gold mine.

Lu Sheng closed his eyes.

The heaven swallowing furnace's gravitational field expanded to its maximum range, greedily pouring all the Law particles and Origin energy it could devour from the surroundings into his body. Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's blue-and-white Law particles were prioritized for devouring—these particles had once constituted the elemental dao body of a Spirit Immortal Realm expert, and their quality was extremely high. The heaven swallowing furnace decomposed, purified, and converted them, partly supplementing his spirit source and partly used to repair the permanent damage from the Origin Detonation.

Profound Sound found a piece of space debris nearby and sat down.

She didn't disturb Lu Sheng. She also sat cross-legged, using the Sound System Law to slowly regulate the Law operation rhythm in her body that had been disrupted by Qing Ming's Ice-Sealing Ray.

Space was excessively quiet.

That Spirit Immortal Realm level battle just now had cleared all the debris within fifty kilometers. Any ancient warship wreckage or shattered celestial bodies—all were ground into powder by the battle's aftershocks. The area of space they were sitting in now was as empty as a cleaned tabletop.

One hour.

Lu Sheng's spirit source rose from twenty percent to fifty percent. The speed wasn't slow. The energy concentration of the Old God Abyss helped a lot.

Two hours. Seventy percent.

The devouring efficiency of the heaven swallowing furnace at the Spirit Immortal Realm level was more than a grade stronger than at the Peak Spirit Saint level. Things that used to take three or four hours now only took two.

Three hours.

Ninety percent.

The upper limit of his spirit source capacity was stuck at eighty percent—the permanent loss from the Origin Detonation hadn't been fully repaired yet. But the System notification had already popped up.

"Ding! Permanent spirit source capacity loss has been restored to eight percent—Current spirit source upper limit: 88%."

It rose from eighty percent to eighty-eight percent. Eight percentage points were restored. Twelve more to go.

Lu Sheng did the math in his head. According to the current repair speed, the remaining twelve percentage points would probably take another seven to eight hours—provided that the high-quality Law particles nearby weren't consumed.

"No rush."

He opened his eyes.

His physical state had recovered to a level where he could fight. Although the spirit source upper limit wasn't full, with ninety percent of his spirit source filled into an eighty-eight percent capacity—the actual available Law power had already exceeded seventy-five percent of his normal state.

Enough.

Time for business.

"Let's go."

Profound Sound stood up from the debris. "Where to?"

"To the spherical space side. The core of the remains of the spirit emperor is still there."

Profound Sound's expression shifted. "Still there? Hasn't Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate been devouring it for a long time?"

"He devoured the peripheral energy. The core area—he didn't touch much."

The two of them flew toward the wreckage of the spherical space.

Calling it a spherical space, it actually wasn't spherical anymore. The structure of the law threads continued to disintegrate after losing Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's maintenance. The originally complete spherical surface was now shattered like a glass ball that had been punched. Large nets of law threads fell off the spherical surface and drifted slowly in space, silver-white fragments shimmering in the darkness.

Lu Sheng flew into the interior of the spherical space through a large crack.

The spirit source ocean no longer existed. Most of the high-concentration spirit source particles that had previously filled the spherical space had dissipated after the space collapsed. But the Origin of the core area—

Was still there.

A sphere about three meters in diameter.

Suspended in the exact center of the shattered space. It emitted a Chaos-colored glow. That glow wasn't blinding, but looking at it for long would make one's scalp tingle—it was the natural radiation of a Spirit Emperor Realm level Law Origin.

Lu Sheng flew in front of the sphere.

Dragon Eyes fully open. The dark-gold Cross-shaped Pupils scanned the internal structure of the sphere—

He stopped.

Then he took a deep breath.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate had devoured it for hundreds of years—and only devoured over eighty percent of the peripheral energy. That energy was already enough for him to charge from Peak Spirit Saint Late Stage to the Spirit Immortal Realm. But the core area—

Was almost untouched.

Inside the three-meter diameter sphere, the Spirit Emperor Realm Law Origin patterns were clear, the structure complete, and the purity so high that Lu Sheng's Dragon Eyes felt a sting looking into it.

"This thing..."

Lu Sheng reached out and touched the surface of the sphere.

Hot.

Not hot in the physical sense. It was a burning sensation caused by the quality gap in Law energy. The Spirit Emperor Realm Origin to an Early Stage Spirit Immortal Realm body—was like boiling water to a paper cup. It wasn't that it couldn't be touched, but pouring it directly inside would surely burst it.

His fingers stayed on the surface of the sphere for less than a second before he pulled back. The dark-gold Dragon scales on his fingertips showed slight discoloration.

"Too concentrated."

"Your Excellency?" Profound Sound flew up behind him.

"This thing cannot be absorbed directly. The Spirit Emperor Realm Origin energy—my current body cannot take it."

Profound Sound looked at the sphere, and after her sonic perception scanned it, her expression also changed. "This energy concentration..."

"It's at least two orders of magnitude higher than Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's spirit source core." Lu Sheng withdrew his hand. "Take it away first. It can't stay here—the commotion in the Old God Abyss is so big, sooner or later other forces will come to take advantage."

He opened his storage space.

The sphere moved slowly under the pull of Law gravity—and entered the storage space.

At the moment it was taken in, the walls of the storage space were scorched with a layer of dark-gold Law patterns by the radiation of the Origin energy.

"Digest it slowly after returning." Lu Sheng closed the storage space.

"If this thing is completely refined—"

He didn't finish his sentence.

But Profound Sound understood what he meant. Spirit Emperor Realm Law Origin. Even if only one-tenth was refined—for an Early Stage Spirit Immortal Realm Cultivator, that would be a bone-transforming Opportunity.

Lu Sheng took one last look at the collapsing wreckage of the spherical space.

Silver-white law threads scattered and fell in the darkness.

This ancient cage that had imprisoned the remains of the spirit emperor for who knows how many tens of thousands of years was finally completely shattered.

"Let's go. Home."