361: Chapter 352 The Sixth Incarnation: Heavenly Venerable (Forty)

During these hundred years, the greatest change occurred in Xu Yuan's original body, which was still gestating within the Source Sea of Laws.

To Xu Yuan's original self—who was in the deepest level of gestation, resisting the endless Law turbulence and undergoing the ultimate tempering of the "Chaos Dao Body"—the passage of a hundred years felt entirely different from the outside world and his two Incarnations.

In the Source Sea of Laws, a forbidden land where time and space are completely disordered, Great Dao fragments eternally collide and annihilate, and all concepts tend toward chaotic rage, the time scale of a "hundred years" has itself lost its linear meaning.

Perhaps a mere instant passes outside while ten thousand years of scouring occur here; or perhaps the outside world experiences vast changes while only a single thought arises and passes here.

But for Xu Yuan, this span marked as a "hundred years" by the outside world—regardless of whether the corresponding time flow here was fast or slow—meant a never-ending, extremely perilous, yet unimaginably rewarding journey of "Dao Refinement"!

Its significance could be called—

A complete Rebirth! A reshaping of the Origin!

A hundred years of suffering, a hundred years of tempering, a hundred years of devouring!

The Sacred Light Cocoon was no longer the relatively "smooth" embryonic shell it had been when it first entered the Source Sea of Laws.

Its surface was covered with billions of crisscrossing cracks of varying depths, each one recording the impact of an apocalyptic Law turbulence and a peril that brought it to the brink of collapse.

However, these cracks did not make the light cocoon fragile; instead, through countless Samsara cycles of destruction and Rebirth, they were forcibly infused, smelted, and branded with the characteristics of Great Dao fragments from different sources—

The silent dao patterns of "death" bestowed upon it the toughness to bear the end, remaining undecayed and unperished;

The creative power of "life" gave it self-repairing, unending vitality;

The true meaning of "time's" accumulation allowed its structure to resist the scouring of years and anchor its existence with stability;

The cornerstone Dao Rhyme of "space" reinforced its framework of dimensional stability and internal universe;

The destructive thunder of "destruction" tempered extreme resistance and counterattack potential;

The entangled traces of "Order" and "Chaos" caused the surface of the light cocoon to display Chaos patterns that both followed an internal logic and were full of infinite evolutionary possibilities...

This light cocoon itself could already be considered a strange dao treasure embryo, forcibly melded and tempered from the fragments of the ten thousand Daos of the heavens!

Inside the light cocoon, that innate sacred fetus had already undergone an earth-shattering transformation that surpassed all records!

The embryo's entire body was no longer covered in single-attribute dao patterns, but in billions of strands of "Chaos dao patterns"—colors blurred, attributes indistinguishable, yet flowing harmoniously as if containing all the possibilities of the ten thousand Daos of the heavens!

Its flesh, bones, Meridians, and Acupoints had all turned into miniature "Chaos Furnaces" and "Great Dao Carriers," containing within them the supreme Dao Rhyme of unending life and the evolution of all things.

Its "Divine Soul" essence was as deep as an abyss and as inclusive as a sea, seemingly able to reflect, understand, and to some extent, harmonize the rhythmic conflicts of the ten thousand Daos of the heavens.

The completed "Samsara Imprint" had thoroughly fused with its true spirit, becoming a part of its Foundation. Meanwhile, that mysterious "stat-point" trace lay quietly dormant, like its deepest reserve and trump card.

The prototype of the Chaos Dao Body was formed!

Although this prototype of the "Chaos Dao Body" had not yet fully "emerged" and had not reached its theoretical state of perfection, its high essence, immense potential, and thick Foundation had already reached a terrifying level that even Xu Yuan himself found difficult to estimate!

"A hundred years of Dao Refinement, Chaos is first formed."

Within that core "Innate Spiritual Light," Xu Yuan's original consciousness slowly "awakened," and a majestic Dao Rhyme that controlled itself and looked down upon the ten thousand Daos flowed naturally.

He "watched" his own Chaos embryo, which was still slowly evolving and growing through devouring, feeling the infinite power and possibilities within it.

"The storm outside is coming... I can clearly feel that this world is about to face a boundless Killing Tribulation..."

Xu Yuan's consciousness seemed to penetrate the light cocoon and the violent Source Sea of Laws, touching the suffocating Evil Qi of the Killing Tribulation that was frantically gathering in the world.

"Then, it is time for the final sprint."

Xu Yuan's will was more concentrated and firm than ever before.

"The Chaos Dao Body prototype is formed; next is to accelerate the gestation."

...

In the place of extreme Chaos, deep within the folds of time and space, the location of Karma's annihilation.

This place had experienced a hundred years of deathly silence, with only the most primordial Chaos air currents and the Dao Rhyme of All Venerables surging like rivers, intertwining and scouring an artifact embryo that floated in the center of the void, constantly breathing in and out the aura of destruction and Rebirth.

After a hundred years of refinement, combining the source Dao Rhymes of the oldest Dao Lords of death, life, time, space, destruction, Order, Chaos, and creation, and melding peerless divine materials such as Chaos Innate Mother Qi, Karma-Fate Curios, and Void Dimension Divine Iron, at this moment—

"Buzz—!!"

A low hum that did not travel through any medium, but directly shook "existence" itself, causing the surrounding chaotic time and space to freeze and wail, erupted from within that artifact embryo!

In an instant, the endless Chaos air currents reversed, and the Dao Rhymes of All Venerables surged into the embryo like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

On the embryo's surface, the originally blurred and rough outline suddenly burst forth with boundless radiance!

The radiance was not a single color, but gray-white, emerald green, silver-gray, transparent, pitch black, blood red, gold, dark, purple, dark green...

Ten colors intertwined, yet were strangely and harmoniously unified, emitting an ultimate artifact pressure that obscured heavenly secrets, confused Karma, isolated the ten thousand Daos, and imprisoned time and space, freezing the very Soul!

The embryo rapidly expanded, deformed, and solidified!

Finally, it transformed into a three-legged, two-eared, simple and heavy object, its entire body flowing with ten-colored Chaos dao patterns—

A Giant Cauldron!

Upon the cauldron's body, there naturally emerged relief carvings of the Coffin of the end representing "death," textures of the Primal Egg symbolizing "life," engravings of the Broken Long River flowing with "time," a Dimensional Cornerstone Dao Seal bearing "space," an illustration of silent destruction thunder exploding with "destruction," chains and dark vortexes intertwining "Order" and "Chaos," and scenes of the cycle of life and death evolving "creation" and "Decay"...

The Dao Rhymes of All Venerables were perfectly fused yet retained their individual characteristics, together forming a terrifying Great Dao map that covered the birth and death of the ten thousand Daos of the heavens, seemingly capable of refining everything!

The mouth of the cauldron was misty with Chaos and bottomless, as if it connected to the end where all things return to the void, yet also seemed to lead to the Origin of all possibilities.

Inside the cauldron was a world of its own, where time and space were stagnant, Karma was severed, and the ten thousand Daos were forbidden—it was an absolute cage and a refinement furnace!

"The heaven refining cauldron—is complete!"

A cold, deathly declaration, yet one containing a decisive will like the creation of the world, was not a sound but a resonance of the heaven refining cauldron's own Dao Rhyme. It swept out, instantly spreading through this hidden refinement place and echoing in the depths of the will of every Ancient Lord who participated in the refinement through the subtle connection between All Venerables!

The Heaven-Reaching Magic Treasure—the heaven refining cauldron, after a hundred years, was finally complete!