Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao-Chapter 1375 - 116: Heaven Breaking Sword Formation
Zhou Yan followed his will, writing with the power of his bloodline, and the Tai Chu runes in the written places began to transform entirely.
Golden rays of light began to envelop Zhou Yan, making him appear like a giant clad in golden armor. This scene was exactly like when the Xuanyuan Sword Xuanyuan Ancestor appeared.
Zhou Yan’s mind slightly wavered, a deviation appeared, as he suddenly considered whether the Xuanyuan Ancestor’s original form was perhaps an incomplete form of an Eternal Spirit?
Zhou Yan pondered silently, his writing paused but nothing strange happened, and there was no backlash.
During the writing process, Zhou Yan comprehended the powerful secret technique and energy of the Heaven Breaking Eight Diagram Array. Even mastering just one aspect of it was already enough to provide a slight self-preservation power.
When the time comes, even when facing Eternal Life Beings of the Eternal Nine Rules Realm, Zhou Yan need not worry about being instantly killed.
The function of the array map is beyond imagination, even surpassing the allure of the True Void Heavenly Prohibition, and among them, the King Array Map is preeminent.
It can be said that the King Array Map is by far the best means of self-defense and enemy defeat in the world.
After pausing, Zhou Yan thought silently about the Xuanyuan Ancestor, yet discovered some issues he had overlooked.
The Soul Burying Starfield harbors innumerable secrets, less than a tenth of which can be unraveled.
As for why Mu Qingyan eventually appeared and destroyed everything to end the layout, perhaps no one knows except the one who orchestrated it.
Even the reason why Mu Qingyan was frozen there remains a mystery.
Perhaps, that setup had reached a critical moment and could no longer preserve certain things, leaving only the option of violent destruction, retreating to advance, sacrificing a pawn to save the king.
Contemplating this method, Zhou Yan’s mind became increasingly clearer.
Zhou Yan composed himself and continued to comprehend the Heaven Breaking Eight Diagram Array.
This first Light Gate Stone Pillar is the array map of the First Layer.
The First Layer Array Map corresponds to the Sky-breaking Sword Sword Array.
Reaching this point in his comprehension, Zhou Yan felt his heart leap.
A familiar feeling emerged; the Sky-breaking Sword, the various forms and rules of the Heaven Breaking Sword Array share a remarkable similarity with the Ten Thousand Soul Sword Dao and Ten Thousand Ghost Sword Dao.
Yet, the gap between the Ten Thousand Soul Ten Thousand Ghost Sword Dao and the Sky-breaking Sword remains significant.
The Ten Thousand Soul Ten Thousand Ghost Sword Dao is merely a sword dao, possessing only some of the secret techniques and distinctive traits and layout skills of the Sky-breaking Sword Sword Array, lacking many other similarities.
However, after years of comprehending the Ten Thousand Soul Ten Thousand Ghost Sword Dao, and even founding the Ancestor Dragon Emperor Venerate Sword Dao, Zhou Yan once again faced this sword dao, instantly feeling a sense of Sword Heart Clarity.
At all times, he seemed to dominate the sword dao of heaven and earth, as if this ability activated the feature of the ruler’s sword body.
Sword Body.
A sovereign-like Sword Body.
An emperor-like Sword Body.
Invincible, Only I Am Supreme.
In this state, Zhou Yan’s subsequent carvings became incredibly relaxing.
In fact, with each carving, he carved with a force that penetrated deep, powerful and vigorous.
This state persisted; when Zhou Yan wrote a blood-colored Emperor Pattern, he could fully comprehend the unique power of this sword array.
Following this, integrating with the Xuanyuan Sword, Zhou Yan began deriving, deriving one move after another.
Each sword strike emitted a beam of Sword Intent light, forming a unique Light Saber that occupied an interstitial space in heaven and earth.
Subsequently, "Swish swish swish—"
Zhou Yan unleashed several sword lights, which stayed clumped in the void rather than dispersing, creating a unique vortex pattern.
The vortex pattern similarly gathered, and upon coming together, Zhou Yan found that this pattern formed an Eight Diagram Diagram drawn from the formidable power of Sword Dao.
Within this Eight Diagram there was something like a Light Gate acting as its energy core.
This Light Gate Stone Stele was precisely the core of Zhou Yan’s Sword Dao.
And within this Eight Diagram, not only was there a fish-eye, but also outer corresponding horizontal lines, and sword marks representing the Heaven and Earth positions.
These parts combined, and when Zhou Yan struck with a sword, a will within him suddenly imprinted the array map into the void.
Unexpectedly, the void suddenly trembled, followed by a very apparent transformation.
In that piece of space within the void, a Light Gate appeared, containing only a solitary stele.
The stele stood there tall and alone, presenting a very eerie presence.
Zhou Yan concentrated an Eternal Karma into it.
As soon as this energy entered, the stele instantly released a terrifying killing intent. This killing intent made Zhou Yan’s pupils contract sharply.
"This— This is the same unknown destructive killing intent I encountered with the Heavenly Repair Stone! How, how could this be!"
"What kind of attack is this? Why would a stele launch such an attack? Where does the origin of this attack come from? Is this the Sword Dao of the Sky-breaking Sword?"
Zhou Yan was shocked in his heart.
Back then, when facing the Heavenly Repair Stone, the tragic scene of Yi Xueyao was deeply etched in Zhou Yan’s memory for a lifetime, and that terrible killing intent, if not for the Merit Power, how could Zhou Yan have resisted it?
In fact, because of the Merit Power, Zhou Yan attracted the attention of the Heavenly Repair Stone. Perhaps it was the stone that suppressed that killing intent, allowing Zhou Yan to escape such a murderous environment and danger.
And that was just a nameless killing intent that appeared intermittently, and it wasn’t particularly strong.
But here, the killing intent emitted by the stele within this array map made Zhou Yan’s heart skip a beat.
At this moment, Zhou Yan had already reached the Ninth Layer Realm of the First Immortality Principle, advancing at an extraordinary speed.
Moreover, after his soul strengthened ten thousandfold, his own realm stabilized to the extreme. Only by comprehending the ultimate in Sky Creation Immortality can one take a leadership position in this immortality principle.
Any immortality principle perfected to the extreme would be exceedingly powerful.
Even so, Zhou Yan still couldn’t sense how overpowering and abnormal this killing intent was, couldn’t feel how defiant this killing intent’s state was.
But this doesn’t mean the killing intent is weak; rather, even with Zhou Yan’s current combat power, he couldn’t perceive this killing intent’s destructive power of several Eternal Life principles.
What a terrifying situation this is.
If he continues to delve deeper, to master this Heaven Breaking Eight Diagram Sword Formation?
Zhou Yan’s mind moved, retracting that imposing Sword Dao. In the next moment, Zhou Yan felt his soul body’s strength suddenly weaken significantly, from a hundredfold, it instantly reduced to twentyfold.
In an instant, it decreased by four-fifths!
Zhou Yan’s heart sank, immediately understanding that this sword formation is highly exhaustive on the soul.
However, this isn’t the true decrease in soul strength; it’s just a temporary decline due to the depletion of soul power.
Zhou Yan concentrated and held his breath, continued breathing cultivation, and after nearly an hour, he managed to restore his soul’s strength.
Recovering soul power is much harder in the outside world. With Zhou Yan’s strong soul body ability, it would still take almost half a day to recover this level of depletion outside.
Half a day is an astonishing amount of time.
Half a day in a weakened soul state equates to an extreme state of frailty, a condition perilously visible when encountering enemies.
After recovery, Zhou Yan no longer distracted himself but instead focused on understanding the changes in this array map.
The first change was the Eight Diagram change of the Heaven Breaking Sword Formation, and after understanding for half a day, Zhou Yan had completely mastered this change.
Then, Zhou Yan began to write the second Light Gate.
The primordial runes on the second Light Gate’s stele were more profound, requiring Zhou Yan to think while writing.
However, this thinking didn’t take long. After nearly a day, Zhou Yan wrote all these runes on the stone pillar with bloodline Emperor Seal.
Because of Zhou Yan’s actions, those stone pillars turned crimson like blood, with the Emperor Pattern above shining with powerful, mysterious power that others couldn’t comprehend.
The Emperor Pattern inherently belongs to each being’s unique Eternal Life Path, stemming from the evolution of primordial runes into a transformation of personal progression.
Though many Emperor Patterns have the same meaning, each Eternal Life being engraves their Emperor Pattern with their own essence and imposing will, making even identical Emperor Patterns represent different things.
The Emperor Pattern Zhou Yan mastered originated from the bloodline Emperor Pattern, serving as a foundational element.
And the Emperor Pattern Zhou Yan engraved was a creation of his own, combining the foundational Emperor Pattern with his understanding of the primordial runes.
This is the ability each immortal must possess.
Just like enlightenment in the Sea of Suffering Realm, the same Tao is basic, but each person’s enlightenment leads them to different understandings, more in harmony with the comprehender themselves.
The principle is the same.
So, the Emperor Pattern engraved this way seemed beyond the understanding of anyone but Zhou Yan.
Having understood the second level of the Heaven Breaking Sword Array, Zhou Yan began to grasp the fundamentals of the array.
This array’s secret technique was immensely broad and profound, very refined.
After fully comprehending, Zhou Yan spent another three days and nights deep in thought and analysis before finally entering the third Light Gate.
In the Light Gate, there were still steles and primordial runes.
This time, the primordial runes were even more obscure and complex, at times impeding Zhou Yan’s understanding.
At this point, Zhou Yan completely calmed his mind, contemplating silently.
Zhou Yan comprehended the third Light Gate for a full ten days and nights.
The duration was terrifyingly long.
After comprehending and engraving his own blood-colored Emperor Pattern, Zhou Yan spent another nearly five days and nights to fully integrate it all.
By then, Zhou Yan suddenly enlightened, finally connecting all the primordial runes in the Soul Burying Starfield, even understanding them clearly as if he had unlocked the Nine Orifice Exquisite Heart.
