I Have an Omen System-Chapter 75 - 73: Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment
The moment Qin Xuan manifested the Heart-Burning Candle.
In a pitch-black secret chamber within the Vast Qi Tower, a faint candlelight suddenly flickered to life.
On the empty desk, the candlelight glowed a dim yellow.
But strangely, after Qin Xuan manifested the Heart-Burning Candle, the dim yellow flame suddenly grew a size larger, and the area it illuminated on the desk expanded as well.
Hidden in the darkness, Ji Boyan’s eyes snapped open, a flash of joy in their depths.
’Another Cultivator from our Holy Sect has attained the Si Fire Position!’
’There is hope for the path of the Dao!’
Ji Boyan eagerly performed a divination with his fingers, attempting to discover who this person was.
But no matter how he calculated, he simply couldn’t find their true identity!
Deep confusion appeared on Ji Boyan’s face.
’How strange. I couldn’t find the Heart-Burning Candle, but I did discover that old rascal Profound Snake has manifested the Dunzang Flame Demon and fallen into Yan’Er’s scheme.’
’Could it be a spy from the Cyan Cloud Sect who has infiltrated our Holy Sect, with a Daoist Monarch concealing their heavenly secrets, and secretly attained this Si Fire Position?’
His expression shifted, and a hint of displeasure emerged in Ji Boyan’s dark pupils.
’To dare snatch food from the tiger’s mouth.’
’These Cyan Cloud Sect spies have no respect for the rules!’
...
Meanwhile, at the Mingde Sub-Altar of the Vast Qi Tower.
At almost the same moment Qin Xuan manifested the Heart-Burning Candle, Hou Qi also successfully manifested the Flame Demon.
It was October 22nd, with only two hours left until the 23rd. In an unseen corner of Hou Qi’s sea of consciousness, a wisp of black smoke from a candle grew ever thicker.
’So this is the power of Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment? It’s even stronger than my previous life at the same Realm.’
A short, wiry dwarf with the build of an ape stretched his body, a look of sheer pleasure on his face.
’My power... it has all returned!’
Hou Qi could clearly sense that all his memories from his past life’s Foundation Establishment Stage had resurfaced. Only the memories of his third life in the Purple Mansion Realm and his first life in the Golden Core Realm remained hazy.
But none of that mattered.
In the Holy Sect, one was only considered a person after reaching Foundation Establishment. He had finally changed back from an ant into a man!
’It’s time to take back what’s mine.’
Hou Qi moved his body, and his skeleton crackled like beans spilling from a bamboo tube. His figure gradually grew taller, and his features became handsome.
’The first Magical Treasure, the Vengeful Poison Dragon Fang!’
With a turn of his thoughts, the Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact he expected to fly back into his hand showed no reaction whatsoever.
’How is this possible? My Vengeful Poison Dragon Fang has actually been refined by someone else?’
Hou Qi was both shocked and enraged, flying into a thunderous rage.
His face darkened as he shot to his feet.
’Well done, Qin Xuan. To think I still underestimated you in the end!’
’No matter. If you won’t return it, then I’ll just have to come and take it myself!’
In the Demon Disciple Dormitory next to Qin Xuan’s Cave Mansion, Zhao Youliang carefully polished a sharp, broken beast bone he held in his arms. The Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact pulsed with a dark luster, shined to a gleam by his efforts.
Zhao Youliang was completely oblivious to the impending danger.
...
’It’s already October 22nd.’
Qin Xuan took a deep breath, his hands clenching into tight fists, his breathing slightly rushed.
’Only two hours left.’
’Finally, I can try to achieve Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment with my own body!’
「Midnight.」
All was deathly silent.
Qin Xuan’s heart was as still as an ancient well, and he cast aside all distracting thoughts.
The Qi Mechanism of his peak Qi Cultivation Eleventh Layer body was flawless and complete. Purple energy pulsed around him, and within his Dantian, the Demonic Essence Spiritual Mist was so thick and viscous it was on the verge of liquefying.
Twelve Mystic Gate stars hung high above, and three Rainbow Bridges spanned heaven and earth.
BOOM—!
Without a moment’s hesitation, with a mere thought, Qin Xuan easily broke through the thin Boundary Wall between Realms.
In that instant, a searing, tearing pain spread throughout his body.
But amidst this tearing agony, the Demonic Essence within him surged like a boundless, churning sea.
The original Spiritual Mist continuously gathered, and a dampness spread.
DRIP!
First, a single drop of liquid Demonic Essence fell.
It was followed by a second, then a third...
SPLASH!
Like a torrential downpour, it cascaded down.
The Dantian that was once filled with Spiritual Mist transformed into a vast ocean of Demonic Essence.
A rosy glow emanated from all the apertures of his body, and clouds and mist followed his every breath.
At this moment, Qin Xuan finally understood the true essence of the Qi Cultivation Twelfth Layer.
Introducing Qi into the Body, Fog-Locked Mystic Gate, Bridge Connecting the Profound... and the Fourth Realm that only a Celestial Dao Foundation Establishment Cultivator could enter—Dawn Filling the Heavens!
’Manifest the Heart-Eroding Nail. The time is now.’
As if by inspiration, a ghastly white bone fragment covered in golden patterns materialized in Qin Xuan’s palm.
"Curse Bone Erosion Heart, plant!"
Within his Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness, a Divine Soul Little Man, identical to Qin Xuan, sat cross-legged atop a deep purple stone platform.
But as the stone platform stacked higher and higher, transforming into a Dao Foundation, the shadow of a tiny, almost transparent nail appeared like a phantom over the Divine Soul Little Man’s heart.
A faint, illusory golden Talisman seemed to be wrapped around the edge of the nail’s shadow.
BUZZ—
As the ghastly white bone fragment in his palm trembled slightly, the nail’s shadow over his heart, like a lit fuse, silently and rapidly disintegrated. It turned into countless fine, brilliant particles of Crimson Gold powder that scattered throughout Qin Xuan’s sea of consciousness.
With each new layer added to the stone platform in his sea of consciousness, a layer of the golden powder was laid down.
By the time Qin Xuan had forged a full forty-nine layers of the pitch-black stone platform, forty-nine threads of fine, brilliant golden powder, formed from the transparent nail shadow, had also appeared.
BOOM—!
Inside the Cave Mansion, Qin Xuan abruptly crushed the ghastly white bone fragment in his palm. He slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long, turbid breath, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes before vanishing.
The world was already different in his eyes.
It was as if his very level of existence had been elevated.
The first and most significant change was his internal Demonic Essence, which had condensed from a misty, gaseous state into a liquid.
The quality of his Demonic Essence was now on a completely different level.
The next change was to his Divine Soul and sea of consciousness.
The Nightmare Gold Erosion Dao Foundation was complete!
Qin Xuan closed his eyes and looked inward as a brand-new power surged forth.
He could feel the Demonic Essence inside him churning like a boundless, churning sea.
In his Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness, a Divine Soul Little Man, identical to Qin Xuan, sat cross-legged atop a deep purple, Forty-nine-Grade Pitch-black Lotus Dao Foundation dotted with flecks of crushed gold, looking spirited and triumphant!
His Divine Sense, as if freed from invisible shackles, instantly spread out, expanding more than tenfold.
The range of one’s Divine Sense in the Qi Cultivation Stage was ten zhang, and at the First-Layer Foundation Establishment, it was a hundred zhang. Yet Qin Xuan’s Divine Sense had expanded to a full three hundred zhang and beyond.
The mountain wind rustling through the leaves.
Insects crawling from the soil with a soft scratching sound.
Even the subtle expressions on the faces of the low-level Demon Cultivators in the distant Demon Disciple Dormitory as they whispered in the night...
All of it fell into Qin Xuan’s perception.
Finally, his lifespan had also extended from the original 120 years to 300 years.
If he were to consume a Longevity Spiritual Object, this limit could increase even further.
’So, this is Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment!’
Qin Xuan looked down, murmuring in delight.
He conjured something in his palm.
The Zuo’e·Heart-Eroding Nail, the Dunzang Flame Demon, and the Great Wilderness Fall: Heart-Burning Candle—all three Positional Divine Techniques appeared at once.
They flowed with dazzling light, a truly beautiful sight.
The difference before and after Foundation Establishment was like that between the clouds and the mud.
"Chen Lixuan, get your ass out here! I’m going to take on ten of you at once!"
...
The instant Qin Xuan achieved Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment, a strange phenomenon abruptly occurred in the outside world.
Outside the Cave Mansion, the once clear night sky was covered without warning by a peculiar curtain of light.
From beneath the curtain of light, a gentle, three-colored radiance of cyan, gold, and white flowed out. Like three pillars of light mixed with the brilliance of a billion stars, it descended from the heavens, precisely enveloping Qin Xuan’s Cave Mansion.
"Huh? What’s that light?"
"Look! I think that’s over by Master Qin’s Cave Mansion!"
"Hiss... This Spiritual Qi fluctuation... could it be a Foundation Establishment phenomenon? This... this is unheard of!"
"Are you stupid? Only breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm and Guiding Fate Star causes a worldly phenomenon. When have you ever seen a phenomenon for Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment!"
The nearby Incense Masters and the Demon Cultivators patrolling the mountain at night were alarmed, and they all stopped to watch.
Their faces were filled with astonishment.
Hou Qi’s figure also appeared at this moment. He looked up at the strange curtain of light in the sky, dumbfounded. "A three-colored radiance... the Saint Venerable’s favor!"
Within the curtain of light, an extremely profound and indescribable aura could be faintly seen flashing by, as if the very Laws of heaven and earth had been silently stirred.
Casting down a one-in-ten-thousandth, imperceptible sliver of a gaze.
Hou Qi’s mind trembled.
