"I exhausted my essence and spirit to perform the True Intent of the Sword Drawing Skill with the ’Sword of Chaos’ to break open the Ancestral Dragon’s body, only to make its Primordial Spirit fall asleep..."

Ning Xunqiu murmured softly.

"After all, it was just the Sword of Consciousness. It couldn’t slash the Ancestral Dragon’s body, nor destroy its Primordial Spirit. Of course, if the Chaos Consciousness grows for billions of years, it will certainly submerge the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit, but that’s too far away..."

Pausing for a moment, Ning Xunqiu let out a breath.

"However, this time I finally saw everything clearly. The Ancestral Dragon is not invincible."

"If I can find a way to prevent the Ancestral Dragon from refining the true bodies of the Three Immortals of Jade Sky into the ’Slaughter Treasure: Fallen Saint Spear,’ the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth will definitely be delayed, and reality can gain at least a few thousand years."

"How to prevent it?"

For now, he could at most cultivate into the Furnace Lord in a short time, and the book didn’t mention how long the Dragon Race had been setting up on Jade Sky Immortal Island. If he went to Jade Sky Immortal Island now, it would be courting disaster.

However...

Ning Xunqiu’s eyes lit up as he thought of a good plan.

ding dong.

[Congratulations, you have successfully unlocked the Red Achievement ’Jade Sky Immortal Island·Inheritor’: You are a disciple of Liuli Immortal Venerable, the designated inheritor of the Three Immortals of Jade Sky, and have received the reward—Divine Skill: Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy.]

[Congratulations, you have successfully unlocked the Red Achievement ’Heaven-Slaying Sword’: Loose Cultivator Qingyun, seeing the Ancestral Dragon like a speck of dust seeing the Cyan Heaven, burning everything, wielding the sword to ask the Dao, achieving the Heaven-Slaying Sword, truly earth-shattering.

Received reward—’True Intent·Heaven-Slaying Sword’·Cyan Cloud Sword Dao Inheritance.]

"Delayed again... this time, it’s actually two Red Achievements."

Ning Xunqiu was surprised and then looked at the rewards, feeling a headache.

"Liuli Immortal Venerable is the Ancestor of Loose Cultivators and has preached and enlightened all beings. Jade Sky Immortal Island must have great fortune. But even so, no fortune reward was unlocked... I have a feeling that the Qingxu Realm Heavenly Dao has already remembered me."

Obviously, this is a case of gaining benefits without doing proper work.

The achievements unlocked by the Celestial Derivation Volume are like making great vows in advance to borrow fortune. Borrowing a few times is fine, but borrowing too much really treats the Heavenly Dao as a big fool.

"The duty of Dharma Transmission..."

Ning Xunqiu muttered a sentence, then looked at the Red Achievement ’Heaven-Slaying Sword.’

"Claim the reward."

He closed his eyes, and all the enlightenment of the ’True Intent·Heaven-Slaying Sword’ surged into his mind.

Boom!

Upon reopening his eyes, the heavens and earth appeared as a gray expanse, seemingly the high and unreachable Celestial Vault, viewed from the perspective of ’Loose Cultivator Qingyun’. He felt despair, his eyes gray, yet there was no more fear, and he took a step to ask the Dao with his sword.

Cutting all things, breaking all ties!

His Primordial Spirit shook the Chaos Consciousness of the Modo Realm, absolute will penetrated the Ancestral Dragon’s body.

Whether the sky would bleed, no one knew.

Only after that sword, the Celestial Vault gained a crack, it was a ’Dao Injury’, never to be healed for endless eons.

"That ’Celestial Vault Dao Injury’ is indeed the ’Absolute Will’ of a Sword Cultivator, no wonder my eight hundred years of Dao Practice were able to break open the Ancestral Dragon’s body."

Ning Xunqiu murmured softly.

"The unyielding will of the Crimson Flame Inheritance..."

In the Returning Void Heaven, those Daoist Masters of Soldiers of the Third Heaven transformed into this indestructible state to resist heaven and earth.

Zhou Dingtian was the same.

At this moment, Ning Xunqiu was a true Sword Cultivator, daring to draw his sword in the face of any dire situation. The seed left in his heart by the ’Crimson Flame Inheritance’ had finally blossomed.

With a firm Dao Heart, fear was gone.

Then, Ning Xunqiu looked at the Divine Skill ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’. In the book, he cultivated the ’Little Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’ and was only able to initially refine the ’Sword of Chaos’, opening the key to linking to the Modo Realm Consciousness Sea.

But cultivating this method in reality would inevitably create significant karma with ’Liuli Immortal Venerable’.

"Claim." He didn’t hesitate.

Countless insights, like stars, imprinted directly on Ning Xunqiu’s heart.

Thirty days later,

Ning Xunqiu finally saw the light.

Divine Skill·Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy—entry level.

The power of this Divine Skill was immense, enough to contend with entities like the Three Immortals and the Ancestral Dragon. Its strength was self-evident.

But Ning Xunqiu could not refine the ’Divine Skill·Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’.

More accurately, the ’Divine Skill·Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’ was a unique ’Heaven and Earth Array’.

It could encompass ’stars and all things,’ an array evolving within an array, layers upon layers, self-contained universes, endless and infinite.

"Limitlessly" enhancing the power of the Divine Skill, truly an unsurpassed Great Divine Technique.

And the complete ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’ on Jade Sky Immortal Island was forged by three ’Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots’, the ’Seven-Colored Immortal Petal Glaze’, the ’Nine Bends Flowing Cloud Star River and Exquisite’, and ’The First Streak of Colorful Clouds in the Universe’.

These were the true bodies of the Three Immortals.

Also the body of the Supreme Treasure ’Fallen Saint Spear’.

Under the control of the Ancestral Dragon, the Fallen Saint Spear could bear all things of heaven and earth, transforming into the source of the great calamity. As long as the battles in the world continued, as resentment, evil qi, and despair continuously grew, the power of the Fallen Saint Spear would be limitless.

Isn’t this a replica of the ’Sword of Chaos’?

No, it is stronger than the ’Sword of Chaos’ without a killing intent!

However, Ning Xunqiu, cultivating the Little Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy, also required a ’Spirit Root’ as a substitute; he did not have the luxurious resources of the Jade Sky Immortal Island.

...

Ning Xunqiu left the special reward of the Red Life for last.

"Draw the reward."

[Drawing in progress...]

[Congratulations, you have received the special achievement reward of Red Life—Heaven and Earth Spirit Root: Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite.]

With a swish!

A wondrous treasure materialized in Ning Xunqiu’s palm, an irregularly rotating round wheel emerged, exquisite and intricate, as if he held the vast star river within his hand, a miniature cosmic marvel.

At the center of the irregular round wheel, nine dazzling light bands, like the veins of the star river, spiraled out from the core, sinuously twisting in myriad forms. Each band contained colorful brilliance and surging immortal power, resembling the ribbons of the Nine Heavens Profound Lady, dancing amidst the star river.

The scene was breathtakingly beautiful.

[Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite]

At the dawn of chaos, when stars were yet unsettled, the first streak of flowing clouds in heaven and earth, absorbing the essence of the stars, coalesced at the nexus of the Nine Bends Star River.

Every rotation was accompanied by the birth and extinction of stars, allowing one to glimpse the workings of heaven and earth.

...

"Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite..."

Ning Xunqiu was stunned, "Isn’t this the true form of Linglong Fairy? According to seniority, she would be my senior aunt."

"Never mind."

"Just right to serve as the foundation for the Divine Skill: Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy."

Ning Xunqiu made a resolute decision and immediately took action.

He conferred the title [Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite] upon the Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage as "Star River."

Rumbling——

The Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth began to shake violently and expanded outward at an astonishing speed until it extended to a hundred miles before gradually calming.

At that moment, the Cyan Heaven and Great Sun slowly set in the sky, while a magnificent galaxy unfolded on the horizon, like a beautiful painting.

From that galaxy, countless strands of spiritual qi were drawn down, like fine threads, falling upon every inch of Cyan Mountain.

"The Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage has undergone a qualitative change..."

Ning Xunqiu looked up.

[Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage]

Master of the Dao Lineage: Ning Xunqiu.

Primordial Spirit Dao Practice: One hundred years.

Daoist Ancestral Vein: Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth·Hundred Miles (Incomplete)

Heaven and Earth Primordial Spirit: Great Sun, Eight Great Wind Spirits, White Cloud, Star River.

True Inheritance of Dao Lineage: "Red Flame Demon Suppressing Divine Will Fighting Technique," "Purple Sky Innate Skill," "Seven Swords of Cross and Vertical," "White Clouds Drifting Leisurely," "Cyan Heaven Great Sun Burning Qi Scripture," "Cyan Celestial True Gang Seven-Day Transformation," "Cyan Mountain Seventy-Two Marvelous Techniques."

"True Intent·Ant Sword," "True Intent·Heaven-Slaying Sword."

"Divine Skill: Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy."

Daoist Inheritance: Martial Dao, Soldier Master, Qi Cultivator, Alchemy... (Three Thousand Inheritance)

Daoist Treasures: Purple Gold Gourd, Profound Dragon Pearl, Cyan Jade Spirit Seed, Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Evergreen Pine Tree (harvestable once every ten years for a glimmer of cyan pine qi)

Heaven and Earth Spirit Root: Splendid Celestial Wind Spirit Pearl, Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite.

Daoist Magical Treasures: Magical Artifact: Spring and Autumn Brush, Magical Treasure: Cyan Mountain Seal, Spirit Weapon: Chaotic Heaven Silk, Spirit Weapon: Dragon-Slaying Sword.

...

"From eighteen miles expanded to a hundred miles, this shouldn’t be the limit. My Primordial Spirit Dao Practice limited the Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth."

"Only, the Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy has become the inheritance of the Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage? Then what does that make Liuli Immortal Venerable? My disciple? Truly reversing the celestial order—"

Ning Xunqiu shook his head, choosing not to dwell on it.

Next, using his authority as the "Cyan Mountain Daoist Master," he easily extracted a stream of flowing clouds from the [Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite] to serve as the foundation for the Divine Skill: Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy.

In the moment of this little "Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’s" birth.

...

Jade Sky Immortal Island.

The Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy sensed something, unfurling instantly.

Amidst the clouds, a woman in a palace dress swiftly opened her eyes, feeling a stirring in her heart, and her beautiful gaze turned toward the distance.

"What happened?!!"

"Boom!!"

Nine Dragon Divine Fire Array!

But this time, under the cleansing of the Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy, only five Panlong Pillars successfully rose!

...