Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1094 Undercurrent
[Broken Form], [Withered], [Eroded Fortune], [Burned Karma], [Return to Ruins]... These are the five punishments of Heaven and Earth.

An Jing is now attempting to use the Eternal Battle Body as the core and the Tai Bai Divine Restriction as the body to operate the [Shape-Breaking Law] technique!
In an instant, the light in An Jing's raised right hand shifted several times, and then a completely new and subtle change appeared.

His indestructible eternal battle body, constructed entirely from the smallest details of the Primordial Primordial Evil and the Taibai Divine Restriction, began to gradually rise and flow.

"Oh? This feeling..."

An Jing's expression shifted. He narrowed his eyes, slowly raised his right hand, and looked at his palm.

Wisps of dark golden mist, seemingly alive, quietly emanated from his palm.

The mist, though seemingly light, contained a chilling decomposing power. The surrounding void, under its erosion, emitted subtle, unbearable cracking sounds.

"Huh, what kind of supernatural power is this?"

Sensing this aura, the limp You Ruhui suddenly raised his head and looked solemnly at An Jing's right hand: "What a terrifying feeling... It looks quite beautiful, but my premonition tells me that I will die if I touch it even slightly!"

“Indeed. Ru Hui, you exchange for a piece of high-grade divine steel.”

An Jing stared intently at the mist in his hand, while You Ruhui exchanged it without hesitation for a piece of fifth-tier 'Light Zirconium Elemental Steel'. This was an extremely tough, high-density spiritual steel that could be used to forge fifth-tier Heavenly Monarch-level magic weapons. It was only because You Ruhui had completed the task of True Spirit Unfallen with An Jing that he had more merit than he could spend, which allowed him to exchange it so easily.

Its mere existence creates a vortex-like field, making the surrounding void seem to solidify as if the air were becoming denser and loose fibers were being soaked in oil.

Without hesitation, You Ruhui threw the palm-sized piece of divine steel, which was heavier than a house, at An Jing.

An Jing raised his hand, and a wisp of dark golden mist swirled around him.

hum.

In the blink of an eye, both of them saw that this indestructible divine steel, the moment it entered the dark golden mist, was stimulated to emit a dazzling golden radiance, and then, visibly, it was devoured and completely disintegrated.

The dark golden mist expanded rapidly as a result.

"What a domineering method of erosion!"

You Ruhui's eyes widened: "It's even faster than the erosion of the Heavenly Demon. Is this your new divine power, An Jing?"

"Yes. But it's not just that; it's a fusion of old and new supernatural powers."

As he said this, An Jing withdrew the dark golden mist into his body. He immediately felt his body sink, and a faint layer of light zirconium steel coating appeared on the outer layer of his arm. Then the coating disappeared, but the ability to strengthen the void had already merged into his body.

"I see……"

An Jing stared at his hands, lost in thought.

He kind of understood.

This is not merely the individual effects of the Eternal Battle Body, the Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction, or the Western Extreme True Body, but a fusion of the three.

The Eternal Battle Body is essentially a perfect body that An Jing constructed from scratch, uniquely belonging to him. Based on the essence of his inner world and his own grotto-heaven, he is not afraid of interference from the laws of heaven and earth of any other world. It belongs only to him and can be said to have incredibly strong resistance. Any mechanism based on the laws of worlds is ineffective against An Jing with the Eternal Battle Body. In particular, supernatural powers such as causal attacks, calamities, and time stop cannot directly interfere with An Jing. It is necessary to rely on powerful forces and use the most primitive and rudimentary methods to forcibly interfere.

For example, if you use a force tens or hundreds of times greater than An Jing's to forcibly imprison all the changes in spacetime and matter particles around An Jing, you can barely achieve a small part of the time-stopping effect, and it still won't stop the time in An Jing's inner world.

However, it is extremely difficult for the Eternal Battle Body to cultivate. It requires constantly going to various extreme and dangerous situations to hone itself in order to add various qualities.

The Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction can absorb the spiritual energy and material composition of metals, transforming them into part of one's own physical characteristics. This is a very basic effect. When An Jing used the Jade-Cutting Steel to cultivate, he made his spiritual energy even sharper, laying a good foundation for him to condense his Qi into weapons later.

However, the Taibai Divine Restriction does not absorb metal very quickly because it is a slow decomposition and refining process. This is to protect the cultivator's physical body from being destroyed by external forces, just like forging a sword in a furnace. If the furnace fire is too strong, the sword embryo will melt directly, and it will no longer be a sword.

Finally, the most basic application of the Five Punishments' 'Shattering Law' is to separate a part of one's own body into 'Calamity Mist'—this mist is essentially composed of countless extremely minute particles of matter carrying the principles of 'Golden Punishment', which can sever the structure of most matter, completely destroy its form, annihilate its fundamental law, and disintegrate all of the enemy's defenses and equipment.

This isn't actually a particularly rare supernatural effect; it's just that the Western Extreme True Form is exceptionally detailed and has been optimized to the best.

But when the three are combined, a wonderful chemical reaction occurs.

The calamity mist transformed from Anjing's Eternal Battle Body is different from ordinary calamity mist. It is not only a supernatural killing technique, but also a daily cultivation method, because for the Eternal Battle Body, fighting is cultivation, and killing is nourishment.

As a result, the restrictions on Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction were lifted—ordinary people would melt directly due to the excessive heat of the furnace, but the Eternal Battle Body would not; no matter how strong the furnace fire was, it was only a part of the cultivation!

"Too powerful... Eternal Battle Body! Such a powerful divine ability, it's full of surprises!"

In an instant, An Jing immediately understood that he had gathered enough wondrous bonds between the Dao Integration Techniques!

With a thought, he transformed into a cloud of dark golden calamity mist, which then thinned into a wisp of fog. Most of the fog returned to the Heavenly Punishment Cave, leaving only a tiny speck. Afterward, An Jing exchanged for a large quantity of divine steel, worth approximately ten thousand merit points.

The remaining trace of dark golden mist landed on the divine steel, and then collided and spread at the speed of thought, rapidly multiplying into a large mass of dark golden mist. This mass of mist condensed and once again became An Jing's true form.

This scene left You Ruhui stunned: "Immortal and indestructible, reborn from a drop of blood?"

"This... isn't this the ultimate achievement of the Body Refinement lineage's great divine power? An Jing, you've actually mastered it now!"

No, that's not all!

Because An Jing hadn't hidden any details from him, she understood completely and gasped: "A small part of the Eternal Battle Body can contain the entire original body; the Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction can devour all metals or even minute substances and convert them into its own cultivation; while the Golden Punishment can decompose everything into minute substances..."

"It's not a matter of law, but rather a matter of devouring the heavens and the earth in a material sense!"

"Yes."

An Jing, who had been reassembled, looked at his hands with emotion: "No wonder that in the infinite parallel universes, those 'other me's' who have cultivated the Four Immortals' works, the Five Emperors' techniques, and even advanced rapidly to become True Monarchs faster than me, and can even compete with Heavenly Monarchs, cannot be considered the 'strongest me'."

"The Eternal Battle Body, this kind of technique has transcended the Dao Integration stage. It is definitely a supreme divine power passed down by 'Hong Yuan' at the same level as the Great Immortal Huai Xu!"

"Moreover, the combination of 'Golden Punishment' and Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction alone has such an effect."

Raising his head, An Jing looked at the silvery-blue sun in the distant sky and smiled: "I really can't wait to see how strong I will be when I have gathered the Five Emperors and Five Punishments, and perfected the Four Immortal Deeds and Three Paths!"

at the same time.

Tianyuan Realm, Xishan Grotto Heaven.

The first of the Four Saints, the master of Shouyang Mountain, the Immortal Xi Yu, suddenly opened his eyes.

A divine premonition, an unprecedented revelation, appeared in the depths of His soul, which had been resisting the urge to devour the world.

Is it...coming?

He slowly raised his head, opened his eyes, and murmured to himself: "What is coming?"

[Heavenly Dao, what exactly are you trying to say?]

For a long time, Xi Yu Immortal has bound himself with the status of the spirit of the cave, not descending into the Tianyuan Realm to avoid his karma coming into contact with Tianyuan, and then instinctively began to 'devour the heavens and the earth'. As a tacit understanding, although Tianyuan Heavenly Dao was devoured by the Four Saints, it almost never opposed them, but instead joined forces indirectly to fight against the Holy Demon.

However, because the Four Saints are essentially half-saints and demons, the Heavenly Dao will never have any direct contact with them—any contact would have the potential to awaken their innate ability to devour the heavens.

But now, Tianyuan Tiandao has suddenly taken the initiative to initiate a 'heavenly revelation'?
Unable to comprehend it, even the immortal Xi Yu could only deduce: "Could it be that the variable from that other world... An Xuan, An Jing... he's coming again?"

[Nonsense!]

He gritted his teeth, suppressing the urge to burst out of the cave and devour everything. Xi Yu Immortal rebuked in a deep voice: "If Heavenly Dao had any sense at all, it wouldn't have let him return so quickly—he is indeed hope, an anomaly, a variable, but how strong can he become in a mere two years? With his potential, he will surely become a Heavenly Venerable within a hundred years. At that time, he will have the ability to kill us!"

[I can handle a hundred years! There's no need for him to rush over here!]

However, Tianyuan Tiandao merely conveyed an impulse, a thought, and then vanished in a flash.

Since that was the case, Immortal Xi Yu had no choice but to exhale deeply, raise his head, and let his eyes flash, piercing through the vast emptiness and reaching the depths of the boundless void.

There, He could vaguely see a vast, rotating spacetime, like a bottomless abyss.

Hundreds and thousands of grotto-heavens, large and small, revolve around it, and then slowly fall into it, becoming a part of it.

It's just like……

Like being swallowed up by a giant beast.

And the fragments of Tianyuan, one of these hundreds of worlds, are waiting to be devoured by it.

【The Great Wilderness】

Xi Yu the Immortal muttered to himself, his worries growing even stronger.

This world posed a far greater threat to Him than the 'Holy Demon'.

(End of this chapter)