Chapter 539: Chapter 238: Great True Being_2
Such divine skill cultivation was still not the end, as the Sun God Dharma Image behind Xu Hao retracted its brilliance, and his body seemed to merge with all things between heaven and earth.
Heaven and earth became his body, and the sea of clouds became his armor, every move carrying the momentum of the world, harnessing the power of heaven and earth for his own use.
With such a technique, he was already approaching the Return-to-Void Great True Being.
At this moment, Shen Yuan finally took notice of Xu Hao’s true cultivation level, which was shockingly at the stage of Return-to-Void Great True Being.
Return-to-Void Great True Beings do not stay in the grotto heavens blessed ground because they merge with heaven and earth, and cannot be separated from it for long periods.
During the era of Spirit Energy Exhaustion, which lasted a full three thousand years, Return-to-Void Great True Beings simply could not sustain for such a long time, hence creating the present situation where no Great True Beings exist within the grotto heavens blessed land.
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However, Xu Hao, who had sealed himself for ten thousand years with a secret treasure, did not need to enter a state of merging with heaven and earth and was therefore excluded from this list.
Despite being constrained by the external rules of heaven and earth, and even with the Secret Realm Square-Inch shielding him from the backlash of heaven and earth, Xu Hao could only display cultivation at the peak of Spirit Refining.
Yet, a peak Spirit Refining cultivator who could borrow the power of heaven and earth was practically no different from a Return-to-Void Great True Being.
Behind Xu Hao, two Spirit Refining True Beings from the Little Clarity Void Grotto Heavens also stepped forward voluntarily, manifesting their thousand feet tall Sun God Dharma Images, displaying their peak Spirit Refining cultivation.
In the Secret Realm Square-Inch, where the Great Sun had already set, it seemed as if three suns had risen at dawn, suspending high above the mountains.
Looking down at Shen Yuan with a sneer, Xu Hao said,
“Supreme Taoist is skilled in overcoming the strong with the weak, I’ve long heard of your fame.
But now you can barely maintain the cultivation of Spirit Transmutation Peak, I really want to see how you plan to fight against me, who is half a step into the Return-to-Void Great True Being stage.”
In the midst of speaking, the Sun God Dharma Image that merged with heaven and earth raised its right fist, as the winds howled above the Ninth Heavens and the sea of clouds gathered in its hand.
A storm gathered in the clouds!
With one punch, the gathered wind and cloud forces embodied celestial changes, pressing down on Shen Yuan with an insurmountable force.
The fierce winds tore through the sky, and in an instant, mountains collapsed, the ground subsided, and the power of heaven and earth borrowed by the Sun God Dharma Image was already beyond the reach of any individual.
Even with numerous Sun God Dharma Images, without means to counter the power of heaven and earth, it’s impossible to match the techniques of a Return-to-Void Great True Being.
The terrifying shift in wind and clouds devoured everything, and as the clouds dispersed, the mountain thousands of meters high where Shen Yuan had been was completely destroyed by that strike.
Xu Hao watched the ruins, panting heavily.
Clearly, borrowing the power of heaven and earth at the peak stage of Spirit Refining also posed a significant burden to him.
Despite the tremendous expense, his face still showed uncontrollable excitement, as he could clearly sense that no sign of life remained after that punch.
Supreme Taoist!
This figure, whom countless sacred sages and powerful experts of foreign races could not reach and who haunted their dreams, had fallen by his hand?
All of this gave Xu Hao a sense of unreality.
“Is it over… just like this?”
No sooner had those words fallen than two pitiful screams echoed above the clouds.
Xu Hao swiftly turned around to look, only to see Shen Yuan, dressed in a white vestment robe, who had at some point already appeared behind him, holding a rusty Bronze Ancient Sword.
In front of him, the two thousand feet tall Sun God Dharma Images were rapidly fading, and at the center of their brows, clear sword marks were unmistakably etched.
The sword marks were so sharp that just looking at them caused a piercing pain in the eyes.
And the two peak Spirit Refining True Beings were now kneeling on the clouds with hollow eyes, their bodies, already nearing the end of their lifespans, seemed to go through eons of erosion in moments, disintegrating into ashes before the naked eye.
The two Sun God Dharma Images also completely lost their form, collapsing above the sea of clouds.
Now, above the sea of clouds, only Shen Yuan, Xu Hao, and Xue Mingzhi, who had been thrown far away onto a mountaintop, remained.
Xu Hao’s strike, comparable to that of a Return-to-Void Great True Being, was indeed extraordinary; if encountered in the outside world, without resorting to his trump card, Shen Yuan might have found it troubling.
But this was the Secret Realm Square-Inch, a world created by Shen Yuan himself.
Shen Yuan only needed to break open the space, and he could dodge the aggressive strike of the Return-to-Void Great True Being.
As for slaying two Spirit Refining Peak True Beings, to Shen Yuan, it was nothing more than an effortless task.
Having already forged his Sun God, Shen Yuan had the qualifications to step into the Spirit Refining Return-to-Void, it was only due to the restrictions of the heavenly and earthly rules that he couldn’t break through.
With the blessing of the Sun God, the Earthly Destroyer Sword Technique had already advanced to an entirely new level.
Without special Divine Skill inheritance, a Spirit Refining True Being could be killed with a single sword strike, not to mention that the Candle Dragon Immortal Sword in his hands had already entered the initial stages of awakening; with both being employed, even a Spirit Refining Peak True Being was not a match.
Shen Yuan uttered no words, as if taking a leisurely stroll, he lightly swung the Bronze Ancient Sword in his hand, and a Sword Intent easily cleaved through the sea of clouds, as if splitting the sky in two.
“Danger!”
Xu Hao’s heart sounded the alarm; that almost unified with heaven and earth Sun God Dharma Image clasped hands in prayer, with myriad profound techniques’ essence flowing throughout, the power of heaven and earth converged to form mountains extending in front of him.
The mountain’s aura linked with the Sun God Dharma Image, reminiscent of an ancient Mountain God bearing mountains as he traveled through worlds, forcefully meeting the sword intent that cut open the sky.
“Clang!”
The sound of the sword cry pierced through heaven and earth, as if ten thousand swords were simultaneously resonating, with all their sharpness bearing upon it, even the mountain intent’s shelter couldn’t withstand a single slash.
The sky cracked, the mountains crumbled, and the ancient Mountain God formed by the Sun God Dharma Image instantly collapsed.
Although the sword did not slay the Sun God Dharma Image, the might of this sword still forcibly knocked Xu Hao’s Sun God Dharma Image out of its state fused with heaven and earth.
On Xu Hao’s body, the aura that was half a step into the Return-to-Void Great True Being suddenly dissipated.
“You still retained such strength!”
Xu Hao’s eyes were filled with disbelief; he did not doubt that Shen Yuan had the strength to fight against a Spirit Refining True Being with his Spirit Transmutation body, but he had almost possessed the power comparable to a Return-to-Void Great True Being through borrowing the power of heaven and earth.
He couldn’t imagine that even with such strength, he would so easily be defeated.
“I don’t believe it! I don’t believe you truly can cross two major realms!”
Xu Hao glared furiously, no longer holding anything back.
Accompanied by a purple-gold talisman suddenly igniting on his body, Xu Hao’s suppressed Return-to-Void realm cultivation completely manifested between heaven and earth.
Over the Imperial Capital, at the entrance of the Secret Realm Square-Inch, massive amounts of tribulation clouds suddenly gathered, and within the clouds dark purple lightning streaked across the firmament, transforming the entire sky into a thunder pool.
Even though the Heavenly Tribulation could not break through the boundaries of the Secret Realm, the backlash from heaven and earth still entered the Secret Realm Square-Inch through the entrance.
“Pfft!”
Xu Hao, at the peak of his power, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, forcibly enduring the backlash of heaven and earth.
In his hand, the treasure light flashed, and a top-grade spirit treasure banner appeared in his palm.
Waving the banner, its pale cyan treasure light covered the firmament, and the Sun God Dharma Image let out an earth-shattering roar, with a spirit treasure banner identical to the one in Xu Hao’s palm appearing in its hand.
The enormous Sun God Dharma Image waved the banner, and the winds howled between heaven and earth, the boundless power enveloping the majesty of this world, pressing down with the force as if the heavens and the earth were overturning.
The dimming world seemed to become a hazy Turmoil, with only the Sun God Dharma Image wielding the treasure banner standing between heaven and earth, like a supreme deity who had opened the heavens and earth.
Wondrous Tao Divine Power, Profound Realm Genesis!
An evolution of the Wondrous Tao Divine Power from the Jade Pure tradition, combined with the power of the Return-to-Void Great True Being, pushing the limits of this Secret Realm, already beyond human resistance.
Under such an attack, even a Return-to-Void Great True Being would struggle to escape unscathed.
Shen Yuan watched calmly at the Sun God Dharma Image waving the huge banner in front of him, the might that seemed to destroy the heavens and the earth was not taken to heart by him.
As this powerful force capable of collapsing the heavens and reversing the rivers descended, even space twisted at this moment; Xu Hao’s eyes flickered with a bloodthirsty madness.
But just as the divine power was about to fall upon Shen Yuan, the boundless gales and the power of heaven and earth converging upon the Sun God Dharma Image suddenly disappeared in an instant.
Afterward, Shen Yuan’s voice rose slowly.
“You’re trying to suppress me with my own power?”