Chapter 1227 Furnace of Life

Chapter 562

Before finishing his words, Xu Ran once again started walking, heading proactively up the mountain, towards the more intense and violent torrent of Dao Principles with great strides!

With every step, a surge of fire Dao Principles, imbued with the intention of “Burning Heaven,” came roaring forth!

“Reverse! Burn Heaven, transform into… the Furnace of Life!”

Another step forward, a wave filled with the “Eternal Freeze” intention of ice Dao Principles swept across his whole body!

“Reverse! Eternal Freeze, transform into… Dao Heart Ice Crystal!”

Another step…

“Reverse! Endless Decay, transform into… Immortal Vitality!”

“Reverse! Soul-Shattering Demon Sound, transform into… Divine Melody for Spirit Forging!”

Xu Ran’s figure, just like this, step by step, inexorably moved towards the top of the corpse mountain.

With each step he took, the impact of Dao Principles he bore became more terrifying, yet his aura surged even higher with each step!

He transformed, as if into the core of a vortex of “Reversal.”

Thousands of broken and violent Dao Principles, like a swarm of sharks smelling blood, roared and surged from all directions, from those ancient layers of stacked corpses wanting to completely tear apart this creature daring to set foot in the forbidden land and assimilate it into their essence.

However, these destruction torrents that once were enough to make even a Daoist Monarch peak tremble, upon rushing into Xu Ran’s body, were forcibly twisted, decomposed, and reshaped by that ever more eerily blood-red “Reversal” imprint!

“Boom!”

On an ancient corpse with a thousand eyes resembling a Demon God, a Dao Principle imbued with the true meaning of “Great Collapse” suddenly awakened, transforming into a gray Divine Light that pierced straight towards Xu Ran’s Sea of Consciousness! Wherever this Divine Light passed, the void exhibited a terrifying scene of collapse and Gui Xu.

This was pure destruction Dao, aiming to revert all matter and spirit back to the most primordial state of Chaos!

“Good timing!”

Xu Ran, instead of showing fear, rejoiced, letting out a long howl. In his Sea of Consciousness, that “Reversal” imprint suddenly amplified, like a blood-colored demonic sun, suspended at the celestial center.

“You wish to obliterate all things? Then I shall reverse obliteration, to create ‘New Birth’ upon the ruins!”

Under the illumination of the blood light, that destructive gray Divine Light melted like a moonlit snow when encountering blazing sun, its violent destruction attribute quickly dissolved and transformed. A peculiar energy, unimaginably pure, imbued with the intention of “Opening” and “Creating,” fed back into Xu Ran’s Divine Soul.

Buzz…

Xu Ran felt a sense of unprecedented clarity and grandeur within his Divine Soul! It was as though having undergone a baptism of breaking and establishing afterward. The Divine Soul barrier initially at the Daoist Monarch Fourth Heaven showed slight signs of loosening under the impact of this new-born power!

Not only was he not annihilated by the “Great Collapse” Dao, but rather, through its power, he glimpsed a trace of the mystery of “Great Creation!”

“Bring it on!”

Xu Ran’s battle intent soared high, as he relentlessly continued climbing upward.

As he passed a giant paw of a golden ancient ape, the remaining “Extreme Power” within was enough to crush a Star Domain, yet he reversed it into unparalleled momentum for tempering his Dao body, making every inch of marrow and bone ring with the sound of metal, while increasing his Immortal divinity!

Crossing through a skeletal remains of a cosmic giant whale, the pervasive “Devour” great Dao within capable of turning entire worlds to nothingness was reversed by him, into the principle of “Inclusion” capable of accommodating hundreds of rivers, achieving an astonishing level of compatibility with myriad Dao Principles!

Traversing a long-dead Divine Wood reaching the heavens, the “Decaying and Flourishing” Law contained within, originally denoting the cycle of the Wheel of Life and Death, was forced by him to be frozen at the moment of “Flourishing,” from which he extracted vast as sea Life Essence Qi, repairing every slight injury to his Dao body, allowing him to remain perpetually in peak condition!

Zhen Shan and Cang Shi at the foothill watched in dumbfounded awe, with their Divine Souls trembling.

In their view, each step by Xu Ran seemed like dancing on a knife’s edge, walking along the abyss’ edge. The remnants of Dao Divine Light erupting skyward, any one strand would suffice to obliterate them both, new Daoist Monarchs, instantaneously with body and spirit!

Yet Xu Ran, akin to divine iron cast into the furnace, not only remained unmelted but under the tempering of myriad Dao fires, he became ever more dazzling, ever more indomitable!

“Is… is he even human?” Zhen Shan murmured to himself, his voice dry.

“Our Lord… he isn’t climbing the mountain, he is… devouring the mountain!” In Cang Shi’s eyes, aside from reverence, a trace of fanaticism brewed. It seemed as though he had already seen an unparalleled being, shaking history, rising gradually from atop the myriad corpses of gods and demons!

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Outside the corpse mountain, upon the deathly silent ash and bone plain.

“Madman, truly a madman!” The mysterious voice resounded again, filled with incredulous amazement in its tone, “Others pursue ‘Understood one law, understand all laws,’ he’s going to ‘Reverse all laws, form his own law!’ This path, compared to ‘Huang’ back then, is even more domineering, even more… unreasonable!”

The hunched figure of the Tomb Guardian stood quietly, the muddy old eyes from whence a streak of dim light had turned into a starry spiral, deep enough to evoke the reflection of the rise and fall across the myriad worlds.

“Domineering? No.” He shook his head slowly, “The ‘Huang’ way, was to replace the heavenly heart with his own heart, to suppress all Dao with his own Dao, it was the extremity of ‘Only Me’. Yet this boy, look at him…”

The Tomb Guardian raised a bony finger, pointing towards that figure navigating through the radiances of myriad Dao Principles.

“He’s not suppressing, nor destroying, but ‘persuading,’ ‘leading.'”

“Persuading?” The mysterious voice carried a hint of perplexity.

“Indeed.” The Tomb Guardian’s voice became distant, as if recounting an old secret buried by the passage of time, “Why are these remnants of Dao and obsessions violent? Why filled with destruction desires? Because they are unwilling, their masters were defeated, their Dao was defined by ‘Heavenly Law’ as ‘wrong.’ Their very existence is a paradox, a sin unacknowledged.”