Chapter 534: The Dao Foundation’s Cocoon Shatters, the Grotto Heaven Emerges

Chapter 534: Chapter 534: The Dao Foundation’s Cocoon Shatters, the Grotto Heaven Emerges

Within it lay a sea of lightning, roiling with endless, flashing thunderbolts.

He had just completed a Grand Circulation, and his Magical Power was about to fall dormant. Just as he settled in to wait for the usual small feedback from his Attribute Panel...

A notification suddenly popped up in his vision.

’Your Skill Level for the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying Scripture +1’

’Your Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying Scripture has reached Great Success’

As the notifications appeared,

a sudden transformation erupted within Xu Yunfan’s body.

An invisible storm burst forth without warning from the stable Dao Foundation deep within his Dantian.

"BOOM!!!"

The sound erupted from the depths of his being, a world-shaking crash that reverberated through his entire Divine Soul and body.

It was like the first clap of thunder at the dawn of creation.

The structure of his Dao Foundation, once as solid as a boulder, was instantly torn apart and compressed by a gravitational force originating from its very core.

It was as if something was about to break out of the foundation itself.

When those words appeared on his Attribute Panel, the already violent gravitational vortex inside Xu Yunfan was instantly ignited.

The collapse at its core suddenly intensified.

Guided by the power of the Attribute Panel, all the Magical Power Xu Yunfan had cultivated through the *Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying Scripture*—no matter where it roamed in his body—answered a summons from its very Origin. It transformed into billions of dazzling, silver-purple streams of light.

Like a Hundred Rivers Return to the Sea, they surged at an unprecedented speed, crazily converging upon the single point of compression at the center of his Dantian Qi Sea.

Their speed was that of lightning and thunder.

The vast, majestic torrent of Magical Power battered the core point, but instead of overwhelming it, the torrent was ferociously devoured and compressed by the core’s terrifying gravitational pull.

The core point seemed to have become a bottomless black hole, twisting and blurring even the concepts of time and space around it.

Compression.

Extreme compression.

Under this pressure that surpassed all limits, the massive amount of majestic Magical Power was undergoing a qualitative change.

Suddenly, Xu Yunfan’s body trembled slightly. A terrifying aura—vast, ancient, and supreme, one that held dominion over life and death, creation and destruction—began to emanate from him.

How long did the compression last? It might have been an instant, or it might have been ten thousand years.

After the very last stream of Magical Power sank into the core point, the "black hole" that had been devouring everything came to a sudden halt.

Then, a clap of thunder even grander and purer than before—one that seemed to resound through the Ten Thousand Realms—exploded in the core of Xu Yunfan’s consciousness.

It was as if the roar of the Great Dao itself was echoing endlessly in his ears, making his entire mind buzz.

"VMMMMM!!!"

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, the core point, which had collapsed to its absolute limit, abruptly transformed from ultimate stillness into the most vigorous new life.

The extremely collapsed Magical Power was no longer a black hole. It had transformed into a seed.

A seed only the size of a grain of rice, yet in Xu Yunfan’s perception, it was as vast as a star.

The seed’s surface was a profound, inky black that seemed to hold the very Origin of the universe, like the purest Obsidian.

Yet upon this black surface flickered countless intricate patterns, so complex they defied description.

These patterns were not carved but had formed naturally, like the script of the heavens and the earth, the very brand of the Thunderbolt.

Each pattern flowed and leaped unceasingly, as if billions of minuscule Silver Dragons were swimming across the seed’s surface.

In every leap and flicker of these silver Thunder Patterns, the tyrannical aura of destruction and the vibrant energy of new life achieved a perfect balance.

An air of natural, effortless artistry arose from it.

The moment this seed appeared, it became the absolute core of Xu Yunfan’s body and soul.

It was perfectly linked to Xu Yunfan’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit—connected by blood, their energies intermingling. It was as if Xu Yunfan was the seed, and the seed was the Manifestation of his Dao Fruit.

The Seed of the Divine Sky Grotto Heaven Embryo.

The so-called "Great Success" on the Attribute Panel was marked by the birth of this very seed.

This was the true Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment. From now on, he could nurture this Grotto Heaven Embryo, allowing it to grow and ascend until he reached the Late Stage, and eventually, perfect it completely to achieve the Perfect Great Daoist Master Realm.

By doing so, he could strive to attain the Golden Dao.

In other words, by condensing the Grotto Heaven Embryo, one gained the qualification to begin the pursuit of the Golden Dao.

"It... It’s formed!"

Xu Yunfan instantly understood. An indescribable joy and a vast sense of control washed over him.

’This is the foundation of my Dao path.’

He hadn’t gathered any external Root Qi. He had relied solely on arduous cultivation to push the Skill Level of his Divine Sky Scripture to the 1,000-point mark. Then, under the guidance of the Attribute Panel’s Profound Mysterious Power, it had been derived and condensed from within his Dao Foundation.

This completely verified his earlier speculation: the Attribute Panel possessed the great power to bypass the gathering of external materials and directly promote the derivation of the Great Dao from the Cultivation Technique’s Origin.

Although it was a slow process, the foundation seemed all the purer for it.

Because it was advanced through Skill Level, it inherently contained the most fundamental Origin of the Divine Sky Scripture’s Thunder Dao, making it what one could call a perfect Grotto Heaven.

The seed was formed; the embryo had to be constructed.

A flood of knowledge, injected into his mind as the True Scripture advanced, brought him instant enlightenment.

In that instant, the newly born Divine Sky Seed suddenly erupted with an invisible field.

This field was incredibly domineering, instantly filling the space once occupied by Xu Yunfan’s Dao Foundation.

"CRACKLE!"

Within that former Dao Foundation space, with the Divine Sky Seed as the core, the space shattered like a mirror.

His Dantian Qi Sea wasn’t truly being destroyed; rather, its original boundaries were being forced open by a grander, more fundamental power.

The shattered boundaries dissolved into a void of chaos, resembling the primordial state before the creation of heaven and earth.

The Divine Sky Seed hung high in the center of this nascent "void of chaos."

The incredibly complex, silver thunderbolt patterns on its surface suddenly lit up.

The light pierced through Xu Yunfan’s flesh and blood, passed through the layers of restrictions around his cave abode, and faintly formed the phantom of a silver-purple thundercloud vortex several miles wide in the sky above Divine Sky Peak.

A glint flashed in Xu Yunfan’s eyes. His hands flew through a series of Spell gestures, activating the Concealing Array set up around Divine Sky Peak.

In an instant, endless clouds and mist surged from the void, completely sealing off the area for dozens of miles around Divine Sky Peak. It isolated the inside from the out, preventing any external Divine Sense from penetrating in the slightest.

He had just finished doing all this.

The very next moment, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi above Divine Sky Peak erupted into a frenzy.

Invisible Laws were violently disturbed by the seed’s gravitational pull.

Within a radius of several hundred miles, every wisp of Thunderbolt energy and all the crisp, clear air from high in the sky began to converge madly toward the summit of Divine Sky Peak—toward Xu Yunfan’s location!

Countless fine, invisible torrents of Spiritual Qi penetrated the restrictions of his cave abode, ignored all physical barriers, and poured directly into Xu Yunfan’s body, flowing into the nascent Divine Sky Seed.

The process was accompanied by a low rumble like muffled thunder that echoed through the Quiet Chamber, causing the ground of the cave abode to tremble slightly.

The silver thunderbolt patterns inside the seed flickered and writhed wildly, as if they had come to life.

They greedily devoured the massive influx of energy.

As the energy poured in, the patterns on the seed’s surface began to evolve, growing from flat "brands" into three-dimensional structures.