Chapter Fifteen: The Chaotic Pearl Opens the Sky, Virtue and Merit Insufficient for Withdrawal

  The Chaos Pearl opens up the sky, but the merits are insufficient to overdraw.

  Watching the little fox's figure gradually disappear into the distance, Shen Long's heart was filled with melancholy.

  "Alas! Strength, strength, in this vast and chaotic world governed by the law of the jungle, without it, nothing else matters. If my strength were sufficient, I could take on the Nine-Tailed Clan alone, I wouldn't have to leave Kun'er behind as I travel through the wilderness, I wouldn't have to let Little Fox return to endure..."

  Shen Long let out a sigh and silently walked into the mountains, opening up another cave for himself to start his closed-door meditation.

  After dual cultivation with Xiao Hu Li, Shen Long's mental injury was completely healed and even made some progress. Taking out the Chaos Pearl, Shen Long is about to start cutting his way again. Although he has already cut 550 paths, the current body can sustain a longer time, but it still hasn't been eradicated. This remains a thorn in Shen Long's heart.

  He sat down with his legs crossed, his five hearts facing upwards, his hands stacked like an empty lotus flower, a chaotic-colored bead floating in the center of his palms. Shen Long silently recited the "Clear Heart Sutra", letting his heart be as calm as still water...

  Suddenly, Shen Long disappeared, leaving behind only a single, murky-colored bead quietly floating in the temporary cave where Shen Long had been meditating.

  In a chaotic world, Shen Long sat cross-legged.

  Suddenly, his mouth opened and a pearl flew out. This was Shen Long's Dragon Pearl. Inside the dragon pearl were three thousand pillars that supported a world. The world had mountains, water, grass, and trees, but no living things. These three thousand pillars were the Three Thousand Great Paths that Shen Long had comprehended. Among these three thousand great paths, more than two thousand intertwined, grinding and rotating against each other. Every moment, Shen Long felt this world expanding, but every moment he also felt the crystal walls of this world thinning. This was the fundamental problem Shen Long faced. To become a saint through cultivation meant to separate one's own world from the Primordial Chaos and survive independently in the void. However, the crystal walls of Shen Long's world were growing thinner and thinner. If he couldn't overcome this problem, it would be impossible for him to become a saint, and he would even face the danger of collapse.

  Shen Long's right hand opened, and a purple-gold sword appeared in his hand. The sword was purple-gold in color, smooth all over, and didn't have any large Dao patterns on it, just like an unfinished sword blank that hadn't been inscribed with talismans yet. But the feeling it gave people could be summed up in one word: "sharp". It seemed like this sword could cut through anything with a single slash.

  "Slash——" Shen Long let out a loud roar, holding his treasured sword and slashing down fiercely at the chaotic world.

  "Rumble——rumble——" The chaotic world churned and rolled, as Shen Long's sword sliced open a spatial rift. The chaotic energy continued to churn, with earth, fire, wind, and water in disarray, trying to restore the original chaos.

  After Shen Long beheaded the sword, he didn't dare to try again. It's a joke that Pangu is dead, and Shen Long doesn't dare to test the water in this small chaos with incomplete laws.

  Although Shen Long didn't dare to forcefully open the sky, he had his own ideas. He quickly entered the space that had just unfolded, looking at the clear and murky air that had been split apart and was slowly closing in. Seeing this, Shen Long wasn't worried, but instead looked like he expected it to be so.

  Sitting in the slowly converging space, Shen Long's heart was as still as water. The dragon bead was in front of him, his right hand holding a sword, quietly, like a stone statue.

  In fact, Shen Long was adjusting himself to his best state.

  Suddenly, Shen Long's eyes opened wide, and a purple-gold light shot out of his eyes, staring at the Dragon Ball. His right hand slowly rose up, then quickly fell down, while he loudly shouted "Slash——"

  This loud shout, in the newly opened space, was the first sound. The sound spread to the sky and a flash of lightning appeared, forming the thunderclap that shocked the world of the Primordial Pearl. The space also paused for a moment due to this shocking thunderclap.

  Later, in the space opened up by the Hunyuan Pearl, a column of light that pierced the sky and connected heaven and earth appeared, holding back the converging clear and turbid energies.

  This Heavenly Way was the one Shen Long cut out from the Primordial Pearl. It's called the Heavenly Thunder Way, combining with the newly born thunder and lightning to become even more powerful. However, the spatial play of earth, fire, wind, and water caused the heavens and earth that had just been held back to once again have a tendency to merge. That Heavenly Thunder Way was also the distant Jade Pendant, on which cracks appeared.

  Shen Long didn't dare to slack off, picking up his own sword of the Cutting Path, slowly rising and quickly falling.

  "Slash——" Another Heavenly Great Way entered the newly opened space, like a pillar supporting the clear and turbid two Qi, this time it was the Starry Sky Great Way.

  However, although the Chaos Pearl was damaged, it was still a chaotic world. How could it be supported by just two Great Dao laws?

  "Slash slash——" Another great avenue descended, this time it was the Avenue of Yin and Yang. The pillars of the Great Avenue were formed into two colors of yin and yang, constantly changing and also merged with the clear and turbid air of heaven and earth.

  "Slash——" This is the Heavenly Sound Great Way, integrating Shen Long's loud roar, plus Shen Long's practice of the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, a dragon chant that resonates through space.

  "Slashing——" This is the Heavenly Fire Great Path, a beam of light rises from the eastern part of space.

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  Like this, Shen Long's hand rose and fell, cutting off two hundred Great Daos. And the space that had just been opened, now should be called a Small Thousand World, the clear and turbid Qi no longer descended, in the surrounding Chaos, earth fire wind water were still rampant, but their impact on the world was already very small.

  Shen Long looked at this momentum, his heart was extremely excited. Although it was a small thousand worlds, and it was still done by taking advantage of the situation, but no matter what, he couldn't deny that this was his independently opened up small thousand world.

  When reaching the quasi-saint period, it is actually possible to open up a space within one's body, that is, the domain space in the quasi-saint fate. In this space, you are like a god, and your words can govern the world. There is also another type, which is the treasure-storing magical instrument. As long as the material can withstand it, one can open up such an instrument, such as the Qiankun bag or the Qiankun ring, etc., similar to the space within the Nine Tripods, without the power of the world, but only for storing objects. However, after a quasi-saint has their own space, they mostly do not need this type of magical instrument anymore.

  However, there isn't a single one like Shen Long who can open up this space, because as can be expected, Pangu is an example, opening it up means falling. Unless it's a sage, but the Desolate Expanse doesn't have any sages yet.

  With an excited heart, Shen Long struck down with another sword.

  "Huh?" Shen Long furrowed his brow, the treasure sword chopped at the dragon pearl, but there was no reaction whatsoever.

  "Clang——" The treasured sword let out a sword cry. A spiritual reminder alerted Shen Long.

  "My god, no good deed goes unpunished?" Shen Long's face was extremely ugly.

  Looking at the world where the trend of space contraction has just been curbed, and then looking at the treasure sword in his hand, Shen Long is overjoyed. He had almost forgotten that cutting the way requires merit, and opening the sky also requires it. The first sword he had just made had used up the merit that could cut through 300 swords. Shen Long's head was about to explode, and just as he was about to succeed, should he give up?

  Shen Long was deep in thought, and the treasure sword let out another ring. As if it wanted to tell Shen Long something?

  Shen Long's expression changed slightly, then his face began to flush with excitement again: "Haha... I almost forgot that Heaven never seals off the path of a dragon. Alright, let's do it this way - first, I'll take out the Merit Slashing Dao, and later I'll repay you double."

  "Hum——" The treasured sword seemed extremely excited, giving Shen Long a feeling of being deceived. He thought to himself that this guy had just awakened a bit of spiritual intelligence and already knew how to lend money at exorbitant interest rates. In the future, when he gained more cognitive abilities, he would definitely teach him a lesson.

  With a reluctant heart, Shen Long painfully and happily started his journey of cutting through the Dao once again.

  "Slash——" This time it's the way of space, with a slash of spatial blades cutting through the chaos of earth, fire, wind, and water, shattering them and merging them into the Small Thousand World.

  "Slash——" "Slash——" Another three hundred slashes, when five hundred great avenues appeared in the Chaos Pearl, the heaven and earth supported by the five hundred sky pillars became smaller, and the Small Thousand World was finally opened successfully.

  "Plop..." Shen Long also fell down, exhausted.

  This injury is more severe than the last time, last time it was just a slash of five hundred and that's all, this time it's continuous sword swings, without even a moment to catch breath. It almost injured his origin, but seeing the world he opened up, Shen Long was still delighted. This is probably also the reason why Pangu smiled as he transformed into the vast expanse.

  Hahaha........ Hahaha............

  Excited Shen Long looked up at the sky and let out a long whistle, but his laughter was suddenly interrupted by the changing weather in the small world that had just been opened.

  "Good grief, you don't want me to hold up the sky and stand on the earth, do you? I'm not going to learn from Pangu."

  Shen Long looked at the sudden change with concern.