Chapter 22: The New Big Five Elements Extermination Sword Formation
Ye Qing sat in the Jie Mo Temple, taking out from the Di Ling Bao Shu a few billion years of Tian Cai Di Bao that he had traveled through the Hong Huang, including fragments of Pangu's eggshell, Xian Tian Wu Xing Zhi Jing, Xian Tian Wu Xing Tu, and some useless Xian Tian Fa Bao and other heavenly treasures.
Ye Qing looked at these top-grade materials, preparing to calculate how to refine the most powerful Five Elements Annihilation Array. He activated his vast spiritual power and quickly began to deduce in his consciousness, constantly disassembling and recombining the array. The Five Elements Annihilation Array became increasingly complex, its power growing stronger. As Ye Qing continued to deduce, his massive spiritual power suddenly went out of control and became chaotic when the array reached its limit in his consciousness. When this happened, Ye Qing felt like his head was about to explode, as if a stick was wildly stirring inside his brain. Over time, Ye Qing's headache worsened, even with his current cultivation and willpower unable to withstand it, showing just how much pain he was in.
Just as Ye Qing was about to endure it no longer and his spirit collapsed, he discovered that the headache was slowly alleviating, and after nearly a hundred years, it slowly disappeared. However, Ye Qing did not notice that when his head pain reached its peak, the chaotic spiritual energy in his consciousness sea, under the biological instinct of self-protection, slowly gathered into three purple fist-sized energy clusters according to an unknown mysterious way. The three purple energy clusters were arranged in a regular triangle shape and connected together, with white bright spots all over them, each two bright spots connected by transparent lines, looking like a super brain.
When the spiritual force in the sea of consciousness was completed, Ye Qing found that his headache had stopped. When Ye Qing's headache stopped, he immediately entered the sea of recognition and saw that his spiritual sea of recognition had become like this. Ye Qing's eyes widened as if they were about to fall out - is this my sea of recognition? Suddenly, Ye Qing received a piece of information and understood the origin of this thing. This thing was formed by the brain's self-protection mechanism when one's spiritual force was in chaos, slowly forming consciousness nodes composed of spiritual power. In other words, as long as Ye Qing merged with it to deduce a technique, he could quickly deduce the best technique based on his knowledge, which is nearly 1000 times faster than using spiritual force to deduce, and extremely stable. Under this state, Ye Qing would not be affected by his emotions, only pure rationality remained.
After Ye Qing calmed down, he continued to deduce the Five Elements Annihilation Array with the consciousness node. As he continued to deduce, he found that there were still many deficiencies in the array that needed to be modified. With the passage of time, the Five Elements Annihilation Array evolved from simplicity to complexity and then back to simplicity, just like the principle of the Great Way being simple.
A hundred years later, Ye Qing's consciousness node finally revealed a powerful Five Elements Annihilation Array, which was completely different from the previous one he had deduced. The power of this new array was on a completely different level. For example, the original Five Elements Annihilation Array that Ye Qing had previously deduced could be compared to the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array, the Zhuxian Array, and the Twelve Heavenly Gods' Killing Array, which were considered top-notch in the Hongyuan realm. However, this new array was far more powerful than those three arrays combined. Once deployed, this new Five Elements Annihilation Array would create a real space that could sustain itself, becoming increasingly stable over time. The power of the array would also grow stronger, and if no one with formidable strength could break through this space, it would be an inescapable death trap.
Ye Qing looked at the materials on the ground, preparing to refine a large Five Elements Annihilation Sword Array. Ye Qing didn't have a divine soul, so he didn't have a divine soul heart fire, but he also thought of a way, that is, using his extremely powerful spiritual power to temper these materials. The advantage of doing this was that it didn't need to be refined before use, and without his nod of approval, there was no way to refine it, even if it was refined, Ye Qing could recall it in an instant.
These five elements materials were scattered all over the ground, although except for the Five Elements Essence Stone and the eggshell that gave birth to Pangu, they were all acquired later in life, but each one was a rare treasure that people would fight over. Ye Qing pressed his brow, and his incredibly powerful spiritual energy wrapped around these five elements materials and more than ten useless innate treasures. Ye Qing separated these materials according to the five elements and refined them one by one to remove impurities. Ye Qing's spiritual power originally had the effect of returning to its origin, although it couldn't transform acquired into innate, but in terms of removing impurities, it was unparalleled in the vast expanse of the universe. Finally, as Ye Qing continued to refine and purify, five human-head-sized Five Elements Essence Gold materials were placed in front of him: the earth element was yellow and heavy; the fire element was red and dynamic; the water element was black and calm; the metal element was icy cold and sharp with a cold color; the wood element was green and full of life. The five elements, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, each had its own characteristics, complementing and reflecting each other.
Ye Qing wanted to refine five swords, the later generations of Tongtian Sect's Exterminating Immortal Sword Array had boundless power, and none of the Four Sages could break it. It was said that this was a gift from Hong Jun Dao Zu. This was something Ye Qing did not know yet, that the Exterminating Immortal Sword Array was Luo Huan's congenital treasure. Ye Qing felt that he had an exceptionally powerful spiritual strength, and his abilities were almost heavenly, he believed that as long as he carefully refined them, their quality could be compared to the four swords of the Exterminating Immortal Sword Array, and by adding the purple merit leaves he obtained, Ye Qing believed that surpassing the quality of the Exterminating Four Swords was not a problem.
He said it would be done, and Ye Qing operated that incredibly powerful spiritual force, taking a piece of refined Five Elements Gold and the innate Five Elements Golden Essence found in the Primordial Chaos, and constantly fusing and refining them with his powerful spiritual power. As his spiritual power was refined, the impurities in the merged material were constantly being refined away. When there was no longer any impurity that could be refined from the merged material, Ye Qing continued to use his spiritual power to introduce his understanding of the Heavenly Rules and constantly refine the Five Elements Golden Sword, attracting the pure Rule Power between Heaven and Earth to form his own sword energy. When the Five Elements Golden Sword was almost complete, Ye Qing took out half of the purple substance he had obtained, divided it into five equal parts, and injected one part into the Five Elements Golden Sword. Then Ye Qing repeated the process, creating a Five Elements Earth Sword, a Five Elements Wood Sword, a Five Elements Fire Sword, and a Five Elements Water Sword, each sword infused with a portion of the purple substance transformed from the Gong De Xuan Huang Qi.
When the five Five Elements swords were refined, Ye Qing began to refine the most important Five Elements Annihilation Array diagram. He used his vast spiritual power to transform the pre-heavenly Five Elements diagram into a chaotic-colored substance, then added the shell of Pangu's egg and the remaining pre-heavenly Five Elements essence. Slowly, he tempered out the impurities with his powerful spiritual power. When no more impurities could be tempered out, Ye Qing introduced the new Five Elements Annihilation Array diagram that he had deduced into himself. As the array diagram was about to take shape, Ye Qing released the remaining half of the purple substance, which merged into the array diagram through his spiritual power. When the last thread of purple substance merged into the array diagram, it suddenly burst forth with an incredibly powerful aura. The five Five Elements swords flew into the array diagram, and under Ye Qing's vast spiritual power, they slowly formed a mysterious connection with the array diagram. Five-colored lights flashed back and forth between the array diagram and the Five Elements swords, shining brightly together.
The mighty sword energy continuously bursts out of the Jie Mo Temple, emitting a proud and aloof aura. As the Da Wu Xing Ju Mie Sword Array continues to rotate, the pure sword energy between heaven and earth is constantly attracted by the array, merging into the five Wu Xing swords. With the continuous absorption of the sword energy from the heavens and the earth, the five swords slowly reveal their unique sword intent.
