Chapter 38: The Carefree Path is Initially Formed, the King of the Dipper Plate
The hall courtyard mountain was left with only a desolate ruin, where the Golden Body Cicada had passed through, all turned into desolation. The spiritual veins were damaged, and the poisonous decay corroded. Except for the central cave mansion that showed five-colored auspicious light, it was no different from the dead land of Nanhuang.
Inside the cave, a handsome young man sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes shining brightly as characters emerged from them. A mysterious and profound spiritual book floated above his head, absorbing these characters to form a series of profound divine paths that appeared in the book. A massive tower emitting a wild and ancient dragon aura floated nearby, with streams of primordial energy continuously falling down to cleanse the young man's physical body. Streams of starlight penetrated into his body, constantly removing impurities from it.
Only to see that the book, page by page, reveals the illusory images of the Chaotic Heaven Dragon, the Yin-Yang Heaven Phoenix, and the Chaotic Jade Qilin. Various giant beasts emerge, manipulating clouds and rain, moving mountains and seas, each displaying their divine powers. Finally, all the divine powers merge into a profound and mysterious Great Dao, forming an illusory world. A lone figure sits within, hands clasped in different mystical hand seals.
Suddenly, an aura of unparalleled nobility appeared on the man's body, accompanied by a series of thumping heartbeats and grinding sounds that came from his heart.
If you could see, you would find that there is a purple-red heart at the man's chest, and the heart is connected to all the blood vessels in his body. In the space of the heart, there is a sea of blood, and above the sea of blood, there is an mysterious and unusual blood-colored millstone. The blood flows from the blood vessels into the heart, then is ground by the millstone, and then flows into the sea of blood, circulating repeatedly.
The entire process was mysterious and unparalleled, as if it were the Great Way. It's unknown how much time had passed, but the blood-colored millstone finally came to a slow stop. The man's physical body became crystal clear and transparent, without any impurities. The mysterious book on his head merged into his head, and the giant tower also shrunk down and entered his head.
Everything fell silent, the man's eyes finally returned to calmness, and then as if the dark clouds had parted to reveal a bright moon, his face suddenly lit up, and a voice slowly came out of his mouth.
Carefree soul, carefree way
Carefree will, carefree law!
Carefree thought, carefree idea.
Carefree Domain, The Way of the Palm!
Carefree body, carefree spirit;
Carefree blood vessels, break through the Hongmeng!
Haha! How magnificent is my carefree way!"
A carefree smile echoed from the mountain, a mysterious and profound Taoist truth pointed directly to the human heart, every word was like a pearl, each one seemed to contain infinite profundity, as if it were the sound of the Tao at the beginning of heaven and earth, making people who heard it feel their spirits sink into a state of free and easy wandering.
Boom! A figure in white clothes suddenly appeared in the sky above the hall, with a head of flowing white hair on his shoulders, swaying gently behind him, looking handsome and elegant. His peach blossom eyes, long eyebrows like willows, exuded an enchanting aura, and a mysterious green light flickered, adding to his charm. His pale face was stunningly beautiful, with a hint of a mischievous smile at the corner of his mouth, revealing his untamed nature. His straight and even physique showed strength everywhere.
In short, he is a charming and handsome man!
However, the man burst out laughing and saw the scene in front of him, his eyes narrowed instantly, flashing a dangerous aura, a green light swept across, and the scene in front of him was etched in his memory.
Someone has come to provoke, and it's not just an ordinary provocation!
Huang Xiaoyao looked at the scene in front of him, a surge of anger boiling up to the sky. He had never been so angry before, not even when the Wild God stole his body or when the Ancestral Dragon plotted against him.
Ever since Huang Xiaoyou transmigrated into the Swallowing Heaven Mouse of the Desolate Era, he had been constantly striving to become stronger. The experiences along the way allowed him to achieve his current level of cultivation, but in the past, there was a bit of aimlessness in his heart, and he had always been pondering the meaning of his existence.
Become powerful? Achieve the ultimate freedom in heart? Not afraid of heaven's calculation? Become invincible?
Then? Through this retreat, Huang Xiaoyao finally understood that the carefree way in his heart was not just about cultivating to become stronger, but also about enjoying life, protecting the people who were important to him, and making those he protected feel carefree and at ease, no longer worrying about life and death.
Xuán Kōng, Xuán Líng, Niū Niū, Yōu Fèng, ào Líng, ā'ěr Tèmǐsī, and so on, are all the people he wants to protect. However, now, only a dying Bái Qǐ and a ground full of corpses remain.
It's a terrible sight! Even if Huang Xiaoyou has been through many great wars and bloodshed, she hasn't been as angry as today!
"What a carefree path! It's no wonder that Tianxu Mouse has such a powerful devouring technique, it really defies the heavens!" The illusory head saw Huang Xiaoyou appear and immediately retracted its divine powers, quietly floating there.
Huang Xiaoyao's face was calm, but he was shocked in his heart. He had been to the Desolate Expanse for who knows how many years, and even the Ancestral Dragon couldn't see through his true nature. Yet, this illusory head in front of him could actually see right through him with just one sentence?
The Lawless God's gaze was suddenly deployed, wanting to see the essence of the illusory human head in front of him. However, he only saw gray particles floating around, each particle containing a powerful aura that was not the aura of yuan qi, but a kind of mysterious nothingness, as if every particle contained the origin of life.
"You don't need to look, if it's Pangu's broken law divine eyes, you can see my true nature, even my true form can't escape. But with just a mouse's vision and a broken divine eye, don't even think about it! However, since you are of the Hunyuan Demon God bloodline, you have the qualifications to be my servant!" The illusory human head was extremely arrogant, completely not putting Huang Xiaoyao in his eyes.
It's true, Huang Xiaoyou has been cultivating the "Million Blood Secret" since he started practicing, which is a pure bloodline-enhancing technique. If he doesn't use the "Blood God Transformation" to transform into a Saint Realm Wild Ancient Dragon, people would think that his strongest form is just the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal. However, Huang Xiaoyou's current strongest transformation is no longer the Wild Ancient Dragon, but rather a giant beast he has named "Four Unlikes", with the body of a giant turtle, the legs of a qilin, the wings of a heavenly phoenix, and the tail of a heavenly dragon, as well as four heads.
"What a big tone! I didn't expect that after all these years, this vast wilderness would produce someone like you who can blow the sky apart. Alas! How is it that you don't have any morals? How is it that you don't have any quality? The beautiful Southern Wilderness has been turned into a dead land by you!" Huang Xiaoyao said while defending against the illusory head, trying to provoke his opponent and see what kind of divine power he had.
Know yourself and know your enemy, you can win a hundred battles. Now the other side knows that I am the Swallowing Heaven Mouse, but I don't know what kind of thing the other side is.
"You don't have to use such tactics to anger me, I'm just a soul of the original, without any emotions. Alright, contribute your soul, hand over the indestructible true spirit in your soul, and I'll let your soul go, and also impart to you the powerful Soul Dao!" The illusory head suddenly became distorted, as if it was suffering from some kind of pain, but this couldn't escape Huang Xiaoyou's sharp Breaking Law eyes.
"Soul Spirit Grand Dao? Are you Pan Wang? You also know about the Undying True Spirit? I suppose you're one of the Primordial Demon Gods too, and your true body is healing in Bai Miao Mountain. No wonder you want to exterminate Nan Huang, it turns out you're devouring living spirits' souls to heal!"
Huang Xiaoyao, upon hearing the Unextinguished True Spirit, instantly understood the cause and effect. After all, he had obtained the residual memories of the Wild God and the Beast God, and also knew the origin of the illusory human head in front of him. Presumably, it was an awakened Chaos Demon God, and what he cultivated was a rare and sinister Soul Spirit Great Dao.
"Huh? You're Tianyi? No, it's absolutely impossible. Back then, when Pangu opened the sky and earth, three thousand demons fell, I saw you fall with my own eyes, your soul was extinguished! Only a drop of blood containing the indestructible true spirit remained! And yet, your soul doesn't have the aura of Tianyi, humph, no matter if you're really Tianyi or just a reincarnation of Tianyi's mouse bloodline, since you won't cooperate, then let me take it!" The illusory head was finally shocked.
"Soul Annihilation Vortex!"
The whirlpool in the eyes of the illusory human head rotated again, and a wave of soul-devouring energy struck Huang Xiaoyou's mind, making his expression dazed for a moment. However, compared to Huang Xiaoyou's soul, unless it was the complete Panwang, how could this broken soul fragment in front of him destroy Huang Xiaoyou's soul?
Last time when the Heart of Ten Thousand Blood was refined to the 99th level, even the destructive thunder couldn't destroy Huang Xiaoyou's soul. Instead, it made his soul essence advance further, from an indestructible soul to a heavenly path soul.
However, this Soul Dao is indeed the true way of cultivating souls, with soul power that is incredibly strong and mysterious, its methods are vastly different from those Yuan Qi laws and divine abilities.
"Barbaric Domain!" Huang Xiaoyou also didn't dare to be careless, after all he knew that every single Primordial Devil God wasn't an ordinary being.
A soul-destroying light entered the range of Huang Xiaoyao's Wilderness Domain, and it was instantly unable to advance even a single step. However, this soul-destroying light seemed to have a spiritual intelligence, continuously absorbing the wild aura of the Wilderness Domain, growing stronger and more powerful.
"What a savage path? What kind of monster are you? But you will never understand the great Soul Spirit Tao, which is the origin of life. Every soul particle is my incarnation and can be cultivated. Soul-destroying finger!"
A black finger traversed the distance of space and reached the top of Huang Xiaoyou's head, entering Huang Xiaoyou's spiritual sea.
"Hmph, I've even devoured the remnants of the Wild God and the Beast God, yet you dare to enter my Soul Ocean, shattering the Law of the Omniscient Eye? Shatter!"
Huang Xiaoyao's Soul Ocean was vast and boundless, comparable to the universe's primordial chaos. Only a pair of eyes shone with the light of broken laws, causing black fingers to transform into nothingness, becoming fragmented symbols that were absorbed by the Wanxue Secret Manual. The Wanxue Secret Manual added another page, although blurry, it was still an additional seed.
"Shattered Law Divine Pupil! You actually possess the Shattered Law Divine Pupil? How is this possible? It's impossible, from the beginning of the Hongmeng era*, only Pangu awakened the Shattered Law Divine Pupil, and he alone could comprehend the 3,000 Great Daos and 800 side doors, achieving unparalleled power and law, shattering chaos to open the heavens and split the earth, Soul Spirit Great Dao, origin of life, devouring the light of the soul!"
The illusory human head finally brought out its signature move, transforming into a gigantic mouth, like a behemoth, with the aura of life and death coexisting, and the breath of creation and destruction existing together.
This is the Great Way of Soul Spirit, which contains the laws of life and death.
Huang Xiaoyou finally became serious, although he was confident in his own carefree soul, the aura coming from this giant mouth had a strong threat, making him feel an intense crisis, which was the sixth sense he gained after achieving the Heavenly Dao Soul.
