Chapter 676: Harmony

To the Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators of the Fifth Grade in the outside world, Cai Mo Jian Jun's greatest pride was his Sword Intent. As a Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivator specializing in combat, his sword techniques and Sword Intent were his foundation. With just three draws of his sword, he could eliminate over ninety-five percent of Cultivators at the same level.

In the eyes of the onlookers, his sword techniques were 'perfect'.

There were no flaws. Even when casually strolling, he could still achieve a mana consumption ratio of one to two thousand against this sudden arrival from beyond the Heavens, which was incredibly terrifying.

This kind of perfect technique, wielding a sword and combined with Martial Dao Divine Intent, allowed him to find the weaknesses of all spells and then break them with his sword techniques. It was merely the movement of a rectangle in three-dimensional space, yet it was incredibly tricky.

Sword techniques, in the eyes of the world, were actually just low-level minor arts. But in his hands, they took on a different feeling. This did not bring him closer to the Dao; it was still a minor art, but its profundity far exceeded the limits that anyone in the world could grasp.

This was a Cultivator of the Immortal Heaven.

What about the Dao? Was it important?

It wasn't important. As long as he could kill the opponent, no Dao would work. So, even with sword techniques, they could pursue these 'minor arts' to an extremely profound level. Relying solely on the shifting and transformation of a rectangular weapon, supplemented by Martial Dao Divine Intent, and some application of Qi, they could shatter countless spells.

It was almost like... a scalpel, precisely cutting through all Divine Abilities, like a master butcher dismembering an ox, separating all Divine Abilities, breaking down the components of Divine Abilities and spells from their most minute parts, and finally dispersing them, all without revealing any flaws, and even making defensive movements with ease.

Divine skill.

But—

Everything has flaws. The essence of sword techniques is flawed. A regular rectangle, its movement in three-dimensional space, is inherently limited.

No matter how much you compensate, no matter how many ways you use sword techniques, you cannot conceal this flaw.

Ordinary people cannot grasp this flaw because the opponent is too fast and too precise.

But Li Qi could.

During the previous few days of observation, True Knowledge Dao Resonance had not been idle. Li Qi had completely seen through the surrounding onlookers, as well as the sword-wielder before him.

True Knowledge Dao Resonance had already seen through all their movements, cultivation, weaknesses, proficiencies, and even their underwear. One could even say that Li Qi understood their weaknesses better than they understood themselves.

They were completely unprepared, and they didn't even have the awareness to be prepared.

However, through True Knowledge Dao Resonance's scan of the outside world, Li Qi had learned of their conversations. He already clearly understood his position in the Immortal Heaven—

One must know that these Fifth Grade Cultivators were in the Heaven-Penetrating Realm.

And Dao Resonance was referred to by them as 'Minor Hedao,' all because Dao Resonance was a fragment of a true Great Dao. For Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators who sought to 'merge with the Heavenly Dao' and achieve the unity of Heaven and man, this was extremely important.

This thing was like a 'System,' a cheat, and the Immortal Heaven did not have such a cheat.

If a Minor Hedao was like this, then what about a true Hedao?

So, the next moment, the Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators watching from outside saw an incredible scene.

Cai Mo Jian Jun frowned and prepared for defense.

The entire world began to move.

The world came alive…

No, the world was alive to begin with.

Jian Jun didn't know what trick Li Qi was playing, so he chose to draw his sword at this moment.

With a swish of his sword, Li Qi was instantly cut to pieces.

Li Qi's body completely dissipated, his Physical Body dissolved and merged into the Dharma Idol. Immediately, the Dharma Idol also dissolved and merged into the Star Officials.

And that Star Official directly dispersed.

Yes, it dispersed.

Li Qi's Inner World, at this moment, seemed to have merged into the external Immortal Heaven.

His Inner World was embedded into the Immortal Heaven.

If the previous 'Changing Heaven and Earth' was using the Inner World to influence the Immortal Heaven, shielding the original Laws and suppressing the opponent with his own Great Dao, then… at this moment, the situation became completely extreme.

In the battlefield, there was no longer any 'Immortal Heaven'.

At this moment, there was no Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Heaven, only Li Qi's Inner World.

The surrounding Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators watched in astonishment as they discovered a terrifying truth.

Hedao, Hedao, what is Hedao?

For them, it meant merging with the Heavenly Dao to achieve complete immortality and indestructibility. This Heavenly Dao, of course, referred to the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Heaven, as the Immortal Heaven was their only world.

But for Li Qi, there was never only one world.

According to their definition, Li Qi was a standard 'Hedao'; Li Qi had completely mastered the Heavenly Dao of his own Inner World.

And now, Li Qi used this point to expand his Inner World, isolating the Immortal Heaven, and forcibly swallowing the swordsman and all the surrounding onlookers into his own Inner World!

The entire world began to move!

This was the malice of a world!

A Fifth Grade world, its mountains, water, sun, moon, wind, clouds, earth, wilderness, passes, and ridges were all mobilized.

This was a Grand Ritual.

A Grand Ritual that these people could not refuse, sacrificing their own Heavenly Dao to everyone present.

As mentioned before, Li Qi understood their weaknesses better than they understood themselves.

At this moment, Li Qi opened his Inner World, exposing the Heavenly Dao.

Come on.

What lies before you is the opportunity to 'Hedao'.

Can you resist?

Li Qi gave them an opportunity to Hedao, and… can you tell whether the Heavenly Dao descending at this moment belongs to the Immortal Heaven or to Li Qi?

They couldn't tell, because they didn't even know what the Heavenly Dao was all about.

For these Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators, they only saw one thing—

The enemy suddenly disappeared. Li Qi was gone. Was he killed by Cai Mo Jian Jun?

A clear Heavenly Dao aura descended, and the Law of the world was laid bare before them, within reach.

This was a mosquito lamp.

That tiny spark that mosquitoes and moths cannot resist.

Among the watching Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators, some couldn't resist and threw themselves into the Heavenly Dao.

So, he 'Hedaod' (merged with the Dao).

He truly succeeded in Hedao, merging with the Heavenly Dao. 'As long as the world exists, I exist,' truly 'co-existing with Heaven.' Unless this world is destroyed, he will absolutely not die.

After he successfully 'Hedaod', the others immediately rushed forward, vying with each other.

It wasn't that they lacked reason, but reason would likely find it very difficult to resist such a temptation.

Of course, there were also some who maintained their reason, observing the reactions of others.

Soon, nearly half of the people 'Hedaod' successfully.

Those who were still watching could even feel the joy of the successful Hedao Cultivators!

So, without hesitation, these people quickly 'Hedaod' and merged into the Heavenly Dao.

As for Cai Mo Jian Jun, he did not go to Hedao because he knew he hadn't killed the opponent.

Furthermore, he felt a coercive force!

The threads of Karma that he had cut earlier had not actually been severed!

Unbeknownst to him, the remnants of all the spells he had shattered earlier were now floating around him. At this moment, the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Heaven was completely sealed by the Inner World, the Buddhist Heavens dissipated, leaving only Li Qi's Inner World.

It was then that he suddenly realized something…

This was a spider web.

Earlier, he had continuously shattered spells. The remnants of these Divine Ability spells had quietly formed an altar. This was an altar set up by Jian Jun himself, so… he couldn't refuse.

This was Li Qi's most adept combat style.

Meticulous planning.

Li Qi was not good at impromptu battles; his combat talent did not support him in making optimal decisions based on instinct. But given a little time, his calculation ability, his manipulation of the will of Heaven, and his ability to control probability to determine reality would all combine to create a desperate situation for his opponents.

Just like now.

Cai Mo Jian Jun's sacrifice had already begun without him realizing it. He was already an insect caught in a spider web, unable to escape.

However, in the eyes of others, Cai Mo Jian Jun also Hedaod along with everyone else.

So, they were convinced that this was a pie falling from the sky!

One after another, they Hedaod.

Finally, Li Qi let out a satisfied burp.

Hedao?

It was merely entrusting oneself to the Heavenly Dao and being devoured by the Heavenly Dao.

It seemed like becoming one with the Heavenly Dao, but that was only true for a 'senseless and unawakened' Heavenly Dao. Only the Heavenly Dao of worlds that had not awakened consciousness would fall for this trick.

If one was lucky, they might even be able to Possess the Heavenly Dao.

But for Li Qi, they were merely rushing to their own deaths.

Three days of planning, effortlessly, silently, and extremely bizarrely, all the Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators, including Cai Mo Jian Jun, disappeared.

To others, this was a bizarre and terrifying supernatural event, like a haunting.

Unbeknownst to anyone, over twenty Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators broke through to Hedao and then vanished, leaving no trace, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

However, wasn't this precisely the impression a Shaman gave people?

Shamanes themselves were like this: strange and mysterious, with sinister methods, always messing with unknown things, always doing things that seemed nonsensical to others.

If it were a Martial Artist, this battle would be a hearty, head-on confrontation, fighting until the seas ran dry and rocks crumbled, leaving not a single intact stone for hundreds of millions of miles. Such a magnificent battle might even be sung about for ten thousand years by later generations.

If it were a Daoist, this battle would be a beautiful spell duel. Daoists would bring out their Spiritual Tools, Talismans, and Divine Abilities to teach the Fifth Grade Cultivators of the Immortal Heaven a good lesson. It wouldn't be as passionate, but it would be very elegant, fitting the carefree style of an 'Immortal'.

If it were the Human Dao, this would be a ruthless suppression. The Human Dao would use absolute power and strict rules to completely replace the Great Dao of the Immortal Heaven. Before humanity, there was no Heaven, and no such thing as 'Hedao'.

But Li Qi was a Shaman.

When a Shaman fought this kind of battle, the final outcome was a confusing mess. The battle seemed to end abruptly, without any grand momentum, and even the onlookers, those Seventh and Sixth Grade Cultivators, didn't know what had happened.

This was a cold case. If no Fourth Grade Cultivator investigated, it would probably remain a permanent cold case, becoming an urban legend, a kind of terrifying nursery rhyme.

This eerie story would continue to spread, telling some Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators not to Hedao casually, otherwise they might encounter something unclean…

Terrifying, mysterious, unfathomable, chilling, and also performing various inexplicable rituals, creating nonsensical sacrificial scenes—this was the style of a Shaman.

Of course, for Li Qi, this didn't matter.

These Fifth Grade Cultivators Hedaod, which meant their cultivation merged into Li Qi's Inner World. This was also the reason Li Qi chose to fight his way up.

The lower-level Cultivators were too weak; it was meaningless.

Now, he needed to find a place to hide and study the cultivation paths of these twenty-odd Fifth Grade Cultivators.

He wanted to thoroughly understand the cultivation System of the Immortal Heaven to prepare for entering the true 'Immortal Heaven'.

While the Sixth and Seventh Grade Cultivators below were still confused, Li Qi had already quietly disappeared, fleeing far away.

This escape lasted five years.

For five years, Li Qi meticulously erased his traces, cleaning up as he went, and finally found a relatively hidden mine shaft, where he burrowed in.

In the Immortal Heaven’s True World, such mine shafts were ridiculously numerous, and he didn't know where they came from.

It should be the foundation of a First Grade world, right? Just like the Earth Oil in the Earth Oil Realm and the Sacred Flame in the Holy Flame World.

Although the quality of the items in the mine shaft varied, they were indeed all the same thing: some kind of energy crystal similar to Spirit Stones, but far purer than Spirit Stones.

If he could, Li Qi really didn't want to call this thing Immortal Stones.

But unfortunately, the people of the Immortal Heaven called them that.

Immortal Stones were divided into High, Middle, and Low Grades based on quality, and there was also a separate mine core. The purity of High Grade Immortal Stones was so high that if you inserted a fuse and smashed it on the ground, it would explode. The power was quite impressive, more than enough to destroy an Eighth Grade world. One could only say that it was indeed something that a First Grade world could produce…

These produced Immortal Stones would also be cut according to size and standardized to ensure that each piece was of uniform size. A single High Grade Immortal Stone processed in this way was enough to support a Cultivator from unranked cultivation to Seventh Grade.

The energy density was terrifying. The fact that it could maintain stability like this was truly something.

All Seventh Grade Cultivators toiled daily to excavate these Immortal Stones. The excavated products would naturally be sent outside for processing, becoming the cultivation resources for the Sixth Grade mine owners.

The Sixth Grade mine owners would be responsible for managing their own mining areas and then periodically hand over most of their gains to the Fifth Grade Cultivators who protected them.

And the Fifth Grade Cultivators would take these products and have their alchemists engage in re-production activities, producing Spiritual Artifacts and Medicinal Pills. The lower quality ones would be sold at extremely high prices to the mine laborers, while the higher quality ones would be sold to the Sixth Grade mine owners.

It could be said that mining was the largest productive labor in the entire Immortal Heaven’s True World.

Moreover, the quantity of Immortal Stones was truly indescribable. Li Qi traveled for five years. For five years, Immortal Stones were being mined everywhere, and everyone was consuming Immortal Stones. After all these years, the Immortal Stone veins were still continuously producing, as if they were inexhaustible.

In such a production System supported by the excavation of Immortal Stones, Li Qi could only lament…

As expected of a First Grade world, its foundation is truly deep. It's a purely extractive world, and nothing has gone wrong with the mining so far. This level, tsk tsk, it's probably not a world that developed to First Grade, but rather was born as a First Grade world.

Thinking this, Li Qi burrowed into the mine shaft, avoiding the miners, and began his research.

Having 'eaten' so many Heaven-Penetrating Realm Cultivators, he was ready to completely decipher the cultivation System of the Immortal Heaven.