Chaos Dao Sheng Jue

Chapter 1544 Core Area

The stone tablet was inscribed with a complete prophetic poem.

Fang Xinyi stared blankly at everything until the shadows outside the barrier completely disappeared before she reacted, then staggered to Lu Chen's side.

Lu Chen remained seated cross-legged. Most of the cracks on his body had healed, and although his aura was weak, it had at least stabilized.

He opened his eyes, which showed a hint of weariness, but more so a sense of understanding.

"You...you succeeded?" Fang Xinyi's voice trembled.

"It's a success," Lu Chen said with a smile. "The fire has awakened, and the seal has been reinforced. Those evil incarnations will be unable to cause trouble for at least a thousand years."

At this moment, Lu Chen looked at the newly erected stone tablet, the inscription on which was more complete than before:

"An anomaly returns carrying the seed of chaos, gaining enlightenment and understanding of its true nature amidst the cycle of life and death. Using the reunion of Yin and Yang as a catalyst, it opens the gates to Nirvana. However, the fire is lost, the path is severed. Only by using the heart as fire and life as fuel can a glimmer of hope appear. Only when the four elements are complete and the five elements are perfected will the true path be revealed..."

The true path?

Lu Chen and Fang Xinyi both looked at the last part of the stone tablet.

There was a simple map and a name engraved there:

"The deepest part of the Forbidden Land of Nirvana... Nirvana Pool."

Next to the mark of Nirvana Pool, there is a line of smaller text:

"This place seals the truth of the 'Cataclysmic Calamity' and also holds the opportunity to attain the Primordial Dao. However, those who enter must bear the consequences and the karmic burden. Be careful, be very careful."

Proving the Dao of Hunyuan? Lu Chen's pupils contracted upon seeing this.

He is currently in the Transformation Realm, above which is the Harmony Realm, then the Transcendence Realm, and only after that is the Primordial Golden Immortal.

For countless years, no true Primordial Chaos has appeared in the entire Divine Realm. The old Taoist priest doesn't count; he was merely an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao and, strictly speaking, wasn't even human.

Now, the prophetic stone tablet tells him that there is an opportunity to attain enlightenment in the Nirvana Pool.

Fang Xinyi also saw the words. She looked at Lu Chen, a complicated expression flashing in her eyes.

Just then, a deafening roar came from the edge of the altar!

The stone gate, located in the direction of the Gate of Life and Death, was blasted open by a tremendous force!

A figure rushed in; it was Nezha.

At this moment, Nezha was covered in blood, but his fighting spirit was high. His three-headed, six-armed Dharma form had completely solidified one arm, and the tip of his Fire-Tipped Spear was burning with real golden flames.

"Lu Chen! Miss Fang! Are you alright?" Nezha shouted, then froze when he saw the pillar of light and the new stone tablet in the center of the altar. "What... what's going on?"

Lu Chen stood up, still somewhat weak, but his eyes were bright: "It's a long story, but in short, the seal has been reinforced, and we have also received guidance for the next step."

He pointed to the map on the stone tablet: "At the deepest part of the Nirvana Forbidden Land is a Nirvana Pool. There may be the key to repairing the Divine Domain there, as well as the opportunity to attain the Primordial Dao."

Upon hearing this, Nezha gasped, "Proving the Dao of Hunyuan? This..."

"Are you going or not?" Lu Chen asked directly, his eyes blazing with determination.

"Of course we'll go! Although we're still some distance from achieving the Primordial Chaos Realm, we should at least know how," Nezha said excitedly.

So the three of them turned around and faced the pillar of light. At the other end of the pillar of light was the path leading to the Nirvana Pool.

“Let’s go then,” Lu Chen said. “Let’s go see what this so-called ‘truth of the Epochal Calamity’ really is.”

The three exchanged a smile and then stepped into the pillar of light at the same time.

After they left, a silver-gray phantom slowly appeared at the edge of the altar.

The person who arrived was Ah Yue. She looked in the direction where the pillar of light dissipated and said softly:

"Finally... we've come this far."

"So, what are the next tests...? Will you be able to pass them?"

Before her figure vanished, she took one last look at the skeletons that had turned into specks of light, her eyes filled with sorrow and... expectation.

The transmission within the beam of light was unlike any other before.

There was no dizziness or temporal distortion; the three of them seemed to be enveloped in a warm, flowing liquid of light, moving forward at an indescribable, uniform speed.

The surrounding area was a colorful band of light, like a passage rewoven from broken rainbows, each band containing a rich aura of laws.

Lu Chen could feel these colored bands resonating actively with the divine essence within his body. In particular, the crimson band representing "fire" almost broke away from the channel and merged into his body, which was the affinity brought by the primordial fire seed he had just awakened.

“This passage… seems to be checking us out?” Nezha suddenly said, his eyes scanning the surroundings warily. “I feel like I’m being looked at from head to toe.”

Fang Xinyi nodded: "This is a screening process. People who don't meet the criteria will probably be directly eliminated from the process, or even removed from it."

Lu Chen remained silent, because he felt the golden bead world within his body suddenly tremble violently.

It wasn't the kind of vibration that yearned for resonance as before, but rather an angry, anxious tremor.

Immediately afterwards, an image automatically appeared in Lu Chen's mind.

It was a blood-red altar, where countless living beings were bound and sacrificed. Their blood and souls were extracted and poured into a stone pillar in the center of the altar, which emitted a blazing white light.

Beside the stone pillar sat a figure sitting cross-legged; that person was none other than Gu Tingyuan.

He formed hand seals and chanted incantations. His face was pale, clearly exhausted, but his eyes were filled with fanaticism.

Even more terrifying, above the altar, a phantom formed from pure death energy was slowly taking shape. The phantom was a thousand feet tall, its features indistinct, but the oppressive aura it exuded was suffocating, seemingly using the power of blood sacrifice to reshape its true form!

Coming to his senses, Lu Chen muttered with a grim expression:

"Why is Gu Tingyuan in the Nirvana Forbidden Land? Wasn't he with Ling Muyang and the others in the Hidden Valley? Why is his image appearing in my mind? What is that old guy doing?"

However, at that moment, Gu Tingyuan in his mind suddenly opened his eyes, as if seeing Lu Chen through space. A cruel smile curved his lips, and they moved slightly. Although no sound came out, Lu Chen understood his lip reading:

"You've come at the perfect time, brat. By the time you arrive, the ceremony should be complete. It would be most appropriate to use your blood to reshape Lord Hades' physical body."

Then, the images in my mind abruptly stopped.

At this moment, the vibrations of the golden bead world within his body stopped, but it still emitted a dazzling golden light, as if suppressing a raging fire.

"What's wrong?" Fang Xinyi noticed the change in Lu Chen's expression and asked in confusion.

Lu Chen briefly described what he had seen.

Upon hearing this, Nezha slammed his Fire-Tipped Spear down heavily: "Damn it! That old scoundrel was definitely up to no good! He actually used such a heinous method as blood sacrifice!"

Fang Xinyi sighed and said, "The blood sacrifice method goes against the laws of nature and will inevitably backfire. But it can indeed gain great power in the short term. Gu Tingyuan is taking a desperate gamble."

“We must speed things up,” Lu Chen said in a deep voice. “That guy definitely has no good intentions. If he completes that strange ritual, we will definitely be no match for him with our current strength.”

Before the words were even finished, the beam of light suddenly began to accelerate...