Eight Hundred Million Spirit Stones

Ye Xuan formed an ancient, profound hand seal—one that even carried a trace of solemn, deathly aura.

“The Six Paths of Reincarnation—life and death reversed. My fate is as the heavens; I shall suppress the ages!”

As Ye Xuan’s cold, majestic chant echoed through the hall, the spiritual energy within it erupted into chaos.

The most core and terrifying supreme technique he cultivated—the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture—finally revealed, at this moment, its ferocious fangs capable of devouring the heavens and earth.

Space trembled. Behind Ye Xuan, six enormous vortices, black as ink, slowly emerged from the void. Each vortex represented one of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. They radiated completely different, yet equally despair-inducing, auras of terror.

Within the Heavenly Path vortex, Sanskrit chants rang out amid dazzling immortal light, yet beneath it all lay an indifference that regarded all living beings as insignificant.

Within the Asura Path vortex were mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Baleful energy soared into the heavens, while the howls of countless vengeful souls could be heard in the distance.

Within the Human Path vortex, the mortal world churned like a raging tide. The seven emotions and six desires transformed into tangible chains that coiled around the heavens.

As for the Beast Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Hell Path, they were filled with howling sinister winds and layers upon layers of ghostly shadows, as though the true netherworld had been brought into the mortal realm!

This was precisely what made the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture so overbearing. It did not follow the Heavenly Dao. Instead, it forcibly evolved the Six Paths of Reincarnation within the body, ultimately transcending reincarnation and forging the supreme Dao fruit.

Ye Xuan abruptly opened his eyes. Deep within his pupils, the phantom image of a six-spoked wheel of reincarnation faintly appeared.

With a cold shout, the six enormous vortices behind him began to spin wildly. A devouring force so terrifying that it defied description erupted from the center of the formation platform!

“Crack… crack-crack…”

Dense sounds of shattering that made one’s scalp prickle rang out throughout the cultivation chamber.

These were top-grade spirit stones!

Top-grade spirit stones, incomparably hard and containing vast amounts of spiritual energy!

Yet under the unreasonable and violent devouring of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture, all the spirit stones within a radius of thirty meters around Ye Xuan were instantly drained of their spiritual energy and reduced to gray-white powder.

Then came a radius of three hundred meters, followed by three thousand meters!

Spiritual energy transformed into a five-colored storm visible to the naked eye. Like countless rivers flowing into the sea, it poured madly into the six vortices behind Ye Xuan. After being crushed and refined by the Six Paths of Reincarnation, it transformed into the purest and most overbearing reincarnation true essence, which slammed violently into every part of Ye Xuan’s body.

With the support of the Sands of Time formation, the scene became even more horrifying.

From Wu Lingxiao’s perspective, Ye Xuan had already transformed into a human-shaped black hole.

Only a brief instant had passed in the outside world, but at the core of the formation, where the flow of time had been accelerated by a factor of one hundred and twenty, Ye Xuan had already completed tens of thousands of major heavenly cycles!

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Masses of top-grade spirit stones turned to dust, while the spiritual-energy storm scraped painfully against Wu Lingxiao’s cheeks.

As she desperately maintained the temporal formation, blood continuously spilling from the corners of her mouth, she gazed at Ye Xuan in the heart of the storm with an almost frenzied, utterly fanatical expression.

“This is my husband… This is the man to whom I swore I would devote my entire life…”

She watched the Six Paths of Reincarnation turning behind Ye Xuan and felt his aura rise steadily, as terrifying as a dragon about to break free from its chrysalis. Her body trembled violently from the overwhelming mixture of ecstasy and pain.

Under the bombardment of five hundred million top-grade spirit stones and the crushing force of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture, the barrier at the pinnacle of the late Body Integration stage began to develop hairline cracks.

Ye Xuan’s expression had become somewhat savage from the pain and the extreme swelling of spiritual energy, yet the flames of ambition in his eyes burned ever more fiercely.

“Tribulation Transcendence stage… Break through for me!”

Within the time-accelerating formation, he let out a furious roar that shook the heavens. The six vortices instantly merged into one, transforming into a pillar of reincarnation light that pierced the heavens and earth before crashing directly into the invisible shackles spanning the gap between Body Integration and Tribulation Transcendence.

The years flowed like sand, and time was merciless.

With Wu Lingxiao supporting the formation at the cost of burning the essence of her Dao body, the one-to-one-hundred-and-twenty flow of time completely isolated the cultivation chamber from the outside world.

Outside, spring gave way to autumn, and summer alternated with winter. Only a single year passed.

Yet within the sealed core of the cultivation chamber, Ye Xuan had truly been sitting in meditation for more than a century.

A century was an entire lifetime for a mortal. To a cultivator, however, it was no more than the flick of a finger.

But to Ye Xuan, who was frantically circulating the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture and devouring spiritual energy like a human-shaped black hole, the consumption of that century was nothing short of a catastrophe.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Within the cultivation chamber, the spiritual-energy storm had already transformed into a tangible vortex of spiritual power. The spiritual energy was so dense that dazzling sparks of lightning burst forth as it rubbed against the air.

Ye Xuan kept his eyes tightly shut. The six vortices of reincarnation behind him resembled six greedy mouths of an abyssal giant, endlessly devouring everything around them.

It still wasn’t enough!

The five hundred million top-grade spirit stones that had once filled the entire hall like an ocean were rapidly dwindling at a despairing rate over the course of the century.

The spirit spring that had originally existed in liquid form had dried up. The multicolored spiritual rain had ceased. The spirit-stone veins piled as high as mountains had now been drained of their final trace of luster, shattering with a series of cracking sounds into a sky full of gray-white powder that covered the entire floor to a depth of half a foot.

Ye Xuan’s brows drew tightly together. The barrier between the Body Integration stage and the Tribulation Transcendence stage was sturdier than he had imagined.

The amount of energy required by his Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Scripture to forge the most invincible foundation completely exceeded the limits of common sense.

Five hundred million top-grade spirit stones were still not enough!

At the edge of the formation, Wu Lingxiao’s already pale complexion had become as thin and white as paper. Her aura was feeble to the extreme, and half of her once raven-black hair had turned white as snow.

This was the price of severely depleting her lifespan and origin.

Yet her gaze remained fixed firmly on Ye Xuan, never shifting for even an instant.

When she saw Ye Xuan frown deeply and noticed the vortex of spiritual energy around him beginning to weaken, even showing faint signs of collapse, Wu Lingxiao’s heart clenched violently.

“My husband is running out of spiritual energy…”

A trace of utterly resolute madness flashed through Wu Lingxiao’s bloodshot eyes.

She absolutely would not allow herself to become a useless burden. She absolutely would not allow her husband’s breakthrough to fail because of a lack of resources!

“Husband, I still have more!”

She disregarded everything and let out a hoarse roar. Trembling, she extended her right hand, covered in cracks, and violently brushed it across the Imperial Storage Ring on her finger.

“Rumble!”

Accompanied by a deafening boom, a torrent of spirit stones even more vast and terrifying than before poured forth like a celestial river cascading down from the Ninth Heaven.

One hundred million… three hundred million… five hundred million… eight hundred million!

A full eight hundred million top-grade spirit stones!

These were the most crucial strategic reserves in the treasury of the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty—the final source of confidence Wu Lingxiao had once possessed as the Female Emperor ruling over the empire.

But at this moment, she hurled them all out without the slightest hesitation, like a madwoman willing to give everything she possessed merely to please the one she loved.

The addition of eight hundred million top-grade spirit stones instantly transformed the withered cultivation chamber into another vast ocean of spiritual power.

The nearly depleted Six Paths of Reincarnation vortex received this injection of fresh power, instantly erupting with a heaven-shaking roar as its speed of rotation increased tenfold!

Amid the raging storm of spiritual energy, Ye Xuan slowly opened his eyes a sliver.

He looked through the layers of spiritual light toward the white-haired woman at the edge of the formation. Blood spilled from her mouth, yet she continued to stubbornly sustain the temporal formation.

A complicated look flashed through Ye Xuan’s eyes. Then, for the first time ever, he cast Wu Lingxiao a gaze filled with “tenderness.”