Chapter 629: Illusory Fairy Sleeves, Killing Sword Divine Slash, Xu Kun's Stomach Sac

While using Demonic Transformation to devour the Void Leviathans would also be a viable option, given the clear limitations of their bloodline, it's unnecessary to occupy his transformation capacity when there's a more secure method of utilization. After all, the Void Leviathans' most valuable ability isn't their spatial talent, but their unique capacity to consume various chaotic energies from the cosmic sea and convert them into spiritual essence. This specific trait can be harnessed by utilizing their stomachs, allowing a Void Refinement Blessed Land to possess the same characteristic, something cultivators themselves don't particularly need.

Within the domain created by the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel, the Void Leviathan exhibited a peculiar "four-state" phenomenon, randomly shifting between the forms of birth, aging, illness, and death. It emitted continuous, high-pitched cries, like the tremolo of the earth, constantly shaking the space. Its power waxed and waned like tides, reaching peaks of strength and absolute troughs, demonstrating the dual nature of the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel's effects.

It could both empower enemies and weaken targets. What Wang Yu needed to do was seize the moment of its weakness and deliver a fatal blow.

No sooner said than done. The moment the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel rotated, the nearby Void Leviathan rapidly shrank, transforming into its "newborn state." Wang Yu moved in response.

Dense demonic energy surged from his right hand. He intended to cut open the beast while it was still alive to extract its stomach.

However, he had underestimated the situation. The power of the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel wasn't absolute, and this particular Void Leviathan had naturally evolved to the Void Refinement Stage after devouring the Light of Time. For the wheel to exert perfect control over it, the wheel itself would need to be upgraded. A top-grade fifth-tier spirit treasure... it wasn't enough!

“Roar!!!” With a furious roar, the Void Leviathan's body suddenly swelled. Its mouth, vast as the firmament, exuded a terrifying suction. Wang Yu, too close, was caught by the pulling force and uncontrollably drawn into the beast's massive maw.

'Interesting,' he thought. This Void Leviathan had been 'matured' prematurely by devouring the Light of Time, having been an immature individual not long ago. It was far from beings like the Prison King Spirit Official; describing it as the weakest Void Refinement early-stage cultivator would be most accurate.

Wang Yu had many ways to kill his target. However, the opportunity to enter the beast's stomach... that was quite rare.

He immediately summoned the Dragon-patterned Black Gold Crown to cover himself. This treasure transcended conventional artifact classifications, having been forged through natural refining methods. If pressed, Wang Yu could call it an "acquired spirit treasure." Aside from lacking a spirit, its power had long since reached the Void Refinement stage, and its defensive capabilities were terrifying.

With the Dragon-patterned Black Gold Crown protecting him, what did it matter if he was swallowed by the Void Leviathan? He even had enough energy to retrieve the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel, allowing this Void Leviathan to return to its kin and continue swimming within the Light of Time's radiance, partaking in the act of light-devouring.

Consequently, after enduring a series of "treatments" like gastrointestinal compression, spatial strangulation, and acid baths, Wang Yu entered a true blessed land world. This was the stomach world created by the Void Leviathan. Theoretically, it was of the same quality as a Void Refinement Blessed Land, but the sight before him left Wang Yu dumbfounded.

Within the pale yellow ocean of stomach acid, countless pitted rocks floated and sank. These were primarily fragments of stars and worlds, especially the latter. One might mistakenly think world fragments are grand, high-grade treasures. In reality, they are quite common; any meteorite floating in the cosmic sea could be called a world fragment... or perhaps 'world remnants' is a more fitting term!

Throughout history, countless worlds had met their end, annihilated within the cosmic sea. Even before the vast Immortal Realm was established, the Void Beasts had existed in the cosmic sea, their sustenance always these world remnants. To cultivators, these remnants held no spiritual essence; they were useless except for their hardness.

Wang Yu hadn't entered voluntarily to study the Void Leviathan's habits, but for the Light of Time—those lights that had a "growth-promoting" effect, imbued with the most profound temporal laws. Naturally, there were residual lights within its stomach world. Wang Yu swept them up with the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel, gathering them into a small white orb contained at the very center of the wheel.

Outside, the Void Leviathan, driven by an insatiable hunger, continued to devour the Light of Time. Its instincts compelled it not to miss this rare opportunity.

After collecting the scattered residual light, Wang Yu moved to the "opening" of the stomach world, which could be considered the end of the Void Leviathan's esophagus. He manipulated the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel to continuously draw in the light being swallowed.

As a result, the small white orb at the center of the Heavenly Wheel grew increasingly brilliant, resembling a miniature "Great Orb" phenomenon. Wang Yu seized the moment to activate the wheel's divine effects to their maximum. The Furnace of Time, condensed by his immortal body, spontaneously appeared. This caused the temporal energy, already twice filtered, to undergo a third refinement, transforming into strands of greyish-white silk that surged into Wang Yu's sea of consciousness.

Where his Yin Primordial Spirit sat enthroned, a Frost Moon Disk hovered behind its head, and the Abi and Yuantu Twin Swords were strapped to its back. The high platform beneath its seat was composed of countless grotesque skeletons and malevolent spirits, with Yellow Springs water trickling from the crevices. These three were all manifestations of intent, with the sole exception of the Illusory Light Intent. The platform of Yellow Springs malevolent spirits was Wang Yu's "new" intent manifestation, formed after he lost his Soul Sword.

Like other intent weapons, the weapon itself wasn't the key. The symbolic meaning was the true mystery of the Gate of Profound Female. Lacking time for cultivation and refinement, his initial concept was that the lives slaughtered by the twin swords, representing Slaughter, would entirely transform into the grinding mill for his cultivation of the Yellow Springs Malevolent Spirit Dao. Ultimately, the high platform would be refined into a lotus platform, suppressing the boundless hell.

This step was the starting point for the fusion of intents. The appearance of the temporal threads immersed Wang Yu in a complete comprehension of the Illusory Light Intent. After entering his sea of consciousness, these threads began to circle his Yin Primordial Spirit, one after another, weaving the fourth intent weapon, named the Illusory Light Immortal Sash, signifying the sublimation of its fundamental imagery.

This Immortal Sash, formed by light, illusion, and time, undoubtedly elevated it to an ultimate intent. Consequently, the Malevolent Spirit Dao seemed out of place, as it was merely a superior intent.

This gave Wang Yu a premonition of imbalance. Three perfect, one lacking. It felt awkward, and he could foresee an asymmetry during fusion, causing Wang Yu to clench his fists. While this stroke of fortune was good, it continuously raised the upper limit of his intents.

Originally, the path to fusion, with the Frost Moon Dao as the ultimate intent and three superior intents as auxiliary, should have been smooth. But after the Slaughter Dao ascended to ultimate intent, he changed his mind, preparing to construct a dual-polarity fusion. Now that Illusory Light had also ascended to ultimate intent, if the Malevolent Spirit Dao wasn't also sublimated, it would feel incomplete.

'A life of toil,' he mused.

Despite his inner grumbling, Wang Yu was fundamentally pleased. After all, the stronger the intent, the more potent the Dao laws derived from it would be, and as long as no one else occupied his destined attainment, proving the Dao would be much easier than for others.

Such thoughts were useless for now.

The appearance of the Illusory Light Immortal Sash signified the Illusory Light Intent reaching the minor accomplishment stage. These four intents would now replace the original cultivation technique slots, becoming Wang Yu's new permanent choices. With the permanent presence of the Yin Dao laws, he only had three adjustable placement slots left. His priority was to break through quickly and acquire the ninth placement slot.

At this thought, Wang Yu exited his meditation state, realizing with surprise that the Void Leviathan was no longer devouring the Light of Time, and the small orb of light gathered at the center of the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel had completely dissipated. It turned out that the Light of Time, one of the cosmic sea's wonders, had vanished, its new location unknown. This Void Leviathan family had thus returned to normal.

Sensing that their location had strayed too far from the safe ascension passage route, Wang Yu quickly activated the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel's effect, once again deploying the "birth, aging, illness, and death" reincarnation domain. From the outside, one would see the smallest of the seven Void Leviathans suddenly enveloped in white mist and vanish from the end of the group. The other six Void Leviathans, as if oblivious, continued to glide forward, gradually disappearing into the boundless darkness of the cosmic sea.

Such were the Void Beasts. The inherent dangers and unpredictability of the cosmic sea instilled in them a natural tendency to shun peril. This led them to abandon their own kind for self-preservation when confronted with incomprehensible situations. This was also why Wang Yu never considered that the Void Leviathans would gang up on him after he decided to hunt one. Cultivators employed diverse and elaborate methods. A "sudden disappearance" like this was enough for them to abandon their kin.

Thus, the scene once again became a one-on-one confrontation. The Void Leviathan was furious but bewildered by what was happening to it, thrashing frantically within the reincarnation domain. Only when Wang Yu's light-transformed figure emerged from the jet holes on its back did it finally find a clear target for its rage.

Wang Yu, seeing this, remained unperturbed. The Abi and Yuantu Twin Swords, condensed from his perfected Slaughter Dao intent, had already materialized above his shoulders. While killing the Void Leviathan from within would be simpler, he was unwilling to damage the stomach world. He would naturally opt for a method that yielded greater benefits.

The twin swords, embodying the entirety of the blood sea phenomenon and representing the perfected Slaughter Dao, though without physical form, were potent weapons against primordial spirits and wills. Wang Yu had learned numerous divine abilities targeting the primordial spirit, such as Soul-Shattering Death Ray, Blood Slaughter Heart Sword, Soul-Shattering Finger, Ancient Soul Arts techniques... there were too many. These comprised his divine Dao foundation. Developing a method suitable for wielding the twin swords of Slaughter was incredibly simple, and the talent inherited from the Blood Beast Fei made the process even easier.

The Slaughter Sword Scripture hadn't been mastered yet and was still being comprehended in a placement slot. However, the transitional move Wang Yu called "God-Slayer" was perfectly suited for the present moment.

The killing intent accumulated over half a lifetime materialized at this instant. The Void Leviathan charged furiously but was met head-on and pierced by a crimson sword light that streaked across the cosmic sea. In his Ghost Eye vision, Wang Yu saw a transparent Void Leviathan soul torn from its body by the sword light, instantly shattering into countless fragments.

Wang Yu effortlessly gathered the fragments, transforming them into a thumb-sized purple soul bead. 'A primary ingredient for soul pills,' he judged after a brief inspection. The natural curve of his lips indicated his good mood.

Against Void Beasts that operated purely on instinct, he had too many countermeasures. Although this one was described as being in the early Void Refinement stage, it was likely easier to defeat than Zhao Mo. Wang Yu's true strength lay not just in his combat power, which far exceeded that of his peers, but in his mastery of countless techniques and various Daos, allowing him to contend with any type of enemy through intricate means.

These were traits typically possessed only by old monsters who had lived long enough. For prodigies and anomalies, establishing supreme advantages in their specialized fields was already an incredibly time-consuming endeavor. No one else, like Wang Yu, had eight additional placement slots available. His 'well-rounded' build became increasingly formidable in later stages.

Absolute stats combined with mechanisms far surpassing his peers made him practically invincible.

After rummaging through his collection, Wang Yu found a sufficiently large Cosmos Ring that contained no items. He stored the Void Leviathan's corpse within it, then retrieved his World-Splitting Divine Boat, activated the star chart navigation, and set off back to the Mountains and Seas Realm.

With the branch of Jianmu, the myriad seeds, and the Void Leviathan's stomach acquired, all materials needed for his Void Refinement Blessed Land to directly ascend to a Grotto-Heaven were complete, enabling him to create the most powerful Grotto-Heaven world.

The Nine Coagulations and Nine Dissipations and the Furnace of Time were also complete. All that remained was the final step of Devouring Heaven: after the Yin Five Elements Cycle was perfected, he would separate it from the Mountains and Seas Realm and refine it into his own internal organs to achieve a breakthrough.

Similarly, Wang Yu was currently only at the Soul Transformation 8th Layer. After accumulating enough power to break through to the 9th Layer, he would still need to complete the demonic essence accumulation from the 9th Layer to the Peak. This process would require acceleration through dual cultivation with Qingqing.

Thinking about how he might not leave his bed for some time, Wang Yu accelerated the World-Splitting Divine Boat beneath his feet, continuously picking up speed toward the Mountains and Seas Realm.

Months later, in March of the 336th year of his Old Ancestor cultivation, Wang Yu successfully returned to the Mountains and Seas Realm after extracting the complete Void Beast stomach. He greeted Old Ancestor Li Chunyi of Absolute Emotion and then proceeded directly back to the Five Elements Corpse Workshop.

His Old Ancestor cultivation began counting years from the Nascent Soul 2nd Layer. He broke through to the Soul Transformation Stage in his 194th year. This meant it took him only 142 years to cultivate to the Soul Transformation 8th Layer. If all went smoothly, he was confident he could reach the Soul Transformation Peak within twenty years, accelerating through various means.

Thus, the entire Soul Transformation Stage cultivation would take approximately 162 years. The Nascent Soul Stage took about 231 years. The Golden Core Stage was around 83 years. The Foundation Establishment Stage was roughly 50 years. And the Qi Condensation Stage was less than 20 years.

Currently, Wang Yu's age was 523 years and 6 months! His overall cultivation time had been steadily increasing, particularly during the Nascent Soul Stage, where a lack of resources in the early period meant progress was purely a grind against time, significantly extending the duration of that entire realm's cultivation. After breaking through to the Soul Transformation Stage, he also faced this issue initially. However, after several Soul Transformation battles, his pace accelerated considerably. Upon entering the Mountains and Seas Realm, his improvement became rapid, and in just the past decade or so, he had significantly sped up the accumulation for the most challenging "late stage" cultivation.

He was just a step away from the final push. 'I wonder if Void Refinement cultivation will be smoother,' he mused, pondering the situation in the Demon Refining Domain.

Wang Yu flew straight back to the Corpse Workshop, immediately finding Empress Qingqing, who was still refining vital essence. With a fervent gaze, he said, "Qingqing, I have a lot of time now."

She pursed her lips and frowned, saying, "My refining speed isn't as fast as yours. Refining three times a month is already quite difficult for me."

“I’ll teach you a mental technique,” Wang Yu offered. “You can cultivate and refine at the same time. It’s extremely efficient; as long as your body can handle it, you can keep cultivating continuously.”

Qingqing's red lips parted slightly in hesitation. “Isn’t that a bit too crazy? I won’t even mention your beast-like physique, but I’m afraid I can’t handle it.”

“Remember, there are only oxen that die from exhaustion, never fields that are over-plowed. Let us ascend to the Grand Dao together!” Wang Yu declared shamelessly, spreading his arms wide.

The entire Yin Heaven Hall then entered a twenty-year period of seclusion.