All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 460 - 88: Awe of Punishment in the Heart, Destroying the Law as Arms

Chapter 460: Chapter 88: Awe of Punishment in the Heart, Destroying the Law as Arms

Apart from the gains from the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban, An Jing also, with the help of the Sword Lotus and the power of the Heavenly Mandate, completed his own "Demon Core."

This Demon Core, in essence, was a control center constructed by An Jing using the power of the Sword Lotus itself, utilizing the structure of the Dragon Storing Bottle to house a strand of "Innate Geng Metal Essence."

Humans, being one of the myriad spirits, can also condense True Spirit Blood and naturally can form demon and spirit pills. The path of the Demon Spirit is aligned with that of the Martial Cultivator and is also a part of the Immortal Path.

As someone who cultivated both Immortal Martial Arts and Demon Cores, An Jing felt as though he was returning home. He could employ all his accumulated experience and skills, and truly completed this "Primordial Spirit Sword Lotus Pill" by leveraging Dragon Qi.

This pill functioned similarly to the Dragon Storing Bottle, capable of containing vast amounts of Golden Qi, and because it shared the same origin as An Jing himself, it afforded An Jing a second massive reservoir for storing Spirit Qi. From then on, his power was driven by a dual core; as long as his body could withstand it, unleashing twice his former power was no longer a dream.

Together with the Dragon Storing Bottle, as long as An Jing was willing to invest the time to fill the Demon Core and the bottle, even if he fell into a zone where external Spirit Qi couldn’t be manipulated, he would have nearly ten times the endurance than before!

Subdue Evil also entrusted the "Divine Thunder Sword Intent" he had previously refined onto the Sword Lotus.

The budding magic treasure had the endurance to bear this tamed Sword Intent, allowing the artifact-to-be to be continuously refined by the thunder, improving ceaselessly.

If later on, An Jing achieved mastery over the Five Soldiers True Thunder, he could control this Divine Thunder Extinguishing Sword Intent, thereby turning the Sword Lotus into a complete magic treasure, no longer just a rudimentary form.

These were all benefits derived from the Sword Lotus itself.

And the most precious gain, that strand of Innate Geng Metal Essence, could only be stored temporarily and not used against enemies for now. However, its mere presence allowed An Jing’s Taibai Star’s Destroying Troops and Casting Spirits Divine Skill to see the path forward.

The Blood Fiend Divine Skill, shaping fiends, coalescing Qi into soldiers; then comes Gather and Disperse as Desired, merging soldiers back into the body, namely Mars’s ability, the fundamental intent of destroying everything, simply put, it’s like fire, utilizing Spiritual Detriment to transform into various methods of destruction.

The Gold Fiend Divine Skill involves destroying artifacts, merging gold, dissolving troops into spirits; this is Taibai’s capability, remolding everything for one’s own use, akin to turning plows into swords and melting ores to forge weapons, i.e., reshaping the material images for oneself.

Skills, Dharma, entering Dao, achieving Dao.

With that strand of Innate Geng Metal Essence, An Jing vaguely saw the second step of the "Dissolving Troops into Spirit" Divine Skill.

[Spiritual Power in heart, destroy Dharma for troops]!

"After crushing the enemy’s skills and laws, I can integrate the residue of these laws into my attack, turning them against the enemy—and just as before, I can also choose to destroy my previously maintained skills or reorganize the defensive skills disrupted by the enemy to enhance my next attack," he said.

An Jing quickly grasped the significance of the second stage of the Divine Skill. He had not yet completely mastered it, but he had seen the path—and to see the path meant he could walk it.

Now, An Jing felt in better shape than he ever had before, and the Primordial Spirit Immaculate Wood, too, improvement during the process of guiding the Golden Qi of the Sword Lotus, conveyed a sense of joy.

"The gains are significant... only the Half-Dragon Demon Shedding’s Xuanyuan Pure Light remains."

After communicating with the Immaculate Wood for a while, An Jing stretched his limbs and walked out of the Primordial Spirit Cave—now he had cultivated to an extreme, and further cultivation in the short term would not make much progress, so he simply left that cluster of Xuanyuan Pure Light for future use: "With my current reserves of Spirit Qi and Body Cultivation level, even if a Grandmaster from the Martial Meridian sought to assassinate me, he would certainly not come out on top."

"Indeed,"

Subdue Evil nodded. "As long as you find the opportunity to activate the Divine Thunder Sword Intent in the Sword Lotus, even a trace of it is sufficient for a Martial Meridian Grandmaster to suffer—if you release it fully, it counts as a powerful strike of the Divine Repository Divine Skill!"

"Although it’s just water without a source, capable of only a single strike, because it is nurtured by the embryonic magic treasure, the Sword Intent will not be completely depleted. After some time, it can recover!"

"Oh!" An Jing’s eyes lit up. "That means I’ve got a thunderous Divine Skill Token that needs time to recover and can be reused!"

"Yes."

Subdue Evil smiled. "Originally, given your reserve of Spirit Qi, you wouldn’t have been able to activate it, and even if you did, it would be a one-strike effort, leaving you drained, only able to use the Great Void Passage to escape after exchanging lives."

"But now you have both the Dragon Storing Bottle and the Demon Core, and after activating it, you still retain normal combat capacity. This could be very useful, maybe even enough to defeat enemies you normally couldn’t."

"You seem really happy."

An Jing could feel Subdue Evil’s tone was light-hearted. When he entered meditation and immersed his mind in the Divine Sea, he found Subdue Evil was lying peacefully atop the Sword Lotus, blending with the Thunderous True Intent and Innate Geng Metal Essence, polishing itself like the "Tranquil Sword Manual" to remove its rust, making its residual blade even sharper.

——It seems it finally found a spot to lie down and enjoy a massage, no wonder it’s pleased.

Seeing that Subdue Evil finally looked a bit comfortable, An Jing felt happy as well.

At that moment, in An Jing’s Divine Sea, Subdue Evil was located on the Sword Lotus. Below were the Demon Core and Innate Geng Metal Essence, surrounded by the Thunderous True Intent. Next to it was the Heavenly Profound True Talisman with the Xuanyuan Pure Light, and on another side hung the Emperor’s Blood—all of which were subtly enveloped by An Jing’s very own Soul and Spirit, also known as ’Armillary Sphere Shadow of Grasping Heavenly Moment’, resembling the ceaselessly orbiting stars.

"Things are accumulating more and more."

An Jing glanced and found it interesting, "In the future when I set up the Formation Realm inside my body, these items could transform into the foundation to suppress the Small World within me—the more, the better, the more the better."

Content, An Jing summoned Tengshuang White, ready to return to Linjiang City.

During the return, he noticed that in the past few days, the forest sea of Broken Blade Mountain had extended its roots to the periphery of Broken Blade Peak, where the Spirit Fields were, beginning to merge with the Blessed Land.

Weng Cuiyu indeed honored her promise not to merge the Spirit Fields and Earth Veins around Broken Blade Peak.

For it, the other Nine Mountains Spiritual Veins were completely sufficient. An Jing could see that this plant Demon Spirit was entering a mysterious state... Its past accumulations were entirely enough for it to enter the Divine Repository. Now, what it needed to do was seize this opportunity to achieve complete success!

"If it can succeed, I must come and observe its advancement process, which is also very important experience for me."

Thinking this, An Jing flew over the mountains and forests, quickly returning to Linjiang City.

For An Jing, the past few days were rather fulfilling, battling the Demon Sheds, consecutively breaking through the Five Bans, and obtaining the Sword Lotus.

But for the residents of Linjiang City, An Jing had merely gone out for cultivation for a few days, no different from his usual frequency.

Upon his return, An Jing rang the large bell, gathering the people in the city.

He displayed the three Demon Corpses left by the Demon Sheds and succinctly declared that he had eradicated the remaining three demons in Broken Blade Mountain, informing everyone that Broken Blade Mountain was now safe, and anyone who wanted to venture into the mountain to search for treasures and Spiritual Objects could now do so without worry.

He also took this opportunity to showcase the letter given to him by the Virtuous King.

The moment the Town King’s Dragon Qi appeared in the letter, the Earth Vein Great Formation resonated, and all of Linjiang City witnessed phenomena manifest, leaving no one in doubt. Immediately, the people in the city kneeled and bowed in unison.

Those who had only followed An Jing’s power, yet always felt he was an outsider, also kneeled down sincerely, submitting to An Jing’s current authority.

"After all, it relies on external forces."

Seeing this scene, An Jing didn’t feel particularly pleased—though it appeared that everyone was bowing their heads and the masses were loyal, this still relied on Da Chen’s legal principles.

Without a Town King as the source of legal principles, An Jing’s rule in Linjiang City was always unjustified.

"This is the sword and the law... Da Chen is ultimately the strongest martial force in this land. Even though Da Chen has abandoned these people, they still yearn for Da Chen’s protection, longing for it more than anything. It is as expected."

Seeing this scene, An Jing sighed softly, indifferent to Xu Tai’s changing expression behind him.

On the other hand, Bai Qinghan calmly said, "Back when Han South encountered the demon disaster, countless people were blocked outside the gates by the official army; yet, when Han South was later rebuilt, not a single word was dared to be uttered by the disaster victims in the wilderness."

"Without the sword, there is no law. Without the law, there is no justice. Those without justice cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth."

"Just like the residents of Linjiang City who were abandoned by Da Chen, they could only be exploited as fodder by the Linlang Commerce Chamber."

"This is why Da Chen dares to do things that seem unfilial, because deep down, they believe that aside from themselves, Da Chen’s people have no other choice, even if the people are abandoned, without a bit of worry."

"Ultimately, an abandoned dog will still come back."