Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 750 - 598 Proving Tao through strength

Chapter 750: 598 Proving Tao through strength

Boom!

Above Jiang Chen’s head, the dome of the sky suddenly cracked open, layers of empty space collapsed, and boundless chaotic flow of energy surged out, like a chaotic waterfall pouring down, completely submerging Jiang Chen and making him completely invisible.

"What?"

"What is happening?"

"What did Jiang Chen do to draw the power of the Great Chaos?"

The great Divine Transcendents who were secretly observing this battle saw this scene, their hearts were filled with shock. They couldn’t help but use their divine consciousness, projected onto Jiang Chen, to see what he was up to.

However, when the divine consciousness of the great Divine Transcendents swept over, they felt only emptiness, without sensing anything. Jiang Chen was right in front of them, but they couldn’t see him when their divine consciousness scanned.

It was Empress Nuwa who made a move!

Although Jiang Chen’s array was profound, it was limited to his realm and could not possibly evade the scrutiny of the great Divine Transcendents. However, when Empress Nuwa sensed the anomalies on Jiang Chen’s body, everything changed.

Under her power, everything about Jiang Chen was blocked. No matter how the great Divine Transcendents scrutinized, they could not see clearly.

"This is a Saint intervening, warning us not to pay too much attention to Jiang Chen."

Upon realizing that a Saint had made a move, the great Divine Transcendents withdrew their Divine Consciousness one after another, no longer spying on Jiang Chen. It was clearly not worth offending a Saint in order to unravel the mystery about Jiang Chen.

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Under the infusion of the energy of chaos, the power of the Innate Heaven and Earth Formation violently surged, especially the Heaven and Earth Cauldron floating outside Jiang Chen’s body, it experienced a drastic change.

Ancient and mysterious Chaos Runes gradually surfaced on it. In a short moment, the Heaven and Earth Cauldron transformed into a Chaos Cauldron.

The transformation continued. The Chaos Cauldron gradually shrank, and the body and base of the cauldron disappeared. Within few breaths, it turned into a gray vortex.

Or perhaps a giant chaos hole, exuding a strong suction force, swallowing all the raging chaos flow around it.

Within the chaos hole, Jiang Chen only felt an unimaginable pressure. Even though he had transformed into an Innate Divine Saint, with a physical body comparable to an Innate Spiritual Treasure, he was slowly shrinking under this pressure, shrinking to a point.

This chaos was the transformation of the Great Chaos Dao. Inside, there were no physical matter and spirits, nor the concept of time and space. Everything was twisted, compressed into a point, and transformed into the purest power.

A point particle, the most essential point in the universe, the origin of all things, at this moment, Jiang Chen had that kind of feeling. He was under the pressure of the surrounding chaos, he would transform into a point particle.

The pressure around him was becoming more and more terrifying. Jiang Chen’s big body was forcibly compressed to the size of an egg and was still shrinking.

From this, one could appreciate the magnitude of the pressure that Jiang Chen was suffering. If it were someone else, they would have been unable to bear the pressure and burst open on the spot.

But Jiang Chen didn’t suffer in vain. Under such immense pressure, the original source of the Primordial Heavenly Demon within his body had already condensed into a dot. A large amount of Demonic Qi was squeezed out, leaving only the most pure part, the Innate Primordial Source.

The purity of this Innate Primordial Source far surpasses anything Jiang Chen had seen before. It didn’t contain even a trace of impurity. What were left were only boundless strength and Dao Rhyme.

The power of this Innate Heaven and Earth Formation was impressive. Such a pure Innate Primordial Source could only have been refined by conventional methods if he had borrowed an Innate Treasure.

"Heavenly Monarch Pangu, transform into Pangu, devour!"

Seeing the primordial source of the Heavenly Demon return to purity, Jiang Chen had no hesitation. He put his cultivation technique into operation directly, devouring and integrating this pure Innate Primordial Source into his body.

Boom!

The pure and strong Innate Primordial Source circulated in Jiang Chen’s body, filling every corner of his body, forcibly stopping his shrinking body, and expanding a circle, changing from the size of an egg to the size of a duck egg.

With a twist of his cultivation technique, the pure Innate Primordial Source was refined by Jiang Chen, integrated into his flesh and bones. This caused his body to start transforming, stepping into a stronger domain.

Proving the Tao by force!

The path that Jiang Chen took was a path that no one in Hongmeng had ever took, prove the Tao by force, to forcibly break into the realm of Innate Dao Venerable with absolute strength, to cultivate the immortal Dao Fruit.

Right now, he didn’t care about the Innate Taiyi Dao, or the Pangu Dao Body... All the preparations he had made before were of no concern to him. He wanted to attempt the strongest proving method in Hongmeng — proving the Tao by force!

Since Pangu’s Sky Breaking, Hongmeng’s giants who could prove the Tao by force were only Pangu. This was the universally acknowledged strongest method of becoming a Taoist, no other method of becoming a Taoist could be equal to it.

Even the Innate Five Tai Dao that Jiang Chen used earlier to break through was not as good as proving the Tao by force.

Before, Jiang Chen never thought that he could do something like proving the Tao by force, so he never thought about it, and chose another strongest path, proving the Tao by using the Five Innate Tais, and mastering the power of Hongmeng Taiyi.

But at this moment, by a fortuitous combination of circumstances, Jiang Chen has refined the Primordial Heavenly demon, enabling himself to have the possibility of attaining Dao by strength.

Since he has the best, everything he had previously prepared can naturally be let go. Otherwise, would he have to give up the best and choose a slightly inferior one?

Moreover, the attaining of Dao through strength doesn’t hinder Jiang Chen from comprehending the Dao of Hongmeng and Taiyi. On the contrary, after becoming an Innate Dao Sovereign, it would help him to comprehend the Dao of Hongmeng and Taiyi more quickly.

With a higher perspective, he would be able to see things more fundamentally. What he previously considered a difficulty might just seem like a minor problem to a Dao Sovereign, who could solve it effortlessly.

"By attaining Dao through strength, a method no one has been able to pursue since the Great God Pangu, if I do it, I will certainly become the strongest Innate Dao Sovereign, possessing a strength far surpassing those at the same level."

Jiang Chen is now very excited. Honjan Daizu once said that those who attain Dao through strength are the strongest among their peers. This is the most powerful Dao Fruit!

Opportunity, a rare opportunity. This Chaos transformed by the Great Dao of Chaos has a strength far surpassing that of Honghuang, and it is the key to whether Jiang Chen can succeed in attaining Dao through strength.

After the birth of Honghuang, no one was able to attain Dao through strength. This inevitably leads people to wonder: is it impossible for the conditions of the Chaos World to support cultivators to achieve Dao through strength?

Remember, the Great God Pangu was born of the Great Chaos, not Honghuang.

If this is true, and the conditions of the Chaos World won’t work, what about the birthplace of the Great God Pangu, the Great Chaos?

At this moment, Jiang Chen is in the Chaos Cave transformed from the Great Dao of Chaos, which is equivalent to being in the Great Chaos. The laws around him are completely different from those of Honghuang, and this is rumored to be the environment where attaining Dao through strength can be achieved.

Preconditions for attaining Dao through strength are already in place. What Jiang Chen needs next is a great strength to open the gateway to the Great Dao.

Boom!

The pure primordial origins of the Primordial Heavenly Demon were quickly refined by Jiang Chen and integrated into his body, gradually restoring his physique in the face of the surrounding pressures and slowly expanding.

If it was on any normal day, the process of refining such pure and powerful innate origins would take at least hundreds of thousands of years for Jiang Chen. Yet, under the unique conditions of the Chaos Cave, he has spared this time.

The pressure from the surroundings was too considerable—so much so that the innate origin couldn’t bear it. Rather than saying it was refined by Jiang Chen, it would be more accurate to say it was forced into Jiang Chen’s body by the surrounding pressure.

Were the refining process eliminated, could the refining speed not be quick?

Jiang Chen’s body was slowly expanding, gradually transforming from the size of a duck egg to that of a goose egg and then to the size of an infant.

However, at this time, the Chaos Cave shrouding him became more and more in sync with the Great Dao of Chaos, such that the terrifying pressure coming from around Jiang Chen was increasing. Despite trying his best to refine the innate origins in his body, he could not resist it.

Gradually, Jiang Chen’s physique ceased to enlarge. His pace of refining the innate origin reached a precarious balance with the pressure from his surroundings.

But soon, this balance was disrupted, and Jiang Chen’s body began to shrink again. Although the process was slow, he was indeed shrinking.

At this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly realized a terrifying fact - the power of a Primordial Heavenly Demon was simply not enough for his breakthrough!

If the Primordial Heavenly Demon at the peak of the Dao Sovereign Realm had all its origin refined by Jiang Chen, he still wouldn’t be able to step into the realm of Innate Dao Sovereign. If such news were spread, it would probably scare many people.

This also demonstrated how profound Jiang Chen’s accumulation was. The moment he stepped into the realm of Innate Dao Sovereign, his strength would at least be on par with a master at the peak of the Innate Dao Sovereign Realm, or even stronger.

"Not enough? Then let’s do it again!"

In response to this, Jiang Chen didn’t seem too surprised. He had known for a long time that the amount of power he needed to break through to the realm of Innate Dao Sovereign was far beyond imagination, perhaps dozens or even hundreds of times that of others.

The source of a peak Dao Sovereign is not enough. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is not unacceptable.

"Dao Jian, refine!"

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Chen launched Dao Jian, integrating all the fragments of the Pangu Axe and shards of Chaos Orb he had collected over the years.

Don’t be fooled; although Jiang Chen has been busy over the years, he has never let collecting the fragments of the Pangu Axe slip. Before, he collected them himself, but now he has his subordinates do it for him.

Jiang Chen is not an individual; he has a vast power and a complex network of relationships behind him.

So, when Jiang Chen once exerted his power, the result was undoubtedly astonishing, with various forces mobilizing to search for the fragments of the Pangu Axe for him.

In less than a hundred years, Jiang Chen had collected over a hundred fragments of the Pangu Axe. As for the shards of the Chaos Orb, there weren’t many to collect.

This is normal; the fragments of the Pangu Axe cannot be refined, hence they only have some collection value and can easily be obtained as long as Jiang Chen can afford it.

The shards of the Chaos Orb are different; they have been transformed into various Innate Spiritual Treasures whose value far exceeds the fragments of the Pangu Axe.

ps: From now on, I won’t post if it’s not filled with 3,000 words!