Chapter 21: The Blue Flower Space

Near the center of the brow, there was a sea of consciousness.

In the sea of consciousness, a blue flower swayed, exceedingly beautiful.

"I never expected that fully comprehending the Ninefold Chaos Seal would result in a blue flower mark, and even a blue flower appearing in my sea of consciousness," Ji Ning also sensed the changes within himself. In the past, each time he comprehended one of the Ninefold Chaos Seal, his perception of certain primal sources became clearer—such as fate, slaughter, darkness, the sword, and many others...

Now that the nine were united, what Ji Ning felt most clearly was the 'Primal Source of the Sword,' for he had the deepest insights in this area, followed by rain and lightning, and then space and other aspects...

"What use is this blue flower, exactly?"

"Is it to make my comprehension of primal sources clearer?" Ji Ning wondered.

He carefully sensed this swaying blue flower.

Whoosh.

Ji Ning's heartforce naturally touched the blue flower, and the moment it did, a drastic change occurred.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~~" The intangible, elusive heartforce was instantly devoured by the blue flower upon contact. This blue flower contained a space within.

The blue flower space was vast and empty, a void.

But at this moment, 'mist' began to gradually condense within it.

"My heartforce is being transformed into mist by the blue flower space?" Ji Ning was startled and quickly stopped. In an instant, nearly ten percent of his heartforce had been consumed.

"Heartforce is ethereal and intangible; only some special techniques, like heartforce archery or other methods, can effectively utilize it. But this blue flower space can actually transform heartforce..." Ji Ning could sense that the 'mist' within the blue flower space contained a rather miraculous power.

"If it can transform heartforce, can it also transform divine power and dharma power?" Ji Ning pondered.

With a thought,

a strand of divine power immediately seeped over. When the divine power entered the sea of consciousness and touched the blue flower, it too was instantly devoured, and more 'mist' appeared in the blue flower space.

"This, this, this..." Ji Ning was dumbfounded.

"It's... the same?"

"The mist produced from devouring heartforce and the mist produced from devouring divine power are exactly the same?" Ji Ning couldn't believe it. Divine power and heartforce were two completely different forces, vastly distinct from each other, yet they were transformed into the same force. This mist was also a power Ji Ning could control.

He could sense the terrifying power contained within the mist.

"Or perhaps, this isn't transformation. It's more like the blue flower eats divine power and heartforce, and then produces essence?" Ji Ning muttered to himself.

"Divine power and heartforce can be eaten... what about dharma power?"

Ji Ning, with a thought,

sent his own dharma power to touch the blue flower in his sea of consciousness. Upon contact, it too was devoured, and then more mist appeared in the blue flower space.

...

Inside a cave on the rock wall of the bottomless cavern.

Ji Ning sat cross-legged, his expression complex—a mix of astonishment, confusion, and excitement.

The blue flower that had appeared in his sea of consciousness after the Ninefold Chaos Seal united was truly miraculous.

Divine power, dharma power, heartforce... three fundamentally different forces could all be eaten, and then the blue flower space would produce that mist.

"This blue flower is so powerful? It can devour and transform three completely different forces?" Ji Ning muttered to himself. "I wonder if the Ninefold Chaos Seal was truly naturally manifested by Chaos or created by an ancient mighty one. It's so miraculous."

"Whatever."

Ji Ning stopped thinking about it.

After all, the methods of ancient mighty ones often surpassed his imagination. For instance, the supreme 'Da Mo Daoist' of the Da Mo Eternal Realm was an existence beyond the World level, at another level of life.

"Let's see how powerful this mist really is." With a thought, Ji Ning caused strands of mist from the blue flower space to fly out, instantly flowing and spreading throughout his body. His entire divine body felt like withered grass receiving the nourishment of water, as if undergoing a transformation.

"Eh?"

"This mist power can't leave the body?" Ji Ning was surprised.

Divine power, dharma power, and heartforce could all leave the divine body, but this mist power could not.

Ji Ning gave it a try.

Indeed, this mysterious 'mist power' could only exist within the divine body and could not leave it.

"What use does this mist power have?" Ji Ning knelt on one knee, extended his right hand, and suddenly slammed it against the rocky ground, unleashing a surge of power.

"Boom~~~"

The cave's rock trembled slightly, faint cracks appearing.

"This?" Ji Ning showed surprise. With a wave of his hand, a cave-heaven treasure descended into the cave, and he immediately entered it.

...

This was one of the chaos treasures he had obtained after entering the relic—a cave-heaven treasure. Ji Ning had several such treasures, but he chose this one because its cave-heaven was vast.

Inside the cave-heaven, it spanned nearly ten million li.

There were连绵 mountains, vast seas, and enormous landmasses inhabited by many alien races.

"Whoosh."

Ji Ning appeared in midair out of nowhere.

"Let's try it." Ji Ning's eyes lit up, and he immediately began flying forward at high speed.

Boom—

Without using the Nine-Arc Electric Serpent, his divine body flew at high speed, instantly turning into a rainbow light. His speed forcibly broke through the limits of the Heavenly Daos. Previously, he could cover six hundred thousand li in an instant, but now he reached nearly eight hundred thousand li! It seemed only a slight increase, but the closer to the limit, the harder it was to improve.

More importantly, Ji Ning had previously relied on the Nine-Arc Electric Serpent to reach the limits of the Heavenly Daos.

Now, without the Nine-Arc Electric Serpent, his divine body alone forcibly surpassed the limits of the Heavenly Daos. Ji Ning's insights into speed had not improved, yet his flight speed had clearly increased dramatically!

It was like World Gods.

World Gods, due to their elevated life level, possessed power that completely surpassed the limits of the Heavenly Daos, beyond what those limits could bind. They 'broke the laws through force,' naturally and completely transcending the limits of the Heavenly Daos.

"I actually managed to break the laws through force?" Ji Ning stopped, standing in the void, utterly astonished.

"I was originally a half-step World God... With this mist power added to my body, I could easily break laws through sheer force?" Ji Ning found it hard to believe.

Earlier, when he struck the ground with his palm inside the cave, Ji Ning had already sensed it.

The power of his palm strike was in no way inferior to that of a Dao divine weapon, and it had fully reached the threshold of the World level!

His flight speed also reached the threshold of the World level.

The reason for all this was one thing—the 'mist power' within the Blueflower space!

Although this power could not leave his body, once it was added to his divine body, it fundamentally elevated Ji Ning's strength, speed, and other aspects to a higher level. Ji Ning even speculated... that in terms of strength and speed, he should be comparable to a 'World God,' and even if he fell short, he was likely very close.

Just by flying, he could easily break through the limits of the Heavenly Dao.

Just by swinging his palm, his attack reached the threshold of the World level, and he could also easily break through the limits of the Heavenly Dao.

The limits of the Heavenly Dao... before Ji Ning, they were like a window paper, easily pierced through.

There was no need to rely on any insights from the 'Five Treasured Sword Art.'

No need for anything else.

Just a divine body possessed by the power of mist was enough to break through the limits of the Heavenly Dao. Even if it wasn't a World God, it was not far off.

"So powerful." Ji Ning now truly realized the wonder of the 'Blueflower Space.'

"Who exactly created this technique?"

In the混沌, there are indeed some heaven-defying techniques.

The combination of the second layer of the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods and the Sole True Body gave Ji Ning the strength of a 'half-step World God.' But in the endless混沌, ancient mighty beings had created even more heaven-defying techniques. In some legends, there were even peerless prodigies among the Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals who slew World-level cultivators.

Killing above one's rank? By what?

By relying on powerful heaven-defying techniques, fearsome treasures, astonishing insights, and many other aspects pushed to the extreme—only then could such heaven-defying feats be accomplished.

And Ji Ning felt that the 'Blueflower Space' technique was a very heaven-defying one, because the higher one's strength, the harder it was to improve. There were many divine abilities like 'Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods and Sole True Body' that enhanced strength through merging avatars. Compared to them, the 'Thousand Body Sacred Canon' was even more heaven-defying. But after merging avatars, the difficulty of making a significant leap in strength increased a thousandfold or ten thousandfold.

From this perspective, Blueflower Space was a technique a thousand or ten thousand times more precious than Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods and Sole True Body.