Cultivation: From Poor Peasant to Celestial Lord

Chapter 336: Chapter 170: Five Elements Dao Foundation, Forging the [Circulation Wheel]

”Kill him! Before that thing finishes forming, kill him!!!”

The three Divine Spirits felt an unprecedented provocation, and their attacks instantly surged. The Black Iron Gang Wind, Corrosive Dragon Breath, and Bone Snake Formation inundated the teetering Mountain God like an apocalyptic storm.

...

Inside the Underground Palace, alarms were already blaring.

”He’s insane... Daoist Chu is playing with fire, courting his own death!”

”A breakthrough in the middle of battle? Even in the quiet of one’s own cultivation chamber, reaching Foundation Establishment is a trial of life and death! And he’s attempting it inside this battered Divine Body, on a battlefield where he could be shaken to death at any moment?!”

The cultivators stared at the figure in the center of the altar, now completely enveloped in a Five-Colored Light Cocoon. Their faces were ashen, their hearts in their throats.

Everyone knew the weight behind the phrase ”breakthrough in battle”—it was something only the protagonists of fantasy tales would dare to do. In reality, the grass on the graves of those who tried was already ten feet tall.

The slightest mistake, a wrong turn of his Spiritual Power, and Chu Bai would explode into a firework of flesh and blood without the Divine Spirits outside even needing to lift a finger.

But what made them most desperate was that their lives were now completely tied to Chu Bai’s.

Chu Bai was the lynchpin of the formation, the pilot, and, most importantly, the sole mind of this Divine Body.

If he were to die or suffer a cultivation deviation, this hundred-zhang Divine Body, coordinated by the Guiyuan Technique, would instantly fall apart. At that point, the two thousand-plus people who had lost their protection would be facing three bloodthirsty Foundation Establishment Divine Spirits. They wouldn’t even be enough to get caught in their teeth.

”We have no other choice...”

Xia Xing wiped the cold sweat from his face. A gambler’s ferocity gleamed in his eyes as he roared at the others:

”Don’t just stand there! Even if we die, we have to let him finish his breakthrough first! Give it everything you’ve got, protect the heart meridian, and don’t let the Spiritual Power flow break!!”

Gritting their teeth, the crowd could only place their final hopes on this man who had created miracles time and again.

...

Chu Bai, at the center of the storm, could no longer hear the chaos of the outside world.

His Divine Soul was immersed in a vibrant, five-colored chaos.

Within his Dantian Qi Sea, the once-vast ocean of liquid Magical Power was now undergoing a violent collapse, crushed between the immense Origin provided by the Divine Corpse and the pressure of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism.

Pain.

Soul-tearing pain.

Each compression felt as if every bone in his body was being shattered and then reassembled.

’Five Elements Mutual Generation, an endless cycle...’

Chu Bai silently recited the general principle of the Guiyuan Technique, relying on the absolute control granted by his ”Non-stop Rushing” Fate Chart to forcibly knead the five violent streams of power together.

’Low-Grade is impermanent, Middle Grade has five virtues, but neither is what I desire.’

’What I want is Perfection, the ultimate, the one and only... Circulation!’

’Condense!’

Following a furious roar from the depths of Chu Bai’s Divine Soul.

The Five Elements Spiritual Power, which had been in violent conflict, suddenly reached a strange equilibrium in that instant.

Then, a hum that seemed to echo from the primordial wilderness instantly pierced through the Underground Palace, through the Divine Body, and exploded across the firmament of the Cyan Nether Realm.

Within a hundred-li radius, all the winds stopped howling, and all the dust and sand hung suspended in mid-air.

The three Divine Spirits, who had been in frenzied pursuit, froze for a moment.

The running Lingma Mountain God suddenly stopped in its tracks and let out a long cry to the heavens.

An immense pillar of Five-Colored Divine Light erupted from the Divine Body’s skull cap, soaring into the sky. It instantly churned through the dark clouds and Evil Qi overhead, piercing the shattered void.

Within this pillar of light, a ”wheel” as dazzling as a star, radiant to the extreme, slowly ascended.

The wheel was crystalline and divided into five colors, inscribed with the ethereal images of mountains and rivers, the sun, moon, and stars. It turned slowly, and with each rotation, it was as if a miniature world was born and died within it, the sound it made like the resonance of the Great Dao.

At that moment, all the remaining Spiritual Mechanism in the Cyan Nether Realm seemed to have found its sovereign, rushing madly toward the wheel and plating it with a final layer of immortal, divine brilliance.

Atop the altar in the Underground Palace, the Five-Colored Light Cocoon shattered inch by inch.

Chu Bai’s eyes snapped open.

In those eyes, there was no longer the slightest trace of the turbidity of a Qi Cultivation Cultivator or a mortal vessel. In their place were two slowly spinning Five-Colored Light Wheels, deep as an abyss, with a forbidding majesty.

A terrifying pressure belonging to a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator erupted from him, instantly sweeping across the entire area.

”The Dao Foundation... is formed!”

This realm was called Cyan Netherworld.

Today, as this realm teetered on the brink of collapse, amidst the siege of Divine Spirits, Chu Bai forcibly forged his Upper Grade Dao Foundation—

The [Circulation Wheel]!

Chu Bai slowly opened his eyes.

The world before him had completely changed in his eyes.

Before, seeing a mountain was just seeing a mountain, and seeing water was just seeing water. But now, when he looked again, what flowed through the air was not merely Spiritual Qi, but countless intersecting Law Lines.

The shell of the [Lingma Mountain God], once as heavy as Mount Taiyue and requiring an immense amount of Divine Thought to force into motion, now felt as light as a feather as the [Circulation Wheel] slowly turned within him.

The Five Elements Spiritual Power flowed within the Divine Body as easily as him moving his own limbs. The feeling of obscure separation was gone.

What surprised Chu Bai even more was that as he breathed, he felt a sense of intimacy originating from deep within the earth beneath his feet.

It felt as if this shattering Cyan Nether Realm was sending him a faint cry for help, a plea filled with longing.

’Is it because I used my own Dao Foundation to forcibly unify the scattered Five Elements of this realm? Or is it because I am now piloting the body of the Mountain God and am seen by this realm’s remnant will as its final ’Realm Lord’?’