Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate - Chapter 490

Capítulo 490: A Step Toward Self-Containment

Great Dao Vessels acted like emotionless enforcers. Once they appeared, they would kill anything that threatened the balance of heaven and earth.

The countless Great Dao laws in the universe clashed and complemented one another, but when viewed together, everything revolved around one thing—balance.

If someone used too much of the Dao of heaven and earth during battle and a Great Dao Vessel happened to sense it, there was a high chance they would be targeted.

But the ones in the most danger were Void Tribulation realm cultivators who had completed the self-containment of their Great Dao Immortal Bodies, as well as the powerhouses who had stepped into the Fourth Step of the Cultivation Path.

Self-containment existed to stop the universe from eroding or assimilating them. Once achieved, the cultivator no longer followed the rules of this universe’s Great Dao laws. It was like stepping outside the three realms and no longer being bound by the five elements.

In the eyes of the Great Dao Vessels, these cultivators were the ones who threw the universe’s balance out of order, and they wouldn’t stop until such threats were wiped out.

Because of that, Great Dao Vessels were basically the common enemy of every intelligent being who could cultivate—especially those above the Void Tribulation realm. Once someone ran into one, they would do everything they could to destroy it first.

Most of the time, Great Dao Vessels were taken down before they had the chance to grow stronger.

Back to the main point—Jiang Chen had already mastered the Space Dao.

This particular Great Dao law was also the easiest one to use when trying to form the first stage of a self-contained Great Dao Immortal Body.

Still, all the Great Dao laws in the universe were connected in one way or another.

Other Great Dao laws could also help a cultivator shape a self-contained Great Dao Immortal Body.

The Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram helped cultivators use multiple Great Dao laws—beyond just the Space Dao—to form the first stage of a self-contained Great Dao Immortal Body more quickly.

But achieving self-containment was never simple.

For a Void Tribulation realm cultivator, what they formed was only the most basic stage of self-containment in the entire Cultivation Path.

Even the Fourth Step—Primal Chaos realm, Expanding Chaos realm, and Primordial Chaos realm—existed for the sake of pursuing true self-containment.

And even that first step was incredibly hard.

You couldn’t reach it by relying on just one or two cultivation methods.

Nangong Wan was proof of that. She was terrifyingly strong—one of the top experts of the Everlasting Baseless Immortal Domain, a Half-step Primal Chaos realm powerhouse.

Yet even at her peak, she still hadn’t completed the initial self-containment of the Great Dao Immortal Body.

Of course, if Shangguan Ning hadn’t ambushed her and dragged both of them to the brink of death, Nangong Wan probably would’ve completed that step and broken into the Primal Chaos realm.

After cultivating the Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram, I’ll be able to grasp more than ten complete Great Dao laws and many fragmented ones, Jiang Chen thought.

It’ll also help me build the foundation for self-containment. This method is a real treasure. A small smile tugged at his lips as he started memorizing the technique.

It didn’t take long for him to commit the entire Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram to his Sea of Consciousness.

He steadied himself and activated the Wordless Heavenly Jade at his chest.

In an instant, the Jade converted the surging qi and blood energy into a strange, profound force that flowed straight into his body and soul.

Moments later, Jiang Chen had already pushed the Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram to the Perfect-level.

A flood of deep insights from the cultivation method poured into Jiang Chen’s soul, letting him grasp multiple Great Dao laws in an instant.

Inside his Great Dao Immortal Body, the number of Daos he carried kept increasing.

He was getting closer to breaking through to the Void Tribulation realm.

And after cultivating the Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram, he noticed a faint link forming between the Great Dao laws he already understood.

It felt as if the Daos he commanded—centered around the Space Dao—were connecting to one another, forming a closed, illusory ring.

That ring was the faint, early outline of self-containment inside his Great Dao Immortal Body.

Of course, the Great Dao laws he had mastered so far were still limited, so he had only built the starting foundation.

As he learned more Great Dao laws, that illusory ring would slowly turn solid, bringing him step by step toward the true first stage of self-containment.

Once he fully completed this first stage of self-containment, he would be able to move past the Void Tribulation realm and step into the Fourth Step of the Cultivation Path—the Primal Chaos realm.

In the end, the Great Dao laws I’ve mastered still aren’t enough, Jiang Chen thought.

And I haven’t practiced many cultivation methods like the Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram that can help with self-containment either.

I still have some qi and blood energy left, but it’s not enough to cultivate a second Void Tribulation–level method. For now, I should focus on improving my Great Dao laws and push for the Void Tribulation realm breakthrough. He turned his attention inward and examined the pure cultivation base stored inside the Underworld Calamity Indestructible Dao Embryo.

After killing Sun Xiangyuan’s group, he had gained a huge amount of pure cultivation base, along with the fragmented Great Dao laws hidden within it.

Underworld Calamity Indestructible Dao Embryo.

Jiang Chen focused, and with a single thought, released all the pure cultivation base sealed inside his bloodline.

A massive wave of pure cultivation power surged out and spread through every cell in his body.

More importantly, that pure cultivation base carried countless fragments of Great Dao laws.

Those fragments fused together in an instant, forming new Daos and merging straight into Jiang Chen’s Great Dao Immortal Body as its foundation.

Forty-nine complete Great Dao laws took shape at once.

In that moment, Jiang Chen’s entire body went through a massive transformation—like a phoenix rising from the flames, reborn through forty-nine Daos.

Every cell in his Great Dao Immortal Body shifted and evolved.

With forty-nine Daos inside them, those cells faintly formed a closed loop where each Dao supported and countered the others, like tiny independent worlds.

And it wasn’t just his Great Dao Immortal Body that transformed—his soul surged in strength as well.

Jiang Chen’s soul essence had already been close to the Void Tribulation realm thanks to Nangong Wan and Shangguan Ning. His divine sense could originally spread across a radius of one hundred million kilometers.

Now, that range doubled—two hundred million kilometers in every direction. It was enough to cover the entire Prosperous Stone Immortal Star and even the surrounding void.

The solitary island at the northern pole—the Profound Jade Immortal Alliance’s headquarters—could no longer hide from him.

Its divine sense barrier might as well not have existed. Jiang Chen’s divine sense slipped through it without a sound.

But he didn’t bother with the Profound Jade Immortal Alliance for now.

He continued strengthening himself.

The pure cultivation base is gone. Next comes the spiritual plants I collected. A small smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he took out every one of those spiritual plants.