Published at 13th of February 2026 7:17 am

Chapter 2029: Enlightenment in the Void, Demon Spirit Universe

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Xiao Die doesn’t understand Shenzhou.

She knows even less about the Misty Holy Sect.

Because the star they are on belongs to the frontier region of the universe, information is scarce, and only those at the Void Break Realm, Demi Immortal, and Human Immortal on this star know about the vast and endless Shenzhou Continent, and the invincible Ye Feng.

As for most people, they actually do not know about the Shenzhou Continent and the Misty Holy Sect.

After all, their cultivation level is too low!

Over the years, the universe has experienced various battles, but only those cultivators who have opened the Heavenly Eye have the qualification to "see" the battle situations through cosmic law fluctuations.

The minimum cultivation level to open the Heavenly Eye is the Void Break Realm.

In other words, in these years, those qualified to observe cosmic-grade battles are the cultivators in all the voids of the universe who are at the Void Break Realm or above.

Xiao Die, Old Man Lin, and the cultivators of the tea garden, as well as all those below the Void Break Realm, basically cannot observe the battle with their own eyes.

Even if they know about the battle, it is from accounts of other senior experts, not from seeing it themselves.

And the area where Xiao Die is located is too remote.

Not to mention the Void Break Realm, even someone in the Divine Origin Realm is considered a big shot, naturally not knowing about the vast lands of Shenzhou or the universe-famous Misty Holy Sect.

Although Xiao Die and others do not know what the name Ye Feng represents in the universe, they can all see that this jade pendant is not simple.

"Xiao Die, you’ve encountered a great fortune!"

Old Man Lin and the disciples of the tea garden rushed to the mountain top, looking at the jade pendant hanging at Xiao Die’s waist, and recalling the scene of Ye Feng breaking through the void just now, they were shocked.

The other party is at least an Immortal!

Otherwise, how could Ye Feng come to this star from another world? You should know, those who have the ability to traverse the starry sky are mostly great powers in the Immortal Realm!

"Great fortune?"

Xiao Die murmured softly, then looked in the direction where Ye Feng had gone with a sigh of helplessness.

"Why are you sighing? This jade pendant was given by Ye Feng, who seems to be a powerful Immortal, and it can guarantee you a lifetime of peace. You should be happy."

Old Man Lin comforted.

However, Xiao Die still sighed, feeling that she really lacked insight, having been with Ye Feng for so long and still unable to see that he was a remarkable expert concealing his abilities.

But he has left.

Who knows when they will meet again?

Perhaps they will never see each other again?

Xiao Die thought to herself.

In the vast starry sky, this ancient star floated solitarily. After leaving the ancient kingdom where Xiao Die was, Ye Feng came to a forest.

The scenery here is beautiful, the environment serene, with no disturbing factors, suitable for enlightenment.

"It’ll be here then!"

Ye Feng murmured, with a wave of his hand, the surrounding environment underwent a minor transformation, constructing a secluded small courtyard by a lakeside out of thin air.

Then, he moved in.

"Now, I have completely let go of my obsession with Yu Jie, dispelled the heart demon, and have managed to control my own desires."

"I could say, my state of mind is flawless now."

"Next, I’ll retreat well, analyze the experiences of this period, and continue to create the Law of Desire."

Ye Feng slowly closed his eyes.

The next moment, information surged into his mind like a tide, causing his head to ache.

During this period, he ended a dust fate, completely let go of his obsession with Yu Jie, broke through the heart demon of desire, thus activating the effect of the Dust Fate Pill, and as soon as he closed his eyes to seek enlightenment, he directly entered a state of enlightenment.

Buzz!

Numerous dazzling golden rays converged on Ye Feng, then burst apart, transforming into strands of new Law of Desire.

This rate of enlightenment is unparalleled!

Even dual cultivation with Xue Rongqing wasn’t this fast.

"It really feels great."

Ye Feng said with his eyes closed, forming seals with his hands, continuously creating new strands of the Law of Desire, growing from ten strands to a hundred strands, then a thousand strands, advancing towards the goal of ten thousand strands.

Time passed bit by bit.

...

At the end of April, the vast Shenzhou Continent.

"The fourth Half-Step Heavenly Venerable Dao Verification this year will officially commence at the end of April."

The Great Dao Golden List voiced.

Immediately, ten imprints emerged, one of which was grasped by a young man carrying a longsword, merging into his body and manifesting at his forehead.

"It’s him!"

"Heavens, is that not Huo Yunjie, the second disciple among the first-generation disciples of the Misty Holy Sect?"

"Indeed, it’s him!"

"He is truly an old disciple of the Misty Holy Sect and one of the strongest. Rumor has it, his combat power surpasses the Emperor Dragon Sovereign and he is fully capable of verifying the Dao as a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable. Why is he participating in the Half-Step Heavenly Venerable Dao Verification contest?"

"Isn’t this bullying?"

The crowd was bewildered.

Even the powerhouses across the universe widened their eyes, expressing disbelief.

"Huo Yunjie wants to verify Dao at the Half-Step Heavenly Venerable?"

"Am I seeing things?"

"Is this some cosmic joke?"

The Divine Sword Immortal Emperor, Qingchen Ancient Immortal, Six-Eyed Divine King, and other Half-Step Heavenly Venerables, as well as the Ancestor of Demons, the Crimson Queen, and even the Emperor Dragon Sovereign, this Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, all looked at Huo Yunjie in surprise, unsure of what he was doing.

"Huo Yunjie, you are destroying your future!"

The Emperor Dragon Sovereign called out through the void.

"Dragon Emperor Heavenly Venerable, why do you say this?" Huo Yunjie asked the Emperor Dragon Sovereign in the depths of the universe.

Dragon Emperor Heavenly Venerable!

This is the official title of Emperor Dragon Sovereign today.

He is a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, and his combat power is several times that of an ordinary Invincible Supreme. He also participated in last year’s universe-level battle, gaining tremendous fame. Over time, the powerhouses across the universe have come to respectfully call him Dragon Emperor Heavenly Venerable.

Or, Dragon Emperor Venerable.

His final title was thus decided.

The Emperor Dragon Sovereign called out through the void, "Huo Yunjie, your power at the same level is no less than mine. You can compete for the Quasi-Heavenly Venerable position without needing to verify as a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable."

"My decision is made." Huo Yunjie shook his head.

The Emperor Dragon Sovereign was speechless, "You are wasting your talent! Do you realize that verifying directly as a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable can save you so much time?"

Verifying as a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable afterward can indeed continue to break through to become a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, or even a Heavenly Venerable.

But, this requires a lot of time.

Moreover, it also needs fortune.

In the Emperor Dragon Sovereign’s view, with Huo Yunjie’s powerful talent and combat power, he could directly verify Dao as a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, saving countless hours of arduous cultivation.

"My decision is made!" Huo Yunjie repeated, silencing the Emperor Dragon Sovereign.

Others also stopped advising.

At the peak of Misty Peak.

Mo Ying, Shi Lei, Li Jiaojiao, Long Tianxing, Qiao Jiaxi, Ji Ziling, Yan Ruyu, Jia Yulan, and other core disciples all looked towards the center of the Heavenly Origin Sea.

There is the place of Dao Verification.

At this moment, Huo Yunjie stood there.

"Second Senior Brother is indeed crazy, opting for Half-Step Heavenly Venerable Dao Verification instead of competing for Quasi-Heavenly Venerable. If one of us verifies Dao as a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, wouldn’t we surpass him by half a Major Realm?"

Wang Ping’an spread his hands.

"Yun Jie probably has a way to break through to Quasi-Heavenly Venerable. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so confident."

Senior Disciple Shi Lei said seriously.

Others looked towards Shi Lei.

"Don’t look at me, I don’t know anything. I’ve only heard Yun Jie say, whether it’s verifying as a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable or a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable, in the future, he is confident of verifying as a true Heavenly Venerable. To him, the difference between verifying a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable and a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable isn’t significant."

Shi Lei explained this way.

Everyone finished listening, but still didn’t understand what method Huo Yunjie had, that made him think he could continuously break through, all the way to becoming a Heavenly Venerable.

This was simply too confident!

Heavenly Origin Sea.

After absorbing the first Dao Verifying Imprint of this round, Huo Yunjie stood with his sword, waiting for the appearance of the other nine verifiers, not caring who they were.

To him, it was all the same.

No matter who came, he would draw his sword until he defeated all competitors.

Nearby, the void gathered many cultivators.

They looked at Huo Yunjie, most of them showing apprehensive expressions, feeling that he was just too strong.

"Do you dare to verify the Dao?"

"I don’t dare, after all, one of this time’s Dao verification competitors is the second disciple of the Misty Holy Sect."

"That’s right, that’s Huo Yunjie!"

"What are you afraid of, at worst, just come back next month!"

Some were afraid of Huo Yunjie, knowing they were not his match and would fail. But some felt they should not be afraid, even though they knew they would lose, they still prepared to participate in this round of Dao verification, just as a form of training.

Whizz, whizz, whizz!

Soon, the remaining Dao Verifying Imprints were successively fused by those God-King-level powerhouses of Hundred-layered Immortal Emperor level, making all ten participants for this round’s Dao verification appear.

"Are you all my opponents?"

Huo Yunjie looked at the remaining nine verifiers, his eyes calm and serene, his Sword Intent stirring, enough to cover more than half of the Shenzhou Continent, making people’s hearts race with fear.

"That’s right!"

The nine God-King level powerhouses nodded, though they were inwardly afraid of Huo Yunjie, since they chose to fuse the imprint and become verification competitors, they should face the problem head-on.

"Then fight!"

Huo Yunjie drew his sword from its scabbard, the tip pointing directly at the nine God-King level powerhouses in front of him, his fighting spirit soaring.

"Fight!"

Everyone also felt it pointless to delay any longer, it was better to directly challenge Huo Yunjie, so they tacitly joined forces and attacked simultaneously.

"Nine Heavens Thunder Killing Array!"

The nine God-King level powerhouses knew this kind of combined attack formation, immediately forming seals, and each stood at different positions, surrounding Huo Yunjie in the center.

Soon after, giant thunder lights rose from behind them, merging in mid-air, forming a formation.

Crackle!

Golden and purple thunderbolts, thousands of times thicker than a barrel, split the air, each capable of wiping out a typical Hundred-layered Immortal Emperor, with tens of thousands of them, all striking toward Huo Yunjie trapped in the center of the formation.

At this moment, the heavens and earth changed color.

Countless people, even with their Heavenly Eyes open, still couldn’t see the scene at the center of the battle.

"Sword Drawing Technique!"

The crowd only heard this sentence, then a brighter sword light entered their eyes, all the countless thunderbolts were chopped into dispersal, and the nine God-King level powerhouses were all spitting blood and flying backwards, clearly defeated.

"Too strong!"

"Facing a combined attack formation performed by nine God-King level powerhouses, he can still defeat the enemy in one blow."

"Huo Yunjie’s strength is terrifying."

"Even an ordinary Invincible Supreme, if trapped by a formation from nine God-King level powerhouses, would be defeated, even killed. Only a super strong like Huo Yunjie, comparable to the Emperor Dragon Sovereign, can break the enemy with one sword."

"Huo Yunjie is about to verify the Dao."

Powerhouses from various realms sighed.

In this universe, there will be another overwhelmingly powerful Half-Step Heavenly Venerable level powerhouse.

In the sky above the Heavenly Origin Sea.

Huo Yunjie broke the nine opponents with one sword, the imprints on their foreheads slowly floated out, all merging into his forehead, giving him the complete imprint.

"Finally succeeded."

Huo Yunjie could feel the supreme Origin of the Great Dao contained in this imprint, once fused, he could completely transform and ascend to a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable.

"Ladies and gentlemen, apologies."

Huo Yunjie offered a salute with his sword to the nine competitors, then flew back to the Misty Holy Sect, preparing to close in and fuse the cosmic imprint, aiming for the realm of Half-Step Heavenly Venerable.

"Congratulations Second Senior Brother!"

As Huo Yunjie returned, a hundred thousand disciples of the Misty Holy Sect saluted in unison, their voices shaking the sky.

"Junior brothers and sisters, work hard, in the future, you too will have a chance to verify the Dao."

Huo Yunjie said with a smile.

Soon after, he disappeared.

"Husband is finally going to verify the Dao."

"Yes, it’s truly emotional. Thinking back to when we first followed him, he was just a cultivator of the Element Gathering Realm. In the blink of an eye, even we have become high-level Immortal Emperors, and husband is about to verify the Dao to become a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, time flies so quickly."

In a certain manor on Misty Peak.

Two women were conversing in low tones, they were Huo Yunjie’s two Dao companions, Baixue Ding and Lin Yuyan.

They had long joined the Misty Holy Sect.

Now, both were high-level Immortal Emperors.

As the saying goes, when one person achieves the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Originally from the Yunhua Sect, Lin Yuyan, after becoming a high-level Immortal Emperor, also helped her former sect, the Yunhua Sect, which now also produced several Immortal Emperors.

Though it may not sound strong, it is already impressive.

After all, just over ten years ago, the Yunhua Sect’s Sect Master was only an Element Gathering Realm cultivator.

But now, this individual has become an Immortal Emperor.

Rumble!

Huo Yunjie went into closed-door cultivation to fuse the imprint, and his surroundings were consistently assaulted by sharp Sword Intent until they collapsed. Numerous disciples quickly stepped up to repair the void rifts.

"Just the transformative fluctuations can shatter the void, Half-Step Heavenly Venerables are indeed powerful."

"Heh heh, Second Senior Brother is not an ordinary Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, his combat power is at least hundreds of times that of the weakest Half-Step Heavenly Venerable!"

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

"Not exaggerated at all, the weakest Half-Step Heavenly Venerable is warrior five-star combat power, of course, the weakest Half-Step Heavenly Venerable in our universe starts at warrior seven-star, but that doesn’t prevent other universes’ Half-Step Heavenly Venerables from being weak. And an ordinary Invincible Supreme’s combat power is already dozens of times that of warrior five-star combat power, and Second Senior Brother’s combat power is more than ten times that of an ordinary Invincible Supreme, isn’t that hundreds of times?"

"When you put it like that, it really is!"

"Wow, this is terrifying! I remember a quasi-Heavenly Venerable is a hundred times stronger than a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, so after Second Senior Brother verifies the Dao to become a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, wouldn’t he be able to face off against those weakest quasi-Heavenly Venerables in the Cosmic Sea?"

"Seems pretty close!"

"In terms of ultimate combat power, Second Senior Brother is probably stronger than some quasi-Heavenly Venerables, only his cosmic-level pressure is inferior to that of a quasi-Heavenly Venerable. In a real fight, he could only challenge them, the probability of winning is still too low."

"Hmm, makes sense."

The disciples whispered among themselves.

At this moment, Mo Ying and others listened to the gossip of those junior brothers and sisters, exchanged glances, and suddenly realized that if they were to verify the Dao to become a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, relying on their own extremely strong combat power, they might really be able to face a quasi-Heavenly Venerable head-on.

This strength was already very strong.

But of course, it could only be a face-off.

In an actual fight with a quasi-Heavenly Venerable, most of them would still lose since they could only barely touch the lower limit of the quasi-Heavenly Venerable domain.

The most important thing was that the pressure was not as strong as the opponent’s!

Once the pressure was released, their combat power would be reduced by ninety percent, and the gap with the quasi-Heavenly Venerable would become immediately apparent.

"I suddenly feel that verifying the Dao to become a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable seems sufficient, the power is not low."

Wang Ping’an said so.

The other first-generation disciples exchanged a look and also felt that Wang Ping’an had a point. Plus, with only nine slots left for quasi-Heavenly Venerable, it couldn’t be enough for everyone, so they might settle for verifying the Dao to become a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable.

Their thoughts gradually began to change.

Clang!

Before long, a blade-sharp Sword Intent soared into the sky, and everyone followed the fluctuations to see that Huo Yunjie had already emerged from seclusion, fully merged with the cosmic imprint, successfully transforming into a powerful Half-Step Heavenly Venerable.

Astonishing cosmic-level pressure was gradually released.

At that moment, he was a god!

A god of the Sword Dao!

[PS: This Chapter contains over 4300 words, good morning!]

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