Chapter 1163: Boundary Domain Self-Explosion Technique, Brand New Great Dao Disk

I have a full set of passive abilities.

"Throne!"

"This is the throne!"

As his mental scan revealed the long-awaited upgrade of the passive system, Xu Xiaoshou realized that his breakthrough had progressed smoothly without any major hiccups.

Now, in terms of pure spiritual realm, he could truly be considered at the level of Wang Zuo Dao Jing.

All the previous comments about him being "just a mere Zongshi" or "possessing Wang Zuo level combat power" were now relics of the past.

Simply revealing his cultivation realm now signified Wang Zuo level combat power.

Of course, when it came to judging his actual combat strength, those who had used a different standard to measure Xu Xiaoshou in the past would need to create a completely new one.

"What kind of combat power does the Wang Zuo level even represent?"

Xu Xiaoshou himself didn't know.

But he understood that this was just the beginning.

What followed—leveling up his passive skills, testing the system upgrades—would be the real period of explosive growth in his combat power.

After a moment of joy, his excitement settled.

Ignoring the two faces before him, a mix of curiosity and subtle restraint, Xu Xiaoshou first turned his attention to his own Qi Hai.

For a spiritual master, the most significant change after breaking through a major realm was right here.

Qi Hai surged like a tide...

What was once merely a description now seemed like an objective fact.

A Qi Hai at the Wang Zuo Dao Jing level was expanded by what felt like hundreds of times compared to a Zongshi Xing Si Jing one!

Spiritual energy flowed like an endless sea, inexhaustible.

Previously, the Qi Hai was just a small container holding a limited amount of spiritual energy.

Now, after the breakthrough, it had become a prototype of a small world—not only with over a hundred times the capacity of a Zongshi's, but also drawing power from the heavens and earth's great dao as a continuous supply.

As for why the change was so massive, it was all thanks to the "Jie Yu"!

The Qi Hai originally had no boundaries.

But now, Xu Xiaoshou could see illusory barriers rising around his Qi Hai.

Inside, the space was like a mustard seed containing Mount Sumeru, forming a prototype of a small world with its own dao principles evolving, making the capacity even greater.

However...

"Why hasn't the explosion inside this Jie Yu stopped, even after my breakthrough?" Xu Xiaoshou wondered slightly.

What he saw in his Jie Yu wasn't just an increase in spiritual energy.

More remarkably, the spiritual energy was constantly boiling, colliding, and exploding.

The little things that were usually kept in check by him were now lively, like they'd moved into a new home and were joyfully unrestrained.

The holy power of the Sheng Ji Guo, the liberated "Che Shen Nian" sword intent full of activity, the Jin Zhao Yuan Zhong releasing its holy-level aura, the San Ri Dong Jie, and the trembling Ping Hu Xiao Qing Hua...

They were all playing and fighting, and any collision caused a big explosion.

A Zongshi's Qi Hai clearly couldn't handle this kind of chaos—it would probably make Xu Xiaoshou suffer with each blast.

But now that he was at Wang Zuo level, with the Jie Yu wrapping it all up...

Even if they exploded, Xu Xiaoshou only felt a sense of "playfulness," not any excessive "audacity"—no harm at all!

"You little rebels..."

He subconsciously wanted to suppress these troublemakers.

But on second thought, while they were active, they weren't causing any real problems.

So, there was no need to waste effort taming them.

Let them be playful—it might even be good. If they're having fun, they'll explode even faster when I use them, right?

After all, their way of playing was through all sorts of explosions.

Jin Zhao Yuan Zhong and San Ri Dong Jie exploding, sword intent and holy power exploding, San Ri Dong Jie and sword intent exploding...

Pair by pair, they collided and exploded.

"Wait!"

"What if they all clump together in threes or fives..."

Xu Xiaoshou's face twitched suddenly.

He thought of the "Sheng · Wu Zhi Wen Zhong Zhi Shu," which was basically like setting off this very thing inside his own Qi Hai.

"But maybe it's not a big issue?"

As he considered the contact between two holy-level forces exploding in his Qi Hai world without feeling any abnormality...

Xu Xiaoshou had an epiphany!

During his breakthrough to Wang Zuo Dao Jing, Xu Xiaoshou had entertained the idea of "biting off more than he could chew."

Later, recalling Ba Zun An's warning, he simply let go, grasping whatever came his way without turning anything away.

And sure enough...

He had reviewed all the dao he'd encountered during the breakthrough and found no problems.

If they couldn't merge, he'd force them to—or at worst, let them explode!

It was just like refining pills.

His goal wasn't to create a perfect pill; it was to make the incompatible medicinal properties explode in a way that better harmed his enemies.

This sudden Wang Zuo Dao Jing didn't kill him or turn him into some rampaging giant container.

Instead, everything coexisted in an unexpectedly harmonious way, "nuclearly good" and alive.

Life was like that—mostly about fighting, with occasional little pleasures. Wasn't that normal?

That was the current manifestation of the dao on Xu Xiaoshou and the lifestyle of the various treasures in his Qi Hai.

Even the Jie Yu...

"My Jie Yu!"

Xu Xiaoshou thought of his Jie Yu and instinctively reached out to summon it.

At that moment, all the treasures in his Qi Hai stopped moving and fell silent.

Various tribulation auras spread across his body at once.

Holy power, Jin Zhao Yuan Zhong, San Ri Dong Jie, sword intent... all sorts of flavors intertwined, forming a destructive wave.

"What are you trying to do?"

Kong Yu Hen sharply sensed something was off and asked.

"Nothing."

Xu Xiaoshou, with his hand halfway raised, realized what was wrong and retracted his power.

His Jie Yu was probably an explosive type.

Hoping for some special, magnificent world to form was no longer realistic.

He hadn't fully absorbed all those treasure powers or the various dao principles he'd sensed.

How could he possibly control them perfectly?

Not being able to control it—that was the only path Xu Xiaoshou saw.

"What about your Jie Yu?"

Ba Zun An watched as Xu Xiaoshou stopped and frowned.

He'd been looking forward to this for a long time and wanted to see what Xu Xiaoshou would come up with.

A spiritual master's Jie Yu was quite intriguing.

"Should I show it?"

Xu Xiaoshou hesitated and looked at Kong Yu Hen.

Kong Yu Hen was a bit puzzled—sure, go ahead, why are you looking at me?

"You like it."

Xu Xiaoshou nodded at the response.

With that said, it was enough.

He raised his hand again.

"Jie Yu!"

With a hiss, his Qi Hai's spiritual energy was instantly mobilized.

Spatial nodes around him quickly outlined, and the prototype of that small world in his body materialized into a semi-transparent, bubble-like spherical barrier.

But it wasn't very large—just like a layer of film forming over his body, like clothing.

Before Kong Yu Hen and Ba Zun An could ask questions or wonder why it hadn't grown bigger...

In the next second, both of their pupils shrank.

Because after the barrier film formed, everything around it started becoming extremely unstable.

A mishmash of great dao forces and holy treasure powers mixed together, like a cauldron of pills about to explode...

"Boom!"

It exploded anyway!

The blast pushed out a fierce gust of air, instantly shattering the small wooden table in front of them and turning the wine pots and cups on it into shards that scattered like knives.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

The wooden fragments mercilessly embedded into Kong Yu Hen's chest, nose, and face—the ones closest to him—but passed right through his body.

Ba Zun An had no such passive defense.

He was always in a state where he had to force himself to fight, and normally, even running left him breathless.

In that moment, his earlobes, nose tip, and fingers were all cut, leaving him marked with wounds on the spot.

Bang!

The wooden window of the pavilion shattered.

The interior layout was thrown into chaos, everything smashed.

The statues of the Ten Zun Zuo bounced around—from the tables to the ceiling, to the floor, to the wooden stairs, up to the second floor...

Soon, those important items were all covered by spatial forces.

The explosion was all thunder and little rain—the destructive power wasn't too bad, just like popping a balloon.

Xu Xiaoshou was stunned.

The two in front of him were also stunned.

"Your thing..."

Ba Zun An touched the blood flowing from his nose, stopping mid-sentence as he blew his nose and suddenly expelled a small piece of wood from his nostril!

His face darkened instantly.

"Is your Jie Yu explosive by nature?"

Having lived so long, Ba Zun An had never heard of someone's Jie Yu exploding upon summoning, so it wasn't surprising he hadn't been prepared.

Normally, summoning a Jie Yu was a domain skill and also a means to protect ordinary people in crowded places during fights.

But Xu Xiaoshou's Jie Yu...

Was this thing really not going to kill someone? It seemed like it wouldn't, if it was just like this.

"An explosive Jie Yu I can accept, but is the power a bit weak?" Ba Zun An said with a stern face, thinking aloud.

"Maybe it's not explosive..." Kong Yu Hen pondered, stroking his chin. "Friend, is your Jie Yu not fully condensed yet?"

Xu Xiaoshou nodded blankly.

He had indeed only just summoned the Jie Yu, and the progress bar for its formation wasn't even at one percent.

And this thing had already exploded?

Why?

Was it because there were too many conflicting dao inside, with too many energy forms?

Xu Xiaoshou rubbed his chin, sinking into thought, and soon came to a decision. His eyes lit up as he said, "I'll try again."

"Hold on." This time, Kong Yu Hen finally understood why the guy had raised his hand and stopped before. "Let's go up to the second floor first."

The first floor of Gu Jin Wang You Lou was left in a mess, but fortunately, it was just a small test and hadn't caused major damage.

Xu Xiaoshou saw that many things that looked like antiques and artifacts were broken.

He felt a bit panicked at first.

But since Kong Yu Hen didn't mention compensation, he calmed down.

Climbing the wooden stairs to the second-floor pavilion, Xu Xiaoshou finally saw this mysterious place.

It wasn't as fantastical as he imagined, full of illusionary colors—just a very ancient and simple martial arts arena.

As the three entered, the arena seemed to activate, with patterns of light glowing on the ground.

Whoosh—the feeling was that Gu Jin Wang You Lou had disappeared, and he was standing in a giant's kingdom filled with a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.

The buildings here were so tall and majestic, with bright colors and vibrant energy.

Except for the lack of giants, it was basically a real giant's home.

"Is this Xu Kong Dao?" Xu Xiaoshou hesitated.

"It's a one-to-one simulated recreation of Xu Kong Dao." Kong Yu Hen explained, "Before I came... well, before I arrived, it already existed. I just activated it."

So, you recreated it back then!

Who exactly are you?

In Gu Jin Wang You Lou, besides this one-to-one recreation of early Xu Kong Dao, what other worlds have been recreated?

Sheng Shen Da Lu?

Qi Duan Jin?

Long Ku, Jin Zhao Yu Hai—what about those? Is there a recreation here too?

Xu Xiaoshou was full of shock, but he knew the priority now was to test his strange ability.

"Bring it out—this time, don't hold back." Ba Zun An looked at him.

"Mm." Xu Xiaoshou nodded, curious about what kind of realm this uncontrollable Jie Yu would form if it succeeded.

"Open!"

Without hesitation, he summoned the Jie Yu.

Hiss—a variety of tribulations and dao auras formed again, but it hadn't fully shaped yet, still just a thin film on his body.

And then it exploded again.

"A failed Jie Yu?" Kong Yu Hen rested his chin in his hand.

"Impossible." Ba Zun An shook his head. He could feel the various peculiar holy-level forces surging out the moment the Jie Yu was summoned.

There were too many!

So many holy-level forces, even if simply put together, couldn't produce such a minor effect—let alone during the process of fusing and condensing into a Jie Yu.

"Try making it smaller. Maybe you can't handle a big one right now."

"The process needs to be fast—form it instantly, then detonate it without holding back. That might be the right way to use your Jie Yu."

Ba Zun An suggested.

It had to be said, a battle maniac's intuition for combat was spot-on.

Xu Xiaoshou felt Ba Zun An's words made perfect sense—he thought the same.

He extended his hand.

Xu Xiaoshou decided to condense a Jie Yu sphere in his palm and detonate it.

Just like "Sheng · Wu Zhi Wen Zhong Zhi Shu." If his idea worked, the Jie Yu would include his major holy-level treasure powers and dao forces.

Then his "Jie Yu Self-Destruction Technique" might even surpass "Sheng · Wu Zhi Wen Zhong Zhi Shu"!

But after thinking for a while, Xu Xiaoshou stopped.

He looked at Ba Zun An and said, "I need an opponent, preferably one that can pressure me."

Ba Zun An smiled and stepped forward. "Come on."

Xu Xiaoshou extended his hand, positioning it just a fist's distance from Ba Zun An's chest, even aiming right at the heart.

Ba Zun An tilted his head slightly. For such a small explosion, he didn't care at all. "Get ready..."

"Jie Yu, explode!"

It all happened so quickly.

Ba Zun An hadn't even finished speaking.

With Xu Xiaoshou's right palm as the center, space shattered, holy energy surged, and a massive black hole hundreds of zhang wide suddenly appeared, swallowing space and earth.

The terrifying force struck, making the frail Ba Zun An's body stiffen as he turned into a blood-red arc, hurtling through the sky.

Kong Yu Hen was stunned for half a breath, then in the next second, he appeared where Ba Zun An had landed, catching him and shouting anxiously:

"Ba Zun An, sir?"

"Ba Zun An, sir?"

"Wake up, Ba Zun An, sir!!"

Xu Xiaoshou was also stunned.

This... this strong?

For this explosion, he'd used Ba Zun An's method—forming it in an instant and breaking through from a point.

It was faster, stronger, and more unpredictable than compressing "Sheng · Wu Zhi Wen Zhong Zhi Shu."

The Jie Yu vanished after the explosion, and the one in his Qi Hai retracted.

Since it was all from his own dao and treasures, the blast happened within his own Jie Yu, so Xu Xiaoshou felt no backlash at all.

He didn't even sense any resistance.

If he wanted to explode, he just did.

And Ba Zun An flew away.

Just like that—simple, and it seemed he could do it again.

"Wait, Old Ba seems to have been blown away..."

Xu Xiaoshou finally realized and hurried over.

Ba Zun An was like a sick patient now. Despite his cocky talk and looking down on others, he was as weak as could be when not fighting—weaker than a chicken.

Xu Xiaoshou had seen pictures of the storyteller supporting Ba Zun An while walking.

When he reached Kong Yu Hen's side, he found Ba Zun An barely breathing, eyes tightly shut, his body a mess of blood and mangled flesh.

At his chest, near the heart, the flesh was completely destroyed, revealing crisscrossing sword energy inside, sharp and intimidating.

"This sword energy..."

Xu Xiaoshou's attention shifted immediately.

He remembered Ba Zun An's Bu Mie Jian Ti. He hadn't felt it as deeply last time, but now...

Wow, that sword intent was terrifyingly sharp and eternal, constantly cutting.

Even as his hand approached without touching, it could still draw blood, and even his spirit and soul felt a faint sting.

"This isn't Ba Zun An's sword energy."

"It's the sword energy of that Qi Jian Xian Hua Chang Deng!"

Xu Xiaoshou wasn't a sword dao novice anymore. Once again, he was shocked by the fact that this chilling sword energy was rampaging inside Ba Zun An.

What incredible vitality?

What astonishing destructive power?

These two were something else—one enduring torment without dying, the other just releasing sword energy.

Not even sword intent or Che Shen Nian or basic sword intent.

Just the sword energy alone, and Ba Zun An couldn't deal with it, letting it run wild inside him?

"Ba Zun An, sir?"

After a half-spiritual daze, Kong Yu Hen's calls finally pulled Xu Xiaoshou back.

He looked at Ba Zun An's face.

The guy was blown beyond recognition, but his injuries were healing at a rapid pace.

"Bu Mie Jian Ti, an undying body... This feels quite similar in principle."

Soon, with a "cough," Ba Zun An trembled and opened his eyes.

The moment he did, his murderous gaze locked onto Xu Xiaoshou.

"I just did what you said, I was just trying it out, it wasn't on purpose, I'm really sorry—I'll bow to you first!" Xu Xiaoshou blurted out rapidly, bending at a ninety-degree angle with utmost sincerity, his excuses ready.

"You... puff!" Ba Zun An couldn't hold back and spat out another mouthful of blood. "You did it... on purpose..."

"Huh?" Xu Xiaoshou's eyes lit up, as if remembering something. "What's this feeling? It's so amazing, like I'm about to... have an epiphany?"

Whoosh—he sat down cross-legged and entered a state of enlightenment.

Kong Yu Hen was baffled.

This has to be an act, right?

After injuring someone, pretending to enter enlightenment so Ba Zun An won't go after him?

"Kick him. Kick him once."

Ba Zun An couldn't move and urged Kong Yu Hen.

Kong Yu Hen hesitated, extended his leg, and lightly tapped toward Xu Xiaoshou.

Just as the soft whip kick was about to land, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly vanished without a trace, as if erased from the world.

"Little stingy one."

In his vanished state, Xu Xiaoshou chuckled at Ba Zun An, who was glaring at his original position.

Of course, it was on purpose.

Only officials are allowed to set fires, but not the common folk to light lamps, huh?

You, Ba Zun An, can slap me, but I can't blow up your heart?

Who's more noble than whom!

Hidden in the vanished world, Xu Xiaoshou had more personal space.

While the self-destructing Jie Yu at Wang Zuo Dao Jing made him happy, that wasn't the main point.

From the start, after his breakthrough, his real focus had been on the passive system.

Now, he finally had time to take a good look.

Turning to the red interface in his mind that belonged to the system.

"Great Dao Disk!"

In structure, it was the same as the basic modules like "Foundation Passive Skills," "Extended Passive Skills," and "Mastery Passive Skills."

In the system's red interface, a new module called "Great Dao Disk" had appeared.

Clicking in, it was divided into circular disks, each etched with different veined patterns and filled with varying shades of silver light.

Each Great Dao Disk had its own name above it.

"Body Dao Disk, Spirit Dao Disk, Will Dao Disk."

"Sword Dao Disk, Fire Dao Disk, Metal Dao Disk, Array Dao Disk, Technique Dao Disk, Space Dao Disk, Life Dao Disk."

There were three main ones at the top.

Below were the rest, adding up to a total of ten.

Xu Xiaoshou scanned through these names, falling into thought.

"Clearly, if we divide it this way...

"'Body' refers to the physical body, 'Spirit' to the soul, and 'Will' to mental will. These 'Body, Spirit, Will' disks can be seen as the basic ones."

"The others make up my full capabilities, with 'Sword,' 'Fire,' and so on as the mainstream, and the rest secondary—this is evident from the brightness of the light."

"So, these things represent all the great dao rules I've comprehended after advancing to Wang Zuo Dao Jing?"

"Hmm, what about the Time Dao Disk?"

Xu Xiaoshou sank into thought again.

Soon, he figured it out—perhaps only attributes that I've mastered and can actually use will manifest as a 'Great Dao Disk' here.

Time was something he'd comprehended very little of; he couldn't even use specific spiritual skills with time attributes, so it not appearing was normal.

"It's divided very clearly, even breaking down some vague things into new dao."

"For example, the Life Dao Disk."

Xu Xiaoshou swore he hadn't comprehended this life attribute.

But perhaps because of "Sheng Sheng Bu Xi" and reasons related to his physical strength and vitality...

The veined patterns on this "Life Dao Disk" were actually on par with the mainstream ones.

In contrast, "Space Dao Disk" and "Technique Dao Disk" ones hadn't even activated their full veined patterns.

"Great Dao Disk..."

Staring at these circular array disks, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly realized they resembled Yu Ling Di or Ye Xiao Tian's Profound Array Diagrams.

It was just that the dao veined light on the Great Dao Disks was a bit faint, and some were barely noticeable.

From this so-called "Great Dao Disk," Xu Xiaoshou only drew one conclusion:

He had comprehended a total of ten usable great dao rules after breaking through to Wang Zuo Dao Jing.

But he was still clueless about how this "Great Dao Disk" worked or how to use it.

"Let's check the rest first."

He vaguely remembered that after the system upgraded, it granted a special passive skill. Xu Xiaoshou looked toward another module.

"Special Passive Skill: Tian Ren He Yi."

With a mental scan, he easily got the new passive skill's description.

"Tian Ren He Yi: Step on the Great Dao Disk to immediately enter the 'Tian Ren He Yi' state. In this state, you can draw power from the heavens and earth's great dao to enhance your own attributes related to that Great Dao Disk."