Chapter 1050: “The Five-Phase Sealing Art”

The Lord of Nanyun sat there, his gaze piercing through the boundless void to land outside the Nanyun Sacred Hall in the Huozhao Kingdom.

His eyes flickered with scenes—among them, Dongbo Xueying striking against King Changsu. In truth, Dongbo Xueying’s power had always influenced space-time, especially after his soul absorbed the mysterious essence from a higher realm beyond the Heartworld Continent, undergoing a profound transformation. Many tracking techniques could no longer trace his whereabouts.

Back then, even the Sage Lord couldn’t locate the hidden clone of the Crimson-Browed Mountain Master. Only the peculiar methods of the “Stone Elder” allowed him to find it.

With the Lord of Nanyun’s strength, he too couldn’t track Dongbo Xueying.

But for that battle, he already knew the location beforehand. So he simply observed the aftermath, reviewing everything that had transpired.

“Strange,” the Lord of Nanyun mused silently. “What method did he use to eliminate King Changsu so effortlessly, leaving no trace at all?” Other combat techniques would have caused massive disturbances, but illusions targeting the soul left no ripples.

“Was it a soul-based technique? Or some unique treasure?” he speculated before chuckling.

No matter what, a disciple growing stronger was always a good thing. Powerful cultivators inevitably had their own secrets, and the Lord of Nanyun wouldn’t pry.

“The Heavenly Sword Sect’s foundation is slightly weaker than my Nanyun Sacred Sect, but with the covert aid of the two ancient kingdoms, they’ve often held the upper hand in many contests. This disciple of mine is even more formidable than I anticipated.” The Lord of Nanyun felt a surge of anticipation.

Just as the two ancient kingdoms secretly dispatched experts to assist the Heavenly Sword Sect—actions that couldn’t be exposed—even if a mysterious powerhouse from the Myriad Realms Ancient Kingdom openly appeared and defeated Dongbo Xueying, what would it prove?

That expert wasn’t a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Victory wouldn’t mean the Heavenly Sword Sect’s techniques were superior!

Only direct confrontations between disciples of the two sects could truly demonstrate their relative strengths. Dongbo Xueying was the Lord of Nanyun’s personal disciple! His victories, especially those achieved through void techniques, further proved the might of the Nanyun Sacred Sect. Countless cultivators would think: “Even Ying Shan Xueying has joined the Nanyun Sacred Sect, and his techniques are so formidable. Enrolling there must be the right choice—even learning a fraction would suffice.”

The more geniuses and experts a sect had, the greater its allure.

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Within the Nanyun Sacred Hall in the Huozhao Kingdom, Dongbo Xueying had long dismissed his attendants, immersing himself in solitary cultivation.

“Whoosh… whoosh…”

Despite the sealed hall, the sound of wind howled. A white-robed youth sat cross-legged on a cushion, three radiant auras already covering half the sky above him. One was a mass of black chaos, impossibly heavy, as if solidifying space itself. Another was ethereal, flickering in and out of existence. The third was a surging tide of void energy.

Now, the faint whispers of wind hinted at a fourth aura coalescing.

Like threads, like mist…

Gathering into strands, dispersing into vapor.

What gathered and scattered was the void itself—compressed into filaments or fragmented into near-nothingness.

“This move… always falls just short,” Dongbo Xueying muttered, frowning as the half-formed fourth aura dissipated once more.

“Swish!”

Suddenly, he moved.

In an instant, he teleported mid-air, his body flattening into a two-dimensional painting—himself seated within it. Then, the painting dissolved like mist, and his seated form flickered, splitting into hundreds of identical figures, all cross-legged.

“Five Phases… Five Phases… The ‘Mist Phase’ is always just out of reach…” the hundreds of Dongbo Xueyings murmured in unison.

“Ah!”

All at once, their eyes brightened. This time, the sensation was perfect—his confidence surged. With a thought, the fourth aura manifested above him, truly embodying the essence of threads and mist, shifting seamlessly between the two. If used to bind an enemy, the thread phase could slice instantly, while the mist phase could envelop and restrain.

“Hahaha! On my very first day in the Huozhao Kingdom, the Mist Phase is complete. This place truly is my land of fortune!” Dongbo Xueying laughed heartily.

In the path of the void, even before becoming the Lord of Nanyun’s disciple, he had studied the *Twelve Forms of Nanyun Sacred Art* and the *Crimson Cloud Spear Technique*, two directions that had nearly reached the pinnacle of the Chaos Realm. To ascend to the Cosmic Deity level, he naturally explored further dimensions of the void. The more he studied, the greater his chances of breakthrough.

Thus, shortly after becoming the Lord of Nanyun’s disciple, he mastered the *World-Piercing Void Step* and immediately selected another void-based supreme art from the Nanyun Sacred Sect’s archives—the *Five-Phase Sealing Art*.

The *Five-Phase Sealing Art*!

The most formidable void technique within the Nanyun Sacred Sect!

Yes.

The strongest!

Though ranked below it in merit exchange were the *Three Lives Technique*, the *Doppelganger Art*, and the *Great World-Piercing Void Step*, these were different.

The *Three Lives Technique* was a time-based art. The *Doppelganger Art* was purely a survival method, prized for its rarity and life-saving utility. The *Great World-Piercing Void Step* was an unparalleled escape technique, allowing travel between distant source worlds—but its difficulty was extreme. Only those who had reached the second level of Cosmic Deity in the void path could attempt it, and even then, success was uncertain. Dongbo Xueying didn’t even qualify yet.

Unlike these, the *Five-Phase Sealing Art* was a combat technique—a terrifyingly powerful one.

The *Five-Phase Sealing Art* encompassed five distinct void paths, known as the “Five Phases”:

– **Heaven Phase**

– **Earth Phase**

– **Storm Phase**

– **Mist Phase**

– **True Form Phase**

These represented five different manifestations of the void. Merely mastering the basics placed one at the ninth level of the Chaos Realm.

Perfecting any single phase elevated one to the ninth level.

Mastering all five?

They synergized—**Five-Phase Sealing** allowed the simultaneous execution of five ninth-level techniques, merging into one devastating assault. Far more fearsome than the *Twelve Forms of Nanyun Sacred Art*, it surpassed even some of the Lord of Nanyun’s personal secret arts, indisputably the sect’s supreme technique—and the hardest to master!

But that wasn’t the most brutal part.

Mastering one ninth-level technique was already difficult. Mastering five distinct void paths at that level was monstrous! Yet, upon success, the Lord of Nanyun would bestow the precious treasure—**Five-Phase Orb**! With it, each of the five techniques could unleash tenth-level power.

Five tenth-level techniques, perfectly fused? The resulting **Five-Phase Sealing** could even suppress the *World-Piercing Void Step*! Weaker foes would be effortlessly imprisoned or crushed.

An overwhelmingly domineering art!

And an immensely challenging one.

The more transcendent the technique, the harsher its requirements. The *Three Lives Technique* was even harder than the *Five-Phase Sealing Art*—some who attempted it went mad or took their own lives. Yet, once mastered, its terror surpassed even the latter.

“Since becoming a disciple, I’ve now mastered four of the Five Phases,” Dongbo Xueying reflected. His profound accumulation—studying multiple void paths in his past life, then the *Twelve Forms* and the Crimson Cloud lineage in this one—had made this possible.

“Only the final phase remains—the **True Form Phase**.”

Dongbo Xueying pondered, his gaze fixed on the void before him. Space itself seemed to expand in his vision, revealing its essence—layer upon layer of black mist spheres forming membranous walls.

“The True Form… I glimpsed it in my past life. In this life, I shattered the cage with *Piercing the Firmament* and mastered the *Doppelganger Art*. Yet my understanding of it remains shallow.”

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