Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate Chapter 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 complented one another, but when viewed together, everything revolved around one thing—balance.

If soone 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-containnt of their Great Dao Immortal Bodies, as well as the powerhouses who had stepped into the Fourth Step of the Cultivation Path.

Self-containnt 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 elents.

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 soone ran into one, they would do everything they could to destroy it first.

Most of the ti, 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-containnt was never simple.

For a Void Tribulation realm cultivator, what they ford was only the most basic stage of self-containnt 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-containnt.

And even that first step was incredibly hard.

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

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-containnt 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 fragnted ones, Jiang Chen thought.

It’ll also help build the foundation for self-containnt. This thod is a real treasure. A small smile tugged at his lips as he started morizing 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.

Monts 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 thod 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-containnt 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-containnt.

Once he fully completed this first stage of self-containnt, 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 thods like the Nine Heavens Mountains and Rivers Diagram that can help with self-containnt either.

I still have so qi and blood energy left, but it’s not enough to cultivate a second Void Tribulation–level thod. 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 fragnted 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 fragnts of Great Dao laws.

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

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

In that mont, Jiang Chen’s entire body went through a massive transformation—like a phoenix rising from the flas, 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 ford 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 transford—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 kiloters.

Now, that range doubled—two hundred million kiloters 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 cos 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.