Fourth circle level

Bai Yun sat in meditation and slowly started to run Infinitude Heavenly Thought. Slowly power started to converge on Bai Yun and seep into his soul. AS he stood there, a fourth soul tendril started to be visible. Slowly the outline came into being followed by the tendril itself.

As the fourth soul tendril was slowly coalescing, the other three soul tendrils were also strengthening at a rapid pace. Slowly Bai Yun's entire body sunk into a meditative trance where he was rapidly becoming stronger.

Even though it seemed to be taking a long time, it was actually happening in a flash. Bai Yun had long ago reached the necessary conditions for a breakthrough. So his power was increasing rapidly at an incredible pace.

Finally, after a moment Bai Yun's fourth soul tendril came to existence. At that same time, a fourth circle also appeared around Bai Yun's soul in his sea of consciousness. At that moment Bai Yun had finally stepped into the foundation establishment realm in the soul cultivation path.

As Bai Yun sat there, he felt a power slowly descend upon him. This was the power of the heavenly laws.

Every time someone made a breakthrough to a new realm for the first time, the heavenly laws would descent and make a change to their soul mark. The soul mark was given by the heavenly daos to every cultivator. This was done in order to mark the realm of a cultivator as well as record their path in case they broke through to the titled god realm and needed to be given a title.

Bai Yun slowly felt the power of the heavenly daos fill him. This was a rare chance that everyone could get. During the descend of the heavenly daos one could get in touch with the purest form of the heavenly daos. One could use this chance to perceive and study the heavenly daos.

But to sense the heavenly daos, one needed god sense. Thus only title gods could sense the heavenly daos when they broke through. To them, this small chance did not mean much. So this could easily be ignored.

But Bai Yun was only at the qi step. Currently, the descent of the heavenly daos was allowing him to quickly understand more and more of the truth behind the heavenly daos. This would be of great help to him when he wanted to study anything else later.

Suddenly the heavenly daos that were studying Bai Yun's body started to tremble. Bai Yun opened his eyes in confusion. He had no idea what was happening.

As he sat there, the power of the heavenly daos slowly started to transform. It turned into a flame and started to slowly burn Bai Yun's body and soul. But Bai Yun felt no pain from this.

Ad Bai Yun stood there not understanding what was happening, Bai Yun felt that something was wrong. He felt his connection with his god sense was growing weaker.

In an instant, Bai Yun understood what was happening. God Sense was something that only those at the god step was supposed to have. It was a right for the gods. Even though those below the immortal step could get immortal sense, it was absolutely impossible to get god sense below the god step.

And when the heavenly daos sensed the god sense, it was starting to remove it. It was not permitted to exist within Bai Yun. He had gotten away with it last time as then the heavenly daos were only leaving a blank soul mark. This time it was studying the soul of Bai Yun to update the soul mark.

As Bai Yun saw the god sense slowly peeling away he felt lost. He had always counted on the god sense to do everything. Now that he was losing it, Bai Yun did not know what to do. He couldn't even enter the dao repository if he lost the god sense. He might not be able to save Bai Ling-er.

As he stood there stunned, suddenly Bai Yun realized that the flame of the heavenly dao was not only burning his god sense, but it was also burning his soul. As he stood there, small purple lines started to become visible in his soul. It slowly slipped out of his soul and became a purple mist that slowly lingered around his soul in his sea of consciousness.

As he stared at the purple mist, Bai Yun got the second shock. He could sense the power of the devil emperor from the purple mist. The purple mist was the power of the devil that had merged with him when the devil emperor self exploded. The heavenly daos were slowly purging that power form his soul.

Bai Yun stared at it for a while and then turned away. He had no need for the power of the devil. He was more concerned with his god sense.

As Bai Yun stared at the god sense that was slowly peeling itself from his soul, Bai Yun did not know what to do. He just stood there staring at it. He was thinking hard, but could not come up with any solution.

As he stood there thinking, Bau Yuns felt his soul becoming purer. He took a look at the devil mist. And then just as he looked at it, Bai Yun got a crazy idea.

Both Bai Yun and Long Tian were good children. He always obeyed his parents and his elders. He never played pranks on others. He always did as he was told.

But for the first time in his life, Bai Yun had a crazy desire. A desire to defy the will of others. A desire to defy the will of the heavens itself.

What Bai Yun did not realize was that this will did not originate from within him. When he died a piece of the devil emperors soul merged with him. This intense desire was born from the desire of the devil emperor to struggle against his fate.

Bai Yun decided that he was not going to simply let go of his god sense. He was going to fight to keep it. Even if he lost it, he was not going down without a fight.

Bai Yun used his full strength and grabbed at the god sense. He rapidly ran his power and tried to lock the god sense in place.

As Bai Yun started to fight against the god sense, the flame of heavenly daos seemed to be enraged. It slowly started to burn brighter. But this time it not only burned Bai Yuns' god sense, but it also started to burn Bai Yun's soul.

A terrifying pain shot through Bai Yun's soul. For a moment he blanked out from the pain. But he was back in an instant. He grit his teeth and started to pull on the god sense harder. But the harder he pulled on the god sense, the harder the flame of heavenly dao burned.

No matter what he tried, Bai Yun was unable to extricate the god sense from the pull of the heavenly dao. The only result was shooting pain that seemed to burn up Bai Yun. Bai Yun grit his teeth so hard that blood started to seep from his mouth. Bai Yun was perspiring extremely hard, and slightly trembling in pain. If the old man next door wasn't so focused o Bai Ling-er, he would have already come running to Bai Yun's side after seeing his condition.

But nothing he did was fo any use. He tried one method after the other, all to no avail. Bai Yun couldn't even slow down the extrication of his god sense.

Bai Yun looked around crazily. His eyes were red from the pain. He needed an idea. Something that could work. The god sense was almost completely peeled from his body at this point.

Suddenly his eyes fell on the power of the devil that was floating around his soul. Suddenly a completely crazy idea appeared in Bai Yun's mind. The reason the heavenly daos did not notice him and he was able to enter the reincarnation cycle was due to the power of the devil that merged with him when the devil emperor exploded. The heavenly daos couldn't identify the thing born of the merging of two powers. Bai Yun suddenly wondered if he could keep his god sense if he were to merge the two powers being expelled from his body.

He didn't wait even a second to find out. Just as the god sense was being peeled off him, he took control of the power of the devil and brought it over to the god sense. Bai Yun had no idea how to merge them, so he decided to use the simplest method and just ram them together.

What Bai Yun did not expect was that the moment the two powers came into contact with each other, they started to mix together. The mixing process was so smooth that Bai Yun was stunned. It was as if the two powers were two sides of the same coin, and they were dying to mix up and become one.

What Bai Yun didn't realize was that the reason the two of them were merging so quickly was due to the instinct of the power of the devil. The power of the devil in Bai Yun's body was born from the devil emperor, who had an instinctive rejection towards the heavenly dao. The power of the devil wanted to reject the heavenly dao and its actions.

So when the heavenly dao wanted to strip the power of the devil from Bai Yun, the power of the devil tried to reject it and stay with Bai Yun. So when it finally found a chance to reject the will of the heavenly dao, it took the initiative to merge with the god dense of Bai Yun. It understood Bai Yun's will and moved automatically, merging with the power of gods and becoming something new in the process. Otherwise, it would have taken Bai Yun centuries to figure out how to merge the two powers.

As the power of the gods merged with the power of the devil, the power of the devil quickly refined Bai Yun's god sense. The power of the devil was of a much higher quality than the god sense Bai Yun had, but there was too little of it. As Bai Yun's god sense merged with the power of the devil, the god sense's quality increased, while its quantity quickly fell.

Soon the process was completed. The power of the devil and the power of the gods in Bai Yun's god sense quickly merged to create a new source of power. This new power was not recognized by the heavenly dao, so the heavenly dao stopped burning the power. The flame of the heavenly dao slowly transformed into a brush and it started to update Bai Yun's soul mark.

Bai Yun knew that he did not have much time. He quickly grabbed hold of the new power that was just born. It was disjoint from his body and might even fly away. So Bai Yun quickly transformed that power into a seal and cast it on itself to trap it in his body.

By now the heavenly dao was finished. Bai Yun quickly transformed the new power into immortal sense and made the immortal sense touch the last vestiges of the power of heavenly dao that was leaving.

In an instance, Bai Yun felt his surroundings blur. He once again found himself at the base of a long flight of stairs.

Bai Yun smiled as he felt his surroundings.

He was back at the Dao Repository.