Li Yuan walked into the Phoenix Race's cultivation chamber—one person per room—and could already sense the depth of the Phoenix Race's heritage.
Array formations that gathered Dao resonance existed everywhere, the spiritual energy dense to the extreme.
It coalesced into thick mist, and he immersed himself within it.
Li Yuan sat cross-legged, summoning Dijun's Essence Blood and First Phoenix's Essence Blood.
These two drops of blood were respectively the diary's guaranteed reward and a gift from First Phoenix.
The moment the essence blood revealed itself, it manifested as a Three-legged Golden Crow and a Phoenix phantom locked in combat.
Such a reaction made Li Yuan raise an eyebrow, quite bewildered.
"What the hell, they start fighting the moment they meet—but I can't really blame them."
First Phoenix once led the Phoenix Race, ruling over the avian clan as a Primordial World overlord, a supreme destiny incarnate.
Dijun, with his Three-legged Golden Crow origin, was ultimately also a bird, ruling the Demon Court as the Demon Emperor of the age.
The moment they met, naturally, they were especially hostile, entangled in endless combat.
Li Yuan wasn't in a hurry to cultivate. He sat upright in the chamber, watching the two drops of essence blood hover in confrontation.
First Phoenix's essence blood was crimson like molten lava, the manifested Phoenix phantom's feathers flowing with the Southern Blazing Fire from the dawn of chaos.
Dijun's essence blood blazed with blinding golden light. The Three-legged Golden Crow spread its wings and cried out, its feather edges bearing Dao patterns condensed from Solar True Fire.
The moment the two met, they tore and tangled like mortal enemies, flames and golden light exploding, casting the chamber's dome into a scene like a Primordial World battlefield.
"OK, the Primordial World has its own way of cricket fighting, but This Daoist still has business to attend to."
Li Yuan sneered coldly, forming hand seals to activate the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art. Three hundred and sixty Chaos light points suddenly emerged from his acupoints.
With three hundred and sixty-five acupoints, he gathered and absorbed three hundred and sixty-five different types of essence blood.
Elevating his physical body's realm—this was the subtlety of the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art.
Truly gathering the strengths of a hundred schools to compensate for one's own weaknesses.
There was even a chance to obtain the innate divine abilities of the essence blood's original owner—this showed how terrifying the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art was.
Thus, Li Yuan had great expectations for Pangu's essence blood.
"If I could directly obtain Great God Pangu's innate divine ability, I'd probably be able to one-shot anyone."
The Nine Revolutions Chaos Art had nine different realms.
Sand Grain World, Small Thousand Worlds, Middle Thousand Worlds, Great Thousand Worlds, Perfect World, Daluo Profound Heaven, Primordial Cavern Heaven, Hongmeng Blessed Land, Supreme Oneness.
The Chaos light points flickering in his acupoints were precisely the sign of the first realm—Sand Grain World.
Each light point was like a miniature ancient star, inhaling and exhaling as it forcibly seized the dissipating essence blood energy.
"Now that you've entered my body, you have no right to run wild!"
Want to fight crickets inside This Daoist's body? Dream on.
Boom—!!!
The two drops of essence blood were torn apart and decomposed by the Chaos light points, transforming into a crimson-gold torrent that surged into his meridians.
Li Yuan's flesh instantly cracked like drought-stricken earth, yet under the entanglement of Chaos Qi, it healed rapidly. With each rupture and reorganization, a layer of crystalline shell formed on his skin.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his brows tightly furrowed.
"Pain, too much pain. Eternal loss of my beloved, utter ruin!"
But Li Yuan was in pain and ecstasy at the same time, his physical body visibly improving.
Vast blood energy, mixed with the dense Dao resonance of the Law of Fire, surged and roiled within the chamber.
Crack—!!!
Just then, a sudden change occurred!
The chamber suddenly echoed with the sacred words of the Great Dao. Two of Li Yuan's acupoints blazed with crimson-gold brilliance.
Behind him, a miniature world phantom manifested.
Within it, volcanoes erupted like First Phoenix's furious cry, a great sun traversed the sky like Dijun soaring overhead, and countless sand-grain-like stars were born and perished in endless cycles.
Excitement gleamed in Li Yuan's eyes as he roared with a smile.
"One grain of sand hides a world, one world contains myriad laws. To glimpse the threshold and already possess such power—truly astonishing!"
With a single strike of pure physical strength, he could wield the weight of a Sand Grain World.
He could totally go to the Primordial World's highway, cosplay as a truck, and one-punch kill other living beings, humming under his breath.
"We're all living hard..."
Screech—!!!
Above the Phoenix Race's territory, a hundred-thousand-li sea of fire clouds suddenly condensed, and within the clouds, First Phoenix's Dharma image appeared.
Opposite it, nine great sun phantoms rose from the east, with Dijun's figure faintly visible.
The collision of two supreme auras of might caused all birds within ten thousand li to bow their heads, their wings uncontrollably pointing toward the chamber direction, as if paying homage to a new king.
Yuanhuang stood outside the hall, in excellent spirits, cheerfully sipping tea.
He had established a connection with the direct disciples of the Three Teachings, their relationship was excellent, and his own son had even been accepted as a disciple under Saint Yuanshi.
Everything seemed to be developing toward a brighter future.
Who could have expected a sudden turn of events? He abruptly crushed his tea cup.
His eyes widened, a look of shock spreading across his face as he raised his head to gaze at the boundless sky.
"Simultaneously triggering the imprints of Ancestral Phoenix and Demon Emperor—what terrifying thing is Li Yuan cultivating?!"
Boom—!!!
At the same time, a familiar aura made Demon Emperor Dijun furrow his brow sharply, gazing toward the direction of the Southern Blazing Undying Volcano.
"Why is Imperial We's aura there?"
But then, unexpectedly, a light yet angry voice rang through the great hall.
"Well done, Dijun! We sisters haven't even married you yet, and you already have a lover on the side! Now a child is born, and you can't hide it anymore, can you?!"
A woman in purple palace robes, her long hair swept up high, her bearing dignified, a trace of fury faintly visible between her finely arched brows, strode straight toward Dijun.
Dijun's eyes bulged, his face full of bewilderment as he replied.
"No, my lady, I didn't! It's impossible!"
"Don't call me 'my lady,' we're not married yet! Then you'd better explain yourself clearly to This Palace!"
"..."
Li Yuan had no idea that his breakthrough had stirred up turmoil in the Demon Court.
The fire clouds spanning hundreds of thousands of li in the sky crashed into his body in a single surge.
Within his body, three hundred and sixty-five acupoints—among them, those containing the essence blood of Dijun and Yuanfeng—radiated dazzling golden streams of light.
Boom—!!!
A surge of unfamiliar information flooded into Li Yuan's mind.
"Nirvana Divine Fire, Yuanfeng's Heaven-granted divine ability, Three Extinctions and Three Rebirths, transformation between cycles, transcending heaven and earth!"
Following that came boundless ecstasy.
He had never expected to actually obtain Yuanfeng's innate divine ability.
And it was the most supreme of them all—Nirvana Divine Fire—truly a top-tier life-saving technique.
Boom—!!!
Another surge of unfamiliar information poured into his mind.
"Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation, using the power of the Golden Crow to transform into a rainbow light and flee, containing the Dao of time and space!"
Li Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly, praising.
"Good heavens, all life-saving divine abilities and techniques—are they afraid I'll die or something?"
The supreme majesty fell into the eyes of the Three Pure Ones at the Eight Scenery Palace, who clicked their tongues in wonder.
"Big Brother, is there such a method of physical cultivation?"
"Li Yuan's physical strength—can it now withstand a Golden Immortal's attack?"
"Speaking of which, where did he get Dijun's essence blood?"
A few black lines gradually appeared on Laozi's forehead as he said softly.
"Yuan'er has his own opportunities. Possessing the Pangu Physique, such fortune is not beyond understanding."
Hearing this, Yuanshi and Tongtian nodded slightly.
In truth, Laozi had no idea and was just putting on a front, quickly changing the subject.
"By the way, how is Junior Martial Nephew Yellow Dragon doing at the Dragon Race?"
At this mention, Yuanshi's expression turned somewhat strange as he said softly.
"It seems... not bad?"
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