Li Yuan arrived at the Phoenix Race's cultivation chambers. Each person had a room to themselves, a clear display of the Phoenix Race's deep foundations.
Formations that gathered Dao essence were everywhere, and the spiritual energy was so dense it had reached the extreme.
It had transformed into thick mist and merged into the surroundings.
Li Yuan sat cross-legged and brought out Dijun's Essence Blood and Yuanfeng Essence Blood.
The two drops of essence blood had come respectively from the Diary's guaranteed reward and Yuanhuang's gift.
The instant the essence blood appeared, the phantoms of a Three-legged Golden Crow and a phoenix manifested and began fighting.
This reaction made Li Yuan raise his brows, thoroughly baffled.
"Damn, they started fighting the moment they met. But I suppose it makes sense."
Back then, Yuanfeng had led the Phoenix Race and commanded all avian clans. She had been a Primordial World overlord and possessed the destiny of a supreme being.
Dijun possessed the bloodline of the Three-legged Golden Crow. At the end of the day, he too was an avian and ruled the Demon Court as the current Demon Emperor.
When the two met, they naturally became especially hostile and fought without end.
Li Yuan was in no hurry to cultivate. He sat steadily in the cultivation chamber, watching the two drops of essence blood confront each other in midair.
Yuanfeng Essence Blood was crimson like molten lava, while Southern Blazing Fire from the dawn of chaos flowed between the feathers of the manifested phoenix phantom.
Dijun's Essence Blood gleamed with blinding golden light. The Three-legged Golden Crow spread its wings and cried out, its wing edges bearing Dao patterns condensed from Solar True Fire.
The moment they encountered each other, they tore and tangled like sworn enemies. Flames and golden light exploded, illuminating the cultivation chamber's ceiling like an ancient Primordial World battlefield.
"Okay, so the Primordial World has its own way of pitting crickets against each other. But this daoist still has important business."
Li Yuan sneered, forming hand seals to activate the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art. Three hundred and sixty chaos light points abruptly emerged from the acupoints across his body.
With three hundred and sixty-five acupoints, it gathered and condensed three hundred and sixty-five different types of essence blood.
It raised the realm of one's physical body. This was the wonder of the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art.
It truly gathered the strengths of countless schools to make up for one's own shortcomings.
There was even a chance of obtaining the innate divine abilities of the essence blood's original owner, which showed just how terrifying the Nine Revolutions Chaos Art was.
Therefore, Li Yuan was greatly looking forward to Pangu's essence blood.
"If I can directly obtain Great God Pangu's innate divine abilities, I'll probably be able to take them out with one hit each."
The Nine Revolutions Chaos Art had a total of nine different realms.
Sand Grain World, Small Thousand Worlds, Middle Thousand Worlds, Great Thousand Worlds, Perfect World, Daluo Profound Heaven, Chaotic Origin Grotto-Heaven, Hongmeng Blessed Land, and Supreme Oneness.
The chaos light points flickering throughout his body were precisely the sign of the art's first realm, Sand Grain World.
Every light point was like a miniature primordial star. With every inhalation and exhalation, they forcibly seized the energy leaking from the essence blood.
"Since you have entered my body, you don't get to run wild!"
You want to pit crickets against each other inside this daoist's body? Dream on!
Boom—!!!
The two drops of essence blood were torn apart and broken down by the chaos light points, transforming into crimson and gold torrents that surged into his meridians.
Li Yuan's body immediately cracked like drought-stricken earth, yet it rapidly healed beneath the coils of Chaos Qi. With every rupture and reassembly, another layer of glass-like crystalline shell appeared over his skin.
Cold sweat formed on his forehead, and his brows were tightly furrowed.
"Painful, too painful. My beloved is forever lost; ruin stretches as far as the eye can see!"
Yet Li Yuan suffered happily, his physical body improving at a visible rate.
Dense vitality mixed with the profound Dao essence of the Law of Fire churned violently throughout the cultivation chamber.
Crack—!!!
Just then, an unexpected change suddenly arose!
The sacred words of the Great Dao suddenly rang out in the cultivation chamber, while two of Li Yuan's acupoints blazed with crimson radiance.
A miniature world phantom actually manifested behind him.
Within it, volcanoes erupted like Yuanfeng's furious cry, blazing suns traversed the sky like Dijun suspended in the air, and countless sand-grain-like stars were born and extinguished in endless cycles.
Excitement flashed in Li Yuan's eyes as he laughed and shouted.
"A grain of sand conceals a world, and a world contains ten thousand laws. To possess such power after merely glimpsing the threshold is truly astounding!"
With a strike fueled purely by physical strength, he could wield the weight of a Sand Grain World.
He could completely go cosplay a heavy truck on the Primordial World's highways, smashing other living beings to death with one punch while humming.
"We're all trying so hard to live..."
Screech—!!!
Above the Phoenix Race's territory, fire clouds spanning a hundred thousand li suddenly gathered, and Yuanfeng's Dharma image appeared within them.
Opposite it, nine phantom blazing suns rose from the east, and Dijun's figure could vaguely be seen within them.
The two supreme pressures collided, startling all birds within ten thousand li into bowing their heads. Their wings involuntarily pointed toward the cultivation chamber, as though worshipping a new king.
Outside the hall, Yuanhuang was in an exceptionally good mood, drinking tea with a smile.
He had connected with the direct disciples of the Three Teachings and established an excellent relationship with them. His own son had even entered Yuanshi's saintly sect.
It seemed that everything was developing in a better direction.
Who would have thought that an unexpected change would arise? He abruptly crushed his teacup.
His eyes widened in shock as he raised his head to look toward the boundless sky.
"To simultaneously trigger the imprints of Ancestral Phoenix and the Demon Emperor... what terrifying thing is this child Li Yuan cultivating?!"
Boom—!!!
The familiar aura also made Demon Emperor Dijun frown deeply as he gazed toward Southern Blazing Undying Volcano.
"Why is my aura there?"
Unexpectedly, a clear yet angry voice suddenly rang through the hall.
"Dijun, you bastard! My sisters and I haven't even married you yet, but you already have someone else outside? Now that the child has been born, you can't hide it anymore, can you?!"
A woman in purple palace robes rushed toward Dijun. Her long hair was pinned high, and her temperament was dignified, though a trace of anger could be seen between her finely shaped brows.
Dijun's eyes widened as he replied with a completely bewildered expression.
"No, wife, I didn't! That's impossible!"
"Don't call me wife. We aren't married yet. You'd better explain this clearly to me!"
"..."
Li Yuan still had no idea that his breakthrough had thrown the Demon Court into turmoil.
The fire clouds stretching hundreds of thousands of li across the heavens rumbled as they merged into his body.
Among the three hundred and sixty-five acupoints within his body, the ones containing Dijun's Essence Blood and Yuanfeng Essence Blood emitted dazzling golden streams of light.
Boom—!!!
An unfamiliar flood of information poured into Li Yuan's mind.
"Nirvana Divine Fire, Yuanfeng's destined divine ability. Three Extinctions and Three Rebirths. Transcend heaven and earth through transformation!"
What followed was boundless ecstasy.
He had never expected to truly obtain Yuanfeng's innate divine ability.
And it was the most supreme Nirvana Divine Fire, an ultimate life-preserving method.
Boom—!!!
Another unfamiliar message flooded into his mind.
"Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation. Use the power of the Golden Crow to transform into a rainbow and flee, containing the Dao of space and time!"
Li Yuan raised his brows again and praised it.
"Good lord, they're both life-preserving divine abilities. Are they afraid I'll die or something?"
The boundless might also caught the attention of the Three Pure Ones within Eight Scenery Palace, leaving them clicking their tongues in amazement.
"Big Brother has such a method of physical cultivation?"
"Li Yuan's physical strength can probably withstand a Golden Immortal's attack now, right?"
"By the way, where did the Dijun's Essence Blood on him come from?"
Several black lines gradually appeared across Laozi's forehead as he said softly.
"Yuan'er has his own opportunities. He possesses the Pangu Physique, so it is not impossible to understand that he would have such an opportunity."
At those words, Yuanshi and Tongtian both nodded slightly.
In truth, Laozi had no idea. He could only put on an act and quickly change the subject.
"By the way, junior martial nephew Yellow Dragon went to the Dragon Race. How are things going?"
At the mention of this matter, Yuanshi's expression became somewhat strange as he said softly.
"Seems... not bad?"
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