Calamity of Opening the Path

Above the Sea of Suffering, Patriarch Tingyou stood with his hands clasped behind his back.

At this moment, the speck of light he had planted in the Sea of Suffering had already grown considerably larger. Dense azure, yellow, red, white, and black Five Elements radiance completely enveloped it.

It had begun to take the shape of a booster rocket.

After explaining the secret of the First-Class rank, Patriarch Tingyou smiled faintly. Then, without the slightest delay, he shifted his Dharma Seal, and the aura of his entire body underwent a tremendous change!

"Rumble—!"

In an instant, the Five Elements radiance circling Carefree Heaven exploded. At last, an imagined Fruit Position abruptly manifested a Rank.

The process was incomparably swift.

Lu Yang widened his eyes and pushed his Divine Thought to its limit before he finally saw Patriarch Tingyou's maneuver clearly. Then, he felt that something was terribly wrong.

How could this be possible?

Patriarch Tingyou had said before that no matter what kind of Fruit Position one imagined, its foundation lay in Carefree Heaven, so in essence there was only one Rank.

Thus, in theory, no matter how it changed, the Rank itself would not change.

Yet Patriarch Tingyou had come up with an utterly wild method, one founded on precisely the same principle as Lu Yang's earlier analogy—the booster rocket.

First, raise the Rank.

Then abruptly withdraw the Rank beneath it. Before his own Rank fell, use the manifested Fruit Position to make a second ascent from the original position.

He was truly using his left foot to step on his right foot.

No, the key is that without this transformation, the manifested Fruit Position could not accomplish such an outrageous maneuver using the same Fruit Position.

*The Five Elements Fruit Position ratio was originally something that could continuously