Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three months had passed.
That day, Lu Yang sat cross-legged atop Skull Mountain. He suddenly opened his eyes, delight appearing on his face, for his physical body had finally completed its Corpse-Dissolution transformation!
The next second, Lu Yang vanished from where he stood.
Inside the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
In a hollow, voidlike place, twisted flesh and blood had built a magnificent palace. Dense blood vessels coiled around the palace like the roots of trees.
These rootlike blood vessels all spread out from the deepest part of the palace. Following them inside, one could see that the pillars and walls alike were all forged from ghastly white skeletons, with blood vessels wrapped around them, silently writhing like living things.
Terrifying, bizarre, grotesque.
This was what his physical body looked like after Corpse-Dissolution. It no longer resembled a human form, changing into countless shapes at every moment, beyond description, like chaos incarnate.
"I never thought this Corpse-Dissolution Immortal would actually have one final trial!"
Lu Yang looked astonished. The transformation of the physical body was not the end. A cultivator had to restrain the rampaging flesh anew before they could truly claim mastery over it!
If they could not restrain their physical body, they would become a flesh-and-blood monster possessing a divine rank.
Yet when ordinary cultivators reached this stage, their consciousness had long since become muddled. They hovered between life and death, half asleep and half awake—how could they possibly still have the ability to control their own bodies?
"This is far too difficult. Good thing I'm one step ahead."
With Guardian Deity Su Nu's help, he had successfully cultivated the Severing Thoughts to See Self Heavenly Silkworm Secret a month earlier, and his spiritual awareness had smoothly transformed into