Heavenly Court, Yaochi Immortal Realm.
Inside the quiet chamber, two ripples of magical power drew in and returned to stillness almost at the same moment.
Haotian opened his eyes. A gleam flashed through his pupils, then faded back into calm.
He looked within himself. The magical power that had once been thrown into utter chaos by the Three Corpses Repelling had now fused into a seamless whole, his Dao Foundation perfect and without flaw.
A mighty flow of vital force moved steadily through his limbs and bones, without the slightest obstruction.
It was done.
He turned his head. Beside him, Yaochi opened her eyes at the same time, Dao Rhyme circulating around her, her aura more than a level stronger than before.
A ripple of Divine Sense sounded silently within Yaochi's Primordial Spirit.
"That Three Corpses Resonance, the method of shattering all three in a single instant, truly was nine deaths and one life."
Yaochi's thought came over as well, carrying a trace of lingering fear that would not disperse.
"Yes. Three shatterings in one instant, three streams of origin essence striking the Dao body at the same time."
"At that moment, I almost thought I was going to completely undergo Dao Transformation and dissipate between heaven and earth."
Thinking back to the scene during their seclusion, both of them still felt a wave of lingering dread.
The origins of the Three Corpses had detonated in the same instant. That destructive power had almost torn their Primordial Spirits and Dao bodies completely to pieces.
They had been like people walking on a steel wire. On one side was a ten-thousand-zhang abyss of body and soul annihilated; on the other, the supreme level road of rebirth upon the Dao Path.
Every step had to be calculated to the utmost, without the