After shrinking his body to a thousand zhang, Jiang Ping'an flew back to Throne Island.
When he returned to Throne Island, Black Emperor came up to meet him. It circled Jiang Ping'an once and said with a smile, "Jiang the Sacred Body, congratulations on becoming an immortal."
"Haha, many thanks," Jiang Ping'an said with a laugh. "What about you? Any signs of a breakthrough yet?"
Black Emperor immediately grew troubled. "I still haven't figured it out."
"There's no precedent for a mortal dog becoming an immortal," it continued. "By rights, I should take the path of bloodline evolution and eventually become a Celestial Wolf Divine Beast, but I don't want to be a wolf. And even if I evolved into a Celestial Wolf, I'd still be a notch weaker than a true Celestial Wolf, a rank below them."
Jiang Ping'an said, "So you want to refer to human cultivation techniques and take the path of achieving immortality through the Dao Body."
"Exactly," Black Emperor said. "But the Sun Devouring Divine Art stops at the Celestial Realm."
It went on to explain, "The Sun Devouring Divine Art was a technique my master created especially for me back then. It was only by relying on the Sun Devouring Divine Art that I had the chance to cultivate from a mortal dog into the Demon Emperor."
"Before Master rode the crane west, the Sun Devouring Divine Art could only be cultivated to the early stage of the Celestial Realm. I spent several thousand years feeling my way forward and barely managed to perfect the technique to the perfected stage of the Celestial Realm."
Hearing this, Jiang Ping'an immediately wanted to use the panel to help Black Emperor deduce a Dao Body Realm version of the Sun Devouring Divine Art, but in the next