Heavenly God Manifestation, Ascending to the Upper Realm

After Bai Ye returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, he devoted almost all of his time to cultivation.

With a single thought, he stepped into the Lesser World of Dust Star Valley.

Within Dust Star Valley, the concentration of Divine Origin was astonishingly high.

So dense that it nearly condensed into liquid form, the Divine Origin flowed like streams through the valley—one breath of it was worth several days of bitter cultivation in the outside world!

Bai Ye sat cross-legged before the Immortal Ancient Dao Stele, circulating the Chaos Sword Canon and the newly acquired Ancient Immortal Inheritance. Divine Origin surged along his meridians into his Divine Origin Apertures, all nine of which operated at full capacity, converting the Divine Origin into pure Divine Power.

The Heavenly Dao force of Dust Star Valley also aided his cultivation invisibly.

Moreover, the boost from the Earth-grade Merit Golden Body allowed him to comprehend the laws of the Heavenly God Realm with twice the result for half the effort!

In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed silently.

On this day, a vast Heavenly God pressure suddenly erupted within the Lesser World!

Bai Ye slowly opened his eyes, divine light flickering in his pupils. A pale golden vortex of Heavenly God Force swirled around him!

At the center of the vortex, his nine Divine Origin Apertures had expanded to the size of a zhang.

Within them coiled an astonishing aura of Divine Power!

His cultivation had steadily stepped into the Heavenly God Realm, Third Layer!

Such a rate of advancement was nothing short of heaven-defying, even in the Upper Realm!

To be clear, an ordinary Heavenly God Realm cultivator would need at least a thousand years of accumulation and a sea of resources just to break through a single minor realm!

Even the genius disciples of major powers, relying on all kinds of heavenly treasures and rare materials, would need several centuries to advance one tier!

Yet Bai Ye had leaped from True God Peak all the way to Heavenly God Third Layer in just a hundred years!

Behind this, of course, lay the multiple boosts from Dust Star Valley's Divine Origin, Ten Thousand Times Comprehension, the Merit Golden Body, and a Divine King-level inheritance.

"Heavenly God, Third Layer..."

Bai Ye murmured to himself, his mind stirring slightly.

In an instant, the space behind him began to roil violently.

Golden Divine Rule force converged madly, and a dharma incarnation a thousand zhang tall slowly materialized!

This incarnation was clad in the Chaos Battle Armor, its surface engraved with intricate Ancient Immortal Runes that shimmered with faint golden light!

On its head sat a Purple Gold Crown, its face identical to Bai Ye's, its gaze majestic as heaven, looking down upon all creation!

In its left hand, it held a miniature version of the Dragon Slaying Sacred Sword; in its right, it bore a golden seal containing terrifying energy—the condensed form of the Immortal Heaven Profound Extreme Seal!

Behind it spread a pair of Divine Wings woven from starlight and thunder, each flap resonating with heaven and earth, radiating a dreadful pressure that crushed the True God Realm!

The moment this dharma incarnation appeared, the mountains and rivers within the Lesser World trembled, the streams ceased to flow, and even the Divine Origin in the air was forcibly suppressed!

This was one of the core differences between the Heavenly God Realm and the True God Realm.

Manifestation Incarnation!

A True God Realm dharma incarnation could only lie dormant within the Sea of Consciousness, serving to amplify Divine Power.

But a Heavenly God Realm dharma incarnation could manifest directly in the outside world. Not only could it participate in battle, but it could also draw upon more of heaven and earth's laws, multiplying combat strength several times over!

Recalling how, a hundred years ago, when he killed those two Upper Realm Heavenly Gods, they had fallen before they could even summon their dharma incarnations, Bai Ye could now appreciate the terror of the Immortal Heaven Profound Extreme Seal all the more.

Those two Heavenly God Realm experts, faced with a Divine King-level secret art, had been utterly powerless to fight back.

With a thought, the thousand-zhang dharma incarnation slowly contracted, eventually transforming into a beam of golden light that merged into his body. The surrounding heavenly phenomena also dissipated.

Next, Bai Ye took out a token from his storage ring.

This token was a light purple color, its material neither jade nor metal.

Its surface was carved with a pattern of countless stars, and at its center was set a fist-sized purple Divine Crystal, within which coiled a faint Divine King aura.

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The edge of the token was engraved with four ancient seal-script characters: "Heavenly Star Sacred Sect." This was one of the inheritance items left behind by Dust Star Daoist.

The Heavenly Star Sacred Sect Master Token!

According to the notes left by Dust Star Daoist, the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect was a sect he had founded in the Upper Realm, and at its peak, it had been an Eighth-tier Power.

The power hierarchy in the Upper Realm was divided into nine tiers, determined by the number of "Destiny Stairways" a power had ignited. The more stairways, the stronger the foundation, strength, and prestige of the power.

Among them, a Seventh-Tier Power required at least one Divine King to sit in command; otherwise, it could not maintain the stability of its Destiny Stairway. An Eighth-tier Power required the support of multiple Divine Kings, or even Divine King Titans.

"Holding this Sect Master Token and heading to the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect will grant me the blessing of the sect's Destiny Stairway."

Bai Ye stroked the star patterns on the token, a gleam of contemplation flickering in his eyes. "With the aid of a Destiny Stairway, my chances of breaking through to the Divine King Realm in the future will increase by at least sixty percent."

"However, Dust Star Daoist has been dead for ten million years. Does the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect still exist? And what state has it fallen to?"

His heart was full of questions, but he could only wait until he reached the Upper Realm to find out.

Over the next few days, Bai Ye temporarily left Dust Star Valley to make preparations for his departure from the Lower Realm.

Using the formation manuals left by Dust Star Daoist as a blueprint, he expended a massive amount of Divine Crystals and rare materials to lay down a Heavenly God-level concealment and defense formation beneath the Seventy-two Peaks of the Azure Cloud Sect, meant to protect the sect after his departure.

This grand formation could conceal the entire sect's aura. Even if attacked by a Heavenly God Realm expert, it could hold for months, enough to keep the Azure Cloud Sect safe.

Next, he handed over a batch of resources needed to break through to the True God Realm—including one hundred Five-Colored Divine Crystals, ten True God-grade Pills, and several True God-grade Spirit Grasses—to Su Wenxuan, the Sect Master of Azure Cloud Sect, and the Head of the Bai Family. He instructed them to keep them safe and use them to nurture the younger generation of the sect and clan.

With everything in place, Bai Ye was finally ready to set out for the Upper Realm.

According to his original plan, he intended to ascend through the Artificial Heavenly Gate of the Wasteland Heaven Divine Sect.

But among the two Upper Realm Heavenly Gods he had slain a century ago, Profound Desolate Heavenly God was an elder of the Wasteland Heaven Divine Sect's superior sect.

If he left through the Heavenly Gate, he would inevitably fall into an ambush. Surrounded by enemies, the consequences would be dire.

However, he had other means.

Among Dust Star Daoist's inheritance were several Divine King-grade Spatial Talismans, known as Star Realm Divine Talismans.

These talismans were forged from a Divine King's Divine Origin and the Law of Space. Once activated, they could tear through space and open a hidden passage to the Upper Realm, completely undetected by the outside world.

That day, Bai Ye arrived at the uninhabited depths of the Azure Cloud Mountain Range.

He took out the Star Realm Divine Talisman.

The talisman was silver-white, its surface inscribed with complex spatial runes, faint traces of Divine King aura lingering around them.

Bai Ye infused a thread of Heavenly God power into the talisman.

The next moment, the talisman erupted in dazzling silver light!

A pillar of silver-white radiance shot into the sky, forming a beam dozens of zhang tall!

At the center of the beam, space began to warp violently. Countless tiny spatial rifts intertwined, gradually forming a circular Space Channel.

The passage was pitch-black inside, with faint phantom images of swirling stars. A pure Divine Origin aura from the Upper Realm seeped out of the channel, starkly contrasting with the spiritual energy of the lower realm.

Silver-white Spatial Lightning Arcs flickered along the edges of the channel, exuding a dangerous and mysterious aura.

Bai Ye cast one last glance back toward the Azure Cloud Sect. There, mist and clouds coiled around the Seventy-two Peaks, faintly visible.

His eyes held no great reluctance, only a faint trace of wistfulness.

That place was the starting point of his cultivation journey, carrying the weight of centuries of his life.

Though he was leaving now, with his current strength, returning one day would be nothing more than a single thought.

Without further hesitation, Bai Ye turned and stepped into the Space Channel.

His figure was swallowed by the starry phantoms within the passage.

As he entered, the Space Channel began to slowly contract.

The silver-white pillar of light gradually dimmed, until it finally dissipated completely between heaven and earth, as if it had never existed.