Great Sun Divine Body

When Chen Yuan woke, the first thing he sensed was an exceedingly faint chill.

That chill did not come from the outside world. It slowly seeped out from the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness, like a cold spring sunken at the bottom of an abyss, silently soaking into his Divine Soul.

Instinctively, he tried to circulate his Spiritual Essence to resist it, only to discover that his limbs and bones were heavy as lead. He lacked even the strength to lift his eyelids.

In the darkness, only the Tidal Stele at the center of his Sea of Consciousness gave off a mellow silver glow. The sea-eroded patterns upon its surface brightened and dimmed, like the breathing of something that had existed since time immemorial.

Only after lying there for a long while did he gradually regain control of his body. His vision went from blurry to clear, and what met his eyes was a golden-red dome.

Fine fragments of Solar Radiance Stone and Crimson Marrow Jade were embedded in the dome. Under the faint Spirit Light, they glimmered with scattered warm radiance, like dawn frozen in place.

A faint lingering scent of yang fire filled the air. It was the smell left after the Yang-Settling Incense he had lit before entering seclusion had burned out. This was the Sunlight Heavenly Palace, the blessed Dao foundation ground he had opened up himself.

He steadied himself. At present, this palace manifested at the peak of the Vast Wave Realm's sky, three thousand zhang above the realm below and connected above to endless turbulent void currents.

Three layers of restrictions had been set outside the palace. The outer Dawnlight Barrier could conceal its traces through the refraction of sunlight; the middle Void-Severing Lock could block void teleportation; the inner Heaven-Reversal Formation