Extreme Speed Breakthrough! Array Formation to Seal Kings! Mountain Treasure Emerges!

Years flowed like a shuttle, and days in Stone Village passed in tranquil currents.

Since wiping out Bei Village and bringing back the Suanni's precious body, Stone Village's resource reserves had reached an unprecedented peak.

And beneath the willow tree at the village entrance, Ye Xuan's cultivation had reached its most critical moment.

At dawn, morning light scattered down.

Ye Xuan sat cross-legged on a bluestone, eyes shut tight.

No dazzling runes danced around him—only a heavy, mountain-like aura surged slowly.

This was the tenth day of his seclusion.

If not counting the time flow in the Primordial Wilderness, he had only cultivated for a full month in Perfect World.

One month—for an ordinary cultivator, perhaps not even enough to touch the threshold of the Blood Moving Realm.

But for Ye Xuan, who possessed the Innate Human Dao Body and Chaos Heavy Pupils, it was enough to cover what took others decades.

"Spirit Transformation, perfected."

Ye Xuan murmured inwardly.

His blood and qi no longer simply surged; they brimmed with spiritual nature.

Every drop of blood, every bone, every inch of sinew glowed, as if they had gained their own life.

The body became spirit, reshaping the true self—this was the pinnacle of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Then, his aura shifted.

Engraved Patterns Realm!

In this realm, one no longer borrowed the primitive runes of Fierce Beasts but carved one's own "Dao" within the body.

Ordinary cultivators at this step often sought the true blood of powerful Primordial Remnant Species, engraving runes of Suanni, Qiongqi, and other Fierce Beasts onto their bones to gain their power.

But Ye Xuan did not.

His bones were crystalline and translucent, like the finest suet Immortal Gold.

He had no need to borrow a Fierce Beast's strength.

He was an Innate Human, shaped by Nuwa's own hands—his body was the most perfect vessel between heaven and earth, bearing the Innate Dao Rhyme of the Primordial Wilderness.

"Engrave!"

Ye Xuan's Divine Sense was like a blade.

He channeled the Innate Ancestral Qi within him, combined with the original life runes taught by the Willow Deity, and began carving onto his bones.

No Suanni's ferocity, no Qiongqi's malevolence.

What he carved were intricate, ancient "Innate Dao Patterns."

These lines were naturally formed, as if they were projections of the Great Dao onto the human body.

With the final stroke—

"Humm—"

All his bones trembled in unison, ringing out like a great bell and cauldron.

Engraved Patterns Realm, achieved!

And not just any—it was "Innate Engraved Patterns," surpassing all Primordial Remnant Species.

But this was not the end.

Ye Xuan's aura continued to climb, like a long-suppressed dragon charging at the final barrier.

Array Forming Realm!

This was the watershed of cultivation in the lower realm.

Once crossed, one could be called a prince, worthy of enfeoffment in ancient kingdoms, ruling over a domain.

In this realm, one had to engrave various killing arrays within the body, turning the body into a weapon.

"Array, rise."

Ye Xuan willed it.

He did not choose to engrave arrays.

Instead, he chose to make himself the array's eye.

The five organs corresponded to the Five Elements, the four limbs to the Four Extremes, and his spine transformed into a great dragon reaching the heavens.

He refined his own body into a seamless, unified great array.

This was not a killing array—it was the embryonic form of "Body Becomes Saint."

"Boom!"

A heaven-shaking roar erupted from within Ye Xuan's body.

A terrifying pressure, centered on him, instantly swept through all of Stone Village.

Little Shi Hao, who was feeding the Green Scaled Eagle at the village entrance, was jolted so hard he fell on his rear, the dried meat in his hand dropping to the ground.

Shi Yunfeng, who was discussing matters with his clansmen, felt a tightness in his chest, and the walking stick he never let go of clattered to the floor.

"This pressure..."

Shi Yunfeng turned his head in shock, staring toward the village entrance.

There, a figure slowly rose to his feet.

Ye Xuan's body was wreathed in faint Chaos Qi.

Though he hadn't deliberately released his aura, the oppressive sense of Life Level made even Shi Yunfeng, an old man who had seen much of the world, feel his legs go weak.

"A... a King?"

Shi Yunfeng's voice trembled, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

"Array Forming Realm! This is the fluctuation of the Array Forming Realm!"

"Heavens! A teenage Array Forming king?"

"If this were in one of those ancient kingdoms outside, those princes and sovereigns would probably be so ashamed they'd bash their heads against a wall!"

The villagers were stunned too.

They didn't understand the finer points of cultivation realms, but instinct told them that Ye Xuan right now was countless times more terrifying than that old Suanni from before.

"Big brother is amazing!"

Little Shi Hao scrambled up from the ground, patted the dust off his rear, and his big eyes sparkled with stars.

"I want to grow up fast too, and become as strong as big brother!"

Ye Xuan retracted his aura, and that suffocating pressure vanished instantly, as if it had never existed.

He clenched his fist, feeling the power within him—enough to move mountains and overturn seas.

"Array Forming Realm..."

"With just my physical body now, I should be able to easily suppress Array Forming Realm Fierce Beasts."

A satisfied smile curled at the corner of Ye Xuan's lips.

The people of Stone Village snapped out of their daze and crowded around him, their faces brimming with ecstasy.

"Congratulations to the Young Immortal Master for mastering his divine skill!"

"Wonderful! Our Stone Village has produced a king!"

"We have to celebrate tonight!"

Shi Yunfeng's old face flushed with excitement as he picked up his walking stick and hurried off to arrange a feast.

But just as the celebration was underway—

"Boom—"

From deep within the Great Wilderness came a deafening roar that chilled the heart.

The sound was immense, thousands of times louder than thunder, as if the sky itself were collapsing.

Then.

The clear sky instantly darkened.

A wave of destruction, malevolence, and savagery surged from the depths of the Great Wilderness like a tsunami, sweeping across the land and covering tens of thousands of miles in an instant.

"What's going on?!"

The smile froze on Shi Yunfeng's face.

The villagers stared in terror into the distance.

At the very heart of the Great Wilderness, four terrifying figures were locked in a brutal battle between heaven and earth.

They were four colossal beings, each radiating the pressure of a Venerable that made heaven and earth change color.

The first figure was a giant bird.

It was enormous, its wings spanning thousands of feet, blotting out the sun.

Its body was pitch black, without a single stray feather, wreathed in thick black mist.

It opened its maw, and its beak was like a black hole.

"That's the Sky Swallowing Sparrow!"

Shi Yunfeng's voice shook as he recognized this legendary Fierce Bird, infamous throughout the Great Wilderness.

Legend said the Sky Swallowing Sparrow could devour tens of millions of people from an ancient kingdom in one gulp, leaving scorched earth and lifeless lands wherever it passed.

The second figure resembled a giant tiger, but with wings on its back and sharp spikes covering its body.

Every step it took crushed a mountain peak. Its roar was like thunder, shaking the void itself.

One of the Four Ancient Fierce Beasts—the Qiongqi!

The third figure was a golden-furred giant ape.

It held a massive black iron staff, towering between heaven and earth, its golden fur dazzling as if cast from molten gold.

It leaped across the mountain ranges, each strike of its staff splitting the earth into a chasm.

Zhu Yan!

And high above, there was a fourth figure.

A small fiery bird, modest in size, but wreathed in white leaving fire—the Southern Bright Leaving Fire, capable of incinerating all things.

An ancient divine bird—the Vermilion Bird!

Four Venerables!

Four beings at the peak of the Eight Lower Realms had now gathered in the Great Wilderness, battling until heaven and earth shattered.

"What are they fighting over?"

Ye Xuan narrowed his eyes, activating his Double Pupils, his gaze piercing through layers of smoke, dust, and chaotic energy currents.

At the center of the Four Venerables' battle.

A gleaming white bone fragment floated in the air, rising and falling.

The bone seemed ordinary, yet it radiated a hazy, sacred glow. No matter how terrifying the attacks of the Four Venerables, they could not harm it in the slightest.

Mountain Treasure!

Ye Xuan's heart stirred.

Indeed, this day had come.