The Heavenly Dao Intervenes

When that inhuman scream burst from Guangchengzi's mouth, the entire Yuxu Palace seemed to have its throat clutched by an invisible hand, falling into deathly silence.

All the Chan Teachings disciples, including Daoist Cihang, who had been the first to kneel and declare his loyalty, instinctively took half a step back, their faces filled with terror.

They watched helplessly as Guangchengzi—their Senior Brother, the foremost disciple of the Chan Teachings who had once stood proudly among the immortals with the Heaven-Overturning Seal in hand—now convulsed and struggled madly across the icy floor like a fish out of water.

Golden divine radiance, like the fiercest Solar True Fire, erupted from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, enveloping his entire body within a distorted, swelling cocoon of light.

Through that blinding golden glow, they could vaguely make out Guangchengzi's face, twisted to its absolute limit and covered in bluish-black veins like countless vicious centipedes crawling beneath his skin—a horrifying sight.

"Ah... it hurts! It hurts so much!"

Guangchengzi's Primordial Spirit roared. Every inch of his flesh, every bone, every cell was being forcibly torn apart, reforged, then torn apart again by that unimaginably violent power of the Origin Source!

This was not a fortuitous opportunity!

This was no supreme opportunity to ascend to the heavens in a single step!

This was the most savage, brutal, utterly unreasonable empowerment!

What was the Dragon Emperor's Origin Source? It was the crystallization of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal's lifetime of cultivation and Great Dao. Its energy was so vast and violent that it could burst apart ten—no, a hundred—Quasi-Saints!

And Guangchengzi's body was no more than a tiny pond.

Yet now, someone was forcefully pouring an entire vast ocean into that little pond!

The result was obvious.

"Crack... crack..."

Fine cracking sounds continuously came from