Centered on him, his aura soared as though it would never end.
At first, Qin Yu and the other two could still withstand it. Then Qin Yu and the green-robed woman rapidly retreated. Before long, blood trickled from the middle-aged man's mouth as well, and he shot into the distance to escape.
As his aura soared, heavenly blossoms rained through Hongmeng Space, accompanied by waves of Dao resonance. Each Dao flower above his head blossomed from the sixth grade to the ninth.
Three flowers of the Great Dao circled above his head, moving according to some profound pattern. Wisps of immortal essence descended from their petals and merged into his body, continually cleansing it.
At the same time, although he was clearly sitting there cross-legged, Qin Yu and the others seemed to see a vast world forming into a universe. It expanded rapidly into Hongmeng Space, its reach, limits, and boundaries unknowable.
In the middle-aged man's eyes, this universe was at least a million times larger than his own.
Even that was a secret he had barely managed to discern with the aid of the treasure in his hand.
This continued for ten years. Shi Yongheng's flesh shone with brilliant golden light, suffused with Dao resonance and an immortal will, supreme above all.
His primordial spirit was the same. Both his flesh and his primordial spirit had attained the Universe Emperor Venerable Realm.
Although he had only just entered that realm, his strength had increased far more than hundreds of millions of times over.
After deducing this realm, he had spent long ages dividing the Universe Emperor Venerable Realm into three stages.
The king, sovereign, and emperor stages of the Universe Emperor Venerable Realm.
They corresponded to the three stages of a universe: minor completion, major completion, and perfection.
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