Metamorphosis

Roar!

Above the Heavenly River phenomena trembled.

The cascading lake water was like Giant Dragon plunging down, carrying unparalleled power, even causing space itself to shatter under the impact.

The lake water crashed down from a great height, each drop weighing as much as a thousand pounds. Countless drops of water gathered together, like an entire piece of land compressed for ten thousand years falling from the sky.

Fine Spiritual Runes rippled across the surface of the lake, Spiritual Runes silver snakes swimming across the water and tearing the surrounding air into tiny black cracks.

The cracks spread outwards from the edge of the water column in all directions, like an ice surface struck by a giant hammer, with fine and grotesque cracks.

The surging Spiritual Energy fluctuations were even more astonishingly terrifying, spreading outwards from the sky in all directions, forcing the waters of the Heavenly River below to surge outwards, forming huge ripples.

Zi Yan's body surged upwards. Her Dragon Phoenix body, with its purple-gold scales and Phoenix Feathers, shone like a rising, colorful star under the spiritual light.

She raised her head and let out a long Dragon Roar Phoenix Cry, a cry that was both high-pitched and clear, piercing through layers of Spirit Mist and soaring straight to the heavens, like a true Primordial Divine Beast announcing its existence to the world.

With its head held high, the dragon's purplish-gold eyes were fixed on the crashing waters of the Heavenly River Lake, showing no sign of retreat, only an almost greedy desire.

With a flick of her dragon tail, she moved like a streak of purple-gold lightning towards the water column, her phoenix wings spreading out and causing the surrounding air to explode to both sides.

Boom!

The Giant Dragon- like lake water finally crashed down amidst envious and amazed gazes.

The water column crashed onto Zi Yan's Dragon Phoenix body like a waterfall cascading down a mountain, splashing water everywhere and exploding with spiritual light, turning the entire sky into a dazzling golden-white.

At the moment of impact, a visible Shockwave exploded outwards from the point of collision, causing the Spirit Mist within a radius of several thousand feet to churn outwards, like a cloud that had been blown apart.

In that instant, Zi Yan could feel as if an endless stream of Spiritual Energy was forcefully rushing into her body from the dragon's head.

The Spiritual Energy was wild and boundless, like a Giant Dragon that had been imprisoned for thousands of years finally breaking free of its cage and plunging into her meridians.

The Spiritual Energy surged and crashed through her meridians, like a swarm of wasps disturbing their nest and darting about in a narrow alley, making her meridian walls thump and bang.

Her body expanded several times in an instant, growing from a Dragon Phoenix body several thousand feet long to tens of thousands of feet long. Every inch of her scales was stretched taut, and the gaps between the scales were torn apart.

The feeling was as if a Giant Dragon had forcefully rushed into her body, causing chaos and turmoil within her, rampaging from its head to its tail, turning her meridians, flesh, and bones into a battlefield.

If that terrifying Spiritual Energy was being manipulated by someone, then Zi Yan's body would probably explode into a cloud of blood and foam in an instant, leaving not a trace behind.

Fortunately, these Spiritual Energy were ownerless; they simply rushed towards the place with the least resistance, like a group of unorganized soldiers, wild and unruly but without a unified will.

Moreover, its purity and condensation far exceeded Zi Yan's imagination. There was almost no impurity in that Spiritual Energy, like the essence of Spirit Liquid that had been distilled thousands of times. Every strand contained the pure origin of heaven and earth.

The immense Spiritual Energy entered directly from the dragon's head and then surged down from above.

Wherever it passes, it immediately brings excruciating pain, like being sliced by a knife. The pain comes from the inner wall of the meridians, as if tiny blades are moving through the blood vessels, scraping every inch of the meridian wall until it bleeds.

Zi Yan's dragon eyes widened suddenly, and she let out a suppressed groan. Her dragon body trembled violently in mid-air, and her dragon claws involuntarily curled up, leaving several deep marks in the void.

Despite the excruciating pain, she could sense that fine, crystalline lines were appearing in both her meridians and flesh.

Those fine lines, as thin as hair, are crystal clear and grow out of the inner walls of the meridians, penetrating flesh and even bones, like the roots of a tree spreading in the soil.

Those fine threads spread out densely on the walls of her meridians, intertwining to form a fine net that reinforced the inner walls of her meridians layer by layer. Those fine threads seemed insignificant, but Zi Yan could feel how terrifying the strength they possessed. Each thread was like a spring compressed to its limit, capable of withstanding impacts far exceeding those of her original meridians.

As a result, her flesh, blood vessels, and bones also indirectly became more resilient and stronger. The places pierced by the fine threads were as if injected with a stimulant, and the already extremely tough tissues became denser and more elastic.

She tried to channel a wisp of Spiritual Energy along her meridians. The Spiritual Energy flowed more smoothly and condensed as it passed through the area reinforced by the fine threads, like water being guided into a smoother pipe, with both the flow rate and pressure increasing.

At the same time, both on the surface and inside the body, some dark blood was seeping out under the continuous scouring.

The black blood seeped from the gaps in the scales and dripped from the base of the Phoenix Feathers, like drops of ink being squeezed out.

The black blood was mixed with extremely fine dark red fragments, which were the residue brought out after the scabs of deep wounds accumulated in the flesh were broken up by Spiritual Energy.

Those were impurities contained within Zi Yan's body and hidden injuries sustained in past battles.

She fought her way from the Dou Qi Continent to the Great Thousand World, experiencing countless battles. Although she would use her Spiritual Energy to heal her injuries after each battle, those deep-seated wounds were like cracks buried in a wall. They were usually inconspicuous, but would ache faintly once she encountered a high-intensity battle.

However, these hidden wounds were being rapidly repaired at this moment. As the black blood was expelled, new flesh grew rapidly under the nourishment of Spiritual Energy, filling, covering, and healing all the places eroded by the hidden injuries.

Zi Yan could feel the old wounds that had been aching for years gradually becoming lighter, as if stones that had been pressing on her body for years were being removed. The feeling of relief that came from the depths of her bones made her let out a comfortable dragon's roar.

Feeling the various changes within her body, even with Zi Yan's calm demeanor, she couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

Her current physical strength is already quite formidable for this level. The Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline is known for its physical prowess, and with all the opportunities and trials she has encountered along the way, the resilience of her Dragon Phoenix body far surpasses that of others of the same level.

Therefore, it becomes increasingly difficult to improve, and even using rare and precious materials has very limited effect, unless it is a truly rare treasure.

However, even a super strong expert at the Earth Sovereign level would be tempted and covet such a treasure, its value is self-evident.

So when she discovered that this perfect Heavenly River Baptism had a huge effect on her physical body, how could she not be overjoyed?

The Spiritual Energy contained in this Perfect Baptism seemed to be specifically designed to temper the body and meridians. Those crystalline threads were like countless invisible needles and threads, stitching her body up from the inside out, reinforcing every weak point and repairing every hidden injury.

Without hesitation, she unleashed all her power, Dragon Phoenix Power within her surged forth like a bursting dam, instantly unleashing a dazzling burst of light upon her body.

The light burst forth from her dragon body in all directions, like a colorful sun rising slowly above the Heavenly River.

The light illuminated the space within tens of thousands of feet, making it completely transparent and bright. Even the cultivators watching from afar were forced to squint because of the dazzling light.

Under this washing, one could see that there were faint, translucent light spots on the surface of Zi Yan's Dragon Phoenix body. These light spots were about the size of rice grains, seeping out from the gaps in the scales and condensing from the tips of the Phoenix Feathers, like tiny gems inlaid on the Dragon Phoenix body.

The points of light became more numerous and denser, eventually covering almost the entire body of the Dragon Phoenix with a layer of fine, crystalline light.

The crystalline light shimmered and danced between her purple-gold scales and Phoenix Feathers, like a magnificent robe adorned with jewels, making her Dragon Phoenix body both powerful and noble.

The vast lake water continuously surged down, shaking the very fabric of space.

Each wave of lake water crashing down caused Zi Yan's dragon body to suddenly sink, but then her dragon body would suddenly spring up like a spring that had been compressed to its limit, swallowing all the Spiritual Energy into her body.

Under that scouring, everyone could feel the fluctuations emanating from Zi Yan's body rapidly increasing in strength.

The intensification was like the rising tide, wave after wave, without a moment's pause.

At first, her aura hovered at the level of the Tier 9 Supreme Perfection, but as Spiritual Energy continued to wash over her and her physical body was constantly tempered, that aura began to rise, approaching that invisible threshold step by step.

Those Tier 9 Peak experts present could clearly sense the rising trajectory of that aura. That trajectory was like a steep staircase, with each step much higher than the previous one, and Zi Yan was stepping up those steps.

Moreover, as her strength increases, her body size gradually decreases.

It shrank from tens of thousands of feet to just over ten thousand feet, then to nearly ten thousand feet, and finally to several thousand feet...

However, everyone could sense that shrinking in size would not make it weaker; on the contrary, it would become more concentrated, as if the dross had been removed, and its strength would actually be greater.

What was compressed away were impurities and waste expelled during the cleansing of Spiritual Energy. Every inch of flesh and blood that remained was like High-Grade Steel that had been repeatedly forged, with a density and strength far exceeding that of before.

Colorful golden light surged continuously on its shrunken body, and countless rays of colorful light burst forth, illuminating the vast sky.

The light illuminated the entire Heavenly River in a dazzling array of colors, even dyeing the distant clouds with a purple-gold hue.

The intensity of the light became more concentrated and dazzling as her body shrank, like a star compressed to its limit, small in size but containing enough energy to illuminate the entire world.