Even within the Chimei Realm, the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint's dharma manifestation remained incomparably vast and divine, like a dazzling gem fallen into a pool of filth.
Yet under the erosion of deathly, decaying aura, his dharma manifestation gradually underwent bizarre changes...
A dharma manifestation was originally the condensed form of cultivation techniques, divine abilities, spells, and martial arts. It could be seen as the outward manifestation of an immortal cultivator's cultivation achievements—their Dao Fruit. Yet within the Chimei Realm, spells and divine abilities alike would "die," ultimately transforming into Chimei Ghost forms.
More than 3.6 million years ago, when the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint ravaged the Immortal Realm, he slaughtered countless living beings. More than a thousand True Immortals had died by his hand. Only by seizing the Dao Fruits of these beings to forge his own Dao Path had he been able, in merely a hundred thousand years, to cultivate into a peak Heavenly Immortal just a hair's breadth away from the Great Luo realm, and use the spells and divine abilities he had plundered to condense such a vast and powerful dharma body.
There was a portion of those spells and divine abilities that he had not fully digested, nor completely fused into his dharma manifestation.
Furthermore, part of his dharma body had been annihilated when he fought Shen Mo and the others, only to be condensed anew afterward. This had left weaknesses within it!
As the Chimei Realm's aura eroded it, the regions of his dharma body formed from these spells and divine abilities were the first to undergo abnormal changes. It was like a bronze mirror polished bright enough to reflect one's face gradually sprouting verdigris, becoming mottled and decayed. The divine radiance flowing across it dimmed as well, as though shrouded beneath a heavy veil of