As the seal on Dragon Transformation Pool was opened, tens of millions of catties of Source erupted in a pillar of divine light that shot into the sky. The entire Divine City was illuminated almost as brightly as day.
Ye Hei swept his hand, and several million catties of Source in assorted colors poured into Dragon Transformation Pool, filling it with even more auspicious light. The onlookers could barely keep their eyes open.
Then Ye Hei removed his robe and stepped into Dragon Transformation Pool.
He summoned the three-legged, two-eared Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron, suspending it above his head to suppress the pool's essence and prevent it from leaking out. At the same time, he held the Bodhi Seed he had obtained from Hotarubi Ancient Star and began his breakthrough in earnest.
The Dao Sutra began circulating within his Wheel Sea, drawing the boundless essence in Dragon Transformation Pool into his body to cleanse him.
Bathed in such vast, pure power, his body gradually began to transform.
Light flowed across Ye Hei's body. His heart boomed like a drum, revealing a terrifying power.
Before long, someone lurking in the shadows couldn't hold back and attacked.
They didn't want to see another Great Accomplishment Sacred Body emerge, one capable of challenging a Great Emperor. They meant to snuff him out before he could rise. Some even summoned a fragment of a Great Emperor Killing Array.
Their madness sent chills through everyone present.
Fortunately, Crimson Dragon Daoist, Peacock King, and Green Flood Dragon King were powerful enough to defuse most of the threats. With ruthless force, they killed several enemies.
Jiang Taixu wielded the Supreme Emperor Armament Vast Universe Divine Furnace to destroy a fragment of the Great Emperor Killing Array. He also dispersed all the resulting fluctuations, ensuring they didn't disturb Ye Hei as he broke through in Dragon Transformation Pool.
As time passed, Ye Hei gradually absorbed the Source liquid in Dragon Transformation Pool. He underwent several transformations, each like being reborn, and his cultivation neared the Four Extremes Realm.
But the heavens would not allow it. He felt as though he stood just one step away from the Four Extremes Realm, yet also as though an insurmountable chasm lay between them.
Ye Hei didn't hesitate. He took out the Immortal Leaf from the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron.
Radiance coursed across the Immortal Leaf, which emanated boundless vitality and the rhythms of the Great Dao. Even the aura of the Great Emperor from Vast Universe Divine Furnace seemed faintly suppressed by it!
The impact of this aura stirred a storm in everyone's hearts. They stared fixedly at the Immortal Leaf in Ye Hei's hand.
Even the Life Forbidden Zones, such as Immortal Mountain and Sea of Reincarnation, cast unseen gazes in his direction.
They had never imagined Ye Hei possessed treasures like the Kirin Divine Medicine, Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, and Mother Qi of All Things—and now he had an unimaginable Supreme Treasure that seemed not to exist in this world.
Ignoring the astonished looks around him, Ye Hei swallowed the Immortal Leaf.
The moment the spirit herb leaf entered his stomach, it transformed into a boundless force, as though it could split open heaven and earth.
It contained fragments of the innate Dao laws of a supreme world, nourishing and reshaping Ye Hei's body at its most fundamental level.
The boundless potential buried deep within his Sacred Body bloodline, suppressed by the rules of the heavens in this Age of Dharma Decline, erupted like a dormant volcano!
His Sea of Suffering, a dark abyss, was instantly filled by the pure, overwhelming energy of the Primordial Origin. It expanded and solidified at an unprecedented pace.
At the center of the once-black Sea of Suffering, sacred golden light appeared. Every drop of water seemed to contain a miniature sun, brimming with vitality.
At the same time, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys of his Dao Palace Secret Realm all roared with the Great Dao!
The five divine phantoms nurtured within grew tangible and majestic at a visible pace, nourished by the Primordial Origin's spiritual energy. They chanted profound, mysterious verses of the Great Dao, cleansing Ye Hei's Nascent Soul together and making it purer and clearer.
Suddenly, a Three-Leaf Green Lotus appeared beside Ye Hei. Its three leaves swayed gently amid swirling Chaos mist, radiating a vigorous Dao aura and an overwhelming force that seemed to suppress the heavens.
The astonishing sight made the faces of the mighty figures and Sacred Lords present change once again.
And this was only the beginning.
Moon Rises Over the Sea, Immortal King Descends Upon the Nine Heavens, Yin-Yang Life-Death Diagram... Seventeen kinds of visions appeared around him in succession, surrounding him like an undying god.
Everyone present stared in utter disbelief, their shock beyond words.
After all, each of these visions was incredibly powerful. Any one of them could let a cultivator sweep through opponents in the Same Realm, or even defeat those in higher realms.
Even the Ji Clan's Divine King Body had mastered only one of them.
Suddenly, an Innate Dao Diagram appeared over Divine City and descended like the Heavenly Dao Millstone, radiating a heart-stopping aura.
The heavens would not allow the Sacred Body to cultivate. This Innate Dao Diagram had taken form from the rules of this world, and it sought to kill Ye Hei.
Some of the onlookers immediately took delight in the sight.
Ye Hei's power was now terrifying. If he truly broke through to the Four Extremes Realm, then a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body capable of challenging a Great Emperor might really emerge in the future.
Tu Fei, Li Heishui, and Big Black Dog turned pale at the sight. Their hearts seemed ready to leap out of their throats.
After all, this was the Power of Rules, far beyond what any person could resist. Even with seventeen visions at his command, Ye Hei was insignificant before the might of heaven and earth.
Holding Vast Universe Divine Furnace, Jiang Taixu prepared to meet the Innate Dao Diagram with the Supreme Emperor Armament. If that failed, he would use his own divine blood to cleanse Ye Hei's body and sever his Karma.
Heaven and earth fell silent. Strands of Dao Patterns suddenly appeared above Ye Hei's head, forming the veins of the Immortal Leaf. Like a fierce immortal sword, they charged toward the Innate Dao Diagram with an unstoppable force.
The Immortal Leaf itself naturally wouldn't have been enough to affect the rules of the Shading the Heavens World.
But the leaf carried a trace of the Primordial World's aura. Though faint, its standing was enough to overwhelm the rules of a Medium Thousand World.
As the Immortal Leaf slashed toward the heavens, the immense Innate Dao Diagram was instantly shattered. The Primordial World's aura completely ground away all the Power of Rules, and in a flash, they vanished without a trace.
"Holy shit!"
"Is this real?"
"The Innate Dao Diagram was just destroyed like that?"
Seeing this, the usually dignified, solemn Great Xia Emperor couldn't help cursing. His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
The other Sacred Lords, clan leaders, and Crimson Dragon Daoist wore expressions as if they'd seen a ghost.
A single leaf had destroyed the Power of Rules of heaven and earth. It was unheard of, beyond anything they could imagine.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed it even if someone dear to them had told them.
At the same time, the innate essence formed from the Immortal Leaf surged like a cosmic river breaking its banks, crashing toward the barrier to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
The pure innate spiritual energy forced its way through and widened his limbs, bones, and every acupoint throughout his body.
Every bone was tempered until it was like divine gold, and every meridian was branded with mysterious marks of the Dao.
This wasn't merely a surge in magical power, but an evolution and leap in the very essence of his life!
Ye Hei could clearly feel that his body was more than a hundred times stronger than before.
His precious body was like flawless glass, radiating a gentle, restrained golden glow. The sun and moon seemed to turn in his eyes, Chaos appeared faintly, and seventeen astonishing visions swirled around him, making him seem like a supreme deity.
Dao laws that countless ordinary cultivators couldn't touch or comprehend now appeared with perfect clarity around Ye Hei, seeming to draw near to him with joyful eagerness.
Crimson Dragon Daoist, Peacock King, and Divine King Jiang could all sense that Ye Hei had undergone a complete transformation and successfully broken through, shattering the curse that had prevented the Sacred Body from cultivating. But they had no idea what exactly had happened.
Only Big Black Dog, watching Ye Hei from afar, trembled uncontrollably with excitement. His eyes blazed with astonishing light.
"This is the legendary... Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo!!!"
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