Primordial Spirit Experiment

Above the ruins, a figure stretched across dozens of li, manifesting in the world.

It was like a fish yet not a fish, like a bird yet not a bird, yet it bore an unprecedented vastness and desolation. With a flick of its tail, it seemed capable of stirring raging waves across an angry sea; with a single leap, it could transform into clouds hanging from the heavens.

It was the terrifying ancient aberrant creature that could roam the Heavenly Palace and Nine Netherworlds, traveling freely through the Chaos Sea of Stars—the Kunpeng!

Though it was nowhere near as enormous as its true body, the aura it gave off could not be faked in the slightest.

Yet this figure was exceptionally illusory, clearly not a physical entity. Beneath its central point, however, it was connected to a small altar.

On the altar, Zhang Hao lay naked, his blood staining the ground red. Yet his aura had not weakened in the least; instead, it grew ever more solidified and powerful.

At his dantian, two figures appeared, neither wholly real nor wholly illusory.

One was plump and fair, like an infant, bearing Zhang Hao's face from childhood.

An ancient saying went: "Can you carry the vital soul and embrace the One without parting from it? Can you concentrate your qi until it becomes supple as an infant's?"

This was the fourth stage of the Spirit Root Cultivation system, one of the upper realms of This World—the Nascent Soul!

The other was an aberrant beast cub identical to the phantom that had affected the Sea Market—the Kunpeng!

"Should I say he truly is worthy of being a Protagonist of Destiny? No matter the circumstances, he can turn danger into safety and gain enormous benefits..."

Lin Chen arrived atop the altar he had presided