He murmured, a glimmer of understanding dawning in his heart.
"The most powerful Art of Alchemy between heaven and earth is to take heaven and earth as the furnace, oneself as the great medicine, and refine a divine pill!"
"No, perhaps not the strongest, but the one most suited to me."
"With the self as the pill, practice the supreme art of the golden elixir, and break the shackles of heaven and earth!"
"Heaven and earth are the cauldron and furnace; This Humble Daoist is the pill within!"
He awakened to his true self, opened his eyes, and his gaze was already clear.
With the Primordial Golden Elixir as his foundation, he borrowed the golden elixir method to refine his own self.
Above the firmament, within the River of Time, the tenth pill pattern of the Primordial Golden Elixir finally solidified.
Amid the thunderous roar of the Heavenly Dao's divine lightning, it merged into his Primordial Spirit.
Xuandan suddenly released a vast and mighty aura, surging outward in all directions.
The pressure emanating was unmistakably that of a Golden Immortal great power.
Having attained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, he was no longer bound by lifespan.
He could rightfully be called a great power.
Once Xuandan's aura stabilized, his Primordial Spirit returned to his physical body.
He felt that his thoughts were now unimpeded, his soul pure and bright, and his body undergoing a transformation.
"I've never felt this good before."
Xuandan slowly left his secluded cultivation chamber, his expression relaxed.
But as he looked around, he sensed that the atmosphere was extremely off.
The Four Dragon Kings sensed Xuandan's emergence and immediately sent a strand of their divine consciousness to him.
Xuandan grew puzzled and asked, "Isn't this... have the Demon Race attacked?"
The Dragon Palace's defensive formation was activated, with the Four Dragon Kings guarding the four directions.
Countless Sea Race armies stood ready, looking as if they faced a great enemy.
Huanglong was especially panicked, as if he had encountered a tremendous danger.
The East Sea Dragon King stared intently at Xuandan, swallowing his saliva as he said, "Ahem, Young Friend, you may not know, but when you broke through to Golden Immortal earlier, it triggered a heavenly phenomenon."
"Pill Fragrance spread throughout the entire Prehistoric World, attracting billions of Strange Beasts. Now the Dragon Palace is completely surrounded by Strange Beasts."
Xuandan was greatly astonished; he had known it would cause a commotion.
But he never expected things to far exceed his predictions.
He had heard of Strange Beasts before—they were similar to ancient ferocious beasts.
Lacking intelligence, they acted purely on instinct.
The strongest present were none other than the Four Dragon Kings, veteran experts at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
But the number of Strange Beasts was simply overwhelming.
They could only temporarily hold them off using the ancient formation left behind in the Dragon Palace.
Now the Dragon Palace was completely besieged by Strange Beasts, with no easy way to escape.
Xuandan had already realized the severity of the problem.
However...
He stared suspiciously at the four Dragon Kings before him, who kept swallowing their saliva.
The feeling at this moment was extremely strange.
"Why do these four old geezers look like they want to eat This Humble Daoist but don't dare to?"
Huanglong came to Xuandan's side and took out a bronze mirror.
"Junior Brother, take a look—this is the current situation facing the Dragon Palace."
Xuandan leaned in to look, and saw within the bronze mirror countless Strange Beasts surrounding the Dragon Palace.
Dense and packed, like the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the earth, impossible to estimate.
The visual impact made Xuandan immediately sense trouble.
The Dragon Palace was completely trapped, facing the relentless assault of the Strange Beasts.
The formation could only hold out for so long.
It was only a matter of time before it was breached.
Xuandan fell silent, racking his brains but still unable to think of a way out.
The East Sea Dragon King wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and made a suggestion.
"Young Friend, why not use that Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Nine Heavens Cloud Luan Carriage, to charge straight out?"
"Staying in the Dragon Palace any longer leaves no path to survival. This way, there's at least a thread of hope."
The other Dragon Kings chimed in agreement.
Huanglong looked at Xuandan with hopeful eyes.
"That's a workable plan."
"Strange Beasts have no intelligence, so they dare to strike at you. With Junior Brother's background, once you break through the horde, how many blind fools in the world would still dare to lay a hand on you?"
"Break through, and the skies will open wide—nothing left to worry about."
Under the protection of three Sages, anyone who still dared to act...
Well, that only meant they had already earned their death.
But Xuandan frowned deeply and asked, "In the esteemed judgment of you seniors, what are the odds of breaking through?"
Those Strange Beasts packed the sea, countless beyond billions.
Though a Daluo was rare, with all the Strange Beasts of the East Sea gathered here, their sheer numbers, born of an infinite base, surely exceeded the Four Dragon Kings.
The Four Dragon Kings hesitated, then sighed.
"The number of Strange Beasts around us is simply too vast. Even a fifty percent chance of survival is generous."
Xuandan shook his head. "Only fifty percent? That's too risky."
"And besides the Strange Beasts, who knows how many rogue cultivators of the Prehistoric World are lying in ambush in the East Sea?"
All the Strange Beasts of the East Sea had been drawn to him.
There were bound to be rogue cultivators willing to take the risk, fishing in troubled waters.
The world bustles—all for profit.
When the prize was great enough, even with his master being the Grand Pure Sage, there would still be madmen obsessed with Xuandan, clinging to hope.
The Four Dragon Kings, Xuandan, and Huanglong all wore grim expressions, sinking back into thought.
Just as they were racked with worry...
Suddenly, a familiar voice rang out across heaven and earth.
"Fear not, Junior Brother. This Humble Daoist has come to take you home!"
Everyone's gaze was drawn, and they turned to look.
There, Xuan Du tore through the sky, holding the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace.
The furnace radiated a profound aura of the Great Dao Laws.
A fierce, overwhelming suction force instantly drew millions of Strange Beasts into its depths.
Samadhi True Fire blazed within the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace.
Accompanied by anguished screams, countless Strange Beasts were reduced to ashes.
Xuandan was stunned—he had never seen his Senior Brother so enraged.
Not even when the Jie Sect's Outer disciples had slaughtered the Human Race before.
Had he ever lost his composure like this?
Before he could recover, a river of stars seemed to hang upside down from the sky.
A Sword Qi like a heavenly curtain pierced the entire horizon.
Boom!!!
The Sword Qi fell, carving an unfathomable abyss into the seabed.
At the same time, it claimed the lives of millions of Strange Beasts.
A hearty laugh echoed in everyone's ears.
"Senior Brother is still a step ahead of me. With such a lively scene here, how could This Humble Daoist be absent?"
"Watch this sword—another million Strange Beasts fall!"
"With the blood of a million Strange Beasts, I toast Junior Brother's breakthrough to Golden Immortal!"
Duobao swung the Qingping Sword, its Sword Qi sweeping across the cosmos, churning the undercurrents of the seabed.
Each swing of the sword claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Strange Beasts.
He let out a carefree laugh and plunged headlong into the horde, utterly unafraid.
As if he had come only to swing his sword.
Behind him followed Wudang, Jin Ling, and Gui Ling—several direct disciples of the Jie Sect.
"Fear not, Junior Brother. Your Senior Sisters will keep you safe!"
The seabed currents surged, and suddenly, twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls appeared.
Borrowing the might of the water veins, they instantly sent a million Strange Beasts to their doom.
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