Lingyang Realm, Origin Year 5,647,601.
Three years ago, the attack on the Divine King's daughter sent Lingyang Realm into tremendous turmoil. The divine punishment thunderbolts struck, flattening several major factions among the mixed-blood Ancient Gods one after another, and implicating countless others.
Those who fled in all directions were unearthed by the bloodline-tracing technique. Even after escaping to the Outer Starry Sky, they could not evade their fatal tribulation.
At the same time, two great lineages among the mixed-blood Ancient Gods profited from the incident and rose rapidly. The two mixed-bloods who had ultimately chosen to self-detonate had won their lineages the trust of the divine race at the cost of their lives.
Although the price had been somewhat heavy, the final outcome was undoubtedly beneficial to the lineages behind them.
Over these three years, Shi Lan had continued cultivating methodically. At the same time, through Yao, she had obtained a complete compilation of the divine race's battle arts, extracted their true essence, and integrated it into the Martial Canon.
With this, the Martial Canon's deductions had finally crossed the threshold of attaining the Dao and derived the path beyond it.
At this stage, Shi Lan had made an enormously significant change to the Martial Canon, splitting it into two paths.
The first was the path she herself now followed. It was more extreme: everything was used to nourish the physique and strengthen the flesh, exchanging it for even greater battle power.
She had kept experimenting, hoping to leap directly over the process of condensing a Dao Fruit and attain the Dao outright, fusing all the essence within the Dao Fruit—including the Primordial Spirit—into the physique, allowing martial cultivators who stepped into this realm to experience in advance the profound mystery of the complete fusion of Primordial Spirit and flesh,