Inside the seven-colored dragon egg, Wang Xuan had only just stepped across the threshold of Ancestor Godhood when the aura around him broke loose like a wild horse, surging all the way to the absolute peak of the Ancestor God Nine Heavens.
He examined himself internally and found two utterly different torrents raging and growing wildly within his body.
One came from his flesh. Every inch of muscle tore apart, reformed, then tore apart and reformed again. Dull thunderous booms rolled through his joints, while what surged through his veins was no longer ordinary blood, but a dark-golden source energy.
The other came from his consciousness.
Within his sea of consciousness, his spiritual power spread outward like floodwaters bursting through a dam, wave after wave. The radius of his perception swelled from ten thousand miles to hundreds of millions of miles, until it reached a distant expanse even he could no longer measure.
Two paths.
Supreme Ancestral God—an indestructible consciousness and boundless Supernatural Power.
Stone Man King—an immortal body and boundless Divine Might.
When ordinary cultivators reached this point, they had to stop at the fork of the Ancestor God Nine Heavens and choose: allow their bodies to petrify in pursuit of the Stone Man King's immortal physique, or preserve their flesh-and-blood bodies and take the smooth path of the Supreme Ancestral God, devoted solely to divine laws.
Yet the Heavenly Stele Profound Art was a supreme cultivation method jointly created by Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. From the moment it was born, it had laid the two paths upon the same track. Only by cultivating both the Stone Man King and Supreme Ancestral God paths together could one qualify to touch the threshold of the Emperor Realm.
"Others have to choose. I don't."
At that moment,