Blood spattered across the sky as Lin Huang darted and leaped. His Divine Body was collapsing, yet his heart held neither sorrow nor joy. In an instant, he appeared in Three Holy Mothers' Jelly Noodle Shop and sat cross-legged. "Help me keep watch."
After speaking, Lin Huang swung his hand and struck with a blade. Six Paths Reincarnation turned, Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire, Yin and Yang, Reincarnation—he utterly destroyed his Divine Body, leaving only two radiant, golden sections of bone, imperishable and indestructible, wrapped around his soul.
The Sumeru Ring, which had been scavenged from most of Zhongnan Dojo, stood suspended in midair. At a thought from Lin Huang, all kinds of divine materials came pouring out, shattering in midair and blazing with multicolored divine light.
The Earth Pillar, Water Source, Wind Eye, Fire Seed, Greater Yin, Greater Yang, and the Six Paths surged, connecting with their origins and weaving law and Dao together until they enveloped Lin Huang completely.
"Laying the foundation of the Divine Body."
"Inscribing law and Dao."
"He's about to reach great completion."
Each of the Three Holy Mothers spoke once, their hearts stirred with surprise. They hadn't expected Lin Huang to find the threshold of his own Dao so quickly. He had begun laying his foundation, inscribing law and Dao into his Divine Body, and was about to ascend in a single step to a Divine Body of great completion.
A Divine Body could be at minor completion, full completion, or great completion.
The gap between the stages might seem small, but the Three Holy Mothers were orthodox cultivators who had climbed step by step from Six Paths in One. They naturally understood just how vast the gulf was between a Divine Body at minor completion and one at great completion.
Many people spent their entire lives trapped at the minor-completion stage. Even those born with Divine Bodies, peerless geniuses, needed decades of painstaking cultivation and tempering to bring their Divine Bodies to great completion. There was no shortcut to be had.
Yet Lin Huang had gone from minor completion to laying the foundation for his Divine Body and nearing great completion in just two days—a speed without equal, past or present.
"After all, he's already become a Saint by an unconventional path."
"Starting over."
"Would naturally be simple."
"But to do it so quickly..."
"He is indeed a genius."
Each of the Three Holy Mothers spoke once, their tones calm. No longer surprised, they each displayed their own techniques. A Divine Array spread over the shop, concealing its divine light and sealing the entire place.
Lin Huang felt neither sorrow nor joy. His soul stirred, and he suddenly inhaled. The shattered divine materials were refined by him in a single breath. In an instant, his two bare sections of Golden God Bone began to extend and grow. Before long, Lin Huang had become a glittering, round golden pill.
As he exhaled, the glittering, round golden pill gradually solidified and changed. Limbs and a head grew out bit by bit, until at last he had become a golden skeleton. Soul fire flickered in its hollow eye sockets. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and all the remaining divine materials in the Sumeru Ring poured out.
They shattered in a flurry and were drawn into Lin Huang's body in one breath. Divine light spread and took shape, outlining Lin Huang's internal organs and meridians.
Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind formed the bones; Yin and Yang formed the meridians.
This was what made Lin Huang's Divine Body so extraordinary. It was unlike any other, which was why the Three Holy Mothers watched him without blinking.
"Not enough. Far from enough."
"If he has only the Six Paths..."
"He can't reach great completion."
Lin Huang could see what the Three Holy Mothers could see. His hand moved, ready to form a seal and summon Reincarnation, but then he changed his mind and stopped. With one step, he appeared high in the heavens.
Thirty thousand zhang above the ground, Lin Huang stood in midair, his gaze sharp as lightning. Countless clouds drifted above him, where lightning snakes could faintly be seen slithering and thunder dragons coiling. That was where thunder was born and died.
"Come."
Lin Huang's jaw opened and closed, releasing a single word that rang like a great bell. He used the secret art he had once obtained to summon the Three Tribulations.
Rumble!
Thunder rolled, tearing through the clouds. It gathered and transformed into a Thunder Deity whose face was impossible to make out, a Thunder Spear in his hand. Like a god passing judgment upon the world, he sent forth a vast wave of intent: "He who defies Heaven! Die!"
Silently, the Thunder Spear shot forth in an instant, piercing the void and stirring the thunder. Like a swift brushstroke, it carved an immense Tribulation character in the sky before crashing down.
Lin Huang's soul flickered. Without fear, he raised one hand against Heaven.
Rumble!
Terrifying thunder shook the clouds for thirty thousand li. The heavens raged, and in that moment, thunder boomed throughout the Human Realm, making hearts tremble.
"So he truly did become a Saint by an unconventional path."
"Not yet complete."
"Still, Tribulations remain."
The Three Holy Mothers understood at once. Lin Huang's method of becoming a Saint by an unconventional path broke new ground and had no precedent, but ascending in a single step was bound to leave flaws. Sure enough, Lin Huang could still draw down a Heavenly Tribulation. It was unbelievable.
"But a Tribulation is also a fortune."
Calligraphy Saint sighed softly, understanding Lin Huang's plan.
The Thunder Spear flashed past, striking Lin Huang down from the heavens in an instant. He crashed heavily onto a mountaintop.
The might of thunder. The wrath of Heaven. It annihilated everything.
In an instant, the mountaintop was reduced to ash. The earth shook, and a straight, bottomless hole appeared. Thunder leaped within it, striking nine times before slowly fading away. All that remained was a thousand-zhang plain, hammered smooth as a mirror by the thunder, deep and rumbling, with bolts still flickering across it.
Lin Huang's expression did not change. Countless cracks spread across the Golden God Bone he had just formed, like a porcelain vessel on the verge of shattering.
"Come."
Lin Huang's soul pulsed as he summoned the Three Tribulations once more.
In an instant, wind began to rise beneath him.
The wind blew silently into every crack in the Golden God Bone, eating away at it. Flecks of golden bone fell in a drifting shower, turning to ghastly white ash as soon as they landed. One gust swept them away, and they vanished.
This was the Earth Tribulation.
When the wind passed, earthly fire surged forth, tempering his body in flame. Lin Huang's Golden God Bone slowly melted in the blaze, golden liquid dripping from it. Then water suddenly submerged him. It came from the earth, from the void, and from within himself—cold, without the slightest warmth.
Lin Huang's Divine Body was blown by wind, burned by fire, and drowned by water, dwindling away little by little. Only his soul fire flickered ever more fiercely.
"Come."
Lin Huang spoke for the third time. He rose step by step, forming all kinds of divine seals with his hands.
With one step, the void trembled and the Six Paths shook. He directly connected with the Earth God Realm, Water God Realm, Fire God Realm, Wind God Realm, Sun Realm, and Moon Realm.
The origins of the Six Paths gathered, instantly reshaping Lin Huang's golden body and inscribing law and Dao upon it. All kinds of divine wonders empowered him. As the worlds shifted, every inch of his bones bore Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Yin, and Yang, heavy as an entire world.
As he took his second step, a Thunder Pool suddenly descended from the heavens and swallowed Lin Huang.
With his third step, Earth Fiend surged from beneath the Nine Underworlds; wind rose, fire blazed, and water flooded.
After only three steps, as Lin Huang took the next, a young man with delicate features, clad in blue and barefoot, appeared in midair. He raised his hand and gazed at his palm, then sighed softly. With another step, he returned to Three Holy Mothers' Jelly Noodle Shop.
"The Six Paths as his bones."
"Heaven and Earth as his skin."
"His Divine Body has reached great completion."
Each of the Three Holy Mothers spoke once, their eyes filled with amazement as they looked at Lin Huang. "Your foundation is laid."
Lin Huang said nothing, only nodded. He had passed through the Three Tribulations and attained Saint Rank, but it was only now, at this very moment, that he had truly laid his foundation and brought his Divine Body to great completion. From here on, who was the Saint? I was the Saint.
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