The Six Paths Shape My Body, Heaven and Earth Lay My Foundation

Blood splattered across the sky as Lin Huang moved, leaping and darting. His Divine Body was collapsing, yet he felt neither sorrow nor joy. In an instant, he appeared inside the jelly shop of the Three Holy Mothers and sat cross-legged. "Protect me."

After speaking, Lin Huang struck with his blade, the Six Paths in One rotating. Earth, water, wind, and fire, along with the cycle of yin and yang, completely shattered his Divine Body, leaving behind only two sections of brilliant, golden bone. They were incorruptible and immortal, encasing his soul.

The Sumeru ring, which had been looted of most of the Zhongnan Dojo, hovered in the air. With a thought from Lin Huang, various divine materials fell out, shattering into thin air and blooming with multicolored divine light.

The Earth Pillar, Water Source, Wind Eye, Fire Seed, Greater Yin, and Greater Yang—the six paths surged, communicating with the origin, weaving law and dao, and wrapping Lin Huang entirely within them.

"Divine Body foundation."

"Inscribing law and dao."

"He is reaching Great Completion."

The Three Holy Mothers each spoke a sentence, their hearts filled with surprise. They had not expected Lin Huang to find the threshold of his own dao so quickly, beginning to lay the foundation and inscribe law and dao into his Divine Body. He was ascending in a single step, about to achieve a Great Completion Divine Body.

Divine Body minor completion, perfection, Great Completion.

It seemed like a small leap, but the Three Holy Mothers were orthodox cultivators who had climbed up from the Six Paths in One step by step. Naturally, they understood the massive chasm between minor completion and Great Completion of a Divine Body.

Many people were trapped at the minor completion stage for their entire lives. Even for those born with a Divine Body or peerless geniuses, cultivating it to Great Completion required at least decades of hard work and tempering; there was no room for shortcuts.

Yet, in a mere two days, Lin Huang had crossed from minor completion, ascending in one step to begin his foundation, nearing Great Completion. Such speed could be called the greatest in history.

"He is, after all, an alternative saint."

"Starting over from the beginning."

"Naturally, it is simple."

"But to be this fast."

"He is truly a genius."

The Three Holy Mothers spoke one by one, their tones calm, no longer surprised. They each displayed their methods, covering the area with a Divine Array, hiding the divine light, and sealing off the entire jelly shop.

Lin Huang felt neither sorrow nor joy. His soul stirred, and with a sudden intake, he refined the shattered divine materials in one breath. In an instant, his two bare golden bones began to extend and grow. Within moments, Lin Huang had transformed into a golden, round, golden core.

With a breath, the golden, round core gradually solidified and changed. Limbs and a head grew out bit by bit, finally becoming a golden skeleton. Within the hollow eye sockets, the fire of his soul leaped. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and all the remaining divine materials in the Sumeru ring poured out.

They shattered and were sucked into his body in one breath. Divine light spread, shaping and outlining Lin Huang's internal organs and meridians.

Earth, water, wind, and fire served as bone; yin and yang served as veins.

This step was the peculiar aspect of Lin Huang's Divine Body, different from any human, which was why the Three Holy Mothers watched him intently, eyes unblinking.

"Not enough, far from enough."

"If there are only six paths."

"It cannot reach Great Completion."

What the Three Holy Mothers could see, Lin Huang naturally saw as well. His palm moved, ready to form a seal and unleash the cycle, but with a thought, he stopped. He took a step and appeared above the nine heavens.

Thirty thousand feet in the air, Lin Huang stood in the void, his gaze like lightning. Above him, countless clouds gathered, where thunder snakes could be seen slithering and thunder dragons coiled; it was the place where thunder was born and destroyed.

"Come."

Lin Huang's jawbone opened and closed, spitting out a single word. The sound was like a great bell, utilizing the secret technique he had once obtained to communicate with the Three Tribulations.

Boom!

Thunder rolled, tearing through the clouds. The thunder gathered, transforming into a Thunder Deity with an indistinct face, holding a Thunder Spear. Like a god judging the world, a vast consciousness fluctuated: "Deceiver of Heaven! Die!"

Silently, the Thunder Spear shot out instantly, piercing the void, stirring the thunder, and moving like a dragon. It carved a massive, peerless character for "Tribulation" in the sky and crashed down.

Lin Huang's soul leaped, fearless and undaunted, resisting the heavens with a single hand.

Rumble!

The terrifying thunder shook thirty thousand miles of clouds. The heavens were enraged. At this moment, a massive thunderous roar echoed throughout the entire Human Realm, startling everyone.

"Indeed, an alternative saint."

"Not yet perfect."

"There is still a tribulation."

The Three Holy Mothers understood instantly. Lin Huang's method of becoming a saint was unprecedented, but ascending in one step inevitably had flaws. It was incredible that Lin Huang could still trigger a heavenly tribulation at this moment.

"But it is a tribulation, and also an opportunity."

The Calligraphy Saint sighed softly, understanding Lin Huang's plan.

The Thunder Spear flashed by, instantly knocking Lin Huang down from the nine heavens, where he crashed heavily onto a mountaintop.

The power of thunder, the wrath of the heavens, annihilated everything.

In an instant, the mountaintop was reduced to ash. The earth shook, and a straight, deep hole appeared, bottomless and dark. Thunder leaped; it took nine consecutive strikes before it slowly dissipated, leaving behind only a thousand-foot plain, hammered smooth as a mirror by the thunder, with deep rumbles and flickering lightning still remaining.

Lin Huang remained expressionless. The golden bones he had just shaped cracked with countless fissures, as if they might shatter at any moment.

"Come."

Lin Huang's soul fluctuated, once again communicating with the Three Tribulations.

In an instant, wind began to rise beneath Lin Huang.

This wind blew into every crack of the Golden God Bone, silent and soundless, yet it gnawed away at the divine bone. Tiny golden bone shards fell, drifting down in a flurry; the moment they landed, they turned into pale gray ash, instantly annihilated by the slightest breeze.

This was the Earth Tribulation.

After the wind passed, earthly fire surged, tempering the golden body with flames. Lin Huang's Golden God Bone began to slowly melt in this raging fire, golden liquid dripping down, before water suddenly flooded in. This water came from the earth, from the void, and from within himself—icy cold, devoid of even a hint of warmth.

Lin Huang's Divine Body was buffeted by the wind, scorched by the fire, and drowned by the water, gradually thinning away, leaving only the fire of his soul flickering ever more intensely.

"Come."

Lin Huang spoke for the third time, standing up step by step, his hands weaving various divine seals.

With one step taken, the void trembled and the six paths shook, directly connecting to the Earth God Realm, Water God Realm, Fire God Realm, Wind God Realm, Sun Realm, and Moon Realm.

The origins of the six paths converged, instantly reshaping the golden body for Lin Huang, inscribing it with Dao and law. All manner of divine wonders were bestowed upon him; as the worlds shifted, every inch of his bones now carried earth, water, fire, wind, yin, and yang, becoming as heavy as a great world itself.

He took a second step, and a Thunder Pool suddenly descended from above the nine heavens, submerging Lin Huang.

As the third step was taken, from beneath the nine netherworlds, the Earth Fiend surged, wind rose, fire burned, and water flooded.

After only three steps, as Lin Huang took the next one, a youth with delicate features, clad in green robes and standing barefoot, appeared in mid-air. He raised his hand to gaze at his palm and sighed softly, then took a step to return to the Three Holy Mothers' jelly shop.

"The six paths as bone."

"Heaven and earth as skin."

"The Divine Body is perfected."

The Three Holy Mothers spoke one by one, their eyes filled with wonder as they looked at Lin Huang, "Your foundation is complete."

Lin Huang remained silent, nodding his head. He had crossed the Three Tribulations and attained the holy rank, but only now, at this very moment, could he truly say he had laid his foundation. His Divine Body was perfected; from this day forth, if anyone were a saint, he was that saint.

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