Divine Body Great Completion

"Your Divine Body has reached Great Completion."

"Your tribulation is complete."

"You may leave now."

The Three Holy Mothers spoke slowly. Although they had been driving Lin Huang away for several days, both he and the Three Holy Mothers knew clearly that the karmic ties between them had not truly been severed. Only now, as Lin Huang had established his foundation and achieved the Great Completion of his Divine Body, did the Three Holy Mothers finally speak to end this connection.

Lin Huang nodded, "I came to return the blade."

The gaze of the Three Holy Mothers sharpened as they looked at Lin Huang.

Lin Huang reached out and grasped the long blade. With a flick of his finger against the edge, a clanging sound rang out—the sound of metal, horses, and war. He pushed his palm forward, and the blade left his hand, moving like a dragon, like fire, like water, like earth, like wind, like Yin and Yang, like Heaven and Earth.

The Three Holy Mothers remained expressionless, but in an instant, the Calligraphy Saint raised her brush, the Zither Saint plucked her strings, and the Chess Saint extended a finger.

Silently and without a trace of worldly agitation, the blade changed hands and arrived in the grip of the Chess Saint.

Snap. The blade broke, clattering to the ground.

"The blade is broken."

"The karma is ended."

"Why have you not left yet?!"

Lin Huang suddenly smiled and waved his hand, "I have one more technique yet to verify; I have not truly reached perfection, so I must linger for a few more days."

The Three Holy Mothers glanced at Lin Huang.

"Stay if you wish."

"Leave if you wish."

"People of our standing."

"Should not be so indecisive."

"What kind of behavior is this?"

Lin Huang nodded, his tone indifferent, as if he were speaking of someone else's affairs, "I have gained much insight over these past two days. The Six Paths serve as the root, and since they align with my own path, it is not difficult to grasp. However, there is one technique for which I lack the fundamental understanding, which is why I have doubts in my heart."

"Hold a heart as if treading on thin ice, and act with courageous advancement."

"You already have the answer."

"Why ask me?"

The Three Holy Mothers snorted coldly. Each spoke a sentence, and without giving Lin Huang a chance to reply, they closed the gate and drove him out.

Lin Huang smiled and walked back to his dwelling with his hands behind his back. He sat on the ground, deep in thought, and reached out to write the characters for "Six Paths" in the dirt. With a flick of his wrist, he added the characters for "Reincarnation," then stared at the two words in silence.

After a long while, Lin Huang sighed, "This is the path; once started, it must be followed to the end, with no intention of changing. No rush, no rush."

He reached out and wiped away the writing, looking at his own palm.

"With the Divine Body at Great Completion and the tribulation finished, my foundation was not destroyed by the alternative path to sainthood. But to bring the Divine Body to full perfection, or even to take a step further and cultivate the Perfect Divine Body, I must ultimately rely on this other technique."

"I can continue to participate in the First Martial Arts Tournament. By learning from the myriad paths, it should help me establish this other technique."

Divine Body cultivation: Minor Completion, Minor Completion Perfection, Great Completion, Great Completion Perfection, and finally, the Perfect Divine Body.

Each step is harder than the last.

To cultivate to Minor Completion, one must identify deficiencies and reverse the innate, but in the end, it is merely a matter of resources. Many peerless geniuses possess an innate Divine Body, reaching the level of Minor Completion the moment they are born.

But from Minor Completion to Minor Completion Perfection, while it seems like only one step, it is incredibly difficult to bridge.

What is perfection?

To be flawless is to be perfect. It is a simple four-character phrase, but achieving it is easier said than done. Especially limited by the strength of one's soul, many subtle aspects cannot be grasped at all. Thus, a Divine Body at the peak of the King-Sealing realm is merely at Minor Completion Perfection. Even the peak of the King-Sealing realm is only at the Great Completion of the Divine Body. And even the rank of Saint can at most bring the Divine Body to Great Completion Perfection.

As for the Perfect Divine Body.

Since one is human, there is no such thing as perfection. Perfection is synonymous with the divine. Therefore, only gods can achieve the Perfect Divine Body.

If Lin Huang had not had a sudden flash of inspiration at the end to undergo the Heaven and Earth tribulations, using the power of the world to reshape his Divine Body, he would never have been able to achieve the Great Completion of the Divine Body.

Unless he inscribed the Reincarnation technique—which he had not yet fully conceived—into his Divine Body, but if he did that, Lin Huang would have set his path in stone, unable to change it, or his foundation would collapse, leaving him no chance to become a god.

Now, with the Six Paths as his bones and Heaven and Earth as his skin, he had mended his foundation and achieved the Great Completion of the Divine Body, finally standing on the same level as the Three Holy Mothers.

Lin Huang's mind stirred, and wisdom sprouted, allowing him to grasp everything. He made his decision and settled his heart to carefully contemplate the changes brought about by the Great Completion of the Divine Body.

The next day, at ten o'clock sharp, Lin Huang opened his eyes and, with a thought, entered the Dream God Realm.

After two days of competition, the original thirty billion participants had been whittled down to thirty million. The preliminary rounds of the First Martial Arts Tournament had acted as a rapid sieve, with a ninety percent elimination rate per match. Those who remained were no longer mediocre, and they were attracting the attention of more and more races from outside the realm.

One by one, names that had previously been obscure began to shine brilliantly after two days of preliminaries, drawing everyone's gaze.

Listening casually to the discussions around him, he heard the names of one genius after another as people argued over who was most likely to win the championship.

Lin Huang's expression remained indifferent. He walked past the Divine Monument once more, paused for a moment, and looked up at the top. The name of Dream God Machine stood high above, shining through the ages as if eternal and unchanging.

Lowering his head, Lin Huang looked at his palm, clenched it, then suddenly smiled and stepped into the third day of the preliminary rounds.

"Thousand-person battle. Map: Eternal Silence Plain. The round ends when one hundred survivors remain."

It is said that the maps selected for this First Martial Arts Tournament in the Dream God Realm all exist in reality; this Eternal Silence Plain, I know not which great world it resides in, but true to its name, it contains not a shred of air—it is a vacuum.

It is like the star-strewn void of the outer realms, eternal and silent, devoid of even the slightest sound; it is dark, deathly still, and one cannot even hear the sound of one's own breathing.

"Interesting."

Lin Huang suddenly spoke; with his strength, even in a vacuum, what difficulty could there be in speaking?

After a moment's thought, Lin Huang did not step away; his lips moved, and his voice resonated throughout the entire Eternal Silence map, "I am here. Who dares to come?"

Having said this, Lin Huang stood with his hands behind his back, gazing quietly at the sky.

His Divine Body had reached perfection, and even if he suppressed his Saint-level soul, he was still more than capable of sweeping aside all other geniuses. The only reason he had come to participate was to witness the myriad of techniques. After all, as the rounds progressed, those who remained were the true geniuses of this generation, encompassing all the sects of the Human Realm; being able to witness various divine arts and unique skills was far easier than Lin Huang visiting them one by one in reality.

"What a guy. To be able to speak and project sound in a vacuum—it seems he is a genius. Only such an opponent is interesting."

Lin Huang's words shook the entire Eternal Silence Plain; some were afraid and terrified, fleeing immediately, while others, bold due to their skills, began running toward Lin Huang's position at once.

"Where did so many experts come from?" Qianshan Huo muttered, clutching his blade, somewhat surprised.

Having encountered Lin Huang in the first preliminary round and falling short, he was already furious and frustrated; he had not expected to encounter such a madman in the third preliminary round, someone who, with a single simple sentence, attempted to challenge the entire field single-handedly.

"Let's go. Let's take a look. Qianshan Huo, if you and I join forces, we would even dare to challenge our masters, let alone some arrogant genius."

The other person spoke; being able to speak in a vacuum revealed immense strength. He held a sword and was the only disciple of the World-Surpassing Sword King, who was on good terms with the Mortal World Blade King. Having been placed in the same preliminary round as Qianshan Huo, they had immediately joined forces, intending to make a name for themselves.

Qianshan Huo nodded, "Fine. Let's go. I want to see which arrogant fool this is."

"Not bad. Everyone who comes to participate in this First Martial Arts Tournament thinks they are a genius, but how can there be so many? Let's go, let's go, let's go."

The two talked as they ran, and before long, they arrived within a hundred feet of Lin Huang.

Both were veterans of actual combat with rich experience in facing enemies; though they spoke with disdain, they knew that someone who dared to challenge the entire field would not be easy to deal with, so they concealed their figures, wanting to observe before making a move.