Breakthrough and Discovery

Life in Bright Moon Residential District settled into a calm rhythm. Between training sessions, Yin Congyang occasionally dropped by Luo Hua's home for a meal, sharing a few cups of wine with Luo Hua and Luo Hongguo. Of course, he never came empty-handed; with his current assets, buying some fine liquor was a trivial matter.

Yin Congyang's strength continued to advance steadily, each day a little stronger than the last. In the two months since his fight with Sago and Vino on March 9th, his base striking force had reached over nine hundred thousand kilograms, nearly twice that of an average peak War God. Although his dantian still continuously channeled evolutionary energy, the growth in his physical constitution and Spiritual Force had slowed considerably—likely approaching the limit of the Apprentice Level.

His physical force amplification had officially reached ten times, making a full-power punch nearly ten million kilograms.

In terms of realm, both his axe technique and body movement had reached the peak of Conception Level, yet some obstruction always prevented Yin Congyang from comprehending the Domain.

Another half month passed, and the time came to late May.

In the underground training room.

Yin Congyang sat cross-legged, taking out the Moya Crystal that Luo Hua had given him. He had felt for several days that his body and soul were nearing some kind of limit, so today he decided to absorb this Moya Crystal and see if it could accelerate the process.

Absorbing the Moya Crystal was quite comfortable. Soon, the energy of the entire crystal was fully absorbed.

Suddenly, Yin Congyang's body and the soul within his sea of consciousness trembled simultaneously.

Within the boundless sea of consciousness.

"Rush, rush..." The Spiritual Force surged like a great river, beginning to spin wildly, forming ring after ring of whirlpools. The colors of these whirlpools shifted—sometimes pale gold, then water blue, then wood green, then fire red, then earth yellow... The ever-changing colors gradually all emerged within the whirlpools, layer upon layer of dazzling, magnificent, and profoundly mysterious vortexes.

The whirlpools expanded ring by ring. When they reached a certain limit, they suddenly contracted sharply, condensing into a spinning, multicolored water sphere, trailing wisps of colorful mist. It expanded and contracted like a human heart, each pulse more violent than the last!

After one exceptionally violent expansion, a tremendous suction force erupted from the core of the water sphere. All the multicolored water sphere and mist-like Spiritual Force, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, eagerly rushed into the core.

"Hum!"

All the multicolored water sphere and mist vanished. In the boundless sea of consciousness, only a single light point remained, radiating a five-colored glow like a tiny planet.

An invisible, strange wave continuously radiated from this light sphere.

This wave emanated from the sea of consciousness, spreading downward through every part of the body. Instantly, the bones, marrow, meridians, muscles, fascia, skin, and everything within the body began to evolve—cells rapidly decomposed, recombined, and regenerated!

Deep within the core of the sea of consciousness, the formerly multicolored mist and water sphere rapidly coalesced into a tiny yet seemingly enormous, paradoxically contradictory, round, five-colored crystal—this was Yin Congyang's Soul Crystal.

At the same moment, in the dantian region—originally invisible and undetectable—all the Genetic Origin Energy in his body converged toward this location.

"Boom..."

Like Pangu separating Heaven and Earth, it burst open in an instant. The countless streams of Genetic Origin Energy gathered in the dantian, accelerating and spinning, expanding and contracting continuously, until finally forming a five-colored miniature planet.

This miniature planet rotated on its axis, emitting waves of strange fluctuations. These fluctuations surged out of the dantian, and instantly, every part of Yin Congyang's body—bones, marrow, and all—underwent changes even more dramatic than the breakthrough of his Spiritual Force. His entire skeleton creaked and cracked...

Because both his spirit and dantian broke through simultaneously, the two evolutionary forces merged into one, accelerating and strengthening Yin Congyang's physical evolution even further.

What Yin Congyang did not notice was that when the dantian was successfully opened and the miniature planet formed, at the very core of that miniature planet, there existed a point imperceptible to any outsider. This point continued to radiate that subtle, miraculous fluctuation throughout his entire body...

After a long time, the breakthrough was complete. The dantian and sea of consciousness fell completely calm. Yin Congyang immediately enveloped himself with his spirit.

"Whew... Good, good. That fluctuation is still there..."

What Yin Congyang had feared most before the breakthrough was that the subtle, miraculous fluctuation within his dantian would disappear. That would drastically slow his rate of strengthening—or even make it impossible for him to reach the peak of the War God level, let alone break through to Planetary Level.

Yin Congyang vaguely felt that this fluctuation was the key to his growth, and even determined the heights he could reach. He had always suspected that this was the cause of his transmigration—the dazzling five-colored light that erupted when he was chopping trees was extremely similar to the five-colored light in his sea of consciousness and dantian.

After familiarizing himself with the transformed Spiritual Force in his sea of consciousness and the Genetic Origin Energy in his dantian, he sank his spirit into the dantian, seeking the source of that fluctuation.

Following the wave, his spirit searched for a long time before finally sensing that strange point at the core of the miniature planet in the dantian. When his spirit touched this point...

Yin Congyang seemed to enter a place that was both infinitely large and infinitely small. This place seemed to contain everything, yet when his spirit swept through, it found nothing—only a vague feeling that this place was incomplete, as if something was missing from the whole. But this was not something Yin Congyang could understand at his current level...

He did not know how long he stayed in this place. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him. With a thought, the spiritual body that had entered this place took human form, conjured a Heaven-Opening Axe in its hand, and began to execute the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes one by one.

Instantly, Yin Congyang immersed himself in an indescribable realm. The axe techniques in his hands shifted from extremely fierce to gradually subdued, then slowly rose again. In the process, he seemed to experience countless scenes—clashing armies, the withering and flourishing of plants, a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, a single spark starting a prairie fire, and grains of earth piling into a mountain. These scenes appeared and vanished one after another, and Yin Congyang felt a faint understanding.

He did not know how many times he had performed the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes. His spirit felt a trace of fatigue, and he finally stopped. He felt as if countless ages had passed, giving him a sense of unreality.

With a thought, his spirit withdrew from this strange point. When his spirit fully returned to his physical body, Yin Congyang opened his eyes. His mind was still immersed in that indescribable realm, a look of vicissitude in his gaze. After a moment of daze, the sense of age quickly faded, and his eyes regained clarity.

He checked the time—a full day and night had passed. He could not help but sigh softly at how time flew during cultivation. He had thought he had only stayed in that strange point for a short while, but a whole day had already gone by.

He stood up and left the underground training room, took a shower in the bathroom, then went downstairs to eat a lunch that was a day late.

Standing before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the setting sun about to dip below the horizon, he suddenly felt his perception of the entire world become clearer and sharper, as if Heaven and Earth held no secrets from his eyes. This feeling flashed and vanished; when he tried to probe it, he was left with nothing but confusion.

His spirit was now vigorous and his mind clear. He turned and went back down to the training room.

He took out the Heaven-Opening Axe and began to practice the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes anew. As he executed the techniques, he immediately felt a great difference. The realm that had been firmly stuck at Conception Level began to loosen. As he continued to practice, Yin Congyang's Spiritual Force, Origin Force, will, soul, and body naturally achieved an incredibly harmonious state. Faint golden secret patterns began to appear around him, emitting a soft, hazy glow that spread around Yin Congyang, vaguely allowing him to interfere with, influence, and control the surrounding space!