The Mysterious Seed!

Li Qingshan stood at the end of the eighth level. Within him, three hundred and sixty immortal apertures slowly revolved like brilliant stars glimmering in boundless space.

He could clearly sense the state he was in.

Although the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had suppressed the transformation of his undying golden nature, preventing him from breaking through to the Golden Immortal Realm, the power granted by those three hundred and sixty immortal apertures already far exceeded anything a Golden Immortal possessed.

It was a realm he had never encountered in any text, a forbidden domain that seemed as though it should not exist within the Profound Immortal Realm.

He clenched his fist.

The space around it silently collapsed. It did not shatter; it was annihilated outright.

He had not used immortal power or invoked any laws. The force released naturally when he clenched his fist alone had crushed space beyond its ability to remain intact.

He had never sensed such power from Dark Star or Xiao Yuntian, or even within the colossal waves of law in the ocean of the Great Dao.

"What realm is this?"

Li Qingshan murmured to himself.

Lady Three-Flower had said that a Profound Immortal's foundation consisted of thirty-six immortal apertures, and that one could have at most one hundred and eight hidden immortal apertures.

Yet he now had a full three hundred and sixty immortal apertures—more than triple that supposed limit.

The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had deliberately suppressed his breakthrough to Golden Immortal, leaving him in the Profound Immortal Realm while granting him power far beyond a Golden Immortal's.

There had to be some secret here that he had yet to fathom.

He pushed down his doubts and looked ahead.

The entrance to the ninth level stood before him.

A golden barrier of laws hung like a curtain from