"Until a young man named Ye Fan crossed over from the other side of the starry sky aboard the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin."
"And he was the last Ancient Sacred Body in this world!"
As Su Chen's words fell, everyone in the hall held their breath.
Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin?
The other side of the starry sky?
Just hearing those words, they felt an indescribably vast grandeur bearing down on them.
The scene in midair shifted once more.
Deep in the universe, nine black dragon corpses pulled a bronze coffin slowly through the starry sky.
The sheer visual impact sent the many Spirit Masters on the first floor stumbling backward, nearly landing flat on their backs.
A seemingly ordinary young man stepped out of the bronze coffin.
"This young man was named Ye Fan."
"Though he was the last Ancient Sacred Body in this world, cursed by heaven and earth, he stubbornly defied the heavens!"
"The world said the Sacred Body's path was cut off, so he risked his life, carving a bloody path out of utter desperation."
"With no resources, he seized them! With no cultivation techniques, he took them!"
"Defying the curse of heaven and earth, he broke through one shackle after another, until at last his Sacred Body reached its peak and restored the Ancient Sacred Body's supreme glory!"
After hearing Su Chen's tale, everyone present fell silent for a long time.
Defying heaven and changing one's fate.
They could scarcely imagine how many mountains of corpses and seas of blood lay behind those four simple words.
Yet while everyone was still immersed in Ye Fan's legendary rise from the ashes,
in a private room on the second floor,
Heaven Dou Crown Prince Xue Qinghe seemed to have suddenly grasped something important.
Furrowing his brow, Xue Qinghe stepped forward a moment later, his gaze fixed intently on Su Chen atop the platform as he spoke:
"Mr. Su, I believe I understand part of it."
"In that magnificent world you described, the cultivation system seems to place great importance on tempering the body and vital energy."
"If an ordinary person's cultivation is like forging a piece of common iron,"
"then these special physiques, born with extraordinary phenomena and vital energy as powerful as dragons, are like peerless divine metal from the moment they are born!"
"Not only are they far stronger than others of the same level, they also cultivate with twice the results for half the effort."
At this, Xue Qinghe paused, then asked the question on his mind:
"Since the Ancient Sacred Body is so powerful, yet comes with such demanding resource requirements and a curse from heaven and earth,"
"are there other special physiques of the same level in that world?"
"And do those other physiques all suffer from flaws as great as the Ancient Sacred Body's?"
Xue Qinghe's words were clear and incisive. In an instant, they drew everyone's thoughts back to the matter at hand.
Indeed!
Could a universe of that level really have only one such powerful physique?
Atop the platform, Su Chen couldn't help giving Xue Qinghe an approving glance.
As expected of a crown prince who was actually Qian Renxue in disguise.
That insight was certainly beyond the likes of those brawny fools below, who knew nothing but comparing Martial Souls.
"Your Highness is quite right."
Su Chen lightly tapped his folded fan against his palm, then slowly nodded.
"The Shrouding the Heavens Universe is boundless, and Three Thousand Dao Provinces teem with geniuses like carp crossing a river."
"In such a magnificent age, how could the Ancient Sacred Body be the only one to reign supreme?"
"As for flaws?"
The corners of Su Chen's mouth lifted in a faint smile.
"Other than the Ancient Sacred Body, whose circumstances were changed by the laws of heaven and earth, the other top-tier physiques have no such flaws. On the contrary, they are truly heaven's favored children!"
"Born as incarnations of the Great Dao of heaven and earth, they are sought after and painstakingly nurtured by countless sects and sacred lands!"
His words sent a wave of commotion through the hall.
Heaven's favored children without flaws?
How was anyone ordinary supposed to compete with that?
Xue Qinghe's eyes lit up. He quickly cupped his hands and said, "Please enlighten us, sir. Let us broaden our horizons!"
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang below had also perked up his ears.
He had devoted his whole life to studying Martial Soul Theory. Naturally, he was intensely eager to learn about these entirely new cultivation physiques.
Seeing the thirst for knowledge in everyone's eyes, Su Chen opened his folded fan once more.
"Very well."
"Since Your Highness wishes to hear it, then today I, Su, will tell you about the many royal physiques of the Shrouding the Heavens Universe, those that outshine even the greatest prodigies of countless races!"
At this, Su Chen's voice suddenly took on an ethereal quality.
"First is the Divine King Body, famed for breaking all laws the moment its phenomena appear!"
As Su Chen's words fell,
the starry vision before them abruptly changed.
A vast, rolling sea of blue replaced the ruined starry sky.
Above its rippling surface, a brilliant full moon slowly rose!
Its cool light spilled across heaven and earth, carrying a peerless, lofty purity untouched by worldly dust.
Beneath the moon stood an incomparable figure in white, hands clasped behind their back, as if a Banished Immortal had descended into the mortal world.
"What is that called?" a Spirit Master below asked blankly.
"This is the Divine King Body's fully realized phenomenon, Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea!"
Su Chen's voice rumbled across the blue sea:
"Once the Divine King Body reaches its peak, merely standing beneath this moon makes one impervious to all laws."
"Everything the moonlight touches, every enemy attack is instantly nullified. Even when facing an army, one can calmly slaughter one's way through."
"Before the Divine King Body, your so-called top-tier defensive Martial Souls are laughable as paper!"
While everyone was still stunned by the Divine King Body's splendor,
Su Chen waved his folded fan again.
The scene changed once more!
This time, there was no blue sea and no bright moon.
Only a woman sat cross-legged atop a mountain peak.
No terrifying surge of vital energy surrounded her. Yet strands of inscrutable Daoist charm, as tangible as reality, circled around her.
She merely sat there, yet seemed to have become one with the entire world.
Heavenly flowers rained down, and golden lotuses sprang from the earth!
"The Innate Dao Fetus!"
Su Chen's voice rang out once more:
"This is a heaven-defying physique born with an affinity for the Great Dao."
"Unlike others, who must painstakingly comprehend it, the laws of heaven and earth draw near to them of their own accord, aiding their cultivation."
"When they use secret techniques, they can easily draw upon the power of the entire world to crush their opponents."
"To fight an Innate Dao Fetus is to make an enemy of the world itself!"
At this, Su Chen glanced down toward Shrek Academy with a mocking look.
"If the Innate Dao Fetus is heaven and earth's own darling,"
"then those geniuses on Douluo Continent who boast of their Innate Full Soul Power are nothing but beggars who happened to find a copper coin by the roadside."
Under Su Chen's merciless jibe, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's faces turned unbearably grim.
Yet they could not force out a single word in response.
After all, drawing upon the power of heaven and earth was practically a divine ability!
However, Su Chen had only just begun.
"Besides the Divine King Body and the Innate Dao Fetus, there is another kind of physique."
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