Saint Battle, the Life-and-Death Arena
That night, the Source King Patriarch had one foot in the realm of a Source Heavenly Master, becoming a half-step Source Heavenly Master. At the same time, he encountered misfortune and was abducted by Wu Yi, the fourth-generation patriarch who had fallen to demonic corruption.
A wisp of evil intent entered his body, and his consciousness grew hazy from then on.
By the Immortal Transformation Pool, he led endless yin soldiers to block Ye Fan, the inheritor of the Source Heavenly Master path.
The supreme killing intent of the Green Emperor struck, shattering his old shell and rescuing his true spirit.
Following in Patriarch Zhang Lin's footsteps, he used the supreme divine medicine that grew in Yellow Springs, Nether Yin Grass, as a catalyst to strengthen his divinity. His Primordial Spirit became imperishable, temporarily taking residence in Yin Soul Wood.
As the Source King Patriarch did not have the heaven-defying fortune of the fifth-generation patriarch, who had found an incomplete Shi Clan Holy Spirit to possess, he was instead reborn into the womb of a woman from his own clan who had died in childbirth.
Their bloodline shared the same origin, and his cultivation advanced at an astonishing pace.
Using the chance brought by death and rebirth, he glimpsed the great secret of the cycle of life and death, took that remaining half-step, and in one stroke attained the Dao as Eastern Wasteland's seventh-generation Source Heavenly Master.
At the same time, even his divine power realm from Immortal Three Dao Severing advanced another step.
Oh, right. After being reborn, the Source King Patriarch was also taken in by the fifth-generation patriarch.
Thus, the sixth- and seventh-generation Source Heavenly Masters were fellow disciples, both disciples of the fifth-generation patriarch.
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