Breakthrough: Blood Rebirth

Inside the Sacred Temple, Jiang Yuan circulated the Creation Scripture, attempting to refine the Innate Runes contained within the primordial energies of several gods and demons into his body, one by one.

This was the cultivation method for the Pre-Heaven Realm recorded in the Creation Scripture: refining Innate Runes into the body.

The more Innate Runes one possessed within their body, the more compatible they were with heaven and earth, and the greater their potential became. The reason Innate Divine Beings were stronger than other living beings was precisely because they possessed the most Innate Runes.

Likewise, Acquired Living Beings were the weakest because they possessed the fewest Innate Runes.

Now, Jiang Yuan was attempting to refine every Innate Rune into his body. Though this would not directly turn him into an Innate Divine Being, it would greatly raise his upper limit and reduce the difficulty of his transformation.

Simply put, if Jiang Yuan could accomplish this, his chances of transforming into an Innate Divine Being in the future would increase by at least a hundredfold.

That was the benefit of refining Innate Runes into the body!

But accordingly, the greater the benefit, the harder it was to achieve.

Innate Runes possessed power. Thus, each time Jiang Yuan refined one, a force acted upon his body, trying to tear it apart.

After refining only a hundred runes, Jiang Yuan's body could no longer endure it and showed signs of bursting apart. At that moment, the Profound Yellow Merit he had obtained earlier came in handy.

Merit was a universal remedy. It could not only raise cultivation, but also refine magical treasures, heal all injuries, and even bring the dead back to life.

At this moment, Jiang Yuan was going to use Merit's ability to heal all injuries to ensure that the power of the Innate Runes would not tear his physical body apart.

As Jiang Yuan's thought fell, strands of golden light appeared within his body and flowed continuously. Wherever they passed, the damage caused by the Innate Runes immediately vanished without a trace.

With Merit's aid, Jiang Yuan completely let loose and refined one Innate Rune after another into his body without restraint.

With every rune he refined, his strength increased by another measure, and his cultivation began to rise toward a higher realm.

The Primordial World had neither sun nor moon. In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

After ten years of arduous cultivation, Jiang Yuan finally refined all 129,600 Innate Runes into his body.

At that moment, a flawless, utterly pure power suddenly emerged from nothing within him and merged into every part of his body.

Immediately afterward, Jiang Yuan's life rank began to transform, changing from an Acquired Living Being into an Innate Living Being.

At the same time, his realm began to rise, advancing from the Pre-Heaven Realm to the Void Refinement Realm, the final realm before immortality.

Boom!

The instant Jiang Yuan broke through, a tremendous explosion suddenly rang out. His body violently burst apart, turning into 129,600 crimson drops of blood that floated in the air.

His body had exploded, yet Jiang Yuan had never felt better. Every drop of blood contained his will. So long as he wished it, he could reconstruct his body at any time.

Likewise, after reconstructing his body, he could disperse it again whenever he wished.

"The Void Refinement Realm—Blood Rebirth!"

With a thought from Jiang Yuan, the drops of blood began to merge and reformed his body.

Though he had only reached the Void Refinement Realm, the supreme Dao scripture known as the Creation Scripture had already begun impatiently displaying its astonishing power.

Blood Rebirth was the first ability it granted Jiang Yuan.

It transformed the body into 129,600 drops of blood. So long as even one drop remained undying, even if all the others were destroyed, the body could be reconstructed anew.

And 129,600 was merely the beginning. At the end of cultivation, one could even divide infinitely. Only then would one be truly immortal and indestructible, impossible to grind away through countless tribulations.

"The ability of Blood Rebirth is truly wondrous. If every member of the Human Race could achieve this at the Void Refinement Realm, why would we fear that our race would not flourish in the future?"

Looking inward at himself and observing the 129,600 Innate Runes circulating within his body, Jiang Yuan fell into thought.

He felt that the ability of Blood Rebirth would be best if it could be spread throughout the entire Human Race and become standard at the Void Refinement Realm.

That was to say, any member of the Human Race who cultivated to the Void Refinement Realm would naturally possess Blood Rebirth, without needing to learn it separately.

It was a fine thought, but accomplishing it would be difficult. Jiang Yuan had no clue where to begin. But that did not matter. After all, he had a cheat.

"It's time to use the Creation Jade Disk to add some points again."

Raising the Creation Jade Disk, Jiang Yuan prepared to use its power to deduce whether his idea was feasible.

He was creating a method. The power required to activate the Creation Jade Disk was enormous. Previously, Jiang Yuan would not have dared to try; even draining him dry would not have been enough.

Although he had now broken through and his magical power had become more abundant, it was still far from enough to activate the Creation Jade Disk and create a method. But he had to remember that besides magical power, he also had Merit.

This was the origin energy of the Heavenly Dao. Using it to activate the Creation Jade Disk, even a small amount could instantly awaken it and unleash power close to its peak.

Jiang Yuan did not lack Merit. Although he had consumed quite a bit for cultivation earlier, more and more characters had been created over the past ten years for the entire Human Race to learn.

As a result, vast amounts of Merit flowed toward Jiang Yuan, causing the rate at which his Merit grew to exceed even the rate at which he consumed it.

Thus, after ten years of cultivation, not only had his Merit not decreased, it had increased. Without that, he would not have had enough confidence to use Merit to activate the Creation Jade Disk.

Boom!

With a thought from Jiang Yuan, vast amounts of Merit surged into the Creation Jade Disk, instantly awakening it and causing it to emit an endless, profound aura.

The next moment, Jiang Yuan felt his mind rising, as though he had transcended fate itself and was examining heaven and earth from a supreme perspective. All mysteries lay before his eyes, with no secrets remaining.

Daluo Perspective!

Using Merit to activate the Creation Jade Disk truly produced a different effect. It directly granted him an experience card for a Daluo Golden Immortal, allowing him to cultivate from the perspective of Daluo.

At this moment, what Jiang Yuan saw was the world as seen through the eyes of a Daluo Golden Immortal. The mysteries of heaven and earth were laid bare, and the changes of the cosmos were all held within his mind.

"So this is a Daluo Golden Immortal? Having already perceived the essence of heaven and earth, aside from being unable to create something from nothing, they are nearly omnipotent."

Powerful—far more powerful than he had imagined. That was Jiang Yuan's only feeling. Then he gathered his mind and devoted himself wholly to creating the method.

This state was excellent, but it consumed Merit at an extreme rate. His Merit would not last long. There was no time for idle thoughts; he had to seize every moment and create the method without wasting a single second.

Under the Daluo Perspective, everything was different. The 129,600 Innate Runes were stacked in groups of one hundred, forming 1,296 great runes distributed throughout his body according to a particular pattern.

The pattern of their arrangement looked extremely familiar to Jiang Yuan. Instinctively, he raised his head toward the heavens and saw that the positions of these runes faintly corresponded to the stars above.

"In later generations, the human body has acupoints. Not only do they correspond to the stars, but their number is also exactly 129,600. Could it be that after Innate Runes are refined into the human body, they become the body's major acupoints?"