Birth

Xu Wuyi suddenly thought of a question—why had Yin Wuji been able to cross that threshold?

Both were owners of the Beast Pool, both charging from the peak of Tier Two toward Celestial Being. Yin Wuji had succeeded, while all three hundred-plus challengers from the Azure Star Realm had failed.

What was the difference?

It was not talent, not resources, not luck. Yin Wuji had studied the circulation of qi and blood in thousands of Star Beasts within the Beast Pool, found a body-tempering path best suited to humans, tempered his flesh to the utmost through that path, and then opened an inner heaven and earth within his body.

Inner heaven and earth.

This term had appeared in the records of the True Dragon Star Realm, and in the records of the Azure Star Realm as well.

But no one could clearly explain what an inner heaven and earth truly was. Every description in the records was vague and ambiguous, filled with words like "it is said,"

"rumored," and "perhaps."

Yin Wuji had opened an inner heaven and earth and stepped into Celestial Being. The others had not, so they had failed.

But how was it opened?

No one knew.

Xu Wuyi sat cross-legged on his seat and closed his eyes. His consciousness sank into the deepest part of his body as the rules of Order scanned his entire body.

Heart. Bones. Muscles. Meridians. Blood vessels. Internal organs. Every organ was operating at its limit, every system optimized to the extreme.

But there was no inner heaven and earth within his body.

It was not that it was hidden somewhere he had failed to find. It simply did not exist. An inner heaven and earth was not something that had already existed; it was something that needed to be created