A Leap into the Human Tribulation (Combined Chapter)

Liu Dongqing slowly thrust out his palm. Before any aura of Dao or technique had truly bloomed from it,

Dao Master Chang Ying barked, sharp and fierce.

"Suppress!"

The instant her clear voice rang through the clouds,

behind her,

every alchemical flame on the towering fire tree blazed with brilliant light.

As that radiance flickered and pulsed, Liu Dongqing looked over. In that fleeting moment of distraction, what he saw no longer seemed to be the flames at the tips of the branches.

He saw visions of the Numinous Void.

Within those visions, people swallowed peerless medicines of differing auras in differing states, each producing a different effect.

Each additional vision of the Numinous Void meant that the towering fire tree had gained an understanding of life in another aspect, another realm.

The magnificent ocean of visions woven from firelight across the sky was life itself, growing ever more complete and flawless!

At that sight,

what stirred in Liu Dongqing's heart was not wonder at the vast number of visions, nor at how broadly and thoroughly Dao Master Chang Ying had mastered the Dao of life.

Instead, he marveled at something else—

No wonder Celestial Venerable Yangshan had been celebrated in the previous Era of Dao Strife for passing down the Ancient Whole-Household Ascension Method, yet of all his Dharma Forms, only the one belonging to Gu Xinian, the Hundred Origin Alchemy Sect's sect master of that generation, was widely known and praised by later generations.

It was even said that Celestial Venerable Yangshan had built the framework for ascension through his own Hundred-Flavored Mortal Dust Pill Dao upon that very Dharma Form.

In the past, Liu Dongqing had heard the tale without feeling its weight.

Only today,

after seeing the vast visions of the Numinous Void within Chang Ying's