Great Firmament Body and Soul Breakthrough

For example, the Three-Lives Body could summon the Past Body, Present Body, and Future Body to fight alongside him. However, he had yet to comprehend the Time Dao and simply lacked the ability to resolve or mitigate the backlash of the River of Time.

Once he used it, the Three-Lives Body would be forced to dissipate before long, and he himself would suffer severe injuries from the backlash.

Although he could turn one person into four for that brief time, he still could not seriously wound a great supernatural being of the same level. Suffering grave injuries for it simply was not worth it.

After carefully sorting through the gains from his twenty-five epochs of cultivation, Yuan Yan shifted his attention to the Primordial Gourd Vine and the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd, nodding in satisfaction.

After being nurtured for twenty-five epochs, the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd had finally transformed into a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. Although it contained only thirty-seven Innate Divine Restrictions, its power was far beyond what a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure could compare to.

Moreover, the three thousand Great Daos it contained had all been perfected to the Great Firmament level.

As for the Primordial Gourd Vine, not only had it not gradually weakened from losing its origin while nurturing the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd, it had even recovered somewhat.

To prevent the Primordial Gourd Vine from withering due to excessive loss of origin, he had specifically created divine abilities such as Nine Breaths Absorbing Qi, Spring Breeze and Rain, and Growth of All Things.

They not only accelerated the Primordial Gourd Vine's absorption of Innate Spiritual Qi and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence, but also allowed its lost origin to recover gradually.

However, the Primordial Gourd Vine used its Primordial Origin to nurture and sustain the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd. Though its recovery rate exceeded its rate of loss, that recovery had become incomparably slow.

At this rate, it would likely take tens of thousands of epochs before it fully recovered.

Shaking his head lightly, Yuan Yan stopped paying attention to the Primordial Gourd Vine and the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd. He turned his mind back to himself and fell into thought.

I am using my Great Firmament Dao Fruit to nurture my Primordial True Spirit, allowing it to transform into an Innate Imperishable True Spirit. This requires neither effort nor concentration and can proceed naturally.

Then what should I cultivate next?

Should I open up and evolve the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao? Or refine the Innate Divine Restrictions contained within the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd and comprehend the laws and Great Daos within? Or cultivate the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions and temper my body and soul to their utmost limits? Or something else?

After pondering and hesitating for a moment, Yuan Yan found his answer: cultivate the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions and temper his body and soul to their utmost limits.

In at most one or two epochs, he would be able to break through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.

Before then, cultivating the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions and tempering his body and soul to their utmost limits would also lay an even firmer foundation for him.

Moreover, although he had already condensed his Great Firmament Dao Fruit, he had not truly broken through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. Opening up the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao, then evolving them to the Great Firmament level, would not be easy. It would take at least several dozen epochs.

Likewise, refining the Innate Divine Restrictions within the Myriad Dao Primordial Gourd and comprehending the laws and Great Daos they contained would require a great deal of time.

But if he waited until after breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, when his cultivation was higher, he would surely achieve twice the result with half the effort.

To cultivate the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions, he naturally could not remain in his original form. Cultivating in his Innate Dao Body form would be best.

With a thought, Yuan Yan severed his connection with the Primordial Gourd Vine and transformed into his Dao Body's human form. Sitting cross-legged beneath the Primordial Gourd Vine, he began circulating the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions, treating his body and soul as yin and yang and carrying out their transformations.

As the cultivation method circulated and yin-yang transformed, the balance between Yuan Yan's body and soul was broken. His body gradually weakened while his soul slowly transformed and strengthened, breaking through its limits. At last, his body vanished, while his soul transformed until it reached its utmost strength.

When yin reached its end, yang arose. His powerful soul gradually weakened, while a body slowly emerged. His body gradually transformed and strengthened, breaking through its limits. At last, his soul vanished, while his body transformed until it reached its utmost strength.

When yang reached its end, yin arose. His powerful body gradually weakened, while a soul slowly emerged. His soul gradually transformed and strengthened until yin and yang were balanced once more.

It took Yuan Yan a full three thousand years to complete one yin-yang transformation, returning his body and soul from imbalance to yin-yang equilibrium.

At this point, although his body and soul had not strengthened in the slightest, their limits had already been broken. As long as he absorbed enough Innate Spiritual Qi, he could naturally cultivate both body and soul to their new limits with ease.

With another thought, Yuan Yan circulated Nine Breaths Absorbing Qi, rapidly inhaling, exhaling, and refining boundless Innate Spiritual Qi and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence. Endless Innate Spiritual Qi and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence gathered into a vast vortex that poured into him, rapidly transforming and strengthening his body and soul.

Five thousand years later, although Yuan Yan had cultivated his body and soul to their utmost limits, he found it difficult to absorb any more Innate Spiritual Qi or Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence to achieve further transformation and strengthening.

Carefully sensing the changes in his body and soul, Yuan Yan's eyes lit up. His body and soul had strengthened by at least twice as much.

Did that not mean that if he could undergo nine yin-yang transformations before breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, his body and soul could strengthen by more than five hundred times?

He was a Top-Tier Innate Divine. Although he had not deliberately tempered his body and soul before, neither was weak by any means.

If they truly could strengthen by more than five hundred times, then his body and soul might be able to withstand a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure head-on, rivaling the body of a Great Firmament Witch Clan member.

If so, then the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions he had created were simply too terrifying. They could allow him, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, to possess a Great Firmament-level body and soul.

Yet Yuan Yan soon shook his head lightly. The Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions were indeed formidable, but they were not quite so heaven-defying.

Even if he could complete nine yin-yang transformations on his current foundation, it was because he had already comprehended his own Dao, condensed his Great Firmament Dao Fruit, and reached the Great Firmament level in realm.

Otherwise, even as the creator of the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions, he absolutely could not have accomplished it with insufficient cultivation. In the end, one's realm still determined one's limits!

No longer dwelling on this, Yuan Yan settled his mind and continued cultivating the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions, carrying out yin-yang transformations. This time, however, the sequence of transformation was the reverse of the previous one.

Two epochs later!

Boom! A boundlessly vast spiritual qi vortex, comparable to a sea of stars, exploded apart, and Yuan Yan's figure slowly emerged.

He sat cross-legged beneath the Primordial Gourd Vine, his body and soul suffused with an indestructible, imperishable aura. They had already reached the Great Firmament Golden Immortal level and were no weaker than a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

He suddenly opened his eyes. With the slightest movement, he shook space-time itself, and the world's space-time cracked because it could not bear the terror of his body and soul.

Yet in the next instant, Yuan Yan restrained the aura of his Great Dao, and the world's space-time slowly calmed.

However, before long, heaven and earth suddenly changed!

Deep within Yuan Yan's sea of consciousness, his Great Firmament Dao Fruit manifested, enveloping an Innate Imperishable True Spirit. Dao light stretched vast and boundless, illuminating the myriad worlds.

As though sensing Yuan Yan's intent to attain the Great Firmament Dao, the intangible and formless Heavenly Dao appeared. Heavenly music resounded, Dao radiance danced, golden light flooded the heavens, auspicious colors blossomed, the five qi surged, celebration clouds stretched without end... Countless phenomena appeared.

Under the suppression—trial—of the Heavenly Dao, Yuan Yan's Great Firmament Dao Fruit shone ever more brilliantly. It continued extending outward, manifesting his Yin-Yang Dao, leaving the imprint of his imperishable true spirit upon heaven and earth, and engraving the profound principles of the Great Dao.