As for Ke Ding, he had run off long ago...
Completely clueless about the sprawling earth veins, he continued exploring and drawing maps, marking the strange mineral veins scattered throughout.
Today.
Rumble...!
Countless furious roars and wild howls rang out beyond the mountains, shaking the vast wilderness. Ji Zhao was the first to break through the shackles of Divine Mountain's pressure. His fleshly body seemed to have been tempered by a thousand hammers and forged through a hundred trials, radiating a terrifyingly powerful brilliance.
Crack, crack—
Ji Zhao's black hair danced wildly like dragons and serpents, giving off dazzling divine light. Divine radiance blazed from his eyes like pillars, shooting straight into the smoky heavens as though they would pierce the firmament!
His advancing steps were like those of a Primordial Ferocious Beast from the Desolate Heaven Domain, and with every step, it seemed as if shackles within his body were breaking apart.
Crack! Crack!
As Ji Zhao moved forward, explosions rang out from within him. It was the sound of his bodily shackles continuously shattering, deafening to the ears. Every time one shackle broke, Ji Zhao's aura surged another degree.
His skin glowed with dazzling silver light, as though plated with an eternal, undying silver-gray layer. His muscular contours seemed carved by blades and axes, rainbow light flickering across them as they moved. Every inch contained the power to split mountains and shatter rocks.
Every pore on Ji Zhao's body swallowed and expelled the essence of heaven and earth dispersed by the Heavenly Foundation Stone. A faint, elusive halo of Dao resonance shrouded him!
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
His bones began to hum in resonance. At this moment, even his skeleton seemed to have transformed into peerless divine material. One could faintly see stellar rivers and celestial bodies from beyond