Immortality

Inside the cultivation chamber, Fang Yan took a deep breath and pressed the white crystal against his forehead.

The crystal instantly melted, turning into a streak of white light that entered his consciousness sea.

The next moment, a violent surge of consciousness crashed over him like a tsunami.

It was the lingering instinctive will of the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast—mad, savage, and filled with a desperate desire to survive.

Fang Yan's soul condensed into human form within his consciousness sea. Facing the phantom beast, his expression did not change.

The power of his soul surged out like a tide, forming a vast net that tightly trapped the beastly phantom.

The phantom struggled violently, letting out a soundless roar.

In less than two hours, the beastly phantom had been completely worn away.

Fang Yan's soul began merging with his new body.

A tearing pain rose from the depths of his soul, as if someone had forcibly ripped it in half before stitching it back together.

Fang Yan clenched his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, yet he did not make a sound.

The pain continued.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

Fang Yan's consciousness rose and sank amid the agony. It felt as though hundreds of millions of years had passed, yet also as though it had lasted only an instant.

At last, the pain receded like the tide.

Fang Yan opened his eyes.

The void within the cultivation chamber shook violently.

A white figure slowly condensed amid the light.

It was ten kilometers long, snow-white from head to tail, its form resembling an elegant giant beast.

Its fur drifted gently through the void, every strand flowing with patterns of the Law of Wind and the Time Law.

Around it, a white haze slowly spread, engulfing the entire cultivation chamber.

Innate secret technique, Cosmic Wind Haze!

Fang Yan lowered his head to look at his new body. Feeling the immense power surging up from the depths of his genes, a trace of excitement flashed through his eyes.

The cultivation chamber door slowly opened.

Hei Lian stood at the door, looking at the white giant beast with the corners of her lips slightly raised.

"Congratulations."

Hei Miaomiao's voice brimmed with soft, excited delight.

"Master looks so handsome! So big and so white!"

As soon as she spoke, she transformed into countless pitch-black petals and flew toward the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast like a flock of birds returning to the forest.

Faint golden patterns flowed along the edges of the armor plates, leaving trails of dark light in their wake.

Fang Yan allowed the armor plates to fit themselves over his body.

The chest armor covered his broad beastly torso, the shoulder armor clasped his raised shoulders, and the leg armor extended along his long limbs all the way to the tips of his claws. The combat boots precisely encased every sharp talon.

Finally, a streamlined helmet fastened over his beastly head. Two narrow slits were left in the visor, revealing Fang Yan's silver-white eyes.

At the same time, six translucent azure wings slowly unfurled from the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast's back.

The three pairs of wings overlapped in staggered layers, their translucent surfaces refracting a faint azure radiance.

Black armor plates covered the snow-white fur, black and white reflecting one another.

The six azure wings spread between the black and white like strokes of fresh green seeping from an ink-wash painting, lending Fang Yan an even more ethereal, otherworldly air.

The Cosmic Wind Haze Beast's already elegant form now appeared even nobler, like a sacred beast emerging from an ancient myth.

"Not bad."

Fang Yan raised one armor-clad forepaw and gently clenched it in the void, feeling the terrifying amplification created by the stacking of two kinds of power.

The smile in Hei Lian's eyes deepened.

"Master, you're still so handsome even when you're not human!"

Hei Miaomiao's voice rang out. Fang Yan smiled helplessly as his body began to shrink and transform.

Within the white light, the ten-kilometer-long giant beast gradually shrank, ultimately becoming a young man dressed in white robes.

Familiar at First Meeting!

Fang Yan raised a hand and looked at his slender fingers, the corners of his lips lifting slightly.

"It's time to break through to immortality."

Flame Ruins Universe Country, a desolate star field.

There were no stars or planets here, only endless void and the occasional drifting cosmic dust.

Black Sky Lord was still borrowing an Origin Supreme Treasure at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters to restore his divine body.

Piloting the Flightless Bird, Fang Yan chose a barren asteroid less than a hundred li in diameter and sat cross-legged atop its highest rock.

The Black Lotus Battle Armor covered his body, and Hei Miaomiao's aura came from within it, carrying a trace of nervousness.

"Fang Yan, are you nervous?"

"Not at all."

Fang Yan smiled and closed his eyes.

His divine sense sank into his body and locked onto that Origin Core.

A faint golden glow flowed across the Origin Core's surface.

Late Wind!

Fang Yan softly uttered those three words.

The Law of Wind and the Time Law fused with exquisite precision and struck his own Origin Core.

Crack—

A fine crack appeared across the Origin Core's surface.

Then the crack spread in every direction like a spiderweb.

Boom—

The Origin Core shattered.

In that instant, Fang Yan felt as though his soul had broken free from a cage and rushed into the boundless universe.

The Origin Law Ocean descended above him.

Multicolored auroras poured down like waterfalls, illuminating the entire desolate star field as brightly as day.

Time Law, Law of Wind...

Fang Yan absorbed the power of the laws as his body began transforming into an Immortal Divine Body.

What delighted Fang Yan most, however, was the Spring Autumn Cicada avatar.

The black-gold giant cicada flew from the fragments of the Origin Core. Its mouthparts pierced into the void and touched that silver Time Law Ocean.

Glug. Glug. Glug.

The Spring Autumn Cicada began crazily drawing in the power of the Time Law. It could actually store the Time Law from the Law Ocean!

The conversion rate of Fang Yan's divine body soared at a visible speed.

10%... 30%... 50%... 80%...

The instant his divine body conversion rate reached 100%, the Law Ocean abruptly vanished.

Fang Yan smacked his lips. The next time he could fleece the Primordial Universe would be when he broke through to Universe Venerable.

That said, the Spring Autumn Cicada avatar was truly strange. It could neither absorb Xun Cosmic Crystal nor count as a conventional avatar.

Fang Yan suspected that it would still exist even when he eventually broke through to Universe Strongest.

With that thought, Fang Yan opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them.

He stood up, the Black Lotus Battle Armor giving off a dim black radiance beneath the light of the Law Ocean.

The most important thing now was to establish his Divine Kingdom first!

Hei Miaomiao's voice came from the battle armor, filled with excitement and admiration.

"Fang Yan, you're incredible!"

Little Fox Fairy's voice also sounded in his divine sense, unusually free of teasing.

"Congratulations, Master."

Fang Yan took a deep breath and looked up at the multicolored Law Ocean.

One hundred and ten thousand years.

From the first time he bit into a Wind-Origin Spirit Fruit atop Sky Pillar Peak on Yinghuo Star until now, he had finally reached this point!

"Let's go. Establish the Divine Kingdom!"

Holding the World-Ending Sword, Fang Yan lightly slashed through the void.

Where the blade passed, space tore apart like thin paper, opening into a black rift whose edges shimmered with dark light.

Fang Yan moved, vanishing into the rift.

P.S. I'd like to ask everyone for your opinions here—should the protagonist have descendants? So far, the comments all seem to want him to have descendants. If there are no objections, I'll arrange for descendants later.

P.P.S. Three updates today. Please keep reading and send monthly votes! Everyone is welcome to join the discussion.