Immortality

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

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

The next moment, a violent mental impact surged toward him like a tsunami.

It was the residual 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 that illusory beastly shadow, his expression did not change.

The power of his soul surged forth like a tide, forming a vast net that firmly trapped the beastly shadow.

The shadow struggled violently, letting out a silent roar.

In less than two hours, the beastly shadow was completely worn away.

Fang Yan's soul began to merge with the new body.

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

Fang Yan clenched his teeth, veins bulging across 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 a tide.

Fang Yan opened his eyes.

The void within the cultivation chamber trembled violently.

A white figure slowly condensed within the light.

It was ten kilometers long, snow-white from head to toe, its body resembling that of an elegant giant beast.

Its fur drifted gently in the void, each strand flowing with law patterns of wind and time.

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

Innate secret technique: Cosmic Wind Haze!

Fang Yan lowered his head and looked at his new body. Feeling the vast power welling up from the depths of his genes, a trace of excitement flashed through his eyes.

The door to the cultivation chamber slowly opened.

Hei Lian stood at the entrance, looking at the white giant beast with a faint smile on her lips.

"Congratulations."

Hei Miaomiao's voice carried soft, excited delight.

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

As soon as she spoke, she transformed into countless ink-black petals that flew toward the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast like birds returning to their forest.

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

Fang Yan allowed those armor plates to fit themselves onto his body.

The breastplate covered his broad beastly torso, the shoulder guards clasped his raised shoulder ridges, and the leg armor extended down his long limbs to the tips of his claws. The armored boots precisely enclosed every sharp talon.

Finally, a streamlined helmet clasped over the beast's 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 membranes reflecting a faint azure glow.

Black armor plates covered the snow-white fur, black and white complementing each other.

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

The Cosmic Wind Haze Beast's already elegant form appeared even nobler at that moment, like a sacred beast that had stepped out of an ancient myth.

"Not bad."

Fang Yan raised an armored foreclaw and lightly clenched it in the void, sensing the terrifying amplification brought by the overlap of two powers.

The smile in Hei Lian's eyes deepened.

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

Hei Miaomiao's voice came from nearby. Fang Yan smiled helplessly as his body began to shrink and transform.

Within the white light, the ten-kilometer giant beast gradually shrank, ultimately turning into a young man in white robes.

Familiar at First Meeting!

Fang Yan raised his hand, looking at his long fingers as the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

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

Flame Ruins Universe Country, a desolate starfield.

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

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

Fang Yan piloted the Flightless Bird to a barren asteroid less than a hundred miles across, then sat cross-legged atop its highest rock.

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

"Fang Yan, are you nervous?"

"Not at all."

Fang Yan smiled and closed his eyes.

His spiritual consciousness 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 ingeniously as they pierced toward his Origin Core.

Crack—

A fine crack appeared on the surface of the Origin Core.

Then, the crack spread in every direction like a spiderweb.

Boom—

The Origin Core shattered.

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

The Origin Law Ocean descended above him.

Multicolored auroras poured down like waterfalls, illuminating the entire desolate starfield 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 Clone.

The black-gold giant cicada flew from the Origin Core fragments, its mouthpart piercing into the void and touching 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 pace.

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

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

Fang Yan smacked his lips. The next time he fleeced the Primordial Universe, it would be when he broke through to become a Universe Venerable.

Speaking of the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone, it was truly strange. It could neither absorb Xun Cosmic Crystals nor be considered a conventional clone.

Fang Yan suspected that it would still exist when he broke through to become a Universe Strongest in the future.

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

He rose to his feet, the Black Lotus Battle Armor giving off a dark gleam 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 amazing!"

Little Fox Fairy's voice also rang out in his spiritual consciousness, 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 bite he had taken of 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 open like thin paper, forming a black crack whose edges shimmered with dark light.

Fang Yan moved, vanishing into that crack.