The Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art created by Li Ming possessed its own unique Grand Dao Imprint. He had already forged a path that belonged solely to him.
At that moment, nine Emperor Runes condensed into being, gleaming brilliantly.
His path of the Grand Dao had transformed into an Immortal Fetus, on the verge of breaking free from its cocoon.
He was constantly transforming. Every part of his body gleamed, while scriptures roared like thunder, deafening to the ears.
His Sea of Bitterness blazed fiercely. The Bitter Sea and Life Wheel intertwined, transforming into an incomparably mysterious black hole.
This was the manifestation of the perfection of his Wheel Sea Secret Realm and its scriptures.
Within his Dao Palace, the chanting of Grand Dao Scriptures echoed out. Five immense immortal palaces stood there, with five phantom deities seated within them, reciting scriptures as countless Grand Dao Runes flickered.
This was the treasure trove of the human body, containing endless divine power.
Li Ming's Dao Palace continuously transformed, nurturing five gods that became Five-Element Immortal Light, turning into the five most fundamental elements between heaven and earth and achieving balance among the five elements.
The five phantom deities merged into one, releasing an incomparably dazzling radiance that nourished the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
The Dao Palace shone brightly, resonating with the Sea of Bitterness before surging together toward the four extremities of heaven and earth. It evolved countless phenomena, with the four extremities becoming pillars supporting the heavens, as though the world were being created.
A Great Dragon rose along Li Ming's spine. This divine dragon, radiating chaotic energy, charged upward, seeking to enter the Immortal Platform.
The Great Dragon of his spine connected the supreme blood energy of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, Dao Palace Secret Realm, and Four Extremes Secret Realm, preparing to rush into the Immortal Platform.
He was about to truly step into the Imperial Dao Realm.
Countless Grand Dao Runes appeared, branding themselves into every cell of his body as he continuously transformed.
His body was like a Great Dao Cocoon, nurturing a Great Dao Immortal Fetus. Once it fused with the Immortal Platform, it would be complete.
His body shone as countless phenomena emerged.
The Great Dragon roared, and his entire body became incomparably radiant. The Wheel Sea Secret Realm, Dao Palace Secret Realm, Four Extremes Secret Realm, and Dragon Transformation Secret Realm merged into one, jointly assaulting the Immortal Platform.
The dragon's head pierced through the barrier and entered Li Ming's skull, preparing to merge with the Immortal Platform and nurture a Dao Embryo.
His Grand Dao was evolving, and his Primordial Spirit was transforming.
His flesh became crystalline and translucent. A new Primordial Spirit was born, and the Great Dragon of his spine truly rushed completely into the Immortal Platform, where it fused as one.
Under everyone's shocked gazes, the Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth intertwined, laws blazed fiercely, and endless brilliant mists shook the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
The Heavenly Heart Imprint naturally fused with him. The Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth aligned with him, and an invincible might spread forth, shaking the entire world.
Many Supremes could no longer sit still. They were about to shatter their Immortal Source and charge out.
Others also prepared to send their carefully refined avatars to claim a share.
Yet one person was faster than everyone else. Before the others could emerge, he had already rushed out first.
A terrifying black shadow instantly crossed the boundless starry sky, radiating an incomparably dreadful aura.
Every planet it passed exploded into ash in an instant.
At last, a Dark Supreme could no longer resist appearing.
Li Ming had not expected these people to be so patient. They had actually waited until he achieved Enlightenment as Supreme before appearing.
He did not know that it was actually because these Dark Supremes were restraining one another.
Back then, Chaotic Body Wang Bo had been killed by Boundless Heavenly Venerable before he could mature.
Many people had found it deeply regrettable that they could not carefully study the secrets of a Chaotic Body after achieving Enlightenment as Supreme.
Now, they did not know that Li Ming possessed an Acquired Chaotic Body, nor did they know it was an incomplete Chaotic Body. They mistook him for someone like Wang Bo, a Chaotic Body born of heaven and earth.
The many Dark Venerables seemed to have made an agreement, waiting for the moment he achieved Enlightenment as Supreme.
Generally speaking, the moment one achieved Enlightenment as Supreme was when the enlightened one was at his weakest, and it was also when the so-called Human Tribulation descended.
With a thunderous boom, an incomparably terrifying Supreme aura covered the heavens and earth. Fierce, domineering, and sharp beyond measure, it carried endless killing intent.
It had condensed from Grand Dao laws, capable of slaying the mind and spirit, destroying one in an instant, and killing without form.
Wherever it passed, one expanse after another was obliterated, becoming black holes that exploded within Chaos.
One huge hand after another struck over, black as ink and covering the heavens and earth.
Li Ming was completely fearless and faced them calmly.
His expression was icy as the Heavenly Demonic Saber swept across the sky and slashed forward.
Chaotic light flickered, tearing through the void.
With a puff, one Dark Supreme's avatar was split in two. Its body flew away as blood sprayed everywhere, before it instantly exploded into fragments.
That Dark Supreme's avatar was completely ground away in the blink of an eye.
Li Ming's strength did not frighten those Dark Supremes. More than one of them had acted.
Several great hands swept through the sky, extending from the depths of the universe and from the Forbidden Zones, all reaching for Li Ming.
They sought to seize his Origin Essence Blood and fleshly body.
Before Li Ming could even make a move, these great hands began attacking one another. They had clearly already regarded Li Ming as their own prey.
Each great hand was equivalent to an avatar of a Dark Supreme and could erupt with power comparable to a Dark Supreme for a short time.
Five great hands reached toward Li Ming.
Puff, puff, puff.
Li Ming exchanged a palm strike with each of those great hands. In the blink of an eye, they shattered apart and exploded into ash.
With a wave of his hand, he created a black hole that directly devoured the shattered hands, refining them into precious pills and swallowing them instantly.
The many Dark Supremes snorted coldly and temporarily stopped attacking.
Because someone's true body had already emerged.
A man's figure appeared there, holding a Grand Dao bottle forged from Immortal Tear Green Gold.
Inside that Grand Dao bottle was a humanoid tree.
The instant Li Ming saw this person's appearance, he recognized him: Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable was practically the mortal enemy of all transmigrators. Nearly every person who transmigrated into Shrouding the Heavens encountered his pursuit when achieving Enlightenment as Supreme.
Every transmigrator regarded killing Carefree Heavenly Venerable as a stepping stone.
Li Ming had not expected to truly encounter Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
As one of the Nine Heavenly Venerables and the creator of Nine Secrets: Xing, Carefree Heavenly Venerable was indeed extremely powerful.
Furthermore, the current Carefree Heavenly Venerable was not yet the frail figure of later generations, forced to devour living beings to extend his life.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable still had ample lifespan at this time, and his strength was truly formidable.
Even Li Ming, who had just achieved Enlightenment as Supreme, could sense a vague threat.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable had not yet possessed Yun Gen, the most unfortunate enlightened one from the Primordial Era in the original story.
Clearly, possessing enlightened ones had not begun only in later generations. Carefree Heavenly Venerable had started his experiments long ago.
Perhaps he had already possessed others before this.
"It is actually Carefree Heavenly Venerable!"
"Just as we guessed, Carefree Heavenly Venerable was not dead either."
"Who would have thought that he had been hiding in the Reincarnation Sea all this time!"
There was no use fleeing from Carefree Heavenly Venerable. Only by killing him could Li Ming continue living.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber in Li Ming's hand rang sharply, radiating incomparably dazzling divine light.
The piercing clang seemed capable of shattering one's soul. It was an indestructible will.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber's killing intent covered the heavens and earth. Terrifying saber light scattered in every direction, sweeping outward like ripples of the Grand Dao.
"Die!" Li Ming's Heavenly Demonic Saber radiated incomparably brilliant chaotic light, tearing apart the void.
Even the surrounding Chaos collapsed, and space itself was cleaved in two.
The blazing saber light became the only thing between heaven and earth, as though it had turned eternal.
This expanse of Chaos Sea was forcibly split in two, forming a rift of chaotic void.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable was incomparably fast, surpassing everything in the world and even stepping into the domain of time.
But against a powerhouse like Li Ming, especially one who had fused with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, he held no advantage.
Li Ming was even more terrifying.
With a puff, blood splattered everywhere from Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
He was struck fiercely by a saber, nearly being split in half.
After reforming his body, Carefree Heavenly Venerable looked at Li Ming in shock.
"The Chaotic Body truly lives up to its reputation!"
"To think that you could already injure me just after achieving Enlightenment as Supreme!"
Carefree Heavenly Venerable had believed that, as one of the Eight Heavenly Venerables, he could easily handle Li Ming.
He had not expected Li Ming's strength to be so astonishing.
The Chaotic Body's combat power was actually this formidable.
He had mocked Boundless Heavenly Venerable as useless before, but now it seemed that he had truly been careless.
Sensing the crisis of life and death, Carefree Heavenly Venerable immediately underwent Extreme Sublimation.
The other Dark Supremes did not attack again. They also wanted Carefree Heavenly Venerable to test this Chaotic Body's true strength.
Many people watched Carefree Heavenly Venerable bleed, their eyes revealing greed.
The Dark Supremes were also enemies of one another. They were not united as one.
Many were likewise greatly startled as they watched Carefree Heavenly Venerable suddenly undergo Extreme Sublimation.
Because everyone knew that once one underwent Extreme Sublimation, it would be difficult to continue living.
Even an Immortal Medicine and the lives of countless living beings could no longer extend one's lifespan.
They had not battled Li Ming, so naturally they could not feel Carefree Heavenly Venerable's helplessness.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable's entire body shone, twisting the void.
A strange force appeared around his body, radiating an incomparably terrifying aura.
An unimaginable fluctuation surpassed the limits of the world.
Facing Carefree Heavenly Venerable's terrifying speed, Li Ming responded to motion with stillness, a dreadful aura flowing from his body.
An enormous fluctuation emanated from Li Ming's body. His figure actually grew dimmer and darker.
In the end, he transformed into a black hole.
An incomparably terrifying fluctuation spread from that pitch-black center, devouring everything.
Every strike from Carefree Heavenly Venerable was devastating, and he continuously attacked that black hole.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable soon realized that something was wrong. His attacks had no effect at all, while he himself seemed to have fallen into a swamp, his speed suffering an astonishing restriction.
With a thunderous boom, Carefree Heavenly Venerable emitted a strange light that actually carried the power of time.
Yet it was still devoured by Li Ming.
The Heavenly Demonic Saber shot out from the black hole. With a puff, it viciously stabbed Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
It nearly caused Carefree Heavenly Venerable to collapse.
The longer Carefree Heavenly Venerable fought, the more alarmed he became.
His body exploded again and again, while Li Ming only grew stronger with every battle.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable let out a great roar, and light flooded the universe.
He could no longer hold on. He was about to launch his final strike.
A River of Time appeared, flowing slowly as it surged and roared.
It rushed toward Li Ming.
This was river water condensed from laws, flowing with the aura of time.
He struggled desperately, but in the end, he could only unleash a desperate strike.
This was the most brilliant strike of his life.
Light flooded the universe as Carefree Heavenly Venerable tried to use the River of Time to destroy Li Ming.
With a thunderous boom, incomparably brilliant light erupted, and Chaos surged violently.
That incomparably terrifying River of Time was silently devoured by Li Ming's Bronze Mirror.
Li Ming was completely unharmed.
Carefree Heavenly Venerable, however, staggered unsteadily, covered in blood as the Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth wailed.
He had failed. He had died.
Under his disbelieving gaze, he exploded with a boom, blood and gore scattering in every direction.
"Is this the legendary Chaotic Body? It is truly far too powerful!"
Li Ming's forceful killing of Carefree Heavenly Venerable shook the entire universe.
This was a Divine War destined to be recorded in history.
No other Dark Supremes dared to appear.
Li Ming collected Carefree Heavenly Venerable's body, along with his shattered Immortal Tear Green Gold bottle.
He fused the shattered Immortal Tear Green Gold into the Heavenly Demonic Saber.
He skinned Carefree Heavenly Venerable and made a pair of Carefree Boots.
Since Carefree Heavenly Venerable had been so fast, these Carefree Boots naturally possessed unparalleled speed.
Li Ming also refined the damaged fleshly body into the Heavenly Demonic Saber.
As for the somewhat damaged Immortal Tear Green Gold Weapon Deity, Li Ming tortured it harshly and obtained Carefree Heavenly Venerable's complete scriptures and Nine Secrets: Xing before erasing it.
Then Li Ming's figure flickered, and he disappeared into Chaos.
He intended to stabilize his realm once more and make himself even stronger.
As for the other Dark Supremes, he would definitely settle accounts with every one of them that had attacked.
They could not avoid paying a price. Li Ming even intended to choose several Dark Supremes and kill them.
In this brilliant and resplendent golden age, a Chaotic Body like Li Ming had inexplicably been born.
Li Ming was so powerful that he had even killed Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
Those Dark Supremes who had intended to devour Li Ming broke out in cold sweat.
Li Ming's strength was simply too powerful.
Li Ming forcefully killed Carefree Heavenly Venerable, intimidating the Dark Supremes.
Even though many people had discovered that Li Ming had once slain so many peerless prodigies and dug up the graves of so many ancestors, no one dared say anything.
No one dared demand an explanation from Li Ming.
Many people were wondering what to call Li Ming. For some reason, many felt that Li Ming's cultivation method resembled demonic cultivation, and that Demon Venerable might be a more fitting title.
"Demon Venerable?" Li Ming found the title quite interesting.
"Demon Venerable is a good name. At the very least, I won't have to bear the shackles of morality."
"It's good if people hold me in awe!"
Li Ming soon sensed the thoughts in many people's hearts and claimed the title of Demon Venerable for himself.
"Demon Venerable?"
Upon hearing this title, the expressions of the many Dark Supremes changed again and again.
In this era, even Dark Supremes were unwilling to take on such an infamous name.
Yet this Human Race Heavenly Venerable did not care in the slightest and had taken Demon Venerable as his own honorific.
This era was the Age of Mythology, and before it came the Primordial Ancient Era.
On the surface, it seemed that the Nine Heavenly Venerables were all members of the Human Race, but in truth, many other races had also attained Enlightenment as Supreme. Many of them had not died and were lurking within Forbidden Zones.
There were many Dark Restricted Areas in this era, far more than in Ye Fan's era.
Why had Li Ming chosen to merge with the Heavenly Heart Imprint instead of shattering it and standing above the Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth?
In truth, it was all because of his physique.
For others, merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint was unimaginably difficult. Yet with his special physique, although he possessed an Acquired Chaotic Body, he was already extremely close to a flawless Perfect Chaotic Body.
Merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint had become truly simple.
For example, when he had just attained Enlightenment as Supreme, he had smoothly merged the Great Dragon into the Immortal Platform.
Once he stepped into the Imperial Dao Realm, the Heavenly Heart Imprint naturally appeared.
And merged with him.
According to his observations, merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint had no drawbacks.
It could even help him transform into a true Perfect Chaotic Body more quickly.
Throughout the entire world of Shrouding the Heavens, nearly all Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors had merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, with Ye Fan being the sole exception.
Thus, they embarked upon the Red Dust Immortal Path.
Therefore, in Li Ming's view, merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint or trampling it beneath one's feet was merely a choice in one's own Dao path.
Of course, because of Ye Fan's appearance, many people felt that trampling the Heavenly Heart Imprint beneath one's feet was stronger.
Li Ming had thought the same before he transmigrated.
At this moment, Li Ming vanished from everyone's sight and went deep into chaos. Concealed by the Bronze Mirror, even the Dark Supremes could not locate his true body.
As Li Ming continued comprehending the Great Dao, he could sense countless streams of Faith Power converging upon him.
Nourished by this Faith Power, the Bronze Mirror silently appeared above Li Ming's head.
The aura it emitted was shocking.
It seemed as though it had existed since the creation of heaven and earth, enduring through eternity. That ancient and mysterious aura made people unable to resist worshipping it.
Looking at the Bronze Mirror, Li Ming still felt that it was like a mass of fog, its secrets impossible to fathom.
"What level of treasure is this Bronze Mirror?"
"Its origins are simply too mysterious!"
"Could it be the mirror of some supreme being?"
"Or perhaps it even came from an even higher level..."
This mysterious mirror had allowed him to transmigrate, allowed him to stir up storms in this era, and even enabled him to attain Enlightenment as Supreme so smoothly. Everything about it was utterly unbelievable.
Moreover, this mysterious mirror's ability to conceal its aura was truly astonishing, practically identical to Chu Feng's jar from the future.
Over all these years of digging graves and robbing tombs, he had not been caught and beaten to death, killed by the formation patterns within those tombs, or cursed to death by mysterious curses, all thanks to the Bronze Mirror's help.
After stumbling all the way here, he had finally risen to his feet.
He had never expected that, in this era, he would truly create the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art.
Having just attained Enlightenment as Supreme, he already possessed the strength to contend head-on with a powerhouse like Carefree Heavenly Venerable.
Li Ming had attained Enlightenment as Supreme and gained Heavenly Emperor-level combat power.
Of course, this Heavenly Emperor meant stronger than an ordinary Great Emperor, not stronger than Ye Fan.
After all, Ye Fan had not yet been born, so he had no way to fight Ye Fan at the same realm and see who was stronger.
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