Transforming into a Perfect Chaotic Body, Living a Second Lifetime

"What?"

"You think this old man is easy to bully?"

"I've actually fallen so low that any random Supreme can push me around..."

Hearing Li Ming's words, Teng Snake flew into a rage, yet he was also somewhat helpless.

Li Ming said, "Perhaps you still have more choices, such as becoming my servant..."

Teng Snake's earlier words now came from Li Ming's mouth.

"Hehe, you want to obtain more secrets of the Immortal Dao from me, don't you?"

"Don't even think about it!"

Teng Snake said sinisterly.

"Even if I die today, I will never let you gain anything from me."

"Nor will I let Lingbao Tianzun successfully live a new lifetime!"

"I'll take you and Lingbao Tianzun down with me!"

A shocking fluctuation of laws spread from Teng Snake's brow.

It was a blazing black flame. Though weak, it erupted with a terrifying Immortal Dao aura.

The mysterious power and flames emitted by the Bronze Lamp were instantly ground away and reduced to ashes.

Teng Snake had actually invoked the Light of Dao Dissolution and ignited the Fire of Dao Dissolution. He had even abandoned the legendary possibility of reincarnation, resolutely lighting the Fire of Dao Dissolution.

He was determined not to leave anything behind.

He would rather leave not even bones behind than allow Lingbao Tianzun to live a new lifetime.

He knew he could not take Li Ming away, but with such resolve, he could still take Lingbao Tianzun with him and utterly sever his hope of living a new lifetime.

"Alas..."

"So this was probably how Lingbao Tianzun got screwed over to death in the original story."

"His entire body exploded, his body transformed into the Land of the Other Shore, and his head became the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star..."

Li Ming had also spent a long time studying methods of living a new lifetime, and he knew much about the harsh requirements involved.

Now that Teng Snake's primordial spirit was dissolving into the Dao and triggering the Dao Dissolution of a True Immortal-level body, its terror was unimaginable.

Those Dark Supremes who underwent Extreme Sublimation and recovered their peak state in an instant were about the same.

In any case, they shone brilliantly, went all out once, and then had to die.

But Teng Snake's actions were even more resolute than the Dark Supremes' Extreme Sublimation.

He directly ignited the Fire of Dao Dissolution, intending to use the power of Dao Dissolution to destroy everything here and erase all of Lingbao Tianzun's arrangements.

Even if he only briefly recovered the strength of a True Immortal, even if it lasted for only a second, it would be enough to completely extinguish Lingbao Tianzun's hopes of revival.

He might even take Li Ming with him.

When the Light of Dao Dissolution shone upon Li Ming, the Bronze Mirror's mysterious power circulated and actively devoured it, causing Li Ming no negative effects whatsoever.

Meanwhile, an inexplicable Immortal Dao power appeared on Teng Snake's body.

In an instant, everything between heaven and earth seemed to change.

Teng Snake seemed to become the center of the world, and a world-shaking immortal light burst from his hand.

This strike surpassed the power of an Immortal Weapon. Even a true Immortal Weapon could not withstand this power from a True Immortal.

Teng Snake had actually returned to the Immortal Dao domain in an instant.

Though it lasted only a moment, he accurately struck Li Ming.

In the blink of an eye, Li Ming seemed to turn into nothingness, as if none of this world's powers could affect him.

Teng Snake was utterly stunned, his face filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible!"

"How can a mere Humanity Supreme withstand the power of a True Immortal!"

"This must all be fake!"

"I'll drag you down to the grave with me!"

Teng Snake roared madly, nearly hysterical.

"Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed!" Li Ming sighed. "You simply can't kill me!"

"What?"

A mysterious light burst from Li Ming's body through the Bronze Mirror, instantly rendering Teng Snake's Immortal Dao incomplete.

He instantly fell out of the Immortal Dao realm.

Before that old ghost's disbelieving eyes, the Bronze Mirror's mysterious power completely annihilated Teng Snake's primordial spirit.

It also erased the Light of Dao Dissolution.

The Fire of Dao Dissolution was devoured as well.

That old ghost Teng Snake had neither managed to damage Lingbao Tianzun's body nor kill Li Ming.

He vanished completely, dead forever.

With a thunderous crash, Teng Snake's incomparably massive body fell onto the sea, kicking up towering waves.

From recovering True Immortal-level power to dying completely, only an instant had passed.

That aura of destroying heaven and earth, reigning supreme over the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, was gone forever.

Only a lifeless body remained.

Li Ming's eyes burned as he carefully observed Teng Snake's body.

With the Bronze Mirror's mysterious power, he thoroughly refined the final soul fragment of Teng Snake's old primordial spirit that contained its memories.

Looking at this True Immortal-level corpse, Li Ming could not help sighing. "What a pity!"

That old primordial spirit had truly left itself no way out.

If Li Ming had not possessed the Bronze Mirror, that old ghost might indeed have succeeded.

But it had not known that Li Ming had a cheat, so its death had been in vain.

"Although only a True Immortal's corpse remains, and the former Immortal Dao Laws were exhausted along with the primordial spirit's death, the countless Immortal Dao Runes contained within this body are absolutely an immeasurable treasure."

"They're worth studying carefully!"

Li Ming had once meticulously comprehended the Immortal Dao Runes on the Bronze Immortal Hall and benefited enormously.

Seeing the densely packed Immortal Dao Runes on Teng Snake's body, he was genuinely interested.

Some of the Immortal Dao Runes were similar to those on the Bronze Immortal Hall, but even more were different.

A careful study would surely bring unexpected benefits.

He stepped on the Bronze Immortal Hall and flew directly into Teng Snake's body.

The little old man within that mysterious Bronze Lamp seemed to be the weapon spirit.

Although he did not know how Li Ming had killed that old primordial spirit, he still solemnly thanked Li Ming.

As for Li Ming's wish to comprehend the Immortal Dao Runes within Teng Snake's body, he lacked the power to stop him and was naturally happy to do him a favor.

The Bronze Lamp's weapon spirit even thoughtfully imparted Nine Secrets: Zu, Lingbao Tianzun's scriptures, and the complete Salvation Scripture to Li Ming as gifts of thanks.

Li Ming was very satisfied.

He entered Teng Snake's body and began carefully studying the Immortal Dao Runes on this True Immortal body.

Chaotic energy swirled in his eyes, the river of time flowed, and he exuded an aura of splitting heaven and earth.

Yin and yang energies circulated as Li Ming silently imprinted endless Immortal Dao Runes.

It did not matter if he could not understand them now. He could record them first and study them slowly later.

These Immortal Dao Runes were truly mysterious, impossible to explain clearly, each containing cryptic powers and laws.

Li Ming felt as though he was separated from understanding by only a sheet of window paper. If he could pierce it, he would comprehend everything.

Yet he simply could not pierce through that hazy feeling.

So he silently imprinted them all.

He knew that as his strength increased, there would come a day when enlightenment would dawn upon him and he would understand the meanings and laws of these Immortal Dao Runes.

Even if he did not understand them, he could first imprint these Immortal Dao Runes onto the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Li Ming had originally wanted to take away or refine this True Immortal corpse.

But after thinking it over, he abandoned that tempting idea.

Since this True Immortal corpse concerned whether Lingbao Tianzun could revive and live a new lifetime,

he also wanted to see whether Lingbao Tianzun could truly use it to live a new lifetime.

Lingbao Tianzun had died miserably in the original story.

His body became a training ground in the Other Shore, while his head became the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, a training ground for Emperor Zun's Ancient Heavenly Court.

Even the divine liquid at his Immortal Platform was taken away wholesale by the Golden Crow Great Emperor.

The immortal spring divine liquid produced by his body's Wheel Sea Secret Realm was completely devoured when Ye Fan became a Great Achievement Sacred Body.

His fate had truly been a bit miserable.

Thinking of how Lingbao Tianzun had left behind the Du Ren Scripture specifically to suppress Corpse Calamities, Li Ming felt that Lingbao Tianzun should not have been a bad person.

Li Ming did not wish to be a good person. He only wanted to be someone both righteous and wicked, free and unfettered, unburdened by moral shackles.

But he still liked being friends with good people.

If Lingbao Tianzun could truly live a new lifetime, perhaps Li Ming could have a proper discussion with him about the Red Dust Immortal Path.

Seeing the Heavenly Demonic Saber evolve faster and faster, Li Ming was somewhat surprised.

In the original story, Emperor Zun had refined his Immortal Ascension Cauldron into an Immortal Weapon long ago, even before becoming immortal himself.

Li Ming suspected that after devouring so much Immortal Gold and so many Dark Supreme corpses, his Heavenly Demonic Saber might become an Immortal Weapon before he became immortal.

Perhaps, in the most extreme case, it would evolve into an Immortal Weapon in his Third Lifetime, just like Emperor Zun.

Besides relying on his own abilities to live into his Third or Fourth Lifetime, Emperor Zun in the original story had also attacked Kunlun Mountain on the Primordial Ancient Star.

He had even joined forces with Netherworld Emperor Duan De to refine the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains and place them upon Kunlun Mountain.

Kunlun Mountain was an exceptionally mystical place.

It was said that the Kunlun Immortal Bell had once been nurtured there.

Of course, some claimed that the Kunlun Immortal Bell had merely been recuperating there.

In any case, the Kunlun Immortal Bell had remained within Kunlun Mountain for an unknown number of tens of thousands of years, so long that even the Kunlun Immortal Race could not be certain when it had first arrived.

The Kunlun Immortal Bell resonated with Kunlun Mountain, leaving behind endless Immortal Dao Runes.

It was indeed a fine place to nurture an Immortal Weapon.

Li Ming even felt an impulse to attack Kunlun Mountain first and wipe out the Kunlun Immortal Race.

Could he use Kunlun Mountain to refine the Heavenly Demonic Saber into an Immortal Weapon ahead of time?

But considering that he still lacked the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, refining an Immortal Weapon would likely be a major problem.

Besides, he already possessed the Bronze Immortal Hall, an Immortal Weapon, so his need for Immortal Weapons was not yet so pressing.

"Since the Heavenly Demonic Saber is my weapon of enlightenment, let it grow gradually alongside my cultivation."

"There is no need for the Heavenly Demonic Saber to become an Immortal Weapon so soon!"

The most important thing now was to comprehend the Immortal Dao Runes within this True Immortal corpse.

At the instant Teng Snake stepped into the Immortal Dao domain, that incomparably terrifying Immortal Dao aura had alarmed the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

It alarmed every Dark Supreme.

But that mysterious Immortal Dao aura soon vanished.

One Dark Supreme after another carefully investigated with their divine senses, wanting to know what exactly had happened.

In the end, they could not figure anything out.

Some believed that a True Immortal might have descended.

Others believed that a fissure in the Immortal Domain had appeared by chance.

Ultimately, because the Immortal Dao aura had erupted and vanished so suddenly, and because Li Ming had the Bronze Mirror here to conceal the secrets of heaven, the Dark Supremes failed to reach any conclusion and went back to sleep.

Li Ming quietly comprehended the divine essence of the Immortal Dao here, silently imprinting and comprehending these Immortal Dao Runes.

Day after day, year after year.

Finally, one day, the Immortal Dao Runes on his body circulated with a mysterious power and wrapped around him.

It was a mysterious and terrifying power that even destabilized the surrounding void, opening crack after crack through which chaos flowed outward.

Strange radiance flickered within the eternal darkness.

Li Ming sat cross-legged within the True Immortal's corpse, as if he had fallen asleep.

He simply floated there silently, utterly motionless.

Countless Immortal Dao Runes interwove densely, covering his body like silken threads.

Like a Great Dao Cocoon, they wrapped around him.

He seemed to have fallen into slumber, completely motionless.

He had entered an extraordinarily wondrous state.

His entire body was covered in mysterious Immortal Dao Runes as cryptic power circulated.

Countless densely packed divine chains of Great Dao laws and order appeared from nowhere, shrouding that place.

Chaotic light flickered, containing endless killing intent, as though it had completely sealed off the area.

Li Ming had not expected that while his lifespan was still abundant and far from exhausted, he would sense the opportunity to completely transform into a Perfect Chaotic Body.

He seized that opportunity.

He also wanted to comprehend even more.

He wanted to use this chance to transform into a Chaotic Body and live a new lifetime.

He wanted to undergo Nirvana and be reborn, giving birth to a truly perfect Chaotic Body from his originally imperfect body.

From that day onward, he seemed to drift between life and death.

The Great Dao Cocoon, like a placenta, maintained his strange state of being neither dead nor extinct.

Within the Great Dao Cocoon, Li Ming's jet-black hair gradually turned gray, then gradually became snow-white as the days passed.

His hair became like white weeds, and his body continued to age.

It was as if he had crossed several thousand years—ten thousand years.

He had grown old.

His once tall, majestic, heroic body was now rapidly aging beyond recognition.

It was as though he had lost endless years in the blink of an eye and entered his twilight years.

Yet Li Ming's aura grew increasingly terrifying.

Fortunately, the True Immortal corpse blocked it. Otherwise, even a stray ripple of the Great Dao could have unleashed endless slaughter upon this boundless black ocean.

Rumble!

The void tore apart as endless chaos surged and roiled.

Endless chaos condensed around the Great Dao Cocoon that enclosed Li Ming.

Chaotic light glittered, dazzling to a terrifying degree.

Li Ming's body, meanwhile, was undergoing a strange transformation.

His withered, emaciated, aged body rapidly changed within the chaos, as though time were flowing backward.

He changed from an old man into a middle-aged man, then into a youth.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

At last, a teenage boy stepped out from his original body.

He was spirited and vigorous, brimming with youthful vitality, and radiated a shocking aura.

Chaotic energy coiled around him before instantly sinking into his body.

The Great Dao Cocoon then exploded with a boom, transforming into countless dazzling motes of light that flowed into the original aged body.

Li Ming had succeeded.

He had truly transformed into a flawless Chaotic Body.

He had lived out his Second Lifetime.

At the age of twenty-six thousand, Li Ming had successfully lived out his Second Lifetime and transformed into a flawless Chaotic Body.

Li Ming had not expected this session of comprehending the Dao and cultivating to take so long.

He had directly transformed into a new Lifetime.

Naturally, Li Ming living out a new Lifetime brought countless strange phenomena.

The Demon Venerable had not appeared in the outside world for so many years. Many wondered whether he had already taken medicine to live out his Second Lifetime, only to quietly pass away afterward, or whether he had cut himself down and hidden away.

Yet after the Demon Venerable had vanished for over ten thousand years, his aura suddenly appeared once more.

Within the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, blood energy abruptly surged into the heavens, piercing the firmament and alarming all living beings between heaven and earth.

At this time, many people had spread word that the Demon Venerable had long since died.

But today, the Demon Venerable's aura shocked everyone.

The myriad Daos of heaven and earth wailed, all submitting beneath Li Ming's feet.

He had actually successfully discarded the Heavenly Heart Imprint and risen above it.

He still resonated and vibrated with the myriad Daos of heaven and earth.

But Li Ming had already reached another realm.

Upon sensing the Demon Venerable's aura, the powerful beings of the universe could not help trembling all over and prostrating themselves in worship.

Everyone looked toward the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

No matter how vast the distance, even across countless star fields and the distant Chaos Sea, people could still see the wondrous spectacle of time rising from the Chaos Sea—a spectacle formed from fragments of time.

Boundless blood energy surged skyward as a young boy stepped out from his original body.

His incomparably vigorous blood energy, immensely powerful vitality, and even more astonishing Chaos Origin had all undergone Nirvana and been reborn.

He had been reborn amid withering and death.

It was a young Demon Venerable, appearing to be only eighteen years old.

His black hair cascaded like a waterfall over his crystalline, shimmering body.

Standing within the vast Chaos Sea, he looked down upon all living beings beneath heaven and earth.

He had lived out a new Lifetime, and his power was enough to make one's heart tremble.

People were all stunned by Li Ming's immense lifespan.

After calculating on their fingers, many discovered that Li Ming's first Lifetime had astonishingly lasted twenty-six thousand years.

His blood energy now rose like a vast ocean amid the towering crimson haze.

This shocked the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Especially the Dark Supremes, who erupted into an uproar.

Li Ming's method of living out a new Lifetime was simply too subversive.

So many had planned to kill Li Ming in his old age and divide his flesh, blood, and origin among themselves.

No one had expected Li Ming to silently live out a new Lifetime.

His first Lifetime had lasted so long it was terrifying; it was practically a miracle.

All the Dark Supremes had believed that he would either cut himself down or quietly die.

Otherwise, there was simply no escaping the great tribulation of life and death.

Yet Li Ming had defied the heavens and lived out a new Lifetime.

The Demon Venerable was unbelievably young, brimming with vitality and carrying an inexplicable majesty.

He walked out of the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, shocking everyone.

The great powerful clans throughout the universe were all dumbfounded. The Demon Venerable had truly created a myth.

His first Lifetime had actually reached twenty-six thousand years, setting an unprecedented record.

Many even believed that Li Ming had lived out his Third Lifetime.

He had never cut himself down and had remained in the peak state of a Heavenly Venerable all along!