Transformation Character Secret

The countless masses of Chaos exploded at once. Li Ming's towering, heroic figure stepped forward, and heaven and earth shattered.

He seemed to have crossed the River of Time, his form hazy and indistinct.

The next instant, his body erupted with radiance brilliant beyond measure, illuminating the dark starry sky and shaking the ages.

This was a true Divine War!

A peak battle, a battle to the death, between flawless imperial Dao experts!

No one had expected the outcome of this battle to be like this.

People had originally thought Li Ming would be beaten to death by their combined assault.

Yet Li Ming alone had overturned four Dark Supremes.

What erupted from Li Ming was the incomparably terrifying Immortal Ascension Light—the Eternal Ascension Power.

Li Ming had initially believed that Empress Numinous Treasure's Soaring Immortal Art and Myriad-Transformation Sacred Art would be difficult to comprehend.

After all, though they were both Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Arts, Li Ming had comprehended his own version, one unique to himself. The Dao paths they walked were different.

Yet based on certain descriptions from the original work, Li Ming had forcefully deduced his own Soaring Immortal Art and Myriad-Transformation Sacred Art. Together, they could be called the Transformation Character Secret.

This was his own unique one of the Nine Secret Techniques!

Born specifically to counter the Nine Secret Techniques!

It could transform everything in the world.

It could turn decay into wonder, and wonder into decay.

Even when Li Ming had fought Carefree Heavenly Venerable, he had not used it.

When the River of Time had appeared, Li Ming had intended to use the Transformation Character Secret, only for it to be swallowed by that unfathomable Bronze Mirror.

Now, these four Dark Supremes had the fortune of being the first to experience this legendary Flying Immortal Power.

The unprecedented Transformation Character Secret!

Void was torn apart, the Chaos Sea boiled, and nothing could stop Li Ming.

The world was shaken. All living beings trembled in terror. Even old Saints who used Heaven-Piercing Dharma Eyes to glimpse fragments of the battlefield were petrified with shock.

Li Ming was actually this powerful. Facing four Dark Supremes who had undergone Extreme Sublimation alone, he was like something out of myth.

In this era, multiple Supremes coexisting in the world was something many people knew.

As for who was stronger, other than the universally acknowledged Eight Heavenly Venerables, everyone else could only be called a Supreme.

Yet even if they were called Supremes, no one was willing to admit that they were weaker than another.

Every one of them had once ruled an era across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

And now, people truly witnessed a genuine Divine War.

Li Ming's strength clearly surpassed those Dark Supremes. Not one of them was his match.

On the Mythical Battlefield, Li Ming let out a great roar. Sun, moon, and stars collapsed, while the Flying Immortal Power surpassed every art in the world.

All living beings discovered in shock that the four Dark Supremes were being driven back step by step by Li Ming alone.

As imperial Dao Supremes, they should have known neither cowardice nor weakness, only an invincible conviction that they were unmatched beneath the heavens.

But now, Li Ming was hunting them down alone, sending them flying and blowing their bodies apart again and again.

At some point, people discovered that brilliant crimson clouds had appeared in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

"That is actually the blood of Dark Supremes..."

"The blood of Dark Supremes is splattering everywhere, covering the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland..."

With a thunderous boom, accompanied by the wails of the Myriad Dao of Heaven and Earth, a Dark Supreme who had undergone Extreme Sublimation exploded. He never recovered.

He died completely, his body and spirit utterly annihilated.

That incomparably terrifying fluctuation was like a blood-red sun rising in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, illuminating over half the universe.

The sun, moon, and stars in the void were all dyed crimson by the red haze.

In an instant, everything was stained the color of blood.

Crimson light shone throughout more than half the universe.

That region of the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland was destroyed. The stars dimmed beyond measure and became ruins.

All living beings trembled. An indescribable pressure and terror filled their hearts, making them feel as though their souls would shatter.

One Supreme after another from the Dark Restricted Areas was awakened, carefully observing this battle.

The entire universe seemed to have frozen, sinking into deathly silence.

No one dared make a sound, as though they feared being noticed.

The whole universe was deathly still, as though all things had withered away.

With another thunderous boom, another Dark Supreme was blasted apart.

His blood energy pierced the Nine Heavens, and endless crimson clouds erupted, as though destroying heaven and earth while also opening them anew.

"Two Dark Supremes have already died!"

"Only the Lord of Reincarnation and Thunder God remain!"

"The Lord of Reincarnation and Thunder God are fleeing frantically! They are escaping toward the Chaos Sea in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland!"

People were deeply shaken.

They had never expected that after two Dark Supremes died, the Lord of Reincarnation and Thunder God would not even dare remain on the Mythical Battlefield. They fled it directly and escaped toward the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

They wanted to hide within the Chaos Sea.

The battle continued. The Flying Immortal Power tore apart heaven and earth, becoming even more dazzling and powerful.

The Chaos Sea was forcibly ripped open.

Li Ming appeared completely unscathed, his momentum overwhelming as he radiated unparalleled divine might.

This battle caused even the Chaos Sea of the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland to collapse, with countless stars reduced to ash.

To replenish their blood energy, the Lord of Reincarnation and Thunder God desperately fled toward places inhabited by life.

Everywhere they passed was drenched in blood.

On countless life-bearing stars, every living creature was devoured by them in an instant.

They even swallowed entire planets in a single bite.

But that was all they could do. Under Li Ming's pursuit, they could not escape very far at all.

Before long, they were forced back into the ruins of the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

There was no light there, no vitality, and no intact river of stars.

Everywhere lay ruins, boundless Chaos, or endless void.

Occasionally, enormous corpses larger than starfields could be seen. Their divinity had long vanished, and at the slightest touch, they turned to ash.

The battle between Li Ming, the Lord of Reincarnation, and Thunder God shattered heaven and earth and made ghosts howl.

Countless terrifying and sinister phenomena appeared. A torrential rain of blood fell across the universe, black lightning streaked through the stars, and dreadful thunder continually exploded.

All of this came from Thunder God's Dao power.

Endless Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, along with endless spectral soldiers and generals, stretched across the starry sky.

These were manifestations of the Lord of Reincarnation.

No matter how Thunder God and the Lord of Reincarnation struggled and resisted, every terrifying phenomenon and scene was thoroughly ground away.

In that place, incomparably brilliant light erupted.

With a thunderous boom, blood light soared into the sky once more, blood splashing across the universe.

That region of the universe underwent a great collapse. Even time and space were about to fall into disorder.

Thunder God's body exploded.

Blood surged like a sea, thunder surged like a sea, vast and terrifying.

Thunder God was actually killed just like that.

In Ye Fan's era, there had also been a Forbidden Zone Heir called Thunder God. It was unknown whether he had inherited this Supreme Thunder God's legacy.

Li Ming was also greatly surprised. He had not expected this obscure Thunder God from the original work to have studied lightning to such a profound degree.

After his death, he directly transformed into a Thunder Sea, becoming an endless lightning storm. He truly could not be underestimated.

But that was all.

That incomparably terrifying Thunder Sea was directly swallowed by the black hole Li Ming manifested.

It was devoured into the black hole within his Wheel Sea Secret Realm.

He felt that Thunder God's cultivation arts and secret techniques were worth studying carefully.

Watching Thunder God be killed as well, the Lord of Reincarnation fell directly into a frenzied state.

He madly devoured one life-bearing planet after another, desperately replenishing his blood energy.

Having maintained Extreme Sublimation for so long, he had no path of retreat left.

Thus, when he devoured living beings, he had no reservations whatsoever. He only sought to become stronger, to grievously wound Li Ming, or even perish together with him.

After Li Ming swallowed Thunder God, he went to hunt down the Lord of Reincarnation.

The Carefree Boots were incomparably fast. In the blink of an eye, Li Ming caught up with the Lord of Reincarnation.

He instantly blew him apart five times.

Every time, it was with Flying Immortal Power.

He blasted him into fragments, scattering blood and bones in every direction as his Primordial Spirit exploded.

At last, he died completely.

The Lord of Reincarnation was dead.

All the Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea had died at Li Ming's hands.

This incomparably terrifying Divine War was like a Dark Turmoil. The living beings devoured by Thunder God and the Lord of Reincarnation were beyond counting.

Seeing that the battle had ended, cheers erupted across the world.

In the eyes of many, the Dark Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea had wanted to launch a Dark Turmoil, only to be suppressed by Li Ming.

Other than those Dark Supremes, no one knew that Li Ming had actively provoked the Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea and killed them.

Li Ming did not take such a misunderstanding to heart.

In any case, to him, a good reputation was merely a shackle of morality.

A bad reputation instead allowed him to do as he pleased, to be both dark and righteous, to follow his heart and nature and live freely.

Li Ming's Heavenly Demonic Saber automatically devoured the flesh, blood, and bones of the four Dark Supremes.

The fragments and flesh scattered across the cosmic starry sky flew back in reverse as though time had reversed, entering the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

The imprints of five Dark Supremes, including Carefree Heavenly Venerable, appeared upon the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Clearly, only true imperial Dao experts were qualified to leave their Grand Dao Imprints upon it.

As for the fragments of their weapons, Li Ming gathered them all as well.

The Dao-Proving Weapon of the Lord of Reincarnation was a suit of armor forged from Eternal Blue Gold.

After extracting the Lord of Reincarnation's scriptures from the damaged Weapon Deity, Li Ming had the Heavenly Demonic Saber devour both the Eternal Blue Gold fragments and the Weapon Deity.

Thunder God's weapon was a black scepter forged from Dragon-Patterned Black Gold.

After extracting Thunder God's Scripture, Li Ming similarly had the Heavenly Demonic Saber devour the Thunder God Scepter.

The weapons of the other two Dark Supremes were equally distinctive.

One was a ruler, and one was a tower.

The ruler was refined from Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold. Brilliant as a rainbow, it radiated dazzling crimson divine light.

As one of the Nine Immortal Metals, Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold was rarely seen and exceedingly scarce.

Throughout the entire world of Shrouding the Heavens, only a handful of Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold pieces had appeared.

Even Huang Xudao of Blood Phoenix Mountain had been drawn to Ye Fan's fist-sized piece of Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold.

Yet this ruler, an Extreme Dao Weapon, had been forged entirely from pure Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold.

At this moment, the ruler had also been shattered into fragments, and its Weapon Deity was similarly broken beyond repair.

Li Ming let out repeated sighs of amazement as he looked at the Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold.

This was the first time Li Ming had seen genuine Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold.

Its divine light shone in myriad rays, crimson like a ruby, bewitchingly dazzling and breathtakingly beautiful.

Divine radiance flowed through its crystalline body, and faint phoenix patterns could be seen within it, mysterious and beautiful.

After examining it carefully, Li Ming tossed it to the Heavenly Demonic Saber and let it devour it.

He likewise interrogated the Weapon Deity for its scriptures and secret techniques.

As for the tower, its origins were equally extraordinary.

It was actually a Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda!

This purple divine tower, over a meter tall, had not been shattered. It lay silently there.

Although its Weapon Deity had already been devoured by the Heavenly Demonic Saber, the aura flowing from the Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda still resembled an ancient blue heaven crashing down, radiating Extreme Dao Divine Might.

After seeing Immortal Tear Green Gold, Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, Eternal Blue Gold, and Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, Li Ming had finally encountered the legendary Divine Marked Purple Gold.

He lifted the Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda and examined it carefully.

Such a huge piece of Divine Marked Purple Gold—this nameless Dark Supreme had truly been fortunate to obtain such a large piece of immortal material and even forge it into an Extreme Dao Weapon.

By Li Ming's estimate, the Divine Marked Purple Gold was abundant enough to amount to an entire cubic meter.

Even if it were shattered and reforged, it could still be made into two Extreme Dao Weapons.

"I never expected the Age of Mythology to have so many rare materials."

"In later generations, such extravagance would be impossible. One certainly would not easily obtain such a large piece of Divine Marked Purple Gold!"

"I remember that when Ye Fan and Little Pine entered the Kunlun Secret Realm, they obtained a Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda half a meter tall. It probably used no more than a quarter cubic meter of Divine Marked Purple Gold."

Looking at such a large Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda, Li Ming also marveled at his own good fortune.

"Murder, arson, and plundering treasures truly are the fastest ways to get rich."

"No wonder Ye Fan of later generations was extravagant enough to take one cubic meter of each of the Nine Immortal Metals, forge them into nine Immortal Cauldrons, and then merge them with the Myriad-Mother Qi Cauldron."

"He fought so many Dark Supremes. The immortal materials those Dark Supremes had accumulated over countless ages likely all fell into Ye Fan's hands."

Thinking of this, Li Ming became even more interested in fighting those Dark Supremes.

Not to suppress a Dark Turmoil, but for their treasures.

Immortal light swirled around the Divine Marked Purple Gold. After being forged into an Extreme Dao Weapon, it had already begun to gradually develop sentience.

This Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda was crystalline and translucent down to every inch, purple light flickering from it, as dazzling as a purple diamond.

Fine strands of patterns covered its surface, like divine marks branded by gods, containing an indescribable aura of the Grand Dao.

No wonder it was called Divine Marked Purple Gold.

After examining it carefully, Li Ming tossed it to the Heavenly Demonic Saber and let it devour it.

"The Heavenly Demonic Saber has already gathered Immortal Tear Green Gold, Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, Eternal Blue Gold, Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, and Divine Marked Purple Gold. Its materials are more than sufficient; it is no weaker than the Undying Heavenly Emperor's Undying Heavenly Saber of later generations."

"Based on the original text, there should also be Dao Tribulation Gold, Heaven's Mandate Orange Gold, Light Platinum, Eternal Blue Gold... If I can gather the other four Immortal Metals as well, the Heavenly Demonic Saber's material quality can be upgraded to rival the Immortal Ascension Cauldron."

"What level will a Heavenly Demonic Saber that perfectly fuses the Nine Immortal Metals evolve to? That is truly something to look forward to."

At that thought, Li Ming could not help sharpening his blade against those Dark Supremes.

But now was not the time.

He had obtained so many rare materials, the origins of several Supremes, as well as their scriptures, cultivation methods, and secret arts. They were enough to occupy him in contemplation for a long time.

And there was also the Reincarnation Sea. Li Ming intended to claim it for himself and would never allow it to fall into the hands of other Dark Supremes.

Li Ming soon arrived at the Reincarnation Sea and left his own unique mark at its entrance.

He wanted everyone to know that this was his territory and that they had better not come bothering him without knowing their place.

He needed to enter the Reincarnation Sea and see whether there were any treasures within.

Since the Humanoid Immortal Medicine's tree-trunk form had fallen into Carefree Heavenly Venerable's hands, he wanted to see whether the Humanoid Immortal Medicine itself was in the Reincarnation Sea.

By his reasoning, with so many Dark Supremes in the Reincarnation Sea, there ought to be at least one Immortal Medicine, right?

Could it be that all five Dark Supremes had relied on begging for Immortal Medicine when they lived out their Second Lifetimes?

Where was Emperor Zun at this time?

Was the Humanoid Immortal Medicine in his hands?

Emperor Zun was a very strange man.

When he first appeared, Emperor Zun had an imposing aura, looking every bit like a heroic leader.

With great wisdom and perseverance, he founded the Heavenly Court and forged the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.

He refined the Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixir and invited many Dark Supremes to emerge together and undertake the Ascension of the Entire Religion.

But when the day of ascension arrived, Emperor Zun seemed to lose his mind and insisted on sacrificing the other Supremes.

Then he inexplicably faked his death and vanished for so many years.

He left endless Grand Dao Runes throughout the universe, intending to refine the entire world into a World Cauldron.

With the strength of an old-established Red Dust Immortal, he could even kill any other Red Dust Immortal in a one-on-one fight.

Yet at the end, he overestimated himself and challenged Ye Fan, Empress Numinous Treasure, Beginningless Emperor, and Duan De.

No matter how one looked at it, it was no different from courting death.

If he truly wanted the Dao Fruits of three Red Dust Immortals, he could have defeated them one by one. There was no need to fight four at once.

Yet he insisted on seeking death. Why?

There were simply too many things that did not make sense.

After going through so much to become a Red Dust Immortal, he had chosen to seek death instead.

When Li Ming read the original text, he had all sorts of theories. He had also seen many fanfictions with countless theories of their own.

After transmigrating, he had even more suspicions.

Since the era of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, there had been a saying that the Heavenly Court was inauspicious and that anyone who touched it would inevitably suffer a curse.

Then the truth was most likely just that.

Either he had been contaminated by the Weird, or he had been cursed by some supreme powerhouse.

Li Ming had yet to discover any marks left by Emperor Zun in this universe.

Perhaps Emperor Zun had not yet established the Heavenly Court at this time, nor had he been contaminated or cursed?

According to the original text, Emperor Zun should have been the reincarnation of some Ancient Venerable, living out a new Lifetime and naming himself Emperor Zun.

According to the original text, Emperor Zun had actually attained Enlightenment as Supreme long ago.

Later, he transformed into a naturally nurtured infant, devoured the essence of heaven and earth throughout the universe, underwent Extreme Sublimation and extreme transformation, and directly became one who had attained Enlightenment.

Moreover, he abandoned his former Dao and methods and named himself Emperor Zun.

From these descriptions, Li Ming vaguely formed a suspicion.

Emperor Zun had likely not attained Enlightenment as Supreme anew, but had instead lived out a new Lifetime.

Judging from the fact that he had been naturally nurtured, Emperor Zun had most likely used the Saint Spirit Transformation Method to live out a new Lifetime.

In other words, after consuming an Immortal Medicine, Emperor Zun lived out his Second Lifetime.

Then, through the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, he lived out his Third Lifetime or Fourth Lifetime.

This transformation of a Sacred Spirit clearly corresponded to abandoning all Dao and methods and severing all ties to the past.

After all, this Sacred Spirit transformation method nearly changed one's racial traits and physique.

Emperor Zun's transformation method was simply extremely special. He did not seem to have turned into a true Sacred Spirit, but still retained a human appearance and form.

He appeared as though newly born.

There was also some supporting evidence.

For instance, during the era of Shrouding the Heavens, a supreme Sacred Spirit from the Divine Organization had once fought a powerhouse from the Underworld.

And there was Eternal Emperor, the man who possessed the inheritance of the Ancient Heavenly Court.

After living out his Second Lifetime, he used the Saint Spirit Transformation Method to live out his Third Lifetime.

This inheritance of Eternal Emperor's most likely came from Emperor Zun.

Eternal Emperor's successful Third Lifetime showed that he had also found the threshold of the Red Dust Immortal Path.

Unfortunately, his descendants had been too useless.

In the end, under the pressure of the Ruthless Empress, he could only die in frustration.

When reading the original text, Li Ming found that there were truly too few Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors who could live out a Third Lifetime.

Every Great Emperor or Ancient Emperor who could live out a Third Lifetime was extraordinary.

Since Emperor Zun might have used the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, he might currently be hiding somewhere, undergoing a Sacred Spirit transformation.

Li Ming was extremely interested in this improved Sacred Spirit Transformation Method and wanted to obtain it.

Since even Eternal Emperor could use this method to live out a new Lifetime, Li Ming was confident that he could comprehend it as well.

In any case, there was still an immense amount of time before the era of Shrouding the Heavens began. He could fully use this lengthy Sacred Spirit transformation to live out a new Lifetime.

That would allow him to walk the Red Dust Immortal Path more steadily.

And Li Ming's ambitions were even greater.

In the original text, Undying Mountain had once nurtured an Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit. The gestation had lasted an extremely long time, but he had become unimaginably powerful.

Moreover, judging from the descriptions in the original text, the Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit Emperor, in his First Lifetime, had even been stronger than Chaos Heavenly Emperor Wang Bo in his Second Lifetime.

This could roughly be seen from the number of moves they used when fighting Ye Fan.

Therefore, to become even stronger, Li Ming planned to pry the Saint Spirit Transformation Method out of Emperor Zun someday. He would find Undying Mountain somehow, or seize Undying Mountain from the Undying Heavenly Emperor. Not only did he want to transform into a Sacred Spirit and live out a new Lifetime, he also wanted to use an immense span of time to grow stronger, ideally becoming an Immortal Tears Green Gold-level Sacred Spirit and making up for the deficiencies of his former physique.

Of the Sacred Spirit Emperors who appeared in the original text, one was Spirit Emperor, the so-called Spirit God.

The other was Stone Emperor, likewise a powerhouse born from the natural nurturing of heaven and earth.

Both had been nourished by heaven and earth, beings born through transformation and sublimation.

Their gestation required an extremely long time, millions of years before they could successfully come into being.

Although most Sacred Spirits could not reach complete transformation because of various accidents, some still ultimately attained Emperor Enlightenment.

Every child of a Sacred Spirit had received Heaven's blessing. Ordinary people who killed a Sacred Spirit might suffer a curse.

Only those who had truly attained Enlightenment dared to slaughter them without restraint, unafraid of curses.

This Sacred Spirit transformation method had both benefits and drawbacks.

Emperor Zun's improved Saint Spirit Method clearly required far less time.

This could be seen from the fact that Eternal Emperor had completed his transformation in only several hundred thousand years.

If it were someone else, they might worry that the transformation would take too long and be sabotaged, causing all their efforts to go to waste.

They might even be secretly devoured by the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

But Li Ming was different.

Li Ming possessed the Bronze Mirror, which could help him conceal his aura.

While he was gestating, he could completely hide every trace of his aura.

Even when he succeeded, he could pretend to still be transforming, deliberately put away the Bronze Mirror, and leak his aura.

Perhaps he could lure in the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who sought special bloodlines for transformation.

Then he could devour the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

But whether Li Ming would be stronger then, or the Undying Heavenly Emperor would be stronger, was difficult to say.

After all, although the Undying Heavenly Emperor's transformations took a very long time, they had not taken that long in the beginning.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor's transformations during his earlier Lifetimes had been incredibly rapid.

This required careful consideration.

Li Ming did not want his Sacred Spirit transformation to succeed, only for him to discover in shock that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had just completed another transformation, had transformed more times than Li Ming, and was at his absolute peak, searching everywhere for fresh bloodlines.

A bloody battle would then be unavoidable.

So this matter required long-term planning. He would only decide after carefully deducing it.

It was unknown whether the Undying Heavenly Emperor had been born yet, but he had likely not yet fallen from the Immortal Domain into this world.