But the situation was not so simple. At this moment, traces of pure death energy surged from his internal organs and even his bloodline, flowing into the Sea of Bitterness.
In an instant, the Sea of Bitterness, suppressed by Splendid Mountains and Rivers, roared once more and charged toward Ji Hao's Life Spring, seeking to destroy it completely.
As the most vital part of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, the Life Spring was where the life essence that living beings relied upon gushed forth. It was the evolution of the wheel of life. With every additional year, another mark would appear upon that wheel. In the end, when the Life Spring no longer produced life essence and could no longer suppress the Sea of Bitterness, it would collapse, and life would reach its end.
Yet now, this situation had occurred prematurely within Ji Hao's body. The utmost death energy within his bloodline uncontrollably manipulated the Sea of Bitterness, raising monstrous waves and shattering the Life Spring.
Ji Hao concealed himself within the Void. Even when Ye Fan and his classmates passed by, none of them noticed him. Void Secret Technique!
"Cough, cough! Damn it, I've accumulated too much death energy." Ji Hao shut his eyes tightly and coughed up a pool of blood. A trace of pure death energy within it corroded the floor.
Although Divine Source could seal living beings and preserve them through the ages, it was not absolute. A faint trace of time would still act upon them.
His eyes suddenly opened, radiant with divine splendor. Fortune Immortal Light burst forth from them, while a wisp of death energy emerged as well. Life and death intertwined and clashed there.
"It seems the power of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm alone can no longer suppress it!" Ji Hao said with a slight frown.
He did not wish to use the power of the Dao Palace Secret Realm. If the death energy Huangdi had suppressed in his Sea of Bitterness contaminated his Dao Palace, things would become troublesome.
Moreover, doing so would go against the Yellow Emperor's original intent. The Yellow Emperor had suppressed all the death energy in Ji Hao's body within the Wheel Sea Secret Realm so that Ji Hao could comprehend the mysteries of the cycle of life and death from it, thereby resolving the death energy himself.
At that time, Ji Hao might have a chance to break through the Dao laws of the two Great Emperors and attain the Dao.
To achieve this goal, Ji Hao had not even cultivated the two imperial scriptures most suited to him—the Void Scripture and the Hengyu Scripture.
Instead, he cultivated Nüwa's Wa Huang Scripture. Nüwa's lineage had been passed down on Earth, and Nüwa had been her successor back then.
The Wa Huang Scripture Ji Hao cultivated had been taught to him by her. Later, Nüwa encountered problems in her cultivation and nearly suffered a calamity. In the end, the Flame Emperor saved her, but she became a Jingwei Bird, her mind muddled and unclear.
Even ordinary Medicine Kings could not save her. She and Ji Hao were suffering from much the same ailment; nothing less than an Immortality Elixir would do.
But how could an Immortality Elixir be an ordinary thing? In the original story, Ye Fan had obtained several Immortality Elixirs before attaining the Dao, but he was the protagonist, blessed with immense fortune.
The Flame Emperor and the Yellow Emperor had also searched Kunlun Sacred Mountain, but unfortunately, they had failed to find an Immortality Elixir.
Now, it seemed that both the Yellow Emperor and Ji Hao had underestimated the death energy within the bloodline. The two Emperor Corpses had gained sentience, and combined together, they were extraordinarily difficult to deal with.
"So what if it contaminates my Dao Palace? One day, I will not only break through this Emperor Corpse death energy, but also shatter the laws of the Great Emperors. My path may have some setbacks, but I believe that in the future, no one in this world will be able to stop me!" Divine light bloomed in Ji Hao's eyes, and he resembled a young Great Emperor.
Having made up his mind, Ji Hao used the power of the Dao Palace to suppress the Emperor Corpse death energy.
The Dao Palace Secret Realm cultivated the five viscera—the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—also known as the five divine organs. They stored essence and energy without leaking them, nurtured life without decaying, and formed an immensely powerful secret realm within the human body.
Especially since Ji Hao cultivated the Wa Huang Scripture, a scripture renowned for its vitality. Legend had it that Nüwa controlled Fortune and, with a single thought, could revive a dead star.
Cultivators of the Wa Huang Scripture were practically another kind of Medicine King, their blood rich with vast life force.
Their lifespan far exceeded that of ordinary cultivators.
Unfortunately, it was exceptionally difficult to cultivate. Even someone like Nüwa, comparable to an imperial descendant, had suffered a calamity while cultivating it and could only turn into a Jingwei Bird to survive.
Ji Hao sat cross-legged in the Void and circulated the Dao Palace Secret Realm. Amid rumbling sounds, phantoms of five heavens and earth emerged over his chest.
Each of those heavens and earth contained vigorous vitality and boundless life essence!
At the same time, Ji Hao's body rumbled. The five energies rose toward the heavens, and five streams of divine smoke like dragons shot from the five celestial realms into the sky!
Ji Hao took out chunks of Divine Source the size of fists and refined them. A hazy mist spread forth, enveloping him like a great bronze furnace.
Divine Source was called Divine Source because it contained an incomparably vast amount of life essence, something ordinary Source could not compare to.
Streams of immense life essence poured into Ji Hao's body. Not only that, but vast Void energy from the boundless emptiness was also brought under his control.
Clang! Clang!
At that moment, he tempered himself. Hazy mist wound around his body, and he seemed to be forging himself into an immortal celestial embryo, containing the essence of life, aided by the power of the Void, tempering himself!
His bloodline awakened, its light reaching ten thousand zhang high as auspicious radiance surged like a churning sea. Fragments of imperial Dao laws reflected from his bloodline and flickered in the Void, accompanied by waves of chanting like sacrificial rites.
His entire body felt at ease, every pore opening as a strange power of the Dao flowed out. Bursting with vitality and creating all things through Fortune, it spread into every inch of flesh and blood, washing away every trace of death energy.
Every inch of Ji Hao's flesh spewed Fortune Immortal Light, shining brilliantly. The Void rang with clanging sounds, like the radiance emitted by Immortal Metal!
The two Great Emperor laws within his bloodline were awakening, and even the Void resonated, as though celebrating the emperor who had once controlled it.
A great sun emerged from his bloodline. All directions returned to one; across the nine heavens and ten lands, I alone stood supreme. That was the law of the Hengyu Great Emperor.
An extraordinarily comfortable sensation filled him, and his entire body grew warm. The fragments of the Hengyu Great Emperor's laws hung overhead like the sun; just as when all things were first born, the Solar Body appeared!
Ji Hao's Dao Palace was exceptionally extraordinary. He had seen the Dao Palaces of others. If other people's Dao Palaces were merely "palaces," and the outstanding ones resembled five vast "lands," then Ji Hao's Dao Palace was like five boundless "heavens and earth," immense and magnificent.
As a transmigrator, Ji Hao had yet to suffer society's harsh lessons. Great ambition filled his heart, and he wanted to forge his own Dao upon the path left behind by the Huangtian Emperor, laying the foundation for his future path toward becoming a Dao Ancestor.
And the Dao Palace Secret Realm was what he had chosen. In the past, the Huangtian Emperor had opened ten heavenly abodes, shattered and reopened them, then fused them into one, forming a unique heavenly abode. Ji Hao also wanted to open a sixth Dao Palace, a Dao belonging solely to himself!
Within the five boundless heavens and earth, five-element Fortune energy descended, containing streams of immortal light. Crossing the seal laid down by the Yellow Emperor, they fell into the Sea of Bitterness.
At once, immeasurable immortal light erupted. Life essence gushed from the Life Spring, while the death energy was suppressed beneath a heavenly curtain formed from five-colored immortal light.
No matter how the death energy stirred the power of the Sea of Bitterness, it was ultimately only a small secret realm. How could it contend against the five heavens and earth of the Dao Palace?
It could only submit and be suppressed.
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