But the situation was not so simple. At this moment, strands of pure Death Qi surged from his five viscera, six bowels, 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 utterly destroy it.
As the most important part of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, the Life Spring was where the Life Essence that living beings depended upon gushed forth. It was an evolution of the Wheel of Life. With each additional year, another mark appeared upon the Wheel of Life. Until, at last, the Life Spring no longer produced Life Essence and could no longer suppress the Sea of Bitterness, eventually collapsing as life headed toward its end.
Yet now, this situation had occurred prematurely within Ji Hao's body. The ultimate Death Qi in his bloodline uncontrollably manipulated the Sea of Bitterness, stirring towering waves and destroying the Life Spring.
Ji Hao hid 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 Qi." Ji Hao squeezed his eyes shut and coughed up a pool of blood. A strand of pure Death Qi within it corroded the floor.
Although Divine Source could seal living beings and preserve them for eternity, it was not absolute. A faint trace of Years would still act upon them.
His eyes suddenly opened, brilliant divine radiance shining within them. Fortune Immortal Light burst forth from his pupils, while another strand of Death Qi emerged. Life and death intertwined and collided 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 want to use the power of the Dao Palace Secret Realm. If the Death Qi that Yellow Emperor had suppressed within the Sea of Bitterness corroded his Dao Palace, things would become troublesome.
Moreover, doing so would go against Yellow Emperor's original intention. Yellow Emperor had originally suppressed all the Death Qi 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 Qi himself.
Then, Ji Hao might have a chance of breaking through the Dao laws of the two Great Emperors and attaining the Dao.
To accomplish this goal, Ji Hao had even refrained from cultivating the two Emperor 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, Flame Emperor saved her, but she became a Jingwei Bird, her mind muddled and unclear.
Ordinary Medicine Kings could not save her. She and Ji Hao were in much the same plight; nothing less than an Immortality Elixir would do.
But how could an Immortality Elixir be an ordinary thing? Ye Fan had possessed several Immortality Elixirs before attaining the Dao in the original story, but he was the protagonist and possessed immense Fortune Aura.
Flame Emperor and Yellow Emperor had also searched Kunlun Sacred Mountain, but unfortunately, they had failed to find an Immortality Elixir.
Now it seemed that both Yellow Emperor and Ji Hao had underestimated the Death Qi within his bloodline. Two Emperor Corpses had undergone Spirit Awakening; combined, they were far more troublesome than usual.
"So what if it contaminates my Dao Palace? One day, I will not only break through this Emperor Corpse Death Qi, but also break through the Great Emperor Laws. My path may suffer some setbacks, but I believe that no one in this world will be able to stop me in the future!" Divine Light bloomed in Ji Hao's eyes, and he resembled a Youthful Emperor.
Having made up his mind, Ji Hao used the power of the Dao Palace to suppress the Emperor Corpse Death Qi.
The Dao Palace Secret Realm cultivated the five viscera: the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, also known as the Five Spirit Viscera. They stored Essence Qi without leaking it, nurtured life without decay, and formed an exceptionally powerful secret realm within the human body.
Moreover, Ji Hao cultivated the Wa Huang Scripture, a scripture renowned for its vitality. Legend had it that Nüwa controlled Fortune and could revive a dead star with a single thought.
Cultivators of the Wa Huang Scripture were practically an alternative kind of Medicine King, their blood filled with boundless Vitality.
Their lifespans far exceeded those of ordinary cultivators.
Unfortunately, it was exceedingly difficult to cultivate. Even someone like Nüwa, who rivaled an Emperor's granddaughter, had encountered a calamity during cultivation and helplessly transformed into a Jingwei Bird to survive.
Ji Hao sat cross-legged in the Void and circulated the Dao Palace Secret Realm. Amid thunderous rumbling, phantoms of five regions of Heaven and Earth emerged over his chest.
Each region of Heaven and Earth contained vibrant Vitality and vast Life Essence Qi!
At the same time, Ji Hao's body rumbled. Five qi rose to the heavens, and five dragon-like streams of divine smoke shot from the five regions of the Firmament into the sky!
Ji Hao took out fist-sized chunks of Divine Source and refined them. A hazy mist spread out, enveloping him as though he were inside a massive bronze furnace.
Divine Source was called Divine Source because it contained an incomparably immense amount of Life Essence, something ordinary Source could not compare to.
Streams of immense Life Essence Qi poured into Ji Hao's body. Not only that, but vast currents of Void energy from the boundless Void were also brought under his control.
Clang! Clang!
At this moment, he tempered himself. Hazy mist wrapped around his body as he seemed to forge himself into an immortal Immortal Embryo, containing the essence of life and aided by the power of the Void as he tempered himself!
His bloodline revived, blazing with boundless radiance as auspicious qi surged like a churning sea. Fragments of Imperial Dao Laws reflected from his bloodline and flickered through the Void, accompanied by waves of chanting sacrifices.
His entire body felt at ease, every pore opening. A strange Dao force flowed out, brimming with Vitality and creating Myriad Things as it seeped into every inch of flesh and blood, washing away every strand of Death Qi.
Every inch of Ji Hao's flesh emitted Fortune Immortal Light, sparkling brilliantly. The Void rang with clanging sounds, like the radiance released by Immortal Metal!
The Great Emperor Laws of two bloodlines were reviving. The Void itself resonated, as though celebrating the emperor who had once controlled the Void.
A great sun emerged from his bloodline. The Six Combinations and Eight Desolations returned to One; across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Only I Am Supreme. Those were the laws of Great Emperor Hengyu.
An incomparably comfortable feeling filled him, warming his entire body. The fragments of Great Emperor Hengyu's laws hung overhead like the Heavenly Sun. It was as though, when Myriad Things were born, the sun had appeared!
Ji Hao's Dao Palace was extraordinarily unusual. He had seen the Dao Palaces of others before. If other people's Dao Palaces were merely "palaces," and the outstanding ones resembled five vast and heavy "lands," then Ji Hao's Dao Palace was like five boundless regions of Heaven and Earth, vast and magnificent.
As a transmigrator, Ji Hao had yet to experience society's harsh beatings. He possessed great ambition and wished to forge his own Dao upon the path Huangtian Emperor had left behind, laying the foundation for his future path toward becoming a Dao Ancestor.
And what he chose was the Dao Palace Secret Realm. In the past, Huangtian Emperor had opened Ten Grotto-Heavens, shattered and reopened them, then fused them into Unity to form the Unique Grotto-Heaven. Ji Hao also wished to open a Sixth Dao Palace, a Dao belonging solely to himself!
Within the five boundless regions of Heaven and Earth, the Fortune qi of the Five Elements descended. Strands of Immortal Light crossed the seal Yellow Emperor had laid down and fell into the Sea of Bitterness.
At once, boundless Immortal Light erupted. Life Essence gushed from the Life Spring, while the Death Qi was suppressed beneath a canopy formed from Five-Colored Immortal Light.
No matter how the Death Qi stirred the power of the Sea of Bitterness, it was ultimately only a small secret realm. How could it contend against the five regions of Heaven and Earth within the Dao Palace?
It could only submit and remain suppressed.
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