Transforming the Body into a Cauldron Furnace [Seeking Monthly Votes, Investment]

Transform!

The next moment, Jiang Ming arrived at an open area. Using the Seventy-Two Transformations, he directly transformed into a Golden Cauldron Furnace. It was a Supreme-grade cauldron artifact he had once seen during the Immortal Ancient Era, now recreated with some of the Divine Patterns from its crude-embryo stage.

The Golden Cauldron Furnace was inscribed with ancient Immortal Antiquity Script. Its overall form was hexagonal, standing on three legs. The treasured cauldron was entirely golden, radiant and gleaming, massive and imposing, majestic and domineering.

Its six joined faces ran from top to bottom, gathering the energy of the four seas and uniting heaven and earth.

The cauldron's belly had six horned dragon-patterned handles, while its peak was exquisitely carved into a hollow hexagonal form.

Six forms bowed their heads, six directions faced one another, and all things were renewed.

Qilin auspicious-beast Dao Patterns flowed across the cauldron legs, their divine bearing elegant and their aura vigorous.

The being who had once refined this treasure had been closest to Zhu Yan, from whom Jiang Ming had inherited the Seventy-Two Transformations.

His body became a cauldron!

He could borrow sixty percent of the cauldron artifact's power. This furnace itself contained dragon patterns and could use mana to channel Dao Patterns, evolving Dao fire infused with the dragon energy of heaven and earth.

That was already enough for Jiang Ming. He had long prepared the spirit herbs.

The entire pill-refining process was exceedingly easy. He extracted the essences of the spirit herbs and refined them together in the proper proportions.

Since all the spirit herbs were inside the cauldron furnace he had transformed into, controlling them was as effortless as moving his own limbs.

A mere Foundation Establishment Pill was not really necessary for his physique.

But for a ninety-nine percent success rate—

Jiang Ming had still prepared a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Boom!

The Great Freedom Sword Art operated automatically. The Foundation Establishment Pill had just been successfully refined, and there were nine of them. In the end, the nine merged into one, becoming a tri-colored treasure pill the size of a longan—the Three Radiance Treasure Pill. It was of perfect quality, flawless and immaculate, perfectly round and whole.

Jiang Ming had already reverted to his original form. Within the Sea of Bitterness in his dantian, his Life-Bound Sword hummed joyfully, like a dragon's cry and phoenix's call. Strands of sword qi coiled around the pores across his body. Even the fine hairs within his pores became sharp and fierce, while dust was sliced into nothingness, leaving his entire body flawless and immaculate.

Within Jiang Ming's purple Sea of Bitterness, Divine Patterns intertwined. It seemed that the Sea of Bitterness had also undergone some changes due to the emergence of the Chinese Paladin Method. The Nine Divine Forms appeared one after another, but they had yet to fully take shape, existing in a faint and indistinct state.

Meanwhile, the purple-gold Cinnabar Lake floating above the purple Sea of Bitterness surged with monstrous waves, rumbling without end.

Within Jiang Ming's purple-gold Cinnabar Lake was a plant with nine leaves. Each leaf resembled a small sword, soft in appearance yet containing boundless sharpness. During this process, fluctuations belonging to a phenomenon emerged.

In the endless starry sky, galaxies shone brightly and deep space stretched without limit. A small blade of grass swayed. A terrifying solar storm swept past, and a strand of nine-colored sword intent accidentally flew from one leaf. With a sharp hiss, an entire blazing sun was split in two in an instant, then reduced to powder by the sword intent.

A Blade of Grass Slashes the Stars!

This was the embryonic form of a phenomenon.

It was a strange occurrence born from the fusion of his sword Dao, the influence of the Seventy-Two Transformations' Dao Patterns, and the Great Freedom Sword Scripture developing his dantian Sea of Bitterness.

It could be called unprecedented and unsurpassable.

Within his dantian's Sea of Bitterness, a tri-colored pill floated at the center, resembling a Golden Core. Before its medicinal power had even been formally used, Jiang Ming was already impatient to break through.

At that moment, the Source stored within Jiang Ming's Sea of Bitterness transformed into streams of essence and fused into his purple Cinnabar Sea. At the very center of the Cinnabar Sea, a nine-colored lotus blossomed and slowly rose from within. During this process, the purple-gold Dao Lake's power, like raging waves, flooded madly toward the nine-colored lotus, forming a spiritual energy vortex.

No, it should have been a Nine-Colored Lotus Platform. It had nine lotus petals, each a different color.

At the same time, the aura of yin-yang, five elements, and spacetime circulated.

This was the Yin-Yang Five-Element Spacetime Lotus Platform, the legendary Dao Platform of the Chinese Paladin Method. Except, his Dao Platform seemed to be shaped like a lotus.

Rumble!

At the same time, Jiang Ming's purple-gold True Essence Sea boiled and roared. Passing through the Sea of Bitterness, it flowed toward his limbs, internal organs, and eight extraordinary meridians, like countless wild horses breaking free of their reins, or a great river rushing eastward—endless, surging, and unstoppable.

The Yin-Yang Five-Element Spacetime Lotus Platform was complete. The first step of Foundation Establishment had been accomplished. The Dao Platform suppressed the Cinnabar River, and in the future, a Golden Core would be nurtured at the center of the lotus atop the Dao Platform, laying a solid foundation for the next major realm.

The moment this step was completed, it immediately drew in vast amounts of heaven and earth spiritual energy. Outside, centered on Jiang Ming, the spiritual energy, starlight, and moonlight within the cave abode all turned into tornadoes, pouring into his body and flooding through his pores, meridians, and dantian.

Xiao Nannan sat there watching curiously, yet it seemed as though nothing could affect her in the slightest. Colored radiance also appeared around her body, though she herself was completely unaware of it.

"Big Brother is amazing. Nannan is very well-behaved. I won't cause trouble. I'll sit here obediently."

Nannan murmured to herself.

During this process, Jiang Ming's physical body underwent a baptism and transformation. Although the Chinese Paladin Method did not excel at cultivating the body, the Foundation Establishment Stage was an evolution of one's life essence. His origin would improve, and his lifespan would increase.

Thus, at this moment, his physical body was transforming, and so was his true essence. His original purple-gold Cinnabar Sea had actually been gaseous, like clouds in the sky, which was why it floated above the Sea of Bitterness in his dantian.

Now, it rapidly liquefied, increasing both its total quantity and quality.

Even Jiang Ming's Purple Palace Sea of Consciousness between his brows would formally open after this breakthrough. His previous divine sense had merely been a natural transformation brought about through cultivation. Yet the Foundation Establishment Stage required a comprehensive evolution and transformation. Opening the Purple Palace Sea of Consciousness was equivalent to opening another cosmic gate within the human body, beginning a new path of evolution.

It could even be said to resemble the cosmic gate or God's gate mentioned in his life before last, allowing one to awaken superpowers.

After all, divine sense truly was a superpower. Telekinesis, seeing through walls, and other such abilities came effortlessly.

The spot between his brows shone brilliantly, as though a heavenly eye had opened. The range of his divine sense rapidly expanded from seven thousand meters in radius—eight thousand, nine thousand—until, with a rumble, it was like heaven and earth being split apart. He broke through a bottleneck, as though piercing some profound barrier, or opening the Purple Palace Sea of Consciousness.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, hazy purple divine sense power transformed into a small lake. The maximum range of his divine sense reached ten thousand meters.

Ten thousand meters was twenty li.

Previously, he could only reach a range of twenty li by using the Innate Divine Runes and the primordial Supreme Treasure Art of that Ancient Monk Lineage prodigy. That had been the enhancement of a divine ability treasure art.

Now, it was the growth and transformation of his own divine sense.

If he transformed into the Sanzang monk persona again and used Buddha's Light Illuminates All, he could at least reach an astonishing range of thirty li.

That feeling was like studying in a county town in his previous life, then using a divine ability to extend his reach all the way to his hometown.

This sense of control over such a vast area was truly wondrous and captivating, making Jiang Ming feel omnipotent.

However, in the next moment, some memories from his previous life mocked him.

Still just a weakling.

At the same time!

The transformation of his physical body and true essence was also ninety percent complete.

Fortunately, he had Source to support him, along with the cave abode Hua Yunfei had lent him.

Both starlight and moonlight were highly nourishing.

Jiang Ming felt that his current physical body was no weaker than that of a Dao Palace Realm cultivator of the Shrouding Method.

After all, in principle, a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator of the Chinese Paladin Method possessed a physical body at most comparable to that of an Other Shore cultivator of the Shrouding Method.

The two methods emphasized entirely different things.

For example, his Life-Bound Sword was about to transform into a magical artifact, comparable to a treasure artifact refined by a Four Extremes Secret Realm cultivator.

In this regard, Jiang Ming's advantage was obvious.

Besides, in the Shrouding Method, he was still only a weak Sea of Bitterness cultivator.

Rumble—

At the same time, outside Star Peak, heaven and earth changed color as thunder rolled. In the end, it intertwined into a funnel shape.

Crack!

Accompanied by a silver bolt of lightning as thick as a water barrel, it struck straight down, seemingly ignoring the cave abode's rocky barriers as it blasted Jiang Ming.