At this moment!
Jiang Ming pushed his true essence to its limits. The True Essence Sea within him was like an endless black ocean, demonic energy rolling forth, demonic clouds vast and boundless, demonic might soaring to the heavens. It covered the originally purple Sea of Bitterness, making that purple sea seem like the spring eye of a demonic sea.
Ever since breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage and further developing his dantian, Jiang Ming had discovered that his Heavenly Tyrant Body had undergone another transformation. Its Divine Form had also changed. The Tyrant Body Divine Form that had once emerged during cultivation, shouting and posturing with imposing majesty and displaying some divine might, had become ten indistinct shadows.
During his tribulation, one Divine Form had helped him weather it. Its figure had become slightly clearer, but overall, it was still vague and indistinct, as though it had awakened from the heavy passage of endless ages. Separated by the thick dust of time and space, it was like viewing flowers through fog—faintly visible, yet elusive.
Moreover, when Jiang Ming fully activated his True Essence Sea, four mysterious proto-forms of phenomena appeared around the black lotus Dao foundation formed within that sea of condensed true essence.
That was right. Cultivating with the Chinese Paladin Method, he had unexpectedly cultivated four phenomena as well. However, his realm was still insufficient. They had yet to fully take shape and could not be unleashed; he could only borrow a portion of their power.
The first phenomenon to appear was compatible with his Chinese Paladin Method. It had appeared the moment Jiang Ming broke through, and he had already seen it before.
However, Jiang Ming understood it like this.
A Blade of Grass Slashes the Stars—Splendid Mountains and Rivers
Dragon-Phoenix Auspiciousness Diagram—Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram
Demon Ape Ravages the Heavenly Court—Immortal King Descends upon the Nine Heavens
Opening Heaven, a Green Willow Is Born—Chaos Gives Birth to the Azure Lotus
This transformation, this development of phenomena, was most likely a mutation triggered by the Immortal Antiquity imprint contained within Jiang Ming's Seventy-Two Transformations.
At present, his four phenomena did not seem inferior to those of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body!
With Demon Ape Ravages the Heavenly Court alone, Jiang Ming had seen the Ancient Heavenly Court. A World-Overturning Demon Ape had smashed through the High Heavens and fought its way into the Ancient Heavenly Court, confronting a Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor who rose from a Golden Sun Tree deep within the Ancient Heavenly Court.
It reminded Jiang Ming of the plot of Perfect World that he had read in his previous life. The Ancient Heavenly Court had once been founded by the Sun Heavenly Emperor, while a World-Overturning Demon Ape had once wreaked Havoc in Heaven within the Immortal Domain, disturbing the Immortal Kings so badly that they joined forces to drive him out of the Immortal Domain.
Then there was that World Tree, which seemed to have grown during the era when heaven and earth first opened. A green willow wished to prop apart the darkness, restore a bright and clear world to heaven and earth, and reopen Xuan Huang.
If Jiang Ming had guessed correctly, this phenomenon surely represented the Willow God of old. In the plot of Perfect World, she had been the oldest of them all. She had died and returned to life, returned to life and died again, undergoing Nirvana again and again. From the World Tree, she had created a method that blessed all living beings, becoming the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, protecting countless lives and saving innumerable people.
As for the Dragon-Phoenix Auspiciousness Diagram, the True Dragon and Immortal Phoenix among the Ten Feral Beasts had both once been existences at the Immortal King level. During the Immortal Ancient Era, when the Other Realm launched a sudden assault, both had died tragically under the siege of Immortal Kings.
Legend had it that when the dragon and phoenix treasure arts were combined, their power was unparalleled and irresistible.
As for A Blade of Grass Slashes the Stars, it referred to the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. When the Other Realm suddenly invaded, it awoke from slumber and directly encountered four Immortal Kings of the Exotic Domain who had secretly infiltrated. The result was a great battle. The Nine-Leaf Sword Grass vanished, but the four Immortal Kings of the Exotic Domain were gone as well.
This was Jiang Ming's speculation regarding the origins of his four great Tyrant Body phenomena.
As Jiang Ming made these deductions, the obsessions of both the Jiang Ming from his previous life and the Jiang Ming of this life were dumbfounded. They could only listen as the Jiang Ming from two lives ago told them those stories of the past.
As a mentally ill person with proper values, one had to learn to counsel oneself.
Of course, the battle before them still had to be fought.
Buddhaland in the Palm!
Jiang Ming truly only knew how to unleash ultimate moves. He could not use the Yaoguang Scripture in front of these people, lest he expose himself and the Yaoguang Sacred Land see it, then come hunting him down. That would make this identity he had been enjoying so much suddenly unusable.
He was not afraid of cultivators from the Dao Palace Secret Realm pursuing him. What he feared were old-monster-level experts.
Jiang Ming extended his right hand. Black light flickered across his black palm. Even the fine hairs in his pores had enlarged, as though they had turned into black demonic snakes that coiled and twisted, tumbling and boiling within the surging demonic energy.
Jiang Ming's palm lines seemed to transform into black lightning spanning the Nine Heavens and ten directions. They rapidly evolved again, becoming black mountains, rivers, and earth within the lightning, accompanied by towering demonic flames.
What should have been a perfectly fine Buddhland in the Palm now looked more like a Demonic Domain in the Palm.
Void Great Handprint!
Ji Haoyue had never experienced such a passive battle before. His body felt as though it had sunk into an asphalt swamp, restricting his movements so severely that he could not fully unleash the power of the Great Void Technique. With a raised hand, he condensed a massive black handprint in the void, like dark clouds pressing down overhead, and slammed it toward Jiang Ming.
At that instant, the void itself seemed to freeze. The Void Great Handprint truly lived up to its name.
Boom!
The millstone-sized black Great Sun Demon Wheel behind Jiang Ming's head slowly turned. Demonic light radiated outward, expanding its range further until it covered twenty li, directly freezing that black handprint in the sky.
"Big Dipper Suppresses Demons."
At the same time, Hua Yunfei's attack arrived. What had originally seemed to be a three-person melee had somehow become Jiang Ming beating the two of them while they joined forces.
In an instant, power from the Big Dipper Stars outside the secret realm was drawn down into its sky. Seven stars blazed overhead, scorching and resplendent as great suns, transforming into seven beams of light that shot toward Jiang Ming to suppress him.
"Tianshu, Heavenly Jade, Tianji—Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang."
The seven stars of the Big Dipper shone brilliantly at once, releasing dazzling rays that gathered into a Seven-Colored Divine Sword. It descended straight down as if it would pierce through heaven and earth.
Clang!
At that moment, a small golden blade of grass sprouted above Jiang Ming's head, which was covered in unconventional demonic patterns. It had seven leaves. The instant it appeared, a magnificent sword qi slashed forth, accompanied by a phenomenon: a small blade of grass swayed gently, and the Sword Dao intent it unconsciously emitted cleaved apart a star.
Even stars could be cleaved apart. Before this nine-colored sword intent, the borrowed trace of the Big Dipper's power disintegrated inch by inch, turning to dust.
Jiang Ming was speechless. This time, he had not even made a move. Hua Yunfei had simply insisted on attacking him with a sword, triggering the phenomenon A Blade of Grass Slashes the Stars. A mere trace of power it released had directly resolved Hua Yunfei's attack.
"Good!"
Hua Yunfei's eyes became even brighter. That strike had truly broadened his horizons. That phenomenon from earlier was indeed it—Master Sanzang had also cultivated some sort of proto-form of a phenomenon and could borrow a portion of its power, just as Ji Haoyue could now.
To truly manifest a phenomenon externally and use it in battle, one needed to break through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
"Brother Sanzang, let me play a tune for you."
Hua Yunfei shouted, his tone solemn and serious.
"Very well, Brother Yunfei. I shall listen with rapt attention."
Jiang Ming naturally agreed at once, bold and uninhibited, displaying his unique charisma to the fullest.
"Brother Sanzang, be careful!"
Ji Haoyue spoke up to warn him. The sound of surging waves echoed from his body, while strands of moonlight gathered into an illusory scene of Sea-Rising Bright Moon, like a mirage.
However, that bright moon fell toward Jiang Ming, crashing down upon him. Ji Haoyue had also borrowed his phenomenon and used it to attack. This illusory power instead seemed not to belong to this world, unaffected by the restraints of the demonic light domain.
Of course, that was also because Jiang Ming's Seventy-Two Transformations had only borrowed sixty percent of the power of the Supreme Treasure Art from an ancient monk Buddha son of the same realm. If it had been more, the outcome would have been impossible to predict.
Please send rewards, including paragraph rewards. No amount is too small; it is mainly for popularity.