Breaking Through the Ultimate Dao Without Severing Three Corpses

Within Five Villages Temple on Mount Wanshou.

The Earth Book grand formation radiated a heavy, boundless curtain of profound yellow earthlight.

Ancestor Hong Yun sat in the center of the formation, his expression flawless as glazed crystal.

He no longer hesitated. Relying on the Mind-Seeing Nature Method Li Qingxiao had taught him,

he summoned the Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, [Ninety-Nine Soul-Scattering Red Gourd].

Endless red sand swept forth like a sea of fire, and a Good Corpse incarnation in crimson robes calmly leaped from the gourd's mouth!

Hong Yun's aura steadily soared as he officially entered the Early Quasi-Saint realm, completely shedding his former label as a "weak Daluo"!

Zhen Yuanzi also successfully severed a corpse with the Earth Book's wonders.

The two exchanged glances and laughed heartily, their Dao hearts firm.

Just as the Primordial World's foremost mighty cultivators competed to use spirit treasures to sever corpses and break through, shaking all directions with their might,

in a secluded Sea-Eye Grotto-Heaven deep within the Eastern Sea,

all was dark and deathly still, surrounded by violent deep-sea heavy water.

Li Qingxiao sat cross-legged upon the source lotus dais of the [Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus].

His hands formed seals, and twelve streaks of pure white source divine light transformed into formation patterns that blanketed the sky, completely sealing the entire Sea-Eye Grotto-Heaven.

Ten Thousand Laws Immunity, untouched by karma!

Beneath the Purifying White Lotus's supreme-grade absolute concealment domain,

even the will of the Heavenly Dao and the Creation Jade Disc could not deduce the slightest trace of this place.

Li Qingxiao's eyes were clear, his expression tranquil as still water.

"The Three Corpses Severing Dao may seem like a shortcut, but in truth, it dismembers and divides one's Dao Fruit, leaving one subject to the Heavenly Dao's rules."

Li Qingxiao silently recited those words in his heart, his Dao heart not wavering in the slightest.

"Entrusting an incarnation to a spirit treasure is ultimately borrowing external power."

"My Great Dao must be founded on the Ultimate Dao. I will turn my body into the Dao and walk the true path of Hunyuan transcendence!"

Having made up his mind, it was time to take stock of his resources.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the [Chaos Gourd] within his dantian shot into the air and hovered before him.

"Buzz!"

The Chaos Gourd exhaled divine radiance as a ten-thousand-zhang spirit vein, roaring and twisting like a golden true dragon, was forcibly extracted!

It was one of the three [Supreme-Grade Innate Ancestral Spirit Veins] he had intercepted from the Immortal Court's treasury!

In an instant, the Eastern Sea's vast Pure Yang Ancestral Qi transformed into torrential spiritual rain, filling the entire Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm.

Immediately afterward, Li Qingxiao took out a warm jade marrow vial.

When the stopper opened, a second drop of crimson-gold divine liquid, emanating an ancient and desolate Dao aura, slowly rose into the air:

[Pangu Primordial Marrow Divine Liquid]!

Within the divine liquid came the faint thunder of war drums, like primordial gods and demons splitting heaven and earth, making one's soul tremble.

Li Qingxiao hesitated no longer.

He fully activated the true form of the Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus,

drawing every mystery of the Quasi-Saint Three Corpses that Hongjun had expounded in Purple Heaven Palace into his divine consciousness.

Yet unlike others, who absorbed it all wholesale,

the Purifying White Lotus's absolute purification domain operated within Li Qingxiao's sea of consciousness, stripping away layer after layer!

Every scheme and restraint involving Heavenly Dao shackles and entrusting the primordial spirit to spirit treasures

was mercilessly purified and removed by the White Lotus's divine radiance!

Li Qingxiao retained only the supreme principles of severing delusions from the heart and purifying the Daluo Dao heart,

then completely fused them into his primordial spirit.

Discarding the dross and preserving the essence, he fused everything into one!

"Devour!"

Li Qingxiao opened his mouth and inhaled. That drop of crimson-gold Pangu marrow divine liquid, like a miniature blazing sun,

was swallowed into his stomach in a single gulp!

At the same time, the Chaos Gourd floating above his head began to spin violently,

pulverizing and greedily devouring the ten-thousand-zhang Supreme-Grade Innate Ancestral Spirit Vein,

converting it into boundless, concentrated pure yang Chaos Essence that poured through Li Qingxiao's crown like a waterfall from the nine heavens!

"Rumble—!!"

A world-shaking boom instantly erupted within his body!

The violent, tyrannical power of Pangu Primordial Marrow clashed savagely with the endless essence of the Ancestral Spirit Vein throughout Li Qingxiao's extraordinary meridians and eight channels.

Agonizing pain struck, but Li Qingxiao's expression remained as still as an ancient well.

The Purifying White Lotus suppressed his soul, Pangu marrow reforged his divine body, and Chaos Essence madly widened his meridians!

Under the cleansing and refinement of those three supreme powers,

every inch of bone in Li Qingxiao's body turned into a peerlessly noble dark-gold glazed crystal.

His blood and qi burned fiercely like a primordial sun, and the strength of his fleshly body crossed beyond the Great Shaman Pinnacle,

officially transforming and ascending as he forcefully entered a terrifying physical realm comparable to the [Twelve Ancestral Witches]!

With the slightest tremor of his bones came supreme power capable of tearing space apart!

Within the depths of his primordial spirit, the transformation reached an even greater climax.

"Buzz—!!"

Above Li Qingxiao's head, the Twelfth-Grade Ultimate Daluo Three Flowers bloomed with a thunderous roar!

Between their flawless petals, immeasurable golden light of profound yellow merit surged into the heavens.

The Five Qi within his chest transformed into five sky-shrouding divine dragons of azure, white, crimson, black, and yellow, coiling and roaring!

Golden light and world-cleansing white radiance intertwined and evolved in midair,

forming a billion-zhang Chaos Canopy that obscured heaven and earth!

The shackles of the Late-Stage Daluo Golden Immortal realm, under the devastating wash of Pangu marrow and endless Innate Ancestral Qi,

shattered with a boom like fragile tissue paper!

"Break!!"

Li Qingxiao's mind was iron, and a low command of the Great Dao rang from his mouth!

"Boom!!"

Unmatched Ultimate Dao pressure completely erupted from the depths of the sea eye!

The Three Flowers united as one, and the Five Qi returned to their origin!

Li Qingxiao officially shattered the cage of heaven and earth. Without severing Three Corpses, without relying on external objects for entrustment,

he used his Ultimate Dao Daluo foundation as his bones and shattered the void through sheer force, forcefully attaining the unprecedented [Early Ultimate Dao Quasi-Saint] realm!

At that moment, the depth of Li Qingxiao's magical power and the might of his physical body

already surpassed that of ordinary Quasi-Saints who had severed one corpse by several times!

Unified offense and defense, Ten Thousand Laws Immunity, untouched by karma!

After a long while, the phenomena filling the sky gradually subsided.

The Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus became a streak of light and entered Li Qingxiao's brow, while the Chaos Canopy above his head vanished into the void.

Li Qingxiao slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze was as deep as an ancient frozen abyss, while his aura returned to its natural simplicity.

Not a trace of violent power leaked from him. He resembled an ordinary cultivator detached from the mortal world.

Li Qingxiao slightly raised his head, his gaze piercing through layer upon layer of deep-sea heavy water,

directly toward the vast, lofty starry sky of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Through the perception of his Ultimate Dao Divine Eyes, deep within the starry sky of the Thirty-Three Heavens,

the Yao's fortune was madly gathering and rising toward an ancient former site in the Heaven Realm.

The Yao Heavenly Court was about to emerge.

A calm, cold smile appeared at the corner of Li Qingxiao's lips.

"The curtain of this era has risen. The board is set."

He brushed his moon-white Daoist robe, standing with his hands behind his back as divine light flickered in his eyes.

He had already begun calmly planning the next struggle for supreme treasures and the greater tide of the tribulation.

Deep within the Eastern Sea, violent deep-sea heavy water churned and surged around the sea eye.

Within the Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm, the previously turbulent Ultimate Dao currents had already returned to stillness.

Li Qingxiao sat cross-legged in the void, in no hurry to leave seclusion.

He knew that cultivation could not be rushed. Having just broken through the Daluo barrier,

his body and primordial spirit both needed thorough settling before he could temper this Ultimate Dao Divine Body, comparable to that of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, into flawless perfection.

With a thought, the [Chaos Gourd] suspended above his dantian appeared once more.