Seventy-Two Transformations and Eight-Nine Mystical Art

Great Saint Qianlun was not the only one stunned. Even Lin Xian stood dazed for a long while.

Previously, Gai Jiuyou's vitality had run dry, leaving him able to wield only Half-Step Quasi-Emperor power, just a little stronger than the Man-Demon.

Yet now he could unleash a Supreme Being's power seven or eight times within a single year.

Lin Xian had worried that overusing that power would make Gai Jiuyou's Dao Injury flare up again, costing him more than he gained. That was why he had not asked Gai Jiuyou to carry everyone across the stars.

It seemed he had worried for nothing. The old man could sustain a Supreme Being's power for only a few minutes at a time, but he could do it again and again.

"Is the Azure Emperor's Heart really that effective?"

Lin Xian quietly asked Gai Jiuyou whether he could spare a couple of pounds of blood essence to give him a boost.

"It wasn't just the Azure Emperor Blood."

Gai Jiuyou's eyes grew deep. "The complete Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art taught me a great deal. My Tribulation Immortal Song has climbed another hundred-foot pole. You could call it an Ultimate Sublimation."

"People cross tribulations. Dust crosses tribulations. Immortals cross tribulations. Heaven and earth, every blade of grass and every tree, all struggle to cross. The greatest tribulation is life and death."

"I've glimpsed the edge of crossing death's tribulation. I understand something of how the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Venerable felt back then."

Lin Xian's head snapped up. "Senior, have you fully reached the Alternative Path to Enlightenment?"

The Alternative Path to Enlightenment had two levels.

At the first, part of the great dragon leaped into the Immortal Altar. The Solar Sacred Emperor and Fighting Saint Emperor before their Ultimate Leap, as well as a Great