Boundless Golden Body, Eight Extraordinary Meridians

At the summit of a towering mountain, golden light shone brilliantly. This was where the Greatlaw Golden Pool lay.

This mountain was called Golden Pool Peak, a forbidden ground within the Greatlaw Domain.

Ordinary people were forbidden from entering it. Only when the contest for the Greatlaw Golden Pool began was entry temporarily permitted.

It was also where Mandala, the ruler of the Greatlaw Domain, had once slept.

Now that Mandala no longer used it, Futu Yun had claimed it for cultivation.

The golden lake seemed filled with liquid gold, its viscous waters constantly churning.

Occasionally, golden bubbles slowly rose before bursting. The instant they exploded, golden torrents swept outward.

"So this is the Greatlaw Golden Pool?" Though the lake appeared rather tranquil,

it possessed the divine power to temper a Supreme Dharma Body, so it was surely no ordinary thing.

The moment he plunged into the Greatlaw Golden Pool, a faint splash sounded, and golden light filled his vision.

Then a terrifying force surged in from all directions, as though it would crush him into pieces.

As that pressure bore down on him, Futu Yun noticed

strands of golden light continuously pouring into his body.

It was an exceedingly peculiar power.

Wherever the golden light passed, the muscles, bones, and even blood throughout his body gradually grew scorching hot,

as though he were being tempered within a furnace.

Within the Greatlaw Golden Pool, the deeper one dove, the greater the harvest.

However, the pressure below was even more terrifying.

Without sufficient strength, rashly diving deeper would only lead to death.

Under normal circumstances, one had to wait until breaking through to the Sovereign Stage and cultivating a Supreme Dharma Body before coming here.

Though this place could also temper the physical body,

it had fundamentally been prepared to temper Supreme Dharma Bodies.

But Futu Yun was different. He directly treated his physical body as a Supreme Dharma Body and tempered it!

Four beastly phantoms rapidly condensed into form: the White Tiger Divine Seal, Black Tortoise Divine Seal, Azure Dragon Divine Seal, and Vermilion Bird Divine Seal.

Though Futu Yun had only broken through to the Fusion Heaven Realm with outside help back then, the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal had ultimately still been successfully condensed.

Moreover, each of the four Divine Seals was stronger than the last:

the White Tiger Divine Seal was a Minor Divine Ability,

the Black Tortoise Divine Seal was a Greater Divine Ability,

the Azure Dragon Divine Seal was a Quasi-Peerless Divine Ability,

while the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal was a true Peerless Divine Ability!

As the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal appeared, the golden lake water in this region seemed to boil.

Endless golden light gathered into torrents.

After being refined by the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal, it was all absorbed by the White Tiger Divine Seal.

The energy of the Greatlaw Golden Pool was fundamentally metal-attributed. Among the five elements, fire overcame metal.

The White Tiger was metal-attributed, making it perfectly suited to absorb the metal energy refined by flames.

Whatever it could not absorb was transferred into the Black Tortoise Divine Seal. Among the five elements, metal generated water.

What still could not be absorbed was passed to the Azure Dragon Divine Seal. Among the five elements, water generated wood.

Only then did it reach the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal. Among the five elements, wood generated fire!

Even if energy remained after that, it could be used to activate the Vermilion Bird Divine Seal and further refine the surrounding energy.

The lake water within the Greatlaw Golden Pool was as heavy as mountains. Though the energy it contained was immensely miraculous, it was extraordinarily difficult to separate.

Most people who entered the pool could only rely on spiritual energy to refine it bit by bit.

Futu Yun's near-whale-like rate of absorption was probably enough to scare many people senseless.

At this rate of absorption, a faint layer of golden light also covered the surface of Futu Yun's body.

Threads of golden light moving across his body gradually expanded.

From afar, those golden lines resembled little snakes clinging to his body.

Wherever these little golden snakes passed, they left faint golden marks behind, radiating a mysterious power.

Whenever they moved, they brought a scorching sensation.

The spiritual energy in those areas also became exceptionally active, even beginning to boil.

As his physical constitution steadily improved, Futu Yun began diving deeper.

The farther down he went, the more he could feel the incoming pressure nearly multiplying.

That pressure was like layer upon layer of mountains continuously piling onto his body.

Yet as the pressure continued increasing, Futu Yun's physical constitution also kept growing stronger.

The terrifying pressure from outside seemed to weaken bit by bit.

This was clearly because his physical body was gradually strengthening after absorbing the power of the Golden Pool.

As a result, his ability to withstand pressure was steadily rising as well.

In truth, compared to those Supreme Dharma Bodies, Futu Yun's rate of improvement had always been faster.

This was actually only natural.

Those Supreme Dharma Bodies started at hundreds or thousands of zhang in size, while how large was Futu Yun's body?

The energy he required was negligible.

Thus, the rate at which the external pressure increased could not even keep up with the rate at which his physical constitution improved.

Golden light rapidly covered the surface of his body as eight golden snakes darted about, greedily devouring wave after wave of incoming energy.

The scorching sensation instantly spread to every corner of his body, as though his entire body had been placed atop a furnace to bake.

At the same time, the eight golden snakes visibly began thickening at a rapid pace.

Suddenly, golden claws extended from beneath their bodies, while golden bumps gradually rose from the positions of their heads.

This was the sign that snakes were about to evolve.

Abruptly, a hissing roar exploded. The eight enormous golden snakes twisted and struggled without end.

As they writhed, golden scales continuously fell from their bodies. Amid the surging golden light, dragon claws slowly emerged.

When dragon horns grew from the tops of the golden snakes' heads as well, their hisses suddenly deepened into dragon roars.

The dragon roars spread vast and mighty, stirring waves of golden water in the depths of the Golden Pool.

Yet after the eight golden snakes successfully transformed into Golden Dragons, they did not directly merge into Futu Yun's physical body.

Instead, they coiled around him and let out low roars toward the bottom of the Golden Pool.

Those roars were filled with urgency.

The eight Golden Dragons opened their massive jaws. Howling winds burst forth and formed tornadoes that swept toward the deepest part of the Greatlaw Golden Pool.

Golden light permeated the depths, which looked like an endless expanse of silt.

This silt was golden, dazzling like molten gold.

Large swathes of golden silt were swept up and continuously surged toward Futu Yun.

When the golden silt covered and adhered to Futu Yun's body, white mist instantly hissed from his skin.

Dazzling golden light erupted and swept outward at that moment.

If it had been an ordinary Supreme Dharma Body, the eight Golden Dragons would have used the power of the silt to merge into the Dharmakaya.

But Futu Yun himself did not possess a Supreme Dharma Body. He was merely using this energy to temper his physical body, so the Golden Dragons could not directly merge into a Dharmakaya.

Thus, he fused the eight Golden Dragons into the Eight Extraordinary Meridians separately.

They did not merge into the Nine Divine Veins, but into the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

The Nine Divine Veins did not actually refer to nine meridians. They merely manifested as nine patterns upon the surface of the body.

The Eight Extraordinary Meridians were the true treasure of the human body. It was said that some Lower Planes also cultivated this system,

but mainstream cultivation in the Great Thousand World did not place much importance on it.

Futu Yun did not care about that either. It happened to let him fuse the eight Golden Dragons formed by the Boundless Golden Body into the Eight Extraordinary Meridians separately.

At this moment, his entire body glowed with brilliant golden light.

It was as though it had been cast from gold, appearing indestructible.

Eight Golden Dragon patterns also emerged across the surface of his body.

These dragon patterns seemed embedded within his skin, vivid and lifelike as they bared their claws and fangs.

Like guardian dragons, they made him appear incomparably majestic.