Atop God-Severing Peak, the pall of thunder and fire that had raged for a thousand years finally dispersed that day.
In its place came a shaft of merit gold light descending from the Nine Heavens, piercing through sky and earth.
The light was not dazzling, yet it illuminated the solitary peak the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty regarded as forbidden ground until it shone translucent as jade.
At the heart of that golden light, there was no violent destruction, only the purest vitality of creation.
Chu Bai hovered cross-legged in the air.
His ravaged body, burned black and carbonized beneath the Purple Firmament Fire-Thunder, with even its bones exposed, was undergoing a transformation called "nirvana."
A succession of faint, fine sounds rang out. The charred dead skin covering his body peeled away in great sheets, turning to ash that scattered on the wind.
Beneath that dead skin, his newly grown flesh was not tender like a newborn's. Instead, it had a crystalline translucence and the warm luster of jade.
This was not the fragile fairness of an ordinary cultivator, but a "glazed state" of return to simplicity, achieved by compressing his immense blood vitality and the principles governing his flesh to their utmost limit.
The Geng Metal Body-Forging Art circulated furiously within him, every full cycle accompanied by deep, resonant booms like the tolling of mighty ceremonial bells.
Those were the sounds of his bones rumbling.
The Purple-Gold Wandering Dragon Bone, which had still been in the process of advancing, was washed by the boundless merit gold light until the last trace of impurity deep within it was completely purged.
Its formerly domineering purple-gold hue gradually withdrew, replaced by an immaculate translucence, a glazed texture as pure as ten-thousand-year mystic ice.
[Glazed Flawless Bone].
Chu Bai kept his eyes