Toad and Rabbit Contended for the Moon; Mountains and Rivers Overturned to Shatter the Dragon Pearl

His voice was calm as it carried into the void, yet it rang like great bronze bells, rousing even the deaf.

An immense aura of weapons and slaughter condensed. The Heaven, Earth, and Human Spirit Lamps shattered, releasing the mysteries of the Three Powers within them. Vast amounts of starlight flowed from the seven hundred and twenty acupoints in his body, streaming from his back amid coiling lightning and electric arcs.

The countless energies formed a cocoon of light behind Xuanming. It appeared in an instant and shattered the next. The Gouchen Dharma Aspect broke and rose anew, born in war, dying in war, and transforming once more through war.

Golden armor, a Divine sword, a red cloak, and Nine-Colored Divine Light—Gouchen appeared again. This time, however, he was not a Dharma Aspect, but a Divine Path Dharma Body. Compared with the thousand-zhang Dharma Aspect, the Dharma Body had condensed to five hundred zhang, yet his might had doubled:

Three Powers Positioning divided Yin and Yang; the ordered Five Phases each held their place. Emulating the spirit sovereign, he embodied primal virtue; guarding and governing the hidden realms, he aided the Celestial Sovereign.

Where the Dharma Body stood, the clash of weapons and neighing of warhorses resounded like an army thousands strong. The Void phantoms of heavenly soldiers and generals around him grew clearer, their blurred features revealing faces ninety percent identical to Xuanming's. Within three zhang of Gouchen, another world seemed to have been isolated, shutting out wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. The pressure of the Great Dao upon Xuanming diminished sharply.

He bowed slightly. "Thank you for helping me achieve this, True Dragon."

Then, with a thought, the Supreme Polarity Dao Domain became a Dao Fruit. Xuanming and the Mountains and Rivers Diagram beneath his feet turned into