The profound mysteries of the Law of Strength constantly ravaged Daochen's body, but the nourishment of the Moonlight Divine Water continuously repaired the damage.
Through this cycle of destruction and restoration, Daochen's comprehension of the profound mysteries of the Law of Strength within the Pangu Blood Essence grew ever deeper.
He could now clearly sense the benefits of the mysteries he had comprehended as destruction and restoration reached a balance.
Thus, even though this tempering method pushed him beyond his limits, wracking his entire body with unbearable pain and constantly shattering and reconstructing his internal organs, Daochen still gritted his teeth and endured.
Meanwhile, as his body repeatedly broke down and reformed, every strand of the Law of Strength's mysteries he refined and every trace of Pangu Blood Essence he absorbed further solidified his innate foundation as a Chaos Golden Crow, making his origin ever more formidable.
Destruction and restoration repeated over and over, and time slipped by unnoticed.
Three hundred years later, Daochen's entire body had been tempered, and the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art in his sea of consciousness, once so difficult to cultivate, had become effortless.
Ultimately, the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art was a body-refining method created by Pangu himself. Without the Pangu Bloodline, it was impossible to cultivate.
This was also why the Witch Clan alone possessed the strongest bodies in the Primordial World.
Although the great Sages of later generations created numerous body-refining methods based on the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art, they still struggled to reach the heights of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
It all came down to the Pangu Bloodline!
"Now that my body has completely fused with the Pangu Blood Essence, I can begin cultivating the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art!"
As he examined the abstruse and intricate cultivation method of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art in his sea of consciousness, a faint smile appeared on Daochen's lips.
Three hundred years of torment had finally borne fruit!
First revolution!
Second revolution!
Third revolution!
Fourth revolution!
Fifth revolution!
In less than two hundred years, Daochen had successfully cultivated the first five revolutions of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art.
Such a terrifying speed would have made the Twelve Ancestral Witches' jaws drop!
But this was also because the Pangu Bloodline within Daochen was exceptionally concentrated.
Yet when Daochen tried to cultivate the sixth revolution in one sustained push, he encountered an unprecedented bottleneck.
"My body has now reached the limit of what the late Great Luo Golden Immortal stage can attain. Even the slightest further breakthrough will bring it to the peak Great Luo Golden Immortal stage!"
Daochen pondered for a moment as he examined the cultivation formula for the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art in his sea of consciousness.
With his current physical strength, taking on Dijiang single-handedly would be no problem.
But advancing another step would be somewhat difficult.
Only around three hundred years remained before the lecture scheduled for the eight-hundred-year mark.
He had no confidence that he could successfully cultivate the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art in those final three hundred years.
But he could not accept wasting those three hundred years for the sake of the lecture.
No matter what, he had to try!
"Come on!"
Daochen drew a deep breath and swept his sleeve, and a Time Compass appeared in his secluded chamber.
His fingers moved in rapid succession, sending streaks of brilliant light flying from his hands into the Time Compass.
As those streaks of light continuously merged into it, the Time Compass suddenly blazed with radiance. Almost instantly, Daochen could distinctly sense that time inside the chamber was flowing at a markedly different rate from the outside world.
The difference was nearly a hundredfold!
This meant that, under the Time Compass's influence, Daochen's three hundred years of cultivation time had increased directly to thirty thousand years.
Such a vast span of time would be enough for him!
Once everything was ready, Daochen immediately devoted his entire mind to the cultivation formula for the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art.
Boom!
An earth-shaking roar suddenly resounded through Daochen's secluded chamber. His seemingly frail body rapidly expanded as though being inflated.
Once it had expanded to its limit, it slowly began to shrink again.
At times, he towered ten thousand zhang high; at others, he seemed like Mount Sumeru contained within a mustard seed, too tiny for the naked eye to discern.
During this process, the flesh, blood, tendons, and meridians within Daochen's body constantly transformed, while strands of black impurities were squeezed out of every limb and bone.
Once... twice... five times... ten times...
Daochen cycled endlessly through this expansion and contraction.
By now, he could no longer spare a thought for whether he had made sufficient progress.
His entire mind had been drawn into this cycle.
Daochen's will grew ever more resilient under the tempering of these endless cycles. Though it felt as if ten thousand swords were piercing his heart, his mind remained clear throughout!
Twenty times!
Twenty-one times!
Thirty times!
Each successive cycle deepened Daochen's comprehension of the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art, and ever more impurities were purged from his body.
In the end, his entire body was enveloped in a black substance that gave off an overwhelming stench.
Yet Daochen noticed none of it, wholly absorbed in comprehending the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art.
The cycles continued. Over the next nineteen repetitions, the pain grew worse with each one, but the impurities purged each time became fewer and fewer.
In the end, they had dwindled to thin traces of pale gray liquid.
This was a sign that the impurities within Daochen's body were nearly cleansed away.
Again and again, Daochen felt as though he had spent endless ages within these cycles.
At first, he still tried hard to keep count.
Later, however, Daochen focused only on keeping his mind clear.
He had no idea how much time passed in this state.
Boom!
At last, a thunderous roar resounded within Daochen's body. The next instant, he felt a surge of immense power suddenly welling up from every limb and bone.
That incomparably formidable strength made him feel as though he could shatter the void with a mere lift of his hand.
He suddenly had the sense that, if the second lecture at the Purple Heavens Palace began now, he could pass through the endless chaotic currents and the barrier of Heavenly Profound Fire with his body alone, without relying on the Heaven Measuring Ruler's might.
"I did it!"
Feeling the power surging within him, Daochen knew that he had finally mastered the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art.
Hum!
As though responding to the joy of mastering the sixth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art, the magical power within Daochen suddenly began circulating of its own accord.
Bang!
The bottleneck of the late Great Luo Golden Immortal stage was shattered outright.
His cultivation fully entered the peak Great Luo Golden Immortal stage as well.
With that, both Daochen's body and his cultivation had broken through to the peak Great Luo Golden Immortal stage!
His strength had undergone a transformation that overturned heaven and earth!
And that was not all. After both his body and cultivation broke through to the peak Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, Daochen also sensed his Chaos Golden Crow origin seething, and an indescribably profound sensation suddenly arose.
That sensation told Daochen that his innate foundation as a Chaos Golden Crow had undergone an exceptionally profound transformation, advancing yet another step!
Previously, when Daochen's Innate Golden Crow body transformed into a Chaos Golden Crow body, he had already undergone one metamorphosis, evolving from an innate deity into one of the Chaos Gods and Demons. Now, with this further advancement, he could stand shoulder to shoulder with the top ten Chaos Gods and Demons!