"This is suspicious." Great Master Xuandu brushed the stardust from his Daoist robe. "Back to the Jade Void Palace. We will report to our masters, the Three Pure Ones, and let the Sages decide."
Yunxiao and Guang Chengzi exchanged a glance and raised no objections.
The three turned, took a single step, and vanished into the depths of the starry sky. They left as quickly as they had arrived, without so much as another glance at the people below.
In their eyes, Chen Lin was merely a suspicious detail. He had yet to earn the right to speak with them.
The heavenly might dispersed. The starry sky returned to deathly silence.
In the Seventh Theater Command's rear camp, the spiritual energy that had been suppressed until breathing was impossible began flowing again.
Chen Lin exhaled a stale breath. The mountain weighing on his heart had finally lifted. He closed his eyes and examined himself internally.
The Tribulation Immortal Lotus's medicinal power had been completely exhausted, but he had succeeded. Within his dantian, his formerly gaseous true essence had fully condensed into a human immortal Dao fruit that radiated an ancient Dao aura.
His cultivation had surpassed Tribulation Transcendence and officially entered the early human immortal realm.
But that was secondary.
The truly earth-shattering transformation had happened to his physical body.
The destructive power of chaos heavenly thunder, coupled with the life-and-death stimulus of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, had become the perfect catalyst. The drop of great golden immortal true dragon essence blood dormant deep within his heart had been fully activated and completely fused into every part of his body.
His bones had turned a deep, dark gold, and the blood flowing through his marrow was thick and heavy. Beneath his skin, every inch of muscle contained explosive power capable