The cocoon of light continued to swell, and the figure within grew ever more solid.
First, the outlines of the limbs became clear: powerful arms, slender fingers, every contour fluid and brimming with strength.
Then came a sturdy torso, a broad chest, and a taut waist and abdomen, as though they could bear mountains and contain a sea of stars.
The Dharma Body looked exactly like Mu Chen, yet possessed an even more ancient majesty. With its eyes half closed, it naturally exuded the bearing of one who could suppress all the heavens.
It seems... I can take this even further.
Mu Chen's Divine Soul did not stop moving.
With a slight shift of his thoughts, a profound cultivation formula emerged from his sea of consciousness...
It was the tempering method for the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body!
In a sense, a Dharma Body was an extension and sublimation of its cultivator.
Then could he also fuse the true essence of the Thunderbolt Body into his Dharma Body?
At that thought, his Divine Soul abruptly changed the seals formed by his hands, making them even more ancient and profound.
The surging torrent of spiritual energy changed course with them, beginning to inscribe obscure, wondrous Dao markings upon the nascent Dharma Body.
At the same time, the One-Qi Chaos Tower, which had been floating quietly at the center of his Supreme Sea, suddenly shuddered!
The tower blazed with radiance, releasing countless strands of Chaos Energy.
As though possessed of awareness, those strands of Chaos Energy wound and flowed around the forming Dharma Body, seeming to infuse its meridians with the primordial resonance of the Dao that could hold Heaven and Earth apart and suppress all arts, while also clothing it in the hazy radiance of chaos at creation's dawn.
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