His cultivation had grown even stronger, yet it still could not withstand the merciless passage of time.
His life had finally reached its end. He had lived fifty-two thousand years in his first lifetime, an already staggering span. Shi Yi had no other path left; he could only begin his second lifetime.
During his first lifetime, Shi Yi had studied the first Dao Marker in depth and reaped enormous rewards. He had long since determined how to walk his path of nirvana.
This layer concerned the transformation of life: Cicada Shedding Its Shell, Breaking Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly. The evolution and transformation of countless creatures could offer profound inspiration.
Shi Yi began gathering his vitality, concentrating all the vitality within his body in one place. In an instant, that place became a sea of primordial chaos, the birthplace where all things first sprouted. Even on the brink of death, the vitality within him was beyond anyone else's imagination.
Meanwhile, his flesh withered and declined, becoming a shell, a cocoon.
The chanting of various scriptures emanated from the shell and cocoon, stirring the Great Dao of heaven and earth. An undying, eternal aura spread outward.
Half a year later.
His old life gradually fell away, and a new life began to emerge. Shi Yi seemed to have undergone a rebirth, transformed down to his very bones, brimming with vitality once more.
Layer after layer of feather plumes fell away, leaving traces of feathering everywhere.
Crack!
The old shell split open. A pair of crystalline hands reached out from within, followed by Shi Yi. His entire being was perfect, without a single flaw, like the most immaculate work of art sculpted by the Heavens.
Just like that, he began his second lifetime. His surging blood and qi and blazing