Something Went Wrong

"How could this happen? The Immortal Medicine didn't work! That's impossible!" Luo Yan discovered that after refining the Immortal Green Lotus Medicine, his body had not regained its youth. He was aghast.

After a brief moment of shock, he calmed down and began examining the changes within his body.

Deep within his Bitter Sea, a figure was taking shape, undergoing a nirvana rebirth like an infant. Yet it lacked a soul, resembling a stillborn child.

The medicinal power of the Immortal Medicine circulated through it, constantly reshaping the body. It grew from an infant into a youth, then from a youth into a middle-aged man, and finally into an old man. After the old man died, an infant broke out of his body and went through the process all over again.

It was like a cycle of... reincarnation!

Luo Yan recalled something from the past... The Chaos Green Lotus had once received a drop of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's blood essence. At the time, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had been an Immortal King Giant at the very least, his power unfathomable.

Later, he had even broken through to the Supreme Realm. That drop of blood essence might well have resonated with him...

That drop of blood essence had reshaped the Chaos Green Lotus into an Immortal Medicine body, and Luo Yan had used the Green Lotus to live a second lifetime. Naturally, its effects far surpassed those of other Immortal Medicines!

Luo Yan continued observing the figure. The more he looked, the more astonished he became... The Immortal Green Lotus Medicine strongly rejected his original body, so it had condensed a new one within his Bitter Sea. Ultimately... it simply looked down on his old body!

At last, the body stopped evolving. Its cycle of reincarnation ended, and its form settled into that of a seven- or eight-year-old boy, almost identical to Luo Yan when he was young.

"What is this supposed to be? A person inside a person?" Luo Yan wore a strange expression. He could sense that with a mere thought, he could inhabit this child's body. It was as though it had been tailor-made for him-or rather, it was his childhood self.

"This body... is bizarre! It has no cultivation whatsoever, but its physical toughness rivals a Great Emperor's!" Luo Yan marveled. He really had obtained an incredible treasure this time!

After he refined the Immortal Medicine formed from the intertwining of a drop of Supreme Blood and an Immortal King's foundation, it had evolved together with his own origin substance into a body that rivaled an Ancient Emperor-his second lifetime!

That drop of blood had remained undying across countless ages and brought forth the Azure Emperor. Now, its remaining Supreme Immortal Power had become his second lifetime.

"What should I do? Do I still keep this body?" Luo Yan stared fixedly at the child's body, his gaze burning.

"Only children choose. Adults take everything! I can refine my current body into a puppet!"

Luo Yan was a man of action, and he got straight to work. It was not as though he was blazing a new trail anyway. Hadn't the Ruthless Great Emperor also refined her previous lifetime's body into the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar?

It was perfectly reasonable for me to refine mine into a puppet!

Luo Yan took possession of his Second Lifetime Body, then turned around and began refining his First Lifetime Body. This was a body at the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm, an utterly supreme material for crafting a puppet.

From entering seclusion to awakening, then refining the puppet, a hundred years passed.

"I suppose I count as someone who has achieved alternative Dao attainment now?" Luo Yan gazed at his small, fair hands. They contained physical strength comparable to a Great Emperor's.

Physical body emperor attainment!

He was no different from the legendary great accomplishment sacred body! He could challenge a Great Emperor!

"Wait... where's my Quasi-Emperor cultivation?" Luo Yan's eyes widened as he looked toward the puppet. It still radiated peak Quasi-Emperor cultivation.

"I'm finished! My cultivation's gone!" Luo Yan's tender little face instantly turned deathly pale.

"And... this body doesn't seem capable of cultivating!" Upon examining it, Luo Yan found that this body had not even opened a Bitter Sea-or rather, it could not open one!

This physical body had itself condensed within the Bitter Sea. It was a manifestation of the Bitter Sea.

"I could puke!" A mouthful of stagnant blood lodged in Luo Yan's chest.

A living target for the cultivation world?!! And one that couldn't even be smashed apart???

With no cultivation, only a physical body, how was I any different from a living target?

A mortal's cultivation, a Great Emperor's body.

"I knew that beast-milk-drinking fellow couldn't be any good!"

Rumble-

Luo Yan shrank his neck. He had nearly forgotten that "drinking beast milk" was that person's reverse scale. If his body had not been formed from that person's blood essence, he would probably already have been dead.

"So... I've acquired one mighty father?" In a certain sense, Luo Yan counted as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's son-the kind related by blood.

Luo Yan stared at the puppet body for a long while before saying, "Let's merge!"

His true body could not wield magical power, but it could enter the puppet's Bitter Sea, allowing him to regain control of his original body and unleash the strength of a peak Quasi-Emperor.

Of course, this felt anything but pleasant. It placed a considerable strain on Luo Yan's mental power, so he would avoid using it whenever possible.

"I'm screwed! If I'd known this would happen, I should've asked the empress first!" Only after his refinement went awry did he know regret.

Over the following year, Luo Yan kept adapting to his new physical body and attempting to control his old one. The complete loss of his magical power had indirectly caused abnormalities in his divine sense as well, making it fluctuate between strong and weak.

At its strongest, it came infinitely close to the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm. At its weakest, it was practically no different from a mortal's. This led to memorable scenes in which the puppet body he was controlling would suddenly stop moving, as though it had died.

Once his divine sense fell dormant, his true body would also become trapped in the Bitter Sea, unable to open a path out. It was no different from being placed under house arrest.

The chances of this were very low. Under ordinary circumstances, he would not fall to the level of a mortal.

Given the situation, Luo Yan had no choice but to hold his nose and accept it.

In the outside world.

"Have you heard? Wan Qing has stirred up a huge disaster this time! He's alarmed the beings in the forbidden zones! They say a Child of the Forbidden Zone, sealed away there long ago, has emerged!"

"What! Even the Life Forbidden Zones have been stirred up!"

"You probably don't know this, but they say Wan Qing's origins are extremely mysterious and connected to the legendary Immortal Medicine!"

"Immortal Medicine? Do you mean that rumor from over a decade ago? Wasn't it supposed to be false? The strongest of those demons were only Half-Saints. Even a Saint King might not be able to see through Wan Qing's origins. Information from a few Half-Saints... is most likely fake!"

"I wouldn't be so sure. An extraordinarily terrifying Saint King ancestor once ventured deep into the starry sky, searching for the Demon Star those demons spoke of to verify their claims! The starry sky is vast beyond measure. There must be at least a thousand inhabited planets named Demon Star, if not tens of thousands. Who knows whether that senior found any clues!"

Some cultivators were discussing one of the most dazzling rising stars of the past century. His name was Wan Qing, and he had also called himself the Azure Emperor. A hundred years ago, he had suddenly appeared in the Eastern Wasteland, cutting his way through every obstacle, defeating Heavenly Prodigies of his generation and fighting opponents above his realm.

Now, he had become one of the peerless monsters who overpowered the Heavenly Prodigies of the Big Dipper. Together with a prince of the Supreme Dynasty in the Central Plains and the barbarian desolate divine body of the Southern Ridge, he was known as one of the three heroes of the era.

Their strength crushed that of the other Heavenly Prodigies! The direct descendants of the transcendent sacred lands and Desolate Ancient Families all lost their luster before these three. They were simply not on the same level.

Of them, the Azure Emperor was the most mysterious. The world knew only that his origins were extraordinary, his talent was terrifying, and he was the strongest Heavenly Prodigy among the demons of the current age.

For the Heavenly Demon Palace of the Southern Ridge and the demons of the Eastern Wasteland to acknowledge that his talent far surpassed that of every other demon Heavenly Prodigy, one could well imagine how astonishing he had to be!

Since ancient times, the great demon clans had looked down on one another, refusing to acknowledge each other. Yet now, they all revered a single young junior... His talent could be ranked among the greatest of all time!