The Heaven-reaching Fruit was like a ball of brilliant divine light as Chu Jin sucked it into his belly in one gulp.
His obsession ran too deep, bordering on madness. He paid no heed at all to the warning in the Heavenly Dao's words and forcibly swallowed the Heaven-reaching Fruit with only his Fourth Grade cultivation.
As the divine fruit entered his belly, an intense, refreshing fragrance filled the Emperor's Tomb and surged out into The Human World. Whether the billions watching across the world were hallucinating or truly affected by its fragrance, they all felt their divine senses clear and their bodies grow comfortable and weightless.
On the platform, Chu Jin's body had become so pale and transparent after forcibly swallowing the Heaven-reaching Fruit that he looked like a sculpture carved from translucent jade. The blazing-sun-like Star Core in his belly had also grown several times more radiant.
Most importantly, his divine soul power soared. Like a feeble stream suddenly receiving the waters of lakes and seas pouring backward into it, it became a vast ocean in an instant, spreading across heaven and earth.
Floating in midair, Chu Jin felt that his surging divine soul power could clearly capture every blade of grass, every tree, every grain of sand and speck of dust in the Emperor's Tomb. He could even sense the location of the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, the Great Emperor's true place of passing, hidden here.
The path of the physical body lay in painstakingly tempering one's physique, breaking through shackles at the limits again and again in an attempt to reach the summit of the Great Dao through flesh and blood. For those who cultivated the world's divine methods, however, strength lay in painstakingly cultivating divine soul power and the Star Core within the belly.
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