Perfect World: The First King of Immortal Ancient

After endless ages, it might well give birth to a heaven-defying sacred spirit, perhaps even one possessing two ultimate secret arts of yin and yang!

Had the death of some supreme being created this heaven-defying arrangement?

Lin Yue did not care what this divine embryo might become in the future. He leaped up and plunged his withered body headfirst into the divine embryo brimming with vitality.

Since it had yet to develop consciousness, it was an innate sacred treasure.

To refuse what heaven offered was to invite its punishment.

The moment he entered the divine embryo, the corrosive sensation stabbing at Lin Yue's primordial spirit vanished. He felt as though he were soaking in a hot spring, and such contentment filled his spirit that he naturally began drifting into sleep.

New flesh actually began growing on Lin Yue's corroded, withered body. His depleted primordial spirit stirred with life, and his cracked martial dao divine infant once again radiated golden light as all its fissures began to heal. This truly was a heaven-defying divine embryo.

The Boundary Sea indeed held endless dangers, but also endless opportunities. Otherwise, no titans would have come here to explore, seeking a path beyond kingship to become emperors.

An unknown length of time passed, a long stretch of years flowing by.

The twelve celestial-circuit divine meridians, three hundred and sixty-five cave heavens, seven hundred and twenty acupoint vaults, and one thousand two hundred and ninety-six divine repositories within Lin Yue all began to gleam, full to the brim. The hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred divine embryos within his secret repositories began radiating immortal light, even stirring.

This was not the twisted writhing caused by divine essence being frantically drained, but the movement of new life, like a sprout breaking free of its seed.

As time passed, the divine embryo's vitality dwindled little by little, and Lin Yue's flesh began swelling like a silkworm cocoon.

Though no one knew how many years the Boundary Sea had remained shrouded in gray mist, danger accompanied every moment.

On an enormous island, the Black Turbid Qi had vanished. Within a great pit atop a small hill, an immense cocoon resembled a giant egg, seemingly nurturing some heaven-defying being.

Above the enormous cocoon, thunderclouds rolled year-round. Lightning streaked across the sky and thunder dragons surged, while bolts of divine thunder occasionally struck down, seeking to destroy it! The aura of life within was simply too rich.

Inside the cocoon, Lin Yue had begun to awaken. Sensing his further-improved body and divine strength, he was overcome with emotion. Indeed, all things existed within yin and yang; only by entering the land of death could one find life.

Ever since beginning his cultivation, he had used the human immortal martial dao to unearth the divine universes and Secret Treasuries within his body. Then, using the self as the seed, he had also followed the Immortal Ancient method. Finally, through a century of bloody combat on the battlefield of Great Red Heaven, he had forged a king's body step by step. Though he lacked a king-realm primordial spirit, ordinary kings could hardly gain an advantage over him.

Unfortunately, even heaven-reaching divine strength could not truly slay a king in a head-on battle. Kings possessed not only powerful bodies, but primordial spirits that endured myriad tribulations without perishing. Their recovery was especially formidable. Had Lin Yue not cultivated his internal divine universes, he might have been worn down completely.

Though the Great Yin-Yang Sword Qi was a heaven-defying art, without a powerful primordial spirit to drive it, its unparalleled offensive strength was still insufficient. The ultimate yang sword intent could wound kings, but the yin sword's attacks on the primordial spirit could not annihilate one. Beast King Uya had been just such a case: Lin Yue could wound him, but could not kill him.

Though the internal divine universes of his human immortal martial dao had been fully unearthed, the final stage of tempering remained incomplete.

That final stage required him to activate the divine embryos within his divine universes, manifesting each as a deity, allowing his flesh to attain the Dao and become a complete world.

However, the divine essence required to bring those embryos to fruition was beyond imagination. Relying solely on his internal divine universes to nurture them would take an immense span of time.

Even the sacred embryo Lin Yue was now devouring could not provide enough divine essence. Unfortunately, the Nine Heavens could not wait.

Chapter 61: Beast King of the Boundary Sea

On an island shrouded in gray mist.

Boom...

The enormous cocoon exploded. A young man emerged, his entire body crystalline and translucent, immortal light swirling around him. Unlike other beings, however, the immortal light surrounding him did not carry the aura exclusive to kings.

Anyone who saw this would likely have their jaw drop. Someone who had not even entered the king realm actually dared explore the Boundary Sea! To them, he was certain to die, for every being encountered here was at least a king. Praying that others would show mercy and leave him alone was truly laughable. Even if they did show mercy, what could he do if someone went mad and attacked him outright? Entrusting one's life and death to another's compassion was no mindset for a cultivator.

The young man looked around. Though the black aura had receded, the gray mist had not dispersed.

Then the young man transformed into a streak of Hong Guang and flew away, his speed sending ripples through the void.

"Who's that? What incredible speed! He's even faster than me. Impressive."

Far away in the Boundary Sea, someone spoke after noticing that speed, which surpassed the utmost limits. Though distant from Lin Yue, he could still sense his figure.

"Not a king? Yet he dares explore the Boundary Sea? Does he think speed lets him do whatever he likes? What an outrageously brazen madman! Has he gone mad trying to become an emperor-no, trying to become a king? And if I remember correctly, there's a troublesome fellow in the region ahead. Heh! Now we'll have a good show!"

A Human King spoke, watching Lin Yue depart as though enjoying a play, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.

Lin Yue had no idea how others viewed his appearance here. If he had a choice, who in their right mind would come roaming the Boundary Sea before entering the king realm?

As he traveled onward, countless heaven-reaching divine peaks rose from the Boundary Sea, piercing the firmament. Even stars drifted slowly around those mountains. Their height was beyond imagination.

Instinctively, Lin Yue skirted that region and flew instead across another archipelago shrouded in gray mist.

"Anyone could tell there's something strange about that place."

Lin Yue grumbled. Unfortunately, in that very instant, the entire space through which he flew began growing viscous.

His heart jolted. Some being was enveloping this entire stretch of heaven and earth with a supreme spatial secret art.

"Damn it! Yin-Yang Reversal! Treading the Void!"

His opponent's divine ability was even stranger than a Void Beast's, sealing everything within this stretch of the Boundary Sea. Like a beast of time, it isolated this place from ancient history.

Divine essence erupted throughout Lin Yue's body. Speed was power, so he could only break through with ultimate divine strength. Wherever he passed, the void shattered and even time began flowing backward.

Roar...

Just as Lin Yue was about to escape the domain, a beast's roar that could shatter stars resounded through heaven and earth. An azure claw larger than a divine mountain reached up from the waters beneath the archipelago, moving no slower than Lin Yue at his utmost speed.

Does every fucking creature possess the world's ultimate speed?

Lin Yue had forgotten that this was the Boundary Sea, a gathering place for supreme beings, where even titans could perish and their Daos be extinguished.

Bang...

Divine strength surpassing that of peerless kings struck Lin Yue and sent him flying down beneath the archipelago. Terrifying suction devoured the void like a black hole, for below him, above the black waters, a bloody maw stood open, awaiting the arrival of its delicious meal.

"Martial Dao Divine Infant, suppress it!"

A heaven-reaching dharma form manifested. Turning, he threw a punch that likewise carried ultimate divine strength surpassing that of peerless kings.

Lin Yue's ultimate punch slammed into his opponent's upper jaw!

Roar...

The giant beast roared in pain, shaking the heavens. A pair of heaven-reaching claws hauled it out of the black waters, and in an instant, its enormous body was fully revealed.

It was a Beast King covered in azure scales. Red markings flashed across its body like blood, and its blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Lin Yue, treating him as food.

This was an ancient beast without any trace of humanlike awareness. Shrouded in black aura like a fallen dark creature, it retained only the instinct to feed. It hunted kings as prey, lurking here, and had now grown to a level that even ordinary kings could scarcely handle.

Roar...

Seeing Lin Yue's heaven-reaching dharma form, the giant beast lunged straight at him. Mysterious true inscriptions spread through heaven and earth of their own accord, imprisoning the entire void. It hunted purely by instinct.

Boom...

Divine fist and sharp claws collided. Terrifying energy hurled up towering waves, and both man and beast recoiled.

Facing such a beast, Lin Yue immediately unleashed his full strength. Three dharma forms rose, suppressing space, time, and the passing ages to counter the beast's divine ability. Yin and yang energies contested the true inscriptions circulating on their own.

Man and beast began the most primal of battles upon the Boundary Sea, for their heaven-defying secret arts were locked in a stalemate.

"Heavenly Slaughter! Die, you beast!"

"Roar..."

Before the ultimate divine strength of man and beast, ordinary divine abilities and ancient arts could inflict no harm. Only abilities that likewise transcended the utmost limits could overturn the opponent's divine strength and imprint their own laws.

For the void was no longer merely distorting; it was collapsing. Even the waters of the Boundary Sea poured into its fissures, flowing to places unknown.

Divine thunder born from the clash of terrifying energies streaked through heaven and earth, blasting stars apart. The battle also drew several kings to watch from afar. Who knew how many battles took place in the Boundary Sea each day? There were grudges, struggles over the Dao, ancient giant beasts, and even dark creatures. Everyone had grown accustomed to this sea.

"Who is this man? He hasn't entered the king realm, yet possesses such a body and extreme dao divine power. No wonder he dared enter the Boundary Sea to seek opportunities. Does he intend to become a titan in a single leap?"

Had Lin Yue been here, he would probably have started cursing them long ago.

"Though he lacks a king-realm primordial spirit, his flesh surpasses mine, and his divine strength is peerless. Indestructible Divine Runes ripple within his ultimate intent. Is he from that clan in my domain? It's been so long since I returned. That clan has actually become so heaven-defying, surpassing its predecessors!"

This was a king from the Immortal Domain who had entered the Boundary Sea countless years ago, perhaps even a being from the previous era. He had misunderstood: seeing the Indestructible Divine Runes rippling, he assumed Lin Yue belonged to the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan.

He did not even know that the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan had left the Immortal Domain long ago and taken root in the Nine Heavens. He still thought they lived in the Immortal Domain. Yet even for a being from there, he offered no assistance. He no longer felt any attachment to that Immortal Domain, even in his memories.

Boom...

Another terrifying punch struck. The blue-faced, fanged giant beast cried out in pain, blood spilling from its maw. Unfortunately, it would not retreat, instead lunging at Lin Yue even more frantically. This was instinct, without the slightest fear!

Moreover, its mysterious ancient art actually began changing, contracting inward. Though its range shrank, the confinement of the void grew firmer. The space around Lin Yue became like a mire.

"Get the hell back!"

"Heavenly Slaughter!"

His dharma forms shook heaven and earth; his divine fist shattered the firmament.

Divine essence surged frantically through every divine meridian within Lin Yue. Divine strength was drawn from his cave heavens, Cavern Acupoints, Secret Treasuries, and divine embryos alike, and brilliant immortal light shone from within him.

The chaotic energy upon his divine fist actually began evolving vitality, a sight that stunned everyone watching. For within endless destruction, he was bringing forth endless life.

This was the intent he had comprehended within the divine embryo.

At death's utmost limit, life emerged. At life's utmost limit, death walked beside it!

Life and death evolved together; yin and yang moved in interweaving currents. Every day, the heavens and myriad worlds witnessed countless births and countless deaths. This was the essence of the world, the essence of the universe within the human body, and, even more so, the essence of the human immortal martial dao.

For the highest realm of the human immortal martial dao was for the human body to become the evolution of a world. Even in death, one could transform into all things like Pangu. When Lin Yue's divine embryos evolved into deities and those deities imprinted all things beneath the heavens, he might well achieve it.

"Incredible. What extraordinary talent."

For a titan to offer praise spoke volumes. Even those of the same realm could scarcely earn such acclaim.

"A remarkable fellow. Evolving life amid destruction-he's embarked on a divine path reaching to heaven!"

"Could he really succeed? Could he complete the path to kingship through flesh alone?"

"This... is he creating a new cultivation system?"

Some communicated across the distance, unaware whether the others were enemies or friends. They had never met and even used heavenly mysteries to conceal themselves.

Yet most had come to the Boundary Sea for the same reason: to seek opportunities and advance further. Kings wished to become peerless, to become titans, to become emperors. Naturally, seeing someone like Lin Yue now stirred them.

"Nothing like this has happened throughout the ages, has it?"

"Nothing throughout the ages? Does that mean it can never happen? The world constantly evolves life and death. Simply because something has never existed, should we assume the path cannot be walked? Then what meaning is there in cultivation? What meaning is there in our entering the Boundary Sea? Why did the creator of our cultivation method not die of old age in his homeland? Why did he still forge ahead, even facing death and the extinction of his Dao?"

"We've fallen behind in our thinking!"

Boom...

The words had barely faded when Lin Yue sent the giant beast flying with a punch. Its body split open, and the Beast King's precious blood streaked through the sky, casting multicolored radiance over the Boundary Sea.

Chapter 62: His Aura Exposed

Even with heaven-reaching divine strength, even with his divine fist advancing further, even with ultimate intent evolving life and death so that his punch could open worlds and bring forth heaven and earth, he still could not shatter the Beast King's body with a single blow. Such was a king-let alone a Beast King whose innate flesh already surpassed that of humans.

He could repel it, but could hardly kill it. Its primordial spirit would erupt with inexhaustible power, even beginning to heal its wounds. This Beast King surpassed even Uya back then.

Roar...

The azure ancient beast steadied itself, crushing an enormous island beneath its feet and splitting it apart. Even the cracks covering its body could not stop its instinctive craving for food. It only grew angrier, its beastly might intensifying and pressing down upon the entire stretch of Boundary Sea.

Its oppressive might directly crushed the surging, towering waves into raindrops the size of stars, which fell one after another.

Roar...

The fierce beast lunged again!

"Fuck...!"

Lin Yue swung his divine fist again to meet the king beast. Again and again, he unleashed the power of his internal divine universes, suppressing this Beast King driven solely by animal instinct. Yet time and again, it staggered back to its feet, then charged at him with frenzied roars.

"Hahaha...! Though his flesh reaches heaven and his divine strength is peerless, even suppressing this king-realm ancient beast, without a king-realm primordial spirit, he can hardly slay this Beast King. They'll be fighting for quite a while!"

"Interesting. Does this count as a weakness?"

The corners of many spectators' mouths lifted slightly. If this young man truly had no weakness, some might well have acted. After all, such a heaven-defying body-tempering method was worth studying. Given Lin Yue's performance and the Indestructible Divine Runes flickering over his skin, many suspected it was most likely the Indestructible Scripture.

At that moment, in a distant part of the Boundary Sea, three faint lights crossed the void at speeds surpassing time, traversing ten thousand miles in an instant as they approached the battle between Lin Yue and the Beast King.

They seemed well coordinated. Moreover, they released none of the imposing aura belonging to kings, even deliberately concealing their presence. Though countless dangers lurked within the Boundary Sea, it was truly surprising that three Immortal Kings traveling together would still act so cautiously.

"Hmph! There's no mistaking his aura. I'd recognize him even if he turned to ash. After searching for so many years, we've finally found him." Someone among the three faint lights transmitted his voice. His tone was icy, his anger seeming to freeze even the void.

"Don't be careless. Approach quietly!"

"Mm...!"

Just as everyone was thoroughly enjoying the spectacle, three faint lights emerged soundlessly from the void. At such close range, however, virtually all the kings watching nearby had already detected their arrival. Lin Yue alone remained unaware.

"What's going on? A group of kings out on business?"