Qing Yao was startled, her gaze fixed on Lin Fan. He seemed to have transformed into a heavenly passage himself, the vital essence radiating from his entire body blazing like a fiercely burning flame, dazzling beyond compare.
At the same time, she sensed that the power within his flesh seemed inexhaustible. Like those heavenly passages, his body could draw life essence directly from heaven and earth. It was truly uncanny.
Not only Qing Yao—even Lin Fan himself was bewildered. The Physical Body Heavenly Passage was truly wondrous and profound, more mysterious than the heavenly passages outside his body.
It was as though a door had opened in his chest, unlocking a treasure hidden within the human body. It could command the external heavenly passages, allowing his own "qi" to flow more smoothly.
Could I have opened my middle dantian? Lin Fan could not help recalling something.
He remembered that the human body had a dantian, but it was divided into three parts: the upper, middle, and lower dantians.
The upper dantian lay between the brows, where the primordial spirit resided.
The middle dantian lay at the Shanzhong Acupoint in the chest, precisely where his Supreme Bone was now.
As for the lower dantian, it lay beneath the navel, corresponding to the wheel sea of the later secret realm cultivation system.
The wheel sea had been created when Milk Baby compressed his heavenly passages into his body. It was the starting point of the wellspring of divine power, equivalent to a heavenly passage.
From the looks of it, heavenly passages correspond to dantians. There's a strong connection between the two.
As Lin Fan thought this, the sphere of light inside him grew ever more brilliant. Like a newly risen sun, it resonated and connected with his ten heavenly passages, releasing divine essence together.
A hazy rain of light filled that place, awash with divine radiance. It resembled a pure land, sacred and peaceful, no different from a heavenly passage.
Beside him, Qing Yao watched quietly, studying the Physical Body Heavenly Passage and working through its principles, utterly amazed.
This could be called a breakthrough beyond the extreme realm in the history of heavenly passages, turning yet another new page. Ten heavenly passages were not the end; more could still be opened.
Two hours later, inspiration flashed through Lin Fan's mind. If a heavenly passage can be opened in the middle dantian, what about the upper dantian, where the primordial spirit resides?
One corresponds to the flesh, so the other should correspond to the primordial spirit. Just as the flesh is yang and the primordial spirit is yin-one yin and one yang, one life and one death make the Dao!
It might not be impossible to open one there. Like the flesh, the primordial spirit holds great mysteries and limitless potential.
Lin Fan acted as soon as the thought struck him. However, more than half the medicinal liquid in the great cauldron had already been consumed, and it needed replenishing.
Opening a single Physical Body Heavenly Passage had consumed so much. Who knew how much he would need for the most mysterious place of all, where the primordial spirit resided?
"Pretty big sister, I want to open another heavenly passage. Please help me," Lin Fan called, earnest and solemn.
Qing Yao was shocked to hear this. Even the Eleventh Heavenly Passage had not satisfied him; he actually intended to break the limit once more.
But she did not question him. Respecting his wishes, she kept adding fresh Treasure Medicines and divine pool water to the great cauldron. She even let another drop of Divine Phoenix True Blood fall into it.
At once, immortal radiance blazed. A divine phoenix soared, golden lotuses sprang forth between heaven and earth, and extraordinary visions appeared one after another, as though they had entered an immortal domain.
Rumble!
The ten great heavenly passages shone. Together with the sphere of light in Lin Fan's chest, they absorbed divine essence, preparing to make the ultimate leap and charge toward the space between his brows.
But this was incredibly dangerous, no different from courting death. No part of the human body was more important than the dwelling of the primordial spirit. Once it was damaged, reversing that damage would be difficult.
Even Qing Yao broke into a cold sweat over his mad actions. If his primordial spirit perished, he would truly die; unlike the flesh, it could not regenerate and reassemble.
"I have only one chance. Either I succeed or die trying. All I can do is stake everything on this!" Lin Fan said firmly.
This was a road with no retreat. No matter how powerful the Supreme Bone's healing divine art was, it could not bring a dead person back to life.
Within the Purple Bamboo Forest, Lin Fan's body became crystalline and translucent, dazzling to behold and gleaming with golden light. Countless runes filled the surrounding void, dense and immensely powerful.
This was equivalent to burning his own life, unleashing all his power to reach his strongest state, then charging with everything he had, holding nothing back.
Boom!
The ten heavenly passages collided, concentrating their power at a single point together with the Physical Body Heavenly Passage. They poured essence toward the space between his brows, all issuing tremendous sounds as they resonated and erupted with divine radiance.
At that moment, even the void twisted and blurred, disturbing heaven and earth until neither could find peace.
"Aah..."
Lin Fan roared. His skull felt as though it would explode, the pain unbearable, yet he still refused to stop. He began frantically drawing in and circulating vital essence, driving all the runes in his body and gathering them between his brows, trying to force something open.
In an instant, the entire area seethed. Divine energy flooded it like a vast ocean, while the dense life essence made the plants grow rapidly and a hundred flowers bloom.
At last, a mighty pressure emerged, producing enormous golden ripples, terrifying beyond measure and powerful to the utmost.
"Break open!"
Lin Fan shouted. He was not trying to destroy himself, but to use the connections between his dantians to make them resonate with one another, triggering a wondrous change that would open the hidden treasure where his primordial spirit resided.
But reality was not so accommodating. This was even harder than opening the Physical Body Heavenly Passage.
Blood began seeping from between his brows. His head swelled, and countless cracks appeared across it, as though it would burst in the next instant. The sight was horrifying!
Most of all, Lin Fan's head hurt as though it would split apart, as though millions of ants were biting him. His soul felt as if it were being torn apart by force. It was unquestionably the cruelest torment of the mind.
Yet he still had to hold fast to his conviction and remain clearheaded. He dared not be careless in the slightest as he opened his divine soul heavenly passage.
"This..." Qing Yao was deeply worried. One wrong move could destroy both his body and soul. Several times, she wanted to stop him by force. This was far too insane.
He was only in the Cave Heaven Realm, yet he had already begun cultivating with no regard for his life. Was this not too reckless? Who had taught him to behave this way?
"Lunatics. He was mad, and his son is mad too. Neither cares about his life when it comes to cultivation." Qing Yao suddenly cursed, her eyes misting with tears. She sighed, but in the end, she did not stop him.
On the path of cultivation, she had once believed that casting aside every unnecessary emotion would allow her to ascend to the summit.
But now, thinking back, she realized she had truly been wrong-and had missed far, far too much...
Perhaps only those who staked their lives on the Dao could rise swiftly and glimpse the hope of transcendence...
Boom!
Suddenly, a sound like millions of war drums being beaten rang out, deafening beyond belief.
A heavenly passage shone between Lin Fan's brows, radiant with many colors and wreathed in luminous mist.
The sight was astonishing, as though immortal light, ascension amid rosy clouds, and all manner of other visions had appeared. Yet at the same time, it felt unreal.
That heavenly passage seemed to hover between existence and nothingness, hazy and mysterious to the utmost!
Perhaps this was the wondrous nature of the divine soul heavenly passage-the only one of its kind in the world.
"Hahaha! I did it! I've forged a path in the Cave Heaven Realm that belongs to me alone!" Lin Fan opened his eyes and whooped, overwhelmed with delight.
Behind him, the ten great heavenly passages joined into one expanse, merging with the Physical Body Heavenly Passage in his chest and the divine soul heavenly passage between his brows. They absorbed endless vital essence, making him look like a little Heavenly God, sacred and inviolable!
At the same time, Lin Fan extended his divine sense outward. His terrifying primordial spirit power was astonishing, many times stronger than before, and his mind felt clearer than it ever had.
Even Qing Yao was shocked. He had truly set a new record—the Twelfth Heavenly Passage!
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