That day, many powerful cultivators throughout the universe sensed an incomparably formidable surge of blood energy spreading out from the Big Dipper Ancient Star, carrying fluctuations of Imperial Dao Laws that could crush the cosmos. The instant it appeared, the myriad laws of the entire universe began to tremble.
People understood that this was the phenomenon caused by a self-severed supreme forcibly breaking through and returning once more to the Human Dao Pinnacle. His once-dormant flesh and Primordial Spirit had fully revived, and his severed Imperial Dao Laws had been forcibly restored. Such a thing was bound to disturb the entire universe.
Such a feat was known as ultimate sublimation!
Rumble!
With his hands clasped behind his back, Yuangeng quietly watched the supreme who had emerged from the Primordial Mine District return to his peak. His aura climbed higher and higher, the surging of his blood roaring like mountains crying out and seas crashing. Every breath made the ancient star beneath his feet shudder violently.
His gaze was as deep as the sea. The path this supreme followed was fundamentally different from the Immortal Ancient Method he cultivated. It relied on no Dao Seed, cultivating only the self. All the supreme's laws were fused with his flesh, with no need to depend on anything else.
The man's lower abdomen, five internal organs, limbs, spine, and brow were especially distinctive. Those were the places where his supreme origin gathered. Even with the naked eye, Yuangeng could tell that these parts had endured a thousand hammerings and a hundred temperings, long since resonating with the Dao.
It felt as though he had turned his entire body into a Dao Seed, drawing all laws into himself and no longer needing a Dao Seed from the world outside.
Using the body as a seed...
As a transmigrator, Yuangeng understood that this was the fruit of the Desolate Heaven Emperor's success in using the body as a seed. That path was exceedingly difficult. Yuangeng had once heard his master and the Sacrificial Spirit mention it, but back then, using the body as a seed had been nothing more than a theory. Even its earliest approaches had circulated only within a very small circle.
At that thought, he could not help taking an interest in the Desolate Heaven Emperor's cultivation method. He carefully studied the process of the Primordial Ancient Mine supreme's ultimate sublimation, watching that withered, dying man grow young again, becoming a youth with silver hair draped over his shoulders and a piercing gaze, facing him from afar.
"My name is Emperor Jun!"
Soon, this supreme's aura climbed to its limit. He stood majestic and incomparably domineering, the battle axe in his hand reflecting a bone-chilling gleam. His aura no longer held the despair and madness of a dying man. He even nodded slightly to Yuangeng, his divine sense fluctuations calm and composed.
"Lunar Essence, Yuangeng."
Yuangeng responded just as calmly. With his hands clasped behind his back, the Immortal Seed within him erupted with boundless radiance, resonating with the world outside and empowering him, making his aura soar just as swiftly.
"There are too many living beings here. Let us fight on the Supreme Battlefield!"
Emperor Jun likewise studied Yuangeng for a moment, then turned without hesitation. A golden bridge appeared beneath his feet. With a single step, he left the ancient star beneath him and strode toward the starry sky.
Whoosh!
Yuangeng knew there was no avoiding a challenge at this level. With a slight stir of his will, Lunar Essence Dao Laws gathered, and a pair of pitch-black wings unfurled behind him. He followed closely in Emperor Jun's footsteps, heading toward the Cosmic Frontier.
This was a method of the Golden Crow Clan in the Immortal Domain. In the past, Yuangeng had cultivated the Heaven-Covering Immortal-Burning Art in reverse, drawing the attention of several Golden Crow True Immortals. He had visited the Golden Crow Clan in both the Primordial Ancient Realm and the Immortal Domain many times and was thoroughly familiar with their methods.
"A method from before this era..."
At the same time, Emperor Jun noticed the unusual nature of the Lunar Essence Wings behind Yuangeng. He could sense that the runes upon those wings were of an extremely high level. If he could obtain them, perhaps they would aid his cultivation.
At an Extreme Dao supreme's speed, crossing the entire universe did not take very long. In the blink of an eye, Yuangeng and Emperor Jun reached the end of the starry sky, where an ancient continent stretched across untold billions of miles, emanating unimaginable baleful energy.
That was the Supreme Battlefield. It bore the formation patterns of emperors and supremes and could withstand terrifying battles.
Boom!
Before the two could fully descend onto that ancient continent, Emperor Jun could wait no longer and attacked. His powerful body stretched out, the silver-white Law of Strength surged, and he turned with a swing of his axe, cleaving viciously toward Yuangeng's chest, aimed straight at his Dao Seed.
Through their brief contact, Emperor Jun had already formed some guesses about this ancient being's cultivation method. He believed the Great Dao seed in Yuangeng's chest was vital, much like the Immortal Platform of present-day cultivators, and could not be allowed to suffer harm.
Yuangeng was unsurprised by such a move. His entire being resonated with heaven and earth, and one hand instantly turned a profound black. Lunar Essence Dao radiance blazed brilliantly, his fist's momentum towered to the heavens, and he smashed it hard against the platinum battle axe.
Crack!
The Supreme Battlefield was deathly silent and devoid of life, leaving Yuangeng and Emperor Jun without any further concerns. The instant fist and axe met, silver-white and pitch-black laws collided and intertwined madly. These were two utterly different kinds of Ultimate Dao Laws, and driven to their fullest, they made the entire Supreme Battlefield quake.
"Hah!"
The instant fist and axe clashed, a low Dao sound issued from Yuangeng's mouth. The Immortal Seed in his chest pulsed like a heart, and dense Lunar Essence radiance surged forth, taking the form of a Four-Horned Black Qilin behind him. It towered like an immortal mountain or a colossal peak, raising its hoof and stamping fiercely toward Emperor Jun.
This was the Dharma manifestation of Yuangeng's master, the Lunar Essence Four-Horned Ink Qilin.
In other words, this was a genuine immortal dao method!
Emperor Jun dared not take it lightly. His four limbs shone like four pillars holding up the heavens, erupting with strength far beyond what he had displayed before. He knocked Yuangeng's Lunar Essence Fist back, then gripped his battle axe tightly and struck horizontally at the descending hoof of the Lunar Essence Black Qilin.
This feat made Yuangeng raise an eyebrow. As expected of a cultivator of the Human Body Secret Realm method. Emperor Jun's four limbs had just drawn upon the myriad Daos; he must have used the Extreme Dao power of the Four Extremes Secret Realm. The tremendous might his flesh unleashed in that instant already surpassed the average level of Extreme Dao supremes from the Immortal Ancient Era.
Thud!
The low collision shook heaven and earth. A cultivator versed in strength and battle, with an exceptionally powerful body, Emperor Jun actually relied on his flesh to withstand the Lunar Essence Black Qilin's earth-shattering stomp.
Emperor Jun was clearly having a difficult time. For a moment, he felt as though he were fighting a real Ink Qilin. The Ink Qilin his opponent had manifested was far too lifelike. Its scales, fur, dragon horns... even its breath seemed that of a living creature, bearing unimaginable Lunar Essence might.
"Break!"
Yet this emperor paid it no mind. His back shone, and dazzling Extreme Dao light erupted along his entire spine, empowering his flesh and making its tremendous strength surge once more. He leaped up, his battle axe falling like an immortal mountain ridge, and struck the Ink Qilin between the brows with a thunderous blow.
That was the power of the Human Body Secret Realm-Dragon Transformation.
Boom!
Though surprised, Yuangeng remained perfectly composed. The Lunar Dao Seed in his chest pulsed again, and vast quantities of Dao radiance empowered the Qilin Method behind him. The towering Four-Horned Black Qilin shone all over, taking the platinum battle axe head-on. That full-force blow from Emperor Jun's battle axe failed to leave even the slightest mark upon it.
The sight made Emperor Jun's pupils contract sharply. It was unimaginable that an emperor like him, who had attained the Dao through strength
and possessed an unrivaled body, would one day fail to break even his opponent's Dharma manifestation.
"You have some ability, but you are still far short."
Seemingly noticing the disbelief in Emperor Jun's eyes, Yuangeng shook his head and sent those words into his ears through fluctuations of divine sense.
It was the truth. Even though Emperor Jun cultivated the Human Body Secret Realm method of using the body as a seed, his lifespan had constrained him. He had spent most of his life slumbering in a forbidden zone. The years he had devoted to cultivation amounted to only twenty or thirty thousand, leaving his accumulation, knowledge, and other aspects far behind.
Yuangeng was different. He had genuinely cultivated for five hundred thousand years in the Immortal Ancient Era. Not only had he witnessed the cultivation methods of the Primordial Ancient Realm and the Immortal Domain, but he had also studied the Burial Domain Method, the methods of the Foreign Realm, and even certain cultivation methods from the Boundary Sea.
He had truly cultivated immortal dao methods. Over hundreds of thousands of years roaming the great realms, he had thoroughly studied at least five True Immortal inheritances. There were also Immortal King Methods, Burial King Scriptures, and more, each of which he had spent tens of thousands of years specifically comprehending.
Admittedly, in terms of the origins of their creation, the Immortal Ancient Method-a cultivation system cobbled together by a group of supreme giants and beings with emperor radiance-could not compare to the Human Body Secret Realm method that Shi Hao had created and perfected at the Immortal Emperor level. Nor had Yuangeng undergone tempering in the harsh environment of the Dharma-Ending Age.
But sufficient accumulation could erase every disparity. Yuangeng's knowledge, experience, and foundations ran too deep. Across the entire Shrouding the Heavens era, only the very finest among the Dao Provers could fight Yuangeng as he was now.
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