"For example, these gates!" Qin Tian used his own divine sense to shut off his five senses, ignoring his body as it spasmed uncontrollably and began to crack.
With his divine will, he inscribed a domain and array marks within his body. This time, he no longer carved them into flesh and blood. Instead, he regarded the human body as heaven and earth, turning sinews and bones into mountain ranges and meridians into dragon veins. Life Essence flowed down along their contours like surging rivers, forming a miniature world of mountains and waterways. In the end, Life Essence rushed toward the origin point of divine power, the place where all things flourished, three inches below the navel.
The human body domain was complete!
This was Qin Tian's second version of using his body as an array. It still fell short of his hopes of integrating it directly into his origin and creating a special constitution.
But it was far better than his previous attempt at turning his body into an array. At the very least, it had no obvious side effects anymore.
He evolved a supreme domain, using his body as mountains and rivers to guide Life Essence into striking the "gates" in his lower abdomen.
Under the influence of the mountain-and-river domain, the external essence continually compressed his Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm, keeping it on the brink of exploding without actually letting it burst. Qin Tian's flesh remained in a constant state of danger.
When life and death hung in the balance, a person's latent potential was unleashed.
At that moment, cracks appeared in gates that could not normally be glimpsed. As they absorbed source qi, they also emitted a pure radiance.
That pure radiance was far too sacred, as though it were the supreme origin underlying the universe's construction. Though faint, it brought Qin Tian an unprecedented improvement, more effective than any divine medicine in the world.
"No wonder the ancients said that the human body itself is the finest medicine in the world!" Qin Tian murmured to himself.
As soon as that pure radiance emerged, his origin sublimated, his physique strengthened, and his divine power transformed once more. Even his formerly ink-black Bitter Sea took on a hint of white, undergoing a qualitative change.
The supposed difference between a mortal body and a Divine Body lay in these "gates." The vast majority of a mortal body's "gates" were closed from birth.
A Divine Body, on the other hand, was born with a considerable number of gates open, releasing pure radiance to form its so-called Divine Body origin.
This was also where the claim that mortal bodies were the strongest came from. Once every "gate" throughout the body was opened, a mortal body would become the strongest constitution of all.
"I finally found it!"
"A supreme method that can truly contend with Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies!" Qin Tian's eyes blazed, divine light shooting more than three feet from them. This was a natural manifestation of his essence, qi, and spirit reaching their peak.
Qin Tian continued inscribing the domain upon his body, making his body the domain itself and guiding energy to scour one gate after another.
Some gates shattered on the spot, while others slowly swung open, releasing dazzling pure radiance.
Gate after gate opened, and gentle light streamed out from within.
His origin power grew substantially. Though the process was slow, its advantage lay in its safety.
During the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore that followed, Qin Tian tried inscribing dao patterns among the mountains and rivers within his body, guiding his own power into resonance with heaven and earth. In this way, he strengthened his human body domain and grew stronger at every moment, using the circulation of those mountains and rivers to reinforce his blood vitality and divine power.
It could be said that every beat of his heart and every circulation of divine power passed through the mountain-and-river domain, strengthening his essence, qi, and spirit.
At first, the effects were imperceptible, but given enough time, they would be enough to reach the heavens!
"The heaven and earth within the human body resonate with the greater heaven and earth outside. That resonance between inner and outer worlds is the Human Body Heaven-and-Earth Dao Field." The secret method Qin Tian had created could be called a body-tempering method or a domain array formation. It could even be called a divine ability that cultivated both spiritual nature and life.
For now, it was only an embryonic form, a divine ability used to regulate himself and connect with the outside world.
One transformation, one dao pattern; one transformation, one sublimation.
Once the ninth pattern was inscribed, it combined with the previous eight dao patterns to form an intricate array mark. His body seemed to become a supreme grand array, capable of endless changes and of drawing energy from the outside world to sustain him. It possessed a touch of the Origin Spirit Body's profundity.
Yet Qin Tian sensed a faint warning from somewhere beyond his awareness.
Though this Open Gate Method worked and could strengthen his origin, it was merely fishing the waters dry. One day, his body would be the first to give out and collapse.
Qin Tian recalled how, while opening the "gates," some had been unable to withstand the pressure and had collapsed. Though these injuries could heal in time, they still damaged his potential. These were what people commonly called hidden injuries.
"It seems the mysteries contained within special constitutions go far beyond simply having more 'gates' open from birth." Qin Tian looked thoughtful.
Qin Tian thought of a supreme demonic art, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art. The Ruthless Great Emperor had risen from a worthless constitution to become a supreme empress entirely through this unparalleled demonic art, devouring others' origins and making them her own.
"If I can obtain this supreme demonic art and delve into its workings, perhaps I can understand the mysteries of constitutional origins and remedy the flaws in my Open 'Gate' Method."
"When that time comes, I'll be able to say that a mortal body truly is the strongest constitution!" A faint smile appeared on Qin Tian's face.
Qin Tian stretched, his gaze burning bright. "The heavens, the earth, and the mortal world-now I can finally take a good look at them."
At this moment, Qin Tian truly possessed the confidence to contend with Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies.
At least within the Sea of Bitterness realm, he feared no one.
As for the realms beyond it, that was harder to say.
The Sacred Body, for example, underwent astonishing transformations in every secret realm.
But Qin Tian was confident. Since he could match Sacred Bodies and Divine Bodies in the Sea of Bitterness realm, he would not fall behind in the realms to come. He would likewise find methods of transformation for the other secret realms.
A month passed in the blink of an eye. Using his human body domain, Qin Tian continuously opened "gates," completing profound internal transformations. With that, his Nine Transformations of the Other Shore were complete.
Another month passed. Day and night, Qin Tian fed on the qi of divine source, absorbing divine substance and Life Essence until the injuries caused by the forceful opening of his "gates" had fully healed.
That day, Qin Tian had barely traveled any distance after leaving the Fire Domain when he was intercepted.
"Heh heh, we searched for a whole month, but we finally found you, brat!"
Two Daoists rode rainbow light to block Qin Tian's path. The tall one was thin, while the short one was fat.
"You found me?"
"So what!"
Qin Tian asked with a smile as he unleashed his aura, vast and heavy. Mountains resonated with it, and dragon veins growled in response. For a moment, space itself seemed to buckle beneath the pressure. His mighty divine power surged like a Kunpeng swallowing ten thousand miles in a single gulp, its weightiness nothing like that of a mortal body.
The short, fat Daoist's expression changed drastically. "This is bad! The Yaoguang Holy Land screwed us over! This brat isn't at the Life Spring stage-he's at the Other Shore!"
"What are you afraid of? We're at the Other Shore too!" the tall, thin Daoist said.
The short, fat Daoist remained rational. "He can kill a Great Power. Can we?"
"That was just outside power!" the tall, thin Daoist protested.
The short, fat Daoist snapped, "If someone gave you outside power, could you do it?"
The tall, thin Daoist said nothing, falling silent.
"Hurry up and run for your life!"
The two Daoists, one tall and thin, raised their rainbow light and tried to flee far away on the spot.
"Want to leave?"
"Too late!"
Qin Tian took a single step, seeming to merge with the void and turn the ends of the earth into a distance of inches.
In an instant, he appeared before the two streaks of light and slowly raised one hand.
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