Four Extremes Perfection

Four Extremes was an incredibly profound secret realm. After entering it, every step of cultivation required enlightenment, rather than relying on external resources such as divine source to advance.

Cultivators had to lodge themselves in the void, imprint the merciless Great Dao upon themselves, and comprehend the laws of heaven and earth before they could advance. They cultivated not only their flesh, but the true "Dao" as well!

As for his comprehension of the Great Dao, Li Wangxian was naturally Near-Dao. After his visit to the Taiyin Human Emperor's secluded cultivation grounds, his understanding had already reached unfathomable depths.

Now, after passing just one heavenly tribulation, his mind involuntarily became clear and serene, and he slipped into the Enlightenment State. His entire body alternated between radiant splendor and utter nothingness. He was like an eternal deity, unaware of the passing years, letting the mortal world rise and fall as he ferried himself toward immortality.

One of his arms seemed to vanish in an instant, sinking into the void and reaching toward the utmost bounds of heaven and earth!

The human body possessed four extremes, which could reach the four extremes of heaven and earth and stir the Great Dao of all the heavens. His left arm imprinted itself upon the void, transforming into a Dao diagram and becoming eternal!

Li Wangxian circulated the mystic art recorded in the Taiyin True Scripture, comprehending the Great Dao of heaven and earth and turning his "first extreme" into an embodiment of the Dao. All manner of wondrous sounds rang out through the world at once.

Even with another heavenly tribulation about to descend, he continued cultivating calmly and unhurriedly. The patterns of heaven and earth fell like crystalline petals, fluttering down in profusion and sinking into his body.

Dao diagrams emerged one after another, surrounding Li Wangxian. He resembled an immortal god, wreathed in chaos qi, as though he sat cross-legged at the dawn of creation, shrouded in all manner of Dao patterns.

The celestial music of the Dao resounded through the clouds. Free of sorrow and joy, his expression serene, he resembled a deity smiling with a flower between his fingers, possessed of a calm confidence as he became one with heaven and earth.

He had experienced so much recently: merging with the Dao in Tianyuan City to awaken his strange power, refining the Great Dao through Yin and Yang Harmonization, and more. He had constantly wandered amid the myriad paths, accumulating far too deep a foundation. A "sense of the Dao" had long since arisen within him, and now, as water flowed naturally into its channel, he broke through in one stroke.

Li Wangxian's left arm sank into heaven and earth, becoming eternal, an embodiment of the Dao. His right arm also flickered in and out of existence, surrounded by Dao diagrams. He advanced to the second level of Four Extremes.

He sat cross-legged there without moving. Divine sounds of the Great Dao rang endlessly within him, stirring the Great Dao of all the heavens, as though ancient deities were chanting scriptures!

Before long, his left and right legs, each wreathed in Dao diagrams, also sank into the void of heaven and earth in succession. He advanced to the fourth level of Four Extremes, directly reaching perfection in the Four Extremes Secret Realm. His cultivation speed was outrageously fast.

Boom!

Just then, an enormous bolt of purple lightning suddenly descended from the sky. More than a dozen zhang across, it pierced heaven and earth and struck Li Wangxian directly.

"Have the lightning tribulations for all the remaining stages of the Four Extremes Secret Realm arrived?"

Li Wangxian looked up. Three densely packed Thunder Seas had once again appeared in the sky. Three tribulations were descending together!

"Ultimately, lightning is also one of the pivots of yin and yang in this world. Perhaps I can try swallowing it."

Struck by a sudden fancy, he looked at the heavenly tribulation and inhaled through his open mouth. Using the profound principles of the Four Extremes Seal, he evolved a microcosm to contain the heavenly tribulation. In an instant, he swallowed the skyful of tribulation lightning into his belly along with the microcosm.

"What a freak! He's cultivated the Four Extremes Seal to this level?"

In the distance, Elder Chen cried out, his face filled with disbelief.

Several hours had passed, and the members of the Sun God Sect, who had long since arrived, exchanged bewildered looks. Father Li in particular felt utterly unsettled. When his son had returned earlier, he had used the Four Extremes Seal to manifest profound abilities such as a universe within his sleeve and annihilation in all ten directions. That was one thing, but what was this business of conjuring a microcosm just by opening his mouth?!

Did having a profound comprehension of the Great Dao make him so special? Did it mean he could do whatever he wanted?

Father Li had never heard complaints phrased that way, but his present feelings were surely no different.

"Mm... that packs a punch!" Li Wangxian's face flushed red. The destructive power within the lightning erupted all at once in his belly. Although it failed to blast through the microcosm he had evolved, waves of destructive force still seeped out and shook his Dao Palace.

"But that's all it amounts to. It can't hurt me."

Li Wangxian remained calm and unhurried, even though countless bolts of lightning were already bombarding him from outside. Each was dozens of zhang across, powerful enough to shatter mountains with ease.

Inside his belly was the heavenly tribulation he had recklessly swallowed himself, yet he remained perfectly composed. He circulated the profound principles of Yin and Yang Harmonization within the microcosm he had evolved inside his body, grinding away layer upon layer of lightning and dissolving all its destructive killing power to nourish himself.

Boom!!

The Thunder Sea raged, bolt after bolt flashing down. Terrifying lightning became a vast purple ocean that engulfed the area. Horrifying fluctuations surged, suffocating in their intensity, and towering ancient trees and hundred-zhang boulders alike were blasted to ash.

Still, ultimately, these were only heavenly tribulations for minor stages. Even with three descending together, they amounted to no more than that.

Li Wangxian sat cross-legged in the void, unmoving as a mountain beneath the endless lightning of heaven's punishment. His golden body shone with incomparable brilliance. After prolonged bombardment, his treasured body would occasionally be breached, and he would cough up a great mouthful of blood. Then he would simply open his mouth and inhale, swallowing a swath of tribulation lightning to nourish himself and the Chaos Bell.

A skyful of tribulation lightning accumulated within Li Wangxian. He circulated the method of Yin and Yang Harmonization to grind away the lightning, and his whole body began to glow. Dazzling purple light shone out through him, while the life force within the lightning continuously tempered his body and the Chaos Bell.

"He really is a heaven-defying freak!" In the distance, Mother Li muttered, offering a rare complaint about her own son.

Father Li, Uncle Jiang, and the other elders of the Sun God Sect all agreed with her. Li Wangxian was simply too monstrous a genius. His actions had overturned almost everything they knew.

He had repaired the Sun Scripture while in the Dao Palace realm, gained insights from the Taiyin Human Emperor's scripture, borrowed the Human Emperor's power of creation to refine a Saint Weapon, cultivated Taiyin and Taiyang together, reached Four Extremes Perfection immediately upon entering Four Extremes, swallowed heavenly tribulation like a side dish, and more.

There was far, far too much. It seemed that, when it came to Li Wangxian, every record and every piece of common knowledge left by his predecessors throughout the ages had ceased to apply.

"Perhaps the Divine Son truly is the reincarnation of one of the two Saint Emperors."

Elder Lin's face was filled with shock. Li Wangxian's astonishing feats made it impossible not to entertain such thoughts. His talent and accomplishments had long since surpassed those of the so-called young Great Emperors. Only a Great Emperor's reincarnation or rebirth through nirvana seemed capable of explaining them.

"Who can say anything for certain about reincarnation? Right now, he is simply Li Wangxian, my son."

Father Li's expression was calm. He had few worries and took it all in stride.

Hearing this, the others said no more. They simply watched quietly as the heavenly tribulations continued their bombardment for another five or six full hours. One heavenly tribulation followed another, making the endless mountain ranges tremble. The great mountains in this region collapsed, pulverized by lightning into dust, leaving behind a barren wasteland.

Three lightning tribulations rose together, terrifying to the extreme. Their strikes shook the mountains and earth, sending every beast into panic.

This mountainous region was utterly destroyed, reduced to an apocalyptic scene. Apart from Li Wangxian and his small group, no living creatures remained. The lightning blasted an enormous abyss into the ground.

When everything fell quiet, he gave his body a gentle shake, and his injuries healed instantly. Auspicious radiance blossomed all over him. Clear and unstained, flawless and unblemished, he gleamed like jade. His mighty treasured body had weathered the heavenly tribulations.