It nearly blew his entire Immortal King body apart.
His injuries were even worse than he had imagined, leaving him with a terrifying Great Dao injury.
The Eastern Emperor took out an Immortal Apricot-like fruit of Immortality Medicine and consumed part of it.
Only after more than a hundred years did he barely manage to heal his injuries.
Over the next hundred thousand years.
He tried every means, continually deepening his accumulation, making attempts, and assailing the barrier.
Yet more than a hundred attempts all ended in failure. He remained unable to break through the King realm and become an Emperor.
Several times, he had clearly approached that domain and seemed about to break through the King realm and push open that door, but he still failed.
Moreover, his body split apart several times, and his Primordial Spirit suffered grievous wounds, nearly bringing him to a miserable death.
But the Eastern Emperor did not give up. He kept advancing his own Dao practice, striving to become stronger.
Meanwhile, many changes had occurred in the outside world.
The Dao body the Eastern Emperor had left behind guided Lin Jia, Zixia, Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and the other women, who had continued to begin one lifetime after another.
Although in some of these lifetimes, they had taken relative shortcuts, consuming Immortality Medicine with part of its medicinal potency stripped away, or even bathing in Immortal King blood.
Before they knew it, they had all reached their seventh lifetime in succession.
Normally, the transformation process would not have been this fast for the vast majority of people.
Like the Undying Heavenly Emperor of old, sleeping for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years at a stretch was normal.
But the Eastern Emperor's incarnation directly assisted them with supreme magical power, greatly accelerating