The Heaven Pillar Realm.
The Thirty-Six Heavenly Pillars stood tall and imposing.
At the boundary between the inner and outer regions, Di Xuan sat cross-legged, his black robes draping down, their muted gold trim lending him a distinctive elegance.
"Hmm?" His eyes snapped open. Within their boundless depths lurked a trace of irritability.
Although his control over his Hunyuan bloodline was fairly strong, and his water-attribute bloodline was far-reaching rather than as violent as Di Yan's, he still could not escape the influence of his Hunyuan bloodline.
In fact, within the Two Great Ancient Kingdoms, there were two methods of becoming an ultimate realm lifeform: Hunyuan Bloodline Fusion and Hunyuan Body Refinement.
Both were extremely expensive in terms of resources consumed, or merit required to exchange for them, but the difference was not particularly large.
However, Hunyuan Body Refinement merely made one an ultimate realm lifeform. Upon truly reaching the ultimate realm, it became almost useless. Its only advantage was that one would not be influenced by a Hunyuan bloodline and could follow the path of a Dao Comprehender more purely.
As for his Hunyuan bloodline, although it had been extracted from an ultimate realm Hunyuan-bloodline creature cultivated using a low-tier Hunyuan lifeform, once he reached the ultimate realm, he could fuse with the bloodline of a true low-tier Hunyuan lifeform and reach the early God Emperor stage relatively quickly.
Of course, an early God Emperor on the Dao Comprehender path was equivalent to a mid God Emperor on the bloodline path, but an early God Emperor on the bloodline path was at least stronger than someone in the ultimate realm.
The Dao Comprehender path was far more difficult than the bloodline path.
The Yanfeng Ancestor followed the Dao Comprehender path, so several Emperor Lords in the Yanfeng Ancient Kingdom