Grand Luo Insight sought ascension to Grand Luo Heaven, to gaze down upon the scenery from the highest heaven and see through heaven and earth.
Thus, one could behold every change in all things and stroll beyond space and time.
Through Grand Luo Insight, everything appeared as indescribable overlapping images, joined into a single line that became a river called time.
With the power to ascend to Grand Luo Heaven, a user of Grand Luo Insight could stroll through the cracks between these layers of spacetime, interfere with fate, and see through space and time.
To cultivate Grand Luo Insight, however, one needed to attain a yang god, uniting spirit and flesh. Once the yang god formed, the true spirit began to escape the prison of the physical body in the material world, gaining a higher-dimensional perspective from which to view heaven and earth at an angle closer to the origin of the Great Dao. Since the primordial spirit was usually most closely connected to the laws one cultivated and resonated with, the state resembling union with the Dao after attaining a yang god naturally possessed special qualities.
Thus, cultivating Grand Luo Insight granted the divine ability to gather into form and disperse into qi, a perspective from Grand Luo Heaven near the world origin that could see through heaven and earth, the ability to take advantage of changes in heaven and earth to stroll through the cracks in spacetime, and a means of obscuring heavenly secrets and fate.
Just now, for instance, his yang god had reconstructed itself, cleverly borrowing heaven and earth to fashion a superficial false identity that could even interfere with heavenly secrets. This worked because the technique drew upon the power of heaven and earth.
His disappearance from his original spot had been a means of entering a crack in spacetime and severing his own fate. Once fate lost his trail, he naturally vanished from heaven and earth, unknowable and invisible.
With these powers, his palm strike just now had reached the spirit medicine's past, several instants earlier, and launched an attack.
Only divine abilities involving space and time could block this move. Examples included the Heaven Mending Sect's Heaven-Mending Art, Shi Hao's Reincarnation Treasure Technique, and the divine abilities of the Gu Clan and Time Beasts. In a sense, it qualified as a devastating weapon.
The Heaven-Mending Art could rewind a certain period after its activation to the present, but not too far. Shi Hao could bring a stretch of his opponent's past or a scene from their future into the present, also subject to a time limit. Despite their limitations, these were all supreme divine abilities capable of resisting the attacks of his Grand Luo Insight.
He also discovered that, much like Shi Hao's technique, his move for attacking the past would be washed away by time and quickly disappear. For instance, the finger marks he had just left on the spirit medicine were already gone. The traces of his interference with the past had been corrected.
"Interesting. Your cultivation is still shallow, so this divine ability can only reach this level. In the future, perhaps it can grow to the point where it no longer fears time's scouring, forcibly severing an opponent's past without ever fading," the Reincarnation Disk praised.
"Don't find it unbelievable. Immortal King Wuzhong once possessed such a move, though its cost and backlash were considerable. Apart from the Red King and Wu Shang, no one could withstand such a strike; they all suffered severe effects. He once said that if emperors existed in this world, then perhaps after becoming one, he could use it with ease, without fear of backlash."
It seemed he had heard a story never mentioned in the original work.
Chen Yao thanked the Reincarnation Disk for its protection and continued to examine his current state.
He was no longer merely relying on the inherited true intent of Grand Luo Insight to observe changes in heaven and earth and stroll through the void. He had truly transformed Grand Luo Insight into a divine ability and grasped the profound mysteries of its origin.
Through Qi-State Origin-Flow, he had gained the divine ability to turn all things into qi. By nurturing his spirit within his cave heavens and transforming his primordial spirit into a spirit body, he had laid the foundation for attaining a yang god. Finally, through the true intent of Grand Luo Insight, he had experienced a dream of reincarnation and explored Grand Luo Heaven, from which he could see through heaven and earth from a unique perspective.
Amid the dislocations of one fate after another, after nearly losing himself within different fates many times, he had found that faint essence and made the ultimate leap, transforming into a yang god and touching "Grand Luo Heaven," transcending the Extreme Realm of Spirit Transformation.
Without the transcendence of Qi-State Origin-Flow, he could not transform into qi. Without the transcendence of Twin Hands, he could not exercise complete, minute control over spirit and flesh. Lacking either, he would have been unable to manifest a yang god in shallow union with the Dao when he sensed that nexus of Grand Luo Heaven.
The so-called "Grand Luo Heaven" was everywhere. It was the river of time, the endless void, and the laws of the Dao that intertwined everything in heaven and earth into a single whole. Only by manifesting a yang god and uniting his body with the Dao like a Dao embryo could he attain Grand Luo Insight.
He could not yet turn around and command heaven and earth, but he could roam through the cracks in spacetime and the gaps in the workings of the Dao, like a traveler wandering freely between heaven and earth, moving with their momentum. He was like an unfettered immortal.
His primordial spirit transformed into a yang god and darted out of his body, carrying most of his origin essence and leaving a fleshly body behind. Yet the yang god changed in the wind, swiftly forming an entirely new body.
With a casual beckoning gesture, his former body disintegrated into streams of pure origin qi, which he absorbed and refined.
The new body dispersed again and slipped into a crack in spacetime. He watched everything around him turn into overlapping images that extended to some unknown place. At any moment, he could attack those shadows of the past or future, making his strikes impossible to guard against.
He continued trying the various divine abilities derived from Grand Luo Insight that he had previously only tested in preliminary experiments.
"Complete Grand Luo Insight!" Chen Yao was thoroughly satisfied. His earlier breakthrough with Qi-State Origin-Flow and his reckless gamble within the dream of reincarnation, where he had nearly lost himself, had not been in vain.
Having completed his cultivation in the Spirit Transformation Realm, he decisively broke through and entered the Inscription Realm.
In this realm, perhaps he could try the Heaven Communicating Talisman Art.
Several months passed in a flash, and the Willow Deity finally reached the realm of alternative immortalization at the pinnacle of the supreme path.
She used the methods of the Transcendence Chapter to forcibly seal her cultivation realm, preventing heaven and earth from sending down a tribulation and keeping herself from becoming an immortal. She was currently recultivating, which would draw the great tribulation of immortal ascension.
Sky Desolation immediately rushed over, eager to follow the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit into battle against Immortal Mountain.
"The time has come. Before the great tribulation begins, overturn Immortal Mountain!" Sky Desolation seethed with killing intent.
The Willow Deity waved a hand, and an Immortal Dao Formation enveloped Stone Village, concealing it completely. Then the willow tree transformed into a green-gold halo hanging behind her head. She took the nearly recovered Sky Desolation in one hand, and with a flash of her eyes, pierced the void. Immortal Mountain appeared in the distance.
Everyone set off with her, especially Shi Hao and the Great Demon God, who had been waiting for so long.
Countless enormous mountains stood within Immortal Mountain, with a bluestone path leading into their midst. The great peak at the very center had an unusual shape, like a palm pressing down upon the earth, and emanated an inexplicable, undying aura.
A deity who had ignited his divine flame sat high within a hall, frowning at a message.
"The Heaven Mending Sect has no intention of joining the dispute. They only wish to strengthen their lineage in the lower realm and have declined the invitation." That was the reply.
"What are they thinking? Isn't reclaiming the Desolate Region enough? They're merely descendants of sin blood. Since that so-called ancestral land is peculiar and even harbors deities, it must be eradicated. Even without us, the sect leaders of the Upper Realm will act," Qin Wu said.
Qin Yifan said, "Must we really do this? Shi Hao and Qin Yining are son and mother. We could draw close to the Stone Kingdom without shedding a drop of blood. Why suppress them by force? It would only create unnecessary trouble."
"Hmph! A Stone Kingdom belonging to Immortal Mountain is not the same as a Stone Kingdom friendly toward Immortal Mountain. You should understand that. That so-called ancestral land must be suppressed. It cannot be allowed to remain. With the sect leader descending to the lower realm this time, we will surely suppress everything," Qin Wu said coldly.
"Why go that far?" Qin Yifan shook his head and sighed.
"They're just a race of ants in the lower realm, yet you keep looking forward and backward. You're too weak." Qin Wu rose. "I have already decided. Once the great figures slaughter the powerful cultivators of the Stone Emperor and the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land, we will act, subjugate them, seize their inheritances, and strengthen our Immortal-"
Boom! A great halberd pierced the void and plunged straight into the heart of Immortal Mountain!
"What?!" Qin Wu's expression changed drastically. Seeing the halberd attempt to overturn Five Elements Mountain, however, he sneered. "Ridiculous. In the lower realm, Five Elements Mountain is the equivalent of a Heavenly Venerable being here. Who would dare-"
Boom! The Sky Desolation Halberd overturned Five Elements Mountain with ease. Every formation proved useless. Five Elements Mountain was startled awake, but caught completely off guard, it failed to stop the attack and was hurled into the air!
"What?!" Qin Wu was horrified. At last, he sensed a pressure that overshadowed the entire universe and involuntarily fell to his knees.
"Who?! You dare?!" Five Elements Mountain awakened fully, shocked and furious.
Beneath the overturned mountain, an enormous golden being bound in chains appeared. Though motionless, the being sent a chill through everyone's hearts.
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