Worlds Took Shape in the Sea of Bitterness, and Zhao Gongming Trampled the Old Immortal Dao!

On Barren Mountain, the instant Zhao Gongming opened his eyes, twenty-four dark lights lit up within him at once.

At that moment, not a trace of Shangqing Immortal Light remained in his ravaged Dao body.

Yet an entirely new power was awakening deep within his flesh.

He lowered his head and looked at his hands.

The backs of his hands were pale, dried blood still crusted between his fingers, and his Daoist robe was tattered beyond recognition.

But Zhao Gongming knew he was completely different from before.

His Great Luo Dao fruit had shattered.

His Immortal Dao foundation had been ruined.

Even the life-bound karma that had once linked him to the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had been slashed to pieces by the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin.

But those hollow places had now been replaced by twenty-four Seas of Bitterness.

They lay deep within his limbs and bones, like twenty-four abysses that had yet to awaken.

They borrowed nothing from the Heavenly Dao.

They relied on no spiritual currents.

They belonged to Zhao Gongming alone.

"The Shrouding the Heavens Method..."

Zhao Gongming murmured those words, and the hatred that had weighed on his chest for so long finally found somewhere to settle.

With a stir of his will,

the first Sea of Bitterness in his dantian rippled gently.

A strand of primal divine power surged from its depths, coursing through his meridians into his fist.

The total amount of this power fell far short of his former Great Luo magical power, yet it was terrifyingly concentrated.

It was neither drawn by the Great Dao outside nor marked by any magical treasure.

Clean.

Pure.

Overbearing.

Zhao Gongming raised his hand and slowly punched into the empty space before him.

As his fist fell, the purple-gray Dao patterns at the edge of the