Lady Nuwa Was Peerless Under Heaven, Her Majesty the Nüwa Emperor Was Brilliant Beyond Compare...

"What did the Sacred Body Lineage's Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist amount to? Did they even understand reincarnation? What a nonsense name!"

With his divine art mastered, Feng Jiu felt compelled to take a jab at a certain Sacred Body Heavenly Emperor.

That fellow didn't believe in reincarnation, revered only himself, and still threw around some Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist... just because he hit hard?

"Spreading Houtu's glory is our bounden duty!"

With a hammer in hand, everything looked like a nail... having crossed the threshold into the realm of reincarnation, Feng Jiu wanted nothing more than a Sacred Body standing before him so he could test his fist art!

He would beat the fellow until his mouth hung open and his eyes squeezed shut!

"And... am I imagining things?"

Feng Jiu carefully examined the fruits of his cultivation. "It feels like the Nüwa Emperor Creation Scripture and the Houtu Reincarnation Scripture resonate somehow, as though I could step on my right foot with my left and spiral into the heavens..."

"One holds that only the soul is true, while the acquired flesh is merely gathered from the dust of heaven and earth. One day, dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth, and the soul returns to Houtu... the body is only a raft crossing the bitter sea of the mortal world; the soul is the true passenger..."

"The other shapes earth to create people, but this 'earth' is no ordinary earth. Everything in heaven and earth can serve as earth, as material for creating life..."

"One governs death, the other life. Fortune and reincarnation, a match made in heaven..."

Flashes of inspiration rose and fell. Feng Jiu closed his eyes, then suddenly raised a hand and swept it over his face. In an instant, his flesh seemed to turn into clay, ready to be molded at will.

With a single thought, the "clay" solidified and his flesh settled into place. Feng Jiu now wore a different face: sinister and cold, with triangular eyes and a hooked nose. He looked like anything but a good man!

The next moment, his flesh shifted again into another face, solemn and dignified, looking utterly dependable.

Change, and change again, a thousand transformations... all at his whim!

Every transformation was so "natural" that no one could spot anything amiss. Even someone with a heavenly eye would look at him and assume the transformed face was Feng Jiu's original appearance!

Even when used solely to alter appearances, the Great Art of Changing Heaven and Earth of the Source Arts would suffer an utter defeat compared to Feng Jiu's current ability.

His flesh had been reshaped at its very foundation, as though he had always looked that way!

And it wasn't limited to his face.

At Feng Jiu's thought, his entire body began to change.

Tall or short, fat or thin, long or stubby... there was nothing he couldn't alter at will. He could rewrite his factory settings without leaving a single flaw!

"Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!"

Feng Jiu was delighted. Who knew how many crooked ideas passed through his mind at that moment?

But after considering it seriously, he shook his head.

After all, this was a world of cultivation. Flawlessly transforming his flesh alone wasn't enough to let him do whatever he pleased.

Only when he could also alter his divine power, the aura of his essence, and everything else well enough to deceive heaven itself could he claim to have achieved something.

"Changing my flesh is only the first step across the threshold... I also need to change the aura of my essence and the nature of my divine power... then I can become anyone I want..."

"Subdue the disciples traveling outside the various holy lands, transform into them, and swagger straight into those holy lands..."

"Even the Extreme Dao Holy Lands... though that might be a little troublesome?"

"Most Extreme Dao Holy Lands pass their legacies down through bloodlines... oh, is Yaochi a sect?"

"But surely I can't dress as a woman to sneak in?"

Feng Jiu felt a tiny bit troubled, but he put it aside in an instant.

His expression grew solemn. As he breathed deeply, the true meanings of fortune and reincarnation flowed through his mind, and the essence of his life surged. At that moment, a miraculous transformation took place.

In the next instant, an aura of holy light soared into the heavens. In a blur, Feng Jiu changed, becoming a Holy Light Body!

This was the physique of the Yaoguang Holy Land's Candidate Saint Son who had once died by his hand!

At that moment, he seemed to have brought that king body back into the world, bathing in holy light and illuminating the mortal realm!

But that wasn't the end.

Divine body, light physique, dark physique...

The auras of one king body after another appeared in succession... these were all physiques Feng Jiu had once slain. During the tempering of myriad tribulations and reincarnations, they had also clashed fiercely with his own life essence, leaving impressions that were impossible to erase!

Drawing on those impressions, those profound and vivid experiences, Feng Jiu was actually transforming into these physiques!

After changing his flesh, he was changing his physique!

However, these transformations were far from perfect... rather than transformations, they were simulations. He had yet to grasp their full essence, and they couldn't last.

He could manifest a king body for no longer than the time it took an incense stick to burn. Any longer would undermine the stability of his own life essence.

"The fortune Dao really is... capable of anything."

Feng Jiu sighed in wonder. "Changing flesh, changing physiques... next comes crossing the boundaries between species and changing races... advancing step by step like this, until there is nothing I cannot become."

"Take transformation to its utmost limit, understand the mysteries of existing life, then move on to innovation, creating entirely new species to express my own understanding of fortune..."

"Hmm, the Dao of reincarnation is also pulling its weight throughout this process. They really are a match made in heaven..."

Feng Jiu clapped in admiration.

The future was bright.

Even though his current cultivation limited him, leaving even his physique transformations incomplete, the future held promise.

After all, each physique contained its own Dao, its own key... right now, he only had the time it took an incense stick to burn. What about in the future?

"System, I acknowledge your talent for recommending study materials!"

"Lady Nuwa, Lady Houtu... they really are benefactors on the path of cultivation!"

"Hehehe!" System 999, busy patching up its own battered condition, chuckled. "Of course!"

"In any world, the creation of living beings and the reincarnation of heaven and earth are extraordinary things. You could even call them some of the most fundamental Great Daos!"

"Lady Nuwa is peerless under heaven, Her Majesty the Nüwa Emperor is brilliant beyond compare, and Great God Houtu is supremely holy and benevolent... now do you understand?"

Feng Jiu nodded repeatedly, showing that his system couldn't have been more right.

"Actually, the moment you crossed the threshold of these two Daos, you gained an opportunity that could astound the world..." the system said with unruffled confidence. "What good is transforming into these trash physiques?"

"If you're going to transform, become the most heaven-defying thing of all!"

Feng Jiu pondered that for a moment, then his eyes suddenly lit up. "Become you?"

"..." The system choked. Wait, are you trying to steal my job?

"Of course not..." The system was speechless. "Although I'm very happy you think I'm the most heaven-defying... you still have a lot of practicing to do."

"I mean... that lotus I stole for you-no, that I slipped away with!"

"After all these years, it's marinated you right through. You've even grown red hair, and a connection that's difficult to sever has formed between you...

"So you could consider simulating it, transforming into it. Even if it's only its aura, even if your cultivation only lets you capture one hundred-millionth of its wonders..."

Boom!

Feng Jiu's mind reeled. Suddenly, he felt that the cultivation path ahead of him shone so brightly it could blind him.

Of course!

What physique could compare to even one ten-thousandth of the Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus?

Chaos body? Which roadside mutt was that?

An Immortal Medicine taking human form? Did it even know who the true big daddy of the plant-person lineage was?