Bang!
Inside the secret chamber, Chen Yu's body gave off a series of cracking sounds.
This was an astonishing transformation. Amid blood and fire, his body cracked apart, and the blood and bones within him split open, lending the sight an inexplicably tragic air.
But amid this extreme transformation, his blood and blood vitality were changing, now undergoing an entirely new shift.
The Origin Blood of All Things was still taking effect, attempting to push the emperor blood within Chen Yu another step forward.
Chen Yu forcibly held this tendency in check.
Going too far was as bad as not going far enough.
Having his emperor blood awaken to such a high degree was a good thing, but in some respects, that was not necessarily the case.
First-generation emperor blood, equivalent to that of an emperor's son, was manageable. Though it imposed bloodline restrictions, they remained within an acceptable range.
But if it continued advancing, Chen Yu reckoned that the emperor blood within him would become completely identical to that of the Void Emperor himself.
At that point, he would become a second Huang Di, subject to much deeper restrictions of the imperial Dao.
Thus, after reverting the emperor blood within him to its ancestral state to a certain degree, he could guide the potency of the Origin Blood of All Things toward another path of the Great Dao.
From his perspective, he could now vaguely sense pillars of bloodline rising and appearing before his eyes.
The tallest pillar of bloodline was purple, filled with an imperial nobility that represented the Void Emperor's emperor blood.
Behind the pillar of the Void Emperor's emperor blood stood a pillar of bloodline brimming with divinity.
That pillar of bloodline was much shorter than the one representing the Void Emperor Blood, but it had still successfully manifested, displaying a terrifying divine presence.
It was none other than the pillar of bloodline representing the Divine Body.
Chen Yu controlled the Origin Blood of All Things, directing its potency toward the pillar of bloodline representing the Divine Body.
Bang!
In an instant, Chen Yu felt the origin within him growing stronger.
His innately deficient Divine Body Source rapidly strengthened and grew more complete. In just a moment, it became whole.
From this moment onward, the Divine Body's origin had been replenished, and he could be considered a true Divine Body.
But this was not the limit.
After returning Chen Yu's Divine Body to its roots and making it whole, the Origin Blood of All Things continued taking effect, tracing it back toward an even more ancient bloodline.
A complete Divine Body was not the limit of the Divine Body bloodline.
This had been shown in the original work.
There were higher and lower grades of Divine Bodies. Beyond a complete Divine Body, there also existed the true Divine King Body, known as the king among gods.
That was the physique possessed by Divine Venerable. Known as the king among gods, it was a truly first-rate physique capable of competing with a pure-blooded Sacred Body or pure-blooded Tyrant Body without being inferior in the slightest.
Now, as the Origin Blood of All Things continued taking effect, it was preparing to advance the Divine Body bloodline further, evolving it toward a true Divine King Body.
But this step had only just begun before it stalled.
Clearly, the potency of the Origin Blood of All Things was no longer sufficient. After returning the Void Emperor Blood to its origin, it no longer had enough potency to continue evolving and improving the Divine Body bloodline.
Chen Yu took a deep breath.
Without the slightest hesitation, he took out the small golden bottle, extracted another two drops of Origin Blood of All Things, and swallowed them in one gulp.
Bang!
As the two drops of Origin Blood of All Things entered his stomach, an even more terrifying change swept over him.
The process of returning to the origin, which had been about to end, resumed. This time, it was even more terrifying and rapid than before.
The pillar of bloodline representing the Divine Body grew stronger at the greatest speed, the divinity within it growing increasingly dense, almost rivaling the imperial Dao presence emanating from the Void Emperor Blood.
Boom!
Accompanied by a crisp sound, Chen Yu's body exploded once more, scattering flesh and fragments of bone in all directions.
When his physique had fully transformed into a Divine Body, his blood had turned golden. Now, as his Divine Body Source grew ever stronger and his physique became increasingly powerful, the color of his blood also began to change, turning silver-gold.
The change in his blood also represented a change in his physique, signifying that the divine blood within Chen Yu was growing increasingly powerful.
Finally, with a soft sound, the towering pillar of bloodline representing the Divine Body drew level with the blood of the Void, truly reaching the same tier.
At this point, the divine blood within him was already sufficient for him to be considered a Divine King Body, not inferior in the slightest even to Divine Venerable of the Divine Race.
But even at this tier, his bloodline's transformation had not ended. The Divine Body's pillar of bloodline continued rising, only finally stopping after it surpassed the towering pillar of the blood of the Void by a stretch.
At this degree, the divine blood within him was already of the highest grade, at the pinnacle even among the Divine King Bodies throughout history.
Perhaps only the legendary progenitor of the Divine Race could rival him.
At this point, the towering pillar representing the blood of the Divine Race finally stopped, unable to return any further toward its origin.
The Origin Blood of All Things could not, in the end, create something from nothing.
This divine treasure's function was to help one return to one's roots and origin, allowing the bloodline within one's body to reach the strongest level that had theoretically existed before. It could not, however, create something from nothing and allow one to break through that limit.
Thus, even though the Origin Blood of All Things was still taking effect, the improvement of his Divine Body had reached its limit.
Just as the ultimate limit of the Void Emperor Blood was the Void Emperor himself and could not surpass him, the limit of the Divine Body was also that legendary progenitor of the Divine Race.
Returning to one's roots and origin could at most match that level, never surpass it.
Sitting upright where he was, Chen Yu felt an ominous premonition.
The Divine Body blood within him had already been raised to its utmost limit, yet the effects of the Origin Blood of All Things remained powerful.
If this continued, the Origin Blood of All Things would either continue enhancing the Void Emperor Blood, turning him into an existence like Huang Di-an emperor's corpse that had developed sentience, with emperor blood within him like the Void Emperor's-or excavate all the miscellaneous bloodlines within him, fully developing every bloodline hidden in his body.
The former was far too deadly; the restrictions of the imperial Dao were no joke. The latter was too wasteful.
In that case, I might as well...
He lowered his head and turned his gaze before him, seeing the origin belonging to the Sacred Body.
This Sacred Body Origin had been obtained by checking in on Ye Fan, and amounted to only one-tenth of a complete Sacred Body Origin.
Chen Yu had never used this origin. His original intention had been to check in on a few more Desolate Ancient Sacred Bodies and use it once he had gathered a complete origin.
But now, he could no longer concern himself with all that.
He used this portion of Sacred Body Origin, applying it to himself.
The changes began instantly, with the Bitter Sea within him changing first.
Peals of thunder resounded from within it, as though thunderstorms had sprung into existence out of thin air above the Bitter Sea, and an inexplicable sound swept past.
A gleam of light emerged within his dark-gold blood. Its color seemed to become even more brilliant and dazzling, and as it dripped onto the ground, it looked like tiny suns.
The changes brought by the Sacred Body Origin were plain to see, extremely distinct.
And within Chen Yu's perception, a towering pillar of bloodline representing the Sacred Body Origin also manifested, standing right before his eyes.