Chapter 114

The Art of Heavenly Mechanism: The qi mechanism constantly shifts through the sixty-four hexagrams; the heavenly mechanism is within me, unpredictable—yet others' heavenly mechanisms can be foreseen.

【You have comprehended a fragment of the Law and created the Reverse Heaven, Seize Fortune Art.】

Reverse Heaven, Seize Fortune Art: Defy creation and transformation, assimilating them for your own use. This art easily awakens the will of heaven and earth in the myriad worlds, inviting great cosmic calamity—use with caution.

【You have comprehended a fragment of the Law, understood the transformations of the Eight Trigrams, and created the Divine Skill: Eight Phases World.】

Eight Phases World: Through the transformations of the Eight Trigrams, you may vanish at will; when perfected, it unleashes the power of eightfold worlds.

【You have comprehended a fragment of the Law, understood the transformations of the Eight Trigrams, and evolved your own Eight Phase Spell.】

Eight Phases: Heaven, Earth, Water, Fire, Thunder, Mountain, Wind, Marsh!

Nine systems of spells swirled in his mind, overwhelming in number—each spell was exquisitely refined to the finest degree.

For instance, the Heaven and Earth Phases: evolve into the Qian Kun Heavenly Prison, using Qian Kun as foundation to forge a prison that imprisons the opponent, then banishes them into endless void.

For instance, the Thunder system: a single thought summons heavenly thunder—far superior to palm thunder.

After comprehending fragments of the Immortal Herb, Zhang Taixuan's divine skills and spells multiplied greatly.

The nine Immortal Herb Sacred Fruits contained astonishingly immense energy.

Zhang Taixuan had long suppressed this energy within his Sea of Bitterness, but now that he had fully comprehended the divine skill, he ceased suppression, drawing out the energy and channeling it through the Primordial Star Sacred Body Formation Method.

His body clanged like divine iron being hammered, forging his flesh into a supreme immortal artifact.

Vast, vast quantities of pure energy surged forth, transforming his physical constitution.

Previously, his Star Constitution was merely peerless in physical potential.

Now, infused with the traits of the Primordial Dao Embryo and Sacred Body, his flesh grew stronger, more mysterious.

Every strand of his flesh glowed, radiating brilliant divine radiance, as if an immortal king had descended upon the world.

"Not enough!"

Even with the aid of the nine Immortal Herb Sacred Fruits, Zhang Taixuan still felt it insufficient; he thought once, and directly extracted two threads of World Origin, merging them into his body.

The next instant, time seemed to accelerate.

His body changed rapidly, as if centuries had passed.

Boom—

A torrent of qi and blood surged forth like a volcanic eruption, staining half the sky red.

Within the Vessel's World, stars in the sky shimmered brightly; a colossal figure appeared in midair, then dissolved into a brand, sinking into the Sea of Bitterness, becoming a Dao Shadow reciting scriptures.

The next instant, another Dao Shadow descended, forged entirely of gold, radiating immense might, its qi and blood flowing through ancient and modern times, etching itself into the Sea of Bitterness.

Finally, the two brands sat cross-legged beneath the Star Ancient Tree, achieving harmonious unity.

Zhang Taixuan felt a sudden tremor throughout his body—his physical strength reached its peak.

At this moment, his physical power had increased a thousandfold or more—even if Mount Everest stood before him, he could lift it with his bare flesh.

Though his realm had not advanced, his strength had grown by more than a fraction.

He felt he could now obliterate his former self in an instant.

This was a fundamental leap.

"Two more threads of World Origin remain. After fusing today's gains with the Tai Xuan Scripture, I'll break through to Immortal Stage Two and begin preparing for Immortal Stage Three's Dao Severance."

Having decided, Zhang Taixuan began comprehending his path-to-immortality scripture.

【Combining the Tai Xuan Scripture, Nirvana Scripture, Pure Yuan Incantation, Eternal Great Sun Primordial Spirit Method, and other divine skills, you created a new Tai Xuan Scripture 0...】

Tai Xuan Scripture. Immortal: When perfected, it directly enables attainment of Immortal King.

"Meow!"

Even with preparation, Zhang Taixuan found this absurd.

He had just created an Immortal King-level scripture?

But it was a good thing—he wouldn't suppress his own breakthrough.

"I should seek more Immortal Herbs to study."

Immortal Herbs are formed from the corpses of ancient immortals, their inherent laws far surpassing the so-called Emperors of this world.

Studying Immortal Herbs and combining them with his own scripture to create an Immortal King-level scripture seemed not so strange after all.

If he could find and thoroughly study more Immortal Herbs, a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level scripture might not be impossible.

Thinking thus, he extracted two more threads of World Origin and merged them into his body.

The Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, Immortal Platform—all refined according to the new scripture, steadily strengthening his foundation.

The Five Secret Realms glowed; the chanting of Immortal Kings echoed, distant and wondrous.

The Star Ancient Tree swayed, shedding boundless light, making him ever more mysterious.

Boom—

At a certain moment, the Immortal Platform reappeared—a second Immortal Platform emerged.

Zhang Taixuan made his ultimate leap, stepping directly into it.

The World Origin was immensely vast; when he broke through to Immortal Platform Second Layer, the energy remained abundant, allowing him to immediately break through again.

Immortal Stage Two, First Layer… Second Layer… four consecutive minor stages—until Immortal Stage Two, Fifth Layer, his breakthrough finally ceased.

"I originally intended to break directly to Immortal Stage Two's peak, but refining my foundation consumed too much essence and qi. Very well—I'll face a tribulation first."

With a thought, the Eight Phases World spun around him; stepping upon the Eight Phases, he vanished in an instant.

Compared to his previous Void Art, the Eight Phases World was far more mysterious and harder to detect.

Returning to the place where he had previously faced tribulation, Zhang Taixuan released his aura—the sky's Lei Yun returned once more.

Boom—

Beneath boundless Lei Guang, Zhang Taixuan let his flesh violently absorb the lightning's power, forging his body.

He stood in the sky, facing the heavenly tribulation, unmoved.

Not even a corner of his robe was damaged; the cultivators watching from afar were stunned speechless.

Is this even a human?

They barely survived their heavenly tribulation with nine lives at stake, yet this man treated it like child's play—didn't even bother to block it once.

This is insane.

Moments passed.

Seeing the Lei Jie weaken, Zhang Taixuan looked up at the sky, his Eight Phases swirling; he directly enveloped the Lei Jie spanning a hundred li, and in the next instant, the Lei Jie shrank, transformed by his Eight Phases World technique into a purple pill the size of a dragon's eye.

Before the stunned gazes of all, he swallowed the purple pill.

Boom—

His realm broke through another minor threshold, reaching Immortal Stage Two, Sixth Layer.

"Truly nourishing—next time I'll do it again!"

Cultivators have sharp senses; hearing this, every one of them stood frozen in shock.

He's come here to shear the heavenly tribulation for its wool.

Seeing the heavenly tribulation end, none dared linger; they launched rainbow lights and turned to leave.

Zhang Taixuan had no intention of hindering them; his Eight Phases swirled, and he vanished, returning to the Pot's Inner Heaven.

Back in the Inner Heaven, he sensed its condition.

Previously, he believed the Pot's Inner Heaven's entry into the void was flawless—but now he saw it had many flaws.

With a gesture, he summoned the Pot's Inner Heaven and re-enshrined it, refining the 4.8 Eight Phases Divine Arts into it.

In half a day, the Pot's Inner Heaven expanded more than tenfold, its aura becoming far more mysterious.

The Eight Phases swirled, and the Pot's Inner Heaven hovered between reality and illusion, impossible to grasp.

Without his permission, not even a Saint or Saint King could so much as touch a fraction of the Inner Heaven.

"Now it's finally right."

He settled comfortably into his reclining chair, opened the chat group, and tossed several Divine Arts and cultivation techniques into it.

【Ding, you sold the Method of Forging the Sea of Bitterness and received 100,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Longevity Incantation and received 1,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Method of Forging the Holy Body and received 5,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Method of Forging the Primordial Dao Womb and received 5,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Method of Forging the Primordial Holy Body and Dao Womb and received 10,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Blood Replacement Divine Art and received 3,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Blood Drop Rebirth Divine Art and received 10,000,000 points.】

【Ding, you sold the Nirvana Scripture and received 1,000,000,000 points.】