Chapter 443: Absorbing the Profound, Late Stage of God Transformation!

Even though the strength of the Golden Crow Emperor was incomparably transcendent and breathtaking, in this world, what kind of situation can truly be called a Supreme?

A Supreme is an existence that has reached the absolute limit, where one can advance no further; it is the true peak of the mortal world! If it is said that the Golden Crow Emperor had attained the Dao tens of thousands of years earlier and had a certain probability of unifying all spirits into one race, then, at that time, He would at least have been a pillar of the Supreme.

Regrettably, He did not.

Therefore, when Du En suddenly broke free from the stagnation, he only saw that the hundred flowers had long since withered, the principles were shattering like rain, the black hole was being cleaved, the great sun was being pierced through, and the Heavenly Scars of the falling feathers were unstoppable, moving forward all the way, tearing apart, defeating, and annihilating the Lord of the Monster Race on the spot.

The divine bird shed blood, and the Emperor fell.

On His face, there was a trace of disbelief, and He could not help but mutter something.

What was it?

Unable to imagine the power of a Supreme? Unable to believe in His own fall? But regardless, at least compared to ordinary Venerables, such as those five Dragon Venerables, the Golden Crow Emperor at least had some performance when facing a Supreme, enough to make the opponent use a powerful move, not being easily finished off in a muddled state without reacting to anything.

Du En's state of mind seemed to be pulsing like this.

"Hah!"

A cold laugh rang out.

The scene froze once again.

It froze on the blood-shedding, falling Emperor, whose eyeballs rolled around, and unexpectedly, He looked toward Du En's side in an inconceivable manner, crossing all the barriers between the two, meeting his gaze as if dissatisfied with the inner thoughts being muttered here; the murmurs he couldn't hear just a moment ago immediately became clear.

"Although I have been defeated, it was not by a human; this I had long anticipated, and thus, I am destined to return at that time!"

The Emperor's words crossed time and space, bypassed bloodline inheritance, and echoed within His Undying Law.

Bloodline inheritance? An outdated trifle He had long since abandoned! Engraving one's will into the principles, coexisting with heaven and earth, never to be extinguished—the Dao of the Monster, the Law of the Monster, the absolute jurisprudence of the Emperor! Then, why would bloodline inheritance, or rather, a situation similar to bloodline inheritance, still appear? "You are wrong!"

A very childish voice suddenly rang out, right at the location where Du En was.

He could not help but be slightly stunned, and only then did he realize that this was not actually a bloodline inheritance; this was the memory echo of a god, a scene that had occurred when the Holy God was in gestation.

His current position was exactly where She had stood back then!

And She, facing only the Undying Law of the Golden Crow Emperor, calmly refuted it: "My predecessor, I am not you; your law is your law, not my law, not my Dao. That is correct, you wish in vain to imprison me; I will certainly not become you. If it is said that the mortal-knowable-yet-unseeable is an Immortal, then I am that mortal-knowable-and-visible Saint!"

Forsaking the Immortal Dao, wishing to walk the Saint's path! Fundamentally negating the Law and Dao of the Golden Crow Emperor! Therefore, upon hearing these words, a look of shock immediately appeared in the Emperor's eyes, as if He had not expected that the rebirth vessel He had gestated and birthed by following His own Law and Dao would actually rebel against Him.

To be gestated from principles is to be a god.

Gods therefore follow those principles, which is their destiny, being puppets of those principles.

However, the Holy God, from the very beginning, rebelled against the innate shackles! Because from within the principles, She knew the vastness of heaven and earth, and thus, a vision of self emerged! "Presumptuous! Mere false self, mere host body..."

"You are too narrow-minded, too degenerate, letting the sun gather dust, making brilliance derogatory; therefore, falling is an inevitable matter, and failure is a destined result!"

The childish voice interrupted unceremoniously, making a ruling in a straightforward manner.

This clash of wills determined the course of events back then.

Should one call it a newborn calf not fearing the tiger? In any case, the Holy God was not shaken at all! "No!"

The Golden Crow Emperor erupted with a sound of unwillingness, and then completely shattered and withered on the spot.

It looked very inconceivable, and Du En was also slightly surprised, but immediately he had his own calm reflections.

"That Emperor was indeed quite extraordinary, and the Golden Crow is indeed the only one; the newborn divine bird birthed from His Law and Dao was also supposed to be His own body, allowing Himself to be reborn."

"However, the damage that the Supreme Luoyu inflicted upon Him back then was still a bit too deep, and thus, a tiny gap appeared, and the Holy God seized this gap back then, which is why the Emperor could truly fall, and the world ended up with only the Holy God of the gods, rather than a reappearance of the Lord of the Monster Race."

"But looking at it this way, what about the Dark God, the Dark Sun Mirror Crow? Seeing his performance of being completely unable to beat the Holy God head-on, he cannot be the Emperor's backup plan; thus, he must be an accident that split off by chance, which is why he is a mirror, right?"

He thought of the scene he had just seen, the great sun and the black hole seemingly on either side of a mirror; the Emperor was indeed incomparably fierce, completely mastering the two great polar phases of the sun.

The Holy God's disapproval of her predecessor perhaps pushed the opposite part of that, gestating a new egg, the egg of the Dark God.

Du En had basically figured these things out, but he still needed some subsequent confirmation.

And this special state right now had not yet ended.

On the contrary, it was fast-forwarding; it was the Holy God gathering strength.

Crack!

The sound of the eggshell cracking rang out.

She stepped forward at this moment, crossing paths with Du En's motionless figure; memory and time-space were intersecting, and this echo-void realm also revealed more profound aspects.

The Holy God glanced back, her gaze carrying a hint.

This was the method for breaking the shell.

Because it had been too hurried before, there was no time to say it, so she had to demonstrate it herself! Du En was slightly stunned, and as a result, she had already broken out of the shell.

"A thousand years ago, the god awoke from the deep underground, gazing at the world outside the pitch-black, claustrophobic space, attempting to fly out of the claustrophobic cage, and in the end, managed to poke her head out, but could only see a vast emptiness, discovering that she was all alone..."

Recalling this passage in his heart, this passage the Holy God left in her eggshell fragments.

Upholding a brand-new vision, acting in the name of the Saint, wanting to bring a light different from the Golden Crow Emperor to the world of living beings, but after breaking out of the shell, all she saw was a vast emptiness; she was all alone, the only living being.

For the Holy God who could not yet fly out of the stars at that time, there was probably no greater blow than this; moreover, since it was said to be waking up, she had likely long since sensed this problem, which was why she hesitated and curled up inside the egg.

"Did she go out because of me?"

This thought suddenly popped up.

Because this place was very peculiar, time and space seemed to be in disarray, and there was the Holy God's extraordinary temporal endowment; it seemed that he had really just arrived at a node in the past.

"..."

Du En thought, falling into silence.

His calm gaze also rippled, but it vanished in an instant.

Anyway, the Holy God did not die; when they meet again in the future, he can just ask to get the answer.

As for now, continue to cultivate!

He sat down cross-legged, all sorts of thoughts returning to one place.

Once he closed his eyes in seclusion, time passed quietly. Forgetting the years in gestation, in the blink of an eye, seven years had passed.

Du En finally opened his eyes slowly, which now contained only a piece of brilliant golden light; he also stood up slowly, and the invisible light waves became substantial, shaking the special realm he was in, causing it—which was already teetering and whose foundational basis had long been drained—to ripple like waves.

"Time to go."

"It is time to break the shell."

Amidst the turbulence, a murmur echoed, transforming into two distinct layers of sound.

He did not hesitate, stepping forward.

Crack! Crackle!

Inside his thatched cottage, the egg placed on the ground was now completely petrified, having lost all traces of mystery and been thoroughly drained of its wonders; now, accompanied by the sound of cracking and shattering, it suddenly split open along the jagged line that had previously fractured.

Boom! Once it split, it turned into dust, and with a gust of wind, it returned to the void, leaving no trace behind.

Only Du En, wearing a set of dark green dharma robes, restored to his original state and with his cultivation strength having ascended several levels, stood quietly in place, his brows slightly furrowed as his closed eyes slowly opened.

Brilliance flowed within them, like liquid light.

Opening his eyes was like the rising of the great sun, intangibly making others feel as if dawn had arrived and sunlight was spilling down.

He had actually touched upon the Dao of solar illumination, causing it to ripple across his surface.

Jiang Ying, who had been in seclusion, could not help but be startled and turned her head abruptly to look, only to see her own suitable cultivation environment: a subterranean magma cavern where the toxic flames of the earth's lungs spewed and the heat of the earth's core surged—an absolute land of fire-malice.

This was not some fake manifestation, but rather a place Jiang Ying had managed to have relocated and reproduced here for her sect, using the cultivation quotas in the Central Capital that Meng Changqing had secured for her through the contribution of tagging along with Du En during their trip to the Dragon Palace, as well as the merit she had accumulated from her many deep incursions into enemy territory.

Enhanced by the foundation of her sect, it was far superior to the original version, yet at this moment, it still could not block the ripples of the external Dao; a sense of the sun rising and shining down spread naturally, covering all other things, and the fiery radiance of the earth's lungs and core seemed to bow in submission.

In her mind, the figure of the Holy God flashed by first, followed by another form.

"He... has awakened?"

"So fast! It has only been a year!"

Only a year had passed in the outside world.

"Is he awake?"

On the other side, the main body of Meng Changqing, who was in deep seclusion, was also affected and broke out of that state; he was a bit dazed for a moment, but immediately regained his clarity.

As his thoughts turned, the ripples of the Dao were smoothed out, not spreading too far and remaining confined to the Fifth Peak.

Then, his clone stood up straight with a pop, like a zombie coming out of a coffin, only his expression was not stiff but filled with surprise, and he walked quickly out of his room.

As soon as he stepped out, he was submerged by a pile of message jade slips.

He had rushed into seclusion earlier, but there was still a pile of matters waiting for him to handle!

Now that he had some spare energy and had just started moving, he was immediately overwhelmed and needed to deal with them first.

As it happened, Du En also needed to actually adapt to his own situation.

After all, the changes gained from this seclusion were truly numerous.

【Age: 65/3833】

【Spirit Root: Supreme Grade】

【Cultivation: Late Stage of God Transformation (98/100)】

【Cultivation Method: Radiant Glory Sacred Canon (Mastery 300,800/500,000)】

【Spells: Mountain Lifting (Perfected to the Extreme), Killing Wind Turns to Sand (Perfected to the Extreme), Unmelting Ice Soul (Perfected to the Extreme), Giant Spirit Dharma Image (Perfected to the Extreme), Earth-Wood Sacred Refining (Perfected to the Extreme), Three Truths Divine Fire (Proficient 2/50), Wood Domain (Perfected to the Extreme), Four Seasons Flower Grafting (Slightly Accomplished 0/100), Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze (Perfected to the Extreme), Zhu Jun Clears the World (Slightly Accomplished 2/100), Supreme Grade Puppet Manipulation (Perfected to the Extreme), Solar Divine Fire (Initial Glimpse 0/20)】

【Divine Abilities: Burying Death and Honoring Life (Thoroughly Mastered 150/300), Undying Sacred Source (Initial Glimpse 0/20)】

【Hundred Arts: Appraisal (Perfected to the Extreme), Culinary Cooking (Perfected to the Extreme), Spirit Seeking (Perfected to the Extreme), Artifact Refining (Mastery 0/500), Puppet Making (Mastery 0/500)】

His cultivation had reached the late stage of God Transformation, very close to the realm of perfection, his lifespan had increased significantly, and the range of his divine sense had surged to eight thousand miles.

At the same time, through the re-incubation of the Holy God Egg of the Source of Ten Thousand Lights, he had undergone a rebirth, directly pushing his spirit root aptitude to the Supreme Grade.

Furthermore, through Du En's conscious absorption of mysteries and selective filling into his techniques, the Radiant Glory Treasure Canon had transformed into a Sacred Canon that was a half-step Immortal Scripture.

Consequently, by combining their efforts to boost his original Undying Radiant Glory Body, it was transformed into the Undying Sacred Source Body.

This name was Du En being lazy, directly applying the name of the physical body divine ability born from the spirit body.

The so-called physical body divine ability is to go from the real to the void, upholding the power of the physical body to explore the depths of the Dao, thereby reflecting and imprinting what is gained along the way onto oneself, ultimately achieving it, making oneself resemble a corner of the Dao; it is an alternative direction that appears opposite to normal divine abilities.

The reason the Supreme Physical Body has the name of "Supreme" is that this constitution possesses a nearly 100% probability of obtaining one's own physical body divine ability when explored to a certain degree.

At that time, one can formally call it by its alias, the Supreme Sacred Body! This is to say, under normal circumstances, Jiang Ying's God Transformation should not have been dragged down by her physical body.

It is a pity that her situation was not normal; her origin had long been missing a corner, and she had been tampered with, which led to her previous situation.

And now, Du En's spirit body had also been cultivated through hard work all the way to the level of the Sacred Body!

Undying Sacred Source, as the name implies, already possesses true immortality!

Of course, because it has just started, it is still in a very preliminary state, but the power it possesses is not something the previous Undying Radiant Glory Body could compare to.

This Sacred Body and this divine ability are usually in a semi-permanent state, bringing further strength and dominance to the physical and spirit body, never-ending and undying; and when fully activated, it is like a rising sun, resembling a source of life, with inexplicable divine courage, undying and unperishing, and capable of striking directly at the enemy's origin.

Because it absorbed the source of ten thousand lights left behind by the Holy God, as well as the scales of the source of life that merged with her, it achieved the Sacred Source, solidifying oneself and striking others.

And...

"At critical moments, I can also use mysteries to sacrifice, slotting it into 'Burying Death and Honoring Life', unfolding it in the form of burying this divine ability, while simultaneously utilizing the outward-to-inward characteristic of physical body divine abilities to achieve a two-way rush, multiple interlaced amplifications, and violently stacking the intensity of the divine ability, forcing the leaf to derive branches; this is a segment of the branches and leaves of the Dao, and its scale naturally cannot be spoken of in the same breath."

One can imagine the power; such insights and usages are things only Du En can employ, and there is no need to be stingy with using 'Burying Death and Honoring Life' in the future, because it alone is no longer his most critical trump card! All these things are Du En's greatest harvest from this re-incubation and cultivation.

Unknowingly, this volume has also reached four hundred thousand words, and it's only halfway through, which doesn't quite match my expectations when I first went online, haha, a bit awkward; of course, I still hope that those who have read this far can be understanding and continue to support me.

(End of this chapter)