Chapter 444: Various Changes, the Dark God Reappears

Of course, the level elevation of the Undying Holy Source can also be said to be the most troublesome.

Every time the realm of the corresponding cultivation method rises, it rises right along with it! It is both the simplest and the most troublesome, a situation where it is directly two sides of the same coin as the cultivation method itself!

Following that, there is another point: the synthesis of the half-step Immortal Scripture, the Radiant Glory Holy Canon, the Undying Holy Source Body—this holy body—and the fact that his talent seems to have reached a point of accumulating and then breaking out; the superposition of these various factors has brought about a certain situation.

The lengthening of the base cultivation time! Much like the bad habit of demonic beasts having long natural lifespans and slow cultivation, at this stage of the late Transformation of Divinity, the base cultivation time has already reached over six thousand years!

It is foreseeable that for the Perfection of Transformation of Divinity and subsequent realms, the length of the base cultivation time will likely not be short either.

Therefore, even though his spiritual roots have been upgraded to the supreme grade, and there is the boost from the rise in the cultivation method's realm, in terms of actual cultivation efficiency, it still appears much the same as before.

It is still a matter of crossing a threshold every few years.

"Since it hasn't truly slowed down, there is no need to force an overnight success."

To be honest, if this calm thought of Du En's were to spread, it would only be met with speechless choking from a crowd of people, who would feel he is being too pretentious and lacks self-awareness.

Because even like this, it is an unimaginably fast speed! For an ordinary person in the Transformation of Divinity stage, consuming thousands of years of life just to reach the Perfection of Transformation of Divinity and return to the peak is already a case of burning high incense; they would be considered a dragon among men everywhere and be highly sought after.

But in fact, regarding this point, Du En is actually a bit dissatisfied.

Because if the situation hadn't changed so drastically, he would already be walking far within the Perfection of Transformation of Divinity by now, instead of still being a little bit short in the late Transformation of Divinity, making the results of this special bitter cultivation seem not perfect enough.

His emotions did not fluctuate much, and his gaze turned toward his spells.

The Undying Ice Soul, the Earth-Wood Holy Refining, and the Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils have all reached the absolute perfection.

The former, the Undying Ice Soul, is easy to explain; just train it to completion. It belongs to a relatively monotonous situation; if one can torment oneself, one can grind it up, and Du En belongs to the type who is best at tormenting himself, as if he lacks a sense of pain.

The middle one, the Earth-Wood Holy Refining, was brought up by the others—the pulling effect of those two great divine fires! His gaze first turned toward the Dao technique that was naturally transformed from the Sun-Radiance Golden Flame based on the re-gestation: the Solar Divine Fire.

This orthodox divine fire, which originally could only be comprehended and mastered by the Solar Divine Bird, the Three-Legged Golden Crow, is now mastered by Du En as well. In a sense, he is the new Golden Crow.

It is just that he is a Golden Crow in the form of a human, just as the Holy God is a Golden Crow in the form of a god.

Neither of them is a Golden Crow in the form of a demon.

The Demon Emperor Sovereign has completely become a thing of the past.

"It's a pity that the Sun-Radiance Golden Flame transformed directly; I originally wanted to experience the evolution of the sun-phase that would manifest according to one's personal Dao path when grinding it to perfection."

Du En had the look of someone who had gained an advantage and was still complaining. If others knew, they would certainly be unable to help but show obvious strange expressions and utter words of envy and jealousy.

The Solar Divine Fire—that is a Heavenly-grade Dao technique, comparable to a divine ability, a method that points directly to the principles themselves. Moreover, even among the many divine fires, it is truly in the first tier!

However, no one knows this now, and he did not delay, his thoughts continuing to flow.

"It's just that grinding it is quite troublesome; I actually need to collect and absorb different solar essences. One portion of solar essence increases one point of proficiency. Hmm, I'll leave this to Meng Changqing. After he becomes a True Monarch, he will surely be assigned a thousand or eight hundred star realms; when the time comes, I'll just pluck some from the suns over there."

Achoo!

Outside the room, Meng Changqing sneezed, feeling a chill run through his entire body for no reason.

Because solar essence is not something you can just pluck! It requires the exertion of great magical power, enough to penetrate into the principles of the sun, and painstakingly refine a half-substantial, half-illusory crystal from it. That is the essence containing the principles of solar power, with a grade of at least high-tier sixth grade; when encountering special or even larger suns, it can even soar up to the eighth grade! Of course, Du En does not need such high-quality essence; he only needs to accumulate the quantity of the high-tier sixth-grade kind. No one outside would suspect anything—who told him to be a little Golden Crow now? As the Source of Ten Thousand Lights, as long as he "eats his fill and grows up," he can naturally master all kinds of mysteries! Then Du En looked at his other divine fire.

The Three-Truth Divine Fire.

Transformed from the Phoenix-Red True Flame as a foundation, it appears to be a deeper change inferior to the Five-Virtue Divine Fire, but the truth is not so, because it is a brand-new divine fire created by gathering the Phoenix-Red True Flame, the Sun-Radiance Golden Flame, and the Southern Bright Separation Fire.

Phoenix fire, bright fire, sun fire—the three are on par with each other, merging their truths and encompassing their principles. Although it is still relatively ordinary now, when the grinding and deduction reach the stage of great completion, it will fully obtain the mysteries of the three truths and rank among the first tier of divine fires. When it reaches absolute perfection, it is simply unimaginable what the situation will be.

The reason for this conclusion is that its grinding method is to experience the three true meanings: the Burning of Hatred, the Rising of the Sun, and the Flourishing of the Vermilion Monarch. Except for the first, which retains the grinding method of the Phoenix-Red True Flame, the other two depend on the proficiency of the corresponding Dao techniques.

Only when all three take a step forward can this one advance further. Invisibly, it is as if it is absorbing the principles of the other two great Heavenly-grade Dao techniques; naturally, its future is vast and unimaginable.

"However, among the three great Heavenly-grade Dao techniques, the Vermilion Monarch Clears the World is the most extraordinary."

The Vermilion Monarch burns himself and clears the human world! It is no longer the original Four Spirits True Method. That Vermilion Bird Holy Spirit seems to know the situation of the current age; the remaining Dao rhyme not only helped Du En cut away the "pseudo-method" originally deduced by the Supreme, but also further let go, allowing him to gradually take the place of the holy position and begin to form a brand-new principle with him as the lead!

So it is not the Vermilion Bird, but the Vermilion Monarch; the Monarch is him! It is also because of this that the Three-Truth Divine Fire was able to be attached to it, because that side has the most foundation and also carries the Solar Divine Fire.

In other words, it looks like the Three-Truth Divine Fire is sucking blood from this side, but in fact, it is the opposite: the Vermilion Monarch Clears the World is sucking from the other side, and even through the filter of the Three-Truth Divine Fire, it is truly absorbing the blood of the Solar Divine Fire, or rather, the legacy method of the Golden Crow Emperor Sovereign!

"However, this actually belongs to a helpless move. My realm is still too low, and my talent is still too weak. Even relying on this panel and with the help of the Holy Spirit, I can only borrow the chicken of the Phoenix fire to eat the egg of the Golden Crow."

Although that is the case, this is also his second-greatest gain this time. If it is completely stabilized in the future and his realm and so on are raised, then it might actually be the greatest gain.

Of course, such profound techniques are also extremely difficult to grind up.

The grinding of the Vermilion Monarch Clears the World lies in the weight—the weight of clearing the human world. In short, it is the accumulation of karma. It requires constantly correcting various wrong, distorted, and twisted things—which are, by another name, the tumors of heaven and earth and the evil fruits artificially created by the Supreme True Monarchs!

A sufficient amount of karma is one point of proficiency; the more it is accumulated, the stronger it will be. Even if it is just one point more, it can show a significant difference.

The reason why there is a small achievement now is that it consumed the karma he had accumulated before, mainly from the Queguang Star Realm, the Shengyuan Star Realm, and the Phoenix's Lingering Hatred! Yes, the Phoenix's Lingering Hatred is also an evil fruit, and Du En "suppressed" it within his body, invisibly accumulating good causes and good fruits, which can just be used here!

"I really am just plucking the Phoenix's Lingering Hatred."

Thinking of this, Du En could not help but reveal a faint smile.

Then, with a wave of his hand, he put away the seal of the blessed land Kongsang Mountain, as well as those few bottles of precious pills, and then took out the Sinful Dragon Robe from them.

Originally, he had thought about changing to another one to pluck, so that the secret technique of the Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils could be improved. As a result, during this re-gestation, through the countless changing light phases of the Source of Ten Thousand Lights, this secret technique was directly raised to absolute perfection.

However... "The Sinful Dragon is related to the Dragon Clan's inheritance and is also the handiwork of the Supreme. It is itself a sinful fruit with extremely heavy karma. If I can truly kill it, then the amount of karma obtained by the Vermilion Monarch Clears the World might be very large..."

As if sensing the ill intent here, or perhaps subconsciously terrified by the rapid growth of an old enemy, the Sinful Dragon Robe, which should have been locked by restrictions, suddenly twitched at this moment.

Du En's expression became calm, slightly thoughtful, and he directly draped it over his body.

Then, while forming seals, an anomaly appeared around his body.

Tiny seeds like light drifted, dreamlike and illusory, as if they were there and yet not there.

Four-Season Fiber Flowers!

Very much to his surprise, he had originally thought it would be the Wood Domain absorbing the lingering rhyme of the Time-Wheel Pill, and then borrowing the peculiarity of the time flow in that magical place from before to push it into a Profound-grade Dao technique.

The result was that the Fiber Flowers stood out, and it went a step further, evolving into an extraordinary secret technique.

The flowers bloom in the four seasons of the year, yet when they are seeds, they are not in ordinary time!

After mastering this secret technique, Du En understood why.

Because the place of this cultivation was very special, not in ordinary time, which just happened to correspond to this series of Fiber Flower spells, taking advantage of the gaps accumulated from the past!

First at the ordinary level, then at the magical power level, and then at the spiritual level, until now, as if blooming and bearing fruit, it obtained the specialty of not being in ordinary time, further becoming impossible to guard against.

"Go."

Du En changed his Dharma technique, and every single delicate flower seed immediately submerged into the Sinful Dragon Robe, quietly planting itself into the seventh-rank artifact restriction left behind by Meng Changqing, serving as an alarm for ordinary times and a means of obstruction when necessary.

Relying on the excellence of the Law of Time, even if the Sinful Dragon were to secretly come back to life later and try to pull any tricks, it would still buy him enough reaction time, or even allow him to directly drain the newly resurrected opponent dry! Drain the enemy's life force to supply the four seasons of the flower! The appetite of that scene of the four seasons is truly enormous! Finally, Du En closed his eyes, his mind sinking inward as he stood still.

He arrived at the Divine Palace.

That towering Divine Palace was ancient and eternal, as if it never changed; at this moment, inexhaustible Dharma power like a star cluster was shining in competition, crowding around the exterior. Looking closer, one could even see that amidst the shining light like stars, it was as if three-petaled twin lotuses had grown, and they were supporting the Divine Palace.

The petals of those three lotuses and three flowers seemed to be in constant flux, with faint light shimmering and flickering at every moment, each distinct and harboring profound mysteries.

It was clear that as Du En's various aspects continued to improve, the evolution of his natal Dharma treasure had to begin ahead of schedule; beyond the three blooming flowers, he was about to obtain a brand-new Dao wonder.

Du En swept past these, his mind returning to the interior of the Divine Palace.

Now, within his Divine Palace, a significant change had occurred; there were no other objects, as if it were an infinite deep space, an abyss of the Dao, with only a boundless, pitch-black depth that gave one a sense of shivering dread.

But at the very center, there was a completely different situation.

A faint, soft, pure white light—not brilliant, not blinding—brought only a sense of peace and comfort, like a soft lamp in the dark night.

Du En lowered his head and looked at himself.

His Primordial Spirit was now painted by the white light, the facial details clearer, even the stitches of the Dharma robe visible, woven by that profound mystery.

The overall figure had also become much taller; although it appeared tiny relative to the boundless deep space, like a small lamp, in reality, it possessed a scale of ten thousand zhang, a very obvious increase from before, which could be considered reaching the upper limit of a weak heaven-pride.

What he was looking at now was his own hand, at the other light here, which was completely covered by the light of his own Primordial Spirit, appearing entirely unremarkable.

A ball of constantly twisting and restless fire.

That carrier of the Phoenix's lingering resentment was still leaking its light and heat even now, but held in Du En's palm, unable to escape at all, it could not even manage to emit a crazy clamor at this moment, allowing his Divine Palace to obtain this kind of tranquility that responded to his heart.

However, in truth, the undying resentment of the Divine Venerable was still boosting his cultivation, but by borrowing the power of the Vermilion Bird Holy Spirit, he had already pressed its main body back to the initial depth, so at this moment, Du En was completely occupying the absolute dominant position.

Now, as long as Du En did not go and provoke the main body of the Phoenix's lingering resentment, he could already be said to have complete control over the fire and heat on the periphery of this resentment; even if he released it directly from his hand, he could manipulate it with ease.

Du En silently raised his head again, simultaneously folding his hands to completely cover the carrier of the Phoenix's lingering resentment.

Closing his eyes again, the light of his Primordial Spirit became even more tranquil and soft, even radiating a faint sense of holiness, as if he were in a state of cultivation.

The Dharma method of the Holy Canon flowed slowly within, absorbing the various external rhymes of the Dao from the infinite abyss of the Dao, refining them into a part of himself; the embryonic form of the Dao might was no longer in a state of simple patching together, but was also constantly growing stronger during this process.

Constant, uninterrupted cultivation! Du En had reached this realm, or rather, he had intentionally cultivated such a thing; in this way, no matter when he was, he was grinding, he was progressing, and it was efficient, high-efficiency cultivation.

Other people's cultivation was either low-efficiency or a waste of time, but he was always different, completely squeezing the quality out of every minute; this was the fundamental reason he could catch up so quickly.

With the Primordial Spirit cultivation continuing without stop, his physical body also opened its eyes once more.

The seal of Kongsang Mountain suddenly jumped.

He was not surprised, just looked over, and saw the Jingwu eggshell jump out from within.

With a crack, the spinning eggshell suddenly had a piece detach on its own, and immediately the majority flew back to Du En, who received it casually and sent it back into Kongsang Mountain.

And that piece of eggshell fragment, amidst a flash of dim light, transformed into a long diamond shape, like a mirror, reflecting a figure within.

Or rather, two? The one in front was a human shape, no longer wearing armor, dressed in ancient, simple robes interwoven with dark and silver colors, but the face was a sheet of dim light, without a physical body, reflecting the difference between god and man, with only that pair of eyes clearly existing, flickering with faint astonishment and other colors.

Behind it was a moon shape, the full moon very dim, its radiance not bright, as if it were too far from the sun to reflect its brilliance, but looking closely, one could see that it was actually a disguise of folded wings, and in reality, it was not any moon, but a divine bird like the Dark Sun Jingwu!

Dark God!

He really wasn't dead yet!

(End of chapter)