Chapter 301: Innate Divine Dragon: The Calamity Finally Passes

Ang—

Following the swallowing of that precious pearl in one gulp, Fang Longye could not help but revert to his original form, stretching out his true body which spanned roughly a thousand miles.

He only felt an inexplicable power emerging continuously, falling into the deepest parts of his body, deriving Xiantian Spiritual Essence that was pure to the extreme.

It constantly refined his Bloodline and origin.

Flesh, bones, acupoints, skin, and so on—every inch and every fraction of his true body gave birth to divine radiance carrying an innate quality.

Fine and dense, thick and numerous.

The thousand-mile-long dragon body radiated an endlessly brilliant and dazzling light.

Subsequently, accompanied by mysterious sounds rising in succession,

In a single instant, this massive dragon body of roughly a thousand miles began to shrink and collapse amidst the dazzling Divine Light.

In the time it takes for a spark to fly, or merely a few moments, Fang Longye's true body had already collapsed to a degree invisible to the naked eye.

And it continued to shrink and collapse infinitely, until it was small to an extreme.

Completely invisible and intangible.

And as his true body continuously collapsed and shrank, at the very spot where he had disappeared, boundless and vast power was born.

It was concentrating, brewing, and sublimating.

Gradually, a black dot appeared where he had vanished.

The moment it appeared, it generated an unparalleled suction force, continuously devouring the spiritual essence within the Grotto-Heaven.

For a time,

Divine Light flickered, spiritual essence gathered, and Dao sounds drifted.

This black dot was incomparably overbearing. The spiritual essence within a radius of ten thousand miles was devoured clean by it.

The surrounding Heaven and Earth spiritual Qi was briefly drained, drawing spiritual Qi from other places to flow over.

The speed was so fast that it even formed an energy vortex around the black dot, subsequently causing the entire world to give rise to an energy storm that swept through everything.

Fortunately, Yinglong Laozu had long made preparations within this Grotto-Heaven.

Only hearing the sound of a jade chime, a stream of extremely dense spiritual essence surged out from the void, pouring fully into this Grotto-Heaven.

In just an instant, the spiritual essence of the entire world became so dense it began to liquefy, filling the Grotto-Heaven with swirling clouds and mist.

If anyone were present, every breath taken would be full of Heaven and Earth spiritual essence.

Moreover, this continuous stream of spiritual essence possessed a deep and heavy quality, vastly different from ordinary spiritual essence; it was clearly the now-rare Xiantian Spiritual Essence.

As time passed, this insatiable black dot seemed to finally be full, and it began to change.

With a burst of expansion, it transformed into a divine cocoon wreathed in Chaos mist.

This divine cocoon was about a zhang in size, its surface covered in interwoven crystalline patterns, flickering with Divine Light, as if they were flowing life meridians.

It breathed in and out.

With the appearance of this divine cocoon, in an instant, rosy light shot out in all directions, divine aura steamed, and colorful mist swirled.

The entire world within the Grotto-Heaven was filled with brilliant radiance, various lights interweaving and drowning out everything.

Just like the black dot before it, this divine cocoon wreathed in Chaos mist did not change its devouring of Xiantian Spiritual Essence.

It even intensified, becoming more surging and violent, as if a glutton were gestating inside.

Forever insatiable.

Boundless Xiantian Spiritual Essence surged into this divine cocoon, making it increasingly radiant and dazzling.

If someone were to look through this divine cocoon, they would discover that inside was a world full of Chaos mist.

There was no up, down, left, or right, and no distinction between east, west, south, or north.

The entire world was like a perfect sphere.

Yet, within this world full of Chaos mist, an Innate Divine Dragon was gestating...

In the world within the cocoon, Chaos mist permeated, and lying horizontally at the center of the Chaos mist world was a massive divine dragon.

Like a boulder, it remained motionless.

Endless Chaos mist was rapidly surging into the divine dragon's body, promoting His growth.

One could see this divine dragon was full of vitality, its life force flourishing, as if at any moment it would break out of the shell, soar straight up, and leap into the nine heavens!

To become an existence that towers above all living beings~

Its entire body shone with endless light, as if it encompassed the entire world.

Countless mysterious patterns flowed upon its scales, as if born from the innate.

This divine dragon was none other than Fang Longye, who had set out to Reverse Innate.

And at this moment, he had fallen into the deepest level of slumber.

Only waiting to emerge again, he would no longer be a Post-Heaven Living Being, but an Innate Divine Dragon!

Time flowed slowly; on this day, hearing a sudden booming explosion, a vast and boundless innate dragon might soared into the sky.

It caused the entire Grotto-Heaven to shake violently.

Ang— Bursts of dragon roars transmitted from the divine cocoon, echoing all around, and one could see that this divine cocoon wreathed in Chaos mist was already covered in cracks.

A kind of vibrant, newborn innate Aura spilled out, manifesting that an Innate Divine Dragon was about to appear in the world.

Around the divine cocoon, wondrous sounds rose in succession, deriving mysterious Dharma and principles.

Various visions appeared one after another: perhaps Chaos gestating a divine dragon, or a dragon-headed human figure opening up the world, or a human-bodied dragon-tailed figure evolving all things, and even more, a Green Lotus holding up a human figure, fighting against heaven and earth.

Looking closely,

All were related to Fang Longye, extraordinary and remarkable.

Clearly,

These phenomena were all the evolution of Fang Longye's Great Dao.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by an Innate dragon roar that made the heavens and earth lose their color, the divine cocoon cracked inch by inch.

A brilliant and dazzling ray of immortal mist and divine radiance poured out, illuminating the surroundings.

An Innate Divine Dragon emerged like a rainbow, growing as it met the wind; its body, initially only a zhang or so in length, grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ten zhang... one hundred zhang... one thousand zhang... ten thousand zhang... In an instant, this pale blue divine dragon was already fifteen thousand zhang long.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The horizon rumbled.

An Innate Divine Dragon over ten thousand zhang long, its body wreathed in clouds and mist, with scales and spines along its back, exhaled clouds with every breath, its body appearing and disappearing within the mist...

"Different, vastly different!"

Fang Longye inspected himself, shook his dragon body, and laughed heartily.

He saw that he still had his jagged triangular horns, but the bright golden horns on either side were now branched and twigged, resembling golden coral.

The single horn in the center was still frost-silver and cold, but it was no longer blade-shaped; instead, it was a spiraling pattern that curved upward, losing none of its original sharpness.

His true form had collapsed from its original thousand-mile length to its current size of just fifteen thousand zhang.

But what is concentrated is essence.

Now he was an Innate being! Inspecting himself, the greatest change was not external, but internal.

He saw that his entire body was suffused with brilliant and dazzling Innate divine radiance.

Whether it was flesh, bone, acupoints, skin, scales, and so on, every inch and every fraction of his true form was paved with Innate runes, shining unceasingly.

His blood had also turned from its original bright gold to a deep crimson; apart from still being incomparably heavy, it looked no different from that of ordinary beings.

It did not fit the background of an Innate being at all.

Yet it was a return to simplicity.

"However, now is not the time to be happy."

Fang Longye shook his body, transformed into human form, and donned his gear.

He wore the 'Golden Silk Eight-Treasure Heaven-Piercing Crown' on his head, the 'Horned Dragon Four-Image Universe Armor' on his body, and the 'Sun and Moon Radiance Washing Vault Robe' on his back, rustling like a gale.

On his feet were the 'Cloud-Ascending Escape Lotus Silk Boots', which drew in the Nine Heavens divine wind to form a vortex that swirled and followed him, emitting an incredible sound.

His entire body was silver-white with golden silk patterns; he held the Panlong Spear in his left hand and the Cai Xian Sword in his right, while above his head, the Profound Spirit Escape Armor, the Longyin Bell, and other defensive treasures all appeared.

Fully armed, he looked toward the firmament.

Black clouds stretched for ten thousand miles, and baleful energy surged. The ferocity was overwhelming; faintly, one could hear the beating of heavenly drums from the void, the sound rapid and containing the aura of death.

Looking closer, thousands of thunderbolts came from the depths of the black clouds, gathering together with fine scales interlaced.

Countless dragon bodies, python shadows, human figures, and so on, in a thousand different poses.

Although it was difficult to see the full picture, in the glimpses of scales and claws, destruction surged and swept through the air.

Calamity is inescapable—times change and the world follows; this is no longer an era where Innate beings walk the earth.

In an era where the acquired flourishes, if one wishes to reverse the Innate and elevate their background, they must accept the trials of heaven and earth.

Pass, and all is well—fail, and all is over! "Very good! Let me see just how formidable this thunder tribulation is!"

Fang Longye let out a long roar that echoed between heaven and earth. His blood gradually boiled, blooming with thousands of blazing divine rays.

Compared to some of his peers, he was lucky enough not to have been disturbed by the tribulations of heaven and earth during his transformation! Or, strictly speaking, this was not luck.

It was having a backer.

The reason he was able to transform his body in peace was that this Grotto-Heaven was shielded by the power of Yinglong Laozu.

That was why he was not disturbed by the tribulations of heaven and earth during the transformation process.

As for now, he had no choice but to face the Calamity sent down by heaven and earth!

In the end, without the recognition of heaven and earth, he was not truly an Innate being.

"Kill!"

Amidst the long roar, Fang Longye shook his body, transformed into a dragon-headed human, and instantly assumed the Law of Heaven and Earth, standing ten thousand miles tall.

Clad in Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, his divine radiance was peerless, illuminating all directions and casting a glow of auspicious colors over the void obscured by thunder.

He stood his ground against the thunderclouds filling the sky.

"Boom!"

The thunder descended, but Fang Longye stood unmoved, taking the blow head-on; his entire body shimmered with crystal light, and he was completely unharmed.

"Boom!"

Perhaps having angered heaven and earth, endless lightning submerged him; the world was nothing but an ocean of lightning, terrifying to the extreme.

Electric light surged down, the thunder like a tide, incomparably blazing; every bolt was a manifestation of Dharma, crushing everything.

"Boom!"

The thunder filling the sky connected heaven and earth, vast and immense, like the Jiutian Yinhuo pouring down, as if millions of great stars were crashing down.

The void was blasted apart, left in ruins.

However, this Grotto-Heaven was opened by Yinglong Laozu specifically for cultivation, so it naturally took the problem of undergoing tribulations into account. Even as this world turned to void, the Grotto-Heaven did not collapse.

Fang Longye was naturally not so lucky; caught in the sea of thunder, his skin split and flesh tore, and his Innate body turned charred black.

This was no ordinary thunder; it was the manifestation of the will of heaven and earth, and every bolt that struck him was equivalent to a Dharma attack.

Even though he was fully armed and even a Taiyi Golden Immortal could do nothing to him, it was still not easy to withstand.

Yet he did not show a hint of defeat; instead, he raised his head to the sky and fought back with all his might.

"Boom!"

Another wave of thunder surged, and ten thousand zhang of purple light tightly coiled around Fang Longye, piercing through heaven and earth, as if countless chains were locking him fast.

Fang Longye stood towering and motionless.

A Green Lotus wreathed in Chaos mist hung in the air, assisting him in continuously gestating new life, and his Innate body was polished to become increasingly formidable.

He was actually using this Heavenly Tribulation to practice the Nine-Turn Primordial Art.

"Boom!"

One wave of thunder passed, and another wave of thunder descended, evolving into a guillotine.

It sought to behead this madman who dared to Reverse Innate and defy the rules of heaven and earth, to execute him and uphold the law~

……

Just like that, waves of thunder came one after another, back and forth, either evolving into blades of punishment or evolving into various living beings, attacking without cease.

Fang Longye withstood them all one by one, and in the process, even polished his entire being thoroughly.

"Boom!"

The eighty-first wave of thunder descended on schedule.

Ten thousand paths of thunder light became the only thing between heaven and earth. Fang Longye was like a duckweed in a tsunami, instantly submerged.

Endless lightning and scorching divine radiance made the entire world as bright as day, dazzling and brilliant, as if a boundless fire was raging, burning the void until it collapsed.

"Hum—"

Finally, the void trembled, the sea of thunder above the firmament vanished completely, and the entire Grotto-Heaven instantly calmed down, as if nothing had ever happened.

Looking at Fang Longye again, he was actually completely unharmed, his whole body radiating Innate divine light, clear and flawless, even the fine hairs on his skin were gleaming.

Clearly, now he, under the baptism of those many thunder waves, had polished himself to an unimaginable state.

However, he did not show the joy of having passed the Calamity, but instead looked solemn.

He had a premonition that it was not over yet.

When heaven and earth send down a Calamity, he feared it was not as simple as just a Heavenly Tribulation.

After becoming certain,

Fang Longye's eyes were clear as he raised his gaze to look at the firmament; he was very calm and motionless, only his hair dancing lightly and his robes fluttering.

He made no move, only staring at the movements in the extreme sky. The Calamity could not possibly end with a whimper; he figured what followed must be fierce winds and torrential rain, crashing waves and surging seas.

He could only remain on guard with full concentration.

"Hum!"

Sure enough, not long after, the void suddenly trembled, and this expanse of heaven seemed as if it were about to collapse, shaking violently.

Even though he had been prepared, Fang Longye still felt an inexplicable dread in his heart, sensing boundless danger.

It was as if the end of the world had arrived, actually making him feel a sense of utter despair.

A short while later,

Innate talismans appeared in the world one by one, and Innate patterns came across the sky, continuously intertwining in the high heavens.

In the end, they formed a Dao Diagram, grand and solemn, profound and complex.

Then, it crashed down! There was nowhere to hide~

This was a seal, a shackle, a blade of Heaven's Will, seeking to seal his Bloodline and sever his Innate essence.

It was irresistible, wanting to force him back to his original form.

How could he possibly bow his head?

"Kill!"

His spear thrust out like a dragon, streaking across the sky; this strike was enough to slay a Taiyi Loose Immortal, yet it did not harm the Dao Diagram in the slightest.

It seemed as if it did not exist at all~ He threw out the Profound Spirit Escape Armor, but the Dao Diagram passed straight through this meritorious treasure, completely unimpeded.

Fang Longye had an epiphany.

Facing this Dao Diagram, he could only use his own Great Dao to purely resist it head-on. If he could withstand it, all would be well; if he could not, everything would be over! Boom! He mobilized all the Great Dao he had comprehended, gathering them together to resist the Dao Diagram.

"Pfft—"

Fang Longye only felt as if a comet had collided with the earth, a great collision of heaven and earth, and he could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood~ It was not enough!

Fang Longye's thoughts turned extremely fast, and he immediately mobilized his own external fortune, hardening his heart to burn one-third of it.

He resisted the Dao Diagram once again~……

Boom! The Dao Diagram collapsed with a roar, scattering in shards like glaze, flying in all directions.

Fang Longye let out a breath.

Hum~ Mysterious sounds rose one after another, as if various musical instruments were resonating together; listening to it made one feel light, joyful, and crystalline, containing the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, indescribably wonderful.

Boundless Purple-Green Qi descended, and thousands of auspicious signs were born in the void, such as a Phoenix chirping, a divine dragon breathing fire, a Qilin spitting out books, a spirit monkey offering peaches, ……and so on and so forth.

They changed incessantly, coming and going.

Fang Longye had finally passed the Calamity, successfully gained the recognition of heaven and earth, and became a true Innate living being!

He received a name bestowed by heaven and earth—【Yuanlong】! (End of chapter)