Chapter 125: Multiple Anomalies

It is rumored that the heaven, earth, and universe have four extremes, which support the sky, and the human body has four limbs; by imitating the heaven, earth, and universe with the human body, the four limbs of the human body will develop into the four extremes of the universe.

The Four Extremes within the Zhetian World originate from this.

And at this moment, Zhang Xuan had this feeling, as boundless Essence Wolf Smoke rushed into his four limbs.

The vigorous Life Essence connected his four limbs, and the mighty Origin caused his four limbs to undergo intense changes between this heaven and earth.

His realm surged through in one go, directly rushing into the Four Extremes Realm without any pause.

Then, in an instant, infinite thunderclouds gathered above his head, covering this uninhabited area.

Yet the thunder light above his head was not what Zhang Xuan was most concerned about at this moment; what he was most concerned about was his own body, his physical form.

Crimson light swirled around his body, then crazily impacted from his blood to his bones and meridians.

With no one watching, the most astonishing and terrifying change occurred: a layer of skin fell off Zhang Xuan's face, revealing skin as white as jade underneath.

This was not the end; at the moment the skin cracked, mixed with the disintegration of the body were shattered bones, and pure white bone fragments flew out from that body.

Zhang Xuan sat cross-legged on the ground, and in his mouth, even fragments of his abdomen were coughed out.

His whole body was drenched in blood, yet he did not feel uncomfortable; instead, he was laughing heartily.

Blood flowed within his body, crazily spraying along his frame, dyeing large swathes of the snowy mountain red.

The fresh blood flowing from his body was like a river, continuous and endless.

In this process, Zhang Xuan not only did not feel pain, but instead felt extremely gratified.

This was the transformation from a mortal body to a truly stronger realm, and it was more intense and more fierce than any time before.

From bones to flesh and blood, and then covering every inch of his skin, everything was undergoing change, everything was being altered.

The old body was being cast off by Zhang Xuan's original body, and his newborn body was struggling out from the original body bit by bit.

This process was extremely painful, but from the deepest part of his soul, an insurmountable sense of comfort emerged; it was painful yet joyful.

Bones shattered one by one, and in their place were new, tougher bones, like Mutton Fat White Jade.

The bone marrow inside was also flowing anew, continuously producing fresher and more vibrant blood.

This transformation should have happened earlier and should not have appeared during this realm upgrade, but the greatest Origin that Zhang Xuan swallowed was on Long Dao, and the pressure on Long Dao was too great, making it difficult for one to undergo a more comprehensive and comfortable transformation.

Therefore, after returning to Earth in the Zhetian World, this transformation proceeded crazily, giving no chance to wait.

The situations that were supposed to undergo multiple rounds of transformation and change beforehand were now all piled up together.

Above the firmament, vast thunder light surged crazily, like dragons and snakes dancing wildly.

Throughout the entire heaven and earth, apart from the flashing thunder, no other light could be seen; the continuous black clouds covered this piece of heaven and earth, and viewing this area from afar was like viewing a sea of death.

Facing such a situation, Zhang Xuan was surprised but not panicked; thanks to his half-month of accumulation beforehand, he already had a plan for this change, and now the speed of the transformation within his body could not keep up with the speed of the external lightning.

At this moment of life-and-death crisis, he could keenly grasp the subtle changes within.

Therefore, after a brief assessment, he formed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal with his hands; this method, used for both swallowing Origin and for attack and defense, was the one he used most and was the most proficient at.

The Great Dao Treasure Bottle hung in the air, swallowing a whole bottle of thunder light in an instant.

Then, after the vast thunder light was slightly transformed, it poured down directly from above his head.

There was no time to prepare or digest now; if there were enough time, Zhang Xuan could easily turn that vast thunder light into continuous liquid lightning to make up for the deficiencies of his body, but now it was just a simple tempering to filter out the overly powerful death force within.

Then, the thunder light, like a waterfall, poured onto Zhang Xuan's body; in an instant, blood sprayed, and bone and skin fragments burst out.

Zhang Xuan's expression did not change; instead, his heart felt a sense of relief.

Under the surging of that vigorous thunder light, not only did his skin and bones shatter, but a powerful life vitality also stimulated his body, making his heart and physical form increasingly robust.

Although that death force did not distinguish between friend and foe, when it poured down directly, it first pierced through the old body, allowing him to struggle out from the old body, and the remaining force struck the newborn body, causing the new body to suffer damage, but at the same time, it would also recover quickly.

His current state was like a bird struggling to break out of its eggshell, or a moth in a cocoon trying hard to transform and become a butterfly.

The vast thunder light not only caused damage to his body but also helped him break the external shell.

Then, the dragon of blood and Qi above his head, after being slightly scattered by such an attack, became even tougher and more vigorous.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Xuan's mouth.

The thunder light above his head paused for a moment, then suddenly poured down.

Infinite life force and death force exploded within his body, and in the shortest time, shattered his excess remains, while also leaving his newborn body drenched in blood, but Zhang Xuan did not care; he reached back and took out a Blood Bodhi that had matured and mutated in the Plantation.

The effect of the Blood Bodhi in increasing cultivation was greatly weakened, but its ability to recover from injuries was also massively strengthened.

Swallowing it in one gulp, the injuries in his body recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The crisscrossing scars on his skin and the charred black skin quickly fell off, revealing the smooth, porcelain-like skin underneath.

Above his head, blood and Qi were like a dragon!

"I am not Ye Fan, needing to go through difficult accumulation and preparation."

Zhang Xuan stood up abruptly from the snowy mountain, and the surrounding shattered bones and flesh flew everywhere, dyeing half of the snowy mountain red.

He did not care at all, instead looking up at the firmament.

At this very moment, layer upon layer of thunder light descended; the black clouds completely shrouded this land, like a giant dragon so vast it was unimaginable, revealing layer after layer of scales, covering the entire heaven and earth.

Zhang Xuan did not feel uneasy; instead, he closed his eyes slightly and took a breath of air as if intoxicated.

After the old body faded and the new body was born, he felt endless power surging throughout his entire body.

Even as an enemy to this sky full of thunder light, he did not feel panicked.

Past records, the Indestructible Heavenly Art, and the methods explained in detail by Qingdi all surfaced in his mind; at that time, limited by Divine Power and realm, he had no way to execute them.

After shedding the old body, a slight recollection of the originally extremely complex methods allowed him to instantly understand the Divine Power, which formed according to complex trajectories within his body in an instant.

The Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal surged out of thin air, like a black hole, swallowing the sky full of thunder light into its belly in an instant.

Zhang Xuan breathed gently with his mouth and nose, and the thunder light swallowed by the Great Dao Treasure Bottle immediately turned into wisps of water lines, merging into his body to replenish his vitality and restore his strength.

The first layer of the lightning tribulation, which was originally designed to trap practitioners, test them, and make most practitioners fear it, was instantly dismantled by Zhang Xuan.

Countless electric lights danced on his skin, making his hair fly, and even his eyes carried thunder light, yet they could not harm him in the slightest.

"Still not strong enough!"

Zhang Xuan exhaled gently.

Above his head, as if provoked by him, the dark clouds that had originally been swallowed surged further; there was not a shred of light left between heaven and earth, only the lightning flickering slightly on Zhang Xuan's body, illuminating this patch of the world.

Such a scene was enough to make anyone panic, and Zhang Xuan was no exception, but after panicking for only a moment, he returned to calm.

His calmness did not come from blind confidence, but from self-assurance.

He had learned corresponding techniques from Zhang Sanfeng and the Wudang Seven in the Wind and Cloud World, accumulated vigorous Origin by facing blood and terror head-on in Resident Evil, and swallowed a Qilin in the Wind and Cloud World.

Yet what truly brought about the most massive change for him was the life-and-death combat in Chang Sheng Jie, which completely filled in his corresponding shortcomings; at least within his current realm, his experience in life-and-death combat and his control over his own power were absolutely sufficient.

To face blood without fear, to face battle without panic—this was already enough.

At the same time, the top-tier divine arts he had mastered also brought him sufficiently powerful confidence.

The Eight-Nine Profound Art personally explained by the Heavenly Venerable, the highest inheritance of Benren Dadi, and the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and Indestructible Heavenly Art—he had gained insights into all of them, and with a Great Emperor carefully explaining and pointing things out, any difficult problems had annotations above them.

He had mastered the Forbidden Chapter within the Emperor Scripture, and not just one or two parts; whether it was One Thought Flower Blooms, King Over the World, the top secret arts specifically used for recovery and healing, or the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal...

The most top-tier methods had all been mastered by him, and all kinds of methods were manifested in him.

Zhang Xuan possessed sufficient confidence; purely in terms of his current strength, realm, and level, even if Ye Fan were placed before him for a head-on fight, he could basically occupy the upper hand steadily.

On paper, he was already no less than the descendants of true Great Emperor families, and even no less than the descendants of Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors.

Under such circumstances, if he could still die while undergoing the tribulation, that would truly be inconceivable.

Amidst the sky-filling lightning, Zhang Xuan soared into the sky, not retreating, facing the terrifying light above the firmament head-on.

Zhang Xuan clearly knew his current problem; his only problem was that the time he had spent cultivating was too short, and his various experiences and tempering could not yet compare to those top-tier figures; at the very least, when the descendants of Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors reached this realm, their combat experience and the tempering of their relevant mental states should have far exceeded his.

This was a facet of soft power, and in this aspect, Zhang Xuan could not yet compare to them.

Therefore, whenever there was an opportunity, Zhang Xuan would do his utmost to make up for his shortcomings, undergoing tempering and battle in the shortest possible time.

Human figures appeared vaguely within the lightning, and terrifying thunder flashed among them.

Zhang Xuan rose and fell within it; one heavenly tribulation, two heavenly tribulations, each heavenly tribulation had nine levels.

With Zhang Xuan's current strength and ability, when he experienced the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, wounds would appear on his body, but they would recover in the blink of an eye.

By the time of the Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, Zhang Xuan felt slightly strained, but it did not affect him too much; occasionally, bright red blood would spurt out high, carrying powerful divinity.

But in the end, it did not affect him too much, and it would soon return to calm.

As it went on, Zhang Xuan dealt with it with increasing ease, and his body, like the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal, cooperated with the little person in his brow to swallow and spit out infinite lightning.

He rose and sank within the infinite lightning tribulation, like an eternal and indestructible God.

One figure after another appeared in that lightning, among them the giant snake that failed to undergo Dragon Transformation in the Shenmu World;

there were also thousands of various human figures from Resident Evil, the fire Qilin roaring at the sky from the Wind and Cloud World, as well as the eight-armed evil dragon with eight arms from Chang Sheng Jie, and the ancient tyrannosaur covered in cyan scales...

They all appeared in the lightning, and then finally submerged completely into Zhang Xuan's body.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan felt his whole body was incomparably comfortable, and in the dark, the Origin in the deepest part of his body underwent an inexplicable change.

As he walked between this heaven and earth, he was more in tune with this world, and when he pondered slightly, the myriad Daos of the heavens seemed to be resonating with him.

Clearly, in the Earth era within the Zhetian World, the era Earth was in belonged to the Age of End of Dharma, where the myriad Daos of the heavens were not manifest.

In the past, when Zhang Xuan cultivated, it was very difficult to sense the rules of heaven and earth, but at this moment, with a slight sensing, the originally blurry rules of heaven and earth appeared clearly before his eyes.

At this moment, a certain surprise emerged in Zhang Xuan's heart.

At the same time, he had new realizations in his heart; according to the records in the Indestructible Heavenly Art, his physique had further improved, his Origin was also improving, and his body was increasingly approaching the Dao.

That was why he had this kind of peculiar realization now.

Inside Zhang Xuan's Bitter Sea, peculiar visions were being generated.

Amidst boundless flames, a Qilin roared at the sky, dominating the world.

A moment later, the vision within changed to another kind; a true dragon soared within it, and then in an instant, it transformed into nine dragon kings, fighting each other.

But such visions still did not stop; as the visions changed, they revealed a humanoid creature standing between heaven and earth, as if it were the master of heaven and earth.

"This is the corresponding change that occurs after reaching the Four Extremes realm..."

Zhang Xuan had a realization in his heart; in the Zhetian World, all cultivators would manifest their own visions at the Four Extremes realm.

The Rising Moon from the Sea from the Desolate Ancient Ji Family, the Golden Lotus in the Bitter Sea of the Demon Emperor Descendant, as well as the Saint Body's Nine Heavens of the Immortal King, Chaos Planting Green Lotus...

This was the divine might displayed when the potential of the human body was further stimulated.

Often, only the most top-tier physiques and constitutions between heaven and earth would have such divine might and supernatural powers.

And now, Zhang Xuan had also stepped into this domain.

(End of this chapter)