Chapter 835: Fleshly Sanctification

"Hmph! Taibai Jinxing."

"You are very good!"

Sensing with his divine soul that a Star Official had taken Liu Bang and the others away on a cloud, Li Xin's expression became extremely ugly.

"You all, pursue them for me!"

He ordered his subordinates beside him in a somewhat flustered and exasperated manner.

"Yes, General!"

Hearing this, the swordsmen who had followed him immediately let go of those Heavenly Soldiers and quickly pursued in the direction the Star Official had left.

"You deserve to die!"

Intercepted by Li Zhanggeng, Li Xin became increasingly furious. His entire figure also became violent, and the bloodline of the ancient Elephant began to ignite, his figure swelling rapidly, as if he were manifesting the Law of Heaven and Earth.

Watching Li Xin's transformation, Li Zhanggeng's expression became extremely grave. The violent aura radiating from Li Xin's entire body was simply terrifying to the extreme.

It faintly seemed to have exceeded the boundaries of a Golden Core.

It was leaping towards the boundaries of a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Li Zhanggeng naturally understood how terrifying the power of a Taiyi Golden Immortal was.

A Golden Core could serve as a commander in the Heavenly Court, a third-rank Great Marshal, while a Taiyi Golden Immortal could already be ranked as a first-rank Emperor Lord. Although not like the Six Royals, in reality, the Six Royals were more just symbolic.

For example, that Great Ziwei Dijun and Great Emperor Gouchen, their strength was very weak; Gouchen was relatively stronger, at least having the combat power of a Golden Core peak.

And Great Ziwei Dijun was the eldest son of Wen Wang during the Investiture of the Gods period.

Before the Investiture of the Gods, he was merely a mortal.

Even though his cultivation speed accelerated after the Investiture of the Gods because of the luck of the Great Zhou, he had no backing after all; his strongest backing was merely Wen Wang.

However, although Wen Wang was a sage of the human race, in reality, he did not have much cultivation.

Therefore, in the ten thousand years after the Investiture of the Gods, he barely became an immortal god, and was only at the Heavenly Immortal cultivation level; he could be said to be one of the weakest of the Six Royals.

A first-rank Emperor Lord of the Heavenly Court was not like the Six Royals; that required solid, powerful strength.

For a first-rank Emperor Lord, the minimum cultivation required was a Taiyi Golden Immortal, and there were even several first-rank Emperor Lords who were at the Great Luo realm.

However, these first-rank Emperor Lords generally guarded the various boundaries of the Heavenly Realm.

The true experts of the Heavenly Court were almost all in various small thousand worlds, and only those who were idle would stay in the Heavenly Court.

Li Zhanggeng had experienced great wars in small thousand worlds and naturally understood the power of a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

At this moment, Li Xin's eruption faintly reached the level of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, and he dared not show any negligence.

He was not afraid of a Golden Core, as he himself was at the peak of the Golden Core realm.

But the gap between a Golden Core and a Taiyi Golden Immortal was like a chasm.

A Taiyi Golden Immortal who had refined the five qi in their chest had almost embarked on the path of transcendence.

A Golden Core was already immortal; even if they died, they could reincarnate and return, while a Taiyi Golden Immortal was an even more indestructible existence.

As long as they were not completely obliterated, even a single hair could restore them.

The power Li Xin erupted with was clearly not that of an orthodox Taiyi Golden Immortal, but relied on the powerful physical strength of the ancient Elephant.

This kind of power was also extremely terrifying.

Among the ancient ten thousand races, the Immortal Dao was not prominent; instead, the Divine Dao was the strongest. What was the Divine Dao? In fact, it was the Dao of Laws.

In the ancient era, laws were king.

Ancient races relied primarily on bloodline talent; the stronger the talent, the more naturally they were close to the laws, such as those innate divines, those divine beasts, or the saint beasts and the Witch tribe.

Among them, the Witch tribe was the most terrifying. First, their physical bodies were even more terrifying than many divine beasts and saint beasts; secondly, their physical bloodlines naturally contained various laws.

It would not be an exaggeration to even call them bodies of law.

This was also the reason why individuals of the Witch tribe were very powerful.

Those ancient races were each more powerful than the last, far from what the human race of today could compare to. It was a pity that the struggles between the ancient ten thousand races were also quite intense; in the struggles of the ten thousand races, the bloodlines of countless races gradually disappeared.

What the human race inherited today was merely a drop in the ocean.

Even so, it was also extremely powerful and terrifying.

And Li Xin, who had awakened the bloodline of the ancient Elephant alien race, represented the expression of boundless strength, walking the path of physical flow, or rather, the Law of Strength.

The Law of Strength!

One of the three thousand laws, the rarest kind of law. It was said that the opener of the Primordial World, the Great God Pangu, walked the path of the Law of Strength.

With one force, he subdued ten thousand techniques, suppressing the three thousand demon gods.

Therefore, the Law of Strength was also the most terrifying among the three thousand laws.

It was just a pity that since the Great God Pangu disappeared, there had been no one else with any outstanding performance in this Law of Strength.

Most walked the paths of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Life, or Destruction among many other laws.

The ancient Elephant walked the path of the Law of Strength. This race was small in number, but their combat power was extremely terrifying, just like the Witch tribe.

Adult ancient Elephants had at least the combat power of a Golden Core, and even many elders of the Elephant race had Great Luo combat power.

In the ancient era, the Elephant race was extremely powerful. In the great war of the ten thousand races, the Elephant race survived; although there were very few, they managed to live until the ancient era.

When the ancient Human Emperor descended, the human race was already the hegemon of the Primordial World, and all races could only retreat; even if they did not retreat, they were forced to withdraw.

After all, the ancient human race was indeed very powerful, especially during the time of the Three Sovereigns, when high-level experts of the human race emerged one after another.

Whether it was the Three Elders of the human race or the likes of Cangjie, they were all above the Great Luo realm, although most of them relied on merit to raise their cultivation to the stage of Great Luo or Quasi-Sage.

But a Quasi-Sage was a Quasi-Sage, not something a Great Luo could compare to.

So at that time, it was not just because of the support of those innate divines; the human race itself was also very powerful.

The Elephant race also gradually retreated during the ancient era. During the time of the Human Emperor Xuanyuan, the last Elephant, under the Chiyou tribe, was slain after a great battle with the Human Emperor, and since then, there had been no more Elephant race.

However, their bloodlines still remained.

The Elephant bloodline that Li Xin awakened, although not much, still displayed terrifying power.

Boom!

With the awakening eruption, Li Xin's power seemed to have surged more than tenfold.

With another collision, in just an instant, the power of the clash caused Li Zhanggeng to be unable to block it any longer, and his entire person was blasted out dozens of miles away.

The powerful force instantly transmitted from his immortal sword to his physical body.

"Such a strong physical body, this is the path of fleshly sanctification."

In the Heavenly Court, there was also the path of fleshly sanctification, and quite a few chose this path; the most famous was one of the Heavenly Court's War Gods, Yang Jian.

As the first among the third-generation disciples of the Chan Sect, he cultivated the Daoist protective divine skill, the Eight-Nine Profound Art; this method of physical body tempering was one of the strongest in the Daoist school.

Within the Chan Sect, only the highly talented Yang Jian could be considered to have mastered it; even among the twelve Golden Immortals, not many persisted back then.

Once this method was mastered, physical strength and combat power were often extremely exaggerated.

It was said that this cultivation technique was derived from the Nine-Turn Profound Art left behind by the Great God Pangu. ===== CHAPTER 836 =====