Chapter 368

The energy singularity was like a bottomless pit, constantly absorbing energy from the two planes.

There were no signs of life left in the unknown lower plane, and it had also lost its Plane Spirit, so Chu Yang didn't need to have any scruples.

However, on the Douqi Continent side, he needed to be reserved.

After all, even if it was connected to the Great Thousand World, it would take a certain amount of time for Spiritual Power to become abundant.

If he drained the energy of the Douqi Continent, before Spiritual Power became abundant, everyone on the Douqi Continent would face the predicament of stagnant cultivation or even regression in realm, and Mu Tianyin's strength would also be greatly discounted.

With the Source Martial True Body covering his body, when the Primordial Qi compressed in the energy singularity reached its limit, Chu Yang began to trigger the secret method of condensing the Zhizun Dharma Body, attempting to strip the Source Martial True Body from his body.

The secret method naturally came from the Pan Gu Spiritual Consciousness and Mu Tianyin. Chu Yang combined the secret methods provided by the two, and considering the uniqueness of the Source Martial True Body, he created a unique method suitable only for himself.

This process was extremely difficult. Because the Source Martial True Body was too powerful, wanting to strip it away and make it an independent existence in concrete form required a huge amount of energy as supply.

The energy singularity trembled crazily, constantly converting the absorbed energy into Primordial Qi, and then injecting it into the gradually stripping Source Martial True Body.

The reason why Chu Yang chose to consume a large amount of energy from the Douqi Continent and the unknown plane, instead of waiting until the Douqi Continent was connected to the Great Thousand World to enter the Great Thousand World to condense the Zhizun Dharma Body, naturally had his own considerations.

The most critical problem was that the Source Martial True Body was too strong! Gathering energy on a large scale and condensing a Zhizun Dharma Body comparable to a Primitive Dharma God, or even exceeding a Primitive Dharma Body, would inevitably cause a great commotion.

Although Chu Yang's current strength was enough to contend with a Tian Zhizun, he had not yet reached the level where he could act recklessly in the Great Thousand World.

A Zhizun Dharma Body that surpassed a Primitive Dharma Body was full of temptation for any powerhouse in the Great Thousand World.

Even those Saint Product Tian Zhizun who were almost hermits would likely be moved by it.

In the world of cultivators, the act of killing people and seizing treasures was happening all the time, and Chu Yang did not want to become a fat sheep in the eyes of others.

Therefore, he went to great lengths to condense the Zhizun Dharma Body first, and then went to open the plane channel.

As time passed, the Source Martial True Body gradually detached from his body, turning into a slightly illusory "energy body."

Carrying the sun and moon on his shoulders, the shadows of the Four Sacred True Spirits hovered behind him, like a god.

In a sense, the current Source Martial True Body could already be counted as a Zhizun Dharma Body.

It was just that the Source Martial Dharma Body was still very unstable at this time; once it lost its energy supply, it would collapse instantly.

Two days passed in a flash. The moment the last wisp of energy from the unknown plane was exhausted, the spatial rift in front of Chu Yang trembled violently and finally collapsed directly.

He knew that the unknown plane would soon collapse and would not leave any traces.

All living beings were extinct, and even the entire plane no longer existed. It looked truly sad, but at least the inheritance fell on Sun Wukong, which could be considered a continuation.

Chu Yang looked at the Source Martial Dharma Body, whose entire upper body had condensed into substance, with the sun and moon shining brightly, but whose lower body and the Four Sacred True Spirits behind it were still extremely illusory, and frowned slightly.

More than half of the Douqi Continent's energy had been consumed, and the energy of the unknown plane had also been absorbed by him, but the condensation of the Source Martial Dharma God was only half completed.

Clearly, the energy from the Douqi Continent alone was not enough to support the complete formation of the Source Martial Dharma Body.

If he stopped now, all the energy previously condensed would dissipate, and everything would fall short of success, requiring him to start all over again.

Chu Yang frowned tightly. He had used Pan Gu to perform precise calculations beforehand, and only started condensing the Dharma Body after confirming that the energy of the two planes was sufficient.

Pan Gu's calculations naturally could not be wrong; the problem lay in the Source Martial Dharma Body!

Chu Yang looked at the Four Sacred True Spirits behind the Dharma Body, his eyes helpless.

He did not expect that the Four Sacred True Spirits would also be included in the Source Martial Dharma Body.

Although the Four Sacred True Spirits were originally one with the Source Martial True Body, after evolving through the Spirit Elevation Art, they had become independent individuals and no longer needed to rely on the Source Martial True Body to exist.

Moreover, the condensation of the Source Martial True Body into the Source Martial Dharma Body was a process of concretization into a physical entity. Once the Four Sacred True Spirits were included, it meant that they would transform from their original energy bodies into living beings in the true sense!

But he had never heard that the secret method of condensing a Zhizun Dharma Body could create living beings!

That was why Chu Yang ignored this point, leading to the problem of insufficient energy now.

Feeling that the effect of the Spirit-Gathering Pill was about to disappear, Chu Yang couldn't help but sigh.

Currently, there were only two choices before him.

Either give up condensing the Zhizun Dharma Body and start over after entering the Great Thousand World.

Or make a trade-off, give up this opportunity for the Four Sacred True Spirits to condense into physical entities, and strip them from the Zhizun Dharma Body.

But Chu Yang had spent so much effort just to condense the Zhizun Dharma Body, so how could he be willing to let the Dharma Body have flaws? Moreover, choosing to avoid risks did not mean he was afraid of risks! Thinking of this, Chu Yang intended to disperse the Dharma Body and introduce all the gathered energy into the Douqi Continent.

But just at this moment, his heart suddenly moved, and he remembered something...

Raising his hand to take out a fresh, beating heart, Chu Yang's eyes became brighter and brighter.

This thing... might be able to reverse the situation! Thinking and doing, Chu Yang held the Holy Embryo in one hand and the Klein bottle in the other, then his eyes narrowed, and he directly threw the Holy Embryo into the Klein bottle.

The next moment, the Klein bottle shone brightly!

Only compared to the last time, Chu Yang could clearly feel that the power erupted by the Klein bottle this time was more powerful.

Even with him as the center, the surrounding void space began to tremble, waves of spatial storms swept through, and time sometimes stagnated, sometimes regressed, and sometimes accelerated.

Spacetime chaos!

Chu Yang frowned. He was in the void space, so the spacetime chaos here would not cause too much impact on the outside world.

But he was at the center of the spacetime chaos. If he were used as a reference, it was equivalent to the spacetime of the entire Douqi Continent, and even the entire Great Thousand World, being in chaos! He didn't want the outside world to have undergone great changes by the time he came out of seclusion! Fortunately, this kind of spacetime chaos did not last long. In just a moment, the Klein bottle's light converged.

A crystal-clear heart, like white jade, slid out.

Feeling the surging energy in the heart, Chu Yang breathed a long sigh of relief.

Now, the pure energy in this Holy Embryo was even more than the residual energy of the unknown plane combined, completely enough to support him in condensing a perfect Zhizun Dharma Body!

Another three days passed, during which Chu Yang took the pill that restored Soul Force.

He needed to control the singularity at all times, convert energy into Primordial Qi, and then inject Primordial Qi into the Zhizun Dharma Body. During this period, this caused a great consumption of Soul Force.

Even with his amazing Soul Force foundation, he had to rely on pills to support it.

If it were an ordinary Spiritual Product Tian Zhizun, I'm afraid they would have fallen short of success long ago due to insufficient Soul Force.

In the void space, looking at the Source Martial Dharma Body in front of him, which was exactly the same as his appearance, over five meters tall, carrying the sun and moon on its shoulders, with the Four Sacred True Spirits dancing behind it, and wearing a golden feather weave, Chu Yang felt a bit tired between his brows, but a smile appeared on his face. Having spent so much effort and energy, it was not in vain after all!

His gaze fell on the chest of the Source Martial Dharma Body, and Chu Yang was thoughtful.

In the chest cavity of the Source Martial Dharma Body, there was a constantly beating heart, which was an extremely incredible thing.

Because in the final analysis, the Zhizun Dharma Body could only be considered a means for powerhouses above the Zhizun realm, not a true independent existence.

But he had never heard of anyone whose Zhizun Dharma Body actually possessed an independent heart! However, Chu Yang also knew that it was not a real heart, but what the Holy Embryo shell turned into after merging into the Zhizun Dharma Body.

This change exceeded his expectations, and it seemed that the heart did not have any uniqueness, and the Source Martial Dharma Body was not affected by it in the slightest.

However, since it had been purified by the Klein bottle, the Holy Embryo naturally would not pose any threat, and presumably, the heart would be beneficial and harmless to the Source Martial Dharma Body.

As for its specific function, he could only ponder it slowly in the future.

Chu Yang waved his hand lightly, and the Source Martial Dharma Body turned into a stream of light and merged into the energy singularity.

His Soul Force swept through his dantian, and he could clearly see that inside the energy singularity, the Source Martial Dharma Body sat cross-legged, and all the Primordial Qi revolved slowly around it, as if it were a cosmic true god suppressing the galaxy.

Now that the Zhizun Dharma Body was formed, the next thing Chu Yang needed to consider was the "Unity of Man and Dharma."

Unity of Man and Dharma, as the name suggested, was to let the Zhizun Dharma Body merge with the physical body, which was a trump card for the strongest in the Great Thousand World.

Usually, only after reaching the realm of Saint Product Tian Zhizun could one merge the physical body with the Dharma Body; otherwise, the physical body would collapse because the Zhizun Dharma Body was too powerful.

And some powerful Zhizun Dharma Bodies, such as the five Primitive Dharma Bodies, were even difficult for late-stage Saint Product Tian Zhizun to withstand the impact of the Unity of Man and Dharma on the physical body.

Apart from the Unity of Man and Dharma, only after breaking through to Di Zhizun could one combine the power of the physical body with the Zhizun Dharma Body to achieve the Zhizun Dharma Image.

In Chu Yang's view, the so-called Zhizun Dharma Image had the same effect as Sun Wukong's Law of Heaven and Earth.

What he pursued was naturally not the Zhizun Dharma Image, or even the Unity of Man and Dharma, but the complete fusion of the physical body and the Dharma Body, just like his former Source Martial True Body.

After all, the Unity of Man and Dharma could only be considered a combat method, and even those top figures in the Great Thousand World could not sustain it for too long.

After the Source Martial True Body was transformed into the Zhizun Dharma Body and merged with the physical body again, it would cause a qualitative leap in Chu Yang's overall strength! However, no one had ever done this before, so Chu Yang could only explore it himself through the principle of the Unity of Man and Dharma.

Putting away his thoughts, Chu Yang's Soul Force penetrated the void space and probed the situation on the Douqi Continent.

Three years!

Due to the impact of the spacetime chaos, although he had only spent five days in the void space, three full years had passed in the outside world!

However, Chu Yang breathed a sigh of relief. At least time had not regressed, and the Great Thousand World and the Douqi Continent had accelerated their time progress by three years, which was not a bad thing.

Just at this moment, Chu Yang's eyes moved slightly, a perfect smile appeared on his face, and then he reached out to tear open a spatial rift and directly left the void space.

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Douqi Continent, Central Continent, border of the Great Xia Empire.

"Xiao Yan, I want to see where else you can escape to?"

The Soul Heavenly Emperor stood in the air, Douqi condensing into a bloody ocean behind him, covering the sky and the sun, making countless living beings tremble.

Dou Di!

The second Dou Di of the Douqi Continent's Age of Dharma Decline after Chu Yang!

However, at this time, opposite him, Xiao Yan, who was covered in colorful flames, had an equally terrifying aura and had also reached the Dou Di realm!

Only by comparison, Xiao Yan was clearly weaker than the Soul Heavenly Emperor, and his aura fluctuations were somewhat chaotic, as if he had suffered heavy injuries.

In the colorful flames, Xiao Yan's face was pale, his robes were damaged in many places, and a wound on his chest was deep enough to see the bone, with blood staining a large part of his clothes.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, "Soul Heavenly Emperor, this is the border of the Great Xia Empire!"

"I want to see if you dare to take action within the territory of the Great Xia Empire?"

The Soul Heavenly Emperor's mouth twitched slightly. Although Chu Yang had been missing for three full years, his remaining prestige still made him afraid to act rashly.

Especially after breaking through to the Dou Di realm, the Soul Heavenly Emperor and Xiao Yan realized even more clearly how terrifying Chu Yang's strength was! Because they could clearly find that even if they broke through to Dou Di, compared to Chu Yang, there was still a gap like a natural chasm.

"Xiao Yan, don't think I don't know about the matter between you and the Chu Emperor!"

The Soul Heavenly Emperor snorted coldly, "The reason he helped you is nothing more than a fair deal he made with you."

"You are not a person of the Misty Cloud Sect or the Great Xia Empire; do you still expect the Chu Emperor to provide you with shelter?"

"Don't forget, the Heavenly Mansion Alliance is not within the territory of the Great Xia Empire!"

"If you flee into Great Xia, I can guarantee that I will not leave a single chicken or dog of the Heavenly Mansion Alliance!"

Xiao Yan's expression was gloomy, but he was helpless.

Use the Soul Clan to threaten the other party?

Stop joking. In order to break through to the Emperor realm with the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill, the Soul Heavenly Emperor had already sacrificed the entire Soul Clan.

So now, the Soul Clan was left with only the Soul Heavenly Emperor himself.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, knowing that he could only burn his bridges now, so he turned to bow toward the Great Xia Imperial Palace and said loudly, "Xiao Yan is willing to serve Great Xia for a hundred years! I implore Your Majesty to lend me fire!"

The voice was like thunder, instantly resounding throughout the Central Continent. Countless people looked up in shock, all with faces of astonishment.

Who was Xiao Yan?

On the entire continent, apart from the Chu Emperor, he was the most legendary genius!

Without a powerful force behind him, relying on his own talent and hard work, he forcibly surpassed countless geniuses and achieved the name of Flame Emperor.

Now, in order to borrow fire, he was actually willing to serve Great Xia for a hundred years!

But then again, the Chu Emperor had once said personally that neither he nor the Misty Cloud Sect, nor the Great Xia Empire, would interfere in the grievances between the Soul Clan and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.

Under these circumstances, would that Empress of the Great Xia Empire agree? (End of chapter)