Chapter 740: First Glimpse of the Divine City

"This boy's progress is truly astonishing…"

Inside the bronze coffin, the Bronze Coffin Spirit was watching the battle.

Through the light screen, one could see five beams of incomparably pure divine light weaving through the starry sky—converging and parting, somehow able to withstand the Origin Divine Light.

"Boom!"

The roar was like a stellar detonation.

Li Yuan's expression was solemn; the Five Extremes Divine Light flowed at extreme speed, erasing a streak of Origin Divine Light into nothingness.

In that instant, he could feel his divine realm trembling violently, the five ancient temples seeming on the verge of shattering, bearing tremendous pressure.

But for the first time, he had directly withstood the Origin Divine Light of the Five Dragon Immortal!

"The law-prohibitions of this Origin Divine Light are higher than my Five Extremes Divine Light, but the circulation of the Five Extremes, anchored in the divine realm, can already hold!"

Li Yuan's eyes were very bright.

The pressure the Five Dragon Immortal at the peak of the Fourth Realm gave him was immense, for whether in realm or in magic and divine abilities, he was a cut below.

Yet relying on the Five Extremes Divine Light, he could now barely hold his own.

"Though not enough to win, I can still press close to that Divine City!"

The moment Li Yuan's thoughts shifted, the Five Extremes Divine Light cloaked his body; in an instant, he had crossed tens of thousands of miles of starry sky, shattering head-on a streak of Origin Divine Light that shot toward him.

Relying on the Five Extremes Divine Light, the divine realm, and the defensive augmentation of the Martial Registry, he could now directly receive a streak of Origin Divine Light!

"Hum~"

Through the shattered divine light, Li Yuan saw this Origin Divine City at close range.

It was an incomparably vast ancient city, its area so immense it seemed to exceed his current divine realm, showing just how profound the Five Dragon Immortal's foundations were.

"Divine patterns as foundation, divine prohibitions as material…"

"Every floor tile, every building is a spell or several spells…"

"Stone steles, executioner's blades, imperial city, prison, city gate, gate tower… all are divine abilities…"

"Boundless intricate divine patterns and prohibitions, spells and divine abilities converging—this Divine City itself is a great divine ability beyond imagination!"

Teleporting and dodging, evading streaks of Origin Divine Light, the vast majority of Li Yuan's attention fell upon that Divine City; the more he looked, the more his heart trembled, the more he was enthralled.

"Boom!"

At a certain instant, Li Yuan jolted awake from his enthrallment, a chill suddenly surging into his heart:

"That Emperor-Grinding Stone Stele again!"

Even with the Five Extremes Divine Light shielding his body and all manner of martial arts effects upon him, Li Yuan had detected no anomaly before being struck; Qing Di Yan sent a message:

"In ten breaths, your divine soul will be curse-killed!"

An almost unsolvable divine ability!

The Five Extremes Divine Light blazed suddenly; Li Yuan advanced rather than retreated, charging once more toward the Origin Divine City.

But this time, the white-robed Five Dragon Immortal merely stood with arms hanging indifferently, letting those five divine abilities like heavenly swords come piercing through, seemingly no longer fearing Li Yuan's close-quarters killing.

"No chance…"

Seeing this, Li Yuan's heart was undisturbed.

Once the Great Pill is complete, man becomes divine realm; unless he could smash through the Origin Divine City in one breath, he could not harm the Five Dragon Immortal himself at all.

"Hum~"

The next instant, a trembling cry rang out.

Li Yuan's spirit trembled; in a daze, he saw a towering city gate wreathed in immortal light, then—Yu Yu Xuanji—felt his vision go black, having already shattered against the Divine Gate.

"Hoo!"

In the bamboo tower, Li Yuan exhaled a long breath of turbid air, calming the bone-shattering agony, forcibly steadying his spirit to review the battle just fought.

More precisely, he focused his spirit intently, intending to imprint the shadow of that Divine City into his sea of consciousness.

"Hum~"

In the dimness, specks of light flickered.

Li Yuan recalled over and over the outline of the Divine City he had glimpsed, but no matter how he tried—even switching perception sets—he could not visualize this Divine City.

Every time he visualized a corner of the outline, it would collapse.

"No good, this Divine City is too vast; even if my spiritual realm rises a tier, I cannot visualize it…"

After many attempts, Li Yuan changed his approach:

"If a whole Divine City won't work, then break it apart—start from the city gate, or start from a single floor tile…"

"Hum~"

As the thought turned in his mind, before long, a floor tile had already appeared in Li Yuan's sea of consciousness.

"This Origin Divine City is truly too heavy!"

Li Yuan's heart stirred—just this one floor tile, and he already felt his spiritual sense being consumed.

The three realms united; whether in body tempering or magic power refinement, the divine soul grew in tandem; cultivating body-tempering divine abilities and nourished by top-grade magic power, his divine soul far surpassed those of the same tier.

"And this is just one floor tile…"

Li Yuan clicked his tongue inwardly, yet did not let his attention wander; he simply let his spiritual sense converge, visualizing floor tile after floor tile; after repeating this hundreds and thousands of times, his spiritual sense was nearly a third depleted.

Only then did he begin, following his memory, to construct the city walls.

As far back as cultivating "Hundred Beasts Thunder Dragon," Li Yuan had already begun "building blocks" and "assembling puzzles," and had rich experience in visualization and assembly.

Yet he still found it extremely strenuous.

The reason was simple: the divine patterns contained within that Divine City were too intricate; every floor tile was no less than a lower-grade visualization diagram.

At this moment, he was as if simultaneously visualizing hundreds and thousands of True Form diagrams, and had to manipulate them to assemble an even more intricate and vast True Form diagram…

"Hoo!"

Half a moment later, when sweat appeared on Li Yuan's forehead, he had only managed to construct a single corner of a city wall within his mind sea.