Chapter 74 – The Birth of the ONE: Throughout Heavens and Earth, Only I Alone Am, The Only One Phoenix!
Lakan's soul power vibrated at the absolute peak of Rank 70. As he prepared to ignite the Chaos Qi, a voice like a thousand chime-bells resonated within his spiritual sea.
"Stop, little Sovereign," the Sarimanok spoke, its multi-colored radiance pushing back the shadows of his consciousness. "Do not build the house before you have the foundation of the heavens. Before the Core, you must have the Totality."
Lakan exhaled, his breath forming bubbles of prismatic light. "Give it to me, then. The Seventh Ring."
The Sarimanok didn't just give a ring; it surrendered a portion of its divine concept. In the mortal world, a massive, golden-red ring began to condense around Lakan's body. It wasn't the deep crimson of a 100,000-year ring, nor the gold of a 1,000,000-year ring. It was a Calamity-Grade Prismatic Ring, shimmering with the iridescent Fortune of the herald bird.
As the ring snapped into place, Lakan's soul power didn't just break the bottleneck—it rocketed.
Rank 71... 72... 73!
The seventh ring granted him two primary abilities. First, the Passive: Aura of the Favored Sovereign, which granted Lakan a permanent increase in Divine Luck—a conceptual shield that ensured his techniques succeeded even at low probabilities.
Second, it granted him his Spirit Avatar, but because of his unique path, it manifested as the Sovereign Avatar. Unlike traditional avatars that turn the user into a giant beast, Lakan remained human-sized at the center of a colossal, translucent manifestation of his Intent. A thirty-meter-tall spectral giant, clad in ancient Baybayin-engraved armor and wielding two massive phantom Kampilans, appeared behind him, mirroring his every heartbeat.
"Now," Lakan whispered, his voice vibrating with the power of a Spirit Sage. "The Universal Solvent."
He has a thought that he wants to try. Ever since reincarnation in this world and Awakening the God Level Martial Soul Adarna Phoenix, he already planned his Path to be the Only One. The Only Phoenix in the Universe. This plan is inspired from reading the 5th book of this world he now lived in. If it works, and he is Absolutely certain he will, then he would be a Unique existence Similar to the Dragon God.
He activated the Yin Yang Complementary Technique, but he performed it through the brutal geometry of the Eight Directional Flow.
Lakan extended his arms. Around him, eight distinct spiritual funnels erupted. Four funnels sucked in the Ultimate Yang Fire from the crimson spring, while the other four pulled the Ultimate Yin Ice from the milky-white spring. Through the Eight Directional Suction, he ensured that the energies entered his meridians in a perfectly balanced, alternating sequence.
Inside his Lower Dantian, the collision began.
Following the Yin Yang Complementary logic, Lakan set the two forces into opposing high-speed rotations. The Ice energy spun Clockwise at a frequency that could shatter diamonds; the Fire energy spun Counter-Clockwise with the heat of a collapsing star. They meshed like the gears of a divine machine—the Still Water phase.
Then, Lakan applied his Fist Intent.
"COLLAPSE!"
He stopped the rotation instantly. The Sudden Halt caused the opposing energies to slam into each other at a molecular level. It is a Big Bang within his abdomen. Elemental identities were atomized, and from the debris of Ice and Fire, a new substance emerged: Chaos Qi. It was a greyish-gold mist that felt heavy, as if a single drop weighed as much as a mountain.
With the Chaos Qi acting as the "Universal Solvent," Lakan began the most agonizing part of the process. He pulled the vials of Phoenix Blood into the vortex.
First, he injected the Golden (Time) and Silver (Space) Blue Demon Bird bloodlines. The Chaos Qi acted as the spiritual glue, binding the volatile laws of Time and Space together. Lakan's body flickered in and out of existence, his silhouette blurring as he literally stitched the fourth and fifth dimensions into his flesh.
Next came the Elemental Spectrum: the Ice, Radiant, Dark, and Crystallization phoenix etc.. bloods. They entered the Chaos Qi like pigments into a bucket of white paint, swirling but not mixing, until Lakan used the Tuloy-Tuloy (Endless Thread) circulation to weave them into a singular strand.
Finally, he merged his own Adarna + Fire Phoenix bloodline into the dead center.
The Sarimanok in his Spirit Sea leaned down, its beak touching the core of the fusion. It released a pure, auspicious light that filtered out the Evil Fire madness of the chaotic bloodlines, leaving only the pure, divine potential.
"Solidify!" Lakan commanded, his 36 Star Acupoints glowing with such intensity that they burned through his skin, appearing like a constellation mapped onto his body.
Using the Tuloy-Tuloy rhythm, he spun the fused bloodline energy faster and faster. The pressure grew so immense that the bottom of the Yin Yang Well cracked. The energy underwent a Blood Core condensation process, collapsing inward until it formed a singular, dark-gold pearl spinning in his Lower Dantian.
The Bloodline Chaos Core was born.
It immediately ignited. The Core began a "
Self-Cycle, pumping a new kind of blood through Lakan's veins—The ONE Bloodline. This wasn't human blood, nor beast blood. It was a transcendent, divine fluid that carried the attributes of every phoenix in history, unified under Lakan's Diwa.
His meridians were instantly rewritten. The fragile human pathways were replaced by iridescent, crystalline channels capable of handling Divine-level energy. He had successfully jumped from the Mortal Hardware to a God-Vessel Template.
Lakan rose from the floor of the well. The water didn't just part; it bowed. The extreme temperatures of the Ice and Fire springs, which could kill a Titled Douluo, now felt like nothing more than a lukewarm bath.
As he stepped onto the shore, the physical change took hold.
Lakan's short, masculine hair lost its solid color. It became a shifting, liquid Prismatic Gradient—at one moment deep crimson, the next icy blue, then shimmering gold. His eyes underwent the most terrifying change: a Double-Pupil effect. Within each eye, a gold pupil (Time) and a silver pupil (Space) orbited each other, surrounded by the rainbow-ringed iris of the Sarimanok.
On his forehead, the faint, glowing Baybayin character ᜊ (Ba) burned with a soft, obsidian-gold light. It was the mark of the Creator, the one who had synthesized the Many into the ONE.
His presence was no longer a pressure; it was a Reality. The Hingá ng Talas intent was now passive. The grass within a hundred yards of him didn't just grow—it sharpened, turning into blades of jade that could cut steel. The air itself hummed a low, terrifying Nirvana song.
The Transformation: The ONE Form
Dugu Bo, who had been guarding the perimeter, felt the change and rushed to the edge of the valley. He stopped dead, his knees hitting the dirt involuntarily.
"Sovereign...?" Dugu Bo's voice was a mere whisper.
Lakan turned his double-pupiled gaze toward the Poison Douluo. He didn't speak, but Dugu Bo felt as if his entire soul was being weighed against the sun. Lakan looked like a God who had just put on a human skin—a predator of the heavens who was simply visiting the earth.
"The core is stable," Lakan said, his voice now layered with the echoes of the Phoenix and the Sarimanok. He clenched his fist, and the spatial scars from his intent shattered the air like glass. "Level 73. And I've only just begun to breathe."
He felt his Soul Power. It felt more pure, many times purer than before, and stronger, heavier, with more intent.
Then lift his head and looked up, as if he can see the sky, they heavens, and savor the sensation, the feeling of this moment.
He took a deep breath and close his eyes' It's feels like, everything is how it should be, everything just feels...so right'
And as he Opened his eyes, he spoke the first words that came to his mind
" Above the Seven Realms and Beneath the Infinite Void—Throughout All of Creations, Only I Alone am.....The Only Phoenix"
The Only Phoenix! That's what he is feeling now. The feeling that he has become a 'unique' existence throughout the whole Universe.
Dugu Bo on the side watching all this in Awe, his eyes full of reverence and worship at the man before him.
Then after, Lakan sense something.
Lakan looked toward the horizon, his Future Peeking already showing him the ripples of his breakthrough reaching the ends of the continent. The 5-year clock was ticking, and the Sovereign was no longer a child playing at war. He is the War.