Chapter 10 Battlefield of the Three Races
Ao Xue rolled her eyes at Feng Zichen and said, "Yes! Innate gods and demons are born with the Dao language. Why don't you just become an innate god or demon?"
Innate gods and demons are manifestations of the Great Dao; their form is the appearance of the Dao, and their language is the language of the Dao. Feng Zichen isn't even an innate being, let alone an innate god or demon, who is even higher than an innate being.
With an awkward smile, Feng Zichen was about to say something when suddenly, the valley, which had been designated a forbidden area by Suirenshi, underwent another change.
The fierce and sacred energy that had been locked in battle for many years finally decided its victor.
Rays of pure and holy light shone out in all directions, forming auspicious clouds in the air. The fierce energy that had perpetually shrouded the valley was replaced by auspicious energy, revealing the sacred scenery within. Auspicious energy swirled within the deep valley, filling it with orchids, jade trees, rare flowers, exotic herbs, tall bamboos and pines, blooming year-round.
At the same time, beams of innate spiritual light shot out from the deep valley, forming phantom images of hundreds of beasts in the air, roaring incessantly towards the heavens.
Sensing this aura, Feng Zichen and Ao Xue's divine beast energy surged.
"This is..."
The two exchanged a glance and simultaneously headed towards the deep valley.
Ao Xue moved, accompanied by clouds and mist, displaying the Thirty-Six Transformations of the Heavenly Gang—Riding the Clouds and Mist.
Feng Zichen's figure flashed, transforming into a golden light and soaring away, displaying the Thirty-Six Transformations of the Heavenly Gang—Golden Light Across the Earth.
When the two arrived at the deep valley, many human experts had already arrived and were observing from outside.
Without lingering, the two rushed straight into the valley, only to be stopped by Suirenshi, who had arrived there. Suirenshi was one of the three Taiyi Golden Immortals of the human race. Ao Xue was only a newly entered Celestial Immortal, and Feng Zichen was only at the peak of the Innate Realm.
Suirenshi could easily subdue them. "Nonsense! You don't even know what's going on in the valley, yet you rush in. What if you encounter danger?" Suirenshi scolded them after stopping them.
Feng Zichen obediently admitted his mistake, but Ao Xue was somewhat unconvinced and wanted to argue. However, after Feng Zichen quietly tugged at her a few times, she muttered a few words and then fell silent.
"Roar!"
From the deep valley, a dragon shadow flew out, unleashing a world-shaking dragon roar that made those on the outer edge of the valley dizzy and fall from the sky.
As if sensing the aura of the ancestral dragon, the dragon shadow flashed and brought Ao Xue into the valley. The surrounding human experts were shocked to see this, fearing that if something happened to Ao Xue, the dragon race would take its anger out on the humans. Ignoring the danger, they chased after them into the valley. With
Ao Xue captured, Feng Zichen was anxious. Countless merits surged from his body, forming auspicious clouds above his head. Five elements also flew out, forming a five-colored canopy beneath the auspicious clouds, hanging down with the five elements' energy to protect Feng Zichen.
With his defenses in place, Feng Zichen transformed into golden light and entered the valley.
Seeing Feng Zichen enter, Suirenshi wanted to follow, but was stopped by those around him. Suirenshi was the patriarch of the human race; how could he allow him to risk his life?
"Patriarch, don't worry," Youyushi advised from the side, "Zichenshi is protected by the aura of merit; ordinary Taiyi Golden Immortals can't break through his defenses."
Actually, out of consideration for Suirenshi's feelings, he didn't say another thing: "Those you can defeat can't break his defenses, and those who can break his defenses are beyond your ability to defeat."
Suirenshi thought this made sense and waited outside the valley.
From the outside, the valley appeared to be only a thousand miles wide, but upon entering, it became apparent that the area was vast, easily exceeding a million miles.
The air was filled with fragrance and rich spiritual energy, and spiritual herbs were everywhere. If it weren't for the corpses scattered across the ground, it could be considered a top-tier blessed land.
Upon entering, Feng Zichen was not attracted by the abundant spiritual herbs, but by the corpse of a phoenix. The phoenix lay on the ground like a giant mountain, with a huge claw mark on its body. Even after countless millennia, the wound remained as fresh as ever, as if still dripping with blood, the surrounding spiritual herbs having been born from its blood.
The phoenix lay there quietly, a radiant light shining from its body, proclaiming its status as a primordial being. Judging from the immortal aura emanating from the light, it had at least reached the Golden Immortal realm in its lifetime.
He picked a spiritual herb, examined it closely, and shook his head. This herb was ruined; its surface radiated spiritual light, but its interior was filled with malevolent energy. Consuming it rashly would, at best, cause the malevolent energy to entangle him, destroying his foundation.
At worst, it would invade his true spirit, stripping him of his intelligence, turning him into a ferocious beast hated by heaven and earth, like the Qilin he had encountered in his youth.
After examining all the spiritual herbs, Feng Zichen found them all corroded by malevolent energy. He sighed regretfully and decided to leave.
As for the phoenix's corpse, he dared not even consider it. Even though the phoenix had been dead for many years, the aura it emitted could still kill him.
Feng Zichen was only able to approach the phoenix's corpse because of his abundant merit.
Just as he turned to leave, the Hongmeng Dao Seal suddenly flew out from the divine embryo, hovering in the air and bursting forth with a ten-thousand-foot-long purple light, enveloping the phoenix's corpse.
Within the purple light, the phoenix's corpse suddenly rose and let out a long cry, transforming into a ball of crimson innate energy, which moved within the purple light, carrying innate spiritual light.
Seeing this, the light emitted by the Hongmeng Dao Seal intensified, and the crimson innate energy diminished, finally transforming into countless innate runes that merged into the innate spiritual light.
With a flash of light, the spiritual light transformed into a crimson-gold ray of light covered with runes, which, guided by the Hongmeng Dao Seal, fell into the divine embryo. As
The crimson light entered the divine embryo, fifty more acupoints within Feng Zichen's body were illuminated, attracting starlight to fall and illuminate the divine embryo. Instantly, the true fire within Feng Zichen's divine embryo intensified, a large amount of yin energy was refined, and he took another step closer to becoming a yang god.
For the past thirty years, Feng Zichen has cultivated diligently every day. Not long ago, he lit up 108 acupoints, drawing down the light of the Purple Star to form the Purple Palace in his sea of consciousness. Afterwards, the starlight entered the divine embryo, which advanced further, ascending into the Purple Palace.
The divine embryo grew stronger, undergoing further changes, its spiritual light advancing even further, igniting the Pure Yang True Fire. The Yin Spirit, baptized by the Pure Yang True Fire, had its yin energy refined, becoming more solid.
The lighting of 108 acupoints signifies that the divine embryo has reached perfection. Under the tempering of the True Fire, in five hundred years, the Yin Spirit will automatically transform into a Yang Spirit, breaking through the divine embryo.
Continuing to light up acupoints will make the True Fire even more vigorous, accelerating the transformation of the Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit. When all 365 acupoints are lit simultaneously, the Yang Spirit will be formed instantly.
Now, with the crimson light entering his body, Feng Zichen has opened another fifty acupoints. The True Fire is even stronger, greatly shortening the time for the Yang Spirit to be born.
The Hongmeng Dao Seal landed on the Yin God's brow the instant the divine embryo entered the Ziwei Palace. Thirty-six divine restrictions opened, allowing Feng Zichen to refine it, making it his innate spiritual treasure.
From then on, Feng Zichen no longer needed to use merit energy to activate the Hongmeng Dao Seal.
Meanwhile, the crimson light entering the divine embryo transformed into a crimson Dao Seal on the Yin God's brow, and a pure fire element energy emanated from Feng Zichen's body.
With this energy's assistance, the Vermilion Bird phantom instantly solidified, its power increasing dramatically. Isn't the phrase
"Spiritual light ignites true fire, divine embryo enters Ziwei"
a bit awkward?
(End of Chapter)