Chapter 1 Becoming

Finally, it is done.

An Qisheng's self-sigh went unheard.

Even if someone had heard it, they wouldn't have been moved, because in the eyes of most people, he had appeared out of nowhere, reaching the pinnacle of cultivation in a few decades, his talent comparable to that of the ancient emperors.

But only An Qisheng himself understood that he was not some kind of natural genius, neither in his past life nor in this one, never.

This sigh was the culmination of two lifetimes, countless journeys through worlds, and countless long nights of cultivation, deduction, and enlightenment in his dreams.

Everyone marveled at his achievements, but who knew how much he had experienced in countless days and nights?

The bow was a supreme divine weapon, but this arrow was not.

The Vault of Heaven Sun-Piercing Bow didn't need a specially forged arrow at all. This arrow was the embodiment of the bow's principles and the culmination of countless years of accumulation by the archer.

And in An Qisheng's eyes, he could clearly see that this arrow contained nearly twenty thousand years of cultivation from that sacred spirit called Yang Shen!

His blood energy, divine power, primordial spirit, and mind—everything was in this arrow.

This was the price of drawing the bow.

And the enormous price brought the most terrifying power. Although the Grand Beginning Golden Bell wasn't fully revived, piercing its bell-wave patterns was beyond the reach of ordinary King-Sealing experts.

In other words, this arrow was enough to kill any expert in the Nine Provinces of the world, the cosmic star sea, who wasn't protected by a Supreme Treasure!

This was the most powerful arrow in the world!

Even An Qisheng at this moment, without the protection of the Grand Beginning Golden Bell, couldn't resist it, even with the bell's defense.

At this moment, the arrow shaft was halfway inside the golden bell. The tidal wave set off by the pure and ultimate power of slaughter caused the void to tremble and shake wildly.

Everything tangible and intangible in the void, along with the space it occupied, was annihilated by the ultimate power of slaughter!

Its power was terrifying.

Buzz buzz buzz~~~

At this moment, beneath the golden bell's illusory figure, the light was very bright.

In the eyes of many, the white-haired Daoist was like the starry sky, with 'stars' lighting up within his body, one after another.

Until the light converged, running through his palm.

Within that palm, Daoist principles flowed, laws intertwined, and it seemed as if stars twinkled, a desolate star sea!

Just a glance caused everyone's heart to feel incredibly heavy, as if they were about to be crushed to pieces!

"Grand Beginning Golden Bell!"

In the gale, an elder of the Grand Beginning Holy Land couldn't help but groan, his body trembling.

That Yuanyang Daoist had somehow extracted the power of the Grand Beginning Golden Bell to fight!

Even a Supreme couldn't be self-sufficient outside of heaven and earth, and Supreme Treasures needed to accumulate power to recover.

The existence of the Holy Land was to accelerate this process, providing power for the revival of the treasure.

But at this moment, he could feel that the power accumulated by the Grand Beginning Golden Bell for many years was flowing away at an astonishing rate!

That which was flowing away was the foundation of the entire Grand Beginning Holy Land!

How could he, and even the experts of the entire Grand Beginning Holy Land, not feel heartache?

But there was no way.

At this moment, even the two Marquis-Sealing experts closest to the clash were tens of thousands of miles away.

It was beyond their reach.

Crack crack crack~

Amidst the swirling, chaotic light, his fingers opened and closed, his palm raised, and even such a subtle movement caused cracks to appear in the void.

Strands of chaotic light twisted and swirled, Daoist patterns flowed, forming circle after circle of Taiji diagram phantoms, enveloping the source of that ultimate sharpness.

Buzz~

That arrow seemed to sense the power contained within the palm and began to bloom to its fullest extent.

The pure and ultimate power of slaughter collided and roared with the Grand Beginning Golden Bell's constantly surging principles, tearing apart large swaths of the void.

But An Qisheng remained like a divine mountain, allowing the endless power of slaughter to crash against him, yet remaining steadfast and immovable.

Even more, his body seemed to contain a black hole, devouring all the power of slaughter.

"What?!"

Across the boundless sea of stars, Yang Shen's expression suddenly changed, sensing the loss of power.

He naturally couldn't see what was happening on the battlefield beyond the distant sea of stars, but he could sense the power he had poured into the arrow.

It was dissipating!

"No, no..."

Yang Shen's heart palpitated, vaguely sensing something ominous.

For more than ten thousand years, he had hunted the sea of stars more than once, killing countless prodigies who could cultivate great magic when the heavens changed.

But he had never encountered such an abnormal thing.

This made him feel a great unease.

Finally, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and the blood energy and primordial spirit that had fallen to the bottom of the valley surged again. He used a secret technique, wanting to see for himself what was happening.

Whoosh whoosh~

Within the Star Sea True Form, Qian Mountain Cave, a group of 'prisoners' watched the stars in the Star Sea True Form extinguish one after another, their hair standing on end.

"Supreme aura?!"

The Supreme Elder of Myriad Dharma Tower groaned, his heart, which he thought was already numb from shock, was once again shaken.

How long had it been?

How long had it been!

That Yuanyang Daoist could actually withstand the Supreme Treasure?!

"Wuu wuu!"

Under Qian Mountain, a spirit beast with pure black fur, resembling a wolf and a dog, had its fur standing on end, its fluffy tail held high, sensing great terror.

"Roar~~~"

And if the others in Qian Mountain Cave felt shock, then Ao Guang, who was suppressed by the stars in the sea of stars, was terrified!

Ao Guang was extremely terrified!

Under the surging of an aura of slaughter that was imperceptible and irresistible, his proud dragon body, which was the most powerful in the Nine Provinces and Four Seas,

was disintegrating!

What unbreakable dragon scales, what extremely powerful dragon bones, all became a joke!

"No!"

Star Sea dragon blood rained down like a waterfall. Ao Guang, who was enraged to the extreme by terror, desperately burned the foundation he had accumulated for thousands of years.

He even squeezed out his potential for advancing to Tongtian.

He provided a more powerful suppressing force for this Star Sea True Form, counterattacking the rolling, seemingly endless aura of slaughter.

Crack!

And in the outside world, in the void beneath the Grand Beginning Golden Bell, An Qisheng's palm finally crossed this seemingly short but actually long void.

Under the protection of the Grand Beginning Golden Bell's principles, his five fingers closed, holding that extremely fierce arrow of slaughter in his palm!

Rumble!

A shocking collision exploded in the void, like billions of primordial beasts galloping and trampling the void, striking the inner wall of the Grand Beginning Golden Bell with unparalleled force.

Dang!!!

A bell sound ten times louder and more terrifying than any previous one exploded!

In an instant, heaven and earth seemed to cease to exist.

Above the Grand Beginning Holy Mountain, the formation left behind by the Grand Beginning Supreme completely revived and unfolded, enveloping the Floating Heavenly Palace and even the entire Grand Beginning Holy Land.

And in the sky above, the people who had been struck by the previous shockwave all seemed to have lost their minds under the terrifying bell waves.

They fell from the sky.

Even though they were tens of thousands of miles away from the collision site, and had been frantically fleeing before the collision, it was of no use!

And it wasn't just them.

Even other sects and holy lands that were spying on this place through some means were in chaos.

The bell waves followed like a shadow, and with a single explosion, they destroyed countless formations and restrictions. Everyone was shocked into blankness by this bell sound!

Those who flew fell, and those who soared fell into the mud!

Before the Supreme, no one could fly!

"What, what is he doing?"

The two Marquis-Sealing elders also fell from the sky in the bell waves, but they didn't faint. After a moment of confusion, they refocused to watch the battle.

At this moment, among everyone present, only they could see what was happening!

But this one look filled their hearts with coldness.

It was an extremely bloody scene!

That Yuanyang Daoist had already 'broken into pieces' the moment he grasped the arrow of slaughter!

In the mortal world, there was the cruel punishment of slow slicing, but the scene happening to Yuanyang Daoist at this moment was ten times, a hundred times more terrifying than slow slicing!

His muscles, bones, skin, flesh, and internal organs were all stripped away and destroyed by the extremely fierce aura of slaughter at this moment!

In an instant, not even a shred of flesh remained!

No!

His palm was still holding the divine arrow, stimulating it to unleash even more terrifying power!

"He, is he dead?!"

The short elder was dazed for a moment. The impact of this scene was too great, making him a little unaccustomed.

"No!"

But he realized something was wrong in an instant.

With the strength of his physical body, if he had died, he would have felt an extremely strong aura of death at this moment, but at this moment, he didn't feel a trace of death aura at all.

Instead, he felt an incomparably vigorous and flourishing vitality!

Moreover, in that void filled with slaughter, the three flowers carried by the five-colored divine light that crisscrossed were becoming more and more vivid.

It seemed as if they were about to bloom completely.

There was not a trace of damage in that extremely fierce aura of slaughter!

It seemed that his disintegration was to protect the divine light and the three flowers!

Or perhaps, the shattering of his body was to nourish these three flowers.

"He wants to be reborn?!"

The burly elder's divine intent shook, and he saw the clue, with shock, disbelief, and also a hint of awe:

"He, is he casting a divine body?!"

He was shocked.

Although it was said that any realm in the nine realms of cultivation could lead to Tongtian, who would have thought that in the development of cultivation to this day, this Yuanyang Daoist had not cast a divine body?!

With such a powerful cultivation base, what kind of powerful divine body could he cast?

And what made him feel awe was that

Yuanyang Daoist was actually using the collision of two Supreme Treasures, in the most terrifying environment, with the most decisive posture, to cast a divine body!

How crazy was this?

Was he not afraid of death?

The two elders looked at each other in mid-air, and finally felt fear in their hearts.

If such a person was an enemy...

Whoosh whoosh~

The golden bell trembled, constantly humming under the impact of those terrifying auras of slaughter.

The bell sound spread outward, and also exploded inside the bell!

The collision of two Supreme Treasures, even if not in their ultimate state, even if the vast majority of their ferocity was consumed in the collision, was enough to destroy anyone and anything in the world!

Naturally, this also included An Qisheng at this moment.

Since coming to this world, his path had always been clear: to use the myriad methods of cultivation in this world as nourishment to cast his own most perfect body flower.

In thirty years, he had tried to cast a divine body more than once, but ultimately, he couldn't achieve satisfaction.

Delicious food, fine wine, beautiful women, power, wealth—having them was fine, not having them was also fine. Only cultivation did he take seriously.

So seriously that he wouldn't allow any omissions or imperfections.

For survival, everything could be compromised, but for the Dao,

it could not be compromised!

He had foreseen this scene, but the future was uncertain, and he wouldn't believe that his deduction and perception would definitely succeed.

But he still did it!

Dang~~~

One bell sound after another echoed in An Qisheng's soul.

Breaking was not disappearing.

Blood and flesh were not the most subtle components of a person.

The Supreme Treasure was incomparably powerful, but without its true master, at this time when it hadn't fully recovered, it couldn't completely destroy him from the particle level.

And at this moment, An Qisheng truly felt what 'spirit and flesh united' meant.

In the subtle places of the void that neither the naked eye nor even the primordial spirit could see, An Qisheng's soul was sublimating among countless tiny particles.

Mu Longcheng created the 'Myriad Dharma Four Tribulations Heart Saint Method,' which could be traced back to the most subtle parts of a person to begin cultivation, carving particles to strengthen the body.

But he couldn't have imagined that An Qisheng could cultivate this 'Myriad Dharma Four Tribulations Heart Saint Method' to such a high level.

What flesh regeneration, rebirth from a drop of blood, or tens of thousands of clones couldn't describe An Qisheng's state at this moment.

Imprinting his own soul in every 'particle' that made up his body, the pictures and information he simultaneously perceived were more than just Jingzhao?

Only at this moment did An Qisheng's divine intent, honed across several realms, reveal its true color.

Without a powerful soul, how could he have achieved this step?

A glimmer of light arose in the soul.

What he wanted to cultivate was not any kind of divine body.

The composition of all divine bodies was bloodline, physique, and the operation and changes of 'particles.'

In other words, controlling the operation of 'particles' meant that he could cultivate all the divine bodies and all the saint bodies in the world!

Buddha and demon in one body? Possible!

Daoism and Confucianism as one? Possible!

Cultivating myriad methods simultaneously? Also possible!

Only by encompassing all things could one attain the Dao. The Dao could be found in one, and it could also be sought in myriad things!

"Flesh regeneration, rebirth from a drop of blood—let's call this step Thousand Transformations..."

A soft sigh drifted through this terrifying void doubly shaken by the endless aura of slaughter and the bell sounds.

In the next instant, countless tiny glimmers of light flickered in various parts of this void.

Those glimmers were extremely small and subtle, but after they appeared, they seemed to be drawing on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to grow.

Buzz~

Above the five-colored interwoven light, the three flowers surrounded by clear light instantly fell, enveloped by the endless faint light.

Bones, internal organs, flesh, skin, and facial features appeared one after another.

In the blink of an eye, under the shocked gazes of the two Marquis-Sealing elders, An Qisheng's body had been completely reconstructed!

Even his Daoist robe, which had been turned to powder, reappeared, its color was blue, with black and white Taiji patterns on it.

Compared to before, it was smooth and new, draped over his body.

Crack!

The void issued the sound of a mirror breaking. In the surging divine light, the arrow that An Qisheng held in his palm, containing nearly twenty thousand years of accumulation from a King-Sealing expert,

at this moment, stirred up a deep wave of will:

"You, you didn't die?!"

At this moment, Yang Shen finally saw the face of the person spying on him, and was even more surprised that this white-haired Daoist had not died!

Even more, he had received the divine arrow he had shot!

"Sending goose feathers from a thousand miles away—a small gift, but with great meaning. This gift of yours, this poor Daoist likes it very much..."

Along with his voice, there was a 'crack' sound.

That divine arrow was completely snapped by him!

An Qisheng's eyes were bright, as if looking into the distant sea of stars:

"My return gift,

you will also definitely,

like it..."