Chapter 34 The Sea-Stabilizing Pearl
Suddenly, the Heavenly Dao Space reappeared in Feng Zichen's sea of consciousness. His true spirit flew out from the Ziwei Palace, breaking through layers of space to reach the seventh layer of the Heavenly Dao Space.
Already on the verge of a breakthrough, he was aided by the Dragon Transformation Pool and no longer suppressed his cultivation. He broke through the seventh layer of the Heavenly Dao Space in one fell swoop, advancing to the late stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
In the Heavenly Dao Space, endless Dao runes flowed from his true spirit, imprinting themselves in all directions, forming a chain of Dao in the first seven layers of the Heavenly Dao Space.
On it, the Primordial Chaos Qi circulated, and the sun, moon, and stars appeared, evolving the myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth.
Silently, a purple star appeared above the true spirit's head, hanging down wisps of primordial energy that merged into the true spirit's body.
Instantly, the true spirit was enveloped in purple light, giving rise to various innate runes that emitted a supreme, extremely noble aura.
This is a projection of the Purple Star, sensing Feng Zichen's significant advancement in strength. It manifested itself in the Heavenly Dao Space to aid him in evolving his True Spirit and transforming into a Primordial God-Demon.
The God-Demon lineage does not cultivate the Primordial Spirit, but only seeks the immortality of the True Spirit, enduring through countless eons.
Compared to the Primordial Spirit, the True Spirit has far more uses, is more aligned with the Great Dao, easier to comprehend, faster in cultivation, and far greater in power.
However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. While the True Spirit offers many benefits, its drawbacks are also very obvious.
Before reaching the Golden Immortal realm, the True Spirit is fragile. In combat, a slight mishap can damage the True Spirit, severing the Great Dao.
When Feng Zichen refined his clone, if it weren't for the Primordial Dao Seal, which could manipulate the power of the Great Dao to split Yin and Yang, causing his True Spirit to divide in two, how could he dare refine a clone with half of his True Spirit? Wouldn't that be severing his own Great Dao?
After reaching the Golden Immortal realm, the True Spirit is immortal, eliminating the danger of severing the Dao. But even so, damage to the True Spirit remains extremely troublesome.
Only by attaining the Great Luo realm, with an immortal and indestructible true spirit, can one freely unleash one's power and display the might of the divine and demonic lineage.
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An unknown amount of time passed before Feng Zichen stabilized his realm and awoke from his meditation.
A flash of purple light appeared, and his Dao body was refined, transforming back into human form.
The form of a dragon's head, human body, and dragon's tail, though a body of the Great Dao, infinitely profound, was also a body of the Great Dao, and more suitable for Feng Zichen.
The bodies of the Great Dao have no strength or weakness, only suitability.
However, although the Azure Dragon bloodline was refined, it left behind a divine power—the Nine Heavens Dragon Roar. It was the supreme divine power unleashed by the illusory figure of the Ancestral Dragon before the Dragon Gate.
The greatest sound is silent, the greatest form is formless!
Wherever the dragon's roar reached, heaven and earth fell silent, all things were subdued, and all things were annihilated silently—truly a supreme divine power.
The divine power, like the Azure Dragon bloodline, merged into Feng Zichen's body, transforming into an innate divine power, saving him cultivation time—an unexpected delight.
Next, it was time to await the reward bestowed by the Ancestral Dragon.
Feng Zichen didn't have to wait long. Accompanied by a vast and boundless aura, twelve precious pearls appeared in the void, shimmering and emitting five-colored light.
"This is—the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl!"
In the primordial world, although there were many innate spiritual treasures of the pearl type, only a few sets existed. Therefore, Feng Zichen recognized its origin at a glance.
This item was a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, capable of capturing people and objects, and emitting five-colored light to dazzle the five senses of enemies.
At the beginning of the world, the four seas surged and churned, making the primordial world restless. The Heavenly Dao took thirty-six fragments of the Chaos Pearl to create thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls, their five-colored light heavy and oppressive, suppressing the four seas and calming the primordial world.
Afterwards, the thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls scattered into the four seas. Twenty-four were obtained by the Dao Ancestor, while the remaining twelve disappeared without a trace.
Unexpectedly, these twelve Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls were in the hands of the Ancestral Dragon. However, it is reasonable for the Ancestral Dragon to have this item in his possession, as he is the ruler of the four seas.
Ignoring why the item was in the Ancestral Dragon's hands, Feng Zichen stepped forward and placed the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls into the Chaos Pearl for it to devour. Although the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls weren't top-grade innate spiritual treasures, they were still high-grade, capable of restoring much of the Chaos Pearl's original essence.
Sure enough, after absorbing the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, the Chaos Pearl trembled for a moment, then generated two more innate divine restrictions.
After being absorbed, the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls left behind twelve clusters of innate essence, which Feng Zichen channeled into the Zichen Sword.
A shimmering divine light flashed, and the innate spiritual light on the Zichen Sword intensified, with thirty-two acquired divine restrictions flowing within the light, seemingly attempting to reverse the innate nature.
"At this rate, once the Chaos Pearl recovers to its innate supreme treasure state, the Zichen Sword will almost be able to reverse the innate nature and become an innate spiritual treasure!"
Gently stroking the Zichen Sword, Feng Zichen was somewhat excited.
He knew where the remaining twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls were!
After the Dao Ancestor became a saint, he placed this treasure on the Treasure Distribution Rock, where it was taken away by the Shangqing Daoist. Then, after the Shangqing Daoist became a saint, he bestowed this treasure upon his outer disciple, Zhao Gongming.
Currently, the Three Pure Ones have not yet attained sainthood, and this treasure remains in the hands of the Shangqing Daoist. Perhaps, once his avatar is born and he becomes his disciple, he can obtain it.
As for the tragic fate of the Jie Sect immortals during the Investiture of the Gods calamity, Feng Zichen is completely unconcerned.
The immediate priority is the Wu-Yao calamity; if this calamity is not overcome, all will be lost, and there will be no future.
Once this calamity is passed, the world is vast, and he can roam freely as he pleases. What is the mere Investiture of the Gods calamity compared to this?
After putting away the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, Feng Zichen did not leave. Instead, he sat cross-legged, chanting the Great Dao mantras and expounding the secrets of the acquired divine path.
"The Way is learned through the heart, and the heart transmits through incense. Incense burns in the jade censer, the heart dwells before the Emperor. True spirits look down, immortal banners descend. The ministers report, directly reaching the Nine Heavens..."
As Feng Zichen narrated, the power of heaven and earth descended, and countless runes danced in the sky, weaving a wondrous scene:
A divine statue stood in the temple, its radiance dazzling and its divine might awe-inspiring; around it, azure light swirled, depicting the myriad phenomena of the mortal world; below, countless spirits appeared, burning incense and praying before it, entrusting their best wishes.
This was the method of collecting incense and condensing an incarnation!
This method might be useless to other powerful beings of the primordial world, but for a sacred beast like the Ancestral Dragon, it was comparable to an unparalleled method.
Guarding the four extreme regions, unable to leave except during a great calamity, was no different from imprisonment.
Collecting incense and condensing an incarnation.
Using the true body to suppress the four extreme regions, while the incarnation roamed the primordial land, this was a method devised by the four sacred beasts when the acquired divine path arose in later generations.
Now, Feng Zichen is expounding on the acquired divine path within the Dragon Transformation Pool, imparting the method of condensing incense incarnations. The shock this has caused the Four Sacred Beasts is unimaginable.
Deep within space-time, in a space entirely formed from the Five Elements Dao, five ineffable consciousnesses gather together, silently watching Feng Zichen, mentally deducing the feasibility of incense incarnations.
Former mortal enemies, now reunited, their hatred has vanished, leaving only boundless melancholy.
The more they deduce, the more wondrous this method seems, as if it were tailor-made for them, and they can't help but laugh.
Seeing this, the Ancestral Dragon nods, lowers a divine thought, and falls into the Dragon Transformation Pool.
(End of Chapter)