Lin Ming Cultivation - Divine Realm

## **Mortal World Cultivation**

**(Divine Realm)**

Lin Ming’s third grade martial talent could be considered as a high-class existence. If one were to be boastful, one could claim that he is the cream of the crop. However, even with his martial talent, it would still be difficult for him to enter the even Profound Martial House.

 Lin Ming had been practicing the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’, reaching the beginning stage. He had also been learning and practicing inscription skills coming from the memories of a senior cultivator absorbed by the magic cube.
Lin Ming cultivated in his room in the Great Clarity Pavilion and refined and absorbed the Golden Deer pill and Soul Gathering pellet.

 Lin Ming has been accepted as a disciple of the Seven Profound Martial House. His goal is use the resources of the Seven Profound Martial House in order to increase his cultivation. In order to support his cultivation training,
Lin Ming learned and practiced the inscription techniques. Lin Ming cultivated by refining the Golden Snake Scarlet Pill which he enhanced by inscribing a ‘Lower Spirit Cure Symbol’ on it.
In the Third Stage of Body Training, true essence would temper the organs and protect them. One’s fighting capacity would increase, and not only that, but a martial artist’s internal organs would be moistened by true essence. The heart and lungs would be strong, and blood and vitality would be rich. Breaths would be long, and endurance would greatly increase. With the muscles under the irrigation of such rich blood, one’s strength would also gradually increase!

Large Success
 Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhu Yan.
Hong Xi, an instructor of the Seven Profound Martial House, taught Lin Ming spear skills.
Day after day, Lin Ming went to spend his mornings tempering his body at the Icy Pond Waterfall. He set the difficulty to the ninth level to push his body to the limit, so that he could experience his ethereal martial intent. During the afternoon he would spend his time training his spear, and in the evening he would train the ‘Flow like Silk’ boundary, and cultivate his ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’.
Lin Ming’s ethereal martial intent was becoming increasingly stable. To enter it at first, he would push his body to the limit, and then by supporting himself with the high-level Soul Gathering Pellet and true essence stones, he could slowly enter the ethereal martial ethereal martial intent state.
After cultivating in the ethereal martial intent state for a long time, Lin Ming’s ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’ had finally entered the second-level. His true essence became even thicker, and his strength and speed also increased.
He cultivated by refining the Crimson Gold Dragon Marrow Pill which he enhanced by inscribing a ‘Lower Spirit Cure Symbol’ on it.

 Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhang Guanyu, #3 in the Ten Thousand Killing Array ranking. He cultivated the 'Golden Roc Shattering the Void' and practiced the ‘Heretical God Force’ and ‘Pulse Cutting Palm’. He had also drew up and applied a body inscription symbol. The ‘Essence Gathering Symbol’ was placed on the chest, and could enhance the speed at which true essence was gathered, thus increasing a martial artist’s cultivation rate.
Because of the presence of the Essence Gathering Symbol’, Lin Ming was able to more easily absorb the strength of the world, and the speed at which he gathered true essence had day after day, Lin Ming would go to the Icy Pond Waterfall to cultivate the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’. He was able to sit within the tenth level of difficulty in the Ice Pond Waterfall for 4 to 5 hours at a time.
Under the dual abilities of the ‘Essence Gathering Symbol’ and his ethereal martial intent state, Lin Ming’s cultivation speed experienced a tremendous leap forwards.
In addition to the top heart mantra of the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’, Lin Ming’s true essence had been polished to a rich and pure state. In the past, because he had taken the top-tier pills, there had been some impurities within his true essence. But, those pills had already been completely refined by Lin Ming.

While in the Sorcerer's Pagoda and upon reaching the 4th level, the Sorcerer's Pagoda assessed Lin Mng to have a talent rank of low-grade Heaven-step. He was first one in the last 800 years to appear in the Southern Wilderness with a Heavenstep talent.
Passing the 1st Trial, the blood demons melted into invisible energies that floated into Lin Ming’s body, nourishing the blood in his body. The energy supplemented the strength of vitality within Lin Ming's blood. With powerful vitality, one would be able to contain more true essence, and one’s endurance would also increase. It would even be easier to recover from a serious injury. When one’s vitality reached the limit, even dismembered limbs could be reborn from nothing, the body would simply be immutable.
Passing the 2nd Trial, the vanquished ghosts turned into crystal lights of pure soul energy which streamed into Lin Ming’s body, increasing the power of his soul force.
Passing the 3rd Trial, the vanquished beasts transformed into energy that seeped into his body, subtly changing him; his tendons became tougher, and his muscles became more solid and robust. The energy enhanced the strength of his body.
Passing the 4th Trial, the Witch Slave's corpse dissolved, turning into a green energy that poured into Lin Ming’s body. The green energy had fused into his skeleton. His skeleton had become denser, and his muscles had become tougher. Lin Ming's physical defense had experienced a crazy increase in power.
Passing the 5th Trial, the human martial artists transformed into extremely pure and potent heaven and earth origin energy which enhanced his true essence.

Lin Ming countered this attack and in the process comprehended several concepts of the Laws of Wind and Vibration.
“So that’s how it is. When the vibration frequency is the same, but the direction is completely opposite, then the two
vibrations will cancel each other out without a trace left…”
“On the other hand, if the vibration frequencies are the same, and the direction is also the same, then the vibrations will superimpose upon each other, and become stronger…”
Lin Ming’s heart was speaking to itself. The vibrating true essence within his body began to shake as it started to split up, differentiating from each other. In that moment every vibrating true essence filament divided into two; 5000 filaments turned into 10,000!
At this time, there seemed to be thunder flashing within his pupils!
In those trivial 10 breaths’ time of sudden enlightenment, Lin Ming’s soul force had soared to another level, and his true essence had substantially grown. His peak Bone Forging cultivation began to completely overflow! It started to independently flow into his own meridians!
Lin Ming’s meridians had long ago linked up by luck when he had absorbed the Purple Flood Dragon Divine Thunder. It was only because of Mu Qianyu’s warning that had given Lin Ming pause.
The reason that Lin Ming had connected his meridians was because he had used the power of thunder, and was by no means through his own true essence. If he had broken through to the Pulse Condensation Period because of that, then his foundation would have been shaky.
Therefore Lin Ming decided not to forcefully breakthrough, but instead wait until his Bone Forging true essence accumulated to the point where it would naturally overflow. When this happened, that true essence would spontaneously flow into his meridians and create the most solid of foundations.
Because he had been forcefully suppressing his true essence so that it didn’t flow into his meridians, everyone, including Qin Ziya, hadn’t noticed that Lin Ming’s meridians had already linked up.
Now that his true essence was finally overflowing, all Lin Ming had to do was sit in meditation for an evening and consolidate his cultivation. At that point, he would officially enter into the earlyPulse Condensation Period! (Ch 276)
Lin Ming, however, decided to make his breakthrough just after his match with Qin Wuxin after realizing that the inspirations
he received from this match were fleeting.

From the Church leader he acquired the Eternal Flame Essence, an Earthcore Crimson Flame. This flame Lin Ming
absorbed and assimilated into his Flame Essence.

After Lin Ming defeated and crippled Lei Mubai, Lin Ming exposed Lei Mubai as a descendant of the Netherworld Emperor and as the Saint Son of the South Sea Demon Region! He was the future leader of the South Sea Demon Region!
Lin Ming was able to acquire from Lei Mubai the thunder soul. He absorbed into his Heretical God Seed. As a result, Lin Ming’s meridians had linked up once more and the tenacity of his meridians had increased by another great margin.
Lin Ming’s cultivation had already approached the peak Pulse Condensation period. At the banquet competition, his cultivation had consolidated once again, and in addition reached the peak Pulse Condensation period.

In other words, Tempering Marrow and Pulse Condensation were belonged to two completely different cultivation systems.
Tempering Marrow belonged to the Realm of the Gods’ Body Transformation cultivation method.
As for the Pulse Condensation, Houtian, Xiantian, and Revolving Core realms, those belonged to the essence gathering cultivation system.
When a martial artist went from Strength Training to Flesh Training to Viscera Training to Altering Muscle and finally to Bone Forging, the true essence of one’s body permeated deeper within, becoming more and more thorough. Afterwards, once true essence penetrated the marrow, that was Tempering Marrow.
Otherwise, true essence would flood through the body’s meridians – this was called the Pulse Condensation period.
After Pulse Condensation, true essence would converge within the dantian by following along the meridians, and one would enter Houtian, Xiantian. Then, when that true essence became a core within the dantian, that would be the Revolving Core realm.
That is, the Tempering Marrow boundary ran parallel to the Pulse Condensation period.
Tempering Marrow laid the foundation for one to enter the Eight Inner Hidden Gates; this was Body Transformation.
But, once Pulse Condensation true essence penetrated through the meridians and converged into the dantian, this was laying the foundation for the essence gathering system.
However, reaching Pulse Condensation was easy, whereas Tempering Marrow was incomparably difficult. That was why normally one would reach the Pulse Condensation period first and then go onwards to the Tempering Marrow boundary.
He followed the methods and principles found within the Tempering Marrow portion of the ‘Chaotic Virtues Combat Meridians’ in order to forcefully control the medicinal efficacy and slowly penetrate it into the bone, bit by bit.

Lin Ming cultivated in a room inside the eight trigrams fire array of Ancestor Chi Yan with Mu Qianyu. He absorbed and refined the Heaven Opening Pill together with the Body Spiritual Ichor given to him by Mu Qianyu.
With a sound that was like firewood crackling in flames, Lin Ming grit his teeth and began to revolve the ‘Chaotic Virtues Combat Meridians’. The manic energy burned through the impurities of his marrow. This painful ache as if one’s bones were being set on fire could be imagined.
Lin Ming was supporting himself with his will alone. Once the energy had been swallowed into his body, it could only be refined; failure meant immediate death!
With the advancement of the tempering, a blackish-red color began to appear on Lin Ming’s body, and a violent energy surged everywhere in his body. Lin Ming’s body quickly heated to a scalding temperature, and blood seeped out from his pores, covering him in a shell of red blood, seeming as if it would tear like broken paper at the slightest touch.
From the outside, he didn’t appear any different than a corpse that was charred in afire; there wasn’t even blood. But throughout Lin Ming’s entire body, the marrow was slowly coated in a pale gold color…
Energy tempering marrow!
The moment that Lin Ming’s blood had run dry, he had been surprised to find that the tempering marrow process became much easier!
Because his blood was exhausted, the unforgettable pain had numbed his entire body. At this point where it was nearly impossible for him to direct the flow of true essence in his body, he found that the energy that tempered his marrows proceeded at a much smoother pace!
Then, he realized that blood and marrow were originally intertwined. Marrow gave birth to blood, and blood fed the marrow, both of them dependent on each other.
Thus, if one wanted to temper marrow, they had to change their blood first!
It was only when the old blood was drained away, the marrow was tempered, and new blood regenerated, would it be the complete Tempering Marrow process.
Therefore, Lin Ming no longer tried to stop his body’s old blood from leaking, letting it cleanly
Un
maintain the fire of his life.
As the eastern sky brightened in the dawn, the golden color of Lin Ming’s marrow became increasingly rich, as if golden flakes were mixed within.
Marrow like golden soup!
At the moment that Lin Ming finished absorbing the medicinal efficacy of the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal, his new and improved marrow began to regenerate blood.
With the rapid consumption of the origin energy within Lin Ming’s body, new blood flowed unceasingly from his marrow.
This new blood was incomparably thick and heavy, just like red mercury flowing in his blood vessels. Wherever this blood went, the wounds would rapidly heal.
The recovery of Lin Ming’s body and the production of new blood rapidly consumed Lin Ming’s true essence. Although Lin Ming’s true essence was extremely thick, over half of it was still used.
However, after the true essence had been consumed to a certain point, the compressed true essence in the Heretical God Seed automatically released itself. The energy of the Purple Flood Dragon Divine Thunder and the Earth core Crimson Flame were also released along with it. The power of thunder and fire, especially the power of thunder, contained an extremely raw and vibrant force of life.
Legends said that in the most ancient of times, when the infinite universe was in primal chaos, there was no life. It was only when thunder struck the ancient sea were the most primitive of life forms born.
With the raw and lively power of thunder helping to complete the final Tempering Marrow process, a faint purple light appeared in the thick, new blood, as if lightning had fused into the blood.
Lin Ming’s body underwent many subtle changes. But, from all appearances, the fire of Lin Ming’s life still seemed incomparably weak. His true essence had hidden within the Heretical God Seed – aside from Lin Ming himself, no one else could feel this.

He practiced inscription to increase the medicinal efficacy of medicinal pills, absorbed medicinal pills, refining true essence tones and meditating.
After the increase in power from the medicinal inscription symbol, the effects of the Heaven Opening Pill were much better. Lin Ming used this Heaven Opening Pill to temper his left arm.
This time, Lin Ming didn’t even absorb the tiniest bit of origin energy to enhance his cultivation. There were still many pill toxins in his body. If he hastily increased his cultivation like this, it would only harm him.
After several days of meditation, his marrow had completely absorbed the medicinal efficacy.
Now, Lin Ming began to immediately draw the second medicinal inscription symbol. After he inscribed the second Heaven Opening Pill, he then swallowed it down.
This similar stinging sensation came back, but much lighter than it was before. Lin Ming used a continuous quarter of an
hour before he finally controlled the medicinal efficacy and began to temper his right foot.
After two days, the second Heaven Opening Pill was finally absorbed; this was much faster than the first time.
From the 18 Heaven Opening Pills that he had obtained from the treasure storehouse along with the two he had obtained
earlier, Lin Ming had collected a total of 20 Heaven Opening Pills. However, after eating all of these, Lin Ming had only completed 10% of Tempering Marrow. With the part of the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that he had swallowed before,

(Ch 400) The stone spirit explained: “The Ancient Phoenix Main Hall is the training grounds of the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s army. Altogether, there are a total of three levels. The king level, general level, and sergeant level. Your companions that followed you in and participated are currently in the sergeant level smelting trial. As for you, you are chosen for the general level smelting trial!”
(Ch 403) As Lin Ming drank the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal, his entire body began to burn with a scalding heat. In his mind, the scene of the Netherworld Great Emperor fighting against countless demons appeared once more. But this time, Lin Ming wasn’t lost in the immersive dream like before. He quickly broke through the illusion, manipulating the energy of the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal, and began the process of tempering his marrow!
(Ch 404) Lin Ming forcefully used the tempering marrow method found within the ‘Chaotic Virtues Combat Meridians’ and urged the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal energy to enter his skeleton a bit at a time. The energy was thick and heavy like mercury, and also extremely pervasive. Even though Lin Ming’s bones were extremely dense, the energy easily penetrated through.
As the energy entered the marrow, Lin Ming could hear ‘*chi chi chi*’ sounds coming from his bones. This was the energy burning his marrow, slowly refining it and changing its very nature.
(Ch 405) Lin Ming kept vomiting blood until the entire ground was covered in blood. It was quite a disturbing sight. Finally, it ended, and Lin Ming wiped his mouth. He looked within himself and found that the blood within his blood vessels was extremely bright red, and thick like mercury.
Marrow and blood were inextricably linked. Marrow produced blood, and blood rejuvenated the marrow. In order to temper one’s marrow, one needed to create new blood.
Lin Ming has already undergone and fought in the trial for 6 months now. In between battles, he would cultivate. meditate and practice his techniques and skills. He also continuously ingested and refined Demon Heart Crystals.

Upon the advice of Demonshine, Lin Ming boiled in spring water the Nirvana Dragon Root using the Cosmic Melting Furnace until it formed into a golden juice which flew out of the furnace and formed into a big blob. Lin Ming flew into this blob.
This medicinal juice brewed with a Nirvana Dragon Root that was tens of thousands of years old held an incomparably pure energy. The energy filtered through Lin Ming’s bones, entering into his marrow where it constantly accumulated.
Within the golden juice, Lin Ming stretched out, relaxing all his limbs. He took great gulps of the golden fluid, swallowing as much as he could.
After this golden fluid had filled all of Lin Ming’s meridians, it began to discharge from his pores. The energy continued to accumulate.
As Lin Ming used the law formula of the ‘Chaotic Virtues Combat Meridians’ to control the energy for tempering, he felt the aching pain grow increasingly strong and vibrant. Lin Ming felt like his body was becoming a balloon that was filled to the brim with energy, about to pop open at any moment.
The raging energy crashed through his meridians.
“Boy, hurry up and seal your pores. Concentrate the excess energy into your spear and release it through your moves. It will help you complete Tempering Marrow,” Demonshine said.
Lin Mingflicked his right hand. The Purple Comet Spear appeared and he displayed the moves of the ‘Great Desolate Halberd Art’. As the Purple Comet Spear thrust through the golden juice, every swing was met with great resistance. With every spear move, Lin Ming’s bones issues out sounds like crackling thunder. Strips of his yellow bone marrow became bright red, and from that bright red they began to shift to a golden hue.
More and more golden strips appeared, until all of his marrow became a deep shining gold.
As every spear move struck out, the rich golden juice was cut apart by the Purple Comet Spear. His true essence shot out like a sharpened blade.
The energy that filled his body was contained within by his sealed pores. As his spear moves used up the excess energy and he absorbed the rest, his pores opened once again, wantonly absorbing energy from the golden juice. As time passed, the golden juice became increasingly pale, and over half of it had already disappeared.
Energy had entered into his spinal cord! The spinal cord and bone marrow were different. The spinal cord was a center of nerves. It was extremely fragile and fragmented. If the spinal cord could not be tempered, then the spine would become the weakness of the body, simply unable to bear the immense pressure.
Tempering the spine was the final step of Tempering Marrow. And, it was also the most difficult.
Lin Ming didn’t know how many times he had displayed the ‘Great Desolate Halberd Art’. He continued until the sphere of liquid became completely clear, and all of the golden juice had been absorbed.
But, at the moment that the golden juice was completely absorbed, the scattered true essence in Lin Ming’s dantian began to spontaneously condense into a twisting vortex, slowly spinning around. He had entered into the Xiantian realm!
After Tempering Marrow reached 100%, it could be said that Lin Ming had been reborn. His skin was more delicate, and his fine muscles were toned and symmetrical. Lin Ming was now an absurdly handsome young man, his body containing both auras of strength and a soft beauty. It was as if he were an exquisite masterpiece that had been sculpted by hand.
Lin Ming’s appearance also became more mature. His original sharp aura converged together. If one didn’t pay careful attention, it would be difficult to sense this.
This current Lin Ming gave a feeling like a gentle breeze; it had a hint of returning to his original state.

A martial artist that cultivated the essence gathering system had true essence circulate through their meridians and dantian. It was a system separate from the mortal body, linking the body’s 360 acupoints with heaven and earth origin energy.
But, when body transformation reached the realm of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, it used heaven and earth origin energy to temper the human body.
 (Ch 986) After opening the Gate of Opening, the potential of your mind will develop further, and at the same time more of the power hidden within the Gate of Pain will be released. Your physical strength will double!”
 (Ch 1088) the Gate of Life and the Gate of Death. Those two gates were called the true tests of life or death. Although they belonged to the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, they were actually equal to half a large boundary each. If one wished to rush through the Gates of Life and Death, that wasn’t something that was able to be accomplished overnight.
In the Celestial Tyrant Manual, it was written that if one wished to attack the Gates of Life and Death, there needed to be two kinds of pills. To attack the Gate of Life, one required the Esoteric Immortality Pill, and to attack the Gate of Death, one required the Esoteric Mortality Pill.

After opening this door, not only would his power greatly rise, but his restorative ability and physical strength would greatly increase.
(Ch 591) Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.
While in the King's Cage, Lin Ming's was constantly under the pressure of the Heavenly Demon martial intent energy field while he used up his energy and true essence in breaking the cages that was placed around him. This Heavenly Demon martial intent energy field greatly tempered his body in this way.
Finding out that his way out was blocked by his enemies, thereby trapping him in the King's Cage so he will die, he decided to enter the Cosmic Melting Furnace. While inside he decided to ingest and absorb the Demon God Bone, thereby further tempering every part of his body. He also ingested a Nameless Divine Pill refined from the Nirvana Dragon Root.
His meridians and blood vessels were torn apart and injured. However, after the Demon God Bone and the Nameless Divine Pill were refined the Gate of Healing was opened.
Although his injuries hadn’t fully healed yet, Lin Ming could already see heaven and earth origin energy flooding towards his clavicles. It was like a leak had opened within the Gate of Healing, causing a massive whirlpool of true essence!
Not just that, but the Gate of Healing could also independently filter heaven and earth origin energy, making it even purer.
Once the Gate of Healing was opened, a martial artist’s body would gain the ability to constantly and autonomously absorb heaven and earth origin energy. The advantages towards cultivation were obvious!
During a battle, it was possible to restore true essence at an extremely quick pace. This was equivalent to Lin Ming constantly eating medicines. Not just that, but the energy that the Gate of Healing provided was incomparably pure; it wouldn’t have toxins like pills would.
Lin Ming could clearly feel the heaven and earth origin energy converging onto his body, revitalizing his dried up meridians. His bodily strength was also being restored at an astonishing pace.

Lin Ming swallowed the profound gold divine fruit down his throat. As soon as it entered his mouth, it turned into a surge of heat that melted into his body.
After several quiet breaths of time, the energy began to boil up like hot water, recklessly entering into Lin Ming’s blood vessels, running rampant everywhere!
He bore the deep pain and calmly revolved the “True Primal Chaos Formula,” manipulating the energy of the profound gold divine fruit such that it smashed into the Gate of Limit at his spine.
The spine was also called the dragon bone. It was central axis and main pillar of the human body. It supported all other bones, including the head, chest, abdomen, and all limbs. Everything depended on their connection to the spine. When a person used any strength, this first had to pass through the spine.
The spine was like a bow. The more taut a bow, the tougher it was. The more flexible a spine was, the stronger a person was. However, the truth was that a martial artist’s spine often became one of their weaknesses.
This was because the spinal nerves were also located within the spine. The body of nerves was extremely complex and fragile. If these nerves were struck and cut off, then a martial artist would in essence become a cripple unless they had cultivated to an ever-living boundary. Otherwise, even with top heavenly treasures it would still be difficult to restore the contorted spinal nerves.
These characteristics of the spine made it so it was difficult to train it. A martial artist could train their muscles, organs, and bones, but it was difficult to train the nerves and marrow.
Within the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, the Gate of Limit was used to train the supplementation of marrow.
The Gate of Limit gathered energy to enhance the defensive strength of the spine. Then, taking the spine as the center, it would guide a martial artist’s entire body, allowing their strength to multiply several fold. Besides strength, a martial artist’s explosive force, bearing capacity, balance, and defensive power would all significantly increase.
Lin Ming’s back cracked and crackled. An invisible stream of origin energy rapidly twisted around Lin Ming’s body, forming small storms. During this fierce collision of energy, Lin Ming’s clothing was not able to withstand the impact and quietly disintegrated into dust, revealing his solid and fit back, like that of a graceful leopard.
At this time, the skin and muscles of Lin Ming’s back had become a strange, translucent, jade-like color. Lin Ming’s entire spine was highlighted through this. The vertebra and the blood vessels were clearly visible and every single nerve could be made out. Starting at the bottom, from the base of the spine, a bright surge of crimson light crawled up. This bloody light gathered together, forming a bean-sized pearl of blood.
This was where the Gate of Limit was located!
Lin Ming gathered all the energy in his body and thrusting it towards where the energy of the profound gold divine fruit was, ramming both energies into the Gate of Limit.
All of the energy and blood vitality within Lin Ming’s body rushed into that spot at the base of his spine. Then, it was like something exploded there. Following that, blood shot out from that spinal area, blasting out hundreds of feet away like a crimson arrow.

He had just refined a Fivefade Void Pill. He started cultivating and meditating.
Lin Ming opened his mouth and swallowed the pill. He immediately felt a burst of coolness from his throat and reaching down to his stomach, gradually becoming a faint burning sensation.
Compared to the blue Nameless Divine Pill that he had taken in the past, the Fivefade Void Pill’s side effects were much more mild and temperate. But, the time it would take to process it was also much longer. Lin Ming put away the jade box and closed his eyes, entering into the ethereal martial intent as he began to revolve the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’.
For the past seven years, because of his diligent training, Lin Ming’s understanding of the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’ had steadily increased. Now he had full confidence that he could record at least half of the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’s’ heart mantra into a jade slip so that others could train with it.
Within the Realm of the Gods, there weren’t many types of body transformation law formulas. This was because there were far fewer people that trained in the body transformation system as opposed to the essence gathering system.
The ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’ was a superior top level body transformation law formula, and one of its greatest advantages was that it wasn’t difficult to practice at all.
At this time, Lin Ming could already clearly see faint traces of multi-hued energy flowing and mixing into his meridians and penetrating into his limbs and bones, fusing into his body. This was his final preparation for breaking through to the third of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates.
The third gate was called the Gate of Wonder.
(Ch 793) The Gate of Wonder had the effect of an overall increase in speed and instant acceleration. This differed from the Gate of Healing, which managed endurance and restorative ability, and the Gate of Limit, which handled balance, coordinated strength, and explosive force.
This newly opened gate would be able to increase one’s combat effectiveness far more directly than the first two gates.
Speed was one of the most important factors of a martial artist’s comprehensive combat strength. It was far more straightforward than endurance, recovery ability, or explosive force!
Speed was undoubtedly important in evading and chasing. It would also greatly increase a martial artist’s attack strength.
As the old saying went, speed was insurmountable. A martial artist’s own speed could superimpose on the speed of their own attacks. If their attacks were fast enough, then even a tiny stone rock could easily pierce through the body. If Lin Ming poured his battle spirit into his attacks as the foundation, then the resulting power would be even more terrifying.

Alchemy was a very good tempering technique for one’s mental strength and soul force. Every time one overdrew their divine soul, after recovering, their divine soul would be more formidable than before. This was the reason that most martial artists chose to learn a secondary skill as an occupation.
As Lin Ming was sleeping, although he was unconscious, the ‘Overbearing Soul Tactic’ was still running of its own accord, subtly revitalizing Lin Ming’s soul.
He quickly entered into a deep sleep and rested like this for several days.
After an unknown period of time, Lin Ming awoke from his slumber, feeling spirited and well rested. His mindset was extremely clear and energetic. He took out the wood spirit jade bottle without pause and began to refine medicinal herbs again. After he exhausted his soul force, he fell asleep once again.
(Ch 871) The Gate of Pain’s function involved striking power and lethality of abilities. It was an extremely powerful gate and the most important of the first four Eight Inner Hidden Gates, only being inferior to the Gate of Life and the Gate of Death in the last four gates.
(Ch 873) Lin Ming cultivated, refined and absorbed the Myriad Spirit Pill and the Sea Serpent Crystals.
At this time, Lin Ming had already entered the ethereal martial intent state. His two fists grasped five Sea Serpent Crystals as he began to impact the Gate of Pain!
The Gate of Pain was located in the palms. It could also be said to be two gates, one in each hand.
Far too much energy had gathered within Lin Ming’s palms, full to the point where it seemed it would explode. The energy of over 50 Sea Serpent Crystals had been completely sucked clean by Lin Ming. With a loud shout, his fists suddenly exploded and two arrows of blood shot high upwards, even breaking apart a massive hole in the dome of the seclusion chamber. Lin Ming’s two palms seemed as if they had been pierced by arrows and shattered!
The word ‘pain’ in the Gate of Pain contained the implications of a double-edged sword. Opening the Gate of Pain would cause damage to the martial artist, and while fighting using the power of the Gate of Pain, that would also cause a burden on a martial artist’s body.
Thus, this was the reason the Gate of Pain was the last of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates’ first four gates. Only by opening the Gate of Healing and the Gate of Limit, which could drastically change the physical properties of a martial artist, would they then be able to withstand the backlash from the Gate of Pain.

After having absorbed the blood vitality of the flesh and blood dao womb, his body already reached the edge of transformation. He now had a great assurance he would be able to break through the fifth of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates in a single go – the Gate of Opening!
The Gate of Opening was located in the brain. After reaching the fifth gate, his perception would increase as well as his soul force. Although this wasn’t immediately of influence to his combat strength, it was actually known as being the most valuable of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates. That was because this gate wouldn’t become any less valuable even after reaching the Holy Lord realm.
Lin Ming refined medicinal herbs and then absorbed them while cultivating in Fengxian Palace. He also meditated in the Fire Laws contained in jade slips that contained Fairy Feng’s collections of insights of the Fire Laws that she personally wrote down.
(Ch 987) Lin Ming used the Ying Yang pills that Fairy Feng concocted to open the Gate of Opening.

The Gate of View was located in his back and was in charge of defense. After opening it, Lin Ming’s defense would rise to another level. But the truth was that in comparison to the defensive power gained from opening the Gate of View, the defensive power that he gained from absorbing the dragon bone would actually be much greater.
Once he fused the dragon bone essence into his own skeleton, his bones would become tougher than a top grade saint artifact!
By absorbing the dragon bone, Lin Ming’s ability to resist attacks would undergo a qualitative leap.
In addition to his terrifying endurance and regenerative ability, even if Lin Ming stood still and allowed martial artists at his boundary to attack him, in all likelihood, they wouldn’t even be able to harm him.
As Lin Ming revolved the Celestial Tyrant Manual, he felt heat swell forth within his body as if he were soaking in a hot spring.
Currently, Lin Ming could feel all of his torn ligaments and muscles beginning to repair and regenerate themselves. His flesh and blood became even more tight and compact. On the fifth day, Lin Ming’s entire body itched. As he slightly moved, his joints crackled, a strangely pleasing comfort.
He could also feel the muscles within his body changing. Now he could alter them however he liked, making them as soft and malleable as a rubber band or as hard as divine iron.
However, the 36 wounds on Lin Ming’s body still hadn’t completely healed. There were even some places without any feeling at all. It was obvious that the dragon bone relics hadn’t been completely absorbed yet. Even so, Lin Ming didn’t feel any pain at this time. In the end, pain was simply a response produced by the body. When one’s body transformation technique reached an extremely high boundary, one was able to control their body and thus control the pain they felt.
On the 40th day, Lin Ming felt that all of his wounds were about healed. At this time, he felt that the energy within his body suddenly connected together, and the 36 wounds around his body seemed to resonate together, vibrating with a peculiar energy that united as one. Lin Ming couldn’t help but release a clear shout.
“Attack the Gate of View!”
Even with Mo Eversnow’s warning, Lin Ming was still able to realize that this was the perfect opportunity to break through the Gate of View.
Lin Ming’s thoughts dove into his spiritual sea. He manipulated all of the energy in his body to rush towards the Gate of View.
In that moment, all of the meridians throughout his body completely linked together. His flesh and blood essence gathered together, surging towards the Gate of View like a massive tsunami.
His entire body twisted, and the sounds of his joints popping were like the cries of dragons, reaching to the horizon.
This sort of comfortable feeling left Lin Ming drunk on pleasure.
The sixth of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, the Gate of View, had finally been opened!

The method to cultivate the Eight Inner Hidden Gates that was recorded within the Celestial Tyrant Manual was slightly different to the method within the Chaotic Virtues Combat Meridians.
The Eight Inner Hidden Gates was a large boundary, but in truth it could also be divided into two boundaries instead. The first boundary included the first six of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, and the second boundary included the last two of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates. The last two gates were called the gates that stood upon the threshold of life and death, the Gate of Life and the Gate of Death!
The threshold of life and death was one of the most difficult barriers of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates to pass. In order to break through the threshold of life and death, one had to build a foundation and then pile up a massive amount of resources before making a breakthrough in a single go. In the Eight Inner Hidden Gates of body transformation, every step was more difficult than the last. As for the final Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, that was even more difficult than rising to the heavens!
Breaking through the threshold of life and death was the first step to opening the Gate of Life and Gate of Death. This was the equivalent to opening one of the many locks that bound the Gate of Life and Gate of Death.

Mo Eversnow refined several pills to help Lin Ming while Lin Ming meditated on laws that are within him and mastered the energies also within him.
(Ch 1167) While Lin Ming absorbed the Esoteric Immortality Pill, Mo Eversnow told him: “Lin Ming, you already have the jade slip of the Celestial Tyrant Manual and you should have improved your understandings of it in these past days. Now, follow the method of revolving the energy within your body according to the Celestial Tyrant Manual. Have it flow through the threshold of life and death and attack the Gate of Life! With your current foundation, there shouldn’t be any problems at all!
“In addition, I perceived that fragmented bone slip from before. I discovered that there was an outline to an ancient body transformation technique within it. Although it was far too incomplete, I was able to glean a new discovery from it!”
The Gate of Life was located at the heart and controlled the power of life.
After opening the Gate of Life, a martial artist’s fires of life would be incomparably vibrant and vivid. Their flesh, blood, organs, all of it would be able to regenerate at incredible rates. Even one’s blood vitality and fires of life, as long as they didn’t suffer some injury past 50%, could still be slowly restored.
This sounded like a gate that could increase a martial artist’s defensive and recovery abilities, but it wasn’t so. The most vital role of the Gate of Life lay in its attack potential!
To be able to regenerate one’s blood vitality and fires of life was an absolutely monstrous ability!
Lin Ming suddenly extracted the Phoenix Blood Spear and without flinching, violently thrust it at his chest!
The sharp Phoenix Blood Spear pierced through his body, cutting through his ribs and finally tearing into his heart. Blood splashed out into the air!
Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Ming drew out the Phoenix Blood Spear. With his other hand, he thrust the Esoteric Immortality Pill into the gaping wound, directly into the opening he had cut in his heart. He submerged the pill into his heart and allowed it to fuse with him!
According to the records contained within the Celestial Tyrant Manual, the Esoteric Immortality Pill had to be sealed within the heart.
The Gate of Life was located in the heart. Once the Esoteric Immortality Pill was sealed into the heart, the medicinal potency within would be washed out using the flow of blood. The energy within it would be activated, allowing him to flush through the Gate of Life in a single go!

Lin Ming revolved the power of the Gate of Life to the limit. At this time, all of his fires of life began to blaze upwards like an inferno. A massive power of blood vitality surged about. If some ghosts or lost souls were to approach, they would instantly have their souls scattered to nothing.
Lin Ming took a deep breath and swallowed the Esoteric Mortality Pill.
The Esoteric Mortality Pill was able to destroy life vitality. In that moment, it was like a cold bucket of water had been splashed over Lin Ming’s fires of life. With this alternating struggle between life and death, Lin Ming’s body shook and he spat out a mouthful of black blood.
After this black blood left Lin Ming’s body it began to rapidly decay, drying up. This was the horror of the Esoteric Mortality Pill. If someone were to be contaminated with just the tiniest bit of blood, their body might wither away on the spot.
Lin Ming’s body continued to decline. His face and muscles shrank, withering away. But underneath the support of the Gate of Life, his flesh and blood continued to regenerate.
With the black hole seed, it was like a beacon signaling to him in a black and boundless sea. As he ran forwards, he searched about, passing through countless wild space flows before faintly making out a gate in the depths of time and space.
On top this gate were two white skeletons. The hands of these skeletons each grasped a handle of this gate, keeping it locked tight.
Lin Ming’s eyebrows shot up. The Gate of Death was the final of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, a gate that was located in the spiritual sea.
In order to open the Gate of Death, one had to bring the mortal body to the edge of death until there was only the spiritual consciousness remaining. Then, through taking a swim in one’s spiritual world, they could feel where the Gate of Death was.
This was the so-called nirvana rebirth after annihilation.
Lin Ming was well aware that as long as he could open the Gate of Death, he could reach perfection of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates and obtain endless benefits in the future. This would allow him to establish a solid foundation for opening the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace.
With the Eight Inner Hidden Gates having reached perfection, the strength of Lin Ming’s body had taken a qualitative leap upwards to 260 million jins.
If Lin Ming were to erupt astral essence from his body, his strength would rise even more.
“The amount of astral essence within my body has increased by over a hundredfold."

 (Ch 1498) The Purple Temple was in truth a part of a person’s dantian. When a martial artist entered the Divine Sea realm, their dantian would be replaced by an inner world, and thus the Purple Temple would also be located within the inner world.
The first level of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace was to form a Dao Palace in one’s inner world to correspond with a star in the sky.
 \*Ch 1535) When a martial artist broke through the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace in this state, it was no longer possible for them to replace their blood and bone marrow.
The true Nine Stars of the Dao Palace was to use the starlight of the highest heavens to baptize the spirit body, inscribing the power of the Laws into the flawless mortal body!
Strength training, flesh training, viscera training, altering muscle, bone forging, tempering marrow; these six stages of early body transformation could be called laying down and strengthening the foundation of a martial artist’s body.
The Gate of Healing, Gate of Life, Gate of Pain, Gate of Limit, Gate of View, Gate of Wonder, Gate of Death, Gate of Opening; these Eight Inner Hidden Gates could be called digging out the very depths of a martial artist’s life potential.
Then, the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace were inscribing the very Laws themselves into a martial artist’s body, allowing a human body transformation martial artist to utilize the strength of the 33 Heavenly Dao Laws!
 (Ch 1665) When a martial artist’s body transformation technique stepped from the Eight Inner Hidden Gates into the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, the truth was that this was essentially equal to finishing cultivating the mortal body and instead beginning to cultivate the Laws of the Nine Stars.
 (Ch 1695) Ling Ming had just absorbed a drop of blood of the Asura Road Master.
Lin Ming’s greatest harvest was the nine Dao Palaces within his body!
The Purple Temple and Heavenly Retribution Dao Palaces had been covered with a faint red light after being nourished by the Asura blood. They were like rubies soaked deep in blood.
As for the other seven Dao Palaces, only the rudimentary forms of the Dao Palaces had appeared; they hadn’t truly opened. But in the future, if Lin Ming were to use medicines to open these Dao Palaces it would actually be much easier, and when he opened them, the Dao Palaces would be that much more formidable!

(Ch 1527) This energy crashed into Lin Ming’s meridians, seeming as if it would wash away his veins and split apart his body!
The ancient python ravaged through Lin Ming’s body. But at this time, Lin Ming’s True Dragon energy came wildly galloping out, suppressing it with overwhelming force!
With his own blood vitality, Lin Ming had forcefully suppressed the Grandmist Spirit Bead essence that he swallowed. In that moment, all of Lin Ming’s energy rushed towards nine points on his body, seeming to form pearls of blood!
These nine points on Lin Ming’s body seemed to echo with some strange and unknown power in the endless skies. Lin Ming felt his sight fade away and in the next moment he had arrived in a completely pitch black space.
This space was empty, with only nine stars hanging high above. These nine stars were arranged in a strange manner, sprinkling endless starlight down, shining upon the world.
As this starlight illuminated Lin Ming, he felt his flesh, blood and bones all stretch out and all the pores and acupoints over his body automatically open to recklessly swallow up the starlight from these nine stars. As this starlight entered his body, a vast river of strength followed, one that seemed as if it would never end!
Beneath this powerful strength, Lin Ming could feel his flesh, bloodlines, meridian channels, everything within him transforming. His mortal body rapidly increased in strength.
His veins bulged out like worms. Sweat dripped down from all over him. His body had reached the limit of strength that it could absorb and wanted to explode!
Lin Ming looked up, his brilliant eyes locking onto one of the nine stars floating in space. Then, he leapt upwards!
Nine stars. Of them, seven were incomparably bright and two were dim. The seven bright stars corresponded to the seven Bright Palaces within the human body, and the two dark stars corresponded to the two Hidden Palaces within the human body.
Now, the star that Lin Ming rushed towards was the closest bright star! This star’s name was Army Breaker!
The Army Breaker Star. The meaning of this was that it could freely wander the world, breaking through the lines of any army, unstoppable and irresistible!
In the empty void, lines of the Great Dao slowly appeared, weaving together into a dao diagram that locked down the nine stars in the sky.
To transgress the Heavenly Dao was to withstand heavenly tribulation. Once heavenly tribulation came falling down, even extreme geniuses could perish in ashes, without even their bones remaining!
(Ch 1529) Needing strength to pull down the first star. He released the second seal of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone avatar and absorbed it to increase his strength.
(Ch 1530) Xiao Moxian also helped him by providing him with her True Phoenix blood energy and Phoenix blood essence.
(Ch 1532) Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian made love.
All the energy within his body merged together with Xiao Moxian as one. But compared to Xiao Moxian, Lin Ming’s harvests were far greater!
The energy brought forth by Xiao Moxian’s primordial yin blood was different from the Grandmist Spirit Bead essence that Lin Ming absorbed as well as the strength sealed within the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone. However, these energies weren’t much stronger. With a pure strength joining with them, all of this power came into equilibrium, fusing together in Lin Ming’s body where he could utilize all of it!
His mortal body began to subtly change. His broken meridians began to regenerate, becoming even tougher than before. His skeleton developed a crystalline luster and even his battle spirit that had been stranded at the early blue soul realm seemed as if it would make another breakthrough!
A resonant dragon roar echoed out. From between Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian, the phantom of an Azure Dragon flew upwards. But following that, there was also a clear phoenix cry as a Dark Phoenix phantom shot up into the skies. The True Dragon and True Phoenix danced in the void, both of them rejoicing in life.
The True Dragon phantom was flooded with thunder and flame. As for the Dark Phoenix phantom, it was filled with pitch black flames, flames that seemed as if they could burn down the world.
A resonant dragon roar echoed out. From between Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian, the phantom of an Azure Dragon flew upwards. But following that, there was also a clear phoenix cry as a Dark Phoenix phantom shot up into the skies. The True Dragon and True Phoenix danced in the void, both of them rejoicing in life.
The True Dragon phantom was flooded with thunder and flame. As for the Dark Phoenix phantom, it was filled with pitch black flames, flames that seemed as if they could burn down the world.
“This fiery atmosphere, these are the flames that Xiao Moxian has comprehended, the phoenix nirvana true flame!”
In that instant, Lin Ming obtained a deeper comprehension of fire. Lin Ming’s attainments in the Concept of Fire had been at the sixth level; he had been stuck at this boundary for an extremely long time.
No matter what Law it was, the further one’s comprehensions were, the more difficult it was to comprehend more. But now, as Lin Ming made love to Xiao Moxian and their energies joined together without reserve, Lin Ming was able to deeply experience the true meaning of Xiao Moxian’s phoenix flames. His Concept of Fire pressed up against the threshold of the seventh level!
Meanwhile, beneath Lin Ming, Xiao Moxian’s inner world was experiencing earth-shattering changes. The boundaries of her inner world broke apart and endless starlight and boundless energy rushed in, nourishing this world!
This energy formed origin energy clouds in the skies, followed by origin energy rain!
Underneath the revitalization of this origin energy rain, all the myriad lives began to regenerate. All sorts of spirit trees and spirit grasses grew with glee. In just several short breaths of time, lingzhi and ginsengs grew to the ages of tens of thousands of years. There were even some spirit grasses that developed their own spirits, forming plump fruits like little porcelain dolls that fell to the ground and began racing and hopping about in joy.
(Ch 1533) Lin Ming also had phoenix blood within him. Although the quality was relatively low, after receiving Xiao Moxian’s primordial yin, his phoenix blood could be said to have undergone a qualitative leap. It could be said that within the entire Ancient Phoenix Clan, there wasn’t a single person who could compare with even 1% of his current bloodline.
Now, after being galvanized by Xiao Moxian’s nirvanic flames, Lin Ming’s own phoenix blood began to brilliantly burn, causing a nirvana fire tribulation within his inner world!
(Ch 1534) Lin Ming’s mortal body contained the incomparably pure phoenix and dragon blood that had begun to fuse together. Not just that, but he also had the strength of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone and the Grandmist Spirit Bead essence. With all of this gathered together with the accumulations Lin Ming gained during the years, his mortal body had reached a truly heaven-defying realm!
Lin Ming’s fist smashed into the nine star dao diagram!
The nine star dao diagram violently shook, seeming as if it would disintegrate at any moment!
An alarming crack ripped through the nine star dao diagram; the Heavenly Dao Laws were about to be torn down by Lin Ming!
After a great chunk of the dao diagram was torn apart, faint strands of starlight fell through the dao diagram and shined onto Lin Ming. This starlight gathered into Lin Ming’s body, circulating through his limbs and bones. In an instant, Lin Ming felt his flesh and blood become far more powerful and far more solid.
This starlight gathered somewhere in his body, seeming as if it would form its own Dao Palace!
Lin Ming’s fist crashed into the final flaw of the nine star dao diagram!
In that moment, the nine star dao diagram finally shattered! Nine stars, seven bright and two dark, appeared in front of Lin Ming!
(Ch 1535) As Lin Ming approached the Army Breaker Star, he discovered that this blazing white sphere of light was only a foot in diameter, and in the center of this sphere was a fist-sized core; this was the essence of the Army Breaker Star.
The star in front of him was pure strength condensed from the rules of the heavens and earth.
After being held by Lin Ming, this star core flushed right and left as if it wanted to struggle free from his grip. Lin Ming was startled. It was like this star core formed from the Heavenly Dao rules had a mind of its own; it was incomparably mysterious.
Then, Lin Ming placed that star core in his mouth and swallowed it down!
For a time, Lin Ming felt an indescribable heat flow down his body and sink into his inner world.
Infinite starlight burst out within Lin Ming’s body and a massive amount of starlight surged out from him, making his entire body shine with a beautiful crystalline transparency. In this baptism of starlight, Lin Ming could feel the astral energy within him being fired up and tempered, purified repeatedly as it was refined again and again.
The starlight of the highest heavens became increasingly dazzling, shining like flowing mercury as it spread throughout Lin Ming’s limbs and bones and then converged into his inner world. This sort of scene represented the majesty and wonders of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace!
As time passed, the crystal nucleus of the Army Breaker Star completely decomposed in Lin Ming’s inner world, turning into shimmering starlight that formed a revolving dao diagram.
Then, starlight began to gather upon this dao diagram, using it as the foundation to build a palace!
This palace was square, with sharp corners, giving off a solemn and dignified atmosphere. At the same time, it glittered crystal clear, as if it were carved from the most luxurious jade.
This was Lin Ming’s Dao Palace. The moment that this Dao Palace finished building, it meant Lin Ming had truly broken into the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace!
(Ch 1594) The function of the Purple Temple Dao Palace was to gather the power of the nine stars and massively increase the strength of Lin Ming’s astral essence. This sort of increase could enhance Lin Ming’s bodily strength by three or four times to eight or nine times. All of this depended on a martial artist’s own foundation and the degree to which they had opened the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace.

(Ch 1661) Originally, Lin Ming was only making a guess from Torchriver’s memories that Forsaken Mortal Tomb would be an ideal place to make a breakthrough. But now that he truly arrived here, he discovered this place was far better than he had anticipated!
There were these incredible and endless black turtles, the unusual ancient bronze coffins that were flush with energy, and most importantly the breath of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws here that flooded every inch of space, ten times stronger than that of Yin Yang Despair Valley.
With the incredibly strong existence of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws that were present here, he could draw in all the strength from within the Forsaken Mortal Tomb, using the momentum here to suppress the Ravenous Wolf Star.
Lin Ming observed the Forsaken Mortal Tomb and found that he could use runes of the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel to form a simple spiritual energy gathering array formation that resonated with the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws.
The array formation activated. A pitch black death energy emerged. Countless threads appeared from the array formation like innumerable black hands, beginning to stir up the death energy from the ancient bronze coffins that were millions of miles away. Even the spiritual strength of the Black Turtle God Beasts began to gather towards this focal point.
The strength that Lin Ming was able to summon in this graveyard was only a millionth of the power present here.
After a quarter hour of gathering energy, Lin Ming took out the Ravenous Wolf Heaven Pill from his spatial ring and swallowed it into his stomach.
The Ravenous Wolf Heaven Pill’s medicinal efficacy constantly melted away. Lin Ming took this chance to take hold of all this medicinal efficacy and send it into his muscles, flesh, and blood… into every inch of his body.
His muscles were constantly flushed with an incomparably powerful medicinal efficacy. Lin Ming’s strength rapidly rose.
At the same time he simultaneously guided the movements of the Asura Heavenly Dao Law lines within the Ravenous Wolf Heaven Pill, squeezing even more medicinal efficacy to leak out.
The raging sea of medicinal efficacy was like snakes and dragons as it broke into Lin Ming’s body, thoroughly fusing with him.
Beneath the tremendous scouring of the medicinal efficacy, every pore of Lin Ming’s body began to shine with a brilliant light as his strength rose to all new levels.
Occasionally, wisps of blood would shoot out from his wounds like bolts of lightning, blinding to the eyes.
The Heretical God Tree also began to grow. It became majestic and dignified, exuding the power of countless runes.
However, the Ravenous Wolf Star was hard to suppress as it tried to attack Lin Ming's heart and mind.
Lin Ming used the ancient pill he got from the auction in thwarting such attack. He used his divine soul to draw out the energy from the ancient pill. He absorbed the essence of the pill into his body through his acupoints.
Lin Ming attacked the Ravenous Wolf Star, Lin Ming stepped in the void and with an explosive sound his figure flashed and disappeared. In an instant, he tore through the void, arriving in front of the glorious Ravenous Wolf Star!
That incomparably massive Ravenous Wolf Star was only the size of a ruler now. It was like the Ravenous Wolf Star had sensed Lin Ming’s arrival and had hidden itself in the deep darkness.
But with Lin Ming’s profound understanding of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws, he was able to instantly perceive the Ravenous Wolf Star.
The Ravenous Wolf Star exploded.
Beneath the purest and most glorious starlight, black star-like runes were contained within. They melted into Lin Ming’s flesh and blood, fusing together with him.
“This… this is a part of the Heavenly Dao Laws, representing the power of heavenly retribution, the true meaning of heavenly retribution…”
Lin Ming’s entire body was immersed in pain but also a strange twinge of joyful pleasure.
The Great Dao’s true meaning of heavenly tribulation; this made his soul shiver and his body quake in excitement.
At the same time, the faint traces of pain began to spread throughout his body. This was the mark of the Great Dao entering his body, an impact that even caused pain to his divine soul.
But with the passing of time, all of the power of starlight began to revolve in Lin Ming’s body, forming a mysterious and marvelous Dao Palace.
This Dao Palace had a magnificent hall that shined with a blazing light. Within it, black energy filled the air and cracks of lightning whipped about. There were even waves of horrifying fire, burning so hot it seemed that they could burn down the universe.
This extreme majesty represented the punishment of the Heavenly Dao. It connected together with Lin Ming’s flesh and blood foundation and even his divine soul.
This allowed Lin Ming to feel a powerful aura. All of those black runes in his flesh and blood began to sparkle, resonating with him.
The Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace had finally opened!
the function of the Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace was to use the body of a martial artist as a medium to commune with the heavens and earth.
The body was a microcosm unto itself and could correspond to stars in the universe. In the boundless world, the so-called power of heavenly retribution was ultimately the strength of the Heavenly Dao.
After the Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace opened, a martial artist could use the Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace as a communication medium to allow the body to bear the power of the heavens and earth!
The origin of the Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace’s strength came not from a martial artist’s body but from the momentum of the heavens and earth. Thus, no matter how long a battle was, a martial artist wouldn’t overdraw their physical strength. This was one of the reasons why the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace was so formidable!

Lin Ming swallowed this pill in a single motion. A booming explosion began sounding out in his body like thunderclaps.
After some time, his forehead, eyes, nose, everything began to erupt with a blinding brilliance that impacted into the horizons and scattered away the dark clouds.
From the originally gloomy skies, it was like some faint summons was being sent out as starlight began to fall down.
Nine vast and shining stars appeared high above the endless starry skies, arranged in a strange manner that was filled with profound meaning. Their light tore through the infinite dark, shining down and creating a separate world.
One of these stars in particular shined like a sun at noon. Its radiance was dazzling, seemingly carrying with it an incredible mystic strength.
This star was named Cherished Kismet and was one of the nine stars. As it bloomed with a brilliant divine light, the starlight fell down like a silver waterfall that contained a dreadful strength.
From the void, lines of the Great Dao appeared, condensing into a strange pattern that blocked out the dazzling stars above.
The true meaning of two peak strengths filled the space around the dao diagram, like a dragon and a phoenix protecting it together.
This was the Heavenly Dao array diagram that hindered humanity from breaking into the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace.
Loud explosions occurred non-stop within his body like endless thunderclaps, as if a True Dragon were awakening within him.
His figure rose and pitch black scales emerged from his body, forming armor around him. His aura climbed, becoming increasingly wild and swift, fierce with a brutal savageness. Behind him, a massive six-armed and three-headed Asura phantom appeared. This Asura phantom seemed to have crawled out from a blood pond of hell. Its two pupils burned like twin suns, releasing a dreadful light.
Lin Ming looked up towards the most brilliant star in the sky. Then, at this time, a towering tree began to rise behind him, as grand as a mountain.
This tree stabbed into the skies. Countless thunder dragons flew around it and innumerable fire phoenixes twined around its branches. The momentum it released was astonishing.
Lin Ming shot up from the ground, his feet stepping on space.
Beneath the tremendous impact of his strength, the space under his feet shattered like glass.
Man and spear shot upwards, becoming one.
All that was seen was the black spear in Lin Ming’s hands. Like a black dragon it endlessly attacked the dao diagram in the starry skies.
During this time, parts of the dao diagram would shatter and starlight would fall down.
Shockwaves tore through the void, causing the black starry skies to collapse like glass…
Lin Ming’s figure was completely covered with starlight and blood. As he collided with the dao diagram again and again, everything seemed to blend together as one.
The dao diagram above Lin Ming loudly shattered and the lines of the Great Dao dissipated like clouds of smoke.
From the void, the glittering Cherished Kismet Star shined, its starlight flowing into Lin Ming’s body.
His broken bones and torn flesh began to visibly mend.
The third Dao Palace, the Extreme Polar Dao Palace, corresponded with the Cherished Kismet Star.
This palace was located in Lin Ming’s inner world. After opening the Extreme Polar Dao Palace, Lin Ming could guide the power of the nine stars to enter his inner world and fuse with the energy within.
And the energy within Lin Ming’s inner world was mainly thunder and fire. This was the equivalent of adding the power of a star into the power of thunder and fire.
With this, Lin Ming’s thunder and fire origin energy would rise to another level.
As Lin Ming examined his own inner world, he found that at the central point of his inner world’s planet, the giant Heretical God Tree was bathing in the endless mercurial starlight, beautiful to the extreme.
Because he had broken into the Extreme Polar Dao Palace, the Heretical God Tree had benefitted from this and had become even more verdant and hardy.

He was covered by an endless mist. As he tried to see through this mist, Ruby saw in the mist that there was a woman carving something.
Lin Ming tried to see the carving, but he cannot. Lin Ming felt as if the mysterious woman’s hand had been thrust into the infinite river of time. It was impossible for him to clearly see it.
He persisted past his limits. His eyes were covered with blood and he nearly became blind.
The mysterious woman lightly stepped about like a celestial goddess. She sat down on a blue stone, every movement and every action she took filled with the aura and rhythm of the Laws.
She seemed to be deep in thought. Her endlessly long hair hung down like the curtain of night, concealing her appearance, making it impossible for anyone to see her.
After an unknown period of time she stood up and began drawing again.
“She’s drawing an eye!”
Ruby said. No matter what the mysterious woman did, nothing could hinder her from seeing.
“Eye…”
Lin Ming’s field of vision had already turned crimson. The figure of the mysterious woman blurred in his eyes.
Then, the mysterious woman turned around and glanced at Lin Ming.
Lin Ming’s body shook; he spat out a mouthful of blood!
He fell to his knees, feeling an incomparable burning heat between his eyes.
“Eyes…”
Lin Ming grit his teeth and bit his lips until they bled. Even his consciousness seemed to become blurry. But, he summoned the final dregs of his strength and watched the blue stone beneath the woman’s hands.
He could faintly feel that success wasn’t too far away. As long as he could persist just a little longer, there would be clarity!
However, what worried Lin Ming was that at this time he could no longer see anything at all.
Everything in his eyes was blood red!
He approached unconsciousness. But just as he was about to fall over, he didn’t know why but within his field of vision, he could faintly see an eye!
Rather, it should be said that this eye was an image that directly imprinted itself into his mind, thrust there without passing through his own two eyes.
Lin Ming could feel an agonizing ache between his eyebrows. Faintly, it was like a little bit of starlight gathered in this space, converging towards the point between Lin Ming’s eyebrows.
The world trembled. This world of consciousness seemed to tear apart and endless starlight fell down. In the skies, nine stars appeared high in the air, all of them burning like scorching hot suns.
Infinite starlight fell down like a river of stars.
Lin Ming experienced a splitting headache, as if his head would be forcefully cut off by this starlight!
Lin Ming clearly felt that between his eyebrows, there was a burning heat that felt like it would melt away his skull. But endless starlight gathered there, slowly forming a Dao Palace!
Lin Ming’s heart shook. Of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, this was the Celestial Eye Dao Palace!
This Dao Palace didn’t have any specific striking power, but once opened, it would directly enhance a martial artist’s divine sense, so that they could spy upon the secrets of heaven and see through the infinite mysteries!
Whether it was martial artists, mortals, or perhaps even animals, there was a natural hollow between their eyebrows where the third eye was hidden. This third eye had already degenerated into the brain, and was known by some as the upper dantian; this was also the daevic eye.
If one could open their daevic eye, they could gain the power to see through all mysteries and obtain an unparalleled perception.

 Lin Ming is in his 5th Life. Lin Ming is in the 7th level of the Final Smelting Trial of the Asura Road. He has just refined the Demon Relic from the swamp of the 4th level.
He absorbed the refined Demon Relic and fused this demon power with his body.
What Lin Ming was doing was equivalent to adding a demon body metamorphosis onto the foundation of his Asura body metamorphosis. Black bone armor wrapped around his body and his spine stuck out, forming giant spikes from his back. From his neck down, the spikes became increasingly long and deadly. The muscles of his arms bulged, looking like black stone, and from his elbows bone blades jutted out just like on Empyrean Primordius.
At this time, in the skies that shined with nine great stars, one turned red, this one shining with a brilliant red light!
This star seemed to be dyed with blood, so red that one couldn’t look at it.
this blinding red star shot out a straight red beam of light. The red beam of light was only a foot thick, but it instantly crossed ten thousand miles of the void and thrust straight downwards!
From afar it was like a divine god had thrust down a blood red holy sword from up high, shattering the starry skies!
This light pierced into the left side of Lin Ming’s chest, the position where his heart was.
In that moment, the tyrannical fluctuations of energy suddenly calmed down. The explosive cracklings of Lin Ming’s muscles also faded away, everything turning so silent that even the drop of a needle could be heard. Lin Ming’s mortal body rose up from the Galaxy Void Furnace and floated into the skies.
The blood red starlight revitalized Lin Ming’s body.
*Pata! Pata!*
In the quiet skies, the sound of a heartbeat echoed through the air.
That blood red star in the skies was called the Titan Gate Star, and its corresponding Natal Life Dao Palace was located within a martial artist’s heart.
The Natal Life Dao Palace possessed the power of infinite blood vitality. By opening it, a martial artist’s understanding into the power of life would deepen profoundly and allow the regenerative capabilities of their mortal body to reach the limits of the extreme. A manifestation of this was the regrowth of limbs and organs that had been cut off and destroyed.
When a normal essence gathering system martial artist cultivated to a high boundary, if they cut off their arm, they could still regenerate a new one with enough rest and care.
However, the newly regenerated arm would only be a mortal arm.
The mortal body of a high level essence gathering martial artist had to undergo Pulse Condensation, and then the Xiantian realm where the impurities were eliminated. Next, they had to undergo the nine stages of Life Destruction to transform into their spirit body. After that was the Nine Divine Shifts that allowed their mortal body to evolve further. In the end, every inch of their flesh and blood would be extraordinary.
But if they were to use a mortal body that hadn’t been tempered with origin energy, their abilities would be greatly compromised.
In order to restore it, they would have to use up a massive amount of time and energy. This was also the reason why Tian Mingzi’s progress into the Empyrean realm was halted after his arm was severed, and also the reason he had such a deep grudge against Lin Ming.
Originally Lin Ming was also the same. But after opening the Natal Life Dao Palace, this would change. The Laws of the Natal Life Dao Palace would become a mark that deeply engraved itself into every part of Lin Ming’s flesh and blood. His shattered organs, his severed limbs, all of it could return into pure life energy that would reenter his body and be regenerated, without any difference from the original.
Even if his lost limbs were refined by others, his newly regenerated limbs would still have evenly distributed energy, and would have little to no effect on his strength.

 Lin Ming is living his 6th Life. He is in the Hidden Dragon Galaxy of a wild universe that elites of the human race went to hide from the Saint Race.
He had just defeated the Great Fortune Saint Son and an army of the Saints a in a battle. He has taken in the process Famine's Avatar and has refined and absorbed it.
He had also just broke through the Empyrean Realm.
(Ch 2057) Ling Ming used the Black Dragon Spear to attack the divine chains of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace. However, it was strangely silent without a single sound. Even so, people could see the endless runes being destroyed and the impact shockwaves rushed out like a raging tide in all directions.
*Shua!*
The void in front of Lin Ming was cut into countless fragments by the tide of energy.
As for those blood red divine chains, cracks began to appear within them under Lin Ming’s assault.
Time seemed to come to a standstill. Everyone watched as the divine chains that sealed away the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace turned into fragments of starlight as they thoroughly disintegrated!
The Nine Stars of the Dao Palace were released from their confinement and began to shine ever brighter. That endless starlight fell upon Lin Ming’s body, fell upon all the martial artists of humanity.
When those divine chains broke, as the one who broke them, Lin Ming directly faced the Nine Stars. The endless starlight fell onto him like a gushing waterfall, bathing him!
This was the starlight accumulated over 3.6 billion years!
Although Famine had swallowed this starlight, the 33 Heavenly Daos were incomparably huge to begin with. No matter how strong Famine’s Laws of Swallowing were, it was impossible for him to swallow all the starlight.
Because of the restriction of the divine chains, after the light of the Nine Stars accumulated year after year it had undergone a qualitative change!
As this starlight violently poured into Lin Ming, his mortal body began to be reborn as his muscles and marrow were washed!
Beneath the divine light, his skin, skeleton, muscles, organs, everything became completely translucent.
The five Dao Palaces within his body recklessly absorbed this divine light, becoming increasingly grand and complex.
If the Dao Palaces within Lin Ming’s body were comparable to the imperial palace of a mortal, then after constantly growing, it had already turned into something like Divine Dream Heavenly Palace or the Good Fortune Saint Palace!
After lifting the shackles upon the Heavenly Dao, Lin Ming obtained the greatest advantages. The Dao Palaces that were suppressed within his body suddenly became several times more powerful. Their surging power was no longer blocked from Lin Ming’s body!
It was like his flesh and blood blended with the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, becoming a part of his instinct.
At this moment, Lin Ming could feel his strength wildly grow; it was already difficult to measure with numbers alone!
Without a doubt, 3.6 billion years ago when Famine swallowed the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, it had suffocated humanity’s body transformation system, making it impossibly difficult to train in.
The light of the Nine Stars was simply too vast. Lin Ming’s body had long been fully saturated and it was difficult for him to continue digesting all this starlight.
But at this moment, without any hesitation, Lin Ming compressed this infinite starlight and thrust it into his limbs!
*Bang!*
Lin Ming’s arms and legs were flooded with energy. His blood vessels stuck out like earthworms, nearly blowing open.
And in the skies, amongst those nine great stars shining up high, one of them shined with an incomparable brilliance, like a dawning sun!
Within the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, the Martial Song Star was the one that corresponded to war and slaughter.
It was diametrically opposed to the Merciful Song Star.
The Dao Palace that the Martial Song Star corresponded with was the Martial Sovereign Dao Palace, also known as the Cardinal Direction Dao Palace!
The heavens had four extremes – east, west, south, and north, the four directions that led to the ends of the world.
Humans also had four extremes – they were the arms and legs. They were the limbs that allowed humans to walk, work, fight, live, they were the limbs that were related to all movements!
When essence gathering system martial artists fought, they could manifest the Laws within their inner world and manipulate the power of the world.
But when a body transformation system martial artist fought, they relied on their four limbs!
These four limbs seemed simple, but the truth was that they were the ultimate manifestation of a body transformation system martial artist’s combat strength!
Thus, the Martial Sovereign Dao Palace was an extremely important Dao Palace within the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace. Once opened, a martial artist’s bodily strength would increase several times over!
Stars trembled. Starlight surged.
The Martial Song Star shined bright in the skies, open and honest, yet bringing with it a terrifyingly suppressive feeling. Every martial artist could feel an extremely tyrannical momentum from within, an unbending strength!
The Martial Song Star was a brave star, one decisive in killing, one that roamed the world without fear!
Of the Nine Stars, it wasn’t just the Martial Song Star that was a brave star, but it was the one filled with a firm and straightforward meaning!
The Martial Song Star shined and starlight fell down. Lin Ming felt the strength within his arms and legs, the saturated starlight, being compressed without end, as if a smoldering volcano were ready to erupt from within him.
At this time, blood red divine thunder fell onto Lin Ming’s body!
Lin Ming is undergoing heavenly tribulation.
(Ch 2508) Since heavenly tribulation had entered his body, Lin Ming would simply use the power of this heavenly tribulation to further temper his body, allowing the Martial Sovereign Dao Palace to open even more thoroughly.
The power of starlight was compressed in his limbs, interweaving into an eternally glorious Dao Palace. This Dao Palace was the Martial Sovereign Dao Palace!
As this Dao Palace that represented the ultimate martial strength appeared, it was soaked in that violent and fierce thunder!
Thunder smashed into the temple, hardening it and making it shine even more radiantly!
Divine thunder could be used to refine weapons. Now, Lin Ming was using the thunder of this heavenly tribulation to hammer upon his newly formed Dao Palace!
In that moment the strength within Lin Ming’s body reached a new peak.
With a punch, he could crush the void. With a kick, a river of stars would tremble.
In that moment, the power of divinity and demons born within Lin Ming’s inner world began flow out, surrounding the six Dao Palaces like a rising tide.
The six Dao Palaces released a mystical strength. Dao patterns floated atop the chaotic energy surrounding the Dao Palaces and joined together like continuous mountain ranges, forming a marvelous fused state.
The two yin yang powers of divinity and demons represented the most extreme origins and had no conflict at all with these six Dao Palaces that represented the strength of the Heavenly Dao.
With this strength as a medium, the six Dao Palaces began to swirl around in the yin yang tide covered with dao patterns.
At this time, Lin Ming suddenly reached out his hand! The power of Laws converged. High in the skies, the chains that imprisoned the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace were grasped in his hand.
These divine chains were already cut apart by Lin Ming. The spirit mark of Famine’s soul had already been refined by Lin Ming but the source Laws still existed within, incredibly powerful.
For the last 3.6 billion years, these divine chains had imprisoned the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace and had undergone a baptism of infinite starlight. They gathered the essence of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace Heavenly Dao.
Without hesitation, Lin Ming smashed these divine chains apart and directly fused them into his body. The crushed chains turned into countless tiny Law fragments that gushed into the six Dao Palaces.
These divine chains had been able to imprison the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace. Now, they turned into silk threads that connected the six Dao Palaces within Lin Ming’s body.
For a time, it was like a similar bloodline was forged into the six Dao Palaces within Lin Ming’s body. These six Dao Palaces originally resonated with each other and now they began exchanging energy, rapidly merging together.
The Nine Star dao patterns of these six Dao Palaces wove together, overlapping against each other, embedding into each other.
This sort of fusion was a true fusion of the Great Dao. Divine spiritual power harmonized as one.
But at the same time, they still maintained a kind of independence, retaining their true source strength of the Great Dao.
It could be said that this was a transformation of the Great Dao’s strength, a sublimation.

 Lin Ming is in his 8th Life. He is in the Dark Abyss.
(Ch 2094) he Nine Stars of the Dao Palace – seven bright and two dark. As the seventh Dao Palace of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, the Twofold Dao Palace was the last of the seven bright Dao Palaces and also the most unusual Dao Palace.
Its unusualness was embodied in its position. Every Dao Palace had a specific position in a martial artist’s body. For instance, the Daevic Eye Dao Palace was in between the eyebrows, the Martial Sovereign Dao Palace was in the four limbs, the Purple Temple Dao Palace was in the dantian, and so forth.
As for the Twofold Dao Palace, it had a particularly unique position; it was located outside a cultivator’s body.
After the Twofold Dao Palace opened, it would condense into a star that appeared in the void not too far away from a martial artist. This star was named the Twofold Star.
Then, the Laws of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace would use this Twofold Star as the foundation, gathering infinite starlight and gradually taking the form of a person’s phantom.
This phantom would be completely similar to a cultivator in appearance.
Thus, this was where the name of the Twofold Dao Palace came from.
As the last of the seven bright Dao Palaces, the Twofold Dao Palace gathered the most strength of the nine stars, several times that of the previous Dao Palaces. This also meant that the Twofold Dao Palace was the mightiest of the seven bright Dao Palaces.
When this starlight phantom first appears it would have 50% of the true body’s combat strength. After that, as long as the cultivator poured in a part of his source blood vitality and source soul, concentrating it into this Twofold Star, then it would be able to have a flesh and blood avatar.
This avatar was named the Twofold Avatar.
The more blood essence the Twofold Avatar received, the more powerful it would become. In addition, with the starlight of the highest heavens that the Twofold Dao Palace gathered, it would eventually become an extremely powerful weapon.
Of course, because the cultivator branched out a part of their blood vitality, they would suffer some damage to their strength. But the degree to which they were injured would be far less than that increased strength brought about by the avatar.
In the martial world there were numerous techniques that allowed one to control avatars. For instance, the Asura Heavenly Dao had its own cultivation and fighting methods involving avatars.
However, in these cultivation methods, the avatar formed was usually refined.
For instance, the Asura Heavenly Dao’s three avatars. The Essence Spirit Embryo Stone, Soul Springs Divine Embryo, these were divine stones naturally bred through the world and didn’t originate from Lin Ming himself.
If Lin Ming were to lose his avatars, although it would decrease his strength, it wouldn’t cause any true damage to his body. But, the Twofold Dao Palace was different.
The avatar of the Twofold Dao Palace was created by a martial artist taking out a portion of his blood essence and casting it in starlight of the high heavens, transforming it into true flesh and blood.
One couldn’t afford to lose such an avatar.
Moreover, this avatar came from the same origins as the main body. It could separate from the main body and also fuse with the main body.
Once the avatar and main body merged together, it would cause one’s strength to erupt, doubling over.
This sort of ability was not something that a refined avatar could possess.
In normal situations, after a martial artist opened the Twofold Dao Palace, the main body and avatar were mostly fused together. With this one could display the greatest strength.
It was only in cultivation that they would separate. Like this, absorbing heaven and earth origin energy would be that much faster.
(Ch 2103) silently sat in meditation, displaying all the materials he needed to use in front of him.
His figure was hazy and he merged into the surrounding void. With it, the Magic Cube space seemed to become infinitely vast, and the Laws of the 33 Heavens penetrated in without any barriers.
For a time, the void where Lin Ming was turned into boundless starry skies.
The stars resonated and the Laws bowed in submission all around. From beneath him, rivers of Laws appeared, formed from the Great Dao.
Lin Ming’s pores emitted infinite light. Every wisp of light seemed to have a lifelike immortal sitting within, chanting ancient scriptures.
True Dragons soared in the air, True Phoenixes wildly danced.
Suddenly, the Daevic Eye Dao Palace between Lin Ming’s eyebrows split open and shot out a blinding light.
This light contained millions upon billions of dao patterns filled with vicissitudes. Every wisp seemed inlaid with golden stones, emitting a terrifying universal will. It was like an invisible hand reaching into the deepest reaches of the galaxy and suddenly tearing it open.
From the deepest parts of the endless void, rivers of stars flowed and nine massive stars manifested.
One of these stars emitted an extremely mysterious starlight, as if a world seed was being bred within. It constantly tumbled about and shined with splendor, emitting a misty and strange starlight.
This star was the star that corresponded to the Twofold Dao Palace.
“Come down!”
Lin Ming bellowed. Divine power formed a bridge that crossed the void and with a light rustling sound, sprang towards the Twofold Dao Palace.
The divine bridge hadn’t yet touched the Twofold Dao Palace when a dragon dao diagram appeared from nowhere and blocked the Dao Palace, forming indestructible shackles of the Heavenly Dao.
This dao diagram exuded a hazy glow. It shrouded the Twofold Dao Palace and constantly emitted keening vibrations.
Lin Ming frowned. This was the heaven and earth dao diagram that had blocked the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace before.
Lin Ming waved his hands. Yin and yang energies rose, becoming a massive heaven-covering palm that blotted out the skies, maliciously smashing into the dao diagram.
This dao diagram exploded like glass beneath the impact. Lin Ming grasped that shining star and absorbed it into his hand!
With a light sound, Lin Ming was wrapped in endless radiant power. He could feel a strange life forming in his body as waves of divine power pulsated.
As if there was something trying to break out of a cocoon.
“Condense!”
Lin Ming roared. Beams of starlight drilled out from his body and started to flow around him and weave together.
Not just that, but from the deepest parts of his soul, a part of his life’s essence energy blended together with this starlight.
Beside Lin Ming endless strength gathered, twinkling, gradually taking human form similar to Lin Ming.
And from this strange phantom, he could feel a sort of inexplicable intimacy, as if it blended with his flesh and blood.
This was the body formed from the Twofold Dao Palace using one’s life essence energy as a foundation – it used the strength of the Twofold Dao Palace and World Laws to manifest.
He looked at this phantom formed of starlight and gripped his fists. Then, he revolved the power of demons within his body to the limit. At that time on his handsome face, things like black centipedes crept beneath his cheeks, sticking outwards.
His appearance suddenly became fierce and hideous.
Not just that, but his hands and feet, every inch of his body gushed out black gas. This black gas was the power of demons that was rooted in his body.
As every wisp of the demon power leapt out from his body, it was like Lin Ming’s flesh and blood was forcefully tearing itself off, causing a web of pain to course through his body.
When the power of demons fused into Lin Ming’s body, it was because he controlled Famine’s soul that he was able to subdue it. But now that he was attempting to forcibly pull it out, the demon power was set off in a rage.
Even though his body was more tenacious than a True Divinity spirit treasure, it still started to erode and collapse beneath the power of demons.
Still, faint traces of the power of demons was drawn out and poured into the phantom formed of starlight.
This was originally a virtual phantom created by Lin Ming’s life essence and starlight, and in the process of forming. With this massive power of demons integrated into it, the phantom became increasingly perfect. Faint traces of flesh and blood started to appear, plumping up the phantom, just like a demon being born.
With a flicker, blazing black flames appeared in the void of the phantom’s eyes.
(Ch 2104) The moment that black flames ignited in the eye sockets of the Twofold Avatar, a beam of soul light shot out from between Lin Ming’s eyebrows.
This beam of soul light was Lin Ming’s source soul force.
The Twofold Avatar was formed from dividing one’s mortal body. However, the soul wasn’t divided in two. Whether it was the main body’s spiritual sea or the one in the avatar, they were both a part of Lin Ming’s soul. In other words, Lin Ming had only one personality but simply had another body.
At this time, the giant soul of Famine resided within Lin Ming’s massive spiritual sea, locked down by countless soul chains. After being refined for over 5000 years in Tragic Death Valley, Famine’s soul had long since been forged into an independent consciousness by Lin Ming. Lin Ming’s source soul force had already condensed into countless soul seals that marked Famine’s soul. Now, even without the shackles of these soul chains, Lin Ming could still make use of Famine’s soul.
“Divide!”
Lin Ming’s eyes flashed with a sharp light. In the skies above Famine’s soul, a divine soul sword appeared.
As this divine soul sword came cutting down it was like a bolt of divine lightning thundering down from the heavens!
As for the separated part of Famine’s soul, it was poured into the demon avatar.
The moment Famine’s soul entered the demon avatar, his body suddenly shook and his complexion became increasingly ugly.
And then, the newly born demon avatar’s figure became increasingly illusory. Blood vessels rose up over its body like worms, making it seem hideously fierce.
Blood vessels exploded. The demon avatar’s expression twisted as the power of demons surged within it, nearly exploding from its body!
Since the moment Lin Ming opened the Twofold Dao Palace, he had finally encountered a crisis. While separating Famine’s soul and also separating his own source soul, his avatar’s blood vitality became unstable and nearly burst apart.
To condense the demon avatar was actually an incredibly difficult process. This was because the avatar needed a huge amount of energy, and just the starlight of the Nine Stars and the power of demons within Lin Ming’s body wasn’t enough.
Lin Ming grit his teeth and stretched out his right hand.
A glittering and translucent crystal with countless profound traces on its surface suddenly appeared in Lin Ming’s palm. This was the energy crystal of a True Divinity abyssal Elder.
As this crystal appeared, it pulsated as if it had a life of its own.
Without hesitation, Lin Ming thrust this demon crystal in between the demon avatar’s eyebrows!
The demon crystal sunk in like a stone thrown in a lake, slowly submerging into the avatar’s head.
When the energy of this True Divinity level abyssal was being condensed, the majority of it was tossed away. What was left behind was the most distilled essence.
This energy was directly absorbed by the demon avatar.
In that moment, Lin Ming felt surging killing intent emitting from the demon avatar. This killing intent didn’t originate from Lin Ming’s soul, but from his body. This was the instinct of the demon avatar’s body.
The True Divinity abyssal’s energy crystal slowly dissolved. Black flames spat out from within the demon avatar’s body, swallowing all light in the world. Its bloodline began to gradually solidify into reality.
A True Divinity level abyssal’s energy essence had all been poured into the avatar. This energy essence flooded the avatar’s skeleton, meridians, utterly penetrating into every inch of the body. Lin Ming suddenly felt the strength of his avatar rapidly rising.
Lin Ming stared at his avatar, feeling every bloodline in it. This energy that seemed on the verge of explosion left him overjoyed.
One of the greatest reasons why the Twofold Dao Palace was able to increase a martial artist’s strength was because it only took a minor amount of blood vitality from a martial artist to condense the elementary form of the avatar. After that, by using the power of the Nine Stars, the energy of the outside world could cast the avatar a true body, having the strength of the avatar reach the peak.
More and more of the True Divinity abyssal’s demon power fused into the avatar. It was like burning flames were being bred within the demon avatar.
Lin Ming didn’t stop here. Rather, he continued to move. With a wave of his hand, a pile of black crystals was crushed apart. These black crystals were all top quality demon crystals that he obtained from the True Divinity abyssal’s spatial ring. Now, he had broken all of these demon crystals apart, and infinite essence energy turned into a raging current that flooded towards the demon avatar.
A giant vortex seemed to appear in the skies. As for Lin Ming’s demon avatar, it stood in the center of this vortex, greedily absorbing all this strength.
With faint cracking sounds, another top grade black crystal disintegrated into white powder.
As for Lin Ming’s demon avatar, its muscles started to bulge. It rose up, becoming taller, turning into a 30 foot tall giant.
Blood vessels ruptured across the demon avatar’s body. Because of the massive energy impact, the demon avatar emitted loud crackling sounds from every joint, as if it were finding it hard to withstand so much energy.
Seeing this demon avatar that was nearly bathed fully in blood, Lin Ming focused his concentration. At this time, he could feel many abyssal Laws slowly carving themselves into the demon avatar’s marrow, flesh, and blood.
These abyssal Laws originated from the demon crystal left behind by the True Divinity level abyssal Elder, the Asura Road’s demon relic, and the infinite Laws that Famine swallowed.
More and more Laws gathered and gradually reappeared on the surface of the demon avatar, forming beautiful demon seals.
And at this time, the demon avatar’s strength had been compressed to the extreme. Lin Ming waved his hand a third time and dozens of blood pills flew out.
These blood pills were all broken apart by Lin Ming using the power of divinity. The pure blood vitality contained in these pills transformed into blood dragons that clawed at the air and then shot into the demon avatar’s mouth.
This process continued for an unknown period of time until finally all the top grade demon crystals had exploded into powder and the many blood pills were also completely swallowed up.
At this time, nine dazzling stars appeared in the skies once more.
Of these nine stars, the brightest seventh star shot down a dark brilliance that covered the demon avatar.

Lin Ming first broke the divine chains of order that locked up humanity’s destiny.
The divine chains of order finally broke apart and disappeared in the world.
In that instant, the nine Dao Palaces released an incomparably dazzling brilliance.
Out of the Nine Stars, one of them shined like the bright moon at night.
Starlight flowed out in rivers, all of it falling down upon Lin Ming’s body in torrents.
This starlight came from the eighth Dao Palace that Lin Ming desired to break into – the Bright Channel Dao Palace.
The Nine Stars of the Dao Palace. The seven bright stars were – Ravenous Wolf, Titan Gate, Cherished Kismet, Merciful Song, Ardent Virtue, Martial Song, and Army Breaker.
The two dark stars were Bright Channel and Hidden Origin.
The last two Dao Palaces of the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace wouldn’t grant special abilities to a martial artist. However, they were like two sets of chains that linked together the nine Dao Palaces, causing them to shine ever brighter as they allowed the Great Dao to blend into them.
To open the last two Dao Palaces would bring about an overall increase in strength for a martial artist. Like an Empyrean breaking into True Divinity, there would be a comprehensive increase in strength!
After the divine chains of order were torn apart, Lin Ming borrowed the endless blood vitality within the Grandmist Spirit Bead to soar upwards!
He took the brightest of the nine stars and directly thrust it into his body!
During these years, Lin Ming had accumulated far too much in the body transformation aspect. With the addition of the Grandmist Spirit Bead helping him, even though this was a large boundary in the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace, he still made a direct breakthrough!
The star was refined by Lin Ming. The Bright Channel Dao Palace began to burn!
At this time, the seven bright Dao Palaces within Lin Ming’s body responded. They emitted sounds of ecstatic joy, as if they took great pleasure in what was occuring.
Even the already opened Eight Inner Hidden Gates, the Gate of Life, the Gate of Death, the Gate of Healing, all of those gates, all of that endless life potential burst out from Lin Ming’s body once more.
This stimulation was even more thorough than before. Even the previously unrefined blood vitality essence that remained in his body began to burn away like snow in an inferno.
Lin Ming’s mortal body was constantly attacked and regenerated within the billowing blood vitality. His skin surged like waves in a storm and his entire body emitted an aura that seemed as if he could destroy the heavens and earth.
Even some rays of light twisted around him, unable to approach him. He seemed to become a single body with the world, a self-contained system, repelling any strength that approached him.
Blinding bolts of lightning drilled out from Lin Ming’s pores. They encircled him like threads of silk, like endless purple hairs that lingered around him.
Billions upon trillions of Great Dao Laws took shape, turning into scales that bloomed on Lin Ming’s skin like flowers.
More and more blood vitality rushed out, seething with excitement, breaking everything open, forming a furnace that sprayed out without end, illuminating this entire part of the world with divine light so that everything turned translucent.
After Lin Ming thoroughly refined the strength of the Nine Stars, he seemed to emerge from the darkness of creation, a silent immortal that climbed towards the peak of the human mortal body that had been sealed away for billions of years.
At this time, Lin Ming’s mortal body emitted an even brighter brilliance. As for light from the universe, as these rays approached Lin Ming, they were crushed by a dark and strange strength.
The current Lin Ming’s mortal body had reached an incomprehensible degree.
Lin Ming’s body possessed infinite strength that needed to be vented outwards. His eyes flashed and he looked not too far away towards the divine chains of order that imprisoned the essence gathering system.
The world shook. The divine chains of order disintegrated!
Now, even Famine had been completely swallowed by Lin Ming.