Lin Ming Cultivation - Essence Gathering - Beyond True Divinity

Essence Cultivation
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Essence
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1st - Body Transformation
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Strength Training
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | In the Sky Fortune Kingdom, half of its citizens have no martial talent to speak of and weren't suited to walk the road of martial arts. As for the other half, at least eighty percent of them have a first grade martial talent. Even if these people were to practice martial arts, they would not be able to reach anywhere. One in ten of the remaining people have a ninety per cent chance of having second grade martial talent. If these people were to be diligent in their practice of martial arts, they would have a chance to accomplish something in life. However, becoming a master of the martial arts would be near hopeless for them.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | In the Sky Fortune Kingdom, half of its citizens have no martial talent to speak of and weren't suited to walk the road of martial arts. As for the other half, at least eighty percent of them have a first grade martial talent. Even if these people were to practice martial arts, they would not be able to reach anywhere. One in ten of the remaining people have a ninety per cent chance of having second grade martial talent. If these people were to be diligent in their practice of martial arts, they would have a chance to accomplish something in life. However, becoming a master of the martial arts would be near hopeless for them.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | In the Sky Fortune Kingdom, half of its citizens have no martial talent to speak of and weren't suited to walk the road of martial arts. As for the other half, at least eighty percent of them have a first grade martial talent. Even if these people were to practice martial arts, they would not be able to reach anywhere. One in ten of the remaining people have a ninety per cent chance of having second grade martial talent. If these people were to be diligent in their practice of martial arts, they would have a chance to accomplish something in life. However, becoming a master of the martial arts would be near hopeless for them.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | In the Sky Fortune Kingdom, half of its citizens have no martial talent to speak of and weren't suited to walk the road of martial arts. As for the other half, at least eighty percent of them have a first grade martial talent. Even if these people were to practice martial arts, they would not be able to reach anywhere. One in ten of the remaining people have a ninety per cent chance of having second grade martial talent. If these people were to be diligent in their practice of martial arts, they would have a chance to accomplish something in life. However, becoming a master of the martial arts would be near hopeless for them.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | In the Sky Fortune Kingdom, half of its citizens have no martial talent to speak of and weren't suited to walk the road of martial arts. As for the other half, at least eighty percent of them have a first grade martial talent. Even if these people were to practice martial arts, they would not be able to reach anywhere. One in ten of the remaining people have a ninety per cent chance of having second grade martial talent. If these people were to be diligent in their practice of martial arts, they would have a chance to accomplish something in life. However, becoming a master of the martial arts would be near hopeless for them.

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.

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 * Combat Prowess: 2nd Stage Body Training

Flesh Training
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 26 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.

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 * Combat Prowess: 3rd Stage Body Training
 * Strength: 2,700 Jins

Viscera Training
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" | Chapter 73 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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,
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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,
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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,
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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,
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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!

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 * Combat Prowess: 4th Stage Body Training
 * Strength: 3,900 Jins

Viscera Training Large Success
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" | Chapter 100 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhu Yan.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhu Yan.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhu Yan.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is training and practicing in preparation for his match with Zhu Yan.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | 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.

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 * Combat Prowess: 5th Stage Body Training
 * Strength: 5,300 Jins

Altering Muscle
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 136 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |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.

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 * Combat Prowess: 6th Stage Body Training. (Chapter 164 - Peak Pulse Condensation with the help of Thunderbolt Devilfire Bead)
 * Strength: In Chapter 146 became 7,200 Jins after Lim Ming inscribed the "Strife Seal" on his body.

Bone Forging
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 178 -- Age 15
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px;" |Lin Ming is in the Southern Wilderness because of an assassination set-up of Ouyang Dihua.He helped 2 witch sisters to get out of the clutches of 2 Peak Bone Forging and, because of this, and with the hope of Lim Ming helping them avenge the death of their parents and people, the 2 witch sisters gave him a pendant which allowed Lin Ming to proceed to the 4th level and above of the Sorcerer's Pagoda.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px;" |Lin Ming is in the Southern Wilderness because of an assassination set-up of Ouyang Dihua.He helped 2 witch sisters to get out of the clutches of 2 Peak Bone Forging and, because of this, and with the hope of Lim Ming helping them avenge the death of their parents and people, the 2 witch sisters gave him a pendant which allowed Lin Ming to proceed to the 4th level and above of the Sorcerer's Pagoda.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px;" |Lin Ming is in the Southern Wilderness because of an assassination set-up of Ouyang Dihua.He helped 2 witch sisters to get out of the clutches of 2 Peak Bone Forging and, because of this, and with the hope of Lim Ming helping them avenge the death of their parents and people, the 2 witch sisters gave him a pendant which allowed Lin Ming to proceed to the 4th level and above of the Sorcerer's Pagoda.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px;" |Lin Ming is in the Southern Wilderness because of an assassination set-up of Ouyang Dihua.He helped 2 witch sisters to get out of the clutches of 2 Peak Bone Forging and, because of this, and with the hope of Lim Ming helping them avenge the death of their parents and people, the 2 witch sisters gave him a pendant which allowed Lin Ming to proceed to the 4th level and above of the Sorcerer's Pagoda.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px;" |Lin Ming is in the Southern Wilderness because of an assassination set-up of Ouyang Dihua.He helped 2 witch sisters to get out of the clutches of 2 Peak Bone Forging and, because of this, and with the hope of Lim Ming helping them avenge the death of their parents and people, the 2 witch sisters gave him a pendant which allowed Lin Ming to proceed to the 4th level and above of the Sorcerer's Pagoda.

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.

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 * Combat Prowess: Early Houtian
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2nd - Pulse Condensation Realm
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Early Pulse Condensation

 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 276 -- Age 16
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming's breakthrough started during one of the final matches of the Martial Meeting when Qin Wuxin of the Zither Faction attacked Lin Ming with the “Profound Wind Eight Melodies!” (Ch 274)
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming's breakthrough started during one of the final matches of the Martial Meeting when Qin Wuxin of the Zither Faction attacked Lin Ming with the “Profound Wind Eight Melodies!” (Ch 274)
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming's breakthrough started during one of the final matches of the Martial Meeting when Qin Wuxin of the Zither Faction attacked Lin Ming with the “Profound Wind Eight Melodies!” (Ch 274)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming's breakthrough started during one of the final matches of the Martial Meeting when Qin Wuxin of the Zither Faction attacked Lin Ming with the “Profound Wind Eight Melodies!” (Ch 274)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming's breakthrough started during one of the final matches of the Martial Meeting when Qin Wuxin of the Zither Faction attacked Lin Ming with the “Profound Wind Eight Melodies!” (Ch 274)

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.

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 * Combat Prowess: Middle Houtian

Middle Pulse Condensation
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 315 -- Age 16
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just acquired the new Purple Comet Spear which was created by Refining Grandmaster Chi Yan specifically for him.He tried it out in a battle with the Fire Worm Church leader and the experts of the Fire Worm Tribe.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just acquired the new Purple Comet Spear which was created by Refining Grandmaster Chi Yan specifically for him.He tried it out in a battle with the Fire Worm Church leader and the experts of the Fire Worm Tribe.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just acquired the new Purple Comet Spear which was created by Refining Grandmaster Chi Yan specifically for him.He tried it out in a battle with the Fire Worm Church leader and the experts of the Fire Worm Tribe.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just acquired the new Purple Comet Spear which was created by Refining Grandmaster Chi Yan specifically for him.He tried it out in a battle with the Fire Worm Church leader and the experts of the Fire Worm Tribe.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just acquired the new Purple Comet Spear which was created by Refining Grandmaster Chi Yan specifically for him.He tried it out in a battle with the Fire Worm Church leader and the experts of the Fire Worm Tribe.

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.

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 * Combat Prowess: Late Step Xiantian

Late Pulse Condensation
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 343 -- Age 16
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Zhou Xinyu Young Mistress of the destroyed Moon Seizing Sect) are being chased by the sinister remnants of such sect. They are being chased for the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that is a precious treasure of such sect. The Shattered Demon Heart Crystal can help a Xiantian master break through to the Revolving Core realm. In order to buy time for help to arrive, Lin Ming activated the Dreamland Pearl. In the dreamland, Lin Ming ingested, absorbed and refined the Demon Heart Crystal.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Zhou Xinyu Young Mistress of the destroyed Moon Seizing Sect) are being chased by the sinister remnants of such sect. They are being chased for the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that is a precious treasure of such sect. The Shattered Demon Heart Crystal can help a Xiantian master break through to the Revolving Core realm. In order to buy time for help to arrive, Lin Ming activated the Dreamland Pearl. In the dreamland, Lin Ming ingested, absorbed and refined the Demon Heart Crystal.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Zhou Xinyu Young Mistress of the destroyed Moon Seizing Sect) are being chased by the sinister remnants of such sect. They are being chased for the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that is a precious treasure of such sect. The Shattered Demon Heart Crystal can help a Xiantian master break through to the Revolving Core realm. In order to buy time for help to arrive, Lin Ming activated the Dreamland Pearl. In the dreamland, Lin Ming ingested, absorbed and refined the Demon Heart Crystal.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Zhou Xinyu Young Mistress of the destroyed Moon Seizing Sect) are being chased by the sinister remnants of such sect. They are being chased for the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that is a precious treasure of such sect. The Shattered Demon Heart Crystal can help a Xiantian master break through to the Revolving Core realm. In order to buy time for help to arrive, Lin Ming activated the Dreamland Pearl. In the dreamland, Lin Ming ingested, absorbed and refined the Demon Heart Crystal.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Zhou Xinyu Young Mistress of the destroyed Moon Seizing Sect) are being chased by the sinister remnants of such sect. They are being chased for the Shattered Demon Heart Crystal that is a precious treasure of such sect. The Shattered Demon Heart Crystal can help a Xiantian master break through to the Revolving Core realm. In order to buy time for help to arrive, Lin Ming activated the Dreamland Pearl. In the dreamland, Lin Ming ingested, absorbed and refined the Demon Heart Crystal.

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 * Combat Prowess: Half Step Xiantian

Peak Pulse Condensation
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 391 -- Age 16
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming attended Divine Phoenix Island’s Exalted Vice Island Master Tianguang’s 400th Birthday Banquet. Lin Ming just won every battle he participated in the skill competitions of such banquet.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming attended Divine Phoenix Island’s Exalted Vice Island Master Tianguang’s 400th Birthday Banquet. Lin Ming just won every battle he participated in the skill competitions of such banquet.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming attended Divine Phoenix Island’s Exalted Vice Island Master Tianguang’s 400th Birthday Banquet. Lin Ming just won every battle he participated in the skill competitions of such banquet.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming attended Divine Phoenix Island’s Exalted Vice Island Master Tianguang’s 400th Birthday Banquet. Lin Ming just won every battle he participated in the skill competitions of such banquet.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming attended Divine Phoenix Island’s Exalted Vice Island Master Tianguang’s 400th Birthday Banquet. Lin Ming just won every battle he participated in the skill competitions of such banquet.

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.

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 * Combat Prowess: Early Xiantian
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3rd - Houtian
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 * Lifespan - 200 years
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Early Houtian
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 406 -- Age 17
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.The stone spirit explained: “The Ancient Phoenix Main Hall is the training grounds of the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s army.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.The stone spirit explained: “The Ancient Phoenix Main Hall is the training grounds of the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s army.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.The stone spirit explained: “The Ancient Phoenix Main Hall is the training grounds of the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s army.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.The stone spirit explained: “The Ancient Phoenix Main Hall is the training grounds of the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s army.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.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!”

Lin Ming meditated and practiced his techniques and skills. He also continuously ingested and refined Demon Heart Crystals.

Tempering Marrow is around 40% complete, and my true essence has already filled to the limit of Pulse Condensation.

He assimilated the Fallen Star Flame into his true essence. A tremendous energy that was contained with a medium-grade earth-step Flame Essence burst forth. A massive amount of energy broke into his meridians, savagely conflicting with Lin Ming’s own true essence!

Under this trembling surge of energy, the energy in Lin Ming’s dantian and meridians also received a severe shock.

As the energy of the Fallen Star Flame began to be gradually assimilate into his true essence, after some time, Lin Ming could hear a cracking sound; the true essence within his dantian and meridians had connected!

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 * Combat Prowess: Middle Xiantian

Middle Houtian
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 407 -- Age 17
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in his 9th month ill in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.Lin Ming's cultivation is already at the peak of the middle Houtian realm and Tempering Marrow has reached 60% completion. All that’s left over is the last Shattered Demon Heart Crystal!”
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in his 9th month ill in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.Lin Ming's cultivation is already at the peak of the middle Houtian realm and Tempering Marrow has reached 60% completion. All that’s left over is the last Shattered Demon Heart Crystal!”
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in his 9th month ill in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.Lin Ming's cultivation is already at the peak of the middle Houtian realm and Tempering Marrow has reached 60% completion. All that’s left over is the last Shattered Demon Heart Crystal!”
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in his 9th month ill in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.Lin Ming's cultivation is already at the peak of the middle Houtian realm and Tempering Marrow has reached 60% completion. All that’s left over is the last Shattered Demon Heart Crystal!”
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in his 9th month ill in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial.Lin Ming's cultivation is already at the peak of the middle Houtian realm and Tempering Marrow has reached 60% completion. All that’s left over is the last Shattered Demon Heart Crystal!”

After breaking through to the Houtian realm, because of his solid foundation, Lin Ming’s cultivation had increased by leaps and bounds. In just half a year, he had gone from the early Houtian realm to the top of the middle Houtian realm.

He was just a single step from reaching the late Houtian realm.

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 * Combat Prowess: Late Xiantian

Early Houtian
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 408 -- Age 17
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |After 10 months in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial, Lin Ming has finally completed it.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |After 10 months in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial, Lin Ming has finally completed it.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |After 10 months in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial, Lin Ming has finally completed it.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |After 10 months in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial, Lin Ming has finally completed it.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |After 10 months in the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm undergoing the Final General Level Smelting Trial, Lin Ming has finally completed it.

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 * Combat Prowess: Extreme Xiantian
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4th - Xiantian
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 * Lifespan - 500 years
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Early Xiantian
! ! ! After completely absorbing the golden juice of the Nirvana Dragon Root, the scattered true essence in Lin Ming’s dantian began to spontaneously condense into a twisting vortex, slowly spinning around.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 406 -- Age 17
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming has just left the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Palace after obtaining the Nirvana Dragon Root and the Cosmic Melting Furnace right out of the noses of numerous Elders and Sect Masters.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming has just left the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Palace after obtaining the Nirvana Dragon Root and the Cosmic Melting Furnace right out of the noses of numerous Elders and Sect Masters.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming has just left the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Palace after obtaining the Nirvana Dragon Root and the Cosmic Melting Furnace right out of the noses of numerous Elders and Sect Masters.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming has just left the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Palace after obtaining the Nirvana Dragon Root and the Cosmic Melting Furnace right out of the noses of numerous Elders and Sect Masters.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming has just left the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Palace after obtaining the Nirvana Dragon Root and the Cosmic Melting Furnace right out of the noses of numerous Elders and Sect Masters.

The originally chaotic state suddenly became organized.

The sign of the Pulse Condensation was true essence meridian penetration, the sign of the Houtian realm was true essence accumulating in the dantian, and the sign for the Xiantian realm was true essence forming an organized system within the dantian.

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 * Combat Prowess : Middle Revolving Core
 * Strength : 200,000 Jins
 * Combat Prowess : Middle Revolving Core
 * Strength : 200,000 Jins

Middle Xiantian
! ! ! Lin Ming looked inward and inspected his dantian and meridians. He found that in his dantian, the true essence cyclone there had already condensed a bit of liquid mist; his foundation couldn’t be any more solid.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 552 -- Age 18
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming rented a battle array disc that recorded the fight of the eighth stage Life Destruction martial artist. In his practice room he watched the array disc.  He meditated on what he saw, cultivated and practiced with his spear. He practiced the spear by applying the concept of space and time he gleaned from the battle he watched'
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming rented a battle array disc that recorded the fight of the eighth stage Life Destruction martial artist. In his practice room he watched the array disc.  He meditated on what he saw, cultivated and practiced with his spear. He practiced the spear by applying the concept of space and time he gleaned from the battle he watched'
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming rented a battle array disc that recorded the fight of the eighth stage Life Destruction martial artist. In his practice room he watched the array disc.  He meditated on what he saw, cultivated and practiced with his spear. He practiced the spear by applying the concept of space and time he gleaned from the battle he watched'
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming rented a battle array disc that recorded the fight of the eighth stage Life Destruction martial artist. In his practice room he watched the array disc.  He meditated on what he saw, cultivated and practiced with his spear. He practiced the spear by applying the concept of space and time he gleaned from the battle he watched'
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming rented a battle array disc that recorded the fight of the eighth stage Life Destruction martial artist. In his practice room he watched the array disc.  He meditated on what he saw, cultivated and practiced with his spear. He practiced the spear by applying the concept of space and time he gleaned from the battle he watched'

“I don’t know if it’s because I entered into an ethereal state or because of the high degree of my spiritual concentration, but the effects of these last 30 days have been far better than usual. Not only did I gain new insights into the Concepts of Space and Time, but my cultivation has firmly stepped into the middle Xiantian realm."

Lin Ming looked inward and inspected his dantian and meridians. He found that in his dantian, the true essence cyclone there had already condensed a bit of liquid mist; his foundation couldn’t be any more solid.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Revolving Core

Late Xiantian
! ! ! Previously he had meditated and had been enlightened in the Concepts of Thunder and Fire. He was able to self-create tow martial techniques - Chasing Thunder and Chasing Sun. He is now trying to fuse the Concept of Fire and Thunder.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 574 -- Age 19
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 3rd floor of the Skysplit Tower and he is cultivating and practicing in the Concept of Thunder Practice Area.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 3rd floor of the Skysplit Tower and he is cultivating and practicing in the Concept of Thunder Practice Area.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 3rd floor of the Skysplit Tower and he is cultivating and practicing in the Concept of Thunder Practice Area.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 3rd floor of the Skysplit Tower and he is cultivating and practicing in the Concept of Thunder Practice Area.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 3rd floor of the Skysplit Tower and he is cultivating and practicing in the Concept of Thunder Practice Area.

After fusing the 2 concepts, he was able to compress the true essence cyclone in his dantian and make a breakthrough.

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 * Combat Prowess : Half-step Life Destruction

Peak Xiantian
! ! ! 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.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 591 -- Age 19
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the King's Cage of the Skysplit Tower for about 100 days.

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.

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 * Combat Prowess : 1st Life Destruction

Half-step Revolving Core
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 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 622 -- Age 20
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will.  He was also absorbing and refining  top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will.  He was also absorbing and refining  top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will.  He was also absorbing and refining  top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will.  He was also absorbing and refining  top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will.  He was also absorbing and refining  top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.

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 * Combat Prowess : 1st Life Destruction
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5th - Revolving Core
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Early Revolving Core
! ! ! He decided to cultivate and started with absorbing the Transformed Demon Bone. With the energy from the bone, he tempered his Battle Spirit into its elementary form.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 634 -- Age 20
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.

All of the energy within Lin Ming’s meridians had been poured into his dantian. True essence was constantly forming into tiny grains, slowly spinning into a true essence cyclone there. The more it spun, the closer they approached the center, finally settling at the center of the cyclone and condensing into a spinning crystal core.

This was… the Revolving Core.

The reason that the Revolving Core was called ‘revolving’ core, was because the core was always spinning.

When a martial artist was at the Houtian realm, their dantian had just opened and their true essence was in chaos. With no regulations at all, the efficiency of this true essence was naturally low. When a martial artist reached the Xiantian realm, the true essence would form a stable true essence cyclone in their dantian, increasing the efficiency by another level. However, the total amount of true essence wouldn’t increase by too much. Finally, when a martial artist arrived at the Revolving Core realm, the true essence cyclone in their dantian would condense into a revolving true essence crystal core, with their total amounts of true essence increasing by a large margin!

The spinning true essence turning into a crystal core was just like some celestial bodies of the universe turning into a rotating form.

This was the so-called similarities of the Great Dao. The human body became a miniature universe.

As another day passed, the Revolving Core in Lin Ming’s dantian was now the size of a pigeon’s egg.

Another day later, Lin Ming’s Revolving Core grew yet again, this time turning into a more normal looking sphere. Now, it was around the size of a walnut. This Revolving Core was about 25% larger than a normal martial artist’s Revolving Core.

Another day passed. The Revolving Core grew once more to the size of a wild hen’s egg.

After another day, the Revolving Core became the size of a chicken’s egg. This was already twice the size of a normal martial artist’s Revolving Core!

Then, the fifth day followed. The Revolving Core did not increase in size, but the inherent true essence began to grow more concentrated. As more true essence grains fused with the Revolving Core, the energy within became increasingly rich!

On the sixth day, the Revolving Core shrunk, going back to the size of a wild hen’s egg. But, not only did the total amount of true essence not decrease, but it instead increased by another level!

On the seventh day, the Revolving Core shrunk once again, returning to the size of a walnut. This Revolving Core wasn’t much larger than an ordinary martial artist’s, but the total true essence quantity within was many times greater than that of an ordinary martial artist’s!

(Ch 635) On the eighth day of forming the core, Lin Ming’s Revolving Core was the exact same size as an ordinary martial artist’s, except that the energy within was several times greater.

Compared to an ordinary martial artist’s Revolving Core, the Revolving Core within Lin Ming’s dantian was a much darker hue, and also spun several times faster.

Normally, the faster a Revolving Core spun, the more volatile and active the energy was within, meaning that when it erupted all at once, it would be much more terrifying.

With such a solid energy and fast spinning speed united, Lin Ming’s potential strength could be imagined!

At this time, the Revolving Core in Lin Ming’s dantian reached the finale of its condensation process. The Revolving Core no longer changed in size, instead beginning to take its final form. The surrounding energy within the dantian completely gathered onto the Revolving Core, continuously streaming onto this crystalline core.

The Revolving Core became increasingly round. When it was around 99% formed, the energy within the dantian began to suddenly accelerate!

At this time, the true essence crystal core became the incarnation of a voracious monster, completely and recklessly swallowing all of the true essence in Lin Ming’s dantian, leaving it empty of energy. This caused every single bit of true essence in Lin Ming’s body to converge into his dantian like an ocean falling into a sinkhole.

Lin Ming’s dantian became a powerful bottomless pit of suction. It set off a massive whirlpool of true essence, sweeping in all of Lin Ming’s energies.

In a mere few breaths of time, all the energy in Lin Ming’s meridians was sucked dry!

Then, this suction force spread through Lin Ming’s body. Heaven and earth origin energy was also sucked in by this powerful force, continuously gathering into Lin Ming’s dantian!

At the moment a martial artist completed their Revolving Core, it would result in a qualitative change. It would become solid, round, and filled with a deep gravitational force!

It was just like when a star of the universe collapsed into a white dwarf star or neutron star. Once it collapsed, the mass would stay the same and the size would decrease but the gravity would experience a massive leap upwards!

When the cyclone within a martial artist condensed into a Revolving Core it was also a similar process of collapsing. The instant that a Revolving Core formed, because of the intense suction, it would completely condense all energies into the dantian. Within the void of the dantian, the newly condensed crystal core would cause a massive whirlpool, sucking in all the surrounding energy and leading the total true essence amount to have a massive leap.

This sort of leap would bring doubled or even quadrupled strength. Not just that, but after the Revolving Core formed, this sort of true essence crystal core would continuously maintain this attractive force. This was the reason that a Revolving Core martial artist far surpassed a Xiantian martial artist in condensing energy towards their dantian. Whether it was cultivation speed, endurance, regenerative ability, everything would rise.

With these several reasons added together, this was the reason that a martial artist would experience a massive leap in strength from Xiantian to Revolving Core!

Thus, this was why even a Saint level talent like Mu Qianyu, when at half-step Revolving Core, still found it only barely possible to fight a true Revolving Core martial artist.

The attractive pull of Lin Ming’s true essence crystal core was far more terrifying than that of an ordinary martial artist. The true essence whirlpool increasingly intensified without any signs of stopping. It formed a massive cloud of purple heaven and earth origin energy above Lin Ming’s head. At the center of these vast clouds, a funnel-shaped tornado extended downwards, enveloping Lin Ming at the very end and steadily streaming into his dantian.

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 * Combat Prowess : 2nd Life Destruction

Middle Revolving Core
! ! ! The Revolving Core in Lin Ming’s dantian more than doubled, and then a scene similar to when he had broken through to Black Hole Revolving Core occurred.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" | Chapter 708 -- Age 21
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in one of the pocket dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, which is now deep underneath the South Sea. It was under attack by Xuan Wuji, the leader of the South Sea Demon Region.  In order to stop these attacks, Lin Ming decided to make himself stronger and one  of the solutions is to breakthrough to the Middle Revolving Core.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in one of the pocket dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, which is now deep underneath the South Sea. It was under attack by Xuan Wuji, the leader of the South Sea Demon Region.  In order to stop these attacks, Lin Ming decided to make himself stronger and one  of the solutions is to breakthrough to the Middle Revolving Core.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in one of the pocket dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, which is now deep underneath the South Sea. It was under attack by Xuan Wuji, the leader of the South Sea Demon Region.  In order to stop these attacks, Lin Ming decided to make himself stronger and one  of the solutions is to breakthrough to the Middle Revolving Core.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in one of the pocket dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, which is now deep underneath the South Sea. It was under attack by Xuan Wuji, the leader of the South Sea Demon Region.  In order to stop these attacks, Lin Ming decided to make himself stronger and one  of the solutions is to breakthrough to the Middle Revolving Core.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in one of the pocket dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, which is now deep underneath the South Sea. It was under attack by Xuan Wuji, the leader of the South Sea Demon Region.  In order to stop these attacks, Lin Ming decided to make himself stronger and one  of the solutions is to breakthrough to the Middle Revolving Core.

Within his dantian, the crystal Revolving Core first shattered, then began to collapse. After several breaths’ time, it condensed into a much smaller form, and its spinning speed became much faster than before. The crystal core seemed to form a perfect ball, darker than ink. The true essence contained within was several times the previous amount.

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 * Combat Prowess : 3rd Life Destruction

Late Revolving Core
! ! ! In seclusion, he absorbed and assimilated into his bloodline the blood of the Ancient Phoenix he had acquired. After absorbing the blood, he meditated on the laws contained within the Ancient Phoenix blood.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 742 -- Age 21
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just passed the King Level Smelting Trial of the Ancient Phoenix Clan by staying in the second world of the God Transforming Mirror for 81 breaths of time. He was thus able to acquire a mace (60-70 drops) of blood of the Ancient Phoenix.  Later he was also able to acquire another 10 drops of blood.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just passed the King Level Smelting Trial of the Ancient Phoenix Clan by staying in the second world of the God Transforming Mirror for 81 breaths of time. He was thus able to acquire a mace (60-70 drops) of blood of the Ancient Phoenix.  Later he was also able to acquire another 10 drops of blood.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just passed the King Level Smelting Trial of the Ancient Phoenix Clan by staying in the second world of the God Transforming Mirror for 81 breaths of time. He was thus able to acquire a mace (60-70 drops) of blood of the Ancient Phoenix.  Later he was also able to acquire another 10 drops of blood.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just passed the King Level Smelting Trial of the Ancient Phoenix Clan by staying in the second world of the God Transforming Mirror for 81 breaths of time. He was thus able to acquire a mace (60-70 drops) of blood of the Ancient Phoenix.  Later he was also able to acquire another 10 drops of blood.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just passed the King Level Smelting Trial of the Ancient Phoenix Clan by staying in the second world of the God Transforming Mirror for 81 breaths of time. He was thus able to acquire a mace (60-70 drops) of blood of the Ancient Phoenix.  Later he was also able to acquire another 10 drops of blood.

The Revolving Core crystal nucleus in his dantian had grown to the size of a fist and it rapidly spun like a top. A red layer of mist covered the surface of the Revolving Core.

The Revolving Core began to collapse from the inside out!

The entire Revolving Core rapidly reduced in size, emitting blazing rays of fiery light. Heaven and earth energy crazily gathered together, constantly condensing.

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 * Combat Prowess : 4th Life Destruction
 * Strenth : 1,000,000 Jins
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6th - Life Destructions Realm
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 808) As Demonshine spoke here he paused, letting Lin Ming mull over his words. Then, he continued, “The following is the key point. As you cross through the first stage of Life Destruction, your very body will decompose into its most basic components before reforging itself. This means that the martial artist’s physical body will become like their dantian, able to store and save true essence at will. Thus, this is similar to body transformation’s tempering of the body where the body becomes invincible like a treasure, but there is a fundamental difference. And, this is the point. Through body transformation, the body becomes that much tougher and much more difficult to decompose. You must consume far, far more energy to do so, and the process of reforming your body is exceedingly dangerous!
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | (Ch 809) When a martial artist went from the late Revolving Core realm to Life Destruction, this was when the accumulated true essence in their dantian reached the limit that could be contained. Then, it would naturally detonate and the energy would break out of the dantian, surging through all of the surrounding meridians.

A martial artist’s meridians had a far smaller ability to hold true essence than the dantian. As a result, the meridians would completely shatter and the massive amount of energy would rage out, destroying the body, dismantling the flesh, sending blood flying everywhere!

The meridians and blood vessels would be first and then the flesh and organs.

Finally, all that would be left over was the skeleton and brains.

Common sense dictated that once a person became like this, they were already deader than dead. However, through the power of unknown Laws that governed the universe, even though the body had completely disintegrated into a puddle of meat, their energy would be fused into this puddle and it would be imprisoned into a contained area. This would actually form a primordial life soup that sustained their soul, maintaining the fires of their life.

This primordial life soup was just like the amniotic fluid within a mother’s womb. Finally, heaven and earth origin would enter and create new life, a new body.

And in such a new body, because of the energy reformed throughout, this would then condense into a spirit body.

Because the entire process of Life Destruction involved having the body decompose into nothing but the brain and skeleton, this could be called suffering a pain beyond death.

Moreover, a martial artist needed to maintain complete mental clarity throughout this entire process in order to use their energy to create a shield around them that sustained their life, making sure the fires of their life stayed vibrant and their soul didn’t scatter.

If a martial artist’s mind wavered because of the pain and they lost their concentration, then the cage that confined their primordial life soup would give way. Once that confinement collapsed, then they were beyond dead!

This was why crossing Life Destruction was known as the most dangerous boundary, especially to martial artists that didn’t have a solid foundation. Even if one had the support of many heavenly materials that could increase the chances of success for crossing Life Destruction, it was still possible that an accident could occur, causing one to instantly die without any chance for redemption!

Moreover, the higher stages of Life Destruction one progressed the more difficult it would become. Stage after stage after stage, this truly left one in despair!

And the Divine Sea realm was even farther away. This made Life Destruction martial artists feel as if a cold phantom saber was always hanging over their heads. Their lives were filled with constant fear and trepidation due to this. Many martial artists that didn’t have a solid foundation and wouldn’t even dare to cross just the first stage of Life Destruction, clinging to their current realm, wavering in their decision to go further.

And time was the most precious commodity to a martial artist. If they wasted their time, they would have less and less life, the fires of their life would become increasingly weak and their chances of crossing further stages of Life Destruction would become even worse. This was the reason why Old Man Yan, Lian Shiyu, and all those other wizened Elders had gone crazy over the Life Bestowing Heaven Pill.

Life Destruction realm martial artists only had two choices.

They could choose when the fires of their live were at their most vibrant and undertake this trial of life or death, possibly gaining a stronger power and a longer life.

Or they could condemn themselves to mediocrity, letting the fires of their life burn out until they became nothing but dirt.

There was no choice to wait until their life reached its end and gamble on a final bet. This caused many Life Destruction martial artists to live in an abyss of endless mental anguish, making it so that their hope to reach the Divine Sea reached manic levels of craziness. ! ! ! From the third stage of Life Destruction to the fourth stage of Life Destruction, that was to shatter the Revolving Core and then reform it. Although it wasn’t a large boundary, it was actually greater than a small boundary. !
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 875) During the stages of Life Destruction, there would be no changes in the dantian. Rather, a martial artist’s physical body would transform into a spirit body and they would gain the characteristic of saving true essence in their flesh. This would again cause the total quantity of true essence within them to increase by several times.
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 894) The fourth to sixth stages of Life Destruction focused on tempering the dantian.
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 904) The most perfect path to cross Life Destruction was divided into nine stages. The first three stages rebuilt the mortal body, the second three stages shattered and recast the Revolving Core, and the last three stages of Life Destruction reformed the soul.
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 932) The highest levels of Life Destruction were divided into nine stages. The first three stages reformed the spirit body, the second three stages reformed the core, and the last three stages reformed the divine soul.

After crossing six stages of Life Destruction, one could rely on their own strength to reach the Divine Sea. But the last three stages pertained to the future strength of a martial artist and how far they would be able to walk on their path of martial arts. The more formidable a soul was, the more energy it was able to manipulate. The soul was also related to the will; it was the carrier of the battle spirit. If one’s soul wasn’t powerful, their potential was limited. !
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 981) In seeking Ninefall, the path is divided into three stages of three. They are called – essence, energy, and soul!”

Essence meant the physical form and blood essence. The first three stages cultivated ‘essence’, meaning they decomposed the mortal body to form a spirit body.

Energy was origin energy and true essence. When others said to concentrate energy into the dantian, that was because the dantian contained ‘energy’. The second three stages of Life Destruction cultivated this ‘energy’. That was to shatter the dantian and reform the Revolving Core!

Soul meant divine soul. The final three stages where about the soul and this was also the most mysterious process.

Essence, energy, and soul were the basis of all life, and also the basis of every martial artists’ martial path. The three were the most fundamental aspects of martial arts. In order to seek Ninefall, one had to cultivate essence, energy, and soul to perfection before stepping into the Divine Sea realm, otherwise it would be extremely difficult to have great success in the future. Lin Ming’s sixth stage of Life Destruction was the final pass in cultivating ‘energy’, he certainly had to do everything to perfection. ! ! colspan="3" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |
 * colspan="5" |(Ch 1071) At the seventh, eighth and ninth stages of Life Destruction, the human body would break down, the revolving core would shatter, and even the soul would dissolve. This was the so-called breaking and reforming of a martial artist’s essence, energy, and divine.
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1st Life Destruction
! ! ! After Lin Ming consumed the Twinlife Crystal in order to form his Silver Battle Spirit, the Purple Lion Thunder was angered. However, Lin Ming was able to absorb the Purple Lion Thunder. Flooded with the Purple Lion Thunder Source’s energy, Lin Ming’s disintegrated body finally began to slowly assemble itself!
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.

After a martial artist successfully crossed Life Destruction, the excessive energy in their dantian would spread throughout their body, then becoming empty of energy.

And after the human body transformed into a spirit body that could contain true essence, their body would also have an energy deficit. This would cause them to crazily absorb heaven and earth origin energy from them surroundings, filling them with an energy several times that of before. This was also a reason why a first stage Life Destruction martial artist was so much stronger than a late Revolving Core martial artist.

Normally, a martial artist required several days to absorb energy. For Lin Ming, even though the surrounding heaven and earth origin energy around him was already as rich as it could be, his foundation was extremely solid, and thus he needed far more energy.

Lin Ming’s body was like a bottomless pit. A massive cyclone of energy appeared in the sky, forming a funnel at the center that stretched down into the Sky Lock Array, and constantly gathering heaven and earth origin energy at that point.

Lin Ming greedily absorbed all of this energy from his cocoon of thunder. After a quarter hour passed, the surrounding heaven and earth energy was nearly completely absorbed. At this moment, that cocoon of thunder also burst out with a myriad brilliance. A faint echo of the heavens sounded out again, and the breath of the Great Dao seemed to blow through the world, mystical and cast as if a divine dragon were being born.

Everyone’s eyes were locked onto the cocoon. The cocoon turned into countless arcs of thunder that scattered away. With the glorious sunset fading behind him, Lin Ming appeared floating high in the air, wrapped in a untouched white robe.

As he looked at his dantian again, he was impressed to discover that a layer of azure origin energy fog covered his dantian. Also, this fog connected his dantian to his flesh, faintly combining as one. This was the symbol of a true Life Destruction martial artist. The faint dantian was directly connected to the body, unlike a Revolving Core martial artist where their dantian was connected to the body through meridians.

And Lin Ming found that the energy in his dantian was far too rich.

“Mm? I’m already at the peak of the first stage of Life Destruction!”

As soon as he crossed the first stage of Life Destruction he reached the peak! However, this was also reasonable. Lin Ming’s cultivation was originally far more than enough. It was just that his physical body was far too tenacious because he practiced body transformation and opened the Eight Inner Hidden Gates. It had made it extremely difficult to decompose his body, forcing Lin Ming’s cultivation to be compressed to the extreme. Then, with a great number of heavenly treasures combined together, he had finally made his breakthrough. His strength had soared in return.

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 * Combat Prowess : 7th Life Destruction

2nd Life Destruction
! ! ! Lin Ming stepped onto the central array platform and then revolved all the energy within his body and divided his 360 acupoints into 72 points.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 875 -- Age 23
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is still in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He wants to breakthrough to 2nd Life Destruction so that he will be more prepared when he explores the Temple of Marvels that existed in the Sea of Miracles and had appeared in the skies above the 8000 Mile Black Swamp.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is still in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He wants to breakthrough to 2nd Life Destruction so that he will be more prepared when he explores the Temple of Marvels that existed in the Sea of Miracles and had appeared in the skies above the 8000 Mile Black Swamp.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is still in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He wants to breakthrough to 2nd Life Destruction so that he will be more prepared when he explores the Temple of Marvels that existed in the Sea of Miracles and had appeared in the skies above the 8000 Mile Black Swamp.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is still in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He wants to breakthrough to 2nd Life Destruction so that he will be more prepared when he explores the Temple of Marvels that existed in the Sea of Miracles and had appeared in the skies above the 8000 Mile Black Swamp.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " | Lin Ming is still in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He wants to breakthrough to 2nd Life Destruction so that he will be more prepared when he explores the Temple of Marvels that existed in the Sea of Miracles and had appeared in the skies above the 8000 Mile Black Swamp.

These 72 points covered his entire body. With Lin Ming’s control, he crazily absorbed true essence. Then, with his dantian as the center, he erupted!

Golden red lighting poured out from the Heretical God Sprout. Combined with the energy throughout his body, it thoroughly broke down his body. All his meridians ruptured as a rain of blood shot into the air. Lin Ming turned into a vague blood fog that was filled with an incomparably pure heaven and earth origin energy.

Normally, if a person’s body exploded like this then they would be deader than dead. However, the miraculous and marvelous Laws prevented this from happening. This could be called the Heavenly Dao, and the road of martial arts was only a single path of exploring the Heavenly Dao. When a martial artist cultivated martial arts, they were conquering the Heavenly Dao to use for themselves, thus the reason why cultivating the martial path was considered to be defying the will of heavens.

On a human’s journey on the road of martial arts, there were unknown Laws that would protect them during these crucial moments. When they were about to break through the boundaries of Life Destruction, their body would completely disintegrate, with energy fusing into their every cell. Then, all of this would be locked into a small area, forming an accommodation for their soul. This primordial life soup was similar to the amniotic fluid that surrounded a baby in their mother’s womb, allowing the martial artist to maintain their fires of life.

Rich heaven and earth origin energy would fuse into this primordial life soup, tempering all the cells with energy and ejecting the impurities. These cells would then begin to reform into a spirit body.

The grade of the spirit body all depended on how thoroughly a martial artist disintegrated their body and how pure the energy was that tempered their cells.

In this primordial life soup, Lin Ming’s consciousness was incomparably clear. It was like he had become a liquid life form. He swam in a sea of energy, able to examine every cell in his body and watch as his flesh and blood were tempered by energy, slowing changing.

Lin Ming slowly woke up. He was lying naked on the floor. After his body was broken down and reformed, it gave off a feeling that he had been resurrected from the dead.

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 * Combat Prowess : 8th Life Destruction

3rd Life Destruction
! ! ! The reason that Lin Ming was able to attack the third stage of Life Destruction was all because his foundation had reached the limit of solidity. This was truly an example of preparation being the key to success.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" | Chapter 894 -- Age 23
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is more than 1 million miles away from the Sea of Miracles. He is in a cave cultivating.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is more than 1 million miles away from the Sea of Miracles. He is in a cave cultivating.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is more than 1 million miles away from the Sea of Miracles. He is in a cave cultivating.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is more than 1 million miles away from the Sea of Miracles. He is in a cave cultivating.

At this time, the energy within Lin Ming’s body was stored to the limit.

“Break apart…”

As Lin Ming quietly said these words, golden red lightning shot out from the Heretical God Sprout. It combined with the top grade spirit essence stone energy within his body and then erupted.

There was no great explosive sound as one would expect. Instead, the detonating energy expanded outwards, swallowing up Lin Ming’s entire body. Every inch of his meridians shattered and his body disintegrated into an incomparably fine blood fog, fusing together with the pure heaven and earth origin energy.

A moment later, the crimson blood fog vanished and Lin Ming’s body disappeared without a trace. But, the truth was that he hadn’t really disappeared. Instead, his body had been disintegrated into tiny particles that were even smaller than dust, completely invisible to the naked eye. These particles fluttered about in the chamber as they withstood the baptism of energy.

This was the third Life Destruction as well as the last time that the physical body was tempered.

Lin Ming’s consciousness wandered about this sea of energy. As he watched his own body vanish, his mind and perception were extremely clear. This feeling of being separated from his body gave him many insights as to the nature of energy itself. At that moment, it was like he had become a pure energy lifeform.

Time slowly passed…

One day, two days, three days…

After seven days passed, those tiny particles that fluttered in the heaven and earth origin energy began to gather together, condensing. From forming small pieces to forming large pieces, Lin Ming’s body began to slowly take form.

First was the crystalline skeleton that seemed carved from the finest jade. Then, the blood vessels began to form as gushing crimson blood filled them, as viscous and potent as liquid mercury. Then, powerful and tight muscles formed, covering his body with a layer of beautiful flesh.

Every muscle striation seemed to flow like a river, appearing like art itself. While Lin Ming’s muscles contained an aesthetic beauty, they also contained a crazy explosive force.

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 * Combat Prowess : 9th Life Destruction

4th Life Destruction
! ! ! Lin Ming decided to temper his battle spirit using the Grandmist energy of this will world and cultivate.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" | Chapter 905 -- Age 25
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Road of Emperor, inside the will world of the last will light. The world of will was filled with Grandmist energy.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Road of Emperor, inside the will world of the last will light. The world of will was filled with Grandmist energy.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Road of Emperor, inside the will world of the last will light. The world of will was filled with Grandmist energy.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Road of Emperor, inside the will world of the last will light. The world of will was filled with Grandmist energy.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Road of Emperor, inside the will world of the last will light. The world of will was filled with Grandmist energy.

From the third stage of Life Destruction to the fourth stage of Life Destruction, that was to shatter the Revolving Core and then reform it. Although it wasn’t a large boundary, it was actually greater than a small boundary.

Lin Ming had gathered strength for an entire half year for this reason. He had consumed two top grade spirit essence stones as well as a number of heavenly materials, all in order to accumulate the required origin energy to finally attack the fourth stage of Life Destruction.

Now, his body had already exploded into a fog of blood and flesh, but his black crystal nucleus still hadn’t shattered. This was Lin Ming’s Black Hole Revolving Core. To have a Black Hole Revolving Core meant that one’s foundation had reached the limit of solidity, and the degree of highly compressed energy within had also reached the limit. Compared to an ordinary Revolving Core crystal nucleus, it was far more durable!

Breaking into the fourth stage of Life Destruction from the third stage of Life Destruction was several times more difficult than breaking into the third stage of Life Destruction from the second stage of Life Destruction. This was particularly true for Lin Ming. The truth was that he was already able to shatter his Revolving Core, but to break it down even more thoroughly was much more difficult. There were many Divine Realm talents that after reaching the Black Hole Revolving Core boundary would need an Elder to assist them in breaking through to the fourth stage of Life Destruction.

Lin Ming naturally didn’t have such luxurious treatment. His thoughts moved and his battle spirit actually moved a trace of grandmist energy above his Revolving Core!

Using this incomparably heavy grandmist energy that could crush even stars, he would crush his Revolving Core!

Grandmist energy contained a nearly immeasurable amount of mass, similar to a black hole. And, Lin Ming’s Revolving Core crystal nucleus was also similar to a black hole. Both of them shared extremely similar aspects of Laws.

To use grandmist energy to drive the shattering and reforming of the Revolving Core was a risk-filled method, But, it was also a great lucky chance. After reforming his Revolving Core with grandmist energy, that would far more thoroughly temper Lin Ming’s Black Hole Revolving Core, making it approach a true energy black hole.

Cracks began to appear on the Revolving Core. Then, it completely shattered. A wisp of grandmist energy followed in, changing the circulating of energy within. The grandmist energy did not come into conflict with the highly compressed power of thunder and fire within the Revolving Core.

The Chaos Laws were undoubtedly much stronger than the Laws of the five elements. This was because chaos gave birth to all things. First there was time, space, and chaos. Then, the five elements came later. This was also the reason why Space and Time Laws also dominated the majority of other Laws.

When Lin Ming had crossed the first three stages of Life Destruction, he only needed several days for each stage. But for the fourth stage of Life Destruction, he had used an entire three months. The energy from Lin Ming’s Revolving Core crystal nucleus experienced countless incredible changes after interacting with the grandmist energy.

Finally, after three months of time, a vast and ancient aura overflowed into the world. Lin Ming’s shattered Revolving Core energy began to form a cyclone together with the grandmist energy.

The cyclone spun around and around as it began to compress together, emitting bursts of brilliant light and heat!

This sort of light and this sort of heat was actually blue in color. Its temperature was comparable to the center of a sun, even though it was just a tiny speck. The light continued to radiate for several hours. The light changed colors several times, and the volume would constantly expand, reaching a critical point before suddenly collapsing, slowing, and then inflating once again!

With an explosive banging sound, Demonshine, who had been standing guard, jumped up in shock. A flaming light shot outwards, blazing and blinding, able to even kill all other senses. Demonshine was only a soul form; all he could do was defend his soul source at that moment. He couldn’t see what happened to Lin Ming, nor could he help.

After several quarter hours of time passed, Demonshine’s senses finally began filtering back. As he opened both of his eyes, he could see that right in front of him was a walnut-sized Revolving Core crystal nucleus, its entire body jet black like liquid ink. After several breaths of time it vanished into the void, twisting all nearby light so that one couldn’t see it.

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 * Combat Prowess : Early Divine Sea Realm

5th Life Destruction
! ! ! Arcs of thunder freely crawled around his body, and behind him 12 complex array diagrams appeared. These array diagrams were formed from the Laws of the Great Dao, and there were endless mysteries contained within them.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 932 -- Age 26
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 8000 Mile Black Swamp in the cave dwelling of the Eightfall Thunder Emperor. He has just subdued and absorbed the Purple Lion Thunder Source and he is now cultivating.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 8000 Mile Black Swamp in the cave dwelling of the Eightfall Thunder Emperor. He has just subdued and absorbed the Purple Lion Thunder Source and he is now cultivating.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the 8000 Mile Black Swamp in the cave dwelling of the Eightfall Thunder Emperor. He has just subdued and absorbed the Purple Lion Thunder Source and he is now cultivating.

These array diagrams slowly rotated, slowly fusing into Lin Ming’s body. A hot, burning feeling emitted outwards. His body seemed to become like a sun as his entire body emitted a radiant light.

“This is the aura of the Great Dao Laws. The thunder dao fruits have the tracings of the Great Dao Laws fused into them, and these tracings formed these diagrams. These are also fragments of the Great Dao Laws.”

His body was filled with vitality and overflowed with energy.

He continued to meditate and cultivate, absorbing energy and becoming increasingly aware of the Great Dao Laws. After an unknown period of time, Lin Ming’s body silently collapsed. First it was his skin, then his muscles, then his meridians, all the way down to his bones and organs.

After his physical body broke apart, he turned into an intangible substance.

The fifth stage of Life Destruction, shatter and reform the core, carving the form of elementary Laws on the surface of the Revolving Core. As long as one could reach the sixth stage of Life Destruction and thoroughly condense the Laws into their Revolving Core, they could officially cross Life Destruction and attempt to break into the Divine Sea.

After half a month passed, within that blood fog, energy and essence began to gather together, forming a Revolving Core.

The process of forming the Revolving Core was extremely slow. A faint atmosphere of source energy lingered around the Revolving Core, condensing into a dao diagram.

When source energy naturally evolved, it would also naturally form a dao diagram. This was the so-called ‘postcelestial dao diagram’. The postcelestial meant that the dao diagram was naturally formed, whereas precelestial meant that it was man-made.

When source energy formed a postcelestial dao diagram, it would contain the inherent Great Dao of martial arts principles. This was also the so-called natural Laws.

Of the many dao diagrams, the most eye-catching and distinct one was the purple dao diagram. This dao diagram was ten feet wide, and the dao patterns engraved upon it shone like arcs of light, similar to bolts of thunder. The evolution was complex and enigmatic, containing profound mysteries and truths. This was the dao diagram of Thunder Laws. Lin Ming had perceived the thunder-attribute jade slip that Jiang Ziji left behind and had also eaten the thunder dao fruits, grasping all of the Great Dao fragments within the fruits. Out of all the Laws that Lin Ming comprehended, the Thunder Laws were far above all others!

A close second to the thunder dao diagram was a round red dao diagram. This red dao diagram was 8 feet wide, and the traces that throbbed on its surface where like countless beating flames. This was naturally the Fire Laws dao diagram. Lin Ming had the bloodline of the Ancient Phoenix and also trained for a long period of time at Timeworn Phoenix City. He had even meditated on the chaos stones. The fire dao diagram also had unrivalled might.

Following that, the Space Laws and Time Laws dao diagrams were far from being as impeccable as the first two; many of its traces were faint and blurry.

Behind that, there was the Darkness Laws that had just barely managed to form a dao diagram. There were many sections missing.

As for the final Wind Laws and the Concept of Vibration, they didn’t form dao diagrams. They condensed one inch long square symbols that were eclipsed underneath the dazzling radiance of the two great dao diagrams of thunder and fire.

When crossing the fifth stage of Life Destruction, and during the period when the elementary form of Laws were being carved into the surface of the Revolving Core, if dao diagrams were to form at this period, then that was an extreme phenomenon. It represented the peak solidity of foundation and also of great achievements in the future.

Lin Ming had now condensed postcelestial dao diagrams at the fifth stage of Life Destruction. Although this didn’t mean that he would become a World King in the future, this was considered a solid step towards reaching the peak of martial arts.

After three days passed, all of the dao diagrams disappeared as they fused into Lin Ming’s Revolving Core crystal nucleus. Lin Ming’s body began to slowly form. First his skeleton, then his muscles, blood vessels, meridians, and finally his skin and his hair.

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 * Combat Prowess : Middle Divine Sea Realm

6th Life Destruction
! ! ! Fairy Feng poured Nirvanic Sacred Flame into Lin Ming’s body.
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The brilliant golden flame wrapped around Lin Ming. The essence energy and blood essence of the flesh and blood dao womb was also quickened as it began to slowly pour into Lin Ming’s body.

At this time, Lin Ming’s body finally began to disintegrate. From his skin to his muscles, meridians, blood vessels, organs, skeleton, marrow, and finally even his brain!

Lin Ming’s entire body was decomposed, turning into the purest and tiniest particles possible as they wafted around the flesh and blood dao womb. The revolving core crystal nucleus within Lin Ming’s dantian flew out. This pitch black revolving core crystal nucleus was actually a perfect black hole revolving core.

Fairy Feng nodded appreciatively as she saw this revolving core crystal nucleus. The foundation of his revolving core crystal nucleus was so solid, that even in the entire Phoenix Cry Palace it was at the peak.

Wisps of golden flames sprang out from her fingers and sunk into Lin Ming’s revolving core crystal nucleus. The crystal nucleus began to melt, turning into the most pure and essential energy as it fused into the particles of flesh and blood.

She took out the 30 foot long phoenix feather and began to heat it with the Nirvanic Sacred Flame.

The phoenix feather was the feather of a God Beast; it was extremely tough. Even a Divine Lord powerhouse would find it extremely difficult to break it down!

But underneath the reducing power of the Nirvanic Sacred Flame, the phoenix feather quickly melted.

The phoenix feather melted into pure energy that fused into Lin Ming’s flesh and blood! She opened the vial of phoenix plume blood. The 20 drops of phoenix plume blood flew out and exploded into a blood fog underneath the energy, fusing into Lin Ming’s body.

The energy within the flesh and blood dao palace began to slowly fuse together. From liquid to a solid state, until the spherical crystal nucleus formed, then collapsed, and finally became a black revolving core.

After passing through the reforming process of the sixth stage of Life Destruction, Lin Ming’s revolving core was smaller, but the energy inherent within was greater and purer.

With this revolving core crystal nucleus at the center, the energy condensed into the dantian. The countless particles of flesh and blood accumulated, forming the brain, skeleton, organs, meridians, flesh, skin, and everything else.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Divine Sea Realm

7th Life Destruction
! ! ! (Ch 1021) When Lin Ming crossed the sixth stage of Life Destruction, he had done so with Fairy Feng’s help and the aid of the Nirvanic Sacred Flame.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing a breakthrough while speeding in the 18 Hells of Flame. He is being protected by the Ruby Sovereign who is supporting him his absorption and assimilation of phoenix blood gave to him by Envoy Duke Golden Sword, Monarch Envoy and those received as a reward for reaching the 7th level of the Flames of Hells.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing a breakthrough while speeding in the 18 Hells of Flame. He is being protected by the Ruby Sovereign who is supporting him his absorption and assimilation of phoenix blood gave to him by Envoy Duke Golden Sword, Monarch Envoy and those received as a reward for reaching the 7th level of the Flames of Hells.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing a breakthrough while speeding in the 18 Hells of Flame. He is being protected by the Ruby Sovereign who is supporting him his absorption and assimilation of phoenix blood gave to him by Envoy Duke Golden Sword, Monarch Envoy and those received as a reward for reaching the 7th level of the Flames of Hells.

But now, the power of fire within the Ruby Sovereign’s hands was completely different. It wasn’t just a single Fire Elemental, but the strength of thousands of flames gathered together, all-encompassing!

The 18 Hells of Flame was a fire-attribute spirit artifact. Every level had a Fire Elemental, or even multiple Fire Elementals on guard. Moreover, these Fire Elementals weren’t of an ordinary grade.

The first six levels of the 18 Hells of Flame each had a single Fire Elemental, the next six levels had two Fire Elementals, and the last six levels had three fire elementals, for a total of 36 Fire Elementals!

Besides Fire Elementals, the 18 Hells of Flames had a massive number of Flame Essences. Every level had hundreds of Flame Essences of different grades. With all of them added together, there was a total of 9999 Flame Essences!

These Flame Essences and Fire Elementals were all born from Fire Spirit Star after billions of years of history. With a planet that was a giant conflagration of fire origin energy, after such a long time, the amount of Flame Essences and Fire Elementals born could be imagined! And most of these Flame Essences and Fire Elementals were gathered within the 18 Hells of Flame!

The 18 Hells of Flame took myriad Flame Essences as soldiers, the 36 Fire Elementals as generals, and the Ruby Sovereign as an extremely magnificent spirit artifact!

And now, around the Ruby Sovereign, flames of all colors shot out from every level of the Hells of Flame. Every single wisp of the power of fire was pulled out from the numerous Flame Essences and Fire Elementals by the Ruby Sovereign.

9999 Flame Essences and 36 Fire Elementals, the power of fire was extracted from each one!

When the power of these flames gathered together, fusing as one, it formed a massive sun that floated between the Ruby Sovereign’s hands.

“Ten Thousand Flames Burning Sun!”

The Ruby Sovereign directly poured this power of fire into Lin Ming’s body!

(Ch 1022) As Lin Ming was crossing the seventh stage of Life Destruction, he had 1200 drops of ordinary Ancient Phoenix blood, 600 drops of phoenix plume blood, 16 drops of phoenix heart blood, three drops of phoenix marrow blood, and one drop of phoenix coronet blood as support!

In addition, with the Ruby Sovereign personally assisting, the artifact spirit had pulled out the power of 9999 different Flame Essences and 36 Fire Elementals. The Ruby Sovereign even added in a tiny amount of his source strength. This was the equivalent of using 10,036 different variations of flames to decompose Lin Ming’s mortal body and temper his soul!

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 * Combat Prowess : Peak Late Divine Sea Realm

8th Life Destruction
! ! ! And at this time, deep within the planet, there was a hidden cave dwelling that had just been formed. Lin Ming is cultivating in this planet.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1071 -- Age 30
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |In the vast expanse of space, there was a common-looking planet. This planet was countless billions of miles away from the great primary worlds, and the planet was also a hundred thousand miles in diameter. In the great Divine Realm, there were countless planets like this.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |In the vast expanse of space, there was a common-looking planet. This planet was countless billions of miles away from the great primary worlds, and the planet was also a hundred thousand miles in diameter. In the great Divine Realm, there were countless planets like this.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |In the vast expanse of space, there was a common-looking planet. This planet was countless billions of miles away from the great primary worlds, and the planet was also a hundred thousand miles in diameter. In the great Divine Realm, there were countless planets like this.

Lin Ming absorbed a pill refined by Mo Eversnow from the dragon marrow blood from the dragon supreme dragon bone and the Asura King.

The process of Lin Ming crossing Life Destruction this time was extremely slow. His body, dantian, and soul were far more thoroughly broken down. This was because of the mystic realm Laws. It could be said that Lin Ming’s soul was experiencing a continued baptism.

And at this moment, Lin Ming’s body began to truly reform. Above the hidden cave dwelling, with the clapping of thunder, all of the heaven and earth origin energy was stirred up. The heaven and earth origin energy for several hundred miles around was stirred up, forming a massive vortex!

A cloud slowly formed in the skies. This was Lin Ming’s Eightfall origin energy cloud!

As Lin Ming crossed Eightfall, without any surprise at all, an origin energy cloud world phenomenon appeared once more!

The origin energy cloud grew increasingly large. From three miles, to six miles, nine miles, 12 miles… all the way to 18 miles!

“Six Layered Heavens Life Destruction?”

The origin energy clouds contained both Mystic Realm Laws as well as Grandmist Laws.


 * Combat Prowess : Early Divine Transformation Realm
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9th Life Destruction
Mo Riverbliss refind the Ten Dao Fruits of the Ten Severing Dao Fruit Tree and had Lin Ming absorbed them.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1122 -- Age 31
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1122 -- Age 31
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1116) Lin Ming is in Carefree Island training and cultivating. Mo Riverbliss is assisting and proctecting.

The Ten Severing Dao Fruit Tree had been completely refined by Mo Riverbliss. When this incomparably pure energy that inherently contained the Source Laws entered Lin Ming’s body, his withered body began to emit a blindingly bright light.

At this time, Lin Ming’s body seemed to be dried up without the least bit of vitality. But, this was a phenomenon caused by the Ten Severing Dao Fruits.

(Ch 1118) For a martial artist that was crossing Ninefall, this final moment was the most critical time throughout the entire process. That was because this point was when a martial artist was completely reforming their body from the basics, and truly stepping onto the road of god, where they would undergo the baptism of the Heavenly Dao Laws. This was the so called ritual of becoming god!

During the ritual of becoming god, the true origin energy clouds would form. This ritual would decide how many Layered Heavens a martial artist crossed. A martial artist would bathe in these origin energy clouds, directly fusing with the fragments of the world Laws. If they could thoroughly fuse with these Laws, the Great Dao runes would be carved into their very flesh and blood.

To seek Ninefall and find the Nine Divine Shifts – the ninth stage of Life Destruction was the transitional point from when a mortal became divine. Before a martial artist became a Holy Lord, this would be their most important boundary. It could be called the foundation of them becoming divine!

If this foundation was solid, they could form a vast monument hundreds of thousands of feet high atop of it. If this foundation was shaky, it would be difficult to take even the tiniest step into the Divine Lord realm.

Lin Ming's origin energy cloud size was 99 miles wide, formed 33 layered heavens and 5 world phenomena - the phantoms of the Prime Emperor Lotus Flower, the Heretical God Sprout and the Magic Cube, a round bead, and a card.

(Ch 1022) The 33 Layered Heavens were the 33 Akashic Heavens!

From the 18 Heavens that diverged from the Nine Firmaments, in addition to the Four Immaculate Heavens, the Six Heavens of Desire, the Four Buddhist Heavens, as well as the Highest Immortal Heavens, that was a total of 33 Heavens.

Nine through nine return to one, after 99, the first numeral was one, just like a cycle of samsara.

The number 99 in itself contained the highest truths of the Heavenly Dao.

Nine was the extreme of all numbers, and three was the beginning of all numbers!

It was said that the Divine Law gave birth to one, one gave life to two, two formed three, and after three came all of life. Life carried yin and held yang, filled with energy and thoughts.

The Divine Law gave birth to one meant that the Heavenly Dao was the one true existence. The Heavenly Dao was the source of all existence.

One gave birth to two meant that the Heavenly Dao evolved into yin and yang energies. Yin and yang energies were the source of all matter.

Two forming three meant the contradictions that existed between yin and yang energies. This was the so-called ‘charge’.

This ‘charge’ could be understood as the interaction of yin and yang particles. This was also the ubiquitous ‘power’ that existed in the universe.

The ‘three’ from ‘after three came all of life’ wasn’t just a random number. Rather, it was yin energy, yang energy, and charge. All three evolved together, forming the boundless universe!

The Divine Realm had 3000 great worlds, the lower realms contained triple thousand worlds, a thousand times a thousand times a thousand worlds, there were 33 Layered Heavens, and the origin energy cloud could grow to 99 miles!

Ninefall was the path a martial artist had to take to become divine. They had to accept the baptism of the Heavenly Dao which contained the greatest truths in the universe.

In that instant, all of the power of blood within that sea-like origin energy cloud suddenly gathered together.

In that massive vortex, all of the world Law fragments in the origin energy cloud tumbled together, rolling up into the flesh and blood!

The highest truths of the Heavenly Dao formed lines that engraved themselves into the marrow. The Law fragments evolved into runes that buried themselves deep in the flesh and blood!

Lin Ming’s mortal body had completed its ninth reorganization, and also its last reorganization.

The origin energy cloud swirled. The power of the stars, moon, and sun all gathered up, swelling through Lin Ming and washing every inch of his flesh and blood. At this time, Lin Ming’s entire body shined with a brilliant glassy radiance. There wasn’t the slightest impurity within his body. His aura was like that of a divine immortal fallen down from the highest heavens, proud and aloof, living apart from all of the world.

The origin energy cloud naturally formed clothes that covered Lin Ming’s body.

By now, Lin Ming’s body had reached perfection!

(Ch 1124) However, a 9 Grand Tribulation came afterwards. The reason for this: “The origin energy cloud has evolved into a tribulation cloud! 33 Layered Heavens, 99 mile origin energy cloud, nine through nine returns to one, Lin Ming’s Ninefall has reached the peak of perfection. The Heavenly Dao will not abide his continued existence, thus a tribulation cloud was formed!”

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, yin and yang trubulations. Not only did he withstand these tribulations, he even refined them with the help of the Heretical God Force.

The power of his blood vitality was like that of an ancient vicious beast. His mortal body nearly resembled an indestructible diamond Vajra body. His endurance had long since reached an unbelievable boundary. His true essence was as deep as a vast sea! Every time he moved, every time he raised his hand or stepped forwards, he would exude the aura of the Laws, forming faint lights around him. These were the Law runes that had been carved into his body. They thoroughly fused into his flesh and blood, engraving themselves into his marrow!

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7th - Divine Sea Realm
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 * Lifespan - 10,000 years
 * colspan="6" |(Ch 875) After arriving at the Divine Sea realm, a martial artist’s body would be completely soaked in true essence, without any more space to store more. And at this point, countless billions of years ago, the innumerable Supreme Elders that had forged the foundation for the road of martial arts had developed a new path. This was to form a minor dimension within the dantian, and after true essence liquefied, to store that true essence within!
 * colspan="6" |(Ch 875) After arriving at the Divine Sea realm, a martial artist’s body would be completely soaked in true essence, without any more space to store more. And at this point, countless billions of years ago, the innumerable Supreme Elders that had forged the foundation for the road of martial arts had developed a new path. This was to form a minor dimension within the dantian, and after true essence liquefied, to store that true essence within!
 * colspan="6" |(Ch 875) After arriving at the Divine Sea realm, a martial artist’s body would be completely soaked in true essence, without any more space to store more. And at this point, countless billions of years ago, the innumerable Supreme Elders that had forged the foundation for the road of martial arts had developed a new path. This was to form a minor dimension within the dantian, and after true essence liquefied, to store that true essence within!
 * colspan="6" |(Ch 875) After arriving at the Divine Sea realm, a martial artist’s body would be completely soaked in true essence, without any more space to store more. And at this point, countless billions of years ago, the innumerable Supreme Elders that had forged the foundation for the road of martial arts had developed a new path. This was to form a minor dimension within the dantian, and after true essence liquefied, to store that true essence within!

The size of this minor dimension depended on a martial artist’s foundation and strength; it could be small or large. When an eighth stage Life Destruction powerhouse finally reached the late Divine Sea realm, that minor dimension would be extremely vast. The liquid true essence would surge and tumble just like a vast sea. Thus, this boundary was called the Divine Sea!

To a martial artist, the Divine Sea realm was a major leap upwards. The word ‘Divine’ also indicated that martial artists who stepped into this realm gained the power of a god in the eyes of mortals. Their fists could shatter the skies, their feet could crack the earth, and they were capable of upturning the oceans. They were simply omnipotent beings! ! colspan="3" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Early Divine Sea Realm
! ! ! 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.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1169 -- Age 31
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is cultivating and training in the Immemorial Imperial City in one of the training chambers of the Skyclass Training Chamber!.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is cultivating and training in the Immemorial Imperial City in one of the training chambers of the Skyclass Training Chamber!.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is cultivating and training in the Immemorial Imperial City in one of the training chambers of the Skyclass Training Chamber!.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is cultivating and training in the Immemorial Imperial City in one of the training chambers of the Skyclass Training Chamber!.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is cultivating and training in the Immemorial Imperial City in one of the training chambers of the Skyclass Training Chamber!.

Lin Ming opened the Gate of Life. He has just absorbed the Boundless World Pill and fused into Lin Ming’s world seed.

Now, this world spirit completely fused into Lin Ming’s world seed. At this time, his world seed finally exploded into pieces!

Countless tiny cracks appeared on this world seed that was smaller than a needle’s eye. An endless amount of energy erupted and Lin Ming’s dantian instantly collapsed!

Energy transformed into an incomparably terrifying storm, rushing outwards with utter brutality. All of the clouds for thousands of miles around were completely washed away by the shockwaves!

And after the raging storm of energy dissipated, Lin Ming’s body had actually vanished.

On this 100,000 foot high mountain peak where one could touch the skies, a completely sealed space distortion appeared in the air. The power of time, the power of space, everything was completely twisted up in here. Even light was affected, unable to maintain a straight line.

Lin Ming’s body was sealed up within this space distortion.

This was a cocoon formed from a space distortion!

World seed shattered and dantian transformed into a minor dimension – this was the symbol of the Divine Sea.

And after reaching the Divine Sea, the Laws that a martial artist comprehended would become a part of their system and also become the Heavenly Dao Laws of this minor dimension.

The massive cocoon floating in the air was a projection of the Laws from Lin Ming’s inner world.

As Lin Ming examined his body, he found that his dantian had already disappeared, replaced by a minor dimension!

The world power of the Boundless World Pill had already fused into this minor dimension. The evolution of his world had come to an end.

At this time, outside of the massive cocoon, the endless rainbow origin energy light that extended for thousands of miles suddenly gathered together, forming millions of phoenixes and fire birds that flew towards the center, all of them submerging into the giant cocoon. For a time, a blinding light filled the world, illuminating the heavens with shimmering multicolored lights.

(Ch 1170) Mo Eversnow’s divine sense spread out, looking through Lin Ming’s entire minor dimension. She revealed a satisfied smile and then said to Lin Ming, “Lin Ming, your inner minor dimension has reached a diameter of 800 miles just after you entered the Divine Sea realm. Your inner world is even larger than that of some weak late Divine Sea martial artists!”

Moreover, Lin Ming’s inner world was far more stable than the inner world of most other Divine Sea martial artists. This was because of the Boundless World Pill. Due to him having taken the Boundless World Pill, his inner world had taken on characteristics of a true world. From this alone, even if the size of their inner worlds was the same, Lin Ming’s inner world could hold far more world strength!

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Divine Transformation
 * Strength : 100,000,000 jins

Middle Divine Sea Realm
! ! ! In the process of reaching the 33rd level, he had undergone the tribulations of energy, essence, and divine. He had absorbed 27 thunder sources, absorbed the law runes of 33 dao tablets, and now he is in midst of battle with 33 phantoms.
 * colspan="2" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1266 -- Age 31
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the semi-final round of the First Martial Meeting, trying to step into the 33rd level of the Divine Seal Altar.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the semi-final round of the First Martial Meeting, trying to step into the 33rd level of the Divine Seal Altar.

Within Lin Ming’s body, the powers of essence, energy, and divine constantly gathered. With each strike, unconsciously, the three energies actually had a faint trend of fusing together.

The Laws of the 33 Layered Heavens all evolved from the foundation of essence, energy, and divine; they were the basis.

As Lin Ming climbed up the Divine Seal Altar, he absorbed a massive amount of the power of divinity. And, the power of divinity he absorbed was the three energies fused together.

When Lin Ming had shattered the 33 Dao tablets and absorbed the Law fragments of the 33 Layered Heavens, at that time he also began to slowly fuse with the triple fused energy he had absorbed.

Body transformation runes fused into his flesh and blood.

Soul forging runes fused into his soul.

Essence gathering runes fused into his inner world.

The different Law runes he absorbed began to go to their respective domains. Even the Law runes he absorbed during Ninefall began to truly integrate into his body.

By absorbing the power of divinity, Law runes, and the Concept of the 33 Layered Heavens, within the tattered Lin Ming, his body, soul, and inner world were being imperceptibly transformed!

The power of the nine heavenly tribulations (phantoms) gathered together, violently exploding!

The moment that those nine heavenly tribulations had crashed down, all of the Law fragments within Lin Ming completely fused into his body. The Heretical God Tree absorbed a great deal of energy and also helped to expand Lin Ming’s inner world. In addition to all his previous accumulations, he had successfully stepped into the middle Divine Sea realm.

In that baptism of heavenly tribulation, the three energies of essence, energy, and divine within Lin Ming’s body had begun to faintly fuse together. After the Law runes buried themselves into his soul, body, and inner world, Lin Ming’s aura and physique were completely different from how they were before.

If Lin Ming had only been aware of the Concept of the 33 Layered Heavens before, then now he had truly stepped through the great gates of the Concept of the 33 Layered Heavens!

Lin Ming’s current aura, if described with mortal words, was the aura of a god.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Divine Transformation
 * Strength : 260,000,000 (upon opening the Gate of Death - Ch 1336)

Late Divine Sea Realm
Lin Ming was originally able to easily break into the late Divine Sea realm. However, to become a true late Divine Sea realm master, he needed the complete consolidated cultivation of a late Divine Sea master and this was something that required a period of accumulation. Only by constantly absorbing energy could one expand one’s inner world and do this.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1372 -- Age 34
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss and has just absorbed the blood vitality of the heart of Empyrean Primordius.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss and has just absorbed the blood vitality of the heart of Empyrean Primordius.

But now, with the total true essence contained within Tian Mingzi’s hand to serve as a catalyst, this process would be much faster.

This was the hand of a Great World King, and Tian Mingzi was also an extraordinary person amongst all Great World Kings.

This sort of hand had been tempered for tens of thousands of years. It had long become an extremely pure spirit body.

Mo Eversnow flicked her finger and Tian Mingzi’s hand completely exploded in the air. The essence energy, the aura, the flesh and blood vitality all thoroughly separated. All of these energies formed phantoms in the air. These phantoms were all strange and bizarre. There was a black wheel disk, a pagoda, a long sword, and even demons.

These phantoms all represented the various cultivation methods that Tian Mingzi had cultivated to a high level.

When a martial artist trained in a cultivation method, part of their energy would circulate according to that cultivation method, forming a phantom. Now, even if Tian Mingzi’s avatar had died and his energies were pulled out, underneath the constraints of his cultivation methods and Laws, they would maintain their current state.

If someone was to pull out all of Lin Ming’s flesh and blood and change it into source energy, one would see these energies condense into a divine tree, black hole seed, Prime Emperor Lotus Flower, and several other phantoms.

From the phantoms of Tian Mingzi’s source energy, the most formidable one was a four-armed asura with wings. This asura carried a black wheel in its hand; the cultivation that this asura symbolized was the Heaven Absorbing Demon Art, the transcendent divine might created by Empyrean Demondawn.

Mo Eversnow thrust out her palm and all of the phantoms formed from these supernatural powers were smashed into pieces by her, turning into the purest and most source essence possible. All of these energies gathered into a great current that flowed into Lin Ming’s body.

Lin Ming certainly wouldn’t absorb Tian Mingzi’s energy as his own; he only wanted to expand his inner world using it.

Energy recklessly surged about as it impacted against the barriers of Lin Ming’s inner world. Lin Ming’s inner world became increasingly unstable. Cracks appeared as it constantly expanded.

Lin Ming sat down on the ground. Behind him, the phantom of the Heretical God Tree slowly appeared. Within the crown of this tree, a dark black hole slowly revolved.

In expanding his inner world with Tian Mingzi’s essence energy, there would inevitably be some mixed energies brought in. But all of this energy was sucked into Lin Ming’s black hole seed before being thoroughly compressed and crushed.

The black hole seed formed by the Divine Seal Art was a bottomless pit, able to absorb and annihilate all energies.

Such a state continued for several hours. Then, with a cracking sound, Lin Ming’s body suddenly shook and massive airwaves erupted from around him. The massive stone cliff trembled as if a million jin steel weight had struck it. A massive section of rock exploded as countless cracks spread through it like a spider web.

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 * Combat Prowess : Early Divine Lord
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8th - Divine Transformation Realm
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Early Divine Transformation Realm
(Ch 1382) In Primordius Heavenly Palace there was nothing to differentiate day and night. Sometimes Lin Ming would perceive the Primordius stone tablet and practice the Primordius martial intent. Sometimes Lin Ming would look through and study the cultivation experience jade slips that Empyrean Primordius had left behind, slowly practicing and making his way through them.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1383 -- Age 38
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Primordius Heavenly Palace cultivating.
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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Primordius Heavenly Palace cultivating.
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Ling Ming absorbed the essence energy of the Grandmist Spirit Bead.

For a time, an incredibly tyrannical and wild aura exuded from these black currents. These currents didn’t seem like the condensed essence of the Grandmist Spirit Bead, but seemed like the body of catastrophic desolate pythons!

Lin Ming and Mo Eversnow were both as calm as mountains, allowing these two streams of essence energy to drift towards them.

The position that these two currents of essence energy entered their bodies at was their hearts.

As the essence energy current approached his heart, Lin Ming could feel his heart begin to rapidly beat, every beat seeming as if it wanted to pump out all the blood from his body. A massive blood pressure pushed against Lin Ming’s blood vessels, turning his skin bright red and making his body extremely dry and hot.

As this essence energy entered Lin Ming’s body, it gathered in his meridians. In that moment, Lin Ming’s entire body shook as his blood streams roiled with excitement.

The power of blood vitality was originally a burning hot force just like fire. Lin Ming could feel the blood essence gathering within his body because of this energy, wildly circulating about, making him increasingly hot like a volcano on the verge of eruption. All of that thick magma was focused in Lin Ming’s blood vessels as if it had replaced his flowing blood.

In a trance, Lin Ming could feel countless complex and strange scenes run through his mind. These images were all phantoms of extremely powerful ancient existences.

There were Demon Gods, Buddhas, saints, all of them mixed up in utter chaos. But, most of these existences were God Beasts. Among these God Beasts were Dragons, Rocs, Kirins, Black Tortoises, Grand Basilisks, and so forth!

These phantoms were…

Lin Ming was stunned. From these many phantoms, Lin Ming could feel an extremely chaotic aura, and this aura was similar to the essence he had just absorbed!

(Ch 1383) For a time, the power of blood vitality within Lin Ming and Mo Eversnow began to rapidly increase. Their mortal bodies were also being transformed, reborn!

Lin Ming's inner world transformed.

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 * Combat Prowess : Middle Divine Lord.

Middle Divine Transformation Realm
As Lin Ming sat beneath the Bodhi Tree, he soon entered a complete ethereal state.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1407 -- Age 41
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 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1407 -- Age 41
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in Mount Potala cultivating and meditating.
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Time passed day by day. Lin Ming remained motionless, like a sculpture in a garden.

Every day, there would be a crystalline leaf that gently fell down from the Bodhi Tree. As it fell onto Lin Ming’s body, it would drip with a verdant green.

Occasionally there would be a Bodhi seed that fell down. These fingernail-sized Bodhi seeds were completely covered with ancient patterns that weaved together into images of Buddha, lifelike and spiritual.

The Bodhi leaves and Bodhi seeds would eventually turn into crystalline motes of light that fused into Lin Ming’s body.

The Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist comprehensions that Lin Ming studied began to slowly swirl within him, fusing with his spiritual sea.

The samsara martial intent that was within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea had faded away. It turned into a pure flow of energy that converged onto the Primordius martial intent. The ethereal martial intent was also the same.

All of these changes were sublimated within Lin Ming’s soul, becoming purely lucid.

Like this, Lin Ming sat beneath the Bodhi Tree for 33 days.

33 days later, Lin Ming’s eyes flashed open.

With an incomparably loud whistling sound, a spear-shaped battle spirit the color of blue jade howled into the air, circling in the air before returning to Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.

As for Lin Ming’s aura, it suddenly exploded outwards like an army of galloping horses!

His strength had greatly increased.

His soul had undergone a nirvana, and his martial intents had been thoroughly smoothed out.

Heavenly Demon, Heavenly Mortal, Heavenly God, these three martial intents had fused into the complete Primordius martial intent. As for the samsara martial intent and ethereal martial intent, they had also fused with it.

It was only the black hole horizon and divine dream space that Lin Ming wasn’t able to fuse together. But even so, his understandings of these two martial intents were much clearer than before.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Divine Lord

Late Divine Transformation Realm
the Emperor Stone rune turned into a beam of light that zoomed into his body, entering his inner world!
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1462 -- Age 41
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the world of the Asura Road experiencing its smelting trials. He has just received the Asura Sutra from the Asura Mastra after inscribing his name on the Emperor Stone.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1462 -- Age 41
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the world of the Asura Road experiencing its smelting trials. He has just received the Asura Sutra from the Asura Mastra after inscribing his name on the Emperor Stone.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the world of the Asura Road experiencing its smelting trials. He has just received the Asura Sutra from the Asura Mastra after inscribing his name on the Emperor Stone.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the world of the Asura Road experiencing its smelting trials. He has just received the Asura Sutra from the Asura Mastra after inscribing his name on the Emperor Stone.

In that instant, Lin Ming could feel the three god runes resonating beautifully within his inner world. In the next moment, they all broke apart at the same time, turning into pure energy. This energy was like fresh spring water, revitalizing Lin Ming’s body. This energy was different from ordinary energy; it did not enter through his meridians or acupoints but spread through his blood levels and fascia, swimming through his entire body.

What Lin Ming cultivated was the power of divinity. True essence, astral essence, spirit essence, all of it could be used by him. The mellowness of true essence, the fierceness of astral essence, and the flexibility of spirit essence, none of these characteristics were found in this energy. Rather, this energy was warm like spring water as it flowed through his body, seeming to be independent of these three types of energy.

This was a new type of energy. When the Asura Road Master comprehended the 33 Heavenly Daos and created the Asura Road, this was an energy he created beneath the inherent rules of his Heavenly Dao.

After this energy ran through Lin Ming’s entire body, it gathered in his inner world where it began to attack the boundaries of it.

Lin Ming was immersed in energy that revitalized his entire being, an intoxicating feeling. At this time, the Emperor Stone force field that had vanished reappeared once more, covering his body.

However, this force field was different from before. Before, the force had placed a tremendous pressure on him, causing him to revolve most of his energy to resist it.

But now, this force field was comfortable and light.

The force field wrapped the entire area around Lin Ming, placing him in an invisible cocoon. Within the protection of this cocoon, Lin Ming felt as if he were placed back in his mother’s womb, unimaginably cozy.

Although this strange power didn’t belong to the essence gathering system, it actually fused together true essence, astral essence, and spirit essence within their bodies, allowing their cultivation to step upwards.

n a hazy dream, Lin Ming seemed to experience an entirely different life of cultivation. He seemed to relive his time when he first started practicing martial arts at the body transformation realm. His fists struck the hard stump of an iron wood tree, each fist making dull thumping sounds. After a long, unknown period of time, the stump was wet with his blood. Without any raw materials for medicine, it was easy for hidden wounds to gather in his muscles, bones, and meridians, forming injuries that would eventually leave him crippled…

However, Lin Ming marched day after day, never giving up. He continued to train, eventually reaching the breakpoint level of a martial artist, the Pulse Condensation realm.

From that point, Houtian, Xiantian, Revolving Core… he continued to cultivate. The opponents he faced became increasingly powerful and the many mystic realms he ventured through became far more dangerous.

He didn’t know how many times he risked his life or how many times he teetered on the edge of death. But, he grew stronger every day and his cultivation grew increasingly high until he became an existence that could shake the earth heavens, freely walking through the Divine Realm, unstoppable!

He didn’t know how many years passed in this dream. Then, at some time, he suddenly woke up.

At this moment he discovered that his inner world had developed further. He had stepped into the late Divine Transformation realm!

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 * Combat Prowess : Half-step Holy Lord

9th - Divine Lord Realm
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Early Divine Lord Realm
Lin Ming’s body shook. In that moment, a terrifying power rushed into his body. This was the power condensed by the God Beast array formation, and now it was pouring into his body, breaking into his inner world!
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1505 -- Skeletal Age 54 -- Linear Age 45 -- 95 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the inner chamber of the Godbeast Tomb. He had broke though the array formation of the Tragic Death Valley and he had meditated on the Asura Sutra by studying the Asura Sutra book left behind the Asura Master.  He had also formed an avatar out of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone left behind as a reward by the Asura Master.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1505 -- Skeletal Age 54 -- Linear Age 45 -- 95 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the inner chamber of the Godbeast Tomb. He had broke though the array formation of the Tragic Death Valley and he had meditated on the Asura Sutra by studying the Asura Sutra book left behind the Asura Master.  He had also formed an avatar out of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone left behind as a reward by the Asura Master.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the inner chamber of the Godbeast Tomb. He had broke though the array formation of the Tragic Death Valley and he had meditated on the Asura Sutra by studying the Asura Sutra book left behind the Asura Master.  He had also formed an avatar out of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone left behind as a reward by the Asura Master.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the inner chamber of the Godbeast Tomb. He had broke though the array formation of the Tragic Death Valley and he had meditated on the Asura Sutra by studying the Asura Sutra book left behind the Asura Master.  He had also formed an avatar out of the Essence Spirit Embryo Stone left behind as a reward by the Asura Master.

A sharp light blew up in Lin Ming’s eyes. He didn’t open his inner world. Instead, he relied on this ferocious strength to begin rapidly increasing the boundaries of his inner world!

In the Nine Divine Shifts, the Divine Lord realm was the last boundary. Divine Lord, Divine Lord, the meaning of that was to truly become divine! Of course, this ‘divine’ was relative to common mortals. A Divine Lord martial artist could hold a world within their body and enjoy the worship of mortals. To mortals, they would be a god. As for the True Divinity boundary in the road of martial arts, this was a divine god of martial artists. A True Divinity powerhouse could control an entire universe. To them, the title of True Divinity was well deserved!

Underneath the tremendous pressure, Lin Ming’s blood vessels ballooned up from beneath his skin, even breaking apart. Blood seeped out from all of his pores! This blood mixed with his sweat, making Lin Ming look as if he were being bathed in blood.

And within Lin Ming’s inner world, the crazy energy impacted towards him, strong enough to cause mountains and rivers to shake. His inner world was originally filled with spiritual energy, but now it was filled with a terrifying energy storm. Those spiritual plants within his inner world were smashed apart in this storm, turned into innumerable fragments!

In his inner world, rivers changed course, lakes evaporated, and mountains collapsed!

As the boundaries of Lin Ming’s inner world opened, the void outside of the world was constantly fused with pure energy. Lin Ming’s inner world was growing, evolving!

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 * Combat Prowess : Early Holy Lord
 * Strength : 15 Billion Jins (After breaking into the Nine Stars of the Dao Palace - Ch 1535)

Middle Divine Lord Realm
They joined a sect as Divine Seas cultivators and lived a normal life of martial artists.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1595 -- Skeletal Age ~85 -- Linear Age 74 -- ~67 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian are still in the Asura Road World cultivating while waiting for the final test of the Asura Road to open.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1595 -- Skeletal Age ~85 -- Linear Age 74 -- ~67 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian are still in the Asura Road World cultivating while waiting for the final test of the Asura Road to open.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian are still in the Asura Road World cultivating while waiting for the final test of the Asura Road to open.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian are still in the Asura Road World cultivating while waiting for the final test of the Asura Road to open.

In the Blue Moon Sect, Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian experienced the toil of daily life. Every now and then they would join the disciples of the Blue Moon Sect to go out adventuring.

For instance, exploring mystic realms, finishing missions, and so forth.

By watching the slaughter and struggles of low level martial artists, he actually found a strange feeling that he had almost forgotten. This odd feeling strangely touched Lin Ming’s heart.

This breakthrough didn’t come suddenly at all. It could be called a simple matter of course. This was like filling a cup with wine, filling it so much that it naturally overflowed.

And the scene of this breakthrough was extremely peaceful.

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 * Combat Prowess : Middle Holy Lord

Late Divine Lord Realm
All of the medicinal efficacy within Lin Ming’s body, as well as the starlight glory he harvested after breaking through the Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace, was completely fused into him. His body seemed to have returned to its origin, without leaking out even the tiniest amount of strength.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1666 -- Skeletal Age ~120 -- Linear Age 98 -- ~43 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1665) Lin Ming is in the Forsaken Mortal Tomb of Asura Road World's Yin Yang Despair Valley. He had just opened Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1666 -- Skeletal Age ~120 -- Linear Age 98 -- ~43 years until duel with Good Fortune Saint Son
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1665) Lin Ming is in the Forsaken Mortal Tomb of Asura Road World's Yin Yang Despair Valley. He had just opened Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1665) Lin Ming is in the Forsaken Mortal Tomb of Asura Road World's Yin Yang Despair Valley. He had just opened Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1665) Lin Ming is in the Forsaken Mortal Tomb of Asura Road World's Yin Yang Despair Valley. He had just opened Heavenly Retribution Dao Palace.

As for the strength accumulated in his body, it had reached a terrifying degree.

At this time, Lin Ming’s eyes turned towards the death energy around him and the residual will around the ancient bronze coffin.

“Essence energy of the heavens and earth, come unto my body!”

Lin Ming flicked his finger and shot out a gray rune. The air shook as strange ripples appeared in space. Suddenly wisps of the black turtle death energy began flooding his body.

This was a rune of the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel!

The Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel could absorb the remnant souls of devils. When Tian Mingzi died in the past, his soul had been sucked into the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel. This time, the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel was absorbing the spiritual energy that filled the entirety of the Forsaken Mortal Tomb; it was simply too wonderful.

When Lin Ming cultivated by himself, he would bring out the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel and begin swallowing and refining the black turtle death energy and the residual wills that exuded from the ancient bronze coffins.

These residual wills were all muddled and without sense of self. If Lin Ming didn’t have an extremely sharp perception he simply wouldn’t have been able to realize this power existed.

As wisps of residual will from the Forsaken Mortals fell onto the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel that was formed by the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws, they were like soldiers meeting a general, immediately becoming calm and docile.

The black turtle death energy and the phantoms of gold-armored giants floated in the air. Slowly, Lin Ming absorbed them into the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel, refining them into the purest form of energy that constantly filled Lin Ming’s body.

(Ch 1666) Countless runes appeared on his skin, shimmering into existence within his flesh and blood. They floated in the void, automatically absorbing the essence of the heavens and earth.

The true meaning of the ancient bronze coffin’s runes unexpectedly appeared in the void around him. Their essence had already been comprehended by him.

“These are runes derived from the Asura Heavenly Dao. With these runes on the ancient bronze coffins, they are able to form massive spirit gathering arrays and swallow the essence energy from the heavens and earth to constantly nourish whatever it is that lies within these ancient coffins… if these runes were to fuse into my flesh and blood, then during battle they would automatically absorb the essence energy of the world on their own… even if the speed isn’t too fast, there are actually endless advantages to them…”

Thunder recklessly cast down and flames swept through the skies. The Heretical God Tree floated high in the air, sending out peals of tyrannical thunder, frantically expanding the boundaries of the inner world.

Wherever this strength went, space would explode into pieces.

However, this terrifying annihilating power of thunder and fire hid a shuddering vitality within it.

Following the destructive paths of the thunder and fire, a faint bright green color would appear in the world.

Through all these various strengths, the small world began to grow with marvelous changes occurring everywhere. A strange and misty life force spread throughout, becoming increasingly vibrant.

Such a change continued for over two months. Then, light began shooting out from Lin Ming’s pores. The evolution of his inner world was reaching its finale and the medicinal efficacy of the nameless ancient pill had also been fully absorbed by him.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late Holy Lord

Half-step Holy Lord Realm
(Ch 1694) After spending the last several days in the star-like immortal palace, Lin Ming had walked down the blue stone road and had experienced and lived through the memories of the Asura Road Master that had been left there. These memories gave Lin Ming new enlightenments, new feelings, allowing him to enhance his comprehension of the Laws. Although it was an extremely precious treasure, this still couldn’t allow Lin Ming to leap forwards in strength in a short period of time, nor could it fundamentally alter Lin Ming’s body and grant him a more terrifying strength or talent.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1696 -- Age 123
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is participating in the Final Smelting Trial of the Inner Asura Road. He has completely finished the Asura difficulty space-time gate and has been rewarded with the 33 life experiences of the Asura Road Master and a drop of blood was left behind by the Asura Road Master.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1696 -- Age 123
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is participating in the Final Smelting Trial of the Inner Asura Road. He has completely finished the Asura difficulty space-time gate and has been rewarded with the 33 life experiences of the Asura Road Master and a drop of blood was left behind by the Asura Road Master.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is participating in the Final Smelting Trial of the Inner Asura Road. He has completely finished the Asura difficulty space-time gate and has been rewarded with the 33 life experiences of the Asura Road Master and a drop of blood was left behind by the Asura Road Master.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is participating in the Final Smelting Trial of the Inner Asura Road. He has completely finished the Asura difficulty space-time gate and has been rewarded with the 33 life experiences of the Asura Road Master and a drop of blood was left behind by the Asura Road Master.

But the final reward at the end of the blue stone road, this drop of Asura’s blood, was actually completely different!

(Ch 1695) The Black Asura wasn’t surprised that Lin Ming had guessed the origin of this blood drop. Lin Ming has passed through the blue stone road and had withstood a baptism of memories from the 33 reincarnations of the Asura Road Master. If he couldn’t guess that this drop of blood was left behind by the Asura Road Master then he never would have had the qualifications to pass the Asura level Gate of Laws.

The Black Asura sighed and said, “He is the one who refined this drop of blood. In the past, he took a single drop of his blood essence and fused the 33 Heavenly Dao Laws into it, also integrating into it the power of his divine soul and source energy. Then, he placed it into the Eternal Divine Furnace and slowly tempered it with fires made of Laws gathered from the 33 Heavens. With each of the various Laws from the 33 Heavens he fired up this drop of blood for 10,000 years each time, using up a total of 330,000 years to refine this drop of blood…”

As Lin Ming approached the drop of Asura blood, he could feel all of his blood vitality being drawn forwards by it. The energy within his inner world was stirred up, wanting to howl outwards!

Lin Ming suppressed his restless blood vitality. Then, he stretched out both hands to grasp that drop of Asura blood!

The moment that he touched the drop of Asura blood, Lin Ming felt as if he had grasped a blazing hot sun!

A vast surge of heat transmitted out from the drop of Asura blood.

An ancient and mystical strength erupted from the drop of Asura blood, continuously rolling towards Lin Ming.

The Asura Road Master had fought his entire life – just how vast was his essence energy and blood vitality? The essence contained within a single drop of blood was like the moon and stars, stretching to the endless distance!

This drop of blood essence was incomparably heavy. When Lin Ming held it in his hands, it was like a pervasive drop of mercury, seeping into his pores and into his body!

For a time, Lin Ming’s body that was as tough as divine iron began to fill with a seemingly infinite amount of life essence energy, expanding like a balloon without end.

His flesh and blood, his skin, every cell in his body bubbled as a vast life force surged within him.

This sort of infusion continued for a long time. Lin Ming only felt as if there was magma flowing in his blood vessels!

When all of this life essence entered Lin Ming’s body, an even more terrifying aura began to emerge from him.

This aura was similar to the Asura battle mark left behind in the drop of Asura blood, as well as some strengths of incomparably mysterious Laws!

This endless mystical power of Laws brought with it a primal and vigorous strength that fused into Lin Ming’s skin, flesh, and bones, finally even merging into the deepest depths of his soul.

On the blue stone road, Lin Ming had experienced countless battles that the Asura Road Master had gone through.

He had obtained a massive number of comprehensions.

But, these comprehensions remained obscure and hazy, like a fog he couldn’t see through. Lin Ming only comprehended a superficial amount of these experiences, and most of those Laws were like mysteries hidden in the fog; he wouldn’t be able to comprehend them for some time.

But now, the deep meaning of the Laws contained within the Asura blood, as well as a tremendous amount of combat comprehensions directly merged into Lin Ming’s body.

Many cryptic things that Lin Ming couldn’t understand began to shine in his mind, becoming clearer.

After consuming his strength for three days and three nights, Lin Ming had completely overdrawn the power of his essence, energy, and divine, leaving him in a lethargic and nearly catatonic state. Now, he finally fell into a deep slumber…

After sleeping for an unknown period of time, Lin Ming finally opened his eyes. He propped himself upwards and looked at his hands and body. Those mystical curse seals that covered his body were already gone.

However, they hadn’t vanished and had instead hidden themselves within Lin Ming’s flesh and blood. As long as Lin Ming summoned the power of Asura, these curse seals would be activated and reappear on Lin Ming’s skin.

Through these curse seals, Lin Ming could better utilize the power of the Asura Laws and his combat strength would rise to another level!

Lin Ming also returned to his original height and the scales on his body had vanished. Just from looking at his appearance, there wasn’t any difference from before he had absorbed the Asura blood.

But, Lin Ming knew that his strength had taken a comprehensive leap upwards!

Because Lin Ming had forcefully suppressed his cultivation it had only risen by a small boundary, reaching the half-step Holy Lord realm!

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 * Combat Prowess : Early World King

10th - Holy Lord Realm
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Early Holy Lord Realm
(Ch 1777) Lin Ming had begun to converge the power of the world within himself to complete a breakthrough!
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1778 -- Age 129
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming had just won a duel with the Good Fortune Saint Son. He had used all of his strength, techniques, and skills.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1778 -- Age 129
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming had just won a duel with the Good Fortune Saint Son. He had used all of his strength, techniques, and skills.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming had just won a duel with the Good Fortune Saint Son. He had used all of his strength, techniques, and skills.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming had just won a duel with the Good Fortune Saint Son. He had used all of his strength, techniques, and skills.

Even the power of good fortune that the Good Fortune Saint Son wrested from the world was absorbed by Lin Ming, becoming a gift to him!

(Ch 1778) No one anticipated that Lin Ming would be making a breakthrough at this time.

This was simply because at the final trial’s third level, after Lin Ming fused with the Asura blood, the energy within his inner world had already reached the limit. He had been ready to break into the Holy Lord realm ever since then!

But during the final trial’s third level, Lin Ming had suppressed his breakthrough in order to further consolidate his cultivation. This caused his cultivation to pause at the half-step Holy Lord realm.

And now, with his violent duel with the Good Fortune Saint Son, Lin Ming had displayed his greatest strength again and again, repeatedly impacting his inner world with a tyrannical level of energy. Finally, the suppressed energy within Lin Ming had erupted!

Within Lin Ming’s inner world, a massive continent dozens of times larger than an ordinary martial artist’s began to rapidly sunder open!

The ground cracked and lava came gushing out. Lin Ming paled and blood flowed out from the corners of his lips!

Lin Ming’s foundation was countless times more formidable than that of others of his level. Whether it was mortal body, meridians, or capacity of his dantian, all of it could compare favorably with a Great World King. But correspondingly, because Lin Ming’s inner world was far too magnificent, once it began collapsing it would create a terrifying explosion. This sort of explosion was something that even a World King would find difficult to bear.

The energy of the world howled. A crazy power of good fortune rushed forth like a wave of tsunamis, all of it swelling towards Lin Ming. Behind Lin Ming, the Asura war god phantom appeared once more. An infinite amount of mysterious Asura Laws wildly surged out, causing the land to be immersed in a world of independent Laws.

The energy within Lin Ming’s inner world was like a snowball rolling down a hill, becoming larger as it went. Soon, it reached a critical point; it would completely erupt!

The sound of echoing thunderclaps transmitted from Lin Ming’s inner world. The continent in Lin Ming’s inner world completely collapsed at this moment.

Massive tracts of the continent disintegrated into fragments, mixing together with the lava, broken mountains and rivers. Everything collapsed in on itself.

The explosions within his inner world continued without end. Then, within Lin Ming’s completely ruined inner world the vast power of laws rained down, completely condensing atop the remnants of the continent.

An invisible attraction force appeared. All of the fragments of the continent gathered together, condensing into another form.

And at this moment, in the deep center of the continent’s fragments, a small black hole appeared. This small black hole released a mighty gravitational force, causing all of the nearby continent fragments to firmly stick onto it, compressing even tighter!

This was a special effect of the Divine Seal Art. Due to the celestial body condensed through the Divine Seal Art, a martial artist’s planet would be a hundred times more compact and a hundred times heavier!

As the planet reformed, more and more crazy auras erupted from Lin Ming’s body.

The surrounding origin energy in the air, the power of good fortune, all of it chaotically rushed towards this point, creating countless energy vortexes.

These energy vortexes came in different sizes. Because of their appearance, the Laws of the world began to stir up. Some martial artists weren’t able to deal with the sudden change around them and stumbled before falling down from the skies.

At this time, more and more energy vortexes appeared in the skies. From afar, the entire heaven was lit up with endless divine light, as if countless tiny suns had appeared on the horizon, innumerable and stretching without end.

With a sharp cutting sound, the many energy vortexes spinning between the heavens and earth began to rush into Lin Ming’s inner world!

The light shining out from Lin Ming’s body became increasingly bright. As the massive number of energy vortexes converged within him, it made him look like an exploding sun, blinding to the eyes.

The vast sea was pushed away and hollowed out by the air waves, creating a giant blue bowl that extended for hundreds of miles!

At the edges of this bowl, the rough sea waves raged up and down. Every single wave was like a blue mountain, grand and majestic as it soared into the skies.

Behind Lin Ming, a black phantom that was hundreds of feet high appeared. This black phantom had three heads and six arms. Each arm was as thick and sturdy as a pillar that supported the skies and also held different weapons. The aura of this phantom had reached the pinnacle of possibility; this was the Asura war god phantom!

The black phantom leaned back its head and crazily howled into the skies. Its cry broke into the dome of the world and trillions of pillars of water shot into the skies. At this time, the entire Heaven Lifting Black Pagoda fiercely shook!

After several breaths of time, there was a rustling sound as the giant black phantom rapidly shrunk before submerging into Lin Ming’s body and completely disappearing from sight.

In the frenzy of energy, Lin Ming slowly opened his eyes. His eyes sparked with arcs of lightning, as if his gaze alone could penetrate into the skies.

As for the aura of his body, it was completely restrained without the least bit flowing out.

This was because when Lin Ming’s inner world had reformed, it had taken a black hole celestial body as its core. All of the strength within his inner world had condensed into this black hole with only a tiny amount leaking out.

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 * Combat Prowess : Middle World King

Middle Holy Lord Realm
He is currently in a stone forest with an array formation formed by the 33 Heavens’ Great Dao and with the aura of the Asura Road Master.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1825 -- Age 131
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Soul World. He is participating in the Akaschic Dream Battlefield.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1825 -- Age 131
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Soul World. He is participating in the Akaschic Dream Battlefield.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Soul World. He is participating in the Akaschic Dream Battlefield.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Soul World. He is participating in the Akaschic Dream Battlefield.

Without a doubt, that fallen golden page was a part of the Spiritas Holy Scripture. As for this part of the Akashic Dream Universe, it was likely a mystic realm left over from before the first ancestor of the spiritas collapsed.

As for the void here, it was probably the ancient battlefield between the Asura Road Master and the first ancestor of the spiritas.

Thinking of this, Lin Ming was shocked. His heart began to surge with heated blood even as his eyes brightened.

If so, then there were traces and marks here left behind by a battle between two peerless masters.

To a martial artist at Lin Ming’s level, this was an unimaginable wealth.

Faint lines of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws continuously dissipated from his fingertips, resonating in sympathy with the remnant battle aura left behind by the Asura Road Master in that deep black abyss.

An incomparably pure aura of the Asura Heavenly Dao began to flow into Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.

Lin Ming sat down on the edge of the abyss and slowly meditated.

In the dark void, countless Asura runes fluttered about. These Asura runes were like the text of a history book, having recorded endless mysteries.

Lin Ming slowly entered deep into an ethereal state. Behind him, a withered old tree with strong dragon-like roots began to slowly appear, taking root in the void. The tree spread out its elderly branches and leaves, and all around the tree, falling petals appeared, like a noble immortal wonderland.

This was a phenomenon that occurred when Mount Potala’s Bodhi tree appeared. It was a pure land of ultimate bliss within this world.

Beneath the Bodhi tree, Lin Ming had fused together several different martial intents. This allowed him to enter a completely concentrated state whenever he wished, without sound without touch, without sight without sense.

Lin Ming meditated like this, oblivious to the passing of time. He constantly sifted through the runes, obtaining realizations from the mysteries within.

“…These changes have allowed the power of the Asura Heavenly Dao to reach the pinnacle, this is truly perfect… no wonder the ancient spiritas king wasn’t able to defend himself even though he tried his best.

“…So the power of the Asura Heaven Dao Laws was used like this. With such a stunning evolution, it is in no way inferior to the essence of the 33 Heavens’ Great Daos…”

Lin Ming floated in the void, star-like runes spinning around him as he slowly perceived the aura of the Asura Road Master.

Every tiny change that occurred when the Asura Road Master fought with the ancient spiritas king appeared in his mind.

Like this, six months rapidly passed.

Lin Ming’s figure, from the edge of the abyss, began to enter the ancient galactic battlefield.

He endlessly sensed the battle aura left behind by the Asura Road Master. His comprehensions of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws became increasingly profound.

The surrounding blood red power of the Asura Heavenly Dao’s aura formed into faint red strands that wrapped around Lin Ming.

From a distance, it looked as if Lin Ming had been bound in a crimson cocoon.

This cocoon was large, like a blood red meteor.

Sitting cross-legged within, Lin Ming was utterly immersed in his contemplative state.

The Asura Heavenly Array Diagram within him constantly hummed. The giant Asura phantom appeared, pushing a massive wheel. It slowly fused with the blood red cocoon. In the surging chaos, new changes gradually appeared.

Unknowingly and unwittingly, Lin Ming’s Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel and other Asura martial skills that Lin Ming learned through the Asura Sutra began to constantly evolve, transforming once more.

Even the Asura phantom that pushed the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel began to fill up with flesh and blood, emitting a terrifying momentum. Its pitch black pupils began to blaze with a crimson light…

At the end, the blood red cocoon surrounding Lin Ming became increasingly thick until it almost reached the size of a planet.

Lin Ming flew closer and closer to the center of the ancient galaxy battlefield. Finally, with a loud rumbling sound, he fused together with the strongest battle runes left behind in the battle between the Asura Road Master and the ancient spiritas king.

The blood red cocoon began to rapidly revolve within the ancient galaxy battlefield. Bursts of red light flashed out and exploded as if a sea of thunder was rumbling within.

Lin Ming perceived the battle marks left behind by the Asura Road Master, and he slowly fused with these battle marks, allowing them to be felt through his body.

Then, these battle marks resonated with the Asura Sutra texts within his spiritual sea. Some areas which he was confused about before were suddenly crystal clear.

The texts of the Asura Sutra that contained endless mysteries and strength began to thoroughly mingle with Lin Ming’s flesh and blood, becoming a part of his body.

In that moment, Lin Ming’s comprehension of the Asura Heavenly Dao rose even further, becoming increasingly perfect…

The dazzling blood red cocoon also began to dim down until falling completely silent. Gradually, it seemed to become a part of the ancient galaxy battlefield, turning into a blood red meteor that didn’t exude any strength at all. It was icy cold and deathly still.

The icy cold meteor that was the blood red cocoon loudly shattered and dissipated into the void.

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 * Combat Prowess : Late World King

Late and Peak Holy Lord Realm
Lin Ming sat cross-legged in the void, calmly composing himself. He felt the great currents of energy within his body. At this time, within his spiritual sea, dreadful waves were rising up into the air.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1892 -- Age 152
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the God Race's Forbidden Lands. He has just defeated 3 opponents in the Cold Ice Mirror and his reward is a drop of blood of the creator of the Holy Scripture.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1892 -- Age 152
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the God Race's Forbidden Lands. He has just defeated 3 opponents in the Cold Ice Mirror and his reward is a drop of blood of the creator of the Holy Scripture.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the God Race's Forbidden Lands. He has just defeated 3 opponents in the Cold Ice Mirror and his reward is a drop of blood of the creator of the Holy Scripture.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the God Race's Forbidden Lands. He has just defeated 3 opponents in the Cold Ice Mirror and his reward is a drop of blood of the creator of the Holy Scripture.

In that moment it was like he hadn’t fused with a drop of blood, but had fused with a vast and profound universe.

This drop of blood seemed to have numerous trembling galaxies, trillions of stars glistening together.

Each star was a complex and exhausting character. With the countless stars gathered together, they formed an endless scripture.

On this ancient scripture, there was a dim figure sitting above it all.

Just by sitting there, he seemed to be sitting in the infinite past, sitting at the end of all time. It was like he had died, without the least bit of life vitality.

Around him, the limitless void began to shake and collapse. Death energy lingered around him without end.

Massive galaxies were annihilated beneath his feet, decaying to tatters, turned into ashes that scattered in the icy cold of space.

At this time, the ancient scripture gently shivered and began to emit a gentle, luminous light. At the end of this universe, standing in hazy opposition, there was another silhouette.

This figure was that of a woman.

Compared to the man that seemed dead, this woman was as bright as a moon. Her body exuded a magnificent brilliance. Each wisp of brilliance that she released seemed to have a small figure sitting within it, chanting holy texts and filling the air with life. Her light swept through the galaxies, illuminating the pitch black cosmos.

Covered by the curtain of her light, many dim and gloomy stars began to shine with a potent life force. Many of the dead stars began to experience a wondrous change. Grass filled with life burst out from the ground and towering trees drilled up from the rocks. Birds flew through the wide skies and beasts galloped through the fields. Leviathans swam through the waters, submerging and stretching out without end…

“A single drop of blood contained the two different mystic strengths and boundaries of life and death. They oppose each other, but coexist in the same universe…” Lin Ming began to enlighten himself on this ancient sutra, his mind seeming to have risen above the mortal coil.

This blood contained the deep meanings behind the Holy Scripture. Compared to the golden pages, it was even more precious!

Now, within his spiritual sea, some of those golden page texts that he hadn’t yet comprehended began to rumble, resonating with the mysterious and vibrant power within the blood he had absorbed.

Lin Ming knew to take advantage of this chance. The Daevic Eye Dao Palace opened and a dazzling light shot out, bringing with it a power that could pierce through all mysteries, shining upon the ancient scriptures.

Some obscure and unknown texts began to shine. The mists that shrouded them retreated, revealing a cold and weak light beneath it all.

This cold light was bizarre. Although it was weak, it continued without end, like an eternal flame that would never extinguish. It shot through the endless darkness… slowly breaking through time and space until it reached the Soul World and then delved into the Akashic Dream Universe.

As the mysterious Akashic Dream Universe was shot through with this cold light, from all parts of the Akashic Dream Universe, wisps of incomparably pure and boundless mystic power shot back out, following the path of the cold light and gathering into Lin Ming’s mind.

Lin Ming’s entire body shook. From his flesh and blood, light began to emit, resonating with the ancient scriptures all around him, completely enveloping him.

This strange light was black on one side and white on the other, like a yin yang diagram. It contained the true meanings of life and death as it wrapped around Lin Ming…

Gradually, the Laws turned into a black and white cocoon of light.

Nestled within, Lin Ming would beat with life from time to time, and other times he would be deathly still…

Within the cocoon, Lin Ming experienced a long, long dream. In this dream, he witnessed a great calamity sweep through cosmos!

The scale of this great calamity was far more terrifying than the invasion of god race by the saints; it was one that affected nearly every race in every universe!

He saw demons rampaging, he saw countless lives perishing, trillions of quadrillions of miles of space being wiped clean of life as great worlds were destroyed one after another.

This horror of this calamity even changed the rules of the Heavenly Dao. It caused some universes within the 33 Heavens to be annihilated of civilization, turned to wilderness…

And this era was the era in which the Asura Road Master and the creator of the Holy Scripture lived.

Lin Ming seemed to pass through 10 billion years of time to witness all of this.

All sorts of thoughts flashed through Lin Ming’s mind. Unconsciously, he saw his mortal body slowly fuse together with the blood cocoon, gradually transforming.

On the surface of the blood cocoon, innumerable runes appeared. They faintly circulated with a bright light, emitting a dense rosy glow.

This scene continued for an unknown period of time. At a certain moment, the Asura Laws within the mirror world began to gather together.

These Law fragments formed a giant vortex that funneled into the blood cocoon. At the same time, in the blood cocoon, the Asura blood within Lin Ming began to resonate with the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws!

The two different bloodlines waged war with each other, nearly taking Lin Ming’s body as their battlefield.

An agonizing pain echoed through Lin Ming like a tide. His flesh and blood tore apart again and again, collapsing and disintegrating. A massive amount of blood leaked out, flowing into the cocoon.

At that moment, it was like Lin Ming’s body was soaked within a blood pond.

The pain of fusion continued for a long time. Lin Ming’s flesh and blood, and even the black scales, slowly rotted away, scorched black until they finally fell off.

But beneath this ruined flesh and blood was new flesh and blood, crystalline and pure white, like warm jade.

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 * Combat Prowess : Early Empyrean

11th - World King

 * colspan="6" |World King, that was the king of a world!
 * colspan="6" |World King, that was the king of a world!

To an essence gathering martial artist, the Pulse Condensation realm was the start of their road of martial arts. At this boundary, a martial artist formed their meridians and could draw in heaven and earth origin energy through their acupoints.

When one’s origin energy reached a certain degree, it would gather in their lower abdomen and form a dantian. From there, a true essence vortex would be created.

From the disorderly inner energy of the Houtian realm, it would become orderly at the Xiantian realm.

Then above that, when the vortex condensed into a core, that was the Revolving Core realm.

When that core shattered and was remade, that was the Life Destruction realm.

As for the Nine Divine Shifts – the three boundaries of Divine Sea, Divine Transformation, and Divine Lord, during this process a martial artist’s dantian would become a world, forming continents, lakes, seas, heavens and earth…

After entering the Holy Lord realm, the vast earth within one’s inner world would turn into a planet and the great vault of heaven would become the universe.

After the Holy Lord realm was the World King realm!

This boundary was extremely special. It required that a martial artist refine a real world and fuse it into their own inner world. Their own inner world would integrate the space, time, and matter of a real universe, thus obtaining the characteristics of a real world.

To refine a real world, that sounded inconceivable.

However, upon practical application, it wasn’t so exaggerated.

Worlds came in sizes large and small. The 33 Heavens could be called an entire world, but a single dewdrop, a single flower petal, could also be called a world. This was what others meant when they one flower one world, one grain of sand one pure land of bliss.

When a martial artist grew to the World King realm, they would refine a world that depended on how solid their foundation was and how strong they were.

The stronger a martial artist was, the more solid their foundation was, then the larger the world they refined would be. Otherwise, the world they refined would be smaller.

But in truth, no matter how talented a World King was, the world they refined wouldn’t be too ridiculously large.

Generally speaking, refining an area of dozens of miles as well as the material in space was considered quite good.

Even a top talent like Emperor Shakya had only managed to refine a thousand miles of the void.

And in rumors, it was said that in the ancient past there were extreme True Divinities that refined an entire planet when they became World Kings.

To take an entire planet, as well as the void around the planet, the origin energy within the planet, the lives atop the planet, and even some of the Heavenly Dao Law fragments, and then refine all of that into one’s own inner world, that was a heaven-shaking feat.

To achieve such a step, they either existed in the records of history or were mystical characters like Sheng Mei, the Good Fortune Saint Sovereign, or Soaring Feather. But whether or not they had managed to reach such a point, no one knew.

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Ordinary World King
Energy grew stronger. Lin Ming’s body burned like a sun. The rays of light constantly transformed around him, finally forming a rainbow-colored sphere of light behind him.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1955 -- Age >480
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the lower realms on a desolate planet. He is in his 2nd life at the total cultivation age of approximately 480 years.
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1955 -- Age >480
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the lower realms on a desolate planet. He is in his 2nd life at the total cultivation age of approximately 480 years.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the lower realms on a desolate planet. He is in his 2nd life at the total cultivation age of approximately 480 years.
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the lower realms on a desolate planet. He is in his 2nd life at the total cultivation age of approximately 480 years.

This sphere of light gradually evolved, becoming a massive phantom.

The phantom was extremely blurry, as if it were formed from gathered fog. But even in the violent and crazy space storms it didn’t scatter at all.

Lin Ming’s closed his eyes. His clothes flapped around him and his hair flew upwards.

The phantom behind him continued to change, finally becoming a giant cuboid.

This was a thick and ancient book.

This ancient book slowly opened, revealing a completely blank interior.

But in the next moment, an invisible character began to emerge from nowhere, as if an invisible pen were writing on the paper.

Then, the second character, the third, fourth, fifth, more and more characters were written at an increasingly quick pace…

All of these writings appeared in either black or gold. If Sheng Mei were here, she would discover that these words contained the Concepts of the golden pages and the black book, but there were faint differences between them.

Lin Ming’s books of life and death had been born from the Holy Scripture, but he had added in his own comprehensions.

The phantom of this ancient book became increasingly clear. More and more words appeared within it.

These words starkly contrasted gold and black, simple and plain and yet containing a meaning that was difficult to name. They were simply impossible to understand.

Rather, it should be said that these words had no definite meaning at all. They only contained different kinds of Concepts. When different people read these words they would each come away with a different understanding.

Even Lin Ming was unable to accurately explain these words.

This was equal to the total comprehensions of his 400 some years of life. The same life, but different feelings, this invisible pen was the unknowable fate of life…

The ancient book was slowly written. This process continued for several days. Finally, the pen of fate fell one final time.

In that moment, this ancient book bloomed with the brilliance of a world, as if all the light in the universe was being gathered towards this ancient book!

This was an ancient book that belonged to Lin Ming, a self-created Great Dao book that would allow him to climb to the peak of martial arts!

For a time, a horrifying vortex of energy formed. A massive amount of interstellar matter was sucked into this vortex. With the ancient book as the central point, the Great Dao aura in the surrounding space was condensed to the peak.

A universe’s physical matter, heaven and earth origin energy, Heavenly Dao Laws, when these three things were joined together they were in truth the essence, energy, and divine of a universe!

Lin Ming used his strength to gather them, purifying them, leaving only their essence behind!

He stared blankly on as right in front of him, a world began to slowly appear in its elementary form.

In the past when the Asura Road Master and Holy Scripture creator created their own worlds, these worlds were stable to the point where they were could exist for billions of years or even hundreds of billions of years, able to stand side-by-side with the universes of the 33 Heavens!

Lin Ming naturally couldn’t achieve this. Even if he created his own world, it would collapse in a few dozen or a hundred some years.

But that didn’t matter. The world he created now was only in its elementary form. Through the increasing influx of power and his own rising boundary, he could have this world continue to evolve and consolidate without end.

In the future, if Lin Ming became an Empyrean or even a True Divinity, it was impossible to estimate just how large this world would grow to.

This was a world that was constantly evolving, constantly developing.

Then, this world finally began to slowly condense.

It was too small – a mere several miles in radius.

Moreover, the structure of the world was highly unstable. Even an attack from a Divine Sea powerhouse could cause the system of essence, energy, and divine within this world to collapse and be destroyed in an avalanche of failure.

After completing the creation of this world, Lin Ming had used up every ounce of energy in his body. His gaze was absorbed as he looked at this world, as if he were looking at this own child.

At this moment, Lin Ming was fervently excited. He had done it!

This was a world that belonged to himself, the beginning of a brand new start!

From this day on, a new epoch had begun in his road of martial arts.

At this time, the Asura phantom pushed this world and thrust it directly into Lin Ming’s body.

The world rapidly shrunk. It overlapped with Lin Ming’s inner world.

In that instant, within Lin Ming, this newly created world’s essence, energy, and divine superimposed with his own essence, energy, and divine. This world slowly fused together with Lin Ming’s inner world!

For a time, red clouds tumbled throughout space. Paths of life and death, the sound of the Great Dao, all of it swirled in the starry space, creating a strange image that continued to change…

And Lin Ming, in that moment, had finally broken into the World King realm!

His World King realm had an essential difference from the World King realm of other martial artists!

He had created a world which could grow and evolve.

Currently, because the world Lin Ming had fused into himself was too small and weak, the strength that he had gained from breaking into the World King realm wasn’t some drastic leap upwards. But as time passed, the world Lin Ming contained within himself would continue to expand. It would hold planets, galaxies, and eventually become a universe of its own. At that time, the strength Lin Ming possessed would be unimaginable.

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 * Combat Prowess :

Great World King

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1989 -- Age 5th Life (+2,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1989 -- Age 5th Life (+2,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

Half-step Empyrean

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2000 -- Age 6th Life (6,600)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2000 -- Age 6th Life (6,600)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

12th - Empyrean
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Early Empyrean

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2055 -- Age 6th Life (6,700)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2055 -- Age 6th Life (6,700)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

Middle Empyrean

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2079 -- Age 8th Life (+8,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2079 -- Age 8th Life (+8,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

Late Empyrean

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2132 -- Age 12th Life (+12,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2132 -- Age 12th Life (+12,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

13th - True Divinity Realm
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Early True Divinity

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2190 -- Age 8th Life (+13,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2190 -- Age 8th Life (+13,000)
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

Peak True Divinity

 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2240 -- Age 9th-10th Life
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="padding:0px" |Chapter 2240 -- Age 9th-10th Life
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming

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 * Combat Prowess :

14th - Beyond True Divinty
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Chapter 2249 - Age 10th Life (~38,500)

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 * colspan="5" style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming
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