From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 577 The Secret of the Divine Race: The Four Great Paths (Celebrating National Day, three more chapters to come)
Having captured the nine Divine Kings, Li Chengqian didn't hesitate. With a turn, he plunged into the void. After a period of distorted and twisted space, the view suddenly opened up before him, a scene vastly different from the blood and flesh swamp. The blood and flesh swamp was a putrid swamp, shrouded in a gray mist, where demons danced wildly. Here, however, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and bright light shone down from the sky, without a single shadow.

This is an independent world, created out of thin air, not a star-like place like a swamp of flesh and blood.

The sky is round and the earth is square. The area is not large, about one or two thousand miles, equivalent to one or two provinces. The edge of the sky and earth is the void of chaotic color, in which there are surging turbulent currents.

In the center of this small world, a palace floats, several sizes larger than the Feathered Heaven Palace of the Feathered Gate. Several smaller palaces also float around it, as if surrounded by stars.

Li Chengqian knew that those small palaces were places that had been looted and offered no benefit. Only the main palace contained some opportunities, but not much—just a Golden Core. Of course, if you possessed the World Tree and attracted the attention of the powerful being trapped in the Gate of Mysterious Female, you might receive some guidance, but that was all.

Li Chengqian did not rush to storm the main palace, but instead found a relatively intact one among the surrounding smaller palaces and settled down there.

He wanted to use the World Tree here to accumulate more celestial energy to replenish his Azure Void Mirror, lest he crash and starve to death in the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, which would be ridiculous.

The Azure Void Mirror, the world within the mirror, has become no different from the small immortal realm of the Feathered Heaven Palace after being continuously nourished by the immortal energy absorbed by the World Tree. The sky is clear, and the immortal energy containing Daoist rhyme transforms into auspicious clouds that swirl around. In the central area, the Weak Water River flows endlessly, exuding a chilling and deathly aura that makes one's heart tremble.

A glint flashed between Li Chengqian's brows, and a World Tree sapling, three zhang tall, with lush branches and leaves, its entire body emerald green, and chaotic colors flowing through its veins, appeared. It stretched out its branches and leaves, and countless roots pierced into the depths of the void, traversing endless time and space, greedily and efficiently absorbing the vast primordial energy from the Supreme Immortal Realm.

Hanging from this tree are eight magical fruits and a dying black figure!

These eight divine fruits are dark gold in color and are surrounded by different Dao auras such as "freezing", "entanglement", "protection", "collapse" and "cutting". They are the manifestation of the three thousand Dao divine powers cultivated by these God Kings.

"Crash-"

Like the roar of the Yangtze River echoing within the mirror world, the purest celestial energy was drawn and refined by the roots of the World Tree, ultimately transforming into a visible torrent of pure golden spiritual liquid that crashed into the sky and earth of the mirror world. Under this massive influx of energy, the spatial barriers of the entire mirror world slowly expanded and strengthened at an imperceptible pace, and the laws of heaven and earth became increasingly clear.

The Azure Mirror's true form shone with an increasingly warm and vibrant light, greatly accelerating the revival process. However, the spirit within the artifact had not yet been revived, nor was it that it had not been revived at all; rather, the wedge had not yet completed its coverage of the spirit.

Yes, Li Chengqian was very dissatisfied with the setting of magical artifacts in this world. Magical artifacts are magical artifacts, why bother with artifact spirits? As a person with an extremely strong desire for control, he disliked artifact spirits very much. Even though, due to the restrictions of the rules, Dao artifacts would inevitably give birth to artifact spirits, he still wanted to completely control them. So when the artifact spirit was about to revive, he drove a wedge into it, but he did not expect to be met with fierce resistance from the artifact spirit. To this day, it has not yet been nurtured.

While Li Chengqian activated the World Tree and frantically absorbed the primordial energy of the immortal realm, his gaze fell upon the black figure.

This god-king possessed strength comparable to the Dharma Body of Heaven and Earth, making him the most valuable being captured this time.

Li Chengqian walked slowly to him, his gaze calm and unwavering.

"You lowly creature... the greatness of the gods... is beyond your comprehension... when my army descends... you... and everything you cherish... will be reduced to dust..." The God-King's thoughts were intermittent, yet still filled with condescending contempt and curses.

Li Chengqian was not angry, but simply said, "Great? You'll see when you see it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he pointed his fingers like a knife, and the Void-Splitting Heavenly Divine Power transformed into an invisible blade, precisely slicing into the God-King's shattered divine body. There was no blood; the blood of the gods was a viscous, silvery liquid that emitted a faint glow. The God-King let out an extremely shrill wail, constantly cursing and condemning…

As if he couldn't hear, the invisible blade, under Li Chengqian's exquisite control, peeled away the God King's divine body layer by layer, exposing muscle fibers, energy channels, skeletal structure, and even the indestructible source of divinity at the core of his consciousness... all without reservation to his perception.

At the same time, he pushed the Taiyin Refining Technique to its limit. In his eyes, a clear light flowed, as if transforming into two deep cosmic vortexes, reflecting every minute detail of the God King's physical structure.

An analytical power beyond common sense seeped in, tracing its source and dissecting the most fundamental code of its life structure.

"Just as I thought..." Li Chengqian murmured to himself.

Under the insight of the Taiyin Refining Technique, the seemingly perfect, noble life form of the gods, which is superior to ordinary beings, has a core underlying structure that is surprisingly similar to the innate Dao body he learned about in the prehistoric world!
Whether it's the key nodes of the energy cycle or the way the soul and the body unite, it all seems to be a product of some kind of optimization, or rather, pollution and distortion, targeting the characteristics of the Dao body.

No, it's not pollution, it's pure distortion.

It's more like a fundamental command and source of power imprinted from the very beginning of life. It endowed the gods with immense power, near-infinite lifespan, and strong resistance to other rule systems, but at the same time, it also distorted their will, making them naturally inclined towards a desire for destruction and the reconstruction of order.

"Have the tentacles of the stars already reached here?" Li Chengqian narrowed his eyes slightly. "Unfortunately, the rules of this world are extremely strange. I can't contact my main body, and I can't even sense the underworld. I don't have the slightest bit of help."

He sighed softly. The matter was confirmed, but he was powerless to do anything about it. He could only take it one step at a time. Perhaps, only by ascending to the Immortal Realm would he be able to access the deepest mysteries of this world.

"However, the Great Reincarnation Technique sounds somewhat related to the underworld, as does the Earth Emperor's Book. Once I enter the Longevity Secret Realm, I'll go find Su Xiuyi and see if she can be of any help to me."

With a thought, he no longer hesitated. The roots of the World Tree suddenly exerted their power, and the God-King let out a final, unwilling howl as his divine body, along with his remaining immortal divinity, was completely devoured and refined. A divine fruit, larger than the other eight, with a restrained radiance, containing the auras of the Great Dao such as "freezing," "entanglement," "teleportation," and "protection," and with a faint trace of the power fluctuations representing the origin of its celestial and terrestrial Dharma at its core, slowly condensed.

Thus, all nine divine kings were annihilated and transformed into resources for Li Chengqian's cultivation.

Seeing the aura of the three thousand Great Dao supernatural powers on the Divine Power Fruit, Li Chengqian was somewhat satisfied.

The gods were incredibly powerful. When they attacked the Immortal Realm, they seized many Great Dao abilities. These god-kings were all at the Golden Core stage, qualified to learn the Three Thousand Great Daos. However, these Great Daos were ranked relatively low. They had already learned things like Great Annihilation and Great Severing. But there were four new Three Thousand Great Daos that they had not yet cultivated: Great Freezing Technique, Great Entangling Technique, Great Teleportation Technique, and Great Body Protection Technique...

In addition, the God-Kings also possess a vast amount of resources within their internal spaces, including mountains of Pure Yang Pills, various rare refining materials, and some cultivation manuals unique to the God Race. Although these are not directly useful to them, they are of great reference value and can enrich the treasury of Lan Yue Peak.

All I can say is, he truly lives up to his reputation as a minor giant in the Golden Core realm; his collection is indeed extensive.

Li Chengqian stayed on the outskirts of the main palace of the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion for a whole month. Only when he felt that the immortal energy in the Qinghuan Zhaoxu Mirror had undergone another qualitative change, enough to ensure that he would not starve to death for more than a hundred years, did he feel at ease and turn his attention to the main palace of the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion.

(End of this chapter)