Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 394 Metamorphosis—Evolution of the Divine Aperture

The Yuhe Dongfeng section, deep in the mountains along the riverbank.

The Paper Goddess sat outside the cave, occasionally wielding her brush to draw blood clouds that drifted into the sky above the valley.

The blood clouds and the mist of the domain river merged together, forming a dense poisonous domain that enveloped the valley, preventing any strange creatures from approaching.

On the other side, the Tree Goddess sat on a rattan chair, resting her chin on her hand, controlling the Five Elements Ring to seal off the cave.

The two were each doing their own job, but they couldn't stand each other, and for six days in a row, they didn't exchange more than ten words.

Just then, the Five Elements Ring at the cave entrance trembled slightly, and the Tree Goddess on the rattan chair straightened her back, revealing an astonishing curve.

The paper goddess immediately gritted her teeth.

Soon, she will be able to paint an absolutely beautiful face, which will surely make the Tree Goddess feel ashamed of herself.

The Tree Goddess noticed the Paper Goddess's expression, glanced at her disdainfully, and urged:
"What are you all standing there for? Light the incense!"

Without waiting for the Paper Goddess's response, he took out two incense sticks and placed one at the cave entrance and the other above the cave. Upon seeing this, the Paper Goddess snorted coldly.
"Why are you being so nosy?"

Despite his resentment, he still took out an incense stick and stuck it beside him. The three incense sticks formed a triangle, and the moment the incense burned, a simple incense barrier appeared.

The Paper Goddess's body rippled and disappeared within the barrier. At the same time, the Tree Goddess, along with the rattan chair beneath her, burrowed into the ground and escaped outside the barrier.

The moment the two withdrew, a muffled sound like thunder suddenly erupted from inside the cave. After the Tree Goddess's Five Elements Rings vibrated several times, they slowly dissipated.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying aura of blood rushed out from the cave, only to be firmly blocked by the incense-burning barrier.

As the Paper Goddess and the Tree Goddess gazed at the scene within the barrier, they couldn't help but feel a sense of awe. Even though they stood outside the barrier and couldn't sense any aura, both of them felt a chill at the same time.

At first, they could barely stay inside the barrier, but starting two days ago, they could no longer stay inside for long. If they didn't come out, they might be killed by the sound of the heartbeat.

Inside the cave

Li Wushou sat on the ground, a void vortex appearing between his brows.

To his left sat a boy of about eight or nine years old, whose features were very similar to Li Wushou's, and whose body was surrounded by the aura of boundary power and divine soul.

His entire body appeared and disappeared within the cave, as if he were sitting there, or as if he were sitting in another void.

This is precisely Li Wushou's primordial spirit!
On the second day of his seclusion here, with the help of the old beggar, Li Wushou used a divine control talisman to firmly control the five half-dead Nascent Soul cultivators, including Zizhen.

He searched through the extra World Treasures on the group, but to his disappointment, aside from those World Treasures that were compatible with their own Dharma Realms, the five of them only managed to gather two World Treasures.

They came from Zizhen and Lu Xingzhi respectively, but Wu Xia, Qujiang and Bayong did not.

Although somewhat disappointed, Li Wushou did not say much.

They were given an additional task: to collect as many world treasures as possible that were rich in world power.

The five men readily accepted the order and then left the mountains with Li Wushou's mission.

However, it wasn't all disappointment; at least he gained quite a few benefits within the Dharma Realm of the Azure Lotus Envoy.

Before taking control of the group, Li Wushou's first task was to inventory the Qinglian Envoy's belongings.

Li Wushou retrieved the head of the Azure Lotus Envoy from the formless golden elixir and dug out a lotus seedpod from between the brows of the envoy. This lotus seedpod was the Azure Lotus Envoy's Dharma Realm.

Because of the death of the Azure Lotus Envoy, the power of the Lotus Seed Realm was greatly weakened and it withered away; all its followers inside also perished.

However, the Lotus Seed Dharma Realm has not completely collapsed and is still barely clinging to life.

Li Wushou found some of Qinglian's items inside the lotus pod.

This includes a Lotus Heart Realm Treasure and several lotus seeds that have not yet been refined into Realm Treasures.

Adding the two World Treasures he had previously seized after severing the Green Lotus Envoy's hand, and the Green Lotus Envoy's own Dharma Lotus Pod, the Green Lotus Envoy alone provided Li Wushou with four World Treasures. The Luo Clan is truly rolling in wealth!
This further strengthened Li Wushou's determination to go to the Central Region to find the Luo Clan.

After the five people left, Li Wushou began to fully digest the information.

Within the divine aperture, Yin and Yang flow, the Five Elements rotate, and the boundary treasures continuously disintegrate, refining the boundary power within and integrating it into one's own divine aperture.

A constant rumbling sound echoed within the divine aperture, and gray mist continued to extend outwards from its boundaries. At the same time, his primordial spirit was also continuously improving along with the transformation of the divine aperture.

After four or five days of digestion, his primordial spirit grew from the appearance of a five or six-year-old to the appearance of an eight or nine-year-old.

However, the overall evolution of the divine aperture was much slower than he had imagined.

The five boundary treasures, along with the fragmented Dharma Realm of the Azure Lotus Envoy, caused Li Wushou's divine aperture to expand nearly three times. The amount of boundary power he could control was comparable to that of Lu Xingzhi in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

This also means that Li Wushou's boundary power should have officially crossed the boundary of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm and is faintly approaching the threshold of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

However, the boundary of the divine aperture was still shrouded in a hazy gray mist, indicating that the evolutionary process was still ongoing.

It seems that I have fallen into the same predicament that prevented my Nascent Soul from transforming.

Judging from the current situation, the number of World Treasures needed for the evolution of one's Divine Aperture is probably not small, and the starting point is likely to be dozens!
This left Li Wushou speechless, as he had no idea whether the wealthy and powerful Scholar Wu possessed dozens of World Treasures.

This time, thanks to the Blood Buddha, Li Wushou practically took Luofu City and made a round trip. Even if Qu Jiang and the others went back to search, they wouldn't be able to collect more than two items in total.

This feeling of indefinite delay made Li Wushou somewhat impatient, but he was helpless!
Fortunately, once his divine aperture completes its transformation, he will likely cross the threshold of the Dharma Realm and directly reach the level of the Great Venerable World.

Thinking this way, Li Wushou felt a little better.

If a single Dharma Realm consumes so much, Li Wushou truly cannot imagine how much his Great Venerable World would consume. By then, let alone becoming an immortal, Li Wushou estimates that even becoming a Great Venerable would require him to devour every sacred realm and divine realm in the world.

Li Wushou was somewhat amused and exasperated by this.

However, although the evolution of the divine aperture is slow, the changes are significant!
After the World Treasure was used up yesterday, Li Wushou has been adapting to the changes in his Divine Aperture.

With his mind and spirit immersed in it, Li Wushou transformed into the will of heaven and looked down over the entire divine aperture.

Not only is the space more than three times larger than before, but the overall structure has also changed dramatically.

From Li Wushou's perspective, the divine aperture is divided into four layers.

From the boundary inwards, the first layer is a hazy, gray mist zone that connects with nothingness.

This place is filled with a large amount of boundary energy, which is constantly pushing outwards.

Next came the Yin and Yang energies within Li Wushou's body, one black and one white, like a celestial canopy, connected to the external force of the boundary and the five elements power that filled his divine aperture internally.

The next level down is the River Styx, which permeates the bottom of the divine apertures.

While Li Wushou was fully digesting the World Treasure, he discovered that his own Styx River had also undergone tremendous changes. The old beggar said that this was because Li Wushou had devoured a large number of flesh and blood puppets.

The chaotic spirits within these puppets facilitated the evolution of the River Styx, causing it to permeate the bottom of the entire divine aperture.

Therefore, in Li Wushou's view, the entire Divine Aperture is divided into: the Boundary Force Layer, the Yin and Yang Two Qi Layer, the Five Elements Layer, and the Styx Layer. These are actually all the manifestations of the "Law" controlled by Li Wushou.

The dwarf mountain, as always, remained in the very center of the entire divine aperture.

As the divine aperture grew larger, the low mountain also rose in height, spanning the four layers of the divine aperture: the rising boundary power, the mountain containing yin and yang and the five elements, and a piece of land extending outward from the foot of the mountain, the source of the Styx River turning into the ground.

The four layers are clearly distinct, yet they form a unified whole through the connection of low hills.

Moreover, after the divine aperture evolved to this point, whenever Li Wushou's mind sank into the low mountain, he would always feel a strange tremor in his heart.

He could sense that something was being nurtured within the low hills.

(End of this chapter)