All heavens, let's begin with the Divine Elephant's Prison-Suppressing Power!

Chapter 203 Breakthrough in the Void!
"Hell's Forge!"

Having finally killed the Saint King of the Ruthless Clan, how could Yang An let go? The battlefield, littered with flying blood and flesh, was enveloped by his true energy, forming a dense net that scooped up the blood and flesh and sent it into the dark golden hell furnace.

The blazing celestial fire scorched the flesh and blood of the Saint King, crackling and popping, as a massive amount of life essence surged forth.

But Yang An did not rush to absorb it.

"The time has come to verify my idea." A glint of light flashed in his eyes.

Yang Qi, who has mastered the Five Elements Transformation and Yin-Yang Transformation, is no weaker than some low-level Great Saints in terms of true energy and physique. However, he can only contend with them at most and is simply no match for them.

Why is this?

It lacks that crucial Sacred Mark! The Celestial Mark!

Once the Holy Mark is revealed, it can suppress all true energy that does not have the Holy Mark!

The Holy Mark is a major transformation in the Qigong system. When the legendary Nine Transformations comprehend various laws and break through to the Half-Saint level, a wisp of Holy Mark will be condensed, possessing all of its insights and the mysteries of the laws. It is the essence of cultivation, the beginning of the Great Dao, and the supreme transformation of true Qi!
This is a chasm of realms, difficult to cross. It's like someone else's true energy is mercury, while yours is just water. Mercury and lead are incomparable to any amount of water.

It's like comparing a high-ranking emperor to a beggar on the street; there's no comparison.

“Sacred marks are a special product of the Qi Gong system, something that only exists under the Saint King worldview. They are not present in the trilogy. Even when one cultivates to the level of Saint or Saint King, all they possess are the laws of the Saint Path.”

Yang An's thoughts stirred slightly. "The laws of the Holy Path and the Holy Marks have similarities, but they differ greatly in the details. Refining a Holy Mark is equivalent to refining the entire cultivation of a Great Sage, while a cultivator of the Secret Realm can not strip away the laws of a Sage and cannot utilize them at all. They can only let them dissipate in the void and nourish that world."

At best, they leave behind the corpses as materials for sacred artifacts. Apart from that, there are basically no other ways to utilize them. Even alchemy is a problem for cultivators in secret realms.

That Devouring Heaven Demon Art only devours the source, so its utilization rate is barely higher, but in reality, it's just so-so.

"But I am different. The Hell Furnace is forged and tempered through countless trials, melting all things. It is forged with countless legendary demons to give it special properties, and with the transformation of the Great Dao Tree, it may be possible to completely refine the holy laws of a secret realm cultivator and condense a holy mark!"

Neither the Hell Furnace nor the Tree of the Great Dao could accomplish this; Yang An had to find a solution himself.

"Only by possessing a Holy Mark can one activate the Heavenly Fist, whether it's my own or someone else's. As long as I succeed, it will allow me to begin cultivating the Heavenly Fist even before I condense the Pure Land of the Gods." Yang An pondered for a moment, then summoned a large number of hellish demons from the void and threw them into the Hell Furnace.

The remaining life essence and holy laws of that ruthless lineage Saint King reacted chemically with countless hellish demons, crackling and popping like firewood being forged.

"The Tree of the Great Dao!" With a thought, Yang An summoned the power of the Tree of the Great Dao in his sea of ​​consciousness. That sacred Tree of Life seemed to contain ten points of matter, each symbolizing the change in the essence of life, like a metaphor in religious mythology.

The Tree of the Great Dao is no longer the World Tree of the 'First World'. Blessed by the marks of the gods, it now possesses even more special power.

Even the Great Sage's power is only a small part of what the gods control. That's why Yang An believes that the Tree of the Great Dao can play a decisive role in consecrating the laws of the Holy Dao and condensing holy marks.

Sure enough, after a burst of light, the sacred laws within the Hell Furnace changed, and a strange pattern faintly appeared, resembling a dragon or a phoenix, winding and majestic, possessing an incredible power.

However, these marks are only superficial and far from perfect, not even comparable to the marks of a half-saint.

Yang An frowned. If he couldn't even achieve this, did he have to wait until he broke through to the Great Saint realm to condense the Saint Mark?
Without the Holy Mark, even if he activated the Gates of Hell, he would not be able to summon Great Sage-level Hell Demons to cultivate the Heavenly Fist by extracting their Holy Marks.

If it were possible, Yang Qi would have done it long ago. Why go through all that trouble to win over Yama Demon Emperor and kill the Great Sage?

If you could actually ascend to heaven by stepping on your right foot with your left, then it wouldn't be called the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique; it should be renamed the Dragonless Heart Method.

"Never mind, perhaps it's just that the power isn't enough."

Yang An paused what he was doing, placed the nascent form of the holy mark deep within the Hell Furnace to continue forging it, and then began to frantically devour the life essence left behind by a Saint King.

Although much of the life essence within had been consumed during the process of condensing the holy marks, the remaining power was still sufficient to support him in breaking through the void transformation!

The energy within my body exploded completely!

Yang An already possessed the power of 200,000 ancient giant elephants. Now he began to refine the Saint King. Although this was not a Great Saint of the Qi Gong system, and he possessed perfect compatibility with and digestion of things such as Saint Marks and True Qi, it still caused the particles in his body to begin to awaken on a large scale.

"Boom!"

The power within him was like a dam bursting, flowing out uncontrollably.

In an instant, all 100,000 particles awakened, each carrying unparalleled true energy that empowered the body, and the roar of the ancient giant elephant resounded throughout the heavens and the void.

The aura emanating from him was like the collapse of the heavens, terrifying beyond compare, causing the surrounding void to freeze and then shatter.

If it weren't for the fact that they were in the vast universe, such a commotion would definitely shake the entire Eastern Wilderness, and might even attract the attention of the forbidden zones.

Now that Yang An has reached his current level of strength, it is clear that he can no longer blend in with the crowd. If that supreme being of the forbidden zone had even a thought and subconsciously scanned the Eastern Wilderness with his divine sense, he would be discovered without a doubt. He is too special, too outstanding.

Like a star that shines upon everything, its brilliance cannot be obscured in any star system.

Let him pretend?

That's right, Yang An has mastered the Void Transformation technique and can perfectly impersonate a character from the game "Legend of Sword and Fairy 2" by simulating true qi.

But thinking about it carefully, he will most likely have the power to fight a saint by then. Immortal II spans more than twenty realms and fights a saint... This is beyond what the divine prohibition can explain.

In any case, it's all too illogical and can't hide its prominence at all.

Yang An never had such a thought. I am the gods, the supreme lord!
How could someone with such thoughts possibly be afraid? His journey spans all the heavens and myriad worlds, and his gaze has never lingered on those supreme beings who cling to the past and refuse to change.

"Boom!"

Three hundred thousand ancient giant elephants roared and began their assault on the void.

In the void, countless bolts of lightning transformed into a vast ocean that engulfed him, and terrifying spatial holes condensed into physical forms, spewing out countless void lightning bolts like cannonballs that struck his body.

These Void Divine Lightning bolts are all unimaginably powerful, containing the power to destroy mountains and rivers, and to kill legendary sixth-level cultivators and domain-level cultivators.

Those so-called kings who roamed the Central Plains, and the old monsters of various holy lands, were utterly insignificant in front of him. Even if the Dark Night King came, he couldn't withstand many Void Divine Lightning bolts.

Even a sage would change his expression upon seeing this.

This was just the beginning. Soon, strange phenomena appeared. A giant axe cleaved down from the starry sky—the Axe of Two Realms, a giant axe that split the void and divided a world in two. The Void Mirror, a symbol of the Void Laws of the universe, also appeared in the sky, spewing out countless beams of light that swept towards Yang An.

"This?!" The Ji family members observed the scene before them through the Void Mirror itself, and they were stunned, feeling a sense of disbelief. They could fully sense what kind of Void Laws Yang An in the starry sky was in control of.

He was practically the embodiment of the Great Dao of the Void, the Void Emperor in his youth!

This scene even stirred the Ji family's revival, prompting them to look up at the starry sky and compare Ji Zi and Yang An in their minds. Ji Zi seemed to be inferior, or even significantly inferior.

"Perhaps only the Void Emperor in his youth could truly rival him." Ji Family Foundation shook its head slightly, refusing to dwell on the matter.

But the more you try not to think about it, the more it feels like a fishbone stuck in your throat.

Could he be some kind of Void God Body? The Ji family's foundation and the diverging thoughts in the mind suggest that such a physique does not exist in theory. The Dao of Void is the foundation of the existence of all things. Divine bodies and holy bodies have appeared in the world, but no Void Body has ever been born yet.

Perhaps only after the Void Emperor became an emperor, his physique underwent a transformation that could be called the Void Body.

However, Yang An paid no attention to other people's thoughts and had no time to care. As soon as he began to break through the void, his body began to explode. His meridians, blood vessels, internal organs, and dantian were all destroyed, and he entered a state of great destruction.

This destruction is for better shaping. There is no Void Body in the world, but when Yang An breaks through the Void Transformation, he becomes the spokesperson of the Void Dao, naturally close to the Void Dao.

As you can see, the meridians began to connect under Yang An's cultivation.

Those meridians, like wormholes in spacetime, twist and meander within the body. The blood vessels, like true dragons, surge and roar, carrying a powerful force that carves out one space after another.

These spaces, large and small, densely packed together, are Yang An's transformed body, each equivalent to a dantian, capable of holding countless amounts of true qi.

"boom!"

The next moment, countless spatial laws backfired.

The tribulation of lightning in the great universe should have summoned the phantoms of past emperors to fight and test Yang An, but due to the influence of the Void Transformation, it actually transformed into a portal.

The portal, formed from countless spatial voids, stood tens of thousands of feet tall, soaring into the clouds. Embedded in the void, it was entirely transparent, seemingly forged from crystal, yet exceptionally sturdy, radiating an eternal and immortal luster.

"A portal to space!"

Yang An realized what this was. This was the final hurdle to breaking through the Void Transformation. Once he broke through it, he could truly merge with the void, and endless spatial mysteries would open up to him. From then on, he could begin to truly cultivate and master the laws of the void.

Cultivating the laws of cultivation is the first step to becoming a god.

Transformation of flesh and blood, and transformation of the soul, are merely laying the foundation. It can be said that only by achieving the transformation of the void can one truly begin cultivation.

"The test of the void is nothing to me. I will control time and destiny, let alone space!"

"Break!" Yang An roared to the sky. Without any hesitation, he threw a punch. At this moment, his momentum was like a rainbow, sweeping across many worlds. His invincible spirit and the might of a hegemon were simply unstoppable.

“Crack, click, click!!”

In an instant, the entire spatial gate shattered, turning into countless fragments of void.

Yang An opened his mouth and swallowed it, creating a huge vortex in the void. Breaking through the void transformation, his potential began to be further developed, and the number of giant elephant particles that his body could contain was far more than 300,000.

And the life essence of the Saint King, which he hadn't fully refined just now, is now being refined again.

After a slight pause, thousands upon thousands of giant elephant particles within his body began to awaken, and in less than a short time, they had generated the power of 300,000 ancient giant elephants!
"The power of 600,000 ancient giant elephants, this power is truly wonderful." Yang An felt his whole body bathed in power, which no one could compare to. He gently stroked the void with his palm.

The gentle, water-like spatial power rippled at his fingertips. The void was as smooth and silky as water, unimaginably so. He now seemed capable of teleporting hundreds of thousands, millions, or even billions of kilometers in an instant.

If he wanted, he could possess a spatial coordinate system and even break through the insurmountable, cold, and merciless light-year barrier in the starry sky.

A coordinate actually appeared in his mind.

Yinghuo, Mars!
This was the first planet he visited after his journey through time. He didn't even go to Earth; he boarded the Kowloon Interstellar Train halfway there.

"Once we reach Mars, we won't be far from Earth. Let's see what Ye Fan thinks."

Yang An knew how much Ye Fan wanted to go home, and since it was just a small favor, he didn't mind helping him.

Having broken through the void transformation and the great calamity, with the power of 600,000 ancient giant elephants, Yang An had no reason to stay in the starry sky anymore. With a casual wave of his hand, a void rift was created, and a dark spatial storm stirred, seemingly about to erupt at any moment, surging out and destroying everything.

But Yang An simply took a step, entered it, and then appeared outside the Yao Guang Holy Land.

"Boom!"

Jiang Taixu suppressed two saints, one of whom had already perished, while the other was struggling desperately. The forbidden artifact in his hand was already half destroyed. When he saw Yang An appear, his body felt as if it had fallen into an icy abyss.

Yang An appeared; he was the leader of their lineage.

He dared not think too deeply about it; that was a Saint King, after all. If he was dead, what would become of them...?

Swish!
In the blink of an eye, Yang An appeared behind the other party. The saint's divine sense was keen, and he noticed it almost instantly, and an extreme sense of danger surged into his heart.

He quickly turned around and saw Yang An's figure.

"Wait!" The saint opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

But Yang An's palm fell like a heavenly blade, indestructible, as if severing the void between two realms. Blood mist burst in the air, the saint's head was raised high, his expression still revealing a trace of struggle, and he died just like that.

"Your cultivation level?!" Jiang Taixu was moved.

Yang An did not use any imperial weapons in this attack.

This is due to his own cultivation level!

He broke through to the Saint realm?!
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