Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

Inside the Federal underground core training area, Gu Changjin sat cross-legged.

This time, instead of rushing to arrange other things, he first reviewed the gains he had made from this trip.

The greatest gain was naturally the "Ancient Dao Scripture," whose origins are mysterious and are suspected to be related to some ancient Daoist court.

It records various cultivation paths. With my current cultivation level, I can only see the Mahayana chapter. However, there seem to be chapters beyond the Mahayana realm.

The key takeaway from this scripture was naturally resolving the most important issue: the cultivation of one's own spiritual practice.

Secondly, he established his own path to return to emptiness. With the help of the Return to Emptiness chapter of the Ancient Dao Scripture and the essence of the transformation between reality and illusion in the Mind and Appearance Dao, Gu Changjin had thoroughly understood the key to the cave heaven's transformation from reality to emptiness.

Although the main body of the main world is still in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, once it returns, it will inevitably step into the Void Return realm in an instant.

Then there is the Twisted Primitive, which was formed from the fragmented Heavenly Dao and origin of a polluted world. It has now been suppressed by the Dao Fruit and turned into an ore vein that can be extracted for a long time.

Each year, at least a thousand strands of the Dao Yuan can be condensed, and as for how many years it can be maintained, the end is still unknown.

Finally, there is this body of another self, the Myriad Blood Realm, which is forged from the fusion of myriad blood energies into one, and its physical strength has far exceeded the level of a normal divine body cultivator.

It seems invincible in this world, but it is still far from enough to face the distorted source that can cast pollution across worlds.

"You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub."

Gu Changjin, sitting cross-legged, whispered softly.

If you want to catch a bigger source of distortion, you have to make sure that once the fish comes, you won't end up being swallowed up yourself.

With a thought, he slowly opened the Ancient Dao Scripture. The Blood Refinement Method was a system he had temporarily created based on his mental state.

One blood, ten blood, a hundred blood, a thousand blood, ten thousand blood.

Once one's spiritual cultivation reaches the stage of myriad phenomena, there is no longer a public path.

Because that path was deliberately severed long ago when the Heart-to-Heart Sect sealed off its own world.

Gu Changjin did not have the complete inheritance of the Xinxiang Sect, but he had the "Ancient Dao Scripture".

Ancient scriptures appeared in his mind.

The way of body refinement is to nourish the body with blood, to receive the law through the body, and to unite with the realm through the law.

Before cultivating ten thousand blood, one cultivates oneself.

After the Ten Thousand Bloods, the cultivation is no longer just about the physical body, but about allowing one's own blood and energy to interact with the world around them.

Bound by blood, we bear the weight of heaven with our bodies.

"I see."

Gu Changjin's eyes brightened slightly.

The reason why the Mind-Image Sect was able to leave its own realm and conquer and sacrifice other worlds was not only because their Mind-Image was powerful.

Furthermore, cultivators above the level of the Myriad Forms can already briefly manipulate the power of the world.

In one's own world, one draws upon the power of heaven and earth to empower oneself.

Upon entering other worlds, they use their own mental imagery to erode the heavens and earth, gradually weakening the worlds' resistance.

This is the true foundation upon which the Heart-Image Sect conquers all realms.

"Above all blood."

"Let's call it the Blood Realm."

With one's own blood, one unites with a realm.

The name is simple, and the meaning is straightforward.

Gu Changjin no longer hesitated.

The Dao Fruit trembled, and the accumulated Dao Yuan of the Returning to One surged into this body like a torrent.

boom!

My heart is pounding.

The first sound was like thunder, the second like a heavenly drum, and when the third sound fell, the entire underground base began to tremble slightly.

Gu Changjin's ten thousand streams of qi and blood erupted simultaneously, and a crimson pillar of light burst through the cultivation room, piercing through layers of alloy structure and soaring into the sky.

Above the Federal Military Headquarters, the once clear sky instantly turned blood red.

A giant serpent emerged from the clouds, its body stretching across the capital, its scales like mountains, and the light in the entire city flickering between its opening and closing eyes.

Countless federal citizens looked up, feeling the blood in their veins surge with the breath of that enormous phantom.

Gu Changjin's body swelled up again.

Ten zhang! Twenty zhang! Thirty zhang! Sixty zhang! One hundred zhang!

The bloodline of the ancient Cuban snake was fully revived under the infusion of qi and blood.

The muscles undulated like mountains, with dark red snake-like lines running wildly along the skin.

Simply breathing can create visible folds in the space.

The body's energy and blood are still increasing.

Twenty thousand! Thirty thousand! ...

But in the end, all the strange phenomena suddenly stopped.

The illusory image of the Bashe snake that stretched across Tianjing vanished silently, and the blood-red clouds in the sky quickly receded.

The giant body, which was hundreds of feet tall, gradually shrank back to its normal size.

A few breaths later, Gu Changjin stood in the center of the training room again.

He was of normal height, his breathing was calm, and there was no trace of blood on his body.

Even the muscles aren't as exaggerated as before.

At first glance, he looks like an ordinary teenager with a good physique.

But when he took a step forward...

Click.

The soles of the feet had not yet truly touched the ground.

A dark crack appeared in the space ahead.

Gu Changjin stopped in his tracks.

He slowly extended his hand, without mobilizing any force.

However, the air, gravity, and even the space itself in the entire underground training area tilted slightly with his movements.

It was as if the world itself was actively cooperating with him.

Gu Changjin closed his eyes.

An unprecedented feeling welled up inside me.

He could sense the breath of the blue planet, the rise and fall of the ocean, and the magma deep within the earth.

The subtle vibrations caused by the operation of the twelve starports in low Earth orbit.

It can even mobilize a trace of the power belonging to the entire world through some unseen connection.

This trace is extremely small, yet it represents the power of the world!

It is not the mobilization of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, nor the manipulation of the power of the mind, nor the resonance of one's own blood and qi, but the weight of heaven and earth itself.

"Blood Realm".

Gu Changjin opened his eyes, already knowing what was going on.

"So what is meant by 'above all phenomena' is to bestow the great power of heaven and earth upon one person."

Within the Blue Star, he can receive the world's blessing.

Anything from outside the planet will be suppressed by the world.

If that extraterrestrial source of distortion were to truly descend, Gu Changjin could even use Blue Star itself to forcibly weaken its power to a level similar to his own.

When that time comes, the true form of the Bashe will be revealed.

Use absolute power to show the other party what true super intelligence is.

Gu Changjin's lips slowly curled up.

This time, I'm much more confident about catching the fish.

Just then, the terminal on his wrist suddenly lit up.

Correspondent: Zhou Jingming.

Gu Changjin answered the call casually.

Within the light screen, Zhou Jingming's excited face immediately came closer.

"Brother Gu! I've broken through! Six thousand phases!"

"That 'Heart-Body Blood Refining Technique' is amazing! I feel ten times more stable now than before!"

Gu Changjin nodded.

Not surprising. It's normal for a chosen one to break through faster.

Zhou Jingming then began to ramble on about his recent experiences.

They discovered two more small heritage sites.

Chen Mo's mechanical city has gained three more outer cities, and Su Xingmian can now maintain the Fear Domain in reality.

There are also more than twenty pieces of black stone that Gu Changjin likes, which have been handed over to the nearby Blood Refining Army through the military terminal and sent to Tianjing.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changjin's smile became even gentler.

"Well done."

"hey-hey."

Zhou Jingming scratched his head.

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he quickly took the terminal and walked a little further away, lowering his voice mysteriously.

"By the way, Brother Gu."

"An old Taoist priest came to visit today."

He said he was some kind of Celestial Master of the Lower Yuan Palace.

"They even said we are the hope for saving the world."

"At first I thought he was some kind of lunatic who had wandered out of nowhere, and I almost kicked him out."

"It turned out he knew my grandfather."

Zhou Jingming's grandfather was the previous abbot of Xuanzhen Temple.

It is also the true source of the "Heart Sutra of the Great Void" and the ancestral heart-image.

"The old man also said that Xie Wuwang is not dead."

"The eighteen twisted pillars have also begun to shift."

"Let me go with him to stop the world sacrifice."

"Brother Gu, do you think this is a reliable plan?"

Gu Changjin leaned against the wall of the training room, listening quietly to Zhou Jingming's rambling story.

The Celestial Master of the Lower Yuan Prefecture, Xie Wuwang, the Twisted Pillar, and the Destiny Protagonist Group.

All those who were destined to meet in fate eventually came together.

Even though he interfered and changed it beyond recognition.

The river of fate is still trying to return to its original direction.

Gu Changjin looked up at the sky, which was gradually returning to calm.

With a faint smile on his face, he nodded and said to Zhou Jingming.

"Go."

At the same time, he silently added to it in his mind.

"I also want to see just how much fruit this grand drama of destiny will bear after it unfolds."