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

Chapter 30 Divine Transformation Cave Heaven, Xuanming Devouring Heaven

The moment the soul search ended, Gu Changjin's eyes lit up.

They only intended to catch one fish, but when they cast their net, they dragged up the entire lakebed skeleton.

"Transformation into a Divine Being?"

"Ascension failed?"

"The Upper Realm... has disappeared?"

Gu Changjin stood amidst the ruins of the Ice Palace, the wisp of remnant soul in his palm shattering completely.

The wind and snow swirled around him, and icy spiritual energy surged from the depths of the shattered cave, scraping against his face like knives.

But the smile on his face grew wider and wider.

It turns out that what was on Jiang Zhaoyue's body was not some ordinary possessing monster.

But he was the true master of this grotto.

His name is Xuanming Zhenjun.

This realm has countless Nascent Soul cultivators from countless years ago.

He was also the last Nascent Soul cultivator in this cultivation world.

When Xuanming Zhenjun reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, he thought his path was over and prepared to break through the barrier and ascend.

But when they ascended, they realized something was wrong.

The upper realm is gone.

It's not that the passage is broken.

Instead, the upper realm energy that was supposed to guide her to ascension seemed to have vanished into thin air.

She forced her way onto the path to ascension, only to be devoured by the void, her physical body shattered, and her primordial spirit severely injured.

Finally, he fought his way back to this world, leaving behind only half a shattered cave and a wisp of his remnant soul that was sometimes awake and sometimes asleep.

For many years afterward, she waited for a suitable vessel to be reincarnated.

Jiang Zhaoyue was the person she chose.

It wasn't a complete possession; it was more like a remnant soul parasitizing.

Sometimes Jiang Zhaoyue is Jiang Zhaoyue.

Sometimes, she is also influenced by Xuanming Zhenjun.

The Jiang family's substitution elixir strategy also originated from this.

Jiang Xuanling thought it was a forbidden technique passed down from his ancestors in the Jiang family.

Actually, she had already changed it.

No wonder.

No wonder that old bastard Jiang Xuanling would willingly sacrifice himself in the fate story.

Given his personality of preferring to live a miserable life rather than die, how could he possibly sacrifice himself for the Jiang family?

It turns out they were affected.

Being guided little by little by this Xuanming True Lord, one's thoughts may even be distorted at crucial moments.

"Okay, okay."

Gu Changjin laughed out loud.

"This was definitely a good deal."

He originally only wanted to use the golden core of the Jiang family patriarch to deduce a method of pill-swallowing and refining.

Now look what's happened.

The complete road is laid out right in front of us.

The true cultivation technique practiced by Xuanming Zhenjun is called the "Xuanming Devouring Heaven Scripture".

The ice attribute is just a superficial phenomenon.

The real core is "devouring".

The mysterious cold energy froze the spiritual energy.

Use the Devouring Heaven Secret Pattern to refine the essence of others.

It can devour golden cores, nascent souls, demon cores, spiritual veins, and even scattered fragments of laws in the world.

The most basic requirement for this method is the Golden Elixir.

Before reaching the Golden Core stage, the dantian cannot withstand the Devouring Heaven Secret Pattern.

This is why Xuanming Zhenjun went through such a long and complicated process.

She chose Jiang Zhaoyue, but discovered that Jiang Zhaoyue's foundation was damaged and she was unable to form a core at all.

no way.

It can only be used to cultivate elixirs.

She would have Gu Changjin, her son-in-law, help her achieve the Golden Core stage, and then she would marry him to Jiang Zhaoyue.

Once Jiang Zhaoyue achieves the Golden Core stage, she will be able to truly recover and resume cultivating the "Mysterious Netherworld Devouring Heaven Scripture".

As a result, it all benefited Gu Changjin.

"This isn't a method you created?"

Gu Changjin flipped through the remaining memories in the Soul Search, his eyes shining even brighter.

Xuanming Zhenjun was not the originator of this method.

She comes from an ancient sect that has long since vanished.

The sect is called the Xuanming Dao Sect.

This sect was once glorious, with a Nascent Soul cultivator presiding over it, and even left behind some ancient inheritances that even Nascent Soul cultivators couldn't understand.

The Xuanming Devouring Heaven Scripture is one of them.

However, this method is too difficult to practice.

The entry barrier is high.

High consumption.

It can also easily backfire.

Later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became increasingly thin, and each generation of sects became weaker than the last, eventually leading to their extinction.

Xuanming Zhenjun was the last generation of deity to be transformed.

She only realized just before her ascension that it wasn't that she had no way out.

It's as if the whole world has been abandoned by something.

"The upper realm has disappeared..."

Gu Changjin narrowed his eyes.

This news is quite interesting.

very interesting.

Does the main world have an upper realm?

What are the relationships between all the heavens and myriad realms?

Why is there only one Dao Fruit?

What about those Dao traces scattered throughout the heavens?

These things used to be far removed from him.

But now, the memory of failing to ascend to godhood in a small world is like tearing a corner of the fog away for him.

of course.

Now is not the time to dwell on these things.

Gu Changjin looked down at the frozen cave below.

The fragments of the cave were not large.

But it's worth more than all the resources the Jiang family has combined.

Deep within the Ice Palace lies the Frosty Marrow Spirit Pool left behind by the Xuanming True Lord.

There were several high-level spiritual herbs that had been frozen in ice.

There is also a broken section of the core of the cave.

Bringing these things back to the main world would be a huge profit.

Unfortunately, I can't take it with me.

It's impossible to take it away by normal means.

A storage bag cannot contain a whole world.

Even I lack the ability to refine the complete core of this cave.

Gu Changjin stroked his chin, and a thought suddenly popped into his head.

"What if I swallowed this fragment of the celestial realm into this body of mine?"

"When the Dao traces return to their original positions, will the Dao Fruit also retrieve them?"

This idea is crazy.

It's even a bit outrageous.

But the more Gu Changjin thought about it, the more he felt it wasn't entirely impossible.

What Dao Fruits reclaim is not just cultivation level.

There are also traces of cultivation, experience, foundation, and origin in the cause and effect of others.

If this body of mine truly refined the core of the cave into its body before its death, even if it was only a part of it, it might be taken back by the Dao Fruit.

However, this cannot be rushed.

The operation is required.

We must squeeze every last drop out of this little world.

Furthermore, one must thoroughly understand the "Xuanming Devouring Heaven Scripture".

Gu Changjin sat down cross-legged and immediately began to circulate this technique.

The remnant soul of Xuanming Zhenjun has been shattered, and his memories are incomplete.

But the main trunk is still there.

Furthermore, with the Guiyi Daoyuan available for deduction, Gu Changjin quickly sketched out the most crucial "Devouring Heaven Secret Pattern".

A wisp of icy blue pattern slowly emerged on the surface of his golden core.

The next instant, the blood flames, sword energy, and Xuanming cold energy collided.

The body jolted violently, and blood spilled from the corner of its mouth.

"Tsk."

"My health is still a bit lacking."

But Gu Changjin didn't care.

He grabbed the remaining pill from Jiang Xuanling and pressed it directly into his palm.

The Xuanming Devouring Heaven Scripture is in operation.

The icy blue pattern lit up.

The golden core essence within the remaining elixir was gradually frozen, stripped away, and devoured, then refined into his own golden core.

If an ordinary Golden Core cultivator did this, there's a high chance they'd explode on the spot.

Gu Changjin has a master's worldview.

It possesses the divine consciousness of the Nascent Soul level.

Guiyi Daoyuan also helped suppress the backlash.

Most importantly, he is not afraid of this body being ruined.

pain?

Endure.

裂？

Add it.

His lifespan was burned away?

Keep burning.

Jiang Xuanling's remaining pills quickly dimmed.

Gu Changjin then took out the Ice Soul Remnant Infant that he had condensed from the remnant soul of Xuanming Zhenjun.

That's not a complete Nascent Soul.

It's more like a remnant of her original essence crystals left behind near the core of the cave after her primordial spirit shattered during her Nascent Soul transformation.

But the quality is very high.

It is much better than Jiang Xuanling's incomplete pill.

Gu Changjin did not hesitate and continued refining.

boom!

In the ruins of the ice palace, the wind and snow suddenly stopped.

The crimson gold elixir within his dantian suddenly trembled.

In addition to the blood-flame sword pattern on the surface of the golden core, another ring of icy blue devouring pattern appeared.

Early stage of Golden Elixir.

Mid-stage Golden Core.

The moment he broke through, Gu Changjin's aura surged.

Blood-red flames soared into the sky, and a chilling aura blanketed the ground.

The entire fragment of the cave trembled.

"good."

Gu Changjin opened his eyes, feeling the surging power within his body.

He's practically ruined this body.

There are cracks in the meridians.

A large portion of his lifespan was also burned away.

But their strength has indeed improved.

Mid-stage Golden Core.

It was a mid-stage Golden Core formed according to the standards of the main world.

If this were placed in the cultivation world of the six kingdoms, it would basically be a case of indiscriminate slaughter.

He got up and walked to the core of the cave.

It was a shattered crystal core floating deep within the ice palace.

Inside the crystal core, faint shadowy images of mountains and rivers floated and sank.

Gu Changjin raised his hand and left his divine soul imprint and Devouring Heaven Secret Rune on it.

I can't take it with me right now.

Let's mark it first.

Once he has slaughtered all the Golden Core cultivators from the six kingdoms and gathered enough essence, he will return to try to devour the cave heaven.

He glanced back at the frozen little world and suddenly smiled.

"True Lord Xuanming, Jiang Zhaoyue, the Jiang family."

"What a kind family."

One method of sending off.

One person gives their body.

One is sending resources.

There is also a grotto-heaven.

Good people.

They are all good people.

Gu Changjin raised his hand and with a single sword stroke, tore open a crack in the cave.

The wind and snow from outside poured in.

He took a step forward.