Qin Shang had self-destructed and died in his previous final strike.
But to everyone's surprise, as an ultimate True Immortal, he did not use the power of his comprehended path to be reborn. Instead, he resurrected directly through the body of the Crown Prince.
Was it that he didn't want to use his path for rebirth, or that he couldn't?
The answer, perhaps, was known only to Chen Luo and Qin Shang.
However, what was even more astonishing was that, as Qin Shang cried out!
Beneath the boundless ocean, a vast and wide shadow gradually emerged.
Upon its initial appearance, the shadow was the size of a floating island, and then, it expanded thousands upon thousands of times!
In the blink of an eye, it was as if a continent was rising from the sea!
"Roar!!!"
With a majestic and domineering dragon's roar, a gray giant dragon, as magnificent as a continent, emerged from the sea!
Its head alone was as massive as a mountain range. The mere sight of such a dragon made the cultivators present feel suffocated!
The moment the giant dragon appeared, it suddenly opened its mouth. Streams of crimson power converged within its maw. The space at the edges of its mouth seemed unable to bear the accumulating power, beginning to shatter into pieces!
But what was even more astonishing was the change in the sky!
When Chen Luo ascended to immortality with a single thought, he had already refined the ten-thousand-mile tribulation clouds, transforming them into his own immortal essence.
However, at this moment, as the giant dragon began to gather its attack power, it seemed that the Heavenly Dao itself was enraged.
In the blink of an eye, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth carried a furious aura. With the convergence of infinite spiritual energy, new tribulation clouds were about to appear once more.
And the scope of these tribulation clouds, even as they just began to form, hinted at the might of the previous anomalous great tribulation!
Chen Luo, whose expression had been calm until now, saw this anomaly and his face changed for the first time!
Having comprehended the Heavenly Dao, he could clearly sense that the slumbering monster seemed to have been stimulated and was accelerating its awakening!
But what surprised Chen Luo even more was the power accumulating in the mouth of the mountain-like giant dragon below!
That crimson fluctuation was not spiritual energy! It was the ultimate physical strength, extremely similar to the blood and qi within Chen Luo's body!
"No wonder the system told me not to use my blood and qi directly in this world."
Gazing at the great tribulation rapidly taking shape in the sky, Chen Luo sighed softly:
"Since you refuse to listen to advice, I will directly beat you into submission!"
*Thump!*
Chen Luo took a step, and infinite spiritual patterns surged within his lower dantian.
The purity of his immortal essence, purified by the endless spiritual patterns, directly ascended by another level!
The common folk needed to undergo immortal tribulations and gain the recognition of heaven and earth to advance, but Chen Luo himself was his own heaven!
He took another step! The information of all those ascending to immortality present flowed through Chen Luo's eyes.
All aspects of ascending to immortality held no secrets for Chen Luo!
Spiritual patterns flowed! His immortal essence condensed to an extreme limit. At this moment, Chen Luo stepped into the third level of ascension!
*Thump! Thump! Thump!*
Chen Luo took three consecutive steps!
*Boom!* A thunderous explosion erupted within his middle dantian, which had been a chaotic void!
In a daze, a colossal giant, as if creating heaven and earth, was gestating within!
Body Cultivation level four! Body Cultivation level five! Body Cultivation level six!
With three steps taken, his Body Cultivation reached the perfected realm!
The details of his previous battles with all the Dao Masters flashed through Chen Luo's mind once more.
The former apex of the immortal path in this world, Chen Luo, had now become clear!
*Thump!*
*Thump!*
*Thump!*
Three more steps! The Heavenly Dao information beneath his sea of consciousness began a new round of frantic analysis!
According to the current rules of the immortal path, the power of heaven and earth itself was assisting Chen Luo in understanding the grandeur of the Heavenly Dao!
With three final steps, he completed his ascent!
An immeasurable pure white Dao Tower stood tall in Chen Luo's sea of consciousness!
His Heavenly Dao analysis resolution finally reached ten percent!
But at this moment, this pure white Dao Tower could not advance any further!
Chen Luo perceived that with his current humanity, he could not bear any more information.
Otherwise, his personality would be washed away, and he would truly become a puppet of the Heavenly Dao, just as Qin Shang had said!
Chen Luo willed it, and with the surging of his sea of consciousness, the remaining ninety percent of unanalyzed Heavenly Dao information was suppressed once more!
And Chen Luo, at this moment, had already stepped before the dragon's maw. The crimson energy accumulating within the terrifying giant dragon's mouth was nearing completion!
The white-robed youth took nine steps, and with each step, a phantom appeared in the air. These were the sights Chen Luo had left behind on the path of ascension, at each level!
At this moment, with the nine steps completed, the phantoms layered and returned, leaving only the lone white-robed youth above the dragon's mouth.
Supreme immortal might subtly emanated from the youth, a might more vast and unparalleled than that of Qin Shang, the former number one person in the world.
It was as if he stood there, embodying heaven and earth itself.
The giant dragon, gazing at the increasingly dense aura of the Heavenly Dao on the youth, felt its hatred deepen!
An ancient voice roared through heaven and earth:
"Lapdog of the Heavenly Dao! Die!!!"
*Buzz!*
The boundless crimson energy that had previously filled the dragon's mouth buzzed and condensed into a single point of red light!
Under extreme compression, the fluctuation resembling blood and qi power became incredibly potent!
Heaven itself seemed to be provoked!
The boundless aura of the great tribulation violently spread, instantly engulfing even more than half of the primordial land under the tribulation clouds!
Under the dragon's gaze, filled with hatred!
That point of red light suddenly shot out!
This was true light speed! Human perception could no longer track its movement!
But the youth, as the target, had long since transcended humanity in essence!
His gray, supreme eyes held only a calm devoid of joy or sorrow.
Chen Luo, having truly transformed into a Nine-Layered True Immortal, facing this red light that had locked onto him, slowly extended a finger!
"Heaven's will is my will! Supreme Heavenly Dao! Suppress!"
As he spoke, countless spiritual energies were mobilized to his command!
In an instant, infinite spiritual energy formed billions of defenses between the red light and his finger!
And a phantom of a vast giant flashed behind the youth!
But the red light was almost unstoppable!
Suddenly, the billions of spiritual energy defenses were pierced as if they were mere illusions!
And his refined Dao body could not impede the red light in the slightest!
In an instant, this red light pierced through all defenses and arrived at the tip of Chen Luo's extended finger!
The Old Dragon King and Qin Shang's eyes flashed with anticipation.
This condensed, ultimate primal blood and qi, upon contact, would instantly blast this lapdog of the Heavenly Dao into smithereens!
But!
The moment the vibrant red light collided with Chen Luo's finger, everyone present heard a crisp "ding" sound. Then,
To the stunned gazes of the Old Dragon King and Qin Shang, their highly anticipated ultimate attack had actually shattered and dissipated!
Chen Luo flicked his palm, looking at the fleeting glint of blood and qi light in his hand. After a moment of contemplation, he nodded approvingly at the Old Dragon King below:
"Although there are still too many impurities, its power is not bad!"
And the tribulation clouds in the sky, as if unable to sense that crimson trace, dispersed on their own after a moment.
All that remained in the world was a stunned dragon's head, its mouth agape, staring foolishly at the unharmed Chen Luo.
"Old Dragon King! Retreat!!" Qin Shang shouted anxiously. The Old Dragon King immediately snapped back to reality.