564: Chapter 564 Chaos Returns to Origin, True Immortal Body

The process of the Immortal light cleansing the body was longer than imagined.

The golden light poured in from the crown of the head, flowing along the Meridians through every part of the limbs and bones.

Every time it passed a spot, those Meridians newly born during the Heavenly Tribulation were tempered once again.

Old Impurities were forced out of the body's surface, turning into a layer of grayish-black shell.

Shen Yuanmo paid no attention to these.

All of his attention fell within his Dantian.

The chaos dao embryo stood up.

Since the day of its birth, this dao embryo had always maintained a cross-legged sitting posture.

But now it stood in the center of the Qi Sea, its eyes open, perfectly overlapping with Shen Yuanmo's consciousness.

The mark of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity spread outward from its chest, sinking into every inch of the gaps in the chaos dao embryo's texture.

Those colorless patterns were not attached to the surface but had bored into the body of the chaos dao embryo, intertwining with ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Divine Law Patterns.

The Divine Law Patterns were changing.

Shen Yuanmo could see clearly that those Law runes, which were originally independent and only forcibly governed by the Yuan Character General Outline, were being re-woven by the power of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity.

Metal-element Laws and water-element Laws no longer repelled each other; the boundaries between fire-element Laws and wood-element Laws gradually blurred.

It was not suppression, nor balance, but a true Fusion.

Under the catalysis of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, the myriad Laws converged toward the same destination.

Chaos.

A Chaos purer and more thorough than the one he had envisioned when he first created the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture.

His approach back then was to use Chaos as a furnace and stuff the myriad Laws inside to smelt them.

No matter how big the furnace was or how full it was stuffed, the myriad Laws were still the myriad Laws, merely wrapped in a shell of Chaos.

But what the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity did was different.

It was turning the myriad Laws into Chaos itself.

This process was not under Shen Yuanmo's control.

Or rather, once the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity condensed...

It possessed its own will—not intelligence, but an instinctive drive closer to the Dao.

It was self-modifying everything about Shen Yuanmo according to the ultimate logic of the Myriad Dao Returning to Origin.

The first to be modified was the Divine Soul.

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Being Dharma Idol sitting cross-legged in the Chaos Universe resonated with its eight supreme Divine Rings simultaneously.

The power of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity followed Shen Yuanmo's conscious connection and poured into the Sea of Consciousness.

The eight Divine Rings were the first to undergo changes.

The first Divine Ring shattered.

It wasn't destroyed; it was dismantled.

The power of the Divine Soul that composed the Divine Ring was broken down into the most basic Divine Sense particles by the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity.

After being rearranged and recombined, they merged into the body of the Divine Being Dharma Idol.

The second, the third, the fourth...

The eight Divine Rings collapsed in sequence, and all the Divine Soul power flowed back into the Divine Being Dharma Idol itself.

The framework of the eighth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art was completely surpassed during this process.

The limit of the eighth revolution was the Half-Step Immortal Soul, with immortal divinity as the core and nine Divine Rings condensed as an external manifestation.

But the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity did not need external manifestations.

After the eight Divine Rings disappeared, dense golden patterns emerged on the surface of the Divine Being Dharma Idol.

The arrangement of those patterns was identical to the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity mark on the chaos dao embryo in the Dantian.

The aura of the Divine Being Dharma Idol began to climb.

The barrier of the Half-Step Immortal Soul was practically non-existent before the Profound Truth.

One layer, two layers, three layers.

With every layer broken through, the Sea of Consciousness Chaos Universe expanded by a circle.

The Sea of Consciousness space, which could originally only accommodate a galaxy-scale size, expanded by hundreds of times in a very short period.

By the time the transformation ended and Shen Yuanmo re-perceived his Divine Sense range, the terrifying extent made even him pause in contemplation.

A coverage radius of 4.7 billion li.

He tried releasing a sliver of Divine Sense outward.

In less than a breath, every pebble, every wisp of cosmic dust, and every trace of stray Law fluctuations within the 4.7 billion li range were all reflected in his Sea of Consciousness.

His insight was meticulous, even the arrangement of mineral crystals inside the pebbles was clearly visible.

The ship spirit's coordinates were also within his range of perception.

Three hundred million li away, the Chaos Dao Palace disguised as a grey flying boat was standing by.

"My Lord! Are you alright? Communication was cut off for so long, I almost—"

"I'm fine. Come here."

Shen Yuanmo withdrew his Divine Sense.

immortal soul.

Not a Half-Step Immortal Soul, but a True Immortal Soul.

Moreover, the coverage and precision of his Divine Sense far exceeded the True Immortal Early Stage level recorded in the Heavenly Meteor's database.

According to the data left by Immortal King Beichen, the Divine Sense coverage radius of an ordinary True Immortal Early Stage was around one billion li.

He was at 4.7 billion, close to the level of True Immortal Perfection.

It was not surprising; the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity was unique throughout the ages, and using conventional True Immortal standards to measure it was inherently futile.

After the Divine Soul transformation, it was the Physical Body's turn.

This step came even more fiercely.

The First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity's modification of the Chaos Dao Body was not as gentle as its modification of the Divine Soul—if dismantling and recombining the nine Divine Rings in sequence could be called gentle.

The grayish-black shell on the surface of the Chaos Dao Body had mostly peeled off under the washing of the Immortal light, revealing the brand-new skin underneath.

The newborn skin displayed a mysterious luster.

It was not the skin color of a Mortal, nor the jade-white or golden light common to Cultivators, but a transparent texture that was difficult to describe in words.

The paths of the Meridians were faintly visible under the skin, but what flowed through those Meridians was no longer simple Chaos power.

The colorless light of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity seeped into every Meridian, every bone, and every strand of muscle fiber.

The Chaos Dao Body was undergoing a recasting from the inside out.

The bones became denser yet lighter.

The Meridians became wider, and their walls became tougher.

The upper limit of the entire body's magic power capacity had increased by an unknown number of times within a mere hundred breaths.

Shen Yuanmo could feel his power surging.

It wasn't a surge in cultivation; his Realm was stuck at the True Immortal Early Stage and would not advance with the transformation of his Physical Body.

But the limit of the power he could mobilize at the same Realm had been raised.

Raised to a somewhat absurd degree.

The moment the transformation ended, Shen Yuanmo casually clenched his fist.

The Void Realm for ten thousand miles around produced an imperceptible ripple following his movement.

He hadn't had this feeling for many years.

The last time he had felt such an unadapted sense of strangeness toward his own power was when he had first refined the Chaos Dao Body.

Chaos Dao Body.

No.

It should be called something else now.

Shen Yuanmo looked down at his palm.

Under the transparent-textured skin, the colorless patterns of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity were faintly visible, perfectly nested with the magic power circuits.

dao body was a name at the mundane level.

After crossing the True Immortal Tribulation and being reshaped by the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, this shell had already crossed the watershed between Mortal and Immortal.

It was more accurate to call it the Chaos Immortal Body.

The grey flying boat flew in from the distance.

After the ship spirit restored its connection with Shen Yuanmo, it arrived immediately.

It hovered five hundred li away from his side.

"My Lord, your... aura has changed."

"How has it changed?"

"Everything has changed." The ship spirit's tone was subtle, carrying an indescribable sense of awe.

"Your Divine Soul, magic power circuits, body functions—all indicators have exceeded the upper limit of the True Immortal Early Stage in my database."

"Especially the Divine Soul strength; it is already similar to the level of Immortal King Beichen when he was at True Immortal Perfection."

"A bonus of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity."

Shen Yuanmo spoke nonchalantly, but the ship spirit was quiet for a long time on the other end of the communication.

It had followed Immortal King Beichen and had seen many geniuses below the rank of Immortal King.

But not one of them had become this powerful after finishing their True Immortal Tribulation.

"My Lord, does this First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity you've condensed have a name?"

Shen Yuanmo looked up.

The Star Domain that had been shredded during the tribulation was slowly restoring order, and Laws were pouring back in from the depths of the Universe to fill the void.

He looked at those Law threads surging from all directions.

Fire, water, wind, thunder, metal, wood, earth, light, dark, time, space, Karma, destiny...

The myriad Laws each followed their own path, not interfering with one another.

But within his body, these Laws were already indistinguishable from one another.

Myriad Dao Returning to Origin.

Returning to Chaos.

"Chaos Return to Origin."

Shen Yuanmo spoke, his voice carrying far into the sea of stars.

"First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin."

The ship spirit recorded this name into the core database.

In the historical records of the Taichu Immortal Court, the highest grade of Immortal Dao Profundity was Second Grade.

In the Legacy of the entire Immortal Court's countless ages, only three Immortal Kings had condensed a Second Grade Immortal Dao Profundity when they broke through.

First Grade had never appeared.

Now, it had.

"My Lord, what do we do now?"

Shen Yuanmo was in no hurry to answer.

He closed his eyes, retracted all his senses inward, and performed a complete self-check.

Divine Soul: immortal soul Realm, Divine Sense coverage of 4.7 billion li, comparable to True Immortal Perfection.

Physical Body: Chaos Immortal Body, bearing limit far exceeding those of the same stage.

Magic Power: True Immortal Early Stage.

As for comprehensive combat power, he didn't evaluate further.

Before an actual fight, data on paper didn't mean much.

But one thing was certain: ordinary True Immortals, or even experts in the True Immortal Late Stage, wouldn't be able to cause any waves before him.

As for Immortal Kings, he was still far off.

Immortal King Beichen had started with a Third Grade Immortal Dao Profundity and practiced for countless years before stepping into the Immortal King Realm.

His starting point with the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity was higher, but his cultivation time was too short and his accumulation too thin.

There was no need to rush.

Shen Yuanmo opened his eyes.

"Find a place to settle down."

"Does My Lord wish to enter the heart of the Central Galaxy?"

"Staying on the periphery is meaningless; the concentration of Laws is not enough."

Shen Yuanmo controlled the aura of his Chaos Immortal Body, restraining it to the normal level of a True Immortal Early Stage.

To an outsider investigating, they would at most see that he was a newly ascended True Immortal who had just finished his True Immortal Tribulation.

The aura of the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity was completely obscured by the chaos dao embryo.

"ship spirit, bring up the power distribution map of the Central Galaxy heart."

"Yes. But the data is from the Taichu Immortal Court era, with an error of at least sixty thousand light-years."

"Having something is better than nothing."

The hazy grey flying boat adjusted its course and headed toward the depths of the star river.

Shen Yuanmo sat cross-legged in the cabin, the colorless light of the Chaos Return to Origin Profundity slowly circulating within his body.

With every full cycle, his control over this First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity deepened a fraction.