41: Breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm, Primordial Spirit Dharma Form, Xuanhuang Descends to the Realm

At 28 years old, after more than half a year of recuperation, the commoners of Great Qian began to return to their normal lives, and because a large number of Demons had been killed, the lives of the commoners were even more peaceful than before.

However, after Emperor Qianming woke up that time, he changed his past style and was no longer indifferent to court affairs as he had been before.

Not long after the Demon turmoil ended, he targeted the officials in the court. After finding evidence of officials colluding with Demons and engaging in corruption, he began a massacre. He raided countless officials' homes, and the streets of Qian Capital were truly flowing with blood.

He even began to take action against local officials within Great Qian. Faced with the powerful strength of the imperial court, a large number of local officials were found to have colluded with Demons and were beheaded on the spot.

Just three days ago, Emperor Qianming found the culprit who caused his coma: the First Prince. The First Prince, wanting to become emperor as soon as possible, had colluded with Demons to poison him.

Once this news broke, everyone in the world was greatly shocked, and the officials of the First Prince's faction in the imperial court desperately tried to defend him.

One must know that the First Prince was Emperor Qianming's first son and also the eldest legitimate son. Although Emperor Qianming had not appointed a crown prince all these years, most people still believed that the First Prince was the best candidate for crown prince and the most legitimate successor to the throne.

Even if the First Prince did nothing, the throne would most likely fall into his hands in the end. How could he possibly do something like poisoning Emperor Qianming?

Emperor Qianming ignored the officials' defense and directly demoted the First Prince to a commoner and threw him into prison.

Afterwards, he unexpectedly appointed the obscure Seventh Prince as the crown prince. One must know that the First Prince, the eldest legitimate son, had never even been a crown prince before being demoted to a commoner.

Regarding Emperor Qianming's actions, the other seven top powers remained silent.

Observing Emperor Qianming's various behaviors and the reactions of the other top powers, you realized that Emperor Qianming might have sensed that his own end was approaching after waking up this time.

That was why he took action against those officials who were corrupt and colluded with Demons; this was to remove threats for the new emperor. Afterwards, he even established the position of crown prince, which had been vacant for many years.

You only paid attention to this news for a moment before ignoring it; it had nothing to do with you anyway.

At 29 years old, your Mental Energy coverage reached a radius of 170 li.

At this time, your True Essence's tempering of your spirit had reached its limit, and you decided to start condensing the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi to break through to the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Within three months, you had traveled almost all over Great Qian before finally condensing the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Qi suitable for the Way of Xuanhuang.

The Heavenly Gang Qi was like a ribbon of light pouring down from the Milky Way, condensed from the glimmer of billions of stars, with a translucent, silvery-white radiance flowing throughout its body.

The Earthly Fiend Qi was similar to the Heavenly Gang Qi, except the silvery-white radiance had turned into a dark golden radiance.

However, regardless of whether it was the Heavenly Gang Qi or the Earthly Fiend Qi, their surfaces were floating with dense, glowing runic traces, as if countless Dao Laws were flickering within them.

You incorporated both types of energy into your Dantian, and then, with the help of the power of the two energies merging in Yin and Yang, your True Essence began to transform into Dharma Power after absorbing this power.

Soon, you successfully condensed the first wisp of Dharma Power. Once the first wisp of Dharma Power appeared, all your True Essence began to surge toward it.

Three hours later, the interior of your Dantian began to slowly calm down.

Looking at your Dantian now, all the True Essence had disappeared, and instead, it had formed countless streams of light. These streams of light were Dharma Power. That's right, Dharma Power was neither gaseous nor liquid, but presented itself in a formless light state.

Once the Dharma Power was formed, you began the final step of breaking through to the Primordial Spirit Realm, which was condensing the Primordial Spirit.

This meant condensing your spirit into a spiritual body identical to yourself, and visualizing acupoints and a Dantian within it.

Your Xuanhuang Dharma Power began to emerge from these illusory acupoints and Dantian, tempering your spiritual body.

With the transformation, your spiritual body became more and more refined, transitioning from formless to tangible.

Three days later, your spirit officially transformed into the Primordial Spirit.

The condensed Primordial Spirit was another you, with a body carved like glaze, spiritual light flowing on its surface, and a mysterious rune between its brows.

Subsequently, your Primordial Spirit suddenly opened its eyes, and vast Divine Thought spread out in all directions.

Three hundred li, five hundred li, seven hundred li; finally, your Divine Thought covered a radius of one thousand li. After Mental Energy transformed into Divine Thought, it was unknown how many times it had strengthened.

You tested the power of your Divine Thought, and then you began to control your Primordial Spirit to hover three feet above your body. You discovered that in this state, you seemed to possess two perspectives: one was the perspective of the Primordial Spirit, and the other was the perspective of your Physical Body.

The perspective of the Physical Body was the same as before when not using Mental Energy to probe, at most seeing further and more clearly than an ordinary person. However, the perspective of the Primordial Spirit was incomparable to the Mental Energy probing used before.

Borrowing the perspective of the Primordial Spirit, the world became extremely clear in your eyes. The various Daos and principles between heaven and earth seemed to have unveiled a veil; you could clearly observe the operating principles of heaven and earth, which was of great help to your comprehending of heaven and earth.

The perspective of the Primordial Spirit allowed one to reach the state of "seeing mountains as not mountains, and seeing water as not water."

Afterwards, you tried the technique naturally comprehended after breaking through to the Primordial Spirit Realm, which was the same technique that Old Man Tian Jian used at the very end: the Primordial Spirit Manifestation.

As you activated the Primordial Spirit Manifestation, a thousand-meter-tall humanoid manifestation began to emerge behind you.

The manifestation sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, its form between virtual and real, as if woven from billions of strands of Xuanhuang.

Translucent Xuanhuang mist flowed over its body surface like a light veil covering it, yet it exuded an oppressive feeling as heavy as a mountain. Natural Dao patterns even appeared on the surface of its skin, resembling the veins of mountains and rivers in miniature.

Its face was blurry, only its eyes were solid. The left eye was like the Xuan Heaven blue abyss, with stars being born and dying in the pupil; the right eye was like the earth-yellow molten lava, and where its gaze reached, the air twisted and steamed.

A Xuanhuang divine ring appeared behind it, composed of different runes; these runes were all the Daos of heaven and earth that you had comprehended.

This was your Primordial Spirit Manifestation, the Xuanhuang Manifestation!

Of course, the appearance of this manifestation was something you molded yourself. Strength is a temporary matter, but looking cool is a lifelong matter.

Perhaps because you could enter the state of Dao Integration while in the Innate Realm, after using the Primordial Spirit Manifestation, you felt the world within a radius of a thousand li begin to resonate with the manifestation.

Sensing this situation, you did not hesitate and directly entered the state of Dao Integration. After entering the state of Dao Integration, your Primordial Spirit Manifestation also began to merge with heaven and earth. At this moment, you felt as if you could control everything within a radius of a thousand li, including space.

You saw that under your control, the originally clear sky suddenly cracked open a pitch-black fissure, as if the sky curtain had been torn apart, and rolling Profound Qi poured down like a heavenly river, turning into billions of cyan streams of light that poured down.

The earth began to tremble, and the Earth Vein Qi gushed out, turning into thick yellow clouds that intertwined with the Profound Qi to form a Xuanhuang sky curtain, obscuring the sun, moon, and stars.

At this moment, the heaven and earth within a radius of a thousand li seemed to have become your Domain. In this Domain, as long as their strength did not exceed yours by too much, they would be suppressed by you and would not even be able to mobilize the power of heaven and earth.

You called this Domain the Xuanhuang Dharma Realm, and this technique was named Xuanhuang Descent.