202: Chapter 202 Heavenly Merit

Above the Nine Heavens, that rift tearing through the endless darkness of the Boundary Sea was still continuously expanding.

Behind the rift, there was no chaotic Void Realm nor brilliant stars, only a patch of gold so pure it reached the extreme.

The Heavenly Dao Origin, the ocean of Law, the collection of the most primal and pure 'Good' and 'Order' in the Universe.

In the next moment, immeasurable golden light of Karma poured down like the Milky Way from the Nine Heavens, transforming into an impossibly thick golden pillar of light that crashed down!

The descending pillar of light was vast and majestic!

Its majesty even surpassed the previous pressure of resentment from the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level Captain Skeleton. Wherever the pillar of light passed, fragments of time and space were smoothed out, and chaotic Laws were organized. That 'Forgotten Route', which had been ravaged by war for countless eons, actually radiated a trace of vitality never seen before throughout the ages.

On the broken continents floating in the Void Realm, there were even tender green grass sprouts tremblingly breaking through the soil under the illumination of the golden light!

Aboard the zhou tian star boat, everyone was bathed in this vast golden light of Karma.

The Divine Soul of every Heavenly Court soldier felt warm and comfortable throughout their entire bodies. The hidden dangers of being eroded by resentment were swept away, and their cultivation even showed signs of subtle progress.

"This... this is Heavenly Dao Karma!" The Yuhua Immortal Lord was so excited his whole body trembled, and his voice changed pitch.

As an overlord of the Immortal Realm, he knew better than anyone what this meant.

Killing ten million enemies is not as good as saving one life.

Karma is more precious than any Immortal Pill or miraculous medicine! With Karma added to one's body, not only will the path of cultivation have no more Bottlenecks and one will turn bad luck into good, but one can also resist Heart Demons and be impervious to all techniques!

And the golden light of Karma before them was so dense it had almost materialized. What kind of world-shaking good deed must have been done to attract such a generous 'reward' from the Heavenly Dao?

The transcendence of an entire army of lost souls left over from the previous eon!

Only such a Heaven-Defying act of kindness could be worthy of such vast Karma!

"We've struck it rich, struck it rich! If old Sun could get even a sliver of this Karma, maybe I could refine that damned Tight-Fillet Spell!" Sun Wukong's eyes turned red with envy, and he scratched his head and cheeks, wishing he could immediately rush under the pillar of light to take a bath.

Back then, when he went to the Western Heaven to fetch the scriptures, the so-called 'right fruit' Karma he achieved after eighty-one tribulations was like a small stream meeting the Yangtze River compared to the pillar of light before him!

However, to everyone's surprise...

When this pillar of Karma, which was enough to make even an Immortal King's eyes turn red with envy, arrived above the zhou tian star boat, it did not spread out evenly. Instead, it converged with incomparable precision toward a single direction.

The core of the light pillar was aimed neither at the world-dominating Heavenly Emperor Li Xuan, nor at those two top combatants who were eager to try.

Instead, it was aimed at the infant who had just finished performing 'Transcendence with a Glance' and was currently lying deep within the sleeping quarters, sleeping soundly with his limbs in the air... Li Lunhui.

Buzz—!

The massive amount of golden light of Karma found its outlet, transforming into golden torrents that gently yet overbearingly surged continuously into Li Lunhui's tiny body!

Inside the sleeping quarters, the golden light was brilliant, and immortal music echoed.

Little Li Lunhui was dyed pure gold all over, his skin as transparent as glazed glass. Mysterious Reincarnation runes flickered and cycled on the surface of his skin.

Behind him, the phantom of the Six Paths of Reincarnation reappeared. Under the irrigation of this endless golden light of Karma, it became increasingly solid and clear, as if it were about to step out from illusion and become reality!

The Heavenly Path, the Human Path, and the Asura Path...

The Hungry Ghost Path, Hell, and the animal path...

The phantoms of the six worlds, at this moment, all received unprecedented completion and sublimation due to the injection of this vast Karma!

Almost at the instant the golden light of Karma flooded his body, the System's notification sound, excited to the point of changing pitch, rang out in Li Xuan's mind.

[Ding! Warning! Extremely massive Heavenly Dao Karma detected pouring in!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host's twelfth son, 'Li Lunhui', for gaining the favor of the Heavenly Dao and obtaining immeasurable Karma due to the transcendence of eon-old lost souls!]

[Ding! His 'Samsara Holy Body' is absorbing the power of Karma... Absorbing... 10%... 50%... 100%!]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host! The 'Samsara Holy Body' of the twelfth son, 'Li Lunhui', has been completely Awakened!]

The System notifications were like a rapid-fire cannon, and what was even more shocking was still to come!

[Ding! Due to the complete Awakening of the 'Samsara Holy Body', it is feeding back to the Heavenly Dao! The twelfth son, 'Li Lunhui', is receiving a Heavenly Dao Empowerment! Cultivation is beginning to soar!]

[Mortal Realm... Immortal Realm... True Immortal... Golden Immortal... Golden Immortal Early Stage... Golden Immortal Middle Stage... Golden Immortal Late Stage...]

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host! Your twelfth son, 'Li Lunhui', has reached the [Golden Immortal Realm Peak]!]

Boom!

As the final System notification fell...

An aura far more terrifying than before erupted from within the sleeping quarters!

If the previous aura was the manifestation of 'Reason', then this was the descent of the 'Deity' who wielded that 'Reason'!

It was a powerful and solid pressure belonging to a Peak Golden Immortal expert!

On the deck, everyone watching felt a gentle yet irresistible force spread from the sleeping quarters. The weaker Heavenly Soldiers were directly knocked to the ground by this wave of air.

An even more jaw-dropping scene occurred.

In their Divine Thought perception, that living being who was originally lying in the crib, whose aura was mysterious but incredibly weak, was 'growing up' at an inconceivable speed!

Bones stretched, flesh grew, and the Divine Soul expanded...

In just a few breaths...

A baby in swaddling clothes skipped all growth processes, and his body was fixed in the form of a child about three or four years old!

The golden light of Karma dissipated.

The doors of the sleeping quarters opened slowly without any wind.

A boy wearing a light golden bellyband, looking as if he were carved from pink jade with red lips and white teeth, and appearing harmless to humans and animals, walked out of the door with sleepy eyes.

He rubbed his bleary eyes, let out a large yawn, and a trace of crystal-clear saliva still hung from the corner of his mouth.

He looked at his small hands curiously, seemingly confused as to why he had suddenly grown so large, and then... he stuck a chubby finger into his mouth and began to suck on it with great relish.

With this silly and cute appearance, who could associate him with that terrifying existence who just transcended a Grand Unity Golden Immortal with a glance and now possessed the cultivation of a Peak Golden Immortal?

The entire field was dead silent.

Everyone was petrified on the spot, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

"Is... is something wrong with my eyes?" Sun Wukong stammered, pointing at the finger-sucking child, and turned to ask Li Changsheng beside him, "Wasn't he... wasn't he still wetting the bed just now? How come in the blink of an eye... he can walk?"

"And..." Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes stared intently at Li Lunhui, "Golden Immortal... Peak? Are you kidding me?! He went from a Mortal to the Peak of the Golden Immortal Realm just by taking a nap?! This is even more intense than when old Sun ate Supreme Old Lord's Immortal Pills back then!"

Sun Wukong felt his worldview being repeatedly crushed today until it had shattered into pieces.

First, he was shown up by the power of Reincarnation from 'Transcendence with a Glance', and now he was blinded by this divine operation of 'leveling up while dreaming'.

This Heavenly Court... what kind of divine place is this? What level of cheaters are these princes?!

Li Changsheng was also moved for the first time.

A ripple flashed through his habitually cold eyes.

He was born as a Natural Sword Embryo, and his path of cultivation progressed at a tremendous pace, making him the number one Prodigy of all time.

But even he could not 'graduate' from an infant directly to the Peak of the Golden Immortal Realm in a dream!

This twelfth brother's Dao was indeed different, and overbearing to such an extent!

Li Xuan looked at his twelfth son, who still had baby fat and was curiously surveying his surroundings. Even he couldn't help but have the corner of his mouth twitch slightly.

He had thought the benefits of Karma filling the body would be significant, but he hadn't expected it to be this exaggerated!

Others struggle to Cultivate for millions of years and might not even touch the threshold of a Golden Immortal.

Good grief, his son was something else; he just went straight to the destination and reached max level in his sleep!

If this were to spread, who knows how many existences in the Immortal Realm who call themselves Prodigies would have their Dao Hearts collapse and question their lives.

"Pa... Papa..."

Just then, the finger-sucking Li Lunhui seemed to discover Li Xuan standing at the front of the crowd. Those Samsara Pupils of his, which had just looked down on all living beings with indifference, were now filled with the attachment and joy of a child seeing a relative.

He wobbled, opened his pair of short arms, and ran toward Li Xuan with his short legs.

"Papa, hug!"

The childish, milky voice completely broke the petrified atmosphere of the scene.

Li Xuan laughed heartily, the slight surprise in his heart instantly replaced by the joy of being a father. He leaned down and picked up this son who had just experienced 'light-speed growth' in one go.

Well, he wasn't light; it seemed this Peak Golden Immortal cultivation was indeed the real deal.

"Wukong, Changsheng." Li Xuan held his son and looked at those two top combatants who were still questioning their lives, smiling faintly.

"Now, do you have a new understanding of the word 'power'?"

Hearing this, Sun Wukong's monkey face immediately flushed red like a monkey's butt. After holding it in for a long time, he finally squeezed out a sentence: "Your Majesty, old Sun... is convinced!"

Yes, convinced!

Utterly convinced!

He thought that after being suppressed for five hundred years and becoming the Victorious Fighting Buddha, he had already changed his fate against the heavens.

He didn't expect that in this Heavenly Court, there would be something even more Heaven-Defying!

Smashing an enemy to death with a staff is indeed satisfying.

But making enemies cry and shout while lining up to be reincarnated—the difference in Realm was clear at a glance!

Li Changsheng was silent for a moment and then bowed deeply to Li Xuan.

"Father's teaching, Changsheng has learned."

His gaze became firm again, even sharper than before.

He would not envy his twelfth brother's Dao, but this experience made him understand the diversity and extremity of the 'Dao' even more. What he had to do was to take his own 'Sword Dao' to such an unrivaled ultimate!

"Very good."

Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction.

With this interlude, the Heavenly Court gained a Peak Golden Immortal 'Samsara Dominator', and the states of mind of the two big troublemakers under his command were also tempered and sublimated.

This wave was a massive profit!

He bounced the Li Lunhui in his arms, who was starting to get sleepy and was nuzzling his head as if preparing to sleep again, and turned his gaze back to that ominous blood-red color deep in the Boundary Sea.

"Pass down the order, the fleet is to proceed at full speed!"

"Target: Devils Island!"