200: Chapter 200 Returning to the Void Realm, Godly Venerable

Afterward, Lin Qing carefully searched the entire area, and as expected, he discovered many more bones.

Among these bones, only a very small fraction still retained a complete form, but that was merely on the surface; they, too, would crumble at the slightest touch, while the majority had completely turned into powder, scattered all around.

These were likely left behind by the powerhouses of the Kunxu Immortal Sect who perished in that Heavenly Tribulation; as for the varying degrees of damage to the bones, it should be related to their cultivation level or the extent to which they were affected by the Heavenly Tribulation.

Lin Qing took out a large box and carefully collected the bone powder scattered everywhere.

The bones of powerhouses are also a rare type of Material; they have many wonderful uses, especially since this bone powder very likely came from Level 11 powerhouses, and they might still carry the Physical Body characteristics of Level 11 Cultivators.

Level 11 is the Realm known to Lin Qing where the Physical Body undergoes the greatest transformation, and Level 11 is called—Return to Void.

Before Level 11, a Cultivator's Physical Body is "Solid"; the characteristics of being "Solid" allow a Cultivator to be struck by physical power and Spiritual Qi attacks, but at the same time, they can also be struck by Divine Thought power and willpower attacks, which is a major drawback for Cultivators in the God Realm.

Previously, when Yun Feng was battling the Tenth Rank powerhouse of the Zhou Family at the Li Family, both sides summoned their Dharma Forms, and the Dharma Form is a Fusion of the Primordial Spirit, willpower, and Spiritual Qi.

The Primordial Spirit is the true Origin of a God Realm Cultivator; once the Primordial Spirit goes to control the Dharma Form, control over the Physical Body inevitably weakens.

If the Physical Body is not protected, a sneak attack by a few Spirit Realm experts could potentially lead to the destruction of the God Realm Cultivator's Physical Body.

This was the situation when Lin Qing fought Old Ghost of the Xuanye Demon Court; at that time, Old Ghost had his Primordial Spirit Leaving the Body, wanting to use the "Void" characteristics to deal with Lin Qing, and Lin Qing only managed to withstand Old Ghost's offensive by temporarily comprehending the power of willpower.

Afterward, because Old Ghost's Primordial Spirit could not return to his Physical Body in time, the defensive capability of his Physical Body was greatly reduced, which allowed Lin Qing to destroy his Physical Body in one fell swoop.

People believe that "Void" is the most primitive form of all things in the world, and "Solid" is merely born from "Void"; therefore, Level 11 Cultivators simply allow their Physical Body to regain the characteristics of "Void," which is why Level 11 Cultivators are called Return to Void.

A powerhouse of this level can truly say that everyone below the God Realm is an ant; he could just stand there, and no matter how many Spirit Realm Cultivators there were, they could do nothing to him.

If this bone powder truly still carries the characteristics of "Void," then Lin Qing might be able to modify his yao shuang.

What made Lin Qing feel a bit regretful was that he did not find any storage equipment on this ground.

However, this situation is considered reasonable; if it were not storage equipment crafted from truly top-tier Materials, its durability would indeed be inferior to the bones of a Level 11 powerhouse.

Since even these bones were damaged to such a degree by the Heavenly Tribulation, that storage equipment naturally could not hold up.

After putting away the bone powder, Lin Qing began to investigate the surrounding caves; the Immortal Cave of a Level 11 powerhouse might have left behind quite a few good things.

Perhaps it was an issue with the Heavenly Tribulation's locking mechanism; the Heavenly Tribulation seemed to only cause damage to those Cultivators, while most of these caves remained relatively intact.

Lin Qing collected many useful Materials in these caves, such as Spirit Plants that had been growing for fifty thousand years, weapons that had just been half-refined, or perhaps Pill Furnaces of extremely high quality.

All sorts of miscellaneous items, from as large as jade beds to as small as tea-making utensils—as long as Lin Qing saw them, he collected them all.

In these Immortal Caves, Lin Qing also discovered some stone tablets recording information; it seems the people of the Kunxu Immortal Sect were quite fond of this method of recording.

Lin Qing collected these stone tablets and examined them one by one; most of them had no value to him, as they merely recorded some emotional gossip or strange anecdotes.

But there was a very small portion that contained the speculations of these powerhouses regarding Level 12, and Lin Qing attached great importance to this content.

Because there are no Level 12 Cultivators on the surface of this continent, he might have to explore the path forward on his own in the future, and these Materials have great reference value for him.

Under the circumstances where the large tree outside has not clearly been obtained, these Materials can be said to be the greatest harvest of his trip to this Secret Realm.

They even exceed the value of the Cultivation Techniques obtained in the Scripture Pavilion, because for Lin Qing, those Cultivation Techniques can be replaced by other techniques.

Even if he cannot obtain those Cultivation Techniques now, he can find other Cultivation Techniques of the same rank to replace them later.

But these Materials are not necessarily the same; this is the core of the Forbidden Ground of the Kunxu Immortal Sect, and the things recorded here might truly be one-of-a-kind.

Fifty thousand years ago, the people who lived here were the absolute top tier of the entire continent, and what they did most often was sit together to discuss the path of cultivation.

And among these speculations about the path forward, one speculation gained the approval of the vast majority of Cultivators.

They believed that since the Level 11 Physical Body already possessed the characteristics of "Void," why not thoroughly fuse the Physical Body into the Dharma Form?

Such a Dharma Form would no longer look like a semi-transparent Spiritual Energy Giant from the outside, but would instead become the appearance of a real person with a Physical Body.

Moreover, it is not just the appearance; when the Physical Body of the Return to Void Realm cultivates the characteristics of "Void," the characteristics of "Solid" also exist simultaneously.

Therefore, after fusing the Physical Body into the Dharma Form, the Dharma Form would become a giant several thousand zhang tall with a real Physical Body, and the Cultivators of the Kunxu Immortal Sect called this form of Dharma Form—Dharma Image.

At the same time, combined with the fact that the preceding Mortal Realm and Spirit Realm each only had four major Realms, they inferred that Level 12 is the final Realm of the God Realm.

Perhaps to highlight the nobility of the final Realm of the God Realm, or perhaps associating it with the giant body of several thousand zhang they inferred, they officially named Level 12—Divine Venerable Realm.

Although he had already read through these stone tablets completely, Lin Qing still carefully put them away and stored them; these were the crystallization of the wisdom of his predecessors, and he wanted to preserve them well.

It is a pity that among so many Materials, there is no record of that large tree; after all, that Heavenly Tribulation was too sudden for them.

Even before this, they might not have had the concept of a Heavenly Tribulation at all; under such circumstances, the sudden arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation brought them a devastating blow.

Only some Cultivators who were watching from a distance at the time, and therefore were not locked onto by the Heavenly Tribulation, managed to escape by luck and finally recorded what happened here, such as the author of the diary Lin Qing read earlier.

After exploring the Immortal Caves, Lin Qing arrived beneath this giant tree.

Such a treasure, he could not give up; now he could only try it himself first to see.

(The cultivation Realms of the first twelve levels: Skin & Flesh, Tendons & Bones, Qi & Blood, Five Viscera; Meridian Opening, Spirit Sea, Spirit Pill, Return to One; Spirit Refining, Dharma Form, Return to Void, Divine Venerable.)