Shi Yan’s Soul Altar pierced through the natural spatial barrier, instantly manifesting in the world beneath the sea of clouds, and in that moment, Shi Yan froze utterly still.
The heavens were ablaze with brilliant stars, positioned right beside his soul like the most magnificent, profound river of stars, giving him a feeling that they would never extinguish.
This was the domain beneath the cloud sea: a dazzling expanse of starlight, where every single star pulsed with intense life fluctuations, as if each possessed its own soul.
At a glance, the stars converged into rivers, these stellar streams flowing and murmuring along miraculous trajectories.
His Main Soul and Vice Soul gazed upon the resplendent stellar river, and a profound, deep-seated emotion welled up within him!
Rivers formed by the convergence of countless stars stretched across the firmament, like the Celestial River itself in motion, making the very cosmos seem alive.
He then looked down below.
It was an unimaginably vast landmass, deeply scarred with ravines and crisscrossed by countless rivers. These terrestrial rivers were also flowing, ceaselessly coursing onward, and he sensed a faint, strange, fishy odor emanating from within them, which greatly surprised him.
Below the sea of clouds lay a colossal continent, entirely covered in flowing watercourses.
It was utterly inconceivable!
The stellar river flowed above, and the terrestrial rivers trembled below—this was the pristine manifestation of the celestial network and the terrestrial network. As his Main Soul and Vice Soul observed the flow of the Heavenly River and the Earthly Rivers, he inexplicably gained sudden insight: his own expansive Sea of Consciousness began to diverge strangely, forming streams comprised entirely of divine sense.
Gazing at the sky and the earth, he began to try and model the current of his Sea of Consciousness rivers according to the trajectories of the Heavenly and Earthly Rivers.
He suddenly felt a wondrous sensation, as if he had grasped the fundamental laws of heaven and earth and clutched the Great Dao itself. This galvanized him, causing him to temporarily forget everything else as he dove wholly into the comprehension.
As he became completely immersed, he remained unaware that the divine power within the meridians of his physical body was also beginning to surge gently, seemingly aligning with the patterns of the Heavenly River, the Earthly River, and the rivers of his Sea of Consciousness.
In this place, the Sea Shark Emperor and the others were still locked in battle with Fandler. His physical body was being guarded by Xuan He, but at this moment, Xuan He suddenly detected something amiss.
He focused his gaze and discovered that Shi Yan’s body, devoid of the Soul Altar, was radiating vibrant vitality! Shi Yan’s meridians were swelling with pure divine power, the power flowing like water through rivers that were his veins. The divine power throughout Shi Yan’s body began to move, rolling with an inscrutable dynamism that shocked Xuan He into a look of stark horror.
Before Xuan He could even cry out, a dense spiritual aura belonging to Shi Yan rushed up from the spatial barrier below.
As if summoned by the soul, the divine body of Shi Yan transformed instantly into a streak of lightning and merged into the barrier beneath.
This transformation occurred in an instant, too fast for even Xuan He to stop. By the time he reacted, Shi Yan had vanished from his side.
“Whoosh!”
Shi Yan’s physical body pierced through the spatial barrier, appearing in the world beneath the sea of clouds, right beside his Soul Altar.
His Main Soul and Vice Soul remained unresponsive, steeped in the comprehension of the profound secrets of the cosmos. Upon arrival, this physical body broke free from the constraint of the Soul Altar and suddenly plunged toward the landmass below.
“Boom!”
His body landed directly into one of the rivers beneath, shaking the very earth in its descent. In that instant, the divine power in Shi Yan’s physical meridians seemed to establish a connection with the rivers beneath the landmass!
The Stellar Profundity of Shi Yan’s Soul Altar suddenly erupted in brilliance, casting forth dazzling starlight!
Pinpoints of starlight flickered, flying out from the celestial river overhead and showering down upon the Earthly Rivers below. These rivers, already carrying a strong, fishy odor, were filled with water and blood!
The water that connected with Shi Yan’s meridians suddenly surged violently into his body. Shi Yan’s physical form opened its countless pores, greedily absorbing the faintly malodorous river water.
“Crack, crack, crack!”
Unexpectedly, the blood within Shi Yan began to boil, his Undying Demon Blood igniting like kindling and burning fiercely. Without any conscious input, Shi Yan’s divine body began to undergo a transformation!
The stellar river overhead represented the network of Heaven; the rivers on the land represented the network of the Earth; the meridians of man represented the network of humanity; and the rivers in the Sea of Consciousness represented the network of the soul.
Heaven, Earth, Man, and Soul merged as one, using Shi Yan’s soul and body as the bridge, engaging in a miraculous communion!
If anyone else had been present in this realm, they would have witnessed the starry expanse above slowly feeding into Shi Yan’s Soul Altar, sinking into his boundless Primeval Realm. That Heavenly River, derived from the Fallen Stellar River, was gradually becoming the intrinsic stellar river within Shi Yan’s Primeval Realm, adding immeasurable mystery to it.
Meanwhile, below, on the continent dozens of times larger than the Continent of Divine Grace, those winding rivers were gradually beginning to dry up!
Conversely, the divine body of Shi Yan, submerged in one of those rivers, was rapidly swelling!
Shi Yan’s flesh was drawing in the river water, utterly remolding his physical form!
It was changing, evolving toward the form of a colossal Primal Being!
Gradually, the unique silhouette of Shi Yan emerged: his body covered in fine, natural scales, menacing barbs manifesting on his shoulders, elbows, and knees, broad bone wings sprouting from his spine, and fingers growing razor-sharp, like the claws of a fierce beast!
His already majestic physique seemed magnified. As the rivers depleted, the life fluctuations emanating from his body became terrifyingly immense, gradually surpassing even the form of the Dragon Lizard’s true body, his size now rivaling the Dragon Lizard’s true form when he was on Dragon Lizard Star.
Slowly, Shi Yan resembled a massive Ancient God lying prone, his horizontal body stretching for thousands of miles like a continuous mountain range!
His limbs, head, ears, eyes, and all other bodily components were rapidly expanding, transforming him into a giant. At this moment, any observer would see the so-called Giant Race as mere ants compared to Shi Yan; his current body had expanded tens of thousands of times larger than before!
As the waters of the Earthly Rivers drained, Shi Yan’s divine body continued to swell, and the life fluctuations within him relentlessly climbed higher and stronger!
Time sped by. As the Earthly Rivers gradually emptied, Shi Yan’s body reached a magnitude comparable to the Primal Beings Hui and Shi!
It was as if another Primal Being had been born!
Simultaneously, Shi Yan’s Primeval Realm quietly began to shift toward becoming a Domain Realm. The dark energy from the Soul Pond within his Sea of Consciousness flowed out, infusing the Primeval Realm. The brilliant stars rotating inside began to show faint signs of life upon the stars Shi Yan had originally condensed.
The presence of life fluctuations within the Primeval Realm was the precursor to its transformation into a Domain Realm. As the Fallen Stellar River integrated into his Primeval Realm, and the realm absorbed the dark energy, it began to gestate life, manifesting new species and entirely new races within his domain—a power of creation exclusive to Domain Ancestor experts!
The Soul Altar integrated with the Heavenly River, and the physical body fused with the Earthly River. In this bizarre confluence, Shi Yan gained unimaginable benefits, transforming toward the level of Domain Ancestor at an astonishing rate!
Even Okuin, the High Priest of the Cloud Clan, did not know that in the most ancient eras, the Cloud-Meng Domain Realm was actually segmented, composed of two distinct realms: the Cloud Realm and the Meng Realm, separated by overlapping spatial barriers. The existence of the Cloud Realm merely served to conceal the Meng Realm.
Meng, meaning ‘to conceal’ or ‘to obscure,’ signified that the Meng Realm was the hidden world. This world was one of the Odd Lands during the Primal Era, a place where Primal Beings went to heal. Shi Yan’s ability to enter it was not due to his mastery of Spatial Profundity, but because his soul carried the aura of a Primal Being!
His Vice Soul had merged with two of Huang’s avatars, meaning he was essentially a fragment of a Primal Being!
What he didn't know was that Primal Beings like Hui, Huang, and Shi had desperately searched for this location, hoping to restore their strength here. The water flowing in the Earthly Rivers was the Liquid of Life Source, a miraculous substance capable of achieving biological metamorphosis. Unfortunately, this veiled world remained extremely secret; even Hui and Shi had never located it.
Shi Yan stumbled into this place by chance and, utilizing the scarce Liquid of Life Source remaining here, completed the ultimate metamorphosis of his physical body, elevating his evolutionary tier in a single stroke to that of a Primal Being!
His physical body had achieved the state of a Primal Being!
His Primeval Realm had transformed into a Domain Realm. As his cultivation advanced in the future, this Domain Realm would become increasingly wondrous, potentially even surpassing the Huang Domain in time.
With the Liquid of Life Source completely drawn out and the Fallen Stellar River integrated into his Domain Realm, Shi Yan had not only ascended to the rank of Domain Ancestor but his physical form had also achieved the status of a Primal Being!
The Huang Domain.
A colossal Star of Life—a new celestial body formed from Huang, the Ancient Gods, the Ancient Demons, and the Divine Grace Continent. Within this star was a strange world, a vast and boundless expanse where an ancient creature with the body of a giant dragon lay coiled: the Heart of the Ancient Continent!
That dragon-like ancient creature was Huang’s true form, stretching out like boundless mountain ranges—and this was still an incomplete physique.
At the dragon’s head, the diminutive Gui Liao manifested in human form. His eyes were deep and mysterious, and at this moment, he suddenly sensed something. His gaze pierced through infinite space, focusing sharply on the Divine Grace Continent within the Cloud-Meng Domain Realm. His expression trembled slightly as he clearly felt Shi Yan’s transformation through their soul connection.
“Primal Body, Domain Ancestor realm…” Gui Liao murmured under his breath, his face taking on a strangely complex look. “This fusion will present some difficulty, but the benefits after merging will be immense. Not only will I recover to my peak, but I will also break through to a height of power I couldn't reach even in the Primal Era! If that happens, I won't need the Profound Glyph Pagoda to breach the Gate of the Primal Age!”
As he spoke, his massive body writhed. His true form inside the continent stirred, causing the entire colossal planet to spew forth energy, and terrifying, low roars echoed out into the vast expanse beyond the domain.
In the Domain of Spatial Turbulence, the twelve-headed serpent form of Hui was breathing in and out energy. On the magnificent throne of one of its serpent heads, Zi Yao looked on in alarm. She heard the roar emanating from the Huang Domain, and her expression drastically changed. “Judging by that roar, that fellow has nearly recovered his strength. It seems this place is no longer safe to linger.”
Saying this, Hui’s twelve serpentine bodies, entwined with fragments of shattered stars, rushed toward the direction of the Domain Gate.
Deep within the Void Sea of the Shi Clan.
Shi also heard Huang’s roar resonate through his soul, and sensing the surge in Huang’s power, Shi was deeply shocked, feeling that a huge impending danger was fast approaching.