The breakthroughs Shiyan achieved after reaching the Ancestor Realm far exceeded everyone's expectations! Especially the fact that he forged the Primordial Body—a physique hailed as the strongest in the Star Sea, capable of being wielded only by beings from the Primordial Era.
In a mere thought, it could swell to be as vast as a star or a continent, or shrink down to human form, shifting unpredictably. The profound power contained within the Primordial Body was far beyond comparison with the Seven Clans of the Void Sea.
Even the physique of the Ancient Fiend Race or the Dark Demon Race, known for their robustness, paled in comparison to the Primordial Body. Mastering over a dozen profound meanings, possessing dual souls, holding the Rune Tower of Profound Meanings, and wielding the Primordial Divine Artifact, the Fallen Star River—the energy unleashed when he attacked with full force was certainly not comparable to that of an ordinary Ancestor Realm master.
Even the Old Ancestor Lizard, though momentarily powerful upon reaching the Ancestor Realm, would undoubtedly lose if he truly fought Shiyan. This much was evident from the look of sheer terror on the Old Ancestor Lizard’s face as he watched from afar.
In the Cloud Vast Realm, upon breaking through to the Ancestor Realm, he swept away the Cloud Clan powerhouses, absorbing divine power through the Devouring Profound Meaning, melting down one Soul Altar after another, integrating them into his physique and soul. He had hoped to refine a Primordial Rune Source or at least solidify his divine power.
The reality was different. After breaking through to the Ancestor Realm, he realized there was an insurmountable chasm between the Ancestor Realm and the Immortal Realm—a gap almost impossible to cross.
Before, when he was at the peak of the Immortal Realm, the power accumulated from slaying experts could enhance his divine power and temper his physique, strengthening him. However, after transforming into the Primordial Body and breaking into the Ancestor Realm, he discovered his demand for divine power was colossal.
The entire power condensed and transformed from the demise of the Cloud Clan experts barely managed to elevate his divine power by a small margin. He covertly calculated that the transformed power only boosted his divine power by about ten to twenty percent, nowhere near saturation.
He suddenly realized that after forming the Primordial Body and reaching the Ancestor Realm, the only way to grow rapidly strong was to fix his gaze upon other Ancestor Realm masters! Only by slaying Ancestors could he quickly accumulate power, enhance his divine might, and temper his flesh!
The threat of the Desolate lingered, an inescapable shadow wrapped around his mind and heart. Even now, he felt that if he truly faced the Desolate, he probably wouldn't escape alive.
The Desolate... was growing stronger every day, increasing its power at an astonishing rate.
This pressure was constant. Therefore, he focused his attention on Feileier, making the hunting of Ancestor Realm masters his immediate goal, striving to quickly reach the bottleneck of the second heaven of the Ancestor Realm!
"Shiyan, is that you?" The voice of the Old Ancestor Lizard traveled from a distance. The Old Ancestor Lizard, having reverted to human form, looked solemn, his tone laced with disbelief.
"You... how did you form the Primordial Body?
Heavens, you've reached this height. This is too astonishing." He spoke toward the intense darkness, his power level insufficient to penetrate the boundless gloom and see Shiyan’s true appearance.
Within the profound darkness, various energies clashed. A massive shadow, transformed into a colossal bear, wielded the Fallen Star River.
Stars rotated and whirled across the sky, releasing the mystery and desolate aura of the cosmos, enveloping the entire firmament. In the pitch-black zone, myriad ghostly shadows swirled, seemingly coordinating with different profound meanings to exert heavy pressure on Feileier.
Thunderous roars echoed from that dark region, punctuated occasionally by Feileier’s groans and howls. Clearly, Feileier was on the defensive, being violently thrashed!
Streams of warrior figures shot out from various cities across the Land of the Void, piercing through like meteors. Among them, one figure stood out remarkably.
Clad in a seven-colored skirt, she was devastatingly beautiful with a gracefully alluring figure. Behind her, strands of extraterrestrial divine light converged, forming rainbows.
She appeared to possess vast, arched rainbow wings, and as she approached mid-air, her immense aura forced many warriors to retreat in shock. "Who is that?
Such a powerful aura!" "Never seen her before; she doesn't seem to be one of the Seven Clan members?" "The aura around her is incredibly strange, and those profound meanings... I've never encountered them.
Is she an outsider?" "Don't know." When the woman streaked across the sky, many warriors of the Land of the Void were knocked off balance by the energy shockwave and had to retreat in disarray. They exchanged whispered discussions, their eyes filled with awe and intoxication at her beauty, inquiring about the woman’s identity.
The woman, resplendent as a luminous pearl, alluring and seductive, her eyes shimmering with soul-stirring light, descended gracefully amidst the swirling rainbows near the Old Ancestor Lizard, Tu Shiqi, and Yanyun. She smiled sweetly and nodded toward the Old Ancestor Lizard, saying charmingly, "The scent of your bloodline is quite fragrant..." The Old Ancestor Lizard froze, then his body shook violently.
He pointed at the woman and stammered, "You... you are?
Are you also a senior from the Primordial Era?" "Little lizard, your perception is not bad. Hmm, it seems the bloodline power inherited from your ancestor within you is quite potent." The newcomer was none other than Ziyao.
She looked at the Old Ancestor Lizard with a smile, though her eyes suddenly turned icy. "Looking at it this way, the flavor should be quite good.
Perhaps it can restore a great deal of my strength." "Swish! Swish!" Streaks of rainbow light, stretching for thousands of miles, shot out from behind Ziyao and abruptly coiled around the Old Ancestor Lizard.
The Old Ancestor Lizard’s face changed drastically. He let out a roar and instantly transformed into his true form—a gigantic, colossal lizard.
Roaring, he erupted with scorching magma to clash against those rainbow strands. Those rainbows were streams of flowing light from beyond the domain, possessing an inherent will and a highly intelligent soul.
They shifted according to Ziyao’s profound meanings, forming dazzling and magnificent formations. Amidst the crisscrossing, multicolored beams of light, the Old Ancestor Lizard’s magma was skillfully neutralized.
Tu Shiqi and Yanyun’s expressions also turned extremely grim. They roared and unleashed their profound meanings, attempting to counter Ziyao’s binding of the Old Ancestor Lizard.
Ziyao formally emerged from the chaotic spatial turbulence after Shiyan and his companions entered the Cloud Vast Realm. She emerged to recover her strength!
The Old Ancestor Lizard's "Lizard" bloodline was precisely the tonic Ziyao needed right now! Ziyao, whose power had been gradually recovering lately, did not take the Old Ancestor Lizard, who had reached the first heaven of the Ancestor Realm, seriously at all.
She had been lurking in a corner of the Land of the Void, waiting for an opportunity. The moment the Old Ancestor Lizard showed himself, she instantly emerged and attacked ruthlessly without reserve.
"Little lizard, even your Old Ancestor back in the day wasn't my match, let alone you?" Ziyao chuckled coquettishly. The broad rainbow streams suddenly transformed, becoming ferocious giant serpents, each tens of thousands of miles long, flashing briefly across the heavens.
Vaguely, Ziyao’s true form manifested, and an aura of world destruction instantly enveloped the entire Land of the Void. The experts from various races who had gathered because of Shiyan felt their spirits tremble.
They subconsciously looked up at the sky and saw a twelve-headed Heavenly Serpent, a Primordial being, quietly appearing in the void above the Land of the Void. The pressure exerted on their souls was so intense that many of the lower-level cultivators collapsed onto the ground, their divine bodies shaking violently.
Under the terrifying pressure of the Primordial being, they were scared witless, utterly devoid of any desire to fight. For a long time, the warriors of the Void Sea had been searching for Primordial beings, hoping to break into the Ancestor Realm by slaying them, or to transform their physiques by devouring their flesh and evolving their life magnetic fields.
They believed that since the Primordial Era had long since ended, any surviving Primordial beings would be extremely weak, mistakenly thinking that Primordial beings were just slightly stronger savage beasts, easy to kill. Today, first Shiyan transformed into the Primordial Body, crushing the cities of the Ancient Fiend Race and slaying their warriors.
Then, Ziyao, drawn out by the flesh and blood of the Old Ancestor Lizard, appeared above the Land of the Void, her world-destroying aura spreading, making all warriors tremble. It was a sudden awakening, making them realize that these terrifying beings who once dominated the Primordial Era were not ones they could afford to provoke.
The rainbow streams evolved into colossal Heavenly Serpents, twisting and winding to entangle the true body of the Old Ancestor Lizard. Under the impact of that terrifying aura, Tu Shiqi and Yanyun were thrown hundreds of miles away.
Having not reached the Ancestor Realm, they didn't even qualify to interfere. The giant lizard body of the Old Ancestor Lizard roared and struggled madly.
A molten world spread out from a magma pool, radiating scorching heat and the earth-shattering sound of volcanic explosions. Amidst the bursting volcanoes and splattering magma, the Old Ancestor Lizard howled as he resisted Ziyao’s rainbow shackles.
"Little lizard, just give up obediently. Fuse your ancestor's bloodline into me, and I can recover much power.
Stop struggling fruitlessly," Ziyao said with a composed smile. Above his head, her true form fully manifested.
The massive shadow of the twelve-headed Heavenly Serpent almost completely obscured the Land of the Void, terrifying every expert present and making them realize the horror of the Primordial beings. "Roar!" Suddenly, within the profound darkness, the hideous giant that had disappeared reappeared!
Covered in scales and bristling with thorns, its spinal wings unfolded like two continents. Its five fingers, like unbreakable blades, had already clamped onto Feileier’s flesh.
Everyone focused their gaze and saw that Feileier’s divine body, transformed into the Ancient Fiend form, was like a sea lion caught by an anchor under those sharp claws, being torn apart, with chunks of massive flesh disintegrating. Feileier’s Ancient Fiend body was the size of a small mountain, yet compared to the hideous giant, it resembled a chick next to a colossal elephant.
"Boom! Boom!
Boom!" Lightning spheres exploded within Feileier’s body. His physical form gradually shrank, his flesh being shredded into a bloody mess by the hideous giant.
Shiyan, transformed into the Primordial Body, grinned savagely, looked up at Ziyao’s twelve-headed Heavenly Serpent true form which was level with him, and roared, "The Old Ancestor Lizard has an old connection with me, get out of my way!" Ziyao hovered in the sky above the giant lizard’s head. Hearing this, her eyes turned cold, but her smile did not diminish.
"You ungrateful wretch, you won't even let this little lizard go for me. Do you truly have no feelings for me at all?" As she spoke these words, her eyes shifted, revealing infinite affection, and she gazed deeply and seductively at Shiyan.
"We went through so much in the Blazing Star Domain. I followed you all the way to the Mayar Star Domain, waiting for you devotedly for years.
Is this how you treat me? If I cannot refine and absorb this little lizard to recover my strength, I will eventually be exterminated by the Desolate.
Can you bear to watch me die?" In that moment, she truly seemed to be Ziyao.