Path beyond Limits

The Path Beyond Mortal Limits

The moment I stepped across the threshold, something fundamental shifted within me. My cultivation base had reached a stage where the very act of visualization could project pure energy into the outside themselves. The realization struck me with quiet force ~ I now possessed a lifespan stretching beyond tens of thousands of years.

Well God wanted me to experience the taste of advancement, even if I asked him for immortality, he would not have given me. Because I would no longer feel the need to advance. Absolute protection from creation energy and infinite life span. Who would want to work without possessing necessary will?

The first through tenth layers of this realm dealt with True Essence, the fundamental building block of all energy in the universe. Mine has a distinct purple shade, characteristic to the extreme purple yin body I had.

Everything that existed, every thought that took shape, every prayer whispered in darkness ~ all of it was interconnected through this primordial force. When cultivators at my level visualized something, that visualization carried the weight of Faith itself, the concentrated belief of countless beings focused toward a single purpose.

I settled into meditation, letting my body recover from the breakthrough. Nearby, Af'u observed my cultivation with the careful attention of one who had witnessed countless transformations.

"Did our previous trial taker return?" I asked, breaking the comfortable silence.

Af'u shook his head slowly. "No... it seems the outside world has claimed his attention with pressing matters. Your cultivation advances at an unprecedented rate. I cannot fathom what master's plan might be."

The question in my mind finally found voice. "Can I attempt the True Extinction Road?"

"You would need a Zhen token," Af'u replied, his tone measured. "Though you could try breaking through the barrier with raw power as I said like last time."

The seamless synchronization of power and life essence within me had multiplied my strength beyond previous calculations. I focused my energy and struck at the barrier, channeling the seventh layer of Causal Law Impact. The barrier held firm, unmoved by my assault.

At least the tenth layer, I concluded grimly. That's what it would take to force this open.

The only reason I pushed so hard was the knowledge that beyond this barrier lay a projection of the Saint Race ~ complete with their legendary characteristics ~ waiting as a trial opponent. My body's adaptive nature had been constantly evolving, my bloodline and physical form perpetually seeking the peak of whatever level I currently occupied.

I condensed sword laws, techniques all pointing to divine dao flawlessly, but finding better opponents is difficult.

The Saint Race talent and bloodline I had absorbed long ago continued to enhance my comprehension, working in harmony with the LoHP that was gradually becoming one with my soul.

The lotus bloomed earlier, which meant the cultivation techniques and the fighting techniques, I have already surpassed the heaven's way at my life level. The limits of control over law however is not achieved.

The knowledge flowing from LoHP had directly translated into mastery over the seventh layer of most laws within my mental framework. After several days of rest and consolidation, I made the decision to venture outside and investigate Luo Zheng's situation.

The news I received was he had vanished after entering the Trial of Tianmiao, leaving Cui Xie to search for new purple passive abilities.

The Journey Beyond

My travels took me through major cities, where I adopted the guise of a senior alchemist. For six months, I immersed myself in the alchemy trade, clearing my head from the constant cultivation. The commercial alliance and I struck several lucrative deals, but none of it truly mattered. What I sought were the resources necessary to create Drawing Tribulation Pills.

In between I went to wild continent in Four God Countries to copy the soaring snake sword and the contents written in the tablet and minor realm. It appears ancient but my LoHp said it was only recently placed there.Few years atmost.

Later once I had crafted several of these precious pills, I set my sights on a new goal ~ the World Tree Seed. Using my realm travel ability, I teleported toward the location, only to find myself in the upper world. The Great Thousand Worlds. I forgot it was in upper world.

The underground realm where I materialized was known as the Yin Gathering Realm ~ specifically, the Abyss of Reincarnation. Rather than face the Eclipse Moths and other dangers that lurked in these depths, I teleported directly to the first layer cave within the ascension zone through my ability. There, hanging from the wall like forbidden fruit, was what I sought.

I consumed the creation energy that had been steadily overflowing since my last tribulation to transform it to my genuine energy. The overwhelming power from the previous thunder strike easily filled it.

The World Tree Seed immediately began drawing in True Essence with voracious hunger as soon as I placed inside the almost liquid energy centre. I found that this World tree seed is not a product of true essence. It is from God domain. I opened another portal, first went to the poem written by Yijian Heavenly Venerate who put his sword intent on the stone tablet.

Directly copied information to LoHP. If I study it now, the tablet will break, which I could probably do, it will sever Luo Zheng's future power by eighty points out of hundred at illusionary battlefield.

I hate the fact that any small changes I make would be affect him so tightly. This is like a carefully laden simulation world arranged for him.

Later I made the portal to a realm where no human under venerate had ever set foot ~ the Purple Flame Realm.

Trial by Fire

The moment I stepped through the portal, flames consumed me. My True Essence protection began burning away at an alarming rate. Wrapping myself in creation energy, I studied my surroundings with growing fascination. The flames surrounding me weren't mere fire ~ they were sentient, immortal profound flames that had achieved consciousness.

I gradually introduced my body to the flames, allowing them to refine my physical form. What had been holy tier peak body began transforming into something unprecedented. After two months of this torment, my body had achieved divine tier ~ a level I had never imagined possible in such a short time.

While the flames worked their transformative magic, I began absorbing the genuine energy jades I had collected and consuming the Drawing Tribulation Pills. The final barrier of the Divine Sea Realm crumbled before my advance.

The thirty - five petal lotus manifested once again, but this tribulation was unique to the realm. Instead of thunder, flame tribulation tested my limits, accelerating the refinement process beyond all expectations. What followed, however, was something I had never encountered ~ the Luck Extinguishing Tribulation.

"So this is what it means to have no fate," I murmured, watching as intangible soaring snakes materialized from the void but they can't find any fate, but can curse bad luck for me.

These creatures were designed to consume luck, transforming it into negative energy and cursing the cultivator with perpetual misfortune.

Well joke was on them. My creation energy manifested as binding ropes around each snake, devouring them from within and claiming their accumulated luck as my own.

Where True Essence should have liquefied to form a sea in my energy core, mine had already achieved that state. Laws up to the fifth layer became wieldy by default. The limitation on comprehending laws had virtually disappeared ~ a privilege reserved for only the most supreme talents.

My studies of law's fundamental nature caused the laws of thunder, fire, and causality to advance rapidly from the seventh layer all the way to the ninth ~ the observable limit of the universe before receiving crown of destiny.

Years of Refinement

Two years dissolved into memory as I slowly consumed and fed the flames with ninth-grade law energy, reforging my body to supreme divine tier. There is a reason for this persistence. For a future project.

The endless sea of flame transformed under my creation energy's influence, becoming part true essence and part gang energy that went toward body refinement and accumulated my cultivation base.

The True Essence began forming the foundation for life itself. Within the ocean of my inner world, tiny beings started manifesting inside the ocean, A small patch of solid true essence condensed by 7th grade thunder I could create held together by the World Tree's roots at the center in an ocean of lavender liquid essence. Solidification is only suppose to happen at next realm. But forming a handful of soil in the middle of an ocean of true essence is not worth praising for.

More years passed, time within my inner world flowing thousands of times faster than the outside. I had endless opportunity to study and master new techniques. The most significant development was the field I could now project around myself ~ a manifestation of my cultivation technique and martial will combined.

My mind often turned to the possibilities of creation energy, using it to establish dominion over any other form of energy or attack and by analyzing the fundamental flaws in techniques and laws, I also achieved for such perfection. May be that characteristics was picked up and thus created a field that combined the properties of absolute energy control and flaws in any activities within. Any True Essence equal to or below mine fell under my dominion.

"The Field of Absolute Control," I named it, watching as I could visualize flaws in real-time while maintaining dominion over an enemy's law energy without moving. It was a superior version of what Xuanyuan Chenfeng had demonstrated in the illusion battlefield. I could effortlessly cut off the cause of any attacks, due to perfection of technique divine light of cause, but now my field has the ability to incorporate it.

The complexity arose from the fact that any technique usable from this level on was supposed to be a converging branch of Divine Dao, requiring conformity to the existing 3,003 Divine Daos.

My field was achieved through a partial combination of Truth Divine Dao, Devouring Divine Dao, Great Manipulation Divine Dao, and Five Elements Divine Dao. I only learned about some beginning details about them, but I could figure out from the techniques that it is.

While I could fight someone at Divine Transformation due to my mastery of higher law forms, if they possessed greater comprehension of any of the relevant Divine Daos, my field would collapse immediately.

During my years of cultivation in this realm, five great tribulations had occurred. With no one to disturb me and no way for others to enter due to my shielding from higher entities that might pose threats, I had peacefully advanced to the peak of Divine Sea. Though the spiritual flames within the realm sometimes possessed power comparable to Divine Transformations, they ultimately remained well within the control of laws and in unavoidable cases, shielding of creation energy.

The Inner World's Mechanics

The normal lifespan of Divine Sea Realm stretched to a hundred thousand years, extendable to a million with mastery over Life Law. Lifeforms and substances of the universe could be incorporated into the sea, as both were formed from True Essence. The lifeforms within my internal body world were composed of the same True Essence but at lower energy levels.

Anything formed inside my internal world ~ except lifeforms ~ could be brought into the external universe. The lifeforms of my internal world were bound by Karma Laws, dissipating if they attempted to enter the universe.

God Domain operated on a different principle entirely, formed from Primordial Chaos ~ an energy form superior to True Essence. Anything made from True Essence would dissipate upon entering God Domain, while ordinary life forms there possessed physical strength equal to my current stage.

Qi of Primal Chaos

I withdrew the wisp of True Chaos Qi I had obtained earlier. The reason I hadn't consumed it for myself yet, following the secret art of chaos cultivation like the main character, was because LoHP fixed the original flaws in the usage of the technique.

Primordial Chaos, unlike True Essence, was the foundation of all energy in a third globe world. A Chaos Divine Sea would create actual land in the outer chaos void. The benefits were tremendous ~ essence energy a thousand times stronger and genuine land of beginning.

But I wasn't a life form destined to exist only in this third globe world. I needed to carry my world wherever I went, which required it to remain an unreal world made of True Essence or something else - creation energy. But it can't be cultivated directly but LoHP found a way to create land of beginning life in a better way.

My creation energy had completely copied the Chaos Qi. Unlike the beings in this universe, I wasn't a secondary life form born of True Essence nor of Chaos Qi. I was formed from creation energy itself when I was born in the TDG world. This meant that in any plane, at any life level, my body could adapt accordingly. That's exactly what had happened when I first entered this world.

And now it was time for transformation of inner world.

The Chaos Integration 

The Tai Shang refinement method and primordial choas cultivation sutra are just parts of one whole picture, made by superior cultivator named elder Xue in jade heaven to combat the snake spirit sect and downgrading needle in the far future. Assimilate ancestral bloodline and create a world in chaos as a last struggle against downgrader, a being from sixth globe world.

Does that concern me? No I don't give a shit, as of now.

But in my case I changed both of these techniques application using LOHP, based on the available knowledge of complete true meaning of nature and other sanskrits present in the library hall left untranslated and the original knowledge of the story till end. I don't understand them as a whole, but my LoHP does. I chose to believe it. Even though the flaw was not really in technique itself, but how saints comprehended it.

Attaining perfection through fixing flaws. It is only going to get better as I gain more knowledge.

Unlike Luo Zheng whose dantian had added Chaos Qi before divine sea level, to jump from gaseous true essence to chaos Qi directly. The method my soul come up with is to have abundant liquid true essence first after entering divine sea.

Gu Bei Saint with his understanding said that liquid true essence forming basis of the world is too late for Chaos cultivation. But the flaw was that he was considering the Tai Shang refinement and Chaos Cultivation as separate entities. For the group of saints who devised this, one is to become higher being and other is an experiment to form a holy domain and if possible regain control of will of God Domain in future.

The body forged by Tai Shang refinement doesn't have inherent limitation of basis of life formation. Because body is not a true essence creation by now. It is something more in quality. In fact he would have been better if he integrated later waiting for body cultivation to catch up. Of course LoHP said that, I can't produce such profound understanding beyond saint out of nowhere.

The presence of world tree helps but not necessary but it will make the process whole lot faster. The other requirement is to reach atleast supreme divine tier weapon body in the modified Tai shang refinement. Zheng was only Holy grade when he received the Qi of primal chaos. 

Add to that he is a secondary being with no knowledge of how to transform himself into chaos compatible other than an incomplete qi refinement technique. His gang energy was still separate from chaotic energy until he created nine stars using saints stolen source of strength.

As of now, when I channel transformed Chaos Qi within me, it wouldn't devour my body but would begin consuming the essence energy from within. By channeling creation energy alongside it, the Chaos Qi became as docile as a puppy, even allowing me to translate it to law energy outside.

The limitation was that a large chunk of True Essence would only create a small amount of Chaos Qi, but the power output would be incomparable. The number of times it could be sustainably used without emptying my reserves was limited. Luo Zheng had no such problem because his energy center was entirely made of Chaos Qi.

The advantage of Chaos Qi lay mainly in the realms between Divine Sea and low-rank True God. Beyond that, the power of faith and potential became more significant. It will become important once more when you reach the Saint soul realm, which is at least 18 realms above mine. 

That's so far beyond me now.

Reason

But why am I so focusing on Chaos transformation? Well my extreme adaptive body ever since it absorbed the characteristics of saint race plus nuwa and Chi you bloodline and purple passive yin body from Luo Yan, it began to dig deep into the essence and bring out the adaptive evolution of it at every major life level improvement bringing out maximum talent.

The racial appearance like elven ears didn't stick as they were judged unnecessary but having extreme yin physique not, as they even made my true essence lavender in color despite the cultivation technique doesn't bear any attribute.

As if finally accepted a direction of transformation, it began to exert its nature on my cultivation and recently even in my sense of self due to its Yin nature, expressive in female gender. I can't believe I am saying this, but femininity is a part of myself now. What began as a fun transformation ability in TDG world locked in.

I can cast an illusion on myself so real as a man but no true transformation of self past gender is possible by techniques, as if it is forbidden by certain operating rules of the reality. I mean what's the point of becoming a eunuch? To show male appearance?

If I stray further and decide to create purple polar realm as realm lord and began to condense divine spark based on purple extreme divine dao I would need to atleast surpass dependence on divine dao as paramita realm to get past this issue. That's a long way off.

Why purple pole realm? Because my lavender true essence shows characteristics of development leading to it. And then divine dao of purple extreme is self forming in such bodies without much effort.

Other is only a possibility, using immeasurable ruler to converge the potential from racial characteristic to a potential stored within. To counter it, Chaos is now essential. Any characteristics of third world being is derived from 3003 divine dao's formed of chaos, so returning back to chaos, I can transcend the limitation set by physique.

By now, the years I lived as both genders are equal, I don't particularly prefer one over the other either but I need the freedom to myself, not a need to conform due to any restriction.