True Meaning Of Fleshly Ascension

After collecting additional desolate bones en route, we traded them for admission tokens.

Luo Zheng's strategy involved entering the trial personally. Considering the dangers involved, Luo Yan was denied permission to participate. I had no intentions of entering either. When Luo Yan questioned my decision to remain outside, I explained, "I am confident your brother will likely succeed with his exceptional talent. You both possess pure bloodlines, and I doubt anyone here surpasses your brother's capability in desolate body cultivation."

An elderly man nearby overheard our conversation. "For you ladies to hold such high opinions of that young man, he must possess remarkable talent. However, he appears to have only recently begun desolate body cultivation."

"Who might you be, sir?" Luo Yan inquired.

"I am Xi Yuan, an elder of the Nine Li race. Why do you claim he possesses more talent than others involved in this trial?"

"Nine Li race? then no problem in revealing. He carries Chi You's bloodline," she answered him hopefully to gain his interest. There is no need to mistake this is nine Li grounds, and he must be one of them.

This revelation captured his immediate interest ~ an outsider possessing Chi You bloodline presented intriguing possibilities.

Several hours later, Luo Zheng returned with numerous Chi You bloodline bones, demonstrated his talent, and successfully gained entry. We were also permitted to enter after I claimed to be his distant cousin and Luo Yan his sister.

The subsequent drama unfolded as expected ~ exiles drawn by his royal blood, the revelation of our origins, and acceptance as royals or similar figures by their grand chieftain. Then came the momentous news: we had discovered a method to escape this realm.

"I possess similar blood to your sister, Luo Zheng, though not as pure as hers. Ask them to help contact the Nuwa race" I told him. I remained silent at his questioning look.

I had to reveal my bloodline to both Luo Zheng and the exiles. Since our bloodlines differed, we requested assistance from those who had initially offered Chi You bloodline enhancement just for the relation with Luo Zheng, to just contact the Nuwa race to facilitate our training.

He needed to explain how he had acquired such imperial bloodline, while we two had gained Nuwa bloodline through certain actions by his mother he doesn't know.

Merging Bloodlines

The warden clan siblings were entrusted to our care. We received allocation to a regular tower for cultivating normal desolate bones, while Luo Zheng was sent to Nuhuang Cave to cultivate blood desolate bones.

After fifteen days, the bone tower shook violently. We received word of Luo Zheng's critical condition ~ he faced a life-and-death situation. Upon arriving, Luo Yan's strength completely left her body at the sight of her brother's state. She pleaded with everyone for assistance and remained there for three days when his vitality was no longer visible.

She was determined to fight me on spot. It only intensified, claiming I bore responsibility for leading him to his death. Within a sound barrier, I easily restrained her using invisible creation energy defense.

"I possess the means to resurrect him from death. You need not worry about that outcome. Besides, he will not die ~ what has occurred is likely the chaos ancient god merging blood with him after recognizing his talent. He will only grow stronger. Can you not see? I am not the least bit concerned. Have faith in your brother."

For a full week, she held me there as her mind's final anchor. Until even when the Grand Elder began losing hope, Luo Zheng emerged from the blood cocoon with three heads and three arms, his size...massive is an understatement.

After his return, Luo Yan embraced him tightly, weeping like a child, expressing her fear that he was lost forever with no one left for her. He comforted her, explaining that such trials were part of the cultivation process.

Following this experience, Luo Yan made her own decision. While most would avoid such agony, she desired to undergo a similar transformation after witnessing her brother's metamorphosis.

Torrent Tower Nuwa Desolate

Upon her insistence, Luo Zheng agreed it was time to let her proceed. We three, along with the warden clan siblings and an exile named Jin Lao, teleported to the Nuwa race bone tower.

Before departing, Luo Zheng approached me, saying, "I entrust my sister's safety to your care." I nodded my acceptance.

The previous competition with the Xuanyuan race had concluded a month before our arrival. We were actually a year earlier than the timeline depicted in the original story.

Within the Nuwa race torrent tower, after introductions and discussions of departure possibilities, Ming Wei, the Nuwa race leader, expressed willingness to hear our proposal. I took the lead in explaining: "We three have come from the God Domain ~ the one your red band prevents from flying away. We have discovered a method for departure, so we request that you release your control and in return accompany us."

After extensive discussion, I continued, "These two siblings belong to the warden clan's liberal faction. Their parents were murdered by the conservative faction. They can provide their own explanations." The siblings detailed the escape opportunity, the departure process, and the importance of cultivating the boy named Fu Chu, who could sever the chains binding everyone.

"Finally, Luo Yan and I would like to test our bloodlines here," I concluded.

Luo Zheng again explained how his sister could possess Nuwa bloodline while he carried Nine Li heritage, relating it to their mother's influence. Ming Wei correctly deduced the cause: "It must be bloodline purification six-pattern seed. Such items are extremely valuable."

She ordered immediate blood testing, sending samples for grades higher than ten directly to advanced evaluation. Luo Yan's results showed imperial grade Thirteenth pure blood, while mine revealed eleventh grade mutated bloodline.

"Can you condense any bloodline abilities?" she asked excitedly, reminiscent of the reaction at the Chi You race sky tower.

"I can, but the process is unstable and affects my soul significantly," Luo Yan replied.

"I experience no problems, but I possess two forms," I demonstrated. First, I manifested the complete energy transformation ~ a giant red-purple humanoid shadow with two sets of arms capable of forming sharp tentacles. "And this alternative form..." My appearance restored, but this time my legs merged into a serpentine tail while retaining two sets of arms.

"Nuwa form indeed, Truly royal bloodline," she exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Luo Yan studied me with narrowed eyes, wondering why my two sets of arms seemed to foreshadow her brother's bloodline ability despite having only one head, and why I could demonstrate abilities while she could not. "That bastard must have stolen my brother's blood as well," she thought. I deliberately avoided her gaze, finding some amusement in her provocation.

This time, since exiles had not gone themselves to retrieve the children, the warden clan remained unaware of our activities. Though Ming Wei prepared numerous precautions, including creating Fu Chu clones, she ultimately decided to keep the plan secret from all except those directly involved. With ample time available, it was essential for the participants to develop peacefully ~ other clans could be informed later. The departure plan was scheduled for four years hence, coinciding with the light of adjudication's arrival.

Luo Zheng returned to the Nine Li tower, while Luo Yan and I received instruction in abilities and methods for maximizing bloodline potential. After absorbing blood desolate bones from both the Nuwa race and those I had secretly copied from Nine Li clan grounds, and consuming a tribulation extermination blood pill, my first desolate body tribulation commenced.

Desolate Tribulation

The pain surpassed anything I had previously experienced. Though my bones and blood had been forged as profound venerable dao weapons, this tribulation originated from within, using the body's own power for destruction and reconstruction.

Cuts appeared everywhere on my skin, blood spilled but was soon reabsorbed, and flesh rapidly reforged itself. Then came the bones ~ I could not suppress my howls of agony.

Even with my body's adaptive abilities, the process proved excruciating as bones broke down and reformed in a bloody metamorphosis. Next, my meridians underwent reforging, and this time I could not even use body essence for healing. Finally came the blood boiling and marrow tribulations. Now the spilled blood did not immediately return ~ transformation was occurring within the blood both inside my body and what had flowed out. Afterward, everything reintegrated.

Luo Yan witnessed my entire transformation. When it concluded, I remained in disarray until life energy from my internal world returned, restoring me to peak condition. The conceptual ability of adaptation power guided every step, making my tribulation significantly faster than normal ones and maximizing the resulting power.

I tested my desolate God low-rank abilities ~ my form extended to nearly twenty-five hundred feet in height. My Nuwa form reached the same height while possessing greater power, and my bloodline form achieved similar proportions. After returning to normal size, I noticed her holding a drop of my blood.

"Your blood is miraculous ~ it seeks to return to you on its own," she observed looking at it.

I used invisible creation energy to devour the power surrounding my blood drop in her grasp, and it returned to me automatically. Upon investigation, I found no other spilled blood remained anywhere within my cave or within my scope of domain. "Hey..." She voiced.

"My breakthrough approaches as well. Each time I witness this process, I am having second thoughts...," she admitted.

A week passed. I remained present when Luo Yan's desolate tribulation arrived. Since our chambers were adjacent, I enveloped her in my shield to prevent any blood from flowing down the bone tower and potentially attracting the Chaos Ancient God's attention. Her tribulation proved more violent than mine.

She lost significant blood and required conditioning, even needing Ming Wei's assistance to pacify her soul. When we met again after a month, she had changed her dressing style, and even her manner of speaking had altered. The first tribulation had clearly left some trauma.

Mid Rank Desolate God

Time continued its passage. Six more months elapsed, during which I consumed more than six million desolate bones ~ though only one million appeared in official records, as I had created and self-absorbed the remainder. The mid-rank desolate God tribulation arrived, but this time my adaptive body recognized the process.

Ming Wei, who wanted to be our teacher in name, gave us blood desolate bones for breakthrough. I felt minimal pain as the reforging process accelerated, enhanced by my adaptive abilities. 

My consumption consisted of thirty percent Chi You desolate bones and seventy percent Nuwa desolate bones. The power I now possessed exceeded the nine stars of body cultivation. We were summoned for training battles with fellow Nuwa clan members, fighting with pure combat abilities in our enlarged forms.

Movement in giant form proved as agile as in normal proportions, and I learned to restrain opponents with my serpentine tail. When the body suffered full cuts separating it, entering the third state allowed energy to re-condense in separated portions and reform ~ a truly remarkable power.

Ming Wei shared extensive knowledge about the Grand World cultivation system, which had originally been developed by Nuwa herself. She taught me the true meaning divine ability of Void Destruction, which surpassed my self-learned version in power. Her colored rings wasn't a technique, it was a parmita summoning type treasure.

Experiences

Subsequently, we were dispatched on excavation missions across fifteen million miles of Nuwa clan territory. Their bones proved difficult to locate, but we managed to discover rare specimens hidden beneath the surface, though the total amounted to only two million or so.

Luo Yan later traveled to the battlefield between the Nine Li and Xuanyuan clans. Though Luo Zheng's primary concern remained returning home, he participated in three competitions, winning each time. He also suffered grave injuries from exiles during a desolate bone hunting expedition with core members, saved only by the Ancient God soul 'Ji.'

Some conflicts also arose from it.

By this time, he had achieved Top rank True God status and Great Perfection desolate God cultivation. After Luo Yan's joyful reunion with her brother, I inquired, "Before coming here, did you inform your father about our descent into chaos? Has he attempted to find you?"

"No, because I am the God Domain's will, a trace of my soul remains attached to it. I can sense events and send messages about our activities here. Father has taken a vacation with my mother throughout the God Domain since my last received message of our safety."

Ming Wei and Jin Lao from both clans had already begun exit preparations. Many allied clans were contacted and asked to shelter together in anticipation of the light of adjudication. Progress continued steadily. I had already analyzed the flawed truth ability of the Falling Star Palm belonging to the bloodline ability of Ancient Chaos God, but found little use for it given my possession of creation energy.

ARC light Divine Dao

Two more years passed, bringing me to great perfection in desolate God level ~ the point where practitioners could no longer continue desolate cultivation due to changes in chaos truth.

I tried to enter other shore. When I first tried to enter I couldn't; something was dragging me down from entering the other shore. Turns out the curse chain affects the ability to cultivate paramita level and ancient god on other shore. I devoured the chains temporarily using the shield and entered normally. It will regrow back to soul when I lift the shield, unless it was severed using a special artefact only warden clan possess.

I entered the second layer of heaven within the sea of true meaning by soul and visited the Heavenly Sunflower Divine Temple beneath the river, where I directly acquired one of the flaws in merging divine dao: arc light energy by teleporting directly within without triggering the temple's traps.

It was attached to a gem artefact, I can't hold it now because my soul strength is low for it so I just placed it within my internal world. Since I can't control it, placing it near my divine spark wasn't a good idea. So I isolated a space and put it on there.

Sprite Fire

Returning from that, it was time to inherit the ability of Han Liu Su. I took out the store blood essence of her in my hand, and it was absorbed within. Slowly within few hours of intake, my body began to exhibit blue flames on its own, without any control over it. And body Sanskrit constantly absorbing it. Nearly a day later, I began to sense the racial divine ability of sprite fire began to merge with my soul.

My soul which was in Nuwa form exuded fire as if refining it. Slowly as mental shields were lowered the ability burned and transformed the soul inherently becoming part of it. It was painful as desolate body refining. My purple shaded looking hair changed again to more whiter shade. My body transformation to Nuwa form activated on its own, merging with this fire as a flaming python. The control gradually returned to me.

Han Liusu took decades of childhood unable to control the racial ability even when its not fully unleashed, while mine was fully assimilated and began it's refinement to adapt better. I can perceive the ability hasn't been fully unlocked yet.

Other shore in flesh & soul space ring

I also ignited myself and tried perceiving any unusual-ness after reaching top rank desolate God body. It began to exude a unique true meaning directly from the body. LoHP easily figured out the sanskrit responding to desolate cultivation all together slowly and masterfully connecting it with fire elemental energy and true meaning of fleshly ascension. From the story records, this other shore cultivation is achievable only after mastering both Taishang refinement and desolate energy.

Requiring minimal attention, I maintained low perception levels, making my journey through the sea of true meaning via flesh even more peaceful than the soul path. There is no reason for flesh to breathe in sea of true meaning, I was merely diving below surface. Unlike soul which feels an unbearable fragility and weightiness when entering other shore, flesh was feeling difficulty to swarm against the tide. The muscles would feel worn out and tired as I continues.

Now both are at third level of heaven inside. I took my time to move around and learn knowledge from fellow travelers. Restored the perception as no one really cares until it reaches the exits of each heaven.

When I entered fourth heaven or mysterious root heaven in soul form, I entered the temple for human race oneness sky palace. I got a soul space ring after paying very tiny amount of soul crystal from human palaces within other world. It's a special beast that does it.

The price of the thing I was consuming for fun, stunned me. An entire piece was a fist sized one, and it was equivalent to near 300 million divine crystals. I consumed at least seven.

I went back to the first heaven and stored the soul crystal from maple temple. After returning back, originally soul crystal cannot be taken back with soul, so it was used up before, now I could store and literally recreate at expense of creation energy.

Using soul storage rings and a continuous supply of recreated soul crystals, my strength already surpassed lust world level inside, but I was slowly taking my time.

Luo Yan

My relationship with Luo Yan had developed into something more sisterly, which I wanted to discontinue, but staying extended period in this form affects the nature. During this period, I had indeed gathered courage to ask Luo Yan to consider a romantic relationship in my true form, but she refused. Her Bro-con mind and devotion to her brother left little room for any other unholy thoughts.

She probably have statues in her internal world to worship her brother. Sister it would remain, then. 

The Ming Wei's torrent tower favors female disciples more just like her pearl rose sect in Li mountain. So, considering her willingness to provide more resources and even accept as disciples she obviously care a lot for it. I don't want to come out as strange by transforming to my original self.

The warden clan siblings had both reached top desolate god status and Top rank True Gods cultivation directly.

The clans within the Nuwa tower learned of our plan several months in advance. Allied forces also received notification, and eventually even the warden clan discovered our intentions ~ though too late for them to influence others like the Xuanyuan clan deeply or make adequate preparations. They did, however, conduct some assassinations and formulate counter-plans with their years of foundation.

Such attempts against the siblings' lives were easily resolved by Ming Wei and others. The exile from Xing lu clan died just like in the story bitten by spirtual parasite after killing a clone of Fu Chu. But infiltration by Xuanyuan Clan didn't happen. Instead they requested directly to come with us as they are willing to support. 

But both Luo Yan and Luo Zheng stood by their choice, and explained how Xuanyan clan wiped out Nine Li race in God Domain and without the chains of curse, they would inform mother world, and end of God domain wouldn't be so far in future. The decision was also passed after hearing the judgements and so we made some enemies early.

Finally, the light of adjudication arrived. It was once in a thousand year event. For the beings of this world, it is incomprehensible. In the bone tower I was in, the outside was so bright it can't be seen directly. At this moment, it would be wiping out those stranded outside and transforming them into wights.

As the process ended, I left outside and witnessed a calmness returning to the world momentarily. The exiles were already preparing for the next battles by now. Ming Wei collected all available desolate bones and met with the Nine Li and Luo Zheng.

He too radiated the aura of true meaning from his body ~ apparently, he had also noticed the true meaning, but whether it is about crossing the other shore through physical cultivation I doubt he got a chance to venture into the sea considering the curse chains. Possibly from the ancient god spirit puppet of Ji named 9527 inside his body. I condensed all my perceptions except vision and spiritual sense, concealing any true meaning aura or cultivation from others' detection.