A single slap landed, and the Great Perfection King’s head burst into festering blood, reduced to a puddle of rotten flesh — dead by misfortune!

The battered mech flickered with a dim metallic sheen, no longer brilliant, stripped of its Dao markings and spiritual energy, rendered a useless husk.

“No!” Xuan Mo screamed, his expression one of sheer panic as he fled for his life — yet how could he possibly match Ye Fan’s speed? Within half a breath, he was caught.

Crack!

Ye Fan’s methods were vicious. A single slap came down and shattered half of Xuan Mo’s face, sending his jaw flying off entirely.

“Spare me! I am of the Xuan Family from the Eternal Prime Star — you cannot kill me!” he shrieked in terror, the remaining half of his face drained of all color. His legs trembled so violently that the muscles in his calves seized up.

In this star domain, the Immortal Feather Star, the Primordial Demon Star, and the Divine Earth Star were three of the smaller life-bearing planets, while the Eternal Star was the prime star with boundless territories — its grandeur extraordinarily rare across the vast cosmos.

“Time and again you have come to trouble me, and tonight you launched a night assault to take my life and seize my evolution precious liquid. What more is there to say?!” Ye Fan raised his foot and stomped down.

Boom!

This time, unlike before, he showed no mercy whatsoever — concealing nothing, he unleashed combat power capable of slaughtering a half-saint. A single stomp crashed down, and heaven and earth collapsed.

Blood rained through the sky. Xuan Mo let out a wretched scream as his body was crushed into four broken pieces by that single stomp, leaving only a blood-soaked head tumbling through the air.

“I submit! I will do anything you ask — please spare my life!” The primordial spirit within the severed head burst forth, attempting to flee, but his strength fell far too short — it was impossible.

“Your great-uncle once said that brilliant talents die young!”

“I am no brilliant talent — I am foolish and dull, please let me go.” Xuan Mo, who in ordinary days was overbearing and arrogant — who even dared to beat and berate Fanxian’s shaved-head subordinates without giving them a second glance — was now utterly terrified.

“Not a brilliant talent? Then you are just like your great-uncle — you share the same fate!” Ye Fan said no more. Another stomp came down, grinding his primordial spirit and head to ash and dust.

Moments later, the area was immaculate — every trace had vanished, and the seal laid down by the silver-eyed elder slowly dissolved as well.

In the distance, atop a low hill, Cao Qing gazed toward that spot. Beside him stood an elderly manservant who, upon seeing the power of the seal disappear, gave a visible start.

“That old bastard is dead — he went in and never came out alive! What on earth is the background of this person, to have killed a Great Perfection King?” The elderly manservant revealed a flash of astonishment.

Cao Qing nodded. “Truly extraordinary. To eliminate this fellow, it would be best to deploy a half-saint, and one who can command a super saint-level mech. I fear that ordinary saint artifacts may not be able to suppress him.”

In another direction, Fantian stood atop the clouds, his scarlet hair blazing like fire, his face suffused with a sinister aura, as he stared down at Ye Fan’s bamboo garden in the night sky.

“What a formidable young man — he even killed Xuan Mo’s great-uncle. Truly a powerful opponent. What methods did he use, exactly?” he murmured to himself.

Fanxian’s beautiful eyes shimmered with a strange brilliance. “I told you long ago — his potential is immense, and right now he is still an unrefined lump of raw gold and uncut jade, waiting to be developed. Of course, he might also become a blade that cuts both others and himself — he must be firmly kept in my grasp.”

“Hey, dear cousin, your eye for talent is truly impressive. I think we could have him marry into the family — he may even surpass that Cao Qing in some ways.” Fantian’s sinister air was palpable.

“Fantian, stop your gossiping!” Fanxian shot him a sidelong glance, then twisted her slender waist like a water serpent and drifted gracefully away, her pair of snow-white long legs glinting with a crystalline radiance — extraordinarily enchanting.

“Cousin, I speak the truth. Rather than having him offer up a portion of his Indestructible Golden Body blood essence, would it not be better for you to wed him and produce an offspring possessing both the Golden Body and the Battle Physique — a supreme dual divine bloodline? That might be far more beneficial!”

“Hmph, mind your own affairs first!” Fanxian gave a cold laugh, casting him one last sharp glance laced with a touch of cruelty, and vanished into the distant night sky.

In yet another part of the sky, several others were watching. Fanzhu’s eyes were deep and unfathomable — he spoke not a single word, and after a long silence, he disappeared from the void.

Ye Fan’s expression remained calm. He knew people were watching — his spiritual perception was frighteningly sharp and he could sense them — yet he made no effort to search them out carefully.

Those old fossils made a move against me. For all these people watching, that was exactly what they were hoping for — all of them testing me.

He had no intention of staying in this place for the rest of his life. As soon as he obtained what he wanted, he would leave without the slightest hesitation or lingering attachment.

Almost time. My only goal was the strongest evolution liquid, and now it is in hand — I can begin giving this more thought.

In the dead of night, all fell utterly silent. The stars and moon shone brilliantly, bathing everything in silver-white radiance, and at last the area became completely tranquil — all prying eyes had vanished.

Ye Fan reflected for a moment, then poured out the entire gourd of evolution liquid, letting it flow into the jade pool. The crystalline water shimmered with fragrance, transforming through the Dao into wisps of celestial energy. He stripped and entered the pool, sitting cross-legged at its center, beginning to temper himself — initiating the evolution process of the Eternal Kingdom.

It was a wondrous process. One seemed to witness star after star extinguishing, with only the most divine and refined single point of imperishable divinity remaining, gathering slowly. Countless star systems decayed, grew Desolate, and perished — then, after hundreds of millions of years of transformation and accumulation, the most primordial divinity of each converged, fusing into one, condensing into rock, forged into divine stone: this was the Celestial Destiny Divine Rock.

Ye Fan immersed himself in it, experiencing the passage of countless ages, perceiving the flow of time, capturing the rise and fall of star domain after star domain, inscribing the trajectory of the Dao beneath the starry sky.

The supreme bloodline evolution liquid was a miraculous existence — it could force one to comprehend the Dao, to understand the evolutionary process of the world, to truly penetrate the primordial source of the universe.

Ye Fan, empty of self and object, absorbed himself in careful contemplation. His heart grew increasingly tranquil. Around his body, star system after star system began to manifest — worlds being born, flourishing, growing desolate, declining…

This was the path toward the Great Dao — beginning from the most fundamental essence of the world, comprehending it piece by piece, slowly stepping forward. His heart grew ever clearer, and his flesh began to radiate light.

This was the supreme physique evolution liquid — not merely a tempering of the physical body, but a baptism at the level of the spirit as well, an infusion of shattered Great Dao fragments, engraving timeless and immutable laws.

Every inch of the human body’s flesh and blood is a treasure. If all of it were unlocked, the potential and divine abilities of a person would be boundless and immeasurable — lauded as the Gate of Ten Thousand Wonders!

Ye Fan continued his comprehension without cease, watching as the body’s treasures opened one by one. Immersed within the supreme evolution liquid, he truly felt the wonder of this primordial source power — causing himself to comprehend the Dao, to transcend, to break open the shackles of the body, growing stronger with every passing moment.

A breakthrough seems within reach — just one more small step — and yet something always feels just slightly lacking. I cannot break through… he murmured to himself.

In this very moment, various treasures began to further unlock — the divine ability to move mountains and fill seas, the power to snatch the moon and seize falling stars, the spiritual perception of the Celestial Eye and Celestial Ear, the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid calamity — some opened further, others opened completely. Numerous divine gates swung wide.

This was the supreme physique evolution liquid — containing heaven-defying divine mineral substances, branded with fragment-laws of the world’s fundamental nature — enabling a comprehensive transcendence and sublimation of the self.

This is the power of the Primordial Destiny Stone — born of primordial chaos, formed in the Primordial Beginning, pregnant with the power of eternal undying life! Ye Fan felt the power of that extraordinary mineral substance more deeply within the precious liquid.

In that instant, he seemed to traverse the primordial wilderness of the universe — condensing the mysterious forces of heaven and earth, penetrating past, present, and future — arriving at a far more profound understanding of life and death.

On the surface of his body, wisps of Dao markings appeared — especially above the Immortal Platform on his brow, where they were intricate and complex beyond description, strand upon dense strand, as though splitting heaven and earth apart.

Suddenly, a tremor ran through his body. The “Zhe” character formula among the Nine Secrets began to operate on its own. Hundreds of millions of Dao markings — and amid his comprehension, a monumental breakthrough occurred.

This had originally been an incomplete formula, far from whole — yet now, as he comprehended the power of eternal life and understood the fruit of life and death, he was unexpectedly moved, his heart illuminated, and he spontaneously deduced the lost portion of its true meaning!

The “Zhe” character secret was further perfected. It was a wondrous power — he had actually, through his own efforts, begun to mend the missing parts of the Nine Secrets. Were this to be made known, it would certainly shock the world.

The “Zhe” character formula was hailed as the Ancient Scripture of the Divine — containing the profound secret of undying immortality, obtained from the Ziwei Ancient Star Domain. The other half remained in Yin Tiande’s possession, and Ye Fan had always yearned to collect them all. Now, at last, he had glimpsed a ray of dawn.

At the same time, a truly alarming question occurred to him: just how extraordinary was the Primordial Ancient Mineral — could it truly harbor the power of immortality?

Starlight and moonlight bathed everything in radiance. The crown of Ye Fan’s head became crystalline, as though it had established some manner of connection with the cosmic starry sky — as if it were about to merge with it, becoming part of the Dao itself.

Shhh!

The space between Ye Fan’s brows flickered, and a tiny golden figure flew out, clutching a small ancient cauldron, forcibly severing the beam of light surging from the crown of his head and cutting off the connection with the cosmic starry sky.

The human body is itself a world — possessing boundless divine repositories, capable of becoming a gate of all Daos. Perhaps this is the very root of achieving immortality.

The Immortal is undying, capable of living forever — yet star systems have the day they collapse. If this universe were to cease to exist, how could anything contained within it possibly survive?

Ye Fan observed the various Great Dao fragments, yet had no wish to rely upon them — no desire to entrust his life to this universe. If he were ever to truly step forth and prove his Dao, it would rest upon nothing but the universe within the human body — not upon staking his life to this great world.

BOOM!

A thunderous explosion resounded. He severed the connection between his primordial source and the star systems, yet did not impede the manifestation of the ancient stars from beyond the domain, nor the pouring down of their divine radiance.

The spectacle was incomparably grand — various lights cascaded down from the starry sky, resonating with the Celestial Destiny Divine Rock, an incalculable abundance of divine radiance illuminating the primordial source of the universe.

Then, chaotic energy surged and billowed — splitting heaven and earth, resonating with the Primordial Destiny Stone. The forces of life and death flickered toward extinction, and streams of various lights flowed and overflowed.

…

He had severed his dependent connection to the boundless heavenly cosmos, yet the departed, the existing, the eternal — all their profound mysteries manifested around him, transforming into Dao principles for him to observe and study.

Though it was now the dead of night and the area was quiet, these extraordinary phenomena still alarmed many people — more than a few powerful cultivators awakened from their sleep.

For this place had become incomparably magnificent: ten thousand rays of starlight, chaos cascading like a waterfall, ancient star systems rising and sinking, all revolving around Ye Fan, enshrining him at the center.

This was the primordial energy of heaven and earth, this was profound and layered sublime truth, this was the revelation of the world’s fundamental divine principles — he was comprehending them, without dependence or reliance, yet drawing reference from them, his Dao cultivation advancing steadily.

“This fellow — truly extraordinary. Even more fearsome than I imagined. I truly underestimated him somewhat.” Fanxian’s expression changed. She had already held him in considerable regard, yet had still underestimated Ye Fan — to think he would stir up such a commotion here in the Heaven Pure Land.

“My dear cousin, has your heart been moved?” Fantian grinned with a sinister smile, though even he harbored a thread of cold calculation.

“Hmph, I cannot be bothered with you!” On Fanxian’s peerlessly beautiful immortal face, coldness and confidence were restored.