Li Guanqi had guessed correctly: the primal energy within him was transmuting into immortal primal energy.
Yet because he had not stepped into the Immortal Realm or received its baptism, the energy coursing through him lingered somewhere between primal energy and immortal primal energy.
Even so...
Transforming primal energy into semi-immortal primal energy while still in the Human Spirit Realm was a feat only Su Xuan had ever achieved until now!
Gradually, an aura capable of rending heaven and earth erupted from Li Guanqi's body!
Hidden within the void, Su Xuan clenched his fists in sheer excitement.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his tightly pressed lips trembled slightly.
With a flick of his sleeve, all the immortal energy throughout the Realm of Celestial Spirits surged toward Li Guanqi in an instant!
Converting primal energy into immortal primal energy required immense quantities of immortal energy.
That was the very reason the Realm of Celestial Spirits had existed to this day.
Why else would the Seventh Domain be an unrelenting battlefield while the First Domain was brimming with celestial spiritual energy?
Li Guanqi refined the rushing immortal energy with frantic fervor.
Only at this moment did he truly experience how dense and pure immortal energy could be.
Boom!
Hundreds, thousands of thunderbolts struck down at Li Guanqi in a flash!
His reconstructed flesh was pure white, smooth as flawless jade.
His eyes resembled deep stellar rivers, serene and untroubled.
Slowly raising his left hand, he released a terrifying power of laws that rippled outward.
Flames ignited with a roar, coalescing into a shield.
Boom, boom, crash, crash, crash!
Li Guanqi flickered from place to place, intercepting every falling thunderbolt and devouring thirty percent directly into his body!
The power of thunder, steeped in mighty force, was channeled up his arms and absorbed into his core.
Feeling the law of thunder residing within the thunderstorm, Li Guanqi gradually gained enlightenment.
To transcend all living beings, one first had to understand the Heavenly Dao, and upon that understanding, establish rules of one's own.
Through one's own insights and will, one had to forge a path that none had ever walked before!
With his long hair whipping in the wind, Li Guanqi lowered his head in contemplation.
He glanced down at the electrical arc of thunder about to fade from his palm.
A brow twitched, and a spark of brilliance shone in his eyes.
Throughout his cultivation journey, lightning primal energy had helped him blast through countless clogged, obstinate meridians.
Destruction... was not the entirety of thunder...
Boom!
The dying arc of lightning in Li Guanqi's palm suddenly expanded!
This shift was not brought about by pumping his semi-immortal primal energy into it.
Rather, it arose from an alteration within Li Guanqi's own laws.
The lightning within the tempest carried only intent of destruction and extinction.
Yet within Li Guanqi's power of laws, renewal and rebirth were cradled within that very destruction.
Boom!
A pillar of purple light shot straight into the clouds.
As dense power of laws washed through the air, Li Guanqi's aura underwent a complete, qualitative metamorphosis!
The realm barrier shattered with a deafening crack, and his surging presence skyrocketed instantly into the Ascension realm!
An aura surpassing the Tribulation Transcendence realm caused the entire Realm of Celestial Spirits to tremble faintly.
Li Guanqi possessed an ethereal, transcendent bearing; merely standing there, he seemed merged into heaven and earth.
Su Xuan's chest rose and fell slightly, his lips curving into a faint smile, his eyes filled with profound emotion.
He had originally believed this was an unsolvable, fatal dead end. Never had he expected Li Guanqi to draw upon the power of the Falling Star Cold Lotus to cast his gaze upon the Human Spirit Realm.
Not only that, he had even merged his consciousness into the Heavenly Dao for a single fleeting instant.
Though merely a heartbeat in duration, to anyone, that was a boundless, heaven-sent opportunity!
At this moment, the remaining power of the Falling Star Cold Lotus erupted in full force!
Boom!
Li Guanqi's aura began to climb wildly.
Yet such a skyrocketing increase began to fill Li Guanqi with dread...
This was the Ascension realm!
If it continued climbing unchecked like this, his foundation would be completely ruined!
"Shiwu! Refine it, quick!"
Shiwu swallowed hard, feeling like a cook tasked with making meals for ten thousand people, his spatulas swinging so fast they were practically smoking...
He had been refining without a moment's rest from the very start.
To think the power of the Falling Star Cold Lotus still had reserves!
Yet... a flash of exhilaration swept across Shiwu's face.
He, too, had undergone a massive transformation compared to before.
When the power of the Heavenly Dao transmuted Li Guanqi's primal energy into immortal primal energy, Shiwu's source tier had also been elevated in kind.
Boom!
Li Guanqi was taken aback. The technique's fifth layer, paired with Shiwu's power, could actually refine this force at blinding speed.
With no time for astonishment, Li Guanqi began frantically suppressing the energy within him.
He even had Shiwu seal this power inside his body.
Closing his eyes to gather his spirit, Li Guanqi discovered that his comprehension of heaven and earth had ascended an entire level.
A faint, elusive sense of repulsion lingered between heaven and earth.
He could perceive the rhythms and shifts of heaven and earth far more clearly than ever before.
If he so desired, he could even rewrite the lightning-attribute laws of an entire region.
With a mere gesture, he could split mountains and cleave the earth, overturn peaks and fill the seas.
Spatial domains could be shattered at will, and the restrictive hold of heaven and earth upon him had weakened considerably.
He felt...
He now possessed the full capacity to withstand the tearing forces of the void and travel between different spirit realms!
In other words...
If he shattered the void to its absolute limit right now, he could completely transcend the Human Spirit Realm.
For places not too far away, such as the Bingqi Realm, he could even cross between realms on foot!
Li Guanqi's gaze grew momentarily dazed.
"Is this the Ascension realm... It's so powerful."
What Li Guanqi did not know was that possessing an Ascension realm cultivation while carrying semi-immortal primal energy inside one's body was a rare anomaly indeed...
Mighty, inexhaustible power surged within him.
Yet for now, he still could not govern this Ascension realm strength with true precision.
Rumble!
A roar threatening to shatter the domain sounded out.
The thunderstorm across the firmament began shifting once more.
The violently churning thunderclouds suddenly birthed two more eyes of the storm!
Three massive storm eyes slowly revolved in a triangular formation.
The thunderclouds, which had already spanned ten thousand zhang, extended even farther.
Three storm eyes, each spanning a full hundred zhang in diameter, roared without pause.
A profoundly terrifying force of destruction crept forth.
The entire Realm of Celestial Spirits issued strained creaks and groans, unable to bear the immense pressure.
The edges of the domain began to be obliterated by lightning, and spatial fragments drifted aimlessly into the void.
Perhaps decades or centuries from now, if discovered by others, this place would be mistaken for some formidable ancient ruin or secret realm.
Li Guanqi's expression shifted slightly, his eyes narrowing.
Before he had even found time to savor the transformation in his power tier, the heavenly tribulation of the Ascension realm had overlapped with the preexisting thunderstorm.
A single storm eye had nearly taken half his life.
Now, with the Ascension realm heavenly tribulation layered atop it, there were three whole storm eyes.
When Li Guanqi had previously cast his spell, he had nearly tumbled straight into the storm eye.
That heart-stopping, terrifying pressure still left lingering dread in his chest.
Now, the combined force of three storm eyes was terrifying beyond measure.
The mere aura pressing down had already begun cracking the Realm of Celestial Spirits apart.
Li Guanqi gritted his teeth and flipped his hand, taking out the stalk of Heart-Calming Cloud Rainbow Grass.
The radiant spirit grass bore narrow, slender leaves etched with mysterious emerald-green markings.
By all rights, it should have been a spirit plant brimming with vibrant vitality.
Yet it carried an ancient, weathered sense of time.
This aura was remarkably similar to what Li Guanqi had sensed back when the sword spirit carved the time-flow array into the Nirvana Pagoda.
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