"Ah!!"
"Quickly, dodge!"
Amidst the cries, more than a dozen Immortal Position experts were evaporated, even their instinctive attempt to escape as divine souls ignited, their soul fires scattered like sparks.
After killing over a dozen people, the blue divine light showed no pause, shooting straight up into the firmament.
It was a very thin streak of blue light, yet extremely brilliant, like a taut line stretched between heaven and earth.
The scene fell deadly silent, even Cheng Huang's scalp tingled, it was just an eyeball, how could it be so powerful! Too excessive!
The blue light gradually faded, the eyeball turned into a stone, and finally, the stone crumbled into ash.
Li Qianxia instinctively clenched her hand.
"Poof!"
Like a powder puff exploding, the ash slipped through her snow-white slender fingers, disappearing into the void.
"Brother!!"
Not only did the eyeball evaporate, but even the head in her arms disintegrated. She tried to confine it with mana but found that the ashes had become intangible and thoroughly annihilated.
Li Qianxia paused for a moment.
The head was gone, yet there were still things in her embrace: a toothpick-sized Emerald Bee Sword, a "Wisdom Pearl," and... an egg?
A mist-like egg, nebulous like a cosmic nebula.
In an unknown location, Li Changzhou sat cross-legged, with Guanyin standing behind him.
In front of Li Changzhou, three items hovered.
"Parents' bone and blood." The first item, a drop of blood, a piece of white bone.
"A lifetime's Dao Fruit." The essence formed after the wilting of the Great Dao flower, like a spherical jade stone.
"Mysterious substance from the fourth physical enhancement." A fist-sized golden liquid.
"And, one's soul and will." Guanyin looked at the cross-legged Li Changzhou. "You will remodel your human body."
"Is it a human body or life itself?"
Guanyin's dignified and beautiful face broke into a smile: "Both."
She knew Li Changzhou was about to undergo a colossal transformation.
Li Changzhou's gaze fell on the bone and blood.
He didn't care much for his parents, but the ties established through this bone and blood, including with his grandparents and Qian Xia, were something he couldn't let go of.
"First, the bone and blood." With his guidance, the blood and bone merged into one. "No need for any change in appearance."
"Your charm is only 9 points, aren't you going to seize this moment to improve?" Guanyin teased.
"Does Bodhisattva think modifying something would make me more charming?" Li Changzhou retorted.
Guanyin pondered seriously and found no area to modify.
She sighed: "Better not change, lest it decreases rather than increases."
"Even knowing where to modify, I wouldn't." Li Changzhou said, "Appearance unchanged, constitution changes."
He guided the mysterious golden substance to merge with the bone and blood.
The golden substance was magical, perfectly integrating with the bone and blood, dyeing all the bone and blood golden!
Turning the bone and blood golden, the mysterious substance consumed more than half, and this was the entirety of energy from the fourth physical enhancement!
The third physical enhancement granted Li Changzhou the [Divine Body], even garnered remarks like 'Earth belongs to you.'
The degree of fourth physical enhancement undoubtedly surpassed the third, yet it merely turned the bone and blood golden, consuming over half of it!
"What a pity!" Even Guanyin felt a pang, "However, the physical body is the foundation of all; consolidating the foundation is more vital than augmenting combat power."
The golden bone and blood began to tremble.
Nerves and tissue spread like tree roots; bones resembled 3D prints; blood flowed and secreted ceaselessly.
Ultimately, forming into Li Changzhou's likeness.
This physical body held no Cultivation Fruit, but the blood coursed like thunder, bones akin to a Heavenly Pillar, organs like blazing suns, rendering the physique exceptional.
Pinnacle divine bearing!
More startling was that the body's Qi-Blood was growing!
Li Changzhou's Divine Soul hadn't entered yet, and this body was lesser than a vegetative one, completely lacking consciousness, and difficult to even assert there was basic Instinct, yet the Qi-Blood was increasing.
The body itself was cultivating!
"Primordial Body!" Guanyin exclaimed, "The highest Realm of Buddha Golden Body!"
Li Changzhou felt a stir and asked, "Does Buddha also possess a body like this?"
Guanyin nodded: "Buddha's sixteen-foot Golden Body is also primordial, but differs from yours; it was crafted through Buddhist faith, requiring constant faith nourishment to ensure no decline, avoiding karma, and fully named 'Primordial Faith Golden Body,' while your body can be termed 'Primordial Divine Body.'
What is primordial? It is the universe.
The universe is expanding, and a body reaching the primordial Realm expands likewise.
According to Buddha, as long as the Power of Faith continues, one day his sixteen-foot Golden Body would become a Sacred Body.
Saint Body!
Faith doesn't elevate Cultivation; its role is crafting this 'Primordial Golden Body' and maintaining its existence.
Reaching the Sacred Body Realm is due to the primordial virtue, a realm the primordial must attain.
And Li Changzhou's "Primordial Divine Body" is more formidable than a "Primordial Golden Body," not requiring faith; he is innately "primordial!"
"Fourth enhancement merely ranks with Buddha, how many more are needed to become a 'victor?'" Li Changzhou wasn't remarkably elated.
His goal wasn't to become a Buddha or an ancestor.
Guanyin also grasped it, as a Buddhist Bodhisattva, Buddha is the sky; to compare with Buddha is supreme honor.
Yet as a Player, aiming to become the ultimate winner, Buddha is a remarkable milestone along the path but never the endpoint.
Those Saints upstream in time's river, which one couldn't obliterate Buddha with a mere breath?
"The body has reached its peak; only the last bit of golden substance remains..."
Under Li Changzhou's guidance, the golden substance fused with the Dao Fruit.
The Dao Fruit turned into a golden seed, planted into the Primordial Divine Body, rerooting and sprouting.