"It's truly magnificent!"
Lu Ye looked inward at the flames burning in his dantian.
It was as if a giant beehive was burning, layers upon layers of flames overlapping incessantly, dazzling the eyes.
All the clones, including the Nascent Soul, were within the flames.
Lu Ye looked at the clean empty spatial rings, an uncontrollable heartache appearing on his face.
Was this orchestrated by someone?
The relics of the Demon Lord of Heaven Stealing, along with the relics of the Endless Great Emperor, after all this turmoil, were directly reduced to less than one percent.
Originally, these things combined might have allowed Lu Ye to cultivate even to the Great Emperor Realm, but now they were all gone.
Lu Ye went from being incredibly wealthy to utterly destitute.
Suddenly, Lu Ye's spirit stirred.
His eyes widened slightly.
He didn't dare to delay in the slightest, because in the world within his dantian, after the terrifying explosion and burning, a new power was being born.
It was the power of origin, the origin of the world.
It had another name, called Hongmeng Qi.
Hongmeng Power was actually being born!
Lu Ye's Nascent Soul, amidst the raging fire and explosion, pounced towards the Hongmeng Qi.
How precious was this thing?
Lu Ye in his previous life only obtained a single wisp, and then gave it to the System, completely letting the System replace the Heavenly Dao.
Lu Ye didn't even know how mysterious Hongmeng Qi truly was, but this was definitely something even Celestial Venerables would go mad for, and even Saints wished to obtain a wisp of Hongmeng Qi but couldn't.
Passing through one grid after another, Lu Ye's Nascent Soul arrived before this wisp of light purple Hongmeng Qi.
This color...
It really did look somewhat similar to the color of the Human Emperor Banner!
The Nascent Soul opened its mouth and swallowed this wisp of Hongmeng Qi without hesitation.
At this moment, a look of pain appeared on the Nascent Soul's face.
The Nascent Soul had almost no ability to resist and instantly turned into dust.
But Lu Ye wasn't flustered at all, because Hongmeng Qi would definitely not destroy the Nascent Soul, otherwise he wouldn't have swallowed it directly.
Purple light bloomed, and within the purple light, the Nascent Soul reappeared.
Just as it condensed, it turned into dust once more, but strangely enough, the Nascent Soul didn't feel pain now, instead, its face was full of enjoyment.
Transformation!
The Nascent Soul was transforming!
Crushing once and again, sublimating and transforming once and again.
Infinite sublimation, infinite transformation.
Lu Ye stared at this transformation, silently counting the times.
Ten times!
Twenty times!
Thirty times!
Forty times!
Forty-one!
...
Forty-eight!
Forty-nine!
The Great Dao has fifty, one is escaped! Heaven's evolution is forty-nine, Limitless and boundless!
After a full forty-nine transformations, Lu Ye's strength had reached the peak of the Undying Realm, but!
But Lu Ye's True Essence had undergone earth-shattering changes, his True Essence, perhaps it could no longer be called True Essence, perhaps Hongmeng Power was a more fitting name.
Just this wisp of Hongmeng Power directly raised the strength of his True Essence by countless levels.
Lu Ye felt it for a moment, and a hint of terror appeared in his eyes.
This energy strength had surprisingly reached the Quasi-Emperor level.
Yes, Quasi-Emperor!
Perhaps because the power of a Great Emperor was truly too formidable, it still didn't reach the level of Great Emperor power in the end, but Quasi-Emperor!
Of course, Lu Ye's current total energy compared to a Quasi-Emperor was less than a drop in the ocean, but the key was, Lu Ye didn't need to fight a Quasi-Emperor right now anyway!
Even if he ascended to the Sixth Heaven, Lu Ye would at most fight a Void Realm cultivator.
Thank you, Nine Heavens Great Sage!
Moreover, within Lu Ye's Nascent Soul, the True Essence was still constantly changing, improving in quality every moment.
As long as the power of the Hongmeng Qi didn't disappear, at this speed, perhaps he only needed to reach the Great Dao Realm to possess Great Emperor power.
Or even earlier than that!
Awesome!
Lu Ye broke free from the heartache of the huge loss.
Consuming so many treasures, his realm only rose to around the fifteenth level of the Undying Realm, but the gains he received, the benefits for the future, were definitely much better than if those treasures had been absorbed by him.
The flames had been burning all along.
Lu Ye didn't let the Nascent Soul come out either, let it stay in there!
These flames should burn for a while, and when the flames extinguish, this nascent world will undergo earth-shattering changes. Lu Ye was still quite looking forward to it.
"System, you've worked hard!" Lu Ye said to the System.
"Ding, serving Lu Ye!"
"Di?"
"Little Heavenly Dao, you've worked hard too!"
"Di, serving Lu Ye!"
"Come visit my world sometime."
"Di? No, I don't want to."
...
Lu Ye was full of energy.
The journey in the Fifth Heaven was coming to an end.
Next, he just needed to walk out of the No Return Cave, return to the Fifth Heaven, and undergo a Heavenly Tribulation.
If there was any possibility, Lu Ye would not undergo tribulation in this passage. What if after undergoing it, he found himself outside the Nine Heavens, who knows how many old monsters would be standing before him.
His figure turned into a streak of light and sped towards the No Return Cave.
"System, how long has it been since I entered the No Return Cave?" Lu Ye asked.
"Di, one hundred and twenty years, four months, and fifteen days."
Only a little over a hundred years?
That's acceptable, when he was cultivating, he thought several hundred years had passed.
Because he was too immersed, too much racing against time, he had no idea how long had actually passed, he just wanted to be faster, faster, and even faster.
After another period of flight, Lu Ye saw light.
He had reached the end of this passage.
This maze within the chaos was used by the Demon Lord of Heaven Stealing for concealment. Normally, he wouldn't even leave an entrance, but because the Demon Ancestor chased him too fiercely back then, he simply didn't have time to close the entrance, which was why the No Return Cave was left behind.
After such a long time, whether Shangguan Huanling could cultivate the "Scripture of the True Affection" should have already been decided.
Yue Hongling and Vermillion Bird should have also ascended, but it didn't matter. He had truly reached the limit of the Fifth Heaven. As long as he went out, he could just undergo tribulation and ascend.
He wondered if entering the Sixth Heaven would cause any earth-shattering battles.
Please, let there be some enemies!
This child is about to starve to death!
Myriad Ancient Sect, oh Myriad Ancient Sect, why did you surrender when you were doing so well?
How great it would be to keep fighting. Because of his previous life, Lu Ye was truly familiar with the treasures of the Myriad Ancient Sect, like counting his family's possessions.
What a pity! What a pity!
Lu Ye walked out of the No Return Cave.
He was the first existence to walk out of the No Return Cave in such a long time. The location where this No Return Cave appeared was simply not quite right; it appeared in the Fifth Heaven. How could cultivators of the Fifth Heaven find a way out?
As Lu Ye just came out.
"Lu Ye Gege!"
"Senior Brother!"
"Husband!"
Sun Ruowei opened her mouth, but in the end decided it was better to keep quiet. She silently retreated to the side, and her eyes began to brighten.
Time to watch the show! Begin!
