Cultivation Begins from Infancy - Chapter 320

Volume 3 - Chapter 54: The Realm of Taiping Dao

Rising from the depths of the abyss, standing between heaven and earth, the young man’s feet churned the blood lake beneath him. The decayed will of the Dao raged and enveloped him, yet it could not cause his physical body to wither.

His flesh and blood were reborn amidst ruin, transcending in extremity, achieving immortality!

At this moment, he broke free from his shackles, forging his Dao Heart with the essence of all things in heaven and earth, stepping into the Fourth Pillar Realm!

His Dao Heart now transcended the mundane, detached and extraordinary, allowing him to roam freely under heaven.

A torrent of energy, akin to an angry tide or a boundless sea, surged from all directions, gathering upon him. The aura of the Dao Heart Realm began to spread.

However, the aura dispersing from him was devoured by the surrounding decayed will of the Dao.

The young man raised his head. His face, nearly flawless, was as if meticulously sculpted with the strokes of mountains and rivers.

His eyes, as sharp and icy as glaciers, were devoid of emotion, overlooking the multitudes of beings as though surveying the world. They carried a detached indifference, a cold disregard for all things—people, events, and life itself. He seemed untouchable, unmoved by anything, transcending life and death, like an emotionless true god.

Yet, as his gaze fell upon a side of the blood lake where a black Qiankun Belt hung limply on a coarse chain dipping into the blood lake, his glacier-like eyes began to show faint signs of melting.

Gradually, warmth emerged from his previously icy gaze. The supreme detachment of his heavenly Dao Heart descended into his mortal chest, fully merging with his physical form. It became the unity of the Heavenly Heart, the Dao Heart, and the Human Heart—three hearts as one. He had truly been reborn through nirvana!

Countless thoughts and memories regained their vibrancy at this moment. Light erupted in his eyes as he moved, instantly diving toward the blood lake. He leapt onto the chain that held the Qiankun Belt.

The chain was incredibly thick; it had previously bound the demon saint. He bent down and retrieved the damaged Qiankun Belt from the edge of the blood lake.

Earlier, when he had sunk into the blood lake, he had released this belt. Fortunately, it had quickly been carried by the blood currents onto the chain, preventing it from complete corrosion.

Within the belt’s damaged spatial realm, the blood swirled violently.

Li Hao extended his divine sense into it and immediately saw three faint life auras within.

Candlefire God, Yin Lady, and a red whisker.

When Li Hao saw the red whisker, his gaze sharpened instantly, and he quickly leapt higher along the chain.

Taking a deep breath, he drew all the blood suffused with the raging will of the Dao out of the spatial realm.

The blood splashed onto him, causing bouts of corrosion. However, it was no longer as severe as before. Now, it only left burns on his skin, which quickly healed.

At this point, his physical body had surpassed the level of Nine-Forged Divine Weapons, reaching a transformative breakthrough comparable to a Sacred Heart Treasure.

Even if someone at the Absolute Technique Stage attacked him unguarded, they would fail to cause significant harm. Nevertheless, the Dao force erosion of the blood lake could not be completely ignored.

After all, this was the power of a Saint’s realm. Though incomparable to its former strength, it still exceeded what Li Hao could currently withstand. Even those at the Dao Seeker Realm would suffer greatly, and even Sacred Heart Treasures could sustain damage.

Once the blood was entirely expelled, Li Hao looked at the huddled forms of Candlefire God and Yin Lady within the spatial realm. They were embracing one another, with the red whisker nestled between them.

They were alive!

Li Hao froze, a mix of astonishment and indescribable joy flooding him.

The Candlefire God and Yin Lady, once exceedingly weak, had now merged their forms. Their entire bodies were enveloped in the domain of the Candlefire God, yet the domain had evolved, becoming more profound and powerful.

Moreover, a strange purple-black and crimson radiance spiraled around the couple, chasing and entwining. These lights contained the power of extreme yin and extreme yang, respectively.

The decayed will of the Dao emanating from the blood was mostly blocked by these ancient and unfathomable energies. Only a small portion seeped through, causing faint signs of decay in their bodies.

“Is this... a bloodline awakening?”

Li Hao glanced at the purple-black and crimson energy and recalled something Ji Yunge had once said. The Candlefire God and Yin Lady were originally one entity, bearing the bloodline of an ancient wilderness beast.

Now, these energies seemed to be their latent bloodline powers, awakened by the deadly peril of the River of Death and the crisis here.

Compared to them, Li Hao’s concern shifted toward the red whisker. It radiated an extremely faint aura, so weak it was almost imperceptible.

A pang of pain struck his heart. At this moment, he still couldn’t retrieve it. The whisker was unable to isolate itself from the surrounding demonic saint Dao will.

Taking a deep breath, Li Hao summoned his interface and selected the option to allocate points.

The bottleneck that had kept him stuck in the Dao Heart Realm was shattered, leaving him with three remaining skill points. As he applied one, the points decreased, and his Body Dao advanced from the seventh stage to the eighth!

In an instant, a torrent of information surged into his mind. It was like a mysterious inheritance from the void, continuously pouring into him.

Li Hao sat cross-legged. Since stepping into the Dao Heart Realm, he felt as though the heavens themselves had become a curtain, one that he could touch and tear apart with a mere effort.

He immediately used his Dao Heart to pierce the void, carving out a small space of his own.

For now, he refrained from expanding it to its fullest potential; it was sufficient for his current needs.

He intended to store the Qiankun Belt within this space but was met with a repelling force.

This resistance stemmed from the spatial realm sealed within the Qiankun Belt.

Li Hao quickly realized that artifacts containing spatial realms couldn’t coexist within another spatial domain. The overlapping of realms was inherently impossible.

If he removed the three beings from the Qiankun Belt’s spatial realm, the surging Dao will above the blood lake would surely corrode and destroy them in an instant.

He immediately dismissed his personal spatial realm, clasped the Qiankun Belt tightly in his hand, and cradled the small, damaged spatial realm within his palm.

As he continued absorbing insights from the eighth stage of the Body Dao, his interface updated once more. Numerous body refinement techniques underwent significant transformations.

These changes caused the aura within his body to grow increasingly robust and powerful.

Some of these techniques didn’t even require conscious practice; they operated autonomously, transforming his blood and flesh with each cycle.

His physical strength surged at an extraordinary rate. Having already surpassed a million jin after returning from Tianji Tower, he was now approaching two million jin.

With his Body Dao elevated to the eighth stage, his understanding of the Dao deepened. Many of the top-tier body refinement techniques he practiced evolved into the Absolute Technique Stage.

Those of a slightly lower grade were elevated to supreme quality, pushing their limits to an extraordinary degree.

It was a complete transformation and a leap in essence!

Even as Li Hao remained motionless in his seated position, the self-operating techniques within his body caused his aura to skyrocket, directly propelling him into the Reverse Fate Realm.

Within his body, a profound and enigmatic energy began to form.

This energy coiled around him, as though it connected to something beyond the heavens—an intangible existence.

Following that invisible thread, Li Hao could sense an unfathomable depth and an unspeakable pressure, which filled him with dread. He felt that pushing further would risk invoking taboos and death.

Reverse Fate—not merely a mastery of defying fate, but also a profound perception of the existence of Heaven’s Mandate.

Through this understanding, one could grasp their insignificance and the boundless vastness of the world.

Reaching the Reverse Fate Realm, rather than becoming arrogant, instilled greater humility and reverence.

The power of Reverse Fate he had exchanged from the Merit Treasury previously had not afforded him the opportunity for deeper comprehension. However, the power now flowing through him was the result of his own cultivation.

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Soon, as insights from countless techniques surged into his mind, Li Hao found himself too preoccupied to attend to anything else.

A storm of thought swept through his consciousness as he analyzed and synthesized seven or eight Absolute Technique Stage body refinement techniques and dozens of supreme-quality techniques. He merged their principles into his own unique Absolute Technique.

His technique was neither sword Dao nor fist Dao.

These two Daos had yet to reach the seventh stage, let alone the level required to create a personal Absolute Technique.

At this moment, he forged a unique Absolute Technique in the realm of Body Dao!

After sitting cross-legged for some time, Li Hao suddenly opened his eyes. Numerous body refinement techniques fused together in that moment, culminating in his realization of his personal Body Dao Absolute Technique. His entire body radiated a crimson hue, exuding waves of intense heat.

Then, his crimson flesh transformed into a red-gold color, akin to entering a divine state of power.

However, this was not truly a divine state; it was merely his physical body pushed to its utmost limit, with every drop of blood refined to perfection.

“Supreme Body of the World Honored One!”

Sitting atop the chain over the blood lake, Li Hao’s entire body erupted with golden divine light. Behind him, an immense rainbow of flesh and blood appeared, shimmering like seven-colored divine clouds, radiating a transcendent aura.

The decayed Dao will surrounding him began to slow its corrosive effect.

This was the power of his Absolute Technique in the Body Dao. Not only did it enhance his strength and physical defenses, but it also possessed the ability to impose a “suppressive” rule.

Faced with the decayed Dao will, this suppressive power weakened and repelled its influence.

Absolute Technique Stage cultivators often imbued their techniques with corresponding rules or special states. For example, Li Muxiu could enter a temporary half-step invincible state, and Lu Yuan’s Limitless Thunder Dao bestowed an all-encompassing enhancement.

However, such Absolute Technique states could be disrupted by the rules of a Dao Domain, as they lacked sufficient refinement to resist its suppression. Absolute Technique Stage cultivators could only flee in the face of Dao Domain power.

Yet Li Hao’s suppressive rule now faintly affected the decayed Dao will.

If confronted by a Dao Domain, he felt confident that his Absolute Technique could suppress and break through it!

The strength of Absolute Techniques varied greatly. Li Hao’s technique, forged by merging seven or eight Absolute Techniques and more than a dozen supreme-quality body refinement techniques, was unimaginably powerful.

He did not stop but continued refining and evolving his Absolute Technique.

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Suddenly, a wave of realization surged within him.

As if responding to his insight, the chain beneath him quivered slightly, sending ripples across the blood lake.

A force of Dao Domain radiated outward from his body, expanding in all directions!

Taiping Dao Domain!

Using the Supreme Body of the World Honored One Absolute Technique, Li Hao had entered the Dao Domain Realm and successfully established his Dao Domain.

The domain expanded, infused with the suppressive power of his Absolute Technique, much like the Candlefire God’s Dao Domain contained the destructive flames of its Absolute Technique, incinerating everything within.

Li Hao’s Dao Domain, however, embodied suppression!

The chain beneath him—made of the exotic iron used to bind the demon saint—shuddered under the weight of his suppressive rule.

The decayed Dao will surrounding him weakened significantly within his Dao Domain.

The suppressive and oppressive rules, two similar forces, overlapped and combined. In an instant, the decayed Dao will in the domain grew even fainter.

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