Chapter 1152 - 1025: Beyond the Nascent Soul! (Two Chapters in One)

To attain a Supreme Dao Fruit in the truest sense, transcending all, standing above all, inconceivable, all-knowing, all-powerful!

Big Black, this Innate Emperor born from the Path of Destruction, was already completely dumbfounded at this moment. He stared at Qin Heng in disbelief, only feeling that golden radiance was unbearably dazzling, almost stabbing his eyes blind!

Too dazzling!

Too resplendent!

This is no longer just a breakthrough to the Great Saint level; even if it were the legendary Land fairy ascending to the Heavenly Realm, it probably wouldn't be this exaggerated!

Even a Great Emperor can hardly look at him directly!

This is really too exaggerated, too outrageous!!

However, Qin Heng's breakthrough still continued. The Mana of Golden Core Nine Revolutions Perfected kept climbing and expanding, and the Heavenly Essence on Aquablue Star once again skyrocketed!

At the same time, in the outer cosmic void there came sounds of space collapsing and shattering. Infinite energy was pulled out by Qin Heng, even dragged over from a Different Dimension, and in an instant transformed into pure Yuan Qi, which he drew into his body and refined into Mana!

A breakthrough like this is truly far too exaggerated!

The Heavenly Essence Qin Heng was absorbing now was already ten million times greater than what a Nascent Soul peak would use to break through to the Divinity Transformation Realm. In just these few seconds, he had already turned half this star system into a fog-like state shrouded in Heavenly Essence.

Under the nourishment of such Heavenly Essence, the sea of Heavenly Essence on Aquablue Star and the Spirit Realm both began to undergo drastic changes. Correspondingly, Aquablue Star itself also started to experience earth-shaking transformation.

The entire planet actually began to unfold; vast amounts of land appeared out of thin air, and many substances were birthed within the Heavenly Essence. These were condensed directly from the basic free elements of the universe, but in the eyes of mortals, this was basically equivalent to creating something from nothing.

Moments later, Aquablue Star actually turned into a gigantic landmass, suspended in this void. Amidst the boundless golden light, streams of qi interwoven with profound black and yellow appeared, forming an incomparably vast shield of qi that inverted downward and covered this continent.

At this time, the original Aquablue Star had shockingly turned into a gigantic world of round heavens and square earth, with its land and ocean area occupying half the size of the original Aquablue Star System.

If you regard the plane of this world as a circle, then its diameter is roughly half that of the original Aquablue Star System.

How long is that?

Although the Aquablue Star System was not as large as the original Solar System, its diameter was already twenty billion kilometers. That is to say, the world that Aquablue Star has transformed into under the influence of Qin Heng's breakthrough now spans about ten billion kilometers from one end to the other!

Compared to the original Aquablue Star, it is truly countless times larger!

Moreover, the concentration of Heavenly Essence here was absurdly high, and the Daoist Principles were incomparably clear. For a cultivator, this was simply the best cultivation ground. Even in the most barren region of this world, the Heavenly Essence contained there would be enough to give birth to a powerhouse at the level of a Deity!

Exaggerated!

Truly too exaggerated!

Big Black, who had originally been watching in the cosmic void, was already stupefied. He had never imagined that Qin Heng merely breaking through a Realm could bring about such a colossal change, forcibly turning an ordinary Star of Life into a vast Great Thousand World incomparably suited for cultivation!

It was not much inferior even when compared to a world of the myriad heavens level. Even if there was a gap, it was only in surface area, scale, and certain resources. In terms of the concentration of Heavenly Essence and the clarity of the Dao Laws, this place even surpassed them!

One must know, a myriad-heavens-level world is, in essence, equivalent to a universe, merely differing greatly in scale, and they all originate from being opened up out of Chaos.

In other words, Qin Heng had just now essentially opened up a universe!

Even a Land fairy who has crossed Heavenly Tribulation and is about to ascend could never accomplish such a feat!

Qin Heng was merely breaking through from perfected Golden Core to the Nascent Soul Stage, and it had already produced such an enormous transformation!

It completely surpassed Big Black's understanding.

Inconceivable!

Truly too inconceivable!!

"Worthy of an Immortal Venerable! Truly worthy of an Immortal Venerable!" Big Black was a bit dazed now, staring blankly at Qin Heng who was still refining Heavenly Essence to strengthen his Mana, only feeling that this breakthrough seemed as if it would never end.

At this very moment, Qin Heng's Golden Core of Nine Revolutions Perfection had already melted. At the same time, a strand of intent descended into his Divine soul and merged into the energy of the melted Golden Core, fusing with it.

Immediately, the golden light turned into a clear radiance, and a tiny figure of light condensed out—its appearance almost identical to Qin Heng's, yet far smaller, like an infant.

Nascent Soul!

This is the most important stage for a Cultivator. Only after the Nascent Soul is formed can one be considered truly Transcendent and sanctified, truly stepping onto the immortal path. The clearest sign is that after condensing a Nascent Soul, a Cultivator can genuinely leave a planet, or a world, and roam in the cosmic Starry Sky.

Before this, even a perfected Golden Core Nine Revolutions True Person could only briefly fly through the void near the planet and could not go too far, whereas one in the Nascent Soul Stage could already carry out interstellar travel.

And the Nascent Soul is also the juvenile state of the Primordial Spirit.

When a Cultivator has nurtured the Nascent Soul to the same size as their own body, and then accumulated the Mana contained within the Nascent Soul to a degree comparable to a Perpetual Star, they can attempt to ignite the Nascent Soul with Samadhi True Fire, fusing the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit completely into one, transforming it into a true Primordial Spirit—thus entering the Realm of Divinity Transformation.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, this can be called a "Divine Monarch"!

The monarch among gods!

For an ordinary Cultivator to go from Nascent Soul to Divine Monarch requires an incomparably long era of accumulation. Just accumulating Mana to the level of a Perpetual Star is already an extremely arduous task and extremely time-consuming.

At the least it takes ten or twenty thousand years, at most seventy or eighty thousand, even close to a hundred thousand years to reach that level, and every Cultivator who completes this step has without exception experienced countless hardships and passed through innumerable calamities.

Yet even so, at the step of igniting the Nascent Soul with Samadhi True Fire and smelting essence, qi, and spirit into one furnace, ninety-nine percent of Cultivators will still be stuck and fall, letting tens of thousands of years of cultivation turn into running water, their Dao extinguished, both form and spirit annihilated.

Within the Immortal Cultivation World, this breakthrough step is even known as the "Fire Tribulation."

Even the most shockingly talented, peerless heaven's pride, or those of immense fortune who manage to accumulate enough Mana in a few thousand years, dare not guarantee that they can pass the Fire Tribulation, condense a Primordial Spirit, and become a Divine Monarch.

However, to Qin Heng, this fundamentally wasn't worth mentioning. This matter of cultivation was about the same as eating and drinking.

At seven he was in Qi Refinement, at eight in Nascent Soul, at ten in Returning to Empty… As for when his Nascent Soul broke through to Divinity Transformation, Qin Heng barely had any impression; it was as if he casually slept and woke up, and the breakthrough was done, with no difficulty at all.

However, in this life Qin Heng had cultivated a heaven-grade Dao Foundation, so condensing a Primordial Spirit could not be done as casually as in his previous life.

The rank and level of the Dao Foundation not only affects one's achievements and combat power after Foundation Establishment, it likewise affects the method of breaking through to Divinity Transformation. Heaven-grade, immortal-grade, and Dao Foundations below immortal-grade all have different requirements for condensing the Primordial Spirit.

Ordinary Cultivators condense their Primordial Spirit by using their own Samadhi True Fire to burn the Nascent Soul, while an immortal-grade Dao Foundation needs to draw down a certain kind of spiritual fire between heaven and earth to ignite the Nascent Soul.

Samadhi True Fire originates from oneself, so one's control over it is naturally stronger, whereas the spiritual fire between heaven and earth belongs to natural creation and is inherently limited in controllability. Thus, condensing a Primordial Spirit by this method is even more dangerous, with an even lower success rate in crossing this step, and a high chance of bringing the fire upon oneself, body and spirit wiped out.

But if one does not do so, and only uses their own Samadhi True Fire, then the foundation laid by an immortal-grade Dao Foundation will be completely wasted, and after Divinity Transformation they will be no different from an ordinary Cultivator.

The same is true for a heaven-grade Dao Foundation; it also has its special requirements.

And they are even more outrageous.

No one has ever achieved a heaven-grade Dao Foundation before. This was a path Qin Heng explored himself. A Cultivator who has forged a heaven-grade Dao Foundation must use the Fire of Sun God to ignite their Nascent Soul when condensing their Primordial Spirit.

And it cannot be Fire of Sun God transformed from one's own Mana; it must be Fire of Sun God that has burned in the cosmic Starry Sky for over a hundred million years!

To put it simply—that means a Perpetual Star.

And it must be one of those with extremely high temperature that has truly reached the Fire of Sun God level—after all, Perpetual Stars that truly reach the Fire of Sun God level are actually very rare.

As for what Qin Heng needed to do, it was essentially just one thing.

Devour a Perpetual Star alive!