Above the Great Dao

Two figures moved like light and electricity, clashing swiftly across the turbulent surface of the lake, flashing back and forth, making one dizzy; the loud booms echoed endlessly!

Suddenly, Wen Wuyu took a hard hit from Chen Shi's kick, and was sent flying, falling from one lake surface onto another.

She was like a small stone, crashing into the lake surface only to be bounced up by the water, flying out a few miles before smashing into the surface again, and being bounced up once more.

In this way, after bouncing seven or eight times, flying over ten miles, she rose from the water surface, stood up, before landing, seeing ahead a flash of white light shooting towards her, it was a bunch of Chen Shi's finger bones and wrist bones used as sharp swords shooting over!

"Can this even happen?"

Wen Wuyu laughed in anger, her steps moving swiftly, quick as a ghost, gathering the lake water into a sword to meet those finger and wrist bones.

Her swordsmanship was exquisite, with a small movement of the Water Sword, a sky-full of Sword Qi appeared, clanging and fiercely colliding with Chen Shi's finger and wrist bones!

However, more and more Bone Swords were flying in, not only finger and wrist bones, but also arm bones, neck bones, shin bones, rib bones, spine, chest bones, vertebrae, hip bones, toe bones!

Wen Wuyu was both startled and angry: "Did he dismantle himself?"

She wielded sword light, and the lake surface was filled with crisscrossing Sword Qi, colliding with Chen Shi's bones, you could see amidst the dense Sword Qi, Chen Shi's bare head flying, piercing through the Sword Qi, heading straight for her!

Those bones flew towards the head simultaneously, before Chen Shi landed on the water surface, these bones had already assembled into a complete Skull Body, continuing to attack her like a tempest!

Wen Wuyu knew he was formidable in close combat, so she did not confront him head-on, rapidly retreating to try and increase the distance.

The two flew over from one lake surface to the next, the large and small lakes of the Heavenly Pond mirrored their swiftly passing shadows like mirrors.

Suddenly, behind Wen Wuyu appeared a Primordial Spirit over ten feet tall, radiating brilliant divine light, dazzling beyond measure.

As Wen Wuyu retreated backward, the Primordial Spirit entered her body, merging with her physical body.

The Primordial Spirit stood over ten feet tall, yet her body was less than six feet high, but at the moment of fusion, her body grew rapidly, soon reaching over ten feet, equal to the Primordial Spirit!

This is the wonder of the Unification Realm.

Unification Realm, where soul and Primordial Spirit unite, Primordial Spirit unites with Divine Embryo, Divine Embryo unites with the Physical Body, Physical Body unites with the surrounding heavens and earth, achieving internal and external unity.

The most obvious effect of this Realm is that however large the Primordial Spirit is, the Physical Body will be equally large once merged!

The transformed Physical Body is called the Divine Body!

Moreover, because the Physical Body unites with the surrounding world, it means the Cultivator can harness the power of nature!

On the path of cultivation, starting from the Golden Core Realm, Cultivators possess power fields, from the Golden Core Field to the Nascent Soul Power Field, and then to the Primordial Spirit Field. Upon reaching the Divine Descent Realm, gaining comprehension from the True God, they understand the principle of Shattering Void.

When reaching the Void Refinement Realm, they turn the power field into a Daoist Field, achieving Shattering Void, consequently cultivating to Unification. Once unified, the Daoist Field further progresses, harnessing the power of nature, nearing the Ghost God Domain, possessing incredible abilities!

Wen Wuyu unified, stamped her foot, raised a hand to strike, and the lake beneath her swirled and followed her Hand Power, transforming into a roaring Hand Power pressing down onto Chen Shi!

Behind Chen Shi, the Blood Lake Hell suddenly unfolded, forming a Ghost God Domain with a radius of nearly twenty miles. He stood within the domain, seemingly becoming the ruler of this hell, his palm carried hell's eerie power to meet this strike!

In the Blood Lake Hell, numerous Ghost Gods drenched in blood rose, raising their hands in unison to meet Wen Wuyu's palm strike!

But in the next moment, one by one, the Ghost Gods fell down, crashing into the Blood Lake!

Chen Shi groaned, feeling unparalleled pressure!

His Blood Lake Hell was not inferior to the unified world of the opponent, but lacked in Realm; he followed the realm system of Huaxia Divine Continent, without the Divine Descent and Void Refinement stages but was on the verge of the Unification Realm, just a step away from crossing into it.

Without entering the Unification Realm, he could not truly compete with Wen Wuyu; merely relying on Mana, Wen Wuyu could easily crush him!

Chen Shi no longer hesitated, the Primordial Spirit behind him manifested, he stepped forward.

As he stepped out, the Skull Body frenziedly expanded, instantly transforming into a ten-foot Skull Body, radiating divine light, dazzling to the extreme!

The two exchanged Hand Power strikes, Wen Wuyu perceiving a surge in the opponent's strength, was about to switch moves, when suddenly dazzling divine light emerged around her.

Her face changed slightly; it was talismans forming rapidly, surrounding her!

"Spirit Banner Ten Absolute Formation!"

She did not hesitate further, immediately summoned the Divine Shrine, her Divine Embryo flew out, merging with the Physical Body, achieving true Unification!

Her aura surged again, the Ten Absolute Formation's power exploded, divine sound chanting in the void, majestic Divine entities appeared, as if crossing time and space to descend upon this dark world, using supreme Divine Power to suppress demons, annihilate all resistance!

"Boom!"

Li Tianqing, Crown Prince Xiang Kun, and others witnessed on the lake where Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu were, a burst of incomparably bright divine light erupted, like a pillar of light soaring into the sky, illuminating the heavens as if it were day!

That light pillar, like a sword, straightly cut down from the sky, extending over tens of miles, where it passed, the lake water evaporated, and explosions sounded endlessly!

Wen Wuyu burst out of the formation but was hit by the devastating light pillar, sent flying!

Far on a mountain peak by a lake hundred miles away, dust scattered in all directions, presumably it was Wen Wuyu crashing onto the mountain top.

The crowd watched in fright.

Suddenly, Wen Wuyu's figure rose from the mountain top, calling from a distance: "Chen Shi, thank you for showing mercy. In two days, I will come to find you!"

The woman jumped onto the sky, leapt again, leapt a third time, as if ascending an invisible Heavenly Ladder, astonishingly jumping out from the underworld and disappearing!

The Clan Leader Lei Qu and others originally planned to take action to retain the woman, but Chen Shi raised his hand to stop them, saying in a deep voice: "No need to pursue."

All Ghost Gods stopped.

Chen Shi dispersed the Unification, his body returning to normal, and turned to head towards the Royal Palace without pausing.

Li Tianqing saw this, thoughtfully.

Not long after, Li Tianqing arrived at the Royal Palace to find Chen Shi had removed his cloak and was not wearing a crown, sitting on the throne with bare bones, his elbow rested on the armrest, his white bone palm supporting his chin, seemingly deep in thought.

"Why does Your Majesty ponder, seemingly melancholic?" Li Tianqing chuckled.

"Li, my dear minister, sit."

Chen Shi shifted his seat slightly, the throne was spacious enough to fit ten or more little skeletons comfortably.

Li Tianqing sat down, crossing his legs, though he was also a little skeleton, unlike Chen Shi's carefree demeanor, he wore a complete set of clothes, outerwear, middlewear, innerwear, underpants, everything was present, not too revealing.

Li Tianqing glanced at the melancholy Chen Shi, and said: "Wasn't Wen Wuyu using the Innate Dao Embryo?"

"Hmm." Chen Shi sighed.

Li Tianqing said: "So she isn't the one who obtained your Innate Dao Embryo. Wen Wuyu was already so powerful, able to hold her own against you, the person who obtained the Innate Dao Embryo must be even stronger. Are you worried about this matter?"

Chen Shi withdrew his hand from his chin, shaking his head: "Tianqing, that person might be strong beyond my reach..."

Li Tianqing was silent for a moment, then laughed: "Why did the Outer Heaven True God grant you the Innate Dao Embryo, and not to me, nor to others over the years?"

Chen Shi turned to look at him.

Li Tianqing said solemnly: "Because in these countless years, there is only one Chen Shi, only one scholar. The Innate Dao Embryo was merely an embellishment given by the Outer Heaven True God, a reward for your excellence. That person merely got your reward, what they can never obtain is your aptitude and talent."

Chen Shi was silent for a long while, and slowly said: "Tianqing, you are the best friend of my life."