"Yan Xiaobao, since you are in a deep state of enlightennt, I wonder if you can erge from the claws..." In the illusory world, everything was shattering and disintegrating. The claws of the ancient beast tore everything to pieces, even Yan Xiaobao's thoughts seed affected.
His consciousness began to fracture and scatter, and he looked around blankly. Seeing those claws tearing through the sky was utterly shocking.
This power was unimaginable, yet he also wished he could have such power. He longed to tear apart heaven and earth. As the debris began to spread, he suddenly wanted to absorb the power with all his might, understand it, and make it his own power.
The more he thought about it, the less he knew about himself. This process lasted for a short ti until a tremor passed through him, and he realized that sothing strange was happening. He suddenly recalled that his purpose for coming to this place had nothing to do with being caught up in the claws.
The thought grew stronger until it replaced the alluring power of the claws. The shattered remnants of his consciousness slowly stopped moving, then began reversing, returning to him and becoming whole again.
In his hallucination, the massive beast reappeared; however, this ti, it was not its claws that moved, but its tail. It was like a whip, smashing the earth to pieces and destroying the sky. An earth-shattering roar erupted throughout the world.
Yan Xiaobao's consciousness shattered once more, and he began to fall into confusion.
In the outside world, he sat there, in a profound state of enlightennt, for twenty-six days. Night fell, and the sun rose. The twenty-seventh day. Soon, another night passed.
Among the countless North Shore Disciples gathered near Yan Xiaobao and the trial platform, their faces were shocked and eyes wide open.
Everyone, including Beihan Lie, the Gongsun brothers, Xu Song, and another elector from the Inner Sect, was overwheld by waves of shock.
After a long oppressive silence, countless disciples suddenly burst into a huge commotion.
"He lasted... twenty-seven days? He surpassed Ghostfang's elder brother!"
"My heavens! How deep will Yan Xiaobao delve into this enlightennt?!"
"How long will he persist? Thirty days? Thirty-five days? Or even... forty days?!?!
Everyone was completely stunned by Yan Xiaobao's unwavering aura.
However, they let themselves be shocked too soon.
Ti continued to pass. Thirty days, thirty-three days. Thirty-seven days... By the ti the fortieth day arrived, the North Shore disciples were utterly dumbfounded.
They were not the only ones. The four peak Lords were gasping for breath. Every day spent in deep enlightennt was incredibly significant. After all, a day of profound enlightennt is like spending a year in ordinary ditation.
Ghostfang said nothing, but as he looked at Yan Xiaobao, his eyes were filled with a radiant shock. He wondered... just what was Yan Xiaobao seeing?
"He surely won't lose himself in those claws as I did," he thought. "In that situation, what happens next?"
Back in the illusory world, Yan Xiaobao's consciousness trembled. He wasn't sure how long he had been lost in the ancient beast's tail. However, when his consciousness began to dissipate, the sa thought erged once more... the power of the tail wasn't the power he ca here for.
"That's not it!" he calmly murmured.
In that mont, his consciousness no longer dispersed. anwhile, the ancient beast opened its mouth, revealing sothing even more terrifying than its claws or tail...sharp fangs!
Rows of sharp teeth radiated a murderous aura, making them appear capable of destroying anything. It was as if a bite from those teeth would cause the entire world to go dark and end in destruction.
"No," Yan Xiaobao murmured. "That's not why I ca here!" His voice echoed around him, growing louder and louder.
"I ca here to observe the ancient beast, to infuse life into my Waterswamp Kingdom's life essence spirit!
"I don't want the claws, or tail, or teeth of this ancient beast. I want... the whole thing. I need to observe it in its entirety. I need to restore its image in my mind. That will form the foundation of my Waterswamp Kingdom's life essence!
"Furthermore, the beast itself will not beco my life essence spirit, it will be absorbed as part of it!
"That's why I ca here. That... is my purpose!" By the end, Yan Xiaobao's voice was not a whisper but a roar. As his consciousness reassembled from all places, the illusory world roared violently, then shot in a beam of light toward the massive beast.
It moved with astonishing speed; in the blink of an eye, it closed on the beast and then collided with it. As the light spread through the beast, Yan Xiaobao's thoughts were jolted, and he suddenly felt as if... he was transforming into the enormous beast!
During the transformation, he began to understand everything about it. There might be no better way to observe. Indeed, this was not observation but a fusion. He... was becoming one with the beast.
Yan Xiaobao's consciousness expanded throughout the beast, understanding it, analyzing it, observing it... controlling it!
From flesh and blood, he moved to scales, spines, claws, teeth, bones, and even the heart... Ti ant nothing to him as his consciousness filled the beast, gaining deep insight into it.
At so point, Yan Xiaobao's consciousness trembled as it completely filled the ancient creature, and he... beca the beast.
He threw his head back in a roar, causing the entire world around him to tremble. Next, the beast twisted and, through so profound and unfathomable ans, rapidly shifted form, becoming a black Three-eyed Crow!
The massive black crow began flying across the world at incredible speed, its eyes gleaming as if they belonged to Yan Xiaobao. In the blink of an eye, the crow rippled, turning into a seven-colored Phoenix.
Then it turned into a giant lizard, then the Mountain Ghost from Ghostfang Peak. Under Yan Xiaobao's ntal control, the transformations continued. One by one, nearly a thousand beasts from the Beast Music Academy appeared.
Flying Tiger, pangolin, giant bear, Spirit Deer. Various beasts flashed by, unending. Even beasts Yan Xiaobao secretly observed among the North Shore Disciples could be seen.
Ultimately, when the beasts vanished, a rumbling sound echoed, and Yan Xiaobao's consciousness turned into a swirling mist, pulsating and roiling as if so terrifying spirit was being born within.
It was precisely Bai Xiaochun's Shuiyang Kingdom life essence spirit.
It was impossible to discern exactly what kind of spirit it was; even Yan Xiaobao's consciousness couldn't achieve that. It seed... its spiritual body wasn't yet complete.
Even incomplete, it exuded a formidable energy. Within the mist were so enormous figures, covered in terrifying bone spurs, radiating an indescribable pressure. As it slowly coalesced within itself, the mist beca unfathomably mysterious.
At the sa ti, Bai Xiaochun's consciousness began to disintegrate. Ten percent. Twenty percent. Thirty percent... In the blink of an eye, fifty percent dispersed!
As that happened, the illusory world trembled and shook. Unexpectedly, signs appeared that the life essence spirit within the mist would also disperse.
"Faster!" Yan Xiaobao's consciousness howled amid a massive rumble. "Hurry! My consciousness is dissipating. Life essence spirit... you must awaken!"
However, it continued to dissipate faster. Sixty percent. Seventy percent. Eighty percent... Ninety percent!
As fractures began to collapse, cracks spread through the illusory world. A massive wind swept through, attempting to disperse the mist. Yet at that mont, the last fragnt of Yan Xiaobao's consciousness let out an urgent shout.
Rumble!
Even as the world shattered into fragnts, within the dispersing mist, two red eyes... snapped open!
The life essence spirit had awakened!
**
In the outside world, Bai Xiaochun's profound enlightennt had lasted for forty days. It continued. Fifty days. Sixty days. Seventy days, eighty days. Ninety days... a hundred days!
The passage of days left the North Shore Disciples in utter terror.
"One hundred days! Over three months! Yan Xiaobao... still in deep enlightennt..."
"He won't die, will he...?"
"This is too shocking! I've never seen anything like it in my life!"
The Outer Sect disciples were terrified, and the Inner Sect disciples were shaken. Beihan Lie and another Chosen felt like their thoughts had been struck by lightning. But it was not over. 101 days. 120 days. 130 days. At that mont, one afternoon, Yan Xiaobao began to tremble.
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