Suddenly.

He let out a soft gasp of surprise. He was shocked to find that his Heaven-Covering Hand Seal had been blocked!

It hadn’t suppressed the man at all!

"Hmph. You think you can stop me just by devouring my flesh and blood? How ignorant. In my eyes, you’re nothing but a slightly larger ant!"

Zhao Yin narrowed his eyes, and the violent Magical Power around his body suddenly surged.

RUMBLE!

The splayed fingers of the Heaven-Covering Hand Seal suddenly clenched into a fist, as if intending to grasp all of Heaven and Earth.

Violent, piercing gales escaped from between the knuckles of the Heaven-Covering Hand Seal, forming tornadoes that shot toward the sky.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

In an instant.

The Heaven-Covering Hand Seal had transformed into a Fist Seal and came smashing down toward Wang Xiao!

At that moment.

Deep underground, Wang Xiao felt a world-destroying power rise from his Five Viscera and flood his entire body.

His muscles and bones boomed like a dragon’s roar, and his blood surged like a thousand rivers, rumbling as it flowed.

At first, the sound was faint, but it grew until it thundered from deep underground, reverberating between Heaven and Earth.

It was as if it had become the most powerful sound in the world!

Wang Xiao felt every cell in his body cheering, seething with excitement.

His power surged endlessly, as if about to shatter the very shackles of Heaven and Earth!

At a certain moment!

KRAK! KRAK! KRAK!

A sound like a cracking eggshell rang out.

It felt as if some critical point within his body had suddenly been shattered!

Wang Xiao’s body suddenly began to expand. He raised a hand, as if propping up the Celestial Capital itself! 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

The ground for hundreds of miles around began to tremble.

He watched the enormous Fist Seal hurtling toward him, a gleam of Divine Light invisible to ordinary mortals shining in his eyes.

An overwhelming amount of Gang Qi gathered in the palm of his hand.

Then.

His arm rose like a dragon to meet the incoming Fist Seal!

BOOM!

In that instant, it was as if Heaven and Earth had utterly exploded.

The sound of the collision was so immense it seemed to exceed the very limits of the world’s perception.

The greatest sounds are silent, their reach boundless.

It was as if Heaven and Earth had suddenly fallen completely silent.

In the span of a thousandth of a second.

A piercing white light erupted at the epicenter of the collision, which then transformed into a blast wave and a sonic boom.

An unimaginably terrifying force erupted, creating a monstrous shockwave that blasted outward.

The ground bucked as if countless dragons were thrashing beneath it. The very earth was overturned, creating a tidal wave of soil and rock that rolled out in all directions.

For a moment.

The ground itself seemed to transform into a vast, undulating ocean.

Zen Master Kong Ming and the others felt their very spirits seized by the massive disturbance, and they shot a horrified glance toward the source.

The next moment.

They saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

They watched as the Heaven-Covering Hand Seal upon which Zhao Yin stood began to crack, inch by inch, from below.

Like shattering glass, it released a dense golden radiance.

Immediately after.

A massive figure erupted from the earth!

A colossal fist rose like a dragon. Before the fist of this enormous figure, it seemed that all things would be annihilated.

The immense, incomparably powerful Heaven-Covering Hand Seal was instantly shattered into nothing more than primitive motes of Magical Power.

The figure continued to grow, reaching hundreds, then thousands of feet in height.

It was like a Celestial Pillar holding up the sky, or a peerless Fierce Beast from primordial times.

"It’s... It’s Master Wang!"

"Master Wang... what is this power?!"

"There are no fluctuations of Magical Power... it’s purely Physical Power! This... How did Master Wang do it?!"

Zen Master Kong Ming and the others were horrified beyond measure.

Although among the countless Daoist Techniques there was Magic that could alter the body and enhance physical strength...

...none could make a body grow to such an incredible size!

The physical body is a Cultivator’s foundation. To completely transcend its shackles was an incredibly difficult feat!

Zhao Yin stared at the titan before him, his pupils dilating as an expression of irrepressible horror spread across his face.

"Impossible! How can this be? You don’t have a Cultivation Technique, so how could your body break through its shackles? Why hasn’t your Yin Spirit been torn to shreds? Who in the world are you?!"

No one was more shocked than he was at the sight of this unimaginably massive figure.

’This... this is a sign of breaking through to the Dao Realm! He’s already reached a new Realm.’

’But how could a creature from this world possess such an ability?!’

’Without a suitable Cultivation Technique, the Yin Spirit would be torn to dust, completely unable to withstand such a massive body.’

However.

When Zhao Yin extended his senses, he discovered that the man’s Yin Spirit was perfectly intact, and his physical body was still growing stronger.

Wang Xiao looked down. The trees, the dust, all living things—everything had become infinitesimally small.

It felt as if the entire world was completely within his grasp.

The Heaven and Earth technique wasn’t just about growing larger.

It was about achieving complete control over one’s body and an insightful awareness of all things in Heaven and Earth.

It could be said that this was a true rebirth, a transcendence of the mundane.

At that moment, his very genetic makeup underwent a complete metamorphosis, allowing him to shed his mortal coil entirely.

The ability that came with it was limb regeneration!

Even if his body were destroyed, as long as his Yin Spirit wasn’t shattered, he could recover in an instant.

Sixty years ago, Wang Xiao had seen the body of that Celestial Demon and deciphered the mysteries of the Heaven and Earth technique.

In the more than sixty years since, he had been constantly deducing and perfecting it.

And now today, by using the body of the Ghost Infant to devour the Celestial Demon, he had finally shattered that bottleneck!

This was also thanks to the unique nature of the Ghost Infant’s body.

It had been formed from Celestial Demon Flesh and Blood in the first place, so it could refine more of the same substance without any hindrance, pushing his physical body to its absolute limit!