Chapter 650: Chapter 55: Two Women Compete for a Husband, Willingly Debasing Themselves

Lu Chengfeng used Pure and Muddy Qi as fire, the world as a vast furnace, to refine Taotie, intending to fuse a trace of his own spirit with this Ancient Fierce Beast.

As the Pure and Muddy rotated, the black gas spewed from Taotie’s mouth and nose grew increasingly dense, almost enveloping the entire world, with countless shadows of Fierce Beasts, Divine Beasts, and Exotic Beasts appearing, constantly roaring.

Taotie had been suppressed by Emperor Wa for countless years and was no longer in its prime. In the Ancient Times, it was truly terrifying, capable of devouring a Celestial Venerate in a single bite.

Looking at the dense shadows, Lu Chengfeng was amazed. He wondered just how powerful this Fierce Beast once was and how many powerful beings it had vanquished in the world?

Any of those shadows living today would be invincible in the Three Realms!

"Roar..."

A Nine-headed Insect roared, its grossly large body extending for who knows how many miles, each of its nine heads like a gigantic mountain, opening its gaping bloody maw, releasing a stench, and unleashing torrents of water, fire, wind, thunder, and poison stream flows, its terrifying aura making one tremble.

With a loud cry, a Golden-winged Roc obscured the firmament, its divine wings wrapped in golden light like a Celestial Saber, striking down stars one by one as it swooped down, snapping a Flood Dragon in its maw.

"Awoo..." A Kui Ox engulfed in electric glow brought its foot down, shattering a hundred thousand miles of earth, stirring endless winds and waves, making the boundless sea tremble, its terror overwhelming.

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Lu Chengfeng used the Time Secret Power to touch the imprints left behind in Taotie’s consumption, although these beings had long died in the past, yet through the evolution of his Lifebound Divine Techniques, it was as if they were emerging from ancient times.

Even though they were just shadows, they were vivid and lifelike, with that incredible aura of grandeur seemingly reviving, as if emerging from ancient myth and legend.

These were all Ancient Creatures devoured by Taotie, each of which would be invincible today, capable of fighting Celestial Venerates, rampaging through the Three Realms, and there were many of them.

In fact, what Taotie devoured was not limited to these Ancient Creatures but also some Great Saints of the Demon Race and Innate Divine Demons among the Celestial Gods.

Lu Chengfeng saw Taotie twist off the head of a Great Saint wielding a Three-Pointed Double-Bladed Spear and shrouded in Samadhi True Fire, swallowing it in one gulp.

He also saw a Golden Lion roaring at the sky, its fur shining with dazzling golden light, exhaling Great Sun Golden Radiance and bathing in True Sun Fire.

Additionally, an Innate Divine Demon with a human head and snake body held twenty-four Treasure Pearls, wandering the Four Seas and Eight Desolates.

It must be said, Taotie’s reputation as an Ancient Fierce Beast was earned through countless slaughters, with its stomach filled with endless beings, making one’s hair stand on end.

Lu Chengfeng immersed his mind among those imprints, using the time to sense the aura within, feeling a yearning in his heart.

The Ancient Times, what kind of era was that?

Fierce Beasts roamed rampant, Immortals and Buddhas were everywhere, Innate Divine Demons reigned supreme.

Those who had not condensed Dharma Forms were ordinary folk.

Only through Enlightenment does one walk the path of cultivation.

Only by proving the Tao, splitting heaven and earth, one becomes a dominator.

In the Ancient Times, it was indeed an era of heroes contending, stirring heaven and earth!

Yet the Three Ancient Saints, Emperor Wa, Tao Ancestor, and Buddha, were able to dominate in that chaotic era, causing even Ancient Fierce Beasts, True Spirits of Dragon and Phoenix, and Innate Divine Demons to bow their heads.

In the Ancient Times, all beings contended, but the Three Suns crushed past and present, opening the path of the Tao, with no one surpassing them to this day.

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To Lu Chengfeng, Taotie was a treasure trove, his belly was a universe, and a cemetery of countless beings, with every enemy Taotie devoured leaving a trace imprint that fueled its ferocity.

Lu Chengfeng calmly used the Golden Flame to refine these beings’ imprints one by one, drawing from their past strength and fishing for their gifts.

In the Pure and Muddy World, vitality gradually flourished; Rocs spread their wings, True Dragons roared, White Tigers lounged on mountains, Black Tortoises ventured into the sea, Taotie raged on, ...

One by one, the myriad ancient beings manifested, seemingly turning this world into the Ancient era, with all sorts of divine birds and fierce beasts roaring and Innate Divine Demons vying for supremacy.

Through those imprints, Lu Chengfeng could feel the grandeur and brutality of the Ancient Times, understanding that it was a harsh era, where even a fierce beast like Taotie had been defeated, even slain.

Though Taotie was undying and reborn from the Heavenly Dao, it had indeed been vanquished.

Aside from being eventually suppressed by Emperor Wa, it had lost three times.

Around Lu Chengfeng, shadows of Fierce Beasts and Innate Divine Demons flickered on occasion; their pressure was enough to crush everything, capable of causing Great Powers to fall. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

He used his Innate Divine Techniques and Bright Pearl World to gradually refine these imprints, turning them into his own nourishment, although he still couldn’t fully manifest the imprint’s power from the past in the short term.

But now it’s akin to planting seeds, requiring only time and effort to bring those ancient beings back to the world.

The mystique of the Path of Transformation began to gradually unveil, even the Divine Bone and latent Innate Divine Techniques began to fully integrate into the transformation.

With just a sliver of imprint and anchoring causality, he could transform into the locked beings and wield their Great Tao Divine Techniques, making his own Path of Transformation ever more extraordinary.

Buzz!

Lu Chengfeng’s originally seated body began to transform. With an earth-shattering roar, he transformed into a Nine-headed Insect; its nine heads reaching the heavens, unsettling sun, moon, and universe, its fierce aura overwhelming.

This transformation was not just about resembling in form but using that sliver of imprint to anchor in the past, borrowing the power of this Ancient Fierce Beast from past years for his own use.