After Song Feilian's reminder, Ling Feng no longer recklessly used his spiritual consciousness to probe the stone monuments. Instead, he began to browse through them carefully, picking and choosing as he went.

Each stone monument contained the spiritual will left behind by peak great emperor experts. While there were differences in strength, the gap was not particularly large unless it involved Half-Saint or even higher Great Saint spiritual will.

That said, higher grade did not necessarily mean better. The key was whether it suited the cultivator.

For instance, if someone specialized in fire-based divine skills, then even comprehending a water-based Great Saint spiritual will would not help. It might even hinder their cultivation.

Ling Feng however had no such concern. His Chaotic Body allowed him to handle anything with ease!

He moved deeper into the forest of stone monuments at a relaxed pace. To him, opportunity depended on fate. Carefully examining every single monument would take far too long, and that was never his style.

Before long, he stopped in front of an unassuming stone monument.

"Sacred Emperor Yan Tian... Ye Xuange..."

He studied the faintly visible inscription and muttered to himself, "Sacred Emperor Yan Tian? Could this be a former sect master of Dongling Immortal Pool?"

Within a sacred land, there were many great emperor experts, but only past sect masters could bear the title "Sacred Emperor".

"This former sect master's spiritual will seems quite compatible with me. The Great Dao insights within it should help me breakthrough to the Human Emperor realm!"

Ling Feng narrowed his eyes, weighing his options. Should he choose this Sacred Emperor Yan Tian's spiritual will, or continue searching for a Great Saint spiritual will?

Sacred Emperor Yan Tian had been a Half-Saint. His spiritual will was already of a high level.

After some thought, Ling Feng made his decision.

He would comprehend this one.

His purpose in entering the War God Temple was to find a breakthrough. A Great Saint spiritual will might be powerful, but it was not guaranteed to provide the opportunity he needed.

Moreover, this spiritual will seemed to exert a strange pull on him, as though it were drawing him in.

"Then this must be the one that suits me best!"

Taking a deep breath, Ling Feng stopped hesitating. He released his spiritual consciousness and fused it into the stone monument before sitting down cross-legged.

At the same time, Song Feilian and the others also found suitable spiritual wills and began their own comprehension.

...

Boom!

The moment Ling Feng's mind merged with the monument, a flood of indescribable insights about heaven and earth surged into his consciousness.

These were the Great Dao realizations left behind by Sacred Emperor Yan Tian during his pursuit of the peak of martial arts.

It felt like mountains collapsing, oceans surging, volcanic fire erupting, and meteors crashing down. In that instant, Ling Feng seemed to merge with nature itself, becoming one with heaven and earth.

The path of martial arts shifted after the Human Emperor realm. From the Creation Realm onward, cultivation no longer followed the same principles as before.

Beyond the Human Emperor realm, a martial practitioner must form a complete inner world, a universe of their own, modeled after the transformations of heaven and earth. Within it, they nurture divinity and move closer to becoming immortal!

The Creation Realm involved drawing upon the power of creation from heaven and earth, shaping it within the body to form a small inner world inside the dantian.

Beyond that lay the Divine Destiny Realm, where one defied fate itself. A Human Emperor lived only a few hundred years, but upon becoming a great emperor, lifespan becomes thousands of years. Peak great emperors could approach two thousand.

This was the advantage of cultivating one's own inner world and Great Dao.

Great emperor experts wielded true rule-based power, unlike Human Emperors, who only grasped its embryonic form.

Under normal circumstances, no matter how talented a Human Emperor was, they could not contend with a great emperor.

Ling Feng was an exception.

At the great emperor level, every increase in cultivation was a qualitative leap. Although figures like Song Feilian were known as the Heaven Slaying Ten Absolutes, they were only dominant among early-tier great emperors. Compared to those at the fifth level of the Divine Destiny Realm or higher, the gap was enormous.

That was why Dongling Immortal Pool had many early-tier great emperors, but very few who had reached the fifth level or above.

Take Saint Lady Hui Yue as an example. She infiltrated the Barbarian God Temple and slew over a dozen great emperors at that level. This was why the barbarian leadership was enraged and even dispatched a supreme elder to hunt her down.

Experts at that level formed the backbone of any major force.

Of course, that realm was still far beyond Ling Feng for now.

At that moment, Ling Feng immersed himself in the evolution of heaven and earth, in the endless cycles of change. These insights were priceless to any cultivator.

Gradually, understanding began to take shape in his mind. Cracks appeared in the barrier of the Creation Realm.

Ling Feng knew what this meant.

He could begin constructing his inner world.

Once that world was fully formed, everything would fall into place. He would step into the ranks of the Human Emperor!

Rumble!

Ling Feng's accumulation was already immense. What he lacked was understanding. Now that comprehension had arrived, his aura surged wildly.

The elemental force within him skyrocketed, raging through his dantian like countless roaring dragons, threatening to tear his body apart.

This was destruction before rebirth!

His dantian world was undergoing a complete transformation!

His body trembled as the inner world took shape. A continuous rumbling echoed from within him. Golden light surged across his body, then shifted into blazing flames and crackling lightning.

He could feel his dantian expanding, growing into something vast, like a primordial world being born.

And it did not stop growing.

It expanded at an astonishing speed.

If any Human Emperor could sense Ling Feng's dantian, they would likely faint from shock.

This was no ordinary inner world.

A typical newly formed dantian spanned only dozens of zhang. Even the most gifted might reach several dozen li at most.

Ling Feng's was on an entirely different scale. It was like an entire kingdom!

This was because his body contained the Chaotic Source.

Chaotic Power was the origin of all worlds. Ordinary cultivators merely imitated the Great Dao of heaven and earth when forming their inner worlds.

Ling Feng was different.

He could truly create a world.

And he would be its absolute ruler!

This was the fundamental difference between him and other cultivators. It was also what set apart a child of the Heavenly Dao from all other divine races.

From that moment on, Ling Feng's defiance of the heavens truly began.