Chapter 696: Create Heavenly Marrow with Bare Hands

Destruction and creation have always been entirely different things.

Powerful cultivators can easily move mountains and boil oceans. However, shaping mountains and rivers from scratch with bare hands is infinitely more difficult.

It might seem many cultivators can achieve this, but they merely transfer water and soil from one part of the world to another.

What Xu Bai just accomplished in the Beast Seed Realm was different.

It was creating something out of nothing, effortlessly.

Or rather, transforming the world.

As cultivators who had achieved Dao Integration, Liu San and Fang Zaiji saw it very clearly.

The mountains, rivers, and trees that suddenly appeared in the Beast Seed Realm were not part of that small world's natural Heavenly Dao evolution.

Instead, Xu Bai had forcefully rewritten its laws, compelling these corresponding changes.

This involved not only physical matter but also a fundamental alteration of the underlying laws.

The rumbling in the Beast Seed Realm gradually subsided. Under the complex gazes of Liu San and Fang Zaiji, Xu Bai awakened from his enlightenment.

Noticing the eyes fixed on him, Xu Bai was slightly startled.

He then keenly observed the changes in the Beast Seed Realm's landscape and understood.

"To be able to manifest it naturally while still in the process of comprehension. The will merges with the heavens, as if naturally formed."

"Incredible!"

Of course, Li Fan was not praising himself from the bottom of his heart, but this clone.

Or rather, it was the wisp of Mr. Bai's divine charm that created all the extraordinary aspects of this clone.

With a thought, all the scenes that had transpired in the Beast Seed Realm during his enlightenment instantly appeared in his mind.

Xu Bai pondered, "Using a hand as a brush to transform the world. This divine ability can be named 'Heavenly Transformation'."

The initial inspiration for the Heavenly Transformation divine ability came from the Reverse Five Elements Life-and-Death Sword.

When Li Fan first comprehended this divine ability from phenomena like the Five Elements Grotto-Heaven woven from the Root of Heaven and Earth, and the Great Destruction of Five Elements Unity, he could achieve simple "creation": re-forming scattered spiritual energy in the air into spirit stones.

However, when the desired creations became more complex, Li Fan found himself powerless.

This time, however, he could reshape the world at will with a mere wave of his hand. This was precisely due to the presence of the seventeen-petaled Heavenly Spirit Flower.

On the petals of the Heavenly Spirit Flower, the mountains and rivers of Tianlingzhou were displayed. Xu Bai, the clone, examined them closely, as if he had personally entered the petals, swiftly flying over the former Tianlingzhou. The scenery changed rapidly before his eyes, presenting the entire process of how the world's mountains and rivers were born.

In plainer terms, Heaven and Earth, acting as a teacher, personally demonstrated the process of creating mountains and rivers to Xu Bai on the Heavenly Spirit Flower.

Thus, Xu Bai, in his state of enlightenment, learned proficiently. Following and imitating the Heaven and Earth teacher, he unconsciously completed a "copy" in the Beast Seed Realm.

"The Heavenly Transformation divine ability flows effortlessly for Xu Bai. However, the main body will need repeated attempts to fully master it."

Strictly speaking, outside the Beast Seed Realm, the current Heavenly Transformation is more for show than practical use.

This is because Li Fan, currently at the Nascent Soul stage, can only exert a limited influence on the world.

Nevertheless, this is a divine ability with boundless potential.

The greatest use Li Fan currently envisions is to create "Essence of Heaven and Earth" himself.

As a prerequisite for advancing to the Soul Transformation stage, the Essence of Heaven and Earth is the "catalytic force" that causes changes in the world.

For example, Tianling will generate a thousand waters, Taihua a thousand mountains.

Nascent Soul cultivators wishing to use this as a basis to break through to the Soul Transformation stage must first observe an impending change in a particular region.

They then extract and absorb this "catalytic force" to complete their own advancement.

There are hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators in the Congyun Sea, but only two Soul Transformation cultivators: Ziyun and Hongxi.

This enormous disparity in numbers, like a massive chasm, is enough to illustrate the difficulty involved.

For ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, foreseeing changes in Heaven and Earth is already incredibly difficult. To then hide from other covetous Nascent Soul cultivators and absorb the Essence of Heaven and Earth alone is nigh impossible.

However, for Li Fan, who has mastered the Heavenly Transformation divine ability, it is entirely possible to induce changes in Heaven and Earth in a remote, uninhabited area.

He could then "steal" this power and effortlessly complete his promotion.

If he were even bolder...

Creating Soul Transformation cultivators in batches might not be impossible!

Dao Integration cultivators are almost all rulers of a state. Soul Transformation cultivators are definitely the backbone of the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

If an organization with dozens or even hundreds of Soul Transformation cultivators were to suddenly emerge, both the Myriad Immortals Alliance and the Council of Five Elders would surely have to treat them cautiously.

Of course, all of this relies on the premise that the process of Heavenly Transformation triggering the world-changing force of Xuanhuang goes unnoticed by powerful cultivators.

Doing it covertly once or twice might allow him to hide it. But large-scale anomalies would undoubtedly be exposed.

Such actions would certainly attract the attention of Dao Integration cultivators, and even Longevity Heavenly Venerates.

Therefore, for now, Li Fan needs to gradually test how to safely employ Heavenly Transformation within the Xuanhuang Realm.

"Congratulations, Young Master, on your further progress on the path of cultivation!"

Seeing Li Fan awaken, Liu San flew forward to congratulate him, a faint joy on his face.

As he spoke, he didn't forget to casually seal off the surrounding space, preventing the exposure that Xu Bai was Li Fan's clone.

Fang Zaiji, manipulating his Eye of Shared Vision, also moved closer: "Using mountains and rivers as a canvas, laws as ink, divine ability as a brush..."

"Sect Master, you are truly extraordinary!"

"I recall the Divine Brush Sect once had a similar divine ability. It's just a pity that not long after Chu Youhong created that move, the Divine Brush Sect was tragically annihilated..."

"This move..."

Liu San's face twitched. Without waiting for Fang Zaiji to finish, he waved his sleeve and put away the golden eyeball.

Fang Zaiji's voice abruptly ceased, and silence immediately fell.

Liu San then relayed Jiao Xiuyuan's conditions to Xu Bai.

"Fellow Daoist Jiao still won't release the hawk until he sees the rabbit," Xu Bai replied, his response well within his expectations.

Extending his left palm, the seventeen-petaled Heavenly Spirit Flower flew to its center.

Xu Bai looked at the flower and smiled.

Though none of the petals of the ice-sealed Heavenly Spirit Flower were missing, a transparent petal, reflecting "the rising sun slanting across the mountains," miraculously appeared in Xu Bai's right hand.

"This I 'copied' from the original Heavenly Spirit Flower; it possesses less than a tenth of its original charm. But, it is sufficient..."

"Elder Liu, give this to Jiao Xiuyuan, and he will naturally understand the preciousness of the Heavenly Spirit Flower."

Xu Bai said calmly.

Liu San carefully cupped the transparent petal in his hand, nodded, and flew away.

"I need to speed things up," Xu Bai muttered to himself. "This must be completed before the Myriad Immortals Alliance officially announces the era of great exploration."

"Otherwise, if everyone goes off to explore the white mist, who will buy my Heavenly Spirit Flowers?"

He then, with a wave of his hand like a brush, drew imitation "Heavenly Spirit Flower petals" one after another in the air.