Chapter 1333: Old Self and New Self

"I want to become a Great God King, no longer hiding in this stone jar, but walking under the sunlight, manifesting in the Yang Realm!"

From within the stone jar, a low, slightly weathered voice emerged from the bloody light curtain. It was Chu Feng's true spirit, weary but resolute, having endured trials in the Lesser Nether Realm.

After countless life-and-death trials, he had condensed into a Dao Fruit. For years, he had been secluded, contemplating the essence of various scriptures, accumulating profound knowledge.

However, due to his unconventional start and flaws in his evolutionary path, this God King Dao Fruit had significant imperfections. Today, a turning point had finally arrived.

Outside, Chu Feng's physical body was stirring. This body contained the soul light of a Great Saint, but now it trembled violently as he scrutinized the self within the stone jar.

For some unknown reason, he felt that the God King Dao Fruit was his true self!

For years, ever since he entered the Yang Realm, he had always wanted to drink Granny Meng's Soup, wishing to sever the negative and sorrowful memories from the Lesser Nether Realm. He claimed this was to travel light, unburden himself, and go further in the future.

Yet, upon reflection, perhaps it was also a subconscious evasion.

Who was facing it, who was remembering? It was the God King Dao Fruit from the Lesser Nether Realm, bearing everything. Within it lay his true spirit, his entire being, even a concentrated mass of his blood from the Lesser Nether Realm, which had been overlooked back then. That part of him was carrying all the heavy burdens!

Vaguely, his Yang Realm self, his Great Saint form, had a misconception, as if he saw a soul weeping tears of blood, using Tai Wu as an imaginary enemy, treating everyone from the Martial Lunatic's lineage as a formidable foe, and striving to deduce his own methods and forge his own path.

In his God King state, he constantly remembered the past, as if standing before the great abyss of the Lesser Nether Realm, recalling family and friends, witnessing their tragic deaths, and resolving to forge his own evolutionary path.

"Over the years, have I truly forgotten so much, abandoned so much, and has he been bearing it all?"

His Yang Realm self, his Great Saint form, murmured softly, gazing at the self within the stone jar. That God King Dao Fruit was exerting all its effort, striving for transformation, for a leap in life.

Amidst the bloody mist, the figure was tall and imposing. The God King Dao Fruit was manifesting its form, disheveled yet coalescing, head held high, unyielding and defiant. It alone resisted the tempering of the Bloody Battle Fruit, its face etched with indomitable spirit and determination.

The Bloody Battle Fruit was indeed very special. It dispersed into a crimson mist, interweaving rules and order, engulfing the area, then spreading to form a self-contained crimson minor world.

It didn't look large, just enough to fill the inside of the stone jar. However, the actual crimson minor world within was not small at all, seemingly a boundless realm contained within a mustard seed.

It was a condensed battlefield, a release of the blood of myriad beings, manifesting the primordial runes of various races.

In an instant, it was as if vast changes had swept through the world. The flow of time in this crimson minor world was peculiar, seemingly causing numerous past events to unfold in a flash, applying them to Chu Feng's God King Dao Fruit, making him experience, temper, and endure the most brutal baptism.

Normally, under such circumstances, a living being would find it very difficult to survive!

Chu Feng seemed to have returned to a prehistoric battlefield of old, participating in a great war, bathed in the blood of myriad beings, disheveled. He fought to the death in this unique minor world, encountering countless soul lights, all remnant souls, all manifestations of order runes.

No wonder the heaven-defying talents and top clan prodigies of the prehistoric era all sought the Bloody Battle Fruit. It was simply too special; if it didn't obliterate a person, it would temper them into the most formidable powerhouse.

Swarms of soul lights surged towards Chu Feng, and endless crimson runes engulfed him. He was almost corroded to the point of being riddled with holes, then on the verge of disintegrating.

But at the last moment, he forcefully resisted.

"God King, endless vitality, intercepting the essence of heaven, extracting the purity of earth, refining the Dao of all heavens, forging the true self..."

Chu Feng's God King body gritted its teeth and persevered, using heaven and earth as a great furnace, and the minor world formed by the Bloody Battle Fruit as raging flames, tempering himself like true gold through a hundred refinements.

Outside, his Great Saint self vaguely saw his original self from the Lesser Nether Realm once more. Back then, Chu Feng was driven to madness, intruded into foreign lands, and actively sought out ominous substances like gray mist to practice forbidden arts. Everything was for the sake of becoming stronger and seeking revenge.

At that time, he harbored a strong obsession and belief in his heart, unyielding, extremely resolute, and courageously pushed forward without ever looking back.

In comparison, his life in the Yang Realm had been somewhat too comfortable.

"Are you the real me?" his Yang Realm self, his Great Saint form, murmured tremblingly. He felt a pang of heartache. Was his other, very real self always like this? Never seeing the light of day, bearing heavy burdens alone.

His current self smiled superficially, while the other half of his soul was stained with blood, advancing alone under a heavy load.

In that crimson minor world, the figure manifested by the God King Dao Fruit suddenly looked up, its eyes emitting astonishing beams of light, fully revealing its unwavering resolve.

"You forget worries, lurking in the mortal world, while some matters I shall remember," the God King Dao Fruit spoke amidst the trials of life and death.

At that moment, Chu Feng recalled something. He had drunk so much Granny Meng's Soup, yet he could remember everything from before, never truly severing his past. Was this because his other half was remembering?

The God King Dao Fruit replied, "Yes, I remember it all, but if you continue to drink Granny Meng's Soup, I will also forget everything."

Chu Feng in the Yang Realm, in his Great Saint form, spoke with a slight tremor in his voice, "Perhaps, you are the real me, aren't you?!"

Chu Feng in the crimson minor world said, "This is an experiment. I am the old me, you are the new me. The Heavenly Emperor's old path has a method: using one's original self as nourishment to conceive a Heavenly Embryo, a new self, like a seed rooted in the original self and Dao Fruit, it will become stronger!"

He was very calm; there wasn't a ripple of emotion as he spoke these words.

Outside, Chu Feng, in his Great Saint form, was deeply shaken. He realized he had overlooked something; he had initially thought his entire self was outside, but now it seemed that half of his true spirit was indeed within the God King Dao Fruit. That was his other half, and it had already made such a decision.

A pang of distress then struck him. That was his original self, the old him, and it was actually going to complete him, the new him.

He trembled. How could this be? It was too cruel; the old him was too pitiful!

He naturally knew about this so-called Heavenly Emperor's old path. As early as in the Lesser Nether Realm, Chu Feng had learned of it from his master's notes, which he obtained from Stone Fox Heavenly Venerate.

At that time, he had indeed considered this method, as it was once the strongest path of evolution.

However, he felt it was too great a pity to use himself as nourishment, with his own flesh, blood, and soul light acting as fertile ground to cultivate a Dao seed and grow a new self.

It was too overbearing and too tragic; he had abandoned the idea back then.

He had not expected that after entering the Yang Realm, there would be another half of him within the God King Dao Fruit, and that it had actually made such a decision.

His Great Saint self immediately objected, saying, "No, we cannot take this path! You are me, we are one entity. How can I let the old me become nourishment, slowly wither and perish?!"

Furthermore, he brought up another path he now possessed: since he had a Dao Fruit from the Lesser Nether Realm and also a Dao Fruit from the Yang Realm, they could entirely pursue the path of Yin-Yang collision.

Through this, he might achieve the most incredible transformation. When Yin and Yang clashed during his ascension to Heavenly Venerate, it would be many times faster and more potent than for other normally cultivated beings.

Moreover, such an attempt could be made at every level!

However, this was also extremely dangerous. A Yin-Yang clash, let alone between Dao Fruits, would cause a great explosion and annihilation even between two energies of different attributes.

This could easily lead to death, and to be eternally beyond reincarnation, leaving not even a speck of dust, let alone soul light.

What slightly reassured Chu Feng in his Great Saint state was that the God King Dao Fruit nodded, not stubbornly refusing, but being remarkably open-minded, even considering things further than he had.

"Yes, I've considered that too. For ten years, I've been pondering the true path I should take. Others' paths are, after all, theirs; I must take my own step!"

The God King Dao Fruit said this. During the years he was confined, he had constantly been contemplating and researching.

When he left the Lesser Nether Realm back then, he had collected all the breathing techniques, scriptures, and secret arts from the strongest races.

Years of research had greatly inspired him.

Different paths and different evolutionary directions ultimately require drawing from countless sources and observing the footsteps of predecessors to gain the greatest inspiration.

No one can create everything out of thin air.

In the crimson minor world manifested by the Bloody Battle Fruit, violent tremors occurred. The God King Dao Fruit was facing its greatest impact; the true moment of life or death had arrived.

"Ah?" Outside, Chu Feng's face, in his Great Saint form, changed. He saw the God King Dao Fruit cracking, on the verge of breaking apart.

"It seems a true physical body is necessary. You and I shall temporarily merge!"

The God King Dao Fruit spoke. Blood swirled around its body; it was the remaining Lesser Nether Realm blood from the body he had brought into the Yang Realm years ago.

He had refined all the Yin-attributed blood and energy, along with half of his true spirit, ultimately transforming into the Dao Fruit.

Yet, ultimately, he lacked a physical body.

Now, he began to summon, expressing his desire to endure the tempering of the Bloody Battle Fruit.

"Very well!"

Chu Feng, in his Great Saint form, nodded. He naturally agreed, as they were originally one and the same.

A mass of very cold blood, carrying Yin-attributed energy, enveloped the floating God King Dao Fruit.

Chu Feng sighed softly inwardly. He truly hadn't noticed these things back then, thinking it was just pure energy and a Dao Fruit, never realizing that blood had merged into it.

His true body entered the stone jar, immersing itself into the crimson world.

With a boom, the cold God King blood and Dao Fruit from the Lesser Nether Realm returned. In an instant, Chu Feng's physical body was reshaped, reformed, and restored to its God King state.

"Roar!"

Subsequently, inside the stone jar, within the crimson world, deafening roars echoed as Chu Feng subjected himself to myriad forms of tempering.

After an unknown period, the crimson hue gradually faded. A figure stood there, full of vigor, with sharp and intimidating eyes. Black hair fluttered, and his face bore an added resilience. His body exuded a compelling aura.

"Am I a Great God King now?" Chu Feng lowered his head, looking at his hands, and couldn't help but ask himself.

With every movement, his entire body possessed inexhaustible power!

However, the God King Dao Fruit separated again, and Chu Feng, in his Great Saint state, flew out of the stone jar. The two were once again distinct.

This was because he wanted to become even stronger; he wished to elevate his Yang Realm Great Saint form to an equivalent level, becoming a God King. At that point, if the two were to merge, or if Yin and Yang were to clash, the outcome would be unimaginable!

"Alright, it's time to go out. I need to slay a few God Kings to mark my presence. After so many years of forbearance, I was always afraid of being targeted by the heavenly tribulation. Now, I should be able to walk in the sunlight, shouldn't I?"

The God King Dao Fruit spoke, embodying Chu Feng's resolute and ruthless side.

Chu Feng, in his Great Saint form, did not object. If given the opportunity, he truly wanted to test how powerful his current God King state was!