Chapter 1409: The Unnameable Essence

What is the truth of evolution, and why are the transformations at the Great Cosmos level so bizarre and terrifying? Chu Feng was approaching the essence; his entire body was undergoing mutations, his form so astonishing that it constantly changed, becoming indescribable!

He was truly scared, a chill emanating from his very bones. What was he going to become? He now repeatedly slapped himself, trying to halt the deterioration. Each slap twisted space, leaving it riddled with cracks. If these blows landed on a living being, even a Quasi-Heavenly Venerable would explode, and a Heavenly Venerable might not be able to withstand them.

He gave his all, his vital energy surging. His entire body was enveloped in runes of order and rules, as he refined himself, using his palm strikes to suppress the mutations occurring throughout his body. Even with such immense palm force, striking his own flesh only temporarily repelled and suppressed the bizarre changes; his muscles and bones remained completely unharmed. This was terrifying. Under normal circumstances, hitting himself with such powerful palm strikes would be self-annihilation, yet now he was completely undamaged.

"It's happening again!" Chu Feng roared. When he opened his mouth, foot-long white fangs emerged, spewing black mist. His disheveled hair made him look like a monstrous demon. He struck at his fangs and his three-colored hair, trying to revert to his original state.

Boom! Dazzling golden light erupted. A small golden sun seemed to burn in his chest, growing increasingly brilliant and blinding. Even the powerful experts of the Fire Elf tribe were shocked. What an incredibly powerful heart! It was astonishing!

However, this heart of Chu Feng's was not his original one; it had newly grown, occupying a large space, threatening to burst through his chest. It began to produce golden fluid, intending to replace all the blood in his body. At this moment, Chu Feng felt incredibly powerful, yet this sensation was deeply unsettling. He was on the verge of madness; this heart provided not only strength but also an infinite frenzy, making him lose control of himself and want to do insane things.

He took a bite towards the sky, wanting to swallow the firmament! This terrified even himself. Was this still him? After the golden heart formed, its power was immense, making him want to bite and swallow the heavens. What was this if not madness? Moreover, he found it increasingly difficult to control his emotions, feeling unbound.

"Boom!" He activated the Robbery Induction Breathing Technique, putting all his strength into a punch aimed at his own chest. Blood splattered, containing not only his original human blood but also the mysterious and special golden fluid. He was severely damaging his newly formed golden heart.

His chest was almost punched through. This was the result of him trying his utmost, hurting himself with all his might. This transformation was too painful and too tormenting. However, fortunately, he acted quickly. He forcibly suppressed the golden heart, which gradually shrank and then blurred, though he expected it might reappear soon.

"Is this the truth of late-stage evolution? Are Great Cosmos level beings destined to lose control!" Chu Feng growled, his hair disheveled. His grey and blood-colored hair grew rapidly, reaching below his waist. His eyes were eerie and terrifying, first glowing green, then a fiery red, constantly changing.

"That's the legendary Golden Heart, said to provide boundless magic power and inexhaustible energy to living beings. He actually manifested it just now, but... he suppressed it again!" The Fire Elf tribe stared with wide, astonished eyes, some trembling. Such a heart was rarely seen in the world for eons, only ever recorded in historical texts.

Buzz! The void trembled. Wherever Chu Feng's gaze fell, his eyes were densely filled with symbols, a truly frightening sight. Then, his pupils became extremely abnormal, transforming into double pupils!

"Hiss, the legendary double pupils!" "Heavens, how is that possible!?"

Even the Fire Elf tribe exclaimed in shock, demonstrating how astonishing this situation was. Double pupils were incredibly formidable, granting their possessor boundless power and eyes containing unparalleled energy rules. Generally, they were innate, but now, the young expert within the Moon Stone Gate was undergoing a mutation, and even double pupils had emerged.

"My eyes..." Chu Feng used a mirroring technique and saw the abnormality in his eyes. He immediately delivered two more palm strikes, aiming at his own eyes. If it had been an ordinary Divine King, their eyes would surely have exploded. Even he was shedding tears of blood, experiencing sharp pain, but he managed to suppress the ominous double pupils.

"At the Great Cosmos level, everything in the later stages of evolution becomes uncontrollable. Anything is possible. Is the truth truly disorder and chaos?" Chu Feng murmured, genuinely afraid. He didn't want to become neither human nor ghost; he wanted to remain himself. But now, this transformation not only rendered his form indescribable but also made his own mind bizarre, uncontrollable, driving him to madness, as if some other will was trying to bore into his head.

"The truth, the essence, is too terrifying! Why is this happening?"

A loud bang, like chaotic immortal lightning striking, reverberated. Not only within this space, but even the Fire Elf tribe in the Supreme Forbidden Land outside felt the world shaking. Everything originated from Chu Feng. His entire body's blood was boiling, and his bone marrow's blood production rate increased tenfold, attempting to replace his original true blood.

From his pores, light more dazzling than the sun erupted, so blinding that even his hair seemed to burn, its radiance illuminating the heavens and earth. Despite being a bizarre and inauspicious change, Chu Feng now appeared incredibly sacred, radiating brilliance that illuminated the cosmos and all things, gushing forth with blazing divine light.

"The mutation is accelerating! My entire body is changing, I can't suppress it!" Chu Feng cried out miserably; his previous efforts at suppression were no longer effective. His grey, blood-colored, and silver hair rapidly lengthened, almost reaching his ankles. The golden heart reappeared, and this time, instead of just one extra head, it was symmetrical: bloody heads began to sprout from both his left and right shoulders.

"Human King Blood, revive for me!" Chu Feng roared in his heart. Instantly, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled across his entire body. Silver blood, like lightning, coursed through his limbs and bones. Unwilling to yield, he purified himself with his strongest true blood. It had some effect; the bizarre blood that had been created became slightly duller.

"Kill!" he yelled furiously, suppressing the strange bloodline within him. He also used the Robbery Induction Breathing Technique to shatter many of his bones and seal his bone marrow, preventing the birth of new, strange blood.

"Are all mutations born in the blood?" "Does all strangeness come from bloodlines? Does blood record a life's past, a clan's history, containing various life imprints? Are they reawakening?" Chu Feng asked himself, feeling he was close to the truth. Was the Great Cosmos level transformation meant for all life factors in the body to reawaken? Was this a choice of evolution?

"Hmm, there are actually so many 'doors' inside my body?!" At this moment, Chu Feng was shocked beyond belief! In his blood, throughout his limbs and bones, various light particles boiled, revealing many gateways. Those mutations—the ominous heart, double pupils, three heads, eight arms, and so on—were all connected to their respective doors, as if linked to strange and ancient worlds, with winding ancient paths leading to them!

"It's not life essence imprints contained in the blood reawakening, but rather the body opening one door after another, accepting many unfathomable energies, leading to transformation? What places lie beyond those doors?" Chu Feng was stunned. He had thought it was the reawakening of blood passed down from ancient times, providing various possibilities for evolution. But now, why was he seeing these doors? Were they paths, one after another? Connecting to what?

"I want to recover, to be human, to be myself! I don't want anything else. All evolution should be for my use, not for me to transform into something to adapt to *you*!" Chu Feng was frantic; he truly feared losing his sanity, becoming an indescribable monster, unable to control himself. That would be too tragic.

Yet now, as he uncovered some truths, he grew even more bewildered. The path of evolution was too mysterious. Were the bizarre changes in his organs his own choice, or were they caused by worlds behind various doors within the cosmos? Or, was everything still just a facade, and in the late stages of evolution, he hadn't even unveiled a single layer of mystery, with all fundamental truths still sealed from him?

Boom! Chu Feng fought desperately. His Human King Blood indeed proved somewhat dominant. Under his nearly self-destructive suppression, his physical body was pierced in multiple places, his bones glowed, broke, and then re-healed, and his true blood returned to its original state. His bizarre, indescribable forms diminished.

"Huh? What tenacious vitality!" After striking various parts of his body, he had to deliver two more blows between his legs! "This is practically soaring thousands of miles, engulfing mountains and rivers, rising ninety thousand miles into the sky!" He looked down, then looked again. The Fire Elf tribe members were speechless.

Chu Feng no longer dared to claim peerless elegance; he genuinely feared being "peerless" in a way that meant being extinct. The few blows between his legs were so painful he wanted to die, but he had no choice; he had to suppress it.

"Eh? I actually suppressed myself! The deterioration hasn't continued. What's going on?" After an unknown period, besides feeling tired, Chu Feng realized his transformation hadn't accelerated and was actually stabilizing. He was greatly surprised. Originally, he had been somewhat despairing, but unexpectedly, he found a turning point.

He looked inward and finally discovered the source of the change: the small grey millstone was rotating, helping him grind down strands of blue light. The Great Cosmos level pollen was dimming! "That pollen was absorbed by me, yet it can still be extracted and ground away by it!?" Chu Feng was shocked that such a thing was possible!

The small grey millstone had an impressive origin; its material contained a large amount of mysterious grey substance, and it mimicked the millstones on the reincarnation path, engraved with unfathomable characters! Now, it was fulfilling its purpose.

"This is my own transformation and evolution, yet an external object can actually interfere?" Chu Feng was somewhat dazed. Evolution belonged to the living being itself; external forces were typically unable to alter it. However, after observing for a moment, he realized its limits. The small millstone couldn't further alter his state; the bizarre changes were still present, but they had slowed down many times over.

"In that case, let's try the stone jar!" Inside his body, the stone jar slowly opened. He lifted the lid, intending to suppress the source of the various abnormal changes. However, with a boom, he felt himself ignite. The reincarnation earth inside resonated with his body, rumbling loudly. Then, he found his entire body sprouting foot-long fur, suddenly growing six heads, twelve arms, and twenty-four legs. Following that, his heart turned golden, his facial bones expanded dramatically, and his flesh vanished, a truly terrifying sight.

The frantic transformations not only stunned Chu Feng himself but also terrified the Fire Elf tribe. What was happening? He had clearly suppressed it, yet he suddenly erupted again. "Reincarnation earth, resonating with me?!" Chu Feng snapped awake, quickly closing the jar's lid.

He realized he was in deep trouble. Where did this reincarnation earth come from? It was an object from the reincarnation path, found at its end, the soil behind the ancient palace where many supreme experts had settled before reincarnation. Heaven knew how terrifying its formation must have been. Now, this resonance was too terrifying.

The violent changes exploded geometrically. Chu Feng no longer looked human and continued to transform, even more intensely. "Suppress!" Chu Feng was frantic; there was no turning back. He didn't want to die a confused death. He fully activated the stone jar, and an invisible blaze of fire spread from it, a ball of light condensed from the Fire of Great Void and the Flame of Ancient Eon, absorbed from the Supreme Eight Trigrams Furnace and now burning the abnormalities inside the jar.

Furthermore, the stone jar's own various symbols also appeared. They didn't participate in the suppression, but as the characters lit up, it was as if doors, one after another, opened behind them, connecting to strange realms. They briefly resonated with the sources of Chu Feng's various mutations. Then, Chu Feng's entire body became dazzling, growing even more intensely radiant, as all sorts of transformations continued to manifest.

"Is the essence of evolution so mysterious? Does one bizarre change lead to one path, with countless evolutionary paths and myriad choices, that can briefly appear on every living being?" Although Chu Feng was trembling, his body aching and feeling as if it would burst apart, and his form was indescribable, he continued to speculate on parts of the truth behind late-stage evolution.

"I haven't reached the Great Cosmos level yet, and I've only come into contact with a very small amount of blue pollen, just a few particles. I should be able to break free, not go down that path. I must be free!" Chu Feng quickly calmed down amidst his desperation.

The characters on the stone jar flickered. He gritted his teeth and persevered, activating the Robbery Induction Breathing Technique, then urged the stone jar to move rapidly through his body, allowing it to penetrate every part of him. Then, a gruesome scene unfolded: countless drops of blood rose into the air, flying out from Chu Feng's body, forming a bloody, living entity.

It was a bizarre transformation, a demonic evolution that separated from his body, coalescing outside him into a form like armor, boundless in its terror and indescribable in its appearance. Double pupils, immortal wings, demonic patterns, a golden heart... it possessed everything imaginable. From head to toe, the bloody entity was utterly strange and terrifying.

However, this entity seemed to be conscious, ready to dive back into Chu Feng's body at any moment. Boom! Chu Feng shook the space, destabilizing everything. White immortal mist surged, obscuring the vision of the Fire Elf tribe. Then, he brought forth the stone jar and used it to collect the bloody, bizarre manifestation, temporarily sealing it within.

A sound, as if echoing in the deepest parts of one's soul, emanated, shaking Chu Feng's mind and being heard by the Fire Elf tribe outside. They didn't know what was happening and were horrified. The stone jar trembled, and a beam of light shot out from it, straight upwards, piercing the firmament!

Afterward, Chu Feng heard mental sonic waves from other beings in an extremely distant realm. Above the vast sky, a sheet of light, a cloud of mist, and a new world opened up.

"What place is below? Does it have a designation?" "Hmm, long ago, a path here was opened, connecting to our Heaven. Eh, why is there another crack? Has another being opened it?"

Upon hearing these voices, Chu Feng's hair stood on end. Was this... opening the path to the Heavens?!