Gu Qingfeng took out the final reward from the information panel.
Six Tribulations Heavenly Venerable Essence Blood!
When this essence blood appeared, it instantly emitted a terrifying pressure that spread throughout the void. Cultivators in the entire Ancient Desolate World seemed inexplicably uneasy, with their bloodlines even faintly trembling.
This feeling was as if they had encountered some supreme existence.
Xia Tianjun, who had just attained the Dao Emperor status, and many powerful foreign beings were now all looking shocked, unable to grasp what had just happened.
This aura came quickly and disappeared just as fast.
The majority of cultivators merely thought they were experiencing an illusion.
But only some Ancient Great Emperors truly understood that this was no illusion.
These foreign Great Emperors became increasingly wary of Divine Martial.
The aura just now, in their view, was very likely deliberately released by Gu Qingfeng to serve as a warning for themselves.
After all, the Dao Rhythm that shook the Nine Heavens had only dissipated not long ago, and now this aura had emerged—no one would believe there was no connection between the two.
Gu Qingfeng paid no heed to the matters outside; all his attention was now focused on the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood before him.
This essence blood was only the size of an adult’s fist, yet it was filled with an abyss-like terrifying Dao Rhythm. If Gu Qingfeng had not deliberately suppressed it, that aura would have been enough to shock the entire Ancient Desolate World.
"Six Tribulations Heavenly Venerate!"
"The strength of such a level of being is indeed unfathomable—"
Looking at the essence blood before him, even a wisp of that aura made Gu Qingfeng feel as though he was an insignificant mayfly gazing upon the vast sky.
This wasn’t because the aura was exceedingly strong, but because it was a level of existence that transcended his own life level, causing Gu Qingfeng to be alarmed.
The aura contained within this mass of essence blood itself was similarly terrifying.
From this, Gu Qingfeng could understand how formidable beings at the Heavenly Venerate level were.
Compared to the aura of this mass of essence blood, the Heavenly Venerable Blood previously gathered in the Ancient Desolate World was much inferior.
The Heavenly Venerate who fell in the Ancient Desolate World was not as powerful as the Six Tribulations.
"If the Six Tribulations Heavenly Venerate is , then how terrifying is the Immortal Heavenly Venerate... The figure on the Yellow Springs, could it be the legendary Immortal Heavenly Venerate!?"
Gu Qingfeng pondered inwardly, then immediately began to refine the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood.
As a reward from the information panel, the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood undoubtedly had a powerful prohibition seal, ensuring that Gu Qingfeng could refine and absorb it normally.
With his Emperor Realm cultivation, he would not have the capability to refine such essence blood.
But as a wisp of Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood entered his body, Gu Qingfeng only felt his vital energy roaring, a terrifyingly immense power burst forth from his body, causing his form to involuntarily tremble.
Surging vital energy flowed like a galactic torrent, the power of the Ancient Immortal Body was fully unlocked, with his vital energy continually transforming, causing his aura to climb rapidly.
Gu Qingfeng’s form sat motionless in the Enlightenment Hall, like an ancient rock, unwavering, with only the Dao Rhythm on his body growing increasingly rich, emitting a daunting aura.
Luckily, around the Enlightenment Hall, Gu Qingfeng had already set up Great Tao prohibitions that could greatly isolate the aura.
With the Enlightenment Hall as the core.
No cultivator would dare step within a thousand miles.
In the hundredth year of Gu Qingfeng’s seclusion, his long-still body finally showed some motion.
As Gu Qingfeng opened his eyes, a divine radiance of the Great Tao pierced through the void, seemingly birthing and extinguishing phenomena of the chaotic universe, with many great Tao laws majestically surging.
But this phenomenon existed only briefly and soon vanished without a trace.
"My physical defense has reached the level of a Half-step Heavenly Venerate. Any further, and it would mean stepping into the Heavenly Venerate level, comparable to a Creation Spiritual Treasure!"
Gu Qingfeng observed his own state, gaining a comprehensive understanding of his transformation over the past century.
If he previously had some distance from the limits of the Emperor Realm, now he had truly reached the apex of the Emperor’s limit, with no further possibility of advancement.
To continue enhancing his strength, there was only one method, which was to break the shackles of the Great Emperor and step into the Heavenly Venerate Realm.
Gu Qingfeng’s strength would scarcely see any further enhancement.
After all, whether in cultivation or the physical body, Gu Qingfeng had entirely entered the level of a Half-step Heavenly Venerate, the pinnacle of the Lower Realm.
Previously, under normal circumstances, achieving Great Success with the Ancient Immortal Body could also slowly temper the body to reach a level equivalent to a Half-step Heavenly Venerate.
But to truly reach that step, Gu Qingfeng estimated it would take at least several thousand years.
Gu Qingfeng had accomplished several thousand years’ worth of accumulation in just a hundred years.
The effect of the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood was even greater than he had anticipated.
The mass of Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood had not been entirely refined by Gu Qingfeng.
He had only refined one-tenth of the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood.
The vast remainder of the Heavenly Venerate Essence Blood was sealed by Gu Qingfeng within his body, to be slowly refined after he breaks through to the Heavenly Venerate Realm someday.
After all, now he was at the limit of the Lower Realm, continuing to refine would be futile, and it was impossible for him to break through the shackles of a Half-step Heavenly Venerate, truly entering the Heavenly Venerate level.