The Combat Saint Body had fully awakened, its Holy Blood endlessly boiling within, reviving, quaking heaven and earth.
Between the meridians roared Supreme Holy Power, as if with a mere lift of his hand he could shatter the firmament and reduce the world to dust!
Though the True King Divine Body of his past was indeed strong, it paled in comparison to the true Combat Saint Body.
The Combat Saint Body was called the Forbidden Battle Body—and this was no mere figure of speech.
Yet, all of this was not the ultimate Holy Body that Ye Chen yearned for; it was merely a simple resurrection of the Holy Body.
What Ye Chen sought was the most powerful, the most perfect Combat Saint Body.
All at once, his gaze turned to the ten orbs of King Blood, and then to the Holy Corpse, to the Nine Tribulations Gold, to the Dragon Origin, each bursting forth with a blazing radiance.
"Past and present life, the two Holy Bodies, fuse together!"
With a mighty roar from Ye Chen, shaking the stars, he suddenly charged towards the Holy Corpse and completely merged with it.
Both were his Holy Bodies, past and present life, Origin connected, indistinct from each other, without the slightest hint of rejection.
The two Holy Bodies completed their fusion, from bone marrow to flesh, to every hair, each inch perfectly merging together, indistinguishable from each other.
At that moment, Ye Chen trembled, as the fusion of the two Holy Bodies caused chains within his Primordial Spirit True Spirit to rapidly shatter, unhindered, releasing the bindings.
At that instant, all the chains that bound his True Spirit utterly scattered, and with it, memory after memory sealed away awakened, revealing many truths.
Within this Holy Corpse, in fact, were hidden Primordial Spirit imprints, now fully merged into his Primordial Spirit, with radiant brilliance blossoming at his brow.
"I understand now..."
Murmured Ye Chen softly, as all awakenings came to him.
He saw a vision, where in his previous life, at the brink of his demise, a massive hand wrapped in Chaos Qi staunchly gripped his burning Holy Body, extracting the half-incinerated Primordial Spirit, preserving a fraction of the undying True Spirit.
Furthermore, part of the essence of the Holy Blood was extracted, along with the remnants of the Primordial Spirit. It pierced through layers of void, descending into a newborn in a small city, within the womb of a City Lord’s wife who carried the child for ten months, nearing birth, to completely fuse with that infant.
The overwhelmingly potent and domineering Holy Blood was sealed away, merging into the infant’s bloodstream, lying dormant.
All became clear, Ye Chen’s eyes were bright; no such thing as the Innate Holy Body existed in this world.
His Holy Body Bloodline was merely from the Holy Corpse, where that Mysterious Person engulfed in Chaos Qi from the River of Time extracted the essence of the Holy Blood, placed a Seal, and lay dormant within the newborn.
Precisely because it was an infant, the bloodline completely merged, the mighty Holy Body Bloodline was allowed to lie dormant, creating an Innate Holy Body, or so it seemed.
Ye Chen laughed. Indeed, all was as such; how could a true Innate Holy Body exist in the world? It required Acquired cultivation of the Combat Saint Technique, step by step forging the strongest Forbidden Battle Body.
The Holy Corpse Flesh was nearly non-existent, yet the most essence laid within the Holy Bones. After the fusion, the bones in his body were reinforced to the utmost extremity, even harder than a Holy Weapon.
And his body continually collapsed, flesh a blur, yet again and again reborn.
In the marrow, increasingly powerful Holy Blood was constantly being produced, healing the body and continuously reinforcing his constitution, fortifying it thoroughly.
At every moment, there was a thunderous roar of Blood Qi echoing within him, as the vigorous and brilliant Holy Blood tirelessly cleansed every inch of flesh in his limbs, constantly sublimating and strengthening.
The fusion of two Holy Bodies could not be completed in a short time; the transformation was slow, requiring a considerable span of time to begin reinforcing the strongest Forbidden Battle Body anew.
And under the guidance of the Combat Saint Technique, this metamorphosis was astonishing, unceasingly intensifying and evolving.
Naturally, the Combat Saint Technique was domineering, and during the strengthening period, it was accompanied by soul-piercing pain that could nearly cause a Saint to collapse.
Yet Ye Chen was no ordinary person. Having lived two lives and being a Combat Saint himself, his willpower was remarkably steadfast, a match for few in the world. He forcibly endured this intense pain.
Moreover, he felt something unusual within his body; he just smiled and called out softly, "Ten Thousand Paths manifest!"
Within the fused Holy Body, one after another Dao Divine Trace danced and emerged, intertwining in the empty space around his body, numbering as many as ten thousand. Each was distinct, almost as if it represented the Heavenly and Ten Thousand Paths.
Above his head, within the air, there was an even more precious Dao Trace exuding the supreme aura of Cangtian, the Heavenly Dao Mark, representing the Heavenly Dao.
This was the Ten Thousand Divine Traces from the fusion of his past life Holy Body, where he had, in a battlefield forbidden zone, taken in the Dao Traces of countless fallen Divinity Transformation Experts into his own body, completely merging with the Holy Body. Now they were all manifesting.
Unexpectedly, the Ten Thousand Dao Traces had not dissipated, always harbored within his body, becoming his most valuable asset.
In his past life, it was precisely because of the fusion of these Ten Thousand Dao Traces that he was able to breakthrough to become a Tenth Layer Heaven, momentarily condensing into the tenth layer.
In this life, having contemplated various Magic Techniques to no avail, he had not expected that now all would be achieved without effort.
At this moment, layer upon layer of Divine Halos surfaced around his body—the First Layer, the Second Layer, the Third Realm... up to the Ninth Layer.
Finally, the Tenth Layer of Divine Halo emerged, although it appeared dim and dark. At this moment, the Ten Thousand Dao Traces that appeared converged like lightning, rushing into the Tenth Layer of Divine Halo.
At this moment, the Tenth Layer of Divine Halo no longer seemed dim, but shone brilliantly, glittering resplendently.
At the same time, in this instant, atop the highest reaches of the Heavenly Dome across the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, suddenly erupted a terrifying peal of thunder, startling the entire Heavenly Ten Thousand Domains. All beings, including those Ancient Giants in seclusion, couldn’t help but look up at the Heavenly Dome, astonishment appearing on their faces.
Without much thought, an event capable of influencing the Heavenly and Ancient realms certainly had happened.
The Sect Leader of the Heavenly Gate atop the Divine Throne of Heavenly Gate Capital Peak also raised his eyes towards Heaven, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
Was he finally beginning to breakthrough?
But all of this was now unrelated to Ye Chen.
Because at this moment, with the emergence of the Ten-layered Heaven, each layer was akin to being connected to a mysterious world, imbued with a misty Immortal Radiance flowing within, submerging his own body, and resonating peculiarly with the Combat Saint Body.
He then looked at the ten strands of King Blood and turned his gaze towards the Dragon Sturgeon, wrapped in half an arms’ length of Divine Spiritual Origin, exhaling softly.
Because the true seclusion, the real commencement of supreme invincibility, was now truly beginning...