My Golden Core is a Star, do you call this cultivating?

High in the sky, that towering figure stands arrogantly, above all others. Starlight scattered and fell from the heavens.

It seemed as though the world was weeping, as a mysterious blood rain began to fall.

"Weaklings, you have no right to resist!"

"Only death awaits you!"

The Blood Sun Great Saint was filled with arrogance and desire, her eyes fixed on the north, her tongue licking her lips as if she were eyeing the most exquisite delicacy.

The Devouring Primordial Body ... If she could obtain it, combined with the Innate World, how powerful could she become?

It was unimaginable!

"Surrender to me, and I will make you my consort!"

Blood Sun the Great Saint's gaze pierced through miles, locking onto the Origin Heavenly Sovereign in Feiwu City.

Qi Yuan's face bore an expression of helplessness. "Don't you know that interrupting someone during a meal is very rude? It's extremely disrespectful to the dead; beware that the Secret Wheel Venerable might crawl out of hell to seek revenge on you!"

At this moment, Qi Yuan had already visualized the Three Pure Ones and acquired the Devouring Primordial Body . His strength had now reached an exceedingly terrifying level.

Ordinary myths, he could obliterate with a mere gesture.

When he spoke, his voice echoed across the world, reaching all corners of the Mortal Heart Realm.

All of the realm's inhabitants heard the words of the legendary Origin Heavenly Sovereign.

In their hearts, hope arose—a hope that the Origin Heavenly Sovereign could vanquish the terrifying figure in the sky!

Although they knew this hope was nothing more than a delusion.

The Devouring Incarnation of Blood Sun Great Saint swept across Feiwu City, her gaze falling upon all the ancient gods.

In her eyes, a flicker of amazement and surprise passed—a rare sight in the tens of thousands of years she had lived.

Because those ancient gods... each one seemed to hold boundless potential.

Moreover, each of these myths seemed capable of suppressing her during her mythic period!

She was the favored daughter of the heavens, a being who had already stepped into the realm of the Yang God!

And yet, what did she see here?

Her body couldn’t help but tremble before she broke into wild laughter.

"Haha, Devouring Primordial Body... everything will be mine!"

"These ancient gods will all become my nourishment!"

"The gods you visualized will all serve me!"

Naturally, she assumed that Qi Yuan's achievements were all due to the Devouring Primordial Body.

Only the Devouring Primordial Body could explain this!

"A mere incarnation dares to speak such big words!"

What Qi Yuan faced was actually one of Blood Sun Great Saint's incarnations.

Back then, what the Venerable Foodless Holy Mother faced was merely a projection of that incarnation.

"This is my past body!" Blood Sun Great Saint was furious!

To ascend to the Yang God realm, one must walk the Seven Steps of Heaven, then sever the past body to achieve the present form!

For a newly ascended Yang God, the past body may be weaker, but it is still the extreme of mythic power, capable of obliterating myths with a mere gesture.

Blood Sun Great Saint's past body was more than enough to dominate the Mortal Heart Realm.

Not to mention, she had already devoured a large portion of the Heavenly Dao.

No matter how many myths stood before her, given time, she could destroy them all!

After all, a Yang God's past body was far beyond the reach of mere myths.

"I thought you were just an incarnation, but you're actually a dead person!"

A past body was essentially a dead body, wasn’t it?

As Qi Yuan's voice rang out, he made his move, unleashing the full might of the Three Pure Ones.

"You dare seek death!" Blood Sun Great Saint's past body roared in fury.

A mere myth dared to show her disrespect!

She opened her mouth, and suddenly, her jaws split wide, extending all the way to her ears.

Then...

In an instant, the entire sky was filled with nothing but a gaping, bloody maw.

"I will devour you and complete myself!"

The gaping maw snapped shut, as if it was swallowing the entire world, plunging everything into darkness.

Qi Yuan found himself engulfed in endless darkness.

Surprised, he murmured, "You dare to swallow the Three Pure Ones? Who gave you the courage?"

In that instant, the true meaning of the Three Pure Ones erupted!

From One came Two, and from Two came Three!

Behind Qi Yuan, three terrifying phantoms materialized one after another.

The primordial, the chaotic, the profound yellow... The air was filled with an overwhelming, ancient aura.

The Mortal Heart Realm trembled.

It was the fear and dread of a higher plane.

The three phantoms seemed to be seated across the past, present, and future.

These three were none other than the Yuan Shi Tian Zun, Ling Bao Tian Zun, and Tao De Tian Zun visualized by Qi Yuan.

The supreme deities of Taoism!

The Taizhen Record once said: "The Great Luo generates the Primordial Yuan's three Qi, which then form the Three Pure Heavens."

The Qi that became the Clear Micro Heaven is the Primordial Yuan;

The Qi that became the Yuyutian is the Upper Purity;

The Qi that became the Great Red Heaven is the Supreme Purity.

As the saying goes, "One Qi transforms into the Three Pure Ones!"

"Break!"

Qi Yuan reached out his hand and grasped toward the darkened sky.

Behind him, the three phantoms also extended their hands.

The primordial, profound, and original Qi seemed to have come from the dawn of time.

In that instant, these three Qi wrapped around Qi Yuan's hand.

The world suddenly brightened!

All the darkness was dispelled as Qi Yuan saw a flash of blood-red light. A crack appeared in the darkness, and light poured through that crack, landing on Qi Yuan's hand.

As the light fell on his face, he appeared heroic, like a god.

The blood-red light expanded, the crack widening furiously—not torn apart, but stretched open.

"No!"

With a desperate scream, Blood Sun Great Saint's past body exploded!

"How is this possible? What was that?!"

Before shattering, Blood Sun Great Saint's eyes were fixed on the three phantoms behind Qi Yuan.

She couldn’t comprehend what those beings were!

She had become a Yang God, yet a past body, upon attempting to devour those phantoms, was instantly annihilated!

"Is that it?" Qi Yuan’s figure appeared in the sky, his voice booming, "Even the courage Liang Jingru gave you won't help!"

He hadn’t even needed the Three Pure Ones' phantoms to shatter this past body!

All the gods fell into a silent, chilling terror.

The past body of a Yang God had been… blown apart by the Origin Heavenly God!

"The Heavenly God is invincible!"

"Glory to the Heavenly God!"

In Feiwu City, thousands of gods shouted in unison.

After all, in this first encounter, the Origin Heavenly God had won a flawless victory.

But then, a hysterical voice rang out.

"You destroyed my past body, wasted ten thousand years of mine—your crime is unforgivable!"

This voice was a hundred times more terrifying than the one before.

Everyone instinctively looked up at the sky.

There they saw... the sky tearing apart!

In the sky, a pale hand reached out, ripping a hole in the sky.

Through that tear, a massive eye gazed down upon the Mortal Heart Realm.

The eye visible through that tear was only a tiny fraction of the whole.

What kind of eye was this?

Enormous, deep, filled with countless compound eyes, the tear widening, revealing more of that vast eye.

The eye seemed endless, as if the entire Mortal Heart Realm's sky could be torn apart, and yet the whole eye still wouldn’t be visible.

One eye, larger than the entire Mortal Heart Realm!

That eye locked onto Qi Yuan.

In that instant, Qi Yuan felt countless invisible hands reaching out from all directions, tightly binding his body!

So this was the power of a Yang God?

Qi Yuan’s expression grew more serious than ever before.

All the ancient gods of the Mortal Heart Realm felt their skin crawl, unable to even look directly at that eye.

"That eye… it's bigger than the entire Mortal Heart Realm!"

"How can a being above the True Gods be this strong?"

"How can we possibly fight this?"

The Mortal Heart Realm was an Innate World, and its most powerful beings were those who had taken the Seven Steps of Heaven.

As for beings above the True Gods, there were no records of them!

Otherwise, the strongest beings in the Mortal Heart Realm would not be True Gods but Yang Gods!

The ancient gods of the Mortal Heart Realm had speculated about the power of beings above the True Gods.

The Venerable Foodless Holy Mother had once resisted a projection of a being above the True Gods for twenty breaths.

So the Mythic Plan held a slim hope.

The idea was that the myths would attract the attention of the being above the True Gods, allowing the seeds of hope to escape.

But now, with the sky torn open, they finally saw what a Yang God truly was.

A Yang God's eye alone was larger than the entire Mortal Heart Realm!

How could they fight such a terrifying existence?

How could they possibly win?

Though there were legends that a Yang God could swallow stars, the Mortal Heart Realm was a sealed world. They had no concept of how large a star really was.

All the inhabitants of the Mortal Heart Realm were filled with fear; their will to fight had vanished.

Faced with such a sight, who wouldn’t be terrified?

But Qi Yuan remained unusually calm.

With a surge of power, the invisible chains binding him shattered.

From the rift in the sky, a majestic voice boomed.

"Do you dare to come out and fight?"

Blood Sun Great Saint roared.

Her true form could not enter the Mortal Heart Realm without tearing it apart.

The Heavenly Dao hadn’t been fully consumed yet, so the Mortal Heart Realm couldn’t be destroyed.

Qi Yuan's expression remained indifferent, even serene. "Why wouldn’t I dare?"

Facing an enemy, there was no escape!

So... the only choice was to fight to the death!

In Feiwu City, all the ancient gods' fighting spirit was ignited.

"I am willing to follow the Heavenly God and slay the evil god!" Shenlei Great Venerable declared, his voice causing the heavens to tremble.

"We will fight!" The Pine-Guarding Ancient God roared, his expression fierce.

"We dare to fight!" Shi Chongshan’s voice was as solid as the mountains themselves.

"We are ready to die for the Heavenly God!"

These were not just empty words; they were promises from the ancient gods.

If the world crumbled, if everything was destroyed, the Origin Heavenly God was still their only hope.

These ancient gods would never give up their last hope!

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

Their voices thundered like a mighty tide. Nearly five thousand Great Venerables roared in unison, a sound louder than the battle cries of a million heavenly soldiers, echoing throughout the entire Mortal Heart Realm!

None of them hesitated!

Even knowing they faced a Yang God, a being that could devour the Mortal Heart Realm, they did not falter.

At that moment, not a single one of Qi Yuan’s followers hesitated; all of them soared into the sky!

Nearly five thousand True Gods—none of them weaker than a Great Venerable—rose to follow Qi Yuan without fear, charging toward the rift in the sky.

Qi Yuan’s expression was as calm as the ocean. In an instant, he passed through the rift in the sky and emerged into the boundless chaos.

Behind Qi Yuan, five thousand Great Venerables radiated terrifying auras, every one of them ready to die in battle against the Yang God.

Each of these Great Venerables, in any other world, would be the most powerful of beings.

And each one... if given enough time, had the potential to reach the Yang God realm.

This was the terrifying nature of innate beings, and also the terrifying nature of the gods Qi Yuan had visualized!

Now, Qi Yuan looked at the terrifying creatures in the distance, unable to see their full forms.

Vast, endless, as immense as stars.

These creatures were not just one but two!

How could one possibly fight such enemies?

Yet Qi Yuan’s eyes remained steady, his gaze cold. "In my foundation stage, I dared to swallow stars! Now that my Golden Core is perfected, why wouldn’t I dare to kill two Yang Gods?!"