Chapter 185: Innate Dao Body
“Hu.”
Watching the distant prodigy’s phantom dissolve into specks of light, Chen Beiwu exhaled a turbid breath.
His goal was to consecutively pass the four trials of the Struggle Realm, earn a double-armor evaluation, and apply for the Immortal Exam to enter the Five Great Grotto-Heavens.
Yet, just the phantom of the cultivator in the third trial had forced him to exhaust every ans, draining his mana completely.
Even though Chen Beiwu cultivated the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree, which possessed the Breath-Reversing trait and restored mana at a speed far surpassing other cultivation thods, it was still difficult to recover to peak condition within a short ti.
‘Is this where it ends?’ Chen Beiwu’s gaze shifted toward Gold Egg.
“Gulu.”
Gold Egg floated into the air, its eyes brimming with fierce fighting spirit.
It indicated that its current state was excellent, that it could activate the Gilded Body to buy Chen Beiwu ti to recover mana.
Chen Beiwu nodded slightly, his eyes fixing on the space ahead.
“Weng!”
At that mont, the Struggle Platform suddenly changed. The seventy-two chains dangling from the void madly converged, extending before Chen Beiwu and finally condensing into the phantom of a cultivator.
Her black hair cascaded like a waterfall, her delicate nose and jade-like skin flawless. She wore a flowing moon-white immortal dress, her phoenix eyes as deep as autumn waters, carrying an ethereal aura untouched by mortal dust.
【Challenger】: Chen Beiwu
【Cultivation】: Qi Refining — Beyond Limit
【Opponent in Struggle Realm】: Immortal Alliance candidate Gu Qinghan of Year 23996 (cultivation at the peak of Foundation Establishnt, currently suppressed to Qi Refining — Beyond Limit)
Sweeping his divine sense over the jade stele’s words, Chen Beiwu’s heart skipped, his eyes tightly locked on that ethereal figure whose robes fluttered as if she had rged into heaven and earth.
What kind of joke was this?
If he hadn’t misunderstood the stele, this Gu Qinghan was already at the peak of Foundation Establishnt when she took the Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam in Year 23996.
No, that couldn’t be right!
By all reason, a prodigy of such talent should have been directly admitted into the Five Great Grotto-Heavens. How could she have participated in the Immortal Exam?
Chen Beiwu’s mind raced, shaken by the difficulty of the Struggle Realm’s fourth trial.
anwhile, perched upon Gu Qinghan’s shoulder was a plump, adorable jade rabbit. A trace of languor lingered between her brows.
She lifted her gaze to Chen Beiwu, yet did not make a move—whether out of disdain to take advantage of him, or curiosity toward Gold Egg, it was unclear.
“Gulu.”
Gold Egg swallowed hard, its body trembling slightly.
Clearly, it was only a Second-Tier Lesser Beast, while the opponent was rely suppressed to Qi Refining—so in terms of cultivation realm, it should have held absolute advantage.
Yet, an inexplicable dread rose in Gold Egg’s heart, as though it wasn’t facing a Qi Refining cultivator, but rather an existence of an entirely higher order.
Especially that jade rabbit on her shoulder—it faintly exuded a bloodline suppression that made Gold Egg shiver.
‘Could that be a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast, or perhaps even a Fifth-Tier Yuan Beast above Mystic Beasts?’
Thinking this, Gold Egg instinctively leaned back, clinging to Chen Beiwu’s arm. Its aura shrank tightly, wholly lacking the domineering montum it had displayed when confronting the phantom in the third trial.
Chen Beiwu’s intuition told him—even if he were in peak condition, let alone now with less than thirty percent of his strength remaining, he would still be unable to defeat this prodigy’s phantom.
‘But if I can’t win, should I not fight?’
Taking a deep breath, Chen Beiwu’s long-dormant blood boiled once more.
So what if he lost!
What mattered now was no longer victory or defeat in this Struggle. What thrilled Chen Beiwu was the chance to cross blades with one of the Immortal Alliance’s peerless prodigies.
Thus, instead of attacking imdiately, Chen Beiwu seized the mont to circulate the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree and recover mana.
Since his opponent was willing to grant him the chance, he would et Gu Qinghan in his best possible state, seeking even the faintest sliver of victory.
……
Bixiao Immortal Sect.
Seeing the phantom of such a prodigy appear in the Struggle Realm, the gathered Golden Core True Persons all revealed looks of surprise.
No one could say whether Chen Beiwu’s luck was good or bad—to actually encounter Gu Qinghan’s projection in the fourth trial.
Even True Monarch Jiang Chuan, whose expression had remained calm all along, finally wavered. His gaze toward Chen Beiwu carried doubt and astonishnt.
The world knew that after forging the Dharma Body, one could perform Flawless Foundation Establishnt. Yet what most did not know was that above the Dharma Body, there existed sothing even rarer: the Innate Dao Body.
And what was an Innate Dao Body?
Unlike spiritual roots, an Innate Dao Body was a rare physique found among one in hundreds of millions of cultivators. It bore the Dao’s rhythm of heaven and earth, its rarity far surpassing even Heavenly Roots.
Such special physiques only appeared among the descendants of Dao Lords at the Void Refining Realm and rarely lasted beyond two generations.
So Dao Bodies were stronger, so weaker.
A powerful Innate Dao Body allowed its possessor to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, ignore the barrier of realms, and easily step into the Nascent Soul stage, with one foot already set into Spirit Transformation.
A weaker Innate Dao Body still granted extraordinary cultivation speed, allowing one to master Legendary-Grade cultivation thods suited to their physique, shattering bottlenecks with ease, and achieving Golden Core and Nascent Soul without difficulty.
In short, every possessor of an Innate Dao Body was a peerless prodigy of the human race. At their birth, heaven and earth would descend with ons, and they would naturally be born with a Flawless Dao Foundation.
What did that an?
The Flawless Foundation Establishnt that countless cultivators of the Immortal Alliance pursued their entire lives yet rarely attained, those born with an Innate Dao Body possessed from the very start.
Of course, this was not surprising—after all, a Dao Lord at the Void Refining Realm stood at the absolute peak of the Immortal Alliance. With but a thought, they could crush a True Monarch at Spirit Transformation.
The offspring of such an existence, even inheriting only a fragnt of immortal bearing, could effortlessly stand above countless cultivators of the Immortal Alliance.
And Gu Qinghan was one of the finest among Innate Dao Bodies.
Born into the Supre Yin Gu Clan, she possessed the exceedingly rare Lesser Yin Dao Body. From the mont she was born, she was already at the peak of Foundation Establishnt, a single step away from forming a Golden Core.
Even across the entire history of the Immortal Alliance, Gu Qinghan ranked among the most outstanding prodigies.
‘Why him?’ True Monarch Jiang Chuan’s eyes fell on Chen Beiwu, surprised by his fortune.
The Struggle Realm’s fourth trial recorded thousands of prodigy phantoms, yet Gu Qinghan was undeniably in a class of her own.
Forget about defeating her phantom—if Chen Beiwu could withstand even two moves from her, his na would spread far and wide.
Should he last three moves, the Five Great Grotto-Heavens might even open their gates wide, convening a special Immortal Exam just for him.
At this thought, True Monarch Jiang could not help but chuckle wryly.
What was he thinking?
How could Chen Beiwu possibly withstand even a single move from Gu Qinghan’s projection?
It was not that he looked down on Chen Beiwu, but the gulf between them was utterly insurmountable.
A hundred years ago, during the cross-realm war, Jiang Chuan had personally witnessed Gu Qinghan take action.
At that ti, Gu Qinghan was already at mid-stage Nascent Soul, representing the Supre Yin Grotto-Heaven in battle.
When besieged by five foreign Nascent Souls, she crushed three mid-stage Nascent Souls with a single move.
The remaining two late-stage Nascent Souls fled in terror—yet even then, they failed to escape Gu Qinghan’s grasp.
It must be rembered: a Nascent Soul could not be destroyed, a True Monarch could not die.
At such a stage, even when defeated, it was extrely difficult for a cultivator to be slain by soone of the sa realm—unless the difference spanned three minor realms.
From this, one could see just how terrifying Gu Qinghan’s strength was. To call her invincible among her peers was no exaggeration.
Jiang Chuan even suspected that at that ti, Gu Qinghan could already resist, albeit briefly, against a Spirit Transformation True Monarch.
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