The aura of chaos filled the atmosphere. The higher one traveled, the more terrifying the pressure became.

In the end, Lin Xun stopped at the twenty-seventh heaven.

In this zone, the boundless primal chaos origin took on the forms of various savage birds and beasts that roamed freely in the air.

That wasn’t all as there were all sorts of great dao divine flowers, drops of light that flowed into waterfalls, and colorful hazes that surged like tidal waves. They permeated every inch of space.

The scene was so amazing that even if stories of it got out, the world probably would still struggle to believe that such a wonderful place existed!

Even old Emperor experts were destined to go crazy for it.

At the moment, Lin Xun was already feeling quite strained, but not to the point that it could cause injuries.

Exhaling a long breath, he sat down cross-legged and started meditating.

Rumble!

He instantly became a large abyss, spinning fast and generating a terrifying aura that could swallow everything. From all directions, primal chaos origin rushed toward him and produced dull explosions as they gathered inside him.

Soon, thick tides of primal chaos origin power drowned out his figure.

How should one describe this feeling, he felt like a long dried out desert that was finally being embraced by a downpour!

It was so comfortable that Lin Xun almost moaned.

Emperor Stage cultivation demanded the support of an enormous amount of resources. For a supreme Great Emperor with an overly strong foundation like Lin Xun, his cultivation required much, much more than that.

To make a simple analogy, if what an ordinary Emperor needed was a lake to fulfill one training session, then Lin Xun would need an ocean!

Looking at the whole Ancient Nebula Road, there were many blessed lands everywhere, but the only ones that could satisfy his need were the top-grade cultivation paradises.

For example, the bases of the Great Six Courts.

This was also one of the reasons why it was incredibly difficult for an Emperor expert to break through to a higher level.

The number of blessed lands that could satisfy their cultivation in the nebula was already limited. Some clans and powers, even after draining all their resources, could only provide for at most one Emperor expert.

However, the Divine Xuan Realm was a completely different case.

The higher up one went, the thicker and more widespread the primal chaos origin power in the air was. At the moment, Lin Xun couldn't help but lament.

If it was possible to train in here forever, who would need to worry about breaking through?

Rumble!

The region shook as chaos qi rolled in. Lin Xun was like a bottomless abyss that engulfed it all in a frantic and greedy manner.

The vast and grand True Self Emperor World in him also operated, refining the absorbed primal chaos origin in a speed that made the process visible to the naked eyes.

With the passage of time, his True Self Emperor World kept becoming more solid, majestic, and gorgeous.

Simultaneously, Lin Xun perceived the purest great dao law power imprinted in the primal chaos origin. It allowed him to, almost intuitively, comprehend and thus refine those laws into his own dao power!

At this moment, the Divine Xuan Realm shocked him immensely. There was really a reason why the Xuan Clan had been able to be undying since the primeval era until now.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun's five dao bodies were concentrating fully on studying the various scriptures in his possession.

Before he had become an Emperor, what he had figured out from these arts and techniques was limited to below the Emperor Stage.

It was different now that he was a supreme Great Emperor. He could finally grasp and master the parts in them that were exclusive to the Emperor Stage!

Lin Xun's goal was very clear: to thoroughly understand his various inherited scriptures down to their principles, and then coalesce them into his own Emperor scripture.

This was his dao, a dao that encompassed all paths under heavens and derived all arts that could ever exist!

……

Ten days later.

With an earth-shattering explosion, all the primal chaos origin around Lin Xun was devoured in seconds, leaving not a single drop behind.

He looked as though he had broken a heavy shackle. His aura suddenly climbed up like an erupting volcano!

Interwoven dao lights and auspicious rain set him off like a blazing sun. His glow ripped through space and illuminated the world, so bright, so dazzling.

In his mind-sea, his Will Dharma Form in the form of a furnace vibrated intensely, dispensing all sorts of obscure and miraculous runes.

They were the Emperor dao laws that had been branded in his spirit. They now seemed to have substance, presenting a grand spectacle.

Inside him, his True Self Emperor World tumbled while constantly expanding. If it could be described as a small world before, then currently, it had developed into a big world!

In there, the sky, earth, sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and everything down to a blade of grass were coated in a brilliant luster. Such was a world derived from the purest, most concentrated Emperor origin power.

During this process, Lin Xun's physical body was also enhanced in a completely new way. His flesh looked as if it was made of immortal jade, housing the natural pulses of the dao. His bones were snow-white, and his tendons and veins lustrous as if they had been crafted with divine liquid metal. When his qi and energy operated, they produced metallic sounds.

Meanwhile, the realm of five viscera and six bowels, as well as the area of acupuncture points were also brimming with vitality and dao light. Even his hair diffused misty light, while the strands themselves were black, glossy, and impossible to be cut by a normal divine weapon!

Without exaggeration, a drop of Lin Xun’s blood would be considered a top-grade elixir for the average cultivator, having the power to revive the dead from just a set of bones!

A long time later, the soaring aura around him stabilized. All the phenomena disappeared along with it, and everything fell silent.

Lin Xun was now a second realm Emperor, attaining the phase of Formless!

There were nine realms in the Emperor Stage, and each realm was a heavenly rift.

The first realm was the phase of Free From Obsessions. The cultivator was no longer confined by daos and laws. Their body carried no weight, and their heart no attachment.

The second realm was Formless, which was derived from the principle that was ‘the dao has no form.’

In this realm, the cultivator’s body and mind had perfectly harmonized with the great dao of heaven and earth. Every move they made would be accompanied naturally by their daos and arts, which were no longer bound to fixed shapes and thus the name Formless.

In short, after an Emperor reached this realm, they could be standing in the middle of a bustling street and the mortals, and even normal cultivators, still wouldn’t be able to detect their presence.

This was not a secret art to conceal one’s aura and location, but a level in cultivation: ‘Since the almighty dao has no form but is omnipresent, so can I!’

Of course, in the eyes of the Emperors, this kind of formless was only a realm and not actually the real physical state.

After all, the invisible great dao still left traces that all beings could follow, study, and control.

Such was the second realm of the Emperor Stage.

Upon entering this realm, Lin Xun keenly perceived the radical transformation in his power. It was nothing that the first realm could ever compare!

Most notably, his dao heart had started to present a kind of dazzling and translucent ‘heart light’!

When the light of the heart shone upon the Emperor, their future would be full of hope and fortune!

This was the presentation of an Emperor’s dao heart when they reached the second realm. Their shell became formless and the light of their heart gathered, allowing them to see through all mysteries!

In other words, the heart light made it easier to study and fathom the order and law powers between heaven and earth.

The Emperor Mind Obstacle that one would face when reaching the third realm of the Emperor Stage was related to the heart light.

After a long silence, Lin Xun's eyes flashed with a strange expression. “A realm breakthrough only three months after I became a supreme Emperor. Those old monsters that hate my guts, I wonder how they would feel if they knew this…”

Indeed, it had only been less than three months, and Lin Xun had once again crossed another heavenly rift to become a supreme second realm Emperor!

If such an astounding speed of advancement was known by those old monsters who hadn't been able to take a step further for thousands of years, they would probably die from anger.

After all, each realm of the Emperor Stage was a barrier so huge that passing it for a cultivator was no different from ascending to sky with one step for a mortal.

Some old first realm monsters were forced to stand still for ten thousand years without being able to break through!

With such a comparison, one could see how ferociously fast Lin Xun leveled up.

Of course, the Divine Xuan Realm played a crucial role in this. As the foundation of the Xuan Clan, it was a unique supreme blessed land.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun was the first Emperor outsider since the beginning of time to enter it, and he had been cultivating in the twenty-seventh heaven at that. Just ten days in here had been worth a hundred years of hard work in the outside world!

One day later.

After Lin Xun solidified his second realm foundation, he leaped to his feet and started moving up.

Less than twenty days out of the one-month period was left, so he didn't want to waste a second of this precious opportunity.

The twenty-seventh heaven could certainly fulfill his needs, but it was not the limit!

Fifteen minutes later.

Lin Xun arrived at the twenty-ninth heaven.

One incense stick of time later.

Lin Xun arrived at the thirty-third heaven and stopped there.

The reason was simple: from the thirtieth heaven up, the pressure posed by primal chaos origin suddenly became several times stronger. It was a very drastic spike compared to before.

It had required Lin Xun’s utmost strength to reach the thirty-third heaven.

“Not bad, the primal chaos origin here is almost substantial;it’s as thick as a stream of water. Even the law power here presents perfection and purity…”

After a quick analysis, Lin Xun smiled in satisfaction before sitting right down and beginning his meditation.

Rumble!

A tsunami of primal chaos origin instantly shrouded him.

……

“What? The kid has not only broken through to the second realm but also got to the thirty-third heaven in one go?”

After Xuan Shangchen broke the news, the Xuan Clan elders who had been paying attention to Lin Xun's progress could not remain calm. One by one, they stared blankly into space.

The Divine Xuan Realm was their ancestral ground, so they naturally knew better than anyone the marvels of the thirty-six heavens in there.

Strictly speaking, a first realm Emperor could only cultivate in the first five heavens at best.

A second realm expert could cultivate in the first ten levels.

Going from this, every realm higher meant the ability to access five more heavens in the Divine Xuan Realm.

From the thirty heavens up, only Emperors at the seventh realm and stronger could go there!

In fact, the thirty-third heaven, where Lin Xun currently was at, was a very difficult layer for the average seventh realm Emperor Stage!

This was exactly why the Xuan Clan elders were unable to believe it.

Not only them, but even Xuan Shangchen had been speechless for a long while after he had seen it through the Divine Xuan Mirror. For a second, jealousy had run rampant and he had almost lost control.

Yes, he, the mighty leader of the Xuan Clan, the fiercest Emperor expert in all of the nebula, had been jealous of a junior at that moment!