Jiang Li, after all, had not received Gongsun Qingyue's Flying Sword Transmission, even though he should have returned to the Tianxuan Hall by now.

He rode the wind, flying hundreds of miles beneath the night sky, when suddenly, clouds in front of him appeared and dispersed, revealing an island amidst the mist where he landed.

The climate of the Secret Place remained perennially spring-like, unchanged, with spiritual mechanisms overflowing and no trace of the Five Viscous elements, resembling a Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Although Jiang Li carried concerns in his heart, he still followed the familiar path into the mountain valley. After walking dozens of steps, the scene suddenly opened up, and a pool beneath a waterfall abruptly came into view.

At the edge of that pool stood a solitary figure, quietly staring at the Divine Farmer Stone Statue, seemingly lost in thought, but—

"It's not Master."

When Jiang Li saw that figure, he felt an inexplicable fluctuation arise, a divine sense stirred, and a faint cyan light began to emerge from his forehead.

"Heaven Incarnation," his voice grew solemn.

The only beings that could invoke such a feeling in him were Ji Jiji himself or one other being. With Ji Jiji currently held in Wushan with the Great Venerable, the remaining possibility was clear.

Sure enough, the figure turned around, revealing a youthful face with perfect features, especially the snow-white eyebrows above the eyes.

This was exactly Ji Jiji's appearance from over two hundred years ago.

After Ji Jiji's physical body was killed, it lay undecayed for two hundred years beneath the ginseng fruit tree, assimilated by Heaven and transformed into its incarnation.

The Heavenly Incarnation, dressed in white robes, not wearing the dragon-patterned Dao Robe that belonged to Ji Jiji's corpse, wore his long black hair pinned up by a wooden hairpin, and his pupils were nearly colorless, indifferent and ruthless.

He looked at Jiang Li, his gaze seeming to focus on the cyan light at his forehead, then moved to the sleeves, spotting the Ochre Whip and Divine Farmer's Cauldron hidden inside.

A sensation indescribable in words swept over Jiang Li's entire body; it was the attention of those eyes, a perception that condensed into tangibility.

In a trance, Jiang Li seemed to see a massive eye opening, its round pupil focusing intently on him, imprinting an invisible Qi Mechanism upon him.

Though it was just a gaze, this scrutiny alone imposed an unprecedented pressure on Jiang Li, surpassing any Fourth-Grade Expert he had faced before.

Immediately reacting, Jiang Li's body manifested Dragon Scales, his legs transformed into a snake's tail, and a pair of spiral dragon horns grew from his forehead, his chest and abdomen turned crystal-colored.

In an instant, he revealed his Dao Body; the Three Tombs—Qi Tomb, Form Tomb, Mountain Tomb—all activated, the Essence, Qi, and Spirit circulated according to mystical laws, and Jiang Li's Dao Body transformed with the operation of the Cultivation Technique, integrating the Three Tombs.

But as Jiang Li underwent this transformation, the enormous invisible eye also seemed to shift, its gaze flowing like water over his body, seeping into him through the gaps in the Cultivation Technique.

At the same time, the Heavenly Incarnation's pupils displayed numerous divination symbols, circulating around a Taiji, slowly rotating.

In that moment, Jiang Li felt as though he was split into countless parts, particles of flesh, bone, and even cells dissected, sliced into particles that existed in a state between being and non-being.

Within that gaze, Jiang Li had no secrets; all his Cultivation Techniques and Magic Doors were discerned, even the Karma clearly visible.

Immediately, the Taiji Eight Trigrams divided into various Yin Yang Yokes, interweaving and evolving.

Jiang Li's mind violently shook, his Dao Body began involuntarily transforming, following the changes displayed by the Yin Yang Yokes, shifting his flesh and moving the Three Elements.

Form Tomb, Qi Tomb, and the only practiced Mountain Tomb, the three Cultivation Techniques linked like three vast gears, meshing together.

Click—

A mysterious sensation arose in his heart, filling Jiang Li with a genuine sense of joy.

"So that's how it is."

He murmured softly, his Dragon Scales gradually disappearing, his snake tail transformed back into legs, and he resumed human form, but the mysteries belonging to his Dao Body persisted within his body, continuously adapting to the blood, Qi Mechanism, and Divine Sense with every movement, embodying the mystical union of action and stillness within Yin and Yang.

Crucially, the Three Tombs operated in sync, fitting together exceptionally well.

"This is the payment."

As the tangible gaze quietly dissipated, the Taiji and Eight Trigrams in the eyes of the Heavenly Incarnation vanished into invisibility, only his indifferent voice spoke, "After destroying Yellow Heaven, I will help you deduce once more."

After speaking, the Heavenly Incarnation slowly faded and disappeared before Jiang Li's eyes.

"This..." Jiang LI felt that there was one thing he had to say, "I haven't even agreed yet?"

He hadn't yet agreed, and the Heavenly Incarnation had already left on its own, which felt like he had been strong-armed into a deal.

Though the reward was indeed enticing.

After combining Essence, Qi, and Spirit, Jiang Li found the convergence point of the Three Tombs Cultivation Technique; crucially, he found the path forward through the deduction of the Taiji Eight Trigrams.

"The Dao produces one, one produces two, two produce three, three produce all things. What I must do is reverse this process, return to one, and merge with the Dao."

He sought the connections among all things, transforming the many back into one—where one is the Dao, and the Dao is one.

At this thought, Jiang Li felt an intangible tremor within his body.

"Heaven and Earth are born with me, all things are one with me, the path of the Dao is the Dao Fruit, and Zhuang Zhou's Dao Fruit has further integrated."

The Karma Collection updated the integration progress accurately.

This was the reward given by the Heavenly Incarnation.

"How does it feel?"

The gentle and pleasant voice flowed into his ears like spring water, and with a flicker of light and shadow, Tianxuan's figure transformed from illusion to reality appearing not far ahead.

Clearly, Tianxuan had seen everything that had just transpired.

She called Jiang Li here not for the reasons he had imagined but to meet the Heavenly Incarnation, and he realized once again that he had underestimated this old demon.

"It feels very good. If it could happen again, I might truly manage to integrate the Three Tombs," Jiang Li did not bother to conceal the fact and directly divulged about the Three Tombs.

At the same time, he stared intently at Tianxuan, as if observing the changes in her demeanor.

Tianxuan showed no change in her expression; even through her veil, her composure and calm were palpable. She said, "You should now understand the origins of the heavens, which is an existence manifested by the Fuxi Dao Fruit, and Fuxi was the first emperor of the Human Race, the First Heavenly Emperor, and his Dao Fruit is First Grade. The heavens, transformed from this Dao Fruit, may not be a true First Grade, but it does possess the mystique of this Dao Fruit, its capacity for deduction aligns perfectly with the transforming Heavenly Dao, surpassing heaven and earth."

"If not for the constancy of Heavenly Action, the heavens would actually be the strongest."

Heavenly Action is constant, it does not change for the righteous or the wicked. Heaven and earth are unkind, treating all beings as straw dogs. Because of its unkindness there is supreme kindness, hence although the heavens incorporate a First Grade Dao Fruit, it is not considered powerful.

Being 'powerful' is a term to describe living creatures, and the heavens, in fact, are not considered living creatures; they are more like a symbol, an intangible existence.

But—

"The heavens do not seem to be displaying their usual constancy right now," Jiang Li said.

It's not just the special attention given to the Three Clans, but also its current behaviors, which seem more human than symbolic.

Providing a reward, asking Jiang Li to help destroy Yellow Heaven.

And the change in its attire, no longer wearing the same clothes it originally possessed, but now donned in white. This can be seen, in a way, as an expression of self-awareness.

The heavens no longer like the heavens, becoming more like mankind, was not a good omen.

And the root cause of this change in the heavens, undoubtedly, was that person.

"Ji Jiji!" Tianxuan's voice turned stern, "He is making the heavens, at least the incarnation of the heavens, more and more like a human, and as this continues, it might truly turn the heavens into a human."

Assume the Image of the Heavens, Execute the Actions of the Heavens, Seize the Technique of the Heavens.

The three steps in the Yin Talisman Scripture, Ji Jiji had already completed two, just one step left.

Once he succeeds, he won't only gain the power of the heavens but might also use it to ascend.

However, since the Fuxi Dao Fruit is First Grade, he would need to first achieve Second Grade to ascend, or rather, is he trying to split the Fuxi Dao Fruit, first ascend to Second Grade, then seek First Grade?

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