Chapter Forty-Two: Sitting in Oblivion, Beyond the Self; the Mountain Lord’s Great Refinement

Log: You have severed the demonic tribulation and used the act of slaying demons to prove your Dao. Your mind and spirit have undergone immense tempering, breaking open shackles like a startled dragon, and casting away worldly dust to reveal a luminous pearl. Your spiritual essence, willpower, and wisdom have grown tremendously...

Log: You have severed the demonic tribulation. Your spiritual world has absorbed a special profound-spirit information. This is the quintessence of heaven, earth, and the mortal world, brewed within the crucible of humanity—the most refined of the refined, the purest of the pure, the most profound of the profound. Your spiritual foundation has received immense nourishment, and your congenital coefficient has increased exponentially...

Log: You have severed the demonic tribulation. Your saber intent is like the blazing sun, its momentum brilliant, its intent fierce. The saber intent has merged with the profound-spirit information, stirring a wisp of the congenital foundation...

Log: "Should four cups of wine make one utterly drunk, I ask the azure sky, who am I!" Your mind has been influenced by the congenital foundation, entering a state of immersion: congenital embryonic breathing, sitting in oblivion and forgetting the self...

Log: Evaluating... Sitting in oblivion and forgetting the self, recasting the congenital!

Log: Evaluating... Insufficient essence of life. Sitting in oblivion and forgetting the self is insufficient to recast the congenital...

Log: Evaluating... You inherit the protagonist's destiny. Destiny is within you; destiny is complete, which is sufficient for congenital recasting...

Log: Evaluating... You do not possess the protagonist's destiny...

Log: Evaluating... You possess one share of the protagonist's destiny. If treated as the protagonist...

Log: Destiny is within me! Heaven and earth are the artisans, Yin and Yang are the charcoal, and creation is the furnace. This is the great congenital refining of heaven and earth!

Log: Detected the state of sitting in oblivion and forgetting the self, insufficient to sustain the completion of the great congenital refining of heaven and earth. Evaluating...

Log: Detected breakthrough into the entry realm, life evolution initiated, elements merging...

Log: Detected breakthrough into the entry realm, tiger-form trait and tiger majesty refined, elements merging...

Log: Detected insight into truth effect, elements merging...

Log: Detected traces of destiny, weight value increased...

Log: Detected six roots pure and unified, detected five phases pure and unified, elements merging...

Log: Detected that the compatibility of the Eighteen Saber Strikes of the Tiger Fiend meets the conditions, weight value increased...

Log: Extracting life blueprint, anchoring karmic destiny...

Log: Evaluating weights...

Log: Anchoring complete!

Log: You have initiated the Great Congenital Body-Refining, the Lord of the Mountains Great Refining!

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Log: You have acquired the trait: Lord of the Mountains Great Refining!

Log: Lord of the Mountains Great Refining: Congenital recasting, cosmos shaped, sovereign of all mountains, supreme ruler of all demons! To be a monarch is to be noble—noble beyond measure!

Log: Affected by the great congenital refining, your root-nature essence has transformed, and your root-nature will evolve into the exclusive root-nature of the Lord of the Mountains.

Log: Root-nature evolution paused. You are the Master of Fate, ruling over destiny. The six roots are fate, and you alone reign supreme. You may choose to continue evolving your root-nature or unlock the hidden destiny route (exclusive to the protagonist; unattainable without bearing destiny).

Log: You have completed a session of the Lord of the Mountains Great Refining, and your six-dimensional attributes have grown enormously...

How swift was the speed of Li Qi's thoughts at this moment? With just a single glance, he skipped all the unimportant content and focused solely on the key points.

The contents of the log also revealed all the changes within him. The reason for such drastic changes was the panel's participation. Judging by the panel's evaluation mechanism, it was clearly biased toward him, and in some places, it almost felt like sheer nonsense.

However, Li Qi could also perceive that the panel's current capabilities had their limits. Otherwise, it wouldn't need to constantly evaluate and continuously incorporate new elements. Perhaps, much like how his intent root was only partially liberated, it was his own lack of strength that was dragging down the panel's performance.

After all, according to Li Qi's understanding, any intervention in the world requires an anchor point. Take himself for example: if he wanted to interfere with this world, his anchor point was his physical body. Should he lose his body, he would lose his anchor and could no longer affect the world.

As for the panel, relying upon him, it did not seem to have broken free from the limitation of the anchor point, at least for now.

"If I could remain in the state of sitting in oblivion and forgetting the self indefinitely, wouldn't I be able to directly become a Congenital Dao Body?!"

Li Qi thought to himself at that moment. The great congenital refining of heaven and earth mentioned in the log was clearly a reference to the Congenital Dao Body.

According to legends, however, this process required at least thirty-six days—and that was considered fast. If the practitioner lacked sufficient mastery, it could easily be extended to forty-nine days, or even eighty-one days.

Yet, once the transformation of the Congenital Dao Body began, it evidently could not be halted. Li Qi could not sustain such a special state for that long at present.

Meanwhile, the various data on Li Qi's panel had also undergone tremendous changes.

Master of Fate: Li Qi
Reincarnation Mark: 1 (???)
Origin Talent: ??? 3% (???), Reincarnation Mark (???)
Fate Disc: Activated (Six Roots: Neural Reflex Speed +50%, Five Phases: Mental Burst Force +240%, Enlightenment: 36.7/163)
Realm: Entry Realm (15%)
Vitality: 3.28 (Note: The average for a healthy 28-year-old individual is 1) (The smelting of all things)
Congenital Coefficient: 2.34
Six Dimensions:
Jing-essence: 2.32
Qi-essence: 2.15
Shen-essence: 2.55
Mind: 2.81
Willpower: 2.26
Wisdom: 2.36
Skills: Eighteen Saber Strikes of the Tiger Fiend - Missing Five Sabers (White·Ultimate·Dao) LV4 (357/400) (Trait: Lord of the Mountains Great Refining)
Projection: 81% (Loading...)
Destiny Value: 55 (Daily +4.2) (All beings possess fate; it disperses naturally. Transcendence awakens, suppressing the destiny value)
Shop: 81% (Loading...)
Log: ...

Having merely broken through a demonic tribulation, Li Qi's six-dimensional attributes and congenital coefficient had all directly increased by an average of more than a single point. One must know that normal, routine improvements usually amounted to a mere 0.01, with attribute growth entirely reliant on accumulated accumulation over time.

Yet right now, a single session of the Lord of the Mountains Great Refining had elevated Li Qi's attributes to a terrifying realm compared to before.

Although his overall attributes had not quite doubled, they were not far off.

Before this, relying on technique, form-refining, powerful spiritual and mental strength, control, and the explosive force of his strikes, he could already unleash close to a ton of force. Just how strong he was now was something he couldn't easily estimate in the short term.

Naturally, the physiological structure of the human body has an upper limit. The enhancement of the six-dimensional attributes belongs to the elevation of the foundation; how much of it could actually be manifested depended on individual circumstances and the excellence of one's physical structure.

Much like an extremely morbidly obese person—their foundational attributes of Jing, Qi, and Shen would undoubtedly be very high, but their explosive power might not be formidable at all.

This was precisely why improving saber techniques and successfully refining true forms could effectively enhance explosive power, even without a shred of growth in foundational attributes.

This time, however, the growth of Li Qi's six-dimensional attributes—specifically the three essentials of Jing, Qi, and Shen—was partly due to the Lord of the Mountains Great Refining itself, and partly due to the effect of supplementing his congenital constitution. His body felt as if it had been sent back to the factory for recasting, reaching the theoretically perfect level of the growth and development stage, while its structural integrity had even attained the tier of being naturally gifted.

In this world, there were naturally many people blessed with unique physical endowments. Some people were born with tiger bones, some with tiger backs, and others with tiger arms... Of course, these were all scattered traits, and even if pieced together entirely, they still could not compare to the Lord of the Mountains Great Refining. This was the true gold content of heaven and earth acting as the artisan, akin to walking through the crucible of creation.

Li Qi's current physical structure was undoubtedly far superior to the tiger form by an unknown margin. More importantly, it was the change in his potential. In many biographical legends, a tiger form was merely a tiger, whereas a Lord of the Mountains was a tiger spirit, or even a demon king; only then could one truly be considered a Lord of the Mountains rather than some minor yokai.

"As expected, only when I grow stronger can the panel unleash its true power..."

Li Qi thought to himself at that moment. If he had remained unmotivated and complacent after obtaining the panel, he certainly would not possess the awe-inspiring presence he did today.