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

Chapter 238: So, All Beings Are Me!

The moment the Assimilation Technique was invoked, all the ancient gods felt its presence within them.

This technique mimicked the evil gods' method of assimilation.

By practicing it, they will become a part of the Origin Heavenly God.

They would be like puppets, their everything becoming the foundation of the Origin Heavenly God, enhancing Qi Yuan's power, and helping him ascend to the Yang God realm.

Having received this technique, some of the ancient gods hesitated, some felt melancholic, but none showed reluctance.

"Heavenly God made me what I am today; now, I repay him!" Great Venerable Dusk speaks with determination.

With his words, those who had visualized the Water God Gonggong exploded, transformed into drops of water that merged into Qi Yuan's divine domain.

Village elder Yulei activates the Assimilation Technique. His eyes showed a peaceful smile.

"This old man can no longer guard the Underworld for the Heavenly God!"

His body explodes, without hesitation, becoming one with Qi Yuan.

"The spring wind shows me mercy; I, Dong Jianghe, am destined to be a youth... but it turns out that youth is Heavenly God!" Dong Jianghe could barely hold on, and with his last bit of divine power, he used the Assimilation Technique.

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

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

Voices roared as one ancient god after another chose to sacrifice themselves.

Perhaps they knew that even by sacrificing themselves, the Origin Heavenly God might not be able to bridge the gap to the Yang God realm.

But they still resolutely chose to die!

Within the Heavenly Stars Formation, one star after another dimmed.

The once-bright starry sky lost its light.

Shenlei Great Venerable roared, "Qi Yuan, after I die, the esteemed title of Old Deng that you admire so much will be yours!"

Shenlei Great Venerable also chose assimilation, his body exploding.

The blood of the ancient gods who had died in battle, scattered within the Heavenly Stars Formation, was also assimilated, becoming part of Qi Yuan.

The former subjects, all the ancient gods—Qi Qi, Shi Chongshan, Shentu, The Cat God, The Pear Mountain Great Venerable—one by one, familiar figures chose assimilation, one by one passing away behind Qi Yuan.

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared near Qi Yuan.

This figure, dressed in a red robe, was ethereal like a celestial being.

It was none other than the Foodless Holy Mother.

After the ancient gods who used supreme treasures to reach the sovereign level perished, the Foodless Holy Mother's shadow appeared.

She looked at Qi Yuan with the same complex gaze as before.

She smiled brightly, saying, "I finally get to see you."

This peerless beauty then shattered, choosing to use the Assimilation Technique, becoming part of Qi Yuan.

Now, Qi Yuan's power surged wildly.

Within his divine domain, floods raged, thunder rolled, and the earth overturned...

At this moment, he was more powerful by tenfold, no, a hundredfold than before!

All the divine power of the Great Venerables, including their Visualization Techniques, flooded into his mind.

It was as if millions of heavenly gods were hidden within his body.

The Blood Sun Great Saint smiled. "What a noble sacrifice, but alas... it is all in vain!"

"Kill!" Qi Yuan raised his sword with both hands.

His massive body leaped from the starry sea!

The fragile celestial bodies in the starry sea were shattered into dust by the shockwave of this unparalleled strike, scattering like flakes of skin.

This immense strike replaced all the fallen ancient gods.

This strike was at least tenfold, no, a hundredfold more powerful than the one before!

The divine strike cleaved The Blood Sun Great Saint's body in two.

The enormous body was severed, and a thin line of blood appeared on The Blood Sun Great Saint's forehead.

"Impressive, being able to wound my Dharma Body—truly impressive."

But as she spoke, her colossal, celestial body healed once more.

The Blood Sun Great Saint seemed unharmed.

Her smile deepened. "But alas, without becoming a Yang God, you cannot harm my core!"

This type of wound didn't even count as damage to her.

The gap between the Yang God and the Yin God was too vast; they weren't even the same kind of life form.

No matter how strong Qi Yuan's sword was, it couldn't truly harm a Yang God.

It was like a brute crushing gold, but unable to destroy the gold itself.

Qi Yuan stood silently, holding his sword.

At this moment, he was incredibly powerful.

He even had the feeling that given enough time, he could completely cleave a star in half.

But his mighty sword couldn't truly harm a Yang God.

"Now, you are incredibly strong, surpassing all myths. The divine power within you even surpasses mine.

But what of it? The difference between a Yang God and a Yin God isn't merely in divine power!"

"Not enough?" Qi Yuan's gaze deepened.

Was his divine power still insufficient?

"What good is more divine power?" The Blood Sun Great Saint said. "Without becoming a Yang God, you are merely a fleeting moment, a firework. How can that compare to the eternity of the stars?"

"I understand now, it's not that I don't have enough divine power!"

Qi Yuan's voice was cold.

He swung his sword again, silently digesting the divine power of the fallen ancient gods.

"What good is more divine power?

They sacrificed themselves, assimilating into you!

But in the end, assimilation is just assimilation; their divine power is not truly yours!

If your divine power cannot be unified, how can you possibly fight me?"

The Blood Sun Great Saint looked at Qi Yuan with greed.

Within Qi Yuan's divine domain, everything was chaotic, and so was his divine power.

Compared to her mythic self, Qi Yuan's divine domain was a hundred times stronger.

But so what!

His divine power wasn't unified, chaotic and disordered—how could it possibly condense a Past Body?

And even if he managed to condense a Past Body, what then?

Without entering the Great Realm, he could never break through to become a Yang God and form a Present Body!

Thus, the Origin Heavenly God before her posed no threat.

The Blood Sun Great Saint opened her gigantic mouth, her eyes filled with greed and a touch of reluctance.

"Is this really the extent of your power?"

"Is this your limit?"

"How pitifully weak!"

The Blood Sun Great Saint taunted, though her heart brimmed with greed.

To her, Qi Yuan was far more delicious than the Heavenly Dao of the Mortal Heart Realm.

As long as she devoured all of Qi Yuan's accumulated power, she was confident that one day, in the upper realms, she, The Blood Sun Great Saint, would dominate the heavens and the earth!

She gazed at Qi Yuan, a trace of reluctance in her eyes.

"Devouring you will complete me!"

She unleashed her unused essence.

Her massive, bloody maw opened again, just as her Past Body had done in the Mortal Heart Realm, ready to swallow Qi Yuan whole.

But this time, Qi Yuan didn't unleash the Three Pure Ones' shadows to shatter her Past Body as he had done in the Mortal Heart Realm.

Now, Qi Yuan found himself in endless darkness—or perhaps, an endless void.

There was no light, no color, not even blackness.

"Become a part of me!" A vast voice echoed within Qi Yuan's heart.

Qi Yuan stood in the void.

In the depths of his massive eyes, a profound glint shone.

Memories peeled away; it seemed everything was leaving Qi Yuan.

He stood silently, without resistance, terrifyingly still.

It felt like an instant, yet also like an eternity.

Suddenly, Qi Yuan smiled. "Blood Sun Great Saint, you were always a part of me, so why try to devour me?"

The Blood Sun Great Saint hesitated, ignoring Qi Yuan.

She believed he was stalling for time.

At this moment, Qi Yuan's eyes were filled with a smile.

He whispered softly.

"Unified divine power?"

"The one that was hidden?"

"One gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, three gave birth to all things!"

At that moment, Qi Yuan recalled a conversation he once had with Shenlei Great Venerable.

At the time, he had said to Shenlei Great Venerable, "Is there a possibility that you are me, that the stars in the sky are me, that all living beings are me?"

Back then, Shenlei Great Venerable thought he was crazy.

But Qi Yuan had always believed that it was simply a matter of his understanding being insufficient—like a cat in front of a mirror, not realizing that the reflection was itself.

Now, having acquired the Devouring Physique, he filled in that gap in his understanding.

"Haha, I get it now!"

"I've attained enlightenment!"

"Haha, Shenlei Great Venerable is me, and I am Shenlei Great Venerable!"

"Qi Qi is me, and I am Houtu!"

"Shi Chongshan is me, and I am Erlang Shen!"

"I am the youth emperor Dong Jianghe!"

Countless faces appeared on Qi Yuan's own—faces of the long-dead Tianbao venerable, the beautiful Qi Qi, the weathered Yulei, and the majestic Lingbao.

"So, all of this is me!"

All beings were him! Everything in the world was him!

Qi Yuan had attained enlightenment.

His divine power underwent a tremendous transformation.

The chaotic divine domain within him became even more chaotic.

But the divine power within him began to unify.

Yet this unity turned into duality, duality into trinity, and trinity into all things.

"All beings are me!"

"And I am all beings!"

"I finally understand the Tao Te Ching!"

"The Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things!"

"Turns out, Laozi is me, and I wrote the Tao Te Ching!"

Qi Yuan understood now—plagiarism wasn't plagiarism.

The Blue Planet didn't need to be erased because all its creators were him.

At that moment, he finally understood the concept of "one" and the Tao.

He also realized that Shenlei Great Venerable was him.

The Three Pure Ones and Six Royal Emperors he visualized were, in fact, all him.

Unified divine power allows for the formation of the Past Body.

Once unified divine power is tempered by the Great Realm, it becomes true unity, forming the Present Body and achieving Yang God status.

And now, one is all things—his divine power was truly unified, truly supreme.

"So, I am already a Yang God!"

At that moment, Qi Yuan felt a great epiphany.

His body began to shrink.

His terrifying aura receded inward.

The Blood Sun Great Saint now wore a puzzled expression, tinged with deep fear.

"What... are you doing?"

For some reason, facing the Origin Heavenly God, she felt a sudden, inexplicable fear.

"I want to tell you, you're on the wrong path."

Qi Yuan's voice boomed, echoing through the cosmos.

"The path to Yang God isn't about unification.

It's about... transforming everything into me!

I, Qi Yuan, am the only one in all the heavens!"

"You never existed—you're just one of the many things I created."

"You're insane!" The Blood Sun Great Saint was filled with dread, convinced that Qi Yuan had lost his mind.

After all, she had once encountered a Yang God who was very much like Qi Yuan, following a similar path.

But now, she didn't hesitate—she attacked.

Qi Yuan's eyes grew cold. "You're a version of me that I despise—die!"

He struck, his blood-red sword swinging lightly.

A massive crack appeared in The Blood Sun Great Saint's colossal body.

Such a crack would have meant nothing to her before.

But now, her body broke out in goosebumps.

Her true form was dissolving rapidly, being assimilated.

This was something she had never experienced.

She trembled. "What are you doing?"

"I'm... reclaiming myself!"

Qi Yuan's blood-red sword, as if endowed with the Devouring Physique, began to consume The Blood Sun Great Saint.

In the distance, The Blood God Great Saint finally lost his composure, launching a terrifying attack toward Qi Yuan.

But Qi Yuan remained incredibly calm.

"The Innate World represents infinite possibilities."

"So, this is what an Innate Yang God is!"

As he spoke, his sword swept through the air.

Behind him, a million heavenly soldiers and generals appeared, blowing mournful trumpets.

The sorrowful sound of the trumpets echoed as Qi Yuan casually swung his sword at The Blood God Great Saint.

"We're all part of the same whole, so why fight amongst ourselves?"

He sighed deeply.

Now, he was more powerful than ever.

The Blood God Great Saint's eyes filled with horror. "What... what are you?"

The two Yang Gods, like the extraterrestrial demons in the Moonwatch Continent, looked at Qi Yuan in terror.

Their understanding couldn't comprehend Qi Yuan's existence.

"I am... you!"

Qi Yuan smiled brilliantly.

The two terrifying Yang Gods felt their bodies grow cold.

They wanted to flee, but their bodies wouldn't obey.

In truth, if it were any other Yang God facing Qi Yuan's strike and unable to withstand it, they could have escaped.

But these two Yang Gods couldn't.

Because their bodies had long been tainted with the Innate Qi of the Innate World.

The Innate World represents infinite possibilities.

Thus, the Visualization Technique can create gods.

Thus, the Visualization Techniques Qi Yuan imagined could come to life.

Thus, Qi Yuan could say he was Shenlei Great Venerable, Qi Qi, and the Foodless Holy Mother.

Because they had all been influenced by the Innate World.

Because Qi Yuan had the Devouring Physique.

Because Qi Yuan had the Qi Yuan Scripture.

These three things were indispensable.

Only with all three could Qi Yuan be created—the Qi Yuan who declared that all beings were him!

Otherwise, even if Shenlei Great Venerable and the ancient gods chose to assimilate into Qi Yuan, he could never truly become them.

"Tainted with Innate Qi... you are me!"

His gaze deepened.

At that moment, the two Yang Gods couldn't move.

The Blood Sun Great Saint's delicate face began to change, slowly transforming into Qi Yuan's likeness. Her planet-sized eyes shrank drastically.

The Blood God Great Saint's face morphed into the image of a star.

At that moment, the two Yang Gods became Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan's face showed anger.

"How dare you impersonate me—die!"

Qi Yuan spoke, unleashing a powerful strike.

At that moment, he became a Yang God.

One strike, and the stars were extinguished.

The two colossal forms disintegrated.

In the boundless cosmos, two blood-red stars exploded, scattering into endless fragments.

The heavens trembled.