<strong>Chapter 1178: Peak!</strong>


    The middle-aged guardian was mistaken. He had never seen an Allheaven Dao Immortal, so he didn’t know... that even if you said Meng Hao was the first Allheaven Immortal, and thatter there might be a second or a third or even more, Meng Hao would still be the most powerful type, an Allheaven Dao Immortal!


    Furthermore, he was one of the most powerful Allheaven Dao Immortals in history.


    And that was because... of his fleshly body!


    The strength of his fleshly body made his Allheaven Dao Immortal battle prowess even more powerful.


    “There’s no need to rush the absorption of the Divine me....” he said softly. “I can still be more powerful!” He could sense that, based on the boundless Immortal power within him, if he wanted to, he could grow to a size of well over 3,000 meters tall.


    “My fleshly body... still has an unlit Soul Lamp. I wonder... how powerful I’ll be after I light all of them!” A strange light appeared in Meng Hao’s eyes as nine Soul Lamps materialized around him. Eight of them were now lit for all eternity, but the ninth was still unlit.


    He looked thoughtfully at that ninth Soul Lamp for a moment, then waved his right hand. Instantly, the 3,000-meter azure light vanished. Likewise, the pressure weighing down on the sea of mes vanished, allowing it to rage with fury.


    Instantly, the entire area waspletely engulfed in fire that obscured all else. The guardian in Nascent Divinity form couldn’t even catch a glimpse of Meng Hao.


    He remained within the sea of mes, eyes closed, allowing the fire to enter his body. However, he prevented the me spark from absorbing the mes, and instead allowed them to build up inside of him.


    More Divine me poured into him, raging, sweeping about inside of him, pouring through his qi passageways, inundating his internal organs, filling his flesh and blood. It even seeped into his bones.


    Meng Hao began trembling slightly, but his expression was the same as usual. Keeping the me spark sealed, he allowed more and more Divine me to build up inside of him, until he was like a being of fire. His flesh, bones, qi passageways, and the other parts of him all contained Divine me.


    And the amount only continued to increase. If you likened Meng Hao to a bottle, then at the moment, that bottle was now more than forty percent full of Divine me.


    And he wasn’t finished!


    Bizarre light gleamed in his eyes as he sucked in the Divine me as if he were a ck hole. None of it was allowed into the me spark, but instead, built up inside of him. The sensation of burning increased as the mes did. Meng Hao was using this method... to temper his fleshly body!


    BOOM!


    Fifty percent. Sixty percent. Seventy percent!


    This process of body tempering left him trembling. The difficulty was almost impossible to describe. Were it not for the fact that Meng Hao already had an incredibly powerful fleshly body, plus the power of an Allheaven Dao Immortal, then he would not have been able to take the intense heat of the mes.


    However, in order to strengthen his fleshly body, and in order to take full advantage of this instance of good fortune, he sucked in more. Rumbling sounds echoed out as the boundless Divine mes coursing through him pushed him from seventy percent to eighty!


    The process continued rapidly, until he was at ny percent!


    In that moment, he shook violently and coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. Even though he was a creature of flesh and blood, he had absorbed the Divine me by ny percent, causing Heaven-shaking, Earth-toppling transformations. He was almost like a me spirit now, except with a body of flesh and blood.


    “I can keep going. Bring it on!” Meng Hao eyes shone with bright light as he looked at his nine Soul Lamps. A tiny me had already appeared on thestmp, and it was growingrger; soon themp would bepletely lit. Eyes gleaming with determination, he gritted his teeth and sucked in more me.


    Rumbling sounds echoed out, causing everything to shake violently. Pagodas toppled, and the sky appeared to be on the verge of being ripped apart to reveal thends up above.


    After all, this location was underground!


    Meng Hao threw his head back and roared as the Divine me within him finally reached... one hundred percent!


    Each and every part of him was now Divine me. At the same time, his ninth Soul Lamp red to life!!


    When that happened, rumbling sounds filled his entire body. His heart began to beat with more power than before, and even his qi and blood caused the outside world to dim. A terrifying power rose up from him, a power that had reached a Heaven-defying level!


    You could say that from the beginning of the Mountain and Sea Realm until the modern day, it would be easier to find a phoenix feather or a qilin horn than to find someone with a fleshly body as powerful as this. If he took a single further step forward, he would have a Dao Realm fleshly body!


    As for Dao Realm fleshly bodies... there was no need to even mention how rare such a thing was in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Even in the Paragon Immortal Realm, the only people who possessed bodies like that were Paragons!


    Only Paragons could take their fleshly bodies into the Dao Realm!


    That was because when the fleshly body achieved the Dao, then even if Heaven and Earth rotted away, that fleshly body would not. The only way it could be destroyed was in battle; neither the ravages of time nor the power of Heaven and Earth could destroy it.


    That was the Dao Realm fleshly body!


    And right now, Meng Hao was only a step away from exactly that!!


    His eyes snapped open, and he threw his head back and roared, causing thend overhead to crumble; dirt and rocks fell down, and although the canopy above didn’t copse, the middle-aged guardian outside of the sea of mes was even more shocked than before.


    In response to Meng Hao’s roar, the sea of mes around him churned, and hundreds of thousands of pagodas throughout the world toppled over into pieces.


    Up in the second level, the ancient beast trembled as the whole level quaked. The first level up above was the same, and even the Daokes beyond that were vibrating. Numerous Daokes erupted, shooting magical items and Dao projections up into the air, to the shock and delight of the gathered cultivators.


    Within the world of Divine me, Meng Hao’s roars echoed out as his Allheaven Dao Immortal cultivation base exploded with power. There was no azure light though, and he now did nothing to prevent the Divine me from pouring into the me spark.


    At longst, the me spark could absorb the mes it had been blocked off from before. All of the fire outside of Meng Hao surged toward him in waves.


    He stretched his arms wide, allowing it to fully flow into the me spark, which desired to consume all the fire in the world.


    “me spark... you’re mine!” he said, waving his sleeve and rising up into the air. The sea of mes rose up with him, and from a distance, the mes formed an image that looked like a mountain. The sight would be shocking to anyone who couldy eyes on it.


    If you looked even closer, it would appear as if Meng Hao had be an invincible bird, with the sea of mes being his wings as he soared through the Heavens,ying waste to everything.


    All of the Divine me in the world began to converge, shrinking down and pouring into Meng Hao. The me spark inside of him was shining brightly, and soon, an Essence aura began to emanate off of him.


    That essence was no longer just a sliver. It was majestic and boundless, true Essence. me Essence. Henceforth, this would be Meng Hao’s first Essence.


    Meng Hao was the only cultivator ever to be able to control Essence while in the Immortal Realm!


    He threw his head back and roared, and the me sea around him slowly shrank. It was now seventy percent of its original size, then fifty, and then forty!


    It was a thoroughly shocking sight. The guardian stared at Meng Hao absorbing the mes, and his previous conviction was nowpletely shaken.


    “The curse of the exalted Dao Fang...” he murmured. “Nobody can acquire the me spark... how could this be happening...?” By now, the sea of mes was thirty percent of its original size!


    The more Meng Hao absorbed, the more resplendent his internal me spark became. By now, the sea of mes could barely harm him at all, and after hepletely absorbed it, fire would never be able to hurt Meng Hao again.


    Rumbling filled the entire world. The air shook as the sea of mes once again shrank down!


    Twenty percent!!


    Only twenty percent of the sea of mes remained. The eternal Divine me within the world region was beingpletely absorbed by Meng Hao. Although this was only a single one of the me sparks, even someone in the Dao Realm would lust insatiably lust after it.


    Ten percent!!


    Brilliant light shone off of Meng Hao, and the me sea continued to shrink. The Essence aura on him grew more intense, and everything around him shook violently!


    In the space of a few breaths, the sea of mes shrank down into a mere strand of Divine me, which then merged into Meng Hao. At that point, this part of the world of Divine me didn’t contain even a single me!


    As of this day, the sea of mes which had existed for so long, and burned eternally... was now gone. There was no Divine me, and thends below were nowpletely revealed, and at the same time, all of the pagodas copsed into rubble.


    100,000. 200,000. 300,000... in the blink of an eye, massive rumbling could be heard echoing out until the entire ce... didn’t have a single pagoda standing in it!


    Feelingpletely shaken, Meng Hao closed his eyes. The me spark inside of him had absorbed all of the Divine me in the entire world. As of this moment, the will of Huoyan Zi approved of Meng Hao, and did not resist him at all. Instead, it merged into him.


    When that happened, the Essence aura within Meng Hao was eternally stabilized!


    He slowly opened his eyes. This was his most powerful state. Allheaven Dao Immortal. The great circle of the Ancient Realm fleshly body. Aplete Essence of Divine me!


    “Impossible!!” the guardian shrieked. In the instant that he spoke, the azure lightning which surrounded him transformed into numerous azure snakes that stabbed into his Nascent Divinity. To the man’s shock, his Nascent Divinity faded away into the air. Meng Hao had lived up to his word, and allowed the guardian to witness him epting the legacy of the me spark!


    Meng Hao hovered in midair, looking around until his gaze came to fall on thends down below. Off in the distance, there were othernds of Divine me, and other me sparks!


    However, in the very moment in which he looked off into the distance, there was something that filled Meng Hao with a sensation of crisis. He spun and looked down at the pitch-ck city down below, his eyes shining like des.