Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Leaving Li Yao aside, after everyone in the palace had been moved out, Chen Tian was the only one left in the vast royal palace!

“Now, it's time to try to break through to the Sky Building Realm!”

After a moment of silence, Chen Tian's eyes suddenly shot out two sharp rays of light. Immediately afterward, Chen Tian's hands moved incessantly, continuously casting restrictions towards the surroundings of the palace, forming a powerful protective array.

Chen Tian chose to break through to the Sky Building Realm in the royal palace of the Eastern Li Kingdom not only because it was quiet and empty, but also because the royal family of the Eastern Li Kingdom had a slight connection with Chen Tian.

Back when Chen Tian's cultivation reached the Great Perfection of the Transformation Spring Realm, he was unable to break through to the Coagulation Sea Realm for a long time. It was at that time that he encountered a noble family named Li.

In this Li family, there was a young lady who suffered from a strange illness of extreme cold. Even in the sweltering summer, she still needed to be wrapped in three layers of thick cotton quilts and have a stove burning in her room.

Because this disease was too strange, the entire Li family was worried about the young lady's strange illness.

Whether it was coincidence or fate, Chen Tian happened to pass by.

After Chen Tian's diagnosis, he was surprised to find that the young lady's body contained a Celestial-grade spiritual pill with Yin-Cold attributes.

This was the reason for her cold body.

The rest of the story is simple. With Chen Tian's help, he extracted the Celestial-grade spiritual pill for the young lady and learned about the Vegetable Basket Village and the Mad Old Man from her.

It was precisely because of this connection that Chen Tian mistakenly recognized the Mad Old Man as his master and comprehended the true meaning of the world and the Dao of Heaven and Earth in Vegetable Basket Village, finally breaking through to the Coagulation Sea Realm!

Therefore, Chen Tian had a small but significant karmic connection with the Li family.

As for the Li family, after several migrations, they finally arrived in the Eastern Li Kingdom and, after several generations, established the Li family dynasty that ruled the entire Eastern Li Kingdom.

It was precisely because of this friendship that Chen Tian ultimately chose the Eastern Li Kingdom as the place for him to break through to the Sky Building Realm, while also using intimidation to force Li Yao to turn over a new leaf and return to the right path.

After all, Chen Tian really didn't want to see the empire that the Li family had worked so hard to build be ruined in Li Yao's hands.

In fact, Li Yao, apart from his love of pleasure, was a relatively intelligent person. Therefore, after Chen Tian's guidance, he began to focus on government affairs, improve people's livelihoods, and spent more than ten years saving the Eastern Li Kingdom, which was on the verge of collapse, and developing its national strength to its peak.

It was precisely because of this achievement that later generations honored Li Yao as the Restorer of the Eastern Li Kingdom.

However, people always felt puzzled about how Li Yao suddenly woke up overnight, repented, and worked hard to govern, because the change was too great and caught people off guard.

However, Li Yao never revealed this matter until his death, as if there was an invisible pressure hindering him.

Of course, these are things for the future. Bringing our thoughts back, let's talk about Chen Tian. After arranging thousands of powerful formations and restrictions in the palace, he finally stopped with satisfaction.

Having done all this, Chen Tian did not delay any further. At this moment, he was finally about to officially begin trying to break through to the Sky Building Realm.

At this moment, Chen Tian silently recited a magic incantation, and a series of dragon roars suddenly roared from the quiet and empty palace.

However, due to the obstruction of the restrictions and formations set up by Chen Tian, these violent sounds could only echo within the palace and could not be transmitted to the outside world at all. Therefore, the outside world could not see what Chen Tian was doing.

Looking into the main hall, it could be found that eight huge light dragons were flying and running wildly in the hall, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.

Every time they flew around, a stream of extremely pure spiritual power emanated, causing the spiritual energy concentration in the entire palace to rise sharply!

These eight light dragons were actually the spoils Chen Tian had collected in the past few months.

If one observed carefully, one would find that the colors and appearances of these eight light dragons were vastly different.

The spiritual power contained within five of the light dragons corresponded to the power of the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth!

As for the remaining three, they were Wind, Lightning, and Electricity! The power of Heaven and Earth.

Chen Tian believed that with the help of this spiritual vein containing vast spiritual power, his success rate in breaking through to the Sky Building Realm would definitely increase!

Thinking of this, Chen Tian no longer hesitated. He swept his gaze around the eight light dragons transformed from spiritual veins, and suddenly shouted: "Refine!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the eight light dragons roared to the sky, and then their bodies exploded instantly, releasing all the spiritual power contained within them like a Yellow River flood.

It should be known that these eight light dragons each corresponded to all the spiritual power contained in an entire spiritual vein. When they were activated together at this time, the spiritual energy concentration in the entire palace rose sharply at an explosive rate, and finally reached an extremely terrifying level.

As for Chen Tian, his body was also surrounded by these rich spiritual energies. He closed his eyes and began to breathe and exhale!

Because the spiritual energy around him was too rich, Chen Tian didn't need to deliberately absorb it. These spiritual energies penetrated every pore of Chen Tian's body, continuously drilling into his body. After a little refining, they merged into Chen Tian's dantian.

With the influx of a large amount of spiritual power, Chen Tian's cultivation was also increasing madly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Before this, Chen Tian's cultivation had already reached the peak of the middle stage of the Coagulation Sea Realm, so after absorbing a large amount of spiritual power, it took him almost no effort to raise his realm again and break through to the late stage of the Coagulation Sea Realm.

However, this was not the end. As more and more spiritual power poured in, Chen Tian's cultivation was still growing at a very fast speed. At the same time, under the impact of the strong spiritual pressure, Chen Tian's dantian, after continuous melting and collapse, finally completely shattered, forming an extremely wide Nether Star Region similar to a starry sky.

And this is the first step from breaking through from the Coagulation Sea Realm to the Sky Building Realm… Dantian Transformation into Emptiness!