Rising from the abyss, standing between heaven and earth, the Blood Lake under the youth's feet churned, while the decaying Dao Intent rampaged and enveloped but failed to cause his physical body to wither.
His flesh was reborn from ruin, sublimated within the Extreme Realm, undying and indestructible!
And in this moment, he broke free from his shackles, forged his Tao Heart with all things under heaven, and stepped into the Four Stands Realm!
Now his Tao Heart was transcendent, out of the ordinary, free to wander the heavens and earth.
Bursts of breath, tumultuous as raging waves and deep as the ocean, surged from all directions, converging upon him, as the aura of the Tao Heart Realm gently diffused out.
But these escaping auras were devoured by the surrounding, rampant Dao of decay.
The youth lifted his head, his face near perfection, as if intricately carved by the mountains and rivers' brush strokes.