# Chapter 3369: Breaking the Limit Again
At the Xiong Guan Star battle, Zhang Ruochen had gained tremendously.
The Celestial Banner was one of them.
Its pole was refined from a large amount of divine stones, its surface from the hide of some Boundless divine beast, and within it carried a vast amount of Four Yang Heavenly Lord's divine power.
Clearly, such a banner could only be refined by Four Yang Heavenly Lord himself.
Its power was terrifying, sweeping away everything below the Boundless realm. It could pose varying degrees of threat to Divine Kings and Divine Venerables at the Qiankun Boundless level.
Zhang Ruochen looked at Xiu Chen Heavenly God, seeing her full of confidence and ambition. He said cautiously, "The Celestial Banner contains Four Yang Heavenly Lord's divine soul thoughts. Can you truly refine it?"
Xiu Chen Heavenly God gazed at the Sword Source Divine Tree, her expression contemptuous. "Four Yang Heavenly Lord is at the peak of Great Unbound Infinite. I was also at that level back then. Can his divine soul thoughts possibly be stronger than mine?"
Zhang Ruochen said, "The Celestial Banner also contains a vast amount of his divine power."
"Rest assured, I have a divine soul slaughter secret technique. I can completely annihilate his divine soul thoughts before he can activate his divine power."
Xiu Chen Heavenly God's right hand grasped at the void, her five slender fingers gradually clenching into a fist.
Zhang Ruochen looked at Ji Fanxin.
Ji Fanxin gently nodded, indicating that she could use her spiritual power to suppress Four Yang Heavenly Lord's divine soul thoughts, ensuring no mistakes.
These were merely part of a Heavenly Lord's divine thoughts, and the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain and the Night Star Gate naturally isolated the true body's perception from the Heavens.
This matter was feasible.
Zhang Ruochen said, "Alright, I'll trust you this time. But first, you should refine all those divine soul divine pills and elevate your divine soul a bit more."
Xiu Chen Heavenly God agreed.
Zhang Ruochen handed the Death Clan's Divine King battle formation to Chi Yao and Bai Qinger, letting them tinker with it.
This Divine King battle formation used a divine mountain as its foundation, the blood of a long-deceased Rakshasa Clan Divine King as its spring water, and required over a hundred deities to activate, unleashing Divine King-level combat power.
The four ancient gods of Heavenly Beginning Civilization were all at Grand Void realm.
The two Sword-Unbinding Beasts were even at Grand Void peak, Body-Stop level.
Their combat power was stronger than a hundred deities combined, more than enough to activate the Divine King battle formation.
Zhang Ruochen left Luo Ji inside the War Method Divine Hall and took out four perfectly five-colored True Transcendence Divine Pills. "These are for the four seniors!"
Luo Ji took the pill bottle and stared at it fixedly.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Zhang Ruochen said with a slight smile.
In terms of personality, Luo Ji was not as domineering as Chi Yao, nor as intelligent as Bai Qinger. But her resilience was internal, and she was also exceptionally clever, just not fond of showing it.
If Zhang Ruochen personally gave the four True Transcendence Divine Pills to the four Grand Void Great Gods, it would win their loyalty. No one would think there was anything wrong with that.
But giving the divine pills to Luo Ji, for her to deliver to the four Grand Void Great Gods, had a completely different meaning.
Luo Ji could see Zhang Ruochen's care for her. She said, "Maybe... I should still leave the Sword God Temple. I don't want to become a burden to you all."
Zhang Ruochen embraced her, his palm pressing against her back, giving her all the sense of security.
By her ear, Zhang Ruochen whispered, "Don't overthink this. I have never seen you as a burden. Back then, when Guanghan Realm was weak and Kunlun Realm was in imminent danger, didn't you repeatedly step in to help me? At that time, you didn't see me as a burden either."
Zhang Ruochen could feel that after the old Heavenly Lord's fall, the pressure on Luo Ji's shoulders had grown heavier, and she had become more humble.
Or perhaps it was because Bai Qinger, Chi Yao, and Ji Fanxin were all too dazzling. Luo Ji was clearly not inferior, yet she lagged far behind, naturally adding another layer of pressure.
Zhang Ruochen did not let Luo Ji leave.
She stayed to cultivate within the Sundial, perhaps using this opportunity to achieve a major breakthrough in her cultivation and regain her confidence.
The rain of light falling from the Sword Source Divine Tree was also a stroke of fortune.
Back then, Grand Supreme Patriarch and Jade Supreme Patriarch had bathed in the rain of light, tempering their divine souls and sword souls, and subsequently breaking into the Boundless realm.
This was a baptism for the divine soul!
Even the four Grand Void ancient gods of Heavenly Beginning Civilization had received substantial benefits. Although they could not use this to assault the Boundless realm, it gave them a sliver of possibility for the future. At least it was not completely hopeless!
Zhang Ruochen kept the six divine swords released outside, following Grand Supreme Patriarch and Jade Supreme Patriarch, absorbing the Sword Source rain of light to strengthen the sword spirits.
The palm-sized sword seal floated in midair, continuously absorbing the Sword Source rain of light.
The three-inch-long sword body emitted an increasingly intense radiance.
"Whoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen slowly floated up, suspending himself a hundred zhang above the ground.
His hands spread open, and the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram expanded accordingly, covering a large area.
As yin and yang rotated, a vast amount of Sword Source rain of light was swept up, flying toward him.
Countless particles of light rain struck his physical body, merging into his divine soul, sword soul, and sword spirit. Sometimes a layer of blood mist appeared on his body's surface, sometimes a layer of white light.
The blood mist was damage caused by his physical body being unable to withstand the dense impact of the light rain particles.
But this damage was more like a form of tempering.
Grand Supreme Patriarch and Jade Supreme Patriarch, who were cultivating, sensed the abnormal fluctuations in the Sword Source rain of light and both looked toward Zhang Ruochen, exchanging glances.
Here it comes again!
Every so often, Zhang Ruochen would absorb like this.
The duration was not long, but the amount he absorbed grew larger each time.
Clearly, his physical body had been continuously improving, and his divine soul, sword soul, and sword spirit were growing rapidly.
The cultivation grounds of Grand Supreme Patriarch and Jade Supreme Patriarch were not under the Sundial's coverage. Because the Sword Source rain of light there was too dense, time imprint light particles could not exist there.
Of course, it was also because Xiu Chen, as the artifact spirit, was not yet strong enough.
If the two patriarchs retreated to the area covered by the Sundial, the intensity of the Sword Source rain of light would become negligible for them.
For this reason, they were very envious of Zhang Ruochen.
He could cultivate under the Sundial while rapidly absorbing the Sword Source rain of light.
Grand Supreme Patriarch stroked his beard. "Maybe..."
"No, the density of Sword Source rain of light we need is too great. His physical body and divine soul cannot withstand it. If something goes wrong, it would be too late for regrets. Besides, we are patriarchs. I, for one, cannot swallow my pride." Jade Supreme Patriarch said.
A dignified patriarch, a generation's Sword Dao Divine Venerable, going to ask for help from his own disciple's disciple?
And the disciple's disciple was still just a Great God!
This face could not be lost.
"Let's go deeper. No matter what, we must break through this time."
Grand Supreme Patriarch stood up and walked toward the central area of the Sword Source Divine Tree.
The dense rain of light fell like countless tiny sword rains upon their bodies. The two patriarchs' skin was riddled with holes, their flesh pierced through.
The light rain struck their bones, producing a "bang bang" sound.
They stopped only when they reached the limit their physical bodies could withstand.
To break through, they were going all out!
The Heavenly Ladder, the Blood Mud Man, and the evil anomalies in the Sword Soul Marsh all brought them considerable pressure. Patriarchs must have the responsibility of patriarchs, to withstand the strongest enemies and hold up a piece of sky for the younger generation.
...
Zhang Ruochen stood at the sun position of the Taiji Yin-Yang Diagram. The Sword Source rain of light within his body gradually reached saturation.
His skin, including his hair, emitted white light, the radiance so intense it seemed ready to turn into liquid.
In the years since entering the Sword God Temple, thanks to the Sword Source rain of light, Zhang Ruochen's divine soul and physical body had made no small progress.
His physical body had reached eighty percent Boundless.
His divine soul had progressed even more, reaching ninety percent Boundless.
Under normal circumstances, without reaching the Boundless realm, reaching fifty percent Boundless in physical body and divine soul was the limit for a Great God. Few could break this limit.
Even if they broke the limit, every tiny improvement required paying a tremendous price and consuming vast amounts of rare resources.
If Xue Jue War God, Desolate Heaven, and Xuan Yi knew that Zhang Ruochen's physical body and divine soul had reached this level, they would each fall silent and then rush to assault the Boundless realm as quickly as possible.
"Relying only on self-cultivation, even with the greatest opportunities, my physical body and divine soul probably cannot improve further. Now, it depends on how much the Transcendence Divine Pill can elevate my physical body."
Zhang Ruochen took out a six-colored True Transcendence Divine Pill.
It was a defective product with unstable radiance. There were seven in total, and he had not given any away.
On the pill's surface were streaks of seven-colored light patterns.
These were traces left by the seven-colored pill mist's nurturing, clearly elevating the pill's grade considerably.
He swallowed one pill!
"Boom!"
It was as if a star had exploded inside him, and his body immediately caught fire.
The blood in every blood vessel boiled, his heart became like a furnace, and his bones like red-hot iron blocks. The more fragile parts of his body—organs, eardrums, skull, eyeballs—all ached as if about to split.
This lasted for about half a day before the pain subsided.
After six days, the pain in his body completely disappeared, replaced by the comfort of his physical body absorbing the pill's energy. It was like spring water pouring into a desert, every inch of his body being nourished.
Eight months later, Zhang Ruochen had completely absorbed this six-colored True Transcendence Divine Pill, and his physical body had improved by about half a percent.
Zhang Ruochen was not satisfied with such improvement. He muttered to himself, "Only improved by half a percent. Could it be that the Transcendence Divine Pill Chi Xingtian swallowed back then was also six-colored, and a perfect six-colored one? Could Wen Tianjun have been a master alchemist?"
Zhang Ruochen did not dwell on it. With Wen Tianjun's outstanding cultivation, refining a six-colored Transcendence Divine Pill was not impossible.
"Ruochen, their situation seems a bit off."
Zhang Ruochen heard Luo Ji's urgent voice in his ears.
"Whoosh!"
With a movement, Zhang Ruochen appeared beside the four Grand Void Great Gods of Heavenly Beginning Civilization.
They were sitting cross-legged, their bodies burning, emitting five-colored flames. Their skin showed signs of swelling, trembling continuously, and flames spewed from their seven orifices, the flames tinged with blood energy.
Zhang Ruochen probed with his divine soul and found that their internal organs had already shattered, turned into bloody mud.
"This shouldn't be. They are all at Grand Void realm, and one of them is even at Grand Void peak. How could they not withstand a five-colored True Transcendence Divine Pill?"
Zhang Ruochen's eyes showed confusion, then he unfolded the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal. Yin and yang energy flowed, balancing the pill energy within them.
At the same time, he temporarily sealed part of the pill energy into their divine seas.
The injuries of the four Grand Void ancient gods gradually stabilized, and the damaged parts inside their bodies re-condensed and recovered.
"Thank you, Realm Lord Ruochen!"
"The pill energy of the Transcendence Divine Pill is too strong. Even a Grand Void Great God at the Body-Stop level probably couldn't withstand it."
"This is a divine pill meant for the most top-tier Grand Void Great Gods. Giving it to us to take is too wasteful!"
"This is a great opportunity. If I can completely refine the pill energy within me, even if I don't reach Boundless in the future, breaking through to Body-Stop will definitely be easy."
The four Grand Void ancient gods all expressed their gratitude to Zhang Ruochen through divine thoughts.