Chapter 1430: The Angel of Life and End

While all that happened when Eira took Marcus back home— at the moment something else had been happening— the Great Immortal God’s Core did not survive inside Phei long enough for him to properly understand what devouring something of that level was supposed to feel like— the instant he drew the Core into himself, the Primordial Lotus had reacted as though it had been waiting for precisely that offering.

White-gold radiance collapsed inward from every direction. The immense celestial curtains surrounding Phei tightened around him in slow, majestic folds while the Great Immortal God’s Core sank toward the burning center beneath his chest. Dense divine power churned within it, carrying the accumulated weight of an existence that had once stood so impossibly far above Phei that even comparing them would have bordered on comedy.

Dark-golden currents erupted across its surface, ancient Essence had pressed outward as though Habin’s remains still possessed some left over will.

The Genesis Core forming inside Phei appeared to possess absolutely no respect for seniority.

World Essence surged around the Great Immortal God’s Core from every direction.

The newly awakened Genesis Bloodline ignited inside Phei’s veins alongside it, and the strange transforming force that had already rewritten his blood seemed to recognize the foreign divinity almost immediately— something inside Phei simply opened and began consuming.

—a fracture appeared across the Great Immortal God’s Core.

Deep gold leaked through it.

The single fracture soon became ten, ten became hundreds and hundreds multiplied into thousands until the Core resembled a dark-golden sun trapped at the instant before shattering. Light poured through every crack in increasingly violent streams.

The shell buckled inward under pressure from all sides, compressed for one final moment, and then collapsed.

The released power struck Phei like a celestial sea breaking open inside his chest.

Divine Essence erupted through him first, dense enough that every meridian seemed to expand merely to permit its passage. Angelic Life Essence followed in a far greater flood, brilliant white-gold vitality pouring into the World Essence already circulating through his body.

The moment those two forces touched the golden currents beneath his skin, every pathway inside Phei blazed so intensely that his entire body became almost transparent within the Primordial Lotus.

His heart struck once.

The beat travelled through him with such weight that the Primordial Lotus thumped too. Petals spanning the celestial sanctuary brightened in sequence, golden filaments trembling through every layer while the amber mist surrounding Phei rippled outward in immense concentric waves.

[Ding! Host has absorbed a Great Immortal God’s Life Essence after devouring the remainder of a Great Immortal God’s Core!]

[The Angelic Life Essence of a Great Immortal God and World Essence now flow through Host’s veins in harmony!]

Phei’s whole body shook as one great pulse thundered through him.

The golden web beneath his skin thickened in a single breath, and thousands of new meridians tore themselves open, carving paths through regions his divine sense had never touched, as if his body had been hiding whole realms from him until this moment. Life Essence poured into them like a river breaking its banks. It flooded his blood, sank into his bones, and drowned his marrow, refining every drop and every fiber it passed through until they hummed with vitality.

Phei had possessed monstrous vitality for a long time already thanks to the Primordial Blood, Dragon Regeneration and repeated tempering had long since made his body absurd by mortal standards.

This now was different.

This was life condensed until ordinary living energy seemed pale beside it.

[Healing Touch has evolved!]

[New Ability: Sacred Healing Essence!]

[Description:Host can release Sacred Healing Essence in waves and heal any target Host wills without requiring physical contact. The number of targets and distance between Host and targets will not prevent the healing once Host’s will has selected them. With the Sacred Healing Essence Host can restore lost limbs, damaged organs and destroyed bodily structures in addition to healing injuries, wounds, illness and pain.]

Phei’s eyes widened slightly, but he remained silent while the notification settled into him.

He did not merely know what Sacred Healing Essence could do— he could already feel the ability woven through the Life Essence saturating his body, waiting behind his will like a vast warm sea prepared to move the instant he selected someone.

During that battle against the two World Transcendents and even before then, Dragon Lady had suffered the worst of their attacks, her snow-white scales broken open, one wing torn, the ridges along her neck cracked and Phei had been forced to fight his own battle while repeatedly finding ways back to her, because Healing Touch required his hand upon her body before its power could enter her.

Sacred Healing Essence had erased such nuances completely.

If the same battle happened now, Phei would never need to cross the battlefield simply to heal his little sister. He could remain locked against one enemy while Dragon Lady fought another kilometers away and still will Sacred Healing Essence into her body; she could heal while she fought and Phei would no longer be limited to sealing the wound and keeping her alive.

For all the ridiculous offensive abilities Phei accumulated, this one felt different and one of the best and most useful; should it be an outright battlefield!

Dragon Lady would not need to wait for him to reach her again.

Neither would any of his people.

The System moved before he could remain on the thought too long.

[Dragon Regeneration has evolved!]

[Dragon Regeneration >>> Immortal Dragon Regeneration]

[Description: As long as even a single drop of Host’s blood remains, Host may regenerate completely and return to life!]

Every drop of golden blood inside Phei ignited simultaneously.

His awareness expanded into his own body with terrifying clarity— he perceived his blood almost individually. Millions upon millions of tiny fragments of himself circulated through his veins, each one carrying something deeper than simple vitality— Phei could indeed feel his existence written through them, an impossibly complete pattern embedded inside every drop.

His body was no longer merely capable of regeneration:

One surviving drop could apparently become Phei Ryujin Tiamat again.

The implications were so ridiculous that his thoughts stalled for several seconds trying to find a sensible place to put them. Destroying the entire body would fail unless every trace of his blood disappeared with it.

One tiny part of Phei wondered exactly what kind of unfortunate bastard would eventually discover that fact firsthand.

The System did not wait for the answer:

[Host’s physique has evolved!]

[Cosmic Dragon Physique]

[The Cosmic Dragon Physique is Host’s current physical potential rather than an Ability or Skill.]

[Note: The more Host cultivates and tempers the Cosmic Dragon Physique, the stronger it will become.]

[Growth Limit: None]

That notification struck differently.

Phei’s muscles had not swelled beneath his skin or something and neither did his bones thunder and the celestial sanctuary did not shake beneath some convenient multiplication of his physical might.

Instead; there was this feeling— the sensation itself resembled doors opening where there had previously been walls, every layer of his flesh, bone and marrow acquiring room to continue becoming more.

He understood what the System meant.

Cosmic Dragon Physique was some reward but him finally awakening his own potential the way he’d awakened his Bloodline: Cosmic and Genesis alike.

His body itself had become something cultivatable without a declared ceiling. Every round of body tempering, Great Immortal elixir, every impossible environment he survived, every Primordial resource he refined and every Realm he crossed could continue pushing that physique farther and there didn’t seem to be any limits!

Phei’s eyes sharpened as greed stirred through him.

A year in the Primordial ordinary weapons had become a joke against his body— now the foundation beneath that process possessed no stated limit at all.

The notification dissolved and another replaced it while Great Immortal Life Essence continued flooding through the forming Genesis Core.

[Dragon Vitality has awakened!]

[Description: Host has acquired extraordinary endurance, resilience and stamina. Host possesses greatly increased resistance against curses, corruption and corrosive abilities. Host’s energy reserves have increased immensely.]

Phei felt that; his entire body became impossibly full without ever feeling bloated or strained. Essence expanded through him in immense reserves while Life Essence moved alongside it in brilliant white-gold currents so were his Void, Void-Ice, Primordial Blood and now Genesis Light too... they circulated through his body with intimate harmony— the last one carried the sacred persistence of life itself!

Exhaustion suddenly felt embarrassingly distant.

Phei knew intellectually that some enemy, environment or battle could eventually force him toward depletion, but his body currently felt as though he could fight for days simply to discover whether exhaustion still remembered his address.

The Primordial Lotus pulsed again at that moment!

Every white-gold petal surrounding Phei ignited simultaneously. The brilliance became so extreme that even his golden body vanished inside it again, and the strange transforming force he had sensed earlier returned through him with enough intensity that Phei immediately understood something far more fundamental than another ability was arriving.

’Time to check the previous notification, system.’

[Host has successfully awakened the Primordial Lotus’s Blessing within your Soul and successfully awakened your dormant Bloodline!]

[Ding! New Bloodline Awakened!]

[Bloodline: Genesis Angel]

[Host has become the Genesis Angel of Life and End!]

Phei’s newly formed Essence Sea surged; it rose with a tide so. The Genesis Core gave a new complete pulse inside his chest, and that one beat travelled throughout the Primordial Lotus hard enough to make the enormous celestialflower brighten from its center outward.

Genesis Angel had emerged beside the Cosmic Dragon Bloodline.

Different. Serene.

Terrifying for entirely different reasons.

Life now flowed through Phei in a vast, unbroken current, carrying far more than simple vitality. Healing, growth and immortality existed within it as one sacred force, healing what was broken, nourishing what still lived and carrying existence onward without interruption, while Beginning moved through the same flow with that ancient sensation Phei had touched beneath the Primordial Lotus, something preceding form, law and even name.