The Desolate Heavenly Venerate withstood all manner of Heavenly Venerate dao techniques with his bare hands, impervious and indestructible through myriad tribulations. Even someone as powerful as Ye Chen, who relied on peerless war weapons like the Chaos Great Cauldron, the Sealing Gates, and the Cosmic Heaven Tower to attack with his Chaos Eternal Heavenly Dao, found it difficult to suppress him in the slightest.
Ye Chen personally witnessed the Desolate Heavenly Venerate's true form forcefully shove open the Sealing Gates, lift the Chaos Great Cauldron with one hand, and stomp on the Cosmic Heaven Tower with one foot. He simply could not be sealed or suppressed, proving even mightier than the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate Ye Chen had once battled at his peak.
In his youth, Ye Chen had also reigned supreme with his invincible physical body, causing many enemies to suffer. Yet within the Heavenly Venerate domain, he now tasted the same bitterness he had once inflicted on his foes. When his Chaos Heavenly Venerate body clashed with the Desolate Heavenly Venerate's, he was completely overpowered.
After one hundred thousand years of secluded cultivation, digesting the many insights the Desolate Heavenly Venerate had unreservedly explained, Ye Chen finally comprehended a feasible method to allow his own physical body to prove the Dao to Eternity.
Return to simplicity, revert to the ordinary. Seal away all the characteristics of the Heavenly Venerate body, even needing to block out the various body refinement techniques cultivated in the past. Perceive the natural world, and forge a path of one's own for the physical body to prove the Dao to Eternity.
Otherwise, he would be influenced too deeply by his past experiences, utterly incapable of walking his own path of physical body proving the Dao to Eternity.
Throughout the ages, many had attempted this method.
For example, the Violet Extreme Heavenly Venerate of yore, before proving the Dao to the Supreme Heavenly Position, had also been a peerless and supreme powerhouse. His ancestors had even given birth to an Ancient Great Venerate. Influenced too profoundly by his ancestor's Great Venerate's dao techniques, he could never smoothly take that crucial step. Thus, he once severed the relevant memories and lived out another life.
Therefore, using a Heavenly Venerate forbidden method, Ye Chen sealed away the indestructible and imperishable divine nature of his Heavenly Venerate body, allowing his physical form to return to simplicity, transforming into a pure and ordinary mortal body.
Finally, Ye Chen went a step further, allowing his body to degenerate, leaving behind only a foundational level. Moreover, he sealed away all memories related to being a Supreme Heavenly Venerate, creating a complete blank slate, turning him entirely into an amnesiac young human man.
Of course, his starting point was still very high. For an ordinary person, his body remained exceptionally strong.
Undoubtedly, by sealing his Heavenly Venerate cultivation, sealing the imperishable divine nature of his Heavenly Venerate body, and sealing his memories, transforming into a mortal physique to cultivate anew, it was equivalent to opening an alternative next life, very similar to when he cultivated the Ten Revolutions Heaven-Defying Transformation in the Primal World, opening new life after new life.
However, even with the aid of the Ten Revolutions Heaven-Defying Transformation, Ye Chen could only cultivate nine lives, never managing to cultivate a tenth.
It was as if, before himself, he had already cultivated one life-body.
Yet, the current him had long since become a Supreme Heavenly Venerate, omniscient of past, present, and future. It should be impossible for anyone to seal away his relevant memories.
This point still puzzled Ye Chen to this day.
Thus, in the absence of a better method, he could only rely on this approach to begin an alternative new life, living out an alternative tenth life.
At this moment, Ye Chen became a twenty-year-old youth with blank memories, embarking on a new life, retaining only one instinct: the pure instinct for physical evolution and strengthening, unable to cultivate any dao techniques or supernatural abilities.
Driven by instinct, Ye Chen began advancing deeper into the desert, continuously leaping across the barren expanse. Each leap covered a distance of hundreds to thousands of zhang.
Soon, as time passed, the distance and speed of his leaps continuously increased.
Half a month later, after incessant leaping, Ye Chen traversed several hundred thousand li, arriving at the depths of the desert.
Here, he discovered a stockade, built upon a desolate loess mountain range, appearing rather crude, housing several thousand clansmen.
These clansmen were all tall and robust, with strong and burly physiques. Even the women were taller and stronger than those from the outside world, with thick bones.
They wore animal hides, resembling primitive people from a barbaric era, yet possessed astonishing brute strength.
Several of these primitives were dragging the corpses of primordial beasts as large as small hills, returning from hunting outside and entering the stockade.
Upon seeing the appearance of Ye Chen, who seemed short and slender compared to them, these primitives were momentarily stunned before asking, "Who are you?"
Ye Chen's appearance had long since changed, as he did not wish to travel the world with his Heavenly Venerate identity. He now looked like a rather handsome twenty-year-old youth, his clothing completely different from these natives. He gazed at them blankly and shook his head. "I don't know."
The people of the stockade, seeing Ye Chen did not seem to be lying, frowned and asked another question. "Why have you appeared here?"
Ye Chen remained blank. "I don't know."
He didn't know anything?
Had he lost his memory?
However, the people of this stockade were very simple and enthusiastic, harboring no hostility toward Ye Chen. On the contrary, they invited him into the stockade as a guest.
Ye Chen followed them blankly into the stockade. Under their warm hospitality, he was assigned a dwelling and settled down there.
Although he had sealed away all memories of his past, he remained very intelligent and quickly became familiar with the people of the stockade.
Ye Chen learned that this stockade was called Yellow Village, one of the seventy-two stockades located within the Boundary Desert.
The Boundary Desert was this very desert, astonishingly vast, said to span hundreds of millions of li in circumference.
Moreover, legend had it that countless eons ago, the Boundary Desert was an endless expanse of splendid mountains and rivers, where the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was incredibly rich, even intertwined with numerous spirit veins and ancestral veins, making it a first-class sacred land.
But later, because supreme existences confronted each other, they transformed this endless splendid landscape into an endless desert, severing the ancestral veins and dragon veins deep within the earth.
The Boundary Desert lacked Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and was exceptionally barren, yet it harbored some special plants that could continuously promote physical body strengthening. Therefore, the humans inhabiting the Boundary Desert basically did not cultivate profound arts or dao techniques; most focused on tempering their physical bodies, cultivating terrifying brute strength.
It could be said that the humans of the Boundary Desert all possessed powerful physical bodies. Anyone stepping out could easily lift a mountain.
Take Yellow Village, for instance—a very ordinary name. Yet, the clansmen of the stockade were all physically robust, their body refinement attainments not ordinary in the slightest. Each had achieved Divine Transformation through their physical body, possessing fearsome physical power.
"Achieving Divine Transformation through the physical body!" Ye Chen exclaimed with some awe. With his Heavenly Venerate memories sealed, he only felt that achieving Divine Transformation through the physical body was a terrifying existence. Even newborn infants here were innately physically powerful, indicating the inherent strength of the creatures here, born with robust physiques.
The stockade was not large, numbering only a few thousand people. Yet, virtually all adults had achieved Divine Transformation through their physical bodies. Some sufficiently powerful warriors even had physiques comparable to Saints, even Heavenly Kings—truly astonishing.
What kind of barbaric stockade was this? With such bodies, it could be called utterly monstrous.
And none of them had ever walked the path of dao technique cultivation.
However, Ye Chen learned that, on one hand, Yellow Village's ancestors primarily focused on body refinement, cultivating their physical bodies to extremely profound levels, continuously strengthening their bloodlines. As a result, Yellow Village clansmen nowadays were basically born with physical power comparable to the Half-God level.
On the other hand, although the Boundary Desert was poor in spiritual energy, it had given birth to many fearsome primordial beasts, adapted to the desert's survival environment, possessing ferocious natures and frequently attacking the residents of the seventy-two stockades.
To resist the primordial beasts and also hunt them, the clansmen of Yellow Village consumed their flesh and blood, which contained powerful energy, allowing the clansmen to continuously strengthen themselves.
In short, this was a relatively primitive path of physical evolution.