The night was deep and quiet, the bright moon hung high, and the stars were dazzling.
Beneath the starry sky, the pure, bright radiance spread across the land. Countless stars condensed into a brilliant Milky Way. The azure sky was as clear as if washed, making everything visible.
Deep within the Hundred Thousand Mountains, in a secluded valley far from human habitation, various wild beasts darted and leaped about. A crystal-clear stream flowed with a tinkling sound, possessing a unique vitality.
On a cultivation platform, Ye Chen sat cross-legged in meditation, his eyes tightly closed. With each breath, strands of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy appeared, shimmering with a sacred glow that entered his body.
All of this was not purely cultivation. It was merely Ye Chen adjusting himself before achieving the Great Perfection of the Human Yuan Body Art. He wanted to bring himself to his peak state, then enter seclusion to completely break through into the realm of Great Perfection.
This seclusion was of utmost importance. For Ye Chen, there was no room for error. Once he stepped into Great Perfection, he would truly have the capital to establish himself on this unfamiliar continent of his rebirth and become a powerful figure.
However, his ambitions were not small. He didn't just want to simply establish himself within the Great Perfection of the Human Yuan Body Art; he also wanted to make other breakthroughs.
The boundless Heaven and Earth spiritual energy continuously emerged. Ye Chen inhaled and exhaled the spiritual energy, slowly adjusting his state on the platform. After adjusting for a full day, his essence, energy, and spirit had completely reached their absolute peak.
The moment he opened his eyes, it was as if lightning had split the sky, brightening the world. One could feel how powerful his essence, energy, and spirit were. The demonic beasts and wild beasts in the distance sensed a pressure and instinctively fled.
His brows and eyes shone with brilliance, his Heavenly Yuan was full and abundant—this was the manifestation of his essence, energy, and spirit at their peak.
Ye Chen turned his palm, and two Martial God demonic cores, each the size of an adult's fist, appeared. One was silver in color, with arcs of lightning leaping about it. This was the Martial God demonic core of the Eight-Horned Green Ox, containing the power of the lightning attribute.
The other deep blue Martial God demonic core was the one he had won at the auction. One could clearly feel the vast yet gentle energy surging within.
Each Martial God demonic core contained part of the Heavenly Dao principles comprehended by the Martial God-level demonic beast during its lifetime. For example, the Eight-Horned Green Ox had comprehended the Dao of Lightning, while the sea demon had comprehended the Dao of Water.
Feeling the surging Martial God energy within the two demonic cores, Ye Chen slowly took a deep breath, his gaze sharp and focused. These two Martial God demonic cores were the capital for his Great Perfection of the Human Yuan Body Art.
Another drop of essence blood appeared—Divine Spirit essence blood. The fluctuations it emitted were even more majestic and vast than the two Martial God demonic cores. This was the blood essence refined by a Divine Spirit. If refined into medicine and given to an ordinary person to consume, it could even extend their lifespan by one or two hundred years.
Even if a Heavenly God consumed it, they would grow stronger. One could imagine how powerful the energy contained within was.
This was Ye Chen's guarantee of strength. He would not use it unless absolutely necessary.
Old Yan appeared, sitting cross-legged in the void. "Break through. I will protect you."
"Good!"
Boom—
Ye Chen tightly gripped the two Martial God demonic cores in his hands, then suddenly exerted force. A tremendous force of a hundred thousand jin appeared instantly. Even something as hard as a Martial God demonic core was directly crushed. A terrifyingly immense energy surged forth, causing the very heavens and earth to tremble. It was enough to easily flatten an area of several dozen li.
This was not ordinary energy, nor was it Heaven and Earth spiritual energy or Xiantian energy. It was Martial God energy, a level higher than Xiantian energy. It was a combination of the Dao principles comprehended by a Martial God and their divine power, truly extraordinary.
The Martial God energy contained within each Martial God demonic core was terrifyingly powerful, enough to flatten an area of several dozen li. Now, with two demonic cores crushed simultaneously, it was even more dreadful.
However, Old Yan made his move. Using powerful means, he forcefully suppressed this energy from its agitated state into a gentle one. Only a powerhouse of his level could accomplish this. Otherwise, even a Heavenly God expert would find it somewhat troublesome.
This was also why Ye Chen dared to crush the demonic cores. If Ye Chen were alone, he could only slowly absorb the energy from the Martial God demonic cores.
Vast amounts of silver and blue dual-colored energy continuously surged out from the shattered Martial God demonic cores. Under Old Yan's control, it transformed into an energy pool spanning ten zhang in radius. The Dao powers of lightning and water attributes manifested.
These were parts of the Dao once mastered by the Eight-Horned Green Ox and the other sea demon, combined with divine power to become their own Martial God energy.
Ye Chen sat cross-legged within the ten-zhang energy pool, officially beginning his breakthrough to the Great Perfection of the Human Yuan Body, about to refine the indestructible Human Yuan Golden Body.
He sank into the silver and blue Martial God energy. The Human Yuan Body Art instantly operated at its extreme. The immense dual-colored energy was absorbed by him. He intended to use this to achieve the Human Yuan Golden Body in one go.
Boom—
His body transformed into a bottomless pit. All one hundred and six thousand fine pores on his body's surface dilated, like one hundred and six thousand black holes, wantonly absorbing this vast, pure energy.
Crackle, pop—
Every bone and tendon in his body rapidly interlocked and creaked. His flesh and blood trembled, his blood energy roared and boiled, continuously transforming, becoming increasingly powerful and terrifying.
This transformation occurred from the inside out. With the naked eye, one could clearly see that every inch of his flesh and blood seemed like a starving man who hadn't eaten for who knows how many years, incessantly and wantonly devouring the massive amounts of dual-colored energy.
Ye Chen immersed his mind within, his thoughts reaching their extreme. He wanted to comprehend every change in this physical transformation and the various mysteries contained within, attempting to understand them.
It must be said that the Human Yuan Body Art was truly a supreme body cultivation technique, profoundly mysterious, containing various profound mysteries related to the physical body. It was unknown which senior created it, but they were undoubtedly a stunningly brilliant figure throughout the ages. No one could fully penetrate the mysteries it contained.
Even Ye Chen, inheritor of the Battle Saint lineage, couldn't help but marvel. This body cultivation technique, although limited to the early realms, was absolutely peerless in the world. It could solidify one's physical foundation to an incredibly firm degree, thus providing the possibility for even greater strength.
The transformation process couldn't be too fast, because Ye Chen deliberately made it so. He wanted to thoroughly understand every change involved in achieving the Human Yuan Golden Body, master these changes, and thus reach a deeper level of comprehension.
Time quietly passed—
One day... two days... half a month... one month...
During cultivation, one loses track of time's passage. Ye Chen was completely immersed in the transformation of his physical body, his mind settled and calm, long unaware of the passage of time in the outside world.
Almost every moment, he was growing stronger.
Rumble—
As the cultivation progressed into its later stages, the magnitude of the physical transformation increased. The interlocking of bones and tendons roared like thunder. Every inch of flesh and blood continuously grew stronger. Blood energy steamed, his body like a furnace.
One could clearly see that within the meridians of his limbs and bones, a sea of power wantonly surged, impacting like a flood or terrifying waves, washing over the meridians again and again, continuously strengthening them.
During this process, his blood energy underwent a noticeable change. Faintly, a hint of golden color appeared, and as time passed, it grew more and more...
Ye Chen's physical body was undergoing an incredible transformation. This was a deep-level metamorphosis, continuously evolving toward an even stronger level without pause.
When he stopped transforming, that would be the moment of breaking the cocoon and becoming a butterfly, the moment of rebirth and bone refinement. At that time, he would possess unparalleled combat power, capable of suppressing everything...
In the blink of an eye, two months passed. The energy pool that originally spanned ten zhang in radius was now less than three zhang in size. Yet, Ye Chen was still immersed in cultivation, not yet awakened.
His mind had sunk into the deepest part of his cultivation. Unless he truly broke through, without sufficiently powerful external stimulation, he could not wake up.
At this moment, he had many cultivation insights in his heart that needed to be digested.
Moreover, Old Yan knew in his heart that this time, Ye Chen's goal wasn't as simple as just breaking through to the Human Yuan Golden Body. There were other aspects he wanted to break through as well; otherwise, it wouldn't be so slow.
Although he had known this would happen, Old Yan couldn't help but frown. Ye Chen was being too impatient, wanting to break through this thing so quickly. Didn't he know that impatience was the greatest taboo for cultivators?
However, considering that Ye Chen was the reincarnation of a peerless existence from a past generation, all of this was probably within his considerations.
Meanwhile, far away, several thousand li distant at Xia Feng Academy, on this day, a powerful Martial God expert arrived from outside, descending upon this cultivation academy in a kingdom of the Western Region of the continent.
His appearance startled several Martial God elders of Xia Feng Academy, who personally came out to welcome him. This was because the visitor was a Martial God expert from Tian Du Academy, a cultivation holy land of the continent.
And the purpose of this visit was for the enrollment trials!