novelraw Chapter 219 : Flesh Becomes Saint, Manifestation of Heaven and Earth!
Chapter 219 : Flesh Becomes Saint, Manifestation of Heaven and Earth!
Chapter 219: Flesh Becomes Saint, Manifestation of Heaven and Earth!
Above the Gentleman Temple, the heaven-and-earth phenomenon that was triggered left the entire Dao Gate staring in shock.
Whether outer sect disciples or inner sect disciples, even the few true disciples within the Gentleman Temple, all raised their heads to gaze at that golden, majestic phantom in the sky, their faces filled with awe and astonishment.
“This… which elder just broke through?”
“That’s not right. Recently, no great cultivator at the elder level or above has been in closed-door cultivation.”
“Even when the elders or the Sect Master broke through in the past, they never stirred up such a grand heaven-and-earth phenomenon, did they?”
“That golden phantom has to be at least ten thousand zhang tall!”
“Could it be that the Seventh Elder has come out of seclusion from the Purple Bamboo Forest?!”
Everyone knew that the Dao Gate’s Seventh Elder, Shen Man, had obtained one of the inheritances left behind by the Dao Ancestor and had sealed herself within the Purple Bamboo Forest.
Such a soul-shaking phenomenon could only be explained by Dao Ancestor inheritance, right?
These Dao Gate disciples who did not know the truth would never have dreamed that the one who had drawn forth the Manifestation of Heaven and Earth was merely a cultivator of the Second Realm!
Inside the cultivation room of the Gentleman Temple, Xiang Yan and the others all felt that this was utterly unbelievable.
With their cultivation levels, it was indeed possible to stir heaven-and-earth phenomena whenever they made major breakthroughs.
But they had never seen anything this exaggerated, let alone personally triggered such a sight!
Everyone’s gazes converged on Little Martial Uncle Jiang Zhi.
This little martial uncle of the Dao Gate transmitted his voice: “Such a grand phenomenon appeared because, at this moment, he awakened a body training divine ability, and then drew out the origin power within his body and fused it into that divine ability.”
“So-called origin power is a type of power contained within the Heavenly Dao.”
“When divine abilities merge with the Heavenly Dao, it is likely because of this that such a level of heaven-and-earth phenomenon was triggered!”
Upon hearing this, Chu Yinyin immediately raised her hand and patted her flat chest, letting out a sigh of relief, transmitting back: “That’s good, that’s good. It’s just a heaven-and-earth phantom. It’s equivalent to origin power resonating with heaven and earth.”
She had really been worried that Chu Huaixu had suddenly become this terrifyingly strong. If that were the case, how would she, as his Second Master, teach him in the future?
Forget teaching him—just trying to keep him under control would be difficult!
Jiang Zhi, however, took a deep look at the black-robed young man sitting cross-legged, his gaze sharpening slightly.
He transmitted: “Actually, that’s not quite right.”
“After a cultivator obtains origin power, the higher their realm, the stronger the Heavenly Dao resonance they can trigger.”
“The true strength of origin power is mainly reflected in this.”
“Don’t look at it as just a phantom right now, but what if one day, his resonance with the Heavenly Dao truly reaches this level?”
“Turning illusion into reality is not entirely impossible!”
“This phantom actually represents the theoretical limit that his body training divine ability can reach!”
Hearing this, everyone could not help but exchange glances.
Crude body cultivators usually only possessed low-tier divine abilities.
When had such a level of spectacle ever appeared?
If one day Chu Huaixu truly reached that step…
“What kind of earth-shaking power would that be!” everyone sighed inwardly.
At this moment, Chu Huaixu had already opened his eyes, golden light flowing within his pupils.
Yet his consciousness had not fully returned; he was still immersed in that mysterious, unfathomable chaos.
His perspective had also changed, shifting from himself to the phantom.
At this moment, Chu Huaixu was effectively overlooking everything from a height of ten thousand zhang!
He did not know why this was happening.
He only knew that he now possessed a terrifying sense of power, as though with a single punch, he could topple mountains!
Ask-Dao Peak of the Dao Gate would instantly collapse under one punch of his!
This feeling of merging with the Heavenly Dao was like being lawless, able to do whatever he pleased!
At this moment, Chu Huaixu slowly lowered his gaze. That ten-thousand-zhang-tall phantom also lowered its eyes, looking down at the people in the Mountains Beyond Mountains area.
Wherever his gaze swept across, the immense pressure instantly intensified.
Those Dao Gate disciples who fell within his line of sight felt as though a towering mountain was pressing down upon their shoulders, forcing them to kneel.
Fortunately, Chu Huaixu merely swept his gaze briefly, taking in the entirety of the Mountains Beyond Mountains area in a single glance, causing the Dao Gate disciples to endure the pressure for only an instant!
Even so, everyone felt their hearts pounding in terror, accompanied by a sense of disorientation and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness that they could not resist.
“Too terrifying! What in the world is this?!”
“I even feel that if it looked at me a few more times, I’d die!”
“Why haven’t the Sect Master and the elders shown themselves?”
“This is making everyone panic!”
Thankfully, after three breaths’ time, the golden phantom in the sky suddenly dissipated without a trace, as though it had never appeared.
Chu Huaixu felt a sensation of falling, and his perspective once again returned to his own body.
The golden light in his eyes began to recede, and the golden radiance on his body also gradually faded.
After all his perceptions returned to his fleshly body, he actually felt a brief discomfort, accompanied by a strong sense of loss.
In an instant, he went from the Heavenly Dao might drawn by origin power back to the Second Realm, Seventh Heaven.
Between the two, there was a difference like clouds and mud!
This was the first time since transmigrating that Chu Huaixu felt such an intense craving for power—an endless craving!
Some sensations, once tasted, and some heights, once reached, could never be forgotten for the rest of one’s life!
“Flesh becomes saint, manifestation of heaven and earth.”
“My heart yearns for it!”
Chu Huaixu clenched his fists, feeling an emptiness in his heart.
He did not find it strange that the Dao Gate’s upper echelons had all rushed over.
He was even already used to it.
Such scenes had happened countless times before.
A small scene, nothing more!
But as an outer sect disciple, he still rose properly and bowed to the elders.
Although the Eastern Continent Token had granted Chu Huaixu many privileges, he felt that deep down, he was still a polite person.
At least most of the time.
Xiang Yan smiled as he looked at this Xuanhuang Champion of the Dao Gate and spoke in that unpleasant voice of his: “Chu Huaixu, do you know how much of a commotion you caused just now?”
“I reckon even ordinary people in Dao City could see this heaven-and-earth phenomenon.”
What the Sect Master said was indeed correct. A phantom ten thousand zhang tall would certainly not be visible only to those within the Dao Gate.
Perhaps the storytellers down the mountain already had new material to work with.
Jiang Zhi, however, sized up the young man before him and suggested: “Do you want to meditate for a while longer and stabilize your qi?”
“I see that your aura is still somewhat chaotic. And this time, the awakening of your body training divine ability is completely different from ordinary body cultivators. You might as well experience it more carefully.”
This little old man’s recent concern made Chu Huaixu feel somewhat unaccustomed.
But thinking about it again, having such a thought seemed rather cheap of him?
In any case, he felt that Jiang Zhi was right.
He simply sat back down on the meditation cushion and adjusted his breathing amid everyone’s watchful eyes.
He had already discovered that the strand of origin power in his Sea of Consciousness had split into two when his body training divine ability awakened, with half of it integrating into every part of his physical body.
He tried it out and found that this power still could not be driven by spiritual energy.
“As expected, I need to at least reach the realm of a major cultivator first,” Chu Huaixu thought.
After finishing this, he began studying the various enhancements to his physical body.
Thus, Xiang Yan and the other big shots of the cultivation world soon witnessed the following scene.
This young man suddenly released a fingertip sword qi at his own forearm.
And it was practically a lethal strike against himself, even using sword intent.
If it were an ordinary Second Realm cultivator, their arm would have already been severed.
Yet Chu Huaixu merely suffered torn flesh and split skin. The wound was not shallow, but not deep either, and had not even reached the bone.
Immediately after, the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Everyone saw the young man frown and fall into contemplation, yet had no idea what he was thinking.
“Swish, swish, swish—!”
He suddenly slashed himself three more times in succession, then raised his arm and stared at the wounds, seemingly studying whether “the recovery speed of multiple wounds” would be slower than “the recovery speed of a single wound.”
He really did have quite a spirit of self-research.
It looked painful to everyone watching, yet he did not even blink.
After finishing this, he raised his head and made a very “excessive” request.
“Disciple is currently having trouble damaging my physical body. May I ask which elder is willing to help me? Preferably, please completely sever and crush the tendons and bones of this arm.”
“And take off my left shoulder as well.”
Chu Huaixu spoke with utmost seriousness, his face full of sincere pleading.
In his heart, he was only thinking: “Damn it, am I really this tanky now?!”
“I can’t even cut myself properly!”
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.
What a baffling request—something they had never encountered in their entire lives.
Chu Yinyin was the first to feel eager and immediately stepped forward.
As a result, Xiang Yan grabbed her and pulled her back at once.
“Little Junior Sister, you have no sense of restraint. Don’t mess around!”
“Fifth Junior Brother, how about you?”
He suggested letting Zhao Shuqin, who cultivated eye techniques, take action, as he could grasp the proper degree of force well.
“Alright.”
The squint-eyed Fifth Elder stepped forward, looked at Chu Huaixu, and gestured for him to prepare, saying: “Then I’ll begin.”
“Mm.” The young disciple nodded, even urging him inwardly to hurry up.
Zhao Shuqin opened his dark-gold eyes and circulated a small portion of his spiritual energy, striking Chu Huaixu’s left arm with a palm.
The palm force震动 forth, yet it only cracked the bones and failed to shatter them completely!
Chu Huaixu raised his eyes, and Zhao Shuqin also raised his. The two looked at each other.
Chu Huaixu even saw a trace of apology in the Fifth Elder’s dark-gold pupils.
It was exactly like going to the hospital for an injection—when the nurse missed on the first try, causing pain for nothing, and you had to suffer a second time.
“Again,” Chu Huaixu said directly.
This time, Zhao Shuqin used more spiritual energy, having already witnessed how domineering this physique was!
This strike finally produced a satisfying result, and the crisp cracking sounds of bones breaking rang out.
Strangely enough, the sound was rather crisp—he even thought it sounded quite nice.
So much so that Chu Huaixu felt a sense of novelty, his eyes lighting up slightly.
Everyone looked at his expression and could only think that he was truly a little monster.
Zhao Shuqin spoke: “Forget those in the same realm as you—even ordinary early Third Realm cultivators would probably struggle to injure you at all!”
“Fifth Elder, let’s try again now!”
Chu Huaixu began to activate his body training divine ability—Flesh Becomes Saint!
In the next moment, a golden mark appeared at his brow.
Golden light surged in his eyes, like two clusters of burning golden flames.
Once he moved, the golden flames in his eyes trailed behind him, leaving streaks of fiery afterimages in the air.
An endless sense of power coursed through his entire body, and his qi and blood began to boil along with it!
Since the goal was flesh becoming saint, at this moment, it was practically equivalent to entering a—Saint Body state!
Chu Huaixu’s left arm, whose bones had been shattered, and his left shoulder, which had been dislocated, suddenly twitched a few times.
—They recovered.