The Spirit Lake wasn’t big and was only tens of miles long, but the water of the lake, however, was full of spiritual qi, and the average martial artist drinking the water of the lake was enough to enhance their physique, increase their cultivation speed, and be able to prolong their lives.
Zhang Ruochen placed the island where the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass was growing into the lake. Immediately, the shape of the Spirit Lake turned into a ring shape, with the island located at the heart.
Gu Songzi was indeed treacherous and tricky, however, was a man who kept his word and did not break it.
Gu Songzi carefully explained to Zhang Ruochen, saying, ”In the Vein Formation Pill, adding the medicinal power of the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass, plus the fact that I helped you reshape your three veins with my powerful spiritual power, it is indeed possible to restore your injuries as before. However, counting on how powerful the spiritual power of a Dandao Saint Master is, it would not be possible to restore the three veins in your body to their original form, there would be some cripples.”
“Those cripples are not important to ordinary cultivators. However, for a top genius like you, there is ultimately some degree of impact, and as your realm gets higher, that impact becomes more pronounced.”
The meridians, sacred veins, and blood veins were not just a single thread, but rather, from a single thread, ten threads, a hundred threads …… of endless threads were extended, and finally intertwined into a shape that was distributed in every subtle tissue of the entire body.
Therefore, wanting to use spiritual energy to mould the three veins exactly the same as before was simply an impossible task.
Zhang Ruochen’s current spiritual power had reached the fifty-third rank, and he could condense a 70% structured blood vein system within his body.
However, he knew very well that even if his spiritual power reached the sixtieth rank and he became a Great Sage of Spiritual Power, he could only make the blood vein system infinitely close to ten percent, but it was impossible to reach ten percent.
The crippling that Gu Songzi had mentioned was that one in ten thousand, or even one in a hundred thousand missing.
For an ordinary person, a deficiency like that would not matter at all. For Saints, I’m afraid that it would cause the cultivation speed to drop by double, or even several times.
For great saints, it was feared that their cultivation would directly stop and they would never be able to advance any further.
It could be said that the impact caused by the three crippled veins was enough to destroy Zhang Ruochen’s Divine Fate, destroying the foundation that had allowed Zhang Ruochen to lay the foundation at the Fourth Realm of the Martial Dao, surpassing the unfavourable impact caused by swallowing the Buddha Emperor’s Sharp Sons.
For a supreme genius, this was quite fatal.
From genius, to mediocrity.
Although, this result was within Zhang Ruochen’s expectations, but, coming from Gu Songzi’s mouth, his state of mind was still affected in no small way, and his mood was a bit sombre.
Qing Mo’s ten fingers were tightly pinched, pursing his lips as he said, “Is there no other way?”
“There is a way.”Gu Songzi said.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up, not realising that Gu Songzi’s medical skills were so brilliant that there was really a way to make up for it.
Gu Songzi added, “However, old me doesn’t have that ability, there is only one person who might be able to do it.”
“Who?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
“You.”
Zhang Ruochen froze slightly and said, “Me?”
Gu Songzi nodded seriously and said, “Earlier, when I checked your body, I found that there was an extremely dense Chaotic Qi within you. Your body, should be hiding a not-so-small secret, right?”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Gu Songzi’s eyes and fell into silence.
“You don’t need to tell me what that secret is, and I don’t want to know.”
Gu Songzi never liked prying into other people’s secrets, as an Alchemist, the more you knew, the faster you would die.
Gu Song Zi continued: “The human body of the three veins, count again how mysterious, change again, branch veins again complex, after all, only after the birth of the day. However, the Chaotic Qi is the innate Qi that can nurture everything, more mysterious and unpredictable.”
Zhang Ruochen was quite intelligent, and in an instant, he already understood what Gu Songzi meant and said, “Senior means that I should use the Chaotic Qi to nurture the three veins on my own?”
“That’s right.”
Gu Songzi added, “If I am not mistaken, you once cultivated a Five Elements Chaotic Body, but, that was only an acquired Five Elements Chaotic Body. If you were able to use the Chaotic Qi and contain the three veins, you would also be able to take it a step further and become an Innate Five Elements Chaotic Body, with even greater potential. Reaching that step, your future success is unimaginable even to old me.”
“Innate Five Elements Chaotic Body.”Zhang Ruochen muttered.
Legend had it that only at the beginning of the heavens and earth could a being be born that possessed such a physique, and the probability was extremely low.
Gu Songzi said, “However, you also have to take a great risk. Because of the spiritual power of a human, it is difficult to control the power of chaos. In the Chaos, it might be able to breed an Innate Five Elements Chaotic Body, or it might destroy your lifelong cultivation and turn you into a mediocre mortal. Now, you don’t need to tell old me how to choose, you can carefully consider it for three days first, and after three days, give old me an answer.”
This was an important big choice!
In the former case, one could immediately regain their cultivation without risk, however, Zhang Ruochen’s potential would be chopped off, chipping away at his genius aura, and his future success would be very limited.
The latter, however, was a big risk, either he would cultivate into an Innate Five Elements Chaotic Body with infinite potential, or he would become a mortal, and even his cultivation in the Saint realm would be reduced to nothing.
“No need to consider, I’ll choose the latter. Destiny must be in my own hands, there are still many important things waiting for me to do.”
Zhang Ruochen’s will was firm, without a hint of hesitation.
In Gu Songzi’s eyes, an appreciative look flashed as he nodded and said, “You still have to wait for three days for the old man, and it will take at least three days for the Pulse Containing Pill to be refined.”
Relying only on Zhang Ruochen’s own will and Chaotic Qi, it was impossible to condense the three veins, and the assistance of the Vein Containing Pill was still needed.
For the next three days, Zhang Ruochen sat on the shore of the Spirit Lake, and in his mind, all the martial arts texts he had ever flipped through emerged, including the Perishable Nerve of the Kunlun Realm’s Six Great Books, a portion of the Heavenly Demon’s Stone Carving’s scrolls, and, of course, the most important was the Nine Heavens’ Bright Emperor Scripture.
Undoubtedly, every martial arts text was an exploration of the rules of heaven and earth by the sages and contained the Great Dao.
In particular, top level techniques like the Six Great Books and the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Scripture were direct references to the origin of the Great Dao, and when studied thoroughly, one could peer into the mysteries of the heavens and earth.
Using the Chaotic Qi to contain the three veins was no different from the birth process of the rules of Heaven and Earth.
Zhang Ruochen was unable to peer into the mysteries of the heavens and penetrate the origin of the Great Dao, so he could only collate and summarise the millions of martial arts under the heavens in the hope that they could be of some help to him.
Three days passed quickly.
Zhang Ruochen still couldn’t see through the rules of the heavens and earth, however, the martial realm took a huge step forward with many new understandings, and even the attainment of the Sword Dao reached a brand new height, like it was about to undergo a metamorphosis.
Gu Songzi refined the Pulse Impregnating Pill and handed it over to Zhang Ruochen’s hand, saying, ”I can only help you up to this point, the next step will have to depend on your own destiny. From now on, neither of us will owe anyone a favour.”
Gu Songzi gave a word of advice to Qing Mo, telling her to protect Zhang Ruochen and never be disturbed by things from the outside world. Afterwards, he carried his hands behind his back and left the place.
Qing Mo’s lips moved, wanting to advise Zhang Ruochen to think more carefully, but, in the end, he did not say anything for fear of affecting Zhang Ruochen’s state of mind.
“Only those who have fought, worked hard, and persevered will understand what passing is and what is ordinary.”
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm as he pinched the Pulse Containing Pill and without a hint of hesitation, swallowed it into his mouth in one gulp.
The Pulse Impregnating Pill was like a catalyst that entered his body, instantly causing the Chaotic Qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body to become inactive, emitting a clattering sound.
Every trace of Chaotic Qi was like a river;every speck of light was like a star.
Zhang Ruochen’s skin, exuded a five-coloured foreign glow, countless light points flickering as the light became brighter and brighter, reflecting the Spirit Lake next to him in five colours as well, indescribably beautiful.
Qing Mo stood at the side, staring with a pair of starry eyes, holding her breath.
In her eyes, at this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s body looked like it was filled with a vast and boundless universe, with a star field and countless stars.
“Your Excellency is really going to metamorphose from Houtian, to Innate? To use his physical body to reflect the universe? With the rules of heaven and earth, diffusing the three veins of the body?”
Qing Mo gently swallowed a mouthful of spittle, appearing tension-free.
In the distance, Gu Songzi stood inside a grass hut, staring through the window in the direction of the lake, muttering, “If this son really succeeds, I’m afraid that even a god would have to lose three points to him when he was young. Can he create signs?”
Within Zhang Ruochen’s perception, the body became more and more gigantic and vast, as if it had transformed into an endless starry sky that was no longer under his control.
At this time, Zhang Ruochen fortunately stopped trying to control it, and his mind, once again, recalled the tens of millions of techniques that he had once flipped through, and billions of words surfaced at the same time.
Those words, surprisingly, formed one pattern after another, some were like a delicate and incomparable fairy, some were like a blooming spiritual flower, some were like a warrior holding a bow and arrow, and there was also the demonic pillar that held up heaven and earth, and the divine river that rolled and flowed ……
Countless patterns, and in the end, they even fused with the colourful points of light within their bodies, making the chaotic world all infinitely mysterious and magnificent.
“Wow…”
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen only felt his body contracting rapidly, transforming from a vast and boundless universe to a tiny human body again.
The meridians, sacred veins, and blood veins all recovered.
Sacred Qi travelled through the meridians and Sacred Veins, blood flowed through the blood veins, and the body that was originally dead became vibrant with life.
The meridians and sacred veins were still the same number as before, however, all three veins became five coloured. Moreover, Zhang Ruochen always felt that all three veins had undergone a rather subtle change, only that with his current cultivation level, he was unable to detect that change.
“Surprisingly, he directly broke through the realm and reached the cultivation level of a Realm Saint.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly, his mood was joyless, and he couldn’t wait to have a big battle as a way to vent his suppressed mood in recent times.
At the same time, it was good to know what level of power he had reached now. Was it able to fight against a figure at the level of a Tong Tian Blood General?
