Chapter 144: Physical Divine Treasures - Volume of All Rivers Flowing into the Sea

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【Physical Body Godly Treasure—All Rivers Run into the Sea Scroll】

Originating from the Martial God Star and created by the Martial God of that realm, who focused on developing the potential of the physical body, perceiving the latent powers hidden within the human body, and formulating the corresponding arts of Martial Godly Treasures.

Its sixth scroll, "All Rivers Run into the Sea," works in accordance with the practitioner's internal meridian nodes and acupoints, opening sub-dantians at various junctions to store a hundredfold more magical power than an ordinary cultivator. (Includes methods for opening sub-dantians at every realm below the Deity Transformation Realm.)

After a brief overview, Cao Chengyu felt somewhat disappointed.

Even though the origin of the technique was revealed, he had no temporary interest in understanding it.

However, he forgot that once a cultivation inheritance rewarded by the leaderboard was bestowed, he could instantly master it to the realm of perfection. Although it could not be upgraded through derivative divine abilities, it possessed a miraculous effect.

This Physical Body Godly Treasure would open sub-dantians at all the cultivation nodes of the Yellow Court Scripture, endowing him with an even more formidable reserve of magical power.

Since he was currently in the Purple Palace Realm, it meant he could directly and simultaneously elevate his sub-dantians to the absolute limit of the Purple Palace.

In that instant, Cao Chengyu's magical power scattered, and the little remaining internal energy completely lost control.

The seal of the Godly Treasure formed automatically within his dantian, and the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth began to riot, instantly forming a funnel-shaped vortex visible to the naked eye.

A strange cracking sound emanated from his body; bones grated and compressed, some bone fragments were expelled from his body, flesh and blood swelled continuously and then recovered, and black blood oozed from his pores.

His hair grew rapidly, his skin necrotized and then peeled off, replaced by new skin that was smoother and fairer than before.

Under the scouring of massive amounts of spiritual Qi, his physical strength began a metamorphosis akin to "cleansing the marrow and washing the bones." Yet, logically speaking, his body had long been free of impurities or defects requiring improvement.

The Physical Body Godly Treasure—All Rivers Run into the Sea Scroll was clearly conducting a deep-level awakening of potential, opening whirlpools of magical power at various turning nodes and acupoints along his meridians.

External spiritual Qi surged in frantically, refined almost instantly. As time passed, the sub-dantians grew increasingly stable.

Meanwhile, Cao Chengyu's consciousness was slightly intoxicated by the rush of spiritual Qi, much like the discomfort caused by an excessively high oxygen concentration in the air.

Consequently, the Minor Gate Formation began to dissipate. With his current level of attainment, relying solely on the Universe Array Canon to trap a Golden Core cultivator was still extremely difficult.

Especially after losing the support of magical power, the mist that blocked divine sense and vision receded, and the copper coins embedded in the void were violently smashed to pieces by the cultivator surnamed Pang.

His gaze naturally fell upon Cao Chengyu.

Around him was a large crater containing a heavily distorted lump of metal, a patch of shattered earth, and a charred, human-like figure kneeling there.

As well as the last person who had committed suicide, whose spider-like appendages pierced straight through his own heart and skull.

The identities of these people were beyond doubt.

"Che Miaomia, Pang Rong, Che Jia?!"

"Damn bastards! I will make sure your souls never reincarnate! Go to hell!"

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Pang Wangzhi's eyes split open, glaring with furious red, and the bulging veins on his temples attested to his overwhelming rage.

A pair of iron hands thrust high into the air, pulling down like drawing a cord, summoning rolling heavenly thunder and flashing purple lightning.

With a single strike, he blasted apart Cao Chengyu's spiritual Qi vortex.

However, by that time, the process had already concluded.

The All Rivers Run into the Sea Scroll had synchronized to the Purple Palace Realm; a hundred apertures within his body had opened sub-dantians, and his magical power had surged nearly a hundredfold. This process also completely restored the magical power that had been entirely depleted within his body.

Under the scouring of spiritual Qi, his physical injuries healed, and his body-refining realm leaped forward by a massive margin.

[Cao Chengyu]
Age: 18.1
Cultivation: Mid Purple Palace Realm (51%), Four Extremities Body Realm (68%)

The extent of his physical realm's enhancement was immense, truly living up to the name of the Physical Body Godly Treasure. And this was merely the sixth scroll; if all the Physical Body Godly Treasures were ever gathered, there was no telling to what degree his body-refining realm would skyrocket.

Aside from his soul injury which had not yet fully healed, his overall combat power had returned to its peak state.

Truly a treasure best suited for me; not only did it increase my magical power reserves, but it even factored in my injuries and crises.

Splendid...

Facing the successive bolts of purple lightning, Cao Chengyu closed his eyes to perceive his surroundings. The battered Dark Ice Sword floated beside his hand, its blade likewise beginning to crackle with lightning.

The Pride of Nine Songs Sword Technique was a martial art he had developed by fusing nine different attributes, pushing the corresponding traits almost to their absolute limits.

Ice, lightning, and wind—three aberrant attributes—plus the Five Elements and Yin-Yang, making a total of nine.

The Nine Songs and Nine Styles, totaling eighty-one movements, could virtually suppress the Dao physiques of all attributes. To cope with lightning, he should ideally have used the corresponding sword technique of the Earth Song.

At this very moment, however, he preferred to slash through it, venting the pent-up gloom in his heart!

Therefore—

Amidst the chanting of thunder and the flash of lightning, the Sixth Style of the Thunder Song—Thunder-Slaying Sword!

It flashed forth from his hand in an instant.

The very moment it was unleashed, it seemed as though all the thunder and lightning in heaven and earth had converged within this single sword, eclipsing even the purple lightning overhead.

With a single sword strike, all sounds fell silent.

The dark clouds dispersed, leaving ten miles of cloudless sky.

The residual power of the thunder sizzled across Cao Chengyu's body. His aberrant attribute powers were generally derived from the pairwise combination of the Five Elements.

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Enhanced by the sword technique, his power was somehow even more tyrannical and formidable than that of cultivators who specialized exclusively in the Dao of Thunder.

Seeing that the heavenly thunderbolts were ineffective, Pang Wangzhi immediately circulated his divine ability. His pair of iron hands were wreathed in purple lightning, and the phantom of a thunder beast manifested behind him.

It bore a striking resemblance to a white ox with four horns, its body covered in long, coarse black hair that looked as though it were draped in a coir rain cape.

Now standing erect behind Pang Wangzhi, it roared silently.

Red lightning erupted from its four horns, shooting fiercely toward Cao Chengyu.

The *Hundred Dissolutions of Immortal Cultivation* records:
—Upon the Mountain of Three Perils, there is a beast shaped like an ox, white-bodied with four horns, its bristles resembling a rain cape. Its name is Ao Yin.

This was a divine ability of an aberrant beast. Since the fellow surnamed Pang could use it, his ancestors had likely engaged in some shady business; such people were worthless, or at the very least, ought not to exist.

Facing the surging torrent of lightning, only a divine ability could counter a divine ability.

The Yin-Yang and Five Elements Divine Wheel appeared once more. Yin-Yang and the Five Elements rotated in opposition, and transparent ripples rippled outward, freezing even the lightning unleashed by the divine ability in mid-air.

This demonstrated that the power of this divine ability was exceptionally fierce. Having such an effect upon its initial activation promised him even greater cross-realm combat capabilities when he eventually broke through to the Golden Core Realm and fully solidified it.

This time, Cao Chengyu's internal magical power was sufficiently abundant; even while freezing a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, he had ample time to completely finish him off!

The unique soul-destroying power bestowed by the *Chapter of the Undying Human Soul* rapidly coated the blade, and the deities of the five internal organs burst forth from his body one after another, affixing themselves to the sword to form five divine markings.

That was not all. The Extreme Yin True Fire flared fiercely, stacking onto the blade, while two wind dragons wriggled out from his cuffs, winding sinuously around the sword with their jaws pointed toward the tip.

Having adjusted his entire strength to its absolute peak, the result was a sword strike that seemed to cleave heaven and earth asunder!

Everything it encountered was pulverized. Pang Wangzhi's physical body was ground into fine dust in the blink of an eye, and his soul was cleaved in two by the soul-slaying intent.

In a single thought, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator—body and soul alike—was instantly obliterated.

Cao Chengyu let out a long breath.

His complexion turned slightly paler. Through this battle, he had roughly ascertained the limit of his combat power and vastly enriched his experience in fighting Golden Core cultivators.

Waving away the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Divine Wheel, the state of stagnation vanished, and the residual sword glare nearly cleaved the spiritual mountain housing the Feihong Immortal Market in two.

With the enemies almost completely annihilated—leaving only a peak Purple Palace realm puppet whose whereabouts remained unknown—Cao Chengyu returned to the ground and summoned Old Song over, intending to check his injuries before proceeding to plunder the spoils of war.