Chapter 23 - The Last Step, Condensing the Stars!

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Jiang Chen nodded with a smile.

“People change all the time!”

“But no matter what, I will always be your Brother Chen.”

Jiang Yan’s face darkened as he spoke up, “Brother Chen, although I have a good constitution, I’m too exhausted. It’s hard for me to make any further progress. There’s not much difference between me and a crippled body… I really want to reach the Dao Realm, travel the world, and explore the mountains and lands of the Red Sun Continent!”

One had to reach the Dao Realm in order to ascend to heaven.

For ordinary martial arts practitioners, the Dao Realm was their lifelong wish.

“The Dao Realm? Is that really all, kid?”

“In my opinion, you will achieve much more than that!” Hearing this, Jiang Chen scolded him playfully.

“It is said that the Primordial Divine Physique’s spiritual meridians are like complex puzzles. There have been a few other cases in the past, but none of them knew how to solve this puzzle. As time passed, the Primordial Divine Physique became known as the world’s most useless constitution.”

“But I, your Brother Chen, happen to know how to unravel this puzzle. You need not worry about it. It doesn’t mean that only a large amount of resources can unlock your potential.”

Jiang Chen paused for a moment before continuing.

“I will refine a pill for you, and you will be able to activate the Primordial Divine Physique by then. However, it would be extremely dangerous to swallow that pill, and there’s a chance that you could die too!”

When Jiang Yan heard this, a resolute look appeared on his face.

“Brother Chen, I won’t let you down!”

“I’m willing to risk my life for it.”

Jiang Yan clenched his fists and said resolutely.

“Alright. I’ll come to look for you once I’ve finished brewing the pill.” Jiang Chen nodded in appreciation.

After a short while, Jiang Yan left the alchemy room and Jiang Chen started to brew the pills.

As for the herbs in the alchemy room, they were well prepared by Tong Mu and the other alchemists.

A large group of alchemists surrounded Jiang Chen. After all, watching Jiang Chen refine pills would be of great help to them. It would be even better if they could get his guidance!

“Master, may I ask what pills you are going to refine this time?”

“Master, can I bother you for a moment? The four-way alchemy technique is really difficult. Besides Elder Tong, only two people have learned it. Do you have any high-grade alchemy technique that is easier to learn…”

Some alchemists looked at Jiang Chen and asked embarrassedly.

Hearing their complaints, Jiang Chen answered calmly, “Of course. We’ll talk about it later.”

Then, Jiang Chen stopped talking. He injected his True Qi into the pill furnace and started to brew pills.

After a dozen breaths’ time, a mysterious pill was brewed.

This time, although the alchemists were shocked, they were much more composed as compared to the last few times.

“Old Tong, come to the main hall later. I’m going to write a collection of pills. You can take it back and study it with them.”

“Oh, I need you to get some herbs for me. I need to refine a pill for Jiang Yan.”

“Yes, Master,” Tong Mu answered respectfully.



At the same time, when Jiang Chen returned to the main hall, Lou Shan sent him the array formation he needed.

The pills, the array formation, and all the things he needed to prepare were all prepared.

“Finally, I can make a breakthrough!”

Jiang Chen said in a low voice. Then, he sat down cross-legged and started to focus on achieving the breakthrough.

As Jiang Chen took the pill, the spiritual energy started to sweep over him crazily.

Buzz!

With a muffled sound, the True Qi in Jiang Chen’s body started to roar like a tsunami.

The forty-two spiritual meridians were running around crazily in his body, devouring and merging with each other.

A great tearing sensation kept surging into Jiang Chen’s mind!

Especially when the forty-two spiritual meridians collided with each other, Jiang Chen felt like his body was going to explode at any moment.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen had already taken the pill. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to endure it.

Time passed slowly.

After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the turbulence in Jiang Chen’s body started to dissipate. The forty-two spiritual meridians merged with each other, revealing a golden hexagram star.

The star was extremely dazzling. It was blinking as True Qi kept gushing out of it. It was inexhaustible!

This was the nine-layered star!

It had only been a few days since he had been reborn on the Red Sun Continent. Jiang Chen had spent a lot of time on this nine-layered star.

If he had practiced normally, he would have already reached the Physical Realm.

However, Jiang Chen was destined not to follow the usual path. The inexhaustible True Qi was the best proof.

Although Jiang Chen had finished condensing the stars, it wasn’t over yet.

Jiang Chen focused his eyes and shouted coldly.

“Marrow-cleansing and bone-cutting! Activate!”

The True Qi suddenly erupted and surged through Jiang Chen’s limbs and bones.

For a time, Jiang Chen endured the burning pain with great difficulty. The dirt and impurities in his body were quickly expelled from his body.

After a few breaths’ time.

Jiang Chen’s body was covered in black dirt and was emitting a foul smell at all times.

These were the effects of Jiang Chen’s purification.

“Whew! This pain isn’t something an ordinary person can endure.”

What Jiang Chen wanted to do next was to break through to the Physical Realm!

The Physical Realm required marrow and bone cleansing to improve his physical fitness, his spirit, energy, and vigor. Jiang Chen’s spirit, energy, and vigor had now improved a lot.

But the most important thing was to condense the blood essence so that he could enter the Physical Realm.

“Phew. The Spirit, energy, and vigor have increased a lot, but not a single drop of blood essence has been condensed!”

A drop of the blood essence could even be used by an early-stage Physical Realm cultivator.

The biggest function of the blood essence was to improve a person’s physical strength.

However, it was extremely difficult to condense the blood essence. A drop of the blood essence could only be condensed by tens of thousands of drops of ordinary blood in the body.

Even Jiang Chen couldn’t bear such consumption. He broke through the Physical Realm at once.

“The constellation of nine turns technique is the most powerful technique at the Spirit Realm, but it would not be enough.”

“If I remember correctly, the most powerful cultivation method at the Physical Realm should be the Lord of Darkness’ endless formula!”

Jiang Chen couldn’t help but smile when he thought of this.

Although the Lord of Darkness was Jiang Chen’s life-and-death friend at the Nine Heavens, he was still the Lord of Darkness.

In the past, he had obtained the endless formula from the Lord of Darkness when they were exchanging Dao techniques.

In this life, Jiang Chen was very ambitious.

In each realm, he had pushed himself to cultivate the most powerful and top-notch techniques!

If he wanted to cultivate the most powerful and top-notch techniques, of course he had to pay a price.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the difficulty of cultivating it wasn’t any less than the constellation of nine turns technique!

As far as Jiang Chen knew, the endless formula was a bit more powerful than the constellation of nine turns technique…

Because his cultivation technique was to find lightning strikes!