"Nothing like sitting beneath a plum blossom tree and enjoying wine or tea." He said with a smile as he heated up the teapot while putting a few tea leaves in the hot water.
As he waited for the tea to be prepared, he leaned back on the chair, resting his hands on his stomach, and closed his eyes.
"Yue Lan," he called out, his voice calm and lazy, "It's about time to get that physique."
Yue Lan's equally lazy voice echoed back in his mind,
[Oh, you finally remembered about it? I thought you wouldn't even ask and would just drink your tea in peace.]
"I never forgot about it, was just setting the mood for a chat," Shen Yuan replied with a smile, his eyes still closed as he relaxed on his chair. "Let's see the physique."
[Good choice. You'll find it in the shop under the 'Physiques' option. I've already marked it for you.]
The system's screen manifested in front of him as he opened his eyes to gaze at it. It displayed the multiple options as he opened the Physiques section and countless physiques scrolled past until the screen settled on a particular section that Yua Lan marked.
There, at the top of the list, was a physique—Chaotic Vessel Physique.
[Chaotic Vessel Physique]
[Grade: Supreme]
[Description: The Chaotic Vessel Physique is a unique physique personally created by the system for Shen Yuan, designed to complement his False Chaos Physique and Primordial Vessel Cultivation art.
This powerful physique allows Shen Yuan to cultivate up to 365 different cultivation techniques simultaneously, utilizing each of his acupoints as a separate dantian.
[Price:500,000 Chaos Coins]
Shen Yuan's eyes shone when he read the details of the physique. It was perfect for his current need, he also felt sweet seeing how Yue Lan created it just for him.
But he soon felt his lips twitching as he read the price of the physique, "Hey, Yue Lan...Did you mistakenly put an extra zero at the end of the price?"
Without warning, a faint, almost untraceable rift opened above Shen Yuan's head, releasing an incomprehensible wave of energy toward him. The level of energy seemed so far beyond what the mortal world could handle that it seemed a single wisp of it would destroy the whole realm.
The energy seemed to be the source of everything, ancient and incomprehensible, True Chaos Qi.
Just then, Yue Lan's voice echoed inside his mind, which seemed unusually serious than her normal playful and lazy voice,
[The integration process will now begin.]
She didn't say what the energy was
The first wave True Chaos Qi descended upon Shen Yuan as Yue Lan guided the energy to not get leaked into the Mortal Realm. The energy weaved through his acupoints like invisible threads. Each of the 365 acupoints in his body lit up as if being submerged inside of lava, glowing faintly as they began to reshape into something much greater.
They began the transformation to become dantians, vessels capable of holding not only massive amounts of qi but also various cultivation techniques simultaneously.
The process was far from gentle.
Shen Yuan's entire body trembled as the chaotic energy coursed through him, tearing down the limitations of his physical form and reconstructing it to withstand the unimaginable burden of the Chaotic Vessel Physique.
If someone else other than Shen Yuan dared to integrate the Chaotic Vessel Physique, then the best-case scenario would be him blowing into oblivion, as the physique was formed on the foundation of his False Chaos Physique and Primordial Vessel Cultivation Art.
Any other physique or bloodline would get destroyed leaving a few exceptions.
As the process continued, his muscles tensed, his bones vibrated, and his skin tingled as each acupoint was systematically transformed into mini-dantians. But he didn't stop there as the second wave of Chaos True Qi descended upon him.
But all of a sudden, his bloodline which had been dormant for so long stirred slightly, it began sucking the Chaos True Qi from the rift as the barrier connecting Shen Yuan and the rift destabilized a little, due to it a minuscule portion of it escaped the barrier into the mortal plane.
That wisp of True Chaos Qi, eternal yet incomprehensible, seeped into the entire mortal world in the blink of an eye, which was potent enough to alter the quality of the qi of all worlds in the Mortal Place.
But due to its minuscule size and the absolute size of the mortal plane, the improvement was barely noticeable to any cultivator except those standing on the apex of the mortal plane.
In worlds far beyond the understanding of most mortals, certain powerful beings felt the subtle shift in the qi. These beings, entities that had long transcended the mortal's imagination, paused in their activities as they sensed the faint but unmistakable disturbance.