NOVEL NEXT Chapter 10: 11
Days turned into months, the third year started. The previous stunt consumed 75% of his qi. Playing with rules is not a simple matter. It's not even actual law fire. Only a trace of resonance to the law. It took a week of refinement to fill the Dantian again.
Four months later, I saw Zhao Lin picking up the photo of the guy I killed, discussing with Xu Qing, one of his family martial master mysteriously disappeared.
"The supernatural department reported that, he voluntarily switched off his locator and either committed suicide by burning him with some illegal acid or fire or just disappeared himself. Only two different people are suspicious, but when checked they were not in the national id bank. "
" I believe that's a complete bullshit. I know that senior, he would do anything to get what he wanted. I guess he probably fought with a grandmaster. I don't believe a mere master can kill him. He's probably in seclusion. I don't know why everybody is so concerned." Zhao Lin assumed.
Well is this from his family? No wonder, that temper and unreasonableness I felt familiar.
Four months later, due to continuous soul refinement training will, the field of spiritual consciousness can extent crossed the threshold of body itself. Now he can see everything internally. Now just hovering over 50 cms radius.He can perceive even while eyes closed and feel and move anything over 100 kg with his mind. But he can't lift himself as of now. Simply, his bodyrefining isn't for show, it's really dense.
He had some fun messing with Zhao Lin, apart from which his life remained ordinary.
But today, is the day he can finally assess his treasure. When he reached home,at night time, he extended his consciousness into the bead. It communicated the consciousness signature he created previously and he disappeared fully, leaving behind a bead which turned invisible even to divine sense of immortals.
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Inside the bead, vast plain. First thing, experienced was almost being blinded by the amount of spiritual energy concentration present in the bead. " Truly, only in poverty, can one recognise the value of possessions. I took the spiritual energy for granted like the air we breathe, in previous life."
I can't refine spiritual energy now, I need to complete body refinement. Going through the alchemy department and opening the formation locks and finding out the 9 turn body refinement pill. This is the weakest, I could absorb now without exploding.
Sitting crosslegged, he consumed the elixir. The elixir started spitting out mild superior quality spiritual energy combined with medicinal essence inside the body. The body refinement technique was simultaneously ran by him, the dao yun aura spilled from him resonating the spiritual energy and perfect immortal laws were triggered causing phantoms of law spirits to appear. Water elemental dragon, fire pheonix, wind lark, Thunder roc, Light elemental celestial qilin, Verdant Kirin and more.. while, the stagnant refinement of body accelerated. Skin refinement completed. Flesh refinement slowly completed within three hours.
In his excitement of recovering the bead, he forgot he still needed to appear tommorow morning. Only when alarm rank in his phone He woke up. Thinking of a way, he carefully introduced trace of spiritual energy even though it hurt very much, and meridian swelled and burned but finally managed to form a formation pattern over the medicine inside him using consciousness as a guid, sealing it's essence dispersion.
Now he can complete refinement slowly, communicating to the spiritual imprint of bead, he returned back. Looking at him, smelling worse than shit, he jumped into the bathroom cleaning and went to breakfast and attended the class.
Everyone is serious. There is a National Higher Education entrance examination at the end. Along with high school syllabus, people are busy studying and attending mock exams. He also casually flipped through everything and memorized and even found several mistakes.
Looking at the poor people beside him troubling with this, he felt pity. I was born similar to you. May be some of you had worst experience than mine. Well, I was the one who won the lottery in the end. Feeling bored, he leaned back closed his eyes and started the born refinement by unlocking the seal partially. A dao yun aura began to emit from him, but this time it didn't spread apart 2 m from him, but somehow every student near to him found that suddenly the things became easy to remember and memorize for some reason.
Fan Qing, is one who knew this best. This is not the first time he experience this. He believes that it's due to his deskmate, Han Chen for some reason. He believes " Lucky Charm Contagious superstition". basically Han Chen looking good and first in class is very lucky that it will even affect people around him.
Class teacher Li Mei, came in seeing everyone except Han Chen working so hard, she went up to meet him, but the moment she entered his spiritual consciousness the qi fluctuations came to his sense and he suddenly wake up sensing danger.
Looking upto see the new beautiful teacher, who now seems not so simple. This is a change not happened in the previous life. Connecting dots, he come upto the idea that, she is here from supernatural department. His daoyun aura also stopped before she sensed it.
" Have you reviewed everything? Han Chen come with me, I will do a test for you." And called him back to her teacher room. Looking at the regretful eyes of Fan Qing and snickering of Zhao Lin and amused expression on Xu Qing, Han Chen shook his head and followed Li Mei.
She has been looking for an opportunity to call him back and now opportunity present itself. The question answer progressed smoothly with him answering everything correctly. He even mentioned some mistakes that he found in the materials back.
Can you do the teacher a favor? I have been having a huge neck and shoulder pain recently. Can you give me a message, with an expectant eyes.
" Ah...well it's not appropriate ok, and I don't know massage.."
" I don't mind."
" Teacher, I really don't know but if you are ok with this I will give a try"
Looking at her, a system view opened:
Li Mei
Body: Mortal (Human)
Realm: Transform Jin [mid]
Status: Teacher; suppressing cultivation, dazhui accupoint and associated meridians overflow qi leading to neckpain..
Favorability: 25 ↑(Professional curiosity).
Compatibility %: 89
Age: 26
Skills: Master of Li Family Soaring Falcon Art, Hidden Falcon Glide, Sky Talon Strike. Proficient in literature, ancient texts, and teaching.
Background: A member of the renowned Li family, proficient in the Soaring Falcon Art, tasked with preserving their Martial and Family lineage. Supernatural Event Investigative Agency Agent level 6. Disguised as a teacher for inspection of students named Han Chen, Lu Dong.
Traits: Elegant, disciplined, keenly observant, adept at blending her roles as an agent and a cultivator.
After a few minutes of half hearted attempt at messaging, she suddenly turned around and punched. Time again appeared slow down for me. Looking at her full strength strike, I have judged that it won't even budge me in the slightest just with my body refinement and hidden qi. Various possibilities about the transgression arised and finally concluded that she was testing me.
The heart beat sped up from normal level to anxiety level within millisecond, eyes dilated. Mouth dryed. The punch stopped just infront of the face with air flow passing over, just in time for to lose strength and fall back. After doing the Oscar level acting and looking confused and terrified. She analysed me for few moments and gestured me to sit down.
"Your movements are so measured. You are a martial artist aren't you?"
There is no difference shown outwardly..
" ....well,I.. I have been practising since I was 14 years old..well I do practise family arts but there is no particular progress...are you a master? Why did you try to .. tease me? "
" Hmm, do you think I am beautiful?"
" Hey....why are you asking these troubling questions.. if you have anything to ask you might as well ask directly, teacher."
" Well, I am indeed a martial artist. I am from a highly secretive investigative agency of state, I was just testing you. You had no internal qi nor its fluctuation and behaviour is consistent with a normal person...But why did you have no great fluctuations while massaging my exposed neck and shoulders and after asking..?"
" Oh....well aren't you my teacher and I am supposed to treat you like my parent... now that you said it, I have had some thoughts..yeah well after remembering your test, I suddenly don't have anymore..." my gaze was still on her eyes.
" Better ... Now can you explain these." She showed me a document showing my profile,and finally stopped at surveillance footage of leaving metrostation and loosing tracking multiple times last year...my smile stiffened.
' yeah well I went for practising outside.. These damn surveillance.. yeah well I have been keeping cautious.'
" I have been a law respecting citizen [ 'hehe']. You can't possibly suspect me, for just loosing track right? I just visited some scenic spots. "
"I never said I was suspecting you. Why are you afraid?" She is now genuinely teasing.
" ... So, is your organization so free as to go around meeting people and ' test' them? Any way you haven't said what's the relevant incident is, yet." I didn't give her any face.
" Hmm...Well, Zhao Wenkang, this person disappeared and suspects are unidentifiable, and possibility of disappearance coincides with your loosing surveillance too..consider you are not martial artist, there is indeed some discrepancy in the timing."
" Don't tell me I am only the suspect."
" No, one more person is there in this institution. Besides there are more than 40 people elsewhere."
"....you can go now. But if we heard any discussion regarding this or any of its secrets outside including your guardians, we will arrest you for divulging criminal proceedings, disclosure of confidential information, contempt of Court,subornation of perjury,obstructing a law enforcement officer and unlawful disclosure...inessence keep your mouth shut."
"..(•-•)'.."
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Atmosphere suddenly changed to more cheerful. " Student Han Chen, its good that you have studied everything, but keep it in moderation okay? It's not good to sleep in class.."
My smile stiffened again " ....I will, thank you, I am going now...."
" Oh and teacher if you still have that neckpain even as martial artist, it only means there must be some unwanted qi accumulation in one of the spine meridians.. my dad gave me those lessons to me. It's better to be careful"
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" What a handsome and caring guy and very intelligent one too.. Yeah, age doesn't match.. What am I thinking.. Next one, Lu Dong. I need to invent another reason. Damn neckpain!"
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' Luck does put me into situation of dragon King return to city. Evident by compatibility percent. Anyway, I suddenly miss the immortal world. Killing to resolve grudges, killing to create grudges.' Han Chen sighed as he returned home.
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Life returned to normal. For a number of nights he practised until he was adapted to spiritual energy environment.
One night, in the inner world's cultivation tower, Han Chen entered the time chamber and slept for 3 days straight, before resuming body refinement.
For two days straight, he practiced, relying on food brought from outside, as consuming anything inside the inner world could be lethal and as body refining continues he can eat more.
This cycle repeated twice more until bone refinement was complete, progressing into bone marrow refinement.
With marrow refinement completed in a month, he could now consume small quantities of spiritual food.
While spiritual food for mortals existed in the cultivation world, the resources he stored when creating the bead were tailored for cultivation. Over time, even basic items gained excessive energy, making them initially dangerous to consume.
Bone marrow refinement led to blood refinement over three months, followed by internal organ refinement in four months, after which spiritual food became safe to consume regularly.
Reaching the peak of body refinement, the medicinal content within his body reduced by one-ninth, replaced by purer, higher-grade essence of the remaining pill. Refinement cycles continued simultaneously in physique, each faster but more painful, until he completed seven refinements over two years. He was drained of the impurities accumulated by just presence in his world.
By the end, his bones gleamed like jade, his blood turned golden with spiritual attributes, and his skin was smooth yet harder than steel. The body refining technique left Han Chen capable of surviving without producing waste, as every substance entering his body was purified and refined to perfection.
The pill was his thought in previous life to get ahead in body refinement faster. The pill was still immortal grade, the lowest he tried to make, but one which was suitable for a mortal with nothing but a spiritual root.
He initially believed that spiritual roots could only be cultivated after crossing the Land Immortal realm and attaining spiritual consciousness and entering bead. However, now he can forge one earlier, tailored to himself.
Chaos spiritual root, while powerful and destructive, demanded immense resources and major body transformations. A five-element spiritual root, refined from his broken yin root of a past life, provided unparalleled versatility, balancing alchemy, weapon crafting, and sword cultivation if properly harmonized.
Spiritual roots typically remain fixed in grade. Yet, using a root-condensing technique and his enlightened understanding, he sought to craft a spiritual root aligned with his unique needs.
After refining his meridian transport veins sevenfold, he merged the laws of heaven and earth into his cultivation. Over a month, a medium earth-grade dual-attribute root—wood and cosmic—was formed, influenced by his qi absorption methods naturally.
To enhance the root, he tempered it using qi from fire, water, earth, thunder wood, space stones, sword energy ( gold qi), and cosmic energies from radiance refining, temporal energy using altering the tower formations.
Each refinement added unique runes via divine techniques. The result was a balanced and potent root capable of transforming qi attributes like a devouring spirit root with none of its disadvantages.
Finally, by channeling trace amounts of immortal qi through formations into his Dantian, he condensed immortal energy into law chains using law of formation avenue immortal way, forming dragon pattern within Dantian. It was extremely difficult with his small realm, but the formations helped reduce his stress.
The law chains formed interlinked the runes forming an other dragon pattern over the meridian which retraced back to Dantian resembling a Taiji diagram.
This marked his attainment of a spiritual root far beyond mortal limits, bridging chaos, cosmic, void, yin yang, thunder and rest 5 elemental attributes into a unified force. This was part of the study he conducted in previous life after studying multiple spiritual roots and physiques over 1000s of years of his free time.
Basically heaven created anything with atleast one imperfections under immortal realm ,that also includes spiritual roots, whose main purpose would be energy refinement until he became a true immortal lord, after which understanding of immortal avenue preceeds energy refinement requirement.
Now that, the heavenly dao of this world is under his thoughts and he can safely become an immortal under here and proceeds to immortal path later, this new spiritual path won't anger heavens to bite him.
Now that his preparations are complete, he started qi cultivation. Tired of naming immortal skills pumped out by his enlightenment system, he thought of fusion of best and named that Trinity refinement technique, his best work as of his previous life.
But he only got that cultivation technique transcending the immortal level, and further after gathering all knowledge and reaching immortal emperor realm,so foundation wasn't set properly on it.
Now he got started cultivation seriously. His body refinement completed the final two refinement and physique changed directly to innate Tao physique at the end of 3rd year coupled with his draconic spiritual root, his realm which was martial master corresponding to 6th level, first regressed back to third. The quality and quantity of refinement went up a ten thousand times. After 2 months he raised back to his 6th level. For the remaining 3 months he remained here and cultivated raising to 8th level.
Exiting the tower, he emerged from spirit bead back into real world. Stunned by his extraordiness, he hurried to run disguise and transformation sutra to change his appearance back to how he was. Now that he had abundant life essence, he can carry out immortal techniques. Only 3 and half hours has passed in the outside world compared with the 3.5 years he had experienced. He went back to sleep.
Han Chen
Age: 20 years 6 months ( legal: 17 and a half) , senior high school student.
Life-Span: 950 years
Appearance: jade-like bones, golden blood, smooth diamond like-hard skin, radiant and masculine aura. Gained height and symmetry post-breakthrough.
Personality: Confident, Humble, composed, sharp-witted, slightly aloof but courteous when needed.
Realm: 8th level of qi refinement ( Grandmaster)
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Cultivation Details
Spiritual Root: Twin dragon Spirit root of draconic spirit root. Refined for versatility, high qi absorption, and adaptability to laws.
Body Refinement:
Completed Seven Refinements: Jade bones, golden blood, radiant skin, refined organs, no waste production.
Capable of surviving entirely on spiritual resources.
Techniques:
Essence Convergence & Radiance Refining: Absorbs life essence, cosmic energy.
Immortal Scriptures: Self-created, aids breakthrough and synchronization with immortal laws, attacking, healing, alchemic, weapon refining, Talisman making, rune making, Formation making, Divination, and others...
Body Refining Arts: Optimizes energy use, supports high-tier spiritual consumption.
Trinity refinement: Ultimate refinement of essence, spirit and qi using principles transcending divine.
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Abilities
Combat Mastery: Martial Peak
Aura: Influential, harmonized with Dao principles.
Intent: Sword Domain ( regressed )
Killing Intent ( level 7 )
Emperor Intent
Desolate Intent ( level 10)
Flaws: High resource consumption; requires continuous cultivation to advance.