Chapter 216 : Chapter 216
Chapter 216: True Fleshly Sainthood!
【You asked Chen Shu where the Fallen Immortal Abyss was and whether members of the Eldritch Race were guarding it.】
【Chen Shu shook her head.】
【“Do not worry. These days, almost no one cultivates the path of body tempering anymore, so naturally, the Fallen Immortal Abyss is no longer within the sphere controlled by the Eldritch Race.”】
【Right afterward, Chen Shu gave you a map—a map of the Qingxuan Realm—and marked the location of the Fallen Immortal Abyss on it.】
【You accepted the map and, instead of examining it immediately, simply put it away.】
【Afterward, you chatted briefly with Chen Shu for a while before leaving directly and returning to your residence.】
【After returning, you told Xuanyuan Tianji about the Fallen Immortal Abyss and said that you planned to leave for it in the near future.】
【“I’m going with you!”】
【However, to your surprise, Xuanyuan Tianji actually wanted to go with you.】
【You looked at her in surprise. Clearly, in your view, it would be far more effective for Xuanyuan Tianji to remain behind and cultivate than to accompany you to the Fallen Immortal Abyss.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji noticed your expression and explained,】
【“Before I was sealed, I neglected the cultivation of my fleshly body. Now that I have a chance to start over, of course I want to become even stronger than before!”】
【After hearing that explanation, you nodded thoughtfully.】
【One month later!】
【You set out for the Fallen Immortal Abyss together with Xuanyuan Tianji.】
【Through the map Chen Shu had given you, you gained a rough understanding of the Qingxuan Realm’s basic situation.】
【After studying the map, you learned that the greatest cultivation holy land in the Qingxuan Realm was the Qingxuan Immortal Domain!】
【The Qingxuan Immortal Domain could be said to be the largest continental landmass in the Qingxuan Realm, occupying ninety percent of its total space.】
【The remaining ten percent consisted of scattered Immortal Islands surrounding the Qingxuan Immortal Domain.】
【After learning this, you also came to understand that the Hope Zone where Chen Shu was located sat in a very special place.】
【And that place was the Ancient Emperor Ruins within the Qingxuan Immortal Domain.】
【However, the place where you lived was situated in the outer region of the Ancient Emperor Ruins, merely in the shallow layer beneath the abyss.】
【When you first learned this, you were also greatly shocked.】
【The Ancient Emperor Ruins—although you did not understand the history of the Qingxuan Realm, just from those four words alone, you could already infer some things.】
【The words “Ancient Emperor” spoke for themselves. You thought this place was very likely related to an Immortal Emperor.】
【And the Immortal Emperor was already the highest cultivation realm you had ever come into contact with. As for whether even stronger realms existed beyond that, you did not know.】
【However, everything you knew about the realms beyond the Immortal Realm had come from Xuanyuan Tianji. Since Xuanyuan Tianji had not mentioned anything higher, perhaps the Immortal Emperor was indeed the end of cultivation.】
【Half a year later!】
【You and Xuanyuan Tianji successfully arrived near the Fallen Immortal Abyss.】
【This time, with the experience from when you first arrived, you proceeded with utmost caution, concealing your aura and advancing in fits and starts along the way. Only then did it still take you half a year to reach it.】
【Before coming, you had assumed that the Fallen Immortal Abyss would have an environment similar to Tianyuan, yet you had not expected it to lie deep within a mountain range.】
【After arriving at the Chenduan Mountain Range, you continued deeper in.】
【Perhaps because of the Eldritch Race, you saw almost no trace of demon beasts the entire way as you ventured deeper into the Chenduan Mountain Range.】
【With no obstacles along the way, you arrived at the Fallen Immortal Abyss.】
【After arriving there, you saw layer upon layer of mist surrounding it, and within that mist, streaks of purple lightning flickered faintly.】
【“It does not seem all that special!”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji looked at the mist before her and felt somewhat disappointed.】
【Hearing that, you also frowned and looked at the mist. In the outer region, you could not sense anything unusual at all.】
【If Chen Shu had not told you that this was the only paradise for body tempering in the Qingxuan Realm, you would not even have spared it a glance.】
【“Let’s go in and have a look!”】
【That said, since you had already come all this way, you still believed that Chen Shu would not deceive you.】
【The two of you walked into the mist together.】
【The instant you entered the mist, you immediately felt a surge of gravity pressing down on you.】
【“Hm?”】
【“Interesting. It seems I underestimated this place!”】
【After entering the mist, the corners of Xuanyuan Tianji’s lips curved upward slightly.】
【BOOM—】
【Immediately afterward, a streak of purple divine lightning struck your body, causing you to feel a faint sting of pain.】
【After seeing this, anticipation began to rise within you for this place.】
【As you continued moving forward, you discovered that the gravity pressing on your body was growing stronger and stronger, while the purple divine lightning striking you became increasingly powerful.】
【However, after being tempered by the Chaos Divine Lightning, you were extremely confident in the current strength of your fleshly body.】
【“My fleshly body’s strength should already have reached the level of Fleshly Sainthood, right...?”】
【When Xuanyuan Tianji beside you heard that, she could not help letting out a laugh.】
【You looked at her in confusion.】
【“What kind of Fleshly Sainthood is that supposed to be?”】
【“Do you even know what true Fleshly Sainthood actually means?”】
【You froze slightly as you looked at Xuanyuan Tianji’s face.】
【After thinking about it, you realized that you really did not know much about Fleshly Sainthood.】
【You remembered that the first time you had ever heard of Fleshly Sainthood was back in the Blood Demon Secret Realm.】
【At the time, Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable had only just broken free of his seal. Although his cultivation had not yet recovered, he had still been able to fight evenly against the Sword Pavilion Master and Zi You.】
【You remembered that back then, Zi You had told you that while imprisoned within the seal, Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable’s fleshly body had been continuously nourished by Spiritual Qi and had already reached the level of Fleshly Sainthood, allowing him to battle Mahayana Realm experts by strength alone.】
【At that time, your cultivation had still been low and your experience shallow, so you had instinctively assumed that if one’s fleshly body was strong enough to contend against Mahayana Realm experts, then that already counted as Fleshly Sainthood.】
【But after seeing Xuanyuan Tianji’s expression just now, you knew that you had been wrong—utterly wrong.】
【First of all, the current strength of your fleshly body had already surpassed that of Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable.】
【If even you had not reached the level of Fleshly Sainthood, then Blood Demon Heavenly Venerable had been nowhere close to it either.】
【You humbly asked Xuanyuan Tianji what level your current fleshly strength was at, and what exactly counted as Fleshly Sainthood.】
【“As for you...”】
【After hearing that, Xuanyuan Tianji propped up her chin and stared at you.】
【“You barely count as being at the Mortal Shedding Realm.”】
【“The Mortal Shedding Realm? What kind of realm is that?”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that very few people still walked the path of body cultivation these days.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji explained that the Mortal Shedding Realm could be understood as the equivalent of the Tribulation Realm in ordinary cultivation. This realm was the process by which the fleshly body shed its mortal shell and transformed into an immortal body.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that after breaking through from the Mortal Shedding Realm to the Spirit Bone Realm, one would possess the strength to fight against those in the Immortal Realm.】
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