Chapter 295

The moment the blade of the Return to Ruins Divine Axe chopped into the void, the forty-nine star chains wrapped around Su Chen tightened at the same time.

The star laws on the chains surged into his body crazily; the scorching heat like the sun, the coldness like the polar night, the heavy pressure like falling stars, all forces crushed over at the same moment, wanting to crush his physical body completely.

Su Chen's skin cracked inch by inch, his flesh turned outward, and his white bones were faintly visible.

But he didn't stop, and the divine axe continued to fall.

Finally, the first chain broke.

The moment it broke, a wisp of star power poured into his right arm, and the shattered flesh and blood healed and reshaped at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Between the textures of the newborn muscles, star-like dark patterns faintly appeared.

Next, the second, third...

Every time a chain broke, a wisp of star law merged into his physical body.

Those laws were no longer shackles like chains, but turned into nourishment.

But the star chains became harder to break the further they went.

When the thirty-sixth chain broke, Su Chen's body almost reached its limit; if it weren't for the fact that he could get the nourishment of star power from every chain, his physical body would have collapsed long ago.

The remaining thirteen chains contracted and tightened, pressing him into the ground.

The heavy pressure of the star laws had exceeded the limit of the physical body at the Tai Yi Jin Xian level.

Su Chen's spine made a crackling sound, as if it would break at any time.

He supported the ground with one hand and held the Return to Ruins Divine Axe tightly with the other.

Su Chen gritted his teeth and swung the axe again.

The thirty-seventh, broken.

Until the last chain wrapped around his spine, which was the foundation of the physical body cultivation with the spine as the heavenly pillar.

The star law carried by this chain was the most terrifying, as if the weight of the entire starry sky was pressed on his spine.

Su Chen couldn't stand up anymore; he lay on the shattered mountaintop.

The Return to Ruins Divine Axe was in his hand, and he no longer had the strength to raise it.

"Then don't use the axe."

This thought flashed through Su Chen's consciousness.

Thirty-six forms, combined into one; what is combined is not the axe technique, but the heart.

The axe is just a carrier, and the true meaning of Opening the Sky is the root.

He let go of the Return to Ruins Divine Axe.

He closed his eyes, his intent moved, an axe light appeared, and the last chain shattered in response.

At this moment, above the sky, the tens of thousands of stars that appeared in the daylight burst into dazzling light at the same time, and countless star power turned into light pillars, falling from the sky and pouring into Su Chen's body.

The entire Lingtai Fangcun Mountain was trembling.

Within a radius of ten thousand miles, the celestial phenomena changed drastically.

The originally clear sky was shrouded in starlight, the day was like night, and the galaxy was inverted.

Su Chen sat cross-legged on the mountaintop without moving, surrounded by star power.

His physical body began to be reborn in the starlight.

Practitioners within tens of thousands of miles of Southern Chanbuzhou all saw this strange phenomenon.

For a time, countless cultivators rushed from all directions.

A hundred miles away from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, dozens of cultivators stopped to watch.

"Such a strange phenomenon, I'm afraid a great power is breaking through here!" An old cultivator at the Heavenly Immortal realm had a solemn expression.

Several disciples beside him were eager to try and wanted to get closer.

The old cultivator stopped them.

"Can't you feel it? The aura emitted from that mountain has already exceeded the Heavenly Immortal category too much. Don't talk about getting close; if you go forward another ten miles, the aura alone can crush you into meat paste."

The disciples looked at each other and obediently retreated.

A few days later, the star strange phenomenon finally dissipated.

The daylight reappeared, and the sky was clear for ten thousand miles.

On the mountaintop, Su Chen slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After going through all kinds of hardships, his physical body finally broke through to Great Luo Jin Xian.

Su Chen stood up and took the initiative to restrain his aura, and the pressure that lingered over the entire Lingtai Fangcun Mountain finally disappeared.

He didn't rush to leave, but returned to the cave dwelling and sat cross-legged to consolidate his physical body realm.

As the pressure dissipated, those cultivators who heard the news finally summoned the courage to enter Lingtai Fangcun Mountain.

They searched through Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, trying to find Immortal opportunities or remaining treasures.

But they found nothing.

The cultivators gradually lost patience and left in twos and threes.

One month, two months, by the third month, the figures of outside cultivators could no longer be seen in the mountains.

On this day, Su Chen finally finished his cultivation and walked out of the cave dwelling.

At this time, Lingtai Fangcun Mountain had returned to its former tranquility.

Birds chirped, and the breeze passed through the forest.

He walked down the mountain, intending to leave this place and return to Flower Fruit Mountain.

When he walked halfway up the mountain, he stopped his footsteps.

On the mountain road ahead, a youth was sitting.

The youth looked fifteen or sixteen years old, his clothes were worn out, the soles of the straw sandals on his feet were worn through, and his face was full of dust and scratches, clearly having traveled a very long way.

He was holding a rusty firewood knife in his arms, leaning against a stone by the road, staring blankly at the distant peaks.

Su Chen originally wanted to leave directly, but his footsteps paused.

Because he was too familiar with the look in the youth's eyes when he looked at the mountain.

It was an unwilling, stubborn look, with a bit of tenacity, exactly the same as when he was first rejected by Patriarch Puti back then.

"What are you doing here?" Su Chen asked.

The youth was startled, hugged the firewood knife in his arms tightly, and looked at Su Chen vigilantly.

"Who are you? Are you also here to find Immortal opportunities?"

Su Chen didn't answer and asked back: "What about you?"

The youth was silent for a while and lowered his head.

"A few months ago, I was chopping wood at home and saw stars all over the sky appearing in the daylight; the elders said this was an Immortal crossing the tribulation. I wanted to come and see if I could bump into an Immortal opportunity."

"I walked for three months before I got here, but those who cultivate Immortals have all left, and nothing was left behind."

He raised his head and looked at Su Chen, with light in his eyes.

"But I don't want to go back."

Su Chen looked at the rusty firewood knife in the youth's arms and suddenly smiled.

He sat down opposite the youth.

"How do you usually use that firewood knife?"

The youth was stunned and didn't understand the meaning of this question.

"Just... chopping wood."

"Chop it for me to see."

Although the youth was puzzled, he still stood up and walked to a tree as thick as a bowl by the road.

He raised the firewood knife and chopped down; his movements were skilled, and his power was used very solidly.

Su Chen looked at the youth's movements, his gaze calm.

The youth's knife technique couldn't be called any technique, but he chopped every knife very seriously, as if he were doing the most important thing in his life.

Su Chen stood up and reached out to pick up a dead branch from the ground.

"When you chop wood, have you ever paid attention to the texture of the wood?"

The youth shook his head blankly.

Su Chen walked to the tree and drew a line on the trunk with the dead branch, following the direction of the wood grain.

"Chop along the grain, and it's naturally effortless. Everything has its principle; if you can see this principle, even if you only have a rusty firewood knife in your hand, you can chop open anything."

The youth looked at him, half-understanding.

Su Chen smiled slightly, took out a jade slip, and sealed the "Dao" he had realized when he first entered cultivation into it.

This was not any profound cultivation method, just an opportunity.

How far he could go in the future depended entirely on the youth himself.

He handed the jade slip to the youth.

"This is for you. Whether you can understand it or not depends on your own fortune."

The youth took the jade slip and widened his eyes.

"You... are you an Immortal?"

Su Chen didn't answer; he turned around and continued to walk down along the mountain road.

The youth's shout came from behind: "Immortal! What is your name?"

Su Chen's footsteps didn't stop.

"Remember, the Dao is in your own heart."

As the voice fell, his figure disappeared into the depths of the mountain forest.

The youth stood on the spot, clutching the jade slip, stunned for a long time.