Chapter 348: Unable to Accommodate

Su Chen rested slightly and tried to incorporate the wisp of chaotic Qi he had refined himself into his physical cultivation.

The wisp of gray chaotic Qi stayed in Su Chen's body for less than three breaths before Su Chen heard a sound from within his body.

It was the sound of the acupoints in his body shattering; the newly repaired human acupoints collapsed again because they could not bear the entry of the chaotic Qi.

Nearly a hundred of Su Chen's three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints exploded in the same instant.

Blood gushed through the pores of his body and from the corners of his eyes and ear canals; the dark-gold luster of his body dimmed sharply, and cracks spread across his skin.

That wisp of chaotic Qi had no aggressiveness and no intention to destroy Su Chen's physical body, but its existence itself was something Su Chen's physical body could not bear.

Chaotic Qi, this kind of existence, was not something belonging to the Three Realms of the Primordial era; Su Chen's physical body, although strong, was fundamentally supported by the energy system of the Primordial era and was naturally repelled by this kind of "foreign" high-level energy.

"Not good!"

Hou Tu was the first to react.

Her palm pressed on Su Chen's head, and Earth Essence Qi poured in crazily, but the speed of those repairs couldn't keep up with the speed of the acupoint collapse.

The chaotic Qi flowed in Su Chen's body, and wherever it passed, Su Chen's physical body was destroyed.

"Force that thing out!" Zhurong roared, his red hair exploding, both palms striking out, fire laws turning into flames, trying to burn the wisp of chaotic Qi in Su Chen's body to ashes.

But the moment the power of fire laws touched the chaotic Qi, it was swallowed by it.

Zhurong's expression changed drastically, and he withdrew his hands abruptly.

A small part of the fire laws he output was assimilated by the chaotic Qi, which in turn aggravated the chaos in Su Chen's body.

"Don't move randomly!" Brother Di Jiang shouted to stop them.

Gonggong had already condensed the laws of water and was ready to strike, but upon hearing this, he forcibly held back.

Rushou's laws of metal had just reached halfway before he suppressed them back.

"Chaos assimilates all things; our law powers will only make the situation worse." Brother Di Jiang's gaze was calm, but his voice was extremely low. "Cannot strike rashly."

The twelve Ancestral Wu watched as Su Chen's physical body shattered bit by bit.

Su Chen sat cross-legged in the center of the temple, the chaotic Qi flowing slowly in his body, and wherever it passed, acupoints exploded and meridians shattered.

He was soaked in his own blood, his dark-gold skin covered in cracks, like a piece of porcelain about to shatter.

He was still desperately circulating the *Thirty-Six Axes of the Heavenly Gang*, but the speed at which the technique repaired the physical body couldn't keep up with the speed of the collapse caused by the chaotic Qi.

Su Chen gritted his teeth, the extreme pain making his consciousness exceptionally clear.

He realized that repairing the body was only a temporary measure and not the root cause; to survive, he could only solve the problem from the root and limit that wisp of terrifying chaotic Qi.

Su Chen activated the Hunyuan Jin Dan, the five-colored light on the surface of the Jin Dan rotating, Yin and Yang rotating, turning into a miniature millstone, slowly drawing the wisp of chaotic Qi and locking it in the dantian.

The moment the Jin Dan millstone touched the chaotic Qi, the power of the Five Elements was swallowed by a layer.

But the Five Elements of Su Chen's Hunyuan Jin Dan formed a self-contained cycle—gold generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates gold—and the swallowed part was quickly replenished.

Collapsing on one side, replenishing on the other.

Su Chen relied on this way of drinking poison to quench thirst, forcibly locking the chaotic Qi in the dantian core for the time being.

The collapse of the physical body finally stopped, but the price was tragic.

Of Su Chen's three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints, two hundred and seventeen were shattered.

His physical body barely maintained a human shape,

The temple was so quiet that only Su Chen's heavy, ragged breathing remained.

Zhu Rong looked at Su Chen's state and originally wanted to say that this human didn't know the meaning of life or death.

He had said long ago that a human boy could never cultivate by containing the Qi of Chaos just like the Father God.

But looking at Su Chen, who was bathed in blood, he ultimately just curled his lip and didn't say it out loud.

Xuan Ming, who was always expressionless, looked at Su Chen's state and rarely revealed a trace of being moved.

Hou Tu stood by Su Chen's side, the vital energy of the earth continuously outputting from her palms, continuing to help repair Su Chen's shattered acupoints.

Brother Di Jiang stood in place, not moving a muscle.

His abyss-like eyes stared fixedly at Su Chen's dantian, his divine gaze piercing through Su Chen's physical body to look at that wisp of Chaos Qi locked by the power of the Five Elements; he was also thinking of a solution.

Su Chen's physical body had already completed seven transformations, the thirty-six stances unified, and he had grasped the True Intent of Opening the Heavens; the strength of his physical body was invincible at the same level.

But even so, a wisp of Chaos Qi entering his body would actually cause such serious consequences; this was definitely not because Su Chen's physical body was not strong enough.

That Chaos Qi was not that strong; if it were not inside Su Chen's body, any one of them, the Twelve Ancestral Wu, could handle that Chaos Qi.

"Not right," Brother Di Jiang suddenly spoke.

All the Ancestral Wu looked at him.

Brother Di Jiang walked in front of Su Chen, squatted down, and observed Su Chen's situation.

"Su Chen, your acupoints were not destroyed by the Chaos Qi."

Su Chen raised his blood-stained face and looked at Brother Di Jiang.

Brother Di Jiang extended a finger and pointed into the void; the Law of Space condensed, projecting the structure of the acupoints inside Su Chen's body.

Those shattered acupoints were clearly visible.

"Physical acupoints are spaces for containing Pangu Sha Qi, spiritual energy, and other energies to temper the physical body," Brother Di Jiang explained. "Tempering the body with Sha Qi involves introducing Sha Qi into the acupoints and circulating it along the meridians to temper the physical body."

"But Chaos Qi is different. Chaos has no attributes and is an existence that does not belong in the Primordial World. You were born in the Primordial World; your body is naturally able to contain all energies within the Primordial World, but it cannot contain Chaos Qi."

Brother Di Jiang stood up straight and looked at Su Chen.

"Simply put, it is that your physical body lacks the acupoints to contain Chaos Qi. That is why this situation has occurred."

Su Chen nodded slightly; he understood what Brother Di Jiang meant.

"Then what should be done?"

Brother Di Jiang was silent for a few breaths.

"Perhaps there is something that can help you."

Brother Di Jiang turned around, facing the black stone wall at the end of the temple, which was covered in ancient Wu Clan totems.

"Currently, there is an item in the Primordial World that can freely inhale and exhale Chaos without suffering the slightest damage."

Brother Di Jiang raised his hands, and the Law of Space erupted.

Inside the temple, a special array was activated, and a stable spatial channel appeared.

An aura that Su Chen had never felt before surged out from the spatial channel.

That aura was vast and ancient, more than a hundred times more intense than the Pangu pressure outside Mount Wuzhi.

At this moment, Su Chen's spine emitted an unprecedented, violent resonance, and the blood throughout his entire body was boiling.

And inside the spatial channel, a dark red light flickered on and off, as if something were beating.

Thump... thump... thump...

It seemed to be the sound of a heartbeat.

Brother Di Jiang turned his head to look at Su Chen, his deep eyes reflecting that dark red glow.

"Follow me, and go see the Father God's heart."