Chapter 350

Twenty years is not long for a cultivator of the Immortal Dao; if one is in seclusion, it is just like a fleeting moment.

For twenty years, Su Chen sat motionlessly under the altar.

His breathing, heartbeat, and blood circulation had long been perfectly synchronized with the heart of the ancient god above his head.

Over the twenty years, his physical body had long since fully recovered under the nourishment of the Pangu heart; those shattered acupoints had healed, becoming even sturdier than before the injury.

But the core problem of "how the physical body can contain Chaos Qi" had never been broken through.

He had observed for twenty years.

With every beat of the Pangu heart, Chaos Qi was inhaled and exhaled, repeating in a cycle without interruption.

Su Chen had dismantled this process countless times; the direction of every blood vessel, the force of every pulsation, and the flow trajectory of the Chaos Qi within the heart chamber were all thoroughly mastered in his heart.

But Su Chen still did not understand how this eternally beating heart could inhale and exhale Chaos Qi; Su Chen's contemplation was always separated by a chasm, unable to see clearly.

On this day, Su Chen's consciousness, through long-term synchronization with the Pangu heart, suddenly detached from his physical body.

Without any warning, his consciousness fell into a gray, misty void.

There was no up, no down, no left, no right, no light, no dark.

There was only endless gray, and a terrifying power capable of devouring everything surging in all directions.

Soon, Su Chen realized that this was Chaos.

Su Chen's consciousness floated in this void; he could not perceive his own body; it seemed his Primordial Spirit had left his body and arrived in this unknown Chaos world.

The omnipresent Chaos Qi squeezed in from all directions, seemingly wanting to crush, assimilate, and erase his consciousness.

Fear rose in the bottom of Su Chen's heart.

Su Chen forcibly suppressed that instinctive fear and made himself calm down.

After calming down, he realized that this should not be real Chaos, but some memory fragments remaining in the Pangu heart.

Twenty years of synchronous resonance had allowed his consciousness to touch the ancient imprint sealed deep within the Pangu heart.

In the gray Chaos, a figure appeared.

That figure was so large it had no boundaries.

Su Chen could only see a small section of an arm; that section of the arm was more massive than any star he had ever seen.

The muscle texture on the arm was like rolling mountains, and scorching light flowed through the blood vessels.

Su Chen realized that this should be Pangu in the Chaos world.

Suddenly, Su Chen's consciousness was pulled by a force, his perspective drawing closer, piercing through that layer of thick skin and deep into Pangu's body.

He saw Pangu's heart.

Not the heart that had gone silent on the altar, but the living Pangu heart that was still beating.

Thump!

With one heartbeat, the gray Chaos Qi was inhaled by the heart and surged along the blood vessels into Pangu's limbs and bones.

Su Chen's consciousness followed the flow of that Chaos Qi; he saw a scene that shocked him to the point of numbness.

Inside Pangu's heart, it was not a normal heart chamber structure.

Inside it was a world.

A complete, self-contained micro-world!

The upper wall of the heart chamber was like a dome, filled with clear Qi; the lower wall was like the earth, with turbid Qi settling.

A miniature Yin-Yang rotated at the core of the heart chamber, and the power of the Five Elements circulated along the patterns on the heart wall; Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth were endless.

After the Chaos Qi entered this inner world, it was ground by the Yin-Yang millstone and decomposed by the Five Elements cycle, turning into clear and turbid Qi, merging into the operation of the world.

And when this inner world operated to the extreme, the clear and turbid Qi merged again, turning back into Chaos Qi, and was pumped out by the heart.

Inhale Chaos, decompose into Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

Yin-Yang and Five Elements return to one, restoring to Chaos.

Repeating in a cycle, never-ending.

Su Chen's consciousness was ejected from Pangu's body by an invisible force at this moment and thrown back into the gray, misty Chaos void.

But he had already seen the answer.

The reason Pangu's heart could inhale and exhale Chaos without suffering the slightest damage was not because it was hard enough, but because its interior was a self-contained world—using Yin-Yang as the core and the Five Elements as the wheel, constructing a perfect closed loop capable of decomposing, containing, and restoring Chaos Qi.

Su Chen's consciousness returned to his physical body abruptly.

He opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting the dark red outline of the massive heart above his head.

The gains from twenty years of seclusion and contemplation all surged up at this moment.

Su Chen realized that he needed to construct an inner world within his body.

But he was not Pangu; he could not make his heart generate a world.

Su Chen pondered deeply; suddenly, he sensed the pulsation of the three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints in his body.

That's it!

Su Chen suddenly realized; the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" used the acupoints of the whole body as stars, introducing Sha Qi into the acupoints to temper the body; the acupoints were containers for Sha Qi.

What if every acupoint were transformed into a miniature inner world?

Su Chen's breathing became rapid.

He forced himself to calm down and began to deduce in his mind.

The "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" provided the framework of the acupoints—three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints distributed throughout the body, connected by the spine as the pillar of heaven.

The "True Explanation of the Hunyuan Jin Dan" provided the operation laws of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements—the Jin Dan itself was a miniature Yin-Yang Five Elements millstone.

If the two were combined, using the acupoints of the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" as the "shell," and the Yin-Yang and Five Elements of the "True Explanation of the Hunyuan Jin Dan" as the "core," opening up a miniature Jin Dan space inside each acupoint...

Three hundred and sixty-five miniature Jin Dan spaces would be three hundred and sixty-five miniature inner worlds.

Three hundred and sixty-five inner worlds connected by the spinal dragon as the hub, forming a Chaos Qi circulation system covering the entire body.

Chaos enters the body, is decomposed, refined, and unified level by level by the three hundred and sixty-five inner worlds, just like three hundred and sixty-five hearts beating at the same time.

Su Chen did not hesitate.

He selected an acupoint on the inside of his left arm and began to try.

The Hunyuan Jin Dan was activated, a wisp of Five Elements power was drawn from the dantian, traveled along the meridians, and surged into that acupoint.

At the same time, the blood circulation method of the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" operated synchronously, compressing and reorganizing the Sha Qi within the acupoint to make room for the Five Elements power.

Sha Qi and Five Elements power collided within the acupoint, and severe pain spread from his left arm to his whole body.

Su Chen gritted his teeth, precisely controlling the ratio of the two forces.

Sha Qi served as the skeleton, supporting the acupoint structure so it would not collapse.

Five Elements power served as the flesh and blood, laying out the circulation within the skeleton.

Finally, a wisp of Yin-Yang Qi was injected into the core, rotating slowly.

The structure inside the acupoint began to change.

Originally just a simple energy container, now, under Su Chen's modification, it gave birth to the distinction between "Heaven" and "Earth."

Clear Qi rose, turbid Qi sank, the Five Elements circulated along the walls, and Yin-Yang rotated in the center.

A miniature inner world took shape in the acupoint of his left arm.

Although not the massive, real world inside Pangu's heart, it could barely be considered a "world."

Su Chen carefully separated a wisp of the Chaos Qi that had been sealed in his dantian for twenty years and introduced it into the modified acupoint.

The moment that wisp of Chaos Qi entered the acupoint, Su Chen's whole body tensed up.

However, the acupoint rupture he had expected did not occur.

After the Chaos Qi entered the miniature inner world, it was ground by the Yin-Yang millstone and guided by the Five Elements cycle, like water entering a canal or a fish entering the sea, quietly merging into the operation of the inner world.

It worked!

Su Chen stood up abruptly.

Divine light surged in his eyes; the silence of twenty years exploded at this moment.

He threw his head back and laughed, the laughter echoing in the dark red void, even startling the Chaos Qi currents resting on the Pangu heart.

In the spatial channel outside the altar, light flickered.

Di Jiang appeared first, followed by Hou Tu, Zhu Rong, and then the other Ancestral Wu.

They sensed the drastic change in Su Chen's aura.

Su Chen stood beneath the altar, an acupoint on his left arm blooming with strange light.

That light was neither gold nor dark gold, but a gray, misty light with five colors flowing and returning to one, which they had never seen before.

He raised his left hand, palm facing up.

A wisp of gray airflow swam out from that acupoint, circling obediently at his fingertips.

Chaos Qi.

That wisp of Chaos Qi, which had once almost destroyed all the acupoints in his body, was now as obedient as a long-tamed pet.

"Fellow Ancestral Wu." Su Chen looked at everyone, his voice steady. "Twenty years, I have finally found the path for the physical body to contain Chaos Qi."

Zhu Rong widened his crimson eyes, staring fixedly at the wisp of gray airflow at Su Chen's fingertips.

He opened his mouth, his voice full of surprise.

"You monster... could it be that you really want to cultivate into a Chaos True Body like the Father God?!"