Chapter 351

Since Su Chen realized the method of the inner world, another ten years had passed.

In the dark red void, the heartbeat remained steady and powerful: thump, thump, thump.

Su Chen sat cross-legged under the altar; he did not follow Brother Di Jiang and the others out after they entered.

Instead, he practiced in seclusion here, modifying the remaining acupoints in his body.

Now, it was the very last acupoint.

Su Chen was fully focused, fearing any slight mistake.

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

A familiar structure, a familiar construction method.

He had already done the same thing three hundred and sixty-four times; now, he was well-versed in it.

As the last acupoint was settled, Su Chen opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

His three hundred and sixty-five major acupoints were now all completely modified.

Each one was a miniature inner world; three hundred and sixty-five worlds, like three hundred and sixty-five hearts beating at the same time.

He stood up and walked toward the direction of the spatial channel.

Brother Di Jiang seemed to have sensed it long ago; light was already flowing at the entrance of the channel.

Su Chen walked out of the dark red void, stepped onto the black stone floor of the Pangu Hall, and saw the twelve figures waiting in the temple.

The twelve Ancestral Wu at the peak of the Semi-Sage realm had actually waited for him in the temple for a full thirty years.

Brother Di Jiang glanced at him, signaling Su Chen to sit in the middle of the temple.

Su Chen walked in and sat cross-legged.

"All modified?" Brother Di Jiang spoke, his voice still low.

"Three hundred and sixty-five, not one missing."

Brother Di Jiang nodded slightly.

"Speak, what are your thoughts?"

Su Chen said solemnly: "Having a container to hold Chaos Qi is not enough."

"Chaos Qi entering the acupoints is only the first step. The real difficulty lies in how to make the Chaos Qi circulate and temper the physical body within the body, rather than just being trapped in the three hundred and sixty-five acupoints."

The people in the temple were silent, not refuting, because what was said was the truth.

Su Chen continued: "In the 'Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang,' Sha Qi enters the acupoints and is circulated along the meridians to temper the physical body. Chaos Qi also needs a circulation system. But the nature of Chaos Qi and Sha Qi are completely different; forcibly applying the meridian routes of Sha Qi will not work."

"I need to open up a brand-new set of channels in my body, specifically for the circulation of Chaos Qi."

Brother Di Jiang's abyss-like eyes stared at Su Chen, his train of thought beginning to operate.

"Chaos has no fixed form," Brother Di Jiang said slowly. "If the meridians in the body are viewed as fixed pipes, Chaos Qi indeed cannot adapt. But if the meridians are expanded with the Law of Space, allowing their boundaries to extend automatically with the flow of Chaos Qi..."

"Too energy-consuming, not practical." Gong Gong's python head tilted, directly vetoing it. "Unless he himself is a holder of the Law of Space, he cannot maintain this state."

"Water flows according to the terrain." Hou Tu's gentle voice sounded. "Chaos Qi has no attributes, but the Five Elements can naturally contain all things. The internal Five Elements cycle of the three hundred and sixty-five inner worlds has already been built; why not also pave the connecting channels between the inner worlds with the power of the Five Elements?"

Su Chen's brows moved slightly.

He had thought of this direction, but had not deduced it in detail.

"Five Elements channels..." He quickly expanded the deduction in his mind. "The Five Elements generate each other; the channels can maintain themselves."

"Not bad." Zhu Shou spoke rarely, his tone carrying a bit of approval. "Channels built with the power of the Five Elements are themselves an extension of the Five Elements cycle; when Chaos Qi enters, it will be continuously bound by the power of the Five Elements and will not run wild in the channels."

In the temple, various voices rose and fell; various inspirations and methods were thrown out one by one, then caught, extended, and corrected by another person.

Zhu Rong stared at the ground for a long time, then suddenly raised his head: "The channels are there, but what drives the Chaos Qi to run through the body?"

He spoke bluntly, but this was also the core problem.

Su Chen's mind turned rapidly, and he suddenly remembered something.

"The spinal dragon," he said.

"The 'Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang' uses the spine as the pillar of heaven, and blood circulation uses the spinal dragon as the hub. If the spinal dragon is transformed into a central pump for Chaos Qi..."

He paused.

"Just like the heart of the Father God Pangu."

In the temple, the Ancestral Wu all seriously considered the feasibility, and in the end, no one refuted it.

Brother Di Jiang took a deep breath.

"Using the spinal dragon as a pump, the three hundred and sixty-five inner worlds as chambers, and the Five Elements channels as pipes—this is simulating the entire physical body into a heart of the Father God," Brother Di Jiang murmured. "This idea... is worth a try."

"Good. Let's do it."

Next was a long and anxious deduction.

The twelve Ancestral Wu and one human sat around in the temple of the Pangu Hall, each using their own wisdom to dismantle, reorganize, and verify the entire operation system over and over again.

The stability of the Earth Law, the lubrication of the Water Law, and the toughness of the Metal Law were embedded one by one into the framework of the Five Elements channels.

The most intense debate was about the problem of "transformation nodes."

Chaos Qi enters the body to temper the physical body, and the physical body transforms; is this transformation continuous and gradual, or stage-based and leap-like?

Su Chen listened to everyone's debate and suddenly spoke.

"Nine."

Everyone looked at him in unison.

Su Chen stood up, his expression calm, his voice not high.

"Nine is the extreme number. One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things. And nine is the extreme of odd numbers, the end of Yang numbers, representing circulation and limits."

"Chaos Qi tempering the physical body should not be simple accumulation, but nine life-and-death transformations. Each turn is a process of Chaos entering the body and completely merging with the physical body; it is a destruction, and also a rebirth."

He raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the twelve Ancestral Wu.

"When the nine turns are completed, the physical body and Chaos are of the same quality, which is the proof of Hunyuan, and the Chaos True Body is achieved."

"So this cultivation technique should be named 'Nine Turns of Chaos'."

In the temple, the Twelve Ancestral Wu heard Su Chen's bold idea, and all their eyes lit up.

They all approved of Su Chen's philosophy, so they began to deduce this supreme body-refining technique that already had a framework.

Everyone was immersed in the deduction, completely unaware of the passage of time...

In the blink of an eye, another twenty years passed.

On this day, a ray of light pierced through the heavy clouds and mist of Mount Wuzhi, pierced through the pitch-black roof of the Pangu Hall, and fell straight into the temple.

That ray of light landed on the jade slip in Su Chen's hand, which carried the full content of the deduction; golden mysterious light flowed on the surface of the jade slip, carving the content inside word by word, turning it into eternal, indestructible inscriptions.

The Sanskrit sounds of the Great Dao sounded from the void, grand, vast, and omnipresent, echoing under the dome of the Pangu Hall.

Zhu Rong's mouth hung open as he watched this scene.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, looking at the golden light that had appeared suddenly, then looked at the jade slip, and finally looked at Su Chen, his throat rolling, but he didn't say a word.

The golden light lasted for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, then slowly dissipated.

The temple returned to calm, and the jade slip rested in Su Chen's hand.

Brother Di Jiang spoke at this time: "This is the Heavenly Dao acknowledging this cultivation technique."

As the words fell, no one responded, because everyone had seen it with their own eyes.

Su Chen looked down at the jade slip and was silent for a moment.

This cultivation technique was created from nothing, from the experiment of one acupoint to thirty years of sitting in silence, and then to twenty years of discussing the Dao in the temple, taking a total of fifty years.

Fifty years to obtain a supreme body-refining technique acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao.

This could be said to be a huge gain.

Su Chen raised his head, looked around at the twelve figures in the temple, cupped his hands, and performed a salute.

"This cultivation technique contains the wisdom of all you Ancestral Wu; Su Chen dares not claim it alone and is willing to share it with you all."