Chapter 644: Luo Chen's Fall

For a cultivator, what kind of means can be considered the most powerful move?

Magic spell bombardment?

Sharp magic treasures?

Or perhaps an unavoidable divine soul attack?

No!

Strictly speaking, these do not count as the most powerful move.

The most powerful and formidable move is the "self-detonation" that even the cultivator cannot control themselves, enough to affect dozens of miles or even shock a hundred miles!

Yes, it is self-detonation!

Especially for a Jin Dan cultivator who has condensed a Jin Dan, once they actively shatter the Jin Dan, the attack unleashed will be an indiscriminate, terrifying bombardment.

Under such an attack, even enemies with higher cultivation realms must retreat.

The reason for this mainly lies in the fact that the "Jin Dan" is the ultimate condensation of a cultivator's hundreds of years of Dao practice.

It represents the essence condensed from day after day and night after night of bitter cultivation.

The power unleashed in an instant by this essence condensed over thousands of days and nights is extremely terrifying; in a desperate situation where there is no other way, no Jin Dan cultivator is willing to actively take this step.

It can even be said that many Jin Dan cultivators never even had the thought of detonating their Jin Dan until they were killed.

Once a Jin Dan is detonated, it is certain death!

An inevitable situation of defeat!

With subconscious resistance, even until death, few people have this thought.

For so many years, Luo Chen had only heard of a cultivator detonating their Jin Dan once, and had only witnessed a self-detonation once.

The former originated from the opening war of the Luoyun Sect in the Eastern Wasteland, when a Supreme Elder of the Wanxiang Sect faced the siege of Demon Kings and detonated himself, covering the retreat of his disciples.

The latter was after he came to the North Sea, on the pier of Fei Leng City, when a cultivator named Wu Di of the Wu family tried to kill him by detonating his Jin Dan, but he had prepared in advance and escaped the range of the self-detonation.

Luo Chen did not want to face the power of a self-detonation from a powerhouse of the same rank, and he had never thought that one day he would walk to that step himself.

But he never expected that he would actually be forced to walk to that point.

Although it was not his natal Jin Dan, the quality of this second primal elixir, refined from the Third-Rank Great Perfection Hidden Dust Sand, was in no way inferior to the Jin Dan of a late-stage Great Cultivator!

The power it contained, if released slowly, would be considered normal.

But detonated suddenly...

At this moment, an unimaginable magic power storm was raging within Luo Chen's body.

If it were anyone else, they would have already died and vanished, turning into a mist of blood, when the Nine-Refining Beacon Fire detonated the second primal elixir.

But he, however, forcibly held on.

Everything relied entirely on this powerful Fourth-Rank Desolate Ancient physical body!

This scene was as if a Great Cultivator comparable to the late Jin Dan stage had detonated himself inside a Desolate Beast of small size.

And precisely because of the "smallness" of the body, the power of this self-detonation was incomparably concentrated.

In an instant, Luo Chen's body began to fail, beginning to disintegrate inch by inch.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Inside the great palace, mists of blood appeared one after another.

Beads of blood shot out from the holes opened on Luo Chen's body.

Visible to the naked eye, his state was getting worse and worse, almost unable to persist.

Not only that, the intense pain of the Qi sea collapsing surged into Luo Chen's consciousness and divine soul, causing him to faint instantly.

And because of this intense pain, he suddenly woke up.

This was the terrifying pain that even Luo Chen, who was known for his unyielding will, could hardly endure.

Between constant fainting and waking up.

"Ah..."

A low roar like a wild beast issued from Luo Chen's mouth.

On his twisted face, veins were exposed.

"I do not accept this!"

"I absolutely do not accept this ending!"

In his chaotic divine soul, a silent shout was roaring.

He, Luo Chen, had never slacked off, had racked his brains, and had insisted on cultivation for a hundred years as if it were one day, only to have his current cultivation realm.

He had walked on thin ice through countless life-and-death crises, only then harvesting countless opportunities.

Especially after experiencing hardships, he had finally obtained the True Monarch's inheritance and had the Five-Spirit Dao Body that could lead straight to the Nascent Soul stage and even the Soul Transformation stage; how could it collapse here in one morning?

He did not accept it!

Strands of source power were mobilized from all over his body, barely stabilizing his precarious body.

Not enough!

Still not enough!

Luo Chen gritted his teeth, regardless of the chaos of his thoughts, and squeezed the source of life from the depths of his physical body to form source power, forcibly suppressing the magic power storm in his body!

The crimson magic power and the fierce source power formed a situation of explosion and suppression with Luo Chen's body as the battlefield.

All of this had to be blamed on the Nirvana Holy Fire and the Nine-Refining Beacon Fire.

The former borrowed his body to confront the latter.

The latter knew it was no match and simply wanted to destroy the "home field" of the Nirvana Holy Fire.

This bitter fruit, however, had to be borne by Luo Chen.

Gradually, Luo Chen only felt that the source power he had condensed, which was not much, was becoming increasingly scarce.

It was almost unable to suppress the riot of the second primal elixir's magic power.

The reason for such a situation was not that the source power was weaker than the magic power, but that the quantity was too small!

In the final analysis, the time Luo Chen had achieved the Fourth-Rank Desolate Ancient stage was ultimately too short.

He had barely advanced before he came to the Land of Fallen Demons with Ding Yi and Mo Yun, and he didn't have much time to extract and accumulate source power at all.

And in the battle with the Shark Emperor Liu Jun, as well as when refining the Yanfa Elixir in the Alchemy Realm, he had consumed a portion of his source power.

Therefore, it caused this awkward situation of source power being unable to keep up.

"Right!"

"Replenish source power!"

In a daze, Luo Chen struggled to condense his mind and took out an object from his storage ring.

It was precisely the main body of the Tai Sui!

Before, in order to refine elixirs, he had eaten about one-tenth, and currently, nine-tenths of the crystal-clear white meat jelly remained.

This time, in a desperate situation, Luo Chen was going to swallow it all in one gulp.

His left hand pinched a formula.

Rumble...

Luo Chen's head suddenly became larger, as if a giant monster head had suddenly sprouted from a human body.

Its blood-basin-like maw opened wide, actually swallowing the entire one-zhang-sized main body of the Taisui.

As the Tai Sui entered his mouth, his sharp teeth chewed crazily.

As the juice flowed, a rich vitality that could not be added to fell into Luo Chen's physical body.

Before the magic power could contaminate it, the source power began to seize and refine this vitality.

As a Fifth-Rank spiritual plant, and one that had once been spiritually aware and understood part of the wood-type laws, the vitality contained within the Tai Sui main body was incomparably majestic, and even among thousands of spiritual medicines, it was considered top-tier.

Even the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch of the past had to rely on the terrifying vitality contained in the Tai Sui main body to cultivate and save those hybrid spiritual plants he experimented with.

At this moment, having obtained this complete Tai Sui vitality, Luo Chen actually let out a burp out of surprise.

"Hiccup..."

Source power, suddenly increased!

In an instant, Luo Chen eased up.

At this moment, he finally had the mood to pay attention to his physical body.

However, looking inside, it was a mess.

The Qi sea was completely destroyed.

The meridians were less than one in ten.

Hundreds of acupoints he had painstakingly opened, which once shone like stars in his body, were now either destroyed or blocked by chaotic magic power.

The five internal organs and six entrails were even more scarred and unbearable to look at.

If it weren't for the majestic vitality provided by the Tai Sui, he, Luo Chen, would now be a dying person wearing a human skin, empty and with only one breath left.

"My Five-Spirit Dao Body!"

"My main body!"

In a certain world of Ming Zhao Heaven.

A fat cultivator who was struggling forward suddenly held his head and let out a miserable howl.

Just moments ago, he suddenly felt heart-piercing pain in his divine soul.

After the pain, he discovered in horror that his connection with his main body was gone!

Gone!

That was the shell he had painstakingly cultivated for ten thousand years and had only gained intelligence three thousand years ago!

Without the shell, let alone shapeshifting to cultivate and glimpse the Great Dao, even advancing to Soul Transformation would no longer be possible.

"How could this be..."

"What exactly did Luo Chen do!"

Between anger and despair, the fat cultivator no longer walked carefully and step-by-step, but began to rampage in this world.

He wanted to get out!

He wanted to find Luo Chen!

He wanted to retrieve his shell!

"No!"

"Meridians can perhaps be reshaped, the five internal organs can also return to their positions, and even acupoints can be recreated. But the Qi sea is gone, and my Dao path for this life is broken."

"Body refining is strong, but the road ahead is unclear."

"Especially, my Five-Spirit Dao Body!"

Luo Chen's body trembled uncontrollably, unable to accept the scene he saw now.

Just at this time.

In his internal vision, he saw a glimmer of golden light flickering in a blocked acupoint.

In an instant, Luo Chen recognized that fellow.

The culprit of all evil—the Nirvana Holy Fire!

If it hadn't drilled into his body and attracted the Nine-Refining Beacon Fire, he wouldn't have ended up like this.

"You hide yourself well!"

Luo Chen gritted his teeth and wanted to forcibly force it out of his body.

But when he was about to act, Luo Chen suddenly stopped.

"Nirvana Holy Fire... 'Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture'... Nirvana..."

As if inspired, Luo Chen forcibly adjusted his body and assumed the five-heart-to-the-sky sitting posture.

Subsequently, he began to circulate the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture".

At this moment, his Qi sea had collapsed, his meridians were broken, and his acupoints were either destroyed or blocked; he couldn't circulate the cultivation technique smoothly at all.

But Luo Chen followed his memory and forcibly mobilized his magic power, wanting to circulate the technique in the void within his body.

The magic power after the second primal elixir was detonated was still raging, causing his attempts to fail one after another.

"Come out!"

With a low shout, a red-hot Jin Dan leaped into his body.

It was precisely the natal Jin Dan hidden in the Mixed Origin Cauldron!

After the natal Jin Dan appeared, it suppressed the universe within his body like a great sun; the raging magic power began to condense with the Jin Dan as the center, just like a violent flood that had been channeled.

Luo Chen finally had the opportunity to begin constructing the circulation route of the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" in the void.

Time passed slowly.

I don't know how much time had passed, but Luo Chen, relying on his instinctive memory, finally barely constructed the circulation route of the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" from the past.

Then!

"Reverse!"

Luo Chen's eyes radiated a crazy taste, and he resolutely reversed his natal cultivation technique.

Such a crazy move, if known by other cultivators, would only lead to them calling him a madman.

Who would dare to reverse their natal cultivation technique?

That was no different from suicide!

It was just like detonating a Jin Dan.

But for Luo Chen, this was perhaps the only chance to seek life in death.

No!

It was not seeking life in death, but Nirvana rebirth!

The "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" was the cultivation technique practiced by True Monarch Qixia, and its true meaning originated from the Nirvana rebirth method of the Phoenix clan.

And to truly reach that rebirth realm, one needed to go through three stages.

Seriously speaking, it was called "Nine Tribulations, Three Nirvanas"!

The Jin Dan fragment Luo Chen obtained, although it didn't mention the Nine Tribulations in detail, recorded the method of the Three Nirvanas.

Luo Chen clearly knew that he had completed one Nirvana once.

That was the Nirvana of magic power.

It covered three major aspects: spiritual roots, Qi sea, and Jin Dan.

It was also known as the Spiritual Root Tribulation, Qi Sea Tribulation, and Jin Dan Tribulation.

He had passed these three tribulations, thereby transforming his five spiritual roots into fire spiritual roots comparable to a single heavenly spiritual root, his Qi sea was also transformed into a fire sea, and even his five-colored Jin Dan became a red Jin Dan; his entire magic power had completely undergone Nirvana, becoming the domineering Heavenly Phoenix magic power.

After three tribulations, Nirvana was achieved.

From then on, Luo Chen entered the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture".

This was the First Nirvana!

Pass three tribulations, achieve one Nirvana!

And the Second Nirvana that Luo Chen knew corresponded precisely to physical body Nirvana!

As long as physical body Nirvana was completed, his originally ordinary body could be transformed into a Fire Spirit Body, which could be more suitable for cultivating the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture".

All along, Luo Chen had never thought about this aspect.

For him, physical body Nirvana was a risky move of putting oneself in a desperate situation to survive.

Especially, the stronger his physical body was, the greater the danger he would encounter in Nirvana.

Therefore, he never dared to think about it.

Especially!

In the Alchemy Palace of Ming Zhao Heaven, after soaking in that peculiar spiritual spring, he possessed the Five-Spirit Dao Body.

This was a physique even more excellent than a single Fire Spirit Body.

It could make his future Nascent Soul Dao smooth and unobstructed, no longer restricted by cultivation techniques.

If he transformed into a Fire Spirit Body through physical body Nirvana, the Five-Spirit Dao Body would become a reflection in the mirror or a moon in the water, and even if he could be like a tiger with wings added in the fire method, he would ultimately lose more.

Therefore, he buried the so-called Nine Tribulations, Three Nirvanas deep in his heart.

But right now!

"I have already reached a desperate situation, and the Five-Spirit Dao Body has become a castle in the air; how can I talk about the future? How can I discuss the Great Dao?"

"Only by taking the opportunity for Nirvana rebirth can I have a glimmer of survival!"

"Whether this broken body can recover again depends on this desperate fight right now."

Luo Chen had never lacked the determination to fight for his life!

With his mind set, there was no more hesitation.

Luo Chen resolutely reversed the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture"!

The majestic magic power poured out from the natal Jin Dan, carrying the riotous magic power after the second primal elixir shattered, and began to scour every corner of Luo Chen's entire body.

With constant scouring.

His bones began to crack inch by inch.

His muscles began to fall off piece by piece.

Suddenly.

Boom!

Only a loud noise was heard in the great palace, and Luo Chen's physical body exploded abruptly!

In the mist of blood filling the sky, countless blood beads floated in the void as if time had stopped.

Even his head did not remain at all.

Only a spine bone flashing with a trace of thunder light stood like a dragon in the void.

A wail sounded at the same time.

"Master!"

A wild wind swept by, and Seeing Tianxuan arrived abruptly.

Behind her, the sound of crawling continued to ring out, as if some giant object was rampaging.

Suddenly.

A giant one-horned dragon head reached deep into the great palace, looking at this scene, its eyes splitting with rage.

"Master!"

"Seeing Tianxuan, what happened to Master?"

Seeing Tianxuan's eyes were full of disbelief, her hand trembling as she reached out, wanting to touch that complete thunder bone.

That was the spine bone condensed by Luo Chen when he was in the Qi Refining stage, borrowing the power of heavenly thunder in the White Night Cave Mansion of the Nine Thunder Mountains.

For so many years, although it hadn't shown any divine mystery, it had remained rooted in Luo Chen's body.

And at this moment, of Luo Chen's entire body, only this bone was preserved completely...

"Crack!"

Seeing Tianxuan's hand stopped.

In her eyes, which were flashing with tears, that complete thunder bone had a crack.

Subsequently, the crack cracked rapidly.

The sound of crack, crack, crack rang out constantly.

Until it completely decomposed into small bones one by one.

At this moment, a trace of relief and trance flashed in the divine souls of the two demons.

That was the enslavement restriction Luo Chen had set on them in his early years.

And the two demons knew clearly what the lifting of this restriction meant.

In the silent great palace, only the woman holding a complete black armor whispered in despair:

"Master, has fallen."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 645 =====

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