Chapter 137: The Chaos Body Puzzle

Zhang Xuan did not go out to receive them; this was decided by Kongque Wang and Yan Ruyu after they discussed it together.

Zhang Xuan's identity is now one of the highest secrets of the Demon Race.

Both of them were extremely cautious regarding Zhang Xuan, doing their utmost to prevent Zhang Xuan's identity from leaking out.

Perhaps Kongque Wang had even thought about controlling Zhang Xuan to obtain more things from his hands, while simultaneously extracting a reward or commission at will during the transaction process.

Or perhaps he wanted to obtain more treasures from Zhang Xuan; Zhang Xuan did not care.

Because on that very day, the remains of that Desolate Ancient Sacred Body were delivered to his side.

This Desolate Ancient Sacred Body achieved the Saint Realm in the Post-Desolate Ancient Era, tens of thousands of years ago.

After tens of thousands of years, the body had still not decayed; it could be considered an Immortal Divine Gold body.

However, the overall physique was withered, nothing but skin and bone, looking more like a skeleton frame; the whole body shimmered with a faint flow of light, and when not exerting power, it looked just like a piece of dried firewood.

But only an insider would know how terrifying the power contained within this body was.

Even a powerhouse like Kongque Wang could not break the skin of these remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body with all his might, and this was still just a corpse.

If it were alive, it would absolutely be able to shake the entire Eastern Wasteland.

And now, these remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body were lying quietly in front of Zhang Xuan.

Qingjiao Wang did not come to visit Zhang Xuan and left in high spirits.

Having obtained the scripture passed down by Qingdi, and furthermore a method capable of helping a flood dragon transform into a true dragon, the only requirement was to eat—to eat existences containing all kinds of powerful bloodlines.

After swallowing and digesting them, one could naturally evolve their own bloodline; originally, Qingjiao Wang thought he had reached the peak of his life, but now with this brand-new method, he wanted to try and touch an even higher peak.

Zhang Xuan did not pay much attention; after the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body were in his hands, he took the initiative to tell Kongque Wang and Yan Ruyu that he was going into seclusion.

Then, after setting up the corresponding magic arrays in the designated cave dwelling, Zhang Xuan did not immediately begin to cultivate, but after pondering for a moment, he used the Chat Group's function to transport himself to Earth in the Zhetian World.

"Kongque Wang and Yan Ruyu can be trusted for now, but I cannot trust them too much; they cannot be allowed to know about the cultivation of the Indestructible Heavenly Palace, and I might encounter obstacles while cultivating, so the best and safest place is naturally Earth."

The location Zhang Xuan chose was not some other area, but still the uninhabited region he had walked through last time, just shifted by several hundred miles.

In an uninhabited region, he simply dug a cave on a snow-capped mountain and then placed the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body in front of him.

After struggling to regulate his Qi and blood and his corresponding state, he finally attempted to begin cultivation.

After all, he had previously swallowed quite a few powerful Origins; among them, the Dragon Eggs swallowed on Long Dao, especially the ones laid by the Dragon King, might not be inferior to the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body in terms of Origin alone.

But those were, after all, Dragon Kings that had not yet grown up; their Origins were thick, but they would only further enhance Zhang Xuan's potential and would not let Zhang Xuan reach the sky in a single bound.

Whereas the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, and a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body that had achieved the status of a Saint, would not only have a very powerful supplementary effect on Zhang Xuan's Origin, but would also greatly improve his cultivation.

During the process of swallowing the Origin, the Essence and Divine Power remaining in the body could allow Zhang Xuan to advance by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, this process required Zhang Xuan to be cautious.

The Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal descended from above his head, and then he swallowed the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body into his body in one gulp.

Next, it should have been Zhang Xuan's specialty: swallowing out the Origin and then strengthening his own body, but then Zhang Xuan awkwardly discovered that he could not move it.

Do not look at the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body as withered as a piece of rotten wood, just a piece of dried-up bone plus skin, as if it would shatter at a light touch.

But he used the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal to absorb it with all his might and could not absorb it at all, as if he were facing a piece of Immortal Divine Gold.

From the physical body to the internal Origin, it was as stable as a great mountain.

"Damn it!"

Zhang Xuan could not help but curse in a low voice, finally feeling his own wishful thinking; possessing the world's top divine art and the remains of a Saint-level Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, yet he could not even eat a bit of the Origin.

"I felt it was a pity before, thinking this Desolate Ancient Sacred Body's remains contained the top-tier secret technique to be invincible by cultivating only one secret realm; I thought absorbing it directly would be a waste, but looking at it now, waste my ass—I can't even absorb it."

These remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body appeared in the Post-Desolate Ancient Era, which means this Desolate Ancient Sacred Body cultivated to the Saint level while bearing that terrifying curse of heaven and earth.

The reason the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body is called the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body is that in the Desolate Ancient Era, the Sacred Body could keep cultivating without any problems, invincible under the heavens; but after nine appeared in succession, not only could the Seven Forbidden Zones of the Eastern Wasteland not stand it, even the Underworld could not stand it.

After all, if figures comparable to the Great Dao level appeared in the world, the Forbidden Zones would have to choose to act low-key.

They could not walk the world at will, wantonly harvesting the lives of billions of living beings to extend their own lives.

But Sacred Bodies appeared one after another, nine in a row; this endless situation was something even the Forbidden Zones could not stand, so the Forbidden Zones united with the Underworld to jointly place a curse on the world.

In the Post-Desolate Ancient Era, the once-invincible Sacred Body suddenly could not cultivate, or rather, it was not that it could not cultivate; even if it went through hardships and stepped onto the path of cultivation, once it broke through the Dao Palace and reached the Four Extremes Realm, it would encounter inexplicable, strange, and unforeseen events, and be directly obliterated by heaven and earth.

And this Post-Desolate Ancient Era Sacred Body was able to cultivate to the Saint Realm because it possessed the method of cultivating only a single secret realm.

One could reach the Saint level by cultivating only one secret realm.

Zhang Xuan had carefully examined this Desolate Ancient Sacred Body's remains; it had indeed only cultivated two secret realms, the Wheel Sea and the Dao Palace, and the Dao Palace secret realm had not even been cultivated to perfection, having only cultivated four secret treasures, with the fifth not yet truly opened.

This shows that this Desolate Ancient Sacred Body possessed the top-tier secret technique of being able to become the best in the world by cultivating only one secret realm; unfortunately, Zhang Xuan is not a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and has no way to obtain the complete secret technique from these remains.

Only a person with the same constitution could obtain the complete method from these remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

"No need to feel sorry now; I have to find a way to break the balance of these remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body first."

Zhang Xuan scratched his head.

Having obtained the world's top treasure, only to find it unusable because of this, that is truly a big joke.

Zhang Xuan tried to use the Indestructible Heavenly Art, One Thought Flower Blooms, and King Over the World to bombard it, but he could not move it.

It was not that the top-tier methods like One Thought Flower Blooms and King Over the World lacked sufficient attack power, but mainly that Zhang Xuan's current cultivation realm was too poor.

A single hair of a Saint can crush mountain ranges, and a drop of blood can kill a Great Power; the strength of a Saint achieved by a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body would be even stronger.

With Zhang Xuan's existing abilities and strength, no matter how top-tier the techniques he mastered were, he could not move it.

"This damn thing..."

After trying two rounds, Zhang Xuan knew that with his existing strength and realm, without external help, there was simply no way to break the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

"This is really frustrating!"

In the ice and snow, on a snow-capped mountain that would never melt, Zhang Xuan was between laughter and tears.

"Otherwise, I'll send these remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to Chen Nan and let Dugu Baitian give it a slap; I don't believe Dugu Baitian can't break through it!"

Forced by helplessness, Zhang Xuan gritted his teeth, but he only thought about it and did not directly take action.

The main thing was that the difficulty of such an operation was too high; the origin of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and how to get Dugu Baitian to make a move were both problems, and if he really did that, it would also be quite embarrassing.

"The outer shell is truly too sturdy; Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, Undying Golden Body, this nickname really isn't just bragging..."

Zhang Xuan circled around the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, unable to help but mutter to himself, and as he muttered, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind.

"The outer shell is sturdy?"

After reaching his current level of cultivation, his past memories were quite clear, and he immediately thought of the Dragon Race Inner Core from before, which also had a very sturdy outer shell and could not be pierced without divine weapons or sharp blades.

"The Dragon Race Inner Core that Chen Nan sent me previously, which came from the Shenmu World and failed its Dragon Transformation, had an equally incomparably sturdy outer shell.

After the moment of softness when the Dragon Race Inner Core first breaks out, it becomes incomparably sturdy and cannot be broken open without divine weapons or sharp blades; when Chen Nan sent it to me as a Red Packet, the Chat Group directly removed the outer shell, so what if I try sending it again?"

Zhang Xuan's eyes sparkled, and he immediately prepared to take action; within the Chat Group, he prepared to send the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to himself, only to discover that the Chat Group did not have this option, and he could only choose to send it to everyone except himself.

"Could it be that I have to find someone I have a good relationship with, send the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to them first, and then have them send the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body back to me?"

Zhang Xuan felt this idea was a bit morbid; the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body in his hands were the world's top-tier creation, but in the eyes of others, it was just a corpse—sending a corpse back and forth was indeed a bit too morbid.

"Wait, that's not right, I don't just have to use myself; others can send it too."

Thinking of the many alternate accounts in the Chat Group, Zhang Xuan's eyes lit up.

He immediately controlled the Heavenly Dao Controller, then conducted a private chat within the Chat Group, sending the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to Zhang Xuan as a gift.

In the outside world, the manifestation was that the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body disappeared for an instant in front of Zhang Xuan, and then returned again.

Zhang Xuan grabbed the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body at the first opportunity, and a trace of joy could not help but appear on his face.

The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body remained as sturdy and immortal as before, possessing an inconceivable power.

But when Zhang Xuan practiced using the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal shaped by the Indestructible Heavenly Art, it was no longer like before, where he had no way to trigger it in the slightest.

A vast and vigorous Origin power flowed out from the remains of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, merged into the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal, and then, after being transformed, flowed into Zhang Xuan's body.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan only felt his own body inflating crazily like a balloon.

It was not just the Origin that was growing; even his cultivation realm within his body was advancing by leaps and bounds uncontrollably.

The speed was terrifyingly fast; even under the environmental suppression of Earth in Covering the Sky, his strength was still shooting toward the heavens like a rocket.

The Origin of a complete Saint, and a Saint who had cultivated the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body at that.

It was simply like placing a complete Manchu-Han Imperial Feast in front of a competitive eater.

Zhang Xuan didn't even have much of a feeling, and his strength leaped from the early stage of the fourth-level realm to the middle and late stages.

A single drop of a Saint's blood could crush an adult to death, and now a complete Saint was in front of Zhang Xuan.

Even after tens of thousands of years of time and age, although some of the divine energy within the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body had been lost, what remained was still a supreme treasure.

And within this flowing Origin, there was not only endless power but also unique laws and principles.

That was the Heavenly Dao of this world contained within the body of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body itself; as long as a practitioner of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body continues to grow, they can unearth the deepest level of power hidden within their bloodline.

Zhang Xuan had swallowed many things into his body that he could not understand, but when that Origin, which contained Great Dao Fragments, surged into his body and merged into his bloodline and Origin.

His mind and flesh simultaneously gave birth to a peculiar sense of completeness, as if a large piece had suddenly been filled into a grand puzzle.

At this instant, a peculiar realization arose in Zhang Xuan's heart.

"The Indestructible Heavenly Art gathers ten thousand kinds of Origin from between heaven and earth together; it is equivalent to condensing all the ten thousand kinds of laws and principles contained within the heaven and earth's fortune together, just like making a huge puzzle—the moment the puzzle is most core and most perfect is the Chaos Body."

Zhang Xuan had this realization in his heart before, but there was no moment where his realization was as full as it was now.

Practicing the Indestructible Heavenly Art in other worlds is more like collecting countless puzzle pieces, piecing together a brand-new puzzle that no one has ever experienced before.

But in the Covering the Sky world, there is a complete puzzle, and the end of the puzzle is the Chaos Body.

Other worlds are unknown, while the puzzle in the Zhetian Universe is clear.

"Chaos Body..."

Zhang Xuan whispered, feeling his flesh and mind satisfied as never before.

And at this time, endless dark clouds gathered above his head; Zhang Xuan had broken through continuously in a short period of time, and with his accumulation and strength, he undoubtedly had to face the test of a Heavenly Tribulation once again.

Within the endless thunder light above his head, Zhang Xuan had already seen the corresponding humanoid figures, and also saw a magnificent Heavenly Palace.

But at this moment, Zhang Xuan did not have the slightest panic; for him now, the Heavenly Tribulation above his head was merely a tool to test his strength.

(End of this chapter)