Chapter 168

"Good." Blasting Guang Chengzi's eyes flashed with a cold glint. "Luo Fu, younger brother, it seems today I must act on behalf of Saint Tongtian, and properly teach this disciple of mine a lesson."

A terrifying Jin Xian aura erupted.

At this moment, Blasting Guang Chengzi had already decided to use his own strength to show Luo Fu what despair truly meant.

How vast was the gap between an ordinary Jin Xian and himself, a top-tier Jin Xian?

"Senior Brother Guang Chengzi, this younger brother also wishes to see whether the leader of the Twelve Golden Immortals is truly worthy of his name," Luo Fu declared loudly.

"You…" Blasting Guang Chengzi's eyes turned icy. "Sharp-tongued, younger brother? Then test whether your senior brother is merely a fraud."

"Here it comes…"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than Luo Fu's figure before Blasting Guang Chengzi exploded into a streak of golden light.

In an instant, Luo Fu's form vanished from before him.

Blasting Guang Chengzi had failed to catch Luo Fu's move.

"No good…"

Suddenly—

A chill spread from Blasting Guang Chengzi's heart, as if a terrible threat was about to descend upon him.

"Hum…"

On Blasting Guang Chengzi's robe, runes began to glow, instantly forming the shape of the Eight Trigrams.

Around Blasting Guang Chengzi, this formed an ultimate defense.

This was the Eight Trigrams Purple Immortal Robe, a defensive treasure worn by Blasting Guang Chengzi.

"Boom…"

A terrifying explosion rang out beside him, the thunderclap echoing in Blasting Guang Chengzi's ears.

Even within the Eight Trigrams defense, Blasting Guang Chengzi felt a terrifying force threatening to burst inward.

This force reached the level of Late Stage Golden Immortal—and not the ordinary kind.

How could such a powerful being exist in this world?

Blasting Guang Chengzi knew this was the battle realm opened by his Senior Brother Laozi.

There could be no such powerful life here—only he and his opponent, Luo Fu.

"Could his opponent, Luo Fu, be…"

Various thoughts flashed through Blasting Guang Chengzi's mind.

For a Jin Xian, such thoughts passed in the blink of an eye.

When Blasting Guang Chengzi turned his head, he saw the one he could never have imagined—Zhengshijie Sect's direct disciple, Luo Fu.

At this moment, Luo Fu's right fist, clenched into a punch, slammed against the defense emitted by the Eight Trigrams Purple Immortal Robe.

"How could it be you?" Blasting Guang Chengzi's face turned ashen, still unable to believe it.

If Blasting Guang Chengzi could feel anything now, it was that his defense was slowly failing under the assault.

The opponent's attack had at least reached Late Stage Golden Immortal level—and possibly surpassed it.

This was Blasting Guang Chengzi's most direct sensation.

"Why not me, Senior Brother Guang Chengzi? Try out this technique of mine," Luo Fu laughed, his divine radiance spreading once more.

One by one, bodily runes emerged from Luo Fu's body.

Flesh becomes Dao.

Through Lei Jie trials and dragon blood refinement, Luo Fu's body had fused and contained the laws of Dao.

This forged flesh was far more terrifying than ordinary flesh.

It was not merely pure strength.

Even in the Primordial World, pure strength might still hold some value at the early stages.

But in the later stages, pure strength's effect was negligible.

Flesh becomes Dao—when the laws of Dao are fused into the flesh, the body gains wondrous powers.

Under attack, it is not pure strength, but Dao-powered force.

This is similar to the situation of the Zu Wu.

As beings born from Pangu's blood, the Zu Wu possessed naturally powerful flesh; once their strength reached a certain level, they could instinctively perceive the laws of Dao.

For example, Di Jiang possessed the space Dao, Sister Houtu the reincarnation Dao, Zhu Rong the fire Dao, and so on.

These were powers the Zu Wu perceived directly from their bloodline and flesh.

Thus, to achieve flesh becoming Dao, one must walk the path the Zu Wu walked.

Push further back, and it is the path of the Chaotic Demons.

Chaotic Demons.

Their flesh was immensely powerful; the laws of Dao were, in some sense, natural powers they inherently understood.

Unlike most beings in the Primordial World today, who must attain mastery of a Dao law through personal insight and cultivation.

Even the Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, and the Two Western Saints, now Saints, follow this path.

This is a path entirely opposite to that of the Chaotic Demons.

Though their flesh is strong, they have never truly refined it, let alone fused Dao laws into it.

To achieve this, one needs astonishing celestial treasures and innate talent and insight—only then might success be possible.

Compared to the standard cultivation path, the cost and reward of pure flesh cultivation are utterly disproportionate.

Thus, few walk the path of pure flesh cultivation.

Even Yang Jian, who cultivates the Eight-Nine Profound Art and is called "flesh-attaining Dao," has not truly walked this path.

Perhaps the Zu Wu and Chaotic Demons first possessed flesh, then naturally gave birth to the powers of Dao laws.

As for cultivators like Luo Fu, they fuse the Dao's principles with their flesh and bones, thereby giving birth to bodily divine abilities.

This path is harder than the one taken by the Zu Wu.

It can only be said that the Zu Wu, who possess Pangu's essence blood, were born with a shortcut.

Therefore,

When Blasting Guang Chengzi saw the divine symbols radiating from Luo Fu's body, his eyes widened in utter disbelief.

This Luo Fu, his body had been hammered to an unimaginably terrifying degree.

Such an achievement—

Even across all of Mount Kunlun, there likely wasn't a second.

Not to mention among Golden Immortals—among Great Immortals or Supreme Golden Immortals, there probably wasn't a body this powerful.

As Qiangzhe Society members grow stronger, their bodies naturally strengthen in tandem.

But forging bodily divine abilities requires singular focus on bodily cultivation to succeed.

Ordinary bodily growth could never reach this level.

"Boom…"

As these bodily Dao symbols appeared, the power in Luo Fu's fist surged with terrifying intensity, causing Blasting Guang Chengzi's Eight Trigrams defense to warp and shudder violently.

What shocked Blasting Guang Chengzi even more was—

Cracks had begun to appear on his Eight Trigrams Purple-Silk Immortal Robe.

This proved Luo Fu's attack had exceeded the robe's endurance.

You should know that even an attack from an ordinary late-stage Golden Immortal would not be enough to cause this kind of damage and effect to his Bagua Zishou Immortal Garment with just a single strike.

This alone showed that although Luo Fu's attack was merely a simple punch, its destructive power was terrifyingly immense.

Blasting Guang Chengzi's speculation on this matter was only natural.

Because, aside from all else, the combat power of bodily cultivators in the same realm nearly overwhelms ordinary cultivators.

This may be the slight advantage bodily cultivators gain despite their extreme difficulty.

Of course, many cultivators look down on this advantage.

Because even if your body is strong, the time spent on bodily cultivation is far too long for a Honghuang life.

In that time, two beings of equal talent—one might barely reach Golden Immortal, while the other has long surpassed it, becoming a Great Immortal or even a Supreme Golden Immortal.

That is the difference.

With such a vast gap in strength, what use is your invincibility in the same realm?

After all, you could have reached this level yourself.

But because you cultivated your body, you directly extended the time to become a strong one—and whether you'd even succeed remains uncertain.

Bodily cultivation consumes enormous time, and the celestial treasures and earth essences it requires are unimaginable.