Azure Emperor Longevity Body

After dividing up the treasures, Lin Fan did not immediately have Qing Tan use the Extreme Yin Dragon Saliva to break through her cultivation.

Because Qing Tan's physique was special, they needed to wait for the night of each month when the Yin Fiend Qi between heaven and earth was at its strongest.

Lin Fan returned to his room, locked the door, and sat cross-legged on his bed.

He took out stalk after stalk of spiritual herbs, and the verses of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art began echoing in his mind.

This was the supreme cultivation art and sect-defending ultimate technique of the Five Elements Immortal Sect, one of the nine great immortal sects of the human race in another world.

With this cultivation art, one could forge the strongest wood-element physique—the Azure Emperor Longevity Body.

The Azure Emperor Longevity Body was one of the universe's strongest sacred bodies, said to possess inexhaustible vitality and immortality through reincarnation.

Once cultivated, one would be favored by innate Yi Wood, able to wield all wood-element Dao arts with ease.

Beyond that, the Azure Emperor Longevity Body possessed many innate divine powers.

For instance, the divine power "Yi Wood Spirit" allowed one to control all wood-element life forms within the surrounding area.

Then there was the "Eternal Life" divine power, which could grant those who cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Body ten times the lifespan and life force of cultivators at the same realm.

There was also the "Three Lifetimes Reincarnation" divine power. So long as the primordial spirit remained indestructible, even if the physical body was destroyed, one could condense anew within Yi Wood and live three more lives.

The "Extracorporeal Incarnation" divine power allowed one to entrust the primordial spirit to spiritual wood and forge an incarnation.

The "Azure Dragon Dharma Eyes" divine power...

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Yet what left the deepest impression on Lin Fan was the Years Divine Power.

Once this divine power was unleashed, it could draw upon the power of time. A single slash carried a hundred years of time.

"The spiritual herbs I've gathered now are probably only enough to let the Azure Emperor Longevity Body reach the beginner stage."

"But even so, a beginner-stage Azure Emperor Longevity Body far surpasses other minor-completion physiques."

With that thought, Lin Fan inscribed a Spirit Stealing Array and began cultivating the Azure Emperor Longevity Body.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

He sat cross-legged amid the many spiritual herbs, his hands held together as though cradling a taiji sphere.

When the Void Body Refining Art was activated at full force, the vast wood-element energy within the spiritual herbs began to stir as well.

Wisps of green mist rose up and were continuously drawn into Lin Fan's body like a giant whale sucking in water.

As massive amounts of wood-element energy entered his body, every part of Lin Fan—his skin, flesh, eyebrows, and even his pupils—was dyed green.

Vast, surging energy filled his body and began transforming him into a wood-element spiritual body.

The five elements generated and restrained one another. As Xiao Tian's body was being transformed by wood-element energy, the golden flame deep within his pupils unexpectedly began to slowly grow under its nourishment.

No one knew how long passed before Lin Fan finally refined all the spiritual herbs.

At this moment, his body and appearance had completely changed.

Though he still retained a human form, his hair had turned bluish-green, his pupils resembled brilliant emeralds that emitted a faint green glow, and his green-tinged skin was densely covered in ancient, mysterious incantations. He no longer looked human at all.

"Next, I need to shatter and reconstruct my body. This is also the most dangerous step."

As the hand seals changed, thunderous explosions immediately rang out from within Lin Fan's body.

His body suddenly swelled up like an inflated ball, as though an oceanic expanse of energy were erupting inside, trying to burst it apart.

Bang!

The next instant, Lin Fan's fingers exploded.

The flesh on his skin was blasted apart, leaving behind only a section of crystal-clear bone that seemed to have been carved from green jade.

Lin Fan's expression did not change. This was all a necessary process.

Bang! Bang!

The explosion of his fingers seemed to trigger a chain reaction. Both of Lin Fan's palms exploded at the same time, countless fragments of flesh scattering and turning into wisps of green mist.

A mortal body was made of flesh and blood. To become more suited for cultivation, it needed to be transformed into something akin to a life form of vital energy—that was, a body entirely condensed from vast primordial energy.

This would allow the physical body to communicate more easily with the vast sea of primordial energy between heaven and earth, providing an endless and inexhaustible supply of power.

Just like in the Great Thousand World, after cultivating to the Heavenly Sovereign level, one would transform the entire physical body into pure spiritual power and condense a Sovereign Spiritual Body, all to better communicate with heaven and earth.

Though Lin Fan's cultivation was still weak, his body had already been assimilated by wood-element energy.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lin Fan's body exploded one part after another. The pain was even more intense than being cut by a thousand blades.

In the end, not a trace of flesh remained on his body. Even his meridians and internal organs had turned into energy mist, leaving behind only a jade-like, crystalline skeleton.

That skeleton was covered in mysterious, ancient runes. As they flickered continuously, they seemed to contain endless profundity and power.

For cultivators to achieve a transformation at the level of the body, cleansing the marrow and purging impurities alone was not enough—they also had to shed their mortal frame and replace their bones.

That meant replacing all the flesh and blood and every bone in the body.

Of course, Lin Fan's cultivation was still weak. If he replaced even his bones now, the danger would be far too great, and he might very well die.

So he could only settle for the next best option, first replacing his flesh, blood, meridians, and internal organs, transforming them to meet the standards of the Azure Emperor Longevity Body.

If anyone had entered the room at that moment, they would surely have been terrified by the sight.

For there was only a skeleton sitting cross-legged in the room, with a transparent phantom existing within its skull—it was Lin Fan's Divine Sense and soul.

It was precisely because he had condensed Divine Sense that Lin Fan dared to undertake such dangerous cultivation.

"Azure Emperor Longevity Body, condense!"

As Lin Fan changed his hand seals, a storm suddenly swept through the entire room. Surging wood-element energy began pouring toward Lin Fan's bones like a tide.

Strands of flesh and blood began extending over the skeleton, while internal organs and meridians formed in the air.

It was like the 3D printing of a later age. The Azure Emperor Longevity Art used immense wood-element energy to condense an entirely new and powerful body for Lin Fan.

Once his skin had formed as well, a head of glossy black hair rapidly grew from his scalp, extending all the way down his back.

Outwardly, Lin Fan looked much the same as before, but now he seemed like a flawless treasure meticulously sculpted by heaven and earth. His body remained connected to the vast ocean of heaven and earth's primordial energy at every moment.

"The Azure Emperor Longevity Body has finally been successfully condensed."

Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes.

At that moment, his eyes were clearly black and white, as pure and flawless as those of a newborn child.

He lowered his head and looked at his skin.

Smooth and delicate, without the slightest visible pore—it was enough to make even women envious.

Of course, that was merely the surface. This layer of skin was actually harder than steel; ordinary weapons could not harm him at all.

And beneath that skin lay a physical strength far more terrifying than before.