Secrets of the Sacred Body, Furnace Phantom

During the time Lin Yu was cultivating, he was not the only one improving in Spirit Void Cave Heaven.

Under Elder Wu Qingfeng's careful guidance, Pang Bo finally developed a sensation and sensed the existence of the Wheel of Life. Over the next few days, he began trying to guide the vital essence hidden within the Wheel of Life and break into the Sea of Bitterness.

In the end, through his own efforts and talent, he successfully opened up his Sea of Bitterness.

"Pang Bo, congratulations. You finally opened up your Sea of Bitterness!" Lin Yu congratulated him.

"Same to you, same to you! You were much faster than me. Your strength has improved again by now, right?" Pang Bo said with a laugh.

"By the way, I don't know what is going on with Ye Fan. His Wheel of Life is completely silent, and that place is as hard as divine iron. Even old Wu Qingfeng couldn't guide it."

Pang Bo added, "You had some 'family inheritance' back home, didn't you? Can you help him out and give Ye Fan a hand?"

Ye Fan also looked at Lin Yu expectantly. Though his strength had been growing greater with cultivation these past few days, and he could now exert several thousand jin with one arm, with a body like a flood dragon or giant elephant and greatly increased speed, who could refuse the joy of cultivating immortality?

"Haha, I actually know a little about your problem," Lin Yu said with a smile.

"But..."

"Bro, you're our brother," Pang Bo and Ye Fan said in unison.

"Sigh, fine. I'll tell you why Ye Fan is like this," Lin Yu said helplessly.

Actually, I wanted to hear them call me 'godfather,' but sadly, they didn't catch on. I was born too late to transmigrate!

"First of all, your situation is a good thing. Although you still can't sense the Wheel of Life, your vital energy and blood will become even stronger. You won't have any trouble dealing with cultivators in the early Sea of Bitterness stage."

Lin Yu first gave him some reassurance.

"The Desolate Ancient Saint Body is peerless beneath the heavens. This physique could rank in the second tier even throughout the entire Great Universe. Once it grew to maturity, its owner would become one of the very top figures in the universe, capable of suppressing heaven and earth for Ten Thousand Years!" Lin Yu said with a grin.

"So now you know why those old men were so shocked when they saw your physique, right?"

"Holy shit!"

Pang Bo shouted, staring at Ye Fan with blazing eyes. His gaze was so fervent that no one would have doubted that he might blurt out the word "dad" next.

"Alright, it's already become a crippled physique. Stop looking at me like that," Ye Fan said, unable to bear his childhood friend's stare.

"Ahem, that's right!" Lin Yu revealed further.

"This physique is simply too damn overpowered. Even living off its past glory, it has reached this level. Once a Sacred Body reaches Great Accomplishment, punching Restricted Area retirement homes and kicking Saint Spirit kindergartens isn't just talk. It really has that kind of strength."

"Wait, what are Restricted Areas and Saint Spirits? And what are retirement homes and kindergartens?" the two asked in confusion.

"Restricted Areas are organizations where lonely old men gather together for warmth, so they're called retirement homes. Saint Spirits are children with incomplete minds. Since they have some strength, they're often used as background props for boosting one's battle record. Sometimes they come out to do something bad, and then a Great Accomplishment Saint Body suppresses them."

"Before the Desolate Ancient Era, this physique was called the Indestructible Golden Body, because as one cultivated, all the blood in the body would gradually turn golden. Their vital energy and blood would soar into the heavens and shake heaven and earth."

"Then why is it called the Desolate Ancient Saint Body now?"

"Because Sacred Bodies throughout the ages took protecting the world as their duty. During the Desolate Ancient Era, nine Sacred Bodies even appeared in succession. The nine Sacred Bodies suppressed the firmament—their glory was too dazzling, and they blocked the path of certain dark-hearted villains.

Those people thought, How could they let this continue? How were they supposed to live? So, at the point when the Desolate Ancient Era transitioned into the Post-Desolate Ancient Era—our current era—they paid an enormous price to carve a curse between heaven and earth, intending to sever the Sacred Body's path forward."

"So that was how it was. Just which villains did this?" Pang Bo asked angrily.

"I suspect it was the 'retirement homes' and 'kindergartens' you mentioned." Ye Fan looked at Lin Yu suspiciously.

"Ahem, I didn't say that. With your current strength, you don't need to know too much yet. Those old geezers aren't easy to provoke.

But they usually hide in coffins and sleep. Unless something major happens, they won't come out. It won't be too late to settle accounts with them after you grow stronger."

Naturally, Lin Yu would not tell him that he himself was right under those old geezers' noses.

"As for how to open up your Sea of Bitterness, you don't need to worry either. Though that old man Ma from Jade Cauldron Cave Heaven wasn't entirely wrong—because of certain reasons, the Desolate Ancient Saint Body is currently unsuitable for cultivation.

But didn't you eat Sacred Fruit? The power of the Sacred Fruit and Divine Spring has already transformed your physique. You only need sixty bottles of Hundred Herbs Liquid to open up your Sea of Bitterness."

"Sixty bottles of Hundred Herbs Liquid? When will we ever gather that much?" Ye Fan felt numb.

"Of course we can't wait! We have to take the initiative! Hard work is the path to wealth!"

Seeing Ye Fan's troubled expression, Lin Yu could not help but laugh inwardly.

However, he himself was cultivating the Divine Elephant's Prison Technique and was also a complete resource-devouring glutton. He was pitifully still half-starved himself, so he lacked the means to help Ye Fan and could only offer moral support.

But cultivating step by step like this was far too slow. After pondering for a moment, Lin Yu gritted his teeth and went into the secret chamber he had opened up over the past few days. He took out all the Hundred Herbs Liquid, then began gulping it down in rapid succession. The bold display made Pang Bo's heart pound in alarm.

The sight startled his two companions, who feared Lin Yu might put on a demonstration of exploding on the spot.

Yet Lin Yu seemed perfectly fine. He silently circulated his mystical technique, guiding the vast energy contained within the Hundred Herbs Liquid into the particles bit by bit.

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Five crisp cracks rang out in succession as five Giant Elephant Particles awakened instantly. Powerful divine energy slowly seeped into his blood. Lin Yu closed his eyes and used Inner Vision, delighted to discover that his divine energy had fused perfectly with his blood.

His blood had already taken on a faint golden hue, no longer its former bright red. This gold represented nobility, grace, dignity, majesty, and the supreme glory of a king. It even faintly carried an aura of immortality!

Divine power whirled above his head with a low hum, faintly condensing into the image of a strange furnace.

The furnace was neither quite a cauldron nor quite a furnace. Within it, shadows of lava and sulfur rose and fell in an endless roil, mixed with the wails of fallen gods, as though those fallen gods were being mercilessly refined within the furnace.

This was precisely a powerful sign that the Divine Elephant's Prison Technique was about to advance once more!

At this moment, Lin Yu possessed the power of ten ancient giant elephants. Not only that, he had also cultivated the Spear of the Underworld God, Wings of the Demon, and Underworld God's Protection.

"Strong enough to fight, tough enough to endure, and fast enough to run—the Sea of Suffering Secret Realm is nothing before me. All I want to say is: who else!"

But after all that exertion, every resource had been consumed. Even the medicinal power of the Sacred Fruit accumulated in his body had been completely spent.

Thanks to boss Liantong Network Card for the monthly ticket. This was my first monthly ticket, so thank you very much!