Aiming for a Chaotic Body

Aiming for a Chaotic Body

Outside the Desolate Forbidden Land lay a vast primeval forest. The elderly tour group from Earth supported one another as they finally made their way out of the forbidden land.

Glancing back, Qin Sheng felt somewhat emotional.

"I wonder whether I'll ever have another chance to enter the Desolate Forbidden Land."

Of course, not to become a slave of the desolate land.

Qin Sheng greeted Ye Fan and Pang Bo, left them a few things, then quietly slipped away from the group.

However, he did not go far. He waited until a streak of rainbow light flew in from afar and took Ye Fan and the others away. Only after confirming that everyone was safe did he leave in another direction.

"Spirit Ruins Paradise is Ye Fan's starting point. He can lay the foundations of cultivation there and survive those earliest days."

"But it isn't my starting point."

Qin Sheng was about to advance to the Other Shore Realm. There was no point in following them to Spirit Ruins Paradise.

Among Yan Nation's Six Great Caves-Heavens, even the elders were only at the Divine Bridge Realm, while the sect masters were at the Other Shore Realm. The old ancestors and supreme elders who formed their foundations were likely only at the first or second heaven of the Dao Palace Realm.

Qin Sheng possessed four times the combat power. Once he broke through, his strength would not be much worse than theirs.

The Six Great Caves-Heavens could not give Qin Sheng what he wanted.

"First, I'll find somewhere to break through." Qin Sheng had already made up his mind.

Yan Nation stretched two thousand li from north to south and three thousand li from east to west. The Desolate Forbidden Land stood in the center of the nation.

There were countless nations like this throughout the vast and boundless Southern Territory of the Eastern Wilderness.

Qin Sheng casually found a remote mountain forest, carved out a temporary cave abode, and began further refining the medicinal power of the divine medicine in hopes of breaking through.

Meanwhile, in a small town outside the Desolate Forbidden Land, Ye Fan and the others had already met with people from the Six Great Caves-Heavens.

"What? One of the people who came here with you from the Western Desert is missing? And he was a cultivator?"

Elder Ma Yun of Jade Cauldron Paradise frowned. After exchanging opinions with the elders of the other paradises, he shook his head.

"Since he is a cultivator, he likely has his own plans and does not wish to deal with us."

"Let him go."

Soon afterward, Ye Fan and the other cultivation seedlings were divided among the Six Great Caves-Heavens. Ye Fan and Pang Bo still went to Spirit Ruins Paradise.

His Ancient Desolate Saint Body made people sigh in regret.

One day, two days, three days...

Seven days passed. Qin Sheng had reached the final step of his breakthrough, but he suddenly discovered that everything before his eyes had become hazy. He could not see anything at all.

Qin Sheng was not alarmed. He knew this was a normal phenomenon in cultivation.

Cultivation in Shrouding the Heavens treated the body itself as a seed, continuously developing the body's inner minor universe.

A speck of dust, a flower—each was a world.

This system believed that the human body contained countless gates of potential like grains of sand. Behind every gate of potential lay a "world" that contained one's "true self."

Opening the gates of potential and uncovering the "true self" was cultivation.

The beginning of cultivation, the most fundamental secret realm, consisted of the Wheel of Life and the Sea of Bitterness, collectively called the Sea of Reincarnation.

Below the navel lay the Wheel of Life, the foundation of life itself. The Sea of Bitterness overlapped with the Wheel of Life, with the former above and the latter below.

The Sea of Bitterness obscured and eroded the Wheel of Life, causing one's vitality to continuously fade and leading one toward old age. Every year, another mark would appear on the Wheel of Life, like the rings of a tree.

The first step of the Sea of Reincarnation Secret Realm was to open up the Sea of Bitterness and release the essence of the Wheel of Life.

The second step was to dig downward through the Sea of Bitterness and create a passage connected to the Wheel of Life. At that point, a Life Divine Spring would form within the Sea of Bitterness, releasing even greater life force.

This was, in essence, the conversion of the Sea of Bitterness.

But the Sea of Bitterness was boundless and endless. It could never be completely converted.

To gain a longer lifespan and greater power, one had to leave the Sea of Bitterness behind and cultivate other secret realms.

The third step of the Sea of Reincarnation Secret Realm was to construct a Divine Bridge leading to the "Other Shore" of the Sea of Bitterness. This was the foundation for escaping the Sea of Bitterness.

But the problem was that the Sea of Bitterness was endless. The Divine Bridge stretched across the void—where should it grow, and how long would it take to reach the "Other Shore"?

This was a major problem. If one could not see through this layer of confusion, then at best, the breakthrough would fail; at worst, one would become crippled.

This was the calamity of getting lost.

Since ancient times, countless geniuses had sunk into the calamity of getting lost, never able to break free.

But Qin Sheng was confident.

Indeed, he was lost at the moment, but the four versions of him in worlds such as Dragon were perfectly clear-headed.

"Is the Sea of Bitterness boundless, and is turning back the shore? How ridiculous. Once you turn back, you can never reach the Other Shore."

His selves across the worlds observed together, seeing through the fog of getting lost. Qin Sheng did not hesitate in the slightest and took a step forward.

With that step, the Divine Bridge grew once more. He crossed the Sea of Bitterness and reached its end.

This was a pure land, no longer deathly, pitch-black, and silent. Looking up, he seemed to see clouds, a blazing sun, and heavenly palaces.

At the highest point stood an enormous Dao Palace.

That was the next secret realm after the Sea of Reincarnation: the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

However, Qin Sheng had only just reached the Other Shore. The Dao Palace Secret Realm was still far away.

After sensing the power he now possessed, Qin Sheng was very satisfied.

"Having crossed the Sea of Bitterness and reached the Other Shore, I can start preparing to reduce myself and seek emptiness!" In high spirits, he jokingly teased himself.

If this were The World's Best, reaching the Other Shore so easily at his age would truly terrify people.

"After Ye Fan reaches the Other Shore, he'll already begin nurturing the phenomena of the Sacred Physique."

Qin Sheng looked at his own Sea of Bitterness. There was not the slightest reaction.

A Mortal Body was still a Mortal Body.

"Now that I've broken through smoothly, it's time to carry out my plan. Shaking Light Holy Land..."

The reason Qin Sheng had not gone to Spirit Ruins Paradise was because he wanted to join Shaking Light Holy Land directly.

He could achieve the same goal through Spirit Ruins Paradise, but when Ye Fan and the others' origins were exposed in the future, it would bring enormous trouble.

Qin Sheng intended to join as a native of Beidou, someone who had never consumed the Immortal Elixir.

As a Mortal Body, Qin Sheng did not need to fear being "eaten" after joining Shaking Light. Even if they lined people up, it would not be his turn.

Besides, Qin Sheng was specifically targeting the Ruthless lineage.

Back on Earth, Qin Sheng had carefully considered how he should act after arriving in Beidou.

Which faction should he rely on? Who should he find as a backer? Which Emperor Scripture should he cultivate?

He had thought about those questions more than once.

"Yaochi only accepts women. Even if I considered my psychological gender female, I still couldn't sneak in."

"The Jiang Family and Ji Family are clans. Although they recruit cultivators with other surnames, it would be difficult to receive an Emperor Scripture, and there are countless restrictions. Joining them would basically mean becoming a dog."

"The Qing Emperor's lineage belongs to the demon race. Unlike Pang Bo, I'm not a human-demon, and I can't cultivate the Qing Emperor Scripture. Otherwise, I honestly wouldn't mind becoming a live-in son-in-law."

"The Beginningless Scripture can't be cultivated without the right physique. The Dao Scripture only has the Sea of Suffering Chapter. The Central Plains are too far away, so there's no need to even mention them."

"If I imitated Ye Fan by piecing together different scriptures and cultivating several at once, a Mortal Body like mine would be courting death."

Qin Sheng sighed toward the sky and muttered inwardly.

"Great sun, in the end, I still need you to guide my path!"

After thinking it over, Qin Sheng realized that the notorious "Heaven Devouring Demonic Art" was actually the most suitable for him.

It was an Emperor Scripture, powerful enough and with immense potential. If it could be perfected, its final "Dao Fruit" could be said to surpass all other scriptures.

Moreover, the "Heaven Devouring Demonic Art" was highly compatible with Qin Sheng's cheat.

Infinite Land's fixed combat-power amplification increased Qin Sheng's base combat power.

That was to say, excluding factors such as secret arts, weapons, and treasures, it only amplified his original strength, speed, defense, recovery, and so on.

Suppose his base combat power at the Other Shore Realm was one hundred. With a fourfold amplification, it would become four hundred.

But if his current base combat power were five hundred, then after amplification, it would become two thousand!

What an enormous difference that was!

And in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, what kind of people had higher base combat power?

Naturally, those with special physiques!

Could the base combat power of a Mortal Body compare to that of a Sacred Physique?

They were worlds apart!

"In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, the only method I can currently access to change my physique is the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art. It is extremely important to me. I must obtain it." Qin Sheng was resolute.

"Only by raising my base strength can I truly bring out the effects of combat-power multipliers."

As for claims that Mortal Bodies were the strongest?

Go tell that to Ye Fan at the Four Extremes or Dragon Transformation Realm and see whether he would laugh.

For fuck's sake, if I were the richest man in the world, I could also say I wasn't interested in money.

It was fine to fool others, but don't fool yourself too.

When Ye Fan said those words in the original plot, which lifetime was he already on? Of course physique no longer mattered to him.

Looking at it from another angle, Ye Tiandi's surname was Ye, his given name was Fan, and his physique was called a "Mortal Body." Calling it the strongest was not wrong.

If Qin Sheng successfully transformed into a Chaotic Body in the future, then possessed ten times or even a hundred times the base combat power of a Chaotic Body...

Let the Qing Emperor come!

And aside from considering combat-power amplification, Qin Sheng truly was extremely suited to cultivating this ancient scripture.

The "Heaven Devouring Demonic Art" required devouring the origins of others to strengthen oneself, gradually forging a Chaotic Body.

Qin Sheng did not need to devour anyone else's origin. He only needed to devour the origins of those dead Qin Shengs.

Devouring others would also result in mixed origins that did not match one's own, ultimately leaving flaws in the Chaotic Body.

How could devouring his own origins cause such a problem? They would be a perfect match.

The "Immortal Heavenly Technique" created by Ruthless in her second life was fundamentally based on this principle.

Shedding one's own "Demonic Embryo," she would transform it into a "divine embryo" and achieve a flawless Chaotic Body.

Qin Sheng, meanwhile, could accomplish it in a single step. He would not need to undergo that transformation at all. One could say that he was even more suited to the "Heaven Devouring Demonic Art" than Ruthless herself.

What did it mean to be the heaven-chosen inheritor of Ruthless's legacy?

Female Emperor beyond this era, mysterious ruler of the Desolate Forbidden Land, worldly immortal who commanded obsessions—please grant me your power!

(End of this chapter.)