Demigod Physique

These Golden Core phenomena should never have appeared; they should have been sealed within the pill furnace.

They should have fused into the One-Turn Golden Core, ensuring that not a trace of Divine Essence leaked out.

It was only because the pill furnace was of too low a grade that it failed to conceal the Golden Core's divine marvels.

The reason the Divine Bodhi Tree phenomenon manifested when the One-Turn Golden Core was successfully refined was because it had been made from Bodhi Divine Fluid.

The Golden Core's primary effect was to stimulate the essence of divine medicines to the greatest extent possible.

Naturally, Golden Cores refined from different divine medicines would differ as well.

Seeing that the One-Turn Golden Core had been successfully refined, Jiang Yun did not rush to consume it. Instead, he sealed it within the pill furnace.

He inscribed Dao Texts onto the furnace, extracting the Fire-Fiend Spiritual Energy from the earthfire almost to the point of exhaustion.

He used that spiritual energy to nourish the Golden Core and further enhance its medicinal potency.

He planned to take the Golden Core out after advancing to the Other Shore.

Then he could consume it in one go and ensure that he reached the Dao Palace Secret Realm directly. Only then could he proceed with his next plan.

If he consumed it now, Jiang Yun could not predict whether he would be able to reach the Dao Palace Secret Realm directly.

After all, when advancing from the Divine Bridge to the Other Shore, there was still the confusion of getting lost.

If he took the Golden Core and then got trapped in that confusion for several days, Jiang Yun would cry himself to death.

After sealing away the Golden Core, Jiang Yun, adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, absorbed every wisp of divine radiance that had drifted out of it.

Once he confirmed that not even a trace of phenomenon or fragrance remained in the room, Jiang Yun opened the alchemy chamber door and stepped outside.

The sky outside was pitch-black, but the Heavenly Cave still glimmered with specks of light. Jiang Yun went straight to Jiang Shuanglan's room.

These past few days of quiet cultivation had made Jiang Yun miss meat.

Even the grand Buddhist chanting that followed the alchemy had failed to reform Jiang Yun.

After finishing with Jiang Shuanglan, Jiang Yun still did not feel satisfied, so he went to find Xia Weier and spent some time with the little white tiger.

He gained thirty-five marks in one night, yet Jiang Yun did not feel drained at all.

As expected of divine medicine essence. Even smelling it was immensely nourishing.

And so, another two and a half months passed.

During this time, with an ample supply of Hundred-Grass Liquid, Xia Weier and Jiang Shuanglan—

—both advanced to the Life Spring Realm one after another. Xia Weier's talent had begun to reveal itself.

Even though she had begun cultivating more than two years later than Jiang Shuanglan, she broke through faster than Jiang Shuanglan.

She entered the Life Spring Realm before Jiang Shuanglan did.

Jiang Yun had now been in the Big Dipper for ten months. In the ten months they had been gone, everything on Earth should have settled down.

He hoped that after his aunt and the others saw his message, they would regain their confidence and hold on until Ye Fan returned.

That day, Jiang Yun left Jiang Shuanglan's room and headed straight for the alchemy chamber, where he opened the panel.

[Panel]

Realm: Divine Bridge cultivator

Physique: Divine Physique 49.93% (Sacred Physique 1.93%)

Bloodline: Hengyu Bloodline (1%) Taihuang Bloodline (1%)

Cultivation Techniques: "Dao Scripture," "Solar Scripture," "Taihuang Scripture," "Nine Secrets: Zhe," "Xing," "Nine Secrets: Zu"

Reflection Points: None

Source Space: 160*160*160

Dao Companions: Jiang Shuanglan (Hengyu Bloodline 3.25%, Divine Physique 13.39%) Favorability 95

Xia Weier (Taihuang Bloodline 66.05%) Favorability 89

Marks: 20

Descendant Bonus: None

Jiang Yun's Divine Physique was about to be nourished to 50%.

He had a premonition that once his Divine Physique reached the halfway mark, his body might undergo a rebirth-like transformation.

Ever since his Divine Physique had reached 40%, this feeling had only grown stronger.

It was as though his flesh and blood were slowly transforming and growing within his body, on the verge of being reborn.

The closer he came to the 50% threshold, the stronger that feeling became.

Sitting cross-legged in the alchemy chamber, Jiang Yun added all his marks to his Divine Physique.

In an instant, his Divine Physique was nourished to the halfway point. It could be called a Demigod Physique.

A strange energy emerged from nowhere, as though endless spiritual energy were pouring into Jiang Yun's body.

One gate after another within Jiang Yun's body emerged in full.

Endless divine light radiated from behind the gates, constantly drawing in and releasing strange energy, absorbing vast quantities of vital essence and strengthening Jiang Yun's foundation.

His body was undergoing an astonishing transformation.

Every beat of Jiang Yun's heart was like a divine drum being struck, making the objects in the alchemy chamber creak and groan. It was utterly terrifying.

His heartbeat grew louder and louder. Thump, thump, thump... It echoed ceaselessly through the alchemy chamber.

Dao Texts flickered into existence throughout the alchemy chamber, drawing in spiritual energy from outside to replenish the expenditure and protect the chamber from damage.

Blood continuously flowed from Jiang Yun's pores, yet his bone marrow continuously produced new blood. A faint blue-gold radiance flashed without end.

The newly born blood gleamed with divine light.

The sound of bones breaking rang out. Faintly, bones could be seen shattering within his glass-like body.

Then they grew anew, becoming even harder and radiating a jade-like glow.

Cracks appeared across Jiang Yun's crystalline body. Then his internal organs trembled in unison, his joints cracked, and everything was reborn.

Strange changes were also taking place within Jiang Yun's sea of consciousness. Strange energy flowed into the space between his brows.

It nourished his divine sense. Divine radiance blazed between his brows as something continuously gathered and took shape.

Gradually, it began to condense into the form of a tiny person, though the humanoid figure within his sea of consciousness was still incomplete.

It had yet to fully take form. Only a vague silhouette remained, radiating endless divine light.

Divine flames wrapped around him. Jiang Yun seemed to be reborn in fire; every bone, every inch of flesh, even every strand of hair was being replaced.

This rebirth-like transformation continued for an entire night.

Early the next morning, Jiang Yun opened his eyes, and an unprecedented sense of power surged through him.

Jiang Yun stood quietly in white robes, his long hair drifting despite the absence of wind.

He felt as though he could shatter the heavens with a single palm strike and split the earth with one stomp.

Having undergone a transformation like a divine silkworm breaking from its cocoon to become a butterfly, Jiang Yun could now defeat more than a dozen of his former selves.

Suddenly, he sensed Divine Veins naturally formed within his Sea of Bitterness. The heavenly veins were majestic and resplendent, crystalline and translucent.

Like white jade pillars supporting the heavens and purple-gold beams spanning the sea, they tore through the endless mist and had already reached the Other Shore.

Only then did Jiang Yun understand that he had borrowed this opportunity of his Divine Physique's transformation—

—to step directly into the Other Shore Realm. No wonder his improvement had been so immense.

Next, he only needed to wait for the Other Shore's nine-life-nine-death-like transformations. After another rebirth, he could enter the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

After reaching the Other Shore Realm, Jiang Yun carefully felt every change in his Divine Physique.

Over the course of a week of settling down, he gradually gained complete control over his immense power and adapted to this cocoon-breaking, butterfly-like transformation.

During this time, the One-Turn Golden Core had remained wrapped in Fire-Fiend Spiritual Energy.

Nourished by the Dao Texts from the Dao Venerable Alchemy Chapter, it had become extraordinarily divine.

After being drained of spiritual energy so relentlessly, the Fire Fiend was nearing exhaustion.

Jiang Yun opened the pill furnace. All phenomena had been drawn back into the Golden Core, and the treasure pill gleamed with golden brilliance, as though forged from Immortal Gold.

There was no need to wait any longer. He swallowed it directly.