Demigod Physique

These Golden Core phenomena should not 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 wonder.

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

The Golden Core's main effect was to stimulate the Divine Medicine Essence to the greatest extent possible.

Golden Cores refined from different Divine Medicines naturally differed 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 inside the pill furnace.

He inscribed Dao Texts onto the furnace and extracted the Fire-Fiend Spiritual Energy from the earthfire almost to exhaustion.

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

He planned to take it out after advancing to the Other Shore.

Then he could consume it in one go, ensuring he would directly reach the Dao Palace Secret Realm. 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, advancing from the Divine Bridge to the Other Shore came with the peril of becoming lost.

If he consumed the Golden Core and then became 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 drifting from it.

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

The sky outside was pitch-black, but the Heavenly Cave still gave off faint glimmers of light. Jiang Yun headed straight for Jiang Shuanglan's room.

Several days of quiet cultivation had left Jiang Yun craving some meat.

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

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

He gained thirty-five marks in a single night, yet Jiang Yun did not feel drained in the slightest.

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.

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

She entered the Life Spring Realm before Jiang Shuanglan did.

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

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

That day, Jiang Yun left Jiang Shuanglan's room and headed straight to the alchemy room, 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 nurtured to 50%.

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

After his Divine Physique had been nurtured past 40%, this sensation had only grown stronger.

It was as though his flesh and blood were slowly transforming and growing within him, 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 room, Jiang Yun added all his marks to his Divine Physique.

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

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.

Endless divine light shone from behind the gates, continuously drawing in strange energy and absorbing vast amounts of vital essence to strengthen Jiang Yun's origin.

His body was undergoing an astonishing transformation.

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

His heartbeat grew louder and louder. Thump, thump, thump... it echoed continuously through the alchemy room.

One Dao Text after another flickered into existence within the alchemy room, drawing in spiritual energy from outside to replenish the expenditure and protect the room from damage.

Blood continuously flowed out of Jiang Yun's pores, while new blood was constantly produced within his marrow. A faint blue-gold radiance flashed without end.

Divine light gleamed within the newly formed blood.

The sound of bones shattering rang out. Faintly, bones could be seen cracking within his glasslike body.

Then they regrew, becoming even harder and emitting a jade-colored glow.

Jiang Yun's crystalline body cracked as well. Lines of fissures appeared across his flesh, then his organs trembled in unison, his joints popped, and everything was being reborn.

Strange changes were taking place within Jiang Yun's Sea of Consciousness as well. Strange energy flowed into his brow.

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

It gradually 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 take form. Only a vague silhouette emitted endless divine light.

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

This rebirth-like transformation lasted through the entire night.

The next morning, Jiang Yun opened his eyes, and an unprecedented sense of strength rose within 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 blue sky with a palm strike and split the earth with a stomp.

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

Suddenly, he sensed that Divine Veins had naturally formed within his Sea of Bitterness. The heavenly veins were majestic and resplendent, crystal-clear and flawless.

Like a white jade pillar holding up the heavens, like a purple-gold beam spanning the sea, they broke through the endless mist and had actually reached the Other Shore.

Only then did Jiang Yun understand that he had taken advantage of this transformation of his Divine Physique.

He had already stepped directly into the Other Shore Realm. No wonder his improvement was so immense.

Next, he only needed to wait for the Other Shore's nine lives and nine deaths-like transformation. After another rebirth, he could enter the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

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

After a week of gradual stabilization, he completely mastered his own tremendous strength 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 already close to exhaustion.

Jiang Yun opened the pill furnace. All phenomena had been drawn back into the Golden Core, and the Treasure Pill shone brilliantly gold, as though it had been forged from Immortal Gold.

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