Qing Chen rose to his feet. Without invoking the Lawless Devil Aspect or reinforcing himself with blood path magic power, he casually threw a punch toward the Black Stone Peak outside the Seven-Luminaries Body-Refining Platform, which was used specifically to test the physical body.
Thousands of zhang away, the Black Stone Peak, towering over ten thousand zhang high, abruptly caved inward.
At first, only a fist imprint appeared on its summit. Then the rock strata throughout the entire mountain fractured at once. Finally, amid a muffled rumble, it disintegrated into countless evenly sized pieces of rubble that cascaded down its slopes.
Qing Chen stood before the dust filling the sky, sensing the terrifying qi and blood within him that seemed as though it would never run dry. The corners of his mouth lifted.
"Hahahahaha!"
This seclusion had lasted five full years.
His late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation had increased passively, though his divine sense had hardly changed.
Although the power of the Seven-Luminaries World had helped him bypass the grotto-heaven limitation, it had not truly replaced a grotto-heaven.
Once he opened his second origin meridian, condensed his primordial spirit, and established his own grotto-heaven in the future, this physical body would undergo another immense transformation and develop a physical divine ability.
With a thought from Qing Chen, the surrounding qi-blood power rapidly drew inward.
When his vision cleared again, he had already returned to the underground secret chamber of the Governor-General's Office.
He had only just stood up when a ring of fine cracks silently spread across the cold jade floor beneath his feet.
He had not deliberately exerted his strength.
Rather, his physical body had only just broken through to late immortality, and he had yet to fully adapt to its sudden increase in strength. With every movement, even a