Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 1018 - 1001: Martial Arts Bright Lights - The Path to the Future!

Chapter 1018: Chapter 1001: Martial Arts Bright Lights - The Path to the Future!

[The New Year has passed, resuming the update of Chapters with 3,000 characters!!!]

The physical trial of Death Qi is an invocation of a deeper metamorphosis of flesh and blood, from life to death, and from death to life, alternating between the Qi of life and death and keeping the body in a dynamic balance relative to equilibrium.

With the sensation of Death Qi, one can continuously expel the decaying flesh and blood within the body, always maintaining the vitality of the flesh!

Similarly, this is also the basis for Flesh Rebirth. Xiao Chen’s flesh was sturdy, with an astounding recovery force from injuries. Even now, should his limbs be severed or his hands smashed, he could rely on the blood energy within his body for rebirth, all because of the boon of vital flesh.

Only by perceiving life and death can one truly control oneself, Blood Rebirth!

At this moment, Xiao Chen was surrounded by billowing black Death Qi, with large patches of his flesh and blood annihilating. Even the Blood Crystal Diamond that shimmered with a nine-colored luster dimmed instantly, with vitality dissolving away!

Huge expanses of Blood Crystal Diamonds, spreading Death Qi from the depths, caused entire sections of flesh to decay, complete annihilation!

Endless black Qi enveloped Xiao Chen’s body, which, once full and robust, began to hunch and diminish, shrinking as if to transform into a dry corpse, its divine brilliance extinguished by Death Qi.

In just a few breaths, Xiao Chen had completely changed. He resembled an ancient elder whose originally lustrous hair now lost its shine and began to fall, and his face looked decayed.

The vigorous vitality vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his body continually shrank, like a set of curled up bones.

The ordeal of Death Qi meant facing death and from it, generating a new lease on life, before coming back anew!

If one’s form is emaciated, Death Qi voraciously devours one’s vitality—Blood Crystal Diamond, viscera, Purple Gold Battle Bone, Purple Gold Blood Marrow.

From flesh to viscera, from bones to bone marrow, his blood, originally crimson with faint golden hues, turned black and turbid—barely alive.

Finally, within Xiao Chen’s body, only a pinpoint of vitality at the very depth of his flesh remained undiminished, while everywhere else, the flesh and bones of his entire body were as desiccated as dead wood, shriveled and devoid of life.

Silence!

The entire space grew quiet, void of any trace of life, and even the omnipresent Divine Power energy was repelled an inch from Xiao Chen’s body, unable to draw near.

Curled up, his body now less than a third the size of his original form, even the beating of his heart had ceased!

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Thus, not a semblance of life remained in the entire space, until who knows how much time had passed!

Thump!

Suddenly, there came a faint heartbeat within the space, but after the thump, dozens of breaths went by without another sound.

Thump thump thump!

Suddenly, there were three more heartbeats, each stronger than the last!

Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!

That was the heart pulsing, the revival of life itself!

Each beat stronger than the last, the rhythm of the heart’s pulsation returned to normal, emanating from Xiao Chen’s body that seemed like dry bones.

Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump! Thump thump thump!

Within the body that seemed desiccated, at the position of the heart, a trace of vitality began to sprout anew—this was the seed of the physical body’s fire!

Crack crack crack!

Dozens of breaths later, the sound of cracking emerged. Xiao Chen’s body began to fissure, chunks of flesh akin to deadwood fell from his body en masse, as leaves wither and fall.

Soon only a skeleton remained, but at the heart, unlike elsewhere, vigorous life was burgeoning!

Hum hum hum!

Finally, on the bones, bloody light spilled forth. Originally covered in cracks, the bones now began to knit together with strands of blood-colored flesh spreading across them!

Soon those bones were covered, and the fissures on them closed at a visually perceptible rate, even beginning to gleam anew.

Roar!

The space trembled, and a bestial roar erupted from the withered body. Xiao Chen stood up, his skeletal visage now glaring with pitch-black eye sockets, from which two sharp gleams shot forth, carrying an unyielding luster.

"What is life, what is death? Only through the alternate cycle of life and death can the body metamorphose. New life arises to replace old death. The ordeal of death, the transition of flesh vitality and death, if the flesh lives, so does vitality flourish! If the flesh perishes, so does vitality wane!"

"Physical Nirvana, the hardship of life and death, today I have already glimpsed a fraction of its essence. The ordeal cannot extinguish, flesh and blood shall live!"

An overwhelming will surged from within Xiao Chen, his body still appearing skeleton-like but brimming with life force from within the bones.

Nearly with every breath, Xiao Chen’s body trembled, each inch of flesh regenerating.

Hum hum hum!

Massive amounts of flesh appeared, covering Xiao Chen’s entire body. In almost the blink of an eye, Xiao Chen had recovered, returned to his original form, except now the vitality within was dozens of times more potent, each inch of his flesh as if reborn.

One after another, the Diamond Flesh Crystals began to regenerate, and within each Blood Crystal Diamond, there was no longer just the white Qi of vitality.

There was also a strand of black Death Qi, and the two streams of black and white Qi blended together, coiling like Yin and Yang fish deep within the world of each Blood Crystal Diamond!

In a dynamic state of balance, these two streams of life and death Qi controlled the regeneration and dissolution of the body’s flesh. Some aging flesh dissolved under the control of the Death Qi, followed by the generation of new flesh by the life Qi to replace the dead, thus maintaining the body’s flesh in its peak state!

Xiao Chen’s body turned into a Bottomless Pit, absorbing the divine power flowing like a tidal wave throughout the space as the best energy to replenish himself.

All of this was the power gathered by the Desolate God, infused with the essence of hundreds of Heaven and Earth energies and laws, no less potent than the diluted Chaotic Airflow he had absorbed before.

Even now, this divine power seemed more suitable for him than the Chaotic Airflow had been.

The newly forged Blood Crystal Diamonds also shone with a nine-colored divine brilliance, with divine power encompassing all paths. Even the Chaotic Airflow could be seen as a type of energy fused with divine power!

Hum!

In Xiao Chen’s hands was a cluster of purple-green energy gathering, with threads of divinity radiating from it.

Hum!

Suddenly, this mass of purple-green energy began to separate into several forces, and the original divinity gradually dissipated!

United, it represents divinity; divided, it disperses!

It can be said that if Xiao Chen does not wish to reveal his divine power, it would be very difficult for others to detect it!

Whoosh!

Xiao Chen breathed out a long breath, his eyes filled with confusion, but this confusion quickly turned to determination.

"What is death?"

The bodily calamity he had just experienced was more terrifying than he had imagined. He even discovered that the Death Qi belonging to the physical calamity had actually spread to his soul!

The spread to the soul was actually a calamity of the Spirit, and he had even tried to communicate with the gateway of Reincarnation, but in the end, he stopped. He feared that his true spirit would fall into the cycle of reincarnation and his body would utterly perish!

Right now, he had taken two steps on his King’s Road, the Sky-Lifting Battle Body and Body Nirvana. As for the King’s Road of Combat Qi, it hadn’t started yet!

Multi-storied Heavenly Ladder, Combat Qi transforming into a Sea!

As for the remaining Soul Beyond and the Law Divine Bridge, both body cultivators and Combat Qi cultivators needed to transcend calamities.

After some contemplation, Xiao Chen was not in a hurry to leave this space. He understood that he had a fate to come here today, and with the blessings of the human Desolate God, if he left now, he might never have the chance to come here again!

This sky-full of divine power, if he couldn’t seize the opportunity to acquire more, he would have to rely on his own fusion to obtain divine power later on. Hence, he absolutely had to get as much as possible of this endless divine power to increase his strength!

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Hum!

After an indeterminate amount of time, Xiao Chen was once again seated cross-legged in the Void, with fluctuations emanating from his body!

A divine light shone above Xiao Chen’s head; it was a divine light emanating from his body, carrying a sense of enlightenment!

It was like a lighthouse in the boundless sea, guiding the direction for a sailing ship!

Path-Guiding Bright Lamp!

This was the Path-Guiding Bright Lamp of Martial Arts!

At this moment, Xiao Chen was about to ignite his own Martial arts bright lights, letting its wisdom illuminate himself, gaining insight into his own path in Martial Arts!

This is what warriors in the Desolate Wilds who practice Combat Qi must light up as the first step on their King’s Road!

To the Combat Qi cultivator, after reaching the perfection of the ninth layer of the Towering Realm, when all nine layers of the Martial Arts Tower are imprinted with Divine Powers, sentience emerges, reaching the very top of the nine layers!

Layer upon layer, like a pagoda ascending to the heavens, hence the nine layers are also known as the Martial Stairway. At the apex of the Tower, there’s the Martial arts bright lights. At that time, one needs to use Combat Qi to ignite the lamp, illuminating one’s own King’s Road.

But lighting the lamp of the King’s Road is not easy; it requires a vast amount of Combat Qi. If not controlled properly, it equates to the warrior self-immolating, even burning up their own life force.

It’s not a consumption of one’s own Blood Qi, but a complete disappearance, with Qi and Blood burned to nothing, the cultivator’s achievements regressing to zero, even reaching the end of their lifespan.

Some warriors have exhausted all the Combat Qi in their Circulating Heaven Qi Sea and all the Blood Qi in their body, yet still failed to light their own Martial arts bright lights, and the outcome is self-evident!

With the bright lamp shining, Xiao Chen fell into a moment of sudden enlightenment; this was a chance for the warrior himself, as well as a grace given by heaven and earth to every warrior who is qualified to light the Martial arts bright lights.

Because at the moment of the lamp’s illumination, all warriors can clearly inspect their own strength, integrating their combat power!

Over the years of cultivation, Xiao Chen’s learning could be described as extremely diverse. Although seemingly powerful in battle, he himself had not completely discerned what he had learned.

Moreover, he had now obtained the Divine Cultivation Technique, a great technique that fused the paths of All Heavens, which, without immense willpower and fate, would simply lead one down a dead end.

Having reached the peak of everything just short of kingship, he indeed needed this opportunity to thoroughly sort through his entire combat power!