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Chapter 929 - 912: The Path of the King - Physical Nirvana!

Chapter 929: Chapter 912: The Path of the King - Physical Nirvana!

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Resembling gold but not gold, the purple hue carried a tint of bloodiness within it; such a trace looked like threads of blood encased in purple. Xiao Chen gazed at the piece, roughly the size of a human head, in his hand.

However, besides the bloody threads, this piece of purple gold also had spotty black impurities embedded within it, representing the imperfections in the purple gold.

The purple gold was impure!

This was also why Xiao Chen had not immediately refined it into his body. Purple gold forged battle bones, but impure purple gold, if incorporated into the battle bones, would cause small holes throughout them like a honeycomb, not only failing to forge the bones but actually making them brittle, producing the opposite effect.

Refining this purple gold to purity was no easy task because purple gold feared no tempering, unless subjected to an immensely great power.

"Master, Luli can help refine pure purple gold." At that moment, Luli’s voice rang out, bringing a look of surprise to Xiao Chen’s eyes.

"How to refine it? Purple gold is a special spirit item, impervious to the scorching fire of Supreme Yang and the freezing ice of Deep Cold."

Xiao Chen voiced his doubts, as the nature of purple gold was too unique; capable of merging into battle bones and arguably a spirit body, yet not exactly one.

"Would you like to try it?" Xiao Chen quickly tossed the chunk of purple gold into the air.

Hum!

The purple gold floated in mid-air, and Luli soared up to level with it. Soon, a clear light shone from her small hand, but it wasn’t directed at the purple gold; instead, it vanished into the Void.

Instantly, a silver glow shimmered around the purple gold, enveloping and seemingly compressing it.

"The force of space." Xiao Chen’s eyes narrowed as he watched the purple gold swallowed by the silver light.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths, ten breaths...

"Could it be ineffective?" Xiao Chen furrowed his brow as he saw no reaction, wondering if it was working.

He had figured out Luli’s method; she was using the spatial pressure from the Mountain and River Seal World to compress the purple gold. The entire Mountain and River Seal World was under Luli’s control, and it wouldn’t be exaggerated to call it the force of the world.

Hum!

Finally, after twenty breaths, within the silver-wrapped purple gold, a dazzling purple light sparked, with strands of black fog rising — the impurities being squeezed out and shredded by the spatial force.

Hissss!

The next moment, Xiao Chen heard a hissing noise, and as the black fog rose, the purple gold enveloped by the silver light began to change.

The blood-red hue in the purple deepened tantalizingly, and at the same time, the size of the purple gold began to decrease at a visible rate.

This was a metamorphosis under the pressure of a Small World.

The pressure did not cease; the purple gold soon shrank by a third, and at that moment, a hint of golden light flickered within the purple and blood red, revealing the true purple and gold color.

Until the chunk of purple gold had reduced to half its original size did the force of the Small World finally dissipate.

The half-sized piece of purple gold, resplendent in a rich purple and gold color with blood about to drip, looked just like fresh blood. Xiao Chen, upon just one glance, thought of a word.

Blood Marrow!

The hidden blood marrow deep within the battle bones, being the source of all flesh and regeneration, was now on the surface of the purple gold, about to drip down, viscous like mercury and just like actual blood marrow.

It radiated a strong vitality, hard to imagine it was just a spirit item and not real flesh and blood.

"Master, the refinement is complete, and Luli used the world force of the entire Mountain and River Seal World to bring this piece of purple gold to its utmost purity. Master can now merge it into your battle bones."

Hum!

The purple gold, now in Xiao Chen’s hands, was like crystal, soft and flowing, without any fixed shape, just like a pond of water, formless.

Sitting cross-legged, Xiao Chen had golden light shimmering over him as he began to refine the purple gold into his body.

Purple gold was the essence of pure energy, filled with intense vitality. Once Xiao Chen integrated it into his body, the spiritual power was concealed, initially incompatible with his flesh. It soon attached itself to Xiao Chen’s first battle bone.

Suddenly, Xiao Chen felt as if countless fine needles were piercing through the membrane of his battle bone, injecting a blood-colored mercury into it, merging seamlessly with the blood marrow within.

Xiao Chen’s cultivation of the Golden War Body had taken him down the ancient path of physical strengthening, turning his flesh into Crystals of Blood Elements, and his entire skeleton had been forged into bright gold, even turning the marrow within his bones a faint golden color.

Originally, Xiao Chen thought his War Body was sufficiently strong, but when facing the attacks of a Supreme Monarch Expert, his War Body was utterly unmatched.

Forget about detonating the Blood Element Crystals, in the intense shock of the moment, his Blood Element Crystals dispersed before they could react, his Blood Qi scattered, and his battle bones fractured.

It wasn’t that his War Body wasn’t strong enough, but the strength of the Monarch was too immense, surpassing what his War Body could withstand, especially since his War Body was only at the Stage Eight Realm Perfection.

Perhaps when he reached the Completion of Stage Nine, when all the flesh and blood in his body turned into blood elements and each piece of flesh was condensed from blood elements, perhaps when faced with the attack of a Near Monarch Expert, even if he was not invincible, he would not suffer such shattering of bones and flesh.

He could retreat unscathed by relying on the Mountain River Seal!

Xiao Chen felt the changes in the war bones inside his body, simulating the secret methods of the Purple Gold Martial Manuscript, incorporating the purple and gold color into his war bones.

The Blood Qi was thick, flowing like mercury. Above his war bones, patterns like spider webs began to form in a blood color, absorbing the spiritual power of purple and gold color.

To cultivate the Purple Gold Battle Body and temper the physique, the tempering of war bones was naturally indispensable. However, this time Xiao Chen felt a significant difference. It seemed that when tempering the war bones previously, there was a lack of spirituality.

War bones are the skeleton of the entire body, the foundation. Flesh attaches to the war bones, making it possible to burst forth with tremendous strength, so there is no high or low realm in the tempering of war bones, the sturdier the better!

"What is this...?"

Looking inside his body, his war bones shone with a faint golden light, which included blood-color patterns like spider webs, yet Xiao Chen discovered something different.

He circulated the methods of the Golden Battle Body, continuously drawing purple and gold color into his war bones, and this unusual phenomenon became increasingly apparent.

He found that the blood marrow within the purple and gold color merged into the internal war bones, manifesting a very peculiar power that originated from the war bones—there was vitality and also Death Qi, both mingling together.

The Qi of Life and Death!

Xiao Chen’s eyes were filled with ineffable astonishment.

However, his vitality was far greater than the Death Qi. Vitality emerged because the blood marrow inside the war bones was the source of flesh regeneration, constantly giving rise to new flesh.

Although the flesh of warriors themselves could also regenerate, the most fundamental source still lay deep within the blood marrow.

The more powerful the warrior, the faster the pace of vitality’s regeneration, keeping the warrior at peak vitality at all times.

Conversely for the elderly, because the pace of blood marrow regeneration cannot keep up with their own decay, this is the cause of depleted bloodlines.

But whether young or old, there is both regeneration and decay inside the body, only the speed of regeneration varies in different periods.

This regeneration and decay process is most distinctively seen in the vitality of the Blood Qi, but it could not be deeply perceived. Yet at this moment, Xiao Chen could directly feel this life and death phenomenon.

Moreover, the more he absorbed purple and gold color into his bones and circulated the Purple Gold Secret Method, the more pronounced the Qi of Life and Death became.

This Qi of Life and Death mingled together without repulsion, resembling the interaction of Yin and Yang, blending and circulating perfectly.

"No wonder there are rumors of a connection between purple and gold color and the Purple Gold Battle Body; it turns out it can induce the hidden Qi of Life and Death from the blood marrow deep within the war bones!"

An epiphany flickered in Xiao Chen’s eyes. Cultivating the Purple Gold Battle Body and tempering the war bones made his physique much stronger than other warriors, his Blood Qi like a blazing furnace, making his body’s metabolism much faster than normal warriors.

The quick pace of flesh regeneration and decay naturally entailed a mix of vitality and death, originally hidden deep within the body, released prematurely by the activation through purple and gold color.

Warriors themselves are a convergence of life and death. However, in the past, ordinary warriors did not delve deeply into this—if one’s vitality was sufficient, their Blood Qi would be vigorous. If vitality was weak, it signified decay and death.

"Physical rebirth through Nirvana."

Finally regaining his senses, Xiao Chen’s eyes flashed with a gleam of brilliance, feeling the Qi of Life and Death emerging within his War Body, signifying that his physique had stepped onto the path of a Near Monarch.

The Path of the Near Monarch!

This was one of the necessary paths to the Supreme King Realm for the legendary warriors at the Completion of the Towering Realm Nine Heavens, the Five Steps of a Near Monarch, where any transformation within the body was termed a Near Monarch Step.

And at this moment, Xiao Chen was at the Completion of the Towering Realm Eight Heavens, with the Heavy Building Qi Sea not yet perfected. By utilizing both the Purple Gold Battle Body and the purple and gold color, his physique prematurely entered the Path of the Near Monarch.

The physical trial in the Path of the Near Monarch, the state of Nirvana from Life and Death, the trial also related to the flesh rebirth of the body.

One by one, his war bones were coated with purple and gold color, akin to a layer of bone membrane, swiftly infiltrating deep into the war bones, strengthening them.

And as all the war bones were re-tempered by the purple and gold color, the Qi of Life and Death emanating from deep within the war bones grew even denser.

Xiao Chen submerged in it, feeling this intermingled Qi of Life and Death; no matter what kind of creature, none could escape death, even a Human Emperor has his dusk.

A flash of realization crossed his eyes; he had cultivated the Purple Gold Battle Body, which is fundamental. Today, taking purple and gold color into his body was a catalyst, eliciting the hidden Qi of Life and Death within.

This indicated that warriors cultivating the Purple Gold Battle Body, if they could find purple and gold color, might not need to reach the Completion of the Towering Realm to prompt the hidden Qi of Life and Death within their bodies, allowing their physical bodies to enter the trials of the Path of the Near Monarch, provided their Physique for War was strong enough!

Three hundred and sixty-five war bones, the number of Circulation Perfection.

One by one, his war bones, originally of a light gold color, were now coated with a layer of purple, at first glance resembling Purple Jade. This was the current state of Xiao Chen’s war bones.

Not to mention the derivation of the Qi of Life and Death, the sturdiness of his war bones after absorbing purple and gold color had increased more than tenfold compared to before.