429: Chapter 429 Physical Fitness Breakthrough of 60 Points, Condensing the True Self

In the Inner Scene World, the scorching sun hung in the sky, radiating boundless light.

The island where the Memory Palace was located was expanding outward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Dull vibrations continuously came from the depths of the earth, as if a slumbering earth dragon was turning over.

On the originally flat ground, several low mounds slowly arched upward.

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Their "spines" gradually rose higher, evolving toward the contour of true mountain ridges.

Above the surface, a chapped fissure was torn by an invisible force, slowly lengthening and deepening, vaguely taking on the embryonic form of a canyon.

Although this scene resembling creation appeared rough and primitive, it was filled with boundless vitality.

Its driving force came precisely from Fang Cheng's Physical Body in reality.

Under the illumination of the True Sun Fire, the flesh and blood of the crimson eye in his stomach was dissolving rapidly like a piece of butter thrown into a furnace.

Waves of majestic life energy were released from it, converging into a surging golden torrent.

After completing a full circulation cycle, part of this torrent transformed into pure True Qi, replenishing the consumption of the Dantian and supplying the needs of the Divine Soul in the spiritual platform.

More of it directly infiltrated his limbs and bones during the rushing journey, reshaping his Physical Body Foundation in a nearly barbaric manner.

The Inner Scene World and the external Physical Body were like two sides of the same coin, closely linked, and their evolution and reshaping proceeded almost synchronously.

Rumbling—

When the island expanded to a scale of several kilometers in radius, the first mountain range finally rose abruptly from the flat ground.

Like the backbone of a giant dragon, it ran through the entire newborn land, supporting the initial skeleton of this miniature world.

In reality, Fang Cheng's entire spine rhythmically moved segment by segment, producing a series of "crackling" explosions.

The sound was clear and resonant, resembling a dragon's roar.

Looking from the inside at this moment, every vertebra was emitting light and heat, and the density and strength of the bones were increasing rapidly in an unreasonable manner.

Even within the bone marrow, the originally bright red hematopoietic stem cells actually began to be stained with a trace of faint gold.

Newborn blood was born accordingly, filled with explosive vitality.

They rushed out of the bones, merged into the circulation, and transported this brand-new power to every corner of the body.

Thump! Thump!

The heart, serving as the central hub of this System,

every beat was like the engine of a war machine operating at full throttle amidst roars, pumping scorching energy toward the entire body and into all the limbs and bones.

With the continuous perfusion of golden blood, it actually also became dazzling and bright, resembling a miniature sun placed within the chest.

At the same time, in another dimension invisible to ordinary people,

countless prompt messages flowed past rapidly like a waterfall.

[ You are using yourself as a cauldron to reshape your Foundation, Qigong experience + 1 ]

[ The life essence of the crimson eye is strengthening your bones, Physique + 0.001 ]

[ The life essence of the crimson eye is reconstructing your bone marrow, Physique + 0.001 ]

...

Finally, countless subtle improvements converged into a torrent of qualitative change, reaching a certain critical point of limit.

The panel suddenly bloomed with incomparably dazzling light, and a brand-new prompt message emerged accordingly.

[ Congratulations, your Physical Body Foundation has been reshaped, your Physique has increased, successfully breaking through to 60 points ]

At this point, all four attributes had completely crossed the limit barrier of 60 points.

Boom!

It was as if an invisible shackle within the body was completely shattered.

The Dantian, serving as the container of life energy, expanded instantly by several times over.

The True Qi ocean, which was originally only like a lake, had now transformed into a boundless expanse of roaring giant waves.

Majestic True Qi overflowed, surging into the Meridians like a tide.

This time, the scouring of the energy torrent reached an unprecedented depth.

Not only were all the major Meridians thoroughly cleansed, but even the blood vessel network spread throughout the entire body trembled violently with it.

The speed of the rushing blood suddenly accelerated, forming a roar like a raging river in his ears.

Countless capillaries that were originally obscure and stagnant, along with the tiny pores between the muscle fascia and joint passes, were all thoroughly penetrated by this power.

All the lit-up "bright points" across the entire body were now like stars in the night sky, strung together by this surging "galaxy", outlining a profound human body star map.

The efficiency of Qi and blood circulation thus improved by several times over.

Along with the evolution of the Inner Scene World, Fang Cheng's body was also undergoing earth-shattering transformations.

This drastic change from the inside out caused the environment he was in to boil along with it.

Inside the cave's water prison, dense water vapor pervaded into a sheet of white fog.

The bone-chilling pool water around the stone platform had long been completely evaporated by the heat emitted from his body.

The water line dropped significantly, revealing the pitted bottom of the pool.

Billowing white smoke steamed upward, churning upwards.

Yet, as if constrained by some invisible force field, it was suppressed within the water prison, unable to dissipate outward even in the slightest.

The temperature of the entire space was terrifyingly high, resembling a huge steamer.

Yet Fang Cheng still sat peacefully on the stone platform.

Blazing flames enveloped his body, his skin presenting a healthy reddish color, faintly revealing a golden luster.

Even through the skin, one could see the muscle groups all over his body acting like living creatures, rhythmically bulging and contracting with the energy tide.

Under the dual nourishment of Qi and blood, the body strengthening effect reached an unimaginable degree, beginning to penetrate into a more substantive level.

The energy torrent overflowed across the muscle groups, infiltrating every muscle fiber.

The originally closely arranged actin and myosin filaments became even tougher in structure, and the tension erupted during contraction multiplied.

The synapses at the junctions between nerve endings and muscle fibers burst forth with countless golden sparks, and the efficiency of transmitting neurotransmitters greatly improved.

This meant that the commands issued from the brain could reach various parts of the body at a faster speed and with lower loss.

Even the fascia wrapped around the outer layer of the muscles became more elastic, able to store and release more kinetic energy.

Accompanied by subtle transformations throughout the body, lines of prompt messages flowed past before his eyes like running water:

[ The life essence of the crimson eye is nourishing your Physical Body, Strength + 0.001 ]

[ The life essence of the crimson eye is nourishing your Physical Body, Agility + 0.001 ]

[ The life essence of the crimson eye is nourishing your Physical Body, Physique + 0.001 ]

...

Time quietly slipped away during cultivation.

Inside the water prison, it remained as bright as day.

Only when the daylight leaking through the gap overhead shifted from bright to dark did it herald that the outside world had already entered the night.

The flames burning on Fang Cheng's body surface gradually grew calm, and the light slowly faded.

That scorching high temperature began to converge inward, no longer causing destructive impacts on the surrounding environment.

It seemed to have concentrated all its power on the opening of the Inner Scene World.

Only the constantly refreshing prompts before his eyes proved that this rebirth-like transformation was still continuing:

[ You are using yourself as a cauldron to nurture your Divine Soul, Visualization experience + 1 ]

[ You are using yourself as a cauldron to temper your Physical Body, Qigong experience + 1 ]

...

Not knowing how much time had passed, when the night outside grew increasingly deep,

the temperature inside the water prison finally began to drop significantly.

The dense water vapor bound to the top of the cave by the invisible force field condensed accordingly, transforming into bean-sized water droplets that fell drop by drop.

It was as if a light rain had started, falling back to the bottom of the nearly dried-up deep pool.

Fang Cheng's pores all over his body, however, relaxed, greedily absorbing the wandering energy and water vapor around him.

At this moment, inside and outside his body, a perfect self-circulation had naturally formed.

In the Inner Scene World, along with the undulations of the terrain, "water" began to be born from nothingness within that torn fissure and was slowly injected.

The first river appeared just like that.

It originated from the towering mountain range, winding toward the end of the light realm, nourishing this newborn land.

At the core of the sun suspended high in the air, that golden pupil became even clearer.

It rotated indifferently, like the eye of a deity, overlooking the world it had personally opened up.

Fang Cheng, transformed into the sun, gazed at this island evolved from the Memory Palace, and his heart suddenly became enlightened.

At this moment, he finally fully comprehended.

The essence of so-called "Visualization" and "Qigong" had never departed from the theory of Daoist Internal Elixir self-cultivation.

The entire process he had just practiced was actually a perfect reproduction of refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into spirit, and refining spirit to return to the void.

Digesting the flesh and blood of the crimson eye and refining it into the most primordial True Qi with the True Sun Fire—this was "refining essence into Qi".

True Qi circulated a full cycle along the spine's great dragon, reaching the spiritual platform of the mind, nourishing the Divine Soul, and transforming into the spiritual energy constructing the Inner Scene World—this was "refining Qi into spirit".

And at this moment, using abundant spiritual energy to create an internal heaven and earth from nothingness within this world of consciousness—this was the beginning of "refining spirit to return to the void"!

However, just as Fang Cheng was immersed in this realization, the expansion speed of the Inner Scene World suddenly slowed down.

The crimson eye flesh in his belly was nearly digested, and the remaining True Qi in his Dantian was also running low.

Creating an internal heaven and earth consumed energy to a terrifying degree.

If there were no sufficient "essence" and "Qi" as provisions, relying solely on his own Divine Soul for recovery, it would probably take several years to complete the world-shaping.

Just at this moment, Fang Cheng's heart stirred.

The will transformed into the sun instantly penetrated the barrier of the Inner Scene World, casting toward the more distant endless darkness.

He saw it.

Those people who had once established a connection with the golden light orb.

Whether they had received favors before and harbored gratitude, or had witnessed his mighty power and given birth to worship,

at this very moment, a trace of an imperceptible thought rose in everyone's mind.

These thoughts transformed into the purest Power Of Will, condensing into slender yet resilient threads of light.

They crossed distant space, converging together like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Ultimately plunging into Fang Cheng's Inner Scene World, they transformed into the purest fuel for the True Sun Fire!

Supplemented by this brand-new energy, the gradually decaying sun once again erupted with boundless radiance.

The expansion of the Inner Scene World accelerated once again.

The land continuously extended until it paved the entire light realm, and then tentatively extended toward the endless darkness outside the light realm.

Seeing that the world-shaping was about to succeed, an unprecedented feeling of Perfection and ultimate bliss spontaneously arose from the bottom of Fang Cheng's heart.

At the most microscopic level of the body, hundreds of trillions of cells were carrying out a carnival.

Those life energies tempered by the True Sun Fire, like the gentlest sweet dew, infiltrated every cell.

The chromatin within the cell nuclei bloomed with dazzling light of life, and the mitochondria, like miniature reactors, produced energy endlessly.

Division, regeneration, recombination...

Every basic link of life's operation was accelerated a thousand or hundreds of times.

The aging and injuries within the body were instantly cleansed away.

The body's Origin was undergoing a rebirth-like optimization.

His Soul also produced an unprecedentedly close connection with these hundreds of trillions of brand-new cells.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit—the three merged into one in Perfection, forming a self-operating, endless, perfect closed-loop.

Fang Cheng comprehended that what he did this time was not just world-shaping, but also condensing that unique "True Self".

The moment this realization was born, his perception seemed to break free from the Physical Body's shackles, instantly penetrating the thick rock layer.

He "heard" the whisper of mountain wind brushing past pine needles, "smelled" the fragrance of soil and vegetation, and "felt" the temperature of sunlight scorching on rocks.

A marvelous resonance was quietly established between himself and this heaven and earth.

The circulation inside his body was already a self-consistent and Perfect small heaven and earth.

While the outside was a vast and boundless big heaven and earth.

At this moment, the successful nurturing of the small heaven and earth naturally triggered the Qi response of the big heaven and earth.

As if completing some mission, the invisible force field that had always bound the water prison suddenly contracted inward, converging entirely into Fang Cheng's body.

After losing the confinement, the majestic water vapor that had accumulated for a long time and was dense to the point of being nearly substantial finally found an outlet.

Boom!

A visible column of smoke, like an awakened giant dragon, soared into the sky along the crevices of the rock wall.

Outside the water prison, on the back mountain, it was originally a clear sky with the sun shining brightly.

The hot and humid airflow suddenly crashed into the high altitude, just like dripping a drop of thick ink into a basin of clear water.

The wandering water vapor between heaven and earth around seemed to receive an invisible summons, beginning to converge toward this place.

After just a moment, a few dark clouds slowly drifted over, blocking out the sunlight and shrouding the entire back mountain in a shadow.

Down the mountain at Tianxin Village, the Ma Family.

"Falling flowers fill the sky to obscure the moonlight, borrowing a cup to offer upon the Phoenix Terrace, the Princess's Flower offers incense with tears..."

In the old-fashioned courtyard, the radio was squeakingly singing opera.

In the morning hours, the breeze was gentle and the sun was bright.

Ma Jianguo had just finished watering several pots of Chinese roses.

At this moment, he was lying comfortably on a rattan chair, crossing his legs, closing his eyes slightly, and tapping his thighs lightly with his fingers along with the melodious tune.

Five days had already passed since Fang Cheng entered seclusion in the water prison.

During these five days, the bell used for communication had never rung.

This was actually good news, indicating that the cultivation progress was very smooth, at least without encountering the danger of Qi Deviation.

Ma Jianguo calculated in his heart that with Fang Cheng's once-in-a-century martial arts talent, coupled with his profound Foundation, completing the "conception of intent" within seven days should be a sure thing.

He counted the days with great anticipation; either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, this kid should successfully exit seclusion.

By then, Fang Cheng would become the sixteenth Grandmaster since the founding of Ma Family Tai Chi to master the martial intent of the "Thunder-Fire Cauldron".

From then on, he would spread his sect's prestige, punch the Special Investigation Team, kick the aristocratic financial conglomerates, and win massive face for himself.

Thinking of this triumphant point, Ma Jianguo couldn't help but curve the corners of his mouth upward slightly.

But just as he was immersed in this wonderful daydream—

Bang! Bang bang!

The courtyard gate was suddenly knocked on.

"Who is it?"

Ma Jianguo lazily opened his eyes.

"Old Ma! Old Ma! Come out and look, green smoke is rising from your family's ancestral graves!"

The loud voice of neighbor Old Wang came from outside the door. (End of chapter)