68: Chapter 68 As long as you dare to show your health bar

Chen Shanzhi naturally didn't know that a certain miraculous change had quietly occurred in his Physical Body in the outside world.

His entire focus was now locked deep within his Sea of Consciousness.

Looking at the only nine ancient golden characters left in his mind.

Chen Shanzhi didn't feel the slightest bit of relief; instead, his heart sank abruptly.

There were clearly only the last nine characters left.

But looking at them, Chen Shanzhi actually felt a certain sensation.

The illusion of having just created a character in a game in his past life and taking the first step on the Journey to the West.

When Chen Shanzhi tentatively extended his Divine Thought like tentacles, gently covering one of the golden characters.

"Boom!"

A terrifying pressure, almost tangible, surged back directly along his Divine Thought!

Chen Shanzhi felt as if his head had been struck hard by a heavy iron sledgehammer.

There was even a sharp ringing in his ears.

"Holy shit!"

Chen Shanzhi cursed wildly in his heart.

What kind of Hell-level difficulty was this?

The pressure emanating from these nine characters was actually more than ten times stronger than the previous ones!

If he said that for the three characters he had desperately and forcibly absorbed earlier that had undergone a qualitative change...

Each was equivalent to the difficulty of absorbing hundreds of ordinary golden characters.

Then for these remaining nine characters, picking any one of them...

Its absorption difficulty was equivalent to thousands of previous golden characters stacked together!

"Dammit, is this Nine-Turn Golden Body Art of the Witch God really this difficult to Cultivate?"

Chen Shanzhi gritted his teeth hard, cold sweat rolling down his forehead like soybeans.

It dripped onto the smooth and delicate back of Tang Xiaowu beneath him.

He clearly remembered that in that adult game from his past life.

After the male lead, Tang Liu, obtained this Cultivation Technique in the Secret Realm.

It was just a few clicks of the mouse, a few seconds of some CG, and then a prompt saying "Cultivation successful."

There were no descriptions of any particularly harsh requirements at all!

Now that it was his turn to do it for real, this difficulty was simply pushing him toward death!

Chen Shanzhi thought that if it weren't for the mysterious Golden Flame that had inexplicably appeared in his Sea of Consciousness after coming out of the Secret Realm.

Which had strengthened his Divine Soul.

Combined with his recent Cultivation of the Spirit Forging Art, which had further strengthened his Divine Soul.

With just this body's original pathetic Foundation.

He probably wouldn't have been able to complete the first transformation of this Cultivation Technique in his entire life!

He stopped letting his thoughts wander.

Games are games, and reality is reality.

He had already come this far; he couldn't wimp out now!

Chen Shanzhi took a deep breath, cutting off all the lustful thoughts brought about by the soft, delicate body beneath him.

His Divine Thought transformed into an invisible carving knife, firmly covering the ninth golden character.

He began a slow erosion, bit by bit, like water dripping through stone!

Time passed second by second.

This delicate work, which extremely exhausted his Divine Soul, made Chen Shanzhi feel like his brain was about to be stirred into mush.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

*Crack!*

Accompanied by an extremely difficult crisp sound.

Chen Shanzhi forcibly ground down three golden characters!

The moment these three characters shattered, they transformed into three tangible beams of blinding golden light, leaping down from the Sea of Consciousness!

Like three roaring golden Dragons, they accurately plunged into the fourth, fifth, and sixth major apertures within Chen Shanzhi's body!

*Buzz—*

The moment the golden light entered the apertures.

Chen Shanzhi's entire body shook violently.

Within those three major apertures, a sense of swelling immediately surged!

It was as if something was taking root and sprouting deep within the apertures, remodeling his Physical Body's Foundation.

And in the outside world.

Upon his sweat-drenched forehead, besides the previous mark.

A second golden mark, as dazzling as the sun, quietly emerged!

"Again!"

Chen Shanzhi's eyes were bloodshot, and the ruthlessness in his bones—the need to achieve a perfect clear in games—was completely ignited.

In one breath, his Divine Thought turned into a storm again, pouncing toward the next three golden characters!

Then came a Soul-tearing pain!

But Chen Shanzhi gritted his teeth and didn't even let out a groan.

Under the extremely frantic erosion of his Divine Thought, another three golden characters exploded!

Three beams of golden light, even thicker than before, shot out from the Sea of Consciousness again.

Heading straight for Chen Shanzhi's seventh, eighth, and ninth major apertures!

At this moment, the eighth and ninth major apertures in Chen Shanzhi's body had clearly not been opened yet.

They were entirely filled with Chaos and blockage.

But when those two overbearing and peerless golden lights forcibly crashed into them.

An indescribable sensation of extreme swelling instantly swept through his entire body!

*Crack, crack, crack...*

Chen Shanzhi could clearly hear the faint sound of some barrier shattering within his body.

The eighth major aperture, which had already been Cultivated to the Peak of the Xuanguan Seven Apertures and was about to Breakthrough.

Under the wash of this unreasonable golden light, it happened as naturally as water forming a channel.

While Chen Shanzhi was focusing all his attention on the Sea of Consciousness, it quietly... broke through!

Xuanguan Eight Apertures!

Simultaneously, right in the center of his forehead, the third golden mark took shape!

The three sun marks were arranged in a triangular pattern, emitting a brilliant heavenly majesty that one dared not look at directly.

But at this moment, Chen Shanzhi couldn't care less about the Breakthrough in his body.

His Divine Thought stared fixedly at the only three golden characters remaining deep in the Sea of Consciousness.

Chen Shanzhi's breathing completely stopped at this moment.

These last three golden characters were now like three actual burning suns!

Quietly floating at the end of the Sea of Consciousness, emitting an extremely dazzling golden light that could even burn the Divine Soul!

The light and pressure emitted by each character.

Were actually more brilliant and terrifying than all the previous golden characters combined!

Chen Shanzhi finally realized something was wrong.

This isn't right!

This definitely isn't the normal process for Cultivating a Cultivation Technique!

This Cultivation Technique... has hidden content!

Chen Shanzhi's eyes instantly lit up, and his heart rate accelerated sharply.

Am I... accidentally triggering a hidden Easter egg of this Cultivation Technique in the real world?

As everyone knows.

In those AAA single-player games from his past life, game developers loved to hide things in extremely remote corners.

Or under extremely harsh completion conditions, they would hide Heaven-Defying encounters and equipment.

Once obtained, these hidden things often allowed players to soar.

However, the triggering conditions were extremely harsh; if one failed to endure after triggering it, the mission would fail.

Then one could only reload a save or simply delete the save and start over.

Although Chen Shanzhi had already maxed out all the achievements in that adult game through countless days and nights of grinding.

And in his memory, he absolutely had no recollection of this Cultivation Technique having a hidden form.

However, no matter how large a game's size was, even several hundred gigabytes.

It could never compare to an entire real world that was truly functioning!

Reality has countless variables!

"It seems that somehow, by some fluke, I've triggered the hidden content of this Cultivation Technique!"

In an instant, Chen Shanzhi's desire for exploration and conquest as a top-tier gamer was completely ignited!

Looking at those three golden characters in his mind that stood like mountains before him.

A mad sneer curled at the corner of Chen Shanzhi's mouth.

"As long as you dare to show a health bar..."

"Today, I'll even kill a god for you to see!"