69: Chapter 69 The Mark of the Witch God (Chapter 4/5 still owed)

Without any hesitation.

Chen Shanzhi concentrated all of his remaining Divine Thought into a single point.

He ruthlessly blanketed the third-to-last golden character!

The moment they made contact, Chen Shanzhi felt like an ant trying to shake a giant tree.

The pressure emanating from that golden character was simply indestructible!

The speed at which his Divine Thought eroded it was as slow as a crawling tortoise!

However, as long as there was a progress bar, it was fine!

He wasn't afraid of a thick health bar; he was only afraid of not dealing damage!

At this moment, time seemed to lose all meaning.

In the outside world, Chen Shanzhi's chest was heaving violently.

Beneath him, Tang Xiaowu's highly elastic and delicate body rose and fell slightly with his breathing.

The faint fragrance of the beautiful woman and the uniquely smooth touch of a young girl's skin...

...became the only anchor for Chen Shanzhi to maintain his sanity during this tedious and painful grinding process.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

"Bang!"

Under Chen Shanzhi's frantic grinding that nearly made him cough up blood...

...the third large golden character finally couldn't take it anymore and suddenly exploded!

A beam of dazzling golden light, as if physical, with a long comet-like tail, injected itself into Chen Shanzhi's tenth major aperture!

Meanwhile, in the outside world.

Slightly to the left of the center of Chen Shanzhi's forehead...

...a new golden mark slowly emerged!

The moment this mark appeared, its brightness was actually more dazzling and eye-catching than the three in the center of his forehead combined!

"Hiss..."

Chen Shanzhi suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air.

An extremely intense feeling of dizziness and lightheadedness instantly surged from the depths of his mind.

Black double visions even began to appear before his eyes.

He knew this was a sign that his Divine Soul power was being overextended.

Eroding this third golden character, which represented a qualitative change, had consumed too much of his Divine Soul.

But this kind of Opportunity to trigger a hidden encounter only came once!

Chen Shanzhi looked at the remaining two large golden characters, his gaze extremely fierce.

"Again!"

He bit the tip of his tongue hard, using the clarity brought by the sharp pain to once again tightly blanket his Divine Thought over them!

It was another long tug-of-war that was enough to make one despair.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

Chen Shanzhi felt as if his head were being split open down the middle.

Every nerve was letting out a wail of being overwhelmed.

"Shatter for me!!!"

Chen Shanzhi let out a beast-like roar in the depths of his heart.

"Boom!"

The second golden character finally exploded with a bang!

It turned into a dazzling golden light that seemed capable of piercing through heaven and earth, injecting itself into Chen Shanzhi's eleventh major aperture!

Intense pain accompanied by extreme comfort frantically intertwined within Chen Shanzhi's body.

And on the right side of his forehead, a second extremely dazzling golden mark quietly emerged!

At this moment, Chen Shanzhi's Divine Soul was already weakened to the extreme.

He felt as if his consciousness were a candle flickering in the wind, liable to be extinguished at any moment.

With eyes full of extreme fatigue, Chen Shanzhi looked at the last golden character within his Sea of Consciousness.

It just stood there quietly.

It didn't emit any violent pressure, yet it gave off a certain feeling.

It was as if one were facing an emperor above the Nine Heavens, unable to muster even the slightest hint of resistance!

Just a single glance brought an impulse to prostrate and worship, to surrender completely!

This last large golden character...

...was countless times more powerful than any of the previous golden characters!

It didn't seem like a part of a Cultivation Technique at all, but more like an ancient deity with its own independent will!

Feeling his Divine Soul, which was already drained to the bottom and incredibly weak...

...a hint of retreat finally arose uncontrollably in Chen Shanzhi's heart.

Even though he hadn't specifically focused his attention on the changes in his Physical Body...

...he could still clearly perceive the terrifying sense of power coming from within, as if he were being reborn.

The gains from just the previous eleven golden characters were already so immense that they reached an unimaginable level!

His current Physical Body strength had definitely reached a shocking Realm!

And this last golden character...

...was clearly similar to the final boss in this hidden dungeon!

And it was the kind of ultimate, indescribable existence in a berserk state!

If he forced himself to take on this boss in his current crippled state...

...he probably wouldn't just lose; his Divine Soul might also suffer irreversible damage!

He might even turn into an idiot!

But...

Chen Shanzhi clenched his fists tightly.

Reality is not like a game!

In a game, if you can't win, the worst that happens is you take your hands off the keyboard, curse the developers for being idiots, and then reload a save.

But in reality, there are no save points!

Once he backed down now, the hidden form of this Cultivation Technique would be permanently incomplete!

If he missed this chance, it would be a permanent loss!

Even if he regretted it so much he beat his chest in the future, he would never find today's Opportunity again!

"Damn it, the bold feast while the timid starve!"

"I've even encountered something like Transmigration; why should I be afraid of a single broken character?"

Chen Shanzhi took a deep breath and then gritted his teeth hard!

Like a moth to a flame, he threw the very last sliver of Divine Thought in his Sea of Consciousness forward without any reservation!

"I'm going all in!"

However, reality is often extremely cruel.

The moment they touched, that extreme fatigue and stabbing pain in his mind...

...was like a violent sea, frantically drowning Chen Shanzhi.

Chen Shanzhi could feel it with extreme clarity.

His Divine Soul was weakening at a terrifying speed.

Yet that last golden character remained completely unmoved!

The faint golden light it emitted was like a high-and-mighty emperor, using an extremely mocking gaze...

...to coldly watch Chen Shanzhi's overconfident behavior, which was like that of a clown.

Despair, a deep and profound despair.

His consciousness began to blur. Chen Shanzhi even started seeing hallucinations, like a revolving lantern of his life.

He couldn't help but let a bitter smile surface in his heart.

"It seems... I was still too greedy and overestimated myself..."

"It's GG for this run..."

Just at the moment when Chen Shanzhi's consciousness was about to sink into total darkness and he was about to faint completely!

In the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness, that mysterious golden flame that had been quietly burning in a corner...

...suddenly leaped extremely violently!

In the next second, an extremely gentle warmth, as if containing some kind of life Origin...

...gushed out from the golden flame and instantly flowed through Chen Shanzhi's entire Sea of Consciousness!

His Divine Soul, which had been parched and was about to be completely depleted...

...under the nourishment of this warmth, was like parched earth receiving sweet rain, or bamboo shoots after a spring shower.

It instantly radiated an extremely terrifying and vibrant vitality!

"Full health revival?"

Chen Shanzhi's spirit suddenly jolted, and his previously blurred consciousness instantly cleared.

This golden flame actually functioned as a super health pack?

"Taking advantage of your weakness to end your life!"

Chen Shanzhi didn't hesitate for a moment, immediately mobilizing this newly born, majestic Divine Thought.

He seized the Opportunity to launch a frantic erosion against that last golden character!

Whenever his Divine Soul was about to be depleted again and reached its limit in the confrontation...

...the golden flame in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness would leap violently.

Then a wave of warmth would come, instantly refilling Chen Shanzhi's parched Divine Soul to the brim!

This was an extremely shameless war of attrition!

Relying on the infinite health potions backing him up, Chen Shanzhi stubbornly wore down this final boss!

Time passed minute by minute.

Finally, under this frantic output that was like a perpetual motion machine...

...that last golden character, which had been high-and-mighty and arrogant...

...its emitted pressure and golden light began to gradually dim.

In the end, it was like a candle flickering in the wind, teetering and no longer possessing its previous imperial majesty.

"Drop some loot for me!"

Chen Shanzhi gritted his teeth hard, his Divine Thought transforming into a giant heaven-splitting axe, frantically hacking at the golden character!

"Bang!!!"

Accompanied by a thunderous roar within his Sea of Consciousness, as if the world were being created!

This last golden character finally collapsed completely and exploded!

It didn't turn into golden light.

Instead, it transformed into a rising sun directly within Chen Shanzhi's mind!

Golden light illuminated his Sea of Consciousness.

Wherever the light reached, an extremely comfortable warmth followed.

Chen Shanzhi felt as if his Divine Soul were soaking in an extremely high-end hot spring.

All of his previous fatigue and stabbing pain were swept away in an instant.

In their place was an unprecedented sense of etherealness and power!

Finally, this sun gradually shrank, turning into a brilliant shooting star.

It streaked across his Sea of Consciousness and plunged straight into the last major aperture in Chen Shanzhi's body!

"Boom!"

It was as if the last perfect piece of a puzzle had been placed!

Within Chen Shanzhi's body, the countless golden points of light distributed across various Meridians and the twelve major apertures...

...at this moment, seemed to receive some extremely mysterious summons and began to frantically connect with each other.

Golden lines of light crisscrossed within Chen Shanzhi's body.

If someone could see through his body right now, they would be shocked to discover...

...that all the points of light in Chen Shanzhi's body had actually combined to form an extremely profound star map!

With the twelve major apertures as the core nodes of the formation...

...it linked all the Extraordinary Meridians and even the finest capillaries throughout his body...

...perfectly together, forming a continuous, self-sustaining great cycle!

And in the outside world.

On the left side of Chen Shanzhi's forehead, the third golden mark had also quietly finished emerging.

Three golden marks on each side!

At the very moment this last mark formed and emerged...

"Buzz!"

The six golden marks suddenly emitted extremely dazzling beams of golden light!

Like six comets pulled by gravity, they began to move across the skin of Chen Shanzhi's forehead.

Extremely rapidly, they converged toward the very center of his forehead!

Finally, at the instant these six golden marks touched each other in the center of his forehead!

All the golden light instantly withdrew, disappearing without a trace.

But immediately following that, in the very center of Chen Shanzhi's forehead...

...an extremely profound and complex mysterious mark, shaped like a leaping flame, slowly emerged!

This mark appeared in an extremely deep dark-gold color.

It was like the first wisp of world-destroying tribulation fire left behind when the world was first created in ancient times.

Just a single glance revealed a vastness and dominance that could burn the eight desolations and suppress all of eternity!

And at the moment this mark emerged.

Tang Xiaowu, who had been lying weakly on Chen Shanzhi's chest...

...her long eyelashes suddenly trembled.

Then, she opened her beautiful eyes, which were still filled with a bit of fatigue and moisture.

She raised her head somewhat confusedly and looked at Chen Shanzhi's face.

In the next second, Tang Xiaowu's expression instantly froze.

Her beautiful eyes instantly went wide and round.

She stared fixedly at the flame mark in the center of Chen Shanzhi's forehead that exuded ancient majesty.

Even her breathing completely stopped at this moment!

"This... this is..."

Tang Xiaowu's voice was trembling violently, her eyes filled with disbelief and extreme shock as she cried out in alarm:

"The Mark of the Shaman God?"