135: Chapter 135 Preparations for Breaking Through

He took out the last half bottle of top-grade mutated wood marrow.

This was the ultimate vitality and Origin of radiation extracted from the mutated mother plant in the fourth layer of the Wasteland, which had absorbed endless world-extinguishing poisonous light.

Gu Shen pulled out the stopper and poured most of the mutated wood marrow, which was emitting a blinding fluorescent glow, into the vat without hesitation.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

The dark green gel in the large vat boiled again the moment it touched the mutated wood marrow!

This time, it was not a boiling of vitality, but the terrifying Origin of radiation exploding into bubbles on the surface!

The air concentration in the entire security room instantly became extremely lethal. The surrounding refined iron walls were even corroded with patches of white spots by this volatile poisonous gas.

"Master! The liquid in the vat has toxicity and radiation levels that are both off the charts! This is not medicine at all; it is a vat of concentrated biochemical poison water! A single drop would cause your own gene chain to break!"

The Crab in the corner issued a frantic, terrified warning.

"Shut up."

Gu Shen stood up. He looked at this vat of "Two Realms Poison Water," which combined the Origin of the gu king from the Cultivation World and the radiation poison of the Wasteland.

This was his Heaven-Defying medicinal bath.

If one is not insane, one cannot succeed.

Swish.

Gu Shen reached out to untie his grey robe and very decisively took off the thousand-tough black silk armor he was wearing close to his body.

Beneath his pale skin, dark golden iron bones were faintly visible, and deep within his bones, thunder patterns emitted a low hum, as if longing for this ultimate baptism.

Without any hesitation, he took out all the essence white dew (inferior) he possessed from his Storage Ring and swallowed it in one gulp.

In an instant, Gu Shen's body was filled with the pure spiritual power transformed from the inferior essence white dew.

Then, he lifted his right foot and stepped directly into the large refined steel vat boiling with poisonous gas and vitality!

Boom!

The moment his body submerged into the medicinal liquid, Gu Shen's eyes bulged instantly, and countless bloodshot veins crawled across the whites of his eyes.

Pain!

An extreme, agonizing pain that could not be described in words instantly pierced his neural threshold!

The medicinal bath, mixed with the world-extinguishing poisonous light, felt like countless extremely fine steel needles, following the tens of thousands of pores on his body, brutally stabbing into his flesh and piercing straight into his bone marrow!

The skin on his body was almost instantly corroded into a charred black color.

But immediately after, the terrifying vitality of the gu king marrow and mutated wood marrow surged into these damaged wounds with extreme dominance, forcibly spawning new flesh buds to stitch the wounds back together.

The extreme cold of the heavy water beads froze his Meridians, keeping him in an eerily clear state amidst the extreme agony.

Destruction, reorganization. Destruction, rebirth.

"Ugh, ahhh—!"

A series of extremely suppressed low roars, like a dying beast, escaped from Gu Shen's throat.

He sat cross-legged at the bottom of the large vat. The viscous, dark green medicinal liquid instantly submerged his head.

The security room fell into dead silence.

Only the pale white Great Furnace phantom fire beneath the large refined steel vat continued to burn tirelessly.

Inside the vat, thunderous sounds erupted.

The dark golden iron bones were being forcibly reshaped by this terrifying Origin of the two realms, inch by inch.

Under the scouring of this violent medicinal power, the barrier of the Qi Refining Stage began to emit extremely subtle cracking sounds.

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Shelter No. 7, Wasteland without spiritual energy. Second basement level, security room.

There was no alternation of day and night, no passing of the four seasons.

The heavy refined steel door completely isolated this place from the outside world, turning it into an absolutely silent steel tomb.

In the center of the secret room, the refined steel vat, weighing several thousand catties, was emitting an extremely terrifying high temperature under the roasting of the pale white Great Furnace phantom fire.

Inside the vat, there was no longer the sound of boiling water.

The originally dark green medicinal liquid had now become as viscous as an abyss quagmire.

Thirty days.

A full month had passed since Gu Shen stepped into this "Two Realms medicinal bath."

In the corner, the small mechanical reconnaissance spider lay on the blast-proof black box, its eight mechanical legs tightly gripping the edge.

The Crab's deep blue detection eye stared unblinkingly at the large vat.

"Beep. Vital sign monitoring: Heart rate is nine beats per minute. Surface body temperature: 180 degrees. The telomeres of the cells in the body are undergoing extremely violent reorganization and fission."

The Crab's electronic voice was filled with a rare gravity.

"This is not carbon-based restructuring that a human can withstand... Master, what exactly are you experiencing?"

At the bottom of the vat, Gu Shen sat cross-legged like a stone statue.

His Physical Body was experiencing an extremely tragic, and even bloody, "death by a thousand cuts and stitching."

This was an inhuman torture sufficient to drive anyone with a firm mind insane in an instant.

The high-frequency radiation and poison of the Wasteland contained in the top-grade mutated wood marrow were like billions of invisible nano-files, brutally scraping away the necrotic flesh on his body.

His skin and flesh peeled off layer by layer, and even his pitch-black hair fell out completely. His dark golden bones were largely exposed to the medicinal liquid.

But just as his Physical Body was about to collapse completely, the vast, ocean-like vitality of the gu king marrow would ferociously surge in.

Flesh buds squirmed madly, and white bones grew flesh.

The newborn skin and flesh were tougher than before, only to be corroded by the poison again.

Destruction, rebirth. Rebirth, destruction.

This repeated for a full thirty days!

In this extremely brutal physical tug-of-war, Impurities were completely stripped away.

Gu Shen's bones were undergoing an astonishing qualitative change.

The second layer of the Bone Refining Art, Thunder Bone, under the tempering of this Fusion of extreme powers from two realms, was forcibly pushed to the extreme of Great Perfection!

On the surface of the originally dark golden bones, a layer of black ghost light like deep-sea mysterious ice appeared. And in the deepest part of the bone marrow, faint, dense, dark blue thunder was traveling and wandering.

Iron bones with integrity, impervious to all evil.

His current skeleton was so hard that it had surpassed a top-grade Magical Artifact, sufficient to withstand the bombardment of a Magic Treasure from a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Initial Stage without breaking!

Hum!

Deep in the Sea of Consciousness, the drop of soul nourishing dew, combined with the nourishment of the gu king marrow's vitality, finally completely smoothed out the last crack in his Divine Sense.

The originally dried-up Sea of Consciousness, full of hidden injuries, was like a parched lake welcoming a rainstorm, instantly expanding by a full fold!

Gu Shen's Divine Sense violently broke through the shackles of the Qi Refining Stage, and even faintly touched the threshold of the Divine Sense of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"Hoo—"

At the bottom of the vat, Gu Shen very slowly exhaled a breath of turbid Qi.

This turbid Qi, like a solid black arrow, pierced through the viscous medicinal liquid and even struck a muffled sound against the wall of the refined steel vat.

Physical Body and Divine Sense had both reached perfection.

Now, only the last step remained.

Magic power, break through the realm!