Immortality Begins With Internal Breathing

Four brilliant golden chains were deeply embedded within his flesh. Under the repeated surges and tremors of blood qi, they emitted crisp, resonant ringing sounds. These golden shackles firmly bound Lin Zheyu’s physique. As the blood qi continuously battered against them, the clear and ethereal ringing repeatedly washed over and tempered both his physique and his blood qi.

The already incomparably condensed golden blood qi was further purified by that invisible force, expelling massive amounts of impurities. His blood qi became even more condensed and powerful. Beyond the four existing shackles, another phantom chain was rapidly solidifying at an astonishing speed. It was the fifth Heavenly Dao shackle.

The process of opening the divine repositories brought about an absolutely terrifying increase in strength. For a genius martial artist like Lin Zheyu, whose foundation was extremely deep and who had cultivated three powerful divine repository techniques, that explosive growth was even more horrifying.

As his power surged, the shackles wrapped around his body condensed at an astonishing pace. The fifth shackle transformed from a phantom into a solid form almost instantly, then rapidly thickened and turned brilliant gold, becoming identical to the previous four shackles.

After the fifth shackle condensed into existence, the crisp and ethereal ringing grew even more powerful. Under the constant surging of blood qi, the five thick golden shackles collided repeatedly, producing clear metallic chimes. The sounds emitted by the five different shackles gradually began to resonate with one another, amplifying the force within them more than tenfold.

At this moment, even the lake filled with pure energy was beginning to fail under the ravenous absorption of the mysterious energy. Lin Zheyu was currently at the critical stage of opening his essence and qi divine repository, and his foundation was terrifyingly deep. The process of opening the divine repository demanded an incomprehensible amount of energy. On top of that, the enhancement brought by Origin Force had taken place within only a few breaths.

Although Lin Zheyu’s strength had risen tremendously, the mysterious energy generated by Origin Force could only absorb energy from the lake within a radius of less than ten meters around him. Under its frenzied consumption, all the energy in that surrounding area had long since been drained dry, while energy from farther away could not replenish it quickly enough.

For that brief instant, even the unimaginably dense energy filling the lake was nearly insufficient for the mysterious energy within Lin Zheyu’s body to absorb.

A few breaths later, Lin Zheyu emerged from cultivation. His bloodshot eyes brimmed with excitement, brilliant light flashing within them. He had broken through to the second stage of the Divine Repository realm! The Divine Repository realm contained three stages in total, with each opened repository representing one stage. Most martial artists could only open two repositories, meaning the second stage was their limit. Some could only open a single repository.

Lin Zheyu looked toward the six shackles within his body, his tone somewhat complicated. ”It seems that once the third stage of the Yellow Springs Nirvana Scripture reaches Perfection, all seven shackles should fully appear.”

That was right. Six shackles. Beyond the five fully solidified golden chains, another nearly solid phantom shackle had already appeared. Lin Zheyu’s body trembled slightly as he forcibly shook all six shackles out from within himself. A massive amount of golden blood qi surged into his right hand as he suddenly reached toward one of the shackles. Yet his hand passed straight through it, grasping nothing at all.

”Mmm, finally... I still can’t grab it, but at least I can affect it now.” Lin Zheyu nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the shackle that had blurred for an instant before solidifying once more.

As long as he could affect the shackles, that was enough. It meant those massive golden chains had not become so powerful that escape was utterly impossible. Back then, Lin Zheyu had tried breaking free from the shackles, but no matter how violently he struggled or what methods he used, they had not budged in the slightest.

At one point, he had even suspected that the mutation within his body had caused the transformed golden shackles to become impossibly strong. If that were true, then the difficulty of advancing into the Shackles realm in the future would become unimaginably terrifying. Fortunately, from the current situation, while the difficulty remained extremely high, it was still within an acceptable range.

Lin Zheyu floated silently within the energy lake. Violent and chaotic rule energy continuously eroded toward him, yet he had no intention of leaving just yet. Faint golden blood qi drifted outward and condensed into a golden blood qi energy barrier around his body. Although the barrier was thin, it firmly blocked the violent energy outside.

”My blood qi energy has become so much stronger!” Lin Zheyu looked at the golden barrier, which continuously emitted sizzling sounds while wisps of black smoke rose from its surface, his expression filled with surprise.

After opening his essence and qi divine repository, the sheer quantity of his blood qi had become unimaginably vast. Even its intensity had risen tremendously. Compared to before, a single unit of blood qi was now at least three times stronger than it had once been.

”Excellent. Next, let’s test the strength of my physique.” Lin Zheyu smiled faintly as the golden blood qi energy surrounding him instantly vanished.

The violent rule energy that had originally been blocked outside instantly swallowed Lin Zheyu whole, pouring ceaselessly into his body. He slowly raised a hand. Under the erosion of the violent rule energy, the skin on his arm gradually withered and blackened, becoming like decayed wood.

The process was extremely slow. Then, immense vitality surged from within his flesh, restoring the skin to normal in an instant. Lin Zheyu deliberately controlled the vitality energy within his body, maintaining it in a dynamic balance against the violent rule energy.

A smile appeared on Lin Zheyu’s face as he looked at the smooth, fair skin of his arm, which remained completely intact. ”Not bad, not bad at all. After opening my essence and qi divine repository, my physique’s defensive power has at least doubled. Truly incredible.”

As expected of the legendary three great divine repositories. After opening the first repository, the essence origin divine repository, the vitality within Lin Zheyu’s body became astonishingly powerful. Even if his arm were severed now, he could simply pick it up and reattach it, and it would recover instantly.

After opening the second repository, the essence and qi divine repository, the amount of his blood qi had increased by at least fivefold. Not only had the quantity of blood qi exploded, but even the intensity of his blood qi and the strength of his physique had undergone tremendous enhancement.

Now, Lin Zheyu was extremely eager to see what shocking transformation would occur when he opened the spirit divine repository.

”Will my spirit and spiritual soul become unbelievably powerful?” Lin Zheyu murmured softly.

He looked toward the data within his consciousness. Through relentless effort, the Yellow Springs Nirvana Scripture had already reached the third stage.

[Heaven Rewards the Diligent]

[Name: Lin Zheyu]

[Origin Force: 444]

[Skills: Earth Shrinking Technique (Perfection), Primordial Concealment Technique (Perfection), Seven Absolute Sabers (Fifth Stage: 3%), Primordial Golden Body (Second Stage: 100%), Spirit Martial Universe Secret Art—Advanced (Perfection), Yellow Springs Nirvana Scripture (Third Stage: 1%)]

”The third stage will require roughly 100 units of Origin Force, about the same as I estimated before.” Lin Zheyu nodded slightly as he examined the data in his consciousness.

After opening the spirit divine repository, he would still have more than 300 units of Origin Force remaining, perhaps enough to push the Primordial Golden Body to another stage. Lin Zheyu had a premonition that once he fully opened all three great divine repositories, the seven shackles would completely solidify and transform into golden chains.

Resonance and harmony would form between the shackles themselves. If it were only a single shackle, then after opening the spirit divine repository, Lin Zheyu was fairly confident he could break free from it. But seven shackles together... That was asking far too much.

Lin Zheyu placed his hopes of breaking free from the shackles upon the Primordial Golden Body technique.

Lin Zheyu pondered inwardly, Strange. I’ve already opened two divine repositories, yet I still haven’t touched the unknown Divine Repository realm domain Senior Xia Ping mentioned. Could it be that I need to fully open all three divine repositories before entering that mysterious domain? Or is it possible that even with such deep accumulation, I still haven’t reached the threshold to enter it?

His spiritual sense entered the opened essence origin divine repository and the essence and qi divine repository. Gazing upon the two vast spaces, he fell into deep thought.