Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 537: Chapter 60: Success

「One month later.」

At the Xiangshan Sect Gate Ruins, on Thunder Flame Mountain.

RUMBLE!!!

A muffled, thunder-like roar echoed between heaven and earth.

Beneath the dim sky, Shen Changchuan sat cross-legged within the silvery-white spiritual liquid of Thunder Flame Essence.

Around him, the silvery-white Thunder Flame Essence churned as if boiling. Wisps of it seeped into Shen Changchuan’s skin, tempering every inch of his flesh!

But it didn’t end there.

After the potent, violent power of the Thunder Flame Essence was expended on tempering his flesh, the remaining pure essence, brimming with immense Vitality, merged with his body and further fortified Shen Changchuan’s physique!

Through such cumulative reinforcement,

after a month of painstaking effort,

tempered by the Thunder Flame Essence,

Shen Changchuan’s flesh was now as pure as polished jade.

Tiny, thread-like arcs of electricity danced across his skin!

Just by sitting there,

he exuded an incomparably fierce aura that seemed to press down on the very air, projecting a sense of terrifying, unstoppable power!

That formidable aura

was incredibly heavy,

like a small mountain pressing down on the world!

After an unknown amount of time,

Shen Changchuan suddenly opened his eyes.

In that instant,

in the space around him,

it was as if two blindingly bright bolts of lightning flashed forth.

This shocking phenomenon was caused by the brilliant light glinting in the depths of Shen Changchuan’s dark pupils, which triggered a resonance with the ambient energy of Thunder Flame Mountain!

Fortunately, however,

the phenomenon was fleeting and vanished in an instant.

”Hoo!”

Shen Changchuan performed a Circulation

and let out a long breath.

Within his breath,

flickers of fragmented lightning and fire seemed to dance.

But with this exhalation,

Shen Changchuan ceased his Cultivation.

’I’ve reached the limit!’

At this moment,

Shen Changchuan’s heart was filled with a mix of joy and regret.

He could clearly feel that

after a month of effort,

the tempering effect of the Thunder Flame Essence on his body had reached its limit.

Continuing to cultivate here would not yield much more improvement.

And this

wasn’t the limit of the essence from Thunder Flame Mountain,

but the limit of his own body!

It was like

being stuffed after a huge meal!

Every inch of his flesh had already absorbed a massive amount of Thunder Flame Essence,

to the point where he was like someone who was overstuffed and couldn’t take another bite.

Next,

he would need a fairly long period of time to digest it all.

’It’s a bit of a pity. If my body could handle it and improve without limit, the three centuries of accumulated essence on this Thunder Flame Mountain would be enough to refine my body to at least the Divine Travel Peak Realm!’

Shen Changchuan sighed to himself.

’In the end, I’m still too weak.’

’Even when faced with such a great opportunity,’

’I couldn’t fully absorb all the benefits.’

It was truly a pity.

’After all, it won’t be long before I might not be the only one with access to these Xiangshan Sect Ruins.’

’But then again,’

’even if I couldn’t achieve a perfect outcome,’

’my gains this past month were still substantial.’

Casting aside the faint trace of regret,

Shen Changchuan immersed his Heart Spirit within his body.

A swell of joy rose within him as he felt his Magical Power, which was now significantly stronger than it had been a month ago.

Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Middle Stage!

That’s right!

He had broken through!

His Cultivation had risen from the initial Eighth Layer to the Eighth Layer Middle Stage!

Over this past month of hard work,

as his body was tempered and strengthened by the Thunder Flame Essence, pure Spiritual Power and Vitality had also surged into him, undergoing Refinement and digestion before being converted into Magical Power to fuel his Circulations.

As a result, Shen Changchuan’s Cultivation Realm had advanced rapidly!

This allowed him to break through to the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Middle Stage Realm in one fell swoop!

This was an improvement definitely worth celebrating!

Because,

it had only been three or four months since his last visit to the Spirit Transformation Pool to break through to the Soul Emergence Eighth Layer!

To have his Cultivation Realm improve so dramatically again in such a short time...

This breakthrough even propelled Shen Changchuan far along the path of the Eighth Layer Middle Stage.

He was now on the verge of reaching the bottleneck to the Eighth Layer Late Stage!

How could he not be thrilled by this?

After all,

a typical Cultivator in the later stages of the Soul Emergence Realm would need to spend ten to twenty years, or even more, to make a similar leap in progress!

Having reached the Eighth Layer Middle Stage so quickly,

in this way,

Shen Changchuan was now more confident than ever that he could advance to the Soul Emergence Ninth Layer Realm before the great Immortal Sect competition!

And yet,

this was not the greatest gain from this trip!

Or rather,

the breakthrough in his Cultivation Realm

was merely the most minor of his gains from this month of painstaking effort.

For Shen Changchuan,

the truly greatest gain...

was in Body Refinement!

Shen Changchuan suppressed his joy and focused his gaze on the progress bar panel before him.

He mentally scrolled down, his gaze passing over the densely packed information on the panel until it landed on a row further below listing Body Refining Techniques.

...

[Iron Bone Technique: 100% (Perfection Trait: A minor enhancement to physique; a Gold Element Body Refining Method of negligible impact.)]

[Rock Strength: 100% (Perfection Trait: A minor enhancement to physique...)]

...

Beneath the Body Refining Technique section on the panel,

over a hundred new lines had appeared, densely packed with the names of various Techniques!

Moreover,

the ones at the very top had almost all reached 100% Perfection!

Indeed,

this was Shen Changchuan’s greatest achievement over the past month:

leveraging the Body Refinement effects of the Thunder Flame Essence, he had successfully completed his cultivation of the hundred-plus Body Refining Techniques he had brought back from the Yuqing Immortal Sect!

Among them, forty were cultivated directly to Perfection.

The remaining seventy-plus had all reached at least 50% completion, achieving the Minor Achievement stage or higher!

This was Shen Changchuan’s greatest gain from a month of Body Forging on Thunder Flame Mountain!

To put it in perspective,

before this,

he had spent over a month just to cultivate one or two Body Refining Techniques to Perfection!

But now,

in the span of a single month,

he had already cultivated more than forty Body Refining Techniques to Perfection!

’It’s just as I expected!’

’Thanks to the accumulated Cultivation Experience from two thousand Perfection Level spells, I can grasp the principles of these Tier One and Tier Two Body Refining Techniques with just a single glance.’

’But since improving my Physique is a gradual process that can’t be rushed, the progress bar for the Body Refining Techniques used to fill up very slowly.’

’Now, however, thanks to the tempering from the Thunder Flame Essence, my Physique’s strength has increased rapidly. Combined with my own profound understanding of Body Refining Techniques, the progress bars have advanced at a corresponding speed!’

’This windfall has saved me at least five or six years of painstaking effort in cultivating Body Refining Techniques!’

Gazing at the dense list of gains on the progress panel,

Shen Changchuan was extremely satisfied.