Cultivation (Jian Chen) - Chaotic Sword God

# Cultivation Systems

Within the past few years, Jian Chen had already reached the eighth Saint Force layer. Moreover, this was only because Jian Chen had purposely slowed down his pace. That was because during the past few years, Jian Chen had used almost half the time to familiarize himself with the sword laws from his previous world. Otherwise, he most likely would have broken through the eighth level ages ago. Because of this, Jian Chen was currently not far from reaching the ninth layer already.

After three months of cultivation, he had already broken through to the 10th layer. He was only one step away from reaching the Saint level, and could break through at any moment. The Class 3 Monster Core from the freshmen martial arts competition had already been completely used up by him. Although it was said that Class 3 Monster Core contained large amounts of energy, the amount that Jian Chen needed for his cultivation was far greater than that of an average person’s. After all, the abilities that he achieved through his cultivation were extremely terrifying. Thus, a Class 3 Monster Core that could allow an average person at the 8th layer reach a middle Saint level, could only help Jian Chen reach the peak of the 10th layer.

After returning to his room, Jian Chen sat cross-legged on his bed. He held a Class 1 Monster Core in each hand, and began to cultivate. Although Jian Chen’s power had already reached the peak of the 10th Saint Force layer, he could clearly sense that the Saint Force in his body had not yet reached a state of saturation.
As he gradually began to absorb the energy within the monster cores, Jian Chen’s Saint Force once again quickly rose. His speed of cultivation was ten times faster than when he absorbed World Essence.
For the next three days, aside from eating meals, Jian Chen used all of his time to cultivate in his room. Eventually, the Saint Force inside him had already reached a saturated state; no matter how much further Jian Chen tried to absorb the monster cores’ energies, his inner Saint Force would no longer continue to grow.
Jian Chen clearly understood that he needed to rush to Saint level and condense his Saint Weapon. Otherwise, the Saint Force within him would come to an eternal standstill.
In terms of condensing Saint Weapons, Jian Chen had long since clearly learned the procedures to becoming Saint from the school library. It used the principle of condensing all inner Saint Force and slowly shaping it into a Saint Weapon. In the end, one uses their ‘Soul’ to perfectly harmonize with it. Once the inner Saint Force is completely condensed into a weapon, then a person is officially a Saint.
Jian Chen didn’t stop. He took out a Class 4 Monster Core from his Space Belt, preparing to use it if needed, and immediately began to condense a Saint Weapon and rush to Saint level.
The Saint Force in Jian Chen’s dantian was firmly contained by his “Soul”. In the presence of his powerful “Soul”, Jian Chen had absolute control over the Saint Force in his dantian. Jian Chen used his mind to control all the Saint Force within his dantian and gradually began to gather it together. Slowly, he formed it into the shape of a sword, and he finally began to compress it.
Jian Chen’s powerful Soul was brought over from his previous world. Since birth, it far surpassed other people’s and under this power, the weak Saint Force had no way of resisting it. The Saint Force was firmly suppressed by Jian Chen, and he constantly compressed the sword-shaped Saint Force.
As the Saint Force was compressed smaller and smaller, Jian Chen’s dantian that was originally filled with Saint Force quickly began to lessen as well. Despite this, the strength of his Saint Force continued to rise, and the makeshift sword became clearer in form as well. Eventually, it became an extremely tiny sword within his dantian.
At the same time, Jian Chen was still trying to condense it even more.
Although Jian Chen had already successfully gathered and condensed his Saint Force into a sword, this didn’t mean that he had already become a Saint. There was still the last and most difficult step left; this step was precisely what blocked so many people in Tian Yun Continent from becoming Saints for the rest of their lives.
In this last step, he had to merge a part of his Soul into his dantian to completely condense and form the sword and create a spiritual relationship with it. At the same time, he would have to completely harmonize with the Saint Weapon. Although this seemed simple, it was extremely difficult to do in reality.
Although this step was difficult for most people, to those that had incomparably strong Souls like Jian Chen, this was something that could be smoothly performed. Jian Chen directly split a part of his Soul and began to merge it with the condensed Saint Weapon in his dantian. He then used his practiced control to quickly link the two together. Eventually, the two had completely harmonized; they were no longer separate entities.
It was at this moment that Jian Chen had finally become a legitimate Saint. This last step had provided absolutely no obstruction to him.
Just as Jian Chen had perfectly harmonized his Soul and his Saint Weapon, he suddenly felt something strange, as if the condensed sword within him had become his own limb. He could easily control it, and he could also clearly sense every single component of this sword.
Right now, Jian Chen’s dantian didn’t have a single trace of Saint Force remaining inside it. The only thing left was the condensed sword, which acted as the new energy source. The sword seemed extremely tiny; from its width and length, it didn’t seem very different from an embroidery needle.
Now that he had condensed his Saint Weapon, Jian Chen could sense the powerful fluctuations from Saint Weapons far clearer than he had before. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that as an ordinary Saint, he could easily defeat a person at the peak of the 10th Saint Force layer. Unless some unexpected or special circumstances occurred, a person at the peak of the 10th layer would absolutely be no match for a Saint.
Both Jian Chen and Tie Ta were amazing. With Tie Ta’s godly strength, as well as his extremely powerful body, even Jian Chen who had been training Saint Force since he was young was naturally not as powerful as Tie Ta. Tie Ta’s abnormal strength in addition to his formidable defense was enough to make up for any lack of Saint Force. Unless the difference in strength was extremely large, there was no way he could be a match against Tie Ta. At most, they would be stuck at a standstill.
Jian Chen had previously used his power at the peak 10th layer to defeat a middle ranked Saint. Although he had completely relied on the experience and battle techniques from his past world, Jian Chen’s quick sword techniques and his high accomplishments in the ways of the sword, as well as his fighting willpower gained from countless experiences from life-or-death battles in his previous world were enough to make him invincible to those at the same level as him. In addition, battles with ranks higher than him weren’t even worth mentioning either.
At this moment, Jian Chen’s expression suddenly changed. Immediately following, his dantian had surprisingly begun to tremble once more. His entire dantian began to fluctuate intensely in an unstable way. As soon as it began fluctuating, before Jian Chen could react, the World Essence began to frantically burst forth. The countless surrounding World Essence seemed to have been affected by some invisible attractive force, and gradually began to gather where Jian Chen was. At this moment, Jian Chen’s body seemed to have left his control, and it felt as though all of his pores had suddenly opened. They frantically began absorbing the dense World Essence surrounding him.
The energy within the Monster Core in Jain Chen’s hand also fiercely dropped, forming a stream of energy visible to the naked eye which flowed into Jian Chen’s body.
At this moment, Jian Chen’s body was like a bottomless pit. It didn’t matter how strong the World Essence around him was, it was completely absorbed into his body like a whale swallowing water. At the same time, the energy of the Class four Monster Core in his hand rapidly diminished, and the speed at which it was being absorbed was unbelievable. The originally fist sized Monster Core was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Jian Chen had no idea what was happening to his body at all. Since he had lost total control over his body, he was completely unable to stop the absorption of the World Essence around him.
(Ch 54) Soon after some time had passed, the energy in the Class 4 Monster Core was completely absorbed by him. Finally within his dantian a change was happening as light specks of both azure and violet started to appear. The moment the specks appeared, his dantian suddenly started to absorb the World Essence at an even faster rate, and even started to absorb World Essence from a farther distance. With the azure and violet light specks, World Essence from a dozen feet away felt the pull and began to rush towards Jian Chen before being absorbed through the pores in his body and into the glowing specks.
Because of Jian Chen’s fast absorption rate of the World Essence, a faint white mist was clearly noticeable to the naked eye as it surrounded him. Because of this white mist, his own body was only faintly discernible, making both him and the area around him seem much more mysterious than before.
Jian Chen’s dantian continued to absorb the World Essence for half the day before finally stopping. Jian Chen completely absorbed all of the World Essence dozens of kilometers away. At the moment, aside from the completed sword made from his condensed Saint Force, Jian Chen’s dantian also contained azure and violet specks of light. The specks were extremely small, and they had extremely faint glows as well. The way they flickered made it seem like they would burn out at any moment.
After hesitating for a bit, Jian Chen finally tried attempting to control the azure and violet lights. However, after a few experiments, his mood became more and more serious. After some internal inspections, although he could clearly “see” the specks of light, every time he tried to manipulate them, he would suddenly discover that the light specks existing within his dantian would become similar to mirages. He could easily pass through them, and was completely unable to grab ahold of them and put them under his control. It was as if they didn’t really exist.

Jian Chen took out a big handful of monster cores and distributed them between his two hands. Jian Chen slowly closed his eyes and began to absorb the energy from the monster cores.
The energy from the monster cores started to flow out at an extremely terrifying speed towards Jian Chen, before funneling into his body via his pores and nostrils crazily. This absorption rate naturally placed a slight burden on Jian Chen, causing his pores to feel a slight ache from expanding. Throughout his entire body, there was no area that did not hurt.
Although it was aching a little, this was not enough for Jian Chen, who had a strong willpower, to mind it much.
The energy of the monster cores had a berserk element to it. If it weren’t for Jian Chen using the World Essence to strengthen his body since he was young which meant that his internal organs and his fundamentals were made to be a lot stronger than most others, he would have been heavily injured alone by the berserk element contained within the energy of the cores, nevermind the fact that he was absorbing the energy into his body so crazily.
Following the absorption of the large amount of energy, the berserk element accumulated inside Jian Chen’s body. When the berserk element reached a certain point, a large absorption power started to surge from Jian Chen’s dantian, pulling these elements continuously towards the dantian, before finally being absorbed by the two glows of azure and violet.
On the second day, when the sunlight passed through the small chinks between the dense tree leaves, Jian Chen, who was sitting cross-legged and cultivating, slowly opened his eyes. He then flipped in the air, jumping down from the tree, and smoothly landed on the ground below.
Jian Chen stretched his body for a bit. After consciously feeling his inner Saint Force, he couldn’t help but smile. He could clearly sense that his current Saint Force was much more powerful than when he had first condensed his Saint Weapon. Based on his calculations, his current strength was most likely already at the level of a Middle Saint.

Jian Chen, was adventuring around the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts alone. Unknowingly, he had already stayed in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts for a month. This whole month, Jian Chen had remained in the outskirts of the mountain range, not going deeper in or farther out.
During this month, Jian Chen would explore the outskirts of the mountain range during the day, and cultivate during the night. During this period of time, he had focused primarily on improving his strength, unlike back in Changyang Mansion where he had to slow down his cultivation speed so that his performance wouldn’t be too outstanding. Because of that, Jian Chen’s strength had practically skyrocketed in the course of a month. He had already broken through from a Peak Saint to become a Great Saint.
In this short month, Jian Chen went from a Primary Saint to a Great Saint. If this speed was to be found out by the public, then it would send a huge shockwave throughout the continent. This was because for any regular person, it would take two or three years to go from a Primary Saint to a Great Saint. Even geniuses would need around a year, so Jian Chen’s frightening speed was unheard of. Unbeknownst to everyone else, he had already set a new record in the history of Tian Yuan Continent. But this would be a piece of history that would be buried deep, never to be heard about by anyone.
Since he had broken through to the Great Saint level, Jian Chen’s fighting strength had skyrocketed as well. The current him could easily hunt down a Class 2 Magical Beasts, and he had already set his sights on Class 3 Magical Beasts.

Upon entering Wake City, Jian Chen didn’t take a stroll and immediately headed towards an inn. Once he got a room, Jian Chen began to cultivate. Although it had been less than a month ago that he had broken through to become a Great Saint, his strength was still not strong enough to protect himself within the Tian Yuan Continent. Not only did the girl from three days ago make Jian Chen experience defeat, but she had also made him realize how much strength he needed.
After paying for the room, Jian Chen stayed there within the room for 10 days. In those 10 days, Jian Chen hadn’t taken a single step out of his room and only used the monster cores in his possession to cultivate. Even for meals he had the inn waitress deliver it straight to his room.
After the 10 days had passed, Jian Chen’s strength had made huge improvements. Already reaching the Middle Great Saint tier, the Saint Force within himself was now much stronger than before. Even his Saint Weapon, the Light Wind Sword, had been upgraded and became even harder than before.

As the next couple of days passed, Jian Chen continued on as usual. In the daytime, he would look for the traces of magical beasts and kill them. At night, he would use the monster cores to cultivate. However, because he hadn’t prepared any repellant herbs for mosquitos and other poisonous insects, every night was a night of torment for him as they harassed Jian Chen. It was a good thing that Jian Chen had the primary step of the Thousand Immunity down, so he didn’t have to worry about the poisonous bites of the insects. Plus, because he could control light Saint Force, the remaining swelling or other injuries he did sustain were immediately treated, and disappeared without a trace.
During the past few days, Jian Chen had already reached the Peak Great Saint level. Adding onto the fact that he had been fighting Class 3 Magical Beasts every day, his originally exquisite swordplay became even more perfect from this refinement. As his strength grew, the power of his physical body also gradually increased. Although it was still far from reaching invulnerability, it undoubtedly provided him an extremely durable body that could fully utilize his nimble swordplay. After all, if he wanted to increase his speed, the toll on his body would be extremely high. If his body’s resilience wasn’t enough, a simple fist that used all his strength would most likely cause his arm to throb in pain, as if blood wasn’t flowing through it. If he ceaselessly maintained his lightning-fast swordplay, the greatest merit it would provide would be in his cultivation of the profound Azulet Sword Law, especially for its first layer of techniques, “Refined Body”. It would not only help strengthen every cell in Jian Chen’s body, it would also make his body softer and yet still possess an exceedingly strong toughness.
Under these various conditions, Jian Chen’s weaknesses were worked in a way that improved and helped condition Jian Chen’s sword strokes to be even harder to dodge.

(Ch 146) Jian Chen was sitting with his legs crossed on the ground while he cultivated. The torch on the wall had long since been extinguished, causing it to be completely pitch dark to the point of not being able to see his hands in front of his face.
These past few days, Jian Chen had been in a cultivational state for almost the entire time. With the continuous increase in his inner Saint Force, Jian Chen could clearly feel that his strength was improving by leaps and bounds. While he had cultivated, he didn’t move a single inch, aside from the times he needed to change the monster cores in his hand. Although, once he swapped the monster cores, he would go straight back to cultivating.
Jian Chen hadn’t eaten a single meal or took a sip of water while cultivating. He had sunk into such a deep meditational state that he had almost felt no hunger or thirst.
In those days, a third of the monster cores in Jian Chen’s Space Belt had already been used up. Surrounding him was the dust left behind by the spent monster cores piled up in a fine layer, especially on his crossed legs.
(Ch 147) At that moment, a wave of intense energy pulsed out from Jian Chen’s body. At this hour, his cultivation speed had gone up by another noticeable amount, yet the energy from within the Monster Cores was pouring out like stampeding horses. It was already too much for Jian Chen to handle, and so the energy floated in the air around him, looking like a dense white cloud of fog. In the cavern, this fog was extremely noticeable as it floated about him. In fact, Jian Chen’s body had begun to light up with the fog surrounding him, making his body stand out in the dark cavern.
At the same time, all of his pores expanded to a larger size almost as if they were the mouths of thirsty children. The white mist like fog around Jian Chen then began to be swallowed into his body to be used as an energy source, consumed for Jian Chen’s cultivation.
As the pores on Jian Chen’s body began to swallow the energy around him, he began to also feel a slightly painful sensation within his body. It was almost as if he had multiple insects crawling around his body and taking bites. With such an annoying and irritating sensation like this, any person would feel it deep within their hearts.
As Jian Chen sat on the ground of the cavern with a peaceful look, he looked like a monk deep in meditation. Despite his peaceful demeanor, he could still feel the pain within his body. However, if one were to look at him, they would not be able to tell he was experiencing any pain. Meanwhile, within his body the energy that was absorbed through his pores was gathering within his dantian where it was then absorbed by the sword within it.
As the Saint Weapon absorbed the energy, it began to slowly change in a way that the shape of the sword grew more distinguished. All of the energy it had accumulated had added itself to its strength, and with each second the energy was absorbed, the Saint Weapon grew in length and size.
Right now, Jian Chen was already at the threshold of breaking through into a Saint Master.
This show continued on for 4 more hours until the monster core in Jian Chen’s hand started to flicker. Immediately, Jian Chen took out a few Class 3 Monster Cores and began to cultivate again.
Time slowly but silently went by, and not too long after, half of the day had been spent. Within the darkness of the cavern, the hazy figure of Jian Chen could be seen cultivating while the white, fog-like energy grew even more condensed, to the point where it was lighting up like moonlight.
At that moment, an intense amount of energy flew out from Jian Chen and reverberated all over the cavern. The energy grew more and more intense as it eventually evolved into a squall that roared throughout the cavern. The dust kicked up everywhere and was scattered by the squall of energy.
All of the dust surrounding Jian Chen had been blown in every direction as the white fog swirled around frantically, before finally entering Jian Chen’s body. In the blink of an eye, Jian Chen had completely absorbed it all at a pace that was far faster than his original speed. With his current strength, he had finally made the breakthrough from a Great Saint to a Saint Master.
Just as Jian Chen had made his breakthrough into the next level, the two glows within his dantian had suddenly stopped stealing the energy from Jian Chen.

The figure of a cotton wearing youth could be seen sitting cross-legged with a bonfire right in front of him that burned brightly as a piece of magical beast meat was cooked over the flames.
This youth looked no older than 20 years old with his long hair tied together into a ponytail with a piece of grass. This youth was exceedingly handsome with flawless facial features along with a delicate yet roguelike look. On his calm face was a face full of charm that could practically kill any woman in the world.
This youth, was Jian Chen.
In this one year, Jian Chen hadn’t left the Magical Beast Mountain Range at all. After one year of using the monster cores from the mercenaries, there were practically no more Class 3 Monster Cores left. Only the Class 1 and 2 Monster Cores remained. In that one year, all of the Class 3 Monster cores were completely exhausted, and so Jian Chen could only use the Class 4 Monster Cores. Soon enough, even the Class 4 Monster Cores were used up, causing Jian Chen to go to the depths of the mountain range to hunt and kill Class 4 Magical Beasts before continuing to cultivate.
Time and time again, Jian Chen had continued to cultivate using the monster cores for one whole year. Jian Chen had long since left the Primary Saint Master level and reached the Peak Saint Master level. His strength had reached a point where even killing a Class 4 Magical Beast was of no problem at all.

 Jian Chen is in a mountain village called Huang Village. He ended up in this village after being rescued while he was unconscious. He became unconscious after being almost killed by an Earth Saint Master who was trying to get his Class 5 Monster Cores.
Jian Chen had spent at least an entire month in Huang Village. In that month, Jian Chen had rarely walked out from his room, choosing to spend the entire day within his room to cultivate in peace. Every two or three days, sometimes every four days, he would eat some meals with the family. But other than that, he remained indoors and after finishing his meal, he continued his cultivation. Heading out into the village itself was even more rare.
After spending half of the month in cultivation, Jian Chen’s Saint Force had been readily increasing in strength at the expense of going through multiple monster cores quickly.
Just after everyone had retreated 100 meters, a loud sound suddenly rang out. The small wooden house that Jian Chen had been living in instantly shattered into scattered pieces. Then, a human figure broke through the roof, shooting up into the air like a bullet, and reaching a height of over 50 meters in the blink of an eye.
“Ah!”
Jian Chen floated about 50 meters in the air, and emitted a long whistle toward the sky. The sound resonated without restraint through the air, crossing over a vast distance. At the same time, powerful Saint Force surged and gathered in his left hand. With a wave, a pure ball of light energy completely formed from Saint Force whizzed out of his hand and off toward the distant ground.
“Bang!”
When the ball of light energy crashed into the ground, a large bang resonated through the air, and a great amount of smoke and dust began to rise. Only after it had dissipated were people shocked to discover that a 2-3 meter diameter hole around 5 meters deep had formed.
The surge of Saint Force once again appeared, in Jian Chen’s right hand this time. It quickly condensed into a silver sword that shot out piercing glows as it caught the sunlight, forcing people to look away. This sword seemed to be even more dazzling than the sun.
In an instant the silver light flashed and died out, the sword had already pierced through the air as fast as lightning. A sharp amount Sword Qi along with dazzling light broke away from the sword’s bonds, and quickly shot at the empty ground 100 meters off into the distance at lightning-fast speeds. It silently went through the solid rock, leaving only an extremely thin crack on the surface. There were absolutely no signs of cracks in any the surrounding areas.
After this attack pierced through, Jian Chen’s body began to slowly descend to the ground. Although he could jump up 50 meters in a single bound, he was only able to stay floating in midair for a breath’s time.
Jian Chen landed on the ground with a trace of a faint smile on his face. It was a smile of self-confidence; after cultivating non-stop for over half a month, his strength had smoothly broken through from the Peak Saint Master level to the Great Saint Master level.

During his cultivation, Jian Chen had dispatched some Flame Mercenaries to spy on the Xia clan. Although they wouldn’t be able to see their every move, they would at least know if a large amount of troops were being moved about.
Thanks to these few days of cultivation without interruption, Jian Chen’s strength had increased at a terrifying rate, right now, his strength was at the Middle Great Saint Master level.

 Jian Chen is in Tianqin Clan compound in the Walaurent City. He had just bought a Five Colored Stone and absorbed it into his Dantian.
Following that, Jian Chen rarely ventured out of his room and continued to cultivate. He could rarely be seen by the other members and would only occasionally spar with Qin Xiao.
This pattern continued for a month. With the assistance of the monster cores, Jian Chen was able to make a breakthrough to become a Peak Great Saint Master.

(Ch 282) Jian Chen arrived at the mountain range. Finally sitting down on a huge rock, he began to calm his heart for a moment. Then, taking out two more Class 4 Monster Cores, Jian Chen began to cultivate.
This mountain range didn’t have a single magical beast in sight. Even the wild animals were rare to see along with any humans. Thus, Jian Chen could cultivate in peace.
The energy within the monster cores began to flow into Jian Chen’s body as he tried to filter out the berserk element within them. Almost as if by some magical force, the energy began to assimilate into his body and then flowed into the azure and violet Sword Spirits.
As the energy continuously flowed into Jian Chen’s dantian for his Light Wind Sword to absorb, the sword began to glow with a stronger light with each passing second.
The procedure to making the breakthrough from a Great Saint Master to an Earth Saint Master had already been documented and memorized by Jian Chen, so he could allow this part of the cultivation to proceed with ease.
Making a breakthrough from a Great Saint Master to an Earth Saint Master was a transformation of quality. A monumental amount of energy was required so that the Saint Weapon would absorb far too much energy than it could contain. Then, the Saint Weapon would explode into multiple fragments that would stay within one’s body temporarily. Before the fragments disappeared, a large amount of energy would be needed to refine the fragments once more. The fragments would be reinforced and changed, in the end, they would be combined together once more. The Saint Weapon would be condensed into a new version, thus transforming the Saint Weapon as a whole.
(Ch 283) While transforming the Saint Weapon looked to be a simple task, in actuality this process was one of extreme difficulty. If one’s control was insufficient, then the Saint Weapon fragments would disappear from one’s body and turn them into a cripple. In some serious cases, when the Saint Weapon exploded, the amount of energy would be enough for the cultivator to find himself waking up by the yellow river with no life to return to.
This process seemed to be quite easy in terms on paper, but this obstruction had caused many cultivators to be forced to stop before they could make the breakthrough, at the same time, it had also caused many cultivators to lose their lives. As a result, the success rate of a Great Saint Master making the breakthrough to become an Earth Saint Master was ten percent. Each and every single one of those who made the breakthrough were cultivation geniuses who were well known to many.
Jian Chen continued to absorb the energy from within the monster cores at a steady rate. Then at last, the Saint Weapon within his dantian had finally reached a point where it was shaking unstably. The energy pulsating out from his Saint Weapon was so strong that Jian Chen had found it quite hard to control as if an enormous elephant was trying to pull away from him.
A day went by as Jian Chen sat in front of the waterfall. Twenty Class 4 Monster Cores had already been absorbed by him before the Saint Weapon was at its utmost limit on how much energy it could absorb and was on the verge of exploding.
Even Jian Chen’s body was reaching its limit. Each energy surge within his body moved in such strong amounts that his entire body began to leak blood from his pores. Even the organs within his body were feeling a strong amount of pressure.
The monster cores within Jian Chen’s hand had all of its energy absorbed, so with that, Jian Chen took out a Class 5 Monster Core from his Space Belt.
A Class 5 Monster Core was even stronger in terms of quality and quantity than a Class 4 Monster Core. The moment the energy from the Class 5 Monster Core entered Jian Chen’s dantian, his Saint Weapon couldn’t handle it anymore and immediately exploded, causing countless of tiny fragments to appear within his dantian.
The very moment the Saint Weapon exploded, an extremely strong amount of energy exploded out from his dantian. Firmly, the energy struck against Jian Chen’s organs and even his meridians as if a bomb had gone off within his body.
Jian Chen stifled a groan as he spat out a mouthful of blood. Since his Saint Weapon had exploded, he felt an extreme amount of damage to his body as the repercussion. The amount of pain was so intense that Jian Chen’s body felt numb all over. Even his head began to feel dizzy as he teetered on the verge of consciousness.
It was this step that caused many men to die on their path to become an Earth Saint Master.
Biting his lip, Jian Chen resisted the pain to remain awake. He could feel that the energy from when his Saint Weapon had fragmented enter his main bloodstream. Jian Chen’s heart clenched as he threw away his hesitation. The thousands of pieces were all closely linked to his spirit, so he could feel each and every single one of them. Immediately absorbing the energy from the Class 5 Monster Core, Jian Chen tried to replenish the energy he had lost.
Jian Chen had already made it past the threshold between life and death. What was next was the most crucial step; the Saint Weapon fragments would only stay within the dantian temporarily They would not be permanent. The amount of energy that moved around the dantian would disappear at an alarming rate, and if all of the energy were to leave, then the cultivator would become a cripple.
The pure energy from the Class 5 Monster Core flowed into his dantian, once immediately inside, the energy would fill up every single fragment of his Saint Weapon.
Thanks to that energy, not only would the energy within each fragment be replenished, but there was even a surplus of energy that would begin to try and refine the fragments once more. Consequently, the fragments would grow stronger as the quality of the fragment increased.
This step of the process required a monumental amount of energy, and so the extremely strong amount of energy from the Class 5 Monster Core entered Jian Chen’s body via his pores and began to gather within his dantian.
In half a day, the Class 5 Monster Core had all of its energy completely absorbed. Quickly, Jian Chen grabbed another two Class 5 Monster Cores from his Space Belt.
Inside his dantian, the Saint Weapon fragments continued to twinkle with a faint light almost as if they were each a tiny star. The amount of energy they absorbed made them resemble more of a black hole instead as they showed no signs of stopping, however, the light grew stronger with each passing second.
The hardships and troubles of making the breakthrough to become an Earth Saint Master were in a far different realm of difficulty than his previous breakthroughs. He had to meticulously control every single step of the way without mistake, or all of his efforts would be for nothing.
Another three days went by, resulting in Jian Chen fully consuming the energy within a dozen Class 5 Monster Cores. Right now each one of the fragments accumulated an enormous sum of energy so that each fragment was absolutely saturated. By now, they had the ability to transform to become like shining gems, making Jian Chen’s dantian seem as if it was an ocean of shining stars.
With a single thought, Jian Chen’s spirit transformed into thousands of pieces as he began to reforge the fragments of his Saint Weapon. At the same time, the two Class 5 Monster Cores within his hands continued to supply his dantian with a stream of energy. His dantian was like the cauldron and the energy was the fire that allowed for the fragments to be refined and smelted.
On Jian Chen’s face, a crack could be seen forming before his entire body suddenly gained several cracks. The spread was accelerating extremely quick so that his entire body had cracks all over. In the end, his skin was almost like that of an elderly person before finally dropping away from him.
On the verge of becoming an Earth Saint Master, his own body would also undergo a transformation. An Earth Saint Master was a huge qualitative leap from a Great Saint Master. It would not only make the body stronger, but it would cause the body’s skin to be cast away and form anew.
The old skin fell away to reveal Jian Chen’s new skin. The new skin was unblemished like an infant’s, and there was a strange glow of light flowing around it.
Six hours later, Jian Chen’s bodily transformation was complete. His Saint Force had been completely reforged so that the Light Wind Sword once more floated within Jian Chen’s dantian as if it had never been broken in the first place. However, the amount of energy it contained was several times stronger than before–a dozen times at the very least. this wasn’t a small increase in strength, but rather a huge jump in quality.
If the amount of energy within the Light Wind Sword before was like a vat of water, then the amount of energy now was like an endless ocean.
If the energy before was like a small fire that could burn only paper, then the energy now was a raging inferno that could melt even steel. The two could simply not be compared to each other in a relatable degree.
Jian Chen didn’t stop there. The energy continued to splash into his body and enter his bloodstream, organs, meridians, tissue, and even into his dantian once more.

The Mercenary’s Heart was extremely magical. Absorbing and refining the energy within it was fast enough for his speed and spirit to make leaps and bounds, almost as if the Mercenary’s Heart was hiding some sort of strange energy that Jian Chen could use to blend into his own body and strengthen him. Furthermore, there were even some of the fragments that the Heavenly Enchantress had spoken about.
With one month inside the holy land being equal to 10 months in the outside world, Jian Chen had already spent two months inside before the Mercenary’s Heart was finally refined. His strength by that point had made an extreme change, bringing him up to the Third Cycle Earth Saint Master realm and was already on the verge of making the breakthrough to the Fourth Cycle.
After this increment of strength, Jian Chen’s spirit had also made a significant change. Compared to before, his spirit was three times as big as before.
And once the Mercenary’s Heart had been absorbed, Jian Chen’s mind had many different slivers of mysterious rays of light that were hard to grab hold of. These rays of light were seemingly the profound mysteries of the world, yet at the same time, they were also something different, causing Jian Chen to feel confused. Although Jian Chen could understand that these were the fragments that the Heavenly Enchantress had talked about, he still couldn’t fully understand it.

Jian Chen had spent three months within the fourth area. Jian Chen had spent the entire time reading the insights from every single area possible within the realm of cultivation. While it was of no use to him now, they would come in handy later.
During the days within the fourth area, Jian Chen had also tried to establish his foundation even more. The experiences within the books he had read were many, and the amount of insights he could still gleam from them were plenty. Those under the Heaven Saint Master realm would absorb the vital energy of the world to increase both their Saint Weapon and personal strength, but there was a barrier from the Great Saint Master to Earth Saint Master realm. If one succeeded in crossing the barrier, then they would become like the dragon, but if they failed, they would degenerate to a cripple who couldn’t cultivate.
Cultivating as an Earth Saint Master was an extremely simple task with no complications. As long as one reached the Sixth Cycle Earth Saint Master level, one could make the breakthrough to become a Heaven Saint Master by the usage of the world’s vital energy. With a small step, they would become a Heaven Saint Master.
Heaven Saint Masters were able to fly through the air with the use of their inner Saint Force to levitate. With the world’s energy, they could fly through the air without much of a drain to themselves. So, if one wanted to be a Heaven Saint Master, it was necessary to have a grasp on the vital energy of the world.
The last part he grasped was the threshold to become a Saint Ruler. Although making the breakthrough to become a Saint Ruler wasn’t as perilous as becoming an Earth Saint Master, the chances of making the breakthrough were many times harder.
That was because if one wanted to make the breakthrough to become a Saint Ruler, they must have a fundamental grasp of the profound mysteries in the world. There were many secrets hidden within these profound mysteries and they were the reason why there were so few Saint Rulers among the Tian Yuan Continent. This layer of cultivation was far away from the level Jian Chen was currently at.
Arriving at the first area, the Heavenly Enchantress was still sitting in her original spot without any signs of moving. Sitting ten meters away from her so as to not disturb her, Jian Chen sat down with two Class 5 Monster Cores. Although the energy within this area was quite rich, the energy within a Class 5 Monster Core was denser. Now that he was a Peak Third Cycle Earth Saint Master, he was only a small hop away from the Fourth Cycle.
“The energy within the holy land is different from the outside world. The energy in here contains fragments of the profound mysteries of the world. Although they are miniscule, they should still provide a large amount of help to you.” Just as Jian Chen had taken out his Class 5 Monster Cores, the Heavenly Enchantress’ heavenly voice could be heard once more.
Pausing in shock, Jian Chen didn’t think that the holy land’s energy would contain the mysteries of the world. Cupping his hands to signify his thanks to the Heavenly Enchantress, he put the Class 5 Monster Cores back into his Space Belt and began to cultivate once more with the energy from the holy land.
Suddenly, the first area’s energy began to rush toward Jian Chen in a frantic craze while Jian Chen continued to accept all of it into his body like water into a whale. At the current pace, his absorption rate was no slower than the Heavenly Enchantress.
With the help of the Sword Spirits, Jian Chen was able to absorb both the world qi and the energy within the monster core at a rate several times faster than anyone else. Ever since he’d first awakened the Sword Spirits in Huang Village, they had stopped stealing energy from Jian Chen without his permission. Therefore, the energy was now entirely absorbed by Jian Chen alone.
Half a moment later, Jian Chen’s face broke out into a smile in the middle of his cultivation. As expected, he’d discovered that the energy from the holy land was indeed different from that from outside. There were many things he didn’t understand mixed into it, like whatever was contained in the strange energy from Mercenary City. These were all impossible for him to comprehend. They seemed like rings of light that flashed in his head fleetingly, unable to be grasped. Such things were no longer strange to Jian Chen; these were precisely the profound mysteries of the world, the level that he could not yet touch.
This realization made Jian Chen happy. Spending the rest of his time in a deep cultivational meditation, he began to absorb some of the fragments of the profound mysteries of the world. Originally, he had planned to try and study the Illusionary Flash, but with this newfound discovery, he completely ignored that previous notion.
Quickly, Jian Chen had spent the last ten months of his time in the first area of the holy land. His strength had already reached the Fourth Cycle Earth Saint Master, and in those ten months, Jian Chen’s comprehension of the profound mysteries of the world had substantially increased. His mind was like a world of spirits and the profound mysteries were like a divine light that would occasionally shine. Sometimes, a strange thought would occur in his mind, but Jian Chen had never been able to fully grasp just what the thought meant. At times, his thoughts would be vague as he tried to comprehend them, but they were mysteries for a reason.
With the help of the fragments he had already, Jian Chen was able to establish a strong foundation of the profound mysteries. In his current state, even if he were to absorb any more of the fragments, he wouldn’t be able to understand the current fragments.

 Jian Chen is in the Valley of Longevity. He was rescued Xiu Mi after he was nearly killed by the Heaven Saint elders of the Jiede and Shi Clans.
Jian Chen's Saint Weapon was broken and his dantian had lost all source of his energy - the spirit force.
(Ch 373) As a result of his near death experience the Azure and Violet Sword Spirits rescued his Soul, somehow fusing with it in the process.
After conversing with the Sword Spirits, he knew that they had fused with his soul to form a special existence.
His soul had truly merged with the Sword Spirits while they retained all of their wisdom. While the two had fused, both sides were capable of independent thinking – this was truly a mysterious existence.
Arriving at a small hill, Jian Chen sat down with a tranquil look as he began to meditate. Suddenly, a picture of the surrounding kilometer began to appear within his mind, where not even the impossible spots in one’s vision were overlooked. By this point, there was nothing that was a secret to Jian Chen, even the insects crawling on the ground a hundred meters away could be “seen” by Jian Chen.
The Azulet Sword Laws began to form within Jian Chen’s mind as he figured that this was the work of being “Omnipresence”.
Jian Chen continued to work at this omnipresence.
Jian Chen’s omnipresence had somehow managed to reach ten kilometers, but this was the farthest he could go. By this point, Jian Chen could see anything within that range without anything escaping his senses. Not even a single blade of grass was left uncomprehended by him.
Suddenly, Jian Chen lifted up both arms, causing the earth elements in the world to gather near him. Afterward, a large earthen wall began to form by Jian Chen’s side and encased him inside. Then, the dirt began to compress so much that by the end, it had somehow managed to turn into solid stone.
Then, the entire area began to soar in temperature as a sea of fire appeared as well. Scoring the entire sky, the plants beneath Jian Chen’s feet began to wither as several trees began to burn.
The wind began to pick up in speed and blew sand everywhere, forming a dust storm. Countless of plants were uprooted, and combined with the burning trees, the fire grew extremely large in scale.
Right after, the energy within the world began to ripple as a blue colored light blanketed the entire forest before finally forming a large pool of water above. With a torrential downpour, the fire within the forest had been extinguished.
Following the downpour, the sunlight began to grow darker as the previously daytime light turned to night. No matter where one went within a kilometer, there was only a blanket of shadows that made it hard to see even one’s hand in front of their faces.
But even then, the shadows began to grow smaller in scale from a kilometer to five hundred meters. Shrinking once more to twenty meters before finally transforming into a single black colored sword that floated right in front of Jian Chen.
With a point of his finger, the sword moved straight through the air and pierced through hundreds of trees before disappearing into the world. And as soon as the black colored sword shot through a tree, the tree would instantly begin to wither away.
The energy of darkness had a strong rotting nature.
Slowly sitting back down, Jian Chen’s entire heart was in turmoil. After his soul had fused with the Sword Spirits, he had managed to gain a whole new set of abilities. Now, he was fully capable of controlling any of the six elements within the world and could bend them to his will.
Then, Jian Chen’s hand began to rise up as a faint glow of azure and violet Sword Qi extended from his fingertips.
(Ch 376) Looking at the Sword Qi extending from his fingers emotionally, Jian Chen couldn’t hide his joy at all. The Sword Qi was extremely strong thanks to the Sword Spirits and was his strongest attack. Although he had lost his Light Wind Sword and years and years of bitter cultivation, he still had plenty of fighting strength left. He was not a cripple that could not fight.
The faint glows of Sword Qi continued to shine with both colors standing side by side as if it were a natural scene. This type of manner was as if the two were mingling with each other peacefully.
Suddenly, Jian Chen’s heart skipped a beat as he opened his palm, causing a mysterious type of energy to fill the air around him. The leaves on the ground began to lift up as if being attracted by some type of force and slowly revolved around Jian Chen.
Closing his eyes, Jian Chen began to harmonize with the world to become one. It was with a sudden realization that he felt his spirit connect with every single living thing around him. This feeling was similar to when he used the Spirit Sword, allowing him to control every living thing.
Suddenly, the countless leaves slowly flowing about Jian Chen’s body began to shine brightly with an azure and violet glow. With an ear splitting sound, they all suddenly shot toward a nearby tree with a blinding speed.
Without a sound, the tree was instantly pierced straight through as the leaves continued on without faltering for even a moment. As they traveled farther and farther away, they continued to cut a path through any of plants in their way. It was only after ten kilometers that the leaves finally began to slow down, and in the end, disintegrated in midair without the azure and violet Sword Qi.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!….
Suddenly, wave after wave of sounds could be heard as all of the leaves still floating around Jian Chen transformed into a blinding rays of light and shot outward. Spearing through anything in their path, the Sword Qi infused in the leaves had only disappeared after ten kilometers, causing the leaves to fall apart into dust.
Jian Chen opened his eyes slowly and looked around himself with a stunned look. With a sudden thought, one of the trees near him flew out of the ground and floated ten meters in midair.
Extending his hand, Jian Chen then clenched his fist tightly. Straight away, the entire tree exploded into wood shavings and fell to the ground.
In the next moment, the azure and violet glows of light could be seen once more flying from the wood shavings. Flying upward, the wood shavings began to form a fifty meter long sword that floated in midair before flying forward.
As the sword flew forward, no matter if it was a tree that was tall enough to scratch the heavens or just a blade of grass, the sword cleaved it in two and left behind a smooth surface.
In a moment, the previously peaceful forest changed dramatically as dozens of large trees toppled down to the ground.
Jian Chen’s eyes glinted with a bright light as he watched this event. His left eye began to emit a violet glow and his right eye an azure glow. This was a sight that would terrify anyone.
With both of Jian Chen’s eyes burning brightly with the two different colors, his hands both raised into the air. Suddenly, a strange sort of energy began to distort the air like the space itself was being frozen in time. To anyone looking, this would have been an extremely bizarre sight.
“Crack crack crack….”
Several of the trees floating in midair began to break apart into fist sized pieces before starting to shine with azure and violet glows.
The lights in Jian Chen’s eyes began to recede as he looked at the sight dumbfounded. Both of his eyes had a look of disbelief to them as he slowly dropped his hands.
As soon as his hands fell, the trees that were floating in the air began to lose the same color lights. Then, the tree pieces disintegrated away into ashes and scattered.
Jian Chen stood still without any extra movements. This newfound change in his body was something that he simply couldn’t believe. Right now, he was fully capable of controlling any living thing with the use of his azure and violet Sword Qi. Right now, the Sword Qi could be bent to his will and was practically an ability for him to use at any given moment.
Jian Chen took another deep breath. He finally had a general idea of what his current strength was at. Although he had lost his Light Wind Sword and his Saint Force, he had gained a new ability. Not only could he sense the six elements in the world, he could even freely use the violet and azure Sword Qi whenever he wanted. Aside from these things, he also had an even more terrifying ability – the ability to mind control any living thing in this world as long as he was within the range of his spirit. Even some non-living things would be unable to escape Jian Chen’s mind control.
From a certain standpoint, Jian Chen’s strength hadn’t decreased at all. On the contrary, it had actually increased. At the very least, his newfound control ability was able to make quick work of a group of Class 5 Magical Beasts.
There could be no construction without destruction, and it was only after destruction that construction could take place. After experiencing such a calamitous event, Jian Chen had been transformed. From this moment on, he would walk another along another path of cultivation. His strength would break away from the ranking of the Tian Yuan Continent since he no longer had any Saint Force to measure!

He had been unsure of how much time had past, but over a hundred strands of Chaotic Force had been used for the sake of Jian Chen’s evolution. By now, the source of endless energy that was being fed into the sword spirits to be refined into Chaotic Force had been stopped, as there was no longer any need for it. Shortly afterwards, the voices of Qingsuo could be heard, “Master! You’ve done it! You’ve finally reached the Minor Achievement realm with the Chaotic Body! You can now use the Chaotic Force.”
“Correct. Your big brother’s body is the Chaotic Body made from Chaotic Force itself. It is a very strong type of power. Little Spirit, your big brother still wants to borrow the energy in this place. It’ll make my power even stronger to be enough to deal with that baddy.” Jian Chen said.
“Go ahead! Big brother can absorb as much energy in this place as big brother wants! As long as big brother will be safe from that baddy, then take as much as you want!” Little Spirit agreed enthusiastically.
Afterwards, Ziying and Qingsuo held hands once more to absorb even more energy in the area to refine it into Chaotic Force. And Jian Chen himself had closed his eyes to focus on cultivating. Silently drawing the Chaotic Force around his body, he converted it into power for him to use before allowing it to gather in his dantian without it strengthening his body.
Following the endless flow of Chaotic Force to enter his body from the outside, Jian Chen watched more and more Chaotic Force assemble within his body and gather in his dantian to form a small soybean-sized gray sphere.
With this gray sphere being formed, Ziying and Qingsuo ceased in their actions and held out their hands. The energy that had been flowing into them had halted before flying into Jian Chen’s body even faster than before. It was as if his body was an endless pit that accepted as much energy as possible like a whale taking in water.
If things were like before, Jian Chen wouldn’t have done things as such. This powerful energy would have torn his body apart and. But because he had already achieved a level of Minor Achievement with his Chaotic Body, he could easily withstand this without a problem or any feeling of pain.
“Master, your Chaotic Body has formed and your neidan has formed as well. There is no need for us to help you convert any more Chaotic Force anymore. As long as there is energy from the outside world flowing into your body, your neidan will convert it into Chaotic Force itself. Master, quickly convert this energy into your neidan. Ziying and Qingsuo will help you absorb it.” Ziying spoke inside of Jian Chen’s mind.
At a thought, the soybean sized neidan within Jian Chen’s body began to rotate faster and faster as the energy that was flowing into his body was being converted into Chaotic Force.
(Ch 619) As the boundless amount of energy flowed into Jian Chen’s body for him to refine into Chaotic Force, the amount of Chaotic force in his body grew bigger and bigger. As a result, the chaotic core he had formed in his dantian had slowly increased in size as well from a small soybean to a small fingernail size.
Following the creation of the chaotic core, Jian Chen felt his body be filled with an inexhaustible amount of energy. With a thought, he could easily control the Chaotic Force in his dantian to use as he pleased. He was no longer as powerless as he was before when he lost his Saint Force.
It had been unknown just how much time had transpired, but the core that was growing within Jian Chen’s body had only grown bigger and bigger. It was by now already the size of his thumb and was still accumulating energy to a degree where Jian Chen had previously thought to be impossible.
With the assistance of the sword spirits, a dreadful amount of energy was being absorbed at a constant fast rate. An unknown amount of time had gone on before the core in his dantian had grown to the size of an egg now. And the energy underneath Mercenary City was fewer than before.

He was looking at the scrolls that Situ Qing said is a shortcut from Heaven Saint Master to Saint Ruler.
(Ch 674) Just at that moment, the mindspace within Jian Chen’s head shook violently as the fragments of the mysteries of the world he first absorbed in the holy ground of Mercenary City began to hop violently as if drawn to some sort of mysterious source.
Unable to stop himself from closing his eyes, Jian Chen felt his spirit suddenly bring these fragments into the material world from his body. “Forgot about me?” It seemed to ask from the chaotic space in front of him. Just barely, Jian Chen could feel his spirit reach an extremely vague connection with the blank scrolls in front of him. It almost felt as if these scrolls were harmonizing with his spirit to become one with his body.
At the same time, the blank white scrolls in Jian Chen’s hand began to glow a faint golden light. Suddenly detaching itself from Jian Chen’s hand and floating in midair, it began to turn. Golden runes began to float into the air as well before forming some sort of strange and mysterious runic formation. As soon as these runes materialized, the entire space around it began to twist and distort at its touch as if it were being attracted by the surrounding space.
And.
A strange energy suddenly materialized into the place before converging in the middle of the room to float there.
This blank white canvas now had a strange power to it. It was awakened by the fragments of the mysteries of the world from Jian Chen’s mind. And these fragments were seemingly undergoing some sort of strange evolution.
Shutting his eyes tight, Jian Chen felt the connection between his spirit and the scroll grow even stronger, and the evolved mysteries of the world from the scroll began to grow extremely distinct to his senses.
Completely letting go of his body, Jian Chen forgot himself for a brief moment as he entered a state of enlightenment. In this one moment, he could feel his spirit harmonizing with the world itself. The two were completely indistinguishable from one another, and every aspect of the world and its mysteries began to appear in his mind in a vague manner rather than clear.
The faint golden light that was illuminating off the scroll next to Jian Chen’s head continued to evolve the mysteries of the world. And in Jian Chen’s mind, he was slowly being fed this evolved form to experience a new strange world.
With the help of this scroll, Jian Chen was growing a deeper and deeper level of comprehension of the mysteries of the world. These mysteries were becoming more and more clear to Jian Chen, and he could feel himself growing one step closer to becoming a Saint Ruler.
Under this process of understanding the mysteries of the world, Jian Chen felt himself lost to the passage of time. He had no idea just how much time was going past, but soon came a point where Jian Chen felt so close to becoming a Saint Ruler that he was practically touching it. But it was at this one moment that he felt this small membrane of a gap become a mountain gate that was extremely difficult to climb. No matter how much he tried, he could not step past this gate.
These scrolls could only evolve a small portion of the mysteries of the world. For the Sixth Cycle Heaven Saint Master, they’d be able to take a shortcut to become a Saint Ruler, but it would not help them make the breakthrough completely. One would still have to depend on their own understanding of the world to continue on.
And Jian Chen had a very lacking basis of the understandings of the world. As a Heaven Saint Master, he was lacking in complete comprehension of the energy of the world and how to harness it. Thus, even when he absorbed the fragments of the mysteries of the world, he was unable to take the opportunity to become a Saint Ruler. These fragments of the mysteries of the world were not enough for a recently broken through Heaven Saint Master to become a Saint Ruler.
Slowly, the golden light that was emanating from the scroll started to grow dim. And the light golden runic words that came from the mysteries of the world too started to fade without the assistance of the white scrolls. And so, Jian Chen began to feel himself slowly being pulled away from this state of comprehension.
Sensing the change, Jian Chen felt extremely unwilling in his heart. He was just lacking this one final step! If he could do it, he’d be able to go from a Heaven Saint Master to a Saint Ruler. This was the realm that he was constantly yearning for!
“Am I really going to fail just like that?” Jian Chen howled to himself in extreme unwillingness to stop right there.
(Ch 675) But then, a sudden but unmistakeable white glow began to emanate from his Space Ring. Inconceivably quick as it appeared, the three beast furs of mysterious origins somehow managed to fly out from his Space Ring without Jian Chen’s doing. At the current moment, these three beast furs were still rather mediocre looking, but there was a faint white glow that seemed to form an incomplete map as if following some sort of rule. The aura that was spilling out from the beast fur now felt as if it contained some aspect of the world in it.
“This….this aura….” Not too far away from Jian Chen, Bi Hai could immediately sense the familiar aura of the three beast furs. He had once used one of the beast furs to successfully breakthrough to become a Saint Ruler, so its aura was deeply ingrained in his memories.
Just at that moment, a multicolored light suddenly burst into view of everyone there. At first, this light was so faint that practically no one felt it at first. But as time went on, the light began to grow even stronger, and soon enough, not a single person could disregard this light.
As the rainbow clouds in the sky grew thicker and thicker, the colors became more and more pronounced. The clouds were now surrounding the skies for ten of thousands of kilometers so that the entire world looked as if it was under a strange aurora like in a dream.

So it seems that when he broke through the 2nd layer of the Chaotic Body he also became a 7th Heavenly Layer Saint Ruler.

 (Ch 1079) “Master, you must take the Way of the Sword as your cultivation path. The Way of the Sword conflicts with the mysteries of the world you currently comprehended. The two cannot exist together, or they’ll affect your future cultivation greatly.
“Master, are you wondering why we did nothing to obstruct you when you went from the Seventh Heavenly Layer to the Ninth Heavenly Layer? Well, when your comprehension remains at the Ninth Heavenly Layer, Qing Suo and I still had the ability to forcefully purge your comprehension of the mysteries of the world, allowing master to embark on the Way of the Sword with no distractions in the future, but if master reaches Saint King in terms of comprehension, it will be extremely difficult for Qing Suo and I to purge your comprehension. This is why you cannot reach Saint King.”
"Once you embark on the Way of the Sword, you will discover that it is much more powerful than the mysteries of the world you are currently comprehending,” said Zi Ying."
"Master, the Way of the Sword is publicly acknowledged as one of the most powerful pathways of cultivation. Before the Way of the Sword, the mysteries of the world are nothing. Unless the disparity in cultivation is vast, the Way of the Sword is invincible,” said Qing Suo.
“Master, there are five major realms of cultivation for the Way of the Sword. They are Sword Origin, Sword Spirit, Sword Immortal, Sword Sage, and Sword God. These five realms do not represent certain levels of cultivation; they are like the Saint Tier, Heaven Tier, Earth Tier and Human Tier Battle Skills on the Tian Yuan Continent. They represent great battle prowess and supreme offensive power. However, the Way of the Sword is far, far greater than those battle skills on the Tian Yuan Continent. The disparity is basically a huge chasm. Even the weakest Sword Origin far exceeds Saint Tier Battle Skills by several times over.
“And once you reach the Sword Origin realm, every time you attack, every strike you make will far exceed the strength of Saint Tier Battle Skills. At the same time, they are unlike the Saint Tier Battle Skills which consume vast amounts of energy when they are used and cannot be used consecutively even by Saint Kings,” explained Zi Ying. He paused slightly, pondering a little before continuing, “The Way of the Sword is extremely suitable for master. If master embarks on this path of cultivation, you will possess a supreme advantage over others. If master reaches the Sword Origin realm, master will probably be no weaker than Saint Kings of the Ninth Heavenly Layer, while master will have no need to fear even Saint Emperors if you reach the Sword Spirit realm. Also, the battle prowess gained by these realms will increase as master’s base strength grows.”
The Way of the Sword was like a Heaven Tier Battle Skill. If it was given to an Earth Saint Master, they would be able to display the strength of a Heaven Saint Master, and if a Fifth Cycle Earth Saint Master cast it, they would even be able to heavily injure Heaven Saint Masters.
At the same time, if the same Heaven Tier Battle Skill was used by a Heaven Saint Master, the strength would be even greater.
Once one of the five major realms was reached, battle prowess and offensive capabilities that would be increased, not the person’s base strength. At the same time, this boosted battle prowess would increase with the growth of base strength.
“Master, do you still remember when you fought with Zaar Caiyun outside the City of God? You entered a wondrous state during that fight, unintentionally dealing an attack that exceeded your current strength. That was actually the Way of the Sword, but only the edge of the first realm. It’s just a pity that you don’t have your fated swords, or master would’ve reached the first realm long ago.” Zi Ying’s voice was filled with pity.

“Third Heavenly Layer of Saint King. The third layer of the Chaotic Body allowed me to leap directly from the Seventh Heavenly Layer of Saint Ruler to the Third Heavenly Layer of Saint King. I directly passed through four levels, the Eight and Ninth Heavenly Layers of Saint Ruler, and the First and Second Heavenly Layers of Saint King,” murmured Jian Chen.

(Ch 1282) Jian Chen slowly opened his eyes. He silently felt his new Chaotic Body and Chaotic Force as joy filled his face. He mumbled, “The Eighth Heavenly Layer of Saint King. The fourth layer of the Chaotic Body gives me the strength of an Eighth Heavenly Layer Saint King, and it’s at the peak of the Eighth Heavenly Layer, infinitesimally close to the Ninth.”
“The third layer gives me the battle prowess of a Saint King at the Third Heavenly Layer. With the Emperor Armament, that becomes the Seventh Heavenly Layer. I wonder what strength I can display if I use the Emperor Armament now,” Jian Chen mumbled. Not only did his battle prowess increase after reaching the new layer, his defensive capabilities became extremely great as well. The fourth layer of the Chaotic Body could receive attacks from Eight Heavenly Layer Saint Kings and emerge unscathed as long as they did not use a Saint Tier Battle Skill.

“However, I have truly become a Saint Emperor now. I have the battle prowess of a Saint Emperor without my comprehension of the Way of the Sword and without the Azulet swords. If I use the Way of the Sword, there should be no Saint Emperors that can hold their ground against me. If I use the Azulet swords as well…” Jian Chen wondered.

“The sixth layer of the Chaotic Body is equivalent to the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Saint Emperor.” Jian Chen silently sensed his strength. With his familiarity of the system used on the Tian Yuan Continent, he immediately discerned the power of the sixth layer.

He had reached the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword had progressed from partial achievement to major achievement.
Jian Chen’s soul strengthened at an unbelievable rate. His comprehension of the Way of the Sword had finally reached major achievement and with it came benefits to his soul.
Jian Chen felt his soul rapidly swell, developing like a child to an adult. He could feel his soul strengthen with every passing moment, tearing through Returnance and heading to Reciprocity.
His soul did not stop there. After reaching Reciprocity, his soul continued to strengthen as if it would never stop. It broke through early Reciprocity and mid Reciprocity before stopping at late Reciprocity.
(Ch 1588) “Early Returnance. The increase in strength from the sixth layer to the seventh layer really is huge. I went from the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Saint Emperor, straight past Receival, to early Returnance.” Jian Chen determined his current strength by silently sensing his powers and comparing them to the Origin realm experts he had fought in the past. His face was filled with an uncontrollable excitement.
The difference in strength between the sixth and seventh layer had completely exceeded anything he had been expecting.
At the same time, rarely anyone would still be his opponent among Returnance due to his Chaotic Body, even though he had just reached early Returnance. His Chaotic Body coupled with with the twin swords and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword meant his battle prowess was even greater. Aside from those aspects, he had also been comprehending various but powerful sword techniques from the sword spirits, so he had grasped a few new sword techniques that could display an even greater power.
“With my current strength, I can kill Reciprocity experts if I go at full throttle. Even when I come across late Reciprocity experts, I’ll be able to take them on, at the very least, even though I’m not sure I will be able to emerge victorious, because I have an advantage with the twin swords and the Way of the Sword.”

He had reached the eight layer of the Chaotic Body and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword had progressed from partial achievement to major achievement.

He had reached the ninth layer of the Chaotic Body.

He had reached the 10th layer of the Chaotic Body.

He is refining Gusta's, a great ape, blood essence and fleshly core.
With the fleshly core, Jian Chen was extremely confident about reaching the fourteenth layer. He was willing to bet his life on it.
Finally, a powerful pulse of energy suddenly erupted from the cabin where Jian Chen cultivated. The formations that Jian Chen had cast down in the past crumbled like paper before the energy, immediately shattering to pieces. The energy swept out with pressure like a storm, striking the walls of the cabin.
After ten years of secluded cultivation, his Chaotic Body finally advanced to the fourteenth layer. He had reached a new level of strength.
“My current cultivation is equivalent to a Third Heavenly layer Infinite Prime. Of course, that’s only cultivation. In terms of battle prowess, I’ll definitely be far beyond the Third Heavenly Layer of Infinite Prime with the strength of my Chaotic Body,” Jian Chen clenched his fist. As he sensed the terrifying energy surging through him, he became delighted.

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 (Ch 3) The Azulet Sword Law was something that Jian Chen had stumbled upon when he was a child. He had accidentally fallen off of a cliff while playing in the mountains, and somehow managed to survive the fall by landing in a pool of water. When he had awoken, he had found himself trapped in a cavern with fish as his only source of food. After finding the manual, he had dedicated himself to learning it, and finally succeeded after 10 years. With his breakthrough, he was able to jump out of the cavern and return to the lands above.
(Ch 4) By absorbing both the Qi of the heavens and the earth and then transforming it, one could incorporate it within the bones of the body. This allowed every organ and even every single cell in the body to be strengthened to their limits. The original frailty would be cast away and the body would reach the most optimal state while giving the body endless amounts of benefits like a longer lifespan. When one practiced the later methods, your corporeal body would reach new heights in strength; and as Azulet Sword Law indicated, if one could reach the highest levels of cultivating the body, then they could even live as long as the heavens and the earth.
However this method was associated with one’s own strength. If one’s Qi was stronger than the physical body, then Azulet Sword Law would use that Qi and incorporate that into the body to become stronger. In the case that one’s physical body and one’s Qi strength were both at an equilibrium, then one would have to make a breakthrough to reach the next level. Only with this cycle would one be able to continuously improve their entire body without limits.
(Ch 283) Jian Chen just made a breakthrough into the Earth Saint Master Realm.
The previous step where the body transformation was for the breakthrough to become an Earth Saint Master. Right now this system of refining his entire body was in according to the Azulet Sword Law’s “Record of Bodily Refinement” method to increase his strength.
By now Jian Chen’s Saint Force was several times stronger than before. It could be said for certain that the moment his body finished being tempered, then he would go through another leap in strength.
(Ch 284) Now at least a dozen times stronger than before, Jian Chen’s Saint Force continued to wash over his skin before assimilating into each part of his body.
Jian Chen had completely finished refining his body, but not a single spot of his body had changed physically. If he were to exercise to strengthen his body, then his body would be deformed into a shape he did not want. He would become sturdier and that would completely squash Jian Chen’s preferred build. This type of development was not suitable for what Jian Chen needed.
Not a single swordsman should have a stocky build. A sword user must remain thin and slender. This way, it would be more beneficial for the swordsman to be able to swing in any position with the least amount of power or movement. The way the Azulet Sword Laws had recorded the “Record of Bodily Refinement” would best suit a sword user that fights in the same manner as a fencer.
This method not only strengthened the body without changing the shape of it, but it would continue to strengthen the body. As long as the energy is supplied to the inner body, then the entire body would be strengthened as a whole.
A layer of energy continued to flow over Jian Chen’s body with a sparkling light. After that transformation, the pure energy harmonized with Jian Chen’s body improving his flesh and blood immensely.
The energy from the Class 5 Monster Core would be used in place of his own energy. Strengthening his body required a tremendous amount of energy, since Jian Chen had the monster cores he didn’t need to worry at all about using too much energy. The awkward event that had occurred back in the Changyang Mansion would not happen again.
The process of tempering and refining his body required a longer amount of time. After seven days, Jian Chen had absorbed another two dozen Class 5 Monster Cores before finally finishing. By now, he was at the utmost limit, if he wanted to increase his body any more, then he would have to use his Saint Force to transform it.

Jian Chen was slowly absorbing the world’s Qi in a neverending stream and was circulating it in a cycle throughout his body. Then under Jian Chen’s control, the Qi would be incorporated into his cells and organs.
Ever since he had arrived at this strange new world, one of the few things that had excited Jian Chen was the World Essence. The World Essence was extremely dense, perhaps a hundred times more dense than the Qi back in his world. Compared to the previous world, Jian Chen had nowhere to go but the old mountain range where he had died. One world was paradise, the other world was hell, the difference was simply that clear to see, so Jian Chen was extremely happy about that.
After the never ending World Essence had been absorbed into his body, Jian Chen could clearly feel every single artery and cell in his body become stronger. The World Essence that was taken into his body was like a giant health tonic that made his body feel alive as it absorbed it. His body was like a giant thirsty tiger that wanted more and more. While at the same time, Jian Chen was feeling a pleasurable sensation from all over, and felt free from worry as the feeling carried him away.
In a flash, another year had gone by. Jian Chen had been in this strange world for 2 whole years now. During those 2 years, Jian Chen didn’t take a single step outside of the Changyang mansion. Everyday during his free time, Jian Chen was alone in his room practicing the first principle of Azulet Sword Law–body cultivation.
Perhaps it was because this World Essence was a hundred times denser than the World Essence in his past world, but in one year Jian Chen had already reached major success in cultivating his body. At the current moment without a doubt, If an average person swung an average sword at him, then his body would not be scratched at all. He had trained his body so much that even a single cut would not be made.
Of course, this was only what Jian Chen had thought of himself, he wouldn’t dare try it out on himself personally.
In this past year, Jian Chen’s body was developing at such a fast rate, it was inconceivable. In a single year, he had already reached a height of 1.2 meter, an abnormal height for a 2 year old. This height had actually made him look to be closer to 5 or 6 years old instead.
(Ch 386) Jian Chen had just drank the Hundred Grass Wine that the Ape King had given him. As a result of this his spirit was strengthened.
After an unknown amount of time, the Hundred Grass Wine had been completely absorbed by Jian Chen and his spirit felt complete bliss radiating through it. Suddenly, Jian Chen felt a tremendous change that he had never felt before. Without even spreading his presence, he was able to detect the wind blowing on the grass a hundred meters away.
At this moment, Jian Chen realized that his spirit had harmonized with the world.
Jian Chen’s omnipresence continued to spread until it reached fifteen kilometers before he had finally hit his limit. After drinking the Hundred Grass Wine, Jian Chen’s mind had improved by leaps and bounds.
As a result, his two sword spirits were able to constitute human forms in his consciousness. Moreover, they are now able to communicate with Jian Chen.
“Master, I am Ziying, you may call me Xiao Zi.” Spoke the Ziying Sword Spirit. Its voice sounded rather masculine and youthful.
“Master, I am Qingsuo, you may call me Xiao Qing!” Suddenly, another soft voice could be heard, this one was as pleasant sounding as a skylark.
“Master, when we entered your body, we submitted to you. You are the master of Ziying and Qingsuo.” Qingsuo spoke with a pleasant sound.
Qingsuo’s words had caused Jian Chen to think back to when he had originally died. It was after that moment that he was born in such an unfamiliar world, “That’s right, I can still remember when I died. Was it because of you two that I was reincarnated into this world?”
Hearing this, Qingsuo and Ziying both looked at each other in silence before Ziying opened his mouth, “Master, at that time it was indeed Qingsuo and I that brought you to this planet. In the previous planet, you had suffered a tremendous wound and the Qi of the world began to escape your body. If that continued then you wouldn’t have been able to make any improvements, at the very most, you would never reach the strength of a Heaven Saint Master of this world. Because of that, Qingsuo and I took you from that planet, but when we entered the crack in space, the both of us suffered tremendous damages. With not much strength remaining, we were unable to deliver you to where we intended and thus we were only able to relocate you to a planet that was just stronger than your original world.”
(Ch 387) Now that the azure and violet Sword Spirits had taken on human form and were capable of speech, Jian Chen could communicate with them with ease. It was no longer as difficult as before where they needed to use telepathy. Jian Chen asked many questions that he hadn’t understood and began to clear up the problems he had. At the very least, the most important thing he learned was that the Sword Spirits had been responsible for bringing him to this world.
Ah, Qingsuo, Ziying, is there any chance of me being able to cultivate with Saint Force anymore?” Jian Chen asked quickly.
Ziying finally said, “Master, using a special method, you would be able to continue cultivating with Saint Force, however, the Saint Force of this world is far too weak.”
"This world’s Saint Force is far too weak, so I recommend that you do not restart your cultivation.” He stopped talking for a moment before continuing to speak before Jian Chen could, “Master, with Qingsuo and I combined together, we could help you cultivate the Chaotic Force.”
“Master, Qingsuo and I were born from Chaos itself. Our Yin and Yang bodies were evolved from the Chaotic Force, and as long as Qingsuo and I are combined, then we can extract Chaotic Force from any energy in the world.”
“Master, refining Chaotic Force requires a tremendous amount of world Qi. It would take ten years to refine even the smallest amount of Chaotic Force from the small amount of world Qi here. Master, the Ruler Armaments in your hands contain a massive amount of energy, Ziying and Qingsuo can use that energy to refine into Chaotic Force.
The Seal of Treasure Mountain had been completely refined and transformed into an extremely pure, but powerful essence that rippled within the hands of Ziying and Qingsuo.
However, Ziying didn’t stop the process there and began to use his Origin energy to hammer it. This went on for another hour, causing the energy to turn gray in color like a ball of smoke. Not only was it faint in color, there was an indescribable air to it.
Ziying and Qingsuo both raised their hands, causing the gray gas to enter Jian Chen’s body before resting within his dantian.
“Master, quick. Use the Azulet Sword Law and transform this Chaotic Force into your own power.” Ziying and Qingsuo both spoke in synchronism.
"This is Chaotic Force in its initial stage.” Ziying spoke.
Qingsuo began to smile as if trying to apologize for him, “Master, this is the weakest amount of Chaotic Force. The true power found within Chaotic Force cannot be recreated just yet because the amount of energy in these Ruler Armaments is still far too weak so the true Chaotic Force cannot be attained.”
“Master, the cultivation methods of this continent do not suit the cultivation methods of the Chaotic Force. In the future, you will only be able to cultivate using the Azulet Sword Law. The Azulet Sword Law were actually a high leveled cultivation method written by a deity. Written inside are ways to cultivate using the world Qi of any world and convert it into Chaotic Force!” Ziying spoke.
Cultivation methods were special methods on absorbing and refining energy to become one’s own strength. The Azulet Sword Law was truly an extremely mysterious cultivation method that worked in any situation to transform any energy into Chaotic Force.
"Chaotic Force is far too tyrannic; master, if you wish to cultivate Chaotic Force in the future, then you must have a Chaotic Body refined as well. Only a Chaotic Body will be able to withstand the Chaotic Force. Otherwise, if master were to try and use the Chaotic Force, it would cause a tremendous amount of damage.”

Willing a single strand of Chaotic Force to leave his dantian, Jian Chen finally began to feel the intensity of it as it began to travel throughout. As soon as it started to spread, he began to feel weak as if his entire body was made from tofu. Wherever the Chaotic Force traveled, Jian Chen’s body wracked with unbearable pain. His meridians threatened to break, and his inner organs began to fail, even his blood vessels were starting to tear.
Despite it not being a large concentration of Chaotic Force, it was still a foreign type of energy that Jian Chen’s body couldn’t handle. Jian Chen had used the Azulet Sword Laws to cultivate his body, but it was the very first time he had encountered such a pain from doing so.
On the bed, Jian Chen’s body constantly trembled as his face grew as pale as paper. Beads of sweat continued to drip down his face in large concentration, and his normally handsome face had twisted up from all of the pain with the occasional muscle spasms.
As the tiny wisp of Chaotic Force continued to travel through his body, Jian Chen felt as if miniature explosions were happening all throughout his entire body. The pain caused his muscles to break and blood to come out of his pores, dying his entire body red.
In a flash, the Chaotic Force had spread throughout every part of his body, and he had already lost a third of his energy.
After a while, the pain in Jian Chen’s body began to alleviate as the Chaotic Force made its third circulation around his body before disappearing.
Seemingly as if he had lost all his energy, Jian Chen fell down to the bed below as if he was a pile of mud.
“Master, you’ve managed to take the first step. After experiencing pain for the first time, you will have an easier time cultivating the Chaotic Force in the future. Naturally, the time the Chaotic Force was in your body will not be as intense as before.” Ziying and Qingsuo’s voice both spoke with some joy.

“Big brother, this place should have plenty of energy. It’s everything Little Spirit accumulated over the years. Hurry up and absorb it, big brother will become stronger that way and won’t have to worry about the baddy!” Little Spirit spoke into his ear.
Letting out a breath of air, Jian Chen slowly calmed himself down and connected with the sword spirits.
“Wow, master, there’s plenty of energy in this place! It’s very strong too--far stronger than the energy in a Ruler Armament,” Qingsuo and Ziying said.
“That’s good then. Since this place has a lot of energy, master, you should borrow this energy and reach the realm of Minor Achievement with the Chaotic Body. You’ll be able to use Chaotic Force that way.”
Upon hearing that absorbing the energy in this place would be enough to get him to the Minor Achievement realm with the Chaotic Body, Jian Chen had been filled with joy. And when he heard that he’d be able to use Chaotic Force at that point, he had been ecstatic.
“Yes. Then let us begin.” Qingsuo spoke. Holding Ziying’s hand, the two of them began to synchronize their absorption of the energy. All of a sudden, the energy around them began to get sucked up into them at an accelerated rate. It was as if a whale was beginning to take in a tremendous amount of water. As the energy gathered around them, it contracted at an alarming rate in between their hands before slowly forming the Chaotic Force.
The rate of refinement into Chaotic Force was extremely fast and took only a short few moments before the first strand of it was formed in Jian Chen’s body.
Jian Chen hadn’t been idle himself. Controlling the first strand of Chaotic Force, he had it circle around his body and used it to temper his entire body. As the strand of Chaotic Force slowly traveled around his body, the tremendous amount of energy slowly infused itself with Jian Chen’s body. His originally strong body was slowly being refined more and more, and whether it was his blood, muscles or meridians, they were all being strengthened at a tremendous rate.
By the third rotation, the Chaotic Force had completely lost all form of energy and disappeared from existence. And with the energy being infused with Jian Chen’s body, Jian Chen himself could feel his own body grow drastically in power.
Afterwards, Qingsuo and Ziying focused on refining more and more strands of Chaotic Force to put into Jian Chen’s body. With plenty of them to use, Jian Chen’s body had exploded exponentially in might from the strengthening and shot quickly towards the realm of Minor Achievement.
In the darkness, time seemed to have gone into a standstill. There was practically no sensation of time even flowing, and no one inside this space seemed to be aware of anything. But then, a sudden crackling sound suddenly broken the silence in this darkness. The skin of Jian Chen’s body began to crack in several areas like the webs of a spider, and in a few short seconds, not a single part of Jian Chen’s skin was left untouched by these cracks.
It had been this grotesque sight that made Jian Chen look as if he was a vase that was threatening to crack and fall to pieces. Even his handsome faces had been ravaged by the countless cracks. He looked like a monster, a utterly terrifying monster.
And in the next moment, the fingernail-sized pieces of skin began to flake away from his body one by one. As each piece flaked away, a flawless jade-like skin could be seen replacing the pieces. His new layer of skin was as white as sheepskin, and it was extremely supple but flexible with the touch. In short, his skin was as flawless as the skin of a newborn and would be the target of envy by any women.
Whilst Jian Chen’s outer skin was undergoing a process of metamorphism, his muscles were also being elevated to new heights. Like the cicada shedding its carapace, Jian Chen was undergoing a new level of evolution.
Within this short amount of time, Jian Chen’s body had underwent a terrifying level of growth. At the same time, Jian Chen could feel the Chaotic Force in his body become more smooth to the sensation and usage. He no longer felt the same pain from before when he used it. And at last, he no longer felt the difference in using the Chaotic Force than when he used the Saint Force. Both could be wielded by him at ease as if it were breathing.

Jian Chen and the Heavenly Enchantress refined and absorbed the Supreme Yang Qi on the stone and absorbed it.
(Ch 848) Jian Chen used an entire day before finally refining the first strand of Supreme Yang Qi. It turned into a powerful but gently energy, which he absorbed.
The energy within the strand completely exceeded any Class 7 Monster Core. Even with the energy of many cores combined, it still probably would not have been enough. With the Supreme Yang Qi absorbed, the chaotic neidan in Jian Chen’s dantian solidified quite some more. It seemed to become slightly bigger again from its previous fist-size, approaching the limit.
Jian Chen did not stop. After he refined the first strand, he immediately took in another strand of Supreme Yang Qi and continued his refinement.
The unknown space did not have day or night. Submerged in his cultivation, Jian Chen could not feel the flow of time, nor did he know just how much time had passed. After absorbing a total of a hundred strands of Supreme Yang Qi, the amount of Chaotic Force that his chaotic neidan could store finally reached its limit. With a rumble, the chaotic neidan that was the size of an adult’s fist cracked loudly. All the Chaotic Force hidden within leaked out, surging about turbulently in Jian Chen’s body like wild horses that had broken free.
(Ch 849) The surging Chaotic Force rampaged inside Jian Chen’s body. His body also seemed to be greatly shaken too, beginning to tremble violently before slowly bulging. He was like a balloon currently filling up with air, constantly increasing in size.
Jian Chen remained focused and maintained his calm mind without panicking at all. The secret technique recorded in the Azulet Sword Law appeared in his head and he began attempting to control the Chaotic Force and circulated according to the special method in the Azulet Sword Law.
However, things did not go as he wished. There was an extremely great quantity of Chaotic Force stored in the chaotic neidan. Now that it had cracked open, the powerful Chaotic Force immediately broke out and lost control as he struggled to put under control.
In this situation, Jian Chen felt cold at heart. The power of the soul in his sea of consciousness surged out at full power and soon formed a powerful pressure in his body that forcefully suppressed the out-of-control Chaotic Force.
With the suppression from the soul, the Chaotic Force gradually settled down and slowly fell back into Jian Chen’s control.
Completely grasping the control of the Chaotic Force within him again, Jian Chen immediately followed the secret technique and guided it along a special route in his body. The speed increased more and more, before finally reaching an unimaginable velocity.
As the Chaotic Force moved about at great speeds, Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body also faced great pressures, with some vague signs of falling apart. He seemed to have already reached the limit that he could endure and his body was constantly cracking. Meanwhile, the Chaotic Force became purer and more powerful bit by bit, taking qualitative leaps. However, the amount of Chaotic Force reduced quickly. It was currently going through the process of compression.
With the decrease of Chaotic Force, his bulging body also slowly returned to how it was before, completely recovering without much time.
The strengthening of the Chaotic Force broke the balance inside his body. Under the collisions from the strengthened Chaotic Force, his Chaotic Body was currently falling apart from the inside out. Whether it was his organs or tendons, they were all heavily injured. The pain that he had not experienced for quite some time attacked his body once again and mercilessly tortured Jian Chen’s mind.
Currently, he was breaking through from the first layer to the second layer of the Chaotic Body. With the balance between the Chaotic Force and the Chaotic Body now broken, he needed to go through the step of refining his body once again to attain a new balance with the Chaotic Force. Only like this could he use the strengthened Chaotic Force as he wished afterward.
The Chaotic Body had eighteen layers. If Jian Chen wanted to reach its true form, he needed to refine his body eighteen times. Only through eighteen times of painful torture could he truly reach the apex.
Jian Chen’s clothes were already moist with large quantities of sweat. The rampaging Chaotic Force became more and more powerful. At the same time, a part of it melded into his body, strengthening it. It allowed his body to grow with the Chaotic Force and prevented an overwhelming disparity between the two.
After who knows how long, the wracking pain in Jian Chen’s body finally disappeared. The Chaotic Force within him had already turned from a tempestuous ocean into a thin river that slowly flowed around in his body before gathering in his dantian. It formed a soybean-sized chaotic neidan.
This new chaotic neidan was compressed from the fist-sized chaotic neidan from before. Although it had shrunken greatly, the Chaotic Energy hidden within became even more powerful. It was a qualitative improvement.
With this, Jian Chen’s Chaotic Force had finally broken through the first layer and reached the second. His Chaotic Body had also strengthened by several folds; even though there were no changes in his stature, the defensive ability of his body had increased by at least several times.

He had just annihilated the soul of the Blood Demon Emperor who had devoured the soul of the Octoterra Emperor as he was dying. and is in the process of absorbing it in order to strengthen his soul.
Time passed silently. Jian Chen finally absorbed all of the Blood Demon Emperor’s soul after some time, allowing his own soul to strengthen quickly.
(Ch 945) In the blink of an eye, four years passed. A fist-sized golden tower hovered in the air within the Octoterra Divine Hall as it shone with a faint golden light.
Jian Chen currently sat in the center of a huge hall within the artifact space. The Azulet sword spirits had materialized above his head. They constantly refined monster cores and divine quality crystals into the purest energy, which Jian Chen then absorbed.
The mountainous piles of high class monster cores, grand quality crystal coins, and divine quality crystals had all disappeared from around him. It had all been refined into pure energy, before being transformed into powerful Chaotic Force.
Jian Chen’s chaotic neidan slowly revolved in his dantian. Strands of grey Chaotic Force coiled around the neidan, while the neidan itself had already reached the size of an adult’s fist.
When the final monster core had been refined, Jian Chen slowly opened his eyes. He revealed joy that he struggled to conceal as he murmured, “Just one last step and my Chaotic Body will reach the third layer.” With a wave of his hand, a ten-meter-tall piece of grand quality crystal emerged from his ring, landing heavily in the empty hall with a boom.
This crystal was the throne that Jian Chen had obtained on the first floor of the hall.
Jian Chen leaped onto the throne nimbly and sat down with his legs crossed. He began to refine it.
(Ch 946) The giant throne completely made from divine quality crystal constantly shrank. It transformed into strands of pure energy that entered Jian Chen’s body under the refinement of the Azulet sword spirits. It then became a part of the Chaotic Force within Jian Chen.
Jian Chen was still at the initial stages of the Chaotic Body. As long as he had enough energy, he could refine it into Chaotic Force, while the sword spirits would help increase the rate of his refinement.
As the Chaotic Force constantly increased, Jian Chen’s chaotic neidan constantly bulged as well, reaching its absolute limit very quickly.
Suddenly, a violent sound erupted inside Jian Chen’s dantian. It was extremely loud and clear and even people outside would be able to hear it. His chaotic neidan had shattered, turning into a large swathe of Chaotic Force that quickly wreaked havoc in his body.
Jian Chen seemed to be pumped full with air as he resisted the Chaotic Force, bulging at a visible rate. Very soon, he became a ten-meter-tall giant.
The tremendous Chaotic Force within him wreaked havoc wildly, rampaging everywhere like floodwater.
Jian Chen furrowed his eyebrows gently. The violent pain which he had not experienced in quite some time pierced his spirit once again, mercilessly devastating his nerves.
Jian Chen had already experienced a breakthrough of the Chaotic Body before, so it was an easy process due to experience. He immediately began to control the Chaotic Force within him and circulated it along a special, predetermined path recorded in the Azulet Sword Law.
Gradually, the Chaotic Force within him increased in purity, while its quantity rapidly decreased. The Chaotic Force was currently undergoing its third change, taking a qualitative metamorphosis.
As the Chaotic Force rapidly strengthened, it broke the balance within Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body. The body was immediately damaged as heart-wrenching pain radiated from every inch of Jian Chen’s body. He began to spasm uncontrollably.
The Chaotic Force within him rapidly decreased, while his body slowly shrunk as well. He returned to his original size soon enough, but he was now covered in blood. Blood had been forced through every pore of his skin, while each droplet of blood radiated with powerful ripples of energy. It was enough to easily kill off an Earth Saint Master.
Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body was rapidly destroyed and healed. Each time it healed, some of the strengthened Chaotic Force would fuse in as well. His Chaotic Body was rapidly strengthening thanks to the qualitative increase of his Chaotic Force.
The evolution of the Chaotic Force and Chaotic Body lasted for half a month before the Chaotic Force inside Jian Chen finally calmed down. It stopped rampaging, while a thumb-sized chaotic neidan floated silently in his dantian. Strands of powerful Chaotic Force coiled slowly around it.
Jian Chen’s clothes had been reduced to shreds long ago, while the throne beneath him had already shrunken to half its size. The blood all over him had disappeared as well, returning into Jian Chen through his pores.

(Ch 1272) “I require a third grade Violet Cloud Peach to reach the fourth layer of the Chaotic Body. I don’t have it, but I do have a few at the first grade. It’s just enough combined with the four Class 9 Monster Cores I have on me. However, the Violet Cloud Peach can only be consumed once every century, so if I eat it now, I have to wait a hundred years before I can eat a second one. I might end up coming across Violet Cloud Peaches of higher grades within the next few days, so I can’t just waste this opportunity that arises once every hundred years. Whatever, I won’t eat the Violet Cloud Peach this time. I’ll use the Class 7 and 8 Monster Cores to replace it,” Jian Chen thought before pulling out all his high class monster cores and the Class 7 and 8 energy crystals he had obtained from killing Xuanhuang beasts. He placed them all on the ground and began to cultivate.
(Ch 1282) Jian Chen sat like a statue within the artifact space. He held onto his last two Class 9 Monster Cores as the sword spirits hovered above him, assisting him refine the energy of the monster cores and allowing him to reach the fourth layer in the shortest amount of time possible.
The two Class 9 Monster Cores in Jian Chen’s hands shone with a hazy glow. The vast and powerful energy within them was rapidly absorbed by Jian Chen, before being refined into Chaotic Force and fusing into his chaotic neidan.
His chaotic neidan had already reached the size of an adult’s fist in his dantian. This was the limits of the third layer.
The two Class 9 Monster Cores shrunk at a visible rate. With the assistance of the sword spirits, the energy within them flowed away at an astonishing rate. After a few days of cultivation, Jian Chen had used up all the energy crystals he had obtained from Xuanhuang beasts as well as his Class 7 and 8 Monster Cores. The two Class 9 Monster Cores were the only ones left.
When he absorbed a third of the energy in the monster cores, Jian Chen’s chaotic neidan finally ruptured with a rumble. At that moment, strands of Chaotic Force surged out like a flood, violently leaking from his shattered chaotic neidan. Like wild horses, they rampaged through Jian Chen’s body.
Under Jian Chen’s experienced circulation, the Chaotic Force slowly came under his control. It began to be compressed and purified, condensing ten strands into five and five into a single strand.
Gradually, the Chaotic Force in Jian Chen’s dantian became stronger and stronger and more and more pure. As his Chaotic Force evolved, his body began to struggle to endure the energy. The fourth layer Chaotic Force had wreaked havoc within him. His organs, flesh, and blood had all experienced the violent rampaging of the fourth layer Chaotic Force.
Jian Chen’s body quickly began to leak with blood. In just a short moment, he became covered in blood with his clothes dyed red as well. Every single drop of blood possessed extremely powerful pulses of energy. Without any doubt, a single drop of his blood was enough to kill a Saint Ruler.
Jian Chen’s body underwent the process of continuously being destroyed by the Chaotic Force before recovering. Every time his body was ruined, strands of fourth layer Chaotic Force would fuse into his flesh as it recovered, making it even more powerful.
His body would strengthen over time as he resisted the rampaging of the fourth layer Chaotic Force.
Chaotic Force and the Chaotic Body increased together. Every time the Chaotic Force reached a new layer, his Chaotic Body would need to follow up as well. His body would always be on the same level of strength as the energy he used, or he would not be able to store the Chaotic Force that had suddenly grown stronger.
Right now, Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body was progressing to the fourth layer as it withstood the violent frenzy of the Chaotic Force.
The process last for an entire day before coming to an end. Jian Chen’s Chaotic Force and Body had reached the fourth layer.
“The third layer gives me the battle prowess of a Saint King at the Third Heavenly Layer. With the Emperor Armament, that becomes the Seventh Heavenly Layer. I wonder what strength I can display if I use the Emperor Armament now,” Jian Chen mumbled. Not only did his battle prowess increase after reaching the new layer, his defensive capabilities became extremely great as well. The fourth layer of the Chaotic Body could receive attacks from Eight Heavenly Layer Saint Kings and emerge unscathed as long as they did not use a Saint Tier Battle Skill.
This was because the power of the Chaotic Body and Chaotic Force were equivalent. Since the Chaotic Body could store such powerful Chaotic Force, just his body would not be something an Eighth Heavenly Layer Saint Kings could injure. They would not even be able to scratch him. Only at the Ninth Heavenly Layer could someone break through his defenses and cause him an injury.
“The current toughness of my body is probably far beyond the bodies of Class 9 Magical Beasts,” Jian Chen thought. At the same time, a thought suddenly crossed his mind. If he reached the fifth layer, then even regular Saint Emperors would not be able to scratch him.

At this moment, a cool feeling radiated from the ice below. It entered Jian Chen’s body and moved about. The cool feeling clearly was not as simple as a strand of coldness. Its appearance gradually ate away all of Jian Chen’s mixed emotions and allowed him to brush aside his random thoughts.
Although the tremendous energy within the Icesoul had been condensed from extreme coldness, the formation of each Icesoul took a million years. After such a long time, the energy within the Icesoul had changed long ago. Not only was the coldness removed, making the energy in it gentle, but it was also extremely pure and powerful.
When the first strand of energy was absorbed by Jian Chen’s body, the thin strand immediately began to rapidly expand like a balloon, becoming a hundred times its size and completely filling Jian Chen’s dantian. In the end, his dantian was unable to contain all of the energy, leading to some leaking out into his body, making it swell.
As the energy of the Icesoul was endlessly absorbed by Jian Chen, the chaotic neidan in his dantian gradually grew larger. More and more Chaotic Force accumulated within it as he rapidly approached the fifth layer of the Chaotic Body.
Jian Chen would have definitely consumed a lot of time to reach the fifth layer of the Chaotic Body if it was not for the Icesoul.
Jian Chen absorbed the Icesoul extremely quickly. The fist-sized Icesoul had vanished in just two months, having all been refined into Chaotic Force.
Unfortunately, Jian Chen still had not reached the fifth layer after absorbing the Icesoul with his Chaotic Body. He was only an inch away from the fifth layer.
The chaotic neidan in his dantian had become the size of a fist. He had reached the peak of the fourth layer, the limit of what he could achieve right now. If he could take one step further, he would immediately reach the fifth layer.
Jian Chen fell silent as he observed his chaotic neidan within him. He then clenched his teeth, and with a flip of his hand, he immediately took out an energy crystal from a Xuanhuang beast.
(Ch 1433) Seven days later, a loud crack finally rang out. Jian Chen was filled with eagerness. A ball of extremely terrifying Chaotic Force filled his body, and at that moment, his body suddenly began to swell. He became a giant, as if he had been blown up like a balloon.
ast amounts of Chaotic Force rampaged through Jian Chen’s body before slowly being compressed. Virtually at every moment, the Chaotic Force within Jian Chen’s body shrank, undergoing a process of compression, slowly changing his fourth layer Chaotic Force to the fifth layer.
At the same time, Jian Chen’s body endured the battering of the strengthened Chaotic Force. His flesh also toughened at a visible rate, becoming even more powerful.
This process lasted for several days and Jian Chen finally reached the fifth layer of the Chaotic Body. Both the toughness of his body and his Chaotic Force had increased in quality. The chaotic neidan in his dantian had been reduced to the size of a soybean once again.

Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body was at the cusp of breaking through after three years of absorption. After absorbing some more energy, his Chaotic Body finally broke through to the sixth layer. His body underwent the painful process of reforging itself once again, becoming even more powerful than before.
“The sixth layer of the Chaotic Body is equivalent to the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Saint Emperor.” Jian Chen silently sensed his strength. With his familiarity of the system used on the Tian Yuan Continent, he immediately discerned the power of the sixth layer.
The Ninth Heavenly Layer of Saint Emperor was nowhere near Shangguan Mu’er’s power at Returnance, but Jian Chen believed that his battle prowess had far exceeded what he had been capable of at the fifth layer. He was only able to achieve a stalemate with Xiong Zhong while his Chaotic Body at the fifth layer, where he even sort of lost the upper hand. In the end, he relied on his recovery rate as a Class 9 Radiant Saint Master to emerge victorious.
But, now that Jian Chen had reached the sixth layer of the Chaotic Body, he still belonged to the level of Saint Emperors according to the divisions on the Tian Yuan Continent, but he believed he was now powerful enough to fight against Ouyang Yangwen.

He had reached the sixth layer of the Chaotic Body and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword had progressed from partial achievement to major achievement. Even his soul had reached late Reciprocity.
Several days later, Jian Chen and Shangguan Mu’er reached the limit of what they could absorb so they left together. They underwent a final refinement, turning the energy they had just absorbed into their own.
Just like before, Jian Chen chose to cultivate a hundred kilometres away. He sat on the dreary ground, and as his eyes slowly closed, the Chaotic Force within him began to rapidly flow. While he used his cultivation method, the energy he had just absorbed rapidly melded into the Chaotic Force, causing the Chaotic Force in his dantian to become full.
When Jian Chen refined all the energy into Chaotic Force, his fist-sized chaotic neidan finally passed its limits and loudly burst open. The Chaotic Force hidden within immediately flowed out like a flood, surging forth and filling every inch of his body in a single moment. With just a short instance, Jian Chen’s body filled as the solid chaotic neidan in his dantian turned into surging Chaotic Force.
Jian Chen violently trembled. His face became extremely pale. Beads of sweat covered his forehead while his face revealed his agony. His body also began to swell like a balloon, constantly enlarging. He turned into a nine-meter-tall giant in just a few seconds.
Every time a breakthrough was made with the Chaotic Body, the owner would have to endure torturous pain. This time was no exception. At the same time, Jian Chen was making a huge leap by going from the sixth layer to the seventh layer. The increase in strength could not compare to the breakthrough he made from the fifth layer because the seventh layer was equivalent to reaching partial achievement of the Chaotic Body. The seventh layer was unlike the first six layers, which all belonged to minor achievement.
Tremendous Chaotic Force rampaged through Jian Chen’s body like wild horses. They violently rammed into every part of him, destroying all his organs, cracking his meridians, and shattering his bones. Even his flesh suffered great wounds from the rampaging of the Chaotic Force. Blood poured from his pores, making it seem like his flesh was made from blood. It was a vicious sight.
Jian Chen practiced the cultivation method of the Chaotic Body, so he devoted himself to healing. He did not use the origin energy of Radiant Saint Force. He only relied on the Chaotic Body’s self-recovery ability.
Jian Chen’s Chaotic Body recovered rapidly, but his body had to be destroyed before he could heal again. This process would repeat time and time again. His Chaotic Body desperately struggled between constant destruction and recovery, but his body would become much stronger each time he healed. It did not just modify his flesh but his organs, meridians and all of his bones as well.
As Jian Chen’s body gradually strengthened, the pain he was withstanding slowly lessened. The Chaotic Force that was rampaging through his body slowly began to compress as well, becoming even more powerful. Every strand of Chaotic Force he managed to compress lessened the violence of the Chaotic Force in his body.
As the Chaotic Force within Jian Chen was compressed, his body slowly returned to its original size as well.
Jian Chen could clearly feel his Chaotic Force strengthen and his powers increase. He was getting closer and closer to the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body.
But it was also at this time that Jian Chen sensed an obstructive force suddenly appear. The moment it appeared, the Chaotic Force within him stopped growing. He came to a halt on his advance to the seventh layer.
“Progressing from the sixth to the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body requires the comprehension of ways. I’ve already comprehended a way and have made quite some progress with it. Today, I will use my Way of the Sword as my key and open a gate to the seventh layer,” Jian Chen thought with determination. He fused his consciousness with the Way of the Sword and used his comprehension of it to charge through any obstructions in an unstoppable fashion.
“Master, we’re going to purge your comprehensions of the mysteries of the world on the Tian Yuan Continent so that you can focus on the Way of the Sword and progress to the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body. If your comprehensions of the mysteries of the world from the Tian Yuan Continent remain, they will affect your future cultivation.” At this moment the voices of the sword spirits rang through Jian Chen’s head. Soon after they spoke, Zi Ying and Qing Suo appeared in his consciousness. They were stern.
Jian Chen did not feel uncomfortable at all now that the mysteries of the world were gone. Instead, he felt like his soul had never been clearer. He seemed to feel that comprehending the Way of the Sword would become much easier than before.
At the same time, Jian Chen used his Way of the Sword as a key and carved out a path, finally reaching the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body. He had formally advanced to the partial achievement of the Chaotic Body.
The fist-sized chaotic neidan had already disappeared from his neidan. It had been replaced by one that was the size of a soybean.
Jian Chen’s body returned to its original size as well. All the blood that had oozed out of his pores had been reabsorbed and returned to his body. His Chaotic Body had strengthened once again. Jian Chen felt like he could withstand against the full-powered attacks of a Receival expert without dodging or defending.

He had reached the seventh layer of the Chaotic Body and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword had progressed from partial achievement to major achievement. Even his soul had reached late Reciprocity.
(Ch 1588) Shangguan Mu’er looked at Jian Chen, “Your Chaotic Body requires an extremely tremendous amount of energy. Now that we can’t absorb energy from the rock and that Violet Cloud Peaches can only be consumed once a century, what do you plan on using to reach the eighth layer?”
“I still have quite a variety of Immortal Tier heavenly resources that I brought back from the Xuanhuang Microcosm. These heavenly resources will be the most effective when they have been refined into pills, and if I consume them directly, their effects will be greatly reduced, and I might even explode from the violet energy, but they’re the only hope for me to reach the eighth layer under the current situation.” Jian Chen replied in a firm voice. With a wave of his hand, several heavenly resources from the Xuanhuang Microcosm appeared in his hand.
“Jian Chen, can you withstand the violet energy with the current toughness of your body?” Shangguan Mu’er was very worried.
“I obviously would not have been so confident if my Chaotic Body remained at the fifth or sixth layer, but now that I’ve reached the seventh layer, I believe that I can withstand the violet energy from the heavenly resources with my current toughness. Moreover, these heavenly resources aren’t of particularly high grades,” Jian Chen said confidently. He refused to believe that his Chaotic Body, at the seventh layer, was unable to withstand the violent energy from some heavenly resources that were not of particularly high grades.
(Ch 1589) Shangguan Mu’er followed Jian Chen into the Anatta Tower. She felt slightly uneasy as she silently stood guard beside Jian Chen. She focused on watching over him.
Jian Chen raised a king ginseng that had been growing for countless years and shoved it into his mouth, wolfing it down. The king ginseng was extremely bitter, numbing his tongue in a single moment and making him lose his sense of taste. However, when the king ginseng reached his stomach, an extremely violent energy immediately exploded within him like gunpowder. It wildly wreaked havoc, and with a shockwave, Jian Chen’s organs were shaken up in a moment. They all ended up rupturing.
The king ginseng was extremely old. Coupled with the fact that it was of the Immortal Tier, the energy hidden within was tremendous. It was equivalent to a third or even fourth grade Violet Cloud Peach, but in the Immortals’ World, rarely anyone dared to devour a king ginseng the way Jian Chen just did.
A stream of blood flowed from the corner of Jian Chen’s lips. He had clearly been injured even though he had not exploded.
Jian Chen ignored the wounds. These wounds were insignificant to him. After circulating the Chaotic Force within him, his wounds rapidly healed while the violent energy was turned into Chaotic Force, becoming a part of the energy that would make his chaotic neidan grow.
Jian Chen took several days to refine the king ginseng. A few days later, Jian Chen silently felt that his chaotic neidan had grown larger and immediately rejoiced inside. Without any hesitation, he grabbed a second Immortal Tier heavenly resources and ate it in a single gulp, continuing to strengthen himself.
“My Chaotic Body is approaching the peak of the seventh layer. If this continues, I’ll be able to reach the eighth layer successfully soon. At that time, the difference in strength between me and the Spiritking will become negligible or non-existent,” Jian Chen thought inside. He worked even harder to refine the energy from the heavenly resources.
As Jian Chen consumed the heavenly resources, his chaotic neidan swelled. A year later, his chaotic neidan had finally reached the peak of the seventh layer.
“I’ve finally broken through!” Jian Chen stood up and looked at his robes, which had been dyed red due to the shattering of his chaotic neidan. He decisively removed a set of new robes from his Space Ring and changed into them, and along with his new robes, his presence seemed to change suddenly.
Jian Chen could sense an extremely great energy in his body. The energy was enough to shake the world and make celestial bodies dim. He felt like he could tear through space just by extending a hand, as if space had become fragile.

Jian Chen is absorbing the red cloud that was left behind by the Evil Spirit.
(Ch 1639) Jian Chen cultivated within the cloud. His chaotic neidan had reached its limit after eighteen years of absorbing the terrifying power of the cloud. He had reached the limits of the eight layer of the Chaotic Body.
At this moment, Jian Chen’s body jerked suddenly. As he refined the last strand of pure power from the cloud, his chaotic neidan finally surpassed its limits and shattered loudly.
(Ch 1640) Jian Chen suffered the pain of refining his body once again. It was the same experience; the same agony. This was the ninth time he had undergone this. From the eight times before, he had accumulated plenty of experience already, so it was all smooth sailing for Jian Chen this time. It was as easy as cake for him.
As Jian Chen’s Chaotic Force gradually strengthened, he emitted a tremendous presence. It caused the entire blood-red cloud to churn wildly. At the same time, the presence expanded beyond the cloud, permeating the surrounding space. It squashed on the surrounding space, causing it to distort while the stars glimmered. The space a few dozen meters away from Jian Chen had even cracked.
A few days later, Jian Chen’s presence slowly subsided within the blood-red cloud. He gradually returned to peace and the fist-sized chaotic neidan in his dantian had returned to the size of a soybean. It had shrunken, but it clearly contained a Chaotic Force on a whole different level compared to the eighth layer.
Jian Chen smiled. Originally, he believed that reaching the eighth layer of the Chaotic Body was the limit for him in this world, but he had never expected the evil spirit to leave behind such a great fortune to him after the crisis of the world was averted, allowing his Chaotic Body to progress to the ninth layer; this was quite the pleasant surprise.

(Ch 1767) Jian Chen sat down in the depths of the mine and began to practise his cultivation method. The origin energy in the surroundings immediately surged over, forming wisps of mist that revolved around Jian Chen. Jian Chen seemed to become a bottomless hole as he devoured the pure origin energy in the surroundings rapidly.
As he absorbed the energy, the high grade divine crystals hidden within the rock immediately dulled, being reduced to simple stone.
(Ch 1770) In the depths of the mine, Jian Chen sat in the air as dense and pure origin energy gathered from the surroundings. It gathered so quickly that it basically surpassed Jian Chen’s rate of absorption, causing the origin energy that condensed around Jian Chen to almost solidify. It had become a cocoon completely condensed from origin energy that enveloped Jian Chen.
After all, Jian Chen currently resided within a high grade divine crystal mine. There was an astronomical number of hidden high grade divine crystals in the rock around him, making it equivalent to him sitting among divine crystals. The rate at which origin energy gathered over would obviously be shocking.
Jian Chen was like a bottomless hole as he rapidly absorbed the pure origin energy in his surroundings. As tremendous quantities of origin energy were absorbed and then refined, his chaotic neidan swelled slowly at a visible rate.
Even though the chaotic neidan grew at an extremely slow rate, only by a tiny portion each day, it was an unbelievable rate to Jian Chen who had possessed the Chaotic Body for so many years already. It was far, far faster compared to when he absorbed the energy of the Yinyang Saint Rock, or the power from the evil spirit.
This was all due to the purity of the origin energy within the high grade divine crystals he absorbed. Not only were they extremely easy to absorb, but refining the energy was much less arduous as well.
It was exactly because of this that Jian Chen’s chaotic neidan had grown from the size of a pigeon’s egg to a chicken’s egg in just three short months of cultivating here.
“At this rate, my chaotic neidan will probably reach the limits of the ninth layer in a year,” Jian Chen thought. At the same time, he became slightly excitedly; he was eager for the tenth layer of the Chaotic Body.
The ninth layer of the Chaotic Body only made his cultivation level equivalent to Deities. Once he broke through to the tenth layer, his level of cultivation would directly reach Gods.
Although the tenth layer of the Chaotic Body would not be able to elevate his cultivation to Overgod, his battle prowess would rise tremendously.
After all, just the toughness of the Chaotic Body at the tenth layer would be able to endure attacks from Gods. Even if he did not block or dodge, Gods would not be able to harm him at all.
The tenth layer of the Chaotic Body was simply too powerful. Even if regular Gods launched full-powered attacks at Jian Chen, they would not be able to get through his skin. They could only draw blood if their attacks had surpassed the limits of what the Chaotic Body could endure.
This was the advantage of the Chaotic Body.
Any cultivator of the Chaotic Body could claim to be invincible among the same realm of cultivation. Only prodigies that also claimed the title of being invincible had the right to challenge them. But even with that, the outcome would more often be the victory of the Chaotic Body than defeat.
In the blink of an eye, another fifteen months passed. Jian Chen had already been cultivating there for one and a half years now.
The chaotic neidan in his dantian had finally reached the size of a fist after the one and a half years of cultivation. He had reached the limits of the ninth layer. During this period of time, he had been cultivating many times faster than he had ever cultivated on the Tian Yuan Continent.
However, Jian Chen did not stop there. He continued to absorb the surrounding origin energy wildly. Finally, after another half a month, the amount of Chaotic Force he possessed exceeded what his chaotic neidan could possess. With a boom, surging Chaotic Force rampaged through Jian Chen’s body violently and destructively. His body immediately began to tremble violently as he paled in that instance as well. His forehead became covered in cold sweat.
Droplets of blood had even oozed out of his powers as they pulsed with energy, causing Jian Chen to become all bloodied.
The cultivator of the Chaotic Body had to endure the excruciating pain of reforging the body every time they broke through. At the same time, the toughness of the body would leap up qualitatively with each breakthrough.

(Ch 1909) “If my estimates are correct, as long as I absorb the core in my hand, my chaotic neidan will surpass its limits and explode. It’ll be the time to condense the chaotic neidan for the eleventh layer when that happens.”
“Once my Chaotic Body reaches the eleventh layer, I would have the battle prowess of a Godking. Although it’s nowhere near the level where I don’t have to worry at all when I face off against the Empyrean Demon Cult, I’ll be able to protect myself better at the very least.”
(Ch 1911) In the very depths of the forbidden grounds, the door slowly opened and finally revealed Jian Chen.
He had now formally reached the eleventh layer of the Chaotic Body. His entire body possessed explosive power.
This power gave Jian Chen great confidence. He was now bold enough to directly stand up to Godkings.
Godkings were peak existences within divine kingdoms. In a huge divine kingdom, there would only be a handful of Godkings. Even in ancient empires, Godkings were great people who could act as they wished.
Now, Jian Chen felt like he was powerful enough to take on Godkings.

Jian Chen’s statue-like body suddenly quivered. At that moment, his chaotic neidan had exploded loudly as terrifying Chaotic Force charged through his body rapidly like a loose, wild horse.
At this moment, he finally broke through from the eleventh layer and was consolidating the twelfth.
Jian Chen was already well-versed with the breakthroughs of the Chaotic Body. He endured the intense agony that felt like a million ants gnawing at his bones as he devoted himself to condensing a new chaotic neidan.

Still in seclusion, Jian Chen had no idea he had become a famed figure that shook up the Saints’ World. Currently, he was devoting all his efforts to breaking through to the thirteenth layer of the Chaotic Body.
Very soon, he used up all the heavenly resources that could increase cultivation. Only recovery heavenly resources were left. Not a single high grade or supreme grade divine crystal remained either, having all been refined into strands of Chaotic Force.
Now, the only resources he had left from the Neptunean Divine Palace were one thousand five-colored divine crystals and the tens of million fire divine crystals.
Jian Chen was unable to resist his desire for strength now that he neared a breakthrough. As a result, he ignored the wastefulness and took out a large number of fire divine crystals without any hesitation to cultivate.
His Chaotic Body could refine all the energy in the world. As a result, even though the fire divine crystals were filled with pure fire-attributed energy, it was not too different from the supreme grade divine crystals.
The only difference was that the energy within the fire divine crystals was two or three times purer than supreme quality divine crystals.
Time passed silently. After absorbing over ten million fire divine crystals in who knew how long, Jian Chen’s body shook loudly. The chaotic neidan in his dantian had finally shattered.
Jian Chen was experienced with the process that followed. In just a few days, his Chaotic Force and Chaotic Body completely changed. The fist-sized chaotic neidan had shrunken back to the size of a soybean, but the Chaotic Force within it was several times more powerful than before.
He had formally reached the thirteenth layer of the Chaotic Body, having reached Major Achievement!

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“A Radiant Saint Master’s cultivation is much more difficult than the fighting class Saints. You are able to use monster cores to improve yourself, but us Radiant Saint Masters can only rely on ourselves to improve our spirit to strengthen our bodies."
(Ch 1453) The cultivation process for Radiant Saint Masters was vastly different when compared to fighters. Fighters absorbed the energy of the world and used it to condense their Radiant Saint Force in their dantian and used it to forge their bodies so that they could obtain strength. Radiant Saint Masters cultivated the soul. They absorbed Radiant Saint Force origin energy into their soul to evolve it, refining the origin energy and storing it in their soul.
Radiant Saint Masters possessed weak bodies, but they also possessed powerful attacks, Class 7 Radiant Saint Masters in particular. If they used origin energy to cast Radiant Artes, they would be able to deal attacks on the level of a Saint Ruler. Only Class 7 Radiant Saint Masters could use the forbidden arte, God’s Descent, which was a powerful technique that could even fend off Saint Kings. It was countless times more powerful than Saint Tier Battle Skills, but the only drawback was that its price was just too heavy.
(Ch 1465) “Martial Soul Force is a power that emerges once the soulcore fuses with the soul. It’s not something that can be possessed by people who are not both fighters and Radiant Saint Masters. Martial Soul Force will radiate uncontrollably when the soulcore and soul fuses together. You’ve undergone that process already, so I think you understand what this Martial Soul Force is a little,” explained fairy Hao Yue.
A gleam of light flashed through Jian Chen’s eyes. He asked, “Is this Martial Soul Force a type of pressure that targets the soul?”
“Martial Soul Force is an extremely wondrous power. Through my understanding, it is similar to soul attacks and specializes in harming the souls of others, but it is far more terrifying than ordinary soul attacks. However, since there are far too few cultivators who are both fighters and Radiant Saint Masters in the Saints’ World, even I have not personally seen people use it. I’ve only heard of them, so my knowledge regarding Martial Soul Force is limited. If you want to understand it in further detail, you can only investigate it yourself.
“But I once heard a rumor that a single Overgod, who was both a fighter and a Radiant Saint Master, managed to slay several hundred Gods in a single moment and heavily injure over ten other Overgods with Martial Soul Force alone. Two of these Overgods even ranked within the top three thousand on the Overgod’s Plaque. You should know how powerful Martial Soul Force is now.” Fairy Hao Yue closely observed at Jian Chen.
“Martial Soul Force is very powerful. Even the Saints’ World has publically recognized it, which is why those who are both Radiant Saint Masters and fighters are known to be impossible to fight. Only the prodigies groomed by a few large organizations have the right to stand up to them in battle. However, there are very few people who can use Martial Soul Force. With my estimation, it would be difficult for you to find even ten people who can use it across the entire Saints’ World.”

(Ch 834) “Master, you only have three days to absorb the origin energy. After three days, it will be sucked into the seal again, before being sealed away once again,” the artifact spirit said to Jian Chen.
Jian Chen nodded. He forcefully suppressed his excitement and immediately sat down, beginning to absorb the origin energy.
Jian Chen had learned the method of absorbing origin energy and breaking through to Class 7 from the artifact spirit long ago. He needed to infuse the origin energy into his soul, using it to change his soul, allowing the soul to morph.
Once the soul morphed successfully, it would become more compatible with Radiant Saint Force. Not only would the speed for condensing Radiant Saint Force increase greatly, the strength when casting Radiant Artes would take a qualitative leap. Other than that, even the most basic healing power would improve vastly.
Also, after the morphing of the soul, it would be able to hold the origin energy. With a strand of origin energy as a medium, it could absorb the surrounding Radiant Saint Force and slowly refine it into origin energy, allowing the origin energy to increase. This was how a Class 7 Radiant Saint Master’s strength was measured.
However, this origin energy refined by individuals could not be absorbed by other Radiant Saint Masters. As result, all Class 7 breakthroughs required the use of this artifact.
Jian Chen sat cross-legged on the ground. He relaxed his mind, putting his effort into an attempt to infuse a strand of origin energy. Currently, he was going through an extremely crucial step in reaching Class 7. Only by infusing some origin energy into his soul could he begin absorbing it. He needed the origin energy to morph his soul.
Jian Chen focused his concentration and his presence burst out from his body. He worked hard to infuse the origin energy. However, the origin energy seemed to reject the approach of Jian Chen’s presence very much. No matter how he tried, he was unable to infuse even a single strand of it.
Jian Chen did not become anxious at all. Currently, only two hours had passed, so there was still plenty of time. He constantly tried various methods to form a connection with the origin energy, persistently attempting to understand it.
Finally, after half a day, Jian Chen successfully infused a strand of origin energy into his soul. Roping it in with his presence, the origin energy slowly approached his head, before entering his brain through the very top.
Suddenly, Jian Chen’s mind rumbled. As soon as the origin energy entered Jian Chen’s mind, it transformed into a vast energy, filling up Jian Chen’s entire sea of consciousness. It was beginning to change Jian Chen’s soul with its property. However, two rays of light, one azure and one purple, sprang out immediately, blocking the movements of the origin energy.
“This power might be useless in the future but it’s of great use to master with his current strength. Qing Suo, let’s give way.” Zi Ying’s voice sounded in the sea of consciousness and soon afterward, the two obstructing rays of light disappeared.
Without the obstruction of the purple and azure rays of light, the origin energy immediately began to infuse into Jian Chen’s soul. His soul changed bit by bit, currently undergoing a metamorphosis.
Jian Chen was drowned in the euphoria of his soul being refined. Currently, he could clearly feel his soul strengthening with lightning speed. Not only did his control and ability to sense Radiant Saint Force increase, even his presence strengthened quickly. It may not have directly increased Jian Chen’s strength but it brought great benefits.
After some time, the first strand of origin energy was finally consumed entirely. Jian Chen could distinctly feel that his presence was now several folds greater than before, while the radius of it had increased from the previous twenty kilometers to a hundred kilometers.
Jian Chen did not pause at all after refining the first strand of origin energy, immediately attempting to infuse a second strand. Due to the fact that Jian Chen had already refined a strand, it was extremely smooth this time. Very soon, the second strand of origin energy had also entered his mind.
(Ch 835) With the infusion of the second strand of origin energy, Jian Chen’s soul took another qualitative leap, becoming much stronger. The radius of his presence increased from one hundred kilometers to one hundred and fifty.
The absorption of the second strand of origin energy was much faster than before. Soon enough, the second strand was also absorbed, completely infused into Jian Chen’s soul and causing his morphing soul to become even more powerful. The radius of his presence had also increased to a hundred and eighty kilometers. The speed at which his presence strengthened slowed down the more he absorbed.
Jian Chen immediately began absorbing a third strand of origin energy. Soon enough, it was completely infused into Jian Chen, who then moved onto a fourth, fifth, sixth…
As more and more origin energy of Radiant Saint Force was absorbed by Jian Chen, his soul strengthened at an unbelievable rate. His presence had already reached a radius of hundreds of kilometers, currently stretching towards the thousands.
It was already the third day Jian Chen had spent absorbing origin energy. His presence had already become extremely powerful. If his presence three days ago was compared with right now, it would be like an ant compared to an elephant. Jian Chen’s presence could only cover a radius of twenty kilometers three days ago; now, it could easily spread beyond a thousand kilometers.
The artifact spirit remained standing not too far from Jian Chen, watching over him. He murmured, “Master’s talent as a Radiant Saint Master is extremely great. The amount of origin energy he’s absorbed has exceeded any Class 7 Radiant Saint Master in all of history. Even the current president would not be able to absorb so much. However, the president’s already reached his limit in the absorption of origin energy. He can’t infuse anymore, so he won’t be able to break through to Class 8 no matter what for the rest of his life. Though, where is master’s limit?”

(Ch 1453) “A Class 8 Radiant Saint Master has only ever appeared in the ancient times, and since then, none have ever appeared again. Jian Chen, looks like you’ll become the second Class 8 Radiant Saint Master. There’s always been a legend regarding Class 8 Radiant Saint Masters on the Tian Yuan Continent. It is said that they can revive people who have passed away from old age by using the Saint Weapons they have left behind. Even I don’t know whether this is true or not because the Class 8 Radiant Saint Master in the ancient times never did anything like that.” The sea goddess stared at Jian Chen. If Class 8 Radiant Saint Masters really did possess such heaven-defying abilities, Jian Chen would definitely be able to increase the overall strength of the world once he reached the 8th Class.
Jian Chen returned to the Tian Yuan Continent on his sword and found a desolate mountain. He then entered the artifact space and prepared to go into seclusion.
The artifact spirit had reinforced the hall where the seal had been located in the artifact space, completely sealing in all the Radiant Saint Force origin energy so that none of it could leak out.
White mist filled the vast hall. It was formed from the pure Radiant Saint Force origin energy, and it was so plentiful that it was immeasurable.
Jian Chen sat in the hall and began absorbing the origin energy.
Jian Chen sat in the center of the hall, absorbing the Radiant Saint Force origin energy as quickly as he could. Strands of visible, white mist constantly flowed into his forehead, entering his soul before being surrounded by it. He quickly refined these strands.
As the of Radiant Saint Force origin energy merging with Jian Chen’s soul rapidly increased, he could sense his soul morph bit by bit. Although it remained at the peak level of a Saint Emperor and showed no signs of increasing, it was undergoing a different growth, becoming even more powerful.
At the same time, both his rate of absorption and refinement gradually increased as his soul morphed. A small whirlpool, completely condensed from white mist, formed near his forehead, as if there was a suction force between his eyes endlessly pulling in origin energy.
(Ch 1454) In the blink of an eye, half a month passed. Because Jian Chen’s absorption and refinement rates were far greater than ordinary Radiant Saint Master, the progress he made during that time was equivalent to several years or several dozen years of work.
The dense, white mist within the sealed hall had become thinner now, allowing some visibility to return. Even though that was the case, Jian Chen could only see ten meters away from him.
Jian Chen could clearly sense that his soul was much, much more powerful than half a month ago after absorbing so much Radiant Saint Force origin energy. Since he was both a fighter and a Radiant Saint Master, his soul had not yet reached the Origin realm, but he could feel that his soul was no weaker than the Origin realm.
The origin energy that he had been refined had already been condensed into a faint liquid. It had fused with his soul but took up its own region.
The ball of liquid was only the size of a thumb, and it frequently changed between a tangible and intangible form. It had not consolidated completely, but it was growing closer to that stage.
Jian Chen felt that his abilities as a Radiant Saint Master had drastically increased, definitely several dozen times more powerful than they had been in past, but he was still at the 7th Class and had not reached the 8th Class.
“I have to reach Class 8 this time,” Jian Chen thought inside. He had already made up his mind to become a Class 8 Radiant Saint Master. Immediately gritting his teeth, the speed at which he refined the origin energy increased yet again.
However, as he rapidly refined the origin energy, Jian Chen became even more surprised. He would never have thought that the amount of origin energy required to reach Class 8 would be so terrifying. If it were not for the saint artifact, there would be no Radiant Saint Force origin energy in this world, so it was would probably be impossible for anyone to reach the 8th Class in just a few thousand years.
Unknowingly, Jian Chen had already cultivated in the artifact space for two months.
At this moment, he suddenly shuddered. The whirlpool above his forehead suddenly expanded to twice its size. The rate at he was absorbing the origin energy skyrocketed as well, causing all the origin energy in the entire hall to gently pulse. It all surged toward him as if he had summoned them.
Jian Chen’s soul was undergoing an overwhelming change. It experienced a leap in quality. His powerful soul suddenly condensed into a ball before turning into a small person at a visible rate. His facial features were distinct and actually seemed the same as Jian Chen’s actual face.
The tiny man was completely condensed from Jian Chen’s soul. He was snow-white and let out a faint, white glow, giving off a divine feeling. Near the forehead of the tiny man, an even brighter speck of white light flickered. The light spread throughout Jian Chen’s soul, causing the tiny man within his soul to vary in visibility.
The white speck was composed of concentrated Radiant Saint Force origin energy. It was filled with a tremendous amounts of origin energy, countless times more powerful than the origin energy used by Class 7 Radiant Saint Masters.
Jian Chen slowly opened his eyes and silently sensed the tiny man as well as the speck of white light on the man’s forehead. He could not help but feel delighted.
He knew that he had finally broken through the 7th Class and had reached the mysterious realm of the 8th Class as a Radiant Saint Master. At the same time, his soul had grown, breaking through Saint Emperor and truly reaching the level of the Origin realm. It was much more powerful than the souls of ordinary Origin realm experts as well.
The current him did not even need to leave the artifact space to know what was happening outside. Even as he sat there, his soul could envelop a radius of a million kilometers of the outside world.
The only pity was that a breakthrough for his soul would not significantly increase in his battle prowess.
“I’ve reached the 8th Class. I wonder if Class 8 Radiant Saint Masters really are as great as the legends, where they can revive the masters of Saint Weapons,” Jian Chen thought to himself. He suddenly felt overwhelmed by an urge to find a Saint Weapon as soon as possible to see whether this rumor was true or not.

(Ch 1461) Jian Chen concealed his presence and silently made his way to the center of the hall. A white orb, completely condensed from Radiant Saint Force origin energy, hovered there. He stared at it for a while before sucking in a deep breath. He sat in the air. He gently pressed his hands against the orb.
The origin energy that revolved around the orb began to violently surge. It seemed to be disturbed, approaching Jian Chen’s forehead without anyone’s control. An invisible whirlpool seemed to have formed in front of Jian Chen’s forehead, sucking at the mist and pulling it all in. In the end, it actually formed a white streak that connected the orb to Jian Chen’s forehead.
At the same time, even the pure origin energy within the white orb began to endlessly surge out. It was all absorbed by Jian Chen like a whale taking in water.
The white speck of light in Jian Chen’s soul, the soulcore, began to swell at a gradual rate. The origin energy hidden within it was increasing at all times.
(Ch 1462) The head-sized orb before had already shrunk by a quarter of its original size after half a year of absorption. Jian Chen’s soul core, which was condensed from Class 8 Radiant Saint Force origin energy, had grown a lot. The origin energy within it was several times denser than when he had first broken through.
Jian Chen had already been cultivating for one and a half years in the artifact space, and the orb was less than a third of its original size.
When he had cultivated for exactly two years, the artifact spirit, who was sitting at the entrance, suddenly opened his eyes. At the same time, the president and grand elder’s eyes narrowed.
The next moment, an extremely powerful pressure suddenly radiated from Jian Chen’s body. It was a pressure that originated from the soul.
“I- is this the pressure of an Origin realm expert or the pressure of a Class 9 Radiant Saint Master…” The president cried out uncontrollably as shock filled his eyes.
Before he could finish what he was saying, a dazzling light exploded from Jian Chen’s body. The light was no longer gentle, now filled with brutality. It outshone the sun as it endlessly stretch into the distance. At that moment, the entire artifact spirit had become enveloped by the light.
(Ch 1463) Although the light was Radiant Saint Force origin energy, it was no longer gentle. It was brutal.
Meanwhile, the soulcore gradually fused with his soul. This fusion was a true fusion where the two combined into one.
As they fused, Jian Chen’s soul rapidly grew. It made a leap in power as the pressure he gave off, which affected the souls of people, rapidly increased.
Jian Chen’s fusion between soul and soulcore lasted for three whole days. The light from Jian Chen’s body gradually disappeared after that and the pressure vanished as well.
Jian Chen remained seated where he was. He silently sensed the changes that had occurred. The first thing he noticed was what had happened to his soul. Before he had reached the 8th Class, his soul had still been at the peak of Saint Emperor, and after breaking through, he had stepped into the Origin realm.
Yet now, his soul had powered up after becoming a Class 9 Radiant Saint Master with the fusion between his soulcore and soul. It had become several times more powerful than before.

A layer of milky-white light from the envoy surrounded Jian Chen. Afterwards, he was taken away from the city at the envoy’s full speed, which also happened to be extremely slow in Jian Chen’s eyes.
The black-clothed envoy was clearly a Hallowed Saint Master. He was cool, expressionless, and silent. He did not talk to Jian Chen at all, only focusing on the journey.
Jian Chen said nothing as well. He had closed his eyes now, silently sensing the envoy’s usage and grasp over Radiant Saint Force to comprehend the wonders within it.
The envoy’s cultivation was only equivalent to an early Overgod. In the eyes of someone who could kill Primordial realm experts like Jian Chen, such cultivation was basically as insignificant as an ant. However, the envoy’s achievements with Radiant Saint Force could not be compared to Jian Chen’s, who had only reached Class 9 as a Radiant Saint Master.
As a result, Jian Chen had many things he could learn from the envoy.
Very soon, Jian Chen completely submerged himself in the comprehension of Radiant Saint Force. He was an expert who could fight someone at the Primordial realm after all, so he possessed a rich foundation. His Radiant Saint Force remained at Class 9 and never broke through because he never found a path to continue.
Now, he was able to comprehend the envoy’s usage of Radiant Saint Force at such proximity, so it was like seeing a lighthouse within the dark night. He instantly found his path.
Suddenly, dazzling, milky-white light flickered around Jian Chen. The light shone brighter and brighter, becoming like the sun in the sky. It enveloped Jian Chen completely.
At the same time, strands of extremely pure Radiant Saint Force and origin energy gathered in from all directions, forming a swirl of energy that only Radiant Saint Masters could sense above Jian Chen’s head. Like a whale taking in water, he completely absorbed all the Radiant Saint Force and origin energy that gathered above him.
The soulcore in Jian Chen’s head that had been completely condensed from Radiant Saint Force and origin energy, representing him as a Class 9 Radiant Saint Master, revolved rapidly. It grew at a terrifying rate, undergoing a qualitative transformation.
In the end, the pure-white soulcore became scarlet. It hovered in Jian Chen’s head quietly as it shone with faint red light. It seemed like a scarlet flower.
“You’ve actually broken through at a time like this. It looks like your talent is pretty impressive,” the envoy glanced at Jian Chen and sighed in surprise.
But clearly, even when Jian Chen broke through, his strength was still on a completely different level compared to the envoy’s. As a result, his breakthrough did not raise too much of the envoy’s attention.

t the same time, Jian Chen sat with Donglin Yanxue and everyone else within the sacred pavilion, focusing on cultivation on the hill. They rapidly absorbed the energy that permeated the surroundings along with the fragments of the Laws of the Hallowed.
At this moment, the Radiant Saint Force around Jian Chen surged. The Radiant Saint Force that had condensed around him immediately strengthened drastically while the soulcore in his head revolved rapidly and gradually gained a second color.
With the appearance of this second color, Jian Chen was formally a Radiant Saint Master with a two-colored soulcore.
“I still ended up breaking through. I can’t keep it suppressed,” Jian Chen was not happy at all after he broke through. Instead, he sighed inside.
He had used four years to go from a one-colored soulcore to a two-colored soulcore. It was indeed a little too fast compared to other Radiant Saint Masters who needed centuries for the same breakthrough.
In reality, he never properly tried to cultivate during those four years. Instead, he spent most of his time comprehending the Laws of the Hallowed. He could have broken through long ago if he wanted to.
But since he wanted to absorb the fragments of the Laws of the Hallowed, he could not avoid absorbing the Radiant Saint Force as well. As a result, he could no longer keep his breakthrough suppressed, condensing a two-colored soulcore uncontrollably.

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Suddenly, a thought flashed through Jian Chen’s head. His gaze immediately became rather hazy as his movements slowed. At that moment, he seemed to have grasped something, but he also felt that everything was blurry and hazy, like he could not see reality at all.
(Ch 1285) “Master, I never thought that you’d touch the boundary of Sword Origin and at an even greater level than the times before. I’ve began to wonder if master will comprehend Sword Origin the very moment you get a hold of your fated swords,” Zi Ying’s voice rang out in praise. It was filled with much excitement.
“This only means that master is extremely suited to walk the Way of the Sword. If others want to comprehend the first realm of the sword, it’s extremely difficult. There is rarely anyone who can comprehend the first realm as a Golden Immortal. Most of them have to become a Daluo Golden Immortal or even a Xuan Immortal before they can reach Sword Origin. Once master forges the Azulet swords, you’ll definitely comprehend the Way of the Sword before you become a Heavenly Immortal, and with master’s current talent, you’ll definitely reach the fifth realm and become a new Sword God,” exclaimed Qing Suo excitedly.
After collecting all the valuable items, Jian Chen immediately re-entered the artifact space. He got the artifact spirit to find a hidden place for him. He dug out a fire pit there and used a metal container to hold some spring water before he put it above the fire to boil it. He then rummaged through his Space Ring and finally found an exquisite tea set.
He had found the tea set in the Space Ring of some Saint King he had killed in the past.
“Master, what are you doing?” Zi Ying stared at Jian Chen’s actions, perplexed and asked.
Jian Chen sat down before the fire pit as he attentively boiled the water. He seriously replied, “I am making tea, to comprehend the Sword Origin realm through the Comprehension Tea Leaves.”
“Master, you still don’t have your fated swords yet, so you can’t comprehend the first realm of the Way of the Sword. There’s no need for you to rush so much. Once you forge the Azulet swords, you will comprehend the first realm very quickly,” Qing Suo said heavily. The two sword spirits had existed for countless years, and they had never heard of a single person who had managed to comprehend the Sword Origin realm without their fated swords. Even though Jian Chen had already come in contact with that realm twice, they still did not believe that Jian Chen could comprehend it right now.
“I don’t think that’s definitely the case. I’ve already entered the Sword Origin realm twice. I’ve failed to grasp it, but I’ve gained a blurry understanding of it. My Chaotic Body has reached the fourth layer, and I’ve gained a great increase in strength, but it’s still rather difficult for me to deal with some stronger Class 9 Xuanhuang beasts. I can only kill them easily by borrowing the power of the Way of the Sword. In order to be able to travel even further in this microcosm, I need to try it whether I succeed or not,” Jian Chen firmly answered. He had already made up his mind.
(Ch 1286) Comprehension Tea Leaves were Immortal Tier heavenly resources, so they obviously could not be boiled with regular water. Not only would normal water decrease the effects of the tea leaves, their quality would also drop by a lot. It was more suitable for Jian Chen to use the spring water from the Springs of Life to make the tea. Not only would it allow the tea to exhibit all of its effects, it could even amplify the effects to a certain level.
Jian Chen knew that the tea could not be set aside for too long. Before it had even cooled, he drank the whole cup.
The moment he drank it, he could feel a sense of clarity rise up from his chest. It headed into his head and fused with his soul.
Immediately, Jian Chen felt like he had entered an illusion, as if all the laws of the world were presented right before him at that moment. He seemed to be able to see the veins of the world and understand all the mysteries present. Jian Chen knew that this was not true, so he quickly gathered his attention and devoted all he had to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
Jian Chen began to meditate as he closed off all his senses, no longer paying any attention to the outside world.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed and Jian Chen roused from his meditation. His eyes shone brightly as joy was plastered across his face. After the three days of comprehension, he had failed to reach the first realm of the Way of the Sword, but his comprehension of Sword Origin was becoming deeper and deeper. His understanding rapidly increased. He had really benefited from this tea.
Without any hesitation, Jian Chen immediately began to boil water again. He made tea with a second leaf as he continued to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
Jian Chen used three days more for this second period of comprehension. He roused again and immediately began to make tea a third time.
On the third day after Jian Chen had drunk his third pot of tea, his presence suddenly changed just when the sword spirits thought he was about to rouse. His presence sharpened, as if countless sharp blades slowly revolved around him. Although his presence remained invisible, anyone could feel its sharpness.
The next moment, streaks of finger-long, white light, as thin as string, began to condense in the air. They slowly revolved around him. Every single one of them was pure and concentrated sword Qi.
This sword Qi was completely different than regular sword Qi. Regular sword Qi was condensed from energy, but these were not composed of energy at all. They seemed unique.
“T- this is the Sword Origin realm! Master’s actually succeeded!” The sword spirits continued to watch, stunned. Disbelief filled their faces.
At this moment, the thin, bright sword Qi revolving around him slowly began to gather, becoming a single strand in the end. The strand was condensed into a small, sixty-centimeter-long sword that shone even more resplendently. The sword Qi was sharper as well.
Jian Chen’s eyes remained closed, but he slowly raised his right hand. He gently held the sword completely condensed from sword Qi and his entire body seemed to fuse with it. The small sword seemed to have become his limb, becoming a part of him.
Jian Chen stood up and smiled from the bottom of his heart as well. He said, “The Way of the Sword is a rule. The sword Qi condensed from my comprehension of the Way of the Sword is the power of a rule. It is extremely powerful, incomparable to any sword Qi I can condense right now. Using the Way of the Sword to fight people is equivalent to using rules to fight people.”

“This only means that master is extremely suited to walk the Way of the Sword. If others want to comprehend the first realm of the sword, it’s extremely difficult. There is rarely anyone who can comprehend the first realm as a Golden Immortal. Most of them have to become a Daluo Golden Immortal or even a Xuan Immortal before they can reach Sword Origin. Once master forges the Azulet swords, you’ll definitely comprehend the Way of the Sword before you become a Heavenly Immortal, and with master’s current talent, you’ll definitely reach the fifth realm and become a new Sword God,” exclaimed Qing Suo excitedly.
After collecting all the valuable items, Jian Chen immediately re-entered the artifact space. He got the artifact spirit to find a hidden place for him. He dug out a fire pit there and used a metal container to hold some spring water before he put it above the fire to boil it. He then rummaged through his Space Ring and finally found an exquisite tea set.
He had found the tea set in the Space Ring of some Saint King he had killed in the past.
“Master, what are you doing?” Zi Ying stared at Jian Chen’s actions, perplexed and asked.
Jian Chen sat down before the fire pit as he attentively boiled the water. He seriously replied, “I am making tea, to comprehend the Sword Origin realm through the Comprehension Tea Leaves.”
“Master, you still don’t have your fated swords yet, so you can’t comprehend the first realm of the Way of the Sword. There’s no need for you to rush so much. Once you forge the Azulet swords, you will comprehend the first realm very quickly,” Qing Suo said heavily. The two sword spirits had existed for countless years, and they had never heard of a single person who had managed to comprehend the Sword Origin realm without their fated swords. Even though Jian Chen had already come in contact with that realm twice, they still did not believe that Jian Chen could comprehend it right now.
“I don’t think that’s definitely the case. I’ve already entered the Sword Origin realm twice. I’ve failed to grasp it, but I’ve gained a blurry understanding of it. My Chaotic Body has reached the fourth layer, and I’ve gained a great increase in strength, but it’s still rather difficult for me to deal with some stronger Class 9 Xuanhuang beasts. I can only kill them easily by borrowing the power of the Way of the Sword. In order to be able to travel even further in this microcosm, I need to try it whether I succeed or not,” Jian Chen firmly answered. He had already made up his mind.
(Ch 1286) Comprehension Tea Leaves were Immortal Tier heavenly resources, so they obviously could not be boiled with regular water. Not only would normal water decrease the effects of the tea leaves, their quality would also drop by a lot. It was more suitable for Jian Chen to use the spring water from the Springs of Life to make the tea. Not only would it allow the tea to exhibit all of its effects, it could even amplify the effects to a certain level.
Jian Chen knew that the tea could not be set aside for too long. Before it had even cooled, he drank the whole cup.
The moment he drank it, he could feel a sense of clarity rise up from his chest. It headed into his head and fused with his soul.
Immediately, Jian Chen felt like he had entered an illusion, as if all the laws of the world were presented right before him at that moment. He seemed to be able to see the veins of the world and understand all the mysteries present. Jian Chen knew that this was not true, so he quickly gathered his attention and devoted all he had to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
Jian Chen began to meditate as he closed off all his senses, no longer paying any attention to the outside world.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed and Jian Chen roused from his meditation. His eyes shone brightly as joy was plastered across his face. After the three days of comprehension, he had failed to reach the first realm of the Way of the Sword, but his comprehension of Sword Origin was becoming deeper and deeper. His understanding rapidly increased. He had really benefited from this tea.
Without any hesitation, Jian Chen immediately began to boil water again. He made tea with a second leaf as he continued to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
Jian Chen used three days more for this second period of comprehension. He roused again and immediately began to make tea a third time.
On the third day after Jian Chen had drunk his third pot of tea, his presence suddenly changed just when the sword spirits thought he was about to rouse. His presence sharpened, as if countless sharp blades slowly revolved around him. Although his presence remained invisible, anyone could feel its sharpness.
The next moment, streaks of finger-long, white light, as thin as string, began to condense in the air. They slowly revolved around him. Every single one of them was pure and concentrated sword Qi.
This sword Qi was completely different than regular sword Qi. Regular sword Qi was condensed from energy, but these were not composed of energy at all. They seemed unique.
“T- this is the Sword Origin realm! Master’s actually succeeded!” The sword spirits continued to watch, stunned. Disbelief filled their faces.
At this moment, the thin, bright sword Qi revolving around him slowly began to gather, becoming a single strand in the end. The strand was condensed into a small, sixty-centimeter-long sword that shone even more resplendently. The sword Qi was sharper as well.
Jian Chen’s eyes remained closed, but he slowly raised his right hand. He gently held the sword completely condensed from sword Qi and his entire body seemed to fuse with it. The small sword seemed to have become his limb, becoming a part of him.
Jian Chen stood up and smiled from the bottom of his heart as well. He said, “The Way of the Sword is a rule. The sword Qi condensed from my comprehension of the Way of the Sword is the power of a rule. It is extremely powerful, incomparable to any sword Qi I can condense right now. Using the Way of the Sword to fight people is equivalent to using rules to fight people.”

Jian Chen also refined the shards of comprehension he had gained from the Anatta Tower. He benefited greatly, and his Way of the Sword had progressed to partial achievement. His cultivation did not increase, but his strength increased dramatically.
Jian Chen had also refined the Azulet swords so that they became his fated swords.

He sent his consciousness into the twin swords while his mind sank into the comprehension of the Way of the Sword. Gradually, he entered a state of meditation.
As he began to meditate, a layer of white light gradually appeared in his surroundings, covering his entire body. He gave off an extremely sharp sword intent, which permeated an area several dozen kilometers wide. The air and all the invisible energy in the region would freeze before sharpening as well, turning into invisible sword Qi, as if they had been infected by the sword intent.
The region around him became filled with sword Qi, becoming a world of sword intent.
Jian Chen’s comprehension of the Way of the Sword had reached the peak of partial achievement of Sword Origin. He was about to advance to major achievement. Every time he comprehended the Way of the Sword, he would give off a sword intent, which would envelope a region that was several dozen kilometers wide. In order to avoid disturbing Shangguan Mu’er, he chose to cultivate a hundred kilometers away.
However, the sword Qi around Jian Chen became several times more powerful all of a sudden while he white light around him exploded as well. It turned into a pillar that extended into the sky, shining with a resplendent light and illuminating the entire world.
A supreme sword Qi swept out in all directions with Jian Chen at the center. It ripped through space and destroyed the ground, riddling the surrounding several dozen kilometers with spatial cracks. The gray ground rapidly sank as well. The soil did not compress but instead disappeared, turning into nothing before the supreme sword Qi as if it had evaporated.
In just a few seconds, soil nine meters deep vanished from a radius of several dozen kilometers. The only part that remained was a circle three meters wide, where Jian Chen was sitting. Jian Chen’s body was enveloped by the pillar of bright light, completely obscuring his body.
However, the pillar of light rapidly changed. In the end, it formed a sword, which stood under the heavens. The illusory sword was so powerful that it devastated the surroundings.
At the same time, Jian Chen’s soul strengthened at an unbelievable rate. His comprehension of the Way of the Sword had finally reached major achievement and with it came benefits to his soul.
Jian Chen felt his soul rapidly swell, developing like a child to an adult. He could feel his soul strengthen with every passing moment, tearing through Returnance and heading to Reciprocity.
His soul did not stop there. After reaching Reciprocity, his soul continued to strengthen as if it would never stop. It broke through early Reciprocity and mid Reciprocity before stopping at late Reciprocity.
Jian Chen could clearly sense that his soul was far more powerful than before. He had never experienced anything like that. If he could just advance a little further, his soul would surpass the Origin realm and reach Godhood.
Jian Chen’s strength had not reached the Spiritking’s level after nine years of cultivation, but there had still been a significant increase. He had reached the sixth layer of the Chaotic Body and his comprehension of the Way of the Sword had progressed from partial achievement to major achievement. Even his soul had reached late Reciprocity.

(Ch 1705) As for Jian Chen, he had entered seclusion to comprehend the Way of the Sword as he could not make any progress with his Chaotic Body.
“*I can refine the first strand of Profound Sword Qi at the major achievement of Sword Origin and the second strand at great perfection. I can refine the third at the major achievement of Sword Spirit, the fourth at the great perfection of Sword Spirit, the fifth at the major achievement of Sword Immortal and so on. However, if I want to refine all nine strands, I’ll have to reach Sword God.*”
(Ch 1715) While in a battle with Lu Tian in the Mo Clan it was mentioned that Jian Chen is now in the Great Perfection of the Sword Origin in the Way of the Sword.
The attack was simple and ordinary, without any special tricks. However, when he stabbed out, the attack seemed to hide the endless mysteries of the world inside, where the entire world seemed to lose its color before the strike, making it the only existence in the surroundings.
This was the power of the Laws of the Sword. Jian Chen’s current Laws of the Sword were no longer at the major achievement of Sword Origin. Instead, they were at great perfection!
The major achievement of Sword Origin was equivalent to mid God, while Jian Chen’s breakthrough in his comprehensions had elevated his laws to late God.

The Sword Comprehension Building was actually a stone hut with two floors. The stone walls were extremely smooth and were like a polished mirror. They were flawless. However, Jian Chen and Shen Jian could tell with a single glance that a sharp and brutal sword intent had slowly ground flat all the walls.
After the two of them entered the stone hut, they could not help but feel like they had entered a powerful sword. Soaring sword intent was present everywhere.
“This is at Sword Spirit. It’s at Sword Spirit at the very least,” Jian Chen’s heart shivered when he sensed the sword intent that was present everywhere. He felt a suffocating pressure in the stone hut. It was the pressure that came from the Laws of the Sword.
He had already reached the great perfection of Sword Origin, so the only way he could feel pressured by the Laws of the Sword was from the realm beyond that, Sword Spirit.
Suddenly, Jian Chen’s eyes narrowed. There was an extremely sharp sword Qi on the face of one of the walls.
Jian Chen stood as still as a mountain. His calm eyes exploded brightly at that moment as if two streaks of light had shot out from his eyes, directly colliding with the sword intent that radiated his way.
Jian Chen seemed to hear a rumble in his sea of consciousness under his full-powered resistance. Vaguely, he seemed to feel like he had broken through some sort of shackles, emptying his entire mind and soul. He had entered a wondrous state.
Dazed, he seemed to see a hazy image. Within the image, a person in green robes stood within the hut with his back to Jian Chen. He radiated with a supreme presence, which possessed sword intent that was so powerful that it even shocked Jian Chen.
The man slowly raised the sword in his hand. Immediately, surging sword Qi emerged from the sword. He stabbed out casually.
The strike seemed to follow a trajectory of the ways of the world. It contained the wonders of the laws of the world. The single strike contained devastating power.
Jian Chen felt the entire world clear up the moment the person stabbed out. The strike had completely filled his mind and soul, becoming the only thing in the world in his eyes. It absorbed his entire mind. He could even clearly sense all the minute changes in the strike.
Jian Chen could not help but close his eyes in the stone hut. His mind had already sunk into the wonders of the strike uncontrollably, comprehending it closely. He was comprehending the sword.
The sword Qi was clearly only for guiding people. It could not injure people, so only those who had also comprehended the Laws of the Sword could comprehend it.
Just like this, another half a year passed. Suddenly, a powerful sword intent appeared within the Sword Comprehension Building. Sword Qi currently revolved around Jian Chen who stood inside the stone hut. The sword Qi were finger-sized and silver-white, swimming around happily like little fishies.
Compared to the sword Qi Jian Chen previously used, this sword Qi was no longer as rigid. Instead, it seemed more intelligent as if each strand of sword Qi possessed its own life.
Jian Chen had finally made a breakthrough in his Way of the Sword after this period of comprehension, formally advancing to Sword Spirit.
“That’s the comprehension of an Overgod’s laws of the world,” gleams of light flickered through fairy Hao Yue’s eyes when she sensed the disturbance in the building. She was quite surprised.
Jian Chen’s comprehension of the laws of the world had already become equivalent to an Overgod’s now.

He was cultivating and absorbing a golden ginseng in the space ring of Godking Duanmu.
(Ch 1809) Jian Chen stared at the heavenly resources that seemed very standard calmly before shaking his head gently. He sighed, “I can’t consume anymore. I’ve already consumed more than a dozen over the past years I spent cultivating. My body has developed resistance, so any benefit I get from consuming more heavenly resources will diminish.”
“However, I do have five drops of liquid lime. Liquid lime has the wondrous effect of cleansing the body of residues from consuming too many pills and the resistance developed from using too many heavenly resources,” Jian Chen murmured gently. He immediately took out his bottle of liquid lime from his Space Ring. He removed the cap and poured a droplet into his mouth without any hesitation at all.
Jian Chen immediately felt a cool sensation throughout his entire body when the liquid lime reached his stomach. As the cool sensation rapidly spread, he felt an indescribable comfort, and even his pores opened up.
He could feel that the resistance he had developed to heavenly resources was slowly dispersed with the permeation of the cool sensation.
Moreover, Jian Chen felt his soul become extremely clear. Vaguely, the profound laws of the world seemed to have become even clearer in his eyes.
The effects were similar to drinking Comprehension Tea. Not only could the liquid lime cleanse the body of any pill residues or developed resistances, but it also possessed some effects like the Comprehension Tea.
However, the effects of the liquid lime were clearly much less potent compared to Comprehension Tea.
Time passed silently, and unknowingly, Jian Chen had consumed all the heavenly resources in Godking Duanmu’s Space Ring.
As the heavenly resources were all high grade, the benefits they granted were far greater than the high grade divine crystal mine Jian Chen previously absorbed. His chaotic neidan grew larger and larger.
Jian Chen did not stop because of that. He took out five bottles from his Space Ring again. To no surprise, they held the Ten-thousand-year God Origin Pills.
A single Ten-thousand-year God Origin Pill was equivalent to ten thousand years of cultivation. That would mean fifty pills equated to half a million years’ worth of cultivation!
“I wonder if these fifty pills will be enough for me to reach the eleventh layer of the Chaotic Body,” Jian Chen thought. He removed the bottle cap and ingested five pills in a single stroke.
He was already able to endure the brutal energy within the God Origin Pills when he was still at the ninth layer of the Chaotic Body, so now that he had reached the tenth layer, they posed even less of a threat to him.
After some time, Jian Chen had consumed all fifty pills. When he looked inside his dantian, Jian Chen was filled with helplessness when he saw the size of his chaotic neidan – it was almost the size of a fist.
(Ch 1814) Not being able to reach the 11th Layer of the Chaotic Body, Jian Chen decided to go to Godking Duanmu's dwelling in order to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
The sword Qi radiated from Jian Chen for an entire day before slowly dispersing in the end. Very soon, the surroundings settled down once more.
With the disappearance of the powerful sword Qi, all the cultivators gathered there dispersed their protective barriers and stared at Jian Chen in reverence.
At this moment, Jian Chen slowly opened his eyes as he sat on the mountain. The moment his eyes opened, a streak of light seemed to shoot out, directly striking a mountain several thousand meters away, producing a heavy boom.
If it were not for the fact that all the mountains around the area had become extremely tough due to the existence of Godking Duanmu’s sword slashes, the mountain probably would have been penetrated by Jian Chen’s gaze.
“I’ve finally reached the partial achievement of Sword Spirit successfully,” the corner of Jian Chen’s mouth curled up into a smile. After twenty years of cultivation and comprehension, his Laws of the Sword had broken through once more in Godking Duanmu’s dwelling.
“When I reached the minor achievement of Sword Spirit, my Laws of the Sword were only equivalent to early Overgod. Afterwards, I comprehended some more on the second floor of the Sword Comprehension Building, allowing me to make some more progress. After a few years, it culminated to the peak of minor achievement, which was equivalent to mid Overgod.”
“Now that my Laws of the Sword have reached the partial achievement of Sword Spirit, it’s equivalent to the comprehension of a late Overgod,” Jian Chen thought. He immediately determined his current strength.
His comprehension of laws had now reached the levels of late Overgods.

Now, he is fending off Godking's who wanted to steal the Spiritual Root of Heavenly Ways.
He had used all his trump cards aside from the Anatta Tower. He had even used his last strand of Profound Sword Qi. It was all because of his Chaotic Body that he could last until now.
At this moment, a sliver of understanding suddenly appeared in Jian Chen’s head. At that moment, he grasped the thought tightly, and in the next moment, an even more powerful sword intent began to radiate from his body. It was as tremendous as an ocean.
Jian Chen bellowed out as the sword Qi around him became several times more powerful. Without even forming a seal with his hand, he used the Daluo Sword with his thoughts alone.
Not only did the current Daluo Sword condense countless times more quickly than in the past, almost instantaneously, but even its power had reached a whole new level.
At this moment, Jian Chen had finally made a breakthrough with the Laws of the Sword, reaching the major achievement of Sword Spirit.
(Ch 2046) The Major Achievement of Sword Spirit meant that Jian Chen’s comprehension of the Laws of the Sword had reached the level of Godkings. However, his Chaotic Body still remained at the level of Overgods.
As a result, his breakthrough at this moment clearly was not enough for Jian Chen to deal with the threat he currently faced.

Upon opening of the stone door, the Origin of Ways surged out and 35% of it was absorbed by Jian Chen.
“The great perfection of Sword Spirit. I never thought I’d reach the great perfection of Sword Spirit so soon,” Jian Chen opened his eyes slowly. His gaze contained undisguised joy as well as excitement.
Several years ago, he had reached the major achievement of Sword Spirit in the Neptunean Divine Palace, allowing his Chaotic Body to reach the twelfth layer and him to become a Godking.
Originally, he believed that it would definitely take an extremely lengthy period of time for him to break through again and reach the great perfection of Sword Spirit.
However, he had never thought that after just a few years, he would break through again with his Way of the Sword and reach the great perfection of Sword Spirit. It was like a wish come true.
Not only was the great perfection of Sword Spirit enough for Jian Chen to condense a fourth strand of Profound Sword Qi, but even his Chaotic Body could formally advance to Major Achievement.

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