Chapter 52

In ancient times, the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body, known for its ability to advance a thousand miles in a day through cultivation, followed the path of physical sanctification. In Chen Lang's view, since it was so powerful, not using it would be a tremendous waste.

Emperor War lived for over six thousand years from birth to his final self-destruction. In his memory, there were no records of any martial artists with the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body becoming powerful figures in the past thirty thousand years.

However, Chen Lang was unwilling to give up...

His current situation was very special. He had Emperor War's memories in his mind, and the Sealed Heaven Tripod in his body, which could produce a mysterious green liquid capable of refining the body and even reviving the dead. The black and white qi from the Taiji diagram could clear the obstacles in the meridians... All of this made him believe that he could definitely awaken the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body and then cultivate into a divine or demonic body!

On the way home from Tower Cloud Academy, Chen Lang had been thinking about this issue all along.

Whether it was the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body or any other sacred body, they all had special methods for awakening. Once awakened, even without cultivation, a martial artist's physical body would naturally become powerful. However, these secret methods had long been lost.

Now, to awaken the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body without other secret methods, there was only one way: violent body tempering!

So-called violent body tempering was quite simple: using special body-tempering medicinal liquids or secret techniques to continuously stimulate the body... However, whether it would succeed was uncertain, mostly depending on luck.

However, such body-tempering medicinal liquids or various secret techniques would bring unbearable pain to the practitioner.

Moreover, the success rate was extremely low.

Another method was to directly use the Nine Heavens Thunder Power for body tempering. This was more direct and had a higher chance of awakening the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body—this was the reason Chen Lang began cultivating the Thunder Control Divine Technique without hesitation.

However, thunder power was extremely domineering. Although thunder-based cultivation techniques were incredibly powerful, very few people actually cultivated them.

This was because using thunder power for body tempering was not only extremely dangerous but also extremely painful, akin to self-torture.

This kind of cruel self-torture was very likely to drive a person to the brink of collapse. Without a strong mind, one could not continue cultivating.

Using thunder power for body tempering, enduring for a day or two was not a big deal, but the challenge was to do it for years on end.

Day after day, year after year...

How much perseverance and resilience would it take?

Chen Lang had chosen this path.

Apart from the issue of the Heavenly Pulse Sacred Body, Chen Lang also wanted to integrate the various cultivation techniques in his mind to create a new technique and forge a new path in cultivation.

Chen Lang began to slowly organize the various powerful cultivation techniques in his mind, studying their characteristics...

The path of martial arts, and even the path of alchemy, ultimately aimed to pursue the Great Dao. The most important thing was the understanding of the Great Dao of heaven and earth... Others only truly began to comprehend the Dao of heaven and earth after reaching the King Martial Mirror and the Golden Core stage, but Chen Lang took an unconventional path and started to comprehend the Great Dao from now.

However, this was not unusual. Although he had not yet fully integrated Emperor War's memories, the cultivation achievements of this supreme powerhouse, apart from strength, were all in his mind. Even if he started to touch the Great Dao now, it was merely an extension of Emperor War's memories, not a novice trying to reach too high.

Time passed bit by bit...

Unaware, a ray of sunlight suddenly shone through the window and fell on Chen Lang's body.

He sensed something and opened his eyes at that moment, then got up and walked to the window, looking outside.

In the distant sky, thin clouds gathered and scattered, and the red sun rose like boiling steel, radiating a dazzling golden light.

Steam rose from the clouds, and the sun's light flickered like a spiritual glow. At that moment, Chen Lang felt a flash of lightning in his mind, as if he had some enlightenment, but he couldn't quite grasp it...

At that moment, the Taiji diagram in his body began to rotate slowly, and the spiritual energy stored in his limbs and bones began to flow on its own, moving in a trajectory it had never followed before.

Unconsciously, his body was filled with spiritual energy, which surged and flowed, making his body as bright as a large light ball, illuminating every detail of his internal organs, meridians, and bones.

Even he didn't realize that he was in a very unique state at that moment.

Strictly speaking, his cultivation was only at the Ninth Heaven of the Force Martial Realm, not yet reaching the Qi Martial Realm. However, the cultivation realms of the various techniques in his mind had already been experienced, and reaching those realms seemed to be just a matter of time.

On the other hand, although he was young, he had already experienced several life and death situations, tasted the joys and sorrows of life, and completely absorbed Emperor War's memories...

At this moment, his understanding of life and death, and his insights into the essence of life, far surpassed those of many powerful beings.

Looking at the vibrant sun on the horizon, he recalled the various moments of life and death in his memories, and many questions spontaneously arose in his mind.

"What is life, and what is death? Why do we live, and why do we die?"

"What is real, and what is false? Is everything in my memory real or false? Are the things we see with our eyes illusions or reality..."

"All things are illusions, we do not know where we come from in life, nor where we go after death, but the true heart remains unchanged, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither dirty nor clean."

"What about light and darkness? What about yin and yang? Yin alone cannot give birth, and yang alone cannot grow. Yin and yang must combine to give birth to life, and this is the true Dao..."

Just as Chen Lang felt a bit dazed, as if he understood much but also nothing, his divine consciousness suddenly entered a familiar place.

It was familiar because the first time he encountered the black and white qi in the Sealed Heaven Tripod, he had a similar feeling.

However, at that time, the time was too short, and before he could react, the black and white qi had already entered his body.

At that moment, he felt as if he had entered a strange space, where everything was chaotic, and he couldn't distinguish up from down or the directions.

"Could this be inside the Taiji diagram?"

As soon as he thought this, the space was filled with wind and clouds, and all the mist gathered in one place, forming a small, fingernail-sized object in front of him, like a fetal form of the universe, floating in front of him.

Because of the existence of this object, the once dead and silent universe suddenly came to life.

Energy surged around, as if it all existed for this object, and all the energy poured into this tiny thing, making it grow to the size of a soybean in no time.

Then, in front of the chaotic space, several lines of golden text appeared, presenting themselves to Chen Lang:

"From the formless comes the Taiji, which is the undivided primordial energy before the universe was formed. The Taiji moves and generates yang, and when movement reaches its extreme, it becomes still, and stillness generates yin. When stillness reaches its extreme, it moves again. Movement and stillness are interdependent; yin and yang are divided, and the Two Instruments are established. Yang changes and yin combines to generate water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, the Five Elements, which are arranged in order, and the four seasons follow. The Five Elements are yin and yang, yin and yang are the Taiji, and the Taiji is the formless. The interaction of yin and yang generates all things, and the changes are endless."

Chen Lang's mind stirred, and he seemed to understand something, slowly closing his eyes...

As soon as he closed his eyes, the once chaotic universe suddenly flashed with lightning and thunder, and a massive lightning bolt split the sky, seemingly dividing the primordial energy of the universe into yin and yang.

With the division of yin and yang, the universe began to resemble the Taiji diagram, with clear black and white, yet yin and yang intermingled.

Invisibly, all the energy in the universe began to form a physical entity, like a thick fog covering the soybean-sized object.

At this moment, Chen Lang opened his eyes...

He saw the object, nourished by the mist, crack like a hatching egg, and a green sprout gradually emerged, which turned out to be a tiny seed.

The moment the seed appeared, the once chaotic universe transformed, becoming full of vitality in just a short while!

Seeing all this, Chen Lang couldn't help but let out a long, loud cry. In that instant, he finally touched the essence of the world, feeling as if he had control over the universe.

His consciousness returned from the space within the Taiji diagram, and as he looked at the red sun on the horizon, he began to wave his hands rapidly, forming several seals.

Soon, a translucent Taiji diagram appeared in front of him.

With a thought, the Taiji diagrams inside and outside his body began to rotate in sync, maintaining the same frequency.

The primordial energy in the universe immediately converged toward him, forming a fierce vortex centered on him.

The so-called primordial energy was not the same as spiritual energy; spiritual energy was just one type of primordial energy.

In this world, besides pure spiritual energy, there were also death energy, demonic energy, killing energy, and righteous energy...

Righteous martial artists felt and absorbed spiritual energy during cultivation.

However, at this moment, Chen Lang did not do so; instead, he absorbed all the primordial energy around him!

This was a very crazy action in the eyes of ordinary people, as no one dared to do it!

Spiritual energy was suitable for any race and was the purest form of energy in the universe, which could be absorbed and used by both righteous and evil martial artists.

However, if a demonic martial artist absorbed righteous energy, it would be like a righteous martial artist absorbing demonic energy, a suicidal act.

As for death energy, it could only be used by evil martial artists who practiced dark techniques.

But now, Chen Lang did not distinguish and absorbed everything...

The vortex only operated for a short while, and under his control, it quickly formed a shocking momentum, causing chaos in the entire Chen family, with countless people screaming, not knowing what was happening.

However, this situation only lasted for a short while. Before the Chen family members could figure out what was happening and where the source was, Chen Lang had already stopped absorbing the primordial energy of the universe.

Like in the space within the Taiji diagram, he separated the primordial energy, gathering the dark and negative energies in his left hand and the pure and positive energies in his right hand.

At this moment, a black mist in his left hand slowly formed a small black ball, emitting a strong aura of killing and despair, enough to make anyone who saw it tremble with fear.

In his right hand, a bright light ball appeared, symbolizing the positive energy.

"Yin and yang can be separated, but they can also complement each other..."

He muttered to himself, slowly bringing his hands closer, trying to merge the energies in his hands.

The moment the two opposite energy balls touched, a destructive aura was released.

"Bad! I can't control it!"

Before the two balls fully touched, Chen Lang was already alarmed!

"Whoosh!"

He poured all his strength into his feet, stomped the ground, and shot out of the window like an arrow.

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