Chapter 188: Heavenly Escaping Five Elements, Transforming Calamity_2
He once again performed the Star Capturing Heaven Method, starting to search for the trajectory of the starlight.
The situation on the outer battlefield was still unknown. Being able to eliminate some of the tribulation Qi beforehand might save much trouble.
Soon, Chu Zheng found a beam of starlight brimming with vigorous vitality. Without much hesitation, he created a soul division, soared up, and headed straight for the stars.
This time, Chu Zheng kept most of his attention on his original body, continuing to imprint divine skills, and left only a sliver of consciousness in the soul division, transforming it into a subconscious-like entity to guide it.
After entering the Divine Infant Realm, his Divine Soul had grown much stronger than before, making these tasks quite manageable.
A moment later, upon confirming the soul division had successfully arrived without dispersing on the way, Chu Zheng returned to the secret chamber to continue imprinting the Five Elements marks.
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Several months passed in the blink of an eye.
Less than four months later, the marks of the Heavenly Escaping Five Elements Technique had been branded upon Chu Zheng's Golden Core.
Around the Spirit Apertures, an extra ring of five-colored spiritual patterns appeared, corresponding with the Five Elements.
The moment the divine skills imprinting completed, Chu Zheng's heart shook instantly. He comprehended many profound mysteries, and his understanding of the Five Elements Escaping Technique surged significantly.
Particularly with the Fire Attribute and Water Attribute, these two, he was most familiar with.
The 'Fire God Transformation' from the Taixuan Divine Fire Scripture and the Tai Yuan Dragon Sword Dance were originally two types of transformation techniques.
The most significant change was in the Thunder Method Chu Zheng had previously practiced, which showed signs of merging with the Five Elements Secret Technique.
Now, even without employing the traditional Five Elements into Yin and Yang, Chu Zheng could wield the Thunder Method using any one of the Immortal Roots of metal, wood, water, fire, or earth.
The thunder made from Yin Yang Dual Qi had a strong suppressive force on the Spirit Soul and Yin God, while the Five Elements Divine Thunder, wrapped in the Five Elements Qi, was even more versatile, sometimes causing greater damage to living beings.
This was just the beginning. With the growth of his cultivation, Chu Zheng's understanding of the Five Elements would deepen further, until he could reverse the generative and destructive cycle of the Five Elements.
After pondering deeply for half a month, Chu Zheng suddenly felt a tremor in his Divine Soul, sensing something, and the slight tribulation Qi by his side almost dissipated in an instant.
The interface then underwent severe changes.
[Name: Chu Zheng]
[Cultivation: Qi Refining: Initial Stage of the Golden Core Realm, Immortal Path: Initial Stage of the Divine Infant Realm]
[Root Bone: Yin Yang Immortal Bone (Superior Quality), Five Elements Spiritual Body]
[Cultivation Technique: Eternal Calamity Treasure Record (Tenth Order), Taixuan Divine Fire Scripture (Eighth Order)...]
[Divine Skills: Heavenly Escaping Five Elements Technique (Eighth Order), Tai Yuan Dragon Sword Dance (Eighth Order), Five Thunder Righteous Law (Sixth Order), Slaughter Blood Descending Dragon Technique (Sixth Order), Space Condensing Art (Sixth Order)...]
[Talent: Spiritual Eye (Fourth Order)]
[Repair Master: Fifth Order (4000/4000)]
[Remaining repairs for the day: 30]
[Currently repairable:...]
The soul division that had been used to undergo tribulations lost contact, was completely eradicated, aiding Chu Zheng in resolving one tribulation while simultaneously maximizing the experience of a Fifth Order Repair Master.
Before Chu Zheng could recover, a vast surge of memories suddenly returned, bringing with it over forty years of recollections, abruptly crashing into his mind.
After digesting these memories for several days, Chu Zheng gradually sorted them out, his mind slightly shaken.
This time, his soul division had entered the body of a recently deceased two-year-old child whose innate Qi had not yet dissipated completely and had been eroded by death Qi. After using the cadaver for a soul revival, the physique became somewhat bizarre, coexisting with both Yin and Yang.
The repair panel did not recognize any issue with his physique; it only repaired his injuries and did not solve the problems related to his constitution.
The world he had arrived at should be considered one of the large realms within the Chaos Sea, with abundant spiritual energy, where the path of cultivation flourished. However, it was not just the Human Race that existed; hundreds of races stood tall, including foreign races, often giving rise to wars.
Because the innate Qi within his body had not yet dispersed, Chu Zheng followed the conventional Hundred Days Spiritual Transformation, and his cultivation increased extremely rapidly.
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With the aid of the Repair Master panel, in this life, at the age of four, he had already reached Perfection in Spirit Transformation and had cultivated Jade Bone; by the age of seven, he had already stepped into the Dao Embryo Secret Realm.
This time, reincarnated to withstand tribulations, Chu Zheng devoted most of his attention to inscribing divine skills on his main body. His soul division lacked guidance, inevitably leading to poor judgment, and his thoughts were not very clear.
Moreover, since Chu Zheng's incarnation was for the purpose of enduring tribulations, he naturally did not think about concealing his talents. Wherever he went, he gathered cultivation resources in a very high-profile manner.
A mere seven-year-old child emerged from nowhere and pushed horizontally across thousands of miles of the demon domain, climbing mountains to swallow wolves and tigers, diving into seas to capture flood dragons and slay demons, and slaughtering millennia-old foreign races as though scooping items from a bag.
This naturally attracted the attention of various forces. The news spread extremely fast, like wild grass in a frenzy, and it was said that the human race had produced a rare demon, who had mastered powerful divine skills before the age of ten.
In just a few years, Chu Zheng had accumulated a body full of Blood Fiend Qi using the Slaughter Blood Descending Dragon Technique, and by the age of ten, he had already reached Completion in the Dao Embryo.
In order to accumulate his own foundation, he did not rush to condense the Golden Core but collected cultivation resources even more aggressively.
Soon, he was pursued. Beings who had stepped into the Fifth and even Sixth Orders personally took the field and relentlessly chased him.
Among them, there even included some Human Race cultivators, who were also searching for his whereabouts.
As such, Chu Zheng could not discern their intentions and simply avoided contact with them, sparing himself some trouble.
Surrounded and intercepted by multiple forces, Chu Zheng was forced to condense his Golden Core earlier than planned, and this time his Golden Core developed seven apertures.
After condensing the Golden Core, the first divine skill Chu Zheng cultivated was 'False Form'.
Cultivating this great divine skill, he could understand the method of transformation, where mountains, rivers, vegetation, and all manner of spirits and oddities could be altered.
With this ability, Chu Zheng was free as the birds in the sky and effortlessly escaped upwards into the heavens even under the joint encirclement of great demons and numerous cultivators.
At the age of twenty, Chu Zheng shattered his Golden Core, returned to the Dao Embryo Secret Realm to accumulate foundation, and took two years to re-condense the Golden Core.
This time, the Golden Core's spirit apertures numbered eight.
Subsequently, after spending more than a decade, Chu Zheng cultivated until his Golden Core reached Completion. He inscribed eight great divine skills in the spirit apertures, just one step away from Refining Spirit.
Due to years of hiding and concealing himself, Chu Zheng had accumulated a certain degree of Tribulation Qi, which was bound to erupt one day.
Before Chu Zheng began to attempt Refining Spirit, his whereabouts were mysteriously leaked. He was caught up to by three great demons whose cultivation was comparable to cultivators of the Tongxuan Secret Realm, who tightly pursued him without giving him a chance to catch his breath.
Three venerable Demon Race members from the Tongxuan Secret Realm were naturally difficult for Chu Zheng, who had only achieved Golden Core Completion, to withstand, and he ultimately died a violent death in the wilderness; his Golden Core was swallowed by the Demon King, leaving no complete corpse.
After digesting all this information, Chu Zheng slowly exhaled a breath of turbid Qi, his eyes faintly bright.
This reincarnation brought him many benefits, notably the precious experience of repairing the broken core and inscribing divine skills on the spirit apertures.
Besides, this incarnation almost always found him in the midst of battle, and the experience gained from dealing with many members of the Foreign Race might prove useful in Chu Zheng's future.
This incarnation not only dispersed a large amount of his Tribulation Qi, but Chu Zheng also gained a deeper understanding of the Chaos Sea.
The scenario of a hundred races coexisting wasn't likely unique to one realm; perhaps the entire situation in the Chaos Sea was similar.
Before Chu Zheng could further reflect on the memories of this incarnation, a message from Geng Yiyang came from outside the secret chamber.
The time arranged by the Immortal Alliance was approaching, reminding Chu Zheng to leave his retreat and prepare early.
After adjusting for a few days, Chu Zheng removed some unnecessary trivial memories to avoid disturbing his mind, and then finally left his retreat.
First, he found Bai Nian.
Before heading to the foreign domain, Chu Zheng wanted to send Bai Nian back to Illusory Spirit City for one last look at his homeland.
Since he had promised before, he would not break his word.
Moreover, this time, Chu Zheng did not plan to quietly send Bai Nian back; as the Taixuan Holy Master now, he no longer needed to be extremely cautious anywhere in Cangyun.
Besides, it was just an ordinary sect, with only one cultivator at the Divine Infant Second Transformation and one damaged Tongxuan Spiritual Treasure inside.