pappabearbooks Chapter 1075 - 676: Unique Physique, Eight Breaks of Bonds, Mortal Shell Shedding! (Part 3)
Chapter 1075 - 676: Unique Physique, Eight Breaks of Bonds, Mortal Shell Shedding! (Part 3)
The invisible waves brimming with overwhelming power had an endless oppressive force akin to dominion.Anyone daring to attempt a touch, even if they were a fellow Three Limits powerhouse, would find themselves dispersed, their heads hammered as if struck by a heavy mallet.
The monks recalled that deep night, the horrific gold-white eerie sun spanning three hundred zhang...
"Senior Brother Meng’s physical talent is truly unparalleled throughout history..."
The old monk’s voice carried a hint of complexity:
"Not only that, but his other talents are equally remarkable..."
Compared to his last visit to the Shaolin, Meng Chuan’s Qi Blood had increased severalfold.
And this was just within one year...
Before long.
Upstairs, the sound of resounding, surging Qi waves burst forth again, expanding ring upon ring.
If Meng Chuan weren’t already counted as one of Shaolin Temple’s own, Senior Brother, charging him for using such a treasured place...
Charging a hundred thousand per hour wouldn’t be too much!
After the Qi waves subsided, an overwhelming feeling rose in everyone’s hearts, making even deep breaths difficult.
This feeling...
"Senior Brother Meng... perhaps today another major breakthrough..."
This was a common occurrence, and the Shaolin monks were slowly trying to accept it...
As the suffocating feeling manifested again, the treasured place where Meng Chuan was located had already returned to silent tranquility.
In the quiet chamber.
Row upon row of shimmering lights, like ink drops, appeared on his skin.
Releasing his skin’s confinement, the shimmering lights seeped through his pores, penetrating his skin and merging into his body.
The extraordinary power continuously gathered, and Meng Chuan’s originally light yellow skin gradually deepened in color.
His eyes flickered, and Meng Chuan softly uttered, "Oh?"
With a bit of contemplation, he immediately wielded control over his physique, quickly returning to normal.
No matter how powerful, this method was merely a top-tier Hard Skill.
Unexpectedly, at the moment of Limit Breaking, it could effect a significant transformation in his body that other ordinary Horizontal Training Skills couldn’t achieve.
The threads of energy-laden shimmering light made his skin more rigid, surpassing even the resilience of black shark skin armor.
In other words, simply the strength of his skin was no less than Third Grade internal armor.
Coupled with the protection of numerous Hard Skill Treasure Lights and True Qi, it was considered comparable to Fourth Grade divine armor in physical quality...
Furthermore, Meng Chuan understood why the Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill could bring such a significant defensive change upon Limit Breaking.
It wasn’t a result of special effects.
It stemmed from insights gained during his successive Limit Breaking from the Black Tortoise True Body Refinement, applied to every subsequent Limit Breaking cultivation, resulting in an inevitable outcome.
The essence of Limit Breaking is ’improvement and optimization.’
Handled by him, this method had already been revitalized, surpassing the strength scope of ordinary cultivation techniques...
At this moment, Meng Chuan realized just how high his talent was in the physical path!
"My formidable body depends entirely on the powerful Innate Essence Full talent, unrelated to special attributes.
Control panel, bring to me...!"
Meng Chuan’s eyelids twitched, and the scattered light converged.
A new entry appeared, flashing with the unique dark light of the Black Tortoise Series Hard Skills.
[Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill: Limit Broken]
[Limit Breaking Attribute Acquired: Transcendence (Core)]
"Bound by shackles, not by desire; eight paths to liberation, unstoppable."
Filled with emotion, the second core attribute was within reach, and this journey was indeed not easy.
Would this method follow his heart’s desire in Limit Breaking, and would its effects align with his expectations?
Meng Chuan felt a bit concerned because until now, he hadn’t sensed any transformative effects on his body from the attribute.
"Transcendence... did it fail?"
Looking at the attribute column, a new entry appeared before Meng Chuan—
[Transcendence (First Tier Core)]
Mortal Binding: The body and soul can break free from the physical body’s shackles, allowing the soul to traverse the world unbounded by the body’s limitations;
Five Elements Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
Yin-Yang Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
Muscled Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
Karmic Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
Space-Time Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
Catastrophic Binding: Awaiting unbinding;
True Self Binding: Awaiting unbinding.
"Phew..."
Meng Chuan let out a sigh of relief, glad that nothing unexpected happened.
However, compared to other attributes, [Transcendence] seemed rather extraordinary.
Meng Chuan carefully scanned over it several times, closing his eyes in thought.
Firstly, the function of the attribute was indeed as he expected, capable of achieving self-transcendence.
The first effect, which seemed to unlock the Mortal Binding, appeared to align with his thoughts.
Soon, he would retrieve the Dharma Crown and Treasure Umbrella to conduct a test.
Moreover, the attribute’s eight functions corresponded to the ’eight paths to liberation, unstoppable.’
Although he didn’t know what effects would emerge once the remaining seven bindings were unbound.
But just the name itself made his heart subtly filled with some anticipation.
How to unlock it?
Meng Chuan, adhering to the inertia of cultivating the Five Elements Qiankun Technique, looked at the Horizontal Training Skill column again.
[Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill: One Limit Breaking (1%)]
Meng Chuan’s eyes slightly narrowed; his guess was correct.
"Indeed, a cultivation technique containing core characteristics is consistent with the Five Elements Qiankun.
They both require me to proactively develop a thorough understanding to raise the upper limit of the technique.
Only then will the panel display the words ’Pending Limit Breaking.’
Which cultivation technique should be thoroughly understood?
The major classification is first horizontal training, stimulating acupoints and refining the body, this is undoubtedly true.
Next, according to the second restraint [Binding of the Five Elements], can it be deduced that one must find a horizontal training skill related to the Five Elements?
Thinking of this, Meng Chuan slightly frowned.
With his acumen, he immediately realized the advancement difficulty of [Transcendence] likely far exceeds [Five Qi Chaoyuan]...
The horizontal training related to the Five Elements... is still quite easy to find.
Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill belongs to water and can be directly used.
Then learn something like [Karmic Fire Golden Body Technique], gather metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and it should be possible to unlock [Binding of the Five Elements].
The subsequent Yin Yang, and physical restraints also pose no major issue.
There are corresponding cultivation techniques, whether already mastered or newly learned, trying multiple times will eventually achieve thorough understanding.
But from the fifth restraint [Binding of Causality], the difficulty suddenly rises...
Involving causal horizontal training techniques...
Meng Chuan racked his brains trying to understand how ’strengthening the body’ could involve causality...
He can be sure that this type of horizontal training skill is absolutely unavailable on Blue Star and must rely on his own creation.
"This is forcing me to research those causal things from the Buddhist Sect..."
Wiping his face, Meng Chuan immediately lets go of his adverse mentality, his gaze determined.
First, find some related classics, read and research them when unoccupied.
Still far from unlocking the Binding of Causality, his martial arts understanding by then will be far beyond what it is now.
At that time, looking ’downward’ with higher vision might be much easier.
Anyway, asking him to think about these now...
Causality, space-time, disaster, thinking about them only invites heart demons...
"Take it slow, unlock each restraint step-by-step, but let me first see how unlocking the Binding of Mortal Flesh works..."
Recalling vividly the thrilling journey with Liao Chen and others in the Red Fiend Nest.
Only with his abnormally developed physique did he barely defeat the Big Buddha Head’s Split Soul.
With body and soul entering the Dharma Realm of Bei Ju Luzhou together, he thought for a very long time leveraging ’Little Sumeru Mountain’ to boost and refine the body...
...
"Let’s give it a try first."
Meng Chuan restrained his momentum, sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Scanning around the treasure land, his eyes flickered.
After thinking, he still released Dragon Demon and Elephant God to guard the shell.
This time not only the soul detaches from the body, but the physique also leaves.
His shell loses the protection of the physique, and becomes like an empty shell with no dependence, very dangerous.
"Still need to craft my own treasure land, only then will I feel secure..."
Closing his eyes, the last thought flickered for an instant, plunging into brief darkness.
Not knowing how much time has passed.
Meng Chuan felt it took at least...
The time it takes for a cigarette to burn out.
"Clunk—"
Clear and short, yet carrying some weight, like the sound of a spring lock of a deadbolt colliding, without knowing where from within the body.
At the moment his consciousness left the body, an extreme sense of relaxation exploded throughout his being.
As if a snake soaking in herbal wine escapes the jar for freedom, each cell brimmed with joy and thrill.
The spine from the top down, resonances sounded between bones, followed by tearing sounds.
Muscles churned like dragons tumbling, skin glowing inch by inch.
Dragon Demon’s eyes widened, emitting a peculiar gaze.
From top to bottom, sizing up Meng Chuan, with greatly shocked eyes.
The four pillar legs of the coiled Elephant God hugged his body more tightly.
Its trunk swayed in Meng Chuan’s lap, feeling every breath of his...
Eh?
Breathing stopped?!
In the Elephant God’s eyes, an unprecedented astonished expression was revealed!
The two beasts looked at each other for a few breaths, then immediately guarded his shell more tightly...
The chrysalis shedding old skin, all start with the back first cracking.
The new body slowly emerged, wing buds curled like crumpled paper.
Body fluids infused, wing membranes gradually spread, veins distinct.
The old shell left a semi-transparent husk, the new cicada lustrous, wings lightly vibrating.
Ultimately parted from the old shell and left...