Chapter 218 : Heaven-grade Mystery Chest, Body Training Divine Ability!

Chapter 218: Heaven-grade Mystery Chest, Body Training Divine Ability!

A body training cultivator was, in essence, an advanced version of a mortal martial artist.

The difference lay only in the fact that many mortal martial artists merely tempered their physiques, yet were unable to carry spiritual energy within their bodies.

Body training cultivators walked the path of hiding spirit within the flesh. As such, their level of development of the Spirit Embryo Secret Store was often extremely low.

And precisely because of this, Spirit Embryo Divine Abilities and body cultivators were fundamentally incompatible.

To be exact, within a body cultivator’s Spirit Embryo Secret Store, there existed only an extremely small amount of spiritual energy—far from enough to activate a divine ability.

Unless one cultivated body training to the Eighth Realm, or even the Ninth Realm.

In that case, even if the Spirit Embryo Secret Store accounted for only a small fraction of the total spiritual energy in the body, once one’s cultivation reached heaven-defying heights, that tiny portion might still be sufficient to activate a divine ability.

However, according to what Chu Huaixu knew, there had never been a Ninth Realm body cultivator in this world!

“Oh, that’s not entirely right. The Dao Ancestor might count as one.”

“It’s just that he seems to have hidden it very deeply.” He muttered inwardly.

That said, when a body cultivator developed their physical body to a certain level, there was indeed a probability of awakening a Body Training Divine Ability.

Moreover, the difficulty of activating a Body Training Divine Ability was several times greater than that of activating a Spirit Embryo Divine Ability!

There was no helping it— the path of body training had always been the most arduous and agonizing cultivation path.

In this world, body cultivators who possessed divine abilities were exceedingly rare.

To this day, only a handful of Body Training Divine Abilities had ever been recorded.

“Besides, the grade of Body Training Divine Abilities is often lower than that of Spirit Embryo Divine Abilities, lacking their level of profundity.”

“There’s no helping it. The Spirit Embryo is, after all, the most wondrous part of the human body.”

“Crude body cultivators are inferior even in this regard.”

Yet Chu Huaixu truly had not expected that 《Dao Canon》 could actually take both paths into account when it came to divine abilities.

As a “sword man” who single-mindedly wanted to possess two Sword Hearts, he had not considered this direction at all before.

“It really feels like my thinking is becoming more and more ‘sword-ized’.” He mocked himself inwardly.

Anything related to swords seemed to deepen his obsession.

At this very moment, a system notification sounded in his ears.

“【Ding! Would you like to receive your Body Training Divine Ability?】”

Hearing this prompt, Chu Huaixu did not immediately accept it, instead falling into contemplation.

“Back then, I consumed a perfect-quality Xuantian Embryo Breathing Pill personally refined by the Pill King, and paired it with that black small sword. The two combined, and I somehow comprehended a Spirit Embryo Divine Ability.”

“But now, I’m opening a Heaven-grade Mystery Chest!”

“Its value is definitely higher than that of the Xuantian Embryo Breathing Pill.”

“And the funny thing is, Body Training Divine Abilities are usually pretty underwhelming.”

“Unless…” A trace of conjecture arose in Chu Huaixu’s heart.

He silently recited in his mind: Receive!

The next instant, another system notification rang out beside his ears.

“【Ding! You have obtained the Body Training Divine Ability—Flesh Ascension to Sainthood!】”

“Flesh Ascension to Sainthood?” Chu Huaixu naturally knew what these four words represented.

This matched his earlier speculation.

Since it came from a Heaven-grade Mystery Chest, its grade was absolutely not going to be low.

But now, it seemed that it wasn’t merely “not low”—its grade was maxed out outright!

Yet he no longer had time to think.

Because the power of the Body Training Divine Ability had already begun to activate within his body!

A body cultivator hid spirit within the flesh.

Every part of his physical body carried traces of spiritual energy.

Now, all of that spiritual energy began to grow incomparably active.

In addition, Chu Huaixu’s entire body seemed to be coated in a layer of golden light!

An extremely domineering aura spread outward from his body.

This immediately drew the attention of everyone within the Gentleman Temple.

“Hmm? Something’s wrong!” Jiang Zhi, who had been lying on a rattan chair, suddenly vanished and instantly shifted into the cultivation room.

Over the past fifty days, he had been coming over at fixed times every day like clocking in for work—checking on Chu Huaixu’s condition and force-feeding him a fasting pill.

He had come by just two hours ago.

At that time, there had been nothing unusual about this young man.

But now, something was clearly off.

He was glowing!

Jiang Zhi stood before Chu Huaixu, looking at his glowing body.

The golden light was not dazzling, but rather somewhat gentle.

Yet the power contained within it was incomparably domineering and fierce.

This abnormal phenomenon was immediately sensed by Xiang Yan and the others.

A group of high-ranking members of the Dao Gate rushed over together, standing before Chu Huaixu. Not a single one dared to speak aloud, instead communicating through voice transmission.

The formation grandmaster Lu Pan even immediately set up another layer of restriction within the room to prevent any interference.

“What’s going on? Why is he still glowing?” Li Chunsong was dumbfounded.

He transmitted his voice to Zhao Shuqin: “Hurry and use your pupil technique to check his condition!”

“Alright.”

This squint-eyed Fifth Elder slowly opened his eyes.

They were a pair of pupils tinged with dark gold!

Immediately afterward, the dark gold grew increasingly浓郁, until his pupils fully transformed into golden pupils!

At this moment, Chu Huaixu appeared half-transparent before Zhao Shuqin.

He could see the blood flowing through his veins, see his bones, see his internal organs, and see his Spirit Embryo.

Everything—everything—was laid bare before his eyes!

Unable to restrain himself, he transmitted to the others: “All the spiritual energy contained within his flesh is abnormally active right now—there are even signs of unrest!”

“But the strength of his physical body seems to be continuously increasing.”

“Coupled with this golden light around him, it gives me a feeling somewhat similar to the Buddhist sect’s non-transmitted technique 【Vajra Realm】, yet there are obvious differences.”

“But it also seems to possess the effect of indestructible Vajra.” Zhao Shuqin continued transmitting.

“Even more exaggerated is that it’s not just his physical defense that’s increasing—his internal force is also skyrocketing.”

Just as he was about to say more, Chu Huaixu’s body suddenly began to… crack apart!

This scene was somewhat similar to when he had consecutively broken through 《Dao Canon》, yet also different.

“Before, it felt like he was tempering his body—the cultivation method was refining him, his flesh constantly being damaged and then recovering.” Zhao Shuqin said.

“But now, it feels more like… reconstruction?” His tone carried a hint of uncertainty.

Jiang Zhi narrowed his eyes and nodded, saying with certainty: “This kid is reconstructing his physical body right now!”

He continued transmitting to the others: “Some of the top-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures between heaven and earth can also produce similar effects.”

“They can allow a person to be reborn, shedding their old self!”

“But that only exists in legends.”

“Yet Chu Huaixu’s current state—doesn’t it look exactly like rebirth through transformation?”

Just as Jiang Zhi finished transmitting, sure enough, Chu Huaixu’s body began to crackle with sounds—the noises of bones shifting and reforming.

Immediately after, his body grew extremely hot, so hot that white steam began to rise.

His blood started to boil, and even blood-colored currents of energy began to form around him.

“This is… Qi and Blood Power!” Zhao Shuqin made his judgment.

Even the blood itself was undergoing change, producing new power?

Xiang Yan could not help but transmit a question: “Little Martial Uncle, this doesn’t look like he’s refining an Origin Fragment.”

Jiang Zhi gave a definitive answer: “This kid has already finished refining it! His body already contains a strand of Origin Power—I can clearly sense its presence!”

“Moreover, his Origin Power has actually taken residence within the Sea of Consciousness.”

“His current condition has nothing to do with refining an Origin Fragment.”

“Instead, it’s more like—”

Zhao Shuqin抢答ed: “A Body Training Divine Ability!”

Hearing this, everyone grew even more astonished.

“Body Training Divine Abilities are mostly ordinary. How could one have such terrifying effects?” Lu Pan transmitted.

Chu Yinyin had not spoken the entire time. Her horizons were limited, and her experience shallow.

But at this moment, she immediately said: “No matter what happens to Chu Huaixu, I don’t find it strange at all!”

Zhao Shuqin nodded and said: “If this truly is a Body Training Divine Ability, then it is indeed profound.”

“Not only has his Qi and Blood Power increased dramatically, the toughness of his physical body has also been greatly enhanced—at least forty to fifty percent, and it’s still rising!”

“The increase in the power of his physical force is similar!”

“And haven’t you noticed? His body’s self-healing ability also seems to have been further strengthened.”

“Since he’s reconstructing his physical body now, does that mean that even if one of his arms were severed, it might grow back?”

Chu Huaixu’s wound recovery speed was now twice as fast as before, and the entire reconstruction process was nothing short of astonishing.

In truth, this was not strange at all.

Because the so-called true meaning of Flesh Ascension to Sainthood was said to allow—

Rebirth from a single drop of blood!

Even if only a single drop of blood remained, one could recreate the body!

At this moment, Xiang Yan clicked his tongue in amazement: “Both Spirit Embryo Divine Ability and Body Training Divine Ability… Chu Huaixu has become a dual-divine-ability cultivator. This is truly unheard of.”

“Is this because 《Dao Canon》 is miraculous, or because he himself is special?” Even he could not reach a conclusion.

After all, only the Dao Ancestor and this kid before them had ever cultivated 《Dao Canon》.

The Dao Ancestor was so absurdly powerful that no one could ever fully fathom his true depth.

Just as everyone was chatting animatedly, Jiang Zhi’s expression suddenly changed.

He transmitted in surprise: “His physical body reconstruction is about to end, yet the power of his flesh is actually spontaneously drawing in that strand of Origin Power!”

“It seems to be absorbing a portion of it into the physical body.”

The development of events proceeded exactly as Jiang Zhi had said.

This strand of Origin Power first traveled through Chu Huaixu’s limbs and bones, passing through every place capable of hiding spirit within the flesh, yet it did not linger anywhere.

It appeared extremely finicky, as if it despised these places and was unwilling to settle there.

Even his Sixth-grade Mid-grade Spirit Embryo failed to retain it.

In the end, this strand of Origin Power circled around the body of the Heart Sword.

At this moment, however, half of it was forcibly dispersed and absorbed.

This half-strand of Origin Power was split into an unknown number of portions,融入 into every place capable of hiding spirit within the flesh.

The next instant, a heavenly phenomenon manifested!

Above the Gentleman Temple, a golden phantom appeared!

The phantom stood ten thousand zhang tall, as if connecting heaven and earth.

Chu Huaixu suddenly opened his eyes, golden light surging within them.

And this ten-thousand-zhang golden phantom also opened its eyes, releasing a terrifying pressure in all directions!

——Flesh Ascension to Sainthood, Manifestation of Heaven and Earth!