There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 75 Don't you recognize me?

The moonlight, like the first bloom of the moon, was warm, clear, and reflected throughout the entire sea of ​​consciousness!
Li Benji's already fragile remnant soul was like thin ice under the blazing sun, its shadow twisting violently, and the wisps of soul mist at its edges were instantly evaporated and annihilated! It seemed as if it would completely dissipate at any moment!
Amidst the excruciating pain, Li Benji instead unleashed a wildly joyful scream!
"A Dao Seed?! Such unparalleled talent should rightfully be mine! Once I seize this body and refine this Dao Seed, my path ahead will be clear, and the road to immortality will be within my grasp!"

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the ghostly claws tore at Chen Qing's will even more frantically!

However, the pure light of the Dao seed flowed, and the ghost claws crumbled upon it, unable to advance an inch!
"As expected of a Dao Seed of Spiritual Light! It can actually withstand such erosion!"

As the thought was transmitted, the mottled and decayed golden core, wrapped in the filthy natal fire, sank into Chen Qing's dantian like a dripping poisonous wax!

"laugh!"

The chilling black fire spread throughout his body in the blink of an eye!
Wherever it went, a filthy and domineering force was trying to forcibly corrupt this young and vibrant body!

The excruciating pain was overwhelming, causing me immense suffering both internally and externally!
But Chen Qing's will was as strong as steel. He held on to the last bit of clarity in his mind and withstood the tearing of his soul by the ghost claws and the burning of his body by the black flames!
"What's going on with Li Benji? Can a Golden Core cultivator live for so many years? However, judging from the appearance of his soul, it's like a candle flame in the wind, which means I still have a chance to turn the tables!"

With this thought in mind, Chen Qing steeled his resolve.

"But if something is impossible, then let the torch be passed on even when the fuel is exhausted! Even if the foundation is destroyed, I will not do the work for others!"

However, when he focused his mind into his dantian, he suddenly discovered that deep within the blood and qi distorted by the filthy fire, a speck of eerie white stardust, like a ferocious beast lurking in the deepest abyss, was quietly suspended!

"As expected! In addition to the spiritual light of the Dao Seed, even a wisp of the Star Silence Tribulation Light has been sent!"

The moment he saw this object, a thought arose in Chen Qing's mind!

He thought of the method he had seen in the clay tablet in the hands of the scribe in the Remnant Scroll Pavilion when the consciousness of the slave warrior descended!

"The Return of the Tribulations to the Origin"!
A dangerous and unorthodox method of rebuilding one's health!

Its core principle is to burn one's boats and draw upon the power of calamity to incinerate the old body, and be reborn from the ashes of annihilation!

"Although this place is isolated by the great formation and cannot attract the earth vein calamity, the Starry Night Calamity Light is of a higher rank than ordinary calamities! Even though Li Benji is a remnant soul of the Golden Core, he is essentially an external evil and filth. He can use this light as a blade to carry out the method of destruction before construction! Moreover, apart from this Starry Night Calamity Light, I'm afraid there is nothing else in my body that can affect the Golden Core!"

Thinking of this, Chen Qing no longer hesitated, his mind like a knife, slashing towards that silent stardust!

"lead!"

"boom--"

A violent tremor ran through my dantian!

That tiny speck of stardust burst forth with a blinding, eerie white light!
The chilling, desolate aura that withered all things transformed into countless extremely cold ice blades, surging back through the body!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Where the ice blade passed, the filthy black fire seemed to have met its nemesis, freezing, dimming, and dissipating!
The flesh and blood eroded by the black fire were further destroyed and refined under the pure power of annihilation!
This is not destruction, but rather the forceful erasure and reset to zero by using the power of annihilation to remove all impurities that are not of origin, are foreign, or are decaying!
Wow!

Shattered under the impact of the power of annihilation, his cultivation at the first realm plummeted in an instant!

"Crack!"

The decaying golden elixir, suspended above the dantian and releasing its elixir fire to corrupt the body, emitted a cracking sound!

"what happened!?"

Li Benji's remnant soul let out a miserable howl!

The cracks on the surface of the golden pill immediately expanded and spread!
Dan's body trembled violently, and his radiance dimmed rapidly. The already fragile remnant soul imprint, tainted by the tribulation light, began to burn with a hissing sound!
"Starry Night Calamity Light?! The True Meaning of the Mysterious Female Annihilation? This...this is impossible!" Li Benji's mind was filled with disbelief, shock, and fear. "How could an ant at the initial stage of cultivation possess such immense power?!"

He suddenly realized something, and his remaining will recklessly crashed into the core of Chen Qing's will, trying to grasp a sliver of truth!
In an instant, countless shattered fragments of thought and deeply hidden memory imprints exploded in the violent collision of minds!

Images flashed rapidly through Li Benji's collapsing consciousness—

At Changfeng Courtyard, enlightenment begins to emerge! On the Tianyan Platform, life-burning formation is broken! Ninefold imperial decree bestows a name upon the Hidden Star!
"So...it was you!" Li Benji's remnant soul trembled violently. His madness, greed, and resentment receded like the tide, leaving only a kind of understanding that pierced through the dust of ages and...relief.

The mournful cry of the golden elixir abruptly ceased, and the tainted elixir fire extinguished.

"The true spirit is immortal... eternal reincarnation? So be it, to fall at your hands is to have a proper end..."

The last vestige of hope was completely annihilated in the light of annihilation.

The decaying golden core, covered with spiderweb-like cracks, floated silently above the shattered dantian, its luster completely gone.

Inside the quiet room, the eerie, dark red array of lights dissipated completely, extinguishing entirely.

The binding force dissipated.

Chen Qing fell to the ground with a thud, his bones and tendons shattered!
However, deep within the sea of ​​consciousness, the inner radiance of the Dao seed was even more refined and gentle than before!
"It was actually burned to ashes by the plundering light?"

Looking back, Chen Qing was still filled with shock and doubt amidst the excruciating pain.

Even if Li Benji's soul was a remnant of a elixir, he was still a Golden Core cultivator!
"Could it be that he used evil methods to prolong his life, making his foundation extremely rotten, so that once it is exposed in his physical body, he will be extremely vulnerable? Otherwise, how could he have lived for thousands of years?"

The thought had barely formed in his mind.

"boom!"

Deep within this body, a vast and powerful essence, like a frozen river bursting its banks, carried the true meaning of the desolate stars refined and purified by the light of calamity, and washed over the limbs and bones!
Destruction leads to creation, and a hidden vitality is emerging!

"Whoosh—" Where the essence passed, the meridians that had been eroded by the elixir fire were cleansed of all impurities! The membranes shimmered with a warm, luminous glow, with specks of stardust and cold light flowing within them, making them far more resilient than before!
A chilling sensation emanated from the depths of his dantian, replacing the original warmth!

"This... a chill running through my dantian?"

Chen Qing looked inward in astonishment.

His shattered dantian had been rebuilt into a dark and secluded palace, and his fallen cultivation level was recovering at an alarming speed! But his foundation... was now completely different!
"Because it was destroyed and then rebuilt by the light of calamity, its foundation has changed? Never mind, this is not the time to delve into it. The great formation is broken, and its aura is leaking out. Someone could come to investigate at any time! We must restore our mobility as soon as possible!"

He endured the excruciating pain of his meridians being reshaped and his dantian being frozen, and drew upon that icy essence to circulate it throughout his body!
When his vital energy surged to its peak, attempting to break through the mid-stage barrier of the first realm, Chen Qing's heart stirred!
“Visualization!”

His physical form was based on the Mountain and Sea Diagram, but at this moment, three images flashed through his mind like lightning—

In the highest heavenly palace, the Immortal Emperor ascended to heaven, and golden rays descended from the nine heavens!

At the summit of the sea of ​​clouds, on the sacred mountain of the Void Abyss, starlight and flowing wine cleanse the soul!

The earth stands majestically, the Xuandu Mountain stands tall, bearing witness to the vicissitudes of time!

The three scenes of heaven, mountains, and earth are interwoven and superimposed, transforming into an unprecedentedly magnificent Taoist map!
"Buzz!"

The moment the Dao diagram settled, the icy essence in his dantian suddenly boiled and surged!
An unprecedented sense of clarity swept through my entire body!

Every part of the body, every meridian, is clearly visible, all reflected in the mind's thoughts!
Mid-stage of the first realm: internal observation of the meridians, and the connection of the five senses to the profound realm—success!

"not enough!"

Chen Qing's thoughts shifted again, guiding the icy essence that had been refined by the calamity light and blessed by the Three Realms Dao Diagram to permeate his muscles, bones, and skin!
"Chi chi chi——"

His blood and qi surged like mercury, and wisps of cold, black qi rose from his body! Beneath his skin, jade-like luster flowed, but it was not warm and lustrous jade; instead, it shone with a cold, starlight-like light!
In the later stage of the first realm, one's qi and blood become like mercury, and one's skin and membranes become lustrous, thus achieving completion!
That energy was still surging!
Without hesitation, he forced all his surging blood and energy back into his dantian!

"Boom!"

A violent tremor ran through his dantian, like ripples forming in a cold pool!

Three inches below the navel, a point of deep, cold light suddenly shone!
The first stage is complete, qi and blood return to their origin, light emanates from below the navel, and one is accomplished!
"However, what it emitted was not golden light, but a ghostly light!"

In a short while, his dantian was completely destroyed, and he returned to the first realm, and even reached perfection!
The immense lingering power originating from the burning of the elixir by the calamity and the visualization of the Dao diagram finally dissipated.

"As long as I have enough spiritual energy, advancing to the second realm will be a natural progression, and even condensing a life talisman will be within my grasp. However, this is a new avatar in the dream, so I must carefully plan my life talisman and not act rashly."

Chen Qing focused his mind and introspected.

The newly formed dantian is like a frozen pool, with a faint light flickering at its core, resonating with the qi and blood throughout the body.

however……

Above the dim light, a strange object, like congealed blood, hung motionless!
Chen Qing's heart tightened suddenly!

That was a decaying golden pill covered with spiderweb-like cracks!
The body was lifeless and without light. Although it had no soul master, it was a self-contained entity, emitting a faint and cold corrosive power, like a maggot clinging to a bone, stubbornly polluting and assimilating his newly formed cold jade foundation!

"This thing..."

Just as I was filled with surprise and doubt!

"Boom!"

Just then, the tightly closed stone door was suddenly pushed open by a tremendous force!

Chen Qing's heartstrings tightened instantly, and he was ready to unleash his power!

"This is the deepest part of the Xuanyu Prison, with layers of obstacles and numerous array formations and restrictions. With my current cultivation level at the peak of the first realm, I definitely won't be able to get out by fighting desperately alone. I need to think of a way..."

Outside the door, the jailers who had escorted him rushed in.

"Ancestor! A section of the outer protective array has been damaged! Are you alright?"

Once they stopped and saw Chen Qing, they were immediately filled with surprise and doubt.

Seeing this, Chen Qing's heart stirred. He lowered his voice and said in a slightly hoarse tone, "What? You don't recognize me just because I've changed my appearance?"

Upon hearing this, the faces of the group immediately showed awe and fear!
"Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!"

With several muffled thuds, the men all knelt down, their foreheads hitting the cold stone floor hard!

"Congratulations, Ancestor, on achieving great success in your divine arts! May you enjoy immortality and eternal bliss!"

His voice trembled, filled with fear and submission from the depths of his soul!

Chen Qing nodded slightly.

"……Um."

　This is the second update today. I sincerely hope you will continue reading...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)