Immortality Begins With Internal Breathing

Dense purple-black smoke rose from Lin Zheyu’s body. His massive frame gradually shrank while crackling sounds echoed from within. As the vascular network spread throughout his body, flesh, tendons, membranes, and bones began regenerating at an astonishing rate, fueled by life energy and blood qi energy. The black skin, covered in grotesque tumors, slowly peeled away like a shell, revealing fresh skin beneath.

I finally did it... It took nearly three hours, Lin Zheyu thought to himself.

However, all he had accomplished was recreating a human body. It remained extremely weak, roughly comparable to that of a Grandmaster realm martial artist. The golden runes within him had yet to be restored. Vast streams of life energy and blood qi continued to pour from the void spaces, rapidly strengthening the newly reborn body.

Within his body, the black demonic patterns still endured, stubbornly resisting the overwhelming tide of life energy and blood qi energy.

Lin Zheyu suppressed the excitement welling up within him and muttered, ”Now comes the moment of truth.”

The golden Heavenly Eye within his sea of consciousness snapped open, flooding his body with brilliant golden light as it focused on the demonic patterns inside him. The entire reason Lin Zheyu had chosen not to use Origin Force and instead reverse the Yao Transformation through his own efforts was for this very moment.

He wanted to witness firsthand how demonic patterns transformed into golden runes during the reversal process. Only by observing them directly could he gain a deeper understanding of the golden runes and ultimately free them from their origins as demonic yao patterns, allowing them to become truly independent law runes.

His heart thundered within his chest like a war drum. Endless torrents of life energy poured from the void spaces. Under Lin Zheyu’s control, golden energy, life energy, blood qi energy, and spirit energy from the spirit divine repository surged together toward the demonic patterns within his body.

Continuous sizzling sounds echoed throughout his body. The stable, powerful structure of the demonic patterns began to break down under the relentless wash of energy he controlled. The process was agonizingly slow, more than a hundred times slower than the regeneration of his physical body.

”Too slow...” Lin Zheyu frowned.

Still, he refused to give up. At the very least, he intended to wait until the first golden rune formed and observe the entire process. Before long, more than another two hours had passed. Deafening rumbling sounds continued to echo from within his body.

Nurtured by the vast influx of life energy and blood qi energy, his physique recovered to roughly 30% of its peak condition. Under the continuous refinement of four pure energies, namely golden energy, life energy, blood qi energy, and spirit energy, the demonic patterns within him finally began to shatter.

They broke apart into countless strands of fundamental law-patterns, the basic structures from which the demonic patterns had been formed. Under the influence of the converging energies, these law-patterns underwent a mysterious transformation and condensed into a brilliant golden rune.

Joy flashed across Lin Zheyu’s face. ”It worked! Just as I thought, even without the mysterious energy produced by Origin Force, I can condense golden runes on my own.”

Sweat covered his forehead, and deep exhaustion showed in his eyes. Breaking down demonic patterns in a controlled manner was incomparably more difficult than simply destroying them. To dismantle enough of the underlying law-patterns to form even a single golden rune, he had expended an enormous amount of mental effort.

Lin Zheyu finally stopped and murmured softly, ”I’ve more or less understood the process. From here, all that’s left is to keep experimenting, keep simulating, and find the correct path forward.”

The golden Heavenly Eye within his sea of consciousness slowly closed. Nearly all of its golden energy had been exhausted, leaving behind only a thin haze scattered throughout the sea of consciousness. Even the reserves stored within the essence origin divine repository and the essence and qi divine repository had been almost completely depleted. No matter how much Lin Zheyu wished to continue, he no longer had the resources to support further attempts.

Lin Zheyu had to admit that fully restoring himself to human form through his own abilities remained beyond his current capabilities. Even so, this was an excellent beginning. He could already reconstruct a human physique on his own. As his strength continued to grow, the day would eventually come when he could restore the golden runes within his body as well.

A gentle breeze swept past. Sitting cross-legged where he was, Lin Zheyu rapidly digested the insights he had gained from reversing the yao demonic patterns.

A thought stirred in his mind. I’ll call it the Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual. Shamanic cultivators possessed shamanic patterns. Yaos possessed demonic patterns. Why can’t martial cultivation have divine patterns?

With that thought settled, Lin Zheyu turned his attention to the status panel within his consciousness.

[Heaven Rewards the Diligent]

[Name: Lin Zheyu]

[Origin Force: 209]

[Techniques: Earth Shrinking Technique (Perfection), Primordial Concealment Technique (Perfection), Golden Ocean Secret Manual (Perfection), Seven Absolute Sabers (Fifth Stage: 3%), Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual (Dormancy), Primordial Golden Body (Second Stage: 100%), Spirit Martial Universe Secret Art—Advanced (Perfection)]

”It worked!” Joy spread across Lin Zheyu’s face.

The Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual was a cultivation technique for golden runes that he had derived from his previous insights and the process he had just observed during the condensation of the golden rune. Lin Zheyu officially named these mysterious golden runes Martial Divine Patterns.

”The first stage converts yao demonic patterns into Martial Divine Patterns. The second stage eliminates the demonic pattern stage entirely and cultivates golden runes. No, they should be called Martial Divine Patterns now. As long as I can create the second stage, the golden runes will completely break free from their origins as demonic patterns and become divine patterns unique to martial artists. If I want to use the Primordial Golden Body to forge an unprecedented martial path, this step is absolutely essential,” Lin Zheyu murmured softly.

A powerful aura suddenly surged from his body. The appearance of the technique within his consciousness proved that the first stage of the Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual was a viable path. Previously, Lin Zheyu had relied on the mysterious power generated by Origin Force to transform demonic patterns.

The first stage of the Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual, however, required neither Origin Force nor demonic arts. Instead, it involved directly cultivating demonic patterns he had himself comprehended before converting them into Martial Divine Patterns.

The entire process of cultivating demonic arts had been removed. The mysterious energy produced by Origin Force was no longer involved. This represented an enormous breakthrough. Over the past several months, Lin Zheyu had continuously used the golden Heavenly Eye to study demonic patterns, observe the process of Yao Transformation, and examine how demonic patterns integrated with the mysterious formation. His understanding of both demonic patterns and golden runes had reached an extraordinary depth.

Creating the first stage of the Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual had not been difficult at all. The true challenge lay in the second stage. Fortunately, Lin Zheyu had already gained some inspiration from the condensation process of the golden rune, or rather, the Martial Divine Pattern. As long as he continued refining and improving the first stage through repeated iterations, the experience and insights gained would eventually be enough to create the second stage.

Once that second stage existed, no matter how difficult or dangerous the cultivation process might be, Lin Zheyu could rely on Origin Force to repeatedly cultivate, test, and refine it. Through countless iterations, he could perfect it until it became a true martial cultivation technique.

Once he successfully cultivated the second stage of the Martial Divine Pattern Secret Manual, he would gain the ability to cultivate Martial Divine Patterns directly, without relying on demonic patterns as an intermediary. That would mean the Primordial Golden Body had completely broken free from demonic arts and yao demonic patterns, becoming a genuine and powerful martial cultivation technique.

”Next, I’ll use Origin Force to recover,” Lin Zheyu said softly. With a flick of his hand, five mid-grade spirit stones appeared in his palm.

A thought echoed through his mind: Use 2 units of Origin Force to cultivate the Golden Ocean Secret Manual.

A vast surge of mysterious energy erupted forth, instantly sweeping the energy from the spirit stones into Lin Zheyu’s body. The remaining demonic patterns within him rapidly transformed into Martial Divine Patterns under the combined influence of the mysterious energy and golden energy. At the same time, endless streams of golden energy surged from his flesh and poured into his sea of consciousness like rivers flowing into the ocean.

In just a few breaths, his previously depleted sea of consciousness was once again filled with an ocean-like expanse of golden energy. Lin Zheyu slowly opened his eyes. As he gently clenched his right fist, a terrifying power surged through his body.

”Origin Force truly is miraculous,” Lin Zheyu murmured.

He had exhausted nearly all the energy stored within his divine repositories just to reconstruct a human body, and even then, he had recovered only about 30% of his original strength. His Martial Divine Patterns had not been restored either. Yet Origin Force accomplished all of that within a matter of breaths.

Lin Zheyu slowly exhaled. With a thought, he guided the energy within his body back into his divine repositories, causing his aura to plummet to an imperceptible level. Then the surrounding demonic qi flowed into his body. As the Martial Divine Patterns absorbed the demonic qi, their golden radiance gradually shifted to a deep purple-black. A faint veil of purple-black energy spread over his body, concealing his presence.

”It’s time to go back,” Lin Zheyu murmured softly. With a wave of his hand, the formation flags scattered across the ground vanished instantly.