Walker Of The Worlds

Chapter 3486: Creating An Entirely Different Stage!

The reason the Three Apertures Invoking technique limited itself to four links was not because more were impossible. It was because controlling additional links required immense precision and energy. Any imbalance could cause feedback loops, destabilizing the apertures.

But Lin Mu had two things that ordinary cultivators did not.

An obscene amount of immortal essence.

And terrifying control.

Even if he failed, the excess immortal essence would be consumed or dispersed in the attempt, relieving the immediate danger.

It was worth the risk.

Lin Mu did not hesitate.

He began with the top and middle apertures.

He guided a thread of immortal essence from the top aperture, attempting to form a new link along the left side.

It collapsed instantly.

The wisp destabilized and dispersed, slamming into his meridians and causing a spike of pain.

He tried again from the right.

The same result.

Lin Mu clenched his jaw.

Lin Mo realized the issue and spoke quickly. ”Balance. Do both sides at once.”

Lin Mu followed the suggestion.

This time, he extracted two wisps simultaneously, one from each side, maintaining perfect symmetry. He guided them carefully, forcing them to curve in mirrored paths toward the middle aperture.

The moment they touched, the system stabilized.

HUMM

The link formed.

Lin Mu exhaled sharply.

’It worked.’

Encouraged, he repeated the process between the middle and bottom apertures. Two wisp streams, mirrored paths, perfect balance.

HUMM

Another pair of links formed.

The pressure lessened slightly.

Not enough.

The pill was still forty percent intact.

Lin Mu did not stop.

He turned his attention to the top and bottom apertures directly.

HUMM

New links formed.

HUMMHUMMHUMMHUMMHUMM

Then more.

He cycled continuously, forming additional connections, each one demanding absolute focus. Immortal essence was wasted in massive quantities, half of it dispersing uselessly into the environment or being consumed by his physique’s regeneration.

He did not care.

Days passed.

Lin Mu barely registered time anymore. He existed in a state of relentless focus, his body breaking and repairing itself repeatedly as he forced the system to evolve.

Blood dried and flaked off his skin, only to be replaced by fresh wounds.

His apertures changed shape.

Their boundaries blurred.

By the end of the first week, they were no longer simple vortexes connected by a handful of channels.

They were becoming a network.

As more links formed, the excess immortal essence no longer slammed directly into the apertures. Instead, it flowed through the growing web of connections, circulating continuously rather than accumulating dangerously.

Weeks passed.

The Martial King Ascension Pill continued to shrink.

Lin Mu continued to build.

More links.

Then more.

Hundreds.

Thousands.

The structure inside his body transformed completely.

Where once there had been three distinct apertures, now there was a vast lattice of circulating immortal essence. The links crisscrossed his entire body, spreading beyond their original locations.

They wrapped around his organs.

They traced along his bones.

They threaded through his muscles.

The apertures were no longer confined to narrow points.

They had expanded conceptually.

By the time a full month had passed, the pill finally dissolved completely.

The final wave of immortal essence surged through the system.

And instead of causing collapse, it flowed.

Smoothly.

Perfectly.

Lin Mu’s internal structure stabilized.

The three original apertures remained at the core, but they were no longer isolated vortexes. They acted as anchors for a vast, interconnected circulation field that spanned his entire body.

It resembled the magnetic field lines of a celestial object. It was as if the magnetic and gravitational field of a sun keeping planets, asteroids and all kinds of celestial objects in various orbits.

It was elegant, complex and most of all... Alive.

The amount of immortal essence flowing through the links was staggering.

Nearly twice the amount contained within the apertures themselves.

Lin Mu’s breathing slowed.

The pain receded.

For the first time in over a month, his body felt stable.

Whole.

He opened his eyes.

The world seemed sharper.

Clearer.

He could feel the immortal essence flowing everywhere within him, responsive and obedient in ways it had never been before.

He had not reached the seventh stage.

But what he had created was something else entirely.

A variant.

A deviation.

An entirely new path branching off from a well established technique.

Lin Mu did not know what to call it.

He only knew one thing.

He had survived.

And in doing so, he had reshaped the Three Apertures Invoking Technique into something the original creators had never imagined.

Whether the heavens approved or not was a question for the future.

For now, Lin Mu sat atop the rock, bloodied but alive, surrounded by the endless sea, having carved a new path through sheer will, desperation, and defiance.

He did not move for a long while after everything finally settled.

The world around him was quiet again. The ocean breathed in its slow, endless rhythm, waves rolling and breaking against the rocks as if nothing extraordinary had happened at all. The sky was clear, the wind gentle, and the sunlight warm against his skin.

Inside his body, however, things were very different.

For the first time in over a month, there was no pressure. No violent surge of immortal essence hammering his flesh from the inside. No desperate struggle to contain energy that refused to obey limits.

What flowed within him now was powerful, yes, but it was orderly, purposeful and most of all... balanced.

Lin Mu closed his eyes and simply rested.

His breathing slowed naturally, falling into a deep, steady rhythm. With each breath, his physique worked quietly, repairing what had been broken. Torn muscle fibers re-knitted themselves.

Microfractures in his bones sealed and strengthened. Damaged organs regenerated cell by cell, guided by the constant circulation of immortal essence flowing through his body in ways that had never existed before.

Recovery came quickly.

Far faster than it should have.

Had these injuries occurred before his recent ordeal, even his Burdenless Dominator Physique would have needed several days to fully restore him.

But now, with the newly evolved state of his Three Apertures Invoking Technique, healing was not limited to localized regeneration anymore. Immortal essence flowed everywhere, reaching even the smallest damaged areas without delay.

Still, the injuries had been deep. Widespread. Some wounds had reached places that even his physique rarely had to repair, touching the very foundations of his body and meridians. For that reason alone, the process took nearly a full day.