stjorthotic Chapter 215 Immortality
Chapter 215 Immortality
Chapter 215 Immortality (3 words)
To be honest, Chen Yuan's passage across the fifteenth level of the Sky Bridge was somewhat lucky.
If the gatekeeper hadn't been careless and given him an opportunity, given his current proficiency with "Reverse Dragon Strike," he would have had a hard time finding a chance to use it, and most likely wouldn't have found an opportunity until he exhausted his Force.
Ultimately, it comes down to a lack of solid foundation.
If his understanding of the laws or his proficiency in secret techniques had improved further, the situation when he broke through the fifteenth floor would not have been so perilous.
"If it's this difficult to get past the fifteenth floor, there's a high chance it won't be able to get past the sixteenth."
Chen Yuan was very clear about his judgment, but he was a little curious. The fifteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge had already demonstrated the highest level of "Even the Immortal can be defeated", so what methods would the guardian of the sixteenth level use?
Although the Bridge to Heaven uses the same secret techniques depending on the method used by the challenger, Chen Yuan's current "Reverse Dragon Strike" is a fusion of laws and does not belong to any single law of the Wind.
As a pure time-based chaos monument, the guardian of the Tongtian Bridge of the Primordial Chaos Monument naturally cannot use the law of fusion.
This means that starting from the sixteenth floor, the gatekeepers will definitely use entirely new methods.
Driven by this curiosity, Chen Yuan arrived at the sixteenth floor. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the battle officially began.
Then it ended very quickly.
Because the gatekeeper killed him with a single sword strike, at a speed that exceeded Chen Yuan's reaction limit, the whole process was swift and decisive.
In reality, Chen Yuan, who had already reached the gates of the City Lord's Mansion, suddenly stopped, a look of surprise in his eyes: "Such powerful time acceleration!"
"No, that's no longer just a simple acceleration of time."
He carefully recalled the gatekeeper's attack and discovered that not only was the opponent's offensive fierce, but his own reaction speed had also become unusually slow.
"I've been subjected to time slowdown!" he finally realized.
Time deceleration, a branch of the mysteries of time acceleration, can slow down the opponent's time flow, making their actions and reactions sluggish.
To be honest, Chen Yuan also knows how to use this move, because the fifth level of the Riding the Wind Manual, "Time Corridor," has the effect of slowing down time.
However, for opponents with a deep understanding of the laws of time, time slowing down is not so easy to apply.
Firstly, it is easily countered by the time acceleration law on the other party; secondly, this branch is easy to learn but difficult to master.
Chen Yuan had learned about the slowing technique long ago, but he wasn't proficient in it and could only use it on opponents whose understanding of the laws was weaker than his.
This gatekeeper was clearly proficient in all the branches of time acceleration, and even time deceleration was used very skillfully, so that he was caught off guard and then instantly killed by the opponent's accelerated sword.
"It seems that we should start exploring the three great mysteries from the sixteenth floor of the Bridge to Heaven."
Chen Yuan secretly speculated: "The time acceleration on the sixteenth floor is about five hundred times, so the seventeenth floor is the limit of time acceleration? And the eighteenth floor involves the mysteries of time stopping?"
Although the later levels are irrelevant to him now, the performance of the gatekeeper has given him insight into his future research direction.
"Yes, let's take it one step at a time. Let's start with the time acceleration we're most familiar with, and gradually master all the mysteries."
"Of course, the laws of fusion cannot be neglected."
Chen Yuan definitely needs to cultivate the Law of Fusion, after all, it is a shortcut to becoming the Lord of the Universe.
Otherwise, when he becomes a cosmic sage in the future, he will have to start from scratch to comprehend the laws of space, and it is unknown how many years it will take to achieve that.
With the support of the optimization system, the path of wind and time fusion allows him to proceed to the end almost without any bottlenecks, which is far more efficient and stable than comprehending the laws of space alone.
Having determined his future direction, Chen Yuan entered the City Lord's Mansion and headed straight for the secret chamber of the Chaos Stele.
Seven days later, he returned to his residence, brimming with inspiration.
Chen Yuan gained a great deal from this study of the Primordial Chaos Stele.
Because he not only answered the questions about the fourth picture, but also comprehended the contents of the fifth and sixth pictures, he had a clearer understanding of his future cultivation direction.
For a normal cultivator, it would be difficult to comprehend the content of the subsequent diagrams without fully understanding the fourth diagram. However, Chen Yuan was different. He had already fully grasped the 108 essential aspects of the laws of time, so the content of the first six diagrams was no challenge for him at all.
After half a year of digestion, Chen Yuan's understanding of the laws has advanced further, especially the secret technique "Light Ripples". He has completed the combination of the fourth form and has also gained some understanding of the fifth and sixth forms.
On the rooftop, Chen Yuan slowly opened his eyes and sighed, "Comprehending the laws is getting harder and harder."
It should be noted that he had been cultivating in Chaos City for half a year, which theoretically should be equivalent to five years of cultivation in the outside world.
He had previously spent five years advancing from the twelfth to the thirteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge, but now, after half a year in Chaos City, he had only managed to comprehend one-third of the laws of the fourteenth level, and that was only with the guidance of the Chaos Stele.
This is not because Chen Yuan's speed of comprehending the laws has slowed down, but because the Tongtian Bridge has reached this stage, and the difficulty increases with each level, so it is normal for the rate of improvement to slow down.
However, the reason Chen Yuan sighed like this was that he found that cultivating in Chaos City was not much more efficient than in the Primal Universe.
This is because the existence of the "Original Research Record" allowed Chen Yuan to maintain a relatively fast research efficiency. Although the support from the external environment was present, it accounted for a small proportion.
Under normal circumstances, the environment of the initial universe would be ten times more efficient for others, but for Chen Yuan, it would only be five times more efficient at most—this is because he has too many auxiliary insights, which have already created a diminishing marginal effect.
"The effects of the Primal Research Record, the blessing of the Origin Land, and the Possession Talent of Irelia are all unrelated to the Chaos City environment. On the contrary, the slow flow of time here will slow down the progress."
After clarifying these relationships, Chen Yuan found that Chaos City's usefulness to him had further diminished.
"In that case, I don't need to stay in Chaos City for the full three hundred years. After all, the efficiency here isn't much higher than in the original universe, and the flow of time is too slow, making it easy to miss events in the original universe."
"The key issue is that I cannot actively collect primordial energy here; I can only rely on the Holy Embryo Breathing to slowly accumulate it, which is extremely inefficient."
After weighing the pros and cons, Chen Yuan quickly made a decision: "Well, the only advantage here is the Chaos Stele. Once I've used up all the Chaos Stele's comprehension attempts, I'll go back to the Primal Universe."
That's what he said, but he couldn't possibly waste the opportunity to comprehend the Chaos Stele. On the contrary, he wanted to make full use of this time to maximize the effect of the Chaos Stele.
"Anyway, the Primordial Palace has been put into the optimization section and is being optimized. Since the time acceleration function is not working, we can temporarily ignore the secret techniques while cultivating in Chaos City and focus on comprehending the laws."
Chen Yuan carefully planned, saying, "As for secret techniques, as long as one comprehends the laws sufficiently, improvement will be quite rapid. With the acceleration from the Primordial Palace, one will be able to catch up quickly."
After formulating his cultivation plan, Chen Yuan wasted no more time and immediately devoted himself to comprehending the laws of time.
He is currently focusing on cultivating the "Light Ripple" secret technique, which explains the fourth picture. With the support of a series of methods, his comprehension of the secret technique has progressed by leaps and bounds, even leaving his teacher, Orona, stunned time and time again.
Time flies, and another six months have passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Chen Yuan unusually did not study the laws, but instead stared intently at the system panel.
After a year of continuous practice, his "Fetal Breathing Method" has finally reached 99.99% of the entry level, and he is only one step away from becoming proficient.
Finally, after two hours, the proficiency of the fetal breathing method jumped again, reaching 100% and instantly advancing from the beginner level to the proficient level.
This also means that his realm has been raised from the first level of the Fetal Breathing Realm, the "Mind Breathing Realm," to the second level, the "Divine Breathing Realm."
In an instant, Chen Yuan noticed that the Holy Embryo, which had already merged with the core of his soul, had finally begun to evolve. Soon, he felt that the Holy Embryo had transformed into a completely new level.
Moreover, as the Holy Embryo advanced, Chen Yuan's entire body underwent significant changes, causing him to close his eyes and carefully perceive the changes with his mental power.
A moment later, he opened his eyes and had finished assessing his current physical condition.
Overall, this upgrade is a remarkable leap forward.
First, his mind and will underwent a transformation, rising from a primary Venerable to a mid-level Venerable. Moreover, with the improvement of his mind and will, he was able to accommodate souls of even greater strength.
This means that the soul amplitude, which had already reached its limit of fifty times, can be further increased. According to Chen Yuan's estimate, it can now be increased to at least eighty times!
Finally, there is the change in Chen Yuan's mental power. With the transformation of this sacred embryo, his mental power has become more refined, and now it has even penetrated into every cell of his body, allowing him to reach a new level of control over his physical body.
"This level of control—"
When the power of his mind and body were fully integrated, Chen Yuan had a strange feeling: even if his body was shattered to pieces, he could use his powerful mental energy to reassemble it.
"If this level of achievement is possible, isn't it a kind of 'immortality'?"
Chen Yuan immediately prepared to test it out, but not in reality, but in the virtual universe.
Inside the training ground, he simulated a World Lord-level opponent and had it attack him with all its might.
In an instant, the opponent unleashed a full-force punch, which slammed heavily into Chen Yuan's unsuspecting body. The force was so great that it almost instantly pulverized his flesh into a cloud of blood mist.
"As expected, the will of the soul is still there, then—"
With a thought, Chen Yuan's mental will, distributed throughout his cells, began to control the reorganization of his physical body. Before long, a perfectly intact body reappeared in the same spot.
"It took three seconds to complete the body fusion, and the Force within the body decreased by about one percent?"
Chen Yuan smiled with satisfaction after calculating the result: "Not bad. Although it's not as good as the orthodox immortality, it's not far off."
"Let's call this ability pseudo-immortality."