Chapter 00278: The Fake Immortal Spirit Body
# The Fake Immortal Spirit Body
Chapter 278
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 278: The Fake Immortal Spirit Body
As soon as Lan Xiaobu entered the Immortal Marrow Pool, he was utterly stunned.
This wasn’t just a place with dense immortal spiritual energy—it was something far beyond that.
Even without actively cultivating, he felt as though he could touch the threshold of the seventh level of the Profound Immortal Realm.
No matter how many immortal crystals or spiritual veins he used, he could never achieve such an effect elsewhere.
While having an abundance of immortal crystals and spiritual veins might allow him to bathe in immortal spiritual mist, it could never give him such a clear perception of the laws of heaven and earth.
After the initial shock, Lan Xiaobu finally had the chance to examine this wood-attribute Immortal Marrow Pool.
The pool spanned several hundred feet in diameter, but it wasn’t filled with water.
Instead, it was brimming with an extremely dense white immortal spiritual mist.
The mist rose over ten meters above the pool’s surface but didn’t spill over.
At the bottom of the pool, there were five meditation cushions—one in each corner and one in the center.
The entire pool was sealed off by restrictive formations, ensuring that not a wisp of immortal spiritual energy could escape.
What an incredible place! Lan Xiaobu sighed inwardly.
Only now did he understand why disciples of major sects always seemed to have an advantage over rogue cultivators.
The Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect was only a six-star immortal sect, yet it possessed such a cultivation holy land.
Although this place only allowed one genius to enter every hundred years, a hundred years was but a blink of an eye for cultivators.
Over a million years, ten thousand geniuses would have the chance to cultivate here.
One could only imagine how many powerful experts this would bring to the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect.
What about seven-star, eight-star, or even nine-star immortal sects? If the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect had a wood-attribute Immortal Spirit Grass, those higher-tier sects must have even better cultivation holy lands.
With this in mind, Lan Xiaobu wondered if he should try to befriend the sect masters of those higher-tier sects.
However, Lan Xiaobu quickly dismissed these thoughts.
He stepped into the Immortal Marrow Pool and settled onto the central meditation cushion.
Before he even began circulating his cultivation technique, he felt a surge of excitement.
As soon as he started the first cycle of the Longevity Sutra, his cultivation began to push toward the seventh level of the Profound Immortal Realm.
In such a place, Lan Xiaobu wasn’t about to waste a single moment.
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While Lan Xiaobu was cultivating in the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect, a few significant events occurred in the Jiangyan Immortal Path’s Forbidden Immortal Bureau.
The first major event was the new Grand Director, Teng Mo, purging the Zhu family from the Jiangyan Immortal Path.
Not a single member of the Zhu family who had committed crimes was spared.
Second, Grand Director Teng Mo announced that if he was not present in the Forbidden Immortal Bureau, the only person with authority to make decisions was Lan Xiaobu, the Immortal Officer.
Third, Guang Li, a third-level Immortal Officer who had just returned to the bureau, was promoted at a speed second only to Lan Xiaobu, becoming the fifth Minor Immortal Officer.
This broke the long-standing tradition of the bureau having only four Minor Immortal Officers.
Moreover, the Forbidden Immortal Bureau hired Guang Jie from the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect as a guest alchemist.
After these events, the Jiangyan Immortal Path finally settled into a period of calm.
At this time, the only thing Grand Director Teng Mo was concerned with was whether Lan Xiaobu had emerged from seclusion.
While Teng Mo was anxiously waiting for news of Lan Xiaobu, the sect master of the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect, Xiao Yueshui, was growing increasingly restless.
It had been a month and a half, and Lan Xiaobu still hadn’t come out.
Xiao Yueshui estimated that Lan Xiaobu should have reached the peak of the Profound Immortal Realm, if not the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
Under normal circumstances, Lan Xiaobu would only need half a month to a month in the Immortal Marrow Pool to break through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
Given Lan Xiaobu’s status as a Grand Alchemist, he must have plenty of Silent Yi Immortal Pills.
Combined with the Immortal Marrow Pool, breaking through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm should have been a smooth process.
Yet, after more than a month, Lan Xiaobu still hadn’t emerged.
This couldn’t help but make Xiao Yueshui anxious.
The Immortal Marrow Pool was a symbol of the Eternal Jade Alchemy Sect.
Prolonged seclusion within it would inevitably weaken the pool’s immortal marrow energy.
Just as Teng Mo was growing increasingly anxious, a series of low, rumbling thunderclaps echoed through the air.
Teng Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The tribulation had arrived.
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Lan Xiaobu was overjoyed.
Previously, he had been at the sixth level of the Profound Immortal Realm.
After just a month and a half of cultivation, he was now facing the Great Unity Immortal Tribulation.
This was the most exhilarating period of his cultivation journey, with every moment bringing tremendous progress.
"Boom!" The first wave of tribulation lightning struck, and Lan Xiaobu punched out with his fist.
With his Immortal Spirit Body, why should he fear the tribulation? If anything, he was worried the tribulation wouldn’t be strong enough.
Three arcs of lightning struck Lan Xiaobu’s arm, tearing it apart.
The sickening sound of bones shattering was clearly audible to Lan Xiaobu himself.
Because Lan Xiaobu had actively attacked the lightning arcs, the first wave of tribulation was followed by even more violent and powerful lightning strikes.
Lan Xiaobu’s heart sank.
This was completely different from what he had expected.
With his Immortal Spirit Body, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal Tribulation shouldn’t have posed such a threat to him.
Lan Xiaobu summoned his Seven-Tone Halberd and the Heaven-Illuminating Seal.
If things continued like this, he might not even survive the tribulation, let alone break through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
At this point, Lan Xiaobu not only intensified his circulation of the Longevity Sutra to push for the Great Unity Immortal Realm but also pushed the Undying Sutra to its limits.
Under such a tribulation, failing to continuously repair his shattered body with the Undying Sutra would be suicidal.
Lan Xiaobu even devoted seventy percent of his energy to operating the Undying Sutra to enhance his physical body, leaving only thirty percent for the Longevity Sutra to break through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
As the Undying Sutra fully activated, Lan Xiaobu immediately felt his body undergoing a profound transformation.
His bones began to change in ways he had never experienced before.
Logically, as an Immortal Spirit Body, he should have already undergone all the transformations required to perfect it.
Unless he was breaking through the Immortal Spirit Body to reach a higher level of physical cultivation.
Yet, Lan Xiaobu couldn’t shake the feeling that this was the first time he was experiencing such a state.
Even someone as slow as Lan Xiaobu could tell that his previous Immortal Spirit Body might have been flawed.
If it wasn’t an issue with his cultivation technique, then it must have been due to the incomplete heavenly laws of the place where he had achieved his Immortal Spirit Body.
His cultivation technique had been constructed by the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, which relied on the external heavenly laws.
It was possible that those laws were flawed.
He had achieved his Immortal Spirit Body in the Lingwei Immortal Domain, a place where even Immortal Kings couldn’t be born.
The heavenly laws there were clearly incomplete.
This meant that his Immortal Spirit Body might have been fake, or at least only valid within the Lingwei Immortal Domain.
In a place with complete heavenly laws, it might not hold up.
While enduring the continuous tearing of his flesh and bones by the tribulation lightning, Lan Xiaobu instructed the Cosmic Dimension Matrix to speed up the reconstruction of the Undying Sutra and the Longevity Sutra.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Crack!
The relentless lightning strikes tore through Lan Xiaobu’s skin and shattered his bones repeatedly.
However, with the Undying Sutra in operation, his body and bones rapidly regenerated.
Lan Xiaobu knew that this wasn’t because he couldn’t survive the Great Unity Immortal Tribulation.
Even cultivators who hadn’t refined their bodies wouldn’t find the Great Unity Immortal Tribulation this difficult.
The reason he was suffering such devastating attacks was that he had actively attacked the first wave of lightning, provoking the heavenly laws and causing the subsequent lightning strikes to grow increasingly powerful.
He had inadvertently created a problem for himself.
The tribulation had become stronger, and his Immortal Spirit Body was flawed.
Perhaps due to the tribulation lightning and the support of the Immortal Marrow Pool, the Cosmic Dimension Matrix completed the reconstruction of the Undying Sutra in just a few minutes.
Lan Xiaobu breathed a sigh of relief.
The new Undying Sutra was indeed different from the original, but the changes were within an acceptable range.
It seemed that his previous Immortal Spirit Body had been fake, a result of the incomplete heavenly laws in the Lingwei Immortal Domain.
As the new Undying Sutra took effect, Lan Xiaobu’s physical recovery speed increased.
When his bones were fully reconstructed, Lan Xiaobu clearly felt that his body refinement technique hadn’t advanced but had instead regressed to the Immortal Nirvana Body.
Lan Xiaobu was relieved.
Finally, things were back to normal.
Although his physical body was now at the Immortal Nirvana Body level, it was stronger than his previous Immortal Spirit Body.
This confirmed that his previous Immortal Spirit Body had indeed been a facade, only valid within the Lingwei Immortal Domain.
The Longevity Sutra had also been refined by the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, but the changes were peculiar.
It wasn’t that the Longevity Sutra was flawed, but rather that it now allowed him to compress his immortal energy, lowering his cultivation level while increasing his strength.
If immortal energy were measured in units, the new Longevity Sutra could compress three to five units of immortal energy into a single unit.
However, the impact of this single unit of immortal energy far exceeded that of the original three to five units.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t compress his energy immediately, as the final wave of tribulation lightning was descending.
With no more worries about his body collapsing, the Longevity Sutra’s circulation gathered vast amounts of immortal energy to forcefully break through the Great Unity Immortal bottleneck.
This final wave consisted of nine consecutive lightning strikes, with only a few breaths between each strike.
"Crack!" As the fourth lightning strike landed, the immortal energy gathered by the Longevity Sutra completely shattered the Great Unity Immortal bottleneck.
Lan Xiaobu looked at the Silent Yi Immortal Pills in his hand with joy.
He had planned to take three pills during the fifth lightning strike, using the remaining strikes to fully break through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
Now, he hadn’t even taken a single pill, yet the bottleneck had been broken.
How many geniuses could break through to the Great Unity Immortal Realm without using Silent Yi Immortal Pills?
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu’s dantian and sea of consciousness felt like a vast ocean that had just been blasted open, requiring an endless influx of immortal energy to fill it.
Without hesitation, Lan Xiaobu pushed the Longevity Sutra’s circulation to its limit.
The center of the Immortal Marrow Pool seemed to form a vortex that sucked in immortal spiritual energy, which, along with the remaining lightning strikes, poured into Lan Xiaobu’s body.
Lan Xiaobu also began compressing his immortal energy, even tossing a few spiritual veins into the pool to ensure the immortal spiritual energy remained dense and abundant.
On the first day, he reached the first level of the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
On the second day, he remained at the first level…
By the thirtieth day, he was still at the first level.
Only Lan Xiaobu knew that his current first level of the Great Unity Immortal Realm was fundamentally different from when he had just broken through.
His immortal energy had been compressed to its limit, and in terms of purity, it could rival that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal expert.
At the first level of the Great Unity Immortal Realm, with his immortal energy compressed to its peak, Lan Xiaobu’s cultivation naturally progressed to the second level…
When Lan Xiaobu finally emerged from his fervent cultivation, he had reached the fourth level of the Great Unity Immortal Realm, officially entering the mid-stage of the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
He stopped not because he wanted to, but because he sensed that the immortal spiritual energy around him was no longer as dense as before.
Feeling the significantly depleted Immortal Marrow Pool, Lan Xiaobu didn’t dare to continue cultivating.
He had already tossed in a few spiritual veins.
If he hadn’t, the pool might have been completely drained.
(That’s all for today’s update.
Goodnight, friends!)
(End of Chapter)