Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: Chaos Body
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Martial God (95)
Chaos Body
Five people were seated in a circle.
They were unusual individuals. Clad in white robes, their hair and even their skin were as white as snow.
However, the auras emanating from each differed.
From the body of the one seated deepest inside emanated thunder qi. The aura flowing from the elderly man beside him was a terrifying heat. Next to the heat-radiating elder sat another elder exuding cold qi, and beside him an elder emitting the five elemental qi. Then, next to that one, an elder whose aura defied precise description.
These five were known by the names Wall Thunder, Fire Extreme, Cold Death, Supreme Void, and Heaven Dam.
Lying naked in the center of the five was a man. Motionless as if unconscious, he was Ak Muyoo, who had fallen after being struck by lightning.
A bluish energy continually roved across the surface of Ak Muyoo's body.
That energy was the lightning he had been struck by at the cliff's edge. The lightning seemed like a living entity.
"Cold Death, you speak first."
Wall Thunder said.
"This man has been struck by lightning. Ordinary people burn to death upon being hit by it. Yet not only is he unscathed, the lightning lingers within his body. To my knowledge, such symptoms appear in only one constitution."
"And you, Fire Extreme?"
"Furthermore, this man has no dantian. It's not that he never cultivated martial arts and thus never formed one. There's only one such constitution."
"And you, Supreme Void?"
"Fire Extreme and Cold Death are correct."
"And you, Heaven Dam?"
"This is the Chaos Body we've awaited for two thousand years."
"Then our two-thousand-year wish is finally granted?"
There was not just the five inside. One more lurked in the inner shadows.
"To confirm precisely, we'd need to place him in the pool, but that's our conclusion thus far."
Wall Thunder replied.
"If he truly is the Chaos Body, what then?"
"The Chaos Body will absorb everything from the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools."
"The Heavenly Gods' Five Pools hold primordial energies. Can a human body withstand them?"
"We cannot, but records state the Chaos Body can."
"Will even the plague that turned our ancestral lands into hell be lifted?"
"It should. And once His Majesty reabsorbs the energies this one takes in, he will become the supreme being of past and present."
"I'm looking forward to it. Where to first?"
"Since he already harbors thunder qi, we plan to head to the Thunder Extreme Iron Pool."
"Contact us when it's done."
"Understood."
Wall Thunder rose from his seat.
Ak Muyoo's body then floated lightly upward.
"What of these?"
Fire Extreme pointed to items stacked aside.
The objects he indicated were Ak Muyoo's clothes and possessions.
"They're of interest, so take them along."
"Got it."
Fire Extreme turned his gaze to Ak Muyoo's possessions.
They floated lightly and entered the inner folds of the solar banner.
Once all items were inside, the solar banner rolled up tightly.
"Let's go."
The five stepped outside.
Ara struggled to open her eyes.
Her eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand catties.
Soon, her vision took in the ceiling embedded with luminous pearls.
The ceiling was quite high.
Even conservatively, it seemed at least ten zhang.
'I jumped off the cliff...'
That was the last of her memories.
No, there was one more.
She had seen Ak Muyoo struck by lightning.
"Muyoo!"
She bolted upright.
"Urk!"
She startled.
The place she occupied was not a bed, but a mud pit.
It clearly resembled a bathtub, yet its contents were thick as a swamp.
No, upon closer look, it wasn't mud.
She ran her hands over her body.
"Ungh!"
She soon grimaced.
She felt no clothes.
She was naked, immersed in this peculiar muddy swamp.
"You had injuries everywhere, so we placed you there."
A low voice came from her left.
Ara turned her head.
"......?"
Ara's eyes widened.
A woman with hair and skin white as snow stood by the door, gazing this way.
"My appearance is a bit unusual, isn't it?"
"That's..."
It wasn't just her looks.
Her voice carried a chill.
Not the coldness born of disdain for someone, but a stark iciness devoid of all emotion.
"It's likely a side effect of living underground for over a thousand years."
"Living underground... Then this place is..."
"The underground beneath what you call the Wall Serpent Hell."
"And you are...?"
"I am Wall Serpent."
"You live here?"
"Yes."
"I thought this was the ruins of the Nuran Kingdom..."
"A name of a kingdom forgotten eons ago."
"Are you their descendant?"
"......"
Wall Serpent did not answer.
"Good heavens..."
Ara stifled a groan inwardly.
She would have denied it or shaken her head.
Yet she simply stood silent.
That meant she was indeed a descendant of the Nuran Kingdom.
"They say the living will survive somehow."
"True. What is this I'm in?"
She had many questions, but chose not to pry.
"It's from the Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool."
"The Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool?"
Ara's eyes went wide.
Her shock stemmed from an ancient tome she had seen in the Emei Sect's secret archives.
[In the beginning, the world was one.
That one was called chaos.
One day, a great explosion shattered the chaos into pieces.
The scattered chaos mixed with other energies, transforming into new ones.
Nine parts out of ten became new energies, but a few retained their original state, forming pools.
Thunder Extreme Iron Pool, Fire Spirit Ultimate Pool, Ice Extreme Cold Pool, Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool, Chaos Heaven Pool.
The people of the world called these five pools the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools, and the energies they emit the Heavenly Gods' Five Energies.
No one knows where the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools are.
But.
They surely exist.
Martial artist, seize the Heavenly Gods' Five Energies. Then you shall ascend to the ranks of gods.]
So the tome had read.
Absurd words—she had chuckled at them.
"Is the Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool—one of the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools—really here?"
"You know of the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools?"
"I read of them in an old tome."
"That was fabricated by our ancestors."
"If your ancestors fabricated it, does that mean all the Heavenly Gods' Five Pools are here?"
"Yes."
"How is Muyoo?"
"So the man struck by lightning is named Muyoo."
"Yes."
"It's hard to say definitively."
"Is he unconscious?"
"Yes."
"......"
"His body is filled with thunder qi. We don't know how, but the thunder qi that entered him is trapped inside. It seems to have saved his life, at least... That's why I wanted to know his state before the lightning strike."
"He was struck while falling off the cliff."
"He had no internal energy. Did he lose it?"
"He has no dantian."
"Then how is his body enduring?"
"What do you mean by enduring?"
"Ordinary people would explode if filled with that much thunder qi. Yet his body withstands it."
"Can I see him?"
"Recover your body first."
"Thank you for saving my life."
Ara bowed her head.
"You were fortunate to fall into our dwelling. I'll take my leave now. Oh! Do not leave this room."
Wall Serpent exited.
Ara sat in the lotus position to circulate her energy.
"Hm?"
Her eyes widened.
Her internal energy wouldn't move.
That meant she had been suppressed.
'Why?'
Ara stared with a hardened expression at the door through which Wall Serpent had departed.
'I need to release it.'
She closed her eyes and recalled the circulation method.
The method she recalled was that of the Secret Heaven martial arts.
She had executed its forms a few times, but never operated its internal art.
To cultivate a new internal art, one must discard the old.
She had neither the leisure to learn anew, nor could she abandon the Emei Sect martial arts honed over twenty years.
Yet now, she had no choice but to cultivate it.
There are two ways to suppress a martial artist: seal the pressure points to paralyze the body, or block the meridians through which internal energy flows to prevent its operation.
Ara had suffered the latter.
There are also two ways to unseal suppressed points.
Circulate internal energy in reverse via the Reversal Meridian Method to break through from the opposite side, or employ an internal art stronger than the suppressor’s to force it open.
She had just confirmed her Emei art couldn't breach it, and she didn't know the Reversal Meridian Method.
Only forcing it remained.
Her intent to operate the Secret Heaven internal art stemmed from her constant contemplation of its martial arts.
She had visualized it hundreds of times in her mind and grasped its strengths and weaknesses to some degree.
'I cannot trust you people.'
Her decision to use the Secret Heaven martial arts came from distrust.
Saving her life only to suppress her implied ulterior motives.
"Because I'm no longer the naive girl I was."
As she circulated, her dantian stirred.
Wall Serpent had sealed the Sea of Qi point in her dantian.
Her internal energy moved slowly within the dantian.
It should travel along the meridians, but the blockage confined it inside.
'Move.'
She commanded inwardly.
Her will manifested, and the qi spun faster.
As it rotated rapidly, it drew in surrounding elements—including the energy Wall Serpent had imposed.
A chilling pain surged, like stirring an open wound.
Ara gritted her teeth and pressed on.
The alien energy blocking the Sea of Qi weakened steadily until, at one point, her qi burst through the meridian.
'Success.'
She cried out inwardly.
She immediately began full circulation.
The qi’s power was immense.
Doubt assailed her—could this be the same energy as before?
It coursed through her meridians with terrifying momentum.
Not only that.
It drew in dormant energies along the meridians, merging them, while burning away impure residues deemed unnecessary.
In truth, she had consumed vast quantities of spirit medicines in childhood.
Her father, A Seokbu, had sought every health elixir for his frail daughter.
Those medicines had largely remained dormant, and the Emei internal art she learned lacked the potency to convert them.
Now, encountering the Secret Heaven internal art, that dormancy erupted.
And more.
Even the energies from the Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool filling the tub were absorbed into her body.
Float!
Her form floated lightly upward.
Crack! Crack!
The sound of joints clashing emanated as her body stretched straight in midair.
Shhh!
Gray qi poured from her three main meridians, turning to powder and falling below.
It was the turbid qi incinerated by the Secret Heaven internal art moments ago.
Her hair powdered and scattered, joints clashed, and her muscles rippled like waves.
For any martial artist, it was the longed-for Marrow Cleansing and Bone Replacement.
Martial artists call the body after Marrow Cleansing and Bone Replacement the dream physique.
To enter the absolute realm, one needs not only divine arts but a prepared body—and that preparation is Marrow Cleansing and Bone Replacement.
The orthodox view in the martial world holds that without it, no amount of effort enables Flying Swordplay.
Of course, not all who undergo it master Flying Swordplay.
But it is essential for it.
The process continued ceaselessly.
She endured it a full seven times.
Upon completion, a radiant glow emanated from her entire body.
Returning to the lotus position, she descended.
Flash!
A fierce gleam shot forth, piercing the air.
It was the jade eyes that manifest naturally in absolute masters.
The glow vanished swiftly.
"Huuu!"
Ara took a deep breath.
Confidence swelled in her chest—she could do anything she desired.
"Now I have the confidence to take you all the way to Peking."
Ara murmured softly.
She looked at the water.
The muddy swamp from the Five Elements Supreme Ultimate Pool had turned to clear liquid.
She emerged and entered the chamber.
Her clothes and weapon lay there.
As she reached for her garb, she paused.
She recalled that the Secret Heaven art, Chaos Veil, unleashed maximum power bare-bodied.
"I'll go like this."
She hid her clothes and sword beneath the bed and immediately executed Chaos Veil.
Her form melted into the air.
"I'll come for you, Muyoo."
A soft voice emanated from the void.