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Chapter 457 - 418 Research Four

Chapter 457: 418 Research Four

Wang Zhijun could not help feeling that it was his own inability to handle the situation that had forced Wang Yichen to step forward and fall into a trap.

For a moment, he was filled with both guilt and helplessness.

On the other hand, Li Chengyi had some ideas in mind.

After comforting Wang Zhijun, he quickly returned to his residence and began to review the Flesh Bodhisattva Secret Technique he had just acquired.

This secret technique was indeed specifically created for the transformation of flesh, and it was an extremely natural form of modification.

It was not a one-time transplant; instead, it utilized a special secret method to induce the growth of one’s own tissue. After researching the growth processes of a wide variety of natural organisms, the technique concluded that extending the body in the way plants grow was the most harmonious method.

The Wang Family ancestor discovered that within the human body, there was a growth system similar to that of plants. If this system were activated and made the controlling entity, then, by issuing direct commands without interfering with the process, one could maximize growth of the desired organs and limbs in the most natural and harmonious way.

This was the Flesh Bodhisattva Secret Technique.

Having confirmed the potential effectiveness of this technique, Li Chengyi quickly began to practice it.

He combined the Pine Deer Blade Technique and the Wang Family’s Qingyuan Dan Technique into one, practicing them simultaneously, since the True Qi refined from both could be integrated.

After practicing the True Qi, he would then cultivate this secret technique.

His vast consciousness power and advanced integrated knowledge system granted him a terrifying speed at learning.

In just three days, Li Chengyi had mastered the entire Flesh Bodhisattva Secret Technique and began to experiment with it on himself.

Initially, he found it strange that the Wang Family ancestor, despite having developed such a formidable secret technique, was unable to reach the level of Fusion Imprint.

But when he actually started using it, he realized... the troublesome aspects of this technique.

Mid-January.

Within the official residence assigned to Li Chengyi.

He stood silently in the courtyard, his body surrounded by swirling gray True Qi, enveloping him like a mist.

A considerable amount of True Qi re-entered his skin as if activating something.

Underneath the skin, his muscles and bones instantly began to move; the surface sprouted numerous small fleshy nodules.

These nodules and bumps multiplied and grew rapidly like living things.

This caused Li Chengyi’s body to start undergoing abnormal transformations.

With the rapid consumption of a vast amount of True Qi in a short period, his body elongated swiftly.

His behind began to enlarge, with the pelvic bone growing larger and thicker, rapidly extending backward.

Then, in less than ten seconds, his buttocks had grown into a second pair of limbs resembling a deer’s legs, complete with a similar-looking tail.

Following that, a large amount of True Qi wrapped around Li Chengyi’s upper body, penetrated within, and triggered another round of changes.

White rib-like bones started to pierce through his skin, growing longer and wider, quickly linking together to form something like armor, covering the vital areas of his chest and abdomen.

The lower part of his body retracted into his abdomen, and other areas also began to produce extensive amounts of bone armor.

His skull then rapidly broke through the skin of his scalp, sprouting two sharp spines that branched off around him like tree limbs, quickly forming a large mass.

As his head was covered with gray bone armor, Li Chengyi had now grown to over two meters tall, and his body had broadened significantly compared to before.

From the outside, he now resembled a bizarre creature with the head of a human and the body of a deer, complete with antlers.

’This should be about right,’ he sensed that only a tiny bit of his True Qi remained after the substantial consumption and felt somewhat helpless.

To think that he now possessed True Qi cultivation of over two hundred years.

Yet such a tremendous amount of True Qi had been reduced to just a little bit left.

No wonder the Wang Family ancestor had failed in his cultivation.

After the transformation was completed, he paced around, moving his four legs leisurely in the courtyard, getting used to his new body.

When he felt almost accustomed to it, he returned to his room and began to attempt to attract the True Seal spirit for integration with his eyes closed.

This time, as he sat down to refine True Qi, Li Chengyi immediately felt that the Essence of the True Seal was noticeably more receptive to him than before.

If the Essence of the True Seal was like a trickle coming through a small pipe before, now it was pouring in like a deluge from large buckets.

There was no need for the strong control of the Flower Language Ability; it was rushing into him on its own.

Moreover, the massive influx of the Essence of the True Seal seemed to bring another transformation.

A bizarre, faint consciousness power was slowly flowing into his body along with the Essence of the True Seal.

This consciousness power was very strange. Normally, when consciousness power enters the body of another organism, it instinctively conflicts with the consciousness power already present.

Because a body can only house one will, this is a biological instinct.

However, these strange consciousness powers were different; they disintegrated as soon as they entered, breaking down into numerous small points and naturally merging into Li Chengyi’s own consciousness power.

’This must be the beginning of the Spirit Fusion, right?’ Li Chengyi speculated in his mind.

Indeed, just as he had surmised, once this bizarre consciousness power merged with his own, the Essence of the True Seal, which had felt somewhat foreign before, also became closer to him.

He then knew this was the beginning of Spirit Infusion.

Spirit Infusion is the process of forcefully saturating a Fusion Imprint Martial Artist’s body with a large amount of the Essence of the True Seal until it reaches the level required to form an Imprint.

This is a crucial stage in the path of Fusion Imprint, a matter of life and death that both True Qi Martial Practitioners and Bloodline Martial Artists need to overcome.

Li Chengyi had seen this mentioned in many secret texts he studied.

Only a sufficiently strong body can withstand the process of Spirit Infusion.

Moreover, the more stable and naturally powerful the body, the more Spirit Infusion it can withstand, and thus, the more significant the increase in strength after forming the Imprint.

Because of this, many people choose to continue strengthening their bodies after modifying themselves. They work to harden their modified bodies as tough as iron before undergoing Spirit Infusion.

Li Chengyi was in this stage at the moment.

A torrent of Spirit Essence and consciousness power of the True Seal surged into him.

His body began to swell and enlarge continually, as if being inflated, bearing immense pressure.

But unlike others, his body had undergone multiple power enhancements, and its strength far surpassed that of an ordinary person; even Bloodline Martial Artists couldn’t match him at this moment.

Moreover...

’Flower Language Technique: Fortress.’

Li Chengyi instinctively added another layer of enhancement to himself.

The massive Consciousness Power could attract even more of the True Seal’s conscious power. His powerful body could also accommodate more nutrients.

So, while other martial artists could only sustain the Spirit Infusion phase for a few seconds, for Li Chengyi, it turned into a significant expansion process.

His body grew rapidly under the mass of nutrients.

The two True Seals from two spirits were both corresponding to the growth series of Sublimation.

It could be said that Li Chengyi was the Wang Family’s first and only one who truly began to succeed in the Fusion Imprint Spirit Infusion since the creation of the Grade Black Qingyuan Dan Technique.

Time elapsed little by little.

Blood-red sunlight streamed through the gaps in the fortress, illuminating the courtyard with a lustrous red.

Li Chengyi’s clothes had long been completely torn, his entire body covered in a set of massive bone armor.

At this moment, he had grown to three and a half meters tall, his body extremely robust, and the antlers on his head had reached a full two meters, resembling dense grey corals.

What was even more unusual was that after integrating a great amount of True Seal’s conscious power, it seemed to have stimulated the innate traits of the Shadow Dragon Bloodline on the surface of his body.

Many black hard scales had grown on his body surface.

His eyes had changed from black to black with golden-rimmed pupils.

A human head with a deer’s body, that was Li Chengyi’s state at the moment.

On his chest emerged the Giant Strength Imprint and another symbol composed of many Ks overlaid in a circle.

Both were grey, grown twisted at the center of his bone armor, and if you didn’t look closely, you might not even notice them.

Compared with the Giant Strength Imprint, the newly emerged circular symbol was more shallow, somewhat blurred, and the edges were still somewhat incomplete.

’Soon... the new Imprint...’

Li Chengyi had not expected everything to go so smoothly.

Compared to the Imprint Orb route, the martial arts Fusion Imprint route was much easier.

Although the Imprint he fused was a growth type without any lethality.

’Next, after Spirit Infusion finishes, there’s just the last step... Spirit Fusion.’

That is to eliminate the dilute consciousness of the Essence of the True Seal and to take its place completely.

This step was similarly difficult for other True Qi Martial Practitioners, as the consciousness of the Essence of the True Seal was weak, but the volume was vast, so it was a long-term endeavor to maintain.

But for Li Chengyi...

With the Ming Guang of the Seven Spirit Holy Technique illuminated, combined with the Hand of Obsession, he quickly gathered all consciousness of the Essence of the True Seal together.

Then, he netted it all with emotional threads, finally burning it away completely with the Flames of Death Energy...

Thus, the consciousness of all the Essence of the True Seal had disappeared.

After completing all these processes, by the time he came to his senses, the sky had turned dark.

In the courtyard, Li Chengyi lowered his head and noticed that his body had grown even bigger than before.

Not counting the antlers, he had reached a height of four meters at the moment.

His body was covered in thick, grey Bone Armor, with two grey Imprint patterns on his chest.

One was the Giant Strength Imprint, the other... a growth Imprint that had merged the Qingyuan Dan Technique with the Pine Deer Blade Technique.

’I haven’t reached the limit yet... my body has not yet grown to its limit, so the Imprints have not yet solidified completely...’

All the True Qi had completely disappeared by now, fully integrated into his body, becoming this terrifyingly tough and strong flesh.

’Imprints are the marks of Sublimation beyond the limit... My body is far from its limit...’

With the Shanchong Dragon Realm, Shadow Dragon Bloodline, Seven Spirit Holy Technique enhancement, Floral Dress enhancement, and many other factors combined, he himself didn’t know where his limit lay.

He only knew that although his speed, power, and physical strength had significantly increased compared to before, he was much stronger.

But he could still continue...

This world didn’t have any classifications; each Martial Arts had its own levels and realms.

Which was superior and which was inferior could only be known through actual combat.

Those who had practiced Martial Arts for years, possessing abundant True Qi but lacking in actual combat experience, would be taken down quickly, and regardless of their high cultivation, they wouldn’t make the list.

And moreover...

’True Qi, it’s gone... integrated into the body’s bloodline... So, is this the true essence of a Bloodline Martial Artist...? Cultivate True Qi to the limit, integrate it into the bloodline, pass it down generations... and then strengthen it with each generation.’

Li Chengyi suddenly had an epiphany.

At this stage, once a little more time passes and he completes the last step, his growth Imprint would be finished.

This set of Martial Arts would have reached its end, equivalent to him traversing in several months what usually took generations to achieve.

Once the Imprints were in hand, he could begin the next set of Martial Arts.

’So it turns out, whether it’s Martial Arts or Imprint Orbs, the ultimate goal is to congeal Imprints...’ he thought with joy.

If that was the case, then in this world, the large array of various True Qi Martial Arts, weren’t they all paths leading to different Imprints!?

And Bloodline Martial Arts might just be the path to excavating Imprints, to the fusion and combination of Imprints!!

’In that case... the Ouyang Family... once I finish the Second Imprint, perhaps I can devise a plan...’

Swiftly, a series of schemes to frame and entrap began to form in Li Chengyi’s mind.

With the help of the Flower Language Technique, it would be all too easy to plunge their ranks into chaos and set them up.

But how to derive the maximum benefit from it was the key consideration for him.