Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 227 - 135, 136. Return to Tang River Village, Confronting the Human Skin Ghost (Large Chapter - Subscribe, please.)_3

Chapter 227: 135, 136. Return to Tang River Village, Confronting the Human Skin Ghost (Large Chapter - Subscribe, please.)_3

He glanced at the "Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit Sutra (Mysterious Level Grade C) (Six-tails) (Perfection)" on the panel.

He could feel that "Six-tails" was already the limit of "Mysterious Level Grade C"...

It was time for him to break through to a major Realm again.

The last Realm, he had inadvertently traversed the Reappear Calamity; the next one... he had no clue whatsoever, as the strongest beings he knew of had been left far behind by him.

Even the strongest in the history of the Su Family were only on his present level, how could they possibly guide him?

Hence, he had to train on his own, even without an opportunity, but he also needed to successfully cultivate some of the things that came with the "Realm breakthrough."

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Whoosh, whoosh...

His palm lifted as if parting water, his hand fell like an incoming tide.

Song Cheng’s movements were slow to the extreme, yet the airflow in the cultivation room turned into a wild vortex.

If someone were to enter the room at this moment, even a martial artist would lose balance, like a fisherman thrown into a tempestuous sea, losing their footing in the air of the cultivation room, tumbling over and over...

In his body, the exaggeration was even more pronounced, with energy surging wildly, phantom shadows opening up layer by layer, then converging layer by layer, causing a strange membrane to begin forming on the surface of Song Cheng’s body.

The pinnacle of the Qi Realm is the phantom shadow.

The phantom shadow is the ultimate form of a person’s qi.

However, if the Ghostly Soul nourishes the physical body, this qi will grow stronger and have a consolidating effect... As the scattered phantom shadows retract back around the body, combined with the Ghostly Soul, they will display supernatural effects.

And, "Mysterious Level Grade C" is the further increase in strength of the Ghostly Soul, utilizing the power of evil spirits, the enhancement after passing through the Reappear Calamity is a complete breakthrough from the fetters of the "Innate Ghostly Soul."

With further enhancement and more concentrated containment, the membrane on Song Cheng’s body... grew thicker and thicker.

From invisible to visibly colored.

Gray!

A layer of gray membrane slowly enveloped Song Cheng’s body.

This was the transformation that came with the "Divine Soul nourishing the physical body" of the Mysterious Level Grade C Realm.

This membrane, gilded onto the body surface, allowed Song Cheng’s body to feel a corresponding qualitative change, a change in the indestructibility of the flesh.

No matter what shape this body was cut into, no matter what kind of wounds appeared, they would heal extremely quickly... even instantly.

Because the power of that qi had penetrated every part of the body, rendering every inch of the flesh, even the hair, no longer the natural form it once was.

He tested it out simply.

Indeed, any wounds on his hands or body could hardly be called wounds anymore, the solid Divine Soul nurturing the physical body produced stable contours; these contours would allow one’s body, no matter how deformed, to automatically return to the "remembered form."

And this was only effective when reaching the "Grey Membrane."

Song Cheng practiced a little longer, becoming more proficient as he went on.

The Ghostly Soul, the Divine Soul is undying.

With the nurturing of the physical body now displaying the grey membrane, thus... the physical body also became undying.

Song Cheng sat cross-legged on the ground, his spirit left his body, and he looked down at his own body that had lost its Divine Soul.

He saw his body as if it were a gray statue; at this moment, if someone exerted force to slash at this statue, they would be shocked to death by the rebounding force; if a master were capable of cleaving the statue into two, then the body would quickly restore itself after being cleaved.

Song Cheng observed for a while, then returned to his body, satisfied.

However, having reached such a Realm, he began to feel an urgency for one thing.

That was... he needed an opponent of the same Realm.

If he did not spar with someone of the same Realm, it was as if he had never fully mastered the Realm.

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After practicing like this, several days passed by.

The disciples of Pearl Mountain Taoist Temple formed teams and went south, having almost finished clearing up the Ghost Servants along the way.

And the first wave of southerners was also ready.

In the early morning, An Chenyu saw off these people from the city walls.

The liveliness in the city had noticeably dwindled a bit.

Even with the scorching sun still shining overhead, there was a chilling sensation.

This matter kept her busy until evening, and only then did An Chenyu return to her house.

Perhaps considering that Sister An was not in a good place mentally recently, Song Cheng still chose her room for the night.

The windstorm raged, and the pear blossoms trembled wildly. Once calm was restored, An Chenyu revealed her troubled expression again...

The construction of Yingui Gate had not yet begun, and many things needed attention.

After thinking it over, Song Cheng said, "Sister An, I plan to go out tomorrow."

"You are going, just go; do you need to tell me?" Sister An came back to her senses and said with a smile.

Song Cheng said, "Do you remember the Extreme Joy World I mentioned to you before?"

"You’re going?"

"Yes, I am."

If Little Yu of One-tail could seal the Rotten Poison Ghost with a maid’s body, there was no reason Song Cheng with Six-tails couldn’t seal it.

Moreover, he was rather convinced by what his elder sister-in-law had said.

Single Ghost corresponds to Mysterious Level Grade C.

Twin Ghosts correspond to Mysterious Level Grade D.

The Human Skin Ghost of the Extreme Joy World is a Single Ghost.

Or rather, nearly all the ghosts that now appear are still Single Ghosts.

However, "ghosts," compared to "Mysterious Level," have an additional feature: limitless strength, undying and indestructible.

The exhaustion at the Mysterious Level is not minor, but ghosts... seem to fear none of it.

"Human Skin Ghost, the entity deeply connected to me; I nearly died because of it, and Ting’s power is also similar to it... So, I need to check on it while this Ghost Tide has just receded.

The previous wave of the Ghost Tide had already begun to massively present Form Realm entities, and I’m worried that all ghosts will become stronger afterward.

If by that time I want to visit the Extreme Joy World, it’s not guaranteed that I won’t encounter stronger Twin Ghosts... That would be difficult to handle."

"Let Sister Su accompany you," she suggested.

"There’s no need."

"What if Sister Su asks about it?"

"I will speak to her."

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The next day, Song Cheng slightly revealed his power and convinced Su Ningyu. Then he wrapped himself in a cloak, donned a hood, and with the huge Sun Nine-Patterned Golden Coffin strapped across his back, he left the city alone.