Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 446 - 396 Golden Body Completion, Mirror Trace Anomaly

Chapter 446: Chapter 396 Golden Body Completion, Mirror Trace Anomaly

"Being able to stand firm gives you the ability to strike. My physique is now so tough and my defense so overpowering that even if I stand still and let the Silver Wolf King pounce on me, it wouldn’t be able to hurt me in a few blows. My ability to preserve my life, even, far surpasses my offensive power..."

"Enhance..."

Looking at the two million eight hundred thousand Wish Power Threads that I’ve accumulated.

Zhou Ping’an boldly used three hundred and seventy thousand Wish Power to enhance the last layer of the King of Light’s Golden Body Technique.

Like a torrent of knowledge that shattered into thousands of pieces inside his mind before fusing again, it transformed into a new understanding, breaking through the difficult barriers.

A sense of enlightenment faintly emerged in his heart.

"The King of Light’s Golden Body Technique, by reason, should have reached its pinnacle at the Eighth Level... Continuing normal cultivation is nothing more than accumulating True Qi and condensing Gang Qi, unable to undergo a qualitative transformation.

Once the Completion is reached and the barrier is broken, the real purpose is not to strengthen Gang Qi or evolve the physique, but to disperse and rearrange this energy to form a miraculous whole."

Zhou Ping’an sat motionless, with Golden Flames cascading over the surface of his body like a tide.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and golden light shot out three feet from them.

Outside his body, the Golden Flames roared violently before collapsing and clinging to his skin.

His body crackled as it initially expanded and grew to three meters tall, then shrank to one meter ninety, repeating this cycle three times until it finally settled down to the height of one meter eighty.

At this time, he sensed the inside of his body again.

There was no longer any network of golden light or shield of Gang Qi.

Instead, both inside and out, he was rounded and resplendent, forming a unified entity.

No distinction between inside and outside, nor between strong and weak areas, the body had become a solid entity radiating molten golden light from the inside out.

"Goodness, I mean, really, this must be a ’Golden Body.’"

A sense of complete harmony and unobstructedness rose in his heart.

Zhou Ping’an felt that there was no force in this world, no weapon, that could break this balance.

He knew this was a delusion that naturally formed after the Completion of his Cultivation Technique.

He didn’t take it seriously.

However, the strengthening of his body, especially in terms of defense, was definitely to the extreme.

This was the truth.

After considering it, Zhou Ping’an took out an Alloy Steel Sword from the space and forcefully slashed it across the skin on his left hand.

Zzzt...

A stroke of sparks flashed by.

He saw the Alloy Steel Sword in his right hand was now blunted.

And even had several significant notches broken off.

"This sword just won’t do."

Zhou Ping’an chuckled, almost unable to close his mouth.

Of course, he knew it wasn’t that the sword was ineffective.

It was that his physical defense was simply too formidable.

In terms of hardness and toughness, it outright crushed the alloy.

Dissipation, rebound, shock, penetration...

The natural operation of power within his flesh meant that slashing himself with a sword was like throwing a punch at himself.

An ordinary Alloy Steel Sword could not withstand it at all.

"I can’t test it out this way, let’s try with Cang Yue’s precious blade..."

This thought had no sooner arisen than his heart grew eager, unable to hold back any longer.

This time, as the Sword Master, he didn’t dare to slash carelessly.

He knew better than anyone else how formidable Cang Yue’s precious blade was.

In the hands of an ordinary person, it might not show much.

But this Treasure Sword grew stronger against formidable foes, and even the cheater-like physique of the Silver Wolf King was cleaved into two like paper under its blade; he suspected that the limit of this Treasure Sword was incredibly high.

Not having seen its wonders was not because the sword wasn’t strong, but because he was incapable of wielding it.

Casting aside the distractions in his mind.

Zhou Ping’an gently sliced the blade across his arm.

His body trembled slightly as if sensing danger, a sharply intense Sword Qi surged into his flesh and attacked his organs. It was dissolved by the layers of golden light, splitting until, at last, it scattered into the tiniest particles of energy which were absorbed by his body.

"Eh!"

Did I actually withstand it?

When Cang Yue’s precious blade was exerted to fifty percent of its strength, Zhou Ping’an only felt a sharp pain as his skin was sliced open, but that was all.

To not do things by halves, he had to test his limit.

Just as he was about to exert a hundred percent of his strength into the blade, the sword in his hand trembled out of nowhere, emitting a dragon’s hum...

He seemed to hear a voice.

"Don’t..."

Listening carefully, it seemed like an illusion.

But upon closer contemplation, he could clearly sense Cang Yue’s precious blade’s resistance.

It didn’t want to harm him.

Was the blade’s spirit rebelling?

At this thought, Zhou Ping’an withdrew the Canghai Sword Qi and felt the tremble in the blade disappear, a sensation of fondness and joy emanating from it.

"What a treasure..."

Zhou Ping’an’s expression became a little complicated as he gently stroked the blade, listening to its harmonious ringing like a child’s laughter. He stood up, no longer attempting to test the strength of his physique.

In any case, ordinary people couldn’t break it anyhow.

"This level of defense can only be called a Golden Body."

Unbreakable, indestructible, everlasting, impervious to injury...

"The Complete Level of the King of Light’s Golden Body Technique focuses on defense, which can be temporarily called the ’Unbreakable Golden Body’. Paired with my ’Starry Bone’, I have become so strong now that even I am afraid," Zhou Ping’an said with a light chuckle. Looking at how he felt vigorous and full of energy today, he continued to operate the ’Starlight Body Refining Technique’ to refine his ’Starry Bone’.

After all 126 bones in his limbs were refined, he entered the middle layer of the ’Starlight Body Refining Technique’ and began to refine the 51 bones of his torso.

Compared to the bones of the limbs, those of the torso took more time.

The logic was simple: the bones were larger.

Encountering a large bone, it could take two or three days to refine completely, and there was nothing he could do about that.

"Without Star Force Beads to take a shortcut, the speed of cultivation is still too slow."

Zhou Ping’an felt an itch in his heart.

Taking advantage of the night, he ran outside the city to Zhao Yue’s Ancient Tomb. He hadn’t gone far in before he had only slain three minor soldiers when a huge rainbow of light blasted him three or four miles away. Swallowing a mouthful of fresh blood, he escaped from the tomb at high speed.

This time, he hadn’t even seen where the attack came from.

"It seems like the tomb has already memorized my presence. The idea of repeatedly shearing wool simply won’t work..." Zhou Ping’an felt a slight dejection.

Standing far away, he watched as the black air churned at the entrance of the tomb before retracting. His slight pride from the recent substantial increase in strength ebbed away like the tide.

"The world is vast, and nature is too wondrous. I cannot be rash, I must be stable."

"There’s only one life, and living means there’s a future."

The Life and Death Energies inside his body turned slightly, dispelling the gloom in his heart. The damage from the recoil began to heal gradually. Zhou Ping’an felt once again that it was indeed a good idea to have trained his body to be extremely strong.

At least when facing enemies of a much higher realm than his own, he wouldn’t be beaten down in an instant.

He could withstand and escape.

When he became even stronger, he would return to see what incredible things lay within the tomb.

"Perhaps it will uncover some secrets of the Ancient Times."

Thinking of the Ancient Times, when countless legends of gods, demons, and spirits existed, which one day all vanished without a trace.

Later on, humans became so frail that even physical labor was unbearable, let alone breaking the limits of the human body.

Speed was limited to around ten seconds per hundred meters.

Strength was capped at a few hundred kilograms...

There was no longer any soil for miracles to grow.

What people could use were only various tools, and as the tools became more powerful, humans themselves became weaker.

It was as if someone had forcefully pressed the pause button on the evolutionary path of humankind.

Zhou Ping’an was extremely curious about the secrets hidden within. He had a feeling that perhaps this ancient tomb could provide him with an explanation as well as a rare opportunity.

...

Eighteen days had passed since his return to the modern world. On this day, Zhou Ping’an refined three breastbones and seven ribs.

He made a phone call to Tang Tang to catch up on the latest news from Dongjiang, then had a meal with his mother and sister.

He told his family that he needed to go into closed-door cultivation, re-entering the Quiet Room, preparing to travel to Another World.

Compared to when he first acquired "Broken Mirror", he was now evidently more relaxed with his enhanced strength.

Lan Fengjiao was very meticulous in her work and quietly had a quota of fifty thousand units of alloy weapons delivered.

As well as a large quantity of grain seeds.

Zhou Ping’an reviewed them, most of which were rice, millet, spring potatoes, and wheat, soybeans, along with a small number of alfalfa seeds for raising horses.

These grain crop seeds, not to mention the current territory of the Three Counties of Liyou, spanning 13,000 square kilometers, even if it were to expand several times, would be sufficient.

By mobilizing all the people to reclaim and plant, it would only take a few months to achieve self-sufficiency.

As long as there were no extreme droughts or swarms of locusts.

With the yield of the seeds Zhou Ping’an brought over, he even suspected that he would have a large surplus of food.

From now on, there would be no need to laboriously transport food through the space in the mirror.

With food comes soldiers.

With soldiers and civilians, power could be amassed.

In this way, the foundation would be solidified.

Even if the scholars and noble clans of Another World turned a blind eye to him, by farming alone, he could cultivate a presence so formidable that it would send chills across the regions and draw the attention of the Imperial Court.

.........

Passing through the bizarre and colorful passage, Zhou Ping’an shook his head to clear it, stood firm on the ground, and took a glance around; he was still in the backyard of Pinghu County Yamen.

In the depths of the courtyard, a few gentle sounds of a clapper echoed.

From afar and nearby, light footsteps passed by.

"The third watch of the night, I don’t see any big fires, nor do I hear fighting nearby. It’s peaceful this time coming here."

Zhou Ping’an didn’t dare to stay too long in the modern society.

He was afraid that carelessly, upon his arrival in Another World, he would find the city breached, the generals all slain, and the civilians massacred to near extinction.

After all, his power was still very weak.

There were too many dangers that could arise, no room for complacency.

Just as he was sensing the situation in the backyard and hadn’t yet completely calmed his mind, Zhou Ping’an suddenly felt the Mirror Trace on his left wrist twitch slightly.

.........