Chapter 359: Condensing the War God Body and Secluding to Break Through to the Seventh Heavenly Realm (I)

The next morning, Yan Ruoyi looked at the black bottle on the coffee table of her suite’s living room, her eyes full of questions as she turned to Chen Chu.

Wearing sunglasses, Chen Chu calmly explained. "Back on the southern battlefield, I once killed a Purgatory Demon Clan member named Maximus and confiscated a storage bag from him.

"It contained many items, both useful and useless, such as magic crystals usable only by the Purgatory Demon Clan and some high-grade transcendent materials. I forged armor and weapons with most of the useful materials and exchanged some with the school.

There was also a peculiar jade stone. It was incredibly hard, even I couldn't break it. It didn't seem like a transcendent mineral, but it emitted a subtle aura, so I kept it. I’m not sure why, but last night, the surface of the stone developed cracks and became very fragile, as if some seal had broken.

"When I shattered it, I obtained some special life essence, which contained a very pure dragon aura. So I thought it might be useful to you, given that you possess the dragon law origin."

"...Thank you." A touch of emotion flickered in Yan Ruoyi's eyes.

Chen Chu shook his head. "Ms. Yan, there's no need to thank me. Whether for personal reasons or out of respect for Heavenly King Xuanwu's contributions to humanity, I hope you can survive."

Over the past month of interaction, Chen Chu had developed a good impression of Yan Ruoyi, and a platonic admiration for her character.

In the face of impending death, the nineteen-year-old remained calm and composed, even coordinating with the Federation to trap and kill two kings. Chen Chu deeply respected such courage.

Meanwhile, Maximus’ storage bag continued to provide a convenient excuse for the source of unique resources. Many people could confirm that he had acquired the bag, and he had even pulled out some special transcendent materials, such as the evil-repelling golden horn, as much as that clashed with the demon clan’s identity.

It seemed reasonable for Chen Chu to have more strange items on his person, since no one else knew its exact contents. Whether others believed this reason was their business; Chen Chu himself believed it.

Touched, Yan Ruoyi opened the black bottle, and a surge of overwhelming life energy spread out, astonishing even her. "What pure dragon life essence."

In her perception, this life essence's aura was even purer than the life energy of some mythical-level dragons.

To save her, Heavenly King Xuanwu had once slain a mythical-level draconic colossal beast and extracted its life essence, making Yan Ruoyi sensitive to such matters. The restlessness deep within her soul confirmed it.

However, she sighed slightly, her eyes showing regret. "Unfortunately, my injury is soul-related; this life-enhancing substance has minimal effect."

Chen Chu frowned slightly; not even emperor-level dragon life essence could heal Yan Ruoyi’s injury?.

Suddenly, her eyes brightened with a glimmer of hope. "But what it can do is increase my chances of revival by ten percent."

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Revival? Ten percent?" Chen Chu's eyes moved slightly.

Yan Ruoyi nodded slightly. "Since my death is inevitable, my father and some uncles researched for over a decade and eventually devised a method: life rebirth.

"My human soul is incomplete, so we’ve decided to abandon it entirely and use the dragon as the core to reshape my soul form while synchronizing the transformation of my body.

"This is somewhat similar to how cultivators transform their physique during the early stages of cultivation, which gradually affects their soul by the Ninth Heavenly Realm, but the steps are reversed.

"However, the soul is too mysterious; even king-level experts can’t fully understand its mysteries, let alone my already fragile soul. Synchronizing the body's transformation to match the soul's changes is also highly challenging, involving biology, genetics, and even laws.

"Therefore, despite my father and uncle's decade-long preparation, there's only a twenty percent chance of success. Academically speaking, that’s almost equivalent to failure.

"Moreover, the life rebirth ceremony can only be performed when my soul weakens to its limit, which also lowers my revival chances, and could easily lead to eternal sleep instead.

"But I feel this essence will increase the success rate by ten percent, because its life level is so high. High enough that the divine soul origin of the dragon within me wants to merge with it now."

Since it was her only chance at surviving, Yan Ruoyi had been involved in the research for the life-saving ritual over the years and thoroughly understood every step and requirement.

She was also astonished by the level of this life essence. The small quantity didn’t matter to her; for all of the abundant life resources that she had, what she lacked was this rare catalyst.

I knew it. With a king-level existence, how could there be no backup plan?

A faint smile appeared on Chen Chu's face. "It's good that this is useful to you, Ms. Yan. Perhaps you'll succeed in your rebirth directly."

"Brother Chu, this essence is very important to me, so I'll accept it without hesitation. I won't say too many words of thanks, but I'll prepare a grand gift for you in return." Yan Ruoyi smiled, feeling more at ease.

"There's no need for any return." Chen Chu wasn't very concerned. Since creating the passage between his avatar and main body, he was no longer as resource-constrained as before, so he didn't expect anything in return.

Yan Ruoyi shook her head. "I know you didn't think about that, but whether you care or not is different from me giving something. I haven't decided what to give you yet, but I'll think about it later."

***

On the third day of the Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor's slumber, during the darkest hour before the dawn of May 15th, Chen Chu, who had been cultivating all night, slowly opened his eyes. In his gaze, a six-armed phantom slowly rotated.

After several days of effort, he finally completed the superficial construction of the secret scripture, and the art was recorded. On the attribute page, the Divine Might Dragon Emperor's Tyrant Body had transformed into the War God Body, with a "+" option appearing next to it.

"Finally, I can break through." Chen Chu took a deep breath, his figure flashing as he left the room. In a few blinks, he arrived at the hotel rooftop, found a clean spot, and sat cross-legged.

Focusing on the War God Body art, he used his thoughts to issue a command.

Consume 2,000 attribute points to enhance the War God Body to the seventh stage.

Compared to the 300 points for the sixth stage of the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body and the 800 for maxing it out, the seventh stage enhancement required even more points. This was the equivalent of upgrading a middle-level ability to a high-level one.

As Chen Chu's intention resonated in his mind, a line of transparent text appeared before his eyes.

"Detected traces of Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd's will. Consume 100 attribute points to fuse the art?"

The Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd art can be fused!

Chen Chu paused briefly, then confirmed.

"Fuse."

Over 2,100 attribute points instantly reduced to 3, while a vast energy appeared out of nowhere, rushing into his sea of consciousness.

Boom!

In an instant, his consciousness roared, countless pieces of information flooded into his mind, and Chen Chu immediately entered a state of enlightenment.

In the sea of consciousness, the energy from the attribute transformation surged in, and countless sequences of runes condensed within the transparent phantom at a speed hundreds or even thousands of times faster than Chen Chu's cultivation.

The sea of consciousness trembled as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood appeared. This was the will comprehension Chen Chu had experienced when he reached the advanced level of the Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd.

Under the attribute energy, these forces of will transformed into rune sequences, merging into the True Martial Phantom.

As the will of the Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd fused, a blood-red halberd, several dozen meters long, appeared in the six-armed phantom's hands.

The phantom stood amid the corpses and blood with the halberd in hand, four rings of light spinning behind it. It looked like a true Wisdom King suppressing Hell, both majestic and sacred.

Simultaneously, the true dragon power within Chen Chu also operated automatically in his enlightened state, rapidly increasing and soon approaching the late stage of the Sixth Heavenly Realm.

Boom!