Chapter 808: Space-Time Rejection, Manifestation of the True Demon God Form (I)

As Chen Chu cultivated the True Great Sun Body to the advanced ninth stage, he discovered that his body had awakened a new ability—absorbing sunlight.

This didn’t merely refer to the radiance emitted by the sun of the solar system. It also encompassed the suns suspended in the mythical world’s sky, as well as the light of the sun in this world, and originated from the True Great Sun Body art itself.

From the second stage onward, it allowed him to absorb solar energy to enhance his body. By the fourth stage, it ignited the fire of vitality to temper the flesh. By the seventh stage, it birthed True Solar Fire.

Step by step, his body had been tempered and his physique transformed. Through this, he had gained an innate ability to absorb solar energy, a power similar to the Dark Star rune’s capacity to absorb metallic heavy elements.

Clearly, the core trait of ancient body enhancement arts was the acquisition of innate abilities upon reaching the advanced stage—not something unique to the Dark Star Body art alone.

Unlike the path of qi refinement, which at the ninth tier involved grasping laws, the ancient body enhancement arts followed the route of innate divine abilities, focusing on the body.

In contrast, the cultivation arts of the Blue Planet's humanity, such as true martial arts, walked a dual path.

Before the Seventh Heavenly Realm, they leaned toward body refinement. Afterward, they condensed a True Martial Phantom in the Eighth Heavenly Realm, fused with it to reconstruct their true form, and at the Ninth Heavenly Realm, stepped into a domain where the true form was shaped by laws.

In this framework, human kings possessed overwhelming strength in both the power of laws and their true forms. However, their path lacked extremity and purity, and thus failed to develop into true divine abilities.

Chen Chu was able to master three divine abilities—power, defense, and speed—only because of the innate rune granted by the Dragon Emperor.

Of course, there was no absolute superiority between the arts of the Ancient Civilization and those of the Blue Planet. Their paths were simply different. True martial arts were more suited to the humans of the Blue Planet.

Furthermore, the gene martial arts of uniting man and beast also led, eventually, to mastery over the innate abilities of colossal beasts, bearing resemblance to the ancient body enhancement arts.

However, all of this was secondary. What truly mattered was that Chen Chu realized he could use these body enhancement arts to gain multiple innate abilities, each with unique powers.

Ordinarily, these abilities brought little benefit to someone at his current level. The amount of energy the newly-acquired solar absorption ability allowed him to convert per minute amounted to only one-thousandth of what the Demon God Body could draw from the chaotic void.

Even the advanced True Great Sun Body only slightly boosted his overall strength—barely equivalent to the raw power of a peak-Ninth Heavenly Realm cultivator. Better than nothing, but far from game-changing.

However, if Chen Chu could push it to its maximum enhancement, refine it into an ability rune, and then integrate it into his War God Body to evolve it into a divine ability, it would drastically increase his combat strength.

Especially when forging his path, divine abilities and laws that shared compatible attributes could merge into an ultimate technique of the laws that the divine abilities were founded upon.

The True Solar Fire divine ability and the high-tier Great Heavenly Sun Flame law were both of the fire attribute and linked to the sun. Fusing them together could potentially result in a supreme power.

Chen Chu slowly exhaled, suppressing his excitement, and turned his gaze toward the five remaining complete arts.

The Mystic Light Sacred Body had nine stages in total, and had been passed down from an ancient war general at the peak of the mythical level. At the advanced stage, one would gain the Protective Mystic Light innate ability, a peerless defense.

If this evolved into a divine ability and overlapped with the Absolute Barrier and World Force, it would yield a defensive power so overwhelming that it could outright ignore attacks from enemies of the same level.

The Purple Lightning Battle Body originated from the Thunderbolt Monarch of the Ancient Civilization. It perfectly complemented the True Lightning Prison Form that Li Daoyi had obtained, and would grant the True Divine Lightning innate ability at the ninth stage.

The Star-Shattering Tyrant Body descended from the Calamity Monarch, one of the thirty-six monarchs of antiquity. When cultivated to the advanced stage, it granted the Pulverization innate ability, an overbearing and unmatched force.

This ability could fuse with the explosive trait of the Dragon Elephant True Power, which Chen Chu gained upon breaking through to the Fourth Heavenly Realm, and evolve into an even more powerful Explosive Pulverization divine ability. Every strike would unleash cataclysmic explosions of destruction.

The Nine Transformations of the Azure Dragon was somewhat unique, requiring the cultivator to have a dragon bloodline. With each breakthrough, the user underwent a Dragon Transformation, each one doubling the cultivator’s strength.

Upon reaching the ninth stage and completing all nine transformations, the cultivator’s strength would be over five hundred times that of a peer. With a single movement, they could sweep through all opposition.

They would also gain the Azure Dragon Transformation innate ability, taking on the humanoid form of the Heavenly Tyrant Dragon. If Chen Chu cultivated this and evolved it into a divine ability, he would be able to fully unleash the power of the Destructive Dragon Emperor’s bloodline.

Finally, the Divine Heavenly Gate Body was relatively ordinary. At the advanced stage, a Heavenly Gate would open within the body, storing an entire lifetime’s worth of power.

When his strength was completely exhausted in battle, opening the gate would instantly restore him to peak condition—a second dantian, in essence.

Chen Chu glanced at the remaining 30,000 attribute points and gave up, for now, on the idea of pushing the True Great Sun Body to its maximum enhancement or testing the Great Sun rune. Instead, he focused his mind on the contents of the Nine Transformations of the Azure Dragon.

As he quieted his thoughts, a faint draconic pressure surfaced from his body, forming a dragon-shaped stream of vitality.

“Consume 100 attribute points to enhance the Nine Transformations of the Azure Dragon, second stage...”

“Consume attribute points to enhance the Nine Transformations of the Azure Dragon, third stage, fourth stage...”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the attribute points were consumed at an alarming rate, the aura around Chen Chu surged with increasing intensity.

By the time he broke through to the ninth stage, a vast golden-blue vitality force had gathered, faintly manifesting a hundred-meter-long azure dragon phantom behind him.

The mountain quaked from the intangible yet tyrannical pressure, and violent winds howled.

While Chen Chu remained in seclusion cultivating atop the peak, Shi Feirou and the others were also busy on the mountainside, sorting supplies.

“We’ve found a high-frequency signal tower here, along with a transmitter the exploration team used to contact the outer world, but the radio has been partially damaged and is unusable.”

“Mr. Jiang, most of the jerky, canned goods, and vegetables stored in the cold vault are still edible. Just like Mr. Chen said—they’ll last us for years.”

At this point, smiles appeared on everyone’s faces. In the apocalypse, food was the most precious resource.

Although mutated beasts could be hunted for their meat, doing so came with immense risk. The world outside was swarming with powerful mutated creatures, and the slightest misstep could cost lives.

Farming was even less feasible. With cities overrun, there were no seeds, and no land suitable for cultivation.

“What a pity... most of the research equipment is severely damaged, and the data has been completely destroyed...”

***

Atop the mountain, Chen Chu slowly opened his eyes. His gaze was distant and indifferent, deep and cold like a deity overlooking all living beings.

With the last of his attribute points spent, he had now cultivated the remaining five body enhancement arts to the ninth stage as well. His aura had grown increasingly subtle and concealed.

For the current Chen Chu, the cultivation of six body enhancement arts to the Ninth Heavenly Realm brought limited improvement, but the five newly acquired innate abilities with unique traits were a pleasant surprise.

Thinking of this, Chen Chu looked toward his attribute panel.

[Arts]

True Great Sun Body(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: Solar Energy Absorption

- Condenses vitality into True Solar Fire, searing and domineering.

Sacred Mystic Light Body(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: Protective Mystic Light

Purple Lightning Battle Body(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: True Divine Lightning

Star-Shattering Tyrant Body(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: Pulverization

Nine Transformations of the Azure Dragon(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: Heavenly Tyrant Dragon

Divine Heavenly Gate Body(Ninth Stage)

- Gained Innate Ability: Gate of Life

Due to the lack of remaining attribute points, these six arts would have to wait until he returned home for maximum enhancement. Only then could he begin the true fusion of laws and the reforging of secret scriptures.

Once he succeeded in merging the various divine abilities with corresponding laws, Chen Chu's power would skyrocket. By the time he broke through to the heavenly king level, he would be capable of counter-slaughtering a demon god. Not merely resisting—killing said demon god.

However, all that would have to wait. While he still had a few days left in this world, he needed to complete the foundational framework of a new body enhancement art—one that anyone could cultivate, that could lead all of humanity into the transcendent realm.

That had always been his purpose in collecting these ancient arts, yet it was easier said than done.