Time slowly passed. It was nearly dusk when Shen Haoran gradually came to. He slowly sat up, shaking his groggy head. He looked at this new body of his and found it all a bit incredible.
"How is it? How is it? Did you succeed?" Seeing Shen Haoran awake, Elder Yan hurriedly asked. He had been standing guard for the entire day.
"Uh... It seems... I think I succeeded!" Shen Haoran said, a little uncertain.
"What do you mean, 'it seems' and 'you think'? Hurry up and check what's changed about you!" Elder Yan urged.
At his words, Shen Haoran calmed his mind and directed his Spiritual Thought into his body. He hadn't expected to be so shocked by what he saw! His body was completely shrouded in a gray mist. Through the mist, he could clearly see his meridians and bones glimmering with a gray light, as if they had a life and breath of their own! And as this light flickered, Shen Haoran could clearly sense the flow of Spiritual Power in the outside world. It seemed this body could easily absorb this Spiritual Power for Refinement.
What shocked Shen Haoran even more was that there was actually a gray Spirit Pill in his Dantian! When his Spiritual Thought reached his Dantian, the gray Spirit Pill immediately swarmed around it. Shen Haoran could even feel the joyful emotions it radiated! It was actually a living Spirit Pill!
But what puzzled Shen Haoran was that a Spirit Pill could only be condensed after advancing to the Spiritualist realm. His cultivation had risen to the Peak of Spirit Tempering Tier Five by awakening the Chaos Divine Body, which was still a long way from becoming a Spiritualist. He never expected to already have a Spirit Pill in his Dantian!
Shen Haoran couldn't make heads or tails of it. He could only withdraw his consciousness, still full of questions, and describe the changes in his body to Elder Yan. When he mentioned the gray Spirit Pill inside him, Elder Yan also wore a look of utter disbelief! But after pondering for a long time, he couldn't figure out the reason either. In the end, he could only attribute it to the miraculous nature of the Chaos Divine Body.
Shen Haoran could only drop the matter helplessly. 'If even an "old monster" like Elder Yan doesn't know, how could a young kid like me possibly figure it out?' he thought. 'Besides, this Spirit Pill isn't causing me any harm, so I'll just let it stay inside me for now.'
"By the way, don't let anyone know about the Spirit Pill in your body for now. You're probably the first person in history to have a Spirit Pill during the Spirit Tempering Stage. If someone with malicious intent finds out, you'll probably end up as a lab rat," Elder Yan warned.
"Mm-hm, I know," Shen Haoran said.
Then, Shen Haoran seemed to think of something else. He looked at Elder Yan with a hopeful expression and said, "Elder Yan, does having a Spirit Pill mean I can practice a Cultivation Technique? Do you think I can do it now?"
"Well..." Elder Yan was also taken aback. He hadn't expected Shen Haoran to ask this question.
"Logically speaking, you can only condense a Spirit Pill after advancing to the Spiritualist realm, and a Spirit Pill is one of the necessary conditions for practicing a Cultivation Technique. But I've never encountered someone like you who has condensed a Spirit Pill during the Spirit Tempering Stage. Therefore, I don't know if you can practice a Cultivation Technique or not. Why don't you give it a try?" After speaking, Elder Yan summoned a black stone disk from the Sealing Spirit Pearl.
As soon as the black stone disk appeared, an ancient, primitive aura washed over him. Shen Haoran stared at the disk, his face full of curiosity.
"This is the Chaos Stone Carving, left behind by Pangu at the Creation of Heaven and Earth. It records the origin of the Chaos Divine Body and its Cultivation Technique," Elder Yan explained directly, not waiting for Shen Haoran to ask.
"But there's nothing on it," Shen Haoran said, leaning over the stone disk and examining it from all sides, but he found nothing.
"Idiot! If it were that easy to see, it wouldn't be something left behind by the Pangu Giant God!" Elder Yan cursed.
"Uh... Right, right," Shen Haoran said sheepishly, scratching his head.
"Press your palm on it and channel the Spiritual Power from your Spirit Pill into the Chaos Stone Carving to receive the Cultivation Technique," Elder Yan said.
Hearing Elder Yan's words, Shen Haoran did as he was told. He placed his right hand on the Chaos Stone Carving and drew out the Spiritual Power from his Spirit Pill. Streams of gray Spiritual Power were thus channeled into the Chaos Stone Carving.
As the Spiritual Power was poured in, the black stone carving slowly turned gray, emitting rings of light that made it look incredibly mysterious.
Time ticked by, second by second. Shen Haoran gradually began to feel his strength failing. He had nearly exhausted all the Spiritual Power in his body, but aside from the Chaos Stone Carving glowing a bit brighter, no Cultivation Technique had appeared at all.
Elder Yan seemed to have anticipated this outcome. He said, "Shen the kid, I don't think this is going to work. The amount of Spiritual Power needed to activate the Chaos Stone Carving is immense. Even though you're at the Peak of Spirit Tempering Tier Five, you're still far from enough!"
Hearing Elder Yan's words, Shen Haoran's face filled with unwillingness. But he didn't want to give up just like that. Steeling his resolve and gritting his teeth, he roared, "Damn it, I refuse to believe it! I'm not one to give up easily!" He then began to frantically wring out the Spiritual Power from his body, pouring it into the Chaos Stone Carving.
"Are you crazy? You'll die if you keep this up!" Seeing how frenzied Shen Haoran had become, Elder Yan was genuinely startled and hurriedly tried to stop him.
But Shen Haoran was in no state to listen. He continued to frantically drain himself. The Spirit Pill in his body was now dim and lusterless, looking as if it might vanish at any moment. In this state, Shen Haoran's consciousness gradually began to fade.
'Is it really not going to work?' Shen Haoran thought with a bitter smile. 'Looks like I was too naive.'
In the instant Shen Haoran lost consciousness, the Chaos Stone Carving erupted with a dazzling gray light that shot directly into his mind and vanished. Then, under Elder Yan's shocked gaze, the Chaos Stone Carving shattered with a BOOM. The powerful shockwave sent Shen Haoran flying, and he collapsed on the ground, his condition unknown.
As Elder Yan stared at the fragments of the Chaos Stone Carving, a stampede of a thousand alpacas charged through his mind. 'Holy crap, what did I just see? The Chaos Stone Carving shattered... That's something left behind by the Pangu Giant God from the Primordial Era of the Creation of Heaven and Earth! Even a full-power strike from me at my peak wouldn't have left a single mark on it, and now it's been broken by a little kid at the Spirit Tempering Stage? I must be dreaming...'
Elder Yan looked over at Shen Haoran and saw him lying motionless on the ground. He quickly flew over and checked his breathing, only relaxing when he found that the boy had merely fainted. Still, he found the situation incredible.
Shen Haoran had given him one shock after another today. A kid at the Spirit Tempering Stage had actually withstood the impact of Chaos Energy and successfully awakened the Chaos Divine Body. What was even more astonishing was that Shen Haoran had condensed a Spirit Pill during the Spirit Tempering Stage. And from the looks of it now, he had also successfully received the Cultivation Technique! If word of any one of these three things got out, the entire continent would probably erupt in chaos!
"He really is a guy who creates miracles!" Elder Yan exclaimed with a sigh.
After Shen Haoran fell unconscious, his consciousness arrived in a gray, hazy world. Just as he was curiously examining this world, a booming voice resounded in his ears: "In the beginning of heaven and earth, when Chaos was undivided, the movement of the Five Elements began from Chaos. Only by gathering the Power of the Five Elements and condensing the Qi of Chaos can one achieve the true Chaos Body..."
The booming voice echoed in Shen Haoran's ears like a Brahma Sound, finally coalescing into four large words before him.
"Chaos Heaven-Dominating Technique!" Shen Haoran murmured. 'Is this the special Cultivation Technique for the Chaos Divine Body?'
Gazing at the ancient characters, Shen Haoran quickly became engrossed. Following the instructions in the Cultivation Technique, he began to clear his own acupoints.
Within the gray space, a young man sat cross-legged. Gray Spiritual Power flowed through his body like a Spirit Snake, clearing his acupoints for him. The moment he awakens will be the moment he masters the technique!