Mortal Alchemy

A law body is just a law body after all.

Unlike a spiritual body, it cannot alter the constitution and spiritual roots.

The moment he was about to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, Chen Ping felt the bottleneck.

The light from his divine soul and spiritual platform corresponded with the semi-crystallized spiritual power in his dantian.

Glimmers of starlight from his divine soul and law body sword slowly fell into his dantian.

Chen Ping immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "...To transform the law body and evolve it into a spiritual body, does it require planting a seed of divinity?"

This immediately increased the difficulty of Chen Ping's breakthrough.

This was laying the groundwork and planting a seed for his future advancement to a spiritual body.

Fortunately, Chen Ping had sorted out the spiritual power within his body a few years ago. Otherwise, trying to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment with such impure spiritual power would have likely caused him to suffer qi deviation immediately.

"Patient work is needed. I cannot immediately take the Barrier-Breaking Pill to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, as that would cut off the opportunity for the law body to advance to a spiritual body."

Chen Ping secretly lamented, but he guarded his mind and waited for the divine soul and law body to fall into his dantian, waiting for this planting of divinity to end.

One day... two days...

Ten days... half a month...

One month... two months... three months...

For a full three months, Chen Ping did not drink or eat, maintaining a seated posture.

He was already skin and bones from hunger. An ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator could not last this long. Only Chen Ping, with his foundation as a late-stage Tier 2 body cultivator, could withstand it.

At this moment, Chen Ping inwardly examined himself with his divine sense. The planting of the divine seed was nearing its end.

His dantian resembled a golden core, able to sense something being nurtured, waiting to break through the stubborn void and transform into a golden core.

Chen Ping's physical body, mind, and divine soul were all nearing exhaustion.

The divine soul on the spiritual platform had also been cleansed of impurities, and its extraordinary nature had all fallen into the dantian. The divine soul and dantian were connected by a line, echoing each other, making Chen Ping more adept at using spiritual power.

"Now is the time." Chen Ping laboriously took out a Tier 2 Barrier-Breaking Pill and swallowed it.

"Rumble!"

The originally dry physical body, divine soul, and spiritual power instantly received nourishment. Chen Ping felt as if he were soaking in a hot spring, and his originally exhausted and weak state immediately recovered.

Chen Ping's spirit jolted, but he did not rush to break through. Instead, he took out another Barrier-Breaking Pill and swallowed it.

An immensely surging and thick spiritual power surged forth, giving Chen Ping enough confidence.

He began to break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Chen Ping frowned: "Two Barrier-Breaking Pills are still not enough?"

After the law body's divine seed, the bottleneck of the late stage of Foundation Establishment had become incomparably hard and thick.

Like an impregnable city wall.

Chen Ping had swallowed two Barrier-Breaking Pills, but he had not even created a crack in the bottleneck.

Chen Ping immediately faintly guessed that the law body's divine seed had already given him a qualitative change, but this change was currently invisible, not yet manifest, and would only reveal its power after advancing to the Golden Core stage.

This, on the contrary, created a greater contradiction between Chen Ping's five-element mixed spiritual roots and the immortal path bottleneck.

"One reaps what one sows..."

Chen Ping's brow relaxed, and he took out a third Barrier-Breaking Pill and swallowed it.

"Not enough."

A fourth Barrier-Breaking Pill was swallowed.

"Still not enough."

Chen Ping's meridians had already begun to swell faintly.

A fifth Barrier-Breaking Pill was swallowed.

Chen Ping already felt his meridians were swollen and uncomfortable, and the spiritual power and medicinal power seemed to have reached the limit of what his physical body could bear.

"Is it so difficult to defy fate and change one's constitution and spiritual roots..."

Chen Ping gritted his teeth and took out a sixth Barrier-Breaking Pill and swallowed it.

The majestic medicinal power immediately caused Chen Ping's skin to bleed, just like the last time he swallowed the sword crystal.

Chen Ping immediately activated his essence blood to heal his injuries and suppress the damage.

In this situation, Chen Ping was already walking a tightrope, taking a gamble. A slight mistake would lead to qi deviation and all his previous efforts would be in vain.

As the sixth Barrier-Breaking Pill was refined, making Chen Ping's physical body unable to bear it, the thick wall of the bottleneck finally changed.

Like waves crashing against a ten-thousand-year-old dam, the surging water pounded day and night, finally corroding a gap in the dam.

Then, vast spiritual power began to enter the next realm drop by drop.

"Six Barrier-Breaking Pills are still not enough!"

Chen Ping had no choice but to take a seventh Barrier-Breaking Pill and press on!

"Rumble!!!"

Even more surging spiritual power swept towards the bottleneck.

One month...

Two months...

Four months...

Six months...

Another full six months had passed.

"Boom!"

As Chen Ping's spiritual power aura soared, stepping into a new realm, the spiritual power pressure was also completely different.

Another step closer to the Golden Core.

Chen Ping's face was pale, and his aura was extremely unstable.

He stuffed all kinds of rare Tier 2 spiritual medicines into his mouth as if they were worthless, wanting to quickly stabilize his realm and injuries.

This breakthrough, he was not prepared enough and almost capsized.

It took a full nine months to go from the middle stage of Foundation Establishment to the late stage.

And it consumed more than 100,000 spirit stones!

As some nourishing spiritual medicines entered his stomach, new essence blood began to grow, further suppressing Chen Ping's injuries. At the same time, Chen Ping circulated his cultivation technique to stabilize his realm and continued to cultivate in seclusion.

Another seven days later, Chen Ping emerged from seclusion, his face slightly pale, and soaked in a medicinal bath, beginning to further heal his injuries.

However, his condition was already much better.

"How easy is it to overcome innate limitations with acquired efforts?"

But no matter how difficult the road ahead, Chen Ping would never want to be bound by his own five-element mixed spiritual roots again.

And as he carefully felt his own spiritual power, his spiritual power vaguely had a trace of 'sword spirit' characteristics.

This could make Chen Ping's spiritual power stronger than ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, and it was also the sixth type of spiritual power attribute beyond the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

This undoubtedly made Chen Ping feel happy.

Changes are never huge, but come step by step.

He calculated the time, and it was already the twelfth year of the demon tide war.

There were still eight years left until the Changtian Secret Realm.

In the following time, he would only do two things: one was to continue to complete the Tier 1 version of the Extend Dao Pill, and the other was to fully push his physical body to Tier 3 of body cultivation.

"Body cultivation can not only increase the success rate, but also has high defense, and if injured, breaking through bottlenecks can also delay and postpone, waiting for new vitality."

As an auxiliary cultivation method to the immortal path, body cultivation really has many benefits.

He looked internally at the seventy-two semi-crystallized spiritual powers within his body.

"If I wait another ten years, I can cultivate to one hundred and eight semi-crystallized spiritual powers and reach the peak of the late stage of Foundation Establishment."

Chen Ping walked out of his dojo and flew towards the Warden's dojo.

When Zuo Yinghong saw Chen Ping, she looked as if she had seen a ghost, and said in an extremely surprised tone:

"Warden... Warden, you've broken through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment?"

Chen Ping nodded slowly and said lightly: "A lucky breakthrough."

Zuo Yinghong gasped: "The Warden is really amazing."

Is this the advantage of being a direct disciple of a Nascent Soul cultivator from a large sect, surpassing others?

She was now over one hundred and ten years old, and had established her foundation five or sixty years earlier than Chen Ping. She had personally watched Chen Ping cultivate step by step from the fifth level of Qi Refining to where he was now.

How many years had it been? Chen Ping had directly caught up with her cultivation!

How could people not be shocked?