Chapter 357: A New Part of the Body
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'How long will it take for the temporal rule to reach every inch of my body?' as the temporal rule continues to wreak havoc on his body, Su Xiaotian asks towards the system that responds immediately, hoping that this new physique talent of his can buy enough time for him to do his plan.
[The temporal rule will cover the user's body within an estimated time of seven hundred and twenty seconds]
Reading the words from the semi-transparent floating golden screen, the immortal-like young man couldn't help but think that there's really just nothing that will go with his way completely when it comes to his cultivation, not even once, causing him to laugh helplessly before he decided to continue with this stunt of his anyways.
Urging the dormant physique talent to manifest itself, he starts feeling something roaring into life deep within his very being, a thunderous clap of roaring that invigorated not only his entire body, but also his spirit and soul as well, the effect continuing to grow stronger and stronger by the second as he feels the power of the two transcendent level physique talents perfectly complimenting each other.
Feeling the new coursing power in his body, Su Xiaotian also notices the loud beating of his heart, something that empowers him even more and made the scene around him all the more terrifying as his heartbeat alone produces trembling that affects even the surface around him, the surface of the Infinite Qi Dimension that he is clearly aware of being invulnerable to any sort of attacks.
As he observes all these changes outside though, he couldn't help but not miss the changes happening inside his body as well, the temporal rules once wreaking havoc and destroying his body now behaving like some sort of tame river properly going along the course of his blood vessels, nerves and meridians without any complain, making him aware that it is now the start of the second part of his plans.
'I only got five minutes in this state, I better make as much of it count' he thought to himself as he uses just his own body now to push all these temporal rules in a single direction, making them circulate within his entire body starting from his heart, this center of the circulation not being the only one as he also creates another flow of the river of temporal rule on his meridians, having his main core, the one on his solar plexus, to be the center of this flow and making all the other cores to be reservoirs of the raging temporal rules, causing the island within each and every single one of his core to undergo a comprehensive change.
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Lastly, he also made the rules of time flow through his nerves, having the center of it directly in his brain, an extremely risky move that also has an extremely high payoff, a gamble that he wishes to succeed and will try his best in order to do just so.
As he feels the temporal rule finally engulfing the paths he designed them to be on, he starts gritting his teeth since he knows that this is already the final stretch of this cultivation session of his, the temporal rule now spreading through each and every cell of his body while he is just a few seconds away from losing the effects of the simultaneous activation of both his transcendent level physiques, bracing himself from the pain about to come from the assault of the rules of time.
As the final second of invulnerability given by the two physiques ends, he starts feeling a jolt of massive pain consistently pulsing from three parts of his body, his brain, his heart and his main core, making him feel like something is devouring, or rather erasing him from the inside out, prompting him to hold on for dear life as he knows that this is the hardest part of this thing he is attempting.
Willing himself to stay awake, he struggles really hard as his entire being is shouting at him to just give in to the pain and allow himself to die, especially since dying is of no consequences in the Infinite Qi Dimension, the shouts in his mind causing him to laugh in ridicule as he continues to persist even more so.
'What bullshit! I've treaded this path for so long now that pain is something like an everyday occurrence to me now, this much will not stop me from getting what I want!!' he claims to himself before clenching his entire body in pain, increasing the circulation of the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi even more in order to alleviate the pain even for a bit, all while still controlling his body and soul power to efficiently guide the circulation of the temporal rule.
While he does this though, he is also paying attention to his Nascent Sources facilitating the integration of the temporal rules into his internal realms, the way he handles the temporal rules with his Nascent Sources making said sources appear like the supreme gods of their respective internal realms, bending and infusing the very time itself in each of their domains.
As all of this are happening, significant changes are happening on his body, spirit and soul as well, his very essence, the combination of these three aspects, rapidly decaying and starting a new within a brief, unnoticeably period of time, this process continuing without any visible end to it, all while his core is starting to change as well, the once chaotic islands in its base state now gradually forming some semblance of order in them, the rules he comprehended seemingly melding and complimenting each other even better now that he also has the temporal rule to go with them.
Meanwhile, he is still enduring a pain that seems to span through all eternity given the nature of the power he is trying to reign in, the property of the temporal rule making him lose all semblance of contact to the time of the outside world, sometimes making him feel like there are millennia that passes, while sometimes making him feel like he is just away for a few seconds since he starts cultivating.
While he struggles with his senses of time though, he can see the gradual improvement of his entire being while the completion of this cultivation of his is starting to near its end, with only some obscured parts of his body not being engulfed in the torrential wave of the temporal rule yet, something that will eventually happen as well.
"Just a little bit more…" showing just how much easier it is for him now that it finally reaches the very end of this cultivation session, Su Xiaotian even manages to speak verbally now to motivate himself on persisting on this, his mind feeling like it is about to collapse due to the countless years of suffering he endured during his cultivation, years that doesn't really happen as it is only a few hours after he starts refining and absorbing the Replica of the River of Time.
After waiting for a few more minutes, he finally achieves his goal, the River of Time once in front of him now completely disappearing as he fully integrates it to his body now, becoming a part of him as a whole as well from now on.