The Jadefall Ice Soul Pellet significantly boosted his profound energy in a short period. However, his internal profound energy remained restless and turbulent, an unavoidable side effect.
Yun Che summoned the Heaven Smiting Sword, gripping its hilt with both hands. Yet, the blade plummeted, striking the ground with a heavy thud.
Despite his increased profound energy, he still found it challenging to wield the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword, which weighed tens of millions of jin, under normal circumstances.
Yun Che's gaze hardened. Activating "Purgatory," his profound energy surged. The Heaven Smiting Sword lashed out, its terrifying power instantly evacuating the air from a vast area ahead. Yun Che roared as the Golden Crow Divine Flame engulfed his body. He wielded the Heaven Smiting Sword with all his might, unleashing torrents of destructive fire wherever the blade pointed.
A series of explosions echoed as the cultivation chamber's temperature soared. The ice mist evaporated, and the ice spirits rapidly vanished in panic. With one final roar of flames, Yun Che collapsed to his knees, the Heaven Smiting Sword crashing heavily beside him, nearly slipping from his grasp.
Sixty-seven strikes! His profound energy had advanced by three harmonious realms, enabling him to unleash sixty-seven full-power strikes with the Heaven Smiting Sword under the combined effects of "Purgatory" and the Golden Crow Flame. This represented immense progress. If he were to face Ji Hanfeng now, he would be confident of victory even without resorting to "Heaven Smiting."
Yet, this progress felt minuscule compared to his ultimate, seemingly unattainable goal.
"If only... I could wield the Heaven Smiting Sword freely under normal conditions..." Yun Che gasped, muttering to himself.
Normal conditions... He looked up, suddenly recalling the spatial storm beneath the Primordial Profound Ark years ago—and the near-qualitative leap his body and profound strength experienced within it.
He later learned that the initial spatial storm was a result of the Primordial Profound Ark's spatial traversal, while the subsequent, escalating storms were caused by Jasmine's deliberate intervention—all intended to repeatedly shatter his limits.
Each "rebirth" after pushing past his limits marked a new breakthrough.
Shattering... limits...
A strange glint suddenly flashed deep within Yun Che's eyes.
He sat up straight and retrieved a square, peculiar stone, shimmering with starlight, from the Sky Poison Pearl—the Star Picking Stone, a gift from Mu Sushan.
Yun Che lightly jumped onto the Star Picking Stone and slowly sat down. Immediately, a cool current flowed from the stone, gently enveloping his body, clarifying his mind and subtly alleviating his fatigue.
While this kind of current would seem strange and magical to others, Yun Che recognized it instantly: it was clearly the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!
Its true purpose was to gather the energies of heaven and earth!
Previous scattered descriptions had led Yun Che to believe the Star Picking Stone merely accelerated the circulation of profound energy. He was surprised to discover its true ability to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth—truly a wondrous stone, befitting its origin from Mu Xuanchen's radiance!
This discovery filled Yun Che with pleasant surprise. He immediately focused his mind and began to circulate the Great Way of the Buddha.
The spiritual energy of the God Realm was already several times purer and denser than that of the lower realms. With the Star Picking Stone's remarkable gathering ability, spiritual energy surged into Yun Che's body like a torrent, swiftly replenishing his depleted profound energy.
Half an hour later, Yun Che opened his eyes.
In just half an hour, his depleted profound energy was completely restored!
This astonishing speed would leave even a powerful expert like Mu Sushan utterly dumbfounded.
Leaping off the Star Picking Stone, Yun Che seized the Heaven Smiting Sword once more, his eyes suddenly glinting with fierce resolve.
"Heaven Smiting!!"
Bang!! The profound energy exploded with a force akin to a collapsing mountain. The rampant power churned the air in the entire cultivation chamber into chaos. Yun Che became a raging beast, the Heaven Smiting Sword striking out wildly, unleashing a nightmarish storm of disaster.
A deafening roar shattered the cultivation chamber floor, sending shards of rock flying. The second strike tore up the ground, and the third pulverized all the flying debris into fine dust.
Though only three strikes, Yun Che's arms were already cracking and seeping blood. Yet, he showed no sign of stopping, his eyes still as fierce as a ravenous wolf. With the fourth strike, scarlet flames engulfed the Heaven Smiting Sword. The moment it erupted, the area for several miles ahead instantly transformed into a sea of deathly fire.
Boom!—Each strike was the absolute peak of his power, as if he were facing an enemy in a life-or-death battle.
After a full seven strikes, Yun Che finally let out a muffled groan, his rampant profound energy completely spent. The Heaven Smiting Sword flew from his grasp, and he collapsed heavily to his knees, his entire body convulsing violently. Hundreds of rivulets of blood streamed from various parts of his body, rapidly drenching him.
The "Heaven Smiting" state was far beyond his current control. The strain of unleashing seven full-power strikes in this state was immense. Yun Che's entire body was now wracked with excruciating pain; his bones felt shattered, every muscle twitched violently, and nearly thirty percent of his profound veins were fractured.
"Cough... cough cough..." Yun Che propped himself up with his hands on the ground, spitting out several clots of blood.
Such injuries would render anyone else half-dead.
For profound veins, it would be an irreversible, devastating blow.
Yun Che lay there, slowly recovering for a while before laboriously inching his body closer to the Star Picking Stone. As he moved, an increasingly long trail of blood stretched behind him.
Despite his body convulsing in extreme pain, his eyes gleamed with an almost twisted excitement. His hand touched the Star Picking Stone, and he could no longer move an inch; even his breathing became exceptionally faint.
This was it... this feeling of... shattering limits... teetering on the edge of death!
Yun Che actually laughed. After lying there for a while, he suddenly gritted his teeth, letting out a hoarse growl, and managed to heave himself onto the Star Picking Stone. Then, with great difficulty, he settled into a twisted posture and began to circulate the Great Way of the Buddha. Under the Star Picking Stone's miraculous power, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth swiftly gathered, surging into Yun Che's body and restoring both his physical body and profound veins.
This time was entirely different from the last. Before, it was merely profound energy depletion; now, it was incredibly severe bodily injury compounded by severe profound energy overdraft.
The first time he forcibly activated "Heaven Smiting" while confronting the Moon Slaughter Devil Monarch in the Moon Slaughter Devil Lair, it took him a full seven days to recover completely.
Furthermore, in this entire world, he was the only one who could fully recover from such a state without any lasting side effects. For anyone else, merely surviving would be a miracle, let alone achieving full recovery. Even if their life was spared, it would inevitably result in permanent crippling of both their body and profound veins.
But this time...
One hour later, Yun Che's pallor had faded, and his complexion was becoming rosy.
Two hours later, his breathing was remarkably stable.
Four hours later... Yun Che slowly opened his eyes, two sharp, unweakened glints of cold light flashing within them.
In a mere four hours, both his injuries and his profound energy had completely recovered!
"Good!"
Yun Che leaped from the Star Picking Stone. As he landed, the Heaven Smiting Sword was already back in his grasp, and a turbulent wave of profound energy once again erupted from his body.
Having just recovered from the nightmarish aftermath of "Heaven Smiting," he forcibly activated it once more.
His power instantly became immense. The Heaven Smiting Sword, weighing tens of millions of jin, felt remarkably light and nimble in his hands. Yet, simultaneously, every cell in his body trembled under the immense pressure, seemingly on the verge of rupturing.
Yun Che's eyes were fierce as the Heaven Smiting Sword, imbued with his entire will and utmost power, slammed forward. Each activation of "Heaven Smiting" was tantamount to placing himself in a desperate situation; every full-power strike brought him a step closer to the abyss of death.
He was fighting for his life. Forcing himself to consume the Jadefall Ice Soul Pellet was a life-or-death gamble, and he continued to gamble with his life now. He pushed himself so desperately for just one chance to see Jasmine again.
Because it was Jasmine, she was worth every sacrifice. Even if it was just a fleeting chance to see her.
Clang!!! The Heaven Smiting Sword flew far off, and Yun Che once again collapsed to the ground, his body trembling and recoiling. A large pool of fresh blood rapidly spread beneath him.
This time, it was still seven strikes. The final strike, "World Extinguishing and Heaven Devouring," amplified by flames, was the most draining. It caused nearly all the blood vessels and profound veins in both his arms to rupture, particularly his right arm, which gushed blood like a fountain.
His vision blurred. Despite the intense pain wracking his body, he couldn't stop his consciousness from rapidly fading. He bit the tip of his tongue hard, desperately fighting off unconsciousness, then dragged his body, which felt barely his own, towards the Star Picking Stone.
"Ugh... I can... hold on... I definitely... can..."
Hanging by his last thread of consciousness, Yun Che dragged himself onto the Star Picking Stone, re-entering a state of recovery.
If this happened to any other profound practitioner, even just once, their body and profound veins would be mostly, if not entirely, crippled.
With a Dragon God's physique, the recovery power granted by the Desolate God, and the profound veins from the Evil God, Yun Che was the only one in this world who could recklessly gamble with his life in such a way.
Four hours later, Yun Che had recovered once more. The instant he left the Star Picking Stone, "Heaven Smiting" activated again...
In the "Heaven Smiting" state, it would take only a very short time for his profound energy to become critically depleted and his body severely wounded to the brink of death. If he made even the slightest mistake, or if his will crumbled before he could recover, he would likely die on the spot.
Back then, aboard the Primordial Profound Ark, the pressure he endured was predominantly physical, with relatively less strain on his profound energy.
This time, however, he faced a dual struggle, a desolate challenge to both his body and profound veins.
The cultivation chamber was utterly ravaged, its self-repair mechanism even slowed by the residual destructive power of the Heaven Smiting Sword. Within this devastated space, Yun Che repeatedly activated "Heaven Smiting," madly releasing power until he was near death, then recovered with the aid of the Star Picking Stone and the Desolate God's power, only to activate "Heaven Smiting" again, and recover again...
This cycle repeated again and again, day after day, month after month.
He seemed to ignore the immense pain, the despair, and the terrifying risk of a horrific death should he make the slightest mistake. Like a madman possessed, he cultivated relentlessly in this inhumane and brutal fashion...
He had no idea what the consequences of such cultivation would be. But to achieve that impossibly distant goal, he had to savagely tear apart his limits—a lesson Jasmine had imparted, and the only method he could conceive of now.
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