Chapter 1724: Seven Days and Seven Nights

His internal organs were being frantically devoured. All meridians and bones underwent destructive changes as the compressed Tai Chi totem, infused with the boundless power of life-and-death opportunities, assimilated them.

Xu Yang could clearly feel his perception of all power within his physical body, limbs, and meridians rapidly fading, a clear sign that his physical vitality was quickly withering.

Xu Yang knew clearly that this was the most difficult and crucial moment for him to conquer. He had to establish a profound connection between his soul essence and this all-devouring Tai Chi totem before his grasp on his physical vitality completely disappeared.

Finally, Xu Yang made a most daring attempt: he integrated his complete soul essence into the Eye of the Gods. This was a gamble of everything he had, striving for one final success.

Within his decaying body, Xu Yang's soul world once again burst forth with boundless starlight. Once his soul essence perfectly merged with the Eye of the Gods, this meteor-like power quickly broke free from the soul world, constantly approaching Xu Yang's already decaying physical body.

The ultimate destination of this meteor was the center of the Tai Chi totem disk that was steadily penetrating Xu Yang's body. Finally, at the very moment Xu Yang's physical strength completely dried up, this meteor, carrying Xu Yang's boundless soul power, heavily struck the Tai Chi totem.

The instant the two merged, all of Xu Yang's vitality and soul power perfectly combined with this Tai Chi totem, which had devoured the strongest life-and-death power origins in the world.

This Tai Chi totem became the complete vessel for Xu Yang's life force!

At the same time, the Eye of the Gods, a golden source of power that had merged with his soul, completely melted, encasing this immensely powerful Tai Chi totem with a shimmering golden edge. The entire essence of the Tai Chi totem transformed into a golden hue.

What followed was a period of complete silence lasting seven days and seven nights. Xu Yang's physical body showed no signs of life, a sight witnessed by Xiao Hua, Goddess Yanxia, and the utterly stunned Grand Elder of the Underworld Imperial Clan.

"It seems Xu Yang has fallen," observed the Grand Elder, "because his physical body has no temperature whatsoever. He just sits cross-legged on the ground without moving at all; even his soul aura has completely vanished."

Little did they know that Xu Yang's physical state was a result of all his life force having integrated into the Tai Chi totem within his body. The completion of this fusion and the anticipation of his next true awakening also required a process.

After all, from the perspective of how life's meaning is interpreted on the various continents, Xu Yang's actions at this moment could be considered a true rebirth.

Previously, he was merely a mortal body, but now he had become the favored one of all creation—an immortal life nurtured by the Grand Dao of Life and Death.

In other words, Xu Yang himself had become the embodiment of the Grand Dao of Life and Death and the Tai Chi totem. The shimmering, palm-sized Tai Chi totem was continuously rotating and circulating at a gentle, orderly pace.

From the very first day of Xu Yang's seclusion, no trace of his aura appeared on the Tai Chi totem. As time slowly passed, the totem itself gradually began to emit an aura unique to Xu Yang, though it was extremely faint.

Not until the seventh day did Xu Yang's surging life force and his immensely powerful soul essence manifest a perfect embryonic form within the Tai Chi totem, gradually detaching from its core and returning to every part of Xu Yang's physical body.

Finally, when Xu Yang's complete soul essence emerged from its cocoon once more, his body, which had long lost all warmth, began to reconstruct new bones and meridians.

However, the new physical body Xu Yang acquired after his rebirth had an internal structure completely different from that of normal humans. He had lost his internal organs and his former meridian structure. All his power was now rooted in this endlessly circulating Tai Chi totem, which endlessly generated life.

In other words, Xu Yang's new physical body now relied solely on this Tai Chi totem, which would never cease to circulate. It was his only internal organ and meridian structure, and the sole source of all his cultivation power and life force.

As long as this shimmering golden Tai Chi totem remained undamaged, Xu Yang's life would never cease. This was because within the Tai Chi totem, boundless vitality and boundless decay and death had achieved a state of relative stillness within the cycle of life's operation.

To illustrate such a miracle with an example, imagine two peak experts traveling in the same direction, soaring through the air. Although their individual speeds had reached their limits and the friction with the surrounding space was immense, they remained perfectly still relative to each other.

Generally, life forms born on the main continent eventually decay over time. This is because at the initial stage of a life's birth, there is no trace of decay or death, only a mass of pure, unblemished vitality.

However, as time passes, forces of decay and death begin to emerge within the vigorous life force, gradually increasing their proportion within that vitality.

As a child continuously grows, the spark-like light of decay within their originally pure, unblemished, pristine white vitality will also continuously increase its presence in this life force over time.

The moment the black power of decay and death and the white vitality reach an equal point is precisely the peak moment of that life's existence and its only eternal moment.

Many highly talented cultivators almost all choose to attempt breakthroughs at that peak moment, thus achieving the strongest cultivation realm of their lives.

Even some revered sages had considered comprehending the Dao of Life and Death, but after sensing the immutable law of life-and-death cycles within themselves, they eventually gave up.

Xu Yang's success, however, was because he created his own Dao of Tai Chi. This almost perfectly continuous Tai Chi totem fundamentally altered the evolutionary laws of the two extreme forces of life and death through his own Dao of Tai Chi, making the moment when life and death reached equilibrium eternal.

In this way, Xu Yang could forever maintain an immortal vitality, thereby reaching the ultimate realm of truly comprehending life and death and achieving eternal immortality.