68: With all three elements fully activated, the Divine Breath Realm is achieved!

The spiritual power inside Zhang Sheng's body was like a torrential flood breaking through a dam, pouring out frantically!

Nearly nine hundred thousand points of spiritual power turned into violent lightning snakes tearing through the sky, shooting out from his body and ionizing the surrounding air with crackling sounds.

Until the last trace of spiritual power was squeezed dry, leaving his body completely empty.

Deep within the Qi Sea, the nine spirit dragon phantoms made of pure energy still circled; they represented the Foundation of his Realm, yet they could not provide even a shred of power.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng possessed only the shell of the Qi Sea Realm Perfection, but his interior was depleted of spiritual power, like a dried-up riverbed.

"Ugh!"

A tearing pain came from his Dantian, but Zhang Sheng gritted his teeth, a hint of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

His will was like a blade, ruthlessly slashing toward those nine phantoms!

"Shatter for me!"

An invisible sound of cracking vibrated within his body.

The spirit dragon phantoms wailed as they shattered inch by inch and dissipated.

The Realm barrier collapsed with a bang, and his majestic aura instantly withered like a collapsing mountain, falling all the way from the towering Qi Sea Realm Perfection to the bottom of the Foundation Establishment Realm!

The spiritual power wings supporting his hover at an altitude of thirty thousand meters instantly dispersed into flecks of fluorescence.

A sense of weightlessness suddenly seized him, and his body turned into an uncontrolled meteor, plummeting toward the vast earth below!

The astral winds were like knives, cutting his face painfully.

"Heavenly Circulation Method, rotate!"

"Primordial Chaos Qi Refining, open!"

At the critical moment, Zhang Sheng swallowed a spirit food pill and a qi gathering pill whole.

The Medicinal Pill entered his stomach and turned into a scalding torrent.

He focused his mind, using himself as a furnace and the remaining essence as a guide, operating the Dantian Qi Sea minor circulation with all his might!

Buzz—!

The air within a one-kilometer radius suddenly distorted and collapsed!

A massive vortex visible to the naked eye, composed of pure spiritual power, appeared out of thin air, with the falling Zhang Sheng at its center!

A massive amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, as if grabbed by an invisible giant hand, turned into a surging milky-white torrent, frantically pouring into his thirsty Qi Sea Dantian with overwhelming force.

In just one minute!

A complete minor circulation was finished under extreme pressure.

Within the Qi Sea Dantian, a wisp of spiritual power condensed as if solid was born!

It was incredibly thick, and the energy fluctuations within it were actually more majestic than an entire spirit dragon condensed with difficulty by ordinary Cultivators!

This single wisp contained ten thousand points of spiritual power!

In the ninth level of the Qi Sea Realm, one must complete nine hundred and ninety-nine minor circulations per level, condensing nine hundred and ninety-nine wisps of Spiritual Qi to gather into a Qi Sea spirit dragon that shakes the Dantian.

Only when nine dragons gather is it considered Perfection!

However, Zhang Sheng keenly noticed an anomaly.

"Something's wrong!" Alarm bells rang in his heart.

Having experienced nine cycles of Physical Body life-and-death transformation and with the medicinal power of the peak grade spirit gathering pill as a base, the extreme operating speed of Primordial Chaos Qi Refining should have been one circulation every three seconds!

It should never have dragged on for a whole minute!

The answer became clear instantly—spiritual power concentration!

"It's this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, thin as water! Earth's current spiritual power concentration simply cannot support the terrifying demand of absorbing ten thousand points of spiritual power in three seconds!"

In a flash of thought, Zhang Sheng forcibly activated the trace of spiritual power he had just recovered.

With a buzz, slightly illusory spiritual power wings condensed on his back again, stabilizing his figure just before he fell to a dangerous height.

"Secret Realm!"

"Only a Secret Realm can provide enough Spiritual Qi!"

A sharp light shot from his eyes, and Zhang Sheng's figure suddenly turned into a dazzling rainbow light tearing through the sky, heading toward the first known Blue-level Secret Realm within Huaxia's borders!

As soon as he passed through the energy barrier of the Secret Realm, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi so dense it was almost solid hit him in the face, seeping into his lungs, and all the pores of his body opened comfortably.

The scene before him had changed drastically since he last left.

On the broad highway, an endless stream of steel torrents composed of heavy trucks was fully loaded with spirit plants emitting a faint treasure light and Ores shimmering with metallic luster.

The Foundation Establishment Realm Yao Beasts that once occupied this place were now all imprisoned in specially made alloy cages, growling and roaring.

Keeping them was a necessary Foundation for maintaining the existence of the Secret Realm—once they went extinct, the Secret Realm would dissipate.

What surprised Zhang Sheng even more was that he saw several familiar figures.

Students from Huaxia Agricultural University were carefully harvesting spirit plants.

"Li Bin! Sun Jie! Fatty!"

Zhang Sheng landed before the three like a falling star, the surging airflow making the spirit plants sway.

"Brothers, long time no see!" After consecutive bloody battles, being able to reunite with old friends on the edge of life and death stirred warm ripples in his heart.

"Zhang Sheng?!" Sun Jie looked up abruptly, surprised and delighted, "Holy crap! You kid! Ever since you went to First Cultivation University, it's like you vanished from the face of the earth!

Where have you been cultivating?"

"Brother Sheng!" Li Bin's eyes lit up, and he leaned in to whisper,

"Did you participate in the siege of the Divine Breath Realm Beast? I heard your First Cultivation University is full of hidden talents!"

Wu Xingyang, who was on the side, smiled honestly without speaking, but his eyes were full of concern.

"Of course!" Zhang Sheng laughed heroically, trying to dispel the gloom in his heart, "Your Brother Sheng is destined to be an existence that sweeps across the Universe! A mere Divine Breath Realm Beast is nothing but a clay chicken or a pottery dog before me!"

"Wow! Zhang Sheng, you're bragging even louder than I do!" Sun Jie punched him playfully, full of joy,

"If you're really that amazing, why don't you go to the US and kill that arrogant fellow called Rodi?"

"Rodi..." The smile on Zhang Sheng's face instantly froze, his eyes suddenly becoming cold and deep, a towering wave suppressed beneath his calm tone,

"Him, I will kill with my own hands."

"Brothers, I have urgent business; let's gather another day. Keep this!" He threw out a jade bottle that landed steadily in Wu Xingyang's hand, containing ten round, full, supreme-grade qi gathering pills with flowing pill patterns.

Zhang Sheng did not look back; the spiritual power wings on his back flapped violently!

Boom!

The air let out a sonic boom!

His body instantly broke through six times the speed of sound, turning into a blurred afterimage that tore through the Spiritual Qi clouds above the Secret Realm.

His incredibly powerful Physical Body forcibly withstood the high temperature and impact generated by intense friction with the air, racing toward the core of the Secret Realm, the area where the Spiritual Qi was most viscous!

Arriving at the core, Zhang Sheng sat cross-legged in mid-air.

He operated the Primordial Chaos Qi Refining Mind-Cultivation Technique to an unprecedented extreme!

Rumble!

A giant spiritual power vortex, ten times larger than the one outside, frantically formed beneath him!

Terrifying suction was generated at the center of the vortex, pulling the dense, almost liquid Spiritual Qi in the Secret Realm, forming a milky-white Spiritual Qi pillar connecting heaven and earth, which continuously blasted into his Dantian Qi Sea!

Primordial Chaos Qi Refining finally revealed its terrifying true form—every three seconds, one circulation was completed!

Zhang Sheng was like a black hole incarnated, greedily devouring the Secret Realm's Spiritual Qi.

He sat there for a full twelve hours!

Within the Dantian Qi Sea, nine giant dragons condensed from pure spiritual power, with clear scales and claws, roared and swam freely in the boundless ocean of energy!

Ninth level of the Qi Sea Realm, Perfection!

At this moment, a sense of spiritual power filled to the extreme permeated his entire body, as if every cell was cheering.

He could clearly feel that the total amount of spiritual power his Qi Sea could accommodate now had actually reached a hundred times what it was when he was at the Qi Sea Realm Perfection before!

A full eighty-nine million, nine hundred and ten thousand points of spiritual power!

This was a thousand times the spiritual power reserve of an ordinary Qi Sea Realm Perfection Cultivator!

With a difference in total spiritual power of nearly a thousand times, the gap in strength was already the difference between clouds and mud, a heavenly chasm!

And the price was that the Spiritual Qi concentration of the entire Blue-level Secret Realm had been forcibly devoured by fifty percent by Zhang Sheng!

A few Cultivators cultivating or performing tasks nearby saw that Spiritual Qi vortex connecting heaven and earth and the god-like figure at its center from afar; all were pale with shock, not daring to approach even an inch, only able to stand and watch in awe.

Breaking through the Qi Sea and stepping into the Divine Breath was the final step right before him.

But Zhang Sheng knew the dangers involved; for safety, he decided to return to his exclusive apartment at First Cultivation University to make final preparations.

Inside the quiet room, sandalwood smoke curled.

Zhang Sheng sat cross-legged with his five centers facing the sky, eliminating all distracting thoughts, and his mind sank into his Dantian.

The current Dantian space was vast and boundless, as if it had become a world of its own.

Nine giant spiritual power dragons connecting heaven and earth, with lightning surrounding their bodies, kicked up towering waves in the Qi Sea, circling and flying, their dragon roars shaking the heavens!

"Descend!"

Zhang Sheng's will was like a divine decree!

The nine giant dragons seemed to hear the supreme command, and their massive dragon bodies crashed into the Qi Sea with a bang!

In an instant, the boundless ocean of Spiritual Qi churned and expanded violently; the forms of the giant dragons disintegrated, turning into the most primitive and majestic spiritual power Origin, completely transforming the entire Dantian into a surging ocean of spiritual power!

"Rise!"

The operation of the Primordial Chaos Qi Refining Mind-Cultivation Technique reached its peak!

Boom!

A brilliant sun, composed purely of golden energy and emitting endless light and heat, suddenly broke through the waves from the center of the spiritual power ocean!

It rose up with ten thousand rays of golden light, instantly filling the entire Dantian space and dyeing everything pure gold!

As the golden sun rose into the sky, the spiritual power ocean below visibly dropped by a section.

Then—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One after another, equally dazzling golden suns leaped up from the spiritual power ocean!

The second, the third... until the ninth!

When the last trace of the spiritual power ocean was also evaporated and absorbed, nine golden suns hung high in the Dantian void, like nine suns!

The boundless ocean of spiritual power had all turned into these nine extremely masculine and yang divine suns!

Nine dragons turn to sea, rising nine suns; the first step of the Divine Breath Realm, achieved!

But this was only the beginning.

The nine-sun spiritual power burned fiercely in the Dantian, and a mysterious, unfathomable "Divine Breath" containing the power of life and death rose from the nine suns.

This Divine Breath was incredibly pure, scorching, and agile; it followed the spinal dragon vein-weilu, penetrated through layer upon layer of barriers-jiaji, and soared all the way up, rushing straight into the profound gate at the top of the head—the Niwan!

"Rumble!"

A loud sound, like the beginning of the Universe, exploded deep in Zhang Sheng's Soul!

Deep within the center of his brows, a mysterious space was violently forced open by this majestic Divine Breath!

The niwan palace, open!

Inside the palace, it was not empty but filled with dense, liquid-like misty vapor that sparkled with dots of starlight.

Zhang Sheng realized that this mist was the manifestation of his mental will, the residence of the human "Spirit"!

Having completed their mission, the nine golden suns did not stop.

They followed a mysterious trajectory, descending from the Niwan, passing through the throat's multi-layered tower, and finally sinking into the center of the chest—where the crimson heart palace is located.

The crimson heart palace, open!

Inside the palace gate, the scene was completely different.

A world as bright red as blood, a churning crimson ocean containing terrifying life energy, emitted a scorching blood-qi power.

This was precisely the boundless life essence Zhang Sheng had accumulated after experiencing nine cycles of Physical Body life-and-death, the source of the human "Essence"!

The nine suns finally returned to the Dantian Qi Sea, suspended in the vast void.

The current Dantian Qi Sea, illuminated by the nine suns with spiritual power like an ocean, was the ultimate source of the human "Qi"!

The niwan palace, crimson heart palace, and Qi Sea Palace—the three palaces of life's Origin—were wide open!

Essence, Qi, and Spirit—the Three Primes of the human body—were perfectly connected at this moment, forming a mysterious whole that was endless and cyclic!

The Three Primes returned to their positions; the Divine Breath Realm, achieved!