Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams

Chapter 728: Chapter 263: Spirit Transformation

"Mu Yan, Mu Chang, have all clan members retreat back to Yunshui City."

Upon receiving his command, Mu Yan and Mu Chang immediately cupped their hands and led many Shen Family cultivators away from Laishui River, heading toward Yunshui City.

Shen Wen’an himself found a large rock smoothed by the river’s flow, sat cross-legged at the riverbank, and quietly watched the raging river before him.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

During this half month, Shen Wen’an did not notice any change in the turtle shadow on the river’s surface, but he faintly sensed that the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi seemed to be guided by some unknown force, slowly gathering towards the flowing Laishui River.

Along with the gathering of the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, unbeknownst to anyone, a large amount of dark clouds assembled in the sky over this area.

The dark clouds accumulated more and more, causing the sky over a hundred miles in the south of Yunshui City to remain gloomy for several days.

In the thick clouds, electric light continuously flashed, followed by the rolling thunder.

Shen Wen’an gazed at the dark clouds overhead, glanced at the river below, and furrowed his brow slightly.

Crack!

Just as he pondered whether the various phenomena before him were related to Xu Zhan at the river’s bottom, a bright lightning bolt suddenly and unexpectedly fell from the void, striking directly on the turtle shadow’s back!

The glaring light caused Shen Wen’an to squint slightly.

In a daze, he was shocked to see that when the electric arcs exploded on the turtle shadow’s back, they actually outlined the silhouettes of bizarre edifices!

Such phenomena appeared quickly and vanished even faster!

It lasted less than one hundredth of a breath!

If it weren’t for Shen Wen’an’s focus on the turtle shadow at the time, even having reached the Golden Core Sword Immortal Realm, he wouldn’t have been able to notice this scene.

"That is... a city..."

Recalling the architectural silhouettes outlined by the electric light, Shen Wen’an vaguely felt it was a city.

The city gave off a very eerie sensation.

Logically speaking, the shell on the turtle shadow’s back was only hundreds of feet in size, and the city outlined by the electric light was merely a miniature city model occupying several acres.

However, when Shen Wen’an recalled the fleeting glimpse of the city, he kept feeling that the city was extraordinarily grand and immense!

Even from just the memory, he seemed to perceive the ancient and vast aura emanating from the city!

An unknown turtle shadow.

Carrying an unknown and ancient city on its back...

Frowning, Shen Wen’an couldn’t quite figure out what this all meant.

Crack!

Another electric light fell from the cloud, but this time it didn’t strike the turtle shadow’s back.

The electric light fiercely hit the rushing river surface, creating huge splashes!

Countless electric arcs swam within the river water.

By the light of the arcs, Shen Wen’an faintly saw the silhouette beneath the river’s surface with arms extended, topless.

Clearly, that silhouette was Xu Zhan, who was in closed-door cultivation at the river’s bottom.

At this moment, Xu Zhan stood there with closed eyes, all pores open, quietly upright in the center of the river water.

Spiritual Power from the river’s surroundings was continuously absorbed into his body.

This Spiritual Power slowly merged with every cell of his flesh, changing the intensity of his flesh.

Shen Yuan once used the > to deduce the path beyond the Fourth Realm of Body Cultivation.

He ultimately concluded that after the Fourth Realm of Body Cultivation, the Fifth Realm is the Spirit Transformation Realm.

The so-called Spirit Transformation Realm means that at this realm, a Body Cultivator doesn’t just cultivate their own body, relying solely on uncovering hidden treasures deep within the body to boost their strength.

Body Cultivators at the Spirit Transformation Realm can, like Immortal Dao cultivators, absorb the Spiritual Qi Between Heaven and Earth, merging it with every inch of flesh and bone.

Thereby allowing their physical bodies to store more energy and possess greater explosive power.

All of this is to lay the foundation for the next Body Cultivation Realm—the Divine Power Realm.

In closed-door cultivation for three years, Xu Zhan at this point has clearly comprehended the mysteries of the Spirit Transformation Realm, now busily absorbing the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, constantly filling his empty flesh.

Shen Wen’an discovered that Xu Zhan’s body seemed like a bottomless pit at this moment.

It not only voraciously devoured the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power, but even the Thunder’s electric light drifting in the river was swallowed whole.

He even noticed the two visible trails of gray Evil Qi emerging from the bottom of Laishui River beneath Xu Zhan’s feet, flowing through his feet continuously into his body.

Any Immortal Dao cultivator would have long perished from this chaotic source of power surging into the body.

But Xu Zhan embraced them all, swallowing them whole without discretion.

Several streaks of lightning flashed across the sky, the clouds above seeming to hang lower, with an increasing intensity of oppression.

Sitting cross-legged on the large rock at the riverbank, a gentle breeze blew by Shen Wen’an, carrying an eerie chill.

In just a few breaths, the gentle breeze became fierce, roaring as it swept over from afar.

And the chill in the wind became even denser.

This chill was so dense that a layer of ice clung to the river water surrounding Shen Wen’an’s rock.

These ice shards were shattered by the raging river, forming smaller ice blocks, which crashed into the rocks on the bank and made a crisp sound as the river flowed.

Gradually, the ice on the river’s surface grew thicker and more numerous.

The Laishui River, which wouldn’t freeze even in the dead of winter, actually froze completely in this hot summer.

Moreover, the chill spread upwards and downstream along the river in a short half-hour. Visibly, both upstream and downstream of Laishui River were entirely frozen!