Feeling the peak of realm, he picked the body remodeling pills from treasure piles and prepare to enter the body refinement second major stage.
Since it doesn't affect the time flow effect he stayed inside the time chamber.
In the lower realms of immortal worlds, cultivation is a race against time for ordinary talented dao seekers. So their body refinement locks at 1st major layer refinement of body which includes skin, flesh, bone, blood, bone marrow refinements and meeting the criteria for qi cultivation they simply stop there.
But for the ancient period trillions of years ago human beings consuming blood of beasts learn to cultivate physique like beasts. It will result in a merge of life essence and spirit to form a core. Cultivation advancements were relied on this core refinement.
Evolution of humans did along the lines of adaptation to spiritual energy and to comprehend Dao, the ever present and eternal. So, method of core refinement was later deemed not efficient and qi cultivation gradually formed.
Seeing the potential of new system, everyone jumped ship and body cultivation has been obscured over millenia and only practised by people who have broken Dantian or spirit roots and for those who are rich.
Enlightened ones among them used energy and blood of beasts to form a better refinement of body and found the seperate segment refining of body.
Later these developed further into perfected system of body cultivation which includes the mortal shedding or mortal transcendence realm, in which biological body starts to assimilate spiritual nature.
The spiritual nature can be optimised by opening the different gates present commonly known as secrets of human potential. After opening everything, the body gates inter connecting forms a unity realm.
Then body will open essence storage which will develop into multiple Dantian like energy pools within body. Now body is semi spiritual.
Next stage is fusion and transformation of spirit and flesh to transform into spiritual body. The spiritual body for qi cultivation is different from spiritual body of body cultivation.Former is physique potential for following qi cultivation and latter is body realm.
Now body can be comparable to God transformation stage qi cultivators.
The body completely sheds it's mortal nature, but it's not eternal yet. Then spiritual transformations of body. Body will empty itself of concepts of reproduction and waste removal. Orifices will be closed. Body nears perfection in energy recovery and utilisation.
It's essentially not a man or a woman. It's a spiritual human or common as human spirit. They are extremely rare. As in history of millions of years immortal domain only a handful, ever present over different ages.
Further cultivation involve introducing rules into the body for merging with law energy, then fairy spirit and goes on.
The difficulty is because people practise technique which they got. And seekers of immortality and pioneers of a path are not stupid enough to feed your life's work for others to step on you, especially in a world you can live long and develop more even after death by using some methods.
They will spread the basics for seeing its potential and perfect them and people pass around their understanding, which may be obscuring the original intent of the path forward. For a rare path as body cultivation, it was indeed the result.
Pioneers of such path can be found in immortal world. Immortal realm has life span. For immortal emperors it's nearly a billion years. So the system is still being refined. But for someone with enlightenment system such as Han Chen it was different. The way opened itself to him.
But body refining he practised was obviously not starting from basics as he didn't have access to such paths, earlier in life. When he has absolute power he obtained those, but by then if he want to practise, it's not simple as starting from basics. He needed to merge two cultivation systems. He had some developments but he died before perfecting it.
Reviewing his memories for a month, he started the new chapters in body refinement of Trinity refinement sutra of his. Considering all the intricacies of the body cultivation way to dao, he started the cultivation of his peak of mortal refinement to the things he missed before in a rush to advance.
"To refine the mortal body is to prepare the vessel for eternity. Each layer, each thread, and each pulse must be tempered into flawless unity."
"Let the rivers of life flow pure and unbroken. Strengthen the channels of vitality, awaken the threads of thought and command."
"Each fiber, a blade; each membrane, a shield. Forge resilience, stretch endurance, and unify the vessel."
"The heart beats strength; the lungs whisper balance. Purify the essence of earth and heaven within every organ."
"Expand the mind, connect the stars within. Strengthen clarity and awaken the divine spark of wisdom."
The nerves, the blood capillaries, the veins, nerve centres, tissues, membranes other intricacies of the internal organs including the brain were tempered by him slowly. The process was slow as a snails pace. It took him 2 years to reach the absolute peak of mortal. Seeing the result, he was assured, because benefits will occur when you turn semi spiritual as it smoothen the breakthroughs further.
"Step steady as mountains grow. Burn all impurities; leave no flaw. In patience lies the path to transcendence."
"When the mortal is perfected, spirit awakens. Fuse the flesh with divinity; rise beyond the boundaries of mortality."
"The body is a vessel of transformation, evolving through purification, renewal, and transcendence. Each step refines mortality into divinity."
"Purification arises not from external toxins but from the body's natural processes. Circulate energy to cleanse the blood, expel impurities, and refine the spirit. Strength lies not in poison but in harmony and balance."
"To transcend mortality, one must embrace death—not as an end, but as a release of limitation. Each gate opened is a cycle of shedding weakness and awakening new strength."
"Unlock the ancient gates within, where energy flows freely and potential awakens. Each gate brings unity to the body, mind, and spirit, guiding the seeker to transcendence."
Han Chen focused his spiritual consciousness inward, shaping it to envelope his body from within. In this meditative state, he discovered the pre-cellular structures responsible for life itself. Through precise control, his spirit resonated with these primal structures, weaving threads of law energy into them. This resonance took half a year to complete, gradually imbuing the structures with spiritual nature. Cell by cell, he refined his entire body over the course of a year, leveraging his advanced mental abilities.
The transformation, a process that might have spanned decades, was accelerated by the rare Earth Spirit Milk and a handful of body remodeling pills. With these, he achieved what few could imagine, pushing his body to the limits of mortal refinement.
"The human body holds 108 acupoints, each a key to unlocking the universe within."
"To awaken the body is to light each star, aligning them into a constellation of power. The true master interconnects these stars into a radiant universe within."
"The gates are not isolated. Each is a star in the constellation of the divine form. To open one is to prepare the others, and to connect them is to achieve unity."
After reaching the peak of transformation, Han Chen began opening the gates of human potential. His Daoyun surged forth, interweaving the Law of Life with his Qi, forging law energy that fundamentally transformed his physique.
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Gate of Baihui (Crown)
"The first beacon, a bridge to the heavens. Align the divine light within with the celestial above."
The Baihui Gate acts as a conduit between body and celestial forces. Opening it aligned Han Chen's spiritual essence with the heavens, granting clarity of purpose and connection to divine energies. It also allowed his actions to carry momentum of heaven and earth to similarly refined cultivators. This gate required intense spiritual focus and took a month of meditation—an achievement that would take others years.
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Gate of Shenmen (Heart)
"Where spirit and emotion converge. Temper this gate to master the balance of passion and stillness."
The Shenmen Gate harmonizes emotion and spirit, balancing passion and serenity. Mastery of this gate granted Han Chen heightened emotional resilience, empathy, and spiritual growth. His experience across two lifetimes and no heart demons swiftly opened this gate in a single day.
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Gate of Fengmen (Lungs)
"The passage of breath, carrying life and spirit. Purify the air within to enhance vitality."
By refining the Fengmen Gate, Han Chen enhanced his breathing, turning it into a channel for vitality and spiritual energy. His life essence flowed seamlessly through interconnected martial veins, strengthening his endurance and life force. What typically required years of breathwork and meditation took him mere hours due to his perfect mastery of body refinement.
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Gate of Qihai (Dantian)
"The core of life's essence. Strengthen the foundation where energy is stored."
The Qihai Gate is the wellspring of life essence and energy. Han Chen's Dantian, already enhanced by twin dragon runes, provided unparalleled energy storage. This gate required no additional effort, as it was already optimized beyond mortal limits.
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Gate of Qinglin (Vital Blood)
"The reservoir of life's vitality. Merge the physical and spiritual bloodstreams to achieve boundless endurance."
Opening the Qinglin Gate merged Han Chen's physical and spiritual bloodstreams, elevating his vitality and healing capabilities. Over three months, his blood transformed completely into golden essence, a mark of supreme refinement. This gate amplified his physical energy, enabling boundless endurance and life force.
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Gate of Zaohai (Lower Sea)
"The depths of essence. Strengthen to awaken the hidden reserves of divine energy."
The Zaohai Gate, aligned with the lower energy centers, awakened hidden reserves of divine energy within Han Chen. It enhanced metabolic efficiency, stamina, and spiritual energy capacity. With precise control, he connected his lower Dantian to secondary martial veins, completing this process in a week—a feat that would otherwise take years.
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Gate of Life
"Emerge into eternal creation. Through this gate, the body becomes a living artifact of the divine."
Opening the Gate of Life elevated Han Chen's body to a divine artifact. His cells underwent genetic and evolutionary changes, granting disease resistance and self-sustaining regeneration. Tissue repair and cellular functions surpassed biological limits, synchronizing into a perpetually harmonious state. It took him a year and a half.
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Gate of Death
"Confront the void within. Through this gate, all impurities are purged, and the form begins its rebirth."
The Gate of Death symbolized purification and rebirth. By inducing a controlled purge of dormant impurities and mutations, Han Chen's body initiated self-regeneration. Neural pathways and genetic structures were reconfigured to optimize his evolution. The process culminated in a profound transformation, clearing all limitations and preparing his body for the unity of life and death. It was another 2 years.
Finally he ran his techniques to eliminate any medicinal residue and waited in meditation for a whole month.Finally feeling the advancement opportunity he ran the scriptures:
"The mortal form, divided by gates, seeks unison. The pillar of unity is forged when the essence of each gate flows unbroken, a river of eternal power."
Each time a new gate is opened, the secondary veins interlinked each other. Now that entire 8 gates opened, a circulatory pathway adjacent to spirit root formes an energy pathway with gate of lower sea as energy center. It resonates with the spiritual nature of body and energy inside them were compressed and purified and spread across the body. The spiritual consciousness and the physical vessel got interlinked and control reached very high.He can influence himself in a pre cellular structures level.
Han Chen has crossed the Gate Opening and Unity Realms of the semi-spiritual path, now ready to resume his long-delayed Qi cultivation.
The reason for why he couldn't start body building in previous life, starts from here. The golden core. In this realm, the life essence and foundation previously built are transformed into a stable sphere. If you don't have enough physique refinement, this transformation will end it failure and one will explode. The greater the body refinement, better his ability channel the power.
For mortal bodies, extraction limits hinder energy channeling, but a semi-spiritual body like his, with unlocked potential gates, connects the Golden Core to energy centers like the Gate of Lower Sea, achieving maximum combat power. Former is more like putting jet engine to a bicycle. Cycles potential will be unearthed fully. But it's still a cycle.
The Golden Core merges life essence into a stable sphere, allowing energy to permeate his skin as a natural defense. Lower-realm attacks dissipate harmlessly, and the refined energy enhances healing, recovery, and endurance.
In the semi-spiritual realm, the Golden Core achieves near-perfect energy transfer and conversion due to its spiritual nature, merging Qi and body cultivation seamlessly for unparalleled power.
If he hadn't reached unity realm before golden core, he wouldn't be able to continue body cultivation path.
Polishing his peak of foundation for a month he left the tower to seek breakthrough by tribulation. I would probably stuck in foundation building for a while without a tribulation.
Aside from purifying impurities,strengthening foundation, test for weeding out unworthy to ascend, it has other purposes like harmony with universal laws and transformation energy supply. Don't say it, as it will anger the heavens but it's the sideeffect.
Going out and spending some time with his girlfriend who was waiting outside for like 5 hours, he spend a month with her on the island.
While doing that he sensed the impurities of world are purified and filtered out automatically using the synchronisation of Gate of Fengmen, Gate of Zaohai, Gate of death.
Now, returning back to the small world, he sat crosslegged in an open platform for tribulation seizing array. He, as the controller of smallworld transmit his intention and found that, heavenly dao intends to send a 13 tribulation that enables immortal grade golden core. As the grade requirement is high, the tribulation is more deadly.
• Trinity Sutra •
Looking inside his Dantian he found 13 bases standing parallel to each other. As he initiated, the energies from every layer start to condense in the middle, layer upon layer. Then the foundation laws got mixed materialising the swirling energy mass more and more.
"The heavens stir, and the semi-spiritual body needs to resonate. The body is not just tempered by lightning, but by lightning law and spiritual force, as his essence aligns with the cosmic flow. The cultivator must now fully embrace his spirit, linking the body with the spiritual realm to channel the power of the Golden Core."
1st tribulation came. What even the ordinary nascent soul fears death kind of lightning surged from the heavens. It passed to his body and got perfectly absorbed into his core.
"As the thunder rages, the body and soul entwine more deeply. The cultivator must refine the spiritual impurities, purging past lifetimes' karma and unresolved inner conflicts. The body must now purify its soul essence, drawing the power of both Heaven and Earth into the Golden Core."
Three tribulations purified his spirit and will.
"With cosmic forces swirling, the balance of Yin and Yang must be achieved within. The breath must fuse seamlessly with the stars, harmonizing the spiritual and physical essence. The Golden Core pulses faintly, but true stability requires perfect balance."
It was already harmonized, so a single tribulation came and went in a blip.
"The Golden Core begins to materialize. The body and mind unite fully, and the essence condenses into a pure sphere. The cultivator must anchor his mind and consciously fuse his body with his spirit, fortifying the connection that creates the core."
Three more tribulations came and helped in materializing the Core. The 13 bases completely integrated into the core layer by layer and law energy fortified it's materialization. The thunder contained rules of world including law of void and cosmos, law of thunder itself and law of gold qi. Which began to materialise as phantoms in attacking him. It was mainly azure dragon and phoenix forms. Whenever it came to attack it was pulled in and get refined by the spirit root. Tempering the core in the baptism of elements.
"In the final clash, the cultivator transcends the mortal realm and is blessed by the Dao. The Golden Core is now not just a vessel but a divine conduit. The body, soul, and essence merge as one with the Dao. The cultivator ascends into a higher plane, and their journey continues beyond the mortal limits."
5 tribulations came one after the other.
Similarily phantoms of Qilin formed of law of wood, fire by vermillion bird, Earth by bixie, metallic qi by white tiger, water by black tortoise. Core obtained an imprint of heavenly Dao. An immortal grade core formed.
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When his spiritual root was formed the Dantian obtained a twin dragon runes imprint. After advancing to Foundation building, it absorbed a lot of law energy to form multiple runes over all the meridians.
Now absorbing the law energies directly, these runes materialized into phoenix 🐦🔥, vermillion bird 🦜, Black tortoise 🐢, White tiger 🐅, Azure dragon 🐉, Nine tailed fox spirit 🦊, Qilin 🦄, Gu 🪱, Taotie 🦁, Heaven Swallowing serpent 🐍, Kun peng 🦅 , Thunder roc⚡🦅 . The previous twin dragons assimilated nature of void and time laws. He expected this much from his understanding.
But suddenly situation changed. His consciousness was drawn to center of this rune imprints and his own avatar 🧘♀️ condensed in the middle. Those imprints instantly got connected to him. The control returned.
Suddenly he felt the spiritual root from shen accupoint became ethereal and penetrated his Spirit and connected the crown gate of body. He felt his spirit connection to cultivation deepened. Soul can draw energy a thousand fold faster now.
But avatar and connected phantoms stayed and then transformed into different sanskrit looking characters in an instant. Suddenly and information appeared in his mind 'Sanskrit Domain' .
" This is similar to the divine laws collected from forbidden demonic lands. I created some aspect of Trinity refinement and root condensation by taking inspiration from those. So, this is related to the unfinished part. Well I may need to seclude for a long time to understand these.."
Finishing everything, it took a month for the breakthrough. Then he took a month more for stabilizing realm after going inside the cultivation tower.