The Life Wheel (寿轮) turned, and Li Qiye's blood roared like a storm.
The LunarVortex·SolarWheel (月涡阳轮·功) was indeed a miraculous art — a method so ferocious that it spun its blood streams like a vortex.
But now, as the runes of the Hun (浑) character merged into his blood, its flow grew heavy and slow, each drop weighing a thousand tons. The once‑rushing current of life was dragged down by its own immense weight.
Yet the LunarVortex·SolarWheel was no ordinary art — its peculiar force could not be underestimated. Under the influence of the Hun runes, the energy paused for an instant — then the technique raged to life again. It roared like an engine awakening from slumber, driving the Life Wheel to spin wildly as its rumble shook heaven and earth.
The heaviest of blood became a torrent, crashing through his veins like a dragon breaking mountains.
This flood was too overbearing — it tore his meridians, shattered his bones, and broke open his acupuncture cavities. Within a heartbeat his body was ripped apart by the very energy he had summoned.
With a violent cough Li Qiye spat blood; the pain was so immense he nearly lost consciousness. Cracks spread across his body like a porcelain vase about to collapse.
The Dao of Hun was far stronger than the world imagined. Once infused into blood, its heaviness became unimaginable — a single drop equal to a thousand mountains. When driven by the mad circulation of the LunarVortex·SolarWheel, even a mortal body could be annihilated in an instant.
Li Qiye's flesh was shattering, his body pulverized beneath divine pressure.
Yet the Hun runes did not exist to destroy him. If the Physique Tome (体书) held only power to kill, it would never have earned the covetous desires of Immortal Emperors.
As his form crumbled, a solemn chant echoed within his Life Palace (命宫); the sound of the Great Dao reverberated, weaving endless mystic runes. His True Life breathed radiance and his vital force surged.
The FountainofLife (生命之泉) burst forth, gushing streams of living water that rushed like tides. The LifeFurnace (生命洪炉) ignited a sky‑burning soul‑flame (魂火).
Above, the TreeofLife (生命之树) spread its countless branches, shedding leaves of light that rained down into his body. Its roots pierced deep into his ruined flesh, binding his shattered form together.
A PillarofLife (生命之柱) rose through him, its mystic patterns linking heaven and earth. Under the influence of the Hun's principle, it channeled laws from the nine heavens to the nine nether realms.
The water, the flame, the leaves, and the pillar intertwined under Hun's alchemy, forming a turbid chaos that encased him entirely. His broken body was sealed within the swaddling mud of creation.
Inside, his blood was as heavy as ten thousand peaks; outside, chaos compressed him from every direction. No torture could compare to this dual crucible, yet Li Qiye endured.
Again and again, his body fractured and was remade. The Hun runes hammered him like a celestial forge, and each cycle the chaotic essence of life re‑cast his being. Pain became numbness; numbness became silence.
If anyone had witnessed the scene, they would have been utterly astonished — the Four Aspects of Life (命宫四象): the Fountain, Tree, Furnace, and Pillar — all manifested within a thirteen‑year‑old boy. Throughout history, none but Immortal Emperors had ever comprehended such truths.
In fact, no one throughout the ages had gone as far on the path of Life Palace mastery as Li Qiye — not even the ancient Emperors.
He had spent eternities studying the Physique Tome; who else could command its secrets as he did?
How long the reforging lasted he did not know. Eventually, the pain ceased. He had foreseen this result from the start — joining the Washing Dust Sect, choosing the Lunar Vortex · Solar Wheel for its madness, then fusing it with the Physique Tome — all of it part of his design.
Even without the Lunar Vortex · Solar Wheel he could have trained the Physique Tome; yet only this technique was wild enough to drive the Hun‑infused blood into extremes. He needed that frenzied engine to crush his old body and remake a new one from ash.
At last, an itching sensation spread across his skin — the sign of renewal. The broken body had knitted entirely, the flesh reborn. When Li Qiye opened his eyes again, not a crack remained.
No one would believe such a miracle — a moment ago he had been dust and fragments, yet now stood untouched, as if his former collapse had never happened.
Body arts (体术) came in many grades and forms, but none could reconstruct flesh as perfectly as the Physique Tome. To shatter a body utterly and restore it without flaw — that was beyond any known technique.
Rising to his feet, Li Qiye moved slightly. Without channeling blood or energy, the stone beneath his foot cracked with a ringing sound. It was merely a natural motion, yet the ground failed to endure it. He had only begun training the AbyssalGodlyPhysique (镇狱神体).
The "Hun" (浑) character — one of six from the Physique Tome — possessed two ultimate forms: the Abyssal Godly Physique and the Heaven‑Cleave Axe Physique (破穹斧体).
Though both stemmed from the same principle, their essence differed.
The Abyssal Godly Physique was as heavy as mountains; when perfected, its weight could crush stars and planets. It was said that with a single step, such a body could trample gods and demons alike.
The Heaven‑Cleave Axe Physique was the opposite — a manifestation of peerless strength, born to tear open heaven and earth with bare hands.
Li Qiye remained on the lonely peak, immersed in his arts. Time fled like a blink — a month passed. The LunarVortex·SolarWheel continued its mad circulation, driving his immensely heavy blood until he broke through to AbsorbingEssence(纳精气) and ExpandingtheDomain(拓疆土) within a single month.
Beyond that lay only two steps in the Expanding Domain Realm, and for Li Qiye they posed no challenge at all.
While absorbing essence, the Lunar Vortex · Solar Wheel spun the Life Wheel madly. The heavy blood roared into a massive vortex where a blood moon rose and fell.
The technique swallowed the energies of heaven and earth like a whirlpool, and beside it the KunpengSixTransformations (鲲鹏六变) also worked in harmony, its Dao foundation shaped like a giant divine bird devouring the world.
Within moments, the essence of an entire mountain range was drawn clean, thankfully unwitnessed by others — such a sight would have shocked them speechless.
The True Life absorbed that essence, and with each breath of heavenly energy its light grew brighter, the Dao foundation firmer, the path loftier.
When it overflowed with power, it tore apart the fog of the inner world, expanding its domain — that moment was called ExpandingtheDomain.
For Li Qiye to transcend both AbsorbingEssence and ExpandingtheDomain within a single month was beyond belief. Nan Huairen was stunned.
"A single month, and he's already entered the Physique Realm (蕴体境界)? That's insane."
His eyes burned with envy. Such progress rivaled the swiftest geniuses.
Of course, Nan Huairen had no idea: were it not for the Abyssal Godly Physique he cultivated — for that crushing, mountain‑heavy blood — and the taming fury of the Lunar Vortex · Solar Wheel, Li Qiye's speed would have been even more terrifying.