Chapter 602 - 600: Life Spirit River

Chapter 602: Chapter 600: Life Spirit River

The Water of the Extinct Spirit submerges all things.

Anything that fell into the Extinct Spirit River could never surface again.

Although Jiang Jichen had fallen into the Extinct Spirit River and vanished, his fate remained a mystery.

But everyone believed Jiang Jichen had already perished in the Extinct Spirit River.

The chances of his survival were incredibly slim.

Thus, the bold declarations Jiang Jichen had made before became nothing more than a joke.

"So much for the legendary Forbidden Level Spirit Vein. If you can’t even mature, you’re worthless!"

"From this day forward, the Human Realm will cease to exist within the Six Paths Illusion Realm!"

"Mmm. Even with the protection of the Six Paths Illusion Realm’s rules, the Luochen Sect can’t escape its doom. I heard the Holy Mountain is preparing to use a Supreme measure to temporarily nullify those rules. But that will take time to prepare."

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Just as the Six Paths Illusion Realm was in turmoil, Jiang Jichen, the man everyone believed to be dead, was still in the Extinct Spirit River, a single trace of his life force yet unextinguished.

His body was being continuously dissolved!

Moreover, the deeper he sank into the Extinct Spirit River, the more terrifying its corrosive power became.

Yet, within his Divine Thought, Jiang Jichen desperately clung to a single, unyielding flicker of the Fire of Life.

The First Turn of the Demon Phoenix Remnant Technique activated.

As long as a sliver of his consciousness remained, he had a chance to be reborn.

At this moment, Jiang Jichen’s condition was no different from death!

If not for his Seven-Colored Spirit Body and his status as a Body Refiner who had surpassed all limits, his flesh and blood would have long since been dissolved completely.

But even so, his flesh was being stripped away layer by layer, revealing the sinews and bones beneath.

If this continued, he would ultimately be corroded into nothingness by the black waters of the Extinct Spirit River.

For any living being, this place was the ultimate dead end—a hopeless situation within a hopeless situation.

Yet, to Jiang Jichen, this was a place of life and death, a Training Land for his cultivation.

The Demon Phoenix is reborn from flames, undying through nine deaths! 𝘧𝓇ℯℴ𝓂

Right now, Jiang Jichen was emulating the Demon Phoenix: seeking life within Annihilation, finding hope in despair.

The Demon Phoenix Technique and the Undying Scripture circulated simultaneously.

The human body holds infinite Divine Treasures.

In such a dire situation, if he could avoid death, he could stimulate the Divine Power from the deeper recesses of his body.

At this moment, a mysterious power began to circulate through Jiang Jichen’s body, which had already been pushed to its limit.

As the Demon Phoenix Technique and the Undying Scripture slowly circulated, this power flowed throughout his entire body.

Gradually, this Secret Power formed a cocoon of light around Jiang Jichen, enveloping him completely.

Of course, the black water of the Extinct Spirit River still relentlessly corroded his flesh.

At the same time, however, the Secret Power was constantly repairing his physical body.

At first, the rate of corrosion was far faster than the rate of repair.

Eventually, the rate of repair slowly began to catch up, until the two were equal.

Moreover, as the water of the Extinct Spirit River corroded his flesh, it was also tempering his physical body again and again.

It was a painful and arduous process.

A month later, Jiang Jichen’s rate of repair finally surpassed the rate of corrosion from the river’s water.

Another month later, the water of the Extinct Spirit River could no longer corrode his physical body.

Jiang Jichen’s physical body was now crystalline and immaculate. A lustrous, precious light flowed across his skin.

This was the sign of Minor Treasure Body Achievement!

This session of Body Refining had pushed Jiang Jichen’s Undying Scripture all the way to the Third Turn Perfect Realm.

Simultaneously, he officially stepped into the Golden Body Eighth Layer.

This was the miracle of the Undying Scripture: the more hostile and terrifying the environment, as long as you remained unextinguished, you could continue to circulate it endlessly.

In turn, the Undying Scripture would achieve a breakthrough, and you would grow even stronger.

Only now, with his physical body’s tempering complete, did Jiang Jichen’s Divine Thought return to his Sea of Consciousness, as if reborn from fire.

Jiang Jichen had now completed the First Turn of the Demon Phoenix Technique.

He had activated the First Turn of the Demon Phoenix Technique the moment he first fell into the Extinct Spirit River.

Otherwise, he most likely would have perished here.

Now that his rebirth from the ashes was successful, his soul and Divine Thought had grown even stronger. Combined with his Spirit Body, they were incomparably powerful.

Only now could it be said that Jiang Jichen had truly experienced the First Turn of the Demon Phoenix Technique.

Then, the cultivation technique for the Second Turn of the Demon Phoenix Technique automatically manifested from the Void, branding itself upon Jiang Jichen’s mind.

Upon reaching the Second Turn of the Demon Phoenix Technique, Jiang Jichen’s future regenerative abilities would be even greater!

However, despite breaking through to the Golden Body Eighth Layer and advancing the Demon Phoenix Technique to its Second Turn, he still couldn’t recover the lifespan he had lost.

He had damaged his Life Origin, and recovering from such an injury was incredibly difficult.

But that was not his current concern. His gaze fell upon the riverbed.

The black water of the Extinct Spirit River was flowing over a curtain of light.

Beneath the curtain of light, there was another river!

Its sky-blue water radiated an astonishingly powerful Life Energy and an infinitely dense Spiritual Qi.

’This... This is a Life Spirit River!’

Jiang Jichen’s heart trembled in disbelief.

A river of life, hidden beneath the Extinct Spirit River!

It was as if, in the grand scheme of things, this secretly aligned with the Great Dao of the Heaven and Earth Rules.

Yin-Yang, life and death...

Here, life and death stood in opposition. But were they not also interdependent, born from one another?

A torrent of insights suddenly flooded Jiang Jichen’s mind.

The world saw only the deathly waters of the Extinct Spirit River. Who would have ever imagined that the other side of death held life?

The Life Spirit River could replenish a lost Life Origin and instantly heal any injury completely.

Joy filled Jiang Jichen’s heart. He was now even more confident about breaking through to the Golden Body Ninth Layer during this period of seclusion.

Jiang Jichen circulated his Spiritual Power. The next moment, he passed through the mysterious curtain of light and emerged in the Life Spirit River.

The Life Spirit River also flowed ceaselessly toward a mysterious abyss.

However, the Power of Life contained in the river’s outflow was already very weak.

Only by traveling upstream, toward the source, would the Life Spiritual Power in the river grow more and more concentrated.

Jiang Jichen traveled ten li upstream and soon reached the end of the flow.

He was now certain that he was directly beneath the Human Emperor Cave Mansion.

At the same time, in a void deep underground, there were two river sources, one above the other.

One was the Source of the Life Spirit River, and the other was the Source of the River of Extinct Spirit.

Currently, the Source of the Life Spirit River was connected to the Human Emperor Cave Mansion, while the Source of the River of Extinct Spirit had been sealed and separated, unable to affect the cave mansion in the slightest.

This was undoubtedly the handiwork of the Human Emperor.

No wonder the Spiritual Qi in the Human Emperor Cave Mansion was so dense and inexhaustible; it was built directly on the source of the Life Spirit River.

Jiang Jichen was utterly astounded by this sight.

’The source of the Life Spirit River should be able to help me restore some of my Life Origin.’

’What’s more, I can first use the Source of the River of Extinct Spirit to temper my body to its absolute limit, then return to the Source of the Life Spirit River to recover. Once I’ve recovered, I can continue tempering. By repeating this cycle, I can definitely make my physical body even stronger!’

Jiang Jichen was very pleased with this plan and chose this place for his seclusion.

After all, the Source of the River of Extinct Spirit connected to the Netherworld, and its Nether Qi could temper one’s physical body to its very core.