Physique Changing Card — Activation alert
⚠ Detected Severe bodily restructuring
⚠ High pain tolerance required
Energy Requirement:
• Spirit Stones ×1000
Warning:
Once activated, the process cannot be interrupted.
Confirm?
[YES] / [NO]
---
With a thought, he opened his inventory.
One thousand spirit stones appeared around him in an instant, falling softly onto the floor and forming a loose circle. The room brightened faintly as dense spiritual energy leaked from them.
The moment the stones appeared—
The world outside changed.
Shen Yuan didn't hesitate and clicked.
"Yes."
---
Dark clouds surged across the sky as if summoned by an invisible hand.
Within moments, the stars vanished.
Wind howled across the fields, bending crops low and rattling doors throughout the village. The air itself felt heavy, oppressive, as if something vast and unseen had descended upon the land.
Thunder rolled—deep, distant, yet filled with warning.
Far beyond the village, across the entire prefecture, cultivators felt it.
In several small sects and larger sects, alarm bells rang, elders rose abruptly from meditation.
"What's happening?"
"Heavenly pressure—no, this is abnormal!"
"Deploy defensive formations! Seal the mountain!"
Envoys were dispatched. Spies started to gather information.
Several old cultivators in nearby sects woke up from their meditation and started to do Divination to find what has caused this phenomena.
Black clouds churned endlessly above, swallowing the heavens whole.
---
Inside Shen Yuan's house, Mo Ling woke with a frightened cry.
"Thunder…!"
Lightning flashed, illuminating the hall in stark white.
Mo Fan sat up immediately, wrapping his arms around his sister.
"It's okay," he whispered, though his own voice trembled. "It's okay…"
Another thunderclap crashed overhead, closer than before.
The house creaked.
Grandfather Shen stood silently in the doorway of the hall.
His gaze was fixed—not on the sky—but on the closed door to Shen Yuan's room.
His expression was calm.
Meaningful.
"Don't be afraid," he said gently, kneeling beside the children. "It will pass."
Mo Ling clutched his sleeve. "Grandpa… why is the sky angry?"
The old man stroked her hair.
"Sometimes," he replied softly, "the heavens don't like it when people change their fate."
---
Inside the room, Shen Yuan felt none of this.
Pain exploded.
The instant he confirmed activation, a violent force surged into his body like a tidal wave. It rushed through his meridians with brutal speed, tearing them open and widening them by sheer force.
Crack.
Meridians split—then were reforged instantly, stronger and broader.
Shen Yuan's jaw clenched.
His acupoints ignited one after another, blazing with searing heat. His muscles convulsed violently as fibers shattered and restructured into denser, purer forms.
Bones vibrated deep within, humming as if reforged by an unseen hammer.
Impurities burst from his pores in thick, foul-smelling streams.
His vision blurred.
Endure.
The energy plunged deeper—into his bones, into his marrow, into the very essence of his flesh.
Then—
Something moved.
Inside his robe.
Shen Yuan's consciousness sharpened despite the agony.
"The seed—!"
With trembling fingers, he reached into his robe and pulled it out.
The strange seed was shaking violently.
Cracks spread across its surface, glowing faintly. Before Shen Yuan could even examine it properly—
Crack.
The shell split apart.
A small sapling emerged, growing rapidly until it stood about three inches tall. Two delicate leaves unfurled, their surfaces shimmering faintly, etched with patterns that felt… wrong.
Not wrong as in dangerous.
Wrong as in—
Not belonging to this world.
Shen Yuan stared, mesmerized.
"What… are you?"
The structure of the leaves defied logic. They reflected light at impossible angles, as if overlapping layers of reality were folded within them.
Before he could analyze further—
The sapling shone brightly.
Then vanished.
It plunged into his abdomen at terrifying speed.
"What—?!"
He couldn't react.
He couldn't even scream.
The pain surged again, more violent than before, forcing his consciousness to the brink of collapse.
The sapling slipped into him as though his body welcomed it.
Shen Yuan had no strength to investigate.
The transformation had reached its peak.
---
The mysterious energy converged violently at his dantian.
Everything went still.
Then—
BOOM.
Then it exploded in his dantian merging with it.
The dantian boundary started to expand outward.
Not slowly.
Not gently.
But at a pace that was not possible.
1.3 meters to
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Finally Six meters.
The expansion stabilized only when the dantian reached six meters in diameter.
A vast, dense space—far beyond what a Qi Refining Second Layer cultivator should possess.
His cultivation stabilized at the peak of Qi Refining Second Layer.
At the same time, two distinct warmths bloomed.
One deep in his lower abdomen.
One between his brow.
The pain finally began to recede. Clarity returned to his eyes.
---
Thunder roared outside like the heavens screaming.
Wind tore across the village.
The storm reached its peak—then abruptly dissipated.
The clouds scattered.
The wind calmed.
Silence returned.
---
A translucent screen unfolded before him.
[Transformation Completed]
Physique: Dust-Free Immortal Body.
• Mortal impurities and hidden injuries were purged
• Flesh strength was greatly enhanced
• Resistance to toxins, decay, and corruption increased
Soul Update:
• Dual Soul Integration — Complete5
• Soul Damage — Fully Healed
• Soul Strength — Reinforced
• New Ability Unlocked: Spiritual Sense
Spiritual Root Update:
• Five Element Roots: Low Grade → High Grade
Special Note:
• Dantian Expansion Efficiency Increased
(Current : +3 meters per Qi Refining layer)
---
Shen Yuan exhaled slowly.
"So that's it…"
But before he could reflect—
Pressure surged again.
A breakthrough.
He was about to advance.
Without hesitation, he summoned another two hundred spirit stones, arranging them around himself.
The stones shattered one after another under the pressure of his aura, releasing torrents of spiritual energy.
Crack!
Qi Refining — Third Layer.
Dantian expanded.
Six meters → Nine meters.
Crack!
Qi Refining — Fourth Layer.
Nine meters → Twelve meters.
Crack!
Qi Refining — Fifth Layer.
Twelve meters → Fifteen meters.
---
Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
It was already deep into the night.
His body was covered in hardened scabs of expelled impurities. He activated the robe's cleaning function, and they evaporated instantly.
He stood.
Light.
Stable.
Terrifyingly solid.
Fifteen meters.
A peak Qi Refining cultivator possessed around nine meters at most.
He had already surpassed that standard—by far.
He searched for the sapling.
Nothing.
No trace.
No warning.
He let it go.
After all—
If the system had deemed it dangerous, it would have warned him.
An hour later, his body fully stabilized.
His mind, however, was exhausted.
Despite his strengthened physique, the torture of transformation had drained his consciousness.
He lay down.
And slept.
---
Morning came late.
Sunlight filtered gently through the window.
Shen Yuan woke feeling refreshed, though faint mental fatigue lingered.
He cleaned himself with the robe help and activated it's concealing effect and he concealed his true aura.
In an instant, his overwhelming presence vanished.
To any observer, he now appeared ordinary and harmless.
His cultivation fluctuated faintly at Qi Refining first layer.
Even spiritual senses would find nothing unusual.
Perfect concealment—just as the robe was meant to
And then He stepped outside.