Chapter 466: Chapter 171 Innate Turtle Breathing! Acquired Returning to the Innate!_4

Wind Sun Moon’s eyes were bloodshot, and he could hardly believe that the Divine Seed he had worked so hard to obtain was easily taken by someone else. It took several deep breaths for him to gradually calm his agitated mood.

“Let’s go… Hong Xiang, pray that you don’t die too easily! Betraying the Life Extinguishing Association, the Master will not let you off lightly!”

The Divine Seed had been taken by that mysterious woman, and the Chi Dragon Hall at the bottom of the canyon had collapsed. Wind Sun Moon didn’t stay long; he quickly left with Zhong Yue and Hong Zhenxiang, both frozen into ice statues, and he snorted coldly to himself.

He didn’t know what the relationship was between Hong Xiang and that young man who had helped him, defying authority. But it was all in vain, that human warrior whose name was unknowable was buried in the frozen depths of the Underworld Ice Palace.

And now that Hong Xiang dared to betray the Life Extinguishing Association, Wind Sun Moon would bring him back to be dealt with by the Master of the Association!

“Alas… Let’s go too.”

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Looking at the completely collapsed entrance to the canyon, Bai Yunhe also sighed deeply, abandoning any thought of returning to the Chi Dragon Hall. Given the situation, it was no longer possible.

“It’s a pity about that young man… Looked to be only in his thirties, but he perished here, and we don’t even know his name.”

While Bai Yunhe mourned for a fellow Elder, he couldn’t help but think of that warrior in black. He was quite moved, such talent, barely an Innate and yet capable of fighting a monstrous-level Monster Warrior—it was an unparalleled feat, but he too perished inside the Chi Dragon Hall.

But such cases were numerous; too many geniuses in martial arts, monstrous talents who perished before coming of age. In a few years, their names were forgotten.

Those whose names live on through the ages, remembered even after a thousand years, are truly the few!

“The Divine Seed has appeared… attracting Monster Warriors and the East Cloud Sect to compete for it? Yet it was taken by a woman riding a Snow Feather Eagle?”

“The Chi Dragon Hall, glorious for two or three thousand years—I really wanted to see its true face!”

Many warriors who had stayed on Snow Abyss Mountain for a few days were also shaken by the events that had unfolded, and some had wanted to enter the Chi Dragon Hall. But now with the collapse of the canyon, the Chi Dragon Hall was completely buried, becoming dust in history.

It’s imaginable that the news of the Divine Seed appearing on Snow Abyss Mountain will spread throughout the Great Flame Empire, and the people buried in it? Few will care!

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Cold, an extreme chill.

This was Su Changkong’s first sensation when he was struck by the burst of cold from the ‘Divine Seed’ Divine Skills, followed soon by the sound of mountains shattering and the earth splitting, the valley collapsing and sinking, burying him and the Chi Dragon Hall, both frozen into ice. The world plunged into darkness so deep that he couldn’t see his hand in front of him.

Su Changkong tried to mobilize True Qi to shatter the icy shackles, but it was futile; even Wind Sun Moon couldn’t break the ice crystals formed by the Divine Skills.

Su Changkong felt weak; it was the damage to his body caused by forcibly drawing in Spiritual Energy. His True Qi had been frozen solid; he could not move even a fingertip, which also meant he couldn’t feel any pain.

That severe cold was eroding Su Changkong’s life, threatening to freeze his blood and even his cells to death.

“Am I… going to be buried here?”

Even Su Changkong’s thoughts and consciousness began to blur, and he felt somewhat bitter.

Memories flooded his mind, recalling every scene since his time at the Black Iron Manor, where he had tirelessly practiced martial arts without a single day of laziness, determined to pursue the realm of immortality.

Yet it seemed that he was destined to fall on this path just like the counts, dukes, and ordinary people who had harbored the same aspirations.

If he could choose again, he would have no regrets, he wouldn’t abandon Hong Zhenxiang and flee for his own life, no regrets, but there was a sense of unwillingness!

Unwilling to die here, unwilling to be buried in the dust of history like those who came before him, leaving not even a trace years later, unwilling to see his pursuit completely fail!

“Turtle Breath Technique… If I enter the state of Tortoise-Breathing Hibernation, maybe I can hold on a bit longer,” Su Changkong mused, his mind hazy and his condition dire, as he began to attempt to activate the Turtle Breath Technique.

The Turtle Breath Technique, a health-preserving skill, was not suited for battle, but it did have various methods, such as Concealment, Bone Shrinking, Turtle Breathing, and Hibernation.

Years ago, Su Changkong managed to elevate the Turtle Breath Technique to a ninth realm unparalleled in the world while deep underwater!

In a state of Tortoise-Breathing Hibernation, Su Changkong’s bodily functions would operate at a low speed, reducing consumption and maintaining the most basic life support. Even without food or water, one could survive for years without dying, similar to an animal’s winter hibernation or feigning death state.

It was also the only technique he could use in the face of such a desperate situation with no other options.

Facing the current situation, all Su Changkong could do was to fight with everything he had to persist, even if it was just for one more second, unwilling to be silently buried within the collapsing Chi Dragon Hall!

Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!

Desperately, Su Changkong struggled to enter the state of Turtle Breathing, but his blood was frozen, he could not even twitch his eyebrows, his heart had stopped beating, and within this ice crystal, there wasn’t a whisper of air. His efforts were in vain; all he could feel was bone-chilling, soul-freezing cold.

Su Changkong was in a near-death state, unable to think of anything else, but a single, intense thought spurred him to keep trying to enter the state of Turtle Breathing and Hibernation, hoping to persist in this way and wait for a chance to emerge. As long as he didn’t die, there was a possibility!

Frozen within the ice crystal, Su Changkong was buried under countless collapsing rocks, incapable of basic thought, and only the instincts of his body began to operate the Turtle Breath Technique that he practiced daily.

He did not know how much time had passed when he, immersed in an icy hell, suddenly felt a trace of warmth!

That warmth gradually grew and spread throughout his body, making him feel as if he were soaking in a hot spring. Su Changkong didn’t know if it was a hallucination from nearing death or something real. He had heard that when a person gets extremely cold, they might paradoxically grow warm and feel their body heating up as he was doing nothing but instinctively maintaining Tortoise-Breathing Hibernation.

Time slipped away minute by minute, and Su Changkong’s perception of the outside world disappeared entirely. All he could feel was warmth, and he was at ease.

The sensation was like returning to the womb, soaking in warm spring waters, gradually nurturing life and intelligence.

It was an extraordinary feeling; although he had lived for many years, it was as if he was being reborn, his life undergoing metamorphosis, from postnatal back to an Innate Body!

Even the Turtle Breathing True Qi, which Su Changkong could hardly mobilize a strand of due to being frozen, now also began to flow slowly.

That single thread of Turtle Breathing True Qi, gently and steadily flowing with time, steadily grew from an almost transparent thin filament to the thickness of a hair.

It was as if a river had frozen over, the surface calm and undisturbed, but beneath the ice, the water flowed slowly! Until winter passed and spring returned to the earth, breaking through the ice layer!

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