activa-t Chapter 65 Marrow Cleansing and Blood Purification
Chapter 65 Marrow Cleansing and Blood Purification
What does 10,000 taels of silver mean?
Song Shen finally found out.
For an entire afternoon, Song Shen emptied the city's three largest pharmacies of all the high-grade pills—Earth Origin Pill, Leopard Fetus Pill, Purple River Powder… The pharmacy owners watched as this young man in a straw hat carried away box after box of pills, their expressions shifting from shock to numbness.
"Sir, are you opening a pill-making workshop?"
"almost."
Song Shen was too lazy to explain.
Back in his own house, Song Shen locked the door as if he were about to take off, making sure no one would disturb him before finally feeling at ease.
He sat down cross-legged, with a small mountain of pills piled up in front of him.
Divine consciousness sinks into the panel:
[Essence of Dao Fruit: Xiang Zaishan (July 53rd year)]
[Hun Yuan Gong Level 6, 25%]
"With fifty-three years of accumulated essence and Dao fruit, plus these pills, I wonder what realm I can reach."
A surge of excitement swept through my heart.
"Let's get started!"
He grabbed a handful of Leopard Fetus Blood Pills, stuffed them into his mouth, and swallowed.
The medicine exploded in my stomach, like magma entering my throat.
[Simulation Start]
Time stretches out in my consciousness like an endless wasteland.
[In the first year, you eagerly refined a massive amount of pills one by one, letting the surging qi and blood flow like a long river, washing over every inch of your bones and every strand of fascia. Then, strands of energy were poured into your bone marrow, forcing out impurities from your bones little by little, making your bone marrow as fine as mercury and your bones as strong as steel.]
This is a process that is more painful than filth training.
The skeleton is the framework of the human body, and also the most difficult part to change. Every time blood and qi flow through it, it feels like thousands of steel needles are stirring inside the bones.
Song Shen gritted his teeth and remained silent.
[You sat there for three years, during which time you continuously replenished your body with elixirs. Your bones began to undergo a qualitative change. The originally grayish-white bone material gradually became crystalline, like inferior jade having its impurities polished away to reveal a warm and lustrous base color. You were surprised to find that your own skeleton was actually glowing.]
Am I glowing?
It's not an illusion.
In the simulated spacetime deep within his consciousness, Song Shen could truly "see" his own skeleton—
Those once rough, gray bones now glow with a faint bluish-white luminescence, as if washed by moonlight. Not just one bone, but all 206 bones in the body are like this.
Right now, I can clearly feel a huge change. A powerful force is coursing through my body, completely exceeding my previous limits.
Song Shen looked at his body and vaguely felt that even his skin seemed to be emitting a faint, moist glow.
He grabbed a handful of pills and swallowed them, his mind once again sinking into the simulated space-time.
[As the sun rises and sets, sixteen years have passed. Your bones and marrow are undergoing a dramatic transformation. The abundant energy transformed from pure blood and qi is thoroughly "boiling" your marrow. Old marrow is devoured by blood and qi, while new marrow is reborn within your body. The last trace of impurities hidden deep within the marrow is being expelled from your body by your all-encompassing primordial energy. Time is pressing, and you don't have time to cleanse the scattered filth, because you suddenly realize that your marrow is beginning to show a faint golden luster.]
Looking around at the world, you realize that your decades of relentless pursuit and meticulous refinement have brought the purity of your very being to the limit of human potential.
"How could it be gold?" Song Shen muttered to himself.
The core of the Marrow Cleansing Realm is "rebirth".
But most martial artists who reach this level only experience an increase in bone density and improved bone marrow quality. Song Shen had never heard of anyone radiating a golden luster like this before.
As for classical texts... Song Shen didn't recall any, mainly because he hadn't actually read many books since coming to this world.
After a moment's thought, Song Shenming realized the crux of the problem.
It is the Immaculate Divine Treasury.
The "Perfect Divine Treasure" obtained when breaking through the limit of the Visceral Realm is still effective when I reach the Marrow Cleansing Realm.
It's not just repairing the impurities in Song Shen's body, but reshaping his entire being into a "perfect form," with bones as smooth as jade—this isn't a metaphor, but a literal qualitative change.
All the Dao Fruits he had invested in the Acquired Realm had not been wasted in the slightest. Breaking through the limits time and time again, Song Shen had reached an unparalleled physical foundation.
He continues to push the limits!
Song Shen exited the simulation and looked at his own panel.
[Hun Yuan Gong Level 6 100% --- Limit Breakable]
When Song Shen saw this progress, he was startled. Why were the red squares that popped up after the progress bar so long?
Continue taking drugs, continue the simulation.
[Limits? You scoff at that. You've never been one to be confined by the word "limits." Along the way, you've ruthlessly shattered that barrier called limits every single time.]
Breaking limits is never easy. You hone your inner strength time and time again, only to be met with utter disappointment. You realize you've reached your limit, but the sensations in your body tell you you haven't yet achieved a state of pure perfection. Every time you try to take flight, you can still feel that lingering impurity deep within, holding you back, leaving you wanting more.
Unbeknownst to you, seven years have passed, like a gambler who has staked everything on a single bet, waiting for a chance to recoup his losses.
How do you take this final step? You rack your brains, as if struck by lightning, then a flash of insight hits you—you finally realize that it's not external, not something that can be removed by "washing" or "crushing." It's a part of you, an inherent shackle of your mortal body. Like carbon in iron, removing too much makes it soft, leaving too much makes it brittle. What you need isn't "complete removal," but "refinement."
You changed your approach, no longer trying to flush it away, but instead gathering your energy and withdrawing your strength, allowing that impurity to be exposed in its most "quiet" state. Then, you approached it in the gentlest way—not by attacking, not by expelling, but by enveloping, permeating, and assimilating it.
The marrow, which originally only showed a faint golden luster, is now gaining a deeper sheen, like pure gold in fire, gradually becoming incredibly pure.
Song Shen vaguely felt that his physical body had now reached the boundaries that normal people could understand.
Song Shen grabbed the last handful of pills and swallowed them all.
Time in the Dao Fruit flows eastward relentlessly.
Time flies by in the simulation.
Watching your marrow gradually turn into a crimson gold color, you know you've chosen the right path. Now, leave it to time. After another thirteen years of immersion, oblivious to the passage of time, you awaken amidst a stench, your entire body as if reborn.
[Effect gained: Pure and flawless essence, forged like pure gold]
……
Ignoring the pungent, sour smell emanating from his body, Song Shen used his internal vision technique and was astonished to find that his bone marrow had turned into a luster of pure gold, hidden deep within his bones, cleansing away the last trace of impurities.
"Even the blood has a metallic sheen? It looks like heavy metal poisoning."
Song Shen murmured, "Could it be... that our family has also become the Supreme Heavenly Emperor? Directly transforming into the Ancient Sacred Body?"
He stood up and slowly clenched his fist.
The air exploded in his palm, producing a sonic boom. He didn't use any techniques; he simply clenched his fist, and pure physical strength was enough to tear the air apart.
"A full thirty-nine years..."
Looking at his body, which had been built with a massive amount of time and money, Song Shen felt that in terms of innate foundation, he was unparalleled.
With a single movement, Song Shen felt as if he were becoming one with the air, his whole body as light as a feather, and the slight awkwardness and sluggishness in his movements disappeared without a trace.
"Let's see how strong they are?"
Song Shen leaped forward and punched the iron lump, unleashing a burst of force that caused it to tremble and make a clanging sound.
A normal person couldn't withstand striking iron with their bare hands even with ten hands, but Song Shen's steel body, after nearly a hundred years of hammering and tempering, had become a non-human, humanoid weapon.
Feeling no pain whatsoever from his injuries, Song Shen laughed heartily, lunged forward, and unleashed a hundred punches in an instant.
The surging force of the punch, like a chisel and a drill, continuously destroyed, twisted, and exploded inside the iron lump.
Until the entire iron lump completely lost its original shape, and was covered with dense fist marks.
"it is good."
Song Shen withdrew his hand and looked up in the direction of Feilong Mountain.
"Speaking of which, with my current physical condition, it would be a bit of a waste not to practice some fist and palm techniques."