Fortunately, Ian Song wasn’t short on immortal stones. Although he was shocked that absorbing over a million still hadn’t condensed a single strand of Chaos Aura, he immediately shattered another million for absorption.
"Huff! Inhale!"
After a few breaths, the immortal spirit energy from the shattered million stones was completely absorbed by Ian Song. Looking inside himself, he found a faint cluster of black mist, which he called chaos mist.
But he was still far from actually condensing Chaos Aura.
So, Ian had no choice but to keep shattering immortal stones and absorbing them.
Three million.
Four million.
Five million!
............
When Ian Song had shattered more than ten million immortal stones, the black chaos mist grew thicker and seemed on the verge of condensing into Chaos Aura.
Finally.
After shattering another three million immortal stones and absorbing all their spirit energy, the chaos mist finally underwent a qualitative change, forming a strand of Chaos Aura as thin as a hair and three centimeters long.
The Primordial Chaos Body method was different from other cultivation arts—it didn’t have conventional realm divisions, only a series of steps.
Step one: condense Chaos Aura.
Step two: use the condensed Chaos Aura to wash the body. Over time, the body grows stronger and eventually evolves into a Primordial Chaos Body.
Step three: use Chaos Aura to nourish the soul. After long-term cultivation, the soul transforms into the legendary Primordial Chaos Holy Soul.
A single strand of Chaos Aura wasn’t nearly enough to wash the body.
So, Ian could only keep absorbing immortal stones.
Next, he directly shattered over thirteen million immortal stones. After absorbing them, he condensed a second strand of Chaos Aura inside his body.
Third strand.
Fourth strand.
Fifth strand.
By the time Ian had condensed a hundred strands of Chaos Aura inside his body, he had burned through more than 1.3 billion immortal stones.
"Let’s see how well Chaos Aura washes the body!"
With a single thought, a hundred strands of Chaos Aura streamed out of his dantian and circulated through his body.
After one circulation, six strands of Chaos Aura were consumed, but Ian felt his body’s strength double.
"Again!"
After repeating this four times, all hundred strands of Chaos Aura were spent.
Ian’s physical body was now about three times stronger than before.
After cultivating the Body of Ten Thousand Stars, his flesh was already monstrous, with defenses on par with a Profound Immortal. Now, even most Profound Immortals would struggle to break his body.
The results were great, but the consumption was outrageous—over 1.3 billion immortal stones! Even for a rich guy like him, it was hard to bear.
Suddenly.
A thought struck Ian.
He took out a thousand top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills and swallowed them, then activated his cultivation method. Sure enough, under its operation, the medicinal power of the thousand pills was converted into chaos mist.
Just by consuming a little over ten thousand top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills, he managed to condense another strand of Chaos Aura.
All things are born from chaos, so in theory, anything could be turned into chaos.
So, Ian pulled out an Immortal Artifact axe he’d gotten from a slain Golden Immortal, and swallowed it whole. Chaos mist wrapped around it, and with his method running, in just a few dozen breaths, the top-grade Immortal Artifact was absorbed and turned into a large mass of chaos mist.
Next, Ian tried using Immortal Medicines.
They could also be directly converted into Chaos Aura.
Finally, he swallowed a stone, ran his method, and even that stone was converted into a tiny wisp of chaos mist.
"I can swallow anything!"
Finally, he remembered the two strands of Profound Immortal Law he’d previously driven out of his body. He’d kept them sealed inside the Divine Temple.
Not daring to be careless, he first swallowed one strand of Profound Immortal Law, letting chaos mist wrap around it.
But this strand of Profound Immortal Law was highly spiritual; sensing the danger of the chaos mist, it tried to flee. However, chaos mist possessed the power to bind and devour all things.
Before long, that strand of Profound Immortal Law was converted into five strands of Chaos Aura.
"Haha! Nice! This is fantastic! If any Profound Immortal tries to attack me with Law again, I’ll be able to refine it easily!"
Ian laughed, then swallowed the other strand of Law and gained another five strands of Chaos Aura.
Immersed in cultivation, Ian completely lost track of time.
It wasn’t until he reached for more immortal stones and found less than a million left that he snapped out of it.
"Did I really use up over ten billion immortal stones?"
He could hardly believe it—his fortune had been well over ten billion immortal stones.
Although the immortal stones were gone, the results were excellent. Now, more than seven hundred strands of Chaos Aura filled his body.
He immediately began using all that Chaos Aura to crazily wash his body. With each wash, his flesh grew stronger. After burning through all seven hundred strands, Ian’s physical body reached an extremely tyrannical level—even a mid-stage Profound Immortal couldn’t break his defenses.
Moreover, he sensed his flesh had hit a limit; any further strengthening would be beyond his control.
So, the most important thing now was to strengthen his soul.
With a thought, the remaining Chaos Aura flowed into his sea of consciousness, starting to nourish his immortal soul.
As the Chaos Aura nourished him, his soul’s strength skyrocketed. By the time all the Chaos Aura was spent, his soul was at least twice as strong as before.
With a flicker, he left the Divine Temple and appeared in the Chu Estate courtyard.
He raised his fist and threw a punch.
"Wham!"
The void was pierced—this was purely physical strength.
Only those who reached the Profound Immortal level could punch through the void.
And he’d only used thirty percent of his strength for that punch. He was sure that, in terms of raw power, he was no weaker than a mid-stage Profound Immortal.
Combined with his terrifying defenses that even mid-stage Profound Immortals couldn’t break, he was basically invincible among them.
With a flicker, Ian returned to the Divine Temple.
He began studying the Heaven-Opening Axe.
This attack method didn’t have a fixed move set, but used nine different ways of channeling power, collectively called the Nine Heaven-Opening Forms.
Ian quickly forged a crude axe, then started practicing with it.
He closed his eyes, recalling the scene of Pangu splitting the heavens, then swung the axe in his hand with full force.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
The axe shattered inch by inch—an artifact-level axe just couldn’t withstand the power of that move.
Unfortunately, few people used axes. Among all the Golden Immortals and Earth Immortals he’d killed, not one used an axe. Looks like he’d have to go find an Immortal Artifact axe somewhere.
The next day, Ian arrived at Green Vine City.
He rented a regular shop for ten thousand immortal stones per month.
By the second day, the shop was open for business.
The shop sold only one item: top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills.
There were two ways to buy: pay 180 immortal stones, or trade first- or second-grade pills for 170, third-grade for 160, fourth-grade for 150.
Trade fifth-grade pills for 140.
He didn’t set a price for sixth-grade pills—no one would be foolish enough to trade those for Immortal Yuan Pills.