Great Success in mastering the Diamond body

SWISH—!!

He sliced downward and followed with a flurry of cuts. With a straight posture, his hands left a wave of milky white hue trailing after it.

He stopped and took a step back. The four boulders were split into well-cut slabs. His steel-like fingers grabbed the slabs and Li Chen continued from where Old Li stopped. 

After placing the slabs carefully, he looked at the stairs that led up to the top of the mountain and nodded his head. 

This was a path Old Li built but it lacked the finishing touch and that was his duty today—to complete the path. 

Flexing his well-defined arms, glee shone in Li Chen's eyes. 'Cultivation looked a bit boring on TV but it's so addictive! I can imagine what changes having such a physique in the real world would bring,' he chuckled inwardly. 

The image of several beauties whom he had seen on TV flashed through his mind. Suddenly, his eyes trailed to the small phoenix tattoo on his right arm. 

It was his slave mark.

At that moment, Xiu Ying's gorgeous face appeared, causing the beauty of the women he thought of to depreciate instantly. 

'She looks like a celestial fairy if one doesn't know her character.' 

Snorting, Li Chen, wearing his robe, went back to where he trained and grabbed the water pots. Circulating his star energy, his form flickered as he took two quick steps and vanished into the forest. 

With the stick attached to both pots on his shoulders, he looked up and raced towards a bamboo tree. 

"Nine Phantom Steps!" A black mist billowed from his soles, Li Chen's right foot dug into the soil and he flickered upward, running on the tree. 

'One step!' he gritted his teeth. At that moment, Li Chen kept a complete circulation in his channels to keep his energy wrapping around him. 

The bamboo tree bent the higher he got. The second Li Chen reached the top, his eyes gleamed, and a black mist billowed off his left foot.

'Second step!' 

His figure flickered and he floated toward another tree. By stepping on treetops, he arrived at a different side of the mountain and saw a basin. 

Having double the size of the one he trained in and unknown depths, Li Chen would be lying if he wasn't itching to explore the depths; however, his experience with the sea dragon was still fresh. 

Lowering the pots into the water, he lifted up two pots filled with water and turned around. 'Should I go through treetops? With this weight, I might fall!' 

Deciding to curb his excitement about achieving a small success stage in his movement technique, he walked back to the peak of the mountain.

[Hey, Old Li, I'm going back to train!] 

"Go train and don't disturb me, brat!" Old Li's drunken tone made Li Chen sigh. 

Before Li Chen could take two or three steps, Old Li came out of the hut. "Are you planning to join the selection of the Autumn Haven's sect?"

[How did you know?] 

"It's obvious from how you're almost training yourself to death. You'll never be able to get a slot, kid. That sect is as powerful as our Northern Dynasty so their exam is to select heaven-chosens and dark horses. Have you heard of Feng Lanxi? Bai Fenxi? Or the ruthless Xiu Ying? These young ones would be immortal Daoists before the selection and might even have higher stars than 31. What makes you think you're qualified?" 

[When is the selection?] 

"In two months' time." Old Li's brows arched when he saw Li Chen's unwavering determination. 

Turning back, Li Chen walked down the mountain path, his fist clenched. 'What makes me qualified? I created the damn world, that's what!'

Only at the immortal Daoist level was a cultivator said to have truly entered the martial world and he was a 1-star immortal human. Everyone would consider him stupid to even harbor the thought of joining the selection.

1-star-immortal Human-level cultivators were nothing more than cannon folders; they were there to fill the numbers. 

As he gazed at the peaceful forest, his grandmother flickered through his mind. He was so caught up with other things that he forgot the woman who trained him from a young age after his parents incident.

'If I could somehow get a pill and go back... ha!' With a heavy sigh, he arrived at the basin and jumped in. 

Fueled by rumbling emotions, his movements were aggressive. Even in the depths, he fought to move faster. 

[Old Li chose piercing the heavens; some might choose rending the earth asunder or a peerless speed but I chose to be the sword. My will is to cut.] 

He muttered subconsciously while moving his limbs according to the diagrams of the Diamond Body Technique. 'I don't care about the laws of this world, because I am not and will not be bound by them. I am a sword and my peerless will is to cut whatever stands in my way.' 

His inner voice was calm, sonorous, and deep. Unknowingly, he lost himself in shaping his mind while practicing. 

At the top of the mountain, Old Li laid on a wooden bed with his gourd above his mouth but no liquid came out. 

"It's finished," he sighed, closing his eyes to hide his sadness. In the next moment, he opened them and sat up, saying, "I need another." 

However, as Old Li swung his door open, he felt a great pressure in the atmosphere. The bamboo trees moved about in restlessness. 

SHING—! 

The sound of an unsheathed sword pierced his eardrums and a sudden glow fell on the mountain. Raising his head, Old Li's eyes widened. 

Was his eyes deceiving him or did the sunlight actually concentrate on the mountain?!

His eyes twinkled and he flickered to the bottom of the mountain in a flash. With both hands at his back, he watched the basin. 

The water raged, swirling around the glowing man, who kept moving. 

"He achieved great success in a 10-star-mortal-grade technique in just a week!" Old Li's body trembled. 

Yet he stood because something bigger was about to happen.

After waiting until the moon came out, Old Li discovered what was going on when he felt a frightening aura burst forth from the depths of the basin.