Eternal Life: I Have the Favor System-Chapter 242 - 158: Tendon Aspect

"Alright."

For some reason, Chu Lingguang’s eyes made Guo Wei’s heart palpitate. It was as if the person before him wasn’t Chu Lingguang at all, but the Blood Wolf King that had clawed its way out of hell.

Chu Lingguang closed his eyes. He felt as if he had entered a Blood-colored World, and his Day and Night Breathing Technique had ceased to function.

CREAK!

The ground of the Blood-colored World began to split open. From within the cracks, creatures crawled out. They were like bubbles, forming into small figures.

CREAK!

The sounds of cracking grew more and more frequent.

The cracks in the Blood-colored World spread at a visible rate until they were everywhere. Bubble-like figures emerged from them without end.

Their numbers swelled.

Chu Lingguang felt that these bubble-like figures were all watching him, waiting for him to give a command.

HISS!

A heart-rending pain, the feeling of his flesh being torn from his bones, welled up in Chu Lingguang’s mind.

Chu Lingguang felt the Blood-colored World become intensely real. Above and below, in every direction, there was nothing but blood-red stains. Even the bubble figures that emerged from the cracks were formed from red bubbles.

As that heart-rending pain flooded his senses, Chu Lingguang saw the Blood-colored World split in two. A great chasm opened up, and countless bubble figures erupted like a geyser, rushing toward him.

’A response.’

’This is the response from my flesh and blood.’

’I’ve finally found you.’

Chu Lingguang realized the Blood-colored World was his own flesh and blood. He hadn’t collapsed from the pain of it being torn apart and had, as he’d hoped, heard the response from within it.

The cracks in the ground and the chasm before him were signs of his flesh tearing. The red bubble figures emerging from those cracks were the response and the breath of his very flesh.

Chu Lingguang felt a long-lost sense of familiarity from them. As they emerged, he even heard the faint sound of a Dragon’s Roar and Elephant’s Wail.

In that moment, he seemed to forget the pain, focused only on accepting this hard-won response.

His previously halted Breathing Technique started operating again.

His feet planted themselves firmly once more. The Chang Chun Pile Skill surged, his feet taking root in the ground as another wave of power shattered the stone bricks beneath them.

ROAR! WAIL!

A clear Dragon’s Roar and Elephant’s Wail emanated from his flesh and blood.

Dragon Scale Elephant Hide emerged on the surface of Chu Lingguang’s skin. What was once a phantasmal image began to take on a solid form.

Although the Scale Armor looked fragile and as thin as newborn skin, with barely perceptible black patterns within, Guo Wei knew that Chu Lingguang’s Majestic Skin Aspect had finally reached its peak. He was now just one step away from being able to manifest its automatic, reactive defense at will.

His expression was one of immense joy.

For Chu Lingguang to manifest the Majestic Skin Aspect at this moment meant he had successfully diverted his attention from the pain.

Meanwhile, within Chu Lingguang’s perception, the bubble figures in the Blood-colored World suddenly formed the silhouettes of a giant dragon and a Divine Image, transforming into two colossal beings. Then, a new color appeared in the Blood-colored World: yellow.

Hidden within the Blood-colored World, it was Chu Lingguang’s skin.

At this moment, Chu Lingguang had not only found the response from his flesh and blood but had also discovered the resonance point between his skin, his flesh, and the Dragon Elephant.

Absorption!

Guo Wei had said that flesh and blood had their own way of breathing.

For the past few days, Chu Lingguang had been searching for this way of breathing within his flesh, but to no avail. Now, empowered by the Heart-Devouring Powder, his flesh tearing apart, Chu Lingguang had received a response from it. He not only saw how his flesh breathed but also discovered that the point of resonance between skin, flesh, and the Dragon Elephant was not in exhalation and inhalation, but in absorption.

And the node of absorption was within those bubble figures, within the blood itself.

The blood in his body was vast, but not every drop possessed power. Even with his awakened Introspection, Chu Lingguang could not see the traces of power within his blood.

Now, with the help of the Heart-Devouring Powder, his flesh was torn apart. Not only were the muscle fibers splitting, but his blood, stimulated by the powder’s medicinal properties, was breaking down as if into individual cells, allowing Chu Lingguang to successfully find the resonance point between the three elements.

He had successfully unlocked the second layer of the Dharma Aspect: Mortal Form’s Might.

Once the Dharma Aspects of skin and flesh were combined, his physical body would form its own Aspect, and his defense and Attack Power would skyrocket.

Chu Lingguang’s efforts had finally paid off.

The twisted expression on his face also eased at this moment.

BOOM!

But just as Chu Lingguang was about to breathe a sigh of relief and continue enduring the inhuman torment, within his Introspection, in the purgatory-like blood-red world of his consciousness, dark red blood-dragons suddenly burst forth from the earth.

They danced about in this Blood-colored World.

Slowly, more and more dark red blood-dragons appeared, weaving together in the air to form a complete map of his meridians. Chu Lingguang felt a response from within them.

The resonance point between the three elements of skin, flesh, and tendon, and the Dragon Elephant appeared in his mind like that complete meridian map. It was like a ray of dawn, illuminating the path and allowing him to find the node of resonance without a second thought.

He had successfully unlocked the third-layer Dharma Aspect of the Dragon Elephant Power: the Tendon Aspect!

(There will definitely be another Chapter today. I’m ashamed to have only been posting single Chapters these past few days. I hope that in the future, I can release over ten thousand characters daily—or at least two Chapters a day—to repay everyone for your continued support. Thank you all!)