Chapter 2

"Friends are to be betrayed when there are benefits to be gained." Zi Chen only remembered this sentence before his life force dissipated.

Zhao Can kicked him into the mountain stream.

A line of blood flowed out of his chest. His life force had already dissipated. Zi Chen had already died.

Legend has it that after a person dies, their soul will not dissipate immediately. Instead, it will linger around the body. If the resentment is too deep, the soul may transform into another form.

Like a ghost, a malicious spirit.

"Bang!"

Between the uneven mountain streams, Zi Chen's body finally fell on the thick snow on the ground, leaving his corpse intact.

Drops of blood flowed from his chest, carrying the last of his body's heat, melting the snow under his body.

Like a drop of water falling on snow, a small and deep hole appeared.

Like water dripping on a stone, the hole slowly became deeper and bigger.

Until the snow melted and fell on the ice. On the ice, there was a small ice ball.

Red blood dripped from Zi Chen's heart and landed on the ice ball, dyeing it red in an instant.

The next moment, something strange happened.

A silver light suddenly flashed on the small ice ball.

The blood that fell from before seemed to be absorbed. It went to the center of the ice ball, looking like a gorgeous amber.

"Buzz!"

After absorbing the blood, the ice ball suddenly trembled and emitted a brilliant silver light.

The silver light was like water, but it was as hot as fire. When it appeared, the ice and snow around it began to melt.

Just as the ice melted, the ice ball suddenly flew up, emitting a brilliant silver light, like a wandering thunder snake.

It was like a dead object that suddenly came to life, flying towards Zi Chen's heart.

The ice ball entered his heart, releasing a silver energy that merged into Zi Chen's body.

Then, Zi Chen began to glow.

The silver light was like an electric snake, twisting and turning.

The silver light was a special kind of energy. It carried a blazing high temperature, but it did not boil Zi Chen's blood. Instead, it made Zi Chen's blood flow, which had stopped flowing, start flowing again.

Moreover, Zi Chen's ice-cold body once again emitted the warmth of a human.

At the same time, the wound on Zi Chen's chest miraculously healed under the silver light.

His damaged meridians were also slowly recovering under the silver light.

While the water-like silver light was repairing Zi Chen's meridians, it was also passing through his circulating blood, sending streams of silver light energy into his skin, bones, and even bone marrow.

Tendon Changing, Marrow Cleansing.

This was a great fortune.

Zi Chen's entire body turned silver. His entire body emitted a blazing heat, and the ice beneath him melted instantly.

"Plop!"

Zi Chen fell through the melted ice into the mountain stream. There was water here.

After that, a pitch-black liquid gushed out from Zi Chen's body.

These were the impurities in the body that were beginning to be expelled from the body under this great fortune.

In the haze, Zi Chen felt a suction force appear, as if it was going to take him into another world. That world was dark and cold.

Zi Chen was terrified. This was an instinctive fear in the face of death.

After that, Zi Chen saw the water-like silver light. It was very warm.

The silver light wrapped around his body, making him feel warm again. It was as if he was in his mother's embrace. It was very comfortable.

The comfortable Zi Chen could not help but want …

…

"Ah, it's so hot!"

When Zi Chen woke up, he felt that his surroundings were very hot. It was as if he was in a pot of boiling water and was being stewed.

Then, Zi Chen saw the boiling water around him.

Zi Chen's expression changed instantly. He used his hands and feet to climb up until he reached the ice cave that he had fallen into before.

"That was close. I was almost cooked."

After climbing to the shore and crawling for a long time, Zi Chen leaned against a mountain wall and gasped for breath.

After he left the pool, the boiling water calmed down, and Zi Chen did not feel any discomfort.

"Eh?!"

The panting Zi Chen seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly let out a startled cry, and then his clear eyes became confused.

"Didn't I die?

Why am I still here? "

Zi Chen looked up and down. There was not a single wound on his body. His skin was as smooth as jade, as delicate and white as a newborn baby's.

"There are no wounds. Did I fall asleep here and have a dream? Did Zhao Can kill me in the dream?"

Zi Chen was puzzled, but soon, he saw the mark of being pierced by a sharp weapon at the chest area of his clothes.

"This isn't a dream. I'm still alive."

Zi Chen's expression was bitter. Everything that had happened before was real. He had been assassinated, but he had not died.

He was still alive, but it was no different from being dead.

The crippled Abdomen didn't have the slightest bit of true qi. It was empty.

"Just what is going on? Why am I still alive when I should be dead?"

Zi Chen thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't understand. He had never heard of anything in the Martial Heaven Continent that could bring the dead back to life.

"Not only am I not dead, but my damaged meridians are also healed. There are no more traces of injuries. Perhaps Abdomen is also healed." Suddenly, the depressed Zi Chen had a whimsical guess.

Then he began to circulate his cultivation technique.

The surrounding heaven and earth spiritual qi began to gather toward Zi Chen. This speed was over ten times faster than when Zi Chen had been cultivating.

If Zi Chen's previous speed of absorbing heaven and earth spiritual qi was like a thin thread, then now it was like ten thin threads were twisted into a thick rope.

Zi Chen was excited. Because he had been distracted, he had stopped circulating his cultivation technique. The heaven and earth spiritual qi that had just gathered in his meridians had dissipated.

"Again!"

Zi Chen was very excited. Although he didn't know how he had come back to life, he knew that one thing was certain.

However, there was one thing that he was sure of, and that was that he had obtained a great fortune. This fortune allowed him to be reborn.

Following the circulation of his cultivation technique, heaven and earth spiritual qi once again gathered from all directions. It flowed through Zi Chen's pores and entered his meridians.

Then, after a cycle, the heaven and earth spiritual qi entered Abdomen.

Zi Chen was filled with anticipation toward the empty Abdomen. He was waiting for a miracle to happen.

"Hu"

The true qi that had just entered Abdomen dissipated into thin air.

His Abdomen could no longer store true qi.

"It's over."

The happy Zi Chen despaired.

The heavens didn't let him die. Instead, they gave him a great fortune. It allowed him to absorb heaven and earth spiritual qi ten times faster than others.

But Abdomen couldn't store true qi. Even if it was a hundred times faster than others, it was useless.

"Heavens, you might as well have let me die."

Zi Chen couldn't help but complain in his heart. But it was just a complaint. Being alive was naturally better than being dead.

At this moment, Zi Chen's heart suddenly started beating.

Then, a silver energy rushed through his blood and rushed toward Zi Chen's mind.

"Buzz!"

In an instant, a bolt of lightning appeared in Zi Chen's dark mind.

The terrifying lightning was like a thunder dragon, wreaking havoc in his mind.

In an instant, it was as if he had been attacked thousands of times. A stinging pain spread. Zi Chen couldn't help but hold his head and roll on the ground.

He didn't scream. That was because his head was in too much pain. He couldn't transmit the thought of screaming in pain.

A tall figure that was comparable to heaven and earth appeared in Zi Chen's mind.

Zi Chen couldn't see the figure's face. He could only see the figure's back.

Zi Chen didn't know what heaven and earth were before. But the moment he saw the figure, he seemed to understand.

The figure's back was heaven and earth. His head held up the sky and his feet stepped on the ground.

The figure in his mind was motionless. But the aura it emitted was the aura of heaven and earth.

This aura was countless times stronger than the aura he felt when he saw the Nimbus Martial Ancestor from afar.

Zi Chen couldn't see the figure's front, but he could see what was in front of it.

A bolt of lightning that was as thick as heaven and earth. It was like a thunder dragon dancing in the air.

In Zi Chen's mind, two things that were comparable to heaven and earth appeared. These two things were still in a hostile state.

"Roar!"

With a shocking dragon roar, the thunder dragon rushed toward the man. The surging aura stirred up Zi Chen's mind. It was as if a storm had appeared out of nowhere in his mind.

The figure didn't speak. He only reached out his right hand and grabbed at the thunder in front of him.

As his right hand moved forward, the entire hand turned into a world of its own.

With a gentle grab, the terrifying thunder dragon was caught in the hand of the figure.

Then, as the hand returned, the thunder dragon's size also shrank. In the end, the entire thunder dragon was caught in the hand of the figure.

A thunder dragon comparable to heaven and earth was caught in the hand of a person and turned into a small ball that emitted a silver light. This really shocked Zi Chen.

Holding the ball of thunder dragon in his hand, the tall figure turned around. Zi Chen opened his eyes wide. He wanted to see the figure's appearance, but it was as if there was a fog in front of him. He couldn't see clearly no matter how hard he tried.

Zi Chen only saw a pair of eyes. They were bright and sharp, as if they could see through heaven and earth.

Then, Zi Chen saw a thunder dragon rushing toward him.

It was the thunder dragon that the ball had turned into again. It opened its bloody mouth and bit at Zi Chen.

Zi Chen wanted to escape, but this was his sea of consciousness. There was nowhere to run.

Endless thunder and lightning drowned Zi Chen. Zi Chen's consciousness dissipated instantly.

In the outside world, Zi Chen suddenly opened his eyes. His body was already drenched in cold sweat. His heart was beating wildly, as if it was going to leave his body.

"What's going on?"

There were too many strange things today. So many that it was far beyond Zi Chen's expectations.

At this moment, Zi Chen suddenly felt something in his mind.

This was a set of extremely complicated cultivation method. It was difficult to understand and incomparably mysterious.

It was like a tide that forced its way into Zi Chen's mind. His mind, which was already swollen and painful, was about to explode at this moment.

Fortunately, this tide came and went quickly. In the end, what appeared in Zi Chen's mind was a set of cultivation method.

Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Art.

A set of the most basic, but most terrifying, and somewhat inconceivable cultivation method.

It was a set of cultivation methods, and also a set of body tempering methods. When cultivated to a high level, one could attract heavenly thunder and temper the body.

At the same time, the True Qi cultivated was also lightning True Qi.

"What a powerful cultivation method. But, what's the use of it?"

Zi Chen was extremely shocked by this set of cultivation methods. If he cultivated this set of cultivation methods, his future achievements would be terrifying.

But the problem now was that his Abdomen was broken and he could no longer condense True Qi. No matter how strong the cultivation method was, it was just a decoration for Zi Chen.

There were treasures and fortuitous encounters in heaven and earth. Zi Chen's fortuitous encounter was great enough. It was definitely comparable to the good fortune of heaven and earth.

But now that his Dantian was crippled, his fortune was greatly reduced.

"This is a fortuitous encounter after all. After surviving a great disaster, one is bound to have good fortune later.

Although I can't cultivate True Qi, I can train my body. A strong constitution comparable to that of a fierce beast doesn't necessarily mean I'm a cripple. "Zi Chen quickly pulled himself together.

Then, he thought of the 055-year-old Snow Ginseng.

"If I can get that Snow Ginseng and absorb and refine it, my constitution will definitely become stronger. Maybe I can even borrow the rich spiritual power to repair Abdomen." Zi Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Roar!"

However, at this moment, an angry roar sounded. The rolling sound spread over several mountains and shook off a large amount of snow.

Zi Chen's body was instantly covered by the falling snow.

"Ice Bear. This is the sound of an Ice Bear. They haven't left yet."