A Farmer's Journey To Immortality - Chapter 500: Qi Shell: Runic Beast Tattoo

After a few hours.

Aksai stood in front of the massive body of the Verdant Elder, his eyes calm and focused.

He had already made his decision.

“I’ll form the Qi Shell first,” he muttered to himself.

He gripped the Celestial Fang in his hand.

Aksai walked around the beast slowly and began to cut into its thick and callous green skin. The cuts weren’t deep—just enough to draw blood. Long shallow lines formed across the demon beast’s sides, legs, and back of his neck.

Thick, dark green blood oozed out in slow trickles.

Once he was done, he let the Celestial Fang fade away.

Then, from his storage ring, he pulled out the Celestial Shard, ideal for incision and precise operation. Without a moment’s pause, Aksai brought the edge to his own skin.

He made several small cuts—one on each limb, a few on his chest, and a line just beneath his ribs. The blade bit into him and thin red lines formed across his bare skin.

Aksai winced slightly but didn’t stop.

With the dagger still in hand, he reached for a small glass vial and opened it. Holding it beneath one of the deeper cuts on the demon beast, he let a few drops of blood drip into it.

As the green liquid settled in the vial, he took out a small metal flask and poured a small amount of blue potion into the blood. The potion shimmered faintly as it mixed with the beast’s blood, turning a dull green with soft silver swirls.

He corked the vial and shook it gently.

Next, Aksai took out a set of Heretic Dao talismans. They were pale yellow slips of paper with faint ink lines drawn across them.

One by one, he pressed them onto the vial. As each talisman made contact with the glass, it glowed faintly, then turned into a tiny wisp of light and got absorbed into the vial.

Once all the talismans were used, Aksai pulled out the cork. He took a deep breath and drank the entire contents of the vial in one go. The bitter, earthy taste of the blood potion filled his mouth, but he swallowed without flinching.

Then, he stood still, breathing slowly.

He focused his inner energy and wrapped the entire body of the Verdant Elder in a layer of Silver Qi. The silver aura flowed out of him like mist, coiling around the demon beast like chains of light.

When he was sure the Qi had surrounded the beast fully, he sat down cross-legged in front of it, placing his bloodied hands on his knees. His eyes closed, and he slipped into meditation.

For a moment, everything was still.

Then the beast’s blood began to move.

Where once it trickled slowly, the wounds now poured. The blood, dark and heavy, began to slide off the demon beast’s body like thick ropes. The streams moved toward Aksai, not randomly, but with purpose. As if they could sense something in him calling them.

The blood reached him and climbed up his legs and arms. It slid across his skin, slithering like snakes before flowing into the shallow cuts he had made earlier.

The sensation was strange—cold and hot at once. His body trembled slightly, but he stayed seated and calm.

More and more blood joined the streams, moving faster now. They covered more of his body, soaking him in the beast’s life essence. His skin began to glow faintly under the contact.

On his back, faint marks began to form.

At first, they looked like scribbles—lines and curves drawn by an invisible hand. But soon, the marks took shape. A set of mysterious Essence Equation runes appeared, pulsing softly with light.

Then, slowly, the outline of a beast began to form—a turtle-like figure with strong limbs and a wide shell, its features faint but unmistakable.

The runic image glowed brighter with every passing moment, the blood still flowing into Aksai’s body. The Qi Shell was forming—drawing from both his own strength and the demon beast’s body.

Seconds turned into minutes.

At first, Aksai sat still like a rock, his breath calm and deep as the blood from the Verdant Elder flowed into his body through the shallow cuts on his skin.

But soon, the calm began to fade.

His muscles twitched.

A sharp ache began to creep up his limbs, starting in his fingers and toes, spreading like fire under his skin. Aksai grit his teeth as the burning feeling grew worse.

It wasn’t like a normal fire—it was deep, slow, and heavy. It felt like his arms and legs had been dipped in boiling oil and left there.

Then, a new wave of pain struck his back.

It was as if someone had poured molten lava down his spine. The hot flow didn’t stop. It rolled over his back again and again, each time sinking deeper into his skin, then into his muscles, and finally to the very bone.

He clenched his fists tightly, fingernails digging into his palms.

Suddenly, it felt like all the bones in his body were being crushed from within.

There was no sound, but Aksai could feel every crack, every snap. His arms, legs, ribs—each one shattered as if they were made of dry twigs under a mountain’s weight.

Before he could scream, a strange force washed over him. Cool, thick, and strong—it flooded his bones and healed them just as quickly as they had broken.

But the comfort lasted only a second.

The next moment, the pressure returned, and his bones broke again.

This cycle of pain and healing, of burning and mending, repeated over and over. Aksai was caught in it, forced to feel everything but unable to move.

He realized why it was happening.

He was trying to form a Qi Shell using the body of a 3rd Order Demon Beast, while his current body cultivation was only at the Argent Realm.

The beast’s strength far outclassed his own. His body was being reshaped to contain power it was never meant to hold—at least not yet.

And yet… through this torment, something else began to happen.

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AN: Hi. 🙂

With this chapter, A Farmer’s Journey To Immortality hits 500 chapters! Huge thanks to all the amazing readers who’ve stuck around, and a special shout out to the Top 100 fans.

Aksai’s journey as a humble Spirit Farmer is only just beginning. There’s still so much to explore, so many worlds to uncover—both old and new. Thanks for riding along.

Feel free to drop a comment about what you’ve been enjoying, what could be better, or what you’d love to see more of going forward. I’ll also be updating the character sheets soon, so keep an eye out for that.

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