A Farmer's Journey To Immortality - Chapter 501: Breakthrough Into the Late-stage Argent Body Realm

Aksai felt something stir of Silver Qi inside him—a quiet rhythm he hadn’t noticed in a long time.

His mind instinctively shifted focus. He began to breathe a little differently, the Qi circulating within his body in a pattern he had memorized long ago.

The Celestial Harmony technique.

Even though Aksai had not made any significant progress in the body cultivation realm, it was not like he had halted his practise of the Celestial Harmony technique. He practised it almost as much as his Spirit cultivation technique.

As such, he subconsciously started practicing the Celestial Harmony as soon as he realized there was a surplus of Silver Qi. His body instinctively started regulating the surplus Qi as per the Qi rotation cycles mentioned in the Celestial Harmony technique.

He didn’t think about it. His body acted on its own, following the breathing and energy flow of the technique. It didn’t stop the pain, but it helped him endure it. More than that—it helped him use it.

His stagnant Argent Realm began to shift. The long plateau he had been stuck at for months, maybe even years, cracked and broke under the strain. He was making progress—slowly, painfully—but progress nonetheless.

His body was changing.

The Verdant Elder’s giant form began to fall apart. With all its blood drained and its Spirit energy stripped away, the flesh began to melt. And then came the shell.

The body turned into a thick, sticky green slime that pooled beneath the corpse. The skin, muscle, and even the bones softened like wax under a flame.

The slime twitched… and then began to move.

As if drawn by some invisible force, it crept toward Aksai’s body. Bit by bit, the viscous green liquid began to climb over him, spreading over his legs, chest, arms, and finally his head.

Aksai didn’t resist. He was too deep in meditation, too focused on the pain.

The slime wrapped around him, layer by layer.

Soon, he was completely covered.

Sealed in a thick cocoon made from the melted remains of the 3rd Order Demon Beast, Aksai sat still, surrounded by a sticky shell of Qi-rich substance.

The cocoon pulsed faintly with light, as if it had a heartbeat of its own. Inside, Aksai’s body continued to burn, break, and mend. But through that endless cycle, he grew stronger.

The cocoon around Aksai pulsed slowly. Then, with a soft crackling sound, its surface began to shift. It hardened.

The once-sticky slime turned firm and smooth. The outer shell darkened into a deep forest green, and lines began to appear on its surface—sharp and clear like carvings made by a master sculptor.

Essence Equation runes etched themselves all over the shell, glowing faintly with a steady green light.

The shell didn’t look like a simple cocoon anymore. It had taken the form of a large turtle-like shell, smooth and curved, thick with potent beyond-Argent-Body-Realm Qi energy.

The runes that spread across it pulsed with life, each glow releasing a wave of pure vitality. For several minutes, the shell stayed that way—silent, glowing, alive.

Then came a louder crack.

Karook!

Then another.

Then, like an egg splitting open, the shell broke. Jagged pieces of the shell scattered outward, but instead of falling to the ground, the parts began to dissolve mid-air.

They turned into tiny green wisps, soft and swirling, as they moved towards Aksai’s body and vanished into him one by one.

The shell was gone.

Aksai stepped out of the fading mist. His breath was calm, and his posture was relaxed, but everything about him had changed.

Across his back was a large tattoo—dark green, thick with beastly detail. It looked like the pattern of a beast’s shell, rough yet elegant, heavy yet perfectly shaped.

It was the shell of the Verdant Elder, now marked into his flesh.

His arms and legs were covered in rune-like marks as well. They twisted and curved like black snakes, coiling around his limbs. They resembled the Verdant Elder’s snake-like tail.

Aksai’s palms had the runic tattoos of the snakes with their mouths open. It was as if these snakes were ready to cast the fire-element Spirit spells anytime, similar to what the Verdant Elder’s snaketail used to do.

This was a unique transformation that Aksai had undergone.

The Qi Shell had fully merged with Aksai’s body. What was even more surprising was the fact that he had broken into the late stage of the Argent Body Realm. Even without intending to, his body cultivation realm had surpassed his Spirit cultivation realm.

The big and small bottlenecks of the Argent Body Realm had been forcefully destroyed by the Qi Shell ritual. And this was when he hadn’t visited Martial World Sharang in a long while to replenish some of the exclusive Qi-based resources from that world.

The Spirit farmer’s appearance had changed too.

He was still in his druid transformation form, but there were clear differences. His black hair, which would usually turn red during the transformation, had stayed mostly black. But now it had a dark green tint running through it like threads of jade hidden in shadows. The hair had grown longer, flowing down to his waist, heavy with life force.

His eyes, which used to shine gold in the druid form, now glowed emerald green. Calm, steady, and deep like the forest at night.

His body was still lean, but now his muscles were sharper, more defined. He looked like a warrior druid molded by nature itself.

His skin was smooth and fair, but every movement made his veins visible—tiny faint green snakes that pulsed beneath the surface, trying to break free with each heartbeat.

He was full of vitality. Too full.

Even a late-stage Foundation Building expert who had spent years polishing their Spirit Cultivation wouldn’t radiate this much life force. His presence was heavy.

It was not the pressure of Spirit essence but the weight of his body alone. Aksai felt like he could fight armies bare-handed.

That he could crush his enemies without even drawing on Spirit spells.

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