The next night, at midnight.

    When the high-grade refining and condensing essence medicine of the gas reached its full effect and generated true qi, Chen Yun woke up again.

    He felt the true qi in his body, still continuously "decaying." A large number of innate essence was born, constantly transforming his body, allowing him to advance towards true "high-level life form."

    Perhaps due to more body transformation, Chen Yun smelled the "odd fragrance" born within him also grew thicker.

    Starting from almost being imperceptible, to now being detectable with a bit of attention, the presence of the strange fragrance is a sufficient proof that his fleshly body is continuously "evolving."

    "I don't know how long this process will continue."

    Chen Yun pondered silently, "There is one thing that can be confirmed, that is, once the physical transformation is completed, my physical body will reach an incredibly astonishing level. Perhaps I can truly achieve the dispersion of all evil and invincibility of all methods."

    He's not sure if it will be like that; he still needs to keep observing.

    Time passed day by day.

    Three days.

    Five days.

    Ten days.

    Soon, a month had passed.

    The efficacy of the first batch of the upgraded Refining Essence into Qi medicine had long been exhausted.

    Chen Yun had no choice but to brew the second batch of the upgraded Refining Essence into Qi medicine.

    He took it and continued to cultivate.

    And then, another month passed by.

    Although the medicinal force generated from the second batch of the upgraded Refining Essence into Qi medicine was still immense, Chen Yun was astonished to find that he had only completed one-fifth of his innate shape refinement.

    This made Chen Yun doubt whether he was really striving to reach the realm of a High Magic Officer.

    This is completely against common sense.

    No matter how powerful a High Magic Officer is, it is impossible for the "energy" needed for innate shape refinement to be dozens or hundreds of times more than that required to break through the Upper Level Magician.

    With such vast and overwhelming energy, it is not a matter of saying that it is impossible to challenge the cultivation of a Jade True Person, at the very least, it seems feasible to attempt to reach the level of a Patriarch.

    Why did Chen Yun think this way?

    Because before entering seclusion, Chen Yun had communicated with a High Magic Officer at the mid-stage of cultivation, and had roughly known the ratio of power between High Magic Officers and Upper Level Magicians.

    Although the combat power of a High Magic Officer cannot be completely calculated by "how much energy there is", but if only "energy" is considered, a High Magic Officer in the mid-stage should be about five times more powerful than an Upper Level Magician in the late stage.

    Of course, if they were to engage in battle, a High Magic Officer's combat power might be several tens of times that of an Upper Level Magician.

    The amount of energy one possesses does not necessarily correlate with their combat strength.

    Because a High Magic Officer possesses not only enormous energy, but also has a mastery over the energy within the heaven and earth, over his own body, and over energy manipulation, which is beyond comparison to an Upper Level Magician.

    Regardless, the energy possessed by a High Magic Officer is indeed much thicker than that of an Upper Level Magician in the late stage, but it's not deep to this extent.

    Chen Yun's high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine, every time refining one level, is equivalent to a year of hard cultivation by himself. He can generate nine true qi in one night, which means he can condense 9 true qi in a month. In two months, he can condense 720 true qi, which is equivalent to seven hundred and twenty years of hard cultivation by himself!

    Seven hundred and twenty years of hard cultivation to acquire such vast true qi, yet it only allowed his physical body to "evolve" by one-fifth?

    Chen Yun found this incredible, which is why he felt as if he was not striving to reach the level of a High Magic Officer, but was sprinting towards a higher level.

    In reality, he knew that he wasn't actually striving towards a higher level.

    Then what's going on?

    To be honest, Chen Yun really doesn't understand it at all.

    However, he can be sure that the current situation is not because the cultivation method of "Chen Mr. Internal Energy Jugging Dantian Art" is wrong.

    More reasons or secrets should be the high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine.

    "Could it be that this high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine contains some mystical essence?"

    Chen Yun's cultivation level is still quite low, and he really can't figure it out.

    Helpless, he had already gone this far, and he couldn't just stop.

    Chen Yun quickly brewed the third batch of Refining Essence into Qi medicine and took it.

    Innate shape refinement continued again.

    Another month had passed.

    The innate shape refinement was completed to three-tenths.

    Another seventh month had passed.

    The innate shape refinement was completed to seven-tenths.

    Finally, the spring passed and gave way to spring.

    Early spring of the second year.

    Chen Yun had finished the drug effect of the tenth batch of high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine.

    And at this moment, the innate shape refinement was finally complete!

    An incredibly powerful force erupted from within his body!

    Chen Yun had a powerful feeling that he could control everything just by moving his hands and feet, as if he could capture the power of heaven and earth.

    Most crucially, this was a feeling brought about by his own physical body, and had nothing to do with the true qi.

    ...

    On the other side, the three pool mist spring.

    Old Tiger was lying there, yawning and basking in the sun.

    Suddenly, a faint fragrance was transmitted from the position of the Daming Temple in Damao Peak.

    Old Tiger suddenly lifted his head, revealing a look of disbelief, "Hmm? Someone has achieved immortality and ascended?"

    He felt carefully for a moment, then his expression turned puzzled, "No, it's not achieving immortality; it seems like they have achieved immortality again."

    Old Tiger was momentarily confused, "How can this happen?"

    With a cultivation base comparable to the peak of Earth Immortals, he was momentarily unable to discern what was happening.

    ...

    Guan Jiang Erlang Temple.

    Er Lang Shen and Mei Shan Qisheng were discussing where to go hunting today.

    Suddenly, a strange fragrance spread from the direction of Qingcheng Mountain.

    Er Lang Shen suddenly turned towards the direction of Qingcheng Mountain.

    Mei Shan Qisheng also turned towards Qingcheng Mountain.

    Guoya Zhishou was taken aback and said, "Brother Er, what's going on?"

    E Dashai was somewhat incredulous and said, "Although it's a unique fragrance of achieving immortality, why can't I sense that someone has achieved immortality?"

    The four sacred beings of Da Wang, Zhou Cang, Sa Yinkun, and Huang Mao Tongzi were also confused.

    Er Lang Shen hadn't had time to answer.

    Among the seven sacred beings of Mei Shan, another sacred being, Huashan Sanlang, displayed a strange expression and explained, "It seems that someone has preemptively refined an immortality body but has not yet reached the level of an immortal."

    "Hmm..."

    "Refining an immortality body without attaining the actual level of an immortal?"

    "How could such a situation arise?"

    Guoya Zhishou and the other six sacred beings of Mei Shan were all dumbfounded.

    Er Lang Shen suddenly spoke up, "I sense that this strange fragrance seems to come from our little brother Chen Pu. He probably took some kind of 'immortality herb' and transformed his physical body into an immortal body, but his cultivation hasn't been improved. All he has is a mere immortal body without any actual cultivation, which can only extend the lifespan of human beings to the limit of one hundred and eight thousand years. However, such a situation is indeed quite mysterious. His physical body has already become an immortal body, and how can he cultivate a jade-like pill?"

    Even Er Lang Shen couldn't figure it out, let alone Guoya Zhishou, Da Wang, and Huashan Sanlang and the other sacred beings.

    ...

    Daming Temple, the cultivation hall.

    Wang Siyan, Gong Juji, Zhang Qian, Mei Junyan, and Jiulong, everyone, including them all, could smell a mysterious fragrance emanating from Chen Yun's bedroom.

    The fragrance was intoxicating.

    However, no one seemed to be entranced by it. Instead, they looked at Chen Yun's bedroom direction with a worried expression.

    Since Chen Yun returned to Daming Peak ten months ago and closed himself off from the outside world, he hasn't appeared once since then. No one knows whether he has broken through to the level of a High Magic Officer or if there's something wrong with his cultivation. Naturally, everyone is worried about him.

    Zhang Qian furrowed his brow and said, "I remember that according to the Taoist sutras, if one cultivates to a certain level, they can usually accomplish it in ten months at the middle stage. Once they have achieved this level, they can transform everything into a spirit and then continue to refine the remaining yin essence in their spiritual realm to achieve a pure yang without yin, known as the Yanshen or Pure Yang Spirit. Chen Yun has been closed off for ten months now. This is more than enough time for him to accomplish this transformation. Could it be that he hasn't yet managed to breakthrough to the level of a High Magic Officer?"

    Lin Chen worriedly said, "Could it be that something went wrong with Chen Yun's cultivation?"

    Upon hearing the two men's words, Wang Siyan's worry on her face grew more intense, and she tightly clutched both of her hands.

    Gong Juji shook his head and said, "Master, his cultivation shouldn't have any issues. The fragrance you two don't understand may be the fragrance of immortals. Maybe our teacher is trying to break through to a higher level or even becoming an immortal!"

    Ah?

    Is Chen Yun trying to break through to the level of a True Immortal?

    Everyone was somewhat stunned and couldn't believe it was true.

    ...

    Yes, the disbelief felt by everyone was actually correct.

    Chen Yun was not breaking through to the True Immortal realm. He was still struggling to achieve the level of a High Magic Officer.

    After ten months of support from the powerful medicinal power of the high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine, Chen Yun finally completed the "Innate Shape Refinement."

    At this time, the true qi in his body suddenly had a new movement.

    Chen Yun saw that the true qi had undergone another "qualitative change" and became a true "solid," no longer in the semi-solid state of "jelly" before.

    Of course, this is from the perspective of inner vision. In reality, the true qi does not have a physical form.

    Just that the amount of true qi's qualitative change at the moment is relatively rare.

    He carefully observed and found that the amount of true qi's qualitative change from "semi-solid" to "solid" was currently about one-tenth.

    Chen Yun practiced his cultivation calmly and without haste.

    Soon, a month had passed.

    At this time, Chen Yun finally completed the qualitative change of all the true qi in his body.

    And at this moment, the just qualitatively changed true qi immediately surged to the Dantian, beginning to continuously nourish the spirit soul.

    Just the amount of true qi needed for nurturing the spirit soul is much too much.

    Even though Chen Yun's true qi has undergone its fourth qualitative change, it still cannot significantly strengthen the spirit soul.

    Fortunately, there is still a month's supply of the high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine available for use.

    At the twelfth month, Chen Yun brewed the last batch of high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine and swallowed it all at once.

    The true qi still generates at midnight every night.

    However, after each generation of true qi, it all surges into the Dantian.

    The spirit soul is continuously growing stronger.

    Growing one percent stronger in one night!

    Three nights!

    Ten nights!

    Finally, on the twenty-ninth day of Chen Yun's twelve-month seclusion, the spirit soul had grown to over a hundred times its previous "size."

    Although he still couldn't manifest his spirit at this moment, and the spirit soul couldn't leave the Dantian, Chen Yun suddenly sensed a truly meaningful feeling of controlling his body from within the spirit soul!

    It was as if, in this moment, he had finally found his "true self"!

    When the spirit soul controlled the physical body, the last batch of high-grade refined and condensing essence medicine also began to produce its effects.

    Chen Yun practically broke through like a storm, forming the closest connection between the nine true qi born from the last batch of medicine, his physical form, and his spirit soul.

    A feeling of a true qi permeating the entire body suddenly surged up from within!

    Chen Yun slowly opened his eyes, and an intense sexual light suddenly blossomed, instantly illuminating the entire Daming Peak, enveloped in darkness, as if it were day.

    The sexual light was like lightning, flashing in the night sky for a moment and then disappearing in an instant.

    At this moment, when Chen Yun opened his eyes, he couldn't help but show an excited expression on his face, "I... I have finally achieved the level of a High Magic Officer!"

    (End of this chapter)