Immortality Begins With Internal Breathing

Woo Jin stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his expression relaxed and brimming with confidence as he said calmly, "Surrender quietly, and I'll give you a quick death."

The brief delay just now had allowed Xiao Yu to rush into the flight-restricted zone, preventing Woo Jin from continuing to use teleportation. Woo Jin had to admit that Xiao Yu was impressive. Possessing such incredible speed while only at the Shackles realm was truly astonishing. Woo Jin had discovered that without teleportation, he actually could not catch up to him.

"Heh. Old bastard, catch me if you've got what it takes!" Lin Zheyu scoffed coldly. His face was flushed and his features somewhat twisted, making him look like a man at the end of his rope who was desperately putting on a brave front.

Woo Jin frowned slightly and said coldly, "You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!"

He looked in the direction Lin Zheyu was heading with a hint of wariness on his face. The deeper they went, the more dangerous it became. Even back then, he had never managed to explore the area roughly two kilometers farther ahead.

"Planning to use the restrictions here to escape with your life?" Woo Jin snorted coldly. "Hmph, you think this old man would give you such an opportunity?"

He had heard from Fan Hongwei that Xiao Yu had awakened a powerful perception-type spirit divine ability and was blessed with great fortune and profound providence. A cultivator favored by fortune to such an extent might truly be able to use the restrictions here to escape from Woo Jin if he were allowed to flee deeper into the ruins. Woo Jin narrowed his eyes as immense purple bloodline power suddenly surged from his body.

His hands moved in a blur, rapidly striking more than a hundred points across his body in quick succession.

Roar!

A howl erupted from within Woo Jin. His body abruptly swelled as the phantom of a purple tiger merged into him. Dense fur sprouted all over his body, the nails on his hands and feet lengthened, and his limbs thickened until he seemed to have transformed into a ferocious giant tiger.

Tiger Spirit Body Fusion Art!

This was one of the Woo Family's bloodline secret arts, and only martial artists who had reached perfection in the Shackles realm could cultivate and use it. Once activated, the technique allowed the user to temporarily assume the form of an ancient Desolate Beast.

𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Originally, the technique had been created to help Woo Family descendants comprehend the Desolate Beast will hidden deep within their bloodline. During its cultivation, however, they had unexpectedly discovered that activating the technique could forcibly increase one's strength for a short period. As a result, it had also become a desperate trump card to be used when staking one's life.

After transforming into a massive, ferocious tiger, Woo Jin unleashed a roar. His speed instantly soared to nearly twice what it had been before.

Sensing the changes in Woo Jin, Lin Zheyu sneered. "Sure enough, you're nothing but heretics. What a load of bullshit this so-called martial cultivation of the ancient martial esteemed families is."

A fierce gust came howling toward him. Lin Zheyu's movements paused for a fraction of a second before he pushed off hard with his feet and abruptly darted sideways.

Woo Jin crashed down in front of Lin Zheyu. His eerie eyes, each as large as a bronze bell, glared down at him from above.

"Die!" Woo Jin said coldly.

He raised his enormous tiger paw and swatted it toward Lin Zheyu.

The corners of Lin Zheyu's lips curled upward in a cold smile. "It's still too early to say which of us will die!"

To prevent any unforeseen mishaps, Lin Zheyu had deliberately lured Woo Jin deep into the Shamanic Clan Ruins, cutting off his escape. Now, there was no way Woo Jin could get out.

"Hm?"

The moment Woo Jin saw the confident smile on Lin Zheyu's face, a sudden sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

And sure enough, the moment his claw came crashing down, it felt as though he had struck an incomparably hard alloy wall. Immediately afterward, he felt a pair of small hands clamp tightly around his tiger paw. The strength in those hands was astonishing, gripping his paw like an iron vise.

"What? How is this possible?" Woo Jin cried out in shock. He exerted all his strength and tried to wrench his tiger paw free, but it would not budge in the slightest.

The next moment, Woo Jin felt his entire body leave the ground. Wind howled past his ears, and the scenery before him blurred from the sheer speed of his movement.

Before Woo Jin could even react, his body slammed heavily into the ground. His enormous tiger form crashed into the earth with such tremendous force that the entire ground shook.

Lin Zheyu's mocking voice rang out. "Is that all you've got? You're just a little tougher than most. How disappointing!"

Woo Jin was left dazed by the impact, his face flushing red. No matter how shocked he was, he now understood that he had underestimated Xiao Yu. This was a powerful expert who had been pretending to be weak!

Woo Jin's eyes bulged with fury as he suddenly unleashed a roar. Astonishing purple energy surged from his body, instantly forming several enormous energy vortices around him. Woo Jin knew that it was time to fight for his life. If he did not go all out now, he might truly die here.

However, before Woo Jin could do anything, Lin Zheyu gripped his paw and repeatedly smashed him into the ground with savage force. At the same time, golden blood qi poured from his body, forming a dense golden mist around him. After transforming into an ancient Desolate Beast, Woo Jin possessed incredibly formidable defenses. In this state, his strength was likely already extremely close to, or perhaps even at, the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm. Lin Zheyu's sudden assault had merely caught Woo Jin off guard and had not inflicted any serious injuries.

Do the Woo Family's Deity Transformation realm experts use this kind of secret art to forcibly raise themselves to that level? Lin Zheyu wondered.

If that were the case, then it made sense that the Deity Transformation realm experts of the three ancient martial esteemed families all possessed serious flaws. After all, strength forcibly boosted through a secret art could not be sustained for long. That would also mean that the Woo Family's Deity Transformation realm experts might actually possess only late-stage Nascent Soul realm strength, relying on a secret art to forcibly elevate themselves to the Deity Transformation realm. If so, then the three ancient martial esteemed families were nothing particularly impressive.

"Explode!"

Just as Lin Zheyu was about to unleash the Myriad Dragons Godslaying Art and severely injure Woo Jin, Woo Jin's deep voice rang out. The three energy vortices formed from purple energy instantly detonated.

A terrifying roar erupted from the center of the explosion. The sound carried overwhelming, dreadful pressure, as though the will of some terrifying Desolate Beast from the ancient past had crossed the river of time and descended into the present age.

The sudden sonic attack left Lin Zheyu's head ringing and his spirit dazed for an instant. A tremendous force struck his chest, sending his entire body flying backward.

"I was careless before. Now, you won't get another chance!" Woo Jin looked down at Lin Zheyu as he flew backward, his icy voice brimming with killing intent as it rang out from above. His momentum qi had reached its peak, and he seemed to have completely transformed into an ancient Desolate Beast, with yao qi surging into the sky.

Lin Zheyu lightly tapped his toes against the ground to halt his momentum, then patted his chest and said mockingly, "Heh, that one had a bit of force behind it. Just enough to scratch an itch."

Woo Jin narrowed his eyes, a trace of solemnity flashing through them. What terrifying defenses!

Although that attack had been launched in haste, he had already activated the Tiger Spirit Body Fusion Art and even used his strongest trump card, yet he had failed to injure his opponent at all. Just how had this fellow cultivated such a body?

"You think getting bigger makes you special? I can do that too!" Seeing Woo Jin hesitate to advance, Lin Zheyu grinned. His eyes narrowed as his momentum qi rapidly climbed. The muscles across his body swelled at astonishing speed, and in an instant, he transformed into a towering ten-meter-tall figure.

Lin Zheyu stomped down hard with his right foot, blasting a massive crater into the ground with terrifying force. His figure vanished from the spot in an instant. With a thought, Voidcleaver suddenly appeared in his right hand.

Gods and Demons Extinguished!

Vast amounts of energy surged into Voidcleaver. Lin Zheyu narrowed his eyes and unleashed his strongest strike.

"So powerful!"

Woo Jin's eyes were instantly drawn to Lin Zheyu's saber strike. Before this attack, even heaven and earth seemed to lose their luster.

Woo Jin suppressed the instinct to teleport and erupted with tremendous force beneath his feet, evading the terrifying saber strike. At the same time, the boiling bloodline powers within him circulated madly, nearly squeezing out every last trace of strength.

Dragon Turtle...

Woo Jin's thoughts stirred as he prepared to unleash the Woo Family's strongest defensive secret art. Before he could do so, however, a succession of dragon roars erupted around him.

Myriad Dragons Godslaying Art!