Chapter 540 - 236: Condensing Gang
The resilience buried beneath the ultimate cold, the tenacity to find life in the most desperate of straits, the profundity of Guicang where all things return yet secretly harbor the cycle of rebirth...
These formless concepts, mixed with Divine Sense, merged with his True Essence inch by inch.
...This was a strange feeling... as if his very ’self’ was being slowly imprinted, branded onto another substance...
It even caused Qin Fang’s consciousness to waver for an instant.
But in the next instant, his clarity returned.
RUMBLE!
The Gang Wind raged outside.
Qin Fang’s mind was as clear as a mirror, his will as firm as a rock.
The imprinting of his Divine Sense deepened. Gradually, a trace of the ’Spiritual’ emerged within his True Essence...
That ’Profound Nether Nature’, which was originally just an energy attribute, seemed to ’come alive’!
Within the gloomy cold, a ’Frosty’ aura that seemed capable of freezing the very soul gradually began to emerge!
...A sudden realization dawned on Qin Fang...
’This is...’
’...Eternal Freeze?’
At the critical moment of Condensing Gang, his Profound Nether Nature had finally evolved from the Fourth Grade ’Profound Ice’ into ’Eternal Freeze’!
...This was already a Fifth Grade Nature!
According to his master, a single strike would be enough to freeze a monster like the Erosion Puppet!
Qin Fang had spent the past few years constantly tempering his True Essence, hoping to set foot in this Domain. However, he had never dared venture too deep into the Cold Cave, so he had always been hovering just outside of ’Eternal Freeze’.
And this time, after absorbing a massive amount of Profound Nether Cold Qi from the great fish’s body, and during the critical process of Condensing Gang... he had finally achieved the ’Eternal Freeze’ Nature!
This should have been an exhilarating moment, but right now it failed to stir the slightest ripple in Qin Fang’s heart.
He knew very well that it was far from time for him to relax.
The Condensing Gang was still in progress.
More and more Divine Sense poured in as the peculiar rhythm of the world frantically hammered his True Essence.
Within his Dantian, in that area that seemed to be collapsing, a violent power was surging...
All of this indicated...
...The Condensing Gang wasn’t over.
The danger had yet to erupt!
His Divine Sense continued to pour in, mixing with his True Essence. Hammered by the world’s peculiar rhythm, the Divine Sense and True Essence gradually fused, becoming more and more inseparable until they became one...
Gradually, another realization surfaced in Qin Fang’s mind.
"The Gang Intent... it’s about to appear..."
The so-called ’Gang Intent’ is a unique form of energy-consciousness. It is born from a Martial Artist’s understanding of Martial Arts, their willpower, and the Origin of their personal Nature, all brought together in the ultimate state of the ’Initial Fusion of Divine Qi’.
And this was...
...the ’Divine Power Seed’!
Qin Fang’s ’Gang Intent’ would be called ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’, and it was formed from the condensation of the ultimate Profound Nether Nature.
But at this moment, he could feel that this Gang Intent was not pure; there was a peculiar energy within it...
’...The sharp energy of the Secret Realm’s Gang Wind? Is this the energy that will make my Divine Techniques stronger later?’
Such a thought surfaced in Qin Fang’s mind.
Of course...
That wasn’t important.
The important thing was the next step...
’I must fuse the Profound Nether Gang Intent with the True Essence that has been hammered to its limit in one go... then, the Condensing Gang will be complete!’
His eyes gradually brightened.
All the various powers in his body gathered to their peak the moment the ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’ took form.
He focused his full attention, waiting, waiting...
Finally, at the instant that almost all of his Divine Sense had condensed into his True Essence, the entire world seemed to fall silent...
𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
The roaring Gang Wind outside seemed to vanish.
He could no longer even feel the world-spinning struggles of the great fish.
His entire focus was gathered in his Dantian, on the True Essence that had condensed to its absolute limit and was on the verge of exploding...
"CONDENSE!!!!"
Qin Fang’s pupils suddenly constricted. In the next instant, he unhesitatingly brought his entire will to bear, suppressing it!
He had to fuse the ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’ with the True Essence that had been hammered to its limit!
"BUZZ—!"
Deep within his Dantian, the ’seed’—compressed to its limit and already transformed into a single point of dim, profound light—suddenly thrummed!
It felt as if it was about to explode!
But in that very instant, Qin Fang’s will forcibly suppressed it!
The ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’, formed from pure will, was thus viciously branded onto that ’seed’!
The seed was initially wild. Qin Fang felt as if monstrous waves had been stirred up in his entire Sea of Consciousness. A terrifying force was pushing back, as if trying to break out of its ’cage’ and shatter his body!
But Qin Fang’s will was as unmovable as a mountain. He madly suppressed it. Then, slivers of ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’ began to merge into the terrifying power!
BANG, BANG, BANG!!!
A terrifying roar seemed to echo in his ears.
The sound of hammering resounded!
It was the rhythm of the world!
It transformed into a giant hammer, smashing down madly. With each blow, it fused the ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’ more perfectly with the newborn ’True Gang’!
One strike, two strikes, three strikes...
With each strike, the newborn ’True Gang’ changed and twisted, yet remained incredibly resilient.
Gradually, this ’True Gang’ began to show an increasingly deep and profound color!
Fourteen strikes, fifteen strikes...
This power was so vast that every strike seemed to shake his very soul.
During this process, if Qin Fang’s consciousness were to lapse for even a single moment, eternal damnation would await him, for the newborn ’True Gang’ would inevitably explode, reverting to True Essence and Divine Sense.
The impact of that explosion would undoubtedly inflict a devastating blow to his body!
Fortunately, Qin Fang’s will was as firm as bedrock; this rhythm couldn’t shake him in the slightest!
Twenty strikes, thirty strikes, forty strikes...
The sound seemed to grow louder and louder, and the fusion of the ’Profound Nether Gang Intent’ and the ’True Gang’ became ever more unified.
But it was like a coiled spring; the closer it got, the more terrifying the accumulated power. The consequences of failure were unimaginable!
’Forty-nine strikes... There are forty-nine in total... I must hold on!’
Qin Fang’s pupils had turned blood-red, and his whole body was trembling. Even for him, the immense impact of the world’s roar was overwhelming!
Forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight...
The final strike was about to fall.
Qin Fang’s will had solidified to its absolute limit.
But just at that moment...
BOOM!!!!
Suddenly, a roar as if to shatter heaven and earth abruptly resounded.
Qin Fang didn’t even have time to figure out what had happened. He only felt a searing heat erupt, surging as if to incinerate him completely!
At the same time, a tremendous force crashed into him. He felt his own body being sent flying?!
’What?!’
Even though Qin Fang had long been mentally prepared, resolved not to be shaken even if the heavens fell, at this moment, he couldn’t help but feel a trace of horror well up in his heart.
But it was precisely this trace of horror that caused the ’True Essence seed,’ which had been on the verge of complete silence, to suddenly fluctuate violently!
Blood welled in Qin Fang’s eyes.
"SUCCEED, DAMN IT!!!!"
He had no time to see what was happening around him. With a roar, he focused his entire will into a single point.
’If I don’t Condense the Gang, I will die!’
The forty-ninth strike...
...fell!