Chu Tian heard Xiao Hei's call and looked up at him.
"Hold on a bit longer, we're almost there, only about ten thousand meters left!
Be careful to slow down, there's no cushioning below.
Don't fall and die, you brat!"
Chu Tian made a small joke.
He refocused his attention on the fellow who looked exactly like him.
*Swish...*
Finally, Chu Tian felt his claws detach from the rock wall.
He had entered this underground world.
The opening was a thousand meters above the ground.
However, Chu Tian paid it no mind.
A distance of only a thousand meters to the ground wouldn't injure him.
*Bang...*
With a dull thud, Chu Tian's body hit the ground.
A slight stinging sensation spread from his legs.
The ground was too hard.
His feet touched down, and not even a speck of dust flew up.
It was as if he had landed on steel.
*Swish...*
Just as Chu Tian landed.
Another sound came from above his head.
He knew it was Xiao Hei who had also rushed out of the cave.
Even his sturdy body felt a sting.
He was worried something might happen to Xiao Hei.
His gaze fixed on the guy standing not far from him.
With hands held up as if supporting the sky, he sent a lifting force upwards.
The target was Xiao Hei, who was still falling and accelerating.
Flying was not permitted here, and Xiao Hei was in freefall.
The guy Chu Tian was wary of did not interrupt him.
After Xiao Hei landed safely, he looked around with a dazed expression.
Finally, his gaze locked onto the distant, dark cave.
"Boss!"
Although Chu Tian wasn't looking at Xiao Hei, he understood his intent.
"Go, be careful!"
"Okay!"
Xiao Hei responded, taking a slow step forward.
But his body still stumbled, nearly falling.
The gravity here was completely different from the outside.
Chu Tian estimated it to be at least a hundred times that of Blue Star.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have accelerated so quickly after rushing out of the cave.
If it were Blue Star's gravitational acceleration, he wouldn't have felt any stinging upon landing.
Xiao Hei adapted to the discomfort in his body.
He walked step by step towards the dark cave.
"Roar... Senior, you've arrived!"
Just as Xiao Hei reached the entrance of the cave.
A roar came from within.
And it also addressed him as "Senior"...
Immediately after, a powerful aura emerged.
It had the same origin as Xiao Hei's, and its seven-colored light shimmered.
Illuminating the inside of the cave brightly.
Xiao Hei paused.
Chu Tian's attention was also drawn.
"Come in, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
The voice was incredibly ancient and sounded somewhat weak.
But for the other party to call Xiao Hei a senior, how could that be explained?
Xiao Hei hesitated for a moment before stepping forward.
His body slowly disappeared into the cave.
The seven-colored light gradually faded with his steps.
Chu Tian knew this was Xiao Hei's opportunity, and he could only face it himself.
Whether it was fortune or misfortune depended on his destiny.
As for what his mother wanted him to retrieve, it was the guy in front of him who looked exactly like him.
Upon arriving here, Chu Tian had observed him for a long time.
The other party had not spoken a word.
But Chu Tian finally understood what he was.
He was formed from a condensed energy body.
Not a true physical form.
However, that energy was vast and powerful.
Extremely terrifying.
"You are..." Chu Tian uttered two words.
The other party directly interrupted him.
"I am, the manifestation of your dantian!"
As he spoke, Chu Tian had an epiphany.
Indeed, his leaky dantian was because he lacked a true dantian.
Without a dantian, he couldn't gather energy.
He couldn't fight others for extended periods.
So, his mother had extracted his dantian back then.
What exactly was his dantian?
He remembered his mother saying that he possessed a peculiar physique.
If discovered, it would bring him disaster.
Then this peculiarity must be the fellow in front of him.
However, this fellow was indeed quite peculiar.
A dantian separated from its original body could actually manifest a form.
"Then us?" Chu Tian asked tentatively.
Because he sensed a hostile intent from the other party.
He knew that taking it back would not be a simple matter.
"I am me? When my mother separated me from your body, I gained independent consciousness!
Now I am an independent individual.
You want to take me back and erase my consciousness; that is absolutely impossible!
How about you let me control your physical body instead!"
The fellow spoke with strong conviction.
He outright rejected Chu Tian's idea.
His first half-sentence even denied Chu Tian's right to speak.
Indeed, he had gained independent consciousness.
Chu Tian wasn't insistent on taking him back either.
Moreover, when he obtained the Pangu Body Tempering Technique.
That technique could open vortexes within the body.
The function of these vortexes was similar to a dantian.
Furthermore, Chu Tian discovered.
The most powerful aspect of this technique was that anyone could cultivate it, including ordinary people.
As long as there was immense spiritual energy and power.
Even ordinary people could open vortexes and cultivate this technique.
It was a true body-tempering art.
It did not require any specific aptitude.
However, Chu Tian preferred direct confrontation, that feeling of flesh meeting flesh.
Soft, spell-based attacks didn't please him as much.
But...
The fellow's last sentence made Chu Tian laugh.
He had experienced a heart demon before.
That fellow wanted to possess his physical body.
To take the leading position.
And this spiritual entity formed from his dantian.
Actually had the same idea.
"You're dreaming! I'm already letting you off the hook, and you want to get on top of Third Master Chu?"
Chu Tian immediately cursed.
"But I want to leave here!" The fellow was stunned by Chu Tian's curse and said something inexplicable.
"Then leave!"
Chu Tian had lost interest in him and began scanning the surroundings to inspect the place.
"Only by merging with you can I leave!" The fellow, seeing Chu Tian ignore him, narrowed his eyes and said.
"What's it to me?" Chu Tian was truly losing interest.
He felt like he had come here for nothing.
As he scanned his surroundings, preparing to find some treasures.
"I want to merge with you, and I want to control the will of the physical body!"
Seeing Chu Tian ignore him, the fellow's aura surged.
A nine-story pagoda slowly appeared behind him.
"Oh... you want to force it, huh?
Have you never been beaten by society?
Today, your Third Master Chu will teach you how to behave!"
Chu Tian felt the surging aura of the other party.
The aura was grand and vast, making him glance sideways and size up the fellow.
At the same time, his mouth didn't stop.
As he spoke, his hands were already in motion.
His foot flickered, and he instantly appeared before the fellow.
His palm flickered, as if disappearing from space.
*Slap...*
A crisp sound echoed within the space.
Only then did Chu Tian's palm reappear.
And the manifestation of his dantian, Chu Tian, touched his face in utter confusion.
"Ouch... quite resilient!"
Chu Tian's palm strikes were swift and accurate.
Even this powerful spiritual entity formed from the dantian couldn't dodge.
What made Chu Tian's eyes move was that with this slap,
He had used fifty percent of his strength, and the other party only slightly tilted his head.