Chapter 43: Breaking Through the Second Layer

  Inside the emergency room, Chen Peng's heart had stopped beating. After the doctor declared him dead, the nurses covered his entire body with a white cloth. They were preparing to notify his relatives to handle the aftermath when no one in the quiet emergency room knew that Chen Peng's body was undergoing strange changes. His muscles were constantly expanding and contracting, and his skin was bright red all over, but there was not a single breath sound. If someone had lifted the white cloth at this time, it would have been a shock if they hadn't died of fright. In fact, this was a sign that Chen Peng was about to break through. When he killed the cruel Lao San and Mu Rong Dian, he couldn't control the power of his heart demon. He tried to control his own heart, but ultimately couldn't overcome it, and in order to prevent its further deterioration, he had no choice but to self-mutilate. This allowed him to avoid being controlled by the heart demon, and also because of this, his meridians had a new breakthrough, bringing his cultivation to the neck bottle stage. At this time, stopping breathing was just an illusion, and ordinary people would absolutely not be able to detect it. That's why the doctor thought he was already dead.

  In the space of consciousness, Chen Pengpeng's body was covered in cold sweat. He sat with his eyes tightly closed, his body swaying back and forth as two energies clashed within him. One energy was a golden light, while the other was purple. Initially, the purple energy chased after the golden energy, trying to devour it, but it couldn't overcome the golden energy no matter how hard it tried. The golden energy resisted stubbornly, like an unyielding cockroach.

  Slowly, the golden energy stopped evading the purple energy's pursuit and instead became proactive. After a series of collisions, the purple energy weakened significantly, and after repeated clashes, it was thoroughly defeated. It now resembled a defeated soldier, fleeing in all directions, but the golden energy wouldn't let it escape. In an instant, the golden light flashed everywhere, surrounding the purple energy, and eventually engulfing it completely.

  Not long after, the golden energy entered Chen Pengpeng's brow, making him feel extremely uncomfortable. His eyebrows furrowed, and sweat poured down his face. Slowly, his entire body began to glow like a burning fire, with white mist emanating from his skin. Finally, his body emitted a brilliant golden light that enveloped him completely, and he found himself floating in mid-air.

  At this moment, a small, golden figure appeared in his mind's eye, facing him directly. Upon closer inspection, one would notice that this small figure bore an uncanny resemblance to Chen Pengpeng. This was the embryo formed by the golden energy devouring the purple energy. Unlike other cultivators with embryos, this one was unique.

  Strangely, the golden figure split into two, then four, and continued dividing until it became nine identical golden bodies that stopped only when they surrounded Chen Pengpeng like a string of pearls. Suddenly, these nine golden bodies began to rotate wildly, their speed increasing from slow to fast, until they became almost invisible, leaving behind only a glowing golden circle.

  This circle gradually shrank, eventually settling on Chen Pengpeng's chest.

  "Rumble! Rumble!"

  "Ah!"

  Chen Pengpeng opened his eyes in the meditation space, and a fish leaped into the air, letting out a loud shout. His hands swung forward, releasing a thunderous explosion that shook heaven and earth. The entire meditation space was filled with a howling wind, waves surging forward, as wave after wave of energy spread outward. Indeed, this was the second layer of the ancient divine technique "Crazy Pride Under Heaven" - "Wild Whistle to the Four Seas"! Chen Pengpeng, who had just broken through, could clearly feel his own yuan infant, and he could also sense that his divine consciousness could probe into every move within hundreds of miles around him. When he discovered that his body was covered with a white cloth, he felt particularly depressed. When he saw Huang Qincheng lying unconscious in the hospital room next door, while Huang Dawei and Wang Shu were anxiously waiting beside him, he immediately withdrew his divine consciousness, closed his eyes, and exited the meditation space.

  Back in the emergency room of the hospital, Chen Peng, who was originally covered in scars, suddenly found his body automatically healing. His skin shed like a snake's dead skin, revealing fresh and tender new skin underneath. The shed skin instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared. Gradually, Chen Peng looked like a newborn baby, with an even more handsome appearance than before. If the nurses beside him lifted the white cloth covering his body, they would definitely be enchanted by this stunningly handsome Chen Peng.

  In another ward, Huang Qingcheng also reacted. Her hand moved slightly, and then she slowly opened her tearful eyes that were a little sore from crying.

  "Are you awake, Qing Cheng?"

  "Is everything all right in your town?"

  Huang Dawei and Wang Shu asked with concern.

  "Dad, what's wrong with me?"

  Huang Qingcheng rubbed his aching forehead and asked vaguely.

  "You just fainted in the hospital and scared your old man to death!"

  Huang Dawei looked at his daughter with some blame.

  "Hospital? No! Zhenpeng, you won't be in trouble, you won't be in trouble! I don't believe this is true!"

  When Huang Qingshan heard her old man say to the hospital, she suddenly thought of something and shook her head loudly. She was still pulling out the needle stuck in her hand, and Huang Dawei and Wang Shu hurried to stop her. But they couldn't stop Huang Qingshan, and she jumped down from the bed with bare feet, wearing a patient's clothes, rushing towards Chen Pengpeng's emergency room, with Huang Dawei and Wang Shu following closely behind.

  "Brother, you absolutely can't have anything happen to you, you absolutely can't have anything happen to you, waaahhh."

  Huang Qingcheng ran while muttering to herself nonstop. The patients and nurses by the road looked at this girl wearing a patient's clothes with bare feet with strange eyes, none of them knew why she was so tense. They all put down what they were doing and stared blankly at her, perhaps it was her appearance that surprised them, or perhaps they wanted to know what made her so flustered.

  Bang!

  Huang Qingshan forcefully pushed open the door to the emergency room where Chen Pengpeng was, and the nurses waiting outside for instructions looked at her in surprise. But more than that, they felt sympathy, probably thinking she was a family member of the deceased. No one stopped her as she walked towards the bed where Chen Pengpeng lay under a white sheet. Huang Dawei and Wang Shu followed closely behind her, but when Wang Shu tried to grab Huang Qingshan's arm, Huang Dawei held him back, shaking his head. Wang Shu understood the hint and stopped in his tracks, letting Huang Qingshan go.

  "Zhenpeng, wake up! Wake up for me! Wuuu"

  Huang Qingsheng shook Chen Pengpeng's body hard, burying his head in his chest and crying nonstop.

  Huang Dawei and Wang Shu saw her painful and heartbroken appearance, their eyes suddenly became red and swollen too, but they didn't go to disturb her movements. The nurses and doctors beside them also saw this touching scene and sympathetically sighed, some nurses directly turned their faces away to wipe away the tears that were moved to flow out, and for a long time the whole emergency room was filled with a sorrowful atmosphere.

  "Alright, stop grieving, he's already dead! We should go inform his family."

  Huang Dawei reached out and gently grasped his daughter's hand, speaking softly.

  "No, he's fine! He's not dead!"

  Huang Qincheng shook off Huang Dawei's hand and continued to hold Chen Pengpeng's body, shouting loudly.

  Huang Dawei saw his daughter was too heartbroken, and he felt a sharp pain in his heart. He couldn't bear to see her so sad anymore, so he gave a signal to the doctors and nurses beside him. The medical staff immediately came forward and held down Huang Qingcheng, who was quietly lying on Chen Pengpeng's body.

  "No! Oh no, waaah, he's not dead, he's not dead! Waaah."

  Huang Qingshan struggled to hold onto her doctor and nurses, trying to break free from them. Just as the nurses were about to push Chen Pengpeng's bed out, a sudden noise came from the bed. The nurses who were about to push the cart heard this unusual sound and felt a chill in their hearts, hastily retreating to one side. Huang Qingshan stopped crying, her eyes fixed on Chen Pengpeng's bed, while Huang Dawei and Wang Shu also reacted similarly. The doctor found it strange, released Huang Qingshan's hand, and slowly walked towards Chen Pengpeng's bed.

  "Ah oh!"

  A low, mournful sound came from the mouth of Chen Pengpeng, who was covered with a white cloth. The doctor, who had intended to lift the cloth to take a look, heard the sound and quickly withdrew his hands. The nurse beside him let out a loud shriek. Huang Dawei and Wang Shu were also filled with doubt, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on Chen Pengpeng lying in bed.

  "Ah, it hurts so much!"

  Chen Pengpeng suddenly sat up from the hospital bed and said. Because the doctor was closest to him, seeing Chen Pengpeng suddenly get up like this, he was so scared that he fell straight to the ground. Whoever saw this scene would be frightened, obviously a dead person, but suddenly came back to life, how could they not be afraid? If there were patients with heart disease here, they would probably have been scared to death.

  "Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! There's a ghost!"

  The nurses beside him saw this and let out a loud shriek! The nurses all ran out of the emergency room screaming.

  "You're the ghosts! Your whole family is!"

  Chen Pengpeng had just gotten out of bed, wanting to stretch his waist, but due to the sudden breakthrough, his bones ached for a moment. However, what he didn't expect was that the nurses beside him thought he was a ghost, which made him angry. He hadn't died yet, and someone was already cursing him. Who wouldn't be angry after hearing this? Chen Pengpeng wasn't an exception either.

  "Are you...are you human or ghost?"

  The doctor sat on the ground with a trembling hand pointing at Chen Peng.

  "You're crazy! Your whole family is! I'm living a good life, why should I die? Are you sick or something?"

  Chen Pengpeng glared at the doctor who was sitting on the ground with a bad temper. At this time, Huang Qingshan's eyes were fixed in place as if they had been cast under a spell. She wasn't afraid, but rather deeply lost in Chen Pengpeng's handsome face, staring blankly at the handsome young man. Huang Dawei and Wang Shu's eyes widened to the extreme, their mouths also opening wide in unison, they couldn't understand what was happening, this was truly unbelievable.