txolops Chapter 299 Second-Tier Body Refinement, Increased Lifespan
Chapter 299 Second-Tier Body Refinement, Increased Lifespan
On the flying boat.
Li Ping scanned the five storage bags in his hand with his divine sense.
After a moment, he shook his head, put down the storage bag, and didn't touch anything inside.
The five storage bags contained only ordinary items, which Li Ping didn't care about at all and had no interest in checking.
a few days later.
The airship traversed several countries and returned to Xiaomeishan.
Li Ping then plunged into the underground spiritual veins and devoted himself to cultivation.
With the continuous consumption of elixirs and the support of the superior third-grade spiritual energy environment within the underground spiritual vein, Li Ping's cultivation speed was astonishing.
In just about two years, he cultivated the Qi Refining part of the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.
At the same time, after obtaining the second-tier body-refining technique, he also began to try to cultivate the body-refining part of this technique.
However, the body refinement part of the cultivation is much more difficult. In fact, he had already pushed his body refinement cultivation to the peak of the first level a long time ago.
What he needs to do now is to raise his body refinement to the second level, which is equivalent to the Qi Refining Foundation Establishment level.
Breaking through to the second stage of body refinement is no easier than refining qi and building a foundation.
Second-tier Body Refinement cultivators are rare in the cultivation world, precisely because there aren't as many spiritual items used to break through to the second tier of Body Refinement as there are for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, and there are also universal Foundation Establishment spiritual items like Foundation Establishment Pills.
Body refinement can only be achieved through one's own talent or by obtaining extremely rare and precious materials.
This was also within Li Ping's expectations.
If body refinement were easier to advance than qi cultivation, and the resources needed for cultivation were easier to find, it wouldn't have declined to its current state.
The cultivation world should be full of body-refining cultivators.
After all, successful body refinement can also increase a cultivator's lifespan, which is no different from qi refinement.
In today's cultivation world, second-tier body refinement cultivators are extremely rare, which is enough to illustrate the difficulty of the path of body refinement.
However, Li Ping's talent in Qi cultivation was not great, but he possessed unparalleled talent in body refinement.
The "Zeshui Health Preservation Technique" endowed him with the ability to quickly heal injuries and restore his body's original essence, with effects comparable to the legendary "immortal body".
With such a physique, he was not worried about getting injured when he was refining his body, and could do grueling work without restraint. Naturally, he did the same when he broke through to the second level of body refinement.
Li Ping stood in the center of the square, his hands, feet and body twisted in a strange posture. He was undergoing a body-refining breakthrough according to the method recorded in the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture".
"Oh!"
"ha!"
"snort!"
……
As Li Ping moved, a sound like muffled thunder spread across the square.
Every now and then, the sounds of flesh tearing apart and bones breaking could be heard. If it were any other body-refining cultivator, they would probably have to stop at this point to repair their body and find the problem with their cultivation before they could continue.
But Li Ping didn't need to. The power of the Nourishing Life Technique circulated throughout his body, repairing all his injuries and allowing him to continue his breakthrough to the bottleneck.
However, despite the miraculous healing effects of the health cultivation technique, Li Ping could not avoid the pain he experienced during his cultivation.
Repeated injuries and repairs... veins bulged on Li Ping's forehead, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his face.
But all of this did not stop him; he continued to break through the bottleneck in body refinement.
Several days have passed.
Suddenly, Li Ping heard a drum-like sound resounding within his body. The sound came from top to bottom, from head to toe, making him dizzy and numb all over.
Second-tier body refinement, breakthrough achieved!
……
Sitting cross-legged in the square, Li Ping was examining the changes in himself after breaking through to the second stage of body refinement.
First is physical strength.
After the experiment, Li Ping was certain that his physical strength had now reached a level comparable to that of a second-tier magic weapon, and his power had also suddenly increased.
He could crush a second-tier magic weapon with his bare hands using only his physical strength.
Of course, his main enemies now are Core Formation cultivators.
Second-tier body refinement is not very useful in battles between Core Formation cultivators.
Unless he can break through to the third level of body refinement, body refinement will not significantly improve his strength for the time being.
In addition to physical strength, it also possesses the ability to change.
Disguise and transformation are abilities inherent to the body-refining techniques of the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture." Li Ping used this ability to create numerous disguises for himself.
Apart from Xiao Yunzhi's spirit beast, the Blazing Sun Bird, no one else has been able to see through his transformation.
After reaching the second stage of body refinement, his ability to transform increased again. He estimated that even if the Blazing Sun Bird were face to face, it would be impossible for it to recognize his disguise.
"That's weird, my head feels itchy. Could it be that my brain is growing?"
Li Ping cast a low-level spell called "Water Mirror Technique" and carefully observed the area between his eyebrows.
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but ever since he broke through to the second level of body refinement, he felt an itch in that area, as if something was about to come out.
However, after observing with both his divine sense and his naked eyes, he did not find any special changes. It seemed that the 'itch' was really just his imagination.
After studying it for a while without finding any problems, Li Ping shook his head and then closed his eyes to sense another change.
That is his lifespan.
A Core Formation cultivator's lifespan is five hundred years; this is the ultimate limit of heaven and earth!
Aside from a few extremely precious elixirs that can slightly extend one's lifespan, it is almost impossible to overcome this limit.
But just now, when I broke through to the second level of body refinement...
Li Ping sensed that his lifespan seemed to have changed.
Cultivators who practice Qi cultivation for longevity will have a certain degree of awareness of their own condition, and the higher their cultivation level, the clearer this awareness will be.
Take the seventh brother, Bai Qing, for example. He had been wandering around as a rogue cultivator since he was a child, but the moment he arrived in the Immortal City and saw the Bai family cultivators, he was able to immediately confirm that Bai Qing was a member of the Bai family through the bloodline connection between them.
For example, Ji Shuchen could vaguely sense his own lifespan and the time of his death, and thus prepared Ji Yizhou to take over the family business in advance.
As a Core Formation cultivator, Li Ping's intuition was even more accurate; he could even sense the year, month, day, and hour of his lifespan's end!
With his eyes closed and his senses focused, he quickly realized that his lifespan had indeed changed.
Based on my senses, his current lifespan is about six hundred years, which is 20% longer than that of a normal Core Formation cultivator, by a hundred years!
A hundred years is equivalent to a human's lifetime!
All of this is due to the breakthrough to the second level of the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture".
Li Ping opened his eyes, a hint of wild joy in them.
At the same time, he was also puzzled by the increase in his lifespan: "Is this something that all body-refining cultivators experience, or is the 'Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture' a special technique?"
"No, body refinement shouldn't have this effect! If the second stage of body refinement could really increase lifespan by so much, then all those Core Formation cultivators would probably want to cultivate body refinement as well." Li Ping quickly made a judgment.
His lifespan increased by a hundred years, which should be due to his successful cultivation of the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture" to refine his body, just like how he gained a kind of immortality-like regenerative ability after cultivating the "Water Nourishing Life Technique".
Increasing lifespan is also a characteristic of this technique.
Thinking of this, Li Ping nodded in satisfaction: "What a wonderful technique!"
The extra hundred years of his lifespan was of great significance to him.
He can perhaps continue to use the "Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique" as his main cultivation method and slowly but surely advance to the Nascent Soul stage.
After all, he is only about 150 years old this year.
Including the lifespan increase from the second-stage body refinement, he still has 450 years to live.
Even if he has the aptitude of three spiritual roots, without any minor realm bottlenecks, such a long time would be enough for him to cultivate to the peak of the Core Formation stage.
not to mention.
If the second stage of body refinement can increase one's cultivation by a hundred years, what about the third stage?
If the third stage of body refinement could extend his lifespan by another one or two hundred years, with such a long period of time, what difficulty would it be for him to cultivate the "Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique" to the peak of the Core Formation stage without taking drugs?
No wonder Li Ping was overjoyed!
The "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" technique is simply too miraculous. After absorbing enough innate spiritual energy, it can ignore minor bottlenecks and even increase the chance of breaking through major bottlenecks by 50%.
For example, the auction he attended at Donghua Mountain before.
A single Condensation Pill, which can increase the probability of a Foundation Establishment cultivator breaking through to Core Formation by 15%, was something that the Foundation Establishment cultivator surnamed Feng was reluctant to part with, and was willing to pay a price far exceeding the market value to obtain.
This is still for those attempting to reach the Core Formation stage, and it only increases the chance by 15%.
A spiritual object that increases the success rate of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage by 50%... Li Ping seriously doubts whether such a spiritual object even exists in this world.
Even if it really exists, its appearance would likely trigger a major war across the entire cultivation world!
It is simply impossible to purchase it with spirit stones or spirit materials.
Unless you can produce those legendary spiritual materials.
Li Ping only needs to cultivate patiently and steadily to naturally reach the peak of Core Formation, and then he will have a 50% success rate in breaking through to Nascent Soul.
Of course, the 50% success rate refers to the process of breaking the elixir into a nascent soul.
The process of forming a Nascent Soul requires enduring the tempering of the heart by heavenly demons and the tempering of the body by heavenly lightning, but that's another matter entirely.
Li Ping had previously planned to abandon the "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" and, after obtaining the second Golden Core secret technique, decided to use the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture" as his main cultivation method.
In fact, it was all because of their poor aptitude. They mainly cultivated the "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" and, without taking medicine to improve their cultivation, their remaining lifespan was not enough to cultivate to the stage of breaking the core and becoming a nascent soul.
But now, the second stage of the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture has added a hundred years to his lifespan, and the third stage of the Body Refinement Scripture may add even more to his lifespan.
He has lived long enough.
Under such circumstances, he can naturally resume using the "Zeshui Health Preservation Technique" as his main cultivation method.
After all, given the choice, he didn't want to end up like the other cultivators.
In order to break through to higher realms, they dared to venture into any dangerous place, including ancient cultivator caves, dark battlefields, and alien territories.
He only wished for a peaceful life, to cultivate himself until he achieved immortality.
As for the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture," he plans to cultivate it to the early stage of Core Formation and then put it down, leaving the cultivation of subsequent realms to fate.
As for the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture," he plans to cultivate it to the early stage of Core Formation and then put it down, leaving the cultivation of subsequent realms to fate.
With his three spiritual roots, there's no hope of him breaking through to a higher realm by practicing normal cultivation methods on his own.
A treasure for breaking through realms.
If he could obtain it by chance, then continuing his cultivation would be fine. But if it required him to risk his life to fight, to snatch, to steal... Li Pingjing declined!
At worst, we can wait until he forms his Nascent Soul using the "Water Nourishing Life Technique" before searching for the corresponding treasures.
The breakthrough treasures that are difficult for Core Formation cultivators to obtain are not too difficult for Nascent Soul cultivators to search for.