Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 386 Lifespan Increases Again, The Wrath of the Corpse King

They sensed unusual activity in the spiritual energy within the cave.

Meng Wanjun woke up from her cultivation and looked in surprise toward Li Ping's training room.

"What is the young master doing?" she couldn't help but wonder silently.

Behind her, the three spirit beasts—a sparrow, a rat, and a snake—all emitted rapid, low cries, seemingly uneasy about the atmosphere emanating from the training room.

Meng Wanjun quickly calmed the three spirit beasts, and under her soothing words, they soon regained their composure.

Only then did she have time to continue observing the activity in the training room: "The spiritual energy fluctuations are more intense than when breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, but much weaker than when breaking through to the Core Formation stage. It's probably because the young master is refining a magic weapon."

Breakthroughs in body refinement primarily involve physical enhancement and have little to do with magical power. Therefore, the demand for spiritual energy is not as exaggerated as when breaking through bottlenecks in qi refinement.

Overall, it's somewhat similar to the breakthroughs of demonic beasts and supernatural beings.

Of course, even if the required spiritual energy is not much, a high-level spiritual vein is still needed to break through in body refinement.

It's not that there's a lack of spiritual energy; rather, it seems like the rules of heaven and earth have placed constraints on humankind.

Just like otherworldly beings and demonic beasts, everyone in the myriad races can cultivate, but among humans, only those with spiritual roots can embark on the path of cultivation.

……

After observing for more than ten days, Meng Wanjun found that the spiritual energy fluctuations remained stable, so she stopped paying attention and went about her own business.

It wasn't until several months later that she suddenly realized that the fluctuations in spiritual energy within the cave had subsided.

"Has the young master successfully crafted his magic weapon?" she couldn't help but wonder.

Inside the training room.

Li Ping sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, but on his forehead, slightly above his brow, a pale golden vertical eye slowly opened, its pupil filled with golden light, appearing both holy and eerie.

The vertical eye blinked slightly, causing ripples to spread through the surrounding space.

He looked directly at the entrance to the training room, and the third-order illusion barrier was full of loopholes and was seen through directly.

brush!

The pupils closed, the skin on both sides healed, and everything returned to normal.

Li Ping opened his eyes and murmured softly, "Insight into all things, destruction of evil and demons, penetration of the void."

These three special effects are the abilities he gained from the "Golden Eye of Illusion" divine power after breaking through to the third level of body refinement. Seeing through all things is the most basic ability, while exorcising evil and slaying demons and penetrating the void are the results of the spiritual materials he collected as resources.

Li Ping was very satisfied with this result.

He finally got the "Exorcising Evil and Slaying Demons" special effect he had been hoping for.

With the Golden Eye of Illusion in hand, he wanted to see which Heavenly Demon would dare to harass him when he formed his Nascent Soul. He would definitely let them know what cruelty was.

As for "piercing through the void," it seems to be a spatial ability, but it is not like a spatial spiritual root cultivator who can directly teleport, nor can it be used to create spiritual talismans such as "Great Teleportation Talisman" or "Small Teleportation Talisman" that can teleport out of thin air.

Although Li Ping hadn't figured out this ability yet, he figured it was always good to have more skills, and he had no reason to dislike it since it was an extra special effect.

I don't know what use it is now, but maybe it will be useful in the future.

After examining the abilities of the Breaking Illusion Golden Eye, Li Ping then sensed other changes that followed the breakthrough.

His primary concern was his lifespan.

After breaking through to the second level of body refinement using the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture", his lifespan increased by 20% out of thin air.

At that time, he guessed that after breaking through to the third level of body refinement, his lifespan might continue to increase.

After silently sensing for a moment, a smile appeared in Li Ping's eyes. He could clearly sense that his lifespan had indeed increased, and by a considerable margin.

The third-stage body refinement increased his lifespan by more than 50% from the original lifespan of a Core Formation cultivator!

In other words, his lifespan has now reached a full 750 years!

Even compared to those Nascent Soul cultivators, it's only two hundred and fifty years less.

The significant increase in his lifespan put Li Ping in a good mood, and the sight of the unusually long health bar in the dark gave him an overwhelming sense of security.

If all goes well in cultivating the "Water Nourishing Life Technique," he expects to form his Nascent Soul at around six hundred years old, which is still plenty of time compared to his lifespan.

Moreover, the lifespan increase brought by the Nine Tribulations True Spirit is not fixed. Fifty percent of the lifespan of Core Formation is 250 years, but after he forms Nascent Soul, the fifty percent lifespan becomes 500 years.

In other words, even without considering the fourth-order body refinement, his lifespan would increase to 1,500 years after he reached the Nascent Soul stage!

"This technique is truly excellent. The predecessor who created this technique was a good person!" Li Ping exclaimed sincerely.

Aside from lifespan, the third-tier body refinement also provides a significant boost to combat power.

The brute force of a third-tier body refinement expert is comparable to that of a dragon of the same tier, while their defense allows them to withstand attacks from ordinary magical artifacts with their bare bodies.

Under these circumstances, Li Ping was finally able to unleash the battle tactics he had been planning for a long time.

Wielding the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, I'll take your life at close range!

Feeling the terrifying brute force within his body, Li Ping wished he could take the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine and go out to hack and slash through a whole street right now.

Feeling the terrifying brute force within his body, Li Ping wished he could take the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine and go out to hack and slash through a whole street right now.

He forced himself to calm down before continuing to examine the other changes.

……

Just as Li Ping was busy studying the changes after the third stage of body refinement.

In a canyon about 30,000 miles from Lingxiao City, a tall figure dressed in a black dragon robe stood on the edge of the canyon wall, his pale right hand holding the head of a black-robed cultivator.

A cold, emerald-green flame burst forth from his palm, enveloping the black-robed cultivator's head and continuously drilling into his body through his seven orifices.

The black-robed cultivator's face showed signs of intense struggle, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead, and his body trembled from time to time.

a long time.

The tall figure slowly withdrew his hand, allowing the black-robed cultivator's body to fall. However, entwined with eerie green flames, before he could even land, he silently turned into ashes and vanished.

Yan Longpao's tall figure turned around, revealing a bloodless face, with a hint of anger faintly visible in his blood-red eyes.

"You villain, you stole my life-bound corpse pearl while I was away!" The tall figure glanced at the black-robed cultivator who had turned to ashes and spoke slowly, his voice slightly stiff.

As the master of Beiman Mountain, the renowned fourth-tier corpse king, "Blood Wheel King".

Normally, he would never let his natal corpse bead leave his body, but not long ago, he was practicing a secret technique and reached a critical moment, and he was worried that someone would take the opportunity to deal with him.

So he deliberately hid his natal corpse bead in the ancient tomb where he woke up.

But who would have thought that when he successfully cultivated the secret technique without any major incident and went to retrieve his natal corpse pearl, he discovered that someone had dug into the ancient tomb and taken it away.

In a fit of rage, he immediately followed the scent left behind by the other party.

After searching the soul, they learned from the man's memories that his own natal corpse bead had already been sold.

"The Three Elders of Lingxiao!"

Blood Wheel King looked up at the direction of Lingxiao City, a look of apprehension in his eyes.

He pondered silently, "Fortunately, my natal corpse bead is hidden inside that special magical artifact, and no one but myself can retrieve it."