txolops Chapter 100 Body Refining Techniques! Body Tempering Pills!
Chapter 100 Body Refining Techniques! Body Tempering Pills!
He took a deep breath and carefully stored the three spirit stones in the deepest part of his storage bag.
Finally, he took out the jade slip and immersed his consciousness into it.
The name of the cultivation technique is "Indestructible Golden Body"!
The very first line is a sixteen-character summary, written with bold and elegant strokes:
Refine the skin to be like leather, refine the bones to be like steel, refine the blood to be like mercury, refine the spirit to be like gold.
This is a pure, complete body-refining technique that directly points to the origin of the Great Dao!
Lin Chuan quickly read through it, his heart filled with indescribable shock.
This practice is divided into seven levels, progressing from the outside in. It begins with the tempering of the physical body, gradually penetrating the blood, bone marrow, and internal organs, ultimately building upon the "indestructible golden body" as its foundation. The physical body carries the Great Dao, and one experiences the Dao through physical practice.
The cultivation method even mentions that if one cultivates to the fifth level, one can withstand magical treasures with just the strength of one's physical body; if one can cultivate to the seventh level of perfection, it is said that one can reach the terrifying realm of limb regeneration.
Of course, while the cultivation method is wonderful, the conditions required for its cultivation are extremely demanding—it not only requires a massive amount of body-tempering elixirs, demon beast blood essence, and even various rare and precious materials, but also an extremely large investment of time.
Lin Chuan closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.
His main cultivation technique, the Azure Origin Sword Art, has not yet been fully mastered; forming the Golden Core is his most pressing goal.
If one were to be distracted by cultivating the body at this time, it would not only severely slow down the process of forming the core, but it might even lead to slow progress on both sides due to the simultaneous cultivation of the body and the method, resulting in more harm than good.
"This cultivation method... after one has formed the core and one's lifespan has increased to five hundred years, it is the right way to calmly comprehend it and progress step by step."
Lin Chuan opened his eyes and made a decision.
He is not one to bite off more than he can chew. While "The Indestructible Golden Body" is certainly valuable, for him at this moment, it is icing on the cake rather than a lifeline.
Put away the jade slip.
His gaze finally settled on the skeleton's right hand, which was still in a hand seal position.
Between those withered finger bones, a silver fork, about three feet long, entirely white, with three prongs at the tip and a blade that gleamed coldly, was clearly held.
There was no leakage of spiritual energy from this long fork, but the moment Lin Chuan touched it with his divine sense, he could clearly sense that it was definitely not a magic weapon!
Magical artifacts require cultivators to activate them with their magical power to unleash their power, but this long fork, with its material, its patterns, and its extremely restrained sharpness, is clearly a treasure of the magical artifact level!
and……
Lin Chuan reached out and gently grasped the fork handle.
To his surprise, the long fork showed no resistance whatsoever, like an old servant who had been sleeping for thousands of years, quietly and obediently falling into his palm.
"It can be activated without refining..."
A glint of light flashed in Lin Chuan's eyes.
It's an antique!
Ancient treasures are, in essence, also magical artifacts.
However, unlike the magical artifacts of the current cultivation world, the methods and techniques used by ancient cultivators to refine magical artifacts were quite different from those of people today.
When modern people refine magical artifacts, they are connected to their own life force and need to use their own essence and blood, as well as the fire of the elixir, to nurture and refine them over a long period of time in order to make them as easy to use as an arm or finger.
Ancient cultivators' magical treasures are more like independent treasures that form their own system. Once others obtain them, they do not need a complicated refining process. They can unleash 70-80% or even all of their power simply by activating them with their magic power!
Of course, the method of crafting ancient treasures has long been lost, and very few remain in existence; each one is extremely rare and hard to come by.
The silver fork in front of us is very likely a perfectly intact, unclaimed, and immediately usable ancient artifact!
"If I can successfully form my core... I will immediately have a suitable offensive magic weapon!"
Lin Chuan suppressed his excitement and carefully put away the silver fork.
He surveyed the stone chamber once more, making sure nothing was missing. Then, he solemnly bowed before the ancient skeleton on the lotus platform.
"The legacy of our predecessors will be forever remembered by us."
After the ceremony, Lin Chuan left the stone chamber and restored the stone door to its half-closed state, then reburied the entrance to the passage with gravel.
He didn't go far.
Near Wushan Mountain, they found a remote valley that was even more desolate than the one they had come from, a place rarely visited even by wild animals.
Using a magical artifact, Lin Chuan carved out a tiny cave in the mountainside, large enough for one person to sit cross-legged. After setting up a simple concealment barrier, he sat down cross-legged.
He was in no hurry to leave.
He still didn't know the specific effects of those three bottles of pills. He would never take them rashly before figuring out their function—even though the divination had clearly indicated that this trip was "very auspicious."
To be on the safe side, we should wait another day and use the divination to determine the outcome.
The next morning, the golden light arrived as expected.
Today's divination result: Very auspicious.
Cola Novels: This is where dreams begin, and where dreams come true.
[The divination text reads: Today, you will take one pill from the jade bottle containing seven pills and consume it. You will find that this pill significantly helps to improve your magical power and accelerate your cultivation. Its medicinal properties are mild and have no side effects.]
"This bottle contains harmless cultivation aid pills." Lin Chuan was relieved.
He did not take it immediately, but instead took out two other bottles containing only one pill each and tested them one by one.
The next day.
Today's divination: Extremely inauspicious!
[The divination reads: Today, you took that pale golden pill, and your entire body felt as if it had been tempered by lightning and fire. You died in excruciating pain...]
Day three.
[Today’s hexagram: Zhongji]
[The divination text reads: Today, after you consumed that pale blue pill, a cool energy coursed through your limbs and bones, and faint gray impurities were expelled from your pores. Although the process was slightly painful, it was not dangerous; on the contrary, you felt refreshed and invigorated… This pill also has the effect of cleansing the marrow and rejuvenating the body for ordinary cultivators!]
"Two bottles of Body Tempering Pills!"
Lin Chuan understood.
The bottle containing seven pills is a cultivation pill for enhancing magical power; the other two bottles of solitary pills are sacred medicines for tempering the physical body.
However, I cannot take the golden one in my current physical condition.
Forcing someone to take it will only result in them bursting into death.
He carefully divided and labeled the three bottles of pills, and put them away properly.
……
In the following days, Lin Chuan did not rush to return to Yue.
He then headed to the Tianxing Sect Market in Yuanwu Kingdom—a large market established by a sect famous for its array formations.
A year and a half later, he needs to meet up with Han Li at the teleportation array.
He planned to begin collecting the many rare materials needed to repair the teleportation array ahead of time.
The Tianxing Sect Market is famous for its array materials. It has everything you need, including array plates, array flags, array bases, rune engraving knives, spirit ink of various attributes, blank inheritance jade slips, and all kinds of auxiliary materials needed to repair array patterns.
Under the guise of an anonymous independent cultivator, Lin Chuan purchased a batch of general-purpose materials for repairing formations from seven or eight different shops.
He didn't buy those overly rare and conspicuous top-tier array materials, but only prepared some conventional items that "even if people knew, they wouldn't guess that they were for repairing the ancient teleportation array."
Several days later, Lin Chuan left Yuanwu Kingdom and quietly returned to Yue Kingdom, flying towards his cave in the Taiyue Mountains.
Throughout the journey, he continued to hide by day and travel by night, carefully avoiding the patrol teams of the Seven Factions.
More than ten days later, the familiar outline of the Taiyue Mountains finally came into view.
The closer he got to the cave, the clearer and smoother the connection between his consciousness and his avatar, Qu Hun, became.
Previously, due to the great distance, it had become dazed and listless, like the embodiment of a puppet.
He has now regained his ability to act independently and is quietly cultivating the "Blood Refining Divine Light" in the quiet room of his cave.
"Yes, I'm back."
Lin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief and headed towards the mountain where his cave was located after landing.
However, just as he was about to land, at the very moment the first rays of morning sunlight pierced through the clouds...
A sudden burst of golden light appeared before my eyes.
Today's divination result: Minor misfortune.
[The divination text reads: Today at Chenshi (7-9 AM), you rushed back to your cave, only to find a sect leader waiting outside with the sect leader's token...]
Upon meeting, the steward will immediately summon you to the front lines at Jingu Plain to fight the enemy!
"What!" Lin Chuan's expression changed.
Before he could think it through, his divine sense had already detected it—right outside his cave entrance, a powerful aura of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was hovering outside the "Mysterious Armor Array" light barrier, wielding a magical artifact!
It was a middle-aged man with a stern face, dressed in the attire of a deacon from Yellow Maple Valley, holding a scroll of silk that shimmered with golden light, about to activate a communication talisman.
Lin Chuan's figure suddenly froze in mid-air.
The steward also sensed his presence, turned around abruptly, and fixed his gaze on Lin Chuan with lightning speed.
"Who are you? Are you the owner of this cave?"
The deacon's voice was cold and harsh, without the slightest hint of politeness.
"Um!"
Lin Chuan had just responded when the steward unfurled the rolled-up silk and held it high.
On the silk, the sect leader's emblem, imbued with the spiritual pressure of a Core Formation cultivator, radiated an undeniable aura of majesty.
"Disciples of Huangfeng Valley, heed my command!"
"Now that the demonic forces have invaded, in accordance with the sect leader's decree, you are hereby conscripted into the frontline reserve force immediately. No excuses, no delays!"
The deacon stared intently at Lin Chuan, his tone resolute: "You've been conscripted!"