bookrebus Chapter 778: The True Invincible Body Cultivation! Dual Cultivation of Taoism and Body!
Chapter 778: The True Invincible Body Cultivation! Dual Cultivation of Taoism and Body!
The art of body training has existed since ancient times.
Even if we trace back history, we will find that the development of body refining is actually much earlier than the current cultivation system. At that time, when the world was just created, although the spiritual energy in the world was abundant, there were very few people who really learned to absorb the spiritual energy and use it to practice. More people wanted to become stronger, and most of them could only rely on constantly tempering their bodies, and using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish their spiritual medicines and treasures to make their bodies stronger and comparable to evil beasts and demons.
At that time, practitioners of body cultivation were called body cultivators, while the few who used spiritual energy for cultivation were called Qi cultivators.
but.
As time went by, more and more methods for utilizing spiritual energy were discovered. The stages and methods of cultivation, including Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spiritual Transformation, and even Void Refining and Mahayana, were constantly refined. Physical cultivation gradually became rarer, until it was almost completely extinct today.
Some people say this is the survival of the fittest.
This statement may be biased, but we have to admit that the physical cultivation lineage is often inferior to the Qi training lineage.
Don’t say anything else.
Take the cultivators of the Qi Refining lineage, for example. They can borrow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, control flying swords and magic weapons, fly in the air with the help of spiritual energy, and even transform into a Nascent Soul to escape. They can search souls and seize bodies to be reborn. When they reach the realm of Refining Void, they can create their own domain and comprehensively suppress the enemy.
In contrast, physical cultivation does not have as many methods.
Physical cultivation cultivates oneself and relies on oneself. It does not use spiritual energy, does not have any flying swords or magic weapons, does not have any Nascent Soul to escape from trouble, does not have any soul-searching and body-snatching techniques, and does not have any domain.
Even flying, which is the simplest thing for a monk.
For most physical cultivators, flying is a luxury before they can truly break through the sky with martial arts and reach the realm of Martial Emperor.
Coupled with the extremely difficult training, the physical cultivation lineage was completely weakened.
but……
This doesn’t mean that physical cultivation isn’t attractive.
Just these two points in the current records about physical cultivation are enough to make people excited.
First, it is rumored that when a physical cultivator becomes powerful enough, his body will be comparable to a divine weapon, and even immortal energy will not be able to harm him in the slightest.
The second and most important point.
Physical cultivation can break through the limit of a cultivator's lifespan of ten thousand years!
A cultivator's lifespan can be extended to ten thousand years at most. Even if he is a supreme being or an immortal, as long as he has never stepped into the immortal gate and has no special means, according to common sense, ten thousand years is the limit. This is the extreme lifespan of cultivators in this world. Some people speculate that this is related to spiritual energy and is a limitation of heaven.
But there is no such restriction for physical cultivation.
It is said that a powerful physical cultivator can live for more than ten thousand years, or even one hundred thousand years!
Because they rely on themselves, and they themselves are the real treasure.
And it is precisely because of this that, although the physical cultivation lineage has weakened and even the cultivation techniques have become extremely rare, most cultivators, especially the stronger ones, focus more on body training and strengthening their physical strength. Some do so purely to make up for their physical shortcomings, while others hope to break through the ten thousand year limit.
Just a pity.
Countless cultivators ended up with nothing. The most they could do was to make their bodies stronger, and becoming comparable to earth-grade magic weapons was already the limit. As for breaking through their lifespan, it also became a dream.
This is also normal.
When a road is extremely dangerous, and even if people keep going deeper and deeper into it but see no hope in the end, when there is a simpler and obviously easier road next to it, then the original road will naturally become a dead end that no one has ever set foot on, or even completely closed.
Gu Xiu didn’t know much about physical cultivation before, and his main purpose in physical cultivation was to make up for his shortcomings.
but……
This time, the Wanyuan Body Tempering Book allowed Gu Xiu to see a completely new, almost subversive system.
The path of physical cultivation!
According to the introduction in Gu Xiu's Wanyuan Body Tempering Fragment, it can be seen that the truly powerful body cultivators are actually not weaker than today's practitioners.
They really couldn't borrow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but in this world, the spiritual energy was thick in some places and thin in others. There were even dangerous places sealed by the spiritual energy, making it impossible for people to borrow it.
But physical cultivators are not afraid.
The source of their strength comes from themselves. No matter how dangerous the environment is, they can adapt better than monks.
As for physical cultivators, they are unable to control magic weapons.
This is the truth.
However, for a truly powerful physical cultivator, his physical body can rival that of a magic weapon, and he will not be afraid of being killed by any magic weapon or spell. If he can reach the realm of Martial Emperor, even a heavenly magic weapon will not be able to hurt him in the slightest!
As for flying.
It is true that physical cultivators cannot fly, but in fact, physical cultivators who have achieved real success can burst out at speeds even faster than a top-grade flying sword. With a single easy leap, they can even catch up with the escape techniques of all other cultivators. Moreover, if they can truly break through the realm of the Martial Emperor, they can also walk in the air, break through the limitations of boundaries, and travel across boundaries.
As for the Nascent Soul's escape? Soul-searching and possession? Refining the Void Realm?
The greatest function of the Nascent Soul seems to be the magical power of the Five Divine Officials, but for most practitioners, the Nascent Soul can be used to escape when encountering danger.
But a strong body cultivator can break all methods with one punch, so there is no need to escape!
As for searching the soul and taking over the body.
This places extremely high demands on the soul, and every breakthrough and every increase in strength of a physical cultivator is achieved through endless suffering. The strength of their will and the stability of their soul far surpass those of a Qi-refining cultivator. Using the soul-searching and body-snatching technique on a true physical cultivator is more likely to result in backlash.
As for the realm of refining emptiness?
Sorry, physical cultivators at the same level are not afraid of any so-called fields!
These things were actually occasionally recorded in some ancient classics, but the explanations were not in depth. After Gu Xiu finished reading the entire Wanyuan Body Tempering Fragment, he felt his breathing become a little rapid.
Physical cultivation.
It is a completely different path, but it is no weaker than the Qi Refining path.
Even further back.
Even more terrifying than traditional Qigong practitioners.
Of course, Wanyuan Body Tempering only briefly explained all of this without going into too much detail. Instead, it focused more on explaining a unique method of cultivation.
The same as the currently known source technique.
This Wanyuan Body Tempering is actually also a source technique for cultivation.
They also feel that everything has its source, and the source is the cornerstone of everything that builds this world.
the difference is.
The current mainstream source technique mainly utilizes the special substance of source to achieve stronger effects and have more powerful means when fighting against the enemy.
But there is only one thing to pay attention to when it comes to Wanyuan body training.
Eat the source!
Or……
Fusion of all sources!
According to the Wanyuan Body Tempering, since the source is the essence of heaven and earth, if you swallow this heaven and earth, you can replace this heaven and earth and even surpass this heaven and earth!
to be frank.
This is almost similar to some evil doctrines.
But this is indeed a path, to absorb all sources, integrate them into oneself, and create one's own inner treasure house. What one controls is no longer the spiritual energy of heaven and earth bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, but to transform oneself into an absolute power that is on par with the Heavenly Dao, or even fearless of the Heavenly Dao.
but.
This road is not easy.
The path of Wanyuan body training requires starting from the skin, flesh, tendons and bones, followed by refining the marrow and internal organs, and even more so, refining the meridians and one's own origin, before one has the opportunity to touch the ultimate realm of the Martial Emperor.
It seems like that.
But you have to know that every time you practice body refining, it is truly extremely painful, and you are constantly strengthening yourself in destruction and rebirth. Gu Xiu once experienced the body refining of the Eight Extreme Treasures, and that scale of pain will be experienced again in every practice.
This is just one of the difficulties.
The second difficulty is that although the Wanyuan Body Tempering focuses on absorbing and integrating all the sources, it does not mean that it is not picky about any source. On the contrary, there are extremely strict restrictions on the practice of Wanyuan Body Tempering. For example, two natural treasures may be the same size, but the purity and density of the sources contained in them are different.
The more it meets the requirements, the harder it is to find, and the more precious it is.
For Qi-refining cultivators, any of these rare treasures can be of great use and can be used to forge magical weapons or even cast a Taoist platform. However, for body-refining cultivators, they may just be the consumption required for an ordinary practice.
At least Gu Xiu suddenly discovered it after looking around.
The saying that the poor are good at literature and the rich are good at martial arts seems to... not be without reason.
In addition, Wanyuan possesses various attributes and powers. Each fusion not only requires tempering one's own body, but also one's own body will continue to reject these powers. In the end, it will end up like Gu Xiu before. Even if one can grit his teeth and endure the hardship, he will still gain nothing.
Fortunately.
Gu Xiu read the whole thing. Although the fragment only reached the fifth level of skin, flesh, tendons and bone marrow, he found that he seemed to have hit the mark by accident and had taken the right path.
and……
Gu Xiu couldn't help but take a look at the wordless ancient book.
When he first obtained the wordless ancient book, it transformed into an ancient book butterfly, helping Gu Xiu widen his meridians, strengthen his body, and even transform his bones into supreme Taoist bones.
This is actually the direction that Wanyuan Body Refining needs to achieve.
It was just because he didn't have the relevant skills of Wanyuan Body Tempering, so these powers actually only existed passively in Gu Xiu's body and could not be truly tapped out. The only time was when Gu Xiu was fusing the Tianxin Ice Lotus and the Burning Love Fire, and he accidentally tapped out the power contained therein.
But that time.
In fact, it can only be regarded as an outsider forcibly squeezing and forcibly merging the two forces.
To put it bluntly, we have only achieved the form but not the meaning.
It doesn't actually penetrate the bone.
Actually.
According to Wanyuan's explanation on body building, he is still stuck at the bone level and has not been able to complete it completely and has not been able to fully build his supreme Taoist bones.
Especially after that, he encountered Lei Lingfeng and absorbed some of the power of thunder.
According to his thoughts at the time, those powers could also be used to refine the body.
The idea is actually correct.
But the fact is, the thunder power that Lei Lingfeng summoned at the beginning did not meet the requirements of Wanyuan Body Tempering. To put it bluntly, the source of it was not pure enough.
Unfortunately, Gu Xiu did not have the Wanyuan Body Tempering Technique, and was unable to refine the source within him to purity, so it accumulated in his body instead.
Every battle he experienced thereafter absorbed some impurities into his body, to a greater or lesser extent.
This is also true.
Gu Xiu’s physical body will reach a bottleneck and cannot be tempered to become stronger again!
This is the real disease!
And now...
After understanding his own illness and having the Myriad Sources Body Tempering Technique, Gu Xiu even possessed the Origin Observation Technique...
what does this mean?
this means.
Next, Gu Xiu can practice both Taoism and physical cultivation!
And the Purple Sky Divine Thunder Wood, one of the Eight Supreme Treasures that he had not absorbed, could now be completely regarded as the peerless divine treasure to perfect his supreme Dao Bone!
He glanced at the numerous restrictions in the Zuiwen Building and the righteous spirit that blocked his way.
Gu Xiu muttered to himself:
"The opening of the Canglong Secret Realm requires the completion of the academy assessment, which will take some time."
"Then during this time."
"Be at peace and enter the Divine Essence Realm!"