Chapter 436 - 182: Nightmare, Immortal Technique True Essence
Chapter 436: Chapter 182: Nightmare, Immortal Technique True Essence
For a prestigious Martial Arts Grandmaster, a top-tier Martial Dao powerhouse of the Great Jing, to die during his own cultivation—if word got out, it would be the greatest joke in the world.
’Thankfully, I didn’t attempt this cultivation in the True Gang Realm. Otherwise, it would have nearly killed me.’
Fang Xing sighed.
An Upper Grade Immortal Technique possessed unrivaled power, enough to dominate the world.
But the price of cultivating it was just so severe.
Anyone less than a Grandmaster wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
Even for someone with a Grandmaster’s Cultivation, it was a great struggle. Any other Grandmaster, even if they obtained the All Heavens Life and Death Wheel, would face immense danger in cultivating it.
After all, not everyone possessed his Sun Golden Flame.
If not for the Red Fire Divine Skill providing some relief, he feared it would have taken him a month to recover.
’The greater the price, the greater the power!’
’Again!’
Fang Xing took a deep breath. After swallowing and absorbing an Elixir, he felt mostly recovered and once again attempted to cultivate the All Heavens Life and Death Wheel.
The Power of All Heavens Stars poured into his body, and that extreme, bone-chilling cold swept over him once more.
Within ten breaths, he was covered in frost.
This time, he lasted for a little more than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea before he was forced to channel the Red Fire Divine Skill for relief again.
It took another hour to clear the cold, and after taking an Elixir, half an hour to recover.
This kind of perverse, self-mutilating cultivation was only the beginning.
「Three days passed.」
Fang Xing spent them in agonizing torment.
Each time, he would only stop after reaching his absolute limit.
This cultivation method, a torment worse than death, had nearly made him want to give up.
But for the power of an Upper Grade Immortal Technique, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue cultivating.
HUUUH...
Having recovered once more, Fang Xing let out a breath of relief.
The three days had not been in vain; he had progressed from lasting half a cup of tea’s time to a full cup.
However, the extreme torture of these three days had also left him with psychological scars.
For the first time, he found cultivation to be such an ordeal.
It was sheer agony.
This kind of pain was enough to make a person’s mind collapse.
’At least I’m making progress. I have to continue. I can’t let all this suffering be for nothing.’
After comforting himself, Fang Xing once again circulated the All Heavens Life and Death Wheel Heart Method, drawing upon the Power of All Heavens Stars.
This time, about thirty breaths passed before frost began to form on his body.
His internal organs slowly began to be sealed in ice by the Star Power.
Only his strengthened Demon Extreme Heart held out longer, but it too could not escape the fate of being frozen by the Star Power.
Failing again, Fang Xing was used to it.
No, to be precise, he had grown numb.
This wasn’t a one-time pain, but an extreme, repetitive torture.
But he knew clearly that he could not give up now.
Giving up on cultivation would mean everything had been for naught.
It was just a little pain.
He just had to get used to it.
As long as he kept making a little progress, the longer he persevered, the greater the reward would be.
When the time came, he would naturally succeed in forming the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman.
Once he formed the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman, it would be a quantum leap in his power.
His True Essence could be converted through the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman into the unique True Essence of an Immortal Technique.
In terms of his power, this might be even more significant than breaking through to a new realm.
Immortal Technique True Essence.
Its quality was on a completely different level.
At the same time, after forming the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman, he could also use the Life and Death Talisman to absorb Star Power for Body Tempering and to open his Divine Acupoints.
This process couldn’t be rushed; it was something to consider after he had successfully formed the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman.
The most pressing matter now was to condense the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman.
Time slipped by silently.
In the blink of an eye,
three months had passed, and soon it was the time of warm spring and blooming flowers.
The Demon Suppression Mansion was as calm as ever.
As always, Hong Luan came to the door of Fang Xing’s Training Room every day to check on him.
However, she never saw any sign of Fang Xing emerging from his seclusion.
If she couldn’t feel Fang Xing’s presence, Hong Luan would have suspected he had already left the Demon Suppression Mansion.
「The bright sun hung high in the sky.」
Inside the Training Room, a terrifying, bone-chilling cold swirled as Fang Xing sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion.
The frost that had initially covered his body was gone, replaced by a faint shroud of starlight.
Behind him, the faint images of the All Heavens Stars were visible.
His aura was majestic and vast.
Of the three months, the first two had been a living nightmare for Fang Xing, with each day’s cultivation feeling like a torment.
But by the third month, the situation began to improve. His Flesh Body seemed to have grown accustomed to the Star Power.
He began to absorb and fuse with the Star Power.
In his Dantian, the Primordial Embryo sat at the center, shrouded in faint starlight, giving the impression of being orbited by a host of stars.
Above the Primordial Embryo, brilliant starlight suffused the area, and a shimmering starlight rune flickered in and out of existence.
As a constant stream of Star Power was absorbed by the rune, the starlight rune grew increasingly brilliant and dazzling, illuminating his Dantian.
The True Essence flowing around the Primordial Embryo also underwent a fundamental change.
It transformed into black and white True Essence.
Life and Death True Essence.
It contained the auras of the two extremes: life and death.
BZZZZ—!
A ripple of energy suddenly spread out. In the next moment, the All Heavens Life and Death Talisman in his Dantian vibrated once and completely solidified.
At that very instant, Fang Xing opened his eyes.
Starlight twinkled within his pupils.
His eyes shone like suns, and a terrifying might emanated from his entire being.
"Success!"
Fang Xing shot to his feet, feeling the changes throughout his body, a smile of hard-won relief on his face.
Three months of torture.
Heaven knew how he had managed to get through it.
The pain he had endured was beyond what words could describe to an outsider.
BZZZT!
He channeled his True Essence, and a majestic wave of True Essence Power swept out from him.
’Compared to before, this isn’t even on the same level.’ Fang Xing was inwardly shocked as he felt the power of his new Life and Death True Essence.
It hadn’t been in vain, all the pain he had endured. It was all worth it.
The quality of his Immortal Technique True Essence was completely different from that of his previous Longevity Technique; they were worlds apart, like the heavens and the earth.