Chapter 56: 《Radiant White Spirit’s Diviri》

  “There truly are so many Purified Five Metals here!”

  An Jing ransacked the entire Heavenly Pavilion Grand Hall and gained quite a bit, prompting a smile to appear on his face.

  In fact, there was a surprisingly rge amount of metal in this grand hall, measured ihousands or even tens of thousands of jins. However, because of the long passage of time, most of the outer yers of the Five Metals had decayed, leaving little that could still serve as viable cultivation materials.

  Furthermore, the Five Metals were abnormally sturdy; if he had nressed to Internal Energy and received aid from the Death Bde, he likely would not have been able to mahese metal materials so ly.

  “Hmm.”

  The Sword Spirit was quite satisfied: “Though it isn’t much, onbined with my ‘Sword Baleful Qi,’ it will be more than enough to establish your foundation.”

  Hearing this, An Jing’s mind became crystal clear, and he instantly knew what he should do.

  The youth retrieved his broken sword and bowed as though to a master: “I, An Jing of the Gufeng An Family, humbly request the Immortal Sword to grahe orthodox teags of the Great Dao!”

  “I am not your master, yet since I guide you onto the Dao, I shall accept this courtesy. Today, I pass on to you the Immortal Heaven True Method to dispel ignorance. May you uphold the Dao with single-minded devotion, vanquish demons and subdue evil, and never betray the kindness of being taught and instructed in the Dao.”

  He made his request in ear, and the Fuxie Sword Spirit gdly agreed, expining the essentials of the ‘Radiant White Spirit’s Diviri’ to him iail.

  “—Now, the Dao enpasses Heaven and sustaih, extending throughout the four dires and bridging the eight extremes. Taibai is the utmost of metal, embodying the Dao’s firmness and purity, remaining iructible through tless tributions, untouched by anything.

  “—By employing qi to distinguish purity from turbidity, one nurtures the Divine Soul above and tempers the body below. By fusing the Five Metals, one denses Earthly Baleful Qi; by densihly Baleful Qi, one merges with the proper Restri; by merging with the Restri, one fortifies the flesh, thereby solidifying the Dao’s foundation. This is called the Diviri.”

  The Radiant White Spirit’s Diviri was indeed aremely high-grade body-refining teique. Its essence y irag the Geal Qi from the Five Metals and using that qi te a spirit-based Restri in one’s body, rendering the flesh as sturdy as a flying sword-level Magical Artifact.

  Uhe guidance of the Sword Spirit, An Jing silently recited the core principles of cultivation.

  Holding the Subduing Evil Broken Sword, he circuted the ‘Serene Sword Teique’ in his mind, eling the pure Sword Baleful Qi from the Broken Sword into his body to begin f the ‘Taibai Restri Seed.’

  “Using the Thought Preservation Teique to cultivate the spirit, using the cultivatiohod to refine qi and temper the body, and using killihods to hone one’s force for overing tributions. When all three are bined, it stitutes the true iance of this lineage.”

  While guidance, Fuxie Sword Spirit said: “The Serene Sword Teique is the core of our lineage, taining tless profound wonders. The Radiant White Diviri is likewise a top-tier cultivatiohod. With these two methods, you fe a solid foundation, and your practiartial skills that focus ohal bat will yield twice the results with half the effort.”

  Steadying his mind, An Jing thus enced his very first Qi Refining session in this a underground ruin.

  Although the Sword Spirit could only guide him verbally, it possessed a lofty perspective and abundant experience, always able to pinpoint any misstep An Jing might make before it happened, enabling him to correct it in advance.

  Moreover, An Jing already possessed innate wisdom and was exceptionally bright, with a powerful capacity for prehension. Under Fuxie’s instru, he grasped everything with remarkable speed, and his cultivation advanced without hindrance.

  Though the Sword Spirit did not say it aloud, it was in fact deeply moved.

  In terms of Qi Refining talent, if one sidered only his Spiritual Root, it could be described as merely adequate. In a eras, he could have been recruited into a sect, but obtaining their true iance would have been difficult.

  Yet the Sword Spirit, having apanied An Jing for so long, was well aware that his prehension and mi were his truly outstanding qualities.

  Even without entering the Heavenly Will Demonic Sed awakening his Heaven-Ordained Fate, he was bound to aplish extraordinary feats. Like an awl pierg through a sack, he would iably stand out, prompting major sects to seek ways of enhang his potential and granting him their true iance.

  Time flowed on, and another half-day epsed.

  One poured all his efforts into teag; the other early delved into study. Everything fell into paturally.

  An Jing had already prehehe essence of the Radiant White Diviri. Though it was sidered a body-refinihod, in truth it was a Qi Refining teique. One train the muscles and boernally; instead, by impnting the teique within the body and cirg the method, Baleful Qi would temper the flesh from the i.

  The 108 Heavenly Gang ahly Sha Restris—each time one more Restri was formed, one’s power would take aep forward.

  If ordinary body-refinihods work from the outside in, the Radiant White Diviri proceeds from the i. By tinually densing its restrictive teiques into the body, oransforms the flesh into a Magical Treasure, produg all sorts of marvelous effects.

  It was a form of ‘Internal Body Refining Arts.’

  Of course, uanding its essence was ohing; putting it into practice was quite ao develop signifit aplishments in this method, beyond the passage of time, one needed abundant ‘Geal Qi’ extracted from the Five Metals.

  The purer the Geal Qi, the sturdier the Restri that could be formed.

  This was especially true for the initial ‘Taibai Baleful Seed,’ where the purer the core Baleful Qi, the better. A Baleful Seed derived from the qi of ordinary metals ferred no real advantage over other body-refinihods—indeed, it is even more cumbersome. Only by using special metallic Baleful Qi from extraordinary pces such as the ‘Earth Lung’ one gain a clear advantage.

  At present, An Jing cked the means to seek out such pure Baleful Qi. Even the Five Metals he had gathered from the Heavenly Pavilion Grand Hall were just of medium-to-high grade.

  Yet in terms of the core, he did have something purer.

  The Sword Baleful Qi within the Subduing Evil Broken Sword.

  “The time has e.”

  The Fuxie Sword Spirit said, “Take out the spirit jade and absorb the spiritual energy it tains.”

  The purer the foundation, the better. Currently, the purest sources avaible were the Sword Baleful Qi of Subduing Evil and the spiritual energy from the spirit jade.

  Uhe effect of the Serene Sword Teique, An Jing’s sciousness pletely immersed itself in his internal ndscape.

  A thread of silvery-gray, finely woven Baleful Qi was slowly seeping out from the broken sword and flooding into his body. This strand of qi was enormously heavy, yet not at all like the muddiness of earth ravel. It instead resembled extraordinarily fiallic particles—smooth and pact—much like flowing mercury.

  An Jing guided this thick, mercury-like Baleful Qi using a special mantra and breathing teique, cirg it through his meridians.

  It should have been agonizing—like va c through his veins or mercury corroding his a all he felt was a gentle, weighty warmth traveling throughout his body, ultimately verging from his four limbs into his chest and spihen moving onward to his Dantian.

  Throughout this process, faint threads of vital essence were geed throughout his body, cirg along with his blood.

  Simultaneously, three slender roots desded within his Sea of sciousness from the Purple Mansioending throughout his body. These three roots shone ial,’ ‘brown,’ and ‘green’ hues—ihey were An Jing’s three Spiritual Roots.

  The brown fused with the metal-attribute, strengthening it further, while the metal exerted pressure on the green, making it somewhat feeble. Yet this enfeebled green attribute in turhe brown in check, causing the metallic color to shihrough most distinctly.

  This primary metal-attribute Spiritual Root took charge of An Jing’s entire eic flow, siphoning the spiritual energy from the spirit jade and making golden currents of light swirl about.

  “An Jing,” the Sword Spirit reminded him at this moment, “Don’t fet the Five Metals—and the Echo.”

  An Jing nodded slightly, holding the Five Metals in his hand. With a thought of his Divine sciousness, he summoned a wisp of pale-gray fire from within his Sea of sciousness and directed it into the Spiritual Root portion of that realm.

  Instantly, a rge amount of Five Metals Baleful Qi ulled into his body. Using that Baleful Qi as kindling, he ighe Profound in Fire of that echo.

  A vaporous smoke rose, merging into his limbs and bones. A wave of refreshing warmth spread through him, causing his Divine Soul, body, and Spiritual Root to all glow with brilliant radiance, dramatically enhang his sense of sharpness.

  It all came naturally; his Spiritual Root achieved Spirit Awakening.

  (End of Chapter)