Chapter 207: A Minor Issue with Cultivation

Chapter 207: A Minor Issue with CultivationChu Xuan flashed in front of the two individuals, suddenly appearing before them. Liu Mengde, seeing Chu Xuan's face and feeling the terrifying aura emanating from him, was almost overwhelmed by visions of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, nearly fainting from the shock.

Chu Xuan flicked a strand of spiritual qi into Liu Mengde, which gradually dissipated his fear.

"No spiritual root, no spirit body, at the fourth level of body refining..." Chu Xuan mused. The humans of Blue Star were indeed peculiar. He had expected Liu Mengde to possess some unique spiritual body, but there was nothing of the sort. Yet, he had the talent to merge two body-refining techniques into one.

Liu Mengde then managed to stammer, "Liu Mengde, greets the immortal!"

Chu Xuan casually asked, "Your surname is Liu—are you from the imperial family of the Han Empire?"

The royal family of the Han Empire bore the surname Liu. However, since the core members of the royal family had all perished, the empire had existed in name only for some time. Now, the military camps throughout the empire had almost all been incorporated into Black Blade, becoming a formidable force under its command.

Liu Mengde scratched his head, "Not from the royal family, just a collateral branch, too distant to have any claim to the palace."

Chu Xuan smiled faintly, "Would you like to become my disciple?"

Liu Mengde was overjoyed, his face flushing with excitement.

Wang Zhenxu was also surprised. The immortal had actually considered taking a disciple! Could it be that Liu Mengde might also become an immortal one day? He quickly said, "Why don't you kneel and call him Master?"

Only then did Liu Mengde, as if waking from a dream, hastily kneel and address Chu Xuan as his master.

Chu Xuan smiled slightly, "From now on, you don't need to practice your Millennium Tortoise Technique anymore. I will teach you a superior body refining technique. If you can integrate it as you did with your previous techniques, I will help you extend your life and achieve longevity."

Liu Mengde was ecstatic, bowing deeply, "Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!"

Chu Xuan casually instructed, "Wang Zhenxu, continue searching for talents around the world. We need more individuals with exceptional gifts like Liu Mengde."

"Yes!" Wang Zhenxu responded respectfully.

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Chu Xuan did not have Liu Mengde stay with him. Instead, he sent Liu Mengde back to the Black Blade residence. The meat necessary for Liu Mengde's cultivation practice was delivered every few days by one of Chu Xuan's corpse puppets.

By now, Chu Xuan no longer relied on zombie flesh as a source of meat. The flesh of the Nether Crocodile was much superior. Simply placing a Psionic Cube inside the flesh of the Nether Crocodile allowed it to grow into a robust and rosy piece of meat. It could be harvested daily and would regenerate immediately, proving to be entirely sufficient.

Soon, talents from all over the world were brought to the East Lake headquarters. Chu Xuan adopted a laissez-faire approach with these nominally his disciples. Naturally, if anyone created enough value, Chu Xuan did not mind bestowing some rewards. After all, as a Golden Core cultivator, even the slightest trinkets from him were infinitely valuable to mortals.

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"I think I understand now..." Chu Xuan mused, "The reason the Corpse Refining Blood Fire has not yet birthed the Blood Evil Yin Fire is due to a lack of living souls! The Corpse Refining Blood Fire can damage the body, but the Blood Evil Yin Fire can harm both the flesh and the soul. Living souls! Living souls are the key!"

With this realization, Chu Xuan immediately activated the soul transmission matrix of the Psionic Cube and traveled to the Soul Star. Without hesitation, he drew a million living souls from the Yellow Springs Soul Refining Array. Upon returning to Blue Star, he injected these souls into the Corpse Refining Blood Fire and continued his observations.

Sure enough, he noticed a change. The originally orange-yellow Corpse Refining Blood Fire suddenly started to darken!

"At this rate, the Blood Evil Yin Fire will form one day." Chu Xuan nodded in satisfaction, inwardly cursing the author of the "Blood Evil Demon Refining Scripture."

He suspected that the original author of the Blood Evil Demon Refining Scripture merely assumed that continuing to devour corpses would lead to some change and thus named the stronger flame the Blood Evil Yin Fire.

In reality, they likely never managed to produce it themselves. Otherwise, why would they lead others astray?

Now, Chu Xuan understood that to advance the Corpse Refining Blood Fire to the Blood Evil Yin Fire, it was necessary to devour a sufficient number of living souls—and the souls needed to be of high quality.

Perhaps it was due to the unique environment of the Soul Star, where the souls of living beings were generally of higher quality, that the transformation of the Corpse Refining Blood Fire into the Blood Evil Yin Fire was accelerated. Regular souls likely wouldn't achieve the same effect.

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Time passes as swiftly as a white horse flashes across a gap. In the blink of an eye, ten years had gone by.

Chu Xuan stepped out of the Soul Nourishing Evil Formation with a furrowed brow. His cultivation had naturally progressed to the ninth level of the Golden Core, but he now faced a minor complication: he had succumbed to cultivation deviation.

Simply put, he was practicing too many techniques simultaneously. Over these ten years, the geniuses gathered from across the Blue Star region had played their expected roles:

- Some chose to improve body refining techniques.

- Others invented new Qi cultivation methods.

- A few focused on integrating multiple techniques.

The brightest minds and most insightful talents of Blue Star had spent a decade devoted to these studies. They had achieved many breakthroughs, but many were impractical, and some were downright lethal, resulting in instant death from practicing them. Nonetheless, a few ideas proved valuable:

A girl from the Holy Light Theocracy modified the "Body Protecting Golden Wheel Decree" after feeling it was inadequate. She ingeniously incorporated the church's cultivation methods into it, creating a powerful synergy. The defensive capabilities of the "Body Protecting Golden Wheel Decree" were significantly enhanced.

Liu Mengde, dreaming of practicing the "Giant Elephant Body Refining Technique," had an epiphany. Upon waking and practicing it himself, he found it incredibly smooth and promptly presented it to Chu Xuan.

These two techniques were products of individual creativity, containing some flaws naturally, but they were more than sufficient for Chu Xuan. He could easily correct these errors during his own practice.

After modification, the "Body Protecting Golden Wheel Decree" had become powerful enough to rival lower-tier Golden Core techniques. With Chu Xuan's accrued merit, its defensive capabilities could even match top-grade Golden Core techniques. Chu Xuan renamed it "Great Protective Golden Wheel Scripture," seeing potential for further advancement.

As for the follow-up to the "Giant Elephant Body Refining Technique," Chu Xuan personally named it "Thousand Refinement Dragon Elephant Technique."

During these ten years, he practiced multiple techniques concurrently. However, the "Great Protective Golden Wheel Scripture" and the "Yin Thunder Evil Technique" were clearly in conflict. Sёarᴄh the NôᴠeFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

At first, the conflict was manageable since the "Yin Thunder Evil Technique" was at a higher level. Chu Xuan's entire spiritual qi, cultivated from this technique, carried its signature. The "Great Protective Golden Wheel Scripture," just beginning to be practiced, was still relatively weak.

But as the levels of the techniques increased, the spiritual qi formed by each began to clash and erode each other, causing mutual hindrance. This conflict now affected Chu Xuan's cultivation. If he had not ceased his practice in time, his cultivation level might have decreased instead of increasing.