Chapter 27: Divine abilities heaven-sent, Dao arts man-made

Pa!

He placed the Jade Slip of the Diamond Body on the stone bed, and Wang Ping's eyes showed a thoughtful expression.

The final section of the Diamond Body is not a cultivation method, but a prescription.

This was quite unexpected for Wang Ping.

That final section of the prescription states that, using this prescription together with the Spring of the Spiritual Eye, one should soak daily, and during the soaking, continuously circulate the body-refining cultivation method.

Soaking without interruption for forty-nine years yields a body-refining divine ability.

Divine ability!

Wang Ping's heart pounded.

When weak, it can rival Dao arts; when strong, it can contend with immortal arts.

Divine abilities are heaven-sent; I've never heard of them being obtained elsewhere.

No, Wang Ping suddenly realized, this passage is written in the Spirit Realm script; that the lower realm cannot do it does not mean the mighty of the Spirit Realm cannot.

If what is recorded above is true, the value of this prescription is likely not inferior to the Heart Sutra of Soul Refinement; at least the first layer of the Heart Sutra of Soul Refinement cannot compare to it.

Wang Ping kept chewing over each word of the prescription, and doubt arose in his heart: why must one cultivate the body-refining method?

Could it be that the body-refining method more easily gives rise to divine abilities?

After careful thought, Wang Ping felt there was some sense to it, because divine abilities are only possessed by the great ferocities of heaven and earth, divine beasts.

Those beings' bodies seem to be extremely strong.

However, he had never heard of the names listed on the prescription.

He could only wait and look them up later.

Thinking of his Diamond Body, Wang Ping hesitated, wondering whether he should continue cultivating this method.

Originally, he chose this method not because he was outstanding, but because he was attracted by the many Spirit Realm characters at the end.

He already knows the content of the characters; now it seems the Diamond Body is merely a vessel for that prescription.

According to the prescription, the better the body-refining method, the easier it is to give rise to powerful divine abilities.

If he could thereby give rise to a divine ability comparable to immortal arts, then among peers, unless the opponent also cultivates immortal arts, he would be invincible at his level.

The more he thought, the hotter Wang Ping's heart became; the calmness that had just come from the Heart Sutra of Soul Refinement was stirred again.

This situation cannot be simply suppressed; it is merely the human instinctive emotion arising from the desire to become stronger.

In the end, Wang Ping decided to continue cultivating this Diamond Body; although this body-refining method is not outstanding, it has an extremely obvious effect on purifying the flesh.

His current flesh, whether muscles and bones, viscera, or blood, is pure to an excessive degree.

Thinking of the final layer of the method, the Glazed Body, could it be that his body will ultimately become as pure as glazed porcelain?

Now he has the Heart Sutra of Soul Refinement to cultivate the soul, there are pills that can quickly raise his qi cultivation rank, and spiritual liquids that can let his body-refining break through to the Jade Body realm.

Moreover, he has ten thousand spirit stones as backing, and Wang Ping's heart finally calmed down.

Next, he will once again immerse himself in bitter cultivation.

Flipping his palm, a grain-avoiding pill appeared in his hand; he tossed it into his mouth, and again he would take the grain-avoiding pill to cultivate immortality.

With the protection of the formation, Wang Ping devoted almost all his mind and spirit to cultivation.

Morning and evening each once practicing qi, morning body-refining, afternoon soul-refining, evening practicing the Azure Light Sword Technique; occasionally flipping through the Introduction to Artifact Forging also yields different insights.

One day in the mountains, a thousand years pass in the world.

Outside, spring departs, autumn arrives, the seasons turn; unknown how many cycles of spring and autumn have passed.

Again it is the season of heavy snowfall, entering the eye a vast whiteness.

"Junior Sister! Go!"

A mournful voice suddenly rang out from beneath a peak of the Chaotic Cloud Mountains.

"Senior Brother!"

"Go! Hurry!"

Beneath an unnamed peak, a disheveled man stained with blood flung a woman in green clothes outward.

He himself controlled a flying-needle-shaped magic treasure, slashing toward the silver-clad pursuers.

His whole being was filled with a sense of tragic heroism.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!"

A deafening laugh rang out, and then that voice said disdainfully:

"Run! Blue Eldest Young Master, you and Blue Eldest Miss, where can you flee? Better to directly submit to my Three Slaughter Sect; my brothers could also save some effort, right?"

"Pah!"

The youth called Blue Eldest Young Master spat fiercely forward, completely lacking the bearing of the former Blue family's eldest son.

"Jia Li, your Three Slaughter Sect slaughtered my Blue family to the last, yet you still dare to dream of my joining you—what a delusion!"

The cultivator called Jia Li, clad head to toe in silver garments, bearing a great blade, in the snow's reflection his whole body emanated a silver light.

He looked imposing, forming a stark contrast with the disheveled Blue family eldest son.

At this moment, hearing the words of Blue family eldest son Lan Bing, he clicked his tongue, shook his head, hands behind his back, and leisurely spoke:

"Blue Eldest Young Master, you've misspoken; we did not exterminate the Blue family entirely—your second granduncle is now an elder of the Three Slaughter Sect, high in position and power!"

Lan Bing, upon hearing the name of his second granduncle, had eyes nearly bursting, and he shouted angrily:

"Shut up! A mere traitor, how could he represent the Blue family? I will someday slay him to inform the Blue ancestors in heaven!"

Jia Li scornfully looked at the formerly vigorous Blue family eldest son now impotent rage, and mocked:

"Do you think you still have a chance to escape?"

"If you act like this, aren't you afraid the Wang family will intervene?"

Wang family? Heh! They themselves can't even protect themselves, even a Foundation Establishment great cultivator might have perished!

Lan Bing stood frozen on the spot upon hearing it; the Wang family's Foundation Establishment cultivator was about to perish—how could that be?

His steadfast hope in fleeing all along was to reach the Wang family, get them to intervene, and avenge them.

The Lan and Wang families have been intermarried for five hundred years.

Their bloodlines are so entwined that you have me and I have you; in the cultivation world, some jokingly call the Lan family a branch of the Wang family.

It is precisely because of this relationship that he was certain the Wang family would intervene.

Now?

"You're talking nonsense!" Lan Bing suddenly shouted sternly, "How could a magnificent Foundation Establishment grandmaster fall so easily?"

Standing in the snow, Jia Li boredly surveyed the surrounding wind and snow, speaking in a casual tone:

"Although Foundation Establishment cultivators are powerful, the Soul Refining Hall has already taken action; do you think the Wang family still has any chance of survival?"

Upon hearing the three words "Soul Refining Hall," Lan Bing was stunned; if before no one knew what faction the Soul Refining Hall was, now even a rookie just entering the cultivation world knows it is a force far surpassing the Azure Cloud Sect.

In just ten years, the number of Foundation Establishment forces they have wiped out in Zhao State has reached forty; on average, they destroy four forces per year.

The Soul Refining Hall, with its torrential slaughter, made the Zhao State cultivation world know their infamous reputation, and also solidified their status.

The Azure Moon Sect once mobilized half its strength to try to assassinate them, but was defeated by ten Foundation Establishment assassins dispatched by the Soul Refining Hall.

Lan Bing felt helpless; the Three Slaughter Sect is an affiliated force of the Soul Refining Hall, and they never lie in such matters.

Jia Li quietly enjoyed the sight of the Lan family's young master looking desperate; he just liked seeing others show a desperate expression.

Just then, a faint voice of doubt came from above their heads:

"You say the Wang family is going to be exterminated by the Soul Refining Hall?"