Chapter 78: This method is wonderful! (Please subscribe! Monthly ticket!)

Innate divine ability.

This is a special ability that demon beasts may only comprehend when breaking through a major realm.

Innate divine abilities and spells differ essentially.

Spells and demonic arts can be learned through later study.

But innate divine ability is an inborn capacity that cannot be transmitted or taught; the difference lies only in whether it can be awakened and what kind of awakening it is.

Moreover, spells and demonic arts gradually weaken in effect as one's cultivation base increases.

Unless it is a spell that can be 'upgraded,' even if the spell's power increases somewhat with cultivation, compared to the user's strength level, it is still a weakening.

But innate divine ability is different; it increases with cultivation base, shows no sign of weakening, and only grows stronger as one develops the innate talent.

However, the awakening of innate divine ability depends somewhat on luck and also on the accumulation of foundation.

Like the horned serpent that previously fought Yunhe, its innate divine ability is to shoot lightning from its horns, which at the time nearly shattered his second-stage trapping formation.

And at this moment, the ability that can enlarge Yunhe's body surfaced two words from his subconscious.

As One Wishes!

Great Small As One Wishes.

Not only can it enlarge his body, but it can also shrink it equally.

The multiple of change depends on the degree of development of his innate divine ability and his own cultivation base.

Moreover, the change is not just in size; it also brings strength, defense, physical fitness, and so on.

This is an all-around physical strengthening!

For many demon beasts, innate divine ability is an extremely important capacity.

After all, not every demon beast can obtain cultivation methods and have sufficient spiritual wisdom to understand and practice them at the first stage as he does.

Moreover, not everyone can have two bodies like him, able to transmit magical artifacts, spiritual artifacts, elixirs, and spells between them.

Therefore, aside from relying on their strong bodies, demon beasts have only innate divine ability as their means.

But Yunhe feels he seems to also have another divine ability.

Settle the mind, carefully sense the rhythm in the demon beast's inner dan, and feel the qi movement in the essence blood.

This time, when exerted, it is not as casual as 'As One Wishes'.

This indicates that his comprehension and mastery of the second innate divine ability are also inferior to 'As One Wishes'.

After sensing it carefully.

A large amount of demonic power surged from his inner dan, wrapping around his neck and throat.

At the same time, he felt an abnormal itch in his throat.

Just as he was about to scratch, a force suddenly condensed.

The next second.

"Ang!!!"

The same cry, yet the results are completely different.

Boom—

In an instant, the whole sky seemed to dim somewhat.

The next moment.

Then a bolt of blue-purple lightning several zhang wide spewed from his mouth.

It landed on the distant lake surface, exploding into terrifying spray.

Countless fish floated to the surface, exuding a faint meat aroma.

This thunder strike caused the demon beasts' bodies to lose control, crawling on the ground and trembling.

Stemming from instinctual awe, it further made them press their heads tightly to the ground.

Demon beasts fear fire.

But what makes them more awe-struck than fire is lightning!

"Horned Serpent's lightning?"

"No, it's somewhat similar, but not exactly the same."

The horned serpent's lightning emits from its horns, while his lightning spews from his mouth.

Leaving aside power, even the color of the lightning differs.

The thunderclap also differs, seemingly containing some of the intimidating effect of the 'Thunder Sound Technique'.

Innate divine ability: Thunder Gestation!

Taking the inner dan as a vessel, the qi sea as clouds, nurturing thunder juice without release; when released, it can lift ten thousand jun.

This innate divine ability is special in that the longer the gestation time, the greater the stored power.

However, Yunhe faintly feels that he has only mastered a part of this innate divine ability.

But regardless.

The two innate divine abilities are 'As One Wishes' and 'Thunder Gestation'.

Furthermore, after studying the 'Moving Mountain Chapter' one can learn the spell 'Moving Mountain,' as well as the continually refined 'Three Yang Heavy Water'.

Even without the support of a cultivator body, relying solely on the demon beast body's own divine abilities and methods, they are already not weak.

If later supplemented with spiritual artifacts, talismans, elixirs, formations, and so on.

"There's a feeling of being invincible at the early second-stage demon beast level."

Afterward, he closed his eyes.

Demon sense was infused into the inner dan.

Then, in the center of the inner dan, there was a drop of round, full, splendidly colored essence blood jumping; each leap matched his heartbeat.

And with each jump, the demon power throbbed, and he also naturally absorbed a considerable amount of heavenly and earthly spiritual qi.

Then Yunhe shifted his divine sense into his heart.

Within the heart's chambers lay a considerable amount of essence blood rich in demon power, surging and strong, guiding the blood flow throughout the body.

"The essence blood in the demon core seems a bit different from that in the heart."

"Do other demon beasts' demon cores contain essence blood?"

"If cultivating the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture only needs the heart's essence blood, then it's not a problem."

Because Yunhe found that he had quite a lot of essence blood.

His demon sense extended outside his body, especially between his hind legs.

"Hmm, all good."

He withdrew his demon sense.

It swung its claw, opening the "Earth Earth Stone Array", and walked out slowly.

Seeing the demon beasts crawling on the ground and floating on the water, all looking extremely honest, he gave a faint smile and lightly tapped his storage bag.

In an instant, dozens of feeding pills flew out, landing in the hands or mouths of each demon beast.

Although they are inferior, they are sufficient for those that are only first-stage.

The demon beasts that received the feeding pills all showed great joy.

They clearly know how great the benefit is from eating this feeding pill.

"Then let's mark out our territory."

Yunhe grinned.

As a second-tier beast, he should also demarcate his territory and proclaim its ownership.

With territory, he could subjugate more underlings and speed the collection of three yang water.

Moreover, a larger territory means he can collect many more spiritual plant treasures.

All were transplanted to Huanhu Dao.

Nourished by the rich spiritual qi gathered by the Gathering Spirit Pearl, these spiritual plants can grow faster.

Over his lifespan, cultivating them for a few decades could multiply their value many times over.

Also for some unknown reason, whenever he is in his demon beast form, Yunhe unconsciously adopts a hoarder's mindset.

He just wants to collect good things and hoard them.

He feels that hoarding things clears his mind.

Upon receiving the consciousness sent by Yunhe's demon sense, the demon beasts straightened up, showed joy, and all turned and left.

Your Majesty, it's long past time to have your own territory!

Watching them leave, Yunhe's body rapidly shrank.

He slowly climbed onto the sunbathing platform.

While enjoying the warm sunlight, he carefully felt all the changes from his breakthrough.

Once fully accustomed to the breakthrough changes, he can go find a second-tier beast to practice on.

He needed to more accurately gauge his current strength as a second-stage cultivator.

He raised a claw.

From a fruit tree on the island fell a fruit that was completely snow-white.

Crack—

He bit into it, juice splashing, and a rich fresh fragrance filled his mouth.

This was transplanted from outside the abyss where that horned viper once lived, and it is also the fruit that the White Ape King originally intended to pick and offer to him.

Named White Cliff Fruit, it is a first-rate first-stage spiritual plant.

It has the effect of consolidating the foundation and nurturing the origin, strengthening blood production.

"Although eating it raw is a bit wasteful, occasionally eating a bit to change the flavor is fine."

Mainly because he hasn't yet found a prescription that calls for the White Cliff Fruit.

Anyway, now that Huanhu Dao has been turned into a medicinal field with many transplanted spiritual plants, eating a bit is no big deal.

What truly concerns him is that abyss.

At that time, because he was focused on hunting second-tier beasts and refining foundation-establishment pills, he didn't go to the abyss to investigate.

However, since it is the horned viper's habitat, it likely isn't guarding the white cliff fruit tree outside the abyss.

The abyss likely holds something even better.

It should also come with greater threats.

"Let's start with the abyss."

Winter passed, spring arrived, and all things began to grow.

Qingzong Sect, inside the cave dwelling.

Yunhe sat cross-legged; in his palm a round, thick bead of blood emanated a faintly captivating aura, like a black giant turtle faintly coiled.

"Almost there."

He had already, following the special method in the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture, purified and refined this drop of essence blood hundreds of times, meeting the scripture's requirement for five-element spirit beast bloodline concentration.

Moreover, after his meticulous adjustment, extracting a drop of essence blood had no effect on the demon beast's body.

After mentally rehearsing the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture to ensure flawlessness, he cast several seals on the cave dwelling, sealing it completely and activating all formations.

For safety, he also retrieved the Earth Earth Stone Array from the demon beast's side.

He hung a talisman representing closed-door cultivation on the outside of the cave dwelling.

Closed-door cultivation is crucial for cultivators; if someone disturbs and forcibly breaks the formation, it's not just provoking him but provoking the entire Qingzong Sect.

Let's begin.

Yunhe let out a soft sigh.

Whether it succeeds and how great its effect will be depends on the result of this specialized cultivation method.

"Hope you don't disappoint me."

He lightly raised his palm, cast the Floating Technique, suspending the essence-blood in midair.

Immediately after taking a deep breath, the liquid mana in his dantian qi sea surged like a river overturning the sea; then he formed hand seals with both hands, releasing a series of dense and complex seals, each seemingly accompanied by mysterious power, each as if possessing the power to shift and transform.

And as the seals continuously merged, the essence-blood suspended in midair also underwent a change.

Boom!

Then Yunhe clenched his hands together fiercely and shouted lowly:

"Five elements mutually generate, Ren water gives birth!"

After his final strained, gruff true word was spoken.

The essence-blood pearl suddenly swelled.

It transformed into the shape of a small black tortoise.

"Ong—"

With a long roar, the blood-colored black tortoise's spiritual light flashed and it fled into Yunhe's dantian qi sea.

Next second.

He then felt his body burst forth with an intense pain.

In his divine sense, the blood-colored black tortoise that had entered his dantian qi sea swallowed all the liquid mana there in one gulp.

At this moment, Yunhe felt his mana completely disappear, as if he had become an ordinary mortal again.

But soon, the black tortoise exhaled, and with a "bang" it scattered apart.

It turned into drop after drop of purer mana, flowing into the withered dantian.

After the rain comes spring!

Mana rain fell continuously; using the method of the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture, he began to circulate the celestial circuit within his body.

At the same time, the essence-blood that had merged with the mana was slowly squeezed into his body after each celestial circuit.

The celestial circuit ran ever more smoothly, and the transformation of mana grew ever faster.

"Ong!!!"

In his dantian qi sea, a faint phantom of a black tortoise appeared within the mana.

Suddenly.

Yunhe felt his divine sense throb, and his body instantly grew weak.

It felt as if something very important had been drawn away from him in the dark.

It was his lifespan!

To manipulate creation and alter the five elements is to seize the world's creation; the harm to the human body comes from the dark.

Yunhe's face instantly turned pale.

But soon.

His pallor gradually faded, even becoming more ruddy than before.

Hum—

He snapped his eyes open; a brilliant azure flashed in his pupils and vanished.

The Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture, accomplished!

Moreover, Yunhe could clearly feel that although his original low-grade gold-water dual spiritual roots remained unchanged, that black tortoise phantom endowed him with certain traits of a spiritual body.

When he cultivates again to absorb heavenly and earthly spiritual qi, he will not be inferior to a medium-grade water spiritual root!

Spiritual roots are heaven‑born; even the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture cannot forcibly change them, but one can forge another path, using a spiritual body to compensate for the spiritual roots.

If we were to count, he could barely be considered a cultivator possessing a low‑grade gold spiritual root and a medium‑grade water spiritual root.

This is absolutely the greatest compensation for Yunhe's own shortcomings.

"If one gathers the essence‑blood of the five‑element spirit beasts and refines it into a Mini Five Elements Spiritual Body, can it, under the mutual generation of the five elements, rival a high‑grade spiritual root?"

"Merely refining water‑attribute spiritual blood shortens lifespan by thirty years; gathering all five‑element spiritual blood shortens it by one hundred fifty years?"

"Moreover, constructing the five‑element mutual generation likely causes greater damage; after a Foundation Establishment cultivator refines a Mini Five Elements Spiritual Body, his remaining lifespan will not exceed ten years."

"Which genius came up with this defiant‑heaven technique?"

They didn't even properly sense the changes in mana after entering the Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture.

He immediately formed seals and cast the Year Ring Technique.

He soon obtained the result.

Lifespan, eight hundred forty!

"As expected!"

Yunhe was overjoyed.

When he first roughly browsed the technique, he already had a guess.

Practicing this technique shortens the cultivator's lifespan, but since he cultivates the technique with his cultivator body, it should not affect his demon beast body.

Thereafter, as he continually deduced the technique, the conclusion remained the same.

The Great Longevity Great Five Elements True Scripture is powerful, but it cannot reach the demon beast body far away.

Yunhe's lifespan is determined by the greater of his demon beast body's and cultivator body's lifespans.

Put more simply: the demon beast body and cultivator body share lifespan; whoever has the longer lifespan lives on!

Therefore, when his cultivator body reaches Foundation Establishment, his lifespan hardly changes; only when his demon beast body breaks through to the Second Stage does his lifespan surge.

However, correspondingly, the Cultivator Body's lifespan is diminished; as long as the Demon Beast Body's lifespan is not damaged, it will likewise have no effect.

Yunhe took out a Jade Slip bearing a rubbing of the "Great Longevity Grand Five Elements True Scripture", and held it in his hands as if it were a supreme treasure.

"This method is wonderful!"

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