Chapter 444: Five Viscera Temple of Earth!

Ning Zhuo returned to Canglin Immortal City.

However, he did not rush to the All-Book Tower, but first went to stroll through the grand market, the small market, and the black market.

Among them, he selectively offloaded goods, selling some of the precious materials he had on hand.

For instance, he sold two hundred Fog-Show Orchids; seeing that the selling price could not be raised further, he decisively stopped early.

All one hundred and eighty pieces of Haze Stone were sold.

Ning Zhuo had originally intended to pair this material with the Weather Ball: Ice Crystal Snow. Now it seemed that even if the Weather Ball: Ice Crystal Snow boosted combat power, it would be hard to achieve good results against Golden Core, Nascent Soul, or even Soul Transformation cultivators in the current great war.

Furthermore, at this very moment, Ning Zhuo was extremely short on time and energy; where would he find the time to invest in such minor improvements?

He happened to run into a cultivator who urgently needed Haze Stone to make spiritual food, so he sold them all, fetching a relatively high price.

Sixty drops of Purple Qi Morning Dew were quickly sold out.

After all, there were many cultivators who used purple qi for cultivation.

Canglin Immortal City and the military camps outside the city gathered many cultivators; the resources consumed in their daily cultivation were a staggeringly huge number.

Things like Purple Qi Morning Dew were not easy to collect, but they were not very precious either, so they were easy to sell out, though the selling price would not be high.

Ning Zhuo also sold off more than half of his Heavy Thunder Beetles, mainly to cultivators of the Fire Cloud Camp. The Fire Cloud Camp excelled in fire arts, but since ancient times, thunder and fire have been inseparable, so it was not strange for them to use Heavy Thunder Beetles.

This portion, however, sold for a relatively high price.

The cultivators of the Fire Cloud Camp were very straightforward, not even haggling, and directly agreed to Ning Zhuo's asking price. From this, it could be seen that the Fire Cloud Camp's military budget was relatively ample.

Inspired by this, Ning Zhuo immediately changed his sales strategy.

He took the initiative to promote to other military camps; the Heavy Thunder Beetles had no buyers, but the various camps expressed great interest in the Heavenly Dew.

This was because the Heavenly Dew in Ning Zhuo's hands could be used to make healing elixirs. With a great war imminent, having more of such injury medicine was never a mistake.

The final result was that the Heavenly Dew in Ning Zhuo's hands was sold out directly, sold in batches to several camps, with the White Jade Camp being the biggest customer.

Ning Zhuo calculated that after selling the precious materials, the spirit stones he harvested were still not enough.

He continued to hide his identity and quietly sold one or two pieces of the Old Monster of Stone's precious materials in the black market.

Nascent Soul-level materials counted as high-grade goods, and the precious materials in Ning Zhuo's hands were of absolutely outstanding quality; the moment he took them out, they firmly attracted the gazes of others.

In the end, these two pieces of stone-center precious materials both sold for high prices.

After making such preparations, Ning Zhuo, clutching a large amount of spirit stones, finally rushed to the All-Book Tower.

The All-Book Tower was a super sect, with branches distributed in many cultivation nations.

Because they strictly adhered to neutrality, the righteous path, demonic path, and evil path all had continuous, strong demands for cultivation techniques, leading the All-Book Tower to have a vast audience; whether it was the black or white paths, or gray industries, there was room for survival.

Therefore, the scale of the All-Book Tower was very large, far exceeding super sects like the Soul-Devouring Sect or the Non-Empty Gate.

In Canglin Immortal City, there was an All-Book Tower.

In broad daylight, Ning Zhuo put on a black robe, covered his face, wore a hood, cast spells, and used magic tools to disguise himself.

He slowly stepped into the All-Book Tower, his voice hoarse: "Shopkeeper, give me a demonic cultivation technique, one that can perform blood sacrifice."

On the first floor, some cultivators were choosing techniques; hearing this, they immediately turned around and cast their gazes over.

"A person of the demonic path!"

"How unlucky."

"Sigh, ever since Canglin Immortal City became the rear of the two-note nation's army to establish and train a new army, these evil and demonic path cultivators have emerged one after another, and public order has become too poor."

"When did people of the demonic path become able to enter the immortal city openly and even buy demonic cultivation techniques in large quantities?"

Many cultivators shook their heads secretly.

Demonic path cultivators generally had to hide their names and cover themselves to operate within an immortal city.

Because many of them were on wanted lists, their portraits were vivid and posted at the city gates or on notice boards.

Canglin Immortal City was in a special period due to the Thousand Peaks Forest War.

Ning Zhuo doing this was also a last resort.

He could not use his true appearance to acquire demonic cultivation techniques; it would not benefit himself or the Ning family.

The All-Book Tower clerk was full of vigilance, came before Ning Zhuo, nodded and bowed, his face piled with smiles: "This master, please come inside."

The All-Book Tower claimed to have all books, so naturally, it would also sell demonic cultivation techniques.

The clerk led Ning Zhuo into a secret room, and a manager came to receive Ning Zhuo, asking what specific requirements he had for the demonic technique.

Ning Zhuo then said he needed to blood sacrifice the physical body.

The manager waited for a few breaths, heard no follow-up, and could not help but be puzzled, asking: "Your Excellency, there are many demonic techniques that blood sacrifice the physical body, but they have different effects. For example, a surge in escape techniques, or a skyrocketing combat power; which kind of power do you need?"

Ning Zhuo did not care about this: "I only need one that can sacrifice the physical body, regardless of the function. Tell me, which ones are there?"

The manager's heart skipped a beat, and his vigilance grew even stronger.

The black-robed person in front of him only wanted blood sacrifice, regardless of the function; he always felt that he was going to cause trouble, aiming to slaughter the common people or destroy corpses and erase traces.

But business still had to be done.

The manager took a light breath, mobilized his spiritual sense, first read the jade slip book records, and after checking, he had an answer in his heart, and only then responded to Ning Zhuo.

There were many demonic techniques that could blood sacrifice the physical body.

The most classic was the Blood Demon Disintegration Method. In the All-Book Tower, it was divided into the Blood Demon Disintegration Minor Method and the Major Method, with obvious differences in power. Although the Minor Method had less power, it only disintegrated a part of the body, and the aftereffects were smaller.

The Blood Demon Disintegration Major Method was the most classic. In the earliest times, once this spell was activated, regardless of the enemy, one would inevitably die and disappear, and the outcome was unbearable to look at.

But after being improved and optimized by generations of sages, and even pushing through the old to bring forth the new, the aftereffects of today's Blood Demon Disintegration Major Method had been greatly reduced, and it did not require paying the price of life.

"Bone Soul Wilderness Sacrifice Technique..." the manager continued to introduce.

The history of this spell could be traced back to the period before the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. At that time, heaven and earth did not yet have gods, demons, or ghosts; the ancients sacrificed to heaven and earth, temporarily stripping their bones and spirits from their physical bodies, turning into the form of skeleton ghosts, wandering between heaven and earth.

If successful, the ancients would return with their bone souls, and their strength would greatly increase. If they failed, their bone souls would dissolve between heaven and earth, serving as sacrifices offered to heaven and earth.

"Flesh-Cutting Shadow Sacrifice Technique..."

This cultivation technique was very new; after the Night Rain Dynasty, the principle of "monster" was added to heaven and earth, and this came into being.

From the name of the spell, one could see that this spell was to sacrifice the cultivator's shadow, and by cutting off one's own flesh and blood, continuously increase the power of the cultivator's shadow, eventually cultivating it into a powerful shadow monster.

"Crimson Blood Heaven-Serving Art..."

This cultivation technique was abnormally powerful, but the premise of casting it was that the cultivator must possess blood-type talent. The price was also very high; usually, after casting it, it would cause one's own talent and mystery to decline. If cast too ruthlessly, it could even completely consume the talent.

Besides these, there were Death Moon Sacrifice Song, Soul Returning to Heaven and Earth, Heaven Burial Ceremony, and so on.

Ning Zhuo listened to the manager's introduction and sighed in his heart: "As expected of the All-Book Tower, the various demonic techniques are truly dazzling."

This cultivation world had developed to this day; not only was spiritual energy becoming more and more abundant, and talents emerging one after another, but there were also various divine arts and wonderful methods spreading on a large scale, with optimizations and improvements, as well as pushing through the old to bring forth the new, every year.

This was a golden age of cultivation, like cooking oil with raging fire, like a prosperous scene.

Ning Zhuo thought for a while and chose the Blood Demon Disintegration Minor Method, Death Moon Sacrifice Song, and Heaven Burial Ceremony.

Seeing that he chose so many at once, the manager's smile became a bit more sincere. With this deal done, he could also get a lot of commission.

At the same time, the manager's wariness increased a bit.

Ning Zhuo's purchasing like this was obviously plotting something big, and his intentions were hard to fathom.

"Your Excellency might already have an understanding of our All-Book Tower. Currently, our tower has two ways of payment."

"One is to choose spirit stone payment."

"The other is to exchange for Tower Gold and use Tower Gold to purchase."

Tower Gold was the All-Book Tower's own currency, with no physical form, just a digital record.

Ning Zhuo had a sum of Tower Gold in his hands, but not much. It was when he was in Fire Persimmon Immortal City, selling some cultivation techniques, that he exchanged for it.

Ning Zhuo naturally would not use this Tower Gold; the Tower Gold was linked to his true identity, and if he used it, wouldn't he be exposing his identity?

"I choose spirit stone transaction." Ning Zhuo responded immediately.

The manager smiled: "Your Excellency, using Tower Gold for transactions is actually far more cost-effective than spirit stones."

Ning Zhuo also knew this.

The All-Book Tower deliberately set up these two transaction methods, mainly to make comparisons, highlight the superiority of Tower Gold, and encourage more people to use Tower Gold for transactions.

As for how to obtain Tower Gold, it was naturally by selling cultivation techniques.

In this way, the All-Book Tower's foundation continued to grow, and the more techniques they sold, the greater the profit.

This was the All-Book Tower's business secret, an open conspiracy.

Ning Zhuo shook his head: "Just use spirit stones."

He was wary of his true identity and did not want to have any involvement with these demonic techniques.

Back then, when he displayed the Demonic Dyeing Blood Tendon Art in the Linlang Reflection Wall, he had also seized the opportunity to display it in public. Before that, he had never revealed it to Lin Shanshan, nor had he displayed this means in the martial arts arena.

Ning Zhuo had self-knowledge and knew that his ability to disguise was not outstanding, and it was difficult to establish a second account in the All-Book Tower with this fake identity.

In the end, his spirit stone reserves, which had surged after just selling the precious materials, were almost exhausted.

Ning Zhuo still approved of this price.

The cultivation techniques he chose to buy were definitely the best of the best.

After this incident, Ning Zhuo had a new view of the All-Book Tower: "Selling cultivation techniques is really a good business!"

"As long as such a technique exists, the more times it is sold, the more the cost of acquiring this technique is spread out, becoming less and less. Reaching a certain limit, it can even approach zero cost."

Ning Zhuo felt very envious.

He had obtained a large amount of the Old Monster of Stone's precious materials, which could be said to have completely lifted him out of poverty and made him rich overnight.

But returning to the immortal city, he discovered that while the harvest was great, the consumption was also great!

This time, buying three demonic blood sacrifice spells was also a last resort. Ning Zhuo had to do his best to deal with the upcoming ambush battle.

"I once planned to buy a cultivation technique suitable for Meng Yehu to cultivate."

"Sigh, my pockets are empty."

The greatest wealth in Ning Zhuo's hands was the stone-center precious materials, and he was currently too busy to calculate their full value.

But these precious materials, not to mention the hidden dangers of the Stone Casting Earth Treasure divine ability, were not very convenient for Ning Zhuo to sell because their quality was too high.

Now, Ning Zhuo's spirit stone reserves and fire essence reserves were almost bottoming out, which was very dangerous.

He also had no time to deal with this matter for the time being.

After obtaining the three demonic arts, he burrowed into the Ten Thousand Mile Wandering Dragon and immediately left the city.

Arriving at a remote and uninhabited mountain peak, he buried his head in researching these techniques.

In terms of body cultivation and demonic arts, his realm was shallow, and he could not understand the principles within.

But because he bought three books, he could refer to them mutually. Just like when he was in the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect, learning how to cultivate the Spirit Hidden Willow. Speaking only at the application level, he could barely learn the means he wanted.

Ning Zhuo began to improve the Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art around the means of blood sacrifice.

Improving cultivation techniques had always been very difficult.

But Ning Zhuo felt that this most difficult step was even more relaxed and free than when he had just studied demonic spells.

After spending a day and half a night, Ning Zhuo completed the improvement.

The original Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art was a cultivation technique that specialized in cultivating the middle dantian qi sea, transforming the physical body, making magic power increase rapidly, and having powerful control over the five elements of spiritual energy.

But now, Ning Zhuo deleted more than half of it, specifically taking the part about transforming the physical body, and combined it with the demonic blood sacrifice method to form a Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art!

Ning Zhuo pondered the results for a moment, felt satisfied, and immediately took action.

He came to the cabin and woke up Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong broke out of the stone clothes, heard Ning Zhuo's plan, and could not help but be shocked: "What? Little Zhuo, you want to burn the Old Monster of Stone?"

Having cultivated so many times, Sun Lingtong could not help but have a lingering affection for the Old Monster of Stone's body.

Ning Zhuo nodded: "Boss, I have great confidence."

Sun Lingtong nodded, put away the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat, and began to watch from the sidelines.

Ning Zhuo first activated the Stone Casting Earth Treasure divine ability to unlock all the protections of the stone ball.

Subsequently, he directly activated the Fire Burial Prajna Spirit-Resolving Scripture and began to burn the stone ball.

The stone ball itself was an aggregate of Nascent Soul-level precious materials, quite resistant to burning; it burned for a long time before spiritual nature flew out.

Ning Zhuo burned while absorbing this spiritual nature.

It was not until the level of full spiritual nature that he extinguished the flames.

Subsequently, he took out a slender awl and carefully chiseled a thin hole, piercing all the way to the stone heart.

Through the tiny hole, Ning Zhuo had already seen the Ten Thousand Year Earth Essence hidden in the deepest part of the stone heart.

This Earth Essence was the true body of the Old Monster of Stone.

"Let me, let me!" Sun Lingtong could not hold back on the side and took the initiative to ask for the task.

Ning Zhuo then stepped back slightly.

Sun Lingtong giggled, jumped, and jumped in front of the stone ball.

"Hey!"

He let out a low, milky-voiced shout, then opened his short arms and tried his best to hug the stone ball.

He directly lifted the stone ball and then shook it left and right.

The Ten Thousand Year Earth Essence in the stone heart flowed out along the hole like golden sand.

The stone ball was quite heavy; before, Sun Lingtong would have pushed it at least a little bit. But now, his physical body constitution had skyrocketed, and his strength had become much, much greater; he could actually lift it and shake it continuously.

Sun Lingtong gritted his teeth, his little face flushed red, and with a bang, he put the stone ball down again.

"Still a bit heavy, almost lost my strength." Sun Lingtong thought to himself, quite nervous. It was not that he was afraid of the stone ball hitting himself, but he was worried about making a fool of himself and being laughed at by his own brother.

Sun Lingtong tugged at his collar, pretended to be relaxed, exhaled, and only then turned to look at Ning Zhuo.

His face was flushed red, but his expression was as calm as possible, and he raised his eyebrows at Ning Zhuo: "How is it? Little Zhuo."

Ning Zhuo ignored his flushed face and directly gave a thumbs up: "Boss, as expected of you."

"Hee hee hee!" Sun Lingtong immediately put his hands on his hips, raised his little face, and was triumphant.

"Little Zhuo, using the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat to nourish the physical body is really great."

"I strongly suggest you follow my example; let's not rush to decompose the last remains of this Old Monster of Stone. Combined with the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat, it is an excellent cultivation method."

Ning Zhuo gave a bitter smile, indicating that they were still strapped for cash, but he also agreed with Sun Lingtong's words.

Financial problems could be solved through other channels, but such a shortcut to cultivation was rare and hard to find.

Whether it was the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat or the body of the Old Monster of Stone, both were rare opportunities. Only by combining the two and using them together could such a wonderful effect be achieved.

Ning Zhuo pondered: "I don't have your understanding of the void, Boss; the actual effect will be much worse than yours."

"Let's not worry about that for now; Boss, please cooperate with me next."

Sun Lingtong almost always responded to Ning Zhuo's requests and nodded immediately: "No problem!"

Ning Zhuo sat down and adjusted his state.

A moment later, he slowly opened his eyes, his face full of determination.

"Boss, light the fire."

Sun Lingtong said 'um', activated the Fire Burial Prajna Spirit-Resolving Scripture, and ignited a patch of flames.

The firelight shone on Ning Zhuo's face, and he was expressionless.

The next moment, he took out a dagger and stabbed himself fiercely.

The blood did not splash out but condensed into strips of blood tendons, woven into a net, locking around the wound.

Ning Zhuo secretly gritted his teeth, slashed the dagger, and opened his own belly!

Severe pain struck, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his face became colder.

Without needing to look down, Ning Zhuo used his spiritual sense and had long since locked onto his spleen.

He used the dagger to cut off his spleen, held it in his left hand, threw it lightly, and threw it into mid-air.

Immediately after, he activated the Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art he had just designed and improved.

Magic power was continuously consumed, triggering a blood-colored light that enveloped the spleen.

Under the illumination, the spleen emitted a faint yellow light. Among the five viscera and six bowels, it belonged to the earth element.

The blood light shone for a moment, the timing was ripe, and Ning Zhuo's heart moved, causing the spleen to fall directly into the fire below.

The flames were burning, and Ning Zhuo took the opportunity to throw the spiritual nature of the previous Old Monster of Stone into the fire as well.

At the same time, he always maintained the blood light, shining on the spleen in the flames, without a moment of interruption!

The spleen gradually melted in the fire burial, absorbed the spiritual nature of the Old Monster of Stone, and finally turned into a ball of light.

Inside this ball of light was yellowish-brown, vaguely having a temple, and the outer layer of the ball of light was a blood-colored radiance.

The Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art was precisely to transform the five viscera into five temples, used to create gods and store gods.

Ning Zhuo improved this cultivation technique, took most of it, and formed a spell, still refining his own organs into temples.

But he combined it with external objects. This was the concept he obtained from cultivating the Three Sects' Superior Arts.

The Three Sects' Superior Arts were good at borrowing external objects.

For example, the Mirror Platform Spirit-Communication Art required setting up various precious mirrors and cooperating with spiritual sense to exert mysterious power.

"I have already cultivated the Three Sects' Superior Arts and cannot concurrently cultivate the Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art."

"This cultivation technique takes the cultivator's spiritual nature to create internal gods."

"I cannot change my cultivation, and if I still want to create gods, I can only create external gods."

Ning Zhuo first refined his own spleen, letting the pure earth essence restored after the Old Monster of Stone died act as his external god.

This was undoubtedly extremely compatible with the earth element in the five elements.

After Ning Zhuo refined it, he took a light breath and sucked the Spleen Temple into his abdomen, returning it to its original position.

The wound was quickly spliced, and the Spleen Temple could still exert its original effect, participating in and maintaining Ning Zhuo's life activities.

A moment later, Ning Zhuo smoothed his abdomen, letting the wound disappear completely.

"Boss, I succeeded!" The young man had an excited look on his face.