Chapter 25: Seclusion (See Illustration)

Time flew by, and another year passed.

During this year, whenever Long Xuan had free time, he would come to the inn opposite the Qian Clan Treasure Pavilion to stay.

Then he would use the Original Realm illusion technique to replicate the entire Treasure Pavilion into an illusion, and then use this illusion technique on himself, walking into the illusion to learn all the cultivation methods in the Treasure Pavilion.

Even the Qian Clan's family-protecting cultivation methods were stolen by him inadvertently. The matter was so simple that he felt it was incredible.

Because his Ten Extremes Body was special and couldn't cultivate other cultivation methods, he could only gather the strengths of all families to create a cultivation method that belonged to him.

He created it for a whole year, and it was just researching the basics.

Creating cultivation methods was naturally not a simple matter, time-consuming and long, absolutely not something that could be completed in a short time.

That is, if Long Xuan wrote the wrong progress on paper, it would disappear, making him have no trial-and-error cost. If others came to create it, they wouldn't even want to research the basics even after exhausting their lives, especially since it was the most difficult cultivation method suitable for the Ten Extremes Body to practice.

This also counted as narrowing Long Xuan's creative scope. It belonged to propositional self-creation. He directly took the name "Ten Extremes Scripture" to limit the scope, and the difficulty was infinitely raised.

Fortunately, the Golden Finger could prompt errors, and he could run into the illusion to conduct human experiments. Even if the experiment caused bleeding from seven orifices, the body in the outside world would not be affected at all.

Things that couldn't be completed in the illusion definitely couldn't be completed in reality. If things were feasible in the illusion, then copying them to reality was absolutely feasible.

Long Xuan also relied on the dual role of the illusion and the Golden Finger to create the cultivation method suitable for the Ten Extremes Body to practice. Otherwise, no matter how big his imagination was, he wouldn't want to succeed.

Long Xuan had read too many cultivation novels in his past life and believed in the theory of mutual generation and mutual destruction of the five elements. The five elements theory had three cycles.

Mutual destruction cycle: fire melts metal, earth blocks water, metal cuts wood, water extinguishes fire, wood controls earth.

Mutual recovery cycle: fire burns wood, wood absorbs water, water corrodes metal, metal moves earth, earth treats fire.

Mutual generation cycle: water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water.

So he created a five-element cultivation method based on this theory.

His body happened to have all five elements, so in his view, the five-element cycle path was the most suitable for this body.

This idea absolutely could be said to be a rebellious path in this world.

This world also paid attention to the pure flow just like the cultivation novels of his past life.

The more single the attribute, the better. Only one attribute was a Heaven-grade genius. A single attribute had an extremely fast cultivation speed, and the cultivation methods in this world were all single-attribute.

And Long Xuan was rebellious, creating such a mixed-attribute cultivation method that was incompatible with this world.

The five-element great cycle was indeed astonishing in power. Once the five elements formed a cycle, the power was not as simple as adding five ones together.

The Ten Extremes Body's spirit sea was as firm as a rock, leading to the drawback of difficulty in breaking through. Long Xuan was precisely planning to borrow the powerful impact generated by the five-element cycle to impact this rock, thereby solving this drawback.

So the five-element concept counted as one suitable for the Ten Extremes Body to practice. It was also precisely because of this concept that he counted as successfully creating a cultivation method suitable for the Ten Extremes Body to practice.

Although it was only the basics now, and the cultivation method progress was only 3%, but everything was difficult at the beginning. As long as he supported the beginning, the follow-up would be smooth sailing.

After making assumptions, he had to complete the three elements of the cultivation method. A powerful cultivation method's three elements were indispensable.

The first step, the spirit power operation route, was directly borrowed and guessed, which could be livered out completely. Giving spirit power attributes counted as adding some difficulty to him.

The spirit power attributes he wanted were not basic attributes like metal, wood, water, fire, earth. Since he wanted to create a cultivation method, he must create the best; otherwise, he wouldn't create it.

He had long thought about the imagination of mutated spirit power. He ran into the illusion every day to conduct various spirit power fusion experiments, often causing his meridians to break and bleeding from seven orifices, and even appeared in a near-death situation several times.

Basically, every time he entered the illusion, he would make himself disabled, but because the experience in the illusion was illusory, the body in reality wouldn't be affected, so he didn't fear the consequences of experimental failure at all.

Under such crazy experiments, how could he not research mutated spirit power? His success had become inevitable.

Wood generates fire, wood is many and fire is prosperous, fire becomes strong fire because of wood. Long Xuan called this strong fire "Yan" (Flame). Thus, the Yan spirit power formed by fire-wood fusion was born under his crazy research.

Similarly.

Fire generates earth, fire and earth are compatible to form strong earth. Thus, the Gui spirit power named by him was born.

Earth generates metal, earth and metal are compatible to form strong metal. Thus, the Kan spirit power named by him was born.

Metal generates water, metal and water are compatible to form strong water. Thus, the Zhui spirit power named by him was born.

Water generates wood, water and wood are compatible to form strong wood. Thus, the Lin spirit power named by him was born.

So his five-element cycle was not metal, wood, water, fire, earth, but Kan, Lin, Zhui, Yan, Gui.

He didn't know how strong the mutated spirit power he researched was, and how it compared to other mutated spirit powers, but his mutated spirit power could be even stronger.

This was only two-attribute fusion. He had already thought of the cultivation method outline.

The first layer of the cultivation method was two-attribute fusion to cultivate Kan spirit power, Lin spirit power, Zhui spirit power, Yan spirit power, Gui spirit power.

The second layer of the cultivation method was three-attribute fusion to cultivate Xin spirit power, Sen spirit power, Miao spirit power, Yan spirit power, Yao spirit power.

The third layer of the cultivation method was four-attribute fusion to cultivate spirit power, spirit power, spirit power, Yi spirit power, spirit power.

It wasn't that he didn't want to do it in one step; on one hand, his strength didn't allow it, and he couldn't research it for the time being.

On the other hand, it was completely that a novice who had just started cultivating couldn't cultivate the world's top-level cultivation method right away.

There were many reasons.

Among them, the biggest reason was that the spirit sea couldn't be opened in the early stage.

The task of the Gu cultivator's Spirit Gathering Stage was to accumulate spirit power, the task of the Essence Refining Stage was to refine essence and bones to build a solid foundation, and the task of the Spirit Sea Stage was to open the spirit sea.

As for the task of the Soul Departure Stage, it was to strengthen the soul, enough to make the soul complete soul departure. The soul was a virtual body and could ignore the vast majority of attacks.

So Soul Departure Stage Gu cultivators, even if their physical bodies were destroyed, could escape their souls very easily. The strong in this realm would be extremely difficult to kill. Even if their physical bodies were destroyed, there was a possibility of starting over through possession. Of course, due to various reasons, everyone only had one chance to possess and be reborn.

So Gu cultivators could only open the spirit sea in the third realm. In the period without a spirit sea, spirit power would all be stored in the human body's meridians. The meridians were fragile and couldn't bear spirit power that was too violent at all.

And even if they reached the Spirit Sea Stage, everyone's spirit sea was different, and not every spirit sea could easily accommodate top-level mutated spirit power.

The top-level cultivation methods were destined not to be cultivated by everyone. The most powerful cultivation methods were always in the hands of a small number of people. This was the difference between genius and mediocrity.

Otherwise, where was the advantage of Long Xuan's Ten Extremes Body? The Ten Extremes Body was powerful because the spirit sea was as firm as a rock and could carry any violent power.

Others cultivating his Kan, Yi... five major mutated spirit powers would definitely have their spirit seas burst, not to mention accommodating five kinds at the same time.

Only the powerful Ten Extremes Body could accommodate all five kinds of spirit power.

Only a non-human could create such a death-seeking cultivation method.

(End of chapter) Chapter 26