Chapter 1182: Nine Tribulations Within the Inner Universe

In the Hall of Asking the Dao, Fang Yu was studying a stone slab-like object.

According to common logic, metals on Earth are mostly Class A; finding a Class B metal is already extremely difficult, yet on this very Earth, there exists a Class E mechanical race spacecraft and this stone slab surpassing Class E, reaching Class F.

This stone slab contained vast amounts of information.

When Fang Yu plunged his powerful spiritual sense into the stone slab, he immediately sensed one illusion after another, yet none of these illusions affected him.

As all illusions vanished, characters appeared upon the stone slab.

This stone slab was in fact a peculiar object for storing transmission knowledge.

The information characters were square script, totaling 36,923 characters—but Fang Yu could not read them; they belonged to the Yan Shen race's script.

In the Golden Horn Beast's inherited memories, there was a brief record: the Yan Shen race, one of countless races in the vast universe, a powerful race, not to be provoked.

The Golden Horn Beast's inherited memories contained very little information on the Yan Shen race, merely emphasizing a warning not to provoke them—clearly, even for a monstrous race like the Golden Horn Beast, the Yan Shen race was an exceedingly powerful one.

At this moment, Fang Yu saw the Yan Shen race's characters, yet he did not know what they meant.

But this was no real problem; a thread of Fang Yu's consciousness directly entered the Virtual Universe and found a translation method.

Message content—"Nine Tribulations XX."

"Blood-based life forms consist primarily of body and soul, both equally vital. The author of this scripture sought to alter the internal structure of the body, causing it to gradually transform, activating spontaneous evolution of bodily functions."

"This cultivation method carries great danger, divided into Nine Tribulations; failure in any tribulation results in soul collapse, body destruction, and immediate death."

"First Tribulation: …"

"Second Tribulation: …"

"Third Tribulation: …"

…

"Ninth Tribulation: …"

The content recorded on this stone slab appeared to be a highly mysterious cultivation technique, over thirty thousand characters in total, yet riddled with incompleteness—even the name of the technique was fragmented; the scripture had four characters, only the first two, "Nine Tribulations," were legible, the last two unknown.

Nine Tribulations.

Hearing the words "Nine Tribulations," Fang Yu wanted to add "Sword Scripture" after them.

Nine Tribulations Sword Scripture.

Nine Tribulations Sword.

But clearly, this scripture did not describe a sword technique—it entirely detailed a secret manual for activating bodily evolution.

Normally, genetic evolution in a body occurs only a few times: from Apprentice to Planet Level, Planet Level to Star Level, Star Level to Cosmic Level, Cosmic Level to Domain Master Level, Domain Master Level to World Master Level—each breakthrough triggers major leaps in bodily function. But according to the Nine Tribulations Scripture, one's life functions can evolve at any moment.

Body evolution, soul evolution.

At every realm, bodily functions evolve—this scripture surpasses countless cultivation methods from past eras.

Its value, even a World Master or an Immortal encountering it would be stunned.

A World Master reaching 9th Rank might remain stuck there for life, but if one cultivates this Nine Tribulations Scripture, continuously accumulating bodily potential, perhaps even a World Master could ascend to the Immortal realm.

"Nine Tribulations Scripture."

Fang Yu sat cross-legged, studying the cultivation method of this scripture: during practice, one must use the Soul Crystal Ball and the Prana Crystal Ball as dual cores, releasing spiritual force and prana to continuously merge into every part of the body, making the Soul Crystal Ball, Prana Crystal Ball, and body act as one in perfect balance, then initiating the scripture's mechanism to drive genetic evolution.

Should failure occur, all three collapse.

Whether the Prana Crystal Ball, the Spiritual Force Crystal Ball, or one's own body—all collapse.

For normal blood-based life forms, once the Prana Crystal Ball or Spiritual Force Crystal Ball shatter into ash, death is certain.

Of course, for Fang Yu, who had already cultivated to the Fifth Stage of Immortality—the Creation Realm—neither Prana Crystal Ball nor Spiritual Force Crystal Ball mattered; he was an immortal being, least afraid of cultivating himself to death.

Hss, hss!

In accordance with local customs, Fang Yu's body manifested a Spiritual Force Crystal Ball representing soul energy and a Prana Crystal Ball representing power; both simultaneously shot out 720 strands of energy threads, swiftly piercing 720 key energy acupoints in his body.

"The body forms its own inner universe—activate!"

Boom!

The Prana Crystal Ball and Spiritual Force Crystal Ball violently trembled, then launched another 36,000 threads; dense energy threads connected every part of Fang Yu's body, forming an entirely new energy meridian system, binding the Prana Crystal Ball and Spiritual Force Crystal Ball to his body more tightly than ever before.

The three became perfectly balanced, like the workings of the cosmos.

Seventy-two thousand fine threads and 1,440 main threads perfectly fused the Prana Crystal Ball, Soul Crystal Ball, and body together, simulating an "inner universe" within the entire body—immediately, this inner universe triggered a fundamental enhancement of Fang Yu's bodily life functions.

"An exceedingly mysterious transformation—it has so easily constructed an inner universe."

Fang Yu sat cross-legged, watching the droplets of energy travel along the threads, seeping into his body and driving the evolution of his life functions. For this, Fang Yu was not particularly concerned.

What truly interested him was how the 72,000 auxiliary threads, the 1,440 threads, the Prana Crystal Ball, the Soul Crystal Ball, and his body together simulated a perfect cosmic cycle.