Chapter 531: If I Gained Three Heads and Six Arms, Would I Have Twenty-Seven Minds?

The Red Ming Nine Heavens Map, hailed as the supreme physical cultivation technique, was widely known throughout the Great Xia World, yet no one seemed to care that it had been leaked.

This was somewhat similar to the Dao Scriptures of the Shrouding Heaven Realm, which were also extremely widespread.

Of course, the Dao Scriptures widely circulated in the Shrouding Heaven Realm were incomplete fragments; very few could truly cultivate the complete Dao Scripture, whereas the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map of the Manghuangji Realm was whole and complete.

A complete technique, hailed as the number one physical cultivation method, was widely spread across this land, yet few in the heavens and earth could master it—this proved just how difficult the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map was to cultivate.

For the vast majority of sentient beings, cultivating the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map was indeed utterly impossible, for even the entry threshold was extremely arduous.

To enter, one must first sense the two supreme stars: the Supreme Yin and the Supreme Yang.

Ordinary physical cultivation methods absorb the primordial qi of heaven and earth—water, fire, lightning, and thunder—but the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map demands from the very start that one sense these two supreme stars and absorb the power of Yin and Yang.

This was simply too much to ask.

Think about it: if you were only at the 1st Stage of Physical Body, cultivating a physical cultivation technique, and were suddenly asked to perceive a star thousands of billions of light-years away and draw its power down upon you.

Would that star grant you its power?

Impossible—you're not worthy, it's not permitted.

The entry barrier of the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map was like taking a step too large and tearing your own leg—it was as if a 1st Stage Physical Body cultivator tried to shatter the Divine Ability Gate and break into the Divine Ability Secret Realm.

A cultivator just beginning their path, still unable to comprehend techniques or strengthen their body, cannot possibly open the Divine Ability Gate and leap into the Divine Ability Secret Realm.

Therefore, no matter how you looked at it, only those with true great fortune, blessed by heaven's luck, could barely enter and establish a connection with the distant Yin and Yang stars of the void.

Only then could one be said to have entered.

After establishing a connection with Yin and Yang, one could absorb their power, which would automatically coalesce into Yin-Yang Divine Patterns on the body—this marked the attainment of the first stage of the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map.

Once the first stage was achieved, one could usually advance effortlessly to the third stage. But to reach the fourth stage and become a primordial life, one needed the convergence of Yin and Yang, the fusion of water and fire, to break through the barrier and become a primordial life.

This step was also extremely difficult; even those with exceptional talent who had truly sensed the Yin and Yang power and formed the Yin-Yang Divine Patterns needed to comprehend the Dao of Yin and Yang—much like stepping into the Yin-Yang Realm of the 4th Stage of Divine Abilities.

Again, this was taking too big a step.

Leapfrog development, with too high a threshold between stages, blocked most cultivators.

Thus, although the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map was widely known in the Great Xia World, those who succeeded in cultivating it were exceedingly rare.

From a certain perspective, most intelligent cultivators had long since begun Qi Refining; only those lacking comprehension or unable to practice Qi Refining turned to physical cultivation, and expecting such people to cross these countless barriers and reach a high realm of the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map was virtually impossible.

Fang Yu looked at the first and second scrolls of the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map before him—the number one physical cultivation technique of the three realms, each scroll requiring only one hundred black-and-white pills.

One hundred!

What did that even mean?

Any ordinary immortal-grade Qi Refining technique required fifteen hundred black-and-white pills, yet the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map, hailed as the number one physical cultivation technique of the three realms, required only two hundred black-and-white pills for both scrolls combined.

Fang Yu, now flush with wealth, immediately decided to exchange for it.

Two hundred black-and-white pills? No problem.

Yet he did not immediately receive the true Red Ming Nine Heavens Map scrolls; only after he paid the black-and-white pills outside would the guardian deliver the real technique.

"The Red Ming Nine Heavens Map could probably be improved. This cultivation method might also synergize with the Great Primordial Technique. Of course, in the Shrouding Heaven Realm, if one possessed a Yin Spirit Body or Yang Spirit Body, cultivating the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map would yield exceptional results."

Fang Yu examined the worship scroll of the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map in his hand, pondering the interconnection among the three realms.

Ordinary sentient beings could never sense Yin and Yang power at the very beginning, yet the Great Primordial Technique of the Eternal Life Realm contained countless methods of absorbing primordial qi—such as meditation, worship, and prayer—that would surely strengthen the connection to Yin and Yang power.

Could the Great Primordial Technique of the Eternal Life Realm enhance the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map of the Manghuangji Realm? Fang Yu believed at least part of it could work, though some parts might fail.

As for the idea that it would completely fail and offer no enhancement whatsoever—he didn't believe it.

After all, the Great Primordial Technique was the ultimate mastery of force and primordial qi, to a degree beyond mortal imagination.

Disciples of the Wu Xianzun, enhanced by the Great Primordial Technique, could possess the strength of ten thousand horses even at the first stage of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, rivaling ordinary cultivators of the 5th Stage of Divine Abilities—its terrifying power was self-evident.

And in the Shrouding Heaven Realm, Yin and Yang Spirit Bodies cultivating the Red Ming Nine Heavens Map were perfectly matched, for they could sense Yin and Yang power simply by cultivating, making entry effortless and progression to higher realms easy.

Yin Spirit Body, Jiang Tingting.

Fang Yu's mind flowed with these thoughts as he continued to examine the first level.

The cultivation method for the Second Primordial Spirit.

Fang Yu saw it.

Yet this cultivation method for the Second Primordial Spirit was free.

Yes, not a single black-and-white pill required.

Anyone who wished to learn could receive it free of charge.

In the Black-and-White Academy, the method to cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit was available to every disciple, requiring no black-and-white pills whatsoever—it was considered a basic technique every disciple could practice to protect their life.

The path of cultivation was arduous, often bringing disasters beyond one's imagination; possessing a Second Primordial Spirit offered countless advantages, effectively granting a second life.

Yet although the method to cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit was free, among a thousand Primordial Spirit cultivators, not one could truly achieve it; as for cultivators of the Ten Thousand Forms Realm, forget it.

No other reason—only because a suitable vessel was exceedingly hard to find.

To cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit, one needed a vessel; after obtaining it, one would split one's soul using the technique, leaving half within the body and sending the other half into the vessel, thus beginning cultivation of the Second Primordial Spirit.

The Second Primordial Spirit could also cultivate, advance, attain Earth Immortality, and even cross the Tribulation to become a Heaven Immortal.

The most famous vessel for the Second Primordial Spirit was the Xuan Pin Pearl—a legendary artifact, a naturally formed purple mansion, yet impossibly difficult to obtain.

If one could acquire such a treasure as the Xuan Pin Pearl, one's soul could enter it, cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit, and form an immensely powerful body, thereby stepping onto the path of cultivation.

In the Cultivation World of the Manghuangji Realm, only those who had long attained the Primordial Spirit stage or Earth Immortality, if fortunate enough to obtain a treasure like the Xuan Pin Pearl, could split their soul in two and cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit.

As for those below the Primordial Spirit stage, ordinary Ten Thousand Forms cultivators had unstable souls; splitting them in two would only be suicide.

Fang Yu had directly obtained the method to cultivate the Second Primordial Spirit; this technique required no exchange—it was already recorded in the Dao Repository on how to practice.

He thought this was excellent.

His soul was not the issue; what he lacked now seemed only to be a vessel.

He examined the treasures he carried—could the Sun-Moon Essence Wheel serve as the vessel for his Second Primordial Spirit?

That would seem like a waste of a priceless treasure.

The Mid-grade Dao Artifact, Sky-Piercing Divine Spear? This artifact had sacrificed all else to become pure destructive power—it was not a suitable vessel for the Second Primordial Spirit.

As for his lower-grade Dao artifact, the Xuantian Zhenmo Tower, its spirit was perfectly content, aiding Fang Yu in cultivating the Great Universal Salvation Art; Fang Yu would never discard the spirit of this artifact he had worked so hard to obtain, just to use it for cultivating a Second Primordial Spirit.

The treasures he carried seemed unsuitable as vessels for a Second Primordial Spirit, so Fang Yu decided to seek a vessel within this world.

After all, things from this realm were best suited as vessels for a Second Primordial Spirit of this realm…

Having obtained the cultivation method for the Second Primordial Spirit and the first two scrolls of the Chiming Jiutian Map, Fang Yu spent some more time examining the first floor, then ascended to the second floor of the Dao Repository Hall.

"Techniques."

This was the content of the second floor's collection.

Techniques refer to esoteric arts of immortals and demons—skills for wielding the Dao; all forms such as divine abilities, sword arts, spell arts, forbidden arts, and escape arts fall under the category of techniques.

This concept differs from the definition of divine abilities in the Eternal Life Realm.

In the Eternal Life Realm, things like the Wu Sheng Sha Jian or Formless Sword Qi are considered divine abilities, but in the Manghuang Ji Realm, these are classified as sword arts.

Sword arts and divine abilities are not the same; divine abilities do not encompass sword arts, spell arts, forbidden arts, or escape arts.

It is indeed rather peculiar.

So when Fang Yu examined the divine ability books of the Black and White Academy, he discovered that the vast Black and White Academy possessed only five divine abilities.

The Black and White Academy, which had existed for tens of millions of years, had acquired only five divine abilities over countless eons…

Fang Yu's gaze fell upon them: the five divine abilities were "Fa Tian Xiang Di," "Leidian Shenyan," "Wan Du Zhe," "San Tou Liu Bi," and "Huang Xin Yan."

Fa Tian Xiang Di.

The name alone sounded extremely formidable, slightly resembling the Heavenly Body Manifestation of the Eternal Life Realm, yet this divine ability seemed quite common and its power appeared modest—yet it required only five hundred Black and White Pills.

A typical Immortal-grade Qi Refining method required fifteen hundred Black and White Pills; yet Fa Tian Xiang Di required only five hundred—this was strange.

As for San Tou Liu Bi, it was far more expensive: the Black and White Academy possessed only the upper scroll, yet even that upper scroll required three thousand Black and White Pills.

Its price was six times that of Fa Tian Xiang Di.

San Tou Liu Bi certainly sounded powerful—it was a divine ability frequently used by many great masters in the Manghuang Ji Realm.

Consider this: humans have only two arms; even if one condenses additional arms through divine or primordial power, they cannot match the true efficacy of natural limbs.

But when San Tou Liu Bi is activated, two extra heads and four extra arms truly manifest—these additional limbs and heads can exert real power, instantly creating the effect of three individuals attacking as one.

That is triple combat power!

Fang Yu studied San Tou Liu Bi—he would certainly exchange for it, but could this divine ability truly be compatible with the body he had cultivated through his Eternal Life methods?

Leaving aside other considerations, in the Eternal Life Realm, how valuable is the head? Only the Great Source Technique contains a method to open nine brain seas—it opens brain seas, not adds heads.

Yet San Tou Liu Bi actually adds two heads.

If San Tou Liu Bi could truly stack with the Great Source Technique, would that mean one head with nine brain seas, and three heads with twenty-seven brain seas?